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A59859 A Protestant of the Church of England, no Donatist, or, Some short notes on Lucilla and Elizabeth Sherlock, William, 1641?-1707. 1686 (1686) Wing S3331; ESTC R15108 5,084 8

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A PROTESTANT OF THE Church of England NO DONATIST OR SOME SHORT NOTES ON Lucilla and Elizabeth Licensed Decemb. 8. 1686. LONDON Printed for T. Basset at the George near St. Dunstan's Church in Fleetstreet 1686. Lucilla and Elizabeth OR DONATIST and PROTESTANT SCHISM PARALLEL'D Donatism Protestancy 1. Ordain'd Anti-Bishops 1. Ordain'd Anti-Bishops An Anti-Bishop is one set up against another Lawfull Bishop in the same Diocese 1. SVch the Papists have in Ireland as the Donatists had 1. SUch the Church of England has not that we know of and if there be any Such they must be Popish Anti-Bishops 2. Erected Anti-Altars 2. Erected Anti-Tables 2. There can be no Anti-Altars nor Anti-Tables where there are no Anti-Bishops 3. Impeach'd all other Churches of Apostacy 3. Impeach'd the whole Church of Superstition Idolatry and Antichristianism 3. Rome like the Donatist does this for She allows of no True Churches but what are in Communion with and Subjection to the Pope 3. No only the Church of Rome and not So as to Unchurch her neither as Donatists and Papists do 4. Communicated with no other Church in Religious Offices 4. Communicates in Sacred Duties with no Christian Society 4. Thus Papists communicate with none but in their own Communion and that is to Communicate with no other Church 4. We reject no Christians who will Communicate with us and are ready to Communicate with all Churches who do not impose Sinfull Terms of Communion nor require a Corrupt Worship 5. Appeal'd from the Churches Sentence in a Spiritual Cause to a lay-Lay-Prince 5. Appeal'd from the Churches Decrees to the Princes Supremacy advancing it in all Spiritual Cases above any Authority Ecclesiastical whatsoever 5. Popes have deposed Princes and absolved Subjects from their Oaths of Fidelity which is a greater Crime 5. The Supremacy we allow to Princes is not the Exercise of any Spiritual Power but such a Power as the Catholick Church has always allowed to Christian Princes viz. to have the Supreme Government of the Church in their Dominions as incorporated into the State which must be allowed to Sovereign Power or it is not Sovereign 6. Yet continued the Catholick Creed Sacraments Liturgies Regiment and Solemnities as they were before the Schism 6. Continues Baptism and the Creed in most Articles but errs concerning the Eucharist and other our Lord's Sacraments abrogating the Liturgies Rites Canons Fasts and Festivals as also the Spiritual Iurisdiction of the Church and Canonical Obedience to the Western Patriarch 6. This the Church of Rome does not but has done that which is worse viz. Corrupted the Catholick Faith not by denying any Article of the Creed but by adding New Doctrines to it by increasing the Number and altering the Nature of Sacraments by corrupting Liturgies and the Fasts and Festivals of the Church and so are much worse upon this account than the Donatists who did not Corrupt the Christian Faith 6. We retain the whole Faith and Institutions of Christ intire which I hope is no Fault either in Donatists or in the Church of England We retain the ancient Use of Fasts and Festivals and vindicate our Just Liberties from the Usurpations of the Bishop of Rome who is not contented to be the Western Patriarch but will be an Universal Bishop the Sovereign Head of the Church and Infallible Judge of Controversies By which extravagant Claims he justly Forfeits even that Patriarchal Right which the Canons of the Church formerly allowed him in honour to the Imperial City of which he was Bishop For when a Grant upon meer Courtesy is improved into Tyranny and Usurpation there is no Obligation to continue those Respects which are now Challenged not upon Courtesy but as an Original and Inviolable Right and improved from honourable Respects into Empire and unlimited Jurisdiction However we need not trouble our selves with this Dispute The Brittish Churches for Six hundred Years after Christ never had any Dependance on Rome and what was after this was only Usurpation and an usurped Authority may be renounced without Schism A. St. Augustin's Censure against the Donatists involving Protestants A. And why not involving Papists as well as Protestants For we have less to do with Donatism than they have What St. Austin says against the Donatists is upon the account of their Schism and may indeed be applied to other Schismaticks But before they can be applied to us they must prove us to be Schismaticks which is not so easy to do as to take it for granted which our Author I see is most inclined to But if the Schismatick should fall to their own share they must take the Censure of St. Austin to themselves B. YOV Donatists are with us Catholics in Baptism in the Creed and in the rest of our Lord's Sacraments but in the Spirit of Vnity in the Bond of Peace lastly in the Catholick Church it self you are not with us B. TO agree in Faith and Worship and yet to divide Communion is certainly a notorious Schism And thus St. Austin proves the Donatists to be Schismaticks That they had the same Baptism the same Creed the same Sacraments but would not Communicate with them and thereby Divided themselves from the Catholick Church did not Preserve the Spirit of Vnity in the Bond of Peace but Refused to own themselves of the same Church And this must be Schism for nothing can justify a Separation but a Corruption of Faith or Worship But the Case is vastly different between us and the Church of Rome For we have not the same Creed the same Sacraments and the same Worship The Council of Trent has added a great many new Articles to our Creed has made a great many new Sacraments and corrupted the old ones and has introduced a new and strang Worship the Worship of Saints and Angels and Service in an Unknown Tongue into the Christian Church And this is the Reason not of our Separating from but of their Flinging us out of their Communion And this Case St. Austin says nothing of but we are ready to prove That it is no Schism C. The Sacraments of Christ which in the Sacrilege of Schism you Donatists have to Iudgment will be profitable and wholsom to you when you shall have the Head Christ in Catholic Peace where Charity will cover a multitude of Sins C. If they apply this to us then they must at least grant That we have very good Sacraments in our Church such as are profitable and wholsom and convey to us all the Vertue and Benefit of Sacraments till they can prove us guilty of Schism And we desire to injoy the Benefit of our Sacraments no longer D. Whosoever believes Christ Jesus to be come in the Flesh c. but yet so dissent from his Body which is his Church as that their Communion is not with the whole wherever diffused but is found Separated in some part 't is manifest they are not in the Catholic Church D. This was