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A64661	The judgement of the late Arch-Bishop of Armagh and Primate of Ireland 1. Of the extent of Christs death and satisfaction &c, 2. Of the Sabbath, and observation of the Lords day, 3. Of the ordination in other reformed churches : with a vindication of him from a pretended change of opinion in the first, some advertisements upon the latter, and in prevention of further injuries, a declaration of his judgement in several other subjects / by N. Bernard.	Ussher, James, 1581-1656.; Bernard, Nicholas, d. 1661.	1658 (1658)	Wing U188; ESTC R24649	53,942	189

reflexion In whom with his conformity to the Discipline Liturgy and Articles of the Church of England labour in writing constancy in preaching against the errours of Popery and such as border upon it so much humility holinesse and charity and other fruits of the spirit did so eminently shine Indeed I have seen divers Letters wrote unto him from those who heretofore were so aspersed full of respect and large expressions of their love to him and many receiving satisfaction have concurred with him in the abovesaid particulars his humility and meeknesse prevailing more then others strict austerity but how that said Title could be fixed on him I am yet to seek unlesse it bear a better sense than the Authours of it will own Nay some of the simpler sort hearing of a conjunction of Popery and Prelacy have thought they could not be parted in him though most of his Sermons as well as his writings sufficiently clear him that way I remember many yeares agone the late Arch-Bishop of Canterbury wrote unto him into Ireland of a strong rumour then raised of him here at Court That he was turned a Papist presumed to be by a Letter of some Popish Priest from thence But it fell out to be at the same time or immediately after he had in two Learned Sermons given his judgement at large that the Papacy was meant by Babylon in the 17 and 18 of the Revelation which in the return of his answer to that report he did affirm and was his judgment to his last though the reply made to him did not consent in that I am not a stranger to such a design of some of the Romish party a little before his death for the raising of the like rumour by some Letters wrote unto him from some of eminency among them which I disdain any further to mention And thus upon this occasion I have endeavoured to prevent for the future any more injurious mistakes of him by an impartial declaring according to my knowledge his judgement and practice in these particulars wherein he may well be esteemed of us as Erasmus saith of Saint Augstine Vividum quoddam exemplar Episcopi omnibus virtutum numeris absolutum And I wish in these divided times wherein each party hath a great and a reverend opinion of him they would shew it in this by taking his spirit of moderation for their Copy to write after and for my own part I would to God not only they but also all that read or hear this of him were both almost and altogether such as he was THE REDUCTION OF EPISCOPACY Unto the Form of Synodical Government Received in the ANCIENT CHURCH By the most Reverend and learned Father of our Church Dr. JAMES USHER late Arch-Bishop of Armagh and Primate of all Ireland Proposed in the year 1641. as an Expedient for the prevention of those Troubles which afterwards did arise about the matter of Church-Government Published by NICHOLAS BERNARD D. D. Preacher to the Honourable Society of Grayes-Inne London LONDON Printed Anno Domini 1658. TO THE READER THE Originall of this was given me by the most Reverend Primate some few years before his death wrote throughout with his own hand and of late I have found it subscribed by himself and Doctor Holseworth and with a Marginal Note at the first Proposition which I have also added If it may now answer the expectation of many pious and prudent Persons who have desired the publishing of it as a seasonable preparative to some moderation in the midst of those extreams which this Age abounds with it will attain the end intended by the Authour And it is likely to be more operative by the great reputation he had and hath in the hearts of all good men being far from the least suspicion to be byassed by any privivate ends but onely ayming at the reducing of Order Peace and Unity which God is the Authour of and not of confusion For the recovery of which it were to be wished that such as do consent in Substantials for matter of Doctrine would consider of some conjunction in point of Discipline that private interest and circumstantials might not keep them thus far asunder Grayes-Inne Octob. 13. 1657. N. BERNARD The Reduction of Episcopacy unto the form of Synodical Government received in the ancient Church proposed in the year 1641 as an Expedidient for the prevention of those troubles which afterwards did arise about the matter of Church-Government Episcopal and Presbyterial Government conjoyned BY Order of the Church of England all Presbyters are charged to administer the Doctrine and Sacraments and the Discipline of Christ as the Lord hath commanded and as this Realme hath received the same And that they might the better understand what the Lord had commanded therein the exhortation of Saint Paul to the Elders of the Church of Ephesus is appointed to be read unto them at the time of their Ordination Take heed unto your selves and to all the flock among whom the Holy Ghost hath made you Overseers to Rule the Congregation of God which he hath purchased with his blood Of the many Elders who in common thus ruled the Church of Ephesus there was one President whom our Saviour in his Epistle unto this Church in a peculiar manner stileth the Angell of the Church of Ephesus and Ignatius in another Epistle written about twelve yeares after unto the same Church calleth the Bishop thereof Betwixt the Bishop and the Presbytery of that Church what an harmonius consent there was in the ordering of the Church-Government the same Ignatius doth fully there declare by the Presbytery with Saint Paul understanding the Community of the rest of the Presbyters or Elders who then had a hand not onely in the delivery of the Doctrine and Sacraments but also in the Administration of the Discipline of Christ for further proof of which we have that known testimony of Tertullian in his general Apology for Christians In the Church are used exhortations chastisements and divine censure for judgement is given with great advice as among those who are certain they are in the sight of God and in it is the chiefest foreshewing of the judgement which is to come if any man have so offended that he be banished from the Communion of prayer and of the Assembly and of all holy fellowship The Presidents that bear rule therein are certain approved Elders who have obtained this honour not by reward but by good report who were no other as he himself intimates elsewhere but those from whose hands they used to receive the Sacrament of the Eucharist For with the Bishop who was the chiefe President and therefore stiled by the same Tertullian in another place Summus Sacerdos for distinction sake the rest of the dispensers of the Word and Sacraments joyned in the common Government of the Church and therefore where in matters of Ecclesiasticall Judicature Cornetius Bishop of Rome used the received forme of

into my hands and taken a Copy thereof and have caused it to be compared with two other Copies Manuscripts in Oxford the one in Magdalene the other in Baliol Colledge Library I take no small comfort in the hope I conceive of seeing your Grace before your departure into Ireland I heare of a purpose your Grace hath to see Oxford and abide some time there the Lord blesse you and keep you and make his face to shine upon you Newberry May 29. 1640. Yours in all observance desiring to sit at your Grace his feet WILLIAM TWISSE Mr. Chambers of Clouford by Bath hath long ago answered Dr. Heylines History of the Sabbath but knowes not how to have it printed A Clause in a Letter of the Primates to Mr. Ley of the Sabbath FOr mine own part I never yet doubted but took it for granted that as the setting of some whole day apart for Gods solemne Worship was Juris Divini naturalis so that this solemne day should be one in seven was juris Divini positivi recorded in the fourth Commandement And such a jus divinum positivum here I mean as Baptisme and the Lords Supper are established both which lie not in the power of any man or Angel to change or alter wherein me thinks your second position is a little too waterish viz. That this Doctrine rather then the contrary is to be held the Doctrine of the Church of England And may well be gathered out of her publick liturgy and the first part of the Homily concerning the place and time of prayer Whereas you should have said that this is to be held undoubtedly the Doctrine of the Church of England For if there could be any reasonable doubt made of the meaning of the Church of England in her Liturgy who should better declare her meaning than self in her Homily where she peremptorily declareth her minde That in the fourth Commandement God hath given expresse charge to all men that upon the Sabbath day which is now our Sunday they should cease from all weekly and work-day labour to the intent that like as God himself wrought six dayes and rested the seventh blessed and sanctified it and consecrated it to rest and quietnesse from labour even so Gods obedient people should use the Sunday holily and rest from their common and daily businesse and also give themselves wholly to heavenly exercises of Gods true Religion and service Than which what could you devise to say more your self For the further maintenance of which Doctrine I send you herewith a Treatise written by a learned man now with God against Theophilus Brabourn who gave occasion to the raising up of these unhappy broiles which if it may any way conduce to the furtherance of your more exact Treatice c. I shall be very glad and be ready to c. Part of a Letter of the Primates to an Honourable person not long after the coming forth of Doctor Heylins book of the History of the Sabbath which I found wrote in the same Paper with the former AS for Dr. Heylins relation concerning our Articles of Ireland it is much mistaken For first where he saith they did passe when his Majesties Commissioners were imployed about the setling of the Church Anno 1615. and chargeth them with this strict austerity as he termeth it in the prescript observation of the Lords day he sheweth himself very credulous there having been no such Commissioners here at that time and our Articles having been published in Print divers years before the Commissioners whom hee meaneth came hither as Sir Nathaniel Rich who was one of them himself can sufficiently inform you Secondly where he saith he is sure that till that time the Lords day had never attained such credit as to be thought an Article of the faith he speaks very inconsiderately Hee that would confound the ten Commandements whereof this must be accounted for one unlesse he will leave us but nine with the Articles of the faith he had need be put to learn his Catechisme again And he that would have every thing which is put into the Articles of Religion agreed upon in the Synod for the avoyding of diversity of opinions and for the maintenance of peace and uniformity in the Church to be held for an Article of the faith should do well to tell us whether hee hath as yet admitted the Book of the ordination of Bishops and the two volumes of Homilies into his Creed for sure I am he shall find these received in the Articles of Religion agreed upon in the Synod held at London 1562. To which Doctor Heylen himself having subscribed I wonder how he can oppose the conclusion which he findeth directly laid down in the Homily of the time and place of prayer in the fourth Commandement viz. God hath given expresse charge to all men that upon the Sabbath-day which is now our Sunday for these are the plain words of the Homily which the Doctor with all his Sophistry will never be able to elude they shall cease from all weekly and week-day labour to the intent thot like as God himselfe wrought six dayes and rested the seventh and blessed and consecrated it to quietnesse and rest from labour even so Gods obedient people should use the Sunday holily and rest from their common and daily businesse and also give themselves wholly to the heavenly exercises of Gods true Religion and service By the verdict of the Church of England I am sure the Lords day had obtained such a pitch of credit as nothing more could be left to the Church of Ireland in their Articles afterward to adde unto it Thirdly he shameth not to affirm That the whole Book of the Articles of Ireland is now called in which is a notorious untruth And lastly that the Articles of the Church of England were confirmed by Parliament in this Kingdome Anno 1634. where it is well known that they were not so much as once propounded to either House of Parliament or ever intended to be propounded The truth is that the House of Convocation in the beginning of their Canons for the manifestation of their agreement with the Church of England in the confession of the same Christian faith and the Doctrine of the Sacraments as they themselves professe and for no other end in the world did receive and approve of the Articles of England but that either the Articles of Ireland were ever called in or any Articles or Canons at all were ever here confirmed by Act of Parliament may well be reckoned among Doctor Heylins fancies Which shews what little credit he deserves in his Geography when he brings us newes of the remote parts of the world that tells us so many untruths of things so lately and so publickly acted in his Neigbour Nation A Confirmation of the latter clause in this Letter of the Primates viz. That the Articles of Ireland determining the observation of the Lords day were not called in Anno