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A41549	The reformed bishop, or, XIX articles tendered by Philarchaiesa, well-wisher of the present government of the Church of Scotland, as it is settled by law, in order to the further establishment thereof.	Gordon, James, Pastor of Banchory-Devenick.	1679 (1679)	Wing G1279; ESTC R10195	112,676	318

intrusted to their Charge be well Governed by causing exact Discipline to be observed in them and edifying Doctrine alwayes taught even all the Learned Languages and Liberal Arts if there be competent Maintenance settled for these several Professions or which may be provided by a right improvement of the old Revenues and the encouragement of pious Christians who are in bonis to make some Charitable Donations for that effect And let them regard all Professours impartially by hugging them all as a common Father with an equal Paternal Affection provided they be men of Conscience Learning Prudence and Authority joyn'd with a faithful Sufficiency to exercise their respective Functions seasonably and diligently And above all that they be Persons of Loyal Principles both in reference to Church and State as also peaceably disposed and averse from intrinsecal Factions As for these Salamanders who like the Seditious in Ierusalem are still jarring within when they should be opposing the Common Enemy from without let such be speedily turned out lest that Brood of the Viper at last tear out the very Bowels of their Mother But seeing the Education of Youth at their first appearance upon the University-Theatre is immediately intrusted to the care of the Professours of Philosophy Let not these Masters be permitted to be vain in their Conversation or Apparel as if they were School-Boys themselves who needed to be tutor'd and have not as yet attain'd to that measure of Prudence as to govern themselves aright but let them be ordered to be patterns of Piety Gravity Sobriety and all kind of Temperance to Young ones that they may edifie them both by their Example and Doctrine And let them be careful to teach Youths the most Solid Parts of Philosophy viz. The most useful part of Aristotle's Logicks which was his greatest Talent wherein his strength did lye and whereby he did merit most from the World Remitting the vain pursuit of these Aëreal Notions concerning Vniversale Ens rationis c. to Brain-sick Creatures whose 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 it is Festucas legere and chief Employment Nugas quisquilias prosequi Let them be also taught somewhat of the Physicks Ethicks and Metaphysicks But I humbly suppose Moral Philosophy may be more exactly learned from the Platonists and Stoicks than from Aristotle's Ethicks viz. The Books of Plato Hierocles Plotinus Epictetus Simplicius Antoninus Arian Cicero Seneca and Plutarch But seeing Christians are to call in Auxiliaries from such there is no question but Thomas Aquinas his Secundae Secundae would be very useful in this Affair And I should wish that the most Learned Solid and Discreet Philosophers of an University or Nation were employed not only to draw up an exact Systeme of Moral Philosophy but also of Natural Collected from Des Cartes Gassendus the French and English Virtuosi not forgetting the Learned Works of Sir Francis Bacon whose profound Philosophical Wit gave the first Rise to the Modern Experimental Philosophy especially his Natural History and Novum Organum yea his Advancement of Learning his History of Winds and The Prolongation of Life would be found also good Adminicles 〈◊〉 such a Design But as that Systeme should be very material so it ought to be succinct like to that brief but excellent Epitome composed as some suppose by M. Arnold and term'd Ars cogitandi which is a notable Summary of Logick Such a Systeme should serve at least as a Text both to Masters and Scholars a little Latitude being indulg'd to Professors to Paraphrase on that Diuturnal Ephemerides But let not capricious Brains presume to set forth a new Philosophical Almanack every year with a design to put the former out of Date till a new Authority re-enjoyn it But above all in destitution of a particular Professour of the Mathematicks Let every Master of Philosophy Teach his Scholars every Year some of the most useful Species of that excellent Science viz. Arithmetick Geometry Geography and Astronomy which will be found infinitely more useful than these Operosae nugae taught heretofore in those Places which have no better Effect than to stuff the Brain like to a Bubble of Water or a blown Bladder and which directly resembles those delicious Viands wherewith Necromancers pretend to feed their Guests but when they go away they find their Maws as empty as when they began that imaginary Feast So that when these deluded Youths come to Commence Masters of Arts their Instructors may say of them though not with a good Conscience Accipiamus pecuniam c. And without any humble Modesty to be their Prompter they may say of themselves with as much truth at least as Socrates when he was pronounced by the Oracle to be the wisest man in the World This I know That I know nothing And that with Secular Learning they may drink in the first Milk of Piety from the Breasts of that Alma Mater Let the Principles of Christian Religion be early instilled into the Minds of young ones that Being seasonably taught to remember their Creator in the Dayes of their Youth they may not forget him in their old Age nor be forsaken by him For Quo semel est imbuta c. For that end let such a Book as H. Grotius his excellent little Treatise De veritate Religionis Christianae which without any Hyperbole is worth it's weight in the purest Gold be so inculcated into their Memories that they may not only have it all by heart but also throughly understand it As also that notable Summary of Christian Offices call'd The whole Duty of man composed by an unknown Author or the Practical Catechism of the Learned D. Hammond or that of D. Vsher of Armach Primate of Ireland provided they be first jure Latii donati For all the Communications of the Lycaeum ought to be in the Dialect of old Rome or that of the City of Minerva that the tenacious Memories of the young ones may be habituated to those Learned Languages And how necessary the good Education of Youth is may appear from that excellent Observation of the great Lo. Verulam That The great Multiplication of Vertue upon humane Nature resis on Societies well ordered and disciplin'd For Common-wealths and good Governments nourish Virtue grown but do not much mend the Seeds Whence he infers That there ought to be a most exquisite Delectus of the Tutors of Youth And if we give Faith to Plato Seneca and Plutarch they should be as well qualified Persons as are lightly to be found in the World And sure this solicitous Choice of the Educators of Youth was never more necessary than in this Iron Age wherein many have been so marred in their Education by Schismatical and Disloyal Principles too early instilled into them that this foundering in the Feet hath caused Convulsive Fits and unsteady Motions in them as long as they lived But if the Universities of this Land were blessed with such Professours as we have above described it is most probable that

vel Abbas seu Diaconus per proemium ad sacrum Ordinem accedat si accesserit ipso honore privetur Concil Toletan 6. Can. 4. the express words thereof being adopted by Concil General 6. Can. 22. are these Ob pecuniam promotos sive Episcopos sive Clericos deponi jubemus Concil Toletan 10. Can. 3. Where at great Length Bishops are prohibited to prefer unworthy Relations to Churches Vid. Hieronym in Malach. ad cap. 1. Coecum animal offert qui ordinat indoctum loco docti Magistrumque facit qui vix Discipulus esse poterat Origin Hom. 6. in Levitic 22. in l. Num. August lib. De Catechizandis rudibus cap. 9. Ambros. de Dignita●e Sacerdot Cap. 5. Cum Ordinaretur Episcopus quod dedit aurum fuit quod perdidit Anima fuit Cum alium ordinaret quod accepit pecunia fuit quod dedit Lepra fuit gratiam cum Ordinareris non suscepisti quia gratuitò 〈◊〉 non meruisti Idem Lib 4. ad Cap. 4. Luc. Leon. 1. Epist. 84. 85. ad Episcop Afric ubi invehitur adversus Candidatos nimium juvenes Greg. 1. in Evang. Tract Hom. 4. Lib. 4. Epist. 55. Vid. etiam Lib. 5. Epist. Ambros. in Oratione contra Auxentium Non pila quaerunt ferrea Non arma Christi milites Coactus repugnare non novi Sed Dolor Fletus Orationes Lachrymae fuerunt mihi arma adversus milites talia enim sunt mumimenta Sacerdotis aliter nec debeo nec possum resistere fugere autem relinquere Ecclesiam non soleo servum Christi non Custodia corporalis sed Domini providentia sepire consuevit Here we have a clear Authority of a great and good man condemning Defensive Arms in Subjects against their Prince in any Case whatsoever But the Iambicks which usher in this Testimony have been prefixed thereunto by another hand Article IX Isa. 30. 20. Zech. 11. 17. Act. 6. 2 3 4. Rom. 12. 4 5 6 7 8. THIS Article may be termed the Corolary of the two former as divers ensuing fall under that Denomination For if the Superintendency of the Doctrine Discipline Worship and Government of the Church especially of his own Diocess should be the 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 of this Office yea the Center and Circumference of the Episcopal Vocation as may appear from the preceding Proposals then we may pertinently inferr That the Crime of Non-Residency must be very odious in the Sight of God and scandalous to the Church unless very urgent Reasons plead for a Dispensation for a short time What was said of some Monks by Anthony the Father of them Monachus in oppido ut piscis in arido may be applyed to all wandering Levites who are found straying in Cities where there is no Cathedral The Spanish Bishops in the Councel of Trent argued well against Non-Residency That it was contrary to the ancient Canons and repugnant to that which was established jure Divin● yet they needed not have gone further for a Topick to prove the Point than their own Natural Reason It being a self-evident Principle That when the End is commanded all the Means are supposed to be enjoyned without which it cannot possibly be obtained Now this Spiritual Employment alone being a burden too weighty for Atlas his Shoulders it being S. Chrysostom's Judgment that the Burden of a Bishop was formidable even to an Angel to undergo unless sufflaminated with the Divine aid so that a Church-Governour would need Argus's Eyes and Briareus's Hands to buoy up the Church from sinking Therefore there can be no place left for the 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 of Non-Residency And if any have the Forehead to say that the most part of these Duties incumbent on a Bishop may be performed per Vicarium he must give me leave to apply the other part of that Maxim per Vicarium intrabit Regnum Coelorum Sure the ancient Church had no such Sentiments For when the Fathers of the Councel of Sardica took notice that some Bishops used to go to Court upon By-errands and private Designs of their own they ordained That no Bishop should go to Court unless either immediately Summoned by the Emperour's Letters or that their Assistance were required to help the oppressed to right Widows and Orphans and to rescue them from the unjust Grasps of Potent and Merciless Oppressours or to seek Occasion to represent unto the Supream Magistrate the most pressing Grievances of Church and State not suppressing the Oppressions of great Ones whether without any Shadow of Law or under some Pretext thereof Summum jus proving too often Summa Injuria and finally to preserve their Respective Cities from imminent Ruin thus Flavianus the Patriarch resorted to Constantinople to intercede with Theadosius the Great in Behalf of his Antiochians whose Extermination that exasperated Prince had designed and who can blame S. Leo of Rome for travelling many Miles to divert that Flagellum Dei from being a Scourge to his City who at last like to the high Priest Iaddus prevailed in his Sute Neither can we omit the usual Temptation to Non-Residency which is Plurality of Benefices a Scandal condemned even by the Councel of Trent for a Crime Such Ingrossers would never have troubled Rome as ●nce a Scottish Bishop did prompted by his Conscience to be rid of a considerable part of his Charge and Revenues But as the Peace of Conscience so this Heterogenial Conjunction passeth my Natural Understanding and I think my shallow Capacity shall never reach it How one man can be Parson in one Diocess and Bishop in another and yet have a simultaneous Sufficiency for both For who is sufficient for one of these Things And if it be said that they are not without a Precedent being nothing else but Emulators of that infamous Bishop of Lincoln of whom it is written That he had an Organical Church within himself as having monopolized all the Species of Ecclesiastical Offices in his own Person at one time yet I would demand of these Monopolists for I ingenuously confess that such a Davus as I would need an Oëdipus to unriddle this Mystery If they can determine the proper Boundaries and Measures of the Subordination of that Excentrick Rectory to the Bishop thereof and whosoever doth it intelligibly erit mihi magnus Apollo and much wiser than that Monster Sphinx in my Esteem For under the Notion of a Presbyter he ought to be subordinate to his Ordinary and should reverence him as a Father and yet in the mean time he may possibly claim jure Stationis the Place and Privilege of an elder Brother But seeing I have not so much Geometry as to determine these Marches I shall only subjoyn this Sentiment of mine That though many have good Reason to doubt how these scattered Flocks shall be competently fed by one who doth not pretend to Bilocation yet I have not the least Scruple imaginable to believe that they have a Cordial Design to feed their own

the Flock So it should fare with those defenceless Creatures if an Hostile Army should invade a peaceable People living securely without any Fear or Apprehension of such a sudden Deluge Friends and Foes Heterodox and Orthodox Conformist and Non-Conformist would be all overflowed alike the insolent Souldier having no other Eyes to discern but what Nature hath given to all living Creatures betwixt the Faith of an Heretick and the Orthodox save only by their Paleness and Garb. So that they who are accustomed to Rapine almost from their Infancies if they found rich Moveables and easily transportable to their own Countries whether the Owners were rich in the Faith or not they would not concern themselves with that nice Distinction But as it was said of the dayes of Caligula That it was then Crime enough to be rich so all should be Fish that should come in their Net so impartial would these rude Souldiers be And the Emperour would be so far from attaining his End that it would rather harden these deluded People to persist in their Non-Conformity they looking upon themselves as Martyrs at least Confessors for their imaginary Faith the most ignorant among them being at least so intelligent as to understand that this is not the peaceable Method of the Gospel to proselyte any to the Christian Faith but point blank contrary thereunto By which truly zealous Intercession this Devout man at last diverted the Tyrant from that most cruel Design But in fine I shall remit them to the serious Consideration of the State and Practice of the Primitive Church when the Civil Magistrate was no Christian but a Persecuter of that way whose Concurrence they could not expect to their Discipline but rather a violent Opposition thereunto And if any of them seemed to put to their helping hand it was not any Love to the Discipline of the Church but Ragione del ' Stato as the Italians phrase it Thus the Emperour Aurelianus did drive away Paulus Samosatenus that Arch-heretick and Bishop from Antioch but it was out of no Principle of Respect to the Church that he did so for he was accounted one of the Persecuting Emperours but from Reason of State because that proud Heretick was a great Incendiary in that City Let therefore the present Church imitate that excellent Pattern of the Primitive before the Halcyonian day of the great Constantine But if in ordine ad Spiritualia they will needs make their Address to the Secular Magistrate for the Coercion of Delinquents I wish it were rather in the matter of gross Scandal contumaciously persever'd in notwithstanding of the highest Censures of the Church inflicted upon them than of the Sentiments of the Judgment which proceed not the length of unwarrantable Practices For they who are incorrigibly profane are more overawed by the Terror of man than by the Fear of God and much more by the Temporal Sword of the Criminal Judge than by the Spiritual Sword of the Church for habitual Practical Atheists may without breach of Charity be presum'd to be such in Speculation I shall only instance the Profanation of the Lord's Day by Salmon-Fishing there being a vile Pack of brain-sick Hereticks in this Land who allow the Practice of it I am indeed far from pleading for a Judaical Sabbath in this Church But for any who are called Christians to be so employed in the time of God's Solemn Worship must needs be very odious in the Sight of Heaven and exceedingly scandalous in the Eyes of all those who are devoted to a Religious Service Neither find we any such Irregularities tolerated in any Christian Church which passeth not under the name of Barbarous no not in Geneva or Amsterdam I know certainly that this Insolency hath been represented both privately and publickly to the chiefest Governours of this Church and they obtested to implore the Assistance of his Majesties Secret Councel in order to the effectual Suppression of that Scandal as being so reflective upon the present Government but I fear it hath not yet been done for there is neither Bruit nor Fruit of that Address But if the Governours of our Church desire to avoid those bitter Sarcasmes Medice cura teipsum Turpe est Doctori c. De ingratis etiam ingrati queruntur qui non ardet non accendit Si vis me flere c. Which in plain English import that we should wash our own Mouths before we apply Gargarisms to others Or to use our Saviour's Phrase pull out the Beam before thou espy the Mote then let them have a special Care not to be found Profaners of the Lord's Day themselves Which Scandal ' they ought to shun the more solicitously because it was one of the Rocks on which their Predecessours did split if we may believe the verbal Assertion of many living Witnesses and that which a late learned Writer hath consign'd in print Which Reflection should serve at least as a Pharos to prevent all Shipwracks of that nature for the future But how this Beacon hath been observed may be perceived from the ensuing little Story A Bedal of a Country-Church being questioned not long agoe before a Country-Session for bringing home a Burden of Flax on the Lord's Day made this Apology for himself That not many Days before there had been a Bishop in that Village who in his Return from the North where he had been visiting his aged Father of the same Order with himself lodged all Night in the Minister's House though the Incumbent was not at home and not staying to supply that Vacancy travelled many Miles that Day of his Removal which was the Lord's Day with a great Baggage-Horse in his Train whose Burden was far above the Proportion of Flax he had brought home Whence he inferr'd That he thought the Bishops had brought such Carriages in Fashion on the Lord's Day and that he might lawfully imitate them who were the Fathers and Lights of the Church From which blunt but true Story for the poor door-keeper was censured in Publick for all his imaginary Authentick Apology I shall also deduce this Inference That all Church-men should be as vigilant as Dragons over their Conversation in the World that they give not the least Offence unto any that Stumbling-block occasioning the most dangerous Fall which is laid by the imprudent deportment of an Ecclesiastick The Plurality of men being more enclined to live by Examples than by Rules the former being much more obvious to Plebeian heads than the latter besides it hath a secret Magnetical Virtue like the Loadstone it attracts by a Power of which we can give no Account Yea such is the perverseness of humane Nature since that woful Lapse of our first Parents that the generality of men are more prone to follow Evil than to imitate that which is Good But that we may shut up this Point I shall add no more to the Prosecution of Delinquents in Foro Ecclesiastico but only this Wish That the Governours