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A39997	A counter-essay, or, A vindication and assertion of Calvin and Beza's presbyterian judgment and principles drawn from their writings, in answer to the imputations of a late pamphlet, entituled, An essay concerning church-government ... attempting to fasten upon them an episcopal perswasion ... / by a minister of the true Presbyterian Church of Scotland, established by law.	Forrester, Thomas, 1635?-1706.	1692 (1692)	Wing F1594; ESTC R35532	63,101	86

up was an a●eration and 〈◊〉 from the Divine Rule and that which gave th● f●rst rise to Antichristian Tyranny we also heard that he disown even the inference of a Fixed Moderator from the Angel of the Churches we have also frequently Observed how that Calvin disowns the peculiarity of the very name Bishop to one Pastor as giving the least semolance of any difference in the Official power and function of pastors The Conclusion therefore of their disowning this Official preheminent power in Ordination and Jurisdiction assumed or rather usurped in after times evidently and necessarily fo●lows yea is so evident that Beza in his Treatise de Episcopatu triphci calls the Bishop assuming in after times this preheminence in Ordination and Iurisdiction over Pastors the Satanical Bishop and the poysoned egg out of which Antichrist was hatched Come we to the 4th Proposition of our pamphleter which is this thus Proposition 4. The president Episcopacie is approven by Christ in the Book of the Revelation Answer Upon the Proposition it self I shall only here again animadvert and remind the Reader of this man's pitiful palpable ●orgery and abusive Sophilirie in covering himself and his design all alone g●●der the Cloud and playing with the general terms of President Epis●●p●cie to give some semblance of truth unto his proofs as knowing that Calvin and Beza do express themselves modestly of the first Proestotes or Fixed Moderators who first took place but his Mediums and Methods of arguing do sufficiently unmask his pitiful folly for they do make these Divines plead for a Hierarchial Diocesian or Patriarchal Prelat of the highest degree with a fixed sole Power of Ordination and Jurisdiction yea shape● out after the measures of Apostolick Authority The first Proposition of his Demonstration whereby the premised assertion is fastned upon Beza is thus Demonstration Proposition 1. The seven Angels of the seven Churches written unto by St. Iohn in the Book of the Revelation are encouraged against all the devices of the ungodly upon condition of their continuing faithful in their Administrations for proof of which we are referred to Postulatum 4. Answer 1. This Proposition in it self considered we may safely admit without the least prejudice to our cause or help to his design We might on the by here tell him as our learned Mr. Gilespie admonished some of his fellows that the Scripture Saints we may add and inspecial such an eminent Saint and Divine as the Apostle Iohn needs no titles of Honour out of the Popes Callendar and was acknowledged such by the Churches before this Canonizing came in use And enquire whether our Author useth to prefix St. to Aaron when he names him who is called the Saint of the Lord together with Moses and other old Testament Saints and what ground of disparity and difference he can assign But to pass this 2. Since he referrs to Postulatum 4. where we have the same Proposition with an annext Sentence of Beza on Revel 2. 26. v. Where he expons My Works c. of the faithful performance of the works laid upon this Angel and shews that the Assembly of Pastors are bespoken in the person of the President to whom victory is promised if he rely upon Christs power c. I shall here only resume what we have answered upon that 4 Postulatum viz. That Bezas taking the Angel for a single Person is the utmost conclusion he can draw from this passage wherein as Beza differs from the ordinary current of Interpreters So we have evinced the gross palpable folly and forgery of this mans design and inference here-from viz. That Beza ownes this president Bishop which he hath shapen out and described since he cannot conclude from these words that Beza asserts his Official Preheminence and Authority over his Colleagues which we told him is so Demonstratively evident that Beza disowns even the very inference of the necessity of a fixed Moderator as following upon his Assertion anent the president Angel expressly adding this Proviso Caution to guard against any mis-application of what he sayes anent the Angel his being a single person and thus in terminis gives this Pamphleter the lie as if by a Prophetick Spirit he had forseen this forgery And holding the very first fixed Moderators to have been the humane Custom subsequent and opposite to the first divine appointment and practice of the Official compleat parity among Pastors our Lords enjoyning the Pastors faithfulness in their administrations and bespeaking them thus in the person of the President we told him will therefore in Bezas sense and words import no more then a faithful exercise of their joynt Collegiat Power and Authority which Beza holds was our Lords Institution and at this time is existent So we see the Major is nought The Assumption is Assumption But the Angels were President Bishops over other Ministers within their respective Churches For proof of this we are referred to Definition 4. Where we are told that the Angel of any Church representative is the President Bishop over other Ministers within the respective Diocess Province or Patriarchat which is proved by Beza Rev. 2. and 24. His words are To the Angel that is the President whom it behoved especially to be admonished and by him his fellow Colleagues To you the Angel the President and the Assembly of your Colleagues Answer We have upon that Definition fully discovered the folly and impertinency of this inference from the words of Beza and this Mans palpable shameless imposings upon him as if these words would bear the Conclusion of his owning a President Bishop with an Official yea sole Preheminence in Ordination and Jurisdiction over ordinary Pastors of as high a nature as he supposes the Apostle Paul exercised which appears by Definition 3. compared with its proof this his arguing we said is a shameless imposing both in that he supposes Beza to hold these Angels to be Patriarchat Provincial or Diocesian Angels or Bishops above 260 years before such a mold and cast of Churches was existent as likewise that every representative Church is Provincial Diocesian or Patriarchal and inferring this high Patriarchiall or Diocesian Prelat with sole power of Ordination and Jurisdiction from Bezas simple assertion of a president Angel in whom the rest of the Pastors were bespoken yea and bespoken as his fellow Colleagues viz of equal Official Authority in Bezas sense unless he will make him contradict not only himself but Calvin who expons and understands Colleagues thus yea and all this contrair to the express caution of Beza in the same very place who asserts that this his sense and exposition of the President Angel will not so much as bear the Conclusion of the necessity of a fixed Moderator which he holds to be a humane invention and that the Prelat of this Mans mold and pleaded for by him by these distorted citations gave the rise to the Antichristian tyranny If this be not shameless imposing let any rational man

that Church and that though it were granted to Epiphanius that he had some singular power there it may be denyed that he could have obtained any power over the Presbytery of Ephesus if he did not been an Evangelist adding this reason that Paul himself declares 1 Tim. 4. v. 14. That imposition of hands was done in name of Presbytry it self not by the Authority of any one Superior After he cit●s Augustin Epistle 19. asserting that by the Churches custome only Episcopacy was greater than the Presbyterat and Chrisostom saying on the first of Tim. 1 3. That in Ordination only the Bishop differs from the Presbyter that is saith he as Theophylact more clearly in the ceremony of Consec●ation only citing also Theodoret who upon Phil. I. writes that of old the name of Bishop and Presbyter were promiscuously used as one and the same He adds afterward that Paul did not excommunicat the incestuous Corinthian alone by his Apostlick Authority but by the Authority of the whole Presbyt●y and that Peter doubts not to call himself a fellow Presbyter that if all eminency of one Pastor over his Colleagues had been forbidden or rather never brought in by Men the ensuing contests about Supremacy had never rent the Church so far is this Device from being a remedy of Schism and finally he tells us upon his head that as this humane Episcopacy came in by a tacite custome advancing by degrees so we must understand of this human episcopacy as Antecedaneous to the Satanical whatsover Iustin Ignatius and other eminent Writers do speak of Bishops or rather of the first Presidents Authority 10. The Moderator of the Ecclesiastick Synod or Consistory who is to ask the Votes and moderat the whole affairs is for ths one end to be chosen by their common suff●ages or Votes which Office must expire and end with the close of the Synod Beza in Quest secunda referente Saravia pag 92. 11. No Scripture truth can be produced for a standing mission of the 70 Disciples to preach the Gospel after our Lords Ascension of a like nature and continuance with that of the twelve Apostles or that they were sent 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 or immediately The Apostles Mission Math. 10. Luk. 9 Mark 5. Was not that which is called peculiarly and properly Apostolick for which the Apostles were then wholly unfit but only a sort of preludie that all might run to hear Christ himself but these twelve Christ a●terward sent by a new Vocation and wholly different from the first for planting Churches through the whole World adorning them with a peculiar and aboundant grace of the Spirit both before his ascension into Heaven Iohn●● v. 22. As likeways chiefly in the day of Pentec●st adding more wonderfully the external Signs of this Legation from which Mission the Apostle doth therefore begin the rehearsal of the Apostolick ●unction and of others added thereunto Ephes 4. 10. v. 11. But of these 70 where is there any mention either about the time of our Lord's Ascension or after That Mission mentioned Luk. 10 is wholly diverse from that of Apostles Institute after our Lord's Ascension Had the 70. had such a standing Mission the Sacred Writers neither would nor could have omit●ed a matter so necessary mentioning only that of the 12 Apostles and granting it had been this will not infer any imparity of power betwixt them and the 12 Apostles or that Christ made them two distinct Orders or divided them in two Classes the after Institution and addition to the other that 's prior will not prove an Inferiority in that Mission of the 70 which Luke only commemorates What degree will we find whereby they may be subjected to the 12. Who had a prior ●ission That the Apostles were assumed by Christ as domesticks will no more ground their imparity with other Disciples than it will make Iohn superior to the other Apostles because a Disciple most dear to Christ beyond other Disciples it was the Apostolick● function which thereafter gave them a priority of Order and also of Power unto other Disciples Beza resp ad cap. 1. Sarav de divers Minist Evangel grad Refuting after the argument drawn from the addition of the 70 Elders to Moses Now from these passages of Calvin and Beza how clearly Presbyterian Government is asserted in its whole Structure and Frame and the opposite Fabrick of Prelacy subverted is obvious to the meanest capacity to conclude so that to insist in drawing forth Propositions to clear this s●ems a meer Battalogy and an attempt to shew the Sun with a candle Here we have asserted the extraordinary expired nature of the Function first of Apostles secondly of Evangelists as such Next that the Pastor who labours in the Word and Doctrine is the highest Officer left by Christ in his Church who has no Superior in Church administrations and therein the Prelates pretended Official Superiority is flatly denyed 3ly That no extraordinary Power of Apostles and Evangelists can ground a standing presidencie over Presbyters 4. That Church Government under the New Testament is to be administred by their joynt decisive Sufferage 5. That the Ruling Elder is standing Church Officer appointed by Christ c And in opposition to this Pamphleters forged Definitions Postulatums and Actions how easie is it from what is premised to bring forth Calvin and Beza's counter-assertions and present these great Divines as joyntly witnessing him a Liar and Calumniator therein As first that there was no standing preheminence in any Church-Officer above the Pastor allowed to Christ to be continued in the Church against the definition 3d and the pretended proof of definition 2d 2. That the Angel had no fixed presidency over other Ministers against what is pretended definition 3d. 3. That what is set down in Scripture anent the 70 Disciples sent out after the 12 Apostles will not give the least shadow of an Argument whereby different degrees of Ministers may be concluded against the scope of Postulatum first 4. That the Inspection of Timothy and Titus over Ephesus and Crete had no fixed power of Ordination and Jurisdiction over these Churches included therein in contradiction to Postulatum 2d 5. That the preheminency of one single person in Office unto other Ministers was never by Gods Warrand retained or practised by the Church for remedy of Schism against the scope of Postulatum 3d. 6. That these first Presidents introduced by the primative Church were not preheminent in Office unto other Ministers whereby the same Postulatum is again convict of Falshood 7. That not so much as a constant President can be warranted from the Angel of the 7 Churches against the scope of Postulatum 4th 8. That neither Apostles nor Evagelists their Office did found a standing official lawful Preheminency of an ordinary Church-Officer over the Pastor in contradiction to the scope of Definition 3d 4. Postulatum 4th Axiom 2d And finally that this official Preheminent office over the Pastor has neither a divine