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A85444	The right of the Church asserted, against the povver usurped over it. By J. Gailhard, A.M. & D.	Gailhard, J. (Jean)	1660 (1660)	Wing G127; Thomason E1046_7; ESTC R208052	21,398	25

King a Prophet and a High Priest and infusing life motion and being into the Church is the only head of the Church exclusively to any other under what notion soever It is a notable saying of Gregory the great who was a Bishop of Rome because about his daies he saw some of his Predecessors had affected Supremacy over all the rest yet much different from that abominable abuse that crept in after his times He lived 600 years after Christ In his 6th Book and Epist 24. he hath these words I say confidently that any one who calleth himself or desireth to be called Universal Bishop he is the forerunner of Antichrist And I do believe that where there is an Archbishop over a whole Kingdom or the half of it he is a kind of Monarch and Universal Bishop over that whole Kingdom or part of it and the Title of Archbishop is as dangerous and as much to be avoided in such a Kingdom as the name of Universal Bishop For I account our controversie with Hierarchy here to be the same in nature which we have against Popery though in not so high a degree but this usurpation by Archbishops is so palpable so all the Hierarehical way which I am confident is not a way of Gods appointment because in no wise grounded upon Gods Word as that I will not insist on it but only upon that which hath a more specious pretence and to shew few of the grievances of Christs Church against this Hierarchical tyrannical Government We call Heaven and Earth to record that we desire nothing else but to be judged by the Word of God alone and that no customs humane inventions and traditions but Scriptures only are to be lookt upon in this controversie and therefore we stand not for any waies of our own but for the waies of God Wherefore we do abhor Bishops by way of superiority as usurpers over the right of the Church as being without Scripture and against Scripture So that God may say in this as he doth in another case They set up Church-Governors but not by me And to argue the case I would know from the Adversaries whether Bishops are different from the Ministers of the Church that is whether this be an Office by it self or what kind of difference this is To the former If it be an Office by it self then they must prove it out of Scriptures but this cannot be for in the three places of Scripture where St. Paul doth acquaint us of the Offices in the Church there is not a word of Bishops the Texts may be seen Rom. 12.6 7 8. 1 Cor. 12.28 Eph. 4.11 So that if they assert that there ought to be Bishops in the Church then they must acknowledge that the nature of Bishop is comprehended under one or other of the Offices named in these places or else they must confess that there ought to be no Bishops at all by Divine institution But the truth is the nature of Bishop is in the two former places comprehended under the name Teacher and in the last Text under the word Pastor For he cannot be called Prophet Apostle Miracle Healings c. And this truth Scripture doth hold forth in other places Acts 20.28 St. Paul said to the Elders of Ephesus Feed the flock from the word feeding comes the word Pastor over the which God hath made you overseers or Bishops so that Pastor and Bishop are one and the same They that have perused Tit. 1.7 will find that Minister or Elder and Bishop are one and the same likewise 1 Tim. 3. Neither are they Lords over the Flock if St. Peter speaks truth 1 Pet. 5. Feed the Flock Here again the word Pastor is implied so the word Elder whom he exhorteth so the word Bishop v. 2. taking the oversight 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 to whom he saith v. 3. Not being Lords over the flock Neither must they be Lords or affect to be greater than their fellow-Pastors and Ministers for nothing can be more expresly and clearly set down than Christ Jesus forbidding his Disciples to use dominion and authority one over onother even upon this occasion when they disputed amongst themselves of superiority Mat. 20.25 I think therefore that any man especially a Minister cannot suffer upon a more righteous account than in opposition to this Supremacy and I make no question but to bring many to this truth through grace when I have shewed how godly people opposed this usurpation when it began to creep into the Church and how for this same cause some were crowned with Martyrdom Ambition being the sin of the Devil who is a murtherer from the beginning it doth infuse cruel and bloudy dispositions into those that are stained with it But when pride meets in an Ecclesiastical man as it is the most detestable so it produceth most fatal and pernicious effects Any one that is acquainted with the names of Bonifaces Leo's John's c. who ever heard of Guelphs and Guobellines may have an illustration of what I say this furious ambition did formerly rage with more violence than now that the Light of the Gospel is clearer than afore Yet although the stump be in Italy there are some little Branches of the pride of that great Harlot even amongst those that profess the Reformed Religion and it is to be wished men were now as studious to extirpate these reliques as some were at first to prevent the growth thereof That some of the Bishops of Rome were censured by the Bishops of Alexandria or Constantinople and some other places they that have been acquainted with Eusebius may testifie of it Bonifacius the third of that name who first publickly assumed the ambitious Title which the Bishops of Rome do retain did write a Letter to the Bishops of Carthage which must needs to be interpreted of Ministers for there could not be many Diocesan Bishops as they call it requiring them to have their appeal to Rome being countenanced in it by Phocas that wicked Emperor but pretending some authority out of the Council of Nice but the Bishops of Carthage called a Council the sixth of Carthage of 217 Bishops which must have been Ministers for how could so many of Bishops in the adversaries sence be found about Carthage and they disowned that pretended power of Bonifacius This Council was called in the daies of Phocas Bernard in his 2 Book to Eugenius declareth to him that he could not challenge any Dominion over the Church or other his Fellow-Pastors Hearken saith he what S. Peter saith 1 Pet. 5. Not bearing rule as Lords over the Clergy but as examples to the flock wherefore if thou wilt be a Lord thou shalt lose thine Apostleship if thou wilt be an Apostle thou shalt lose thy Lordship How fitly doth this here hit our times And they need not to tell me that this was to Popes provided I find it to be the same thing which now we condemn in the Prelates of these daies for I