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A92321	England's restitution or The man, the man of men, the states-man. delivered in several sermons in the parish church of Waltham Abbey in the county of Essex. / By Thomas Reeve D.D. preacher of Gods word there.	Reeve, Thomas, 1594-1672.	1661 (1661)	Wing R689; Thomason E1056_1; ESTC R208033	132,074	175

to the Rulers and Governours of the Church And He saith that the vincula indissolubilia The indissoluble bonds are in their hands Origen saith Orig. Tract 1●… in Matt. that they which do Challenge the place of Bishops and have Received the Keys of the Kingdom of Heaven have power in Binding and Loosing Saint Augustine saith Aug. l. 50. hom●… hom 50. ca. 11. Let such an one come to the Presidents by whom the Keys are Ministred in the Church The third Councel of Carthage saith Concil Cartha 3. Can. 31. that the times of Repentance should be appointed by the Discretion of the Bishops unto Penitents The Councel of Antioch saith Concil Anitoch Can. 6. that Laymen Presbyters and Deacons were to be excommunicated by their own Bishop and he sentencing them none had power to restore them without his leave Exuperantius being excommunicated by Triferius his Bishop the Councel of Taurine Concil Taurinen Can. 4. in the 400. year approved of the Fact and would not allow of any of his Favourers to Release him from the Sentence till the Bishop was satisfied Oh! then if men have any Fear of God Honour to Primitive Institution reverence to Antiquity how can they turn such an Antient House holder out of Doors especially when they know that so little of the Episcopal Function doth belong to them that according to the Constitutions of the Church they can neither Baptise Preach nor Admniister the Lord's Supper in the presence of the Bishop nor out of his presence without his leave and licence as the Councel of Carthage Possidonius Jerome and Tertullian do manifestly affirm Concil Carth. 2. Can 9. Possidon de vita Aug. Heron. adv Luciferum Tertull. de Baptis I know they have some sayings out of Ignatius Cyprian Ambrose and Augustine to Countenance this Opinion but with what Conscience can they alledg these things when they know that not onely the Writings of those Authours do without any other Confutation give plenary Satisfaction to all the Doubts but their own Practise is a Convincing Argument against all Opposition for were they not Bishops themselves and Exercised Episcopal jurisdiction with all imaginable Authority that a Bishop with us can be invested withall If all this will not Pacify the Contention yet the Judgment of our Fellow Protestants beyond the Seas might remove all Scruples For not onely our own Martyrs did set up Episcopacy within the Land but the most judicious and Consciencious Divines in Foreign parts which have professed our Reformed Religion have asserted Episcopacy as the onely Lawful Government Melancthon in his History of the Ausburge Confession saith That He endured the height of Hatred for bringing in Episcopal Government and though he did nothing but by the advise and consent of Luther yet Ia●ranus and many others possessed the People that he had built up again the Popish jurisdiction But saith he against all Envy I will speak what I think which is this that I am so fully confirmed concerning the lawfulness of the Government that would to God I could settle not onely the Power but the Administration of Bishops for I see what manner of Church we shall have without it even Ecclesiastical Polity wholly dissolved yea I see that if this be not Established there will come a more intolerable Tyranny amongst us then ever was Exercised by the Papists Hemingius in Synag saith that the Reformed Churchs after the Popish Darkness was dispelled after the example of the purest times retained Bishops Doctours and Pastours Chytraeus in his History of the Ausburge Confession saith that Bishops may very easily retain the lawful Obedience which is due to them Bucer in his Book Of the force and use of the Ministery saith that these Orders are perpetual in Churches and are appointed by the Holy Ghost viz Bishops Presbyters and Deacons and that there might be no Tyranny used Metropolitanes are set over them both rightly and zeal●ously Heerbrand in his Compendium of Divinity propoundeth a Question Whether there ought to be Degrees in the Ministery Yes saith he for God himself hath made and constituted Bishops Presbyters and Deacons and I finde St. Paul mentioning them and amongst these it is necessary that some should be Superiours to others lest there do come Anarchy into the Church Homberger in his Book of Christian Doctrine doth answer the like Question Whether there ought to be Degrees amongst Ministers immediately called And he saith there may and doth put a great difference betwixt a Bishop and a Presbyter Hailbronner in his Commen-places saith that there ought to be Bishops and they are not to have onely Teaching with others but an Office of Inspection and Government to prefer fit Ministers to Cures and to take Accusations against Presbyters and to decide the Quarrels The like Expressions I could bring out of Camerarius Hunnius Bullinger Peter Martyr Zanchy Deodate Primrose and many others which have had the Fame to be the most eminent Protestants which ever the Reformed Church was adorned with but what need I urge particular men when all the Prime Protestants of Germany meeting together Published a Book which they call The Vnity of the Church wherein they witness that to take away Schisms there must be a profitable Order that out of many Presbyters a Bishop should be Chosen which might Rule the Church Yea Arch-Bishops they say are needful if they will do their Duty to call Synods and punish usury scandals and divisions And they wish in their Articles of the Colloquy that for the Benefit of the Church some would take upon them this Difficult and necessary calling of Episcopacy And this is not onely their Opinion but their Practise for they have erected Bishops in their Super-Intendents and Arch-Bishops in their General Super-Intendents The Bishop now might be set up with Jurisdiction and Benediction yea Rule and Shine if one dark Fog could be removed and that is whether Foreign Churches which do exercise another Government may not ly liable to Censure I will not Censure I cannot justifie I rather lament then traduce I have a great deal of Compassion in me but I would be Loth to have any compliance for I finde that some men to make other Churches chaste have made their own a Prostitute and I think that this is neither Justice Affection Moderation or Sincerity Let every man according to Conscience clear Scripture General practise Protestant Usages his own Subscription and his own Oaths pass sentence and if there be any Discretion Religion Rules for just Judgment in these passages I partly conceive what the result and votes must be It is an heavy thing to change piety into popularity and sanctity into partiality there is a guilty Patience as well as a sinful Passion There is but one truth and Christ hath but one Government upon his shoulder Levit. 10.16.17.18.19.20 an Angel from Heaven can no more set up a new Government then a new Creation After Nadab and