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A29456 A Brief history of Presbytery and Independency from their first original to this time shewing I. wherein and the reasons why they separate from the Church of England, II. wherein they differ from each other : with some remarks on the late heads of agreement assented to by the united ministers of both perswasions ... 1691 (1691) Wing B4598; ESTC R7644 23,656 32

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King and Court were his Foes for it ever after and above all Bishop Laud whom he calls Filius ante diem sets himself against him and as if not content to succeed him he endeavour'd to supplant him as if a falling Tree stood in need of felling he being now exceeding old Fuller Ch. Hist Cent. 17. B. 11. p. 128. CHAP. IV. BUt leaving K. James as he lest his Throne to K. Charles the First a few Remarks upon his Reign As First Mr. Fuller tells us how Bishop Laud that grand Master of Ceremonies c. had entred into his Diary that the Parliament in the fourth year of Charles the First Anno Dom 1628. did earr estly endeavour his Destruction Cent. 17. Book 11. pag. 132. In which Parliament Mr. Pryn charges Dr. Manwaring that he taught The Consciences of Subjects are bound to obey illegal Commands c. yea and damns them in case of Disobedience c. Relating likewise how Dr. Cozens set up in Durham a marble Altar with Cherabims which cost Two thousand Pound and he made a Gaudy Cope with the Trinity Embroider'd upon it whereon was God the Father in the figure of an Old Man and another with a Crucifix and Christs In age having a Red Beard and a Blew Cap upon his Head c. And how this same Dr. lighted two hundred Wax Candles about his Altar upon Candlemass-Day And how he forbad singing of Psalms but Commanded Anthems to be Sung and among the Rest an Anthem of the three Kings of Colain Gaspar Belthazar and Mclchior c. And how this Dr. procured a Consecrated Knife wherewith to cut his Sacrament Bread c. Ibidem pag. 173. The 2d Remark Is that of Mr. Fuller's saying those high Prelates call the Bp. of Armagh Dr. Vsher D. Morton Dr. Hall Dr. Sanders Dr. Brownrigg Dr. Holdsworth all those famous Doctors a Company of Puritanical Bishops that were Doctrinal tho' not Disciplinary Puritans who said that the Doctrine of the Council of Trent was preached by these Bishops Fuller Ch. Hist pag. 174.175 Remark the third Mr. Fuller relateth how the grievances of Arch-Bishop Williams did much hasten if not chiefly cause the Suppression of that Ecclesiastick Court the Star Chamber the two Arch-Bishops being therein engaged against each other pag. 159. and likewise how the Convocation in the Year 1640. had full Commission from King Charles the 1st either to alter the old Canons or to make new ones which Royal Power had not been granted for many Years before Fuller ibidem pag. 168. And how after that Parliament was dissolved the Convocation still sate wherem to fewer than thirty six of themselves were Dissenters among them but their Oath obliged them that none should ever give consent to the altering of the Church Government which Oath seemed to Abridge the Liberty and Authority of both King and Parliament who had a power of alteration when they saw cause for it Beside this Oath saith he had a Windy Et caetera in it a Cheverel word which like a Cheverel point might be stretched out at pleasure This same figure c. in the Oath the Witty Poet Cleveland my Contemporary in the University call'd the Curled Lock of Anti-Christ And tho time was given for Conforming to this Et caetera Oath until the twenty ninth of September to deliberate upon it yet some over active Bishops saith Mr. Fuller did presently press the Oath upon some Ministers yea and to take this Bishop's Oath kneeling which is a Ceremony saith he that is never exacted nor observed in taking the Oath of Allegiance and Supremacy to the King pag. 171. And how Dr. Turner in his Convocation Sermon blamed some Bishops for their being too meek and moderate and bidding them that with equal strictness they would press forward an Vniversal Conformity And indeed they did as he bad them pushing End-ways this matter of Conformity until they set all the Kingdom into a Flame in the late Civil Vncivil Wars c. Remark the Fourth By all the aforesaid tho' it be not the Tenth part of what Mr. Fuller saith c. It cannet be wordred at that so many Nonconformists both of the Presbyterial and Congregational Judgment have separated themselves from such a Church of England so Characterized not only by Dr. Ames in his fresh suit against Ceremonies and Mr. Robinsons Justification of a separation from the Church of England and the Remonstrance of Mr. Cartwright Subscribed by a thousand Ministers here in England beside Zarchy's Epistle to the Queen at large all which and many more Authors of that Subject I have by me To say nothing of Calvin Beza c. This Mr. Fuller being an Episcopal Divine tells Tales enow out of his Church for which doing he could rise no higher than a poor Preb ndary Let him be Instar omnium c. Remark the Fifth If any enquire more after the particular Reasons of the Nonconformists Separation from the Church of England take this brief Account as this Tract will admit of c. Reason the 1st Upon the same ground that the Church of England separateth from Rome do we separate from them Dr. Stillingsteet in his Dialogue for justifying their Separation from home saith pag. 165. We think the Requiring of doubtful things for certain false for true new for old absurd for Reasonable is ground enough for us not to embrace communion with that Church unless it may be had upon better terms Now let the Mouth of this battering Cannon be but turn'd against the Church of England as 't is there against the Church of Rome it will assuredly give as loud a Report and do as much Execution for us in justifying our Separation as well as theirs Seeing there are Imposed on us Doubtful things for certain c. And we think this is ground enough for us as well as for themselves not to Embrace the Communion of such a Church Why may not our we think so be as good as their we think so Why may not our Rouland be as good as their Oliver What is good Sawce for a Goose may be as good Sawce for a Gander c. Reason the 2d A Comparison betwixt the Primitive and the Present English Church The Nonconformists find a great many Humane Inventions in the latter that were never Divine Institutions in the former Such as Cathedral Musick with Organs Chancellours Commissaries Officials Pompous Prelates with sole Power of Ordination and Excommunication Calling of Ministers without the express consent of the Congregations over which they are placed Ministers going to Law for their Places Pluralities Non Residents Dumb Curates Simony Prophane Contemners of Religion made Members of the Church Carnal proceedings in Spiritual Courts Bribes for Ordinations Citations Absolutions and many more such Additionals of the same Brann whereof there was not the least shew or shadow allowed in the Primitive Church Now the Noncons Argue with their Lord and Master Non erat sic ab initio nec