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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A03500	A sermon of obedience especially vnto authoritie ecclesiasticall, wherein the principall controuersies of our church are handled, and many of their obiections which are refractorie to the gouernment established, answered, though briefly as time and place could permit: being preached at a visitation of the right worshipfull M.D. Hinton,in Couentry. By Fran: Holyoke.	Holyoake, Francis, 1567-1653.	1613 (1613)	STC 13623; ESTC S115476	21,457	38

the office and dignitie of the person vnto whome obedience is to bee giuen they are such ouerseers as watch for your soules as they that must bee readie to giue an accoūt the second ab honesto it were great ingratitude by our disobedience to moue them to performe this charge with griefe of minde and not rather with ioy and comfort The third frō the effect for this in the end wil be vnprofitable for you the worst wil be yours Of these in order as they lie But first before I come to handle the particulers let this one thing not impertinently be remembred in the generall That God hath made a difference of degrees amongst his people even from the beginning and stil doth must continue amongst Christians vnder the Gospell where there hath beene and alwaies and now is superiors and inferiors some to rule and some to be ruled And this appeareth in the very frame of nature for in the order of the vniuersall all creatures are subordinate vnto their superiors vntill they come to the highest supreame power Among the elements the earth is vnder the water the water the aire the aire the element of fire and that to the orbe of the moone every planet with their orbes one vnder another and all the celestiall bodies differ one from another in glorie and dignitie which order the superior bodies by their influences and the elements by their alterations do not only bring perfection vnto the whole but is the preservation of the whole So in the heauenly company and Church there are Arch-angels Angels principalities powers dominions thrones cherubins seraphins S. Hierom in his second booke against Iovinian proueth both out of divers places of the Gospel out of many places of the old Testament this point at large how that in heauē there shal be differences of the degrees of glory And out of the epistles of S. Paul in the similitude of the mēbers of a mans body some parts are more honorable then other there is the head aboue the foot the eie more honorable thē the legge c. For saith he some mēbers are so necessary as we cannot liue without them others such as though they bee cut off we maymed yet may we cōtinue life And the Philosopher to proue this principle from the groūd of nature sheweth that the mā is by nature made to gouerne the womā the wise the noble the mighty to gouerne the foolish the ignorāt the base and the weake the father the children and the master the servants Now take away this order and the frame of nature would goe to ruine to the former confused chaos take away this order and humane societie cannot be maintained nay without this the cōmunion of Saints cannot be maintained Against the Anabaptists and familists who would hāue all men equall and all things in cōmon Yet Christ bid giue to Caesar those things which were Caesars and S. Paul bids every soule to be subiect to the higher powers for there is no power but of God and hee calleth them Gods Ministers yet at that time there was no christiā magistrate This being granted yet here some make question whether there be any superioritie or inferioritie amongst the ministers of the Gospell whether there be subiection and obedience due to bee giuen of the one to the other In the Apostles time it is plaine there were Prophets and Apostles Pastors Teachers Priests or Elders Deacons Bishops Evangelists 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 and divers others In the ages succeeding the Apostles the general consent of al antiquitie the Churches of God easterne and weasterne in all ages hitherto haue kept a difference of degrees in the Church some besides laboring in the word of God to rule and gouerne and others that also labour in the worde and are subiect and to be gouerned by others S. Hierom in his second booke against Jouinian proueth that both in the Gospell as well as in the law it is hath and must be so for saith he Yet perhaps S. Hieron hādle●● this point more sparing because he should haue beene elected Bishop of Rome and by reason of his a mulators had the repulse sine causa est diuersitas nominum si non sit diuersitas meritorū And in his commentarie vpon the 19. Chapter of Esay he maketh mentiō of fiue orders in the Church Bishops Priests Deacons Beleeuers and those that were yet catechised and not admitted to the participation of the sacraments In his epistle ad Rusticum Monachum he saith singuli ecclesiarum Episcopi singuli archipresbyteri singuli archidiaconi omnis ordo ecclesiasticus suis rectoribus nititur mentioning Bishops and Priests that had also autoritie of gouerning and Archdeacons But in his comment on the 6. of Hiemie he saith that Bishops Priests and every Ecclesiasticall order ought to feed the flock of Christ and in this dispēsation there is no difference but as it pleaseth God to giue diversitie of gifts and blessing to the outward meanes by the inward working of the spirit And further in his commentarie vpon the epistle of S. Paul to Titus he sheweth that the occasion of the difference in autority of Priests or Elders and Bishops was by reason of scismes and heresies which even in the Apostles time then began to rise which might seeme to haue beene an ordinance then in force In another place hee saith that vnlesse this order were we should haue as many ministers so many scismes In all S. Augustines workes and al the fathers before him they all mention a difference betweene Presbyterum and Episcopum both in autoritie and dignitie Bucer in his booke de animarum cura officioque ecclesiastici pastoris V. etiam S. Hier. in ep stola Eua●rio cum annotationibus Erasmi p. 280. excus Basiliae anno 77. commenteth thus vpon S. Hierom It is not credible that this parity betweene Episcopum and Presbyterum continued long in any one Church neither was it generally at any time obserued in all Churches for even from the times of the Apostles some one Priest or elder was chosen amongst the rest which should be in authoritie aboue the rest as a guid and gouernor to rule all the rest as he proueth out of Act. 15. that S. Iames was Bishop of Hierusalem c. And that this ordination of Bishops was perpetually obserued in all Churches may be gathered by all ecclesiasticall histories and ancient fathers as Tertullian Cyprian Irenaeus Eusebius c. The necessity hereof he amplifieth with reasōs vnanswerable To this same purpose read the Kings Maiesties Apologie p. 45. 46 at ful And in al the oecumenical counsels provinciall Synodes which were from time to time kept for the maintenance of vnity repressing of heresie Who were there to discusse determine order matters in controversie to set down the confession of faith for vnitie to make ordinances and constitutions wherevnto ministers and people were subiect were