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england_n	bishop_n	church_n	succession_n	2,569	5	10.4652	5	false

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A65238	The gentlemans monitor, or, A sober inspection into the vertues, vices, and ordinary means of the rise and decay of men and families with the authors apology and application to the nobles and gentry of England seasonable for these times / by Edw. Waterhous[e] ...	Waterhouse, Edward, 1619-1670.	1665 (1665)	Wing W1047; ESTC R34735	255,011	508

envy you for nothing that you have but for one Hooded fellow meaning the Bishop who was better for the defence of a Kingdom then Ten thousand with Helmets on their heads but also serious in the things of God Holy in their lives Fervent in their prayers Frequent in their preachings Exact inspectors Just censurers Liberal benefactors Of Learned minds of Incessant study of Matchless ingenuity in their Writings eloquent in their Disputes strenuous in their Discourses florid Optandum est ut ii qui Episcopale munus suscipiunt quae suae sint partis Agant ac se non ad propria commoda non ad divitias non ad luxum sed ad labores a● solicitudines pro gloria dei vocatos esse intelligant ne● enim dub●●andum est fideles reliquos ad religionem innoe●ntiamque facilius inflammandos si praepositos suos viderint non ea quae mundi sunt sed animarum salutem a●c caelestem patriam cogitantes Sess. 25. c. 1. de Reformat Impr. Romae Paul Manutlo edit 1564. good Masters in their Families good Friends in their Neighbourhood good Commonwealths-men in their Countries good Fathers in their Diocesses good Examples in their Conversation and Subjection well born well bred well resolved and therefore so influential on others because presidential to others and Imperial over themselves This even the perverse Councel of Trent being overcome by that Interest which Truth and Piety had gained upon the Ingenious Fathers and Learned men in it who being busie and vigorous Assertors of it gave such testimony to the consequence conscience of Reformation in Church-men notwithstanding the pestilent design of Paul the fourth then Pope and his Politique a●d Atheistique creatures in it who craftily designed their own grandeur and the Churches diminution I say the Majesty of Gods cause managed by those few Zelots in it did by Gods aid so lord it over their contradiction and influence who were bent and conjured against it that That Counsel concluded it the most effectual way to make the Church prevalent in Christs way upon the people was to mind Churchmen that their main work in the Ministery high or low is to renounce the World to seek not themselves but the peoples salvation and example them by their own lives to become holy And therefore when I consider what renowned Bishops and Presbyters the Church of England has had in all Times Sacrosancta Ecclesia Anglicana in st●tu Praesulum intra Regnum Angliae per Angliae Regem ejus Progenitores ad populum in Lege Dei instituendum hospitalitatem colendam Eleemosynam erogandam ad alia charitatis opero exercenda fundata faisset Stat. Carleoli 25 Ed. 1. and how fit they have been for and reall in Execution of their Charges Dignifying their Dignities When I read the learned Sermons and hear of the ample Charities and Christian Lives of so many of them who have left their Praises and Pieties for their Remembrances When I remember that renowned Arch-Bishop Bradwardine whose Grace kindled in the cause of God to confront Pelagianisme when it was in power and request Cambdens Brit. p 206. and Generous Bishop Grandison who prevailed with the Clergy of Exceter Diocess to leave their Estates to his dispose discharging his trust right piously in endowing Churches and in building and adding to Hospitals Domini Papae Regis redargutor manifestus Praelatorum correptor Monachorum corrector Presbyterorum director Clericorum instructor Scholasticorum sustentator Populi praedicat●r c. M. Paris in H. 3. p. 876. converting not a doyte to his own use and Stout Grosthead Bishop of Lincoln who durst when Enormities were raunting reproach and withstand them approving himself The zealous Reprover of Pope King and Prelats the Chastiser of the Monks the Director of Priests the Instructor of the Clergy the Supporter of Scholars the Peoples Preacher the Incontinents Prosecutor the exact Scripturist the Mall and Hater of Rome at his Table plentiful pleasant courteous at the Lords Table and in Spiritual Exercises full of tears and mortifyed contrition in short a Pastor industrious venerable vigilant as Mat. Paris characters him When I muse upon the later Parallels to these antique Heroiques The Iewels the Andrews's the Abbots the Halls the Vshers the Kings the Lauds the Davenants the Carletons the Mountagues the Bilsons the Brownriggs the Sandersons the Potters the Whites the Gaudens preaching and writing Bishops and others since no less worthy to be remembred and honoured who are mentioned by a better Pen then mine Eloquent and learned Bishop Gauden in his Hieraspistes as Stars of the first Magnitude in our Firmament and must be honoured as Champions to our Religion as it opposes Popery I say when these and others Prefermentaries in this Church of England are thorowly considered and their virtues have their due valews with us I think a sober consideration being had of the learned and pious succession of Bishops since the Reformation of our Church I perswade my self I may with much truth and if I did not think so I would abhorr to write it my Spirit being I bless God too bigg to flatter either Bishops or their Betters That the Church of England has had since the times of H. 8. more holy Episcopi officium est authoritate divina fiducialiter veraci●er absque ullo timore vel adulatione loqui verbum Dei Regibus Principibus omnibus dignitatibus nunquam veritatem subterfugere nulli parcere neminem injuste damnare neminem sine causa excommunicare omnibus viam salutis tam erbis quam exemplis demonstrare Concil Calcuthense Legatinum ad Annum 787. Spelman Concil p. 296. learned preaching Bishops then any Church of its capacity in so many years at any time since Christs time ever had And I hope it will still continue to deserve the same attribution from succeeding Times And therefore how can the bounty of our Kings and the Justice of our Lawes and the Gratitude of our Piety express it self by any other or less commendable way then by wishing them a prosperous enjoyment of what Riches and Honour they now have and how can they evade the desert of rude ingrateful and absurd who malign these Rights so usefully vested in them Yea I think I may say it without offence I am sure without falshood that the splendor of Bishops and other Dignitaries in our Church is that which makes our Clergy most considerable abroad and most powerfull at home For by reason of their port and place are they capacitated not onely to entertain Strangers Beneficia Ecclesiastica conferenda sunt propter officia putae propter veritatem doctrinae sanctiatem vitae equitatem justitiae haec enim personam faciunt dignam Ecclesiastica Praelatura Augustin Triumphus de Potestat Eccles. quaest 47. art 1. in Resolut p. 252. gather out of Libraries and Universities the choisest books and learnedst men preferr those that are virtuous but also