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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A48285	Erastus Senior scholastically demonstrating this conclusion that (admitting their Lambeth records for true) those called bishops here in England are no bishops, either in order or jurisdiction, or so much as legal : wherein is answered to all that hath been said in vindication of them by Mr. Mason in his Vindiciæ ecclesiæ Anglicanæ, Doctor Heylin in his Ecclesiæ restaurata, or Doctor Bramhall ... in his last book intituled, The consecration and succession of Protestant bishops justified : with an appendix containing extracts out of ancient rituals, Greek and Latine, for the form of ordaining bishops, and copies of the acts of Parliament quoted in the third part.	Lewgar, John, 1602-1665.	1662 (1662)	Wing L1832; ESTC R3064	39,391	122

treasonable to take Orders from the See of Rome establishing the Form of publick Divine Service and Sacraments c. and all other that have been made since in matters of Religion are no valid Acts in Law because made without consent of the Lords Spiritual the rightful Bishops at that time whilst there were any living being unjustly excluded from the Parliament and none of those that have been made since the beginning of Queen Eliz. Reign being Legal Bishops Epilogue ANd now the Reader may judge how little reason Doctor Heylin had to boast as he does of his Church as it was settled by Q Eliz. and to bestow so much pains in writing that Book to describe that settlement And now we may behold saith he the face of the Church of England as it was first settled and established under Q. Eliz. The Government of the Church by Archbishops and Bishops c. These Bishops nominated and elected according to the Statute of 20. Hen. 8. and Consecrated by the Ordinal confirmed by Parliament 5 and 6. Edw. 6 c. the Doctrine of the Church reduced into its ancient purity according to the Articles agreed upon in Convocation in the Year 1562. and ratified in due form of Law by the Queens authority The Liturgy confirmed in Parliament And a little after By this last Act of 8. Eliz. the Church of England is strongly settled on Her natural Pillars of Doctrine Government and Worship not otherwise to have been shaken but by the blinde zeal of such furious Sampsons as were resolved to pull it on their own heads rather then to suffer it to stand in so much glory Eccl. Restau p. 2. f. 122. and 173. For what was this glorious Church of his but a natural Fabrick rear'd upon as he calls them natural Pillars and the foundations of those Pillars natural foundations the Queen and Parliament and that Parliament without any Bishops or so much as one Clergy-man in it Whence this glorious Church as it hath been once already overturned to the ground and as he acknowledges and complains the very foundations of it digged up by those furious Sampsons so it may be at any time again when a Presbyterian or Fanatick Parliament or Army shall get which God avert the Sword again into their hands FINIS Appendix For the better understanding of the former Discourse I have here set down some Extracts out of the ancient forms of Ordaining Bishops in the Greek and Latine Church and out of the Acts of Parliament quoted in the third Part and the Act of 8. Eliz. at large Forms of the Greek Church UNus ex primis Episcopis S. Clem. Const una cum duobus aliis stans prope Altare reliquis Episcopis Presbyteris tacitè precationem facientibus Diaconis aperta Evangelia super caput ejus qui Ordinatur tenentibus in hunc modum precetur Here Domine Deus omnipotens c. Da huic famulo tuo quem ad Episcopatum elegisti ut pascat sanctum gregem tuum atque ut Pontificatu tibi sanctè fungatur c. Da ei participationem Sancti Spiritûs ut habeat potestatem remittendi peccata secundum mandatum tuum item dandi cleros ut tu jussisti ac solvendi omne vinculum secundum potestatem quam Apostolis dedisti offerendi tibi sacrificium mundum incruentum quod per Christum instituisti c. S. Dionys Areop de Eccl. Hier. c. 5. Pontifex qui ad Consecrationem in Pontificem adducitur utroque genu flexo ante Altare supra caput habet Evangelia manumque Pontificis atque hoc modo ab eo Pontifice qui eum Consecrat sanctissimis precationibus Consecratur MS. antitiquus in Bibl. Card. Barberini Aperiens Episcopus Evangelium imponit illud super caput collum ipsius Ordinandi astantibus aliis Episcopis tangentibus ipsum S. Evangelium Archiepiscopus autem imponens illi manum sic precatur Here Domine Deus noster confirma hunc electum ut per manum mei peccatoris assistentium Ministrorum Coepiscoporum Sanctique Spiritûs adventu virtute gratia subeat Evangelicum jugum dignitatem Episcopalem c. Eucholog Constantinopolit Ecclesiae Evangelium accipit Praesul imponit illud super dorsum illius qui Ordinatur omnes Episcopi qui illic sunt imponunt manus super illum ex utroque latere donec omnes preces absolutae fuerint Repetit Praesul Domine Deus elige in Ecclesia tua N. hunc N. Presbyterum in opus magnum Episcopatus Precemur omnes pro eo ut veniat donum tuum Domine eum virtute perficiat consummet in ministerio Episcopali Indue eum Domine virtute ex alto ut liget solvat in coelis in terra creet in virtute doni tui Presbyteros Diaconos c. Forms of the Latine Church Episcopus cum Ordinatur MS. Paris scriptus ante annum 560. duo Episcopi manus eorum super caput ejus ponant teneant Evangeliorum codicem supra cervicem ejus Et unum super eum fundentem benedictionem reliqui omnes Episcopi qui adsunt manibus suis supra caput ejus teneant Oratio precis de Episcopis Ordinandis Oremus dilectissimi nobis ut his viris ad utilitatem Ecclesiae providendis benignitas omnipotentis Dei gratiae suae tribuat largitatem Per c. Exaudi Domine supplicum preces ut quod nostrum gerendum est ministerium tua potius virtute firmetur Per c. Propitiare Domine supplicationibus nostris inclinatus super hos famulos tuos cornu gratiae Sacerdotalis benedictionis tuae in eos effunde virtutem Per c. Consecratio Deus honorum omnium c. qui Moysen famulum tuum inter caetera coelestis documenta culturae de habitu quoque indumenti Sacerdotalis instituens electum Aaron mystico amictu vestire inter sacra jussisti ut intelligentiae sensum de exemplis priorum caperet secutura posteritas c. Et id circo famulis tuis quaesumus quos ad Summi Sacerdotii Sacerdotium elegisti hanc quaesumus Domine gratiam largiaris ut quicquid illa velamina in fulgore auri in nitore gemmarum multimodi operis varietate signabant hoc in horum moribus clarescat Comple Domine in Sacerdotibus tuis mysterii tui summam ornamentis totius glorificationis instructum coelestis unguenti rore sanctifica Hoc Domine copiosè in eorum caput influat hoc in oris subjecta decurrat hoc in totius corporis extrema descendat c. Da eis Domine claves regni coelorum quodcunque ligaverint super terram sit ligatum in coelis ..... Tribuas eis Domine Cathedram Episcopalem ad regendam Ecclesiam tuam plebem universam Sis eis authoritas sis eis potestas c. Benedictiones super eos qui sacris Ordinationibus benedicendi sunt Sacramentarium Gelasianum MS.