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city_n	call_v	chief_a	province_n	5,625	4	8.4072	4	false

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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

he had written what was thus chargeable and so had not been reproveable if they had been all out of the Institutions those being as acknowledgedly his as the Commentaries and both much more then the Annotations on the Epistles are Grotius's and 3. if he stand by learned men acquitted of the charge then as I said that may make the parallel more exact betwixt him and Grotius though I undertake not that every learned man hath been thus just to acquit him 60. But then fourthly for Calvino-Turcismus by me mentioned in a parenthesis he tels me I have forgotten the design of it and that Calvin is no more concerned in it than others of the first Reformers nor is it from any doctrine about the Deity of Christ in particular but from the whole of the Reformed Religion with the Apostacies of some that they compare it with Turcisme adding that something indeed in a chapter or two they speak about the Trinity from some expressions of Luther Melanchthon Calvin and others 61. To all this I answer 1. that 't is visible I speak not of Mr Calvin alone but of the learnedst and most valued of the Reformers and of Mr Calvin onely as one of them 2. That although the forgetting the design of Reynolds and Giffords Book would be far from a crime in me had I been guilty of it the subject matter of it is not so much worth remembring much lesse any indication that Grotius were insufficiontly vindicated yet when the Reviewer confesses that in a chapter or two it speaks about the Trinity from some expressions of Luther Melanchthon and Calvin and others this clearly evidences that these Reformers were there thus accused in the matter of the Trinity as now it seems Grotius is And 3. if Hunnius's Calvinus Judaizans which is home to the business be answered by Pareus and an account of the calumny given by him this still renders the parallel more complete An account of the calumny and the first author and grounds of it against Grotius being happily rendred by himself also in the Discussio p. 17. 62. The Reviewer concludes this matter with a signification of his constant adhering to his proposition formerly asserted with one limitation expressed of his own observation But I that first gave the occasion of the debate in my Digression concerning Grotius did never propose it with reference to that limitation not being able to foresee how much this Reviewer had read or observed of Grotius's writings nor can I yet pass judgment whether what hath now been offered to him by another will be yielded to come within the compass of that limitation or no And so I must be content to leave it at this time 63. On the second sort of suggestion the Reviewer hath chosen to be brief and hath well prepared for it by expressing dislike and aversation to any such undertaking that seemed incumbent on him viz. to prove that Grotius was a Papist But to this I reply as before that this task is sure incumbent on him if as he said his defensative be suited to what I pleaded in his behalf For 't is certain that in the Digression I had so proposed the debate and undertaken to vindicate him from this suggestion viz. that he was a Papist 64. That he closed with the Roman interest he is now willing to infer from his observation on Rev. 12. 5. To that therefore I have turned and there find no other premisses toward this conclusion than onely these 1. that Dispersi ex Judaeis instrumenta Ecclesiae Catholicae multos de populo Romano Christo genuere that those that were dispersed from Judaea begat to Christ many of the people of Rome and that these are there called partus masculinus the man-childe or masculine birth in respect of the great constancy which appeared in the Church of Rome of those times then 2. that the Church of Rome hath this above other Churches that no Church subjected more people to the word of God so that her victories by the weapons of Christ were not inferior to the Martial successes of Old Rome 3. that the regiment of other Churches after the Apostles death belonged to that Now this being clearly applied by him to the infancy or first ages of the Church that which is first said of the constancy is indeed much for the honour of the Primitive Roman Church but no way for the interest of the present which having much departed from the Primitive cannot in any reason partake of those elogies which he there bestows on that masculine birth at the first appearing of it in the world So likewise 2. of the ancient Roman Church it is that he saith it converted so many to the faith which is a truth known and acknowledged in History but is not at this day assumed witness S. W. to be the foundation on which their Supremacy is built 3. that after the Apostles death Rome being a chief Metropolis and as the Imperial See the most eminent of all others had the dominion aliarum of other it is not omnium of all Churches is not denied by any either ancient or modern that I know of All the suburbicarian Region and the Churches in that were under the Primate of Rome and that Primate was within a while lookt on as the Patriarch of the West and the First Patriarch And the words of Grotius are not by any circumstance of the place inclined to any other sense The aliae Ecclesiae other Churches being in no reason interpretable any farther than those which Rome had converted to the faith nor necessarily to all them but to the oppida minora and Provinciae the lesser Cities and Provinces unto which as he interprets the woman is said to flie and so Christianity to be propagated when Simon Magus by the favour of the Emperour had opposed and much oppressed it at Rome and drave the profession out of it by which means those aliae Ecclesiae were planted And it may be worthy to be observed that when the text before him was general for {non-Roman} {non-Roman} {non-Roman} {non-Roman} {non-Roman} all the nations he is not thereby moved to interpret it in that latitude of all simply but in a more restrained sence wherein all in Scripture-style oft signifies but a great many onely by the nulla plures and aliarum others and none more then that 65. Here before he concludes he is pleased to look back on a passage which he had used that if men be drunkards proud boasters c. hypocrites haters of good men persecutors and revilers of them yea and if they be not regenerate and born of God united to the head Christ Jesus by the same spirit that is in him they shall never see God for which he now saith he fears not what conclusion can regularly in reference to any person living or dead be deduced To this I reply by acknowledging the certain truth of the general Aphorisme and onely remembring him that