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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A45318	The shaking of the olive-tree the remaining works of that incomparable prelate Joseph Hall D. D. late lord bishop of Norwich : with some specialties of divine providence in his life, noted by his own hand : together with his Hard measure, vvritten also by himself.	Hall, Joseph, 1574-1656.; Hall, Joseph, 1574-1656. Via media.	1660 (1660)	Wing H416; ESTC R10352	355,107	501

four Bishops have dependence upon two Archbishops When was it otherwise Is it not so in all subordinations of government If this be a just inconvenience let all be levelled to an equality and that shall end in a certain confusion but they swear to them Canonicall obedience True but it is only in omnibus licitis honestis mandatis The supposition implyed must needs savour of uncharitableness that the Metropolitans will be still apt to require unlawfull things and the Bishops will ever basely stoop to a servile humoring of them 5. But they have their places only for their lives and therefore not fit to have a legislative power over the honors liberties proprieties of the subject 1. If they have their Bishopricks but for their lives yet there are scarce any of them that have not so much temporall estate in fee as may make them no less capable of a legislative power then many of the house of Commons who claim this right Secondly is the case other now then it hath been all this while yet for so many hundred years there have been good laws and just sentences given by their concurrence notwithstanding this their tenure for Life 3ly If they be honest and conscionable though they had their places but for a year or a day they would not yield to determine ought unjustly And if dishonest and conscienceless it is not the perpetuall inheritance of our places that can make our determinations just 6. If dependencies and expectations of further preferment lie in our way why not equally in many Temporall Lords who are interessed in offices and places in court why should we be more mis-carriageable by such possibilities or hopes then others Especially when our age is commonly such and the charges of removes so great that there is small likelyhood of an equall gaining by he change 7. If severall and particular Bishops have much incroched upon the consciences of his Majesties subjects in matter of their propriety and liberty what reason is there to impute this unto all why should the innocent be punished for the wrongs of the guilty Let those who can be convinced of an offence this way undergo a condigne censure Let not an unjust prejudice be cast upon the whole calling for the errors of a few 8. It is not to be expected but the whole number of 26. should be interessed in the maintenance of that their Jurisdiction which both the laws of Men and Apostolicall institution hath feoffed them in why should they not defend their own lawfull and holy calling against all unjust opposition of gainsayers If their hearts did not assure them their station were warrantable and good they were beasts if they would hold them and if their hearts do assure them so they were beasts if they would not defend them But there are numbers in all the three Kingdomes that crye them down True but there are greater numbers for them perhaps an hundred for one and if some busie factionists of the meaner sort here about a body compounded of Separatists Anabaptists Familists and such like stuffe make some show and noise yet what are these to the whole Kingdom Neither do these men more oppugne our votes in Parliament then our stations in the Church so as this argument will no less hold for no bishops then for no votes as likewise that instance in the practise of Scotland Scotland hath abolisht Episcopacy they say The more pity let them look quo jure and what answer to make unto that God whose ordinance it is But I had thought it should have been a stronger argument England retains Episcopacy therefore Scotland should then Scotland hath abolisht Episcopacy therefore England should do so too Let there be any other Church named in the whole Christian World that hath voluntarily abandoned Episcopacy when it might have continued it and if their practise be herein singular why should not they rather conforme to all the rest of Christendom then we to them 9. But the core of all is that it sets too great a distance between us and our Brethren of the Clergy and so nourishes pride in us discontentment in them and disquietness in the Church An argument that fights equally against all our superiority over our Brethren and against our votes here By this reason we must be all equall none subordinate and what order can there be where none is above other What is this but old Korahs challenge Ye take too much upon you wherefore lift ye up your selves above the Congregation of the Lord Now I beseech you whether was there more pride in Moses and Aaron that governed or in Corah and Dathan that murmured and repined It is pride then that causeth contention but where is this pride whether in those that moderately manage a lawfull superiority or in those that scorn and hate to be under goverment Were those Brethren so affected as they ought they should rather rejoyce that any of their own tribe are advanced to those places wherein they might be capable of doing good offices to them and the Church of God in stead of swelling with envy against their just exaltation and would feel this honor done to their profession and not to the persons Lastly what a mean opinion doth this imply to be conceived of us by the suggesters that we who are old Men Christian Philososophers and Divines should have so little government of our selves as to be puffed up with those poor accessions of titular respects which those who are really and hereditarily possessed of can weild without any such taint or suspicion of transportedness Shortly in all these Nine reasons there is nothing that may induce an indifferent Man to think there is any just ground to exclude Bishops from sitting and voting in Parliament FOR EPISCOPACY AND LITURGY WE cannot be too wary of or too opposite to Popery Antichristianism But let me admonish you in the fear of God to take heed that we do not dilate the name and imputation of these too farr for I speak it with just sorrow and compassion there are some well meaning and seduced souls that are by Erroneous teachers brought into the opinion that the sacred form of the Goverment of the Church and the holy forms of the publick devotions and prayers of the Church and all the favorers of them are worthy to be branded with the title of Popery and Antichristianism For the first my heart bleeds in me to think that that calling which was instituted by the Apostles themselves and hath ever since continued in the universall Church of Christ without interruption to this day should now come under the name of Popery I speak of the calling if the persons of any in this station have been faulty let them bear their own burden but that the calling it self should receive this construction in the opinion of well-minded and conscionable Christians is justly most lamentable I beseech you look back upon the histories of former times look but