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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A42392	Reflections upon the animadversions upon the Bishop of Worcester's letter by H.G.	H. G.	1662 (1662)	Wing G25; ESTC R40433	9,578	13

upon the Regal so neither doth the Regal upon Kings Conversion to Christianity annihilate or divide this power but it is the same and in the same manner propagated after as before and the executors of it in their Office are immediately Christs Ministers and as in the Gospel so under the old Law the Levites and Priests in the Administration of their Office were Gods immediate Ministers and though Regal Power over the Children of Israel were as intire and absolute as in other places yet was Saul rejected and Uzziah smote with Leprosie for invading it Nor do I see why D. E. should be so zealous for propagation of a Pagan state when as it may be he would have found as much occasion to quarel therein as against the Bishops in a Christian for men by the light of Nature wheresoever they apprehended a Deity judged it necessary to have it worshiped by separated persons ordained therunto and therefore though in Pagan States God was not publickly worshiped and serv'd by Bishops and Christian Priests yet had they every where something in Analogy thereto viz. a High Priest and Flamens to serve him in their publick Worship and by consequence were not so very Heathens as D. E. And pray what reason is there that God under the old Law sho ld be served by separated persons ordained thereto and that moral men by the light of humane Nature conform thereto and yet only God in Christian States is fit to be publickly served by such Cattel as D. E. and his Fellows D. E. his third Objection is that Christ's Unity is a Unity in heart and Spirit whereas actus interior exterior ea●dem constituunt virtutem And what a Unity in heart and Spirit is no man can tell but as it is outwardly expressed and our Saviour himself affirms that he that denies him before men him will he deny before his Father in Heaven And what a Unity of Heart and Spirit D. E. is of appears by the Annimadversions And whereas D. E. tels the Bishop in his ear that our late wars did not arise from the separation of consciencious dissentors but from the violence and fury of unconscionable Imposers I must needs tell D. E. it is a loud and slanderous lye for there was nothing imposed upon the Dissentors which was not legally imposed and so not violently furiously or unconscionably done unlesse D. E. can shew wherein it was directly against Divine Laws Nor were any of these consciencious Dissentors furiously and violently compelled to hold their Livings but if they liked not the terms they might have left them and for these men to promise Conformity that they would dayly offer up the publick service of the Church Bury the dead visit the sick baptize Infants and uprightly instruct the cure committed to them by their Diocesan and do nothing of these but instead of these preach their own Passions and Affections to make factions and seditions in Church and State and yet in conscience desire the means of the Church is like to a man that stipluates with D. E. for a summ of money to do a thing and doing nothing of it in conscience desires of D. E. to pay him the mony sure D. E. would think this man to have little conscience and yet such men must be D. E. his Consciencious Dissentors But sure the King and Parliament will not suffer such an affront to pass unquestioned as to make the King governing by the Laws to be a violent furious and unconscionable Imposer and the cause of our late warr and a company of Vermine and Hypocrites who would be governed by no Laws and yet furiously and violently impose their own wills and lusts upon their fellow Subjects to death and utter ruine to be the consciencious Dissentors 8. I will not question the French Protestants standing nor the Dutches kneeling in receiving the Sacrament in D. E. his 8 th objection nor his profound Learning in the Ecclesiastical Laws of those Churches this I will tell D. E. that by his ignorance in Divinity he grants the Bishop that kneeling is essential and necessary in receiving the Sacrament for nothing done to a creature can be Idolatry if it were not before due to the Creator and therefore cannot the Papists abuse kneeling at the Sacrament to Idolatry if kneeling in the Sacrament were not due to God and if the abuse of a thing should take away the use of it then must not D. E. say his prayers because the Papists do Mass And whereas D. E. in his last objection is so angry with the Bishop for aspersing the whole order of the Presbyterians with the faults of Mr. Baxter I will tell D. E. they are such an Order as are in the cards when the Kings are out I pray who did incorporate them so or from whence do they derive their order I grant they are a factious conspiracy known by that name and the common Parent of all factions and the Author of all our late calamities I hope D. E. will not lay the Act of Oblivion to my charge whereas he hath incorporated the Presbyterians notwithstanding the Act would bury all names of difference I have done with his objections against the Bishops arguments I shall not take notice of his quarelling with the Bishops policy yet cannot I over-slip D. E. his tenderness of conscience in his second particular for the lawfull part of the Covenant and how zealous he saw the Covenanters were for restitution of his Majesty Countrey-men in profering gifts usually object upon refusal that they know not what to do with them such was the Covenanters case they had lost their dominion they had usurped over their fellow Subjects and in the Coffee-houses we define a Presbyterian to be one who if he may not persecute other men cryes out he is persecuted himself the Independents nay they were like to be undone by them no wonder therefore when they had lost all other means if they endeavoured to erect their Dagon by means of his Majesty but since a repenting Presbyterian was scarce ever heard of and since it is evident to all men that the whole gang of them retain the same temper and metall they ever did and since not only so many places in Church and almost all the places of trust in Court swarme● so with them It will not I hope be a crime if good Subjects pray for a prosperous Reign upon his Majesty lest upon any adverse fortune those very men serve him as they did his Saint-like and Martyr'd Father FINIS