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heart_n	body_n	spirit_n	vital_a	3,629	5	10.6721	5	true

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A95843	The supreme povver of Christian states vindicated against the insolent pretences of Guillielmus Apollonii, or A translation of a book intituled, Grallæ, seu vere puerilis cothurnus sapientiæ, &c. Or, the stilts, or most childish chapin of knowledge upon which William Appolonius of Trever, and minister of the church of Middleburgh boasts, among such as are ignorant, in his patcht rhapsodies, which hee set forth concerning supreame power and jurisdiction in matters of religion. Against the book of the most famous Dr. Nicholaus Vedelius, intituled Of the episcopacy of Constantine the Great.; Grallæ. English.	Vedel, Nicolaus, 1596-1642,	1647 (1647)	Wing V168; Thomason E388_5; ESTC R201503	255,312	305

liberty to adde new Ceremonies to the old Rites so this hath been the old Popish sport multiplying new Church-sanctities The new Walachrian Papists walk the same way For if you ask Apolonius What he calls the sacred Rites and Ceremonies of the Church he will not bee content with those which are directly in Gods Word for then there would be no use of legislative power in the Church but he will have those things accounted for Ecclesiastick Rites that are instituted out of a religious desire or affection For howsoever according to his wonted giddinesse hee defines elsewhere this matter more precisely Part. 1. p. 2 3 c. and withall contradicts himselfe yet in the beginning of his work thus he describes a Ceremony or sacred Rite That it is an action the goodnesse and praise whereof consisteth onely in the worship of God For because it is applied to divine worship in order to that religious will it hath sufficient honesty in which the Ceremony or holy Rite may lay its Foundation This exactly agrees with the Popish intentionall Sanctity Hee addes indeed The Church must diligently search that according to Gods word she appoint Rites and Ceremonies But this is to bee understood according to the Jesuiticall phrase and Diasect that Church-men onely must be Judges whether such or such things be consonant to Gods word or not It is too well known that the Romish Church is full of errours and that the whole dressing of Papall worship is Apostaticall not Apostolicall yet the Jesuites cry out that the Lutherans are liers in that the Church of Rome neither hath failed nor can faile and this they are ready to prove if the Pope may bee Judge in his own cause so that the Church of Rome can never be convinced of errour except she will confesse her errours which is impossible Apolonius playes the Cretian not much otherwise He confesseth that the Church cannot make Lawes in holy things or proclaime Geremonies but according to the Rule of Scripture which hee doth so interpret that the absolute power of judging what is consonant to Scripture is in the Church and Church-men For if any Lay Magistrate by his Authority enquire into Ecclesiastick Statutes or define Ecclesiastick matters or hinder Church-men from defining or making such things at their pleasure he cries out that this is Tyrannicall Simonaicall and Sacrilegious And that Lay-Magistrates like sheep ought modestly to submit themselves except the Clergie will not be reformed And of this also the Clergy must bee Judges For this will never agree with Apolonius his Divinity that the Civill Magistrate should bee Judge in Church-matters Which if true then who sees not a way opened to these new Papists for filling the reformed Churches with Rites and Ceremonies Neither is there any thing more easie then that these Bats should still dreame and finde out new Rites at which if the Magistrates wink there will bee nothing so repugnant to Scripture but will find assent and entertainment among the clergy nor any Monster so deformed which they will not thrust upon Gods people Witnesse the Walachran Classes where a giddy-headed Baawler hath cast out such prophane and seditious stuffe against worthy Vedelius and pious Princes And yet if hee lye not not onely the Consistory of Middleburgh but the whole Classis of Wala●rhria hath weighed proved and approved every thing The other thing wherein hee resembles Papists is this When he speakes of the Church sacred affaires he distinguisheth them into Primary and Secundary or dependents where surkes the old mystery of Popery For though Church-men have no liberty to institute primary sacred things yet they have power to impose upon Christians under pain of excommunication what by consequence flow from the former or seem to depend on them If this bee once yeelded to Apolonius and the Apolonian Church-Rulers nothing will be so absurd and prophane which may not put on the shew and Title of holinesse as often as it shall be taught that this is an Apendix of the prime sacred things The matter will be cleare by an example The prime sacred thing in the Church is the preaching of the Gospel Hence if it be gathered that these things are sacred also which necessarily depend from the former doubtlesse there will swarm abroad an innumerable brood of sacred things For there can be no preaching except there bee some Preachers Whence this necessarie consequence will follow That all Preachers even to Apolonius are sacred which I know he will not deny For there is nothing hee labours for more in all this work then to chalenge to himselfe the prerogative of sanctity above prophane Civill Magistrates But I will weave out this Web a little more It is impossible for a Minister to preach without a tongue lips and teeth Therefore it must follow that the tongue lips and teeth of the Minister are holy Now the tongue lips and teeth can frame no conception without the brain Ergo except Apolinius want braines his braines must bee also holy The brain can performe no function if the heart quicken it not by vitall spirits Therefore his heart and vitall spirits also must bee sacred The brain heart and tongue cannot operate except they be nourished by the Liver Veines and Intistines c. Ergo these also in the Preacher must be sacred I will not descend to the excrements of the body and make them also sacred by way of dependency onely this I l'e adde Apolonius can goe no where or stand to preach without feet whence it will follow that his feet are also sacred Now whereas it were immodest that he should come to Sermon bare-footed therefore he ought to be covered with a Cloak Breeches Stockins and Shooes for the better decorum will it not then follow that these also are sacred But what if the wayes be foule through which he walked and goeth up to the Pulpit with dirty shooes will not the Walachrian Divines be troubled with this quotlibeticall knot to wit whether the dirt and filth be not sacred I will not vilifie such things as are truly sacred I purpose onely to explode Apolonius his idle Appendices and sacred consequences by this one example He that will laugh at him may make triall in other things I will affirm this That no such liberty must be granted to any man much lesse to a giddy-headed Stilt-walker to authorize for sacred and holy whatsoever he dreames hath dependence from the primarie and true sacred Rites What mischiefe this produced among the old Papists may be seen by the infatuation of the people with this ridiculous and impious superstition For not onely are Monkes holy amongst them but also by this consequentiall inchantment their Hands Feet Gownes Hoods are kissed with strange veneration so that it is accounted a matter of no small sanctity and merit if one dye in a Monkes Gowne or lousie Wast-coat or if a superstitious Woman wrap about her head the holy Breeches of some Preacher to wit