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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A41074	Lex talionis, or, The author of Naked truth stript naked	Fell, Philip, 1632 or 3-1682.; Gunning, Peter, 1614-1684.; Lloyd, William, 1627-1717.	1676 (1676)	Wing F644; ESTC R20137	30,835	44

twenty Lines he says 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 He that does any thing without the Bishop the Presbyter and Deacon has not a pure conscience In that to the Magnesians 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 I admonish you to do all things in love the Bishop presiding in the place of God the Presbyters in the place of the Colledge of the Apostles and the Deacons most dearly bebeloved of me as those who are trusted with the Ministry of Jesus Christ. In that to the Philadelphians 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Hearken to the Bishop the P●esbytery and the Deacons And again in the same Epistle he adds that it is necessary 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 To ordain there a Deacon to perform the Embassie of God One would think this a competent instance of our Authors intolerable insolence without any regard of truth or ingenuity to dictate to the World and pretend to correct learned men But this is not all it is manifest he never read this very Period whose Translation he pretends to mend For so Ignatius goes on there 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 So in like manner let all reverence the Deacon as Jesus Christ and also the Bishop as the Son of the Father and the Presbyters as God's Senat and band of the Apostles without these the Church is not call'd But we have not done yet Behold a piece of ignorance and impudence more inexcusable than the former Poor Petavi●s is taken to task for calling St. Laurence a Deacon which many hundreds before him had very innocently done and generally all that ever heard of his Grediron or his Martyrdom or indeed the occasion of it are of his mind but it is our Authors priviledge to be ignorant of what every body else is informed of Now in the present misadventure he attempts a greater Mastery goes beyond and surpasses himself For in that very place of St. Ambrose which he cites the direct contrary of what he goes about to prove is in termini● asserted For that speech of St. Laurence which he recapitulates and says That it plainly shews St. Laurence was a Priest not a bare Deacon tells us that he was a Deacon The words are Lib. 1. Offic. cap. 41. Quo progrederis sine filio Pater Quò Sacerdos sancte sine Diacono tu● properas c. O my Father speaking to his Bishop going to Martyrdom whither go you without your Son O holy Priest whither hasten you without your Deacon Had it not been better for our Author to have said St. Laurence was an Arch-deacon to credit the matter or a Deacon Cardinal than thus run counter to the words he alledged Unless a man owed himself a shame and was in dread he should never make honest payment and therefore on purpose spoke what he knew most absurd mere chance could never fall out so unluckily that he should not in a whole Book make one true recital of an Author or matter of Fact as he has done Yet after all this as if he had come off with mighty credit he closes his Chapter with a quod erat demonstrandum So I leave says he the Deacons to their proper Office of serving of Tables not finding in Scripture any thing more belonging to them Our Author having thus taken away we will expect the next Course where it is to be hoped we shall be better served and that at last the Banquet will make amends for the very ill Fare we have hitherto had To the Chapter of Church-Government OUr Author has a dexterity of talking extravagantly of several weighty subjects and this he calls handling them which being beyond his strength he heaves them to as much purpose as if they were Timber and thinks he has acquitted himself to admiration Having therefore handled the former points that is talkt beyond all aim and measure Foolishly Now he says he comes to the Authority of Bishops to Govern as well as to Ordain And truly if they are to do one as they are on his principle to do the other their Authority is likely to signifie but little being shared by every the meanest Priest But the out-cry is that the Power of the Keys is left to Chancellors Lay-men who have no more capacity to Sentence or Absolve a sinner then to dissolve the Heaven and the Earth and make a new Heaven and an Earth And thus the good man runs on like an Horse with an empty Cart exceedingly pleased with the ratling of the Wheels and gingling of the Bells but he never considers that all the proceedings of Chancellors in the Bishops Court are in consequence of the Canons of the Church which are the Decrees of Bishops Authoritatively met together which have defined such and such Doctrines Heretical such and such actions punishable with Suspension Sequestration or Deprivation and the like Now all that the Chancellor has to do is to examine the matter of Fact take the allegations and proofs and apply the Sanction of the Law to them But where that extends to the use of the Keys that is reserved to them who by Christs Institution are trusted therewith And if Dr. Duck did do an ill thing the fault lies at his door and t is well if in this profligate age a single instance can only be pitcht upon We have blessed be God a great happiness in the protection of our Municipal Laws none in the World being a firmer Bulwark of the Princes Rights and Peoples Liberties but should every clamorous Person be hearkned to who complains of the exorbitance of a Judg when if the matter be truly examined probably the ground of the dislike is that he did his duty we should soon tear out one anothers Thro●ts and every mans hand would be against his Brother We know the worst of our present Constitution and desire not the hazards of a change To the Chapter of Confirmation THis Chapter begins with a liberal Confession that Confirmation or some such thing is necessary but t is a little odd that in a matter which approaches to the being necessary a loose succedaneum of some such thing should be sufficient Our Author like a true Empiric in all cases strives to bring in aliquid Nostri his preparation of the Medicin will render it Soveraign but the old known and received Forms must by no means be taken Having then made up a narrative of matter of Fact jumbling as his way is true and false together his first objection against Confirmation as it now stands is That it is not possible for a Bishop of so large a Diocess as some of ours are some extended Three or Fourscore Miles many Forty or Fifty Personally to Confirm half the Youth in a Diocess if he duly examine each one as is fit and necessary We see how this is performed in their Triennial Visitations Having put in a Caveat in behalf of the present Constitution and minded my Author again of his promise to the Lords and Commons that there was not a word in his Book against the known