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A61536 A discourse concerning bonds of resignation of benefices in point of law and conscience by ... Edward Lord Bishop of Worcester. Stillingfleet, Edward, 1635-1699. 1695 (1695) Wing S5572; ESTC R7708 38,719 132

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the Grounds of Christian Faith as to the Truth and Divine Authority of the Scriptures and the matters therein contained Quarto The Unreasonableness of Separation or an Impartial account of the History Nature and Pleas of the present Separation from the Communion of the Church of England to which several late Letters are annexed of eminent Protestant Divines abroad concerning the Nature of our Differences and the way to compose them Quarto A Discourse concerning the Idolatry practised in the Church of Rome and the hazard of Salvation in the Communion of it in Answer to some Papers of a revolted Protestant wherein a particular account is given of the Fanaticism and Divisions of that Church Octavo An Answer to several late Treatises occasioned by a Book entituled A Discourse concerning the Idolatry practised in the Church of Rome and the hazard of Salvation in the Communion of it Part I. Octavo A Second Discourse in vindication of the Protestant Grounds of Faith against the pretence of Infallibility in the Roman Church in Answer to the Guide in Controversie by R. H. Protestancy without Principles and Reason and Religion or the certain Rule of Faith by E. W. with a particular enquiry into the Miracles of the Rom. Church Octa. An Answer to Mr. Cressy's Epistle apologetical to a Person of Honour touching his Vindication of Dr. Stillingfleet Octavo A Defence of the Discourse concerning the Idolatry practised in the Church of Rome in answer to a Book entituled Catholicks no Idolaters Octavo Several Conferences between a Romish Priest a Fanatick Chaplain and a Divine of the Church of England being a full Answer to the late Dialogues of T. G. Octavo The Grand Question concerning the Bishops Right to vote in Parliament in Cases Capital stated and argued from the Parliament Rolls and the History of former times with an Enquiry into their Peerage and the Three Estates in Parliament Octavo The Bishop of Worcester's Charge to the Clergy of his Diocese in his primary Visitation begun at Worcester Sept. 11. 1690. A Discourse concerning the Illegality of the Ecclesiastical Commission in Answer to the Vindication and Defence of it wherein the true notion of the Legal Supremacy is cleared and an Account is given of the Nature Original and Mischief of the Dispensing Power The Council of Trent Examin'd and Disprov'd by Catholick Tradition in the main points in Controversie between Us and the Church of Rome with a particular Account of the Times and Occasions of Introducing them Twenty Sermons preached upon several occasions not yet collected into a Volume Quarto 3. Inst. 156. Cr. Car. 361. 3. Inst. 153. Marg. F. 156. Hob. f. 167. Cr. Car. 361. Sylvestr v. Simon Sigon de Judic l. 2. c. 30. Quintil. l. 12. V. Ciceron ●ro Plancio Dion l. 36. Lamprid. in Alex. Sever. Arist. Pol. l. 2. c. 12. ● Inst. 24. b. 3. Inst. 156. Noy 25. C. de jurejur Present stat Lyndw. f. 56. 2. Inst. 361. Bract. l. 4. 341. Ext. de Jure Patron c. 22. Fleta l. 5. c. 14. Selden of Tythes c. 12. 389. Abridgment 2. 354. Ext. de Officio Jud. Ordin c. 4. Eugen. 2. in Synod Rom. c. 24. Leo 4. in Synod Rom. c. 25. ed. Holst Registr f. 42. Cust. Norm Art 69. pelm. Conil Matt. Paris A. D. 1239. p. 513. Innocent Epist l. 1. Selden of Tythes 361. ● 387. 83. 86. 38● 2. Inst. 632. 5 R. 57. Anders 190. Leon. 3. 200. Novel 53. ●it 12. c. 2. 23. c. 18. Cap. l. 1. c. 84. l. 5. 98. Addit 4. 95. Ext. de Jure Patr. c. 29. Rebuff de Nomin n. 10. Fra. de Roye de Jure Patron Proleg c. 25. Hob. 154. De Roye de Jure Patr. p. 95. 145. Dr. Stud. c. 36. 125. Hob. 17. Brownl 21. 27. Dr. Stud. 124. Plowd Com. 498. b. 1. Inst. 341. Glanvil l. 13. c. 20. 1. Inst. 343. b. 2. Inst. 357. v. Flamin Paris de Resignat l. 7. c. 1. n. 9. Lyndw. f. 55. c. Ne lepra 6. de Appel c. Roman Lyndw. f. 54. 9 R. 41. De Testam v. Stat. v. Approbat 6. De Ossicio Vicarii c. 2. De Sequestr v. Officiales Bracton l. 5. c. 2. Fleta l. 6. c. 37. 1. Inst. 96. Cowel v. Ordin Cr. Car. 65. Noy 91. 152. Noy 157. ●wen 12. Yelvert 60 Mar. 765. Cr. 2. 63. 1. Inst. 344 1. Inst. 344. Registr 40. 3. ●ynd f. 64. 80 ●olls Abrid 356. ●oke 12. 41 〈◊〉 Eadm Hist. in Anselm p. 22. Rolls Abrid 2. 357. C. 16. Q. 2. c. ●ane Ext. de Donat c. Pastor Lyndw. f. 80 Cr. 2. 248. Cr. 2. 274. ●oy 2● ● Car. 180. ●utton 110. ●nes 220. ●eble 2. 446. Cr. Car. 42● Cr. Eliz. 789 C. 12. 100. Cr. 2. 385. Noy 25. Bulstrod 3. 90. Hob. 165. Wynch 63. Rep. Chancery 2. 399. 1. Inst. 17. b. Navarr Man c. 23. n. 109. 3. Inst. 156. 1. Inst. 11. 110. b. 115. b.
what Bargains they think fit who mind not the Men but the Advantage they are to get by them And there is a just Presumption that those are not very Deserving who are ready to drive such Bargains for themselves and such Men are not to be valued as Cattle in a Market by the Money they will yield 2. That Lawyers would not encourage their Clients in indirect methods of obtaining Presentations For here lies a great part of our present Mischief the Clergymen who want Benefices They say We are Ignorant of the Law but we go to those whose business it is to understand it and they tell us they have Cases and Precedents in their Books for such Bonds and they have been many times adjudged in the Courts of Law to be good and therefore why are we to blame if we submit to them But here lies the great Mistake the Point is really a Point of Conscience as to the Oath but the Question put to them can be only a Point of Law who are to give Judgment upon the Statute and according to the Rules of Judgment allowed in their Courts But I cannot but observe that there is no Precedent offer'd before 8 Iac. 1. and in the 15th was a contrary Judgment In the Beginning of Charles I. the former Judgment was affirmed and from hence it hath come to be such a prevailing Opinion I confess that I am not satisfied how far such Precedents or one or two Judicial Sentences make a thing to pass for Law nor whether the Authority of such a Sentence or the Reason is to give the Force of Law to it I observe that my Lord Coke when he speaks of the Laws of England he reckons up Common-Law Statute-Law Customs reasonable c. but he never mentions the Judgment of the Courts as any Part of our Law they being no more but a Declaratory Sentence of the Majority of the Judges when it may be the other differ upon better Reasons and when such Reasons come to be thought better by one more at another time then the contrary must pass for Law on the same grounds How often do we hear that the Judges were divided in their Opinions in point of Law How often that the greater number went one way but Law and Reason on the other Suppose a Lord Chief Justice of great Skill and Knowledge in the Law to be unequally yoked with others of far less Judgment how is it possible to prevent that Judgment shall not be given on the wrong side if the three happen to be of an Opinion against him or one be absent and two be against one In a late great Cause viz. of Commendam although three Judges concurred in Opinion and the General Practise was allowed to be of that side yet because one Judge differ'd from the rest his Authority was produced against the Sentence of the Court and for what Cause can this be but the Supposition that it is not the Sentence but the Reason which makes the Law My Lord Chief Justice Hales in a MS. Discourse of the History and Analysis of the Laws of England Chap. 4. makes three Constituents of the Common Law of England 1. The Common Usage and Custom 2. The Authority of Parliament 3. The Iudicial Decisions of Courts of Iustice but how Consonant to one another in the Series and Succession of Time This is spoken with great Judgment For no doubt a mighty Regard ought to be shewed to a Concurrent Sense of so many Persons of Ability in the Law in the different Times wherein such Matters have been before them and this is the highest Authority for expounding the Law but it cannot amount to the Making of a Law For as the same Excellent Person adds It is true the Decisions of Courts of Iustice although by the strength of the Law of this Kingdom they do bind as a Law between the Parties to it in that particular Case in Question till Reversed by Error or Attaint yet they do not make a Law for that only the King by the Assent of Parliament can do All that I aim at is not in the least to take off from the Authority and Reverence due to Judicial Decisions built upon a General Agreement from time to time or upon Evident Reason in point of Law but only that things should not be so positively asserted to be Law which are built only on a few Modern Precedents without any convincing Evidence Which I take to be the present Case 3. That the Clergy would mind their own Honour and Interest and that of the Church and Religion so much as not to Accept of Benefices upon such Ensnaring Terms as those of Bonds of Resignation If what I have said on this Argument be true I am sure they have all the Reason in the World to Refuse them when they know not what the Consequence of them may be and they do know what kind of Oath they are to take And no Man can honestly take an Oath that is not satisfied that such Bonds are no Simoniacal Contract in the Sense of that Law by which he is required to take the Oath Now the Oath is not imposed by the Courts of Common Law in pursuance of the Statute for then it were to be understood according to the Sense and Meaning of it but that very Statute leaves the Ecclesiastical Laws as they were by which Simony is of a larger Extent than it is understood at Common Law and by those Laws this Oath is required Therefore my Request is to all such Clergymen as are in danger of having such put upon them that they would study the Case and satisfy their Minds before they venture upon taking an Oath which may afterwards rob them of that Peace and Tranquillity of Mind which every Good man will Esteem above any Benefice in the World FINIS Page 73. lin 13. for Gays read Gayr Ibid. Marg. for Mar. read Moor. A Catalogue of Books published by the Right Reverend Father in God Edward Lord Bishop of Worcester and sold by Henry Mortlock at the Phoenix in St. Paul's Church-Yard A Rational account of the Grounds of Protestant Religion being a Vindication of the Lord Archbishop of Canterbury's Relation of a Conference c. from the pretended Answer of T. C. wherein the true Grounds of Faith are cleared and the false discovered the Church of England vindicated from the imputation of Schism and the most important particular Controversies between us and those of the Church of Rome throughly examined the second Edition Folio Sermons preached upon several Occasions with a Discourse annexed concerning the true Reasons of the Sufferings of Christ wherein Crellius his Answer to Grotius is considered Folio Origines Britannicae or the Antiquities of the British Churches with a Preface concerning some pretended Antiquities relating to Britain in vindication of the Bishop of St. Asaph Folio Irenicum A Weapon Salve for the Churches Wounds Quarto Origines Sacrae or a Rational Account of