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A43806	The rites of the Christian church further defended in answer to the appeal of Dr. Wake : with a letter to Mr. Hill ... on the account of the Municipium ecclesiasticum, as also an answer / by Sam. Hill ...	Hill, Samuel, 1648-1716.; N. N.	1698 (1698)	Wing H2011; ESTC R5805	16,492	62

we must begin with the Pretence set forth in the Title of the Appeal which runs thus An Appeal to all the true Members of the Church of England in behalf of the King 's Ecclesiastical Supremacy as by Law Established by our Convocations approved by our most Eminent Bishops and Clergy men Stated and Defended against both the Popish and Fanatical Opposers of it So that herein four things present themselves to our Consideration First Of what form this Book is namely that 't is an Appeal Secondly To whom 't is offered to all true Members of the Church of England Thirdly In what Cause in the behalf of the King's Supremacy as by Law Established c. Fourthly Against whom and they are both Popish and Fanatick Opposers The Title Page being thus taken into parts is accordingly in order to be considered Now First Appeals in Law are forms of action against some Illegal Process or Sentence of an Inferiour Judge which he supposing himself to have sustained by the Municipium appeals to all true Members of this Church as more righteous and equal Judges So that if he alledge any such Gravamen or false Judgment and prove it by the exhibition or production of the acts in all such Instances he ought to carry otherwise to lose his Cause Secondly The Judges appealed to are all true Members of this Church on which the Party appellate is in suspence not that he suspects such Judges but knows not whom the Appellant intends For it appears by other repetitions * App. p. 117. lin 3 4. that 't is a Critical and Distinctive Character from false Members in this Doctors design tho' he has left them as indiscernible for want of a particular Note as the Subject of Infallibility in the Roman Church For first the Deprived Clergy claim this as their Peculiar Honour merited by their Cause and Sufferings And in the next place among the undeprived this Drs Acumen has smelt out a Party of perjured railing Incendiary Hypocrites that are setting up for a third Church of England * Ap. p. 3. namely those that are for the Municipium which to his utter grief he finds to be the Body of the Clergy every where even home to his Doors Now these are dangerous Judges for the Dr. to trust such an Appeal with So that in the third place the Mystery is that those few of his Party that are against all Divine Authorities in the Church are his secure Judges his allowed Members of the Church of England and then indeed we and the Church too is undone if we decline not such Judges Either therefore let him shew us our very Judges or be content to carry the Appeal to the Apostles and Fathers of the Church Catholick and we will readily joyn with him if need be Thirdly The Cause or Matter in Appeal is here pretended to be the King 's Ecclesiastical Supremacy as by Law Established c. But how this comes to be the Subject of an Appeal against the Municipium and for his former Book I cannot conceive 'T is true the Letter to a Convocation-man after his Assertion of the Divine Right of Synods endeavours not to deny the King 's Ecclesiastical Supremacy but under that to assert a like Legal Liberty to Convocations as to Parliaments in which latter part upon our Legal Establishment the Minicipium did not concern it self But being dissatisfied with the Drs. denial of the Sacred Powers and with that unlimited System of Regal Authorities ascribed to all Christian Princes on the meer Right of their Magistracy which are truly collected into nine Aphorisms out of the Drs. Book in the 108 and 109 pages of the Municipium it undertakes the refutation of these his general Maxims So that the Dr. has appealed in a Cause in which we never prosecuted him So that except it appear upon production of sayings in the Municipium that the particular Legal Establishment of our King 's Ecclesiastical Supremacy is impaired or impeached therein it ought to be acquitted by our Judges and this is what we stand to in this Appeal remonstrating that according to the Title of the former Book now shifted from all Princes to ours only he ought to have laid his Appeal in behalf of the Authority of Christian Princes in general and simply over their Ecclesiastical Synods as by himself stated and asserted c. that is against the Divine Right of Synods in the Church and for those Authorities of all Christian Princes summed up in those nine Aphorisms This then is a defect in the very Title and Pretence of Body of it he yet if really in the Body of it he has made out these his Maxims for all Christian Princes we will be content that the Municipium be condemned as severely as the Doctor desires Fourthly The Adversaries against whom he Appeals are all Popish and Fanatical Opposers of the Kings Ecclesiastical Supremacy for so the interpunctation of the Semicolons after three Participles does determine his intention that herein he may not shuffle but all along the Appeal you find no Book reflected on but the Municipium So that this seemed a pretty Artifice to expose his Adversary under hated and ignominious Characters tho' he knows him as far from those Imputations as any Man in England For as he knows the Catholick Ballance against Popery and the Dissertation de Presbyteratu against Franticks to have been as unanswered and perhaps as unanswerable by those Parties as the Municipium is by himself so the very Municipium it self asserting the Divine Rights of the Episcopal Hierarchy does herein at once as well oppose the Council of Trent as the Genevian or Scotch Consistories So that if this part of the Title be sincere we are not the Person against whom this Appeal is brought if it be calumnious it will affect no Mans Integrity or Reputation but his own But to gratify the pretty Caprice for once let us be Popish or Fanatick or any other Exotick or Invidious Name what then will the Consequence be Namely this that then we may fairly decline his Judges the True Members of this Church and his Authorities therein namely the Articles Canons and Laws and the Sayings of her Bishops and Doctors It being an unequal thing that we should be concluded by prejudicate Parties especially considering that all the Fanaticks who deny the Kings Ecclesiastical Supremacy as much as Papists and as equally the Authorities owned in the Church of England are tolerated in the whole Profession of their Fanaticisms against this Supremacy and these Authorities even by the Supream Civil Powers themselves And consequently if the Doctor has not proved his Authorities produced in this Church to be good upon Prior and more Eminent Authorities such as are those of Scripture Common Reason and the Antient Church Catholick to which the Municipium yields and refers it self and ought so to do but has left the Arguments of the Municipium with no other answer but this

THE RITES OF THE Christian Church further defended In Answer to the Appeal of Dr. WAKE With a Letter to Mr. Hill Rector of Kilmington on the account of THE Municipium Ecclesiasticum As also an Answer By Sam. Hill Rector of Kilmington John 18.23 If I have spoken evil bear witness of the evil but if well why smitest thou me Sold by the Booksellers of London and Westminster 1698. A LETTER Written to Mr. HILL on the account of the Municipium Ecclesiasticum With the Answer c. SIR TAking it for granted that you are the Author of Municipium Eeclesiasticum and that you will think your self obliged to remove those Charges laid upon you in your Adversary's Appeal I think fit on so ticklish a Point to offer you some Considerations necessary in my Opinion to allay the Prejudices that seem to lye against you For first of all There are some that conceive you to be the Author of the Letter to a Convocation man and therein to have thrown a needless Bone of Contention in a time of great Jealousies under the late Plot and War with very suspicious Reflections upon the Greatest in the Government and considering your daring Attempt not long before upon a formidable Adversary your Enemies stick not to represent you as a Man of Incendiary Humours a Prejudice very easie to take among Strangers and Persons disaffected especially in a soft Age dissolved into Courtship and Caresses On which account I should with submission think it not expedient to avert those Misconstructions by setting forth Truth under its fair and equal Reasons for the generous Vndertaking and this with your Name set to take off the Reproach of a Libel fixed on it The part that appertains to the intrinsick Merits and Substance of the Cause appears in the Appeal it self which you know best how to treat and therefore I do not pretend to advertise you thereupon but wishing you all Success Reward and Happiness for your many Pious Hazardous and Labours for this poor Church I subscribe New Atlant Feb. 24. 1697 Worthy Sir Yours Entirely N. N. The Answer SIR SInce you were not pleased to let me know you nor where to return Thanks for so endearing an Office yet since you have given such Useful Intimations you have fixed me in a Method how to appear on this Appeal about which I was before very anxious and undetermined for now I think it the most proper way for me to give you an Epistolary account of my sense in this matter which being sent by the Press will find you in your Secrecy and satisfie at once both you and the Impartial World against such Surmises which such an Adventure must needs draw upon it Know you then that we are so far from being the first starter of this controversie that after all possible inquisitiveness we have not been able so much as to guess at him nor are we at all concern'd in those whether real or pretended reflections at which his adversaries are all so fired And to be free with you and the world if the passages taxed did in truth design reproach his own conscience ought to smite him will one time or other do so severely if for nothing else yet for the Hypocrisie and false Colours but since his language carries in it an apparent zeal and veneration for all authorities now in being and particularly hopes for vengeance on those that reflect upon His Majesty to create a Jealousie with his people we think his Opponents have no warrant from any rules of Justice and Charity to pronounce him a reviler so absolutely as they have done and if God who searcheth the hearts finds him to be as intentionally innocent as his words are then these Men have brought that guilt of maledicence on themselves with which they now load him So that herein they seem not to have considered our Saviours precepts against Censoriousness as much as how to gratifie their own malice or ambitions But as to what really concerns us we are not very solicitous what partial men say of us because no protestations in the world can inhibit their malice and therefore in what we are accountable to God alone to him alone will we reserve our account being contented to leave with the world these arguments of our integrity that though we could have laid trains of assentation in order to advancement by avoiding all disgusting writings and by bending our capacities to serve the present Genius in Officious Treatises and fulsom Dedications and had prospects fair enough before us to have led us into such temptation yet have we never slained our concisence or our pen by any such little and illiberal Artifices but have always chosen rather to please God in the Cause of the Catholick Faith and Church against all unjust displeasures of Men than to be sacrilegiously guilty in corrupting or betraying those Divine Principles and Constitutions and if it be possible that any person especially of the sacred Robe can be offended at us for serving the Cause of Christianity at the Expence of our powers and at the loss of all our worldly Interests we can only recommend them to Gods mercy and in the mean time condole the state of the Church in that there are some in her that are more concerned for her promotions than her fundamentals But though Integrity is under no such great Obligations to stand in awe of the delicate or censorious world in order to any internal comfort and satisfaction yet that its designs may be more serviceable to the holy Ends proposed we shall not grudge to shew what just reasons there were to oppose the Counsels and Principles of this Doctor tending so openly and violently to the ruine of the Ecclesiastical Powers and Constitutions It is too intimately known to all considering and religious Persons how much the rampant Advances of Heresie and new Schemes of Christian Faith created in the Church a desire of a free Convocation to correct these Extravagancies by the methods used in such cases through all Ages And we wish we could not say that the Interest of the Criminals hath found a party against the general appetite and benefit of the Church inspired with a Spite from the dead against the lower house of Convocation not to be abated till they can hope to introduce thereinto a number and majority ready and sequacious in the execution of their purposes In which unnatural and irreligious Project they club in with all the Atheists Infidels and Sectaries of the Nation a splendid Instance wherof we have in this Doctor who has for Complices in this Adventure * Author of the Essay concerning the power of the Magistrate and Rites of Mankind in matters of Religion in his Postscript concerning the Letter to a Convocation Man one profligate Anti-christian Infidel and foul-mouth reviler of the whole Church of God through all Ages and egregiously of the Reformed Church of England in this last Age in comparison with which