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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A13272	Sermons vpon solemne occasions preached in severall auditories. By Humphrey Sydenham, rector of Pokington in Somerset.	Sydenham, Humphrey, 1591-1650?	1637 (1637)	STC 23573; ESTC S118116	163,580	323

may beginne in Moses for before every man was King and Prophet and Priest in his owne Family It will appeare that the first foundation of it was laid in inequality God then distinguishing her Attendants into three orders or degrees Priests Levites Nethinims and above these an Aaron as Superintendent and Commander After Moses death long after the people returning out of Babylon wee have a speciall mention of certaine Teachers in Israell which were also distinguished into three severall rankes Wisemen Scribes Disputers and these not onely succeeding but subordinate to the Prophets which Saint Paul hath a glaunce at against the Iewes where is the Wise where is the Scribe where is the Disputer 1. Cor. 1.20 When the Temple was rebuilt though these Orders grew into Sects and instead of them wee finde Essenes Pharises and Sadduces yet not these Ephes 4.11 without their Primate and Metropolitan And in the time of our Saviour when Sects and Orders were so intermingled that wee could scarce distinguish them yet they all joyne in a Superior and wee meete with Priests and Scribes and Elders flocking for advise to the pallace of Caiaphas the high Priest Math. 26.3 After these wee finde Pastors Apostles Prophets Evangelists and they thus distinguished by the great Doctor Saint Paul And lastly Elders Presbyters Deacons and these under their Bishop Timothy 1. Tim. 1.5 So that a priority of degreee and power in the Priesthood wee may draw downe from Moses to Christ from Christ to the Apostles and from them to the Fathers and Prelates of the Church not only by Ecclesiasticall or Apostolicall tradition or constitution but for ought I am hitherto posseess'd of otherwise and I would some higher Iudgement would enforme mee better After Gods owne heart and * Quamvis forsan res ipsae in Ecclesia constitutae humani sint sive Ecclesiastici juris Ipsa tamen obligatio ad Reverentiam promptam Obedientiam talibus Ecclesiae constitutionibus exlnbendam est juris Divint Iuxta illa dicta Evangellca Math. 18.17 1. Cor. 14.32 Heb. 13.17 Io. Forbes Ir enicum lib. 2. cap. 1. sect 5. Iure divino Insomuch that Saint Ierome * S. Ieron comment in Epist ad Tit. cap. 1. himselfe who hath beene reputed a great stickler for the equality of Church-men and a Father that hath sometimes rivall'd Presbyters with Bishops Idem writing to his Evagrins tells him thus Vt sciamus traditiones Apostolicas sumptas de lege c. Parte 3. tract 4. Epist 9. ad Evagrium that wee may know Apostolicall traditions to bee derived from the old Law wee doubt not but of what condition Aaron his Sonnes and the Leuites were in the Temple Hoc sibi Episcopi c. The same Bishops Ministers and Deacons challenge in the Church Now who knowes not that Aaron by Gods owne appointment was superiour to his Sonnes his Sonnes to the Levites the Levites to the Nethinims So that a Bishop may claime a transcendency in the Christian Church even by divine Ordinance and Institution Est in lib. 4. sent dist 24. sect 25. or if the truth hereof could not be cleerely evidenced out of those sacred Monuments yet as the same * Ecclesiae salus in summi Sacerdotis dign●tate pendet cut si non Exors quaedam ab om tibus eminens det ur potestas tot in Ecclesiis efficientur Schismata quot Sacerdotes S. Hieron in Dialog adversus Luciferian Father addes for avoiding of factions and mutinies and confusion in the Church there is one eminently One requir'd necessarily to sit at the Helme and Rudder a Pilot and Steers-man in those differences A Bishop otherwise there would bee as many Schismes in the Church as Pastors And certainely where disorders have beene so frequent they have proceeded principally through a defect of superiours who either had not the edge of Authority or having it have blunted it though some who have beene imbark'd wholly in matters of Discipline have from the discontented spirits of their age receiv'd their censure rather of 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 and 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 than Episcopi Arer in 1 Tim. 3.1 And yet if wee looke to the Analogy of Reason as well as Scripture we must either grant them a superintendency or else make an absolute confusion For it is here as it is with Instruments if all the strings be unisons there can be no harmony That hand is unshapen and little better than monstrous where all the singers are of the same length Parity in a Church is prodigious There must be as well a superiority in Ecclesiasticke as in Civill government there being required in both One eminent above the rest as Saul was higher than any of the people from the shoulders upwards 1 Sam. 9.2 'T is not enough that there are in the Church 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Seers but there must be also 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Overseers so Saint Paul chargeth the Elders of Ephesus Take heed to the Flocke of which the Holy Ghost hath made you Overseers Acts 20.28 The old Roman was but laugh'd at that would make an Army of all Commanders for where there were none to obey there could be none to governe And therefore the Wise man sayes that the Church is Tanquam acies ordinatal as an Army with her Banners displayed Cant. 6.4 And in such an Army one Officer is subordinate to another and a common Souldier unto both Some are appointed to be Horse-men some to runne before the Chariots some Captaines of sifties some Captaines of hundreds some Captaines of thousands 1 Sam. 8.12 Hereupon Church-men have beene by some resembled unto Starres for as in the Firmament above one Starre differs from another both in glory and magnitude so they doe also in the Firmament of the Church here Others compare them unto Angels and as there is a Hierarchy of them so of these also the inferiour Angels are illuminated by a higher order of Angels so should it be with those Angels of the Church below the Spirits of the Prophets being subject to the Prophets and God being every where the God of Order and not of confusion 1 Cor. 14.33 Moreover it is evident that the 70. Disciples were inferiour to the Apostles the Levites to the Priests even Iure Divino and in consent to this the Fathers warble sweetly the Bishops succeeded the Apostles the Pastors and Presbyters the 70. Disciples so that as on the one side they were inferiour to the Apostles so on the other these to the Bishops Which allegation of the Cardinall for it is Bellarmines allegation some of your Dutch Hotspurs labouring to wave not onely exclude Bishops from Apostolicall authority but also from succession and to throw them cleane under hatches advance their owne Pastors and can allow them to be the Apostles Successors Aliquo modo Ames Bel. Enerv Tom. 2. c. 4. p. 113. but Bishops as they now are Nullo modo so the factious