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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
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