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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A62284	The reformation of the Church of England justified according to the canons of the Council of Nice, and other general councils, and the tradition of the Catholick Church being an answer to a paper reprinted at Oxford, called (The schism of the Church of England) demonstrated in four arguments, formerly proposed to Dr. Gunning and Dr. Pearson the late bishops of Ely and Chester, by two Catholick disputants, in a celebrated conference upon that point : in which answer the unworthy and false dealings of the papists are shewed, and the charge of schism returned upon them, and the Church of England proved truly Catholick and apostolick in her doctrine and constitution / by Dr. Saywell.	Saywell, William, 1643-1701.	1688 (1688)	Wing S804; ESTC R34023	26,158	36

Church as the Pope and his Adherents in England do not So that though Archbishop Parker and others were Ordained but by Four Bishops which is more then the Canons do require to be present yet it was according to the Constitution and Order of the Catholick Church and so all Catholick Bishops must allow and approve of what was done And they and their Successors are established by Christ according to that Command and Authority which he gave to his Apostles to whom as he gave Authority over the whole World so he hath promised to be with them and their Successors to the end of the World. And none have better asserted and maintained the Divine and Apostolical Right of Episcopal Government as well against the Pope and Jesuits as the Presbyterians and Erastians than the Bishops and Divines of the Church of England Our Author therefore does take wrong Measures and seems not to be acquainted with the State of our Affairs when he does Object to us the deriving our Spiritual Authority from secular Magistrates For no Church in the World hath more heartily defended the Episcopal Primitive Church Government in Opposition to the Pope and other Innovators than ours has done And now we have been Governed by many Successions of Archbishops and Bishops according to that Divine Tradition and Apostolical Observation and are at this Day settled under the Conduct of as Learned and Pious Bishops and Clergy as perhaps ever has been in any Age since the first Founding of the Christian Church and heartily United in the Profession of and Conformity to the truly Ancient Catholick and Apostolick Faith and Discipline which is Established in the Church of England in Provincial and National Synods and likewise by the Law of the Land neither are there any that pretend any Succession derived down in Opposition to ours much less a Regular and Orderly Jurisdiction over us and if the Popish Bishops in the beginning had a pretended Claim yet they being all long since Dead and none continued to succeed in their Places all Pretence is now wholly out of Doors and the Present Bishops are guilty of no Schism their Order is undoubted and their Succession uninterrupted and so their Title and Authority is as firm and unquestionable as any upon Earth and they must be Schismaticks before God and the Catholick Church that do not submit to them and joyn in their Communion in all Lawful Things as the Service of our Church is in all its Offices and Administrations beyond Dispute and to joyn in them is all that is required of any Lay-person to be a Member of our Communion And now I have vindicated the justness of the Authority of the Church of England let us consider with what a different Spirit and Temper the Reformers did proceed from that of the Papists on the side of the Reformers nothing but Love Kindness and Charity on the Part of the Papists nothing but Cruelty Murder and Destruction For they did not only uncanonically Depose their Spiritual Fathers the Lawful Bishops in Queen Maries Days but Archbishop Cranmer of Canterbury Bishop Ridley of London Bishop Latimer Bishop Hooper and Bishop Ferrar were burnt to Death with many other Priests and Lay-persons and others were forced to fly their Country to avoid the like Destruction Now come we to consider how these Bishops that had been the cause of all this Cruelty and Bloodshed in Queen Maries Days and were wrongfully thrust into the Places of the True and Lawful Bishops whom they Murthered or forced to fly their Country were treated themselves by the Reformed Bishops when the Tide was turned another way as it was in the Days of Queen Elizabeth And one would think that the Nation being thus exasperated against them by the cruel Usage they shewed to others they would meditate the like Revenge aud retaliate upon them with the like Severity but it is quite contrary to the meek Spirit of Orthodox Christians thus to imbrue their Hands in Blood upon the Account of Religion or to seek to Revenge themselves in the like manner They committed their cause to God in whom they did put their trust and left it to him to plead it with their Adversaries But they themselves did render nothing but Good for Evil Mercy for Cruelty And though they did remove the Bishops from those Sees to which they had no just Title because they were Men of Blood and would not conform to the Publick Order settled in King Edward's Days and give such Security to pay due Allegiance to her Majesty as in justice they ought to have done yet they were treated with all Civility Archbishop Heath was suffered to abide in one of his own purchased Houses never restrained to any Place and died in great Favour with the Queen who bestowed many Gracious Visits on him during his Retirement Tunstall Bishop of Durham spent the remainder of his time with Archbishop Parker by whom he was kindly entertained and honorably Buried the like Civility was shewed to Thirlby Bishop of Ely in the same House and to Bourn Bishop of Wells by the Dean of Exon in which two Houses they Died about ten or eleven Years after White Bishop of Winchester though at first imprisoned for his Insolencies after some time was suffered to enjoy his Liberty and to Retire himself to what Friend he pleased The like Favour was shewed to Turbervile Bishop of Exeter who being a Gentleman by Birth of an Ancient Family could not want Friends to give him Entertainment Watson Bishop of Lincoln having endured a short Restraint spent the remainder of his Time with the Bishops of Ely and Rochester till being found practising against the State he was finally shut up in Wisbich Castle where at last he Died. Oglethorp Bishop of Carlisle Died soon after his Deprivation of an Apoplexy Bayne Bishop of Lichfield of the Stone and Morgan Bishop of St. Davids of some other Disease the December following his Deprivation but all of them in their Beds and at perfect Liberty The rest disposed of themselves as they pleased but no Restraint was laid upon them and were perfectly out of all Fear or Danger of hard Usage so far were the Reformers from putting them to Death upon the Account of Religion Only Bishop Bonner was kept in the Tower for his own Security to preserve him from the Outrage of the Multitude which he had highly exasperated against him by his former Cruelties But so gentle was his Usage and so answerable in all Respects to his Character that one would have look'd on it rather as a chosen Retirement than a Restraint This clear Account being given of the Lawful Authority and undoubted Succession of the Bishops in Queen Elizabeth's Days by whom the Reformation was continued which was happily begun in King Edward the sixth's Reign come we now to consider the state of the inferior Clergy at that Change as we have set it down by Mr.