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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A53894	No necessity of reformation of the publick doctrine of the Church of England. By John Pearson, D.D.	Pearson, John, 1613-1686.	1660 (1660)	Wing P1001; ESTC R202284	20,122	29

in reference to this Homily when it saith it containeth a godly and wholesome doctrine and necessary for these times The second Objection is taken out of the Homily of Almes-deeds the second part The Design of which Part of the Homily is to shew How profitable it is for a man to exercise himself in Almesdeeds and particularly it proveth that to be mercifull and charitable is a means to keep a soul clean in the sight of God Which part of the Doctrine is grounded there on Luke 11.41 Give almes of such things as you have and behold all things are clean unto you and being thus stated and confirmed for a further Illustration or enlargement the Homily proceedeth to accumulate Authorities in which accumulation if any prove improper it cannot make the Doctrine false or doubtfull and that is still plainly true which the Article holds forth even in reference to the Homily of Almesdeeds that it containeth a godly and wholesome doctrine and necessary for these times The sixth sad consequence presenteth the Queens Majesty as having the chief power in the Realme of England and raiseth a strong doubt whether the 37. Article intend any power to any other person beside Queen Elizabeth But certainly the Kings Majesty hath the same power in his Dominions that the Queens Majesty had in her Dominions there is no difference in reference to the Sex or if there were it is not probable that the weaker sex should have the stronger power The Article hath expresse reference to the Queens Injunctions set forth in the year 1559. and those Injunctions take particular care that no other duty allegiance or bond should be required to the Queen then was acknowledged to be due to the most noble Kings of famous memory King Henry the Eight her Majesties Father or King Edward the Sixt her Majesties Brother The words of the Article it self sufficiently declare that the Doctrine contained in it concerneth all the Kings as Kings The Title in Generall is of the Civil Magistrates and the words run thus Where we attribute to the Queens Majesty the chief government we give not to our Princes c. shewing that what they gave to her they gave to all the Kings of England Which will appear more plainly out of the first Latine Copy printed in the time of Queen Eliz. in the year 1563. read and approved by the Queen the words whereof are these Cùm Regiae Majestati summam gubernationem tribuimus quibus titulis intelligimus animos quorundam calumniatorum offendi non damus Regibus nostris aut verbi Dei aut Sacramentorum administrationem c. Being therefore the Article expressely mentioneth and concerneth the Kings of England as they are the Kings of England the mention of the Queens Majesty in the Article can make the Doctrine no more doubtfull then it doth our allegiance in that Oath which was made 1. Eliz. where the Heires and Successors of the Queen are to appoint who shall accept the oath the words of which are that the Queens Highnesse is the onely supreme Governour of this Realme But I hope the Heirs and successors of Queen Elizabeth did never appoint that Oath to be taken in the name of the Queens Highnesse but in their own I therefore earnestly desire not onely that divers Ministers of sundry Counties but that all the Ministers of all the Counties in England would acknowledge and confesse that it is the undoubted Doctrine of our Church that to the Kings of England their Heirs and Successors the chief government of all Estates whether they be Ecclesiasticall or Civil in all causes doth appertain as the 37. Article expresseth it The last sad consequence doth no way touch the present Articles and consequently doth not prove them doubtfull but onely suggesteth fears and jealousies that if the Kings Declaration should be continued we should have no setled or fixed Doctrine of the Church of England at all It seemeth very strange to me that King Charles of blessed memory should be suspected of unsetling the Church who dyed rather then he would make any alteration in it and left this as a Maxime to His Son that His Fixation in matters of Religion will not be more necessary for His Souls then His Kingdomes Peace It were very strange if His Declaration should threaten any alteration in the Doctrine of the Church when those very words which they cite out of it as a cause of their fears give the greatest assurance imaginable of the continuance and perpetuity of that which is already setled For these are the expresse words so much feared and impugned by them The Bishops and Clergy from time to time in Convocation upon their humble desire shall have licence under our broad Seal to deliberate of and to doe all such things as being made plain by them and assented unto by Vs shall concern the setled continuance of the Doctrine and Discipline of the Church of England now established from which we will not endure any varying or departing in the least degree What can be a greater assurance of a setled and a fixed doctrine in the Church what words can more satisfactorily prevent all alterations of the Publique profession of faith the whole power promised to the Bishops was onely for the setled continuance of the Doctrine and Discipline then established the Doctrine then established is acknowledged by the same Declaration to be that which is contained in the Articles the Bishops then were never to have any power from the King to make any alteration in the Doctrine of the Articles and if any should suspect the Bishops had a design or would ever attempt to alter the Doctrine in any particular we were sufficiently assured they should never have power to effect it by the word of a King who said of the doctrine established From which we will not endure any varying or departing in the least degree Thus have I dispatched the seven sad consequences so farre as they have in them any the least shew of proof of the Doubtfulnesse of the Publique Doctrine For the rest of this part of the Discourse pretending to prove the Publique Doctrine Doubtfull it consisteth in an Answer to an Objection whi●h Answer of it selfe makes clearly unnecessary and of none effect all which hath been said by them against the Declaration of the King of blessed memory The Objection is The Kings Declaration is no Law and may be taken away The Answer which they give is that this will signify nothing if Ministers be still tyed to Subscription If this be true to what purpose were those sad Consequences drawn from the Kings Declaration For if the taking it away will signify nothing of good then the continuing of it can signify nothing of evil for if it did the removing of that evil would be good The rest of that Answer is spent in arguing against the Judgement of two Eminent Lawyers which because it hath no relation to the Doubtfulnesse of the Doctrine I may

last confess'd that it established the Articles Thirdly Those which are Learned in the Laws are certainly the best Interpreters of the Law and know best what things are established by Law and what not Amongst them the Memory of Sir Edward Coke with me is most precious in relation to himself while he lived and to his Sons since his death and his Authority great with all He therefore speaks in this manner in the fourth Part of his Institutes cap. 74. Subscription required by the Clergy is twofold one by force both of an Act of Parliament confirming and establishing the 39. Articles of Religion agreed upon at a Convocation of the Church of England and ratified by Queen Elizabeth under the Great seal of England In the Opinion therefore and Language of that learned Chief Justice the Act of Parliament doth confirme and establish the 39. Articles and those words I oppose to theirs it appears not that they were all or any of them confirmed by act of Parliament Let us now consider the Reasons inducing them to deny this Legall Confirmation which seem in the forecited Paragraph to be two First forasmuch as they are not therein expressely inserted nor so much as their number but onely the Title-page of them mentioned To which I answer First that this is the same Argument which you us'd against the Articles for not enumerating the Books of the New Testament onely here it is much weaker for there it would have satisfied you if the names of the Books of the New Testament had been enumerated though the whole New Testament had not been inserted in the Article but here nothing can satisfy but an express Insertion of all which is to be allowed Secondly I answer that it is not materiall what is actually inserted to conclude what is actually to be performed The Title of the Articles is inserted and yet neither the sound Religion designed in the Preamble nor the Subscription urged in the body of the Act hath any reference to the Title for there is neither any Religion contained in the Title nor any Subscription required to it But the Articles which are not inserted are affirmed by the Act to concern the Confession of the true Christian Faith and the assent and subscription are required unto them not to the Title Deprivation is denounced to all which shall affirme any Doctrine directly contrary or repugnant to any of the said Articles not to the Title We must not therefore look unto what is inserted but what is intended in the Act. If any Ministers had pleaded before the Lord Chief-Justice Wray or Coke that they were ready to subscribe to the Title of the Book of Articles expressed in the Statute but not to the Articles contained in the Book because they were not expressed in the Act certainly they would have far'd as ill as he who subscrib'd them with a condition As for the Number of them it is no way materiall because though now they are known under the names and number of 39. yet then they were not so generally called The Articles of Edward the sixth were of another number and those which were agreed upon 1562. had no number affix'd to them neither in the English nor Latine Edition They were not therefore then so well known by their number as by their Title and the Act while it rehearseth the Title confirmeth the Book which was so intituled Their second Reason upon which they deny this Legal Confirmation is delivered in these words Neither is it known where the Original is enrolled To which I answer First that if the Original Copy of the Articles had never been enrolled yet the Articles themselves had never been the lesse confirmed and my Reason is because the Act taketh no notice of the Articles as they were at first written but as they were at that time printed For thus the Act speaks That the Churches of the Queens Majesties Dominions may be served with Pastors of sound Religion be it enacted by the authority of this present Parliament that every person under the degree of a Bishop shall declare his assent and subscribe to all the Articles of Religion which onely concern the confession of the true Christian Faith and the Doctrine of the Sacraments comprised in a Book imprinted intituled ARTICLES whereupon it was agreed by the Arch-bishops and Bishops of both Provinces and the whole Clergy in the Convocation holden at London in the year of our Lord God 1562. according to the Computation of the Church of England for the avoiding of the diversities of opinions and for the establishing of consent touching true Religion put forth by the Queens Authority These Articles were agreed upon in the year 1562. and then printed with this very Title before by us transcribed out of that Edition In the year 1571. Those Articles were reprinted and then this Act was published whether therefore the Originall were enrolled or not enrolled the Articles comprised in the Book imprinted and so intituled were confirmed by the Statute I Answer secondly that the Enrollment of the Originall is not so obscure as they pretend We know that there was an Originall enrolled we can tell them how many pages that Originall consisted of even determinately 19. we can assure them this was deposited with Matthew Arch-bishop of Canterbury we can tell them the day when it was done viz. the fifth day of February in the year 1562. All which appeareth by the Postscript printed with the Articles in Latine in the year 1563. by Renald Wolfe the Queens Printer The words are these Hos Articulos Fidei Christianae continentes in universum novendecim paginas in autographo quod asservatur apud Reverendissimum in Christo Patrem Dominum Matthaeum Cantuariensem Archepiscopum totius Angliae Primatem Metropolitanum Archepiscopi Episcopi utriusque Provinciae regni Angliae in sacra provinciali Synodo legitime congregati unanimi assensu recipiunt profitentur ut veros atque Orthodoxos manuum suarum subscriptionibus approbant vicessimo nono die mensis Januarii Anno Domini secundum computationem Ecclesiae Anglicanae millesimo quingentesimo sexagesimo secundo universusque Clerus Inferioris domus eosdem etiam unanimiter recepit professus est ut ex manuum suarum subscriptionibus patet quas obtulit deposuit apud eundem Reverendissimum quinto die Februarii Anno praedicto The Late Arch-bishop giveth testimony to the same in his speech delivered in the Starre-chamber June 14. 1637. His words are these p. 69. I sent to the Publique Records in my Office and here under my Officers hand who is a Publique Notary is returned me the Twentieth Article with this Affirmative Clause in it And there is also the whole Body of the Articles to be seen To those therefore which know the Publique Records unknown perhaps to the Ministers of sundry Counties it is known where the Originall is preserv'd And this I conceive a sufficient Answer to their first Paragraph Their second Paragraph to the same purpose is this Of the 39. there were 36. of them set forth yet not ratified by Parliament the other were added by the Convocation in An. 1562. As for the Parenthesis of this Paragraph signifying that the Articles made in K. Edward 6. time were not ratified by Parliament it no way opposeth them who thinke our Articles established by Law because no man imagines that our Articles were under the Consideration of any Parliament in the days of Edward 6. The other words of that Paragraph are something doubtfully penn'd and seem to be capable of two senses First that in the time of Edward 6. there were but 36. Articles set forth If this be the sense of their words they are not true For the Articles agreed upon in the year 1552. and set forth in the year 1553. that is to say the Articles in K. Edwards Raigne if you look upon those which were printed by Renald Wolfe in Latine or John Day in English you will find 42. Heads or Contents without figures if you look into the Edition of Richard Grafton you will find not onely the Contents but the numbers affixed to each Article to amount to 42. It is not therefore true that in the time of Edward 6. there were but 36. Articles set forth The second sense of the words of that Paragraph may be this That of those 39. Articles set forth in the days of Queen Eliz. there were 36. set forth in the Raigne of Edward 6. And in this sense their words are not true For the 5. Article Of the Holy Ghost the 12. Article Of Good works the 29. Of the wicked which eat not the body of Christ in the use of the Lords Supper and the 30. Of both kinds these four are not to be found in the Articles set forth in the Raigne of Edward 6. And if 4. of the 39. be not to be found there cannot be 36. of the same 39. Wherefore I conclude that I can find no sense in which those words are true that Of those 39. Articles there were 36. of them set forth in Edward 6. his raigne Now being this is all which is objected by them against the Legall establishment of the Articles being an Act of Parliament hath propounded the same Articles as a Confession of the true Christian Faith and sound Religion and acknowledgeth any Doctrine contrary to the said Articles to be untrue Doctrine and upon this acknowledgment and publike Declaration of the truth of the Faith and soundnesse of the Religion hath required all Ministers to declare their unfained assent to the same upon pain of being deprived ipso facto I conclude that the Articles of the Church of England are confirmed by the Law of England And thus having answered all the Objections endeavouring to prove a Necessity of Reformation or Confirmation of the Publick Doctrine of our Church I earnestly entreat all these my Brethren in sundry Counties to advise with the more sober counsels of those of our Brethren who have lately declared that They take it for granted that there is no difference between us in matter of Doctrine FINIS