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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A86299	The parable of the tares expounded & applyed, in ten sermons preached before his late Majesty King Charles the second monarch of Great Britain. / By Peter Heylin, D.D. To which are added three other sermons of the same author.	Heylyn, Peter, 1600-1662.	1659 (1659)	Wing H1729; Thomason E987_1	253,775	424

Bishops and the vocation of the Ministry according to the ancient Canons the dignity of the Clergy in some sort preserved the honour and solemnity of Gods publick worship restored unto its original lustre the Doctrines of Religion vindicated to their primitive purity shew manifestly that they kept themselves to that sacred rule Ad legem testimonium to the Law and Testimony Two things there are especially considerable in the Church of Christ matters of Doctrine and of worship The first of these we find comprized in the Book of Articles the other in the Book of Common Prayer and other Rites and Ceremonies of the Church of England In both of which the Fathers of this Church proceeded with a temperate hand having one eye upon the Scriptures the other on the practice of the Church of God in her purest Ages but none at all either on Saxonie or Geneva It s true indeed that Calvin offered his assistance to Archbishop Cranmer for the composing of our Articles si quis mei usus fore videbitur if his assistance were thought necessary and would have crossed the Seas about it But the Archbishop knew the man and how he had been practising with the Duke of Somerset ut Hoppero manum porrigeret to countenance Bishop Hooper in his opposition to the Churches Ordinances and thereupon refused the offer Latimer also tells us in a Sermon preached before King Edward Anno 1549. That there was a Speech touching Melanchthons comming over but it went no further then the Speech And he himself Melancthon writes to Camerarius Regiis literis in Angliam vocor that he was sent for into England but this was not till 53. as his Letters testifie the Articles of this Church being passed the year before in Convocation and the Doctrine setled God certainly had so disposed it in his heavenly wisdom that so this Church depending upon neither party might in succeeding times be a judge between them as more inclinable to compose then espouse their quarrells And for this Doctrine what it is how correspondent to the word of God and to the ancient tendries of the Catholick Church the Challenge and Apology of Bishop Jewel never yet throughly answered by the adverse party may be proof sufficient But we have further proof then that for the Archbishop of Spalato at his going hence professed openly that he would justifie and defend the Church of England for an Orthodox Church in all the essentiall points of Christianity and that he held the Articles thereof to be true and profitable and none of them at all heretical And he that calls himself Franciscus à S● Clara in his Examen of those Articles denies not but that being rightly understood they do contain sound Catholick Doctrine Adeò veri●as ab invitis etiam pectoribus erumpet said Lactantius truly Now as the Church of England did not 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 as once the Orator affirmed of the Grecian Oracles in the points of Doctrine so neither did it Calvinize in matter of exterior order and Gods publick Worship The Liturgy of this Church was so framed and fitted out of those common principles of Religion wherein all parties did agree that it was generally applauded and approved by those who since have laboured to oppose it Alexander Alesius a learned Scot did first translate it into Latine and that as he himself affirms both for the comfort and example of all other Churches which did endeavour Reformation and increase of piety The Scots in their first Reformation divers years together used the English Liturgy the fancy of extemporary prayers not being then took up not cherished as Knox himself confesseth in his own dear History And howsoever now of late they have divulged a factious and prohibited Pamphlet against the English Popish Ceremonies as they please to call them yet in the structure of their Reformation they bound themselves by Oath and by Covenant too to adhere only to the Rites and Ceremonies of the Church of England Religionis cultui ritibus cum Anglis communibus subscripserunt as it is in Buchannan So for the other opposite party those of Rome they made at first no doubt nor scruple of coming to our publick Service or joyning with us in the worship of one common Saviour Sir Edward Coke a man who both for age and observation was very well able to avow it both in his pleadings against Garnet and his Charge given at the Assizes held in Norwich and the sixth part of his Reports in Cawdries case doth affirm expresly that for the ten first years of Queen Elizabeths Reign there was no Recusant known in England whose testimony lest it should stand single and so become obnoxious to those scorns and cavils which Parsons in his Answer unto that Report hath bestowed upon it Sanders himself in his seditious Book de Schismate shall come in for second Frequentabant haereticorum Synagogas intererant eorum concionibus ad easque audiendas filios familiam suam compellebant So he but not to stand upon his testimony or build so great an edifice on so weak a ground as the 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 the suffrage and consent of the vulgar Meinie the Pope himself as Cambden doth relate the Story made offer to confirm our Liturgie the better to make up the breaches of the House of God which since the Priests and Jesuites have disswaded from out of a wretched policy to make them wider A point which verily that Pope had not yielded to being a very stiffe and rigorous Prelate but that he found the Liturgie to be so composed as it could no wayes be offensive unto Catholick eares Either the Pope must lose his infallibility and become subject unto error like to other men or else there is no error to be found in the English Liturgie Thus have we seen a Church reformed according to the prescript of the Word of God by the Law and Testimony A Church that seemes to have been cultivated by the Lords own hand planted by Paul and watred by Apollos God himself giving the increase A Church that grew up in the middle of two contrary factions as did the Primitive Church between Jew and Gentile and was the better strengthened and consolidated by the opposition Gods Field was no where better husbanded the good seed no where sowen with a clearer hand then it was in this O faciles dare summa Deos But as it fared at first with the Primitive Church so it hapned here We must not so far flatter and abuse our selves as to conceive there are no tares at all in our Reformation because it was first sowen with the Lords good Seed The Devil as he stayed his time donec dormirent homines till the servants slept so he made use of such a grain and used such subtile instruments to effect his purpose that many will not think them to be tares of the enemies sowing now