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A45406	A continuation of the defence of Hvgo Grotivs, in an answer to the review of his annotations whereto is subjoyned a reply to some passages of the reviewer in his late book of schisme, concerning his charge of corruptions in the primitive church, and some other particulars / by H. Hammond ...	Hammond, Henry, 1605-1660.	1657 (1657)	Wing H529; ESTC R17947	36,523	52

one of the {non-Roman} {non-Roman} {non-Roman} {non-Roman} {non-Roman} and {non-Roman} {non-Roman} {non-Roman} {non-Roman} {non-Roman} seers and hearers of the Lord being falsly accused by hereticks {non-Roman} {non-Roman} {non-Roman} {non-Roman} {non-Roman} was put to death Now this we know was but the conclusion of the Apostles age John who was one of them living till that time and not of the auditors of the Apostles But should it be granted according to his desire that 't was of the latter age that Hegesippus spake it would as hath appeared stand him in little stead and therefore I shall not spring new occasion of contention with him on this matter Had not the honour of the Vniversal Church of Christ succeeding the Apostles so nearly concern'd in this his reinforced objection seemed to exact this just tribute from me I had not here given him this importunity 16. Whereon seeing I am thus far entred It will not be amiss to pay him at once what he may expect of return to some other passages of this his last piece wherein he is pleased to reflect on me 17. And 1. occurs towards the beginning of it pag. 33. a discourse of {non-Roman} {non-Roman} {non-Roman} {non-Roman} {non-Roman} c. which he endeavours to apply to the prejudice of my evidences for the Epistles of Clement and of St Paul to the Corinthians being written to all the Churches of Achaia In return to this I shall note but these four things of very many that offer themselves 18. First that there is a double notion of {non-Roman} {non-Roman} {non-Roman} {non-Roman} {non-Roman} c. one wherin it is opposed to {non-Roman} {non-Roman} {non-Roman} {non-Roman} {non-Roman} and is all one with {non-Roman} {non-Roman} {non-Roman} {non-Roman} {non-Roman} or {non-Roman} {non-Roman} {non-Roman} {non-Roman} {non-Roman} being strangers or sojourners in which notion a Pomponius takes it when by it he expounds the Latin incola as that is all one with inquilinus a stranger in any place qui aliquâ or rather aliâ regione {non-Roman} {non-Roman} {non-Roman} {non-Roman} {non-Roman} saith Theophilus domicilium suum contulit Of this notion of the word I spake nor nor could be imagined to speak nor whatever he thinks is or can parochia or paraecia to be taken in this sence in any author Another notion there is of {non-Roman} {non-Roman} {non-Roman} {non-Roman} {non-Roman} for accola a neighbour as in Thucyd. l. 4. {non-Roman} {non-Roman} {non-Roman} {non-Roman} {non-Roman} the Spartanes and the nearest of the neighbouring cities some of those {non-Roman} {non-Roman} {non-Roman} {non-Roman} {non-Roman} neighbours it seems nearer then others and so Pomponius also non tantùm qui in oppido moratur sed qui alicujus oppidi finibus agrum habet a borderer that lives and holds lands within the bounds i. e. in the territories of any city whether nearer or farther off or whether that territory be wider or narrower wider as the territory of a Metropolis narrower as of an ordinary city or yet lower as of a town or village And which of these it is in any author is not conclusible from the nature or use of the word which equally belongs to all these but from the quality of the place to which in any author it is applied If the discourse be of a Metropolis then the territory and so the {non-Roman} {non-Roman} {non-Roman} {non-Roman} {non-Roman} is the whole Province or {non-Roman} {non-Roman} {non-Roman} {non-Roman} {non-Roman} as when Mark is said by Eusebius to have constituted Churches in the plural at Alexandria the chief Metropolis of Egypt these are by c him all conteined under the phrase {non-Roman} {non-Roman} {non-Roman} {non-Roman} {non-Roman} as by Mark committed to Anianus and to the Churches that belong to the chief Metropolis of Crete Gortyna are by Dionysius Bishop of Corinth called {non-Roman} {non-Roman} {non-Roman} {non-Roman} {non-Roman} the Church adjacent to i. e. the Province of Gortyna If speech be of an ordinary city then the territory of that and so the {non-Roman} {non-Roman} {non-Roman} {non-Roman} {non-Roman} is that which we now call a Diocese though {non-Roman} {non-Roman} {non-Roman} {non-Roman} {non-Roman} anciently signified otherwise Territorium est universitas agrorum intra fines cujusque civitatis saith d Pomponius and is rendred by Theophilus {non-Roman} {non-Roman} {non-Roman} {non-Roman} {non-Roman} all the region which is under a city And so farther downward to towns and villages also as they are called {non-Roman} {non-Roman} {non-Roman} {non-Roman} {non-Roman} Paroecia parishes the whole territory or bordering neighbourhood is comprehended under it And so in summe Corinth otherwise appearing to be the Metropolis of all Aehaia as Achaia was one of the e five {non-Roman} {non-Roman} {non-Roman} {non-Roman} {non-Roman} of Pelopounesus and this both in the Civil and Ecclesiastical Notitiae in the Civil as is evident by the Proconsuls keeping his residence there Acts 18. 12. 15. Corinth being before this time f destroyed by Mummius reedified by Iulius Caesar and now a g Roman Colony and having a h Province belonging to it called {non-Roman} {non-Roman} {non-Roman} {non-Roman} {non-Roman} the Corinthian region and in the Ecclesiastical as appeared both by the general {non-Roman} {non-Roman} {non-Roman} {non-Roman} {non-Roman} or conformity between the city and the Church not onely in after ages but from the first cited from a most ancient learned Church-writer Origen contr. Cels l. 3. and more particularly as to Corinth by the express words of i Saint Chrysostome All this I say otherwise largely appearing and not deduced from the bare style {non-Roman} {non-Roman} {non-Roman} {non-Roman} {non-Roman} this Church thus styled by Clemens and compared with Pauls first Epistle which expresly comprehends the Saints of all Achaia and yet as is granted on all sides no greater an extent then what Clemens wrote to is by me regularly affirmed to be that whole Province of several Churches for which 't was not yet that {non-Roman} {non-Roman} {non-Roman} {non-Roman} {non-Roman} grew to be the Ecclesiastical word and not that single Church of Corinth but all under that Metropolis 19. 2. That it is most unreasonable to affirm that either 2 Cor. 9. 2. or anywhere else Achaia and Corinth are all one for that is all one as to say France and Paris a region or nation and a city in that region are all one 'T is true the Church to which the Epistles of Paul were written comprehends under it all the Christians of Achaia but then my pretensions must have place that those Epistles were written to all the Churches of Achaia united in Corinth the Metropolis not that Achaia which had many cities in it was all one with Corinth that but one though Metropolitical city 20. 3. That of the Churches of Achaia beside Corinth that of Cenchrea is expresly named and though no other chances to be thus explicitely mentioned in Scripture which was not obliged to write the full Corography of the Apostles plantations yet this negative argument gives us no reason to

doubt but there were more cities in Achaia then these two all Geographers assure us of many and those in some proportion converted to the faith and formed into Churches in Saint Pauls time and before Clements writing to them However that one of Cenchrea concludes as much as I want Cenchrea being another city-Church different from Corinth and {non-Roman} {non-Roman} {non-Roman} {non-Roman} {non-Roman} neighbouring to it part of its territory and under it as a daughter under a Metropolis 21. 4. That Chrysostome that speaks of Corinth as a Metropolitical Church speaks of it not as this Author pretends onely in the political but Ecclesiastical notion and not onely as in his own but as it was in the Apostles time Else he could not say of S. Paul as he doth {non-Roman} {non-Roman} {non-Roman} {non-Roman} {non-Roman} that he wrote to a Metropolis T was certeinly to the Church that Saint Paul wrote not the city and 2. to that Church in Saint Pauls age The testimony is as clear as the Sun that b Saint Chrysostome speaks of Corinth Thessalonica and the Ephesians and Galatians to whom the Apostolical Epistles are directed as so many Metropolitical Churches to each of which Saint Paul wrote and thereby in every of those Epistles wrote not {non-Roman} {non-Roman} {non-Roman} {non-Roman} {non-Roman} to one city onely he addes or to two or to three but {non-Roman} {non-Roman} {non-Roman} {non-Roman} {non-Roman} to all every where in each of those regions relating to those Metropolitical Churches to all the Churches of Galatia of Achaia c. 22. And so much for that affaire on which five leaves were providently laid out at the beginning of his journey to secure some principles which were after to be improved by him which yet he cannot but know are superseded by many other evidences of Metropolitical Churches planted in the Apostles times at Jerusalem Antioch Ephesus Thessalonica Philippi Alexandria and Rome c. every of which requiring his answer as much as {non-Roman} {non-Roman} {non-Roman} {non-Roman} {non-Roman} 23. P. 87. he minds me of his acknowledging the catholick church both the invisible body of Christ his elect c and the Vniversality of visible professors and consequently of the injury formerly done him in comparing his expression that there was never any Church-Officer instituted in those first times relating to more Churches in his office or to any other Church than a single particular congregation with the author of the Saints beliefe which instead of the Holy Catholick Church in the Apostles symbols substituted this very hypothesis as if I either really believed or was willing to perswade others that he denyed the Catholick Church 24. To this I answer 1. that I neither entred into his secrets nor indeavoured to infuse any jealousies into others concerning his talent undiscovered thoughts but onely considered those words then before me not being at that distance able to divine how far he meant to acknowledge the Catholick Church in a tract written two years after 25. Secondly That his acknowledging now two notions of the Catholick Church one of all the elect the other of all that are called doth not so certainly difference his doctrine from that of the author of the Saints belief there being no reason to doubt but that he that compiled that did at that time acknowledge the Catholick Church in those two notions The thing that he meant to deny and renounce implicitely by leaving out the mention of the Catholick Church and explicitely by what he substituted in stead of it was I supposed the several degrees of associations each known among men by the name of a Church 1. that of the whole Christian world the Vniversal Church either as it by some pretended to be Monarchically or by others Aristocratically governed 2. That of each National Church under the Primate thereof 3. That of each Provincial Church under the Metropolitane 4. That of every Diocesan Church under the Bishop and lastly of every Parochial Church under the Rector thereof And all these seem as avowedly to be denied by this author to have been instituted in those i. e. in Ignatius's times as by the compiler of the Saints Belief they were And some of these being to my understanding thus anciently instituted and express mention made in Ignatius not onely of the {non-Roman} {non-Roman} {non-Roman} {non-Roman} {non-Roman} or multitude under a particular Bishop which is one of these but farther of the Church of Syria i. e. of that whole region and the Church of Syria which is at Antioch all joyned under Antioch the Metropolitical Church and the Catholick Church wider then either of these and comprehensive of both this I deemed fit to be confronted to his hypothesis and the parallel in the Saints Belief of the no other Church than a single particular congregation which I supposed narrower than any one of these And this is a brief and I hope inoffensive account of that particular 26. Pag. 232. An exception is made to my instance in the Bishop of Oxon and that from a supposed exemtion of this author at the time of his writing from the jurisdiction of that Bishop But 1. I proceeded not to the naming or specifying the author at all when I spake of the Bishop of Oxon much less considered the quality which was peculiar to him from other men or the exemtion consequent to that quality which whatever it can be pretended is but temporary and personal and so not proper for any special consideration 2. I answer The Bishop of Oxon hath a Diocese or else no man that lives in that could by any priviledge of his place be exemt from it And then what I said of the duty owing to that Bishop somewhat more then styling him a reverend and learned person and being glad of his neighbourhood and acquaintance {non-Roman} {non-Roman} {non-Roman} {non-Roman} {non-Roman} signifies more than that regularly belongs to all such as are in his Diocese and are not exemt from his jurisdiction and whatever he please to imagine I never meant to extend it to any other 27. Pag. 122. I find a dislike of my way he should not have said of justifying our separation from Rome but of defending our Church from the guilt of schisme charged on us by the Romanists But this is no news to me he had once before signified thus much and I was not then surprised with it and shall onely assure him that now I have seen his new way I am no whit less pleased with the old than before I had the confidence to be 28. The last that I took notice of to be my concernment was pag. 229. where perhaps I may be the person accused to have charged the doctrines there named as a considerable portion of the doctrine of our Church of everting fundamentals If it be so I have then two things to say in this haste and no more 1. that the doctrines which I charge in the tract of Fundamentals I charge not of everting of Fundamentals but as may be seen in the title and contents of the 12 chapter of aptness to obstruct and hinder the superstructing of good life upon Christian belief Of which whether the doctrines by me specified be guilty or no I appeal to those indifferent Readers that shall impartially view what is there said and shall be content to be concluded by that though not by this Vmpirage 29. 2. That no one of the doctrines thus accused by me are the doctrines of the Church of England as there as far as I ever heard it doubted is cleared by me whereas on the contrary some of them that particularly of Christs redeeming none but the elect are as expresly renounced by our Church as any branch of Atheisme or Polytheisme is disclaimed by the Creed of the Apostles 30. And now I may be permitted to take my leave of him at this time THE END ERRATA Pag. 3. l. 11. r. and so p. 5. l. 33. r. bad been long expected p. 6. l. 20. r. his letter l. 27. r. few passages p. 7. l. 18. r. so that 53. ibid. r. 10 this sense l. 35. r. {non-Roman} {non-Roman} {non-Roman} {non-Roman} {non-Roman} l. 36. r. {non-Roman} {non-Roman} {non-Roman} {non-Roman} {non-Roman} p. 8. l. 5. again i. the p. 9. l. 21. r. was written p. 16. l. 7. r. {non-Roman} {non-Roman} {non-Roman} {non-Roman} {non-Roman} l. 16. r. {non-Roman} {non-Roman} {non-Roman} {non-Roman} {non-Roman} p. 25. l. 8 r. or as l. 34. r. Schlusselburgius p. 32. l. 13. r. sounded l. ult. r. on them p 36. l. 4. r secrecie with p. 39. l. 8. dele to l. 29. r. And so the p. 42. l. 16. r. symbole l. 21. r. latent p. 43. l. 1. r. as it is a See Ans. to Animad. vers p. 132. b Epist. to the Oxford Heads d Epiph. l. 2. Haer. 49. Socin. in John 1. g Lutherani penè omnes Ariani smi eum accusant Grot. Appendi de Antich p. 85. Pref. to his Book Persever p. 5. Answ to Animadv. p. 13. a D. verb sig. c Eccl. hist. l. 11. {non-Roman} {non-Roman} {non-Roman} {non-Roman} {non-Roman} d Ibid. e Pausan {non-Roman} {non-Roman} {non-Roman} {non-Roman} {non-Roman} f Pausaen {non-Roman} {non-Roman} {non-Roman} {non-Roman} {non-Roman} p. 44. l. 19. g Me la l. 11. c. 3. h Pausan {non-Roman} {non-Roman} {non-Roman} {non-Roman} {non-Roman} p. 44 i To 3. p. 343. b Tom. 3. p. 343.