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A62285	A serious inquiry into the means of an happy union, or, What reformation is necessary to prevent popery and to avert God's judgments from the nation written upon the occasion of the fast, and humbly offered to the consideration of the Parliament by William Saywell.	Saywell, William, 1643-1701.	1681 (1681)	Wing S805; ESTC R25119	28,144	52

Judgments upon our Nation CHAP. IV. NOW for Schism Papists Presbyterians aend Independents Schismaticks Numb 16. that is a sin of that magnitude and heinous nature that God did open the earth and swallow up men alive for it and sent a miraculous Fire to consume the first Beginners of Schismatical Worship And of the Samaritans that worshipped God in Schism our Lord says Ye know not what ye worship John 4.22 Now this Schism was in opposing the lawful Officers which God had appointed to minister about holy things and venturing upon the Sacred Function without any orderly warrant to do it And 't is as plain a case that Christ has appinted Officers and Governours in his Church and committed all the World to their Government in their respective Capacities in things relating to his Worship John 20. As my Father sent me that is to appoint Officers and with Authority to rule and govern my Church all over the World so send I you not Peter onely to do the like Again Matth. 28. Go make disciples in all nations and lo I am with you to the end of the world Further Mark 16.15 Go ye into all the world and preach the Gospel to every creature he that believeth and is baptized shall be saved but he that believeth not shall be damned So all the World were bound by the command of our Saviour to receive the Apostles and such as they sent to preach the Gospel for they could not speak to all men personally and be ruled by them according to the Gospel or else they were to be damned These Apostles gave in charge also to the Bishops and Pastors to rule and govern the Church 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Acts 20.28 Over which the Holy Ghost had made them Bishops They are to exhort and rebuke with all authority let no man despise them Titus 2.15 They are to receive Accusations and examine Witnesses 1 Tim. 5.19 and therefore must have a Summoner to cite the Offender and a Register to write down the Informations and Depositions They are to rebuke before all that others may fear 1 Tim. 5.20 The People are commanded likewise to obey them that have the rule over them and to submit themselves for they watch for their souls as they that must give account Heb. 13.17 They are to know them that labour among them and are over them in the Lord and admonish them and to esteem them very highly in love for their works sake not for their Birth or Parts or natural Accomplishments but as Ministers of Christ for their works sake 1 Thess 5.12 13. They are in case of offence given to receive them with fear and trembling 2 Cor. 7.15 And lest any should despise this Authority which our Lord has given he has said Matth. 18.18 Verily I say unto you whatsoever ye shall bind on earth shall be bound in heaven and whatsoever ye shall loose on earth shall be loosed in heaven And John 20.23 Whose soever sins ye remit they are remitted unto them and whose soever sins ye retain they are retained Here is abundantly enough to demonstrate that Christ has appointed Governours in his Church and commanded all men to obey them And therefore to despise their Office to contemn their Authority and withdraw from their Communion and to invade their Charges is a crying sin that will bring Gods Judgment upon a Nation But the Question is still Who are the Governours that must be thus obeyed and who are to send and appoint them Now 't is plain that this Authority is from Christ and where he gave it he gave the Holy Ghost also with it John 20. Receive the Holy Ghost And 't is plain the Apostles having received the Holy Ghost did convey it to other Pastors who were ordained by them Acts 20. Govern the Church over which the Holy Ghost hath made you Bishops And When Anamas told a Lie to S. Peter he says Acts 5. Why hath Satan filled thine heart to lie against the Holy Ghost So that those that derive Authority in an orderly way by Succession from those who have power given them to give the Holy Ghost for the work of a Bishop Luther tom 2. ep fol. 41. Tu ex mea parte explores an vocationem suam possint probare Neque enim Deus unquam aliquem misit nisi vel per hominem vocatum vel per signa declaratum ne ipsum quidem filium those are such Governours to whom we must yield obedience and in opposing of them we shall oppose Christ If any pretend to this Authority and cannot shew they had it from them who were enabled to bestow the Holy Ghost they must shew miracles to prove it For 't is not Knowledge alone or the Choice of the People or the Appointment of the Magistrate that can give the Holy Ghost that must come from Christ or some of those that received that power by Succession from him And this is the Opinion of all Protestant Churches in their Confessions when it may be had and has been the constant Tradition of the whole Church and all the Catholick Writers in all Ages The Augustane Confession Art 14. Concerning the Ecclesiastical Order we teach that none ought publickly to teach or administer the Sacraments unless he be rightly called as Paul does give in charge to Titus that he should appoint Elders in every City The French Confession Art 21. We believe that the true Church of Christ ought to be governed by that Polity or Discipline which our Lord Jesus Christ established that there should be in it Pastors Presbyters or Elders and Deacons Art 31. We believe it is not lawful for any one to invade the government of the Church by his own Authority We believe that this rule ought to be followed that all Pastors Elders and Deacons ought to have a testimony of their calling Matth. 28.10 16. Mark 16.15 John 15.16 Acts 1.21 Rom. 10.15 Tit. 1.5 Gal. 1.15 1 Tim. 3.7 8. Art 32. We believe that those that are chosen Governours of any Church should take care amongst themselves how the whole body may be most conveniently governed yet so as they do not depart in any thing from the Institution of our Lord Jesus Christ But this does not hinder but that there may be a peculiar Institution in all places as shall seem most convenient Acts 14.23 15. 25.28 1 Cor. 14.40 1 Pet. 5. The Dutch Confession Art 31. We believe that Ministers Elders and Deacons ought to be called to their Functions and promoted by the lawful election of the Church with serious prayer to God for that purpose and in that order and manner which is prescribed in the Word of God The Bohemian Confession Art 19. They teach that the Ministers of the Church to whom the Administration of the Word and Sacraments is committed ought to be rightly instituted according to the Prescription given by our Lord and his Apostles Wherefore prayer being made by the Elders

themselves under the pretence of being Dissenters and the multitude of Divisions does make careless people believe there is no such thing as Religion at all which is too too evident by the prodigious growth of Atheism and Irreligion ever since these Divisions have been countenanced in 41 under the colour of being favourable to Tender Consciences and indulging to the weakness of Sober Protestants CHAP. III. HEresie and Schism being in themselves crying sins and the causes of Ignorance and Profaneness we must see in the next place upon whom the charge of these Crimes must be laid that so we may find out the true means to redress them And first because the word Protestant is so much used in the style of our times Anabaptists and Quakers Hereticks I will begin with the sense of the Protestant Churches abroad concerning some Heresies that are preached and openly maintained by many that are now called Sober Protestants And first I will begin with Baptism which is wholly laid aside by the Quakers and denied to all Infants as unnecessary by the Anabaptists contrary to the express Word of God John 3.5 that says Except any one be born of water and the Spirit he cannot enter into the kingdom of God that is either re or voto when ordinary means are not to be had Hence the Augustan Confession of greatest account and most generally received in Protestant Churches beyond the Seas says cap. 9. Of Baptism they teach that it is necessary to Salvation as a Ceremony instituted by Christ and that the grace of God is offered by Baptism and that Infants are to be baptized and that Infants commended to God by Baptism are received into the favour of God and are made the Children of God as Christ does witness They do condemn the Anabaptists that reject Baptism of Infants and that do affirm that Infants may be saved without Baptism and out of the Church The French Confession Art 35. We acknowledge two Sacraments onely common to the whole Church of which the first is Baptism given us to testifie our Adoption because by it we are engrafted into the Body of Christ that being washed by his Bloud we may also be renewed unto holiness of life by his Spirit Besides though Baptism be a Sacrament of faith and repentance nevertheless since God does receive into his Church parents with their posterity we affirm that Infants that are born of holy parents are to be baptized by the authority of Christ Acts 22.16 Rom. 6.3 Matth. 3.11 Mark 16.16 Matth. 19. The Dutch Confession Art 34. We believe that every man that desires to attain eternal life ought to be baptized with the one Baptism that is once onely Neither doth this Baptism profit onely in that moment when the water remains upon us but throughout the whole time of our life Therefore we detest here the error of the Anabaptists who are not content with one onely Baptism once received but also condemn the Baptism of Infants that are born of faithful parents The Saxon Confession Art 14. The Son of God sitting at the right hand of his everlasting Father is so efficatious in him as S. Paul saith to the Galatians As many as are baptized into Christ have put on Christ And he affirms the Holy Ghost is given in Baptism when he saith in Titus By the laver of regeneration and the renewing of the Holy Ghost And in John 't is said Except any one be born again of water and the Spirit he cannot enter into the kingdom of Heaven We teach therefore that Baptism is necessary and we baptize none but once onely We retain the Baptism of Infants because it is certain the promise of grace does also pertain unto Infants and to them onely who are engrafted into the Church Now we have seen what is the sense of the Protestant Churches concerning these Anabaptists and Quakers that either wholly set aside Baptism as useless or not necessary or at all belonging to Infants let us inquire what was the Opinion of the Ancient and Catholick Church in this matter That the practice of baptizing Infants was universal throughout all Ages of the Church is clear from Tertullian S. Cyprian and Origen and all the Fathers in the following Ages And when Pelagius denied the Doctrine of Original Sin and the Necessity of Supernatural Grace in that sense which the Church had always received it he did also deny the Necessity of Baptism for Infants which opposition of his to the Catholick Truth caused several Councils to condemn his Heresies and was the occasion of S. Jeroms and S. Augustines and many other ancient Fathers Writings about this subject Hence we have the Decree of the Council Milevis confirmed in the 77th Canon of the African Codex It pleaseth us that whosoever he be that doth deny that little Children that are newly born from their Mothers womb ought to be baptized or saith that they are baptized for the remission of sins but that they derive nothing of original sin from Adam that ought to be cleansed by the laver of regeneration From whence it does follow That the Form of Baptism for the remission of sins is not understood to be true but false and feigned let him be an Anathema because that cannot be understood which was spoken by the Apostle By one man sin came into the world and death by sin and so death passed upon all forasmuch as all have sinned unless in that manner that it has been understood by the Catholick Church every where spread abroad throughout the world And because of this rule of faith even Infants who could commit no sins in their own persons are truly baptized for the remission of sins Vide epist Celest ad Episc Gall. that that may be cleansed through regeneration which they derived from their first generation Afterwards the Acts that were past in condemnation of this Doctrine of Pelagius were sent to the third General Council held at Ephesus and there confirmed by the universal Church Act 5. Relatio Conc. Eph. gen 3. ad Celest act 5. The Commentaries of the things that were decreed and constituted by your Piety in the deposition of the wicked Pelagians and Celestians of Celestius Pelagius Julianus Persidius Florus Marcellinus Orentius and of those that are of the same opinion with them being read in the Synod we have also judged that they ought to remain firm and valid and we decree the same thing with you and account them deposed And that you may be more certain of this we have sent you the Commentaries and the Subscriptions of the Synod It were easie to prove the same more largly throughout the Christian Church in all Ages ever since so that the Quakers and Anabaptists being Hereticks by the Word of God as it has been generally understood by Protestant Churches and the Church Universal before their time if they be openly tolerated to profess and propagate their Heresie it must needs bring down Gods