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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A56469	The Jesuit's memorial for the intended reformation of England under their first popish prince published from the copy that was presented to the late King James II : with an introduction, and some animadversions by Edward Gee ...	Parsons, Robert, 1546-1610.; Gee, Edward, 1657-1730.	1690 (1690)	Wing P569; ESTC R1686	138,010	366

other points of importance have been touched by me elsewhere concerning these matters as also about the new Militant Order that may be erected and brought in I shall here make an end both of this subject and of the Second Part of this Memorial appertaining to the Clergy The THIRD PART of this MEMORIAL Appertaining to the LAITY The Third and last that treateth of Laity or Temporalty hath three principal Heads or Members no less than the former to wit the Prince with his Council the Nobility and Commonalty of every one of which we shall speak in order as in the former Parts hath been done CHAP. I. Of the Laity or Temporalty in general BY that which I have spoken in the First Chapter and Second Part of this Memorial about Clergy-men the difference and distinction may appear that is betwixt these two principal branches of a Christian and Catholick Commonwealth to wit the Clergy and Laity which is a distinction observed from the very beginning of Christian Religion and the Primitive Church as may appear by the first second third eight seventy and divers other Canons of the first general Council of Nice where often mention is made of this distinction And before that again Tertullian a most learned and ancient writer not only setteth down the same distinctly of Clergy and Lay-men as received generally in his time but sheweth also and reprehendeth earnestly the Emulation and Envy that even then began by art of the Devil to be in divers of the Laity against the Clergy using the same objections that Luther and Calvin and other Hereticks of our time set on foot again now against the same sort of Men. When we Lay-men saith Tertullian ' in his Book de Monogamia become proud and are inflamed against the Clergy then we say we are all one and that all Men be Priests for that Christ made all Priests and unto God his Father but when we come to be exhorted and provoked to observe Priestly Discipline equally with them then we lay down our Vomits and confess that we are different and inferiour to them By which words of Tertullian we learn not only the great antiquity of this Distinction between Lay-men and Clergy-men but also the antiquity of that hatred and emulation which our times have received between these two States to the infinite hurt and prejudice of God's Catholick Church and in like manner the antiquity of that heretical Objection which Calvinists and Lutherans make against Clergy-men saying That all Men are Priests as well as they by which is seen that as God's Church hath been ever one from the beginning holding always this distinction of these two Members so hath also the Devil's malice been one from that time hither in setting divisions between the same The Derivation and Original of these two names is known to all the World being deducted of the Greek wherein Clergy signifieth Inheritance Lot or Portion which the holy ancient Father St. Hierome in a certain Epistle to one Nepotian saith may be understood in two ways and both of them true to wit for that either Clergy-men be the peculiar Inheritance Lot or Portion of God or for that Almighty God is the peculiar Inheritance Lot or Portion of Clergy-men above the rest of other People which People in the Greek Language is called Laity And we in England from the first time that we were Christians to explicate more the matter and to make the distinction betwixt these two sorts of Men more full and plain have used to call them the Temporalty and Clergy-men the Spiritualty and so we say in all the Acts of our Parliaments to wit the Lords Spiritual and Temporal in this present Parliament gathered together And the very Hereticks themselves that first envied so much against this distinction of Laity and Clergy are now come to use the very same speech and phrase in their Parliaments that is to say the Spiritualty and Temporalty for better understanding of which distinction of Spiritualty and Temporalty for that it is as I have said most ancient in our Realm it is to be considered that as in Man there are two parts first and principally the Soul which is a Spirit and endureth for ever and consequently the matters belonging thereunto are Spiritual and Eternal And Secondly the Body which endureth but for a time and therefore the things appertaining thereunto are called Temporal Even so for that the Office of the Clergy-men is principally about the Soul and Life to come and of Lay-men about matters appertaining to the Body and to the life present therefore the former are called Spiritual and the other Temporal whereof ensueth that as much as the Soul exceedeth the Body and Spirit excelleth Flesh and as much as the Life to come passeth the Life present and Eternity excelleth Time so much excelleth the State and Vocation of Clergy-men the State of Temporal men as St. Gregory Nazianzen St. Chrysostome and St. Ambrose three worthy Doctors of Christ's ancient Church in their several Treatises about Priesthood do declare notwithstanding that in their particular Lives a Lay-man may be better than a Clergy-man and be preferred before him in matters of his Salvation For more Explication whereof it is to be understood that Christ at his being upon Earth shewing his coming to be only for gaining of Souls would not meddle in Temporal Government but framed unto himself a new Order of the Clergy for this purpose choosing first Apostles and giving them authority to ordain others for their Successors by Imposition of Hands by the name of Bishops and besides these other inferiour Orders also by the name of Priests Deacons and the like and to this sort of People which he called the Light and Salt of the Earth he committed the managing of Souls and all authority and jurisdiction necessary for the same as to Teach Preach Baptise Administer Sacraments to bind and loose from Sin to correct and reprehend to make intercession by Prayer and finally the opening and shutting of the Gates of Heaven Which heavenly jurisdiction over Souls to the end he might shew how high and worthy a thing it was and not depending any way of the Temporal Jurisdiction and Government of Emperours Kings and Princes which respected Temporal ends but much higher and far more eminent he did ordain it and caused to be in practice for many Years together when all Temporal Princes of the World were Infidels and Enemies and knew not of this But yet on the other side was not this Government of Secular Princes impeached taken away or hindered by this other and different Spiritual Government of the Clergy but rather confirmed and established by the same so far forth as they tended to common Justice Peace Equity and Vertue which this Spiritual Government of Christ did principally procure as means as well to their ends that is to the Salvation of Souls as to the Temporal end of the Weal publick And therefore when afterwards Princes