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A62252	Toleration with its principal objections fully confuted, or, An answer to a book intituled, Sions groans for her distressed, &c. offered to the Kings Majesty, Parliament, and people wherein is pretended to be proved by Scripture, reason, and authority of fifteen ancients, that equal protection under different perswasions is the undoubted right of Christian liberty, but, hereby confuted : wherein the power and proceedings of the Kings Majesty and the Church are vindicated / by H.S.	H. S. (Henry Savage), 1604?-1672.	1663 (1663)	Wing S765; ESTC R24513	70,771	96

sacra c. 11. And I more wonder that these men should say that there is not one word for them in the New Testament or that they should be set up by us as Antitypes of the high Priests under the Law No Christ is onely that Neverthelesse in regard of the distinction which was an Ecclesiastical thing among the Jewes I say that the Bishops do resemble the High Priests and the inferiour Clergy the other Priests For there were in this respect many High Priests at once of whom we read many to have been assembled together Mark 14. 1. every one of which was summus sacerdos istius Classis the High or chief Priest of that Rank These ranks had their several courses Zachary was of one of these courses viz. of that of Abia Luc. 1. 5. not all these but one only was typical shadowing forth Jesus Christ unto them And even in this High Priest there was something besides the representation as is plain by St. Paul who yielded his obedience to the High Priest as governour of the people Acts 23. 5. and that after the Type was expired which had been unlawfull had there not been somewhat remaining in him besides the figure Eleazar in Aaron's life-time was Princeps Princip●m or Pralatus Pralatorum Num. 3. 32. and yet not reputed a Type of Christ and 2 Chron. 35. 8. we read of three at once one onely whereof was the High Priest which was the Type of Christ the rest were not so yet by reason of their dignity paramount to others might resemble Archbishops themselves And the other forementioned High Priests in regard of the place they held above the rest of their Classe are in a sort resembled by our Bishops And that this may not seem strange to any 't is a matter obvious to our observation that scarcely any Ordinance or Order under the New Testament can be named which is not derived from others under the Old by some kind of resemblance intended between them Imposition of hands by the Apostles was taken up in imitation of that practised under the Old Testament for the designation of successors as Moses used it towards Josuah Num. 27. 18 20. That the whole frame of Church Government answers to the like order and distinction of persons and offices in the Old Testament is evidenced by the learned Bishop of Winton in a scheme to that purpose thus drawn viz. Aaron should be resembled by Christ Eleazar Archbishops Princes of Priests Bishops Priests Presbyters Princes of Levites Archdeacons Levites Deacons Nethinims Clerks and Sextons And hereunto he is led by the opinion of the ancient fathers who seem to be of the same mind viz. that the same form should serve both so is St. Cyprian so St. Hierome St. Lee and Rabanus de vita clericor The Government of the Church of the Old Testament saies the Archbishop of Armagh was committed to Priests and Levites unto whom the ministers of the New Testament do now succeed in like sort as our Lords day hath done unto their Sabbath So he in his Original of Episcopacy and if it were reasonable for Christians to take the Jewes for their pattern in drawing their scheme of Church government much more is it for modern Christians to follow the ancient a thing which our Church has done in her reformation which has retained all things of ancient usage in the Church of Rome lest men should be scandalized at us whilest we seemed to set up a new Religion instead of reforming the Old The very Lords Prayer hath much of conformity not only to the forms used by the Jewes as others have observed but also as it seems to me to the very design of the sacrifices of the Law which are all reducible to three kinds The first was the whole burnt-offering to God as absolute Lord of Heaven Earth and as one to whom belongeth honour from us should he never bestow any special favour upon us The second was the peace-offering whereby to obtain at his gracious hands all those blessings and the degrees thereof whereof men stand in need whether publick or private as also to expresse a thankfulnesse for all blessings and for all those gracious returns he makes to the prayers of his people from time to time or at any time The third was the sin offering for the expiation of all or any transgressions of his holy and divine commandments and for health of soul In conformity whereunto our Saviour hath in that perfect and absolute form taught us to offer by him a spiritual holocaust to the honour of his name who inhabits eternity in these words Our Father which art in heaven hallowed be thy name Secondly a spiritual peace-offering for the advancement of his Kingdom in us and the adimpletion of his will by us as also for a supply of all outward necessaries in these words Thy Kingdom come thy will be done in earth as it is in heaven Give us this day our dayly bread Thirdly a spiritual sin offering for the forgivenesse of sins past and for prevention of sin for the time to come in these words And forgive us our trespasses as we forgive them that trespasse against us and lead us not into temptation but deliver us from evil And these not without a doxology as a spiritual Libamen or meat-offering without which no burnt-offering was to be made under the Law in these words For thine is the Kingdom the power and the glory for ever and ever Amen And so having not only proved the order and distinctions of Ecclesi●sticks under the New Testament but also the first Liturgy so the Lords Prayer is proved to be by Cassander in Liturgic●s ex Dionysio and stands undeniably true to be instituted in resemblance of the like under the Old Testament I come now to prove the jurisdiction that they have one over another and over the rest of the Church wherein two things are to be considered in relation to o●r Bishops viz. 1. Their power 2. The distribution of this power As for the first Their power is so connatural that the chief Judge in Areopagus was a Priest hence Cohen in Hebrew was a common name to Magistrates and to Priests Gen. 41. 45. Potipherah was Priest h. e. Prince of On. The Druides among the Galls were of the noblest stock of kindred they were so in Epirus and Cappadocio it was usual as well among the Grecians as Romans for Kings to be Priests and as Schedus de Dis Germ notes out of Fenestella the Priest was never made a distinct person from the civil Magistrate till the expulsion of Kings out of Rome and that this power so challenged by the voice of Nature in the Heathen themselves is warranted by the Scriptures of the New Testament I shall have occasion to shew anon in answer to their objections against it Mean while I shall prove the second thing considerable viz. The distribution of their power And this is distributed according to the

uses yet since that they are thereby given to God and such things God accepts for his own it follows that Quicunque alienaverit sacrilegus erit He will rob not only a society of men that live by and in them but God also as Ananias and Saphira did in another thing but in the like case But I have hinted from whence these exceptions sprang at first viz. from Stork Stubner and Muntzer And from the same beginning it is that their exceptions against learned men issues forth when Coblers and Furriers are set up to preach in hog-houses and nasty places And those things before mentioned would never become a stumbling block to the Gentiles as they pretend as is evident by their crying up of their Goddess Diana the magnificence of whose Temple allured the world to worship her and had they had Temples dedicated to the true God of more magnificence then Diana's was of they would have cried as loud as they did of Diana that Great is the God of Heaven whereby it is evident that such things may be outward motives of bringing men to the Church and so of seeing and learning what is there taught and practised which they would not have been allured to by an assembly of men met together in a pigs coat nay it seems by the very argument of these men themselves that had the Jews beheld as magnifick Temples under Christianity as they had in judaisme they would have become Christians But I shall believe neither the one nor the other touching the Jews till God takes away the vail drawn over their hearts The wrath of God is not come on them for that but for crucifying the Lord of Glory and for imprecating his blood upon themselves and theirs Sect. 8. BUt say they The bare rejection of truth and imbracing of errour is not all the evil that the Nations generally are engaged in by the Church of Rome but for to compleat and fill up the measure of their iniquities like Nebuchadnezzar nothing less must be inflicted on the servants of the most high God that cannot bow down to the golden image of their inventions then the fiery surnace of persecution many times unto death it self Whereunto I answer first That this is as clear as the Sun shines to be a scandal upon the good Laws of the Land as if they were like those of Draco the Athenian of which it was said that they were written in bloud in as much as they punished every offence alike without suiting the penalty to the quality of the crime Indeed this would quickly leave no criminals or no men in the Commonwealth in case all offenders were subject to the same punishment how various soever their offences were and that punishment were death But I shall take the pains to shew that this very thing which they here impute to us is applicable to themselves Thus then the Harlot in the Revelation is so called because it 's a counterfeit of the woman in the twelfth chapter thereof that is the Church which is there described to have the Moon under her feet She is not then the true woman but a counterfeit an image only Now an image may consist of different parts and matters as Nebuchadnezzar did Dan. 2. and yet the same image still so does this Harlot consist of several men of several Sects of several principles in several ages and yet the same Harlot the same Antichrist still as long as the Devil works generally alike in them all whereof the Pope makes one part the Anabaptist another other Sects if this be not comprehensive of all others and all this is done by dreams as Nebuchadnezzar's image was And because men will not fall down and worship their dreams for truths notwithstanding they comprehend not Heterodoxisms only but horrid blasphemies against God and his Son Christ and be destructive of the Ordinances of God and witnesses of the Revelation they are mad they send forth excommunications they preach and practice rebellion they say they fight for God when they fight against the King Gods Vicegerent that they are the servants of the most high God when it is plain that the Devil carries them captive at his will that they would have Christ reign over them when the Devil reigns in them that they defend our liberties when they carry us captive that they maintain our proprieties when they plunder us that it 's done in faith when it 's without charity that it is to vindicate the liberty of Religion and freedom of the Gospel when they make their own passion and interest the measure of it Hereupon the beautiful feet of those that should be the messengers of peace become swift to shed bloud the hands that have been accustomed to handle the holy Sacraments appear like Bellona's hands embrued in gore the cloven tongues of the Spirit are turn'd into serpents tongues Trifidasque linguas Sen. in Medea dividing themselves into three parts their mouths that should dictate the oracles of God are like the mouth of a Leviathan Job 41. 19. whose breath kindleth coals and a flame goes out of it that hair that should be like that of the ancient of days white as wool to note the incorruption of truth is speckled like snakes ravel'd into philtres and rowled into tresses like serpents And could their seduced proselytes but see all this they would want no Rherorick to undeceive them but this they have added to the very 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 of their imposture sc that the Devil appears in the mantle of Samuel and I know not by what Gygs ring they walk invisible or else God hath suffered the eyes of the people to be blinded that they cannot see or by the same just judgement hardened their hearts that they cannot perceive But if these men be in the right then let the Epistle of Jude and the 2 of Pet. c. 2. be for ever as some of them would have them not canonical for would they lay aside abstruse and obscure prophecies impoysoned with their presumptious glosses upon them which are written rather to exercise their humility then cherish their presumption and seriously apply those evident truths to their own practices they would find every verse like Prometheus his Eagle feeding upon their inward parts animated by that lying spirit as by fire stollen from heaven And since these authours mention France and other places what civil commotions have been caused there in order to worship I say that they arose from men of their generation For I must remember them out of Mr. Camden's Eliz. That it is about seventy years since that Kingdom of France laboured of such a monster as this which as an image consisted of several parties as of several materials one affecting Aristocracy another Olygarchy another Democracy another Anarchy all disliking the present form Monarchy Mean while the preachers easily snatching the people about by this common motion became the trumpeters of sedition till after the assasinate of