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A80839	Berith Anti-Baal, or Zach. Croftons appearance before the prelate-justice of peace, vainly pretending to binde the covenant and covenanters to their good behaviour. By way of rejoynder to, and animadversion on Doctor John Gauden's reply or vindication of his analysis, from the (by him reputed) pitiful cavils and objections; but really proved powerful and convincing exceptions of Mr. Zach. Croftons Analepsis. / By the author of the Analepsis, and (not by the Dr observed) Analepsis anelephthe, to the continuing of St. Peter's bonds, and fastning his fetters against papal and prelatical power.	Crofton, Zachary, 1625 or 6-1672.	1661 (1661)	Wing C6988; Thomason E1085_6; ESTC R208062	67,248	104

determineth that Parliaments Kings Lords and Commons have no prudent moral religious and lawful authority to change the antient universal and excellent government by Bishops for Christian Kings and their Parliaments are obliged to the Laws of God and rules of Christian piety and policy too of which the whole Church in its primitive example and constant custome is the best interpreter No legislative power is empowred by Gods law to bring in heresie error or schisme into the Church or take away the essentials of sound Doctrine and Christian Communion ever owned and maintained in the Church of Christ pag. 196. well said Doctor aut Caesar aut Nullus No Bishop no King must now be a Scripture maxime and article of faith if Smectymnuus his stirr up to the papacy be not now held Salmasius his Apparatus ad papatum asserted and Beza his Episcopi papam pepererunt verified by the Bishop of Exeter I am much mistaken but Sir have you not stretched too far and stept into a premunire little Mr. Crofton should fear to be made less by the head as guilty of Treason sedition at the least should he thus confront King and Parliaments in what all their Statutes declare to be their own creature and constitution changeable at their pleasure even from the statutes of Carlile and 25. of Edward the 3. Declaring against the Pope that holy Church was founded in prelacy by their own donation power and authority Where is Sir the Kings Prerogative over all persons in all causes Ecclesiastical What is become of your Oath of Supremacy can you make this peremptory determination as your self calls it consist with it any more then with your Covenant hath a gracious King lately advanced you to debase nay dethrone him and his Parliament too I know no better confutation of this errour then the hundred eighteen thousand eight hundred and forty pounds payd by the Bishops to Henry 8. to redeem the premunire into which this perswasion had betrayed them with the Petition and Statute of the submission of the Clergy which in my apprehension runs direct counter to Dr. Gaudens peremptory conclusion It hath been observed to be the fatal chance of the Deputies of Ireland to lose their heads and the Bishops of England to run themselves into a Premunire which when his Majestie affected with their bold encroachment doth exact will make them feel and it may be deal with them as did the King of Denmark provoked by the same peremptorie determinations These Sir are your errors in matters Ecclesiastical which you must give little Mr. Crofton leave to tell you are more obvious notorius and abominable heresies then was that charged upon Aerius though an undeniable uniuersal truth by Epiphanius nor doth he fear to be contradicted by any sober or judicious Prelate resolved to keep Episcopacy one peep short of Papacy unto which I shall make bold to oppose these few conclusions of undoubted verity and universally confessed by all Antiquitie which that little Mr. Crofton may not appear too great a dictatour let Dr. Gauden owning sacred or Ecclesiastick story deny it if he can 1. The Lord Jesus Christ is the Shepheard and Bishop of our souls the great good chief and onely one to whom all must be gathered by whom all must be ruled that will be saved and from whom all must be authorized that will feed his flock 2. The Lord Jesus executeth this pastoral charge and Episcopal function by the Ministry of men successively sent and commissioned by his immediate authority and in his name without which they may not Minister to or be received by his flock 3. That the mission and commission of Jesus Christ is directed and given to two onely officers in his Church Bishops or Elders and Deacons the one to look after the bodies outward necessities and condition of his sheep to serve Tables the other to manage all the pastoral charge and Episcopal office as it immediately concerneth the soul of his people 4. That all Ministers are equally invested with and do intrinsecally possess authority from Christ for administration of all acts of feeding or ruling the flock of Christ without any difference of order place charge name office or dignity and therefore are joyned in the same general commission called by the same name Bishop or Presbyter chosen by the same characters conseerated after the same order charged with the same duty feeding or overseeing and challenge the same dignity esteem obedience and double honour from and among the sheep 4. That for some time in the pure and primitive time and estate of the Church the Presbyters did by and among themselves govern the Church communi consilio without any over them as Episcopus episcoporum or Pastor pastorum as having from Christ a different order and function yea without any gradual priority or preheminence of any particular Presbyter above the rest 6. That in process of time the Presbyters neglecting the course and care of Christian mortification by which they ought to have subdued their ambition and passions and so silenced their schism did by the working of the man of sin and permission of God devise a politique way or remedy thereof and advancing among themselves a Primus Presbyter ad schismatis remedium who was after dignified with the title Bishop and was by Canons honoris causa placed in Cities who was before in any poor village This giveth just ground for Smectymnuus note that Episcopacy above Presbytery was an humane invention on Diabolical occasion 7. That all jurisdiction and ruling power was yet acknowledged to abide originally intrinsecally and properly in the Presbyterie whose creature the Bishop was to act pronounce and execute their decrees and therefore when Bishops began to encroach and invade the Presbyters libertie and authoritie to usurp and ingross their power and function and make them subject and servile to them Canons were made to limit confine and subject the Bishop maintain and preserve the Presbyters power in Ordination Excommunication and Absolution not to be done without the Presbyters So that Presbyterie was ever known in the Church as Christs and his Apostles institution and Bishops apart and in preheminence to them the Churches Canonical constitution and Presbyters creation to the formality of whose advancement consensus clericorum was essential 8. That by this political preferment of a primus Presbyter the man of sin did work and exist in the Church engrossing the power of the Presbyterie and advancing himself above them he assumed by degrees a Principality to which he made the Presbyters sworn vassals by which became the subject of Princes indulgence and benevolence until capable of universal influence and extention through the Christian world he assumed an universal Papacie which he executed by subordinate Bishops heads of Diocesses and Provinces contracted universalities throughout the Church thus Beza well notes Episcopi papam pepererunt and Salmasius discovers the apparatus ad papatum ●nd many judicious men see nothing but a

when little Mr. Croftons Analepsis was laid at your feet to be taken up or kicked away but enough of this it is more fit for your Anonymous Anatomist then for a man of modesty who shall keep himself distinct as you have differenced him and shall therefore desire to weigh what your Worship hath against his Analepsis Mr. Crofton is in this elaborate tract dealt with a part but the little man is so light that he is tossed up and down the Wilderness that seeking he cannot without tyring find himself in these indeed tedious and intangled as your self calls them animad versions he did according to his little reason unravel your last snarled skain and resolved it into a regular method which methinks Sir might have kept your fluency within some bounds and have curbed your wild excursions he shewed you the Rocks against which your resolution dashed and digested your discourse into argumentation as well as he could and dare say you appeared better to the Reader in Mr. Croftons Analepsis then in your own Analysis why kept you not to this I promise you if this be Rhetorick I shall not love it till it keep to rule be plain pure perspicuous and methodical without which it is but natural fluency of words and volubility of tongue and not fordid tedious obscure flat wild rabid raging empty and barely wordy without sentence confused and immethodical as is yours unto the very heigth of exorbitancy take notice of it if I be as God forbid I should be Arch-Bishop of Canterbury and an appeal be made to the Archp. against your writings I will adjudge you instead of your Marginal digitations to your Reader to place over every Paragraph the figure by which you frame your sentence and mood by which you form your argument for now you have vindicated your Analysis I must send to you to pray an Analysis of your vindication my reason it is too little to make it I must be fain to guess your meaning by your mumping The Doctors great design in his Analysis professed to reconcile the Covenant and Episcopacy but how unhappily he lost it and miscarried in it was modestly declared by little Mr. Crofton whom I apprehend this great Doctor scorns to admit as a Dictator so as to take notice of or amend his errors on which his conscience cannot but tell him all his Casuistical endeavou●s have been and must needs be shipwrackt without all possibility of satisfaction to conscience how ever it may catch the fancy of his prelatical proselytes who are pleased with a sound against the Covenant and consider not the certainty of it and are ready jurare in verba Episcopi be they never so groundless the say so of a grave Prelate is a sufficient reason of their faith The inadvertency of his expressions both for their fury and falshood against Presbytery the Parliament and all those whose consciences cannot correspond with his propounded Prelacy as well as against his particular Antagonists is so far from being abated that it is more vigorously acted and made so accumulative that his book runs over with foams of rage filling as I said before more the twenty sheets of paper with such furious and foolish objurgatio●s ridiculous reflexions and scurrilous chiding that he that enters this book and passeth but the Threshold must needs say this man is in no temper to resolve a doubt or satisfie a conscience he is in the heat of a scolding passion and so lay it aside as unfit to be read really had angry Mr. Crofton been his Chaplain he must have become an index expurgatorius to his book and presumed to dictate more sobriety and meekness before it had seen the world for that the wrath of man cannot work the righteousness of God men cannot but judge this book an hot contest and violent plea for his prelatical honour and revenues in which beginning to be warm he groweth as hot as a Toast and fearing to lose them falls into a fretting chafe against the Covenant and Covenanters which promise them little security and therefore runs his rage against sacriledge and buying Bishops Lands from which it is well known Mr. Crofton is free nor indeed doth he charge him rather then for his Episcopal office in Christs Church the conscience of which would have made him sensible a Bishop must be no brawler but patient In this angry mood we cannot expect him to be very clear o● certain in the ratio formalis objecti the object of the obligation scrupled and disputed the want of which hath been noted to him by the different acceptation of the term Bishop and Episcopacy the which Mr. Crofton did not onely explain but propose unto him a doublesence thereof affirming the one to be Scriptural primitive and Catholique the other to be Papal Novel and tyrannical and on the variety of his words prayed a positive determination which of them he owned and would reconcile to the Covenant but his greatness would not condescend to make a choice of either according to Mr. Croftons proposal but that we may know he scornfully takes notice that Mr. Crofton had observed his uncertain proposal of the object in ambiguous words he affords us a parenthesis in the threshold of his book which runs thus The way of Episcopal order and authority that is lest Mr. Crofton should again mistake my meaning the presidency of one chief Prebyter or Bishop among many and above all lesser Bishops or Presbyters in his Diocess according to the ancient custome and laws E●clesiastical and civil I thank you Sir for this grave cast of your eye did Mr. Crofton mistake you without cause or clamour it to your damage or did he not take the paines to pick up your words and put them together and tell you that some of them speld one thing and some another distinct from that and modestly desire which you would own and stand by Sir the spirit and men of your Diocess are said to be near a kin to the Welchmen and they must have leave to tell their tale twice and for ought I see you must tell yours thrice for I am as likely to mistake you as I was before such an Heraclitus 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 you are in your Aenigmatical extrication of your own made intricacies and rhetorical labyrinths Before I presume to determine your meaning I must enquire what you mean by Presidency whether you intend not to extend it beyond the gradus of a Moderator unto the power and efficacy of a President of a Colledge at the least what you mean by above all less and subordinate Bishops whether Officio honore Cathedrae or Ordinis authoritate which your Episcopal order authority doth suggest though the title Bishop given by you to Presbyters doth seem to mitigate it What do you mean by antient custom only that which hath long use and can plead prescription and which may have run long and yet leave us a space in which we may

Champions the Authors of the Oxford reasons and therefore must be proved 5. That the Parliament putting an Oath upon themselves as the collective body of the Nation doth not transmit an obligation to the Nation us and our posterities who shall any way succeed into that national capacity as if Parliaments were not the Princes yea more the body of the people doing in their names and by their consent what ever they do and if they do it by an act of permanent nature binding posterity in all ages that can dispose their succession into that capacity of this see more in my fastning of St. Peters Fetters Sect 6. 6. That tumults stirs and the timorous withdrawings of some doth nul and void a Parliament established by a positive law and without any positive visible and real force securing their doors to the barring of the entrance of any the Members to the discharge of their duties and easie way to dissolve Parliaments and blow them up without Gunpowder 7. That the Parliament can Act Vote Determine and execute nothing under the Kings withdrawing from them into any part of his own Country Who may yet do all things in his infancy or whilst in a Forreign Country as if the place of his retirement or reason of his absenc● did add or abstract to the Authority of Parliament 8. That the two houses alone nor King alone no nor King with them have any legislative power to decree or execute what is unrighteousnes against God or man So that the legislation is founded in the piety and justice of the decree And rebellion against authority is acquitted by the iniquity of the command An authoritative aholishing of any subordinate order or society of men is injustice to the persons and possessions of the present Occupants And so England is bound to pennance for the abolishing Monks Nuns and Abbeys and that no King or Parliament have a power or can justly extirpate and abolish out of the Nation any trade calling or order of men any way useful to the Common-wealth Tinkers and Pedlers and men of the like order will certainly cleave close to this conservator of their liberty 9. That no King can lawfully swear to the diminution of his own prerogative and power or honorable estate which all people in the world must and will contradict 10. The solemn League and Covenant binding to an endeavour to extirpate prelacy is irreconcileable to the duty we owe to God and man First to the Kings Supremacy Second to the Church and Countrys peace and honour Third to the glory of God in the Government of the Church Fourth to the reformation of reformed Religion Fifth to the conscience and care of avoiding Sacriledge Schisme and Faction Sixth to the justice we ow to all godly honest and deserving men especially Ministers cujus contrarium verum est Sir whilst you take these for granted which are contrary to right reason natural policy Ecclesiastical story yea and truth it self you may easily raise your Fabrick swell your book and run on in a magisterial reda●gution prelatical determination and raging reviling opprobrious rebuke but Sir you must remember a man that is first in his own cause seemeth righteous but his Neighbour cometh after and findeth him out Prov. 18.17 We shall leave the Doctor to a view of these Rafters proportioned to his foundation and promiscuously scatterd up and down his book And more particularly observe the strength of his argumentation in his reply to what was excepted against in his Analysis and specially as it relateth to Mr. Crofton leaving Anonymous to himself who herein will finde full work for his anatomizing genius The first onset of Dr. Gauden in this his vindication of his Analysis made upon Mr. Crofton his Analepsis is in page 147 and thus enters viz. Which was the thing Dr. Gauden had to prove as Christ did the resurrection not out of the letter only but the Analogie and equity of that Scripture from the force of which M. Crofton cannot extricate himself by his more soberendeavours Under this charge I must enquire what it was he had to prove and I find nothing in this sentence dictating what it should be save only the relative which from which his rhetorick or rather his indigested heap of words hath removed the antecedent at such a distance that I cannot easily find it I looked into the Paragraph fore-going to find out the thing spoken of as that which according to the grammatical construction should make the Antecedent to the Relative and there I find this general conclusion viz. Such Vows and Covenants so much to the scandal of Religion reproach of Reformation gratifying dangerous factions disgrace of this and all reformed Churches dishonor to Jesus Christ his Apostles and chief Successors the Bishops so injurious to many worthy men to the whole Church and Nation of England either ought not to be taken by Christian King and People or if by force fraud or fear and facility they a●e so taken or rather imposed and mistaken yet they mu●t never be kept in any such sence bue either repented of and dissolved or else the words must be resolved and reduced to such a sence as is good and lawful Id quod erat demonstrandum To leave his Libeller to take up his petitio principii as to our Covenant not such in point of matter or form nor so imposed or mistaken as he suggesteth and taketh for granted and to demand his Id quod erat demonstrandum This sentence must be the antecedent to his relative which for so it is connexed which was the thing Dr. Gauden had to prove out of that Scripture But what is the Scripture out of which he must prove this conclusion I find no Scripture nigh hand that can be the proof produced running some seven pages back through a wilde wilderness of words I find in pag. 140. a quarrel begun about Numb 30. and other Scripture is not urged this was the Scripture which was produced in his Analysis though with a misquoted verse and must be vindicated in this book so that this only must be the Scripture predicated to prove his which before noted and then indeed Mr. Croftons more serious endeavours cannot extricate him from the entanglements of the Doctors wilde fancy for the Text neither the letter nor analogy doth afford any such conclusion All Mr. Croftons brains cannot beat such a sense into the words they are so far out The Text in the letter of it is a special direction concerning the vow of a daughter or wife vowing without the knowledge of the Father or Husband In the Analogie of it of the Inferior swearing without the knowledge of the Superiour and directeth an establishment or irritation of the vow not any sencing or interpretation id quod erat demonstrandum And how Dr. Gauden can make it grammatically speak or logically conclude Such a Vow so scandalous to religion gratifying to faction dishonourable to Christ disgraceful to England