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A34480	Jura cleri, or, An apology for the rights of the long-despised clergy proving out of antient and modern records that the conferring of revenues, honours, titles, priviledges, and jurisdiction upon ecclesiasticks is consistent with Scripture, agreeable to the purest primitive times, and justified by the vsance and practce of all nations / by Philo-Basileus Philo-Clerus.	Philo-Basileus Philo-Clerus.	1661 (1661)	Wing C612; ESTC R23895	70,115	98

Embassadours of Christ and it has been no small step to Preferment to rail upon them murmure and decry their advancement and to rank the great Trustees of Souls with the vilest Peasants in the Nation As if there were no better way to shew love to their Redeemer then by hatred to his servants and respect to the Majestie of God must be evidenced by powring contempt upon such as Represent his Person Thus Corah and his Accomplices grand grievance and complaint against Moses and Aaron was that they were too high took too much upon them Numb 16. They were advanced and honoured above the rest this was the main eye sore but the revenging hand of God would not bear it Nay have we not had more of the same Language All the Congregation is holy and one may preach as well as another Thus would these sons of confusion have brought all to a Munster Disorder by taking away the Distinction of Callings The Wise God appointed it otherwise under the Old Testament when every one was not admitted to the Priesthood I cannot but think there were 1000 in Israel that knew how to kill flay and dresse an Ox Sheep or Goat as artificially as the sons of Levi yet none attempted it in reference to the Altar without a rebuke And was Moses a more prudent steward then Jesus Christ the Wisdom of the Father Would it be suffered in Humane Societies any well regulated Corporation that every man who conceived himself fitter to discharge an Office manage a Trade husband an Estate should presently exclude another legally possest and invade his Propriety Grant this and farewell Government wellcome Babel Let me speak it once for all t is folly to expect the prosperity of the Nation whilest the Clergy are in misery whilest the Sacred Function is with black ingratitude reviled to whose learned Labours we owe the Translation of our Bibles and who under God were the Principal instruments of freeing us from that Egyptian Darknesse our fore-fathers sate in Is not this like the Deere Plutarch speaks of who browsed on that Bush in a Clam that he was glad to creep under in a s●orm Certainly they are not to be esteemed worthy the name of Christians or Friends unto the Gospel whatever pretences they make that despise and vilifie the Ministry then which nothing bespeaks a more vile and reprobate Heart Ignatius * Epist ad Tral deals roundly with such 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 they are down-right Atheists and make nothing of Christ saies that holy man and t is much to be suspected if they would speak their thoughts that too many with Leo 10. look upon Religion as no other then a Fable and with Servetus make our Messiah the third Impostor We know that under the Law presumptuously to rise against the Priest was punishable with no lesse than death Deut. 17. For these are the Embassadours of the King of Heaven and how Sacred such persons are by the Law of Nations all Histories do abundantly witnesse and that small Indignities offerd them are highly resented the Ammonites are a lasting Testimony 2. Sam. 10. Florus and proud Corinth for no other reason burnt to Ashes by the enraged Romans CHAP. IV. The Clergies moderate engaging in some Civil Affairs pleaded for and justified BUt t is feared the former Discourse has given offence to some prejudiced parties therefore to remove that stumbling block and to make way for what follows t will be requisite a little to enquire into that perplext and long-debated Point Whether and how far Spiritual Persons with a Salvo to their Function may intermeddle with Temporal Matters And that this has bin no new thing or peculiar to England which was never esteemed the Paradise of Priests as the report goes of Leige is manifest to every one that is the least acquainted with Sacred or Prophane Ancient or Modern stories If you examine the Pagan Records Amongst the old Gauls and Britains the Druids upon the matter managed all affairs De omnibus ferè Controversiis publicis privatisque constituunt siquid admissum Facinus si caedes facta si de haereditate de Finibus Controversia iidem decernunt All Actions Real and Personal all Causes about Life and Death were brought before them as * Cas Com. ● 6. one assures us who had reason to know them NOr did the policy of the wise Egyptians vary for 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 as Aelian * Var. Hist l. 14 c. 34. witnesses And that the Persian Magi had the highest Seats of Judicature were ever Privy Counsellours and interested in publick Transactions Philostratus * L. 1. de Vit. Apollon informs us T were easie to make this good by a particular enumeration of all other Countries but I leave the Heathens and proceed to the Mahometans with whom what prodigious Power the Ancient Caliphs of Babylon had and others still retain any one that will but take the pains to look into Elmacinus Hist Sarac publisht by Erpenius may soon receive satisfaction If we look amongst Gods own People before the Priesthood was confined to a Tribe some 2500 years the First-born was entrusted both with Religious Worship and the Administration of Justice Moses being Priest as well as Ruler And that he appointed the Priests Over-seers of all things Judges of Controversies and Punishers of Malefactors Josephus who saw the Precept reduced to Practice tells us expresly L. 2. contr App. Then who knows not that Ely and Samuel the Lords Priests were at the same time Civil Judges in Israel Chytraeus makes three Consistories among the Jews of all which the Priests were principal and essential Members 1. a Triumvirat in every City wherein mony matters and lighter trespasses were decided Grot. in 5 Ma. 21. these Grotius styles Pedaneos Judices 2. The little Synedrium consisting of 23. wherein Capital Causes were determined in the Gates of every City 3. The Council of State or Grand Senat of 70 Elders which some make to consist of 71 taking in Moses others of 72.6 out of each Tribe the High-Priest being commomly of the number with the Elders excelling in wisdom and I earning chosen out of the Levites and Assistants out of all Israel Now that the Priests and Levites were elected into this Great Sanedrim as well as the Princes if I say before them * Exercit. 13. c. 5. Casaubon will bear me out who makes it appear out of their best Authors quod hujus Concilii ea fuit Institutio ut sifieri possit è solis Sacerdotibus Levitis constaret The Constitution of this standing Council was such that as neer as might be the endeavour was it might consist only of the Priests and Levites whence Josephus and Philo oftentimes under the title of Priests understand the Sanedrim * Philo de vit Mos 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 To which I might adde that Political Axiom mentioned by Josephus as derived from Moses 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉