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A25697 An Apology for the English Presbyterians with a defence of the heads of agreement assented to by the united ministers in the year 91. 1699 (1699) Wing A3548; ESTC R17890 29,933 88

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AN APOLOGY FOR THE English Presbyterians WITH A DEFENCE OF THE Heads of Agreement Assented to by the Vnited Ministers in the Year 91. LONDON Printed and are to be Sold by the Booksellers of London and Westminster 1699. TO THE READER IN the Reigns of Queen Elizabeth and James the First the English Presbyterians were represented to be for such a Church-Government as was Inconsistent with and Destructive of the King's Supremacy in Matters Ecclesiastical as well as of the Diocesan Form And that the Civil Magistrate might be induc'd to Believe it Three Articles were proposed to be Subscribed unto the First about the Supremacy the other Two about the Government Liturgy and Ceremonies of the Church whereupon they who refused Subscription only to the Second and Third were said to do so because they would not Allow of the First This Accusation was the more generally Receiv'd because the English Presbyterians Corresponded with their Brethren in Scotland who deny the Supremacy about Episcopacy the Liturgy and the Ceremonies and among the Conforming Clergy there were some who would have introduced the Classical Government under the Name of Diocesan which moved Archbishop Bancroft to Publish his Scotizing Dangerous Positions and Survey Besides the Classical National Government being founded on a Divine Right was the more frightful to the Queen her Nobility and Gentry who would never suffer the Divine Right of the Diocesan Government knowing that the Divine Right of a National Church Government of any sort and the Regal Supremacy can never simul semel dwell in the same Kingdom the Setting up of the One being a Subversion of the other The English Presbyterians Observing the Nature of the Accusation and the Arts used to insinuate the Belief of it into the Minds of their Governours judg'd it necessary to do their Part to clear themselves from those Imputations which they did in their Protestations Petitions and other Writings by a Free Open and Vndisguised Representation of their Principles about the Nature and Constitution and Power of Particular Churches and also about the King 's Supremacy making it Evident that in all these Points they agreed entirely with the first Reformers even with them who sate up a Church at Franckfort in Queen Mary's day and had a Chief hand in Reforming the Church of England under Queen Elizabeth who settled Parochian Churches which for their Form are the same with Congregational as the only Churches of Divine Institution recognizing all the Superiorities and Preheminences which the Diocesan Bishop hath above the Presbyter to be only Jure Regio or Parliamentario so that as the Parochian Presbyters are of God's Institution the Diocesan Bishop is of the Prince's making and accordingly as every Creator takes care of his own Creature as God has Provided a Maintainance for the Presbyter the King hath also Endowed the Bishop which is as I take it the true reason why Sr. Thomas Ridley a Person Zealous for the Church in his View of the Civil and Ecclesiastical Laws Par. 3. Cap. 5. Affirms That God hath by his Word made Tythes due to Parochian Churches but not to Diocesan Bishops whose Indowments stood in good Temporal and Finable Lands which Gratious Princes and other good Benefactors of former Ages bestowed upon them The English Presbyterians keeping tightly to those Principles on which the Reformation began were Esteemed by the Nobility and Gentry to be Men of such Peaceable Principles as might be safely Indulg'd who therefore oft in Parliaments made Application to the Prince on their behalf On these Principles the late Union between the Congregational and Presbyterian was entered into giving so much Security to the Church of England that no Sincere Approver of it can have any hand in setting up that Government which endangers it Their being for any such Model is a being for what destroys those Churches which they themselves Believe to be of God's Appointment Nor Indeed can they be for the Divine Institution of any other Particular Churches than what are Congregational unless upon this Principle That the Catholick-Church-Visible is a Govern'd Society that hath a Supreme Power under Christ Monarchical Aristocratical or Democratical Authorized to Govern the Whole by Legislation and Judgment Which is a Notion so contrary to what not only all true Protestants in general but the English Presbyterians as well as the Congregationalists in particular are for that they detest and abhor it A Clear Conviction of these things upon mature Deliberation and a serious Observation of the Sentiments of our Wisest and most kind Friends with a sincere Desire that my Brethren may be cleared from those Aspersions which either through the Inadvertency of some of themselves or the Crafty Insinuations of their Adversaries hath been cast upon them and that they may continue in the Peaceable Injoyment of that Liberty which through the Auspicious influence of the Government they are Possessed of hath moved me to make this Apologetical Representation of their Genuine Principles Being strongly Perswaded that as our Governours will consider the Real difference there is between the Principles of the English and CLASSICAL Presbyterians and notwithstanding their Indignation against the Latter will always extend their Generous and Christian Compassions towards the Former So my Brethren of the Presbyterian Denomination will give some Evident Demonstrations of their sincere and Constant adherence to those Principles of the English Presbyterians as Delivered long ago in their Protestations c. and lately in the Heads of Agreement and Particularly to those Articles of it by which they are set at the greatest Distance from Intermedling with the National Church Form Farewel ERRATA PAge 49. line 20. for Especially read Specifically p. 61. l. 6. for as read and l. 16. for Ecclesiastical read Classical AN APOLOGY FOR THE English Presbyterians THE Prejudices which are in the minds of many against the Presbyterians in this Kingdom arising from some mistaken Notions entertain'd about the Principles which Men of that Denomination are said to embrace there can't be I think a more Effectual Apology made for them than what is done by an Impartial Representation of those Principles they do really own and what tho' laid to their Charge they do with the most Indignation and Abhorrence disavow I will therefore faithfully propose what the English Presbyterians for whom alone I make this Plea do and do not hold And for the greater satisfaction of my Reader I will set in the clearest Light I can the Notions espoused by the Classical or Scotch Presbyterians with which the English could never comply though upon the Supposal that they are zealous Defenders of that Classical Government they have fall'n under the Displeasure and Contempt of our Civil and Ecclesiastical Gonours SECT I. What are the Principles about Church-Government held by the English Presbyterians wherein they do differ from the Classical-Scotch-Presbyterians §. 1 THE Principles held by the English Presbyterians about the Constitution and Power of Particular Churches