986. Anno 1537. Thomas Arch-Bishop of Canterbury Edward Arch-Bishop of Yorke Iohn Bishop oâ London Cutâbert Bishop of Durham Stephen Bishop of Winchester Robert Bishop of Carlile Iohn Bishop of Exeter Iohn Bishop of Lincolne Iohn Bishop of Bath Rowland Bishop of Covenâây and Lichfield Thomas Bishop of Ely Nicholaâ Bishop of SalisburyâIohn Bishop of Bangor Edward Bishop of HerefordâHugh Bishop of Worcester Iohn Bishop of Roâhester Richard Bishop of Chichester VVilliam Bishop of Norwich Robert Bishop of Assaph Robert Bishop of Landaffe Richard VVolman Arch-Deacon of Sudbury VVilliam Knight Arch-Deacon of Richmond Iohn Bells Arch-Deacon of Glocester Edward Bonner Arch-Deacon of Leicester VVilliam Skippe Arch-Deacon of Dorcet Nicholas Heath Arch-Deacon of Stafford Cuthbârt Marshall Arch-Deacon of Vottingham Richard Corren Arch-Deacon of Oxford VVilliam Cliffe Geoffry Dowes Robert Oking Ralph Bradford Richard Smithâ Symon Matthew Iohn Pryn VVilliam Buokmaster VVilliam May Nichoâas VVottin Richard Cox Iohn Edmunds Thomas Robertson Iohn Baker Thomas Barrett Iohn Hase Iohn Tyson Doctors and Professors of Divinity and of the Civill and Canon Law with the whole convocation house and Clergie of England in their Booke intituled the institution of a Christian man dedicated by them to King Henry 8. Printed cum Privilegio subscribed with all their names and ratefied by the Statute of 32 H 8 c. 26. chap of the Sacrament of order fol. 48. c an excellent place Anno 1538. Robert Barnes Doctor of Divinity and Martyr in his workes p. 210. Anno 1540. VVilliam VVraghâon in his hânting and finding out of the Romish Fox among the Bishops in England dedicated to King Henry the 8. and his rescue of the Romish Fox A Booke intituled The Image as well of a true Christian Bishop as of a counterfeit and Anti-christian Bishop printed about the same time Rodeâicke Mors his Supplication or complaint to the âarleament of England c. 19.20 A supplication to King Henây the 8. by a namelesse Author against Bishops their jurisdiction pride Lordlinesse and wealth Henry Stalbridge his exhortatory Epistle to his most deare Country of England against the Pompous Bishops of the same as yet the true members of the great Antichrist of Rome their most filthy Father Lincolne Ridley his Exposition on Ihil 1. Iohn Frith a Pious learned Martyr his answer to Sir Thomas Moore p. 116. Nayler his answer to the epistle of the great Turke printed Anno 1542. Iohn Bale afterward Bishop of Osgris in Ireland his image of both Churches on Apoc. c 6 f 42 9 f 56.65 c. 13. f. 105 116 118. c. 14 f. 126. c 15 f 150. c. 17. f 160. King Henry the 8 himselfe in his Book inscribedâ A necessary erudition for any Christian man published with the advise and approbation of all the Prelates Clergy of England in their convocation and of the Lords Spirituall and temporall and nether house of Parliament with the Kings own Royall Epistle to all his loving Subjects before it Anno 1545. by vertue of the Statute of 32 H. 8. c. 26. chap. of the Sacrament of order Anno 1551. The Book of Ordination of Ministers and Bishops confiâmed by act of Parliament 3 Ed. 6. c. 12.5 6. Ed. c. 1. 8. Elizab c. 1. which prescribed the 1 Tim. 3. Tit. 1. to be read at the Ordination of Ministers and consecration of Bishops and limits the selfe same forme of Ordination with the power of impesiâion of hands both to Ministers and Bishopâ Anno 1552. Iohn Hooper Bishop of Glocester a Martyr expition upon the 8. Commandements and in Psalm 23â p. 40. Hugh Laâymer once Bishop of VVorcesâer a Martyr in his Fourtâ Sermon of the Plough and in his 2.3.4 and 6. Sermons before King Edward the 6. Anno 1ââ5 Iâhn Poveâ Bishop of VVinchester in his Apologie against Thomas Martyrâ c 4.5 f. 43.44.52.53.59 Doctor Harpesfield Arch-Deacon of London and Iohn Bradford Martyr Fox Acts and Monuments p 1465 Anno 1558 Thomas Bombâedge Martyr Fox ibid p 1856. Iohn Elmer after Bishop of London in his Harborow for faithfull Subjects Master Bullingham after Bishop of Lincolne in his Letter to Master Bull Det 5 1â64 Master Thomas Becon in his catâchisme in his workes dedicated to all the Bishops of England by name approved applauded by them and Printed Cum Privilegio London 1562. vol. 499.500 The Doctrine of Christ and Anti-christ vol. 3 f 409 4010. sect. 18.19 Iames Pilkington Bishop of Durham Exposition on Agge c 1. verse 1 2 3.4 9.12.13 c. 2. v. 1 2 3.4.9.10.11 on Obidias v. 7.8 and in his Treatise of buâning Paules Church Incomparable Iohn Iuell Bishop of Salisbury defence of the Apologie of the Church of England Edit 16.10 part 2 cap 3 divis 5. c 4 divis 2 cap 5 divis 1 cap 7 divis 5 cap 9. divis 1 p 99.100 101.196 202 c VVilliam Alley Bishop of Exeter in his poore-mans Library part 1 Miscellanea Prâlect 3. f. 95 96. Printed cum Privilegio Edit. 2.1571 Alexander Nowell Deane of Paules his Reproofe of Doâmans Proofe LONDON 1565. cum privilegio f. 43.44.45 Doctor Lawrence Humfryes Regiuâ Professor of Divinitie in the Vniversity of Oxford Puritano papismi Confuâatio ad Rat 3. p. 262.263 Iohn Keâridge his Sermon on 1 âim 3 1 2 3 London 1578 Iohn VVhitgiât Arch-Bishop of Canterbury against Cart-wright p 353 Master Cart-wright in his second Replie against Whit-gist Anno 1585. â Tract 8 of Arch-Bishops and Bishops p 404 to 616. CONFVTATION of the Remish Testament on Acts. 20. sect. 4 âhil 1 sect. 1 1. Tim. 3. sect. 2. Tit. 1 sect. 2 Doctor VVilliam Fulk against Brislow motive 40 against Gregory Martin London 1583 p 172. Confutation of the Rhemiââ Testament on Tit. 1 sect 2 phil. 1 sect 1. Master Iohn Foxe in his Acts and Monuments prescribed to be had in every Arch-Bishop Bishops Archdeacons Deanes and Prebend residentiaries house in every Cathedrall and Collegiate Church by the Canonâ made in the Synod of London Anno 1571 Edit 1610 p 216 358 359. 360 414 430 432 434 439 517 518 599 625 961 972 1009 1016 1465 1856 both in the text and marginall Notes Doctor VVilliam VVhittaker Regius Professor of Divinity in the Vniversity of Cambâidââ Contra Duraum l 6 sect 19 Responsio ad 6 Rationes campâani Rat 10. p 122 141 Contr 2 qâ 5. c 7 contr 4 qu 1 c 1 Master Pâilip Stuât his display of corruptions neare the end The âee hive of the Romish Church oft printed and lately reprinted Anno 1635. passing onâ most learned Doctor Iohn Raynâlds in his conference with Hart Anno 1584 London 1609 c 3 divis 1. p 100 101.105 c 4 divis 2 p 122 123 c 6. divis p 185. divis 3 p 218 c. 8. divis 3 p 4â1 divis 5 p 540 541 and his Letter to Sir Francis Knolles in refutation of Doctor Bancrofâs Sermon at Pauls-Crosse 9. Feb. 1588 dated sâpt 19. 1598 Doctor Aâdrââwilles Synopsis Papisini The 5 generall Controversie Qu
cleer by Acts 10 2âPhil 1. 1. Tit. 1 5 7. that in Ignatius his daies Bishops Presbiters were all one both in Title office and jurisdiction that there were many Bishops in every chiefe City and Church not any sole âishop paramount the Presbiters over one or many Churches and that Diocâsan Bishops were instituted long after the Apostles and therefore after Ignatius his dayes who lived in the Apostles age as all Authors forecited accord and the whole Clergie of England in their Institution of a Christian man dedicated to King Henry the 8 resolue in direct termes These Epistles therefore of Ignatius which speâk of one Bishop in a âhurch distinct ârom and superior to Presbyters must needs be âorged Thiâdly Ignatius in these Epistles makes Bishops successors to Christ and to sâand in his stead and Presbyters to succeed the Apostles whereas all others maâes them successors to the Apostles only not to Christ who z leât no successor or Vicar generall behind him bât a remains himselfe for ever the High-Priest chiefe Shepheard and Bishop of our Sâules and hath promised b to âe with us alwaies even to the end of the world This therefore maâes his Authority but suspiciâus and coâteâptible Fourthly Ignatius hath not oâe word in him that Bishops are superior to ââeâbiters ây any divine lâw or iâstitutionâ the thing in question therefore his Authority if geâuine proves nothing for the oposites Fifthly Ignaâius equals Bishops and Presbyters both in jurisdiction rule and Authority for âpist â ad âralââanus he writes thus âut be ye subject to the Presbyters as to the Apostles of Christ for the Presbyters are a certaine conjoyned Sessions and âssembly of Apostles Epist. 6. ad Magnesianes ârebyteri president âoco Sinatus Apostolis The âresbyters rule in the place of the Senate of the Apostles Epist. 10. ad Symenses Do ye al âollow the Colledge of the presbiters as Apostles Now if Presbyters succeed the Apostles in the government oâ the Church al are to be Subject to them to follow them as Christs Apostles then certainely âhey are equall at least to Bishops who at the highest are by Gods institution only to be obeyed and followed but as Christs Apostles not to be preâerred before them if equalized with them as the proudest Prelate of them must acknowledge and and the c Fathers witnesse Sixthly d Ignatius confesseth that the Churches in those dayes were not ruled by the Bishops as they are now but by the Colledge Senate and Synod of the Elders communi Praesbytâoum concilio as Hierome e and all other after him affirme the Presbiters therefore had then equall and joynt authority with the Bishops even in point of Iurisdiction governments and did râle and govern the Church in common with them therefore the Bishops were not then Lords Paramount as now they maâe themselves but equall and one with them yea their Colleagues companions as Ignatius and the g âourâh counsel oâ Caââhâge stile theÌ Seventhly his words h that they shâuld âe sâbject to the Bishop as to God and Christ if rightly understood maâe nothing for the Prelates Hieraâchieââor Saint Paul Ephes. 6 5.6 7. coâmands servants to be obedient unto them that are their Masters according to the flesh with âeare and ââembling in singlenesâe of heart as unto Christ not with eye-service as âen pleasers but as the servants of Christ doing the will of God from his heart with good will doing service unto the Lord and not to men c. Is therefore every Master a Bishop equall unto Christ and superior in inrisdiction and degree to Presbyters No So Polycarpus in his Epistle to the âhilippians chargeth them i to be subiect to their Elders as unto God and Christ using the same words of Elders as Ignatius doth of Bishops Are Preâbyters therefore Paramount Bishops and succesâoâs to Christ himselfe I trow not Ignatius his meaning therefore is not that Bishops are as high above Presbyters and the people as God and Christ are above the Apostles as some k ambitious Prelates fansie but only that we must obey Bishops in all things that they command and prescribe us out of Gods word as farre âorth as we would obey God or Christ himselfe for he that heareth them heareth Christ himselfe and hee that despiseth them despiseth God and Châist himselfe Luke 10.16 1 Thes. 4â 8. In this manner likewise are we to be subject to every Minister whatsoeverâHeb 13.17.7.1 Thes. 2.13 This therefore proves nothing for the Prelates superiority over other Bishops especially since this Ignaââus himselfe Epist. 5 chargeth the Trallians to reverence Deâcons inâeââor to âresbyters as Christ himselfe whose Vicars they are As for those extravagail expressions of Ignatius l Episcopus typum Dei Patris âmnium geâut quid enim aliud est Episcopus quam is qui âmni ââincipatu protestate Superior est quod homini licet pro viribus imitator Christi Dei factus and the m like on n which same ground both the Popes and Prelates Monarchie they are so ridiâulous âalse ambitious and hyperbolical as favor neither of Ignatius or any Christian but rather of a meere papall and Anti-christian spiritâ discovering these Epistles to be none of his and those ârelaâts who assâme these speeches to themselues to be o none of Christs Mat. 11.29 All which consideredâ this forged Aâtiquity will stand theÌ in no stead at all to prove them superior or distinct from Presbyters by any diuine institution and other Antiquity making for them I find not extant That Presbyters and Bishops by Gods law and Ordination are both one and the same of equall authority and jurisdiction as all these authorities resolve I shall undeniable manifest by this one Argument Presqyters by the expresse resolution of the Scripture have the very name and not so onely but the very office of Bishops Act. 20.17 28. Pââl 1 1 1. Tim. 3 1â to 5. Tit. 1 5. to 1â the same mission and commission the same function charge Ordination and quallification Matth. 28.19.20 1 Tim. 3 1. to 7. c. 4.14 c. 5 17. 2 Tim. 4.1 2 1 Pet. 5 1 2 3. Tit. 1 5. to 12. neither doth the Scripture in any place make any differeÌce distinction or superiority between them or attribute any power to the one that it doth not to the other âs the premises evidence and Matth. 20 25.26 27 28. Mar. 10 42 43 44 Luk. 22.25.26 Therefore by Gods law and institution they are one and the same and of equall authority power and jurisdiction in all things As for that distinction in power precedency and jurisdiction whiââ hath since been made between them it hath proceeded partly from Canons and constitutions made by Bishops themselves p partly by meer usurpation and encrochment but principally from the grant and largenesse of Christian Princes who as they erected Bishoprickes and Diocesse
as to Jurisdiction although not of execution which executive exercise is restrained by certaine positive Laws not Divine but Canonicall whence the cause of these Laws ceasing (b) the Laws themselvs determine And Johannes Semeca a Popish Canonist avers That in the first primitive Church the Office of Priests and Bishops was the same but in the second primitive Church to wit some space after the Apostles times both their names and Offices began to be distinguished The same Doctrine together with the Identity and Parity of Bishops and Presbyters is professedly averred not only by those hereafter cited in the Catalogue but also by * Huldrick Bishop of Ausburg about the year of Christ 860. in his Epistle to Pope Nicholas in defence of Priests Marriage by John Crespin L'estate de L'eglise printed 15â2 fol. 14.97 by Phippe de Mornax Tableaâ des Differens par 2. c. 6. p. 67 68 69. c. and by Mornay Lord Plessie in his Mystery of Iniquity in the French Edition p. 7.9 10.72.80 to 87 9â 92.95 to 123.125.128.152 to 155.159.160.172.179.197.210 to 218 234.2â4 266 267.281.293.304.307.319 320 366â 389 395.397.404.410.412â 418.424 to 427 452â 464.467 468.469.503.518.519.520.524 to 528 533.535.545 546 547.567.568 569.603 Yea * Iohn Maâjor de Gestis Scotorum l. 2. c. 3. wâites that in ancient times the Scots were instructed in the Christian faith by Priests and Monks and were then without Bishops And Iohn Fordon Scotichronicon l. 3. c. 8. before him records That before the coming of Palladius the Scots had only Presbyters or Monks to instruct them in the Faith and administer the Sacraments following the custome of the primitive Church And * from Palladius dayes till the reigne of Malcolm the 3d the Bishops of Scotland had no Diocesse at all and so were no Diocesan Prelates but every Bishop whom holinesse had made reverend in that age exercised his Episcopall function without distinction in every place he came If then Bishops and Presbyters were all one and the same in the first Primitive Church which church âogether with that of Scotland was anciently governed only by Presbyters not by any Lordly Prelaâes or Diocesan Bishops which Dr. William Fulke in his Answer of a true Christian c. p. 20.50 professeth âo be Antichristian Paâall and no divine institution why the Churches of Scotland and England may not now be governed by Presbyters only without Bishops aswell as at first I cannoâ conceiveâ their regiment of late having been so tyrannicall unchristian antichristian and exorbitant that they have almost wholly ruined our Religion Church State and lefâ them in a most perplexed if not desperate condition which proves their Hierarchy to be rather Antichristian and Diabolicall then Divine And how can it be otherwise if we rightly consider the Persons or Condition of our Hierarchyâ and their Antichristian Attendants I remember a merry Sâory in * Giraldus Cambrensis and out of him related by Mr. Camden in his Britannia p. 604. It hapned that a certaine Iew travelling towards Shrewsbury with the Archdeacon of Malpas in Ches-shire whose surname was Peche that is Sinne and a Deane named Devill when he heard by chance the Archdeacon telling that his Archdeaconry began at a place called Ill-street and reached as farre as to Malpas towards Chester he considering and understanding withall aswell the Arch-deacons Surname as the Deans came out with this merry and pleasant conceit Would it not be a wonder quoth he and my fortune very good if ever I get safe againe out of this Countrey where Sinne is the Arch-deacon and the Devill is the Dean where the entry into the Archdeaconry is Illstreet and the going forth of it Malpas It was * St. Bernards complaint in his age that Iesus Christ elected many Devils to be Bishops as he chose Iudas to be an Apostle Since then there be so many Archbishops Deanes and Bishops Devills so many Archdeacons Sinners if not Sinne and the entrance into these Offices by reason of Symony Ambition and the like a meer Illstreet and their going forth of them by reason of their wicked lives and exorbitant actions occâsioned by their very Office Malpas it is almost a wonder and very good fortune if any âonest godly Minister or Professor ever get safe againe out of their Courts and Diocesse or escape drowning in their Seas Hence is it that the devoutest men in all ages since Prelates became Lords paramount to Ministers have either utterly refused to accept of Bishâpricks or resigned them after acceptance as I have * elswhere manifested by sundry examples and shall here furâher exemplifie by âther evidences (a) Ribadenerra a Iesuite records it to the great praise of Bernardine of Sennes canonized at Rome for a Saint that out of his humility he refused the 3. Bishopricks of Sennes Ferrara and Vrban which severall Popes offred to him and though one Pope put a Bishops Miâer on his head with his own hands yet he put it off againe humbly beseeching him not to impose the charge of any Bishoprick upon him and to change that estate of Poverty to which God had called him because he should bring more advantage to the Church by preaching the Word of God and ayding the Soules of many Bishopricks then by being a Bishop in one Church The Pope hearing his reasons confessed them true and left him to his own liberty (b) Vincent Ferrier another Popish Saint is highly magnified for that ' being urged by the Pope to accept the Bishopricke of Leride the Archbishopricke of Valence and a Cardinalship it was impossible to move him to accept of any of these charges deeming it a greater advantage to free one Soule from the chaines of Sinne then to gain all the great preferments of the world For he perceived that these honourable dignities seemed like so many golden chaines whereby he should be detained at the Court and deprived of liberty to goe and preach the Gospell with poverty as God had commanded him So Thomas of * Aquin canonised for a Saint is highly applauded for refusing the Archbishopricke of Naples with other great dignities offered unto him by the Pope In like sort * Raimond of Rocheâort another Roman Saint is extolled for refusing to accept the Archbishopricke of Arragon which the Pope himselfe conferred upon him and commanded him to accept within few dayes at which news he was very sad and most humbly and instantly intreated his Holinesse not to lay such a burthen upon him which he knew not how to beare and seeing that the Pope was resolved to enforce him to accept it he fell sicke with indignation a âieuere continuing upon him till he died of regret and so discharged him of this care * Antoninus another âate Romish Saint being elected Archbishop oâFlorence by Pope Eugenius the 4th refused to accept thereof because being retired out of the tempests of the world he should therby return into âhem to the
c. 16 Tom. 5 p ââ ân âpist Paâââ l 19. in Phil. 1 1 l 23 in 1 Tim. 3 l 25 in Tit. 1 Tom. 5 p 455 456 498 499 521 522 523 De instituââons Clericorurâ l â â 4 5 6 Tom 6 p. 5 6 Haymo Halberstatensis in Phil. 1. â Tit. 1 An 560. The 12 Councell of Toledo Can 8 Aââlaâiâs Fortunatus d Ecclesiasticââ Ofsiââs l 2 c 13 Anno 1050 Pecumenâa in Aââa Apost 5 15 2 in Phil 1 1 Tim: 3 Tit 1 fol 79 586 655 683 Anno 1070 Theophylact. Com in Act 20 17â 28 in Phil 1 1 1 Tim: 3 Tit 1 p 517.576 600 801 Anno 1â00 Conradus Bruno in Phil 1 1 1 Tim: 3 Tit 1 Anno 1130 Barnard De Consideratione ad Eugenium l. 2 34 Epist. 42 Sermâ 23 25. 77. Super âantiââ De laudibuâ Maria Homil 1 Concio in Concilio Rhemensi ad Pastâââs Sârââ THE THIRD SQVADRON THe third Squâdron is constituted of forraigne Cannonists and Popish Schoolemen wâiters and Councels from the Yeare of our Lord 1100 till this present as Iâo Carnaâânsis Dâ âalâluââ pa. â5 c â8 59.72 1ââ 143.144 Peter Lombard Sententiarum l 4. distinâ 24. I. K. L mâ Comenâaâiâm Phil. 1 1 Tit 1. 1 Tim: 3 Gratian the gâeaâ Canâonist distinctio 18 21 22 23 24 25 39 50 60 61 62 63 64 65 6â 67 68 80 93 95 Causa 2 qu. 7 Causa 24 qu 3 Hugo Caâdinalis in Phil â 1 Tit 1 1 Tim: 3 Aquinas secundâ secundae qu â4 Ar 6 ârg 1. Supplementum in tertiam pârtem qu 37 Art 7 Durandus in l 4 Sentent Distinct 24. qu 5 6 Rational Divinorum l 2 Iohannis Parisiensiâ de potestate Regia Papâli apud moâââum de Ecclesia c 11 Catalogum Testium veritatis p 525 Carthusiââ Caâetan and the Author of the Oâdinaây glosse in Acts 15 c 20 17 28 Phil 1 1 1 Tim: â Tit 1 5 7 cardinalis Arelatensiâ apud AEneam Sylvium de Gestis Concilij Basiliensis l. 1 p 27 28 29 Alvarus Pelagius de Plainetu Ecclesia â 1 Art 70. l 2 Art 1 to 17 Panormitam c 4 de Consuetudine Anselmus Lucensis Collectanea Can l. â c. 87 127 Gâegorius Tholosamus Polycarp l 2 Tit 19 39 Iohn Thiery Glosâa in Gâationum distinct 95 cap olim with all other Glosses and Canonists on that Text Heââiâus Gorichen in l 4 Sentent Distinct 24â Astensis Summa pars 2 l 6 Tit 2 Artic 2 Angelus de claucisio Summa Angelica Ordo 1 The e councell of Lingon Anno 1404 of Paris Anno 1557 Duarenus de sacr Eccle injust l 1 c 7 Onus Ecclâsia c 14 to 27 Nicholas Cusaâââ de concoâdiâ Catholicâ l. 2 c. 13. Alphonsus a Câstâo advers ãâã Sit âpiscopus Michael Medina de sacro hâm Oâig et continetia ãâã âspencaââ in 1 Tim. c 3 Digressioââm in Tim â 1 c 1 2 3â and in Tit 1 â â The Rhemist ânnotâtion on Acts ãâã sect 4 and in Tim 4. Phil 1. 1 âit 1 ââ Iââobus Fabor in 1 Tim â 4 â Tit 1. Sixtus Sevensi Bibl ãâã l â Anno 32â Azoâius Mâââlium pârâ 2 l 3 c 1ââ Buoniuâ Anâuâll Eccles âom 1. p 5ââ Iacobus de Grâssâs dâsââlionum Auââcarum parâ 2 l 1 c 9 11 5 â 9 1â 14 16 l 3 c. 12 11 3.4 Petââs Bââsseldin âuchyâidion Teâââgiae Pâstoralis pââs 1 c 15. with other Pontisâââans though sundry else of them are the greatest sâicklers for ââisâopâll Mââââne of Puâpose to advânce the ãâã Supremâcy with the Parity of Bishops and Pâesbiters Iuââ Dââmâ âsterly subverts and ruineââ I shall close up this Squâdrân with the ââe Authorities of some Semiâââ Priests in Enâland As namely of Niâcââlas Smiâh in his modest and bâiefe discussion of certaine Assertions which are taught by Mr. Doctor ââlâison in his Treatise of the âcclesiasticall ãâã where thus he determines * I judge is no rashnes to affirm that since England enjoyed a Bisââpâ to wit a Poââs âishopâ to confirme the Papists and controll the Pâiests namely Richââd bisâop of Châlcedââ created the generall âishop and superintendânt both of Englandâ and Scotland by Pope Vrbaus speciall Bull dated the 4th of August Anno 1625. The Coppy whereof you shall âind printed in Censura Propositionâm quaâundam c. per sacram facultatem Theologâa Parisiânsis factae Paâisiis 1631 p 63 64 65 that more damage hath happened to the Catholikes in generall by reason of discord and frequent losse of charity then they have received benefit by the Sacrament of Conâirmation onely conferred on some few That all holy men have exceedingly eâdeavoured to sâun such an high digâity That a Bishop is in a State which presupposeth but yet gives not perfection which the State of Religion not onely presupposeth but giveth That a vow not to receive a Bishopricke is valid and sacred That âo desiâe a Bishopricke even for that which iâ best in it to wit for the good of soules according to St Thomâs sâcunda sââuâda que 185. Art 1 seemes to be presumptiân and there are some who stick not to say and that commonly it is a moâtall sinne That these âropositions following are strange idle and absurd That it is dâ iure divinâ and that the law of God is that every particular Church as England is ought to have a Bishop That without a Bishop England were not a particular Church That unlesse every particular Church hath its Bishop or Bishops the whole and Vniveâsall Church could not be as Christ hath instituted it an Hierarchie composed of divers particular Churches That without a Bishop we cannot have conâirmation c. All which principles saith hee are worse then the concultion it selfe and demonstrated by us to âit in that Treatise to have no foundation at all Thus this Popish Priest who proving that the Church of England may well subsist without a Popish Bishop to sway and order it grants that it may doe the like without our Protesâant Prelates and that plainly resolves that it is not from any divine law or institution that the Church of England should have any Bishop at all to govern it Daniell a Iesu another Priest and a Reader of Divinity thus seconds him in his Apologie for the proceeding of the holy see Apostolike as to the government of the catholickes in England during the time of Persecution * That it is most false and of dangerous consequence that a particular Church cannot be without a Bishop That Gods law requires no more but that there be somâ Bishops in the Church to wit so many that there bee no danger that the whole Order should suddainly be taken away by their deaths and so dispersed through the world that all Christians may bee sufficiently provided of learned and vertuous Priests If this be done the law of God is satisfied
although there be no Bishops in Fâance Spaine or England Give me thereâoâe a mulâitude of Christians how great soever who want not a Bishop to ordaine Priests and I will boldly affirm that there is nâ need that the governour of that society should be a Biââop Yea let us suppose the Ordinaâion oâ Priests and the Ministry of the Chuâch not to be necessary in the Church and presently it followes that there is no need the universall Church should bee governed by Bishops who are superior to Priests That in the time of Persecution it is neither good nor convenient nor any solace or comfort to the Church to have a Bishop That thoâe who of Bishops are made Religious persons may be said in some sort to fly âigher and not at all to descend That if the Catholickes of England should yeeld to this motion nameây to receive the Bishop of Chalcedon as their pâoper Pastor and Bishâp they could by no meanes excuse themselvesâ from being worthy of that reprehension which the Cârinthians received from Saint Paul namely that they rashly and indiscreetly put themselves into subjection that they should bestow their temporall goods so as they could exspect no reward from God as exercising humility Obedience Patâence for which no crowne of Righteousnesse is prepared yea that they may by their blind receiving oâ him though by the Popes owne Bull and authority expose themselves to manifest perill by falling into mortall sinne c. These Positions of theirs were publikely taught and maintained by many other Priests both in England and Ireland as appeares by the censure of the faculty of Paris and Nicholas Iâ Maistre his Instauratio antiqui Principatus Episcoporum Parisijs 1633. Written upon this occasion in answer of these Treatises and some others Some of which Propositions though they were censured as Eronious by the faculty of the Divineâ of Paris Anno 1631. through the power of the Bishop of Chalcedon as striking at the Popes Supremacy and the Bishops Hierarchie yet in all that censuâe I finde not one passage of Scripture produced to prove them contrary to the word of God and therfore that censure of theirs not much to be regardââ THE FOVRTH SQVADRON THe 4th Squadron consists of Forraigne Protestant Churches and writers which I shall muster ranke in order according to their antiquities as neare as I may I shal begin with the VValdenses Taborites Albigenses Auââites whose opinions and resolutions touching these particulars are registred at large by AEneas Sylvias histor Bohemiae c 35 by Renaerus contr Waldenses lib c 6. by Refutatio Waldensuim Bibl. PatruÌ Tom. 13 p. 383 by Thomas Waldensesâ operum Tom. 1 l 3 Arti câ 29 30 31 32 Tom 2. de Sacramento ordinis c. 117 118 Tom c 60 61 62 by Alphonsus de castro adversus hereses Tit Episcopus de Sacramento ordinis by Illiritus Catalogus Testium veritatis p 426 433 445 by Mr. Iohn Fox Acts and Monnments p 210 Albertus Pighius Hierarch Eccles. l 2 c 10 Gersomus Bucerus de Gubernatione Ecclesiae p 599â 600 601. Marsilius Patavimus Anno 1320 seconds them in his Defensoris Paris pars 2 c. 15 16 17 18 19 20 and who Annâ 1330 is backed by Michall Cezenas Henricus de Iota Nicholaus orem Ioannes de Ianduno Petrus de Corbaria Ioannes de Polaco Iohn of Castele ârancis de Archatara and divers others of thaâage Witnesse Extravagant Ioannis 23 Antoninus quarta pars Summe Catalogus Testium veritatis p 512 524 525 529 Fox Acts and Monuments p 358 359 360. with others AEtates Ecelesiae written about that time c. 2 Registred in Catalogo Testium veritatis p 453 454â Laurentius Valla The restorer of the Elegance of the Latine tongue succeed next in order Annotationes in Act. c. 15 c 20 in 1 Tim: 3 Tit. 1 Iohâ Hus and Hierome of Prague two learned Godly Martyrs tread in their footsteps witnes AEneas Sylvius Historâ Bohem c 35 Fox Acts and Monuments p 55â 559 Gerson Bucerus de Gubernatiânâ Ecclesiae p. 602 603 After these successively ensued Ioannis Luâatwitz in Confessione âaâoratrum contr. Rokeâzanum c 13 apud Lidij Waldeâ siam p 53 Erasmus of Rotâârdam Annotaâ paââpht in Act 1â in 1 Tim: 3 4 Phil. 1 Tit 1 1 âet 5 Scholia in âpist âieronym ãâ¦ã adversus aâââertâm ãâã Martin Luther in âsalm 2 ââ 134 in Epist. ad Galââes ãâ¦ã 1 Artâ 15 The Synod of âeâicon Artic 6â The Synod of Modisâaâia Arââc 8 11 12 Gârsâm Bucârââd ãâã Eââââsiae p 370 373 374 4ââ 49â 500 51â 518.575 616 61â 618 Câristian the 3 King of Denmarke Anno 1537â and the whole State of Denmaââe together with âGusâ ãâã Cricus âing of Sweden about the same âime who sâppressed banished and hanged up the Lordly Bishops of their Reâlms aâ false Traitors and Rebels contrary to Chists insâitution and having no foundation in the word of God Clââtraeâs Clârân Saxon l 6. p. 49. lâ 7 p 219 2ââ lâ 9. p 259 261 262 263 270 279 l 10 p 297 309 311 340 341 342 l 12 p. 358 359 l 13 p 388 l 14 p 407 421 l 15 pâ 433 434. Philip Melanââhon Aâgam Responsâ Pezel paââ 7âComâ in 1 Cor 4 Et disâutatio dâ Politia Ecclesiasâica dâ coniâgâo Sacerdotum Oecolampaâius in Rom 12 âaldâiâus ââânglius in Amica sâa Parenaesi aâ Communâm Helveâiorum âmitatem operum Tom. 1. p 115 117 in Pââl 1.1 Tom. 3 pâ 504. Opus Articulorâm Artic. 34â 36 Francis Lambert his Summa Châiââianiâatis Anno 1536. Prâsat Mr. Balliâger in Act. 20 v 28 decad. 5. Ser 3 4 Brentius Apol. ãâã wettemb c 21. Pellicanâs in Mat. c. 16 18 in Act 16 20. Mustulus locârum Com. locut de Ministris verbi Dâi p. 596.597 598. Mr. Iohn Calvin Instijâ l 4 c 3 sect. 8 c 4 sect 2 in Phil 1 1 1 Tim. 3 8 Tiââ 1 5.7 Antidotum Concilij Tridentinâ Ses. 7 de Conformationâ Martin Bâcer de vt usu Ministerij in Maâth 16 Araetius Problem Loâus de Oâsiâijs Eccles. ââ Piâl 1 1 in 1 Timâ 3 4â Tit. 1 5 7. Mr. Ralph Gââlâher on Acts. 20. verse â8 Phil. 1 1 1 Tim. 3. Tit 1.5.7 Mârtin Chemââtius Examen âonâilij Tridâât pars 2 de Sacâamento ãâã 223 224 Innocentius Gentiletus examâââonâilij Tridânt Ibid Ioaânis Maâoâ Kinâsius Maâlorat on Phil. 1 1 1 Tim. â Tiâ 1 5 7 Acts 20 28. 1 Pet 5 1 2 ãâ¦ã 2 â 8 in ãâ¦ã c 53 ãâ¦ã 5 â 14 Coâââ 3 câ 3 ãâ¦ã ligâ in 4 Pâaecept Defide c 25 sâct 9 in Pââl 1 1 âyperius in Tit 1 17 dâ Mâthâdo Tââologiâ l 3 Matthiâs Illârieus Clavis Sâripturae Tit Presbiter Catalogus Testiâm Veâitaââs p 426 433 445 512 524 525 529 553 554 488 528 c. ãâ¦ã Basilius
and multiplyed them or divided them as they saw occasion so they limitted q and granted them all that Episcopall power and jurisdiction whereby they were distinguished from or advanced above Ordinary Ministers as appeares by the Originall Charters of the foundations and erections of our own English Bishop-rickes the forecited Statutes and by our owne and forraigne Histories Now that jurisdiction and superlority thus acquired is but meere and humane not divine Againe Bishop-ricks are meer hâmane institutions directly contrary to the Holy Ghost who ordained many Bishops in every Church and City not one Bishop over many which he can never well instruct rule and oversee Acts 20. 17.28 1 Tim. 5.17 Pâil 1 1 Tit. 1â 5 7. 1 Pet. 5 1 2 3. Now that Episcopal jurisdiction which distinguishetâ Bishops ârom Presbyters was r created with and annexed to their Bishâpricks yea it is delegated botâ by the âing to Lay Commiââioneâs and visitors and by Bishops themselves to Officials commiââaâies and meere Lay men 26. H. 8. c. 1.31 H. 8 c 9 37. H. 8 c 17.1 â 6 c. 2.1 Eliz c 1. Therefore it is meerely humane and belongs not to Bishops by any divine right neither is it peculiar unto them alone Moreover Bishoprickes with all Episcopall juâisdiction incident to them have been s usually granted hereâoâore by our Kings of England to their Chancellours Treaâuâers Secretaries Kinsmen and temporall Oâhcers being meere Lay-men as an advancement and augmentation onely of their temporall revenues and civill temporall things And in Germany at this day they are given to Dukes Earles and Nobles yea to Children and inâants only as a temporall digâity and revenue Thereâoâe they are ânly tempârall âffices and revenues and meere huâane inâtitutions which may well be spareâ in the Church not divine oâ Gods and Christs institution Moreover most of the t reâormed ââotesâant churches beâond the ãâ¦ã the Reâââmaâân ãâ¦ã Bishopricks and Dioceâan Bishops as Anti-christian and humane inâââtutions pernicious to the Church of Christ and to the power puâity and progresâe of the Gospell making Biââops proud Lordly idle Luxuâious covetous Tyrannicall Symoniâcall Seditious Schâsmaticaâ âppâessive vindictive prophane impious lascivious unchasâ perâideous rebellious ârecherous to their Soveraigns Therefore certainly they are no divine instiâution useâull or necessary for Gods Church and people oâ which they have been the bane and ruine in all ages as our Acts and Monuments of Martyrs testifie they being the Authors of all perseââtions in our Church and of al our Martyrs Buchery bloodâ shed And in truth our Kings in all former ages have âeemeâ Bishops not alâogeâher so usefull or necessary in our Church as some now make them which may appeare by the long vacancies oâââveâs Bishoprickes in sundry ages of which I shall give you a âhoââ taââ and so conciââe u Anââ 653 After the death of Honorius Arch-Bishop or Canâerbury that See continuââ void 18 moneths Annâ 669. After Adeotaâusâis death it remained voâd almost 4 yeares An 690. AfâeâThâodorus his death it was void almoât âuââ two yeâresâ and as long aâter âaââyusâecease An 734 After âuâhberâs death An 758. ât was vacant above one yeare Anno 762 two years aâter âregwins death An 790 3 years aââer Lambârâs death An 830 aâove one Yeare after VVââreds decease An 958 almost 3 yeares after Odo his expiâation An 1089. 4 yeâres after Laâââakes departure An 1109 5 yeares after Anâelmes death Anâ 36. 2 years after VViâliam Carkeâ Aâ 11 â â3 yeaâs aâter Riâhard VVeââerâneâ An 1242 2 yeares aââeâ St. âdmânâ An 1270 âs long aââer âoniâacâ An 1502 2 yeares after ãâã Deane Aâ 15â8 oâe âear aââeâ ãâ¦ã v Aâ 644 aââer Pauâânus the ãâã Aââh-Biâhâp ãâã âoâkeâ that âee wâs vacant 20 ââme say 3ââ yeeâes An 1114 sââur yeares afâer âââmas the second An 1140 âlmost 2 âeares aâter Tâââstan An ãâã 10 Years after Rogers deâthâAn 1213. 4 Yeaâes after ãâã An 1255 13 âloneths after VVâââeâ Gâay Anâ 13â3 after âhomas de caâbridge above 2 yeares An 315 â Years after âilliamââGreenfielâ Aââ 1240â 2 yeâres afâer VViâliam de Melâââ An 1405 2 years and an haââe aâteâ ãâã Sââope that Arch-traitor beneaâeâ for his Treâson Anâ 1423 2 Yeares after Henry Boweââ An 14â9 almost 4 Yeares after Iohn Kâmp An 1464 2 Yeares after VVilliam Bââth almost a âull yeaââ both after Cardinall VVolpe and âââard Lee Anâ 1559 âââer ââcâolas Heath 2 yeares Anâ 1568 after Thomas âoung above one yeare Thus long have both our Arch-Bishoprickes been void in severall ageâ without any prejudice to Church or State w Anno 619 after Mellitus his translation from London to Canterbury that see continued void 31 Yeâres together An â64 2 Yeares An 1133. 7 Yeares aâter Guilbert An. 1187 alter Gilbert Folâoâ above 2 yeares An 1279 above one yeare aââer Iohn de Chishul An 1303 almost 2 yeares after Richard de Granefârd Anno 1501 after Thomas Saâage above two yeares An 1171 after the death of Henry de Bloyes the Bishopricke of Winchesteâ was void above 3 yeares An 1238 after Peter de la Roch 5â yearsâ An 1243. after William de Rawley 16 Yeâres Ethelmanus holding it 9 yeares without consideration Anno 1259 after Henry de Wengham 6 yeares An 1492 after Peter Coventry aboue one Yeare An 1500 after Thomas Langton 2 yeares An 1528 aâter Richard Fox 2 Yeares An 1530. after Cardinalâ Woolsey almost 4 yeaâes w An 1131 after the death of Hârnaus first Bishop oâEly that See was void above 2 yeares An 1169 after Negellus the Second Bishop 5 yeares An 1197 afteâ William Longchamp above one Yeare An 1214 after Eustachius above 5 yeares An 1256 after William de Kilâenny above one yeare An 1297 after William de Luda 2 Yeares An 1373 after Iohn Barnet 2 yeares An 1434 after âhillip Morgan 3 yearesâAn 1486 after Iâân âoorion 3 yeares An 1500 aââer Iâhn Alcocke one whole yeare An 1533 as long after Nicholas West An 158â after Richard Coxe almost 20 yeares together x ân 11â7 after the death of Roâert de Chisney the 4 Bishâp oâ Lincoln that See continued vâcant almost 17 yeares Ceââry âenây the 2 his base Sânne taâing the ârofits thereof without any consecration An 1184 afâer Walteâ de Cââstârtiis 2 âeares An 1200 after St. âugh almost â years ân 1206 after William de Blâyes 3 yeâres An 1490 after Iohn Rusâel 2 yeares An 1513 after William Smith one yeare y An 1086 the Bishoprick of Coventry and Lichfâeld was vacant 2 yeares after the death of âeter and as long An 1â27 after Robert âeach as long An 118 after Giâacdus Puella as long An 1208 âfter Geofâry de Muschamp An 1238 almost 3 yeares after Alexanderâe Saâensby An 1243 after Hugh Pateshul 2 yeâes An 1386 as long after âichard Scroope An 1490 as long after Iohn Huââe z An 1099 after Osâond his death the second Bishop of Salisbury