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A29085 Sundry particulars concerning bishops humbly offered to the consideration of this honourable Parliament. Brabourne, Theophilus, b. 1590. 1661 (1661) Wing B4097; ESTC R35783 11,573 16

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lesser sutable to every sin and sinner and therefore it is better to put the Office of authority and jurisdiction into the hands of the Magistrate then of a Bishop 10. If a Bishop exercise jurisdiction he will be exceedingly partiall and unjust in his Office punishing one or two sins letting all others go scotfree For the Bishop in the Consistory punisheth Adultery and Fornication with Excommunication but le ts go scotfree the Thief Murderer Traitor the Swearer and Perjured person the Drunkard the disobedient to Magistrates Masters and Parents him that wounds strikes or beats his neighbour defames him in his good name by slanderous words him that breaks his neighbours fence feeds his grasse and destroyes his corn that strikes and lames or kils his horse or other cattel and very many more Now are not all these sins as well as Adultery and Fornication why should a Bishop be so partial and unrighteous as for to Excommunicat for one or two sins not to Excommunicat for many other sins Is it not better therefore that the King and Parliament put all authority and jurisdiction into the hands of the Magistrate who is not partiall but doth and can punish all sins then into the hands of a partiall Bishop who doth punish but two or three sins and sinners 11. If a Bishop exerciseth jurisdiction he shall hold two Offices Magistracy and Ministry which are inconsistent the one destroying the other For first look upon all Ministers in the Kingdome who have Pastorall Charges and they will confess that they find work enough to study the six daies against Sunday and then to Preach to administer the two Sacraments to bury the dead to visit the sick and to reconcile his parishoners at variance the Office of a Ministry alone requireth the whole Man 2. So doth the Office of Magistracy in a Bishop for he is to exercise jurisdiction over a thousand Ministers and Towns And so this is more then he can do alone for he must have his Chanceler and I know not how many Officers more to assist him so you see the two Offices of Magistracy and Ministry are inconsistent because each one requireth the whole man and to jumble them together in the hands of one man the one destroyes the other These two great Ordinances and Offices of Magistracy and Ministry have ever been distinct the one in the hands of the Laiety the other in the hands of the Clergy save where the Pope hath put in his foot It is a confusion of Order and Office for a Bishop to Rule and Preach both as it is for the Lord-Chiefe-Justice to Rule and Preach also An Act was made 1640. In the raign of Charles the first to disinable Bishops for sitting in Parliament upon this ground that Bishops ought not to be entangled with jurisdiction the Office of the Ministry being of such great importance that it will take up the whole man Now is not this reason as strong against a Bishops jurisdiction in our dayes as it was in the dayes of King Charles the first It was the Pope that introducted this confusion of distinct Offices out of lucre and gaine and desire to domineer over the Laiety He hatched or nursed if up this Monster this Babel of confusion which as there were two suns in the Firmament or two Kings in England a Corporall King and Spirituall King or one King over the Commonwealth and another King over the Church Is it not better then to make the Bishop a Preacher only and the Magistrate a Ruler over all For as you have seen proved whilst a Bishop holds these two Offices of Preaching and Ruling his Preaching as a Bishop is superfluous and his Ruling as a Magistrate is superfluous also unjust and partiall 12. If a Bishop take his Commission to exercise jurisdiction from the King then his Authority is jus Humanum and then the King with his Parliament may order Bishops at his wil and pleasure He may make ten or twenty Bishops in his Diocess or every Minister in his Town or Parish a Bishop in difficult causes to order ten or twelve Ministers to determine it 2. The King may have all done freely without reward for he hath under him many Magistrates as High-Sheriffs Majors and Justices of the peace who exercise jurisdiction freely without reward and why should a Bishop require more for exercise jurisdiction in the Church Spirituall men should be farthest off from desire of lucre and gaine No doubt but the King may find in every Diocess Ministers enough who are grave sober meek learned and pious who will take up their Office without lucre and gain These things considered no doubt but Bishops will renounce jus Humanum a Commission from the King and will have their Office to be jus Divinum from God but against this I have already said enough yet for further satisfaction I will in brief answer their Texts 1 They plead Peters two keies the one for their jurisdiction Answ The one may be the keie to open heavens gate to the penitent the other key may be to lock out the impenitent and so there is not a third key for jurisdiction 2. They plead the name Bishop supposing more to be in the name then in the thing Answ 1. The name Bishop in Scripture is given to every Minister see Act. 20. 17 28. those called Elders ver 17. are called Bishops in the Greek text v. 28. see to the like purpose Tit. 1.5.7 and see 1 Pet. 5.1 2. it is Elders in v. 1. and Bishops in the Greek Text v. 2. Secondly the name Bishop doth not imploy any Lordly Superiority and domineering jurisdiction of one Minister over another This I deny and must see it proved before I grant it 2 It cannot be proved for Christ forbad it Mat. 20 85 and 1 Pet 5 3. 3 They plead the Honorable title of Angel given to Bishops Rev. 2 1 Answer 1 I may marvell why Bishops would cause the word to be translated Angel rather then Messenger for so it is translated Luke 7 24. and Iames 2 25. beside the word should be translated Angel when it is understood of a Spirit but not so when it is understood of a man as it is in the text Rev. 2 1 But Bishops in those daies being cock sure that this honourable title of Angell must be applyed to them caused the word to be translated Angel that so their excellency might be admired among the vulgar sort and so they were when a Bishop in the Cathedral sat in the chaire of State adorned with his Rochet and pure white Surplisse and Laune sleves the people did behold him as an Angell of Light There is an Angell of Light and Angell of darknesse but those Bishops were not Light For they gave no Light in the Pulpit all the year long unlesse of Christmas day Easter day or Whit-Sunday in the forenoon 2. The word being translated Messenger as it ought to be it doth not imploy any