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A49337	Of the subject of church power in whom it resides, its force, extent, and execution, that it opposes not civil government in any one instance of it / by Simon Lowth ...	Lowth, Simon, 1630?-1720.	1685 (1685)	Wing L3329; ESTC R11427	301,859	567

where the Prince has made Edicts inconsistent with their Practice and in whom the Church does acknowledge the Advantages of the World to be seated and which declares him to be Supreme over all Persons in all Causes Actions and Performances whatsoever Abatements then as to Practice there may there must be where that Common-wealth overbears out of which the Church cannot be or subsist where Necessity and Accidents prevent and obstruct even many times in order to Union and Uniformity that first Zeal of the Asiaticks afterwards abated about the time of keeping Easter and which they accounted not a thing necessary as succeeding Practice has declar'd and mostly when Religion may be in hazard otherwise these as they are of an after-Institution so must they yield in place to that which is antecedently God's Worship and in order to which alone they are acceptable Julian the Apostate among other Diabolical Stratagems and Infernal Devices he had for overthrowing and erasing Christianity Hist Tripart l. 6. c. 29. had this for one he instructed and adorned the Heathen Worship in all the Forms and Rites and Customs with every Order and Habit that was in use among Christians in their Worship hereby believing to gain from them a value upon his Idol Services to flatter and cheat the Christians into a compliance with and entertainment of them but this work'd not all upon the most holy Bishops and Confessors of the Age the outward form was reputed nothing if not leading to that within the Veil nor did one way of Worship at all prevail if so be without if engaging to deny that one Lord one Faith one Baptism one God and Father of all the Ceremonial part never had any other estimate than in order to the more Substantial and 't was in course that the Veil was rent at our Saviour's Passion when the Oracle was gone and that Worship to be no more and should it so fall out that what is in it self so advantageous to the true Worship be allow'd but upon severer terms and inconsistent with our Christian Profession as it was by Julian or the Carved or Polished works of the Temple only be beaten down and which is now so much contended for by those among us that own one Lord one Faith one Baptism one God and Father of all and which Julian did not do in the former case we are altogether to refuse in the latter we are to submit to the force and God must be served by us as he was by the Children of Israel for some time in the Brick Kilns and in the Wilderness and all along till the Temple was built by Solomon with allays and abatements as to what was better what their Lord God had chose and was otherways laid and design'd by him Persons and things in the ordinary course retarding and obstructing and which the Wisdom of God thought not convenient by an extraordinary Power to over-rule and prevent for the more speedy accomplishment BUT then on the other side to be so unequal § XI and uneven so rash and precipitant so heady and unfixed in the solemner Duties of Worship and higher Performances to God Almighty as to hold to no Rules and Orders in the discharge to innovate and change in the Forms and Ways and Expressions as we do in our Cloths as is usual in the shapes and modes of our Apparel another manner of Spirit sure becomes a Christian these are not befitting those goings of the Sanctuary nor are they like unto them as they were of old it argues every thing in the worshipper that can render the Worship it self little and mean and low in his conceit and apprehensions nothing can more abate of it and make it cheap in the Eyes of others or appear less revering and becoming that God that is worshipped this still brings Neglect and Contempt in any case and upon what Persons or Performances soever and much more in those that are religious and terminate in God where none can be supposed as discharged but upon the deepest Considerations the best weighed Reasons the highest Prudence and a thorow apprehension of the decency significancy exact proportion and every ways usefulness and advantage of it and what evil Consequences have hereby reach'd Religion it self too sensible Experience makes evident and since our innovating and quarrelling about the Modes and Circumstances of the higher Performance in Religion how has Religion it self been scorned and the most solemn Performances neglected disused and even ceased as at this day in our Land And as to our particular Church of England her Rites and Ceremonies when I hear and read them reported in Publick to be the best Model and Constitution the Christian World affords that she has even slit the Hair in each instance Order and Canon Rubrick and Injunction and is answering to every end of Piety and Devotion in the Worshipper of reverence and regard to God that is worshipped and full of Helps and Advantages all along in order to a suitable discharge of each When I hear her Wisdom and Prudence thorow and weightiest Considerations in the composing of each so exalted and extoll'd as is very usual both in Discourse and from the Press and yet again in the very next Breath or Page Proposals made for comprehension and compromisements as is frequent also for Repeals or Abatements of what is thus Prudent and Discreet Honorable and Beneficial every ways apt and significant and then to supersede this most holy Worship in so useful a way perform'd or which is worse to alienate it give it up for a Sacrifice to be burnt offer'd up and devoted to strange Gods the private Designs and perverser Enmities the Lusts and Passions and peevish interests of a never-satisfied Faction and Party among us such as have still turn'd the World upside down wherever having Rule and now attempt it in the ways of God's Worship among us and whose Spleen seems to swell and be fixed among us as did theirs of the City of Rome heathen against God himself Civitas Romana omnes omnium gentium Deos colebant praeterquam Judeorum Deum Arnob. Adv. Gent. l. 1. which worshipp'd all the Gods of the Gentiles only they receiv'd not the God of the Jews every thing is complied with but that which is thus by Law establish'd among us This I say is what I dare scarce trust to my Ears in when giving the conveyance I am rather apt to suspect an Indisposition in the Organ that the words are distorted and come cross to the design of the Speaker and seeing I can hardly believe I see it I still suspect either the Medium is undue the Optick is weak or 't is by a false Gloss by some one or more Errors in the conveyance whatever it is represented unto me And however I might be over-born by that Power which as a Christian I am not commissioned to resist and so may not escape the force and the worship must cease in Publick yet

Castelvetrus her second Husband as Mr. Selden suggests or by the Archbishop himself what is necessarily hence to be inferr'd I 'le here again give in the words of our always to be reverenced Mr. Herbert Thorndike of the Laws of the Church Cap. Vlt. Pag. 394. Neither is the Publishing Erastus his Book against Excommunication at London to be drawn into the like Consequence that those who allow'd and procur'd it allow'd the substance of what he maintain'd so long as a sufficient Reason is to be rendred for it otherwise for at such time as the Presbyterian Pretences were so hot under Queen Elizabeth it is no marvel if it was thought to shew England how they prevail'd at home first because he hath advanced such Arguments as are really effectual against them which are not yet nor never will be answered by them though void of the Positive Truth which ought to take place instead of their Mistakes and besides because at such times as Popes did what them listed in England it would have been to the purpose to shew the English how Machiavel observes they were hamper'd at home and for the like Reason when the Geneva Platform was cried up with such Zeal here it was not amiss to shew the World how it was esteem'd under their own Noses in the Cantons and the Palatinate § XVII I am now to shew the concurrency of our Doctors in the Church and who still go along with me and say the same thing that Church Power as such is not from the Civil Magistrate and his supremacy in all Causes and over all Persons infers it not an induction would be too numerous the Particulars being so many I 'le only instance in two the one is Thomas Bilson then Warden of Winchester and afterward Bishop there in his Book entituled The true difference between Christian Subjection and un-christian Rebellion perused and allowed by publick Autority and dedicated to Queen Elizabeth and for writing of which he had his Bishoprick the other is Robert Sanderson then the King's Professor at Oxford and after Bishop of Lincolne in his Book called Episcopacie as establed by Law in England not prejudicial to the Regal Power written in the time of the long Parliament by the special Command of King Charles the I. but not published by reason of the Iniquity and Confusion of the Times and since printed and dedicated to our present gracious Soveraign King Charles II. two Divines as they flourished in our Church at a great distance of time from one another so are they at as great distance for their Worth and Merit beyond the generality of the Divines of their times and by which as we have the advantage of their greater Autority as to themselves to which add That they acted herein as publick Persons by Autority appointed to write in the Name of the Church of England and in such Cases Men generally are more careful how they vent their own private Niceties and Conceptions so also have we a farther benefit hereby that this was and is the continued constant Doctrine of our Church and Church-Men from Queen Elizabeth to King Charles II. Bishop Bilson thus speaks part 2d pag. § XVIII 124. printed at Oxford It is one thing who may command for truth and another who shall direct unto truth We say Princes may command for Truth and punish the refusers this no Bishop may challenge but only the Prince that beareth the Sword no Prelate has Autority from Christ to compel private Men much less Princes but only to teach and instruct them these two Points we stand on pag. 125. 126. he tells the Jesuite the Prince is Supreme to establish those things Christ has commanded and so he all along shews it the design of the Oath of Supremacy against the pretended outward Jurisdiction of the Pope claiming as Christ's Vicar on Earth a coercive Power in order to spiritual things over the Persons of all Christians whatsoever whose Subjects soever and in whatsoever Causes even our Kings themselves And that it is no more thence to be inferr'd that Princes because supreme Governors over all Persons in all Causes are therefore supreme Judges of Faith Deciders of Controversies Interpreters of Scripture Appointers of Sacraments Devisers of Ceremonies and what not then if it should be inferr'd Princes are supreme Governors in all Corporal things and causes ergo they are supreme Guiders of Grammar Moderators of Logique Directors of Rhetorick Appointers of Musick Prescribers of Medicines Resolvers of all Doubts and Judges of all Matters incident any wayes to reason art or action We confess them to be supreme Governors of their Realms and Dominions and that in all Spiritual things and causes not of all Spiritual things and causes we make them not Governors of the Things themselves but of their Subjects we confess that her Highness is the only Governor of this Realm the Word Governor doth sever the Magistrate from the Minister and sheweth a manifest difference between their Office for Bishops be no Governors of Countries Princes be these bear the Sword to reward and punish those do not pag. 127. They have several Commissions which God signed those to dispense the Word and Sacraments these to prescribe by their Laws and punish by the Sword such as resist them within their Dominions pag. 128. That no Clergy-Man by God's Law can challenge an exemption from earthly Powers pag 129. Princes have full Power to forbid prevent and punish in all their Subjects be they Lay-Men Clerks or Bishops not only Murders Thefts Adulteries Perjuries and such like Breaches of the second table but also Schisms Heresies Idolatries and all other Offences against the first Table pertaining only to the Service of God and Matters of Religion pag. 130. as the Kings of Israel did who are the Christian Princes example pag. 132. and it is the duty of Christian Kings to compel from Heresies and Schisms to the confession of the truth consent of Prayer and Communion of the Lord's Table to compel Hereticks and Schismaticks to repress Schism and Heresie with their princely Power which they receive from above chiefly to maintain God's glory by the causing the Bands of Virtue to be preserved in the Church and the Rules of Faith observed pag. 133. this is the Prince's charge to see the Law of God fully executed his Son rightly served his Spouse safely nursed his House timely filled his Enemies duely punished and he tells the Jesuite if he grants this he will ask no more And these the causes and things that be Spiritual as well as Temporal the Princes power and charge doth reach unto or in the words of St. Austin that Princes may command that which is good and prohibit that which is evil within their Kingdoms not in Civil Affairs only but in Matters that concern divine Religion Cont. Crescon l. 3. c. 51. pag. 134. to page 145. and this or power of the like nature was what was claimed and used in causes Ecclesiastical which