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A34016 A letter with animadversions upon the animadverter on the Bishop of Worcesters letter by J.C. ... Collop, John. 1661 (1661) Wing C5393; ESTC R21084 8,081 16

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A LETTER WITH Animadversions upon the Animadverter On the BISHOP of VVorcesters Letter By J. C. M. D. Mentiri nescio Librum Si malus est nequeo laudare Juv. Sat. III. London Printed for M. B. 1661. A Letter with Animadversions upon the Animadverter on the Bishop of Worcesters Letter SIR I Have perused the Pamphlet and with it return you some slight Animadversions upon the slightest of Animadverters He who called Presbyterians Demicasters in Divinity was too superlative in his title of Honor since with their great cry there is no wooll only dirt and bristles Few have run mad in these later times who have not supposed all the world so beside themselves as this phrensie-inspired Animadverter who hath intituled the most sober learned and reverend Prelate ●o his own and the passions of his Cock-brained party Were St. Paul alive and should ask again the question Shall I come with a rod or in love he had undergone the Presbyterian censure and with as much ease as an Arch-Presbyter made a Papist of Grotius or the Synod an Heretick of Dr. Hammond they would have made both of the Apostle Page 1. The Bishop by the learned Animadverters concession hath the better of Mr. Baxter Hinc spargere voces The Goliath of the Philistins is faln and see now what weapons are brought to revenge the Champion even tongues sharp as razors and words like two edged swords Page 1. If heat be not mistaken for zeal the Dog-days may prove dangerous This may be no useless Adnimadversion to the Animadverter Hector adest and with him Bedlam and Billingsgate rush into battel the occasion of the grand quarrel being no other then that the Bishop speaks truth and tells us Page 2. Kings and Bishops must stand and fall together and all who are enemies to the one must be enemies to the other He knows the much talked of Axiom and the advantage to be taken by the late wars is in his judgment for the Order of Bishops a passionate lover of the Kings Person and Government yet being called to speak truth contrary to humor and interest must needs say 1. It is clear from story that Kings were in all parts of the world in their most flourishing estate before ever Bishops were heard of and what hath once been no reason can be given why it may not with the same terms of convenience be again Our puny Historiographer sure calculates all time from the reign of Oliver and dates Episcopacy only from this happier Restauration or the flourishing of all Princes must be from Paganism when Subjects were Slaves Kingdoms only splendid Robberies and Dirt and Blood went only to the composition of Kings The Satyrists Ad generum Cereris may inform their flourishing condition Yet Rome had a Pontifex Maximus and could this pretender to story be capable of any History he could not be ignorant that the Romans attributed Success to their Piety and to the care of the Gods the conquest of them they called Barbarous Nations A Moses had Aaron an assistant the Jewish Nation always an High Priest the Primitive Christian Emperors Bishops nay Patriarchs and Papa signifies nothing but Pater Patriarcharum Even the Turks in policy have a Mufti and no Christian Nation was before the Reformation without a Bishop nor since hath any wanted beside that whose zeal is as cold and barren as their Country and Religion consists only in Rapine and Blood Now for a Sophomore or half-witted fellow to maintain Arguments against things evident to Sense and Reason what is it but cum ratione insanire to deny fire to be hot water moist snow white to renounce our Senses to gratifie our Phancies and believe any thing beside our own experience When experience verifies the exercise of Episcopal Jurisdiction by Protestant Bishops was for eighty years so far from diminishing the power or eclipsing the lustre of English Princes that Royal Power was only then triumphant when Bishops by Princely favor enjoyed Courts Jurisdictions Honors Priviledges according to former Grants of ancient Kings and the Laws and Customs of our own Nation On the contrary the miseries of Germany Rebellions in France Scotland c. the meditating the death of Queen Mary in England the ruine of Queen Mary of Scotland the menacing Queen Elizabeth and her Council the excommunicating and violence put on King James the Rebellion against and after that the Murder of King Charles do all of them instruct Geneva an instiller of strangely loyal and Prince-preserving principles The prevalency of the Smectymnuan faction by lopping off what they called Luxuriant Branches of Episcopacy made an easie way to take away Root and Branch and soon after to verifie the Aphorism No Bishop no King And now King and Bishops are restored to their just power and God hath heard graciously the weak Prayers of an oppressed party beyond the loud-crying Perjuries Sacriledges and oppressions of their enemies we cannot misdoubt what troubles the Animadverter so inseparable a dependance so strict an Union betwixt King and Bishops that Hypocrisie and Disloyalty may no longer reign in them nor Perjury Sacriledge and Oppression exercise an arbitrary soveraignty over us Secondly saith he Bishops as they are by Law established in England are purely the Kings subordinate Ministers in the management of Ecclesiastical Affairs which His Majesty may confer on what order of men He pleases It is very injurious therefore to the Kings Authority to aver He could not otherways uphold and maintain it then by preserving the undue and as some think the Antichristian Prelation of His inferior Officers Monster of deep Sense and Reason This is no ordinary Call which makes him speak such strange truths against Humor and Interest Page 2. Much he saith he is in his judgment for the Order of Bishops a passionate lover of the King and his Government Sute having run out of his wits to make room for an heretical spirit he must obey the impulsion that he may be the fitter Champion for Mr. Baxter producing Arguments of no more consequence then his The Kingly Office will prove as undue and Prelation be thought as much Antichristian as this of his Inferior Officers since Nihil dat quod non habet and as the Animadverter Bishops are purely the Kings subordinate Ministers in the management of Ecclesiastical Affairs The Presbyter and Independent suppose they have sufficiently confuted whatsoever they mislike if they pronounce it Popish or Antichristian Yet in this as in other things they symbolize with the Papists and divide the branch of Antichristianism The Presbyterian Consistories claim as ample and absolute Ecclesiastical Jurisdiction over Princes and power to excommunicate them as Papists challenge due to the Pope Independents exempt their Congregations as Pontisicians their Clergy Our Bishops and Conformists pretend neither Jurisdiction over the King nor Allegiance to be withdrawn from him but in all matters either Ecclesiastical or Civil acknowledge him to have the supreme power The injury then to