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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
B13858	Episcopacie by divine right. Asserted, by Jos. Hall, B. of Exon	Hall, Joseph, 1574-1656.	1640 (1640)	STC 12661.5; ESTC S103631	116,193	288

our Bishop differs from Calvins namely in a setled imparity and a perpetuity of jurisdiction Give me therefore such a Pastor as shall be ordained a perpetuall Moderator in Church affairs in a fixed imparity exercising Spirituall Iurisdiction out of his owne peculiarly demandated Authority this is the Bishop whom we contend for and whom they oppose I do well see therefore how we may make a shorter cut of this controversie than hath formerly been made by others whose large discourses upon the importune Angariation of others hath been learnedly spent upon the names and titles of a Bishop and Presbyter upon the extent of their first charge whether Parochiall or Diocesan And upon the difference and priority of those Limitations since the only thing that displeaseth in Episcopacy is their majority above Presbyters which is pretended should be only a priority of Order not a superiority of degree and their power of jurisdiction over Presbyters for yield these by a due ordination to a prime pastor for a constant continuance you make him a Bishop denie these to a Bishop you make him no other than a plain Presbyter our only labour therefore must be to make good these two points and to evince that imparity in the Governours of the Church and the power of Episcopall Iurisdiction is not of any lesse than Apostolicall and divine Institution to which Task we now addresse our selves 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 c. §. 2. Church government begun by our Saviour in a manifest imparity WE begin with our undertaken issues and shall show that this imparitie of government and Epi●copall Iurisdiction was founded by Christ and erected by his Apostles both by their practise and recommendation Who sees not then a manifest imparitie in our Saviours owne choice in the first gathering of his Chur●h wherein his Apostles were above his other Disciples the twelve above the 70 above them in priviledges and especially in the immediatenesse of their calling above them in their Masters respects above them in gifts and in the power of their dispensation above them in Commission above them in miraculous operations Even those 70 were Ministers of the Gospel but those twelve were even as it were the Patriarks of the Church noted still by an article of Eminence 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 The twelve others were labourers in the work these were master-builders as St. Paul to his Corinthes others might heal by their touch these by their very shadow Others had the holy Ghost these gave it Philip was an Evangelist he preached he wrought miracles he converted and baptized the Samaritans yet till Peter and Iohn came down and prayed and laid their hands on them Act. 8.14.15 they recived not the holy Ghost And how plain is it that such honorable regard was given to the Twelve that when one room fell voyd by the Treason of Iudas Hier. de script Eccles it must by the direction of the Spirit of God be made up by an election out of the 70. Had it not been an higher preferment to have been an Apostle wherefore was that scrutiny and choyce What do I urge this point He never read Scripture that can doubt of it wherefore did the chosen vessell stand so highly upon the challenge of his Apostleship if he had not known it to be a singular honour And how punctually doth he marshall up as some divine Herald the due rankes of Ecclesiasticall offices First Apostles 1 Cor 12.28 Secondly Prophets Thirdly Teachers then those that do miracles after that the gifts of healing helps in governing diversity of Tongues but perhaps you will not be so illiberall as to deny the Apostles a precedency of honour in the Church how can you and bee a Christian But you sticke at their Iurisdiction Here was nothing but equality true an equality among themselves pari consortu praediti et honoris et potestatis as Cyprian truly but a superiority of power in them all and in each of them over the rest of the members of Christs Church Verily I say unto you saith our Saviour Matth. 19 2● ye that have followed me in the Regeneration when the Son of man shall sit in the throne of his glory ye shall also sit upon twelve Thrones judging the twelve Tribes of Isarel 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 in the Regeneration That is as Cameron very well interprets it Camer in locum in the Renovation of the Church for under the state of the Gospel the Church was as new born and made anew according to that of St. Paul All things are become new alluding to the Prophet Isaiah who to this sence Behold saith he I create new heavens and a new earth Esa 65.17 and the former shall not bee remembred nor come into minde And Beza himself though he make a difference in the pointing and thereby in the Construction yet grants that according to his second sense the preaching of the Gospell by Christ and his messengers is meant by this regeneration Quia tum veluti de integro conditus est mundus because then the world was as it were made anew So as then was the time when the Sonne of man began to bee exalted to the Throne of his glory both in earth and in Heaven And then should the Twelve that had forsaken all for him enjoy all in him Then should they sit on twelve Thrones and judge the twelve Tribes of Israel What are the twelve Tribes of Israel but the whole Church of God For whereof did the first Christian Church consist but of converted Iewes And wh●ther did our Saviour bend all his allusions but to them Num. 1.16 They had their twelve Princes of the Tribes of their Fathers heads of the thousands of Israel Nu. 11.16.17 They had their seventy Elders to bear the burden of the people The Son of God affects to imitate his former Polity and therefore chooses his twelve Apostles and 70 Disciples o tgather and sway his Evangelicall Church The twelve Tribes then are the Church The twelve Apostles must be their Iudges and governours Their siitting showes author●tie Their sitting on Thrones eminence of power their sitting on twelve Thrones equalitie of their Rule their sitting to judge power and exercise of Iurisdiction their sitting to judge the twelve Tribes of Israel the universalitie of their power and jurisdiction And what Iudgement could this be but Ecclesiasticall and Spiritual for civill rule they challenged not and what Thrones but Apostolicall and by their derivation Episcopall Who knowes not how ordinary that stile is 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 we finde it even in Aerius himself Epiphan haere 75. And if the Apostles seat was his Throne and the Bishops succeeded the Apostles in those seats who can deny them this power of Spirituall judicature and jurisdiction To the same purpose is that of S. Augustine Aug. de Civit. dei 1. 20. who upon the words of S. Iohn I saw seats and some sitting on them