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A43806	The rites of the Christian church further defended in answer to the appeal of Dr. Wake : with a letter to Mr. Hill ... on the account of the Municipium ecclesiasticum, as also an answer / by Sam. Hill ...	Hill, Samuel, 1648-1716.; N. N.	1698 (1698)	Wing H2011; ESTC R5805	16,492	62

we must begin with the Pretence set forth in the Title of the Appeal which runs thus An Appeal to all the true Members of the Church of England in behalf of the King 's Ecclesiastical Supremacy as by Law Established by our Convocations approved by our most Eminent Bishops and Clergy men Stated and Defended against both the Popish and Fanatical Opposers of it So that herein four things present themselves to our Consideration First Of what form this Book is namely that 't is an Appeal Secondly To whom 't is offered to all true Members of the Church of England Thirdly In what Cause in the behalf of the King's Supremacy as by Law Established c. Fourthly Against whom and they are both Popish and Fanatick Opposers The Title Page being thus taken into parts is accordingly in order to be considered Now First Appeals in Law are forms of action against some Illegal Process or Sentence of an Inferiour Judge which he supposing himself to have sustained by the Municipium appeals to all true Members of this Church as more righteous and equal Judges So that if he alledge any such Gravamen or false Judgment and prove it by the exhibition or production of the acts in all such Instances he ought to carry otherwise to lose his Cause Secondly The Judges appealed to are all true Members of this Church on which the Party appellate is in suspence not that he suspects such Judges but knows not whom the Appellant intends For it appears by other repetitions * App. p. 117. lin 3 4. that 't is a Critical and Distinctive Character from false Members in this Doctors design tho' he has left them as indiscernible for want of a particular Note as the Subject of Infallibility in the Roman Church For first the Deprived Clergy claim this as their Peculiar Honour merited by their Cause and Sufferings And in the next place among the undeprived this Drs Acumen has smelt out a Party of perjured railing Incendiary Hypocrites that are setting up for a third Church of England * Ap. p. 3. namely those that are for the Municipium which to his utter grief he finds to be the Body of the Clergy every where even home to his Doors Now these are dangerous Judges for the Dr. to trust such an Appeal with So that in the third place the Mystery is that those few of his Party that are against all Divine Authorities in the Church are his secure Judges his allowed Members of the Church of England and then indeed we and the Church too is undone if we decline not such Judges Either therefore let him shew us our very Judges or be content to carry the Appeal to the Apostles and Fathers of the Church Catholick and we will readily joyn with him if need be Thirdly The Cause or Matter in Appeal is here pretended to be the King 's Ecclesiastical Supremacy as by Law Established c. But how this comes to be the Subject of an Appeal against the Municipium and for his former Book I cannot conceive 'T is true the Letter to a Convocation-man after his Assertion of the Divine Right of Synods endeavours not to deny the King 's Ecclesiastical Supremacy but under that to assert a like Legal Liberty to Convocations as to Parliaments in which latter part upon our Legal Establishment the Minicipium did not concern it self But being dissatisfied with the Drs. denial of the Sacred Powers and with that unlimited System of Regal Authorities ascribed to all Christian Princes on the meer Right of their Magistracy which are truly collected into nine Aphorisms out of the Drs. Book in the 108 and 109 pages of the Municipium it undertakes the refutation of these his general Maxims So that the Dr. has appealed in a Cause in which we never prosecuted him So that except it appear upon production of sayings in the Municipium that the particular Legal Establishment of our King 's Ecclesiastical Supremacy is impaired or impeached therein it ought to be acquitted by our Judges and this is what we stand to in this Appeal remonstrating that according to the Title of the former Book now shifted from all Princes to ours only he ought to have laid his Appeal in behalf of the Authority of Christian Princes in general and simply over their Ecclesiastical Synods as by himself stated and asserted c. that is against the Divine Right of Synods in the Church and for those Authorities of all Christian Princes summed up in those nine Aphorisms This then is a defect in the very Title and Pretence of Body of it he yet if really in the Body of it he has made out these his Maxims for all Christian Princes we will be content that the Municipium be condemned as severely as the Doctor desires Fourthly The Adversaries against whom he Appeals are all Popish and Fanatical Opposers of the Kings Ecclesiastical Supremacy for so the interpunctation of the Semicolons after three Participles does determine his intention that herein he may not shuffle but all along the Appeal you find no Book reflected on but the Municipium So that this seemed a pretty Artifice to expose his Adversary under hated and ignominious Characters tho' he knows him as far from those Imputations as any Man in England For as he knows the Catholick Ballance against Popery and the Dissertation de Presbyteratu against Franticks to have been as unanswered and perhaps as unanswerable by those Parties as the Municipium is by himself so the very Municipium it self asserting the Divine Rights of the Episcopal Hierarchy does herein at once as well oppose the Council of Trent as the Genevian or Scotch Consistories So that if this part of the Title be sincere we are not the Person against whom this Appeal is brought if it be calumnious it will affect no Mans Integrity or Reputation but his own But to gratify the pretty Caprice for once let us be Popish or Fanatick or any other Exotick or Invidious Name what then will the Consequence be Namely this that then we may fairly decline his Judges the True Members of this Church and his Authorities therein namely the Articles Canons and Laws and the Sayings of her Bishops and Doctors It being an unequal thing that we should be concluded by prejudicate Parties especially considering that all the Fanaticks who deny the Kings Ecclesiastical Supremacy as much as Papists and as equally the Authorities owned in the Church of England are tolerated in the whole Profession of their Fanaticisms against this Supremacy and these Authorities even by the Supream Civil Powers themselves And consequently if the Doctor has not proved his Authorities produced in this Church to be good upon Prior and more Eminent Authorities such as are those of Scripture Common Reason and the Antient Church Catholick to which the Municipium yields and refers it self and ought so to do but has left the Arguments of the Municipium with no other answer but this

not only his Darlings the Sectaries his serviceable tools to Irreligion and Scepticism but even the Papists against whom however he inveighs sufficiently nay the very Heathens are very Lambs and Saints and another Anti-Ecclesiastical and Anti-Academical Lawyer of the same bran † Author of the Letter to a Member of Parliament c. and this discernibly enough tho' not so raging but more tect and sly in his Methods of Mischief Of this fraternity all along have been those worthy Monitors of the Convocation at their last Session and those raging Calumniators of it that malign it ever since because not waxen enough for some Mens Impressions Which sawcy Treatments if offered to the Guardians of our Civil Liberties would have brought the Adventurers under the Zeal and Inquisition of the State while the grand depository of Christianity is securely vilified and used as our Lord and Master which is however the greatest honour in the sight of God though otherwise intended by malicious and vexatious Men. And yet while open Enemies do us this dishonour we can the better bear it but to be betrayed trayed up to the scorn of all our Enemies by those that eat the same bread and drink of the same cup is that which calls back the saddest Example of horrour in this kind to our Remembrance and Resentments All which being considered will easily justifie the Municipium Ecclesiasticum from the suspicion of a causeless and incendiary Undertaking Nor can we think that even the Civil State will conceive any offence at it since they that undermine the Authority of the Church in Spirituals overturn the Superstructure of the Magistrates Interest in the Civil Conduct of Religion For no Man can think that a Secular Authority has a more Interiour Right in Ecclesiasticals than the Church its self and therefore the illustrious Author of the Essay above-mentioned has with the same hand destroyed all Civil as well as Ecclesiastical power in matters religious which when the State shall be at leisure to recollect it will no doubt be jealous for its own Authority in the most important Concern and when it shall appear that this is overturned by destroying the Foundations of the Church what will be thought of those Church-men that have supplied these Caitiffs with Match and Powder And if the Church shall not disclaim such Proditors of her own how can the State think that we will be true and trusty to the Civil Rights and Liberties of the Nation that are so negligent and prodigal of our own and hereby at once become the publick scorn and scandal But if we are not to sollicit the cares or sentiments of the State as to their own Matters yet we think we may be permitted to resent and correct the Insolencies of Clergy-men making all possible sail to preferment by a spiteful and contemptuous Carriage toward the supreamest powers in the Church who can traduce the use wisdom and gravity of all Ecclesiastical Synods in general (1.) Author of Christ Prine p. 306. by Reflections that will destroy as much the Authority of Parliaments (2.) p 317. not sparing any as far as appears of the great Constantines Synods (3.) p 307. for the sake of those that were corrupted purely on the Court Interest which he fraudulently conceals who in the times of Popery scouts the Convocations even when opposing the avarice of the Pope (4.) p. 195 197 198. as well as for asserting their immunities against the King upon the Authority and Injunctions of the Pope (5.) p. 205 350 to 356. and 298 to 303. while yet his own historical Deduction ascribes the first Introduction of the Papal Authority to the Acts and Contrivances of Kings against the Domestick Power of the Church on which however he passes no censure (6.) p. 178 179 181 182 186 187 194 195 197 199 203. above the bare relation of fact and an intimation of Weakness who beside all this is more Satyrical upon the Reputation of Convocations even now in a state of Reformation and vast Learning and Experience (7.) p. 42 43 82 112 270 271 272 297 316 317 320 325 329 330 337 343. Appeal p. 121. as if they were the most peevish untractable spiteful imprudent and dangerous Societies to Kings and States that can be imagined in no wise to be trusted but under Guards and Irons who can when no provocation is given not only vilify his Adversary and even at the same time pretend a tenderness in this point (8.) Dedi p 3 4. Pref. p. vij Book p. 5. p. 261 262 296 304 305 339 345 346 347. Pref. to Appeal p. xxiij xxiv compared with the whole malicious Book but even take occasion where none offered it self to render the present Clergy or a great part of them odious as Men quarrelsome and barbarous (9) Author of Princ. Pref. p. vij viij Book p. 332 333 334. hypocritically perjured for the sake of their Preferment and yet Seditious against the Government (10) p. 349 355. Dedic to Appeal p. 2. to which they have Sworn and some associated as if he were not contented with the fall of those unhappy Clergy-men who have sunk under false Notions and Principles of Allegiance but had an appetite to exasperate the Publick unto more discriminating and more distracting Tests in order to a more Numerous and Tragical Evacuation of Churches for certainly that Spite and Wickedness of surmise against such a supposed mischievous Party yet remaining in the Bosom and Communion of the Church can import no less that so we might have an History of the Persecution of the Church of England in all things conformable or in no wise inseriour to that of Scotland Hence is it that this Inhumanity of Design as well as Corruption of Principles has exposed it self to the just scorn and detestation of the Clergy of this Kingdom and there is no Charge in the Municipium equal to the Malignity of the Project And having thus given you as I think sufficient Reasons why such a malicious and calumnious Book should be refuted we think little need be said for the Municipium's being nameless to purge it from the imputation of Libellous For if a Book be good that concealment cannot impeach it if it be naught the prefixing a Name does not so much excuse the Libel as attest and aggravate the Impudence the Opinion of which the Municipium was willing to decline with those who would be sure or likely to reproach the Author with that Aspersion and if to avoid this Rock he has dashed upon the other he must bear his Fortune as well as he can and commit his Cause to him that judgeth righteously From these Provocations come we now to the Appeal it self to consider both the Exteriour Pretence as well as the Interiour Weight and Substance of it that so the Readers may be able by easie and obvious Views to discern its Pertinency and its Justice First Then