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Some reflections on a model now in projection by the Presbyterian dissenters with a circular letter intimating it.
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W. T.
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1698
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Wing S4583; ESTC R17952
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Delegatio with the Civilians For Delegatus is dicitur cui Causa committitur terminanda vel exequenda vices delegantis repraesentans in Jurisdictione nihil proprium habens The reason is because Delegatus Jurisdictionem non suo Jure sed alieno beneficio habet They have also their Committees that is Persons to whom the consideration and ordering their Church Matters is committed which is usual in Convocations as well as Parliaments And their National Assembly they call General Committee perhaps to tell us they 'll imitate their Neighbours and be as Parliamentary in their Proceedings as may be and to this end Resolve their Assembly into a Committee of the whole House In a word they have also a Register that is Books or Rolls wherein are Recorded the Proceedings of their Spiritual Court. 4. Tho' they call not their Proposals by the Names of Constitutions Cannons or Ordinances yet are they of the same Nature and being designed for the regulating Matters of Ecclesiastical Conusance they are within 25 H. 8. cap. 19. And it 's well known that when several Parish Ministers of the Puritan way had in the Reign of the Queen their Assemblies at Wadsworth London Oxford Northamptonshire and other Places tho' with a Protestation 't was only in Subordination and not in Opposition to the Established Government and tho' they acted with much greater Caution than these Gentlemen if they go on with their Project do yet could they not escape Imprisonment and Ruine And it must be confessed that the Methods taken by the Popes to get their Decrees received by the English Church was by Cloathing 'em under soft Names and modest Terms such as Rogationes which they intreated us for the promoting of Holiness to submit unto Once more the Statutes of Provisors are so strictly penned against Offenders that the laying aside the Common Terms in use amongst Ecclesiasticks and taking up new ones cannot Skreen them from the Pains and Dangers of a Praemunire For they do extend not only to Usurpations and Incroachments made on the Royal Power by Papists but to all Persons whatsoever as my Lord Cook saith of what Quality or Sex soever The words be If any 2. To all Courts of what Jurisdiction soever or whether holden by Right or by Wrong the word alibi is of a large Extent so large you see as to take in these Gentlemens stated Assemblies for Reformation of Abuses c. 3. To all Things whatsoever Where any thing which words are as general as can be c. 3. There are some Circumstances affecting the Convocation of 1640. which may justly frighten these Gentlemen from having any hand in such a Project For it 's certain that this Convocation was called by the King 's Writ That as soon as they assembled the Archbishop produced a Commission under the Great Seal by Authority whereof they might according to 25 H. 8. cap. 19. propose entreat consult and agree on what Orders Cannons or Constitutions they should judge meet keeping within the Limitations of the said Statute And when they had Enacted their Cannons and had the Royal Confirmation by Letters Patents under the Great Seal yet were they Voted by the House of Commons in the following Parliament to be against the Fundamental Laws of the Realm against the King's Prerogative Property of the Subject the Right of Parliament and to tend to Faction and Sedition The Reasons of this Vote were many some of which were 1. That upon the Dissolution of the Parliament the Convocation was determined and what Cannons or Rules soever are made in an Assembly not Called by the King 's Writ are against the Prerogative Royal and such are the Classical Provincial and National Meetings of these Dissenters 2. The Cannons then enacted were against some Rubricks in the Service Book and contrary unto some of the XXXIX Articles which is as true of those Rules in the Dissenters Project For contrary to the Established Government by Bishops Archbishops c. They have set up a National Church Government by Ministers and Lay-Elders in their various Meetings ut supra This brief Account may shew them what appearance of Law this Convocation of 1640. and the Cannons then made had And yet for the Reasons aforesaid the Clergy who acted therein did then as was Voted by that Parliament we may call Whiggish fall into the Pains and Dangers of a Praemunire as is to this Day the Opinion of our Learned and Reverend Judges and other great Lawyers in Westminster-hall How much rather then may they be supposed to incur the same Penalties who shall come to a General Meeting that is not called by the King 's Writ agree on Rules about Church-matters without the Royal Licence and tho' they have not Letters Patents under the Great Seal for their Confirmation promulge and execute them some of which are against the Rubricks Articles and Cannons by Law Established 4. This Project altho' in its appearance and truest Complection doth most resemble the late National Church-form amongst the French Hugonots which was granted them by sundry Edicts yet they were never so bold as to ordain and appoint National Assemblies at any time but when Lieensed by their Kings and more than seventy years by-gone 't was ordained by Letters Patents and verified in the Court of Parliament That in all Assemblies of the King's Subjects of the Reformed Religion one of his Majesties Officers being of the same Religion should assist in Person and see that nothing should be propounded and handled amongst them but such Matters as were permitted by his Edicts The French Kings were so very Jealous of their Clergy lest they should incroach upon the Regalia that they would never suffer them of the Romish Faith to come together but when called by Authority of the King and when assembled divers Tituli or Capitula containing Directions how to proceed and what to enter upon were sent to 'em whereupon the Clergy when assembled did in their Synodical Epistles assure their Prince that they acted Secundum voluntatis vestrae consultationem Titulos quos dedistis This was not a Practice only in the Gallican but long before in the Catholick Church For Dionysius Comes was sent by Constantine to the Council at Tyre Ut Animadversor esset Custos Conservandae Aequabilitatis Ordinis Candidianus was sent by Theodosius upon the same Score to the Ephesine Synod If then neither Protestant nor Papist nor the Modern nor Ancient Clergy could hold a General Assembly unless called by the King 's Writ nor enter upon any Business concerning the State of the Church without the King's Licence and certain Capitula or an Animadversor of the Kings and Emperors Appointment How is it that these Dissenters without either Summons or Licence without an Animadversor or Capitula dare appoint Stated Provincial and National Assemblies and frame Rules and Cannons in prejudice to the King and his Crown and contrariant and repugnant to the Customs Laws and Statutes of this Realm SIR What I have thus briefly offer'd to prove the Illegality of this Project and the Danger of putting what is yet but in Design into Act or Execution may satisfie you that the Uttermost the unquiet Party among the Dissenters can do is to Alarm the True Sons of our Holy Mother the Church of England to take heed That whilst Liberty is given to the Consciencious amongst them the Licentious be not suffer'd to Undermine and Subvert the National Establishment as this Project must needs do if They meet not with a timely Check by putting the said Laws in Execution against those Ill-designing discontented Gentlemen as soon as ever they shall be guilty of the first Breach which their bare Assembling in order to the Ripening this Project will apparently be and expose all concern'd to the Exemplary and Merited Punishment inflicted on such Bold Undertakers as can Contemn the Laws and Trample on Prerogative Adieu SIR I am Yours