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A61636	A vindication of Their Majesties authority to fill the sees of the deprived bishops in a letter out of the country occasioned by Dr. B---'s refusal of the bishoprick of Bath and Wells.	Stillingfleet, Edward, 1635-1699.	1691 (1691)	Wing S5679; ESTC R9468	8,641	36

were living and not Canonically deposed by any Act of the Church but only by the Authority of the State and there denying the Supremacy of the King was one and none of the least of those Doctrines which they were deposed for and yet that only rejects the King's Ecclesiastical Authority and therefore as it is only an Offence against the State so it is a much less Offence than utterly to renounce their Authority in Civil and Ecclesiastical Causes as our deprived Bishops now do I shall not need to enlarge on these things which are plain and obvious at the first Proposal If you have any opportunity of seeing Dr. B desire him to consider again of it and though he may repent too late to do himself any good yet if he discover his mistake common Justice to the Government under whose Protection he lives and to Their Majesties to whom he has sworn Allegiance and who had placed such a Mark of Favour and Honour on him had he known how to value it obliges him publickly to own his Mistake which is the only recompence he can now make I am SIR Your Humble Servant FINIS Books lately printed for Richard Chiswell A New History of the Succession of the Crown of England and more particularly from the Time of King Egbert till King Henry the VIII Collected from those Historians who wrote of their own Times A Discourse concerning the unreasonableness of a New Separation on account of the Oaths With an Answer to the History of Passive Obedience so far as relates to Them A Vindication of the said Discourse concerning the Unreasonableness of a New Separation from the Exceptions made against it in a Tract called A Brief Answer to the said Discourse c. An Account of the Ceremony of Investing His Electoral Highness of Brandenburgh with the Order of the Garrer at Berlin Iune 6. 1690. By Iames Iohnston Esq and Gregory King Esq His Majesties Commissioners Dr. Freeman's Sermon at the Assizes at Northampton before the Lord Chief Justice Pollexfen August 26. 1690. His Thanksgiving Sermon before he House of Commons November 5. 1690. Dr. Tenison's Sermon before the Queen concerning the Wandring of the Mind in God's Service Feb. 15. 1690. His Sermon before the Queen of the Folly of Atheism Feb. 22. 1690. Dr. Fowler 's Sermon before the Queen March 22. 1690. The Bishop of Sarum's Sermon at the Funeral of the Lady Brook Feb. 19. 1690. His Fast Sermon before the King and Queen April 29. 1691. Mr. Fleetwood's Sermon at Christ Church on St. Stephen's day A True and Impartial History of the Most Material Occurrences in the Kingdom of Ireland during the Two last Years With the Present State of both Armies Published to prevent Mistakes and to give the World a Prospect of the future Success of Their Majesties Arms in that Nation Written by an Eye-witness to the most Remarkable Passages A full and impartial Account of the secret Consults Negotiations Stratagems and Intregues of the Romish Party in Ireland from 1660. to 1889. for the Settlement of Popery in that Kingdom A Ground Plot of the strong Fort of Charlemont in Ireland with the Town River Marshes Boggs and Places adjacent Drawn by Captain Hobson price 6 pence An Exact Ground Plot of London-Derry with the River Woods Ways and Places adjacent by the same Captain Hobson price 6 d. There is preparing and will shortly be Published A Prospect of Limerick bearing due West exactly shewing the Approaches of the English Army with the Batteries and Breach ANglia Sacra Sive Collectio Historiarum partim antiquitus partem recenter scriptarum De Archiepiscopis Episcopis Angliae à Prima Fidei Christianae susceptione ad Ann. 1540. Nunc primum in Lucem editum Pars Prima de Archiepiscopis Episcopis Ecclesiarum Cathedralium quas Monachi possederunt Opera Henrici Whartoni This Book will be ready for Publication by the Fourth of Iune next Subscriptions will be taken till the First of Iuly Proposals for the same may be had of Richard Chiswell and most other Booksellers in London and the Country

of embarking in a sinking Interest and fills them with new Jealousies of the lawfulness of it and what just offence this must give to the Government I need not say The truth is were I not better perswaded of the good Inclinations of their Majesties to the Church of England and the general Inclination of the Nation to support the Government I should dread what might be the fatal Consequence of such a miscarriage as this both to Church and State There are always too many who are glad of such an opportunity to reproach the Church and to possess their Majesties with an ill Opinion of the Clergy notwithstanding their Oaths of Allegiance and I confess this gives too great an Advantage to such Misrepresentations were not the Zeal and good Affection of wiser Men too well known to be suspected and then I hope a single Instance of Folly can do no great hurt for that is the softest Name I can give it on which side soever I view it This plainly proves that supposing it lawful to have taken the Bishoprick no other Consideration whatsoever can justify the refusal in our Circumstances and I know not how to suppose that Dr. B could think it unlawful He submitted to the Government and took the Oath of Allegiance as early as any Man and never that I heard had the least scruple about it and yet this was the time to have been Scrupulous if He would have been so for it seems a little of the latest when He is become a sworn Subject to King William and Queen Mary to question their Authority to make a Bishop And if the former Bishops were Deprived and New Bishops made by such an Authority as he can swear Allegiance to I cannot understand that it can be unlawful to accept a Bishoprick from the hands of those whom he owns by his swearing Allegiance to them to have Authority to give it for this is an Authority which belongs to the Imperial Crown of England Besides this Dr. B was one of those who by Commission from the Dean and Chapter of Canterbury hath exercised Archi-Episcopal Authority during the Vacancy of the See by the deprivation of the A. B. as it is expressed in the Commission and I take this to be altogether as unlawful if either of them were unlawful to seise upon the Authority of the A. B. upon the account of his deprivation as to take the Character and exercise the Authority of a Bishop in the See of a deprived Bishop To receive the Consecration on of a Bishop I suppose is not the thing he accounts unlawful nor to exercise the Authority of a Bishop and then there is nothing he can think unlawful but to exercise the Authority of a Bishop in the See of a deprived Bishop and then it seems to me as unlawful for a Presbyter to do this as for a Bishop to do it unless a Presbyter may do it without the Revenues of the Bishoprick but a Bishop must not do it with them but this can be no Ecclesiastical scruple as so great a Canonist must needs know for if the Civil Power cannot dispose of such Temporal Matters it can do nothing But whatever he thought his refusing a Bishoprick upon great deliberation after an appearing forwardness to take it hath tempted people to think that he judges it unlawful and to let him see how inconsistent this is with his owning the present Government and his exercising the Archiepiscopal Authority I shall explain the meaning of it to him which I believe he never thought of If it be unlawful to succeed a deprived Bishop then he is the Bishop of the Diocess still and then the Law that deprives him is no Law and consequently the King and Parliament that made that Law no King nor Parliament and how can this be reconciled with the Oath of Allegiance unless the Doctor can swear Allegiance to him who is no King and hath no Authority to govern If the deprived Bishop be the only lawful Bishop then the People and Clergy of his Diocess are bound to own him and no other then all Bishops who own the authority of a new Arch-bishop and live in Communion with him are Schismaticks and the Clergy who live in Communion with Schismatical Bishops are Schismaticks themselves and the whole Church of England now established by Law is Schismatical and Doctor B himself a Schismatick if he communicate with it And thus we have no Church or only a Schismatical Church as well as no King and all that Dr. B has got by refusing a Bishoprick is to prove himself a Schismatick if he live in Communion or to make a Schism if he separate from it Now will the Doctor say this or if he dare not say it will he dare to think it and yet if the deprived Bishops though they retain their Episcopal Character have no Authority or Jurisdiction in the Church of England then it must be lawful for other Bishops to exercise that Authority which they have lost and to succeed in the Government of such vacant Sees unless such Churches must be deprived of the Episcopal Authority while their deprived Bishops live And this brings me to consider the lawfulness of the thing it self which is so evident when set in a clear light that it will admit of no dispute with Men of Sense In a late Letter said to be sent to Doctor B and now printed on the Backside of a scandalous Rhyming Libel upon his Sermon of Restitution he is threatned in Case he should accept the Bishoprick with the Fate of those Ecclesiastical Schismatical Vsurpers Gregory and George of Cappadocia who unjustly invaded the See of Alexandria upon the deposing of Athanasius the Orthodox Bishop there What effect this might have on Doctor B I know not but those who have used themselves to good Sense as well as to ancient Canons easily perceive a vast difference between these two Cases as will presently appear But to represent this matter plainly and easily I shall briefly State the Case and that I believe will satisfie understanding Men without disputing 1. First then in a Christian Nation and Government the Church is incorporated into the State and the Soveraign Power has a Supremacy in all Ecclesiastical Causes To deny this is either Popery or Fanaticism It is plain the Reformation of this Church was founded on this Principle and it is the constant Doctrine of our Articles Homilies and Canons and they are our Rule considered as Members of the Church of England 2. This Supremacy though it do not extend to the administration of Holy Offices or Church Censures yet it reaches the Persons and external Jurisdiction of Bishops and the other Clergy and the Regulating and Ordering the Externals of Religion As the making and deposing Bishops when there is just Cause for it belongs to the Supremacy which Authority was exercised by the Iewish Kings over the High Priest himself and to resolve all this into a meer Ecclesiastical