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A52055	Smectymnuus redivivus Being an answer to a book, entituled, An humble remonstrance. In which, the original of liturgy episcopacy is discussed, and quæries propounded concerning both. The parity of bishops and presbyters in scripture demonstrated. The occasion of the imparity in antiquity discovered. The disparity of the ancient and our moderne bishops manifested. The antiquity of ruling elders in the church vindicated. The prelaticall church bounded.	Smectymnuus.; Marshall, Stephen, 1594?-1655.; Calamy, Edmund, 1600-1666.; Young, Thomas, 1587-1655.; Newcomen, Matthew, 1610?-1669.; Spurstowe, William, 1605?-1666.	1654 (1654)	Wing M784; ESTC R223740	77,642	91

Pag. 17. Pag. 17. Pag. 17. * Pag. 2. a One of these Sonnes of the Church of England whose messenger this Remonstrant is was he who swore by the Eternal God he would be the death of those that did appeare to move against the grievances of Episcopacy and if the rest of these Millions mentioned pag 2. whose thousands are so punctually calculated p. 41. be of his spirit they are an army of very peaceable right-affected men Pag. 7. Evaristus 100. Dionysius 260. Some say 267. as P●l Virg. Pag. 13 14. Iohn Maior l. 2. Hist. de gest Scot. Cap. 2. Heylins Geog. p. 55. Gener. Hist. of Spain l. 22 Pag. 9. Pag. 18. Pag. 18. * Frustra co●saetudinem nobis opponunt quasi consuetudo major sit veritate aut nonid sit in spiritualibus sequendum quod in melius fuerit à Spiritu Sancto Revelation Cy●r Ep. 73. b It is wel observed by Gerhard that a Bishop Phrasi Apostolicâ that is the Bishop that is the same with a Presbyter is of fifteen hundred years standing but a Bishop Phrasi Pontificiâ that is a distinct order superiour to a Presbyter invested with sole power of Ordination and Iurisdiction is but a Novell Invention Pag. 19. Pag. 19. * What the establishment of Episcopacy by the Lawes is and upon what grounded the learned Sir Edward 〈◊〉 informes us who reports That in an Act of Parliament holden at C●●●ile in the 25. year of Edw. 1. it is declared that the holy Church of England was founded in the state of Prelacy within the Realm of England by the King and his Pregenitors c. for them to inform the people in the Law of God and to keep hospitality and give almes and do other works of charity And the said Kings in times past were wo●t to have their advice and counsel for the safe-guard of the Realme when they had need of such Prelates and Clerks so advanced Cook de jure Regis Ecclesiastico But whether Bishops have observed the Orders of their first foundation c. Pag. 19.20 Pag. 21. Pag. 8. Hierony Ep. ad Evag. ad Ocea Iren. a●ver ●aer l. 4. c●p 43.44 Hist. Lib. 5. Cap. 23. Bellarm. de Cleric Lib. 1. cap. 15. a Presbyterie sicut Episcopis Dispensatio Mysteriorum Dei commissa est Praesunt enim Ecclesiae Christi in Consecratione Dominici corporis sanguinis consortes sunt cum Episcopis similiter in Doctrina Populorum in officio praedicandi ac solum propter auteritatem summo Sacerdoti Clericorum Ordinatio reservata est Concil Aquisgran primum Can. 8. Euangelium tribuit his qui praesunt Ecclesiae Mandatum docendi Evangeli remittendi peccata administrandi Sacramenta praeterea jurisdictionem videlicet Mandatum Excommunicandi eos quorum notae sunt crimina Resipiscentes rursum absolvendi Ac Omnium Consessione etiam adversariorum liquet hanc potestatem Jure Divino communem esse Omnibus qui praesunt Ecclesiae sive Pastores vocentur sive Presbyteri Sive Episcopi Scriptum Philip. Melanch in conventu Smalcald Anno. 1540. a praecipuis illarum Ecclesiarum Doctoribus communi Consensu comprobatū de potestate jurisdictione Episcoporum 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Ierom. Isa. 3. Igna. Epis. ad Magnes Conc. Ancyr Can. 18. Pag. 20. Tertul. * At ubi omnia Loca Circumplexa est Ecclesia Conventicula constituta sunt caeperunt Rectores Caetera Officia in Ecclesiis sunt ordinata Caepit ali●t ordine Providentia gubernari Ecclesia Ideo non per omnia conveniunt Scripta Apostoli ordinationi quae nune in Ecclesia est quia haec inter ipsa primordia scripta sunt Nam Timotheum à se Presbytorium Creatum Episcopum vocat c. Sed quia experuli● sequentes Presbyteri indigni inveniri ad primatus tenendos immutata est ratis c. Hierom ad Evag. Ambros ubi prius Grego Naz. Orat. 28. Pag. 21 22. Greg. Nazi ubi priu● Pag. 22. Pag. 23. Pag. 23. * Plebs ipsa Maximè babet potesiatem vel Eligend● Dignos Sacerdotes vel indignos vecusandi qu●d ipsum Videmus de Divina Authoritate de scendere ut sacerdos plebe praesente sub omnium oculis deligatu● dignus atque Idoneus publico Iudicio ac testimonio comprobetur By Priests the Authour here understands Bishops as the whole Series of the Epistle shews a 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Athanas. Epist. ad Orthodoxos Idem ubi supra Cyprian Cornelius Athanasius and others Cypr. Epist. 33. Epist. 58. Apud Cypr. Epist. 75. Cum jure Divino non sint diversi gradus Episcopi Pastores Manifestum est ordinationem in suâ Ecclesiâ factam IVRE DIVINO RATAM esse Itaque cum Episcopi ordinarii fiant hostes Ecclesiae aut nolunt ordinationem impertire Ecclesia retinet jus suum Melanch ubi supra pag. Concil Antios Can. 10. Aneyr. Can. 13. Concil 4. Cathag Can. 22. Ibid. Can. 3. Hieronym in Epist. ad Evag. Chrysost. Hom. II. in I. ad Tim. Chrysost. upon the 1. Tim Libro de septem Ordinibus Concil Aquisgra 1. Can. 8. Solum propter authoritatem Clericorum ordinatio consecratio reservata est summo Sacerdoti Bilson Spalat Franc. à Sancta Clara. Cyp. Epist. 6. 28. Concil 4. Carth●g Can. 23. Vid Ruff. Hist. lib. 10. cap. 9. Sozo l. 2. c. 23. Possiden de vita Aug. c. 4. Orig. Ham. 11. in Exo. pag. 97. Decret part 2. Can. 15. quae 7. Per totum partes Dist. 93. cap. 5 6. Clem. Alex. Stromat lib. 7. Tertul. Apol. advers Gent. Ambros. Epist. ad Syagrium Aug. de verb. Apost Ser. 19. * Constat Iurisdictionem illam excommunicandi reos manifestorum criminum pertinere ad onnes Pastores hanc ad se solos tyrannicè transtulerunt ad questum contulerunt Episcopi Melanc ubi sup b Hieron Epist. ad Heliodor Ep. ad Demet. Ambros. lib. 10. Epist. 80. Cypr. Epist. 12. And this was the custome saith Cyprian in minoribus delictis Cypr. Epist. 46. vide etiam Cypr Epist. 6. Tertul. Apol adver Gent. cap. 59. Origen Ham. 7. in Iosh. Cypr. Epist. 55. Cypr. Epist 11. ad plebem Indecorū est Laicum vicarium esse Episcopi seculares in Ecclesiâ judicare in uno enim eodemque opere non decetdispar professio quod etiam in lege Divina probibetur dicente Mose Non arabis in bove asino simul Concil Hispal 2. Cypr. Epist 28. Downham in the defence of his Son Cod. li. 4. Tit. 20. l. 7. Athan. Apol. 2. Apud ●naram Greg. Deceet lib. 3. Tit. 2. cap. 8. quâ vos Decret Greg. lib. 5 Tit. 4. cap. 24. Chrysost Hom. 40. in 8 Tim Recording this among those things that he did Dolo modo ducere 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Sozo 1.9 Nicep 18. ●1 Socra 7.7 Lib. 14. c. 14 Soc. l. 7. c. 19. Niceph. l. Possidou● in vini August a

words of truth and confidence yet how little truth there is in his great confidence the ensuing discourse shall discover His very words are confident enough and yet as false as confident wherein he Impropriates all honesty unto these his Papers and brands all others with the name of Libellers and yet himselfe sinnes deeply against the rule of honesty and lies naked to the scourge of his own censure First in setting a brand upon all writings that have lately issued from the presse as if they had forgotten to speak any other language then Libellous it seems himselfe had forgotten that some things had issued by authority of the King and Parliament Secondly in taxing implicitely all such as wil not own this Remonstrance for theirs as none of the peaceable and wel-affected Sons of the Church of England Thirdly in censuring the way of petitioning your Honours the ancient and ordinary free way of seeking redresse of our evils for a Tumultuary under-hand way Fourthly in condemning all such as are not fautors of this Episcopal Cause as none of his Majesties good Subjects engrossing that praise onely to his own party saying The eyes of us the good Subjects of this whole Realme are fixed upon your Successe c. Fifthly in Impropriating to the same party the praise of Orthodox pag. 6. as if to speak a word or think a thought against Episcopacy were no lesse Heresie then it was in former time to speak against the Popes supremacy or the monkes fat belly whereas whether the Episcopall part be the Orthodox peaceable wel-affected part and his Majesties only good Subjects we leave to your Honours to Judge upon the numerous informations that flow in unto you from the several parts of this Kingdome Nor can they decline your Judgement seeing now you are through Gods blessing happily met in a much longed for Parliament but whither so much longed for by him and his accomplices as by those against whom he whets his Style the prayers that have obtained this happy meeting and the praises that doe attend it will decide in that great day The Helena whose Champion this Remonstrant chiefely is is that Government which he calls Sacred viz. that Government by Arch-Bishops Bishops Deanes Archdeacons c. which saith he through the sides of some misliked persons some have endeavoured to wound Misliked Persons and why not offending persons why not guilty persons when this Honourable house hath found just cause to charge some of them with crimes of the highest nature Our zeale for your Honours makes us feare lest your assembly should suffer in this word as if your proceedings against such persons should be grounded upon compliance with such as doe mislike them rather then upon their own demerits or the Justice of this Court But whatever those Persons be the Government it self is Sacred which by the joynt confession of all reformed Divines derives it self from the times of the blessed Apostles without any interruption without contradiction of any one congregation in the world unto this present age This is but an Episcopall Bravado therefore we let it passe till we come to close and contend with him in the point where we shall demonstrate that in the compasse of three lines he hath packt up as many untruths as could be smoothly couched in so few words as any man of common understanding that lookes upon the face of the Government of almost all reformed Churches in the Christian world may at first view discover But before we come to this there are yet two things in this Preface which we count not unworthy observation The First is the comparison which he makes between the two Governments the Civil which with us is Monarchy and the sacred which with him is Episcopaey Of the first he saith if Antiquity may be the Rule as he pleades it for Episcopacy or if Scripture as he interprets Scripture it is VARIABLE and ARBITRARY but the other DIVINE and VNALTERABLE so that had men petitioned for the altering of Monarchicall Government they had in his Judgement been lesse culpable both by Scripture and Antiquity then in petitioning the alteration of the Hierarchicall Had he found but any such passage in any of his Lewd Libellers as his modesty is alwayes pleased to terme them certainly if we may borrow his own phrase the eares of the three Interessed Kingdomes yea all the neigbbour Churches and if we may say the whole Christian world and no small part beyond it had run with the loud cryes of no lesse then Treason Treason Truth is in his Antiquity we finde that this his uninterrupted sacred Government hath so farre invaded the Civil and so yoked Monarchy even in this Kingdome as Malmesbury reports That William Rufus oppressed by Bishops perswaded the Jewes to confute them promising thereupon to turne England to their Religion that he might be free of Bishops And this is so natural an effect of unalterable Episcopacy that Pius the fourth to the Spanish Embassador importuning him to permit Bishops to be declared by the Councel of Trent to be Iure Divino gave this answer That his King knew not what he did desire for if Bishops should be so declared they would be all exempted from his Power and as independent as the Pope himself The second thing observable is the comparison he makes between the late Alterations attempted in our Neighbour Church by his Episcopal faction and that Alteration that is now justly desired by the humble Petitioners to this Honourable House The one being attempted by strangers endeavoring violently to obtrude Innovations upon a setled Church and State The other humbly petitioned to the Heads and Princes of our State by Multitudes therein almost ruined by an Innovating Faction yet doth not this Remonstrant blush to say if these be branded so he calls the just censures of this Honourable House for Incendiaries how shall these Boutefeux escape c. thus cunningly indeavouring either to justifie the former by the practise of the latter or to render the latter more odious then the former The attempts of these men whom he would thus render odious he craves leave to present to your Honours in two things which are the subjects of this quarrel The Liturgy and Episcopacy and we humbly crave your Honours leave in both to answer SECT II. FIrst the Liturgy of the Church of England saith he hath been hitherto esteemed sacred reverently used by holy Martyrs daily frequented by devout Protestants as that which more then once hath been confirmed by the Edicts of religious Princes and your own Parliamentary Acts c. And hath it so whence then proceed these many Additions and Alterations that have so changed the face and fabrick of the Liturgy that as Dr. Hall spake once of the pride of England if our fore-fathers should revive and see their daughters walking in Cheapside with their fannes and farthingales c. they would wonder what