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A91190	A full reply to certaine briefe observations and anti-queries on Master Prynnes twelve questions about church-government: vvherein the frivolousnesse, falsenesse, and grosse mistakes of this anonymous answerer (ashamed of his name) and his weak grounds for independency, and separation, are modestly discovered, refelled. / By William Prynne of Lincolnes Inne, Esquire.	Prynne, William, 1600-1669.	1644 (1644)	Wing P3966; Thomason E257_7; ESTC R210038	32,460	24

l. 4. c. 12 13. l. 2. c. 33. See 35. El●z c. 1. † See 35. Eliz. c. 1. None are Conventiclers but Hereticks or Schismatickes who wholy seperate themselves from our publique Assemblies established by Law * 2 Chro. 15. 8 to 16. c. 34. 29 to 33 8. 29 10. Ezra 10. 3. Neh. 9. 38. c. 10. 1. c. † Psal. ● 8 9. Psal. 72. 8 to 18. Ps. 82. 8. Ps. 86. 9. Ps. 65 ● Ps. 67. 2 3. 4. 5. Isa. 2. 2 3. c. 9. 22 23. c. 11. 9 to 16. c. 54. 1 2 3. c. 60. 3. to 22. Mich 4. 1. to 5 Mal. 1. 11. Zach. 8. 22. Act. 13. 46 47 48. Matth. 28. 19 20. Mar. 14. 15. Rom. 10. 18 20. c. 11. 4. Isa. 62. to the end 1 Pet. 2. 9. 10. * Matth. 3. 12 c. 13. 24. to 52 c. 25. 32. 33. a Joh. 6. 70 71 b See Iudges Samuel Kings Chronicles Nehemiah Ezra and all the Prophets c See Pauls and Johns yea Christs Epistles to them Rev. 2 3. 1. Cor. 11. 13 to 34. c. 12. 12. 27. d Mat. 24. 14. 15. c. 26. 16. Luk. 14. 23 c. c. 13. 23 24. † ● Chro. 13. ●● to 14. c. 28 29. 2 Chro. 5. 2 c. c. 6 7. c. 15. 9 to 29 c. 17 7 8 c. c 20 3 4. 5. c. 24. ● to 16. c. 29. 3 to 36. c. 30. v. 31. c. 31. 29 to the end c. 35. 1 to 19. Ezra Neh. throughout Esth. 9. 17. to 32. * Dan. 7 9 13 ●● * 1 Cor. 13 11 12. c. 14. 20. c. 3. 1. 1 Pet. 2. 2. Heb. 5. 12 13 14. 1 Ioh. 2. 11. to 15. Ephes. 4. 15. 16 † 1 Tim. 3 6. † Ezek. 16. 13 * Rom 13. 1 to 7. 1 Tim 2 1 2 3. Tit. 3. 1 1 Pet. 1. 2. to 24 c. 3. 1. 1 Cor. 7. 1 to 18. Eph. 5. 22. 23. c. 6 1. to 10 Col. 3. 18 to 25. † See my Catalogue c. The unbishoping of Timothy and Titus A Breviate and Antipathy of the English Lordly Prelacy † See my humble Remonstrance against Ship-money * Deut. 12. 8. Judges 17. 6. 1. 21. 25. † Yea never more dangerous errours refuted suppressed then in the 4. first general Councels and some Synods since as that of Dort and other Protestant Synods in the Harmony of Confessions Where therefore they determine rightly you must submit unto them where they confirm apparent dangerous errours there you may vary from them when proved such * Th●●e are the true grounds of all s●parations Esa 65. 5. Luk. 18. 10 to 16. Iude 18. 19. witnesses the Novatians Donatists of old The severall orders of Monks Nuns Eremites Anchorites in the Church of Rome and their new order of Jesuits ●●th of them pret●nding more sanctity and strictnesse then anoth●r and so severing in their different orders habits Monasteries rules covenants one from another † Mr. Good●●ns Theomachia p 24 25. The Reply of two of the Brethren passion * Epistle to the Reader p. g. 11. 33. 4● to 52. b Page 18. 22. 52. and else Gamaliell Himselfe no Apostle nor Christian from whose words you yet take your text as Gospell was not altogether of this opinion * See Epiphanius Basil Augustine and all the Bookes of or against any Hereticks and Sectaries * Matth. 4 6. * Mat. 24. 11. 23. to● 27. c. 7. 15. 2 Cor. 11 13. 14 15. Ephes. 4. 14. 2 Thes. 2. 9. 10. Rev. 13. 2. to 18. 2 Ioh 10. 11. f Gal. 2. 4. to 1● * Rom. 19. 15. 16 26. h See Iustinian Cod. l. 1. Tit. 8. 1. Eliz. c. 2. 35. Eliz. c. 1. 2. i Page 21. 1 k See the London Ministers Petition against it l See 1 Cor. 21. 26. ● 10. 32 33. m See p. 30. to 52. o p. 3 4. 11. 12. p Ezra 1. 1. to the end c. 4. 17. to 24. ● 6. 2. to 17. c. 7. 12. to 28. Neh 2. 1. to ●7 2 Chron. 36. 22 23. Isay 44. 28. Dan. 3. 29. c. 6. 25 26 27. Ionah 3. 5 6 7. r Acts 24 c. 〈◊〉 26 27 28. 2 Tim. 4. 10. 17. ſ ● Tim. 2. 1 2. 3. Rom. 13. 1. to 7. Tit. 3. 1 t Matt. 10. 17 18. 21. c. 26 27. q Tim. 2. 1 Jer. 19. 7. v Page 38. to 40. Amos 13. 9. a. 15. Acts 4. 1. to 24. c. 5. 17. to 4. c. 6. 12 13. c. 9. 1 2. 3. c. 11. 2 ● 4. c. 16. 10. to 40. c. 18. 12. x Pag. 30. 31 y Amos 3. 3. * Esa. 9. 6. See my twelve Questions p. 7 8. Pag. 48 49 50. This he ●ore ●●fly expressed in a Sermon in Febuary last Note Gamaliell your Text never taught you any such Anti Parliamentary Doctrine Note * The people having power to elect Princes Magistrates Ministers Parliaments Synods have likewise authority to nominate such who by the rule of Gods Word may limit these particulars though not by their owne bare authority without or against the Word † Every Magistrate Parliament and Synod have power to declare and enjoin what is necessary to be beleeved practised by or according to Gods Word not without or contrary to it a See my Appendix to the soveraigne power of Parliaments and Kingdomes p. 122. to 131. Twelve considerable Queries p. 4 5. Independency examined p. 2 11 12. b Page 25 26 c Num. 22. 35 c. 23 24. 1 Sam. 10. Act. 5. 34 to 40 Joh. 11. 49 to 53. d Ioh. 6. 70 71 Mar. 6. 7. to 14 e Matth. 5. 1. c. 13. 1 2. c. 8. 18. c. 9. 36. c. 14. 14 19. c. 11. 32 33 c. 21 8 9 10. Luk. 8. 17 19. c. 8. 44 45. Joh. 6. 2 5. Mar. 12. 12 37. Luk. 13 17. c. 18. 43. c. 2● 38. c 22. 1. Joh. 7 40 43. c. c. 8. 2. Act. 2. 47. * This he confessed and appeared by a writing before the Committee of plundered Ministers * Or as well as himselfe extracts many spirituall Doctrines out of Gamaliels secular speech in these very sermons * Therefore your principall Argument that the seven particular Churches in Asia had no Iurisdiction one over another being under different civil Dominions and not members of the selfe same Christian Republike Ergo the whol Parliament and Church of England have no Iurisdiction over particular parish Churches or Independent Congregations in England is a meere Independency

the false Apostles lyars as he assirmeth but to debate and consider THIS QVESTION AND MATTER whether the Gentiles ought to be circumcised To his fourth I say that though this meeting was occasional yet it i● a sufficient warrant for generall meetings which are usually called only upon speciall occasions of moment In it there was a generall assembling of all the Apostles Elders and Brethren at Hierusalem where there were then divers particular congregations as our Assembly long since resolved from Acts 2. 6. 41 42. 46 47. c. 4. 4. c. 5. 14 15 16 42. c. 6. 1 to 9. c. 8. 2 3 4. c. 11. 1 2. c. 12. 12 13. c. 21. 17 18 23 22. which if Independents deny then they must prove that all the Apostles and Elders at Hierusalem were Pastors but of one and the self-same individuall congregation and then what becomes of their Independent churches which have no Apostle and onely one Pastor but scarce any Elders in them who upon this speciall and some other publike occasions met all together and that not to advise onely but determine and resolve as is evident by vers 6. to 32. c. 16. 4. c. 21. 25. which compared with the Texts of the old Testament in the Margin of my Quere where we finde frequent Nationall generall Assemblies Synods or Parliaments if I may so stile them among the Israelites prescribed appointed by God and no wayes contradicted revoked under the Gospel determining † all Ecclesiasticall controversies setling ordering all church-affaires matters concerning the Arke Temple Sacrifices Passeover Priests Nationall covenants Fasting-dayes Festivalls suppressions of Idolatry false-Worship Reliques of Idolatry and the like are an impregnable evidence of the lawfulnesse of Nationall Synods Parliaments Assemblies in all Christian Kingdomes Republikes upon the like occasions and that they are endued with equivalent authority there being no one Text in the old or new Testament nor any shadow of reason but meer shifts or obstinacy of spirit against publike goverment order and authority to controll it If any pretend they doe it onely out of conscience if they will but seriously gage their owne deceitfull hearts I feare their conscience will prove but wilfulnesse having neither precept president nor reason to direct it So as I may truely retort his owne calumny against me on him and his that his and their own name will or opinion is their onely argument against this shining truth which all ages Churches have acknowledged ratified practised without the least dispute To my ninth Quere and arguments in it he returnes nothing worthy Reply but upon this Petitio principii or begging of the thing disputed that the Scripture and Apostles have prescribed a set forme of Government in all after ages for the Churches of Christ which he neither can nor endevours to prove and that Churches in the Apostles dayes were Independent though doubtlesse all Churches were then subject to the Apostles Lawes Orders Edicts Decisions though no immediate Ministers or Pastors of them as appeares by their Epistles to them therefore not Independent so as my arguments hold firme and his answers weak As for his retorted argument That the Scriptures were writ in the infancy of the Church Therefore wiser and better Scriptures may be writ now it is a blasphemous and absurd conclusion they being all writ by the spirit and inspiration of God himselfe the very * Ancient of dayes who hath neither infancy nor perfection as the Church hath To his second that I would needs make a Nationall Church State more perfect understanding and wise th●n a congregationall I feare not to averre it since your selves must grant that the Church under the Law was more perfect then that before it the Church under the Gospel more perfect then that under the Law and the Churches under the Gospel at the end of the Apostles dayes when furnished with more divine knowledge Scriptures Gospels Officers and rules of Faith Manners Discipline more compleat and perfect then at their beginning to preach No man doubts that though a * new-born infant and Christian have all the parts and members of a man and Saint yet they have not so much perfection understanding knowledg judgment strength of grace or spirituall wisdome as grown men and Christians An aged expetienced growne Minister Christian is more compleat and perfect theu a new converted † Novice or Babe in grace Ergo a growne and Nationall Church then one but in the Embryo Your Independent Churches in their primitive infancy when they had but two or three members onely in them and wanted both Elders Deacons and other necessary church-officers as Mr. Sympsons church first did I am certain in your own opinion were not so complete and mature as you intended to make them afterwards by degrees a Village is not so complete a Republike or Corporation as a City nor a City as a † Kingdom nor a Family as a County nor a Consistory as a Synod nor a court of Aldermen as a common-councell nor that as a Parliament Therefore an Independent singular congregation not so complete as a Nationall church being oft enforced to pray in the aid of other churches for advice assistance c. as your selves confesse which an whole Nationall Church need not to doe In fine himselfe confesseth that the Apostles made new rules for government and discipline as occasion served and that as God fitted occasions so he made knowne new rules successively by degrees not at once and added new Officers as Evangelicall Bishops Elders Deacons Widowes Evangelists Doctors Pastors Teachers which some distinguish from Presbyters and define to be severall offices Therefore the infant Church in the Apostles dayes was not so compleat perfect in all parts as the multiplied and growne churches afterwards My tenth Quere he wilfully misrecites as he doth the rest else he had not the least shadow of exception against it as I propounded it and then returnes an answer by way of dilemma to it To which I reply That if the Parliament and Synod shall by publike consent establish a Presbyteriall church-government as most consonant to Gods Word the Lawes and Reiglement of this Kingdome Independents and all others are bound in conscience to submit unto it under paine of obstinacy singularity c. in case they cannot really prove it diametrally contrary to the Scriptures and simply unlawfull in point of conscience not by fancies or remote inconsequences but by direct Texts and precepts which they can never doe and that because it is thus commanded established by the higher powers to which in all lawfull or indifferent things wee are bound to render all chearfull obedience without resistance even for conscience sake by expresse Gospel Texts Rom. 13. 1 to 7. Tit. 3. 1. 1 Pet. 2. 14 15. which I wish you would practise better and make make more conscience of then now you doe As for his crosse Interrogatories I answer 1. That if the Popes Councels command lawfull things to those who