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A35696	Jus Cæsaris et ecclesiæ vere dictæ or, A treatise wherein independency, presbytery, the power of kings, and of the church, or of the brethren in ecclesiastical concerns, government and discipline of the church : and wherein also the use of liturgies, tolleration, connivence, conventicles or private assemblies, excomminication, election of popes, bishops, priests what and whom are meant by the term church, 18 Matthew are discoursed : and how I Cor. 14. 32. generally misunderstand is rightly expounded : wherein also the popes power over princes, and the liberty of the press, are discoursed / by William Denton ...	Denton, William, 1605-1691.	1681 (1681)	Wing D1066; ESTC R9164	326,898	268

appointed by God and practised by his People And if it appears that both Precept and Practice doth abet and favour the Liturgists then I hope our Author will not be so peremptory in casting Aspersions on Liturgies § First consult the Old Testament and you shall find that Moses gifted no doubt himself took the Book of the Covenant and read in the audience of all the People and therefore publick Service and they said all that the Lord hath said will we do and be obedient Exod. 34.7 Likewise the command to the King Deut. 17. was That when he sate upon the Throne of his Kingdom that he shall write him a Copy of this Law in a Book c. and shall read therein all the days of his life c. v. 17 18 19. The like command was to the Priests and Elders of Israel to whom Moses delivered the Law written That when all Israel Men Women Children Strangers come to appear before the Lord thy God in the Place where he shall choose thou shalt read this Law before all Israel in their hearing of Sermons in those days there is no mention to the end and Liturgies are to the same end that they may hear and learn and fear before the Lord your God Deut. 31.9 10 11 12. Moreover of Reading and of the success and benefit thereof the Scripture farther witnesseth That when the Book of the Law had been some time missing and was afterwards found the good King Josiah which heard it but only read by Shaphan tore his Cloaths and confessed that great is the wrath of the Lord that is poured out upon us and thereupon went up into the House of the Lord and all the Men of Judah and Inhabitants of Jerusalem and he read in their Ears all the Words of the Book of the Covenant that was found in the House of the Lord c. 2 Chr. 34.18 19 c. whereby it is abundantly manifest that here was not only a Command performed according to Deut. 31.13 Thou shalt read this Law but repentance wrought by only reading of the Word the like effect I mentioned before Exod. 34.7 Again the Solemn and Religious manner of reading and hearing the Law and the Comfort and Instructions the People received thereby is plainly and in terminis set down Nehem. 8. And all the People gathered themselves together as one Man c. and they spake unto Ezra the Scribe to bring the Book of the Law of Moses c. And Ezra the Priest brought the Law before the Congregation and he read therein from the Morning until the Mid-day before the Men and the Women and those that could understand and Ezra the Scribe stood upon a Pulpit and opened the Book in the sight of all the People and therefore publick Service and Ezra blessed the Lord the great God and all the People answered Amen Amen with lifting up their hands also day by day from the first day to the last day viz. seven days he read in the Book of the Law of God v. 1 2 3 4 5 6.18 There is also a Promise of blessing annexed to it That the Deaf shall hear the Words of the Book of the Lord Isa 29.18 and a Command from the same Prophet Seek ye out the Book of the Lord and read Ch. 34.16 § Having now out of some few of many places of the Old Testament made good the Precept and the Practise of the Old Prophets Kings and Priests let us now see what the New Testament Christ and his Apostles will afford us that by two such unquestionable and immutable Witnesses every word may be established first That Christ himself is of the same Opinion with the Prophet appears by Luke 16.31 where he saith That if they would not hear Moses and the Prophets neither will they be perswaded though one arose from the dead Nay how often doth Christ send the Scribes Pharises and Saduces unto the Scripture saying How readest thou or have you not read as in the matter of pulling the Ears of Corn on the Sabbath-day Mat. 12.3 So concerning Divorces Mat. 19.3 The Peoples crying Hosanna Mat. 21.16 and concerning the Stone which the Builders refused 42. and the Resurrection of the Dead C. 22.31 nay when he came to Nazareth where he had been brought up and as his custom was he went into the Synagogue on the Sabbath-day and stood up for to read Luke 4.16 and Paul coming to Antioch went into the Synagogue on the Sabbath-day and sate down and after the reading of the Law and the Prophets the Rulers of the Synagogne sent unto them that if they had any word of Exhortation to the People to go on then Paul declared and laid the condemning of Jesus to the charge of those that dwelt at Jerusalem and their Rulers because they knew him not nor yet the Voices of the Prophets which are read every Sabbath-day Acts 13.14 15.27 28. So the Apostles and Elders being solemnly met together in Council at Jerusalem declared that Moses of old time had in every City them that preached Christ being read in the Synagogues every Sabbath-day Acts 15.24 By which it seems in the esteem of the Apostles and Elders in those days that reading was esteemed preaching and the result of their meeting being written in an Epistle and delivered to the Churches and read they rejoyced for the Consolation 30.31 Likewise the Apostle Paul required that those things which any one Churches Affairs gave particular occasion to write might for the Instruction of all be published and that by reading and therefore commands That when this Epistle is read among you that it be read also in the Church of the Laodiceans and that likewise that ye read the Epistle to Laodicea Col●s 4.16 the like charge he gave to the Thess 15.27 I adjure or charge you by the Lord that this Epistle be read unto all the Holy Brethren 1 Thes 5.27 so you see that the Charge is peremptory or with great vehemency and therefore I shall confidently say with St. John Blessed is he that readeth because the Word it self doth pronounce him so if he also observe the same Rev. 1.3 Adjurations we find none in use amongst Gods Servants save when some duty of weight is charged upon the Adjured And so Paul uses it here adjuring to performance of it and thereby notising unto us of how great necessity and use to Gods People is the reading of Scriptures in the Congregation neither is it to be limited to this Epistle only for that all Scriptures have the same Author and are of the same use to the Church of God and the like charge is given for other Scriptures Coloss 4.16 Now consider the Use in all Ages to Jewish Church Nehemiah and others as before give Testimony for their times and no doubt but after-times continued it Josephus against Appian In unaquaque septimana ad legem audiendam conveniunt universi Every Week they all come to hear the Law and records the

answerable Practise it may certainly bring them to Heaven What the Particulars of this Liturgy should be I will not here meddle withal only thus If it contain any thing contrary to the Word of God it ought not to be and much less to be enjoyned and if it do the Magistrate must answer for it at the day of his Account and Dissenters thereunto not be blamed Therefore as he tenders the good of his own Soul it behoves him to take care that all therein be warrantable by the Word of God or at least no way contrary unto it and to leave nothing or as little as is possible upon a Moote Point Concerning our own established Liturgy I shall only say this in general for Justification thereof That whosoever consults it shall find no Point of Belief wanting in it absolutely necessary to Salvation and that the Method of it is incomparably good scarce capable of Melioration being but the History of Christ beginning with his Advent and so proceeding to his Nativity Circumcision Epiphany Passion Resurrection Ascention c. all very requisite at least if not absolutely necessary to be known and believed and all justified and made out by suitable Chapters Epistles Gospels Collects Prayers c. containing also a laudable and very reverend Form of Administring the Sacraments and the like for Marriage Burial of the Dead Ordination and Consecration of Bishops and Presbyters and all these according or at least not contrary to the Tenor of Holy Writ and therefore fit to be enjoyned and its use established and the disuse and abuse thereof to be discountenanced by the Magistrate If any be unsatisfied with any Part or Expression or Rite or Gesture or Habit or Vestment therein mentioned or therewith used I refer them to Judicious Hooker never yet answered and others for satisfaction it being not my design to justisie every Particular of this or any other Liturgy but to assert the necessity requisiteness and conveniency of Liturgies in general from the Antiquity and Universal Use of all Christian Churches in all parts of the World In rebus de quibus nil c●rtislatuit Divina Scriptura mos Populi l●ei instituta majorum pro lege t●●●nd asunt August ad Casulanum which alone almost argues the necessity of it to be established by a Law of Nature or Moral Reason and not to be esteemed of as a thing indifferent that may or may not be used so necessary that without it I cannot see how any Prince can take general cognisance of the Religion of his People Take this also along with you in farther Justification of our Liturgy That by the Order contained in the Book of Common-Prayer on Sundays and Holy-days half an hour before Even-song so the Old common-prayer-Common-Prayer-Book and Canon as I remember or according to the Newer Books after the Second Lesson the Curate of every Parish ought to examine Children sent unto him in some Points of the Catechisme and all Fathers Mothers Masters Dames should cause their Children Servants and Apprentices to resort unto the Church at the time appointed there to hear and to be obediently ordered by the Curate until such time as that they have learnt all that in the said Book is commanded And when the Bishops shall appoint the Children to be brought before them for their Confirmation the Curate of every Parish shall bring or send the Names of those Children of his Parish which can answer to the Questions of the Catechisme And there ought none to be admitted to the Holy Communion until such time as he can say his Catechisme and be Confirmed SOME REMARQUES UPON A DISCOURSE CONCERNING LITURGIES c. NOtwithstanding all the great Care Piety and Prudence of our Fore-fathers successively used Age after Age in compiling of so excellent a thing as a Liturgy and of which this Nation hath received so great benefit that it hath proved by experience to be what once Paul the fourth averred of his great Darling the Inquisition for the Avail against Heresie and defence of the Apostolick See the true Ram to keep out Heresie and Popery yet as of Elder so of more Puny Days but especially since 1640. there have been published Pamphlets sans Nombre villifying and condemning the Use and Imposition of Liturgies besides much Gall which hath dropt from many a bitter Pen against them by the By from Writers writing on other Occasions But of them all that have come unto my view none prima facie carries more shew of Reason and Learning than that which bears the Title of A Discourse concerning Liturgies and their Impositions published 1662. by a nameless Author To answer which would require a large Volume which not being my Work or Design here I shall only tanquam Canis ad Nilum touch and away give you a very short Sum and Account of his large Discourse containing above 170 Pages in Quarto in a small Print and say something to the most material Arguments only of it for there be many of his Averments and Postulata which if we should both give and grant yet would be rather Arguments for than against Liturgies as that Christ never instituted nor appointed Liturgies that the Apostles never used them nor yet the Fathers in the Purest Times For though Christ never Instituted Liturgies it is enough that he commanded Rem Liturgiarum the Matter Worship and Doctrines contained in our Liturgies for of such and such only I desire to be understood If such Reasoning may be allowed for currant Doctrine it will certainly prove as strong against Sermons and Administrations that he or any other preacheth and useth as against Liturgies for certainly Christ never appointed the Form though happily he hath the Matter of the one and of the other jam sumus ergo pares they are both on the same bottom Besides is it reasonable to think it fit that Christ in whom even whilst on Earth dwelled all the fulness of the God-head bodily Col. 2.9 that had the Power of all Matter Form and Language and whatever he spake or thought was infallible should yet tie himself to any stinted Forms of Words The like say I for the Apostles in whom the Spirit also dwelt bodily as in Christ himself even after the same manner though not in the same measure witness those Emanations from their Words from their Touch from their Shadows curing Diseases by Handkerchiefs Aprons and Shadows and witness their Infallible Spirit that what ever they dictated as Truth was Truth and is come down as Scripture to us witness also the Cloven Tongues sitting upon each of them whereby they were all filled with the Holy Ghost and were endowed to speak with Tongues If the Apostles I say after all these Gifts and Graces so miraculously bestowed on them should have limited the Spirit by using stinted Forms happily they would not have been found so faithful in the House of God as was Moses Is it then rational from such Premisses to deduce this Conclusion that