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A64702	The church-papist (so-called), his religion and tenets fully discovered in a serious dispute ... whereby the common ... arguments of pretended visibility, succession, universality, &c., of the Roman Church ... are briefly confuted : whereunto is added, a short discourse proving episcopacy to be of divine institution, kingly government of Gods setting up, and the religion of the Church of England, to be the best in the world / by one of the children of the late captivity, 1680.	Underwood, John, fl. 1680.	1680 (1680)	Wing U46; ESTC R7367	28,086	42

all Hereticks converted Nations deprived and restored Bishops called Councils c. that is the true Church But only the Roman is such Ergo only the Roman is the true Church The Major you say is plain because these Privileges belong to the Authority of the Mother-Church which is Matrix Radix omnium Ecclesiarum I answer you should first have proved her to be the Mother-Church Radix c. before you exercise or can claim the Authority of a Mother I would fain know what Church is the Mother of the Roman or is Rome it self Motherless for I deny her to be the Mother of the universal Church of God yet do agree that those Privileges you mention do belong to the Authority of the Catholick Church but 't is an insolent and intolerable usurpation of the Rights and Privileges of the Universal Church for any particular Church to confine all the Catholick Privileges to her particular self I am sure she hath not this power from Christ to judge and condemn her Sisters for she is not Matrix Radix omnium Ecclesiarum as you say there were elder than she therefore she at best but a Daughter Church and Sister to others Jerusalem if any particular was it as was prophesied of old Mic. 4.2 and fulfilled Luke 24.47 and so Theodoret lib. 5. Hist Eccl. cap. 9. tells us Ecclesia Hierosolymitana quae aliarum omnium Mater And Men were first called Christians not at Rome but at Antioch Acts. 11.26 St. Gregory Nazian saith The Church of Caesaria was Mater prope omnium Ecclesiarum meaning of neighbouring Churches not of the whole Catholick Church Et Constantinopolitana Ecclesia dicitur omnium aliarum caput so in that sense and no other Rome may be called Head of those Churches in her Patriarchat Every particular Church that teacheth the Catholick Doctrine may be called Catholick as a Member of the universal and so was the particular Roman whilst it held all things true concerning the Faith but never was she Mater Radix omnium Ecclesiarum for the Universal Church hath no particular or locall Root of its being Jerusalem as I said before if any was it Or if you will have a particular Root of the Catholick Church 't is in the East not in the West at Rome se praecisam esse a Radice orientalium Ecclesiurum c. St. August Epist 170 But the Head Root Matrix Fountaine c. of Rome and all other particular Churches is the Catholick Church and her Unity and to break her Uunity by usurping a Power or Priority which Christ never gave is at the least abominable if not certainly damnable 't is against a command too The Text is clear There was a strife among the Apostles which should be greatest St. Luke 22.14 Christ answered them The Princes and Rulers exercise Dominion c. but it shall not be so with you He that will be greatest c. St Matt. 20.26 There is no Priority much less Superiority given to Churches National Tertullian tells us Omnes Primae omnes Apostolicae dum unam omnes probant unitatem de praescript advers Haeret. cap. 20. Porro unam esse primam Apostolicam ex qua reliquae hanc nulli loco affigit B. Rhenanus therefore not at Rome And it is to be observed that Tertullian long since numbering the then Apostolical Churches reckons Rome last of them Tertull. ibid. cap. 32. and Pamelius lately puts Rome after others cap. 21. num 129. what you speak out of St. Augustin In Ecclesia Romana semper viguit Apostolicae Cathedrae Principatus that in Rome there did always flourish the Principality of an Apostolick Chair in relation to the West and South parts of the Church all the other four Apostolical Chairs being in the East doth not give Rome nor the Pope thereof power to exercise this Principality beyond his Limits out of his own Patriarchate over the whole Church of Christ for in the same Epistle of St. August Epist 162. Melciades then Bishop of Rome had leave granted him to hear a matter of the Donatists adjudged by the African Bishops and other Bishops by the Emperour were sent Judges to determine with him for if he had done it without leave the Epistle tells us it had been an usurpation seeing ad cujus curam c. ibid. it belonged to the Emperours care and charge and that he is to give an account to God for it Yea a Pope himself saith 'tis Antichristian to be stiled universal Bishop St. Greg. l. 4. Epist 78 monstrous and blasphemous Absit a cordibus Christianorum Nomen illud Blasphemiae ibid. Epist 76 and further St. Greg. Epist 83. In isto scelesto vocabulo consentire nihil aliud est quam fidem perdere So the Roman was not then universal Bishop had no power over Patriarchs and National Bishops no Monarch over the whole militant Church for near six hundred years after Christ and Britain in those times was never subject to the See of Rome for it had a Primate of its own Et a Patriarcha non datur Appellatio saith the Civil Law from whom lies no Appeal Now then the general power of anathematizing Hereticks depriving Schismaticks restoring Orthodox Bishops c belong to the Catholick Church Militant and her Authority in general Councils lawfully by her called and constituted and that the Catholick Church is our Mother no man will deny that accounts God to be his Father But this Holy Catholick Church mentioned in the Apostle's Creed is not the Church of Rome nor any other particular Church on Earth The Holy Catholick Church there spoken of contains not only the whole militant Church on Earth but the whole Triumphant alive in Heaven for so St. August Euch. cap. 56. Ecclesia hic tota accipienda est non solum ex parte quae peregrinatur in terris c. verùm etiam ex illa quae in Caelis And who converted Nations originally Did not Christ send out his Apostles and seventy Disciples at another time and then after sent many more were not then Apostles Apostolick men and the general Church they that converted and confuted Nations and planted the Church of Christ in the World Now this Holy Catholick Church before ever Rome was a Church is Matrix Radix omnium Ecclesiarum of Rome as well as other The Catholick Church was ever one and the same Church viz. the Church of God spread over the whole World and as before described by St. August Rome could never be it for if Rome a particular Church can be now the Catholick Church then by the same Rule if it be not out of Rule some other particular Church before it was the Catholick Church and how came that to lose it and Rome to get it that it is now as you say translated to Rome and doth it not follow by the same rule that Rome also may transire in non Ecclesiam pass way in no Church for what Patent or holy Charter

THE Church-Papist SO CALLED HIS RELIGION AND TENETS Fully Discovered IN A serious Dispute which long since happened between a then reputed Papist and an open professed Romanist whereby the common and trite Arguments of pretended Visibility Succession Universality c. of the Roman Church Travelling the Nation to amuse and stagger the Weak and to seduce and pervert the unstable sort of People are briefly Confuted WHEREUNTO IS ADDED A short Discourse Proving Episcopacy to be of Divine Institution Kingly Government of Gods setting up and the Religion of the Church of England to be the best in the World By one of the Children of the late Captivity 1680. LONDON Printed for Robert Hartford at the Angel in Cornhil near the Royal Exchange 1680. TO THE RIGHT HONOURABLE HENRY Lord Jermyn EARL OF St. Albans BARON of BURY St. EDMONDS and KNIGHT of the most Noble ORDER of the GARTER MY LORD THE Occasion of the following Tract happening in your Country your Native Country between your Country-men discoursing of Religion and particularly the one defending that Religion wherein your Lordship is most eminently Principl'd and of your exemplary Piety and Devotion therein the eyes of your Country have been often witnesses hath encouraged my presumption to this Dedication Nor will your Lordship deem the Patronage of these few Leaves a diminution to your Glory seeing you have made it the Glory of your Honourable Person and the Admiration and Joy of all Protestant Professors in the Church of England that amidst and after so many Tryals and Temptations in foreign parts where you have resided you should still remain unshaken in your Faith that no self or private Conveniences no politick respects to Times or Places could allure you from the publick profession of the Religion of the Church of England of that pure Religion confirmed to be the truest on Earth by the most signal proof under Heaven even by the crimson Stream of the dear blood of Gods Vicegerent who for the Church suffered many and bitter Agonies of Life as if the Thorns which once surrounded the Temples of our Saviour had been platted anew on the Brows of this holy Martyr We often read of an innocent Lamb without spot offered in Sacrifice but here a spotless Shepherd more innocent than his Sheep became an Oblation for his Flock a Royal Shepherd too whose Holiness entitled him to an Alliance with the Majesty of Heaven and made him truly a God on Earth and Son of the Most High It cannot be deny'd but in his sufferings for the Church this great Patron of Religion came neer to those of the Eternal Saviour of Mankind whom the Jews put to Death for planting Religion in the World and a People worse than Jews slaughter'd this good King for defending the same Religion Church which was nailed to the Cross in Mount Calvary his own people too imitated the Jews in perpetrating the horrid Villany that here is a Testimony and Reputation to the Protestant Profession transcending all the Testimonies of former Ages and the greatest that ever Age or Nation could boast of In all the Romish Kalendar of Canonized Saints in their whole Roll of pretended Martyrs where is there one since the Apostles time worthy to have been a Torch bearer or born a Flambeaux at his Grave Had Rome for their Faith such a glorious Name to boast of what Pilgrimages from their utmost Confines what Processions from all parts of their Territories would be made to his Shrine Even Divine Adoration would be given at his Tomb and indeed such Devotion would come neerer to true Worship there than at all the prophane Altars they have before bowed And as in the Infant Plantation of Christs Church the holy Shepherd the Lord of Life was smitten and the Sheep were scatter'd hid and concealed for a space so likewise as if true Religion had not only been deposed but Crucified too with this Martyr on the Scaffold the true Church was forced to walk invisible as to the knowledg of her Enemies in this Land and not to be found but in Cells and silent places for then were Instructions to right Faith and good Life chain'd up and temptations to Atheism Irreligion and Prophaneness let loose upon men Then holy Guides and Pillars of the Church suffered some Death some a barbarous Captivity Persecution raged on all her Children then Treason triumphed Rebellion was rampant and with Faction and Sedition became the Epidemical Tutors of the times then nothing was dangerous for men to practise but Loyalty and Vertue or to profess but the old Protestant Religion Thence followed the fatal Necessity forevery true Protestant to be his own Priest and to fortifie himself by consulting the Divine Oracles and Writings which the Saints of old Fathers of the Church had left to Posterity for our strengthning against the Assaults of Schism And then it was that I applyed my self to a sedulous examination of those Principles in Religion which Education had instill'd and to search the bottom on which my profession of Faith was founded and it was then that I found the best direction for my task and purpose from that most excellent Advice which I apprehended might well serve every Subject as the Son of a King of that glorified Saint and holy Martyr for the same Faith left to his Son then Prince of Wales which is able to rivet the most wavering Spirit on the rock of Assurance Indeed who can remember his holy Life in that Faith and his submission to Death for the same or read his Divine Writings and be faithless And who can be so merciless to himself as not to contemplate the former and read the latter for his Confirmation in Religion in the Religion of his King the best of Kings in the Religion proved by undeniable Authority to be the best in the world The King of Kings preserve his Sacred Majesty our Soveraign and the Royal Progeny and their Posterity in the perseverance of the same profession of Religion to the perpetual honour of their Names and Crowns the safety and glory of the Church and Kingdoms And the same Divine Providence bless your Lordship with long and happy days to be still a Light in your Sphere by your Zeal and Constancy in the Protestant Profession to the still Confusion of Face of those enemies of Gods Church whose malitious Impudence continually asperse the Devotion of great and cast a suspicion on the Religion of good men and as you have fervently imitated our grand Master of adored and blessed memory in his transcendent unimitable Constancy in the true Faith which set him not as his Enemies machinated in a Cloud a Sun in full glory ever shining after death so your Lordship after Life on Earth finished may be a Star of the next Magnitude with him in the Firmament of Glory is the fervent Prayer of My Lord Your Lordships most Humble and most Devoted Servant John Underwood THE CHURCH-PAPIST So Called A Church-Papist

well beloved Son in whom I am well pleased hear ye him and to hear him is Life And I know They committed two Evils that forsook the Fountain of Living Waters to hew out to themselves Cisterns broken Cisterns that can hold no water Jer. 2.13 That Episcopal and Kingly Government are inseparable in England and the Establishment of both are Jure Divino WE have in the late Tragical Revolutions been too severely taught that no Project of Government either in Church or State Episcopacy excluded is consistent with England's happiness and that Episcopacy and Monarchy are inseparable and the only props of this Nations Peace we by the same cruel Experience have been made sensible whereby it appears that 't is England's great Interest to uphold both for her safety and that the one cannot subsist without the other was well understood by that second Solomon King James of blessed memory from whom we have the Maxim in his Basil Do. Sublato Episcopo tollitur Rex no Bishop no King And no Faction or Profession though nick-naming themselves Protestants deviating from the Principles in Doctrine and Practise in Worship from the present Church of England can stand with Monarchy A right Protestant of the English Church protests not only against the errors of Rome but against all Schism and errors of every Sect and against all Doctrine not agreeing with the Primitive Profession and Practise of the antient Church of Christ There are sorts of People that are ever clamorous and designing to Reform the Reformed and even to amend Reformation it self chiefly plotting a great alteration which is more than a Reformation of Church Government by removal of Bishops from the Government but these are enemies to good Reformation for no good Reformer ever held Episcopacy unlawful the Order doth emanare ab Apostolis The Government is of Divine Right of which Christ himself the Great High-Priest Heb. 4. v. 14. and Bishop laid the Foundation was Bishop over all and the Apostles were Ministers After him every Apostle had his Charge many of them a Diocess and was Overseer that is Bishop over many Churches and they left this way of Government a Pattern for all Posterity to follow So it is manifest that Church-Government by Bishops is as old and universally practised as Christian Religion and Christian Faith was received in England soon after the Crucifixion of our Saviour and the Government of the Church by Bishops entred with it as well it ought for there was no other Government Order or Constitution in the Primitive Church Apostles Angels Bishops Patriarchs c. are Synonima one Office under several Denominations St. Paul an Apostle not of men neither by man but by God was a great Apostle or Bishop Timothy had a Jurisdiction over the Ephesians and was ordained Bishop Tim. 3.22 and so was Titus Bishop of Creet and had many Ministers under them Thus entred Episcopacy and that Order of Priesthood to the Government of the Church in the beginning There was an order of Priesthood in the old Law of which the high Priest was chief and there were Priests and Levites so in the new it seemed meet to the Eternal Builder of the Church to leave by the example set by his Apostles an Order and Method of Government therein and this divine Emanation the Universal Church hath in all Ages embraced and this Order best keeps the Presbyters and Clergy in Unity one with another and in an Union of Doctrine and Worship in the Church throughout which otherwise the order of Church-Discipline left to every Presbyter's private fancy to use after his own modelling would greatly hazard the introducing as many Novels may be Schisms and Factions as there are parochial Churches in the Land what a Medly what a Confusion what a Hydra what a Babel what an open Mockery as it were of God would there be throughout the Nation to the scandal thereof so the Church in England would have no appearance no face and constant dress to be known by Strangers would be at a loss for the true English Church finding here a Hydra of many faces not one like another But who and what generation of men are wiser and more holy than the Apostles and Fathers of old to set up a new way of Government of their own contriving in Christ's Church what Power on Earth can abrogate that Government by divine Institution reared and continued by the same right all Ages in the Church of God And what necessity is here of a change or alteration of Government in the Church from that which is Apostolical to that which peradventure may prove Diabolical for what good can be expected by pulling down that which is of Gods setting up and introducing a new we know not what of Man's absolute devising But if perchance any Irregularities have crept in or undue practices contrary to the established Order have been committed in any part of this Government which should call for or minister a Necessity of Reformation surely not unhallowed hands of the prophane Laity who should be governed by the Church and not the Church corrected by them are fit Instruments of this Work especially in a Nation that hath so lately felt the dire Effects and Issues of a popular pretended Reformation and wherein those men have shown to the World what ill Workmen they are Let the people reform their own Manners This reforming part of what is amiss in the Church belongs only to them to whom the Holy Spirit said I will be with you always to the end of the World with the Church i. e. with the Apostles whose personal continuance lasted not in the World and their Successors in the Office of Apostles Bishops Pastors Patriarchs c. in the Church who shall have the assistance of the Holy Spirit for ever As my Father sent me so send I you And as Christ sent them so they sent others so what shall seem meet to the Holy Spirit and to them whom Christ hath sent and through whose word we are to believe in Christ St. Jo. 17.20 the Governours of the Church successively to whom Christ hath promised to be with and in whom only the Jus Divinum remains may reform and alter what they judge convenient for it is of the same power that chang'd the Sabbath from the last to the first day of the week and 't is from and by the same Power and Divine Authority that the Church conveys all the Ordinances Sacraments and Holy things of God to his People from Generation to Generation These Pastors and Governours with whom Christ according to his word is always present to the end of the World may I grant transfer the Government should they deem a necessity into more hands under other names than that of Bishop which note will still be but Episcopacy degenerated into another denomination the Power will be the same not altered but translated from one to many in whom the Supremacy and Jus Divinum will remain In all