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A04542	A treatise of the ministery of the Church of England Wherein is handled this question, whether it be to be separated from, or joyned vnto. Which is discussed in two letters, the one written for it, the other against it. Wherevnto is annexed, after the preface, A brief declaration of the ordinary officers of the Church of Christ. And, a few positions. Also in the end of the treatise, some notes touching the Lordes prayer. Seuen questions. A table of some principal thinges conteyned in this treatise.	Johnson, Francis, 1562-1618.; Hildersam, Arthur, 1563-1632. aut	1595 (1595)	STC 14663.5; ESTC S117234	146,027	152

capable of this povver and authority to ordeyn Ministers vvhich is committed vnto them by Act of Parliament Yet notwithstanding here he saith that in regard of the Lavv and Christian Magistrate he may more boldly come to the Prelates for it As if the authority of Man could make that lawfull which God hath made vnlawfull What els is this but to advaunce Mans Law above Gods and to exalt flesh and blood above the Lord himself who is God over al blessed for ever Amen Straunge doubtles is that Ministery and fearfull is that standing which cannot otherwise be vpholden then by making God by whom Princes raigne to stoupe vnto Man whose breath is in his nostrils The Prophets Apostles and Christ himself have taught vs otherwise that all flesh even Kings and Princes as well as others ought to feare and tremble before the great God of heave and earth that all they are cursed which do erre from his ●ommaundements and that the nation and Kingdome which will not serve him shall perish and be vtterly destroyed Therefore should Mr H. eyther have showed this Law and ordinance of the Magistrates to be agreable to the Law and commaundement of God which he doth not or finding it otherwise as himself confesseth it to be he should with the Apostles have said and showed in his practise that vve ought rather to obey God then men Otherwise if we were to receyve whatsoever religion or whatsoever thing in religion is ordeyned by the Law and Magistrate what were this els but to make thery State and kingdome such an Idoll as was Nebuchadnezars golden image ād to exalt earthly princes above the heavenly King and to annihilate the Testamēt of Iesus Christ confirmed in that this precious blood If he except and 〈◊〉 to help himself by this that he speaheth here of Christian Magistrates onely and not of Magistrates in generall he is deceyved For the povver and nature of Magistracy in whomsoever it be whether Christian or Heathen is one and the same even the ordinance of God appoynted for the punishing of them that do evill and for the defence and comfort of them that do well So that although a Christian do and cannot but differ from an Heathē as towthing the faith and religion they professe yet as towching the nature and authority of Magistracy they differ not Neyther hath the one of them any more power then the other in religion to erect any other faith Ministery worship or constitution of a Church then God himself who is King of Kings hath ordeyned Or if they do we are not bound to obey eyther of them thereyn but alwayes to remember that we must yeeld obedience to Magistrates whether Christian or Heathen onely in the Lord. and never against the LOrd Constantine the Emperour had no greater nor other power and authority of Magistracy when he became a Christian then he had before when he was an Heathen Neyther might he now any more thē before adde to diminish or alter the Lawes and ordinances of IEsus Christ. The same may be said of all others likewise For the receyving and profession of the faith of Christ giveth not to Princes and Rulers any power to refuse chaunge or break his Lawes and ordinances which he as Lord and head of his Church hath commaunded to be receyved therein but it rather byndeth them so much the more both themselves in theyr own persons to obey and by theyr authority to commaund and draw theyr subiects also to yeeld obedience to the Lord Iesus in his own ordinance and no other Read the historyes of the Kings of Iudah professing the faith of God and see if theyr authority of Magistracy gave them power any way to chaunge the religion and worship of God appoynted by him for his Church at that tyme And whether both they and theyr people were not bound to submit vnto it and no other Insomuch as when any of them attempted or did otherwise they were sharply reproved and grievously punished from the Lord. And contrarily when they obeyed the voyce of the Lord and followed his Lawes and commaundements given by Moses then did they and theyr kingdomes prosper through the blessing of God The same is to be brought and said of Christian Princes and Magistrates at this day Yea rather more of these then of the other inasmuch as Christ IEsus the Apostle and high Priest of our profession hath ben faithfull to him that appoynted him even as was Moses in all his house and being the Sonne is covnted worthy of more honour the Moses the servant Neyther is it or can be any disparagement hindrance or dishonour to Princes and Potentates for themselves and theyr people to be subiect to the Sonne of God and his ordinances who is King of kings and Lord of Lords set at the right hād of God the Father having all power given him in heavē and in earth But it is and will be theyr greatest honour and benefit both in this life and in that which is to come even as theyr disobedience is and will be the cōtrary as it is writtē And now ô Kings be vvise receyv instruction ye Iudges of the earth Serve the Lord in feare and reioyce in trembling Kisse the Sonne least he be angry and ye perish in the vvay vvhen his vvrath shall burne but a litle Blessed are all that trust in him Thus have we seen the weaknes likewise of this last reason alledged by Mr H. for defence of his seeking and taking ordination at the Prelates hāds By discussing whereof appeareth also that who so wil minister in the Church the holy things of GOD must be carefull to have such entrance and calling thereto as he hath appoynted in his word And that otherwise to do though it were vpon the commaundement and appoyntment of all the Princes of the earth cannot but be sinne against the Lord who hath said Whatsoever I commaund you take heed you do it thou shalt put nothing thereto nor take ought therefrom And contrary to that strait charge of the Apostle to Timothy and all Ministers of the Gospell towthing the Lawes ād ordināces given by Christ to his Church saying I charge thee in the sight of God vvho quickneth all things and before Iesus Christ vvhich vnder Pontius Pilate vvitnessed a good confession that thou keep this commaundement vvithout spot and vnblameable vntill the appearing of our Lord IEsus Christ Which in due tyme he vvill shovv that is blessed and Prince onely the King of Kings and Lord of Lords And here now would we end this writing but that it is needfull in a word to poynt at some other particulars mentioned by Mr H. in this last reason 1 One is that speaking of the ordination he took from the Prelates he saith here he looked not so much vnto the Man as to the Lavv And yet in his second reason before would have vs beleev he looked to the Man

ministers pretend to be the ministers of Christ and professe to bring his Gospell with them when as in deed they revile and persecute the true and sy●cexe practise of it even vnto death Thirdly I aske whether the ministery worship and government appoynted by Christ for his Church vnder the gospell be not asmuch of the foundation as the ministery worship and government appoynted by Moses for the tyme of the law And if they be whether they are not as faithfully sett down by Christ as the other were by Moses and as carefully to be observed by vs as the other were by the Iewes or rather much more in asmuch as Christ the Sonne is wor●●●y of more glory and honour then Moses the servant Fourthly I aske what fundamentall articles of religion Moses and Aar on with the rest of the Iewes ioyning with them held that Corah Dathan Abiram● and theyr company held not differing onely from them concerning the office of Priesthood and Ministery thereof a matter of the Discipline as these men●call it Yet were they with all that departed not from theyr tents destroyed by the iust iudgment of God The like may be seen in other poynts of the Discipline of the Church in the examples of Nadab and Abihu of ●zziah the priest and of ●zziah the king Which examples of all sorts are written for our learning that people of all estates might know and remember that to obey the temmaundements of God in whatsoever thing he hath enioyned is better then sacrifice and to hear●en better then the fa●● of rammes whereas disobedience and rebellion against the commaundements of God is as the sinne of witchcraft vnder what pretence soever it be and transgression is wickednes and Idolatry how lightly soever men account thereof Fifthly whereas Mr H. saith there is no Antichrist whose Doctrine is sound I willingly graunt it and have already showed their case to be such Yet with all I wish Mr H. to marke that even Antichrist that man of ●inne professeth many notable truths and foundamentall articles of religion as that there is a God one in essence three in persons the Father Sonne and holy Ghost that Christ is God and Man Prophet Priest and king of his Church that the holy Ghost is present with the Church of Christ to the end of the world that there shall be a resurectiō of iust and vniust etc. And yet notwithstanding standeth he with all his followers in defection from the truth and obedience of Christ even to destruction By all which is manifest that the verball profession helpeth litle when men in practise and particulars deny that which inword in generall they 〈◊〉 to hold and thereby de●●ive the world as if they held the truth when indeed they fight against it Finally therefore on the one hand vnderstanding by the Discipline of the Church as we ought the auncyent and holy order and ordinances which Christ Iesus by his last Testament hath given to his Church for the administration of his holy things and for the keeping of his people in the obedience of faith and considering on the other hand that Antichrist hath perverted that holy order and made apostasy from those holy lawes advauncing himself and his own constitutions above them and that also in the ministery worship and government of the Church aswell as in other parts thereof it doth and must needs follow herevpon that whosoever do not onely not keep that holy order and appointement of Christ but also bow down to the confusion and false Ministery of Antichrist they stand in Antichrian estate notwithstanding any truths they teach professe or mainteyne So as then the Ministery of the Church of England being never ordeyned by Christ but derived from Antichrist that man of 〈◊〉 it helps them not in this behalf that they teach and receiv much truth therein as we see it helpeth not the papists that theyr priests teach there is a God a Christ an holy Spirit Church a resurrection and many other fundamentall 〈◊〉 of Christian religion as before hath ben said But now let vs come to examine whether in the Scriptures here alledged by Mr H. Antichrist be not described to be against Iesus Christ even in that which they call the discipline of the Church as in other things also agreing to them in theyr estate The first Scripture he alledgeth is out of the prophecy of Daniel The words are these I considered the hornes and behold another home a litle one came vp among them and three of the first hornes were pluckt away before it And loe eyes like the eyes of a man were in that home and a mouth speaking presumptuous things Dan. 7. 8. And he shall speak words against the most High and consume the Saints of the most High and think to alter the tymes and law and they shalbe given into his hand for a tyme and tymes and half a tyme Dan. 7. 25. Now although this Scripture seem first to be vnderstood of Antiochus Ep●hanes and of his pride and tyranny against the truth and people of God yet may it also fi●ly be applyed further and compared with the description of the beast in the Revelatiō and so with the Antichristian prelacy and pri●●●hood from tyme to tyme. For to omitt other things that might here be observed and to note onely such things as art most evident we see here that horne of the beast described to have eyes like the eyes of a man and a mouth speaking presumtuous things Even so the ministers of Antichrist who will needs be the eyes of the people and light of the world pretend to be the ministers of Christ and not that onely but haue also aswell as that horne a mouth speaking presumptuous things even against the most High See it in these particulars following and such like which are rise among them that the true ministery and syncere practise of the Gospell of Christ is schisme heresy fancy rebellion insurrection sedition subversion of the State and what not that Christ the Sonne hath ben lesse faithfull then Moses the servant in setting down any prescript ministery and order for the Church vnder the Gospell perpetually to be kept that Christ who hath all power i● heaven and in ●arth is not to be submitted vnto in that ministery order and discipline which he hath given to his Church if Princes on earth forbid or refuse to establish it that the ministery of Antichrist is to be receyved and ioyned vnto being appointed by Christian Princes for the service of God that it is lawfull for others to be Archbishops and Lordbishops over the Church and ministers of the Gospell besides Iesus Christ that a priesthood a stinted number of words and prayers tithes and such like are appointed for the ministery of the Gospell of Christ that Christ shall not reigne over them by his offices and ordinances prescribed in his word that Christ in his soule went down into hell

onely as hath ben orde●●ed by CHRIST owr Lord the king of his Church wh● being the Sonne is worthy of more honour then Moses the servant So as first we see here his own testimony condemneth their present ministery which is such as was never prescribed by CHrist to his Church But it may be M r. H. meant by this Scripture to insinuate vnto vs that there were two hypriests at that tyme whereas by the ordinance of God there should be but 〈◊〉 Wherevnto I aunswer first that it was no new thing but an a●●●cyent approved order among the Iewes to have two chief priests over the rest Yet so as the o●e of them was principall and the other the second or next vnto him Thus we read that Zadok of the sonnes of Eleaz●r and Ahim●lech of the sonnes of Ithamar were together the chief priests in Davids tyme. And afterward when the Iewes were led captive to Babylon Seraiah was the chief priest and Zephaniah the second Where it may be observed both that there was two principall priests ouer the rest and yet the one chief and the other the second Secondly we fynd that Annas and Cayaphas here mentioned in Luke were hy priests the one after the other to witt Caiaphas at the tyme when CHrist was crucifyed and before and Annas afterward when the Apostles Peter and Iohn were brought afore him As also after this we read agayne of one Ananias to be hy priest alone Act. 23. 2. and 24. 1. and 25. 2. Thirdly it is to be mynded that the word here vsed signifyeth chief priests and is spoken oftentymes of others that were chief among the priests as well as of the hy priest and that even then when there was but one by priest As in Mat. 14. 53. Mat. 26. 57. Act. 25. 2. 15. and 24. 1. Luk. 22. 52. 54. Finally the having of the hy priesthood then by course interchaungeably and but for a yeare and such like were in deed corruptions crept in among them in the ordinance of GOD. Yet doth not this give any warrant of the present Antichristian constitution of these assemblyes For even then we see they had no new ministeryes but the priesthood appoynted by God yea and but one hy priest at once Which also according to the law kept in the kinred wherevpon it is sayd they that vvere of the chief priests kinred Act. 4. 6. Besides that in this often chaunge of it there seemeth to ly a mystery God having so disposed to declare that now that Leviticall priesthood drew to an end and another Priest was to rise vp after the order of Melchisedech who because he endureth ever should have a priesthood that can not passe from him to any other So then from this Scripture can be gathered no defence at all of the present estate of these assemblyes but rather many arguments agaynst it forasmuch as now among them they have no other but straunge ministeryes invēted by man and then there was no such new ministery at all eyther ordinary or extraordinary receyved among the Iewes And this hath Mr. ●artwright heretofore avowched when proving the vnlawfulnes of the offices of Archbishops and Archdeacons he wrote as followeth First of all saith he the ministery is by the vvord of God and heavenly and not left to the vvill of men to devise at theyr pleasure as appeareth by that vvhich is noted of Iohn vvhere the Pharisees coming to Iohn Baptist after that he had denyed to he eyther CHRIST or Elias or another Prophet conclude If thou be neyther Christ nor Elias nor of the Prophets why baptizest thou Which had bē no good argument if Iohn might have ben of some other function then of those which were ordinary in the Church and instituted of God And therefore Iohn to establish his singular ād extraordinary function alledgeth the word of God whereby appeareth that as it was not lawfull to bring in any straunge doctrine so vvas it not lavvfull to teach the true doctrine vnder the name of any other function then vvas instituted by God Let the vvhole practise of the Church vnder the Lavv be looked vpon and it shall not be found that any other ecclesiasticall ministery vvas appoynted then those orders of hy priests and Levites etc. vvhich vvere appoynted by the lavv of God And if there vvere any raysed vp extraordinarily the same had theyr calling confirmed from heaven eyther by signes or miracles or by playne ād cleare testimonyes of the mouth of God or by extaordinary exciting and movings of the Spirit of God So that it appeareth that the ministery of the Gospell ād the functions thereof ought to be from heaven and of God and not invented by the brayne of men From heaven I say and heavenly because although it be executed by earthly men and the ministers also are chosen by men like vnto themselves yet because it is done by the vvord and institution of God that hath not onely ordeyned that the vvord should be preached but hath ordeyned also in vvhat order and by vvhom it should be preached it may vvell be accounted to come from heaven and from God Seing therefore that these functions of the Archbishop and Archdeacō are not in the vvord of God it follovveth that they are of the earth and so can do no good but much harme in the Church And a litle after he hath also these words Tell me saith he in the vvhole volume of the Testament is there any kind or degree of ministery vvhereof God is not the certayne and expresse author Was there ever any man I except Ieroboam and all such profane men eyther so holy or so vvise or of such great knovvledg that ever did so much as dreame of instituting of a nevv ministery After the long vvandring of the Arke in the vvildernes vvhen it came to be placed in lerusalem tell me if any besides the Levites and priests the ordinary ministers and the Prophets vvhich vvere immediately s●irred vp of God vvere found to have ordeyned any office or title vvhich vvas not commaunded or vvhether therevvas at any tyme any thing added or enioyned to those offices of priesthood and Leviteship vvhich vvas not by the lavv prescribed These are M. Cartwrights words in the places here quoted By which it is cleare themselves also graunt that in the tyme of the law in the true Church there was no new ministery erected and that there neyther might nor may be any eyther ordinary or extraordinary but such as have expresse appoyntment and warrant from God himself Whereupon is followeth that the present ministery of these assemblyes having no such warrant these and the like Scriptures give not any defence of it but condemne and make against it Thus much concerning the testimony alledged out of Luk 3. 2. Next is alledged Luk. 2. 22. 27. and Mat. 8. 4. where it is thus written first in the second of Luke cōcerning Christ When the