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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A36464	Archiepiscopal priority instituted by Christ, proved by plaine testimonies of Scripture. Asserted by the ancient fathers. And whereunto all the moderne divines of the Protestant side doe fully assent, without contradiction of any one man. / By Samuel Daniel Master of Arts.	Daniel, Samuel, 17th cent.	1642 (1642)	Wing D206; ESTC R1122	45,585	58

Apostle of the circumcision and had a priority of order among the governors of the Church of the Iewes which the Scripture gives him in plaine language let us remember that they that adde to and they that take from the word of God are both subject to the same curse and that they that call evill good and good evill are in the same case For my owne part I dare not but speake the truth as I find it delivered in the Scriptures it is the dutie of all Gods messengers to reveale the whole counsell of God and to keepe back nothing the knowledge whereof is necessary for the promoving of Gods glory and the advancement of the Kingdome of his deare sonne and this point which I maintaine concerning the superiority of Church Governors concerns the externall government of his kingdome I am sure and it is so cleere and evident in Scripture that none that has understanding and can read the Scriptures but may conceive it and my opponents some of them make a Church government a marke of the Church and a part of the Gospell it stands us then greatly in hand to make triall which is that government that Christ hath established in his Church and truely the government which I defend is the onely government which we finde established by Christ and his Apostles and which hath beene in use in the Christian Church in all ages and generations since And that which some of my opponents defend we neither read of it in Scripture not so much as a syllable nor that as it was the government established of any particular Church in the whole Christian world till within these few yeares and truely it makes my haire to stand upon my head to heare so glorious Epithiets given to the Inventions of men as to call their discipline the temple of God Mount Sion the Tabernacle of the Lord the eternall councell of God the Scepter of Iuda a marke of the Church a part of the Gospell these Epithiets stiles are proper to the Apostolicall government to the purity whereof as it is recorded in Scriptures if the government of the Church of England were conformed it might be justly called the holy discipline and enjoy all these forementioned Epithiets O blessed Iesu happy should I thinke my selfe if I should see thy Church in all Christian Kingdomes governed as thou hast prescribed in thy word and thus much I have said for Peters Archiepiscopall priority now I will say somewhat for Paules in the Churches of the Gentiles Saint Augustine saith that Peter was not the head of the Church but an eye in the head and truely if Peter was the one eye I may say that Paul was the other for although that Peter was called among the first of the Apostles by Christ his master and Paul after all yet the Apostle Paul mentions his dignity and degree to bee as high as Peters he was not inferiour he saith to the chiefe Apostle and if we looke to the manner of their calling Pauls calling was much more glorious then Peters even when hee was first called to be a preacher of the Gospell Peter was called when he was going about the workes of his calling Paul when he was raging with all cruelty against the Saints of God Christ arrests him and makes him stand and yeeld Saul Saul why persecutes thou me it is hard for thee to kick against the pricks it was at this time that hee was caught up into paradice and heard unspeakable words which is not lawfull for man to utter 2. Cor. 12. It is no wonder that the Apostle Paul glories in the manner of his calling for none of them were called after so excellent a manner which was a presage of the greatnesse of the worke whereunto he was called which our Saviour makes known to Ananias Act. 9. for he saith to him he is a chosen vessell unto me to beare my name before the Gentiles and Kings and the children of Israel for I will shew him saith the Lord what great things he shall suffer for my names sake this was the first time that hee was called and that onely to be a preacher of the Gospell he was not as yet called to be an Apostle nor he was not advanced some yeares after this to the Apostolicall function not before the Lord appeared to the Prophets and teachers at Antioch and required them to separate to him Barnabas Saul to the worke whereunto he had called them Act. 13. it was at this time that hee was made an Apostle before this time he was no more but one of the Prophets of the Church of Antioch and so called Act. 13.1 after this time he is said to be filled with the Holy Ghost and to be mighty by wonders and miracles after this hee is called by a new name Paul That Paul was the chiefe Apostle of the Churches of the Gentiles he shewes in divers places of his Epistles Eph. 3. he saith for this cause I Paul the prisoner of Iesus Christ for you Gentiles and verse 2. if ye have heard of the dispensation of the mystery of God which was given to you-ward and verse 8. unto me who am lesse then the least of all Saints is this grace given that I should preach among the Gentiles the unsearchable riches of Christ The Apostle saith this grace was given him not because it was only given him but because it was chiefely given him But he most plainely declares his priority in the Churches of the Gentiles Gal. 2. for there hee equalls himselfe with Peter who as I have made manifest had a priority of order among the 12. Apostles and in the whole Iewish Church and doth not in any case acknowledge himselfe inferiour to him neither in order nor degree yea he tells us plainly that the Gospell of the uncircumcision was committed to him as the Gospell of circumcision was committed to Peter which testimony of the Apostle Pauls evidently declares that there was a speciall over-sight committed unto Peter in the Church of the Jewes and unto Paul in the Church of the Gentiles for if it had not beene so why would he compare with Peter and not with the rest not he would have said without all doubt as the Church of the Iewes was committed to Peter Iames and Iohn so the Church of the Gentiles was committed to him and Barnabas Moreover it is evident that Paul his charge had some excellency in it above the ministery of the other Governors of the Church of the Gentiles for although there were others that were Apostles of the Gentiles and namely Barnabas for one yet he appropriates a speciall oversight of the uncircumcision to himselfe in these words He that was effectuall in Peter to the Apostleship of the circumcision the same was mighty in me towards the gentiles Further Paul telleth us 2. Cor. 11.26 that he had the care of all the Churches viz. of many Churches of the Gentiles this evidently shewes not the greatnesse