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A91955	Episcopal government instituted by Christ, and confirmed by cleere evidence of Scripture, and invincible reason. / Collected by the pains of R.R. Preacher of the Gospell.	Rollock, Robert, 1555?-1599.	1641 (1641)	Wing R1885; Thomason E238_6; ESTC R4045	29,352	39

manner He took the Cup saying this Cup is the new Testament and Covenant in my bloud drinke yee all hereof and as oft as you eat of this Bread and drink of this Cup you shew the Lords death till he come saith the Apostle Paul 1 Cor. 11. Moreover Christ chose twelve Apostles in Analogie to the twelve Patriarchs that like as the whole people of God under the Law did proceed out of the loynes of the twelve Patriarchs so also Gods children under the Gospel should be begotten by the Ministery of the twelve Apostles and their Successors Hee chose also seventy Disciples in Analogie to the seventy Elders of the Iews whom Moses elected to govern the people of Israel under himselfe so our Saviour would have those seventy Disciples and their Successours to be spirituall Governours of the people of God under the Gospell Moreover Christ fasted forty days in the wildernesse in reference to Moses fasting forty days upon Mount Sinai Christ entred into his Ministery in the thirtieth yeare of his age in similitude of the Priests and Levits entring in their severall Functions So that there is nothing more probable in the Scriptures then that as Christ by way of Analogie did imitate the Iews in many things so also would hee have as many degrees of Church Governours under the Gospell as there was under the Law and that he would be chief Governour himself of both Churches But that ye may believe the truth of these things the better I will let you see that the Apostles also followed the example of their Master in the imitation of the Iews in many things As in the use of Lots conforme to the ancient custome of the Iews Matthias is chosen to be an Apostle so also they continued the use of an holy Kisse at their meetings yet if they had been as precise as many people now adays they would have abolished that Ceremony because Judas betrayed his Master with a Kisse and gave it in Commandement Greet one another with an holy Kisse saith the Apostle Paul so also the use of Love-feasts proceeded from the Jews for as after their Sacrifices they feasted one another so after the celebration of the Lords Supper they had their Agapae and Love-feasts which the Apostle Paul did not discharge but forbad them in publike and licentiates them in their own private families Have yee not Houses to eat and drinke in or despise yee the Church of God saith he The day of Celebration of the Sacrament of the Supper was ever a Festivall day to them but not a day of fasting as it is with many now So also the Custome of laying on of Hands was borrowed from the Jews Numb 8. in these and some other formes and Ceremonies the Apostle did imitate the Nation of the Iews but let these serve for an example The Primitive Church also followed the example of Christ and his Apostles in this Analogizing and in particular as in the Consecration of Priests some pieces of the Sacrifices were put in the Priests hands Exod. 29.9 Even so they put the Bible in the hands of the Minister at his Ordination this was done both by the Jewish Church and the Christian to teach both That no man taketh this honour unto himselfe but hee that is called of God so also they erected a Mother-church wherever there was a Bishop even as the Iews had but one Mother-church the Temple of Ierusalem because they had but one High Priest and therefore in respect that Bishops succeeded in the room of the High Priest in the government of the Church where ever there was a Bishop there they built a Mother-church and all the rest of the Churches of the Diocesse were but pendicles of her as the Jewish Synagogues were to the Temple of Ierusalem yea these Mother-churches they built them according to the similitude of the Temple of Jerusalem for as the Temple had the Most holy Place Holy place and atrium called the Court of the Temple or Sal. porch this for the people the Holy place for the Priests and the Most holy place for the Lord of Hosts to be as it were the place of his habitation to dwell between the wings of the two Cherubims there to give his Oracle even so in the Christian Churches there was a place appointed for the people another for Churchmen the third as the most holy place where the Sacrament of the Supper was celebrated as the onely memoriall of his presence left by himselfe under the new Testament as the Arke of the Covenant was under the Old So then since both the Apostles and the Churches of Christ in the Primitive Times did imitate the Iewish formes by way of Analogie it seemes to mee that in so doing they followed the example of Christ who kept an Analogie himselfe with the Iewish Church in many things but in speciall in the number and degrees of Church Governours Now I would ask my Authour by what reason hee thinks Christ should have diminished the number of Church Governours was the number of three Typicall or was the Church Government Typicall truly neither the number of three is mysticall indeed but not Typicall neither was the Government Typicall but as necessary now under the Gospel as it was under the Law for as Christ did not governe his Church immediatly by his spirit under the Law so no more doth he governe his Church immediatly by his spirit under the Gospel but as he committed the government to certain Governours under the Law so hath he committed it to certain Governours under the Gospel But it may be answered that he hath not committed it to so many degrees of Church Governours now under the Gospel as he did under the Law I perswade my self that my opponent shall never be able to prove that Christ behoved to doe this de jure or shew mee a reason why it behoved to be so yes hee will say of necessity the first degree behoved to be taken away because the High Priest was a type and figure of Christ and all types and figures were abolished by Christs comming Reply I grant all types and figures were abolished by Christs comming but I deny that the High Priest was a type and figure of Christ as he was chiefe Governour of the Church and that for these reasons First because then all Church Government should have beene abrogated by Christs comming for if Aarons Government was a type and figure of Christs Government then it will follow that Christ now under the Gospel should governe his Church immediately by himself without any subordinate Governours for if Church Government under the Law was typicall and all types abrogate it follows necessarily that there should be no Church Government now but Christs only Secondly If Aaron as hee was chiefe Governour under the Law was a type and figure of Christ then it will follow that Christ was not Supreame Governour of his Church under the Law for Types are of things to come

chiefly to the twelve and caused him to descend visibly even to the view of all the beholders upon their heads in the likenesse of cloven tongues of fire which for any thing we read he did not to the seventy In the thirteenth of the Acts Verse 1. we may behold this distinction with our eyes where Barnabas Simeon Lucius Manaen and Saul are called Prophets and Teachers and not Apostles for I thinke as yet Saul was not joyned to the number of Apostles at least hee was not accounted one so Paul makes this distinction when he takes to himself the honour to plant the Gospel and to lay the foundation and makes Apollos a waterer only and a builder upon the foundation Paul plants saith hee Apollo waters but God gives the increase 1 Cor. 2.6 Moreover Acts 8. we see a manifest distinction in Philip the Evangelist who converted the Samaritans and baptized them but Peter and John behoved to be sent out of Ierusalem to lay on hands and conferre the Holy Ghost but my opponent may say that Philip was a Deacon and one of the seven mentioned Acts 6. I answer we read of Philip the Apostle and of Philip the Deacon and why not a third Philip an Evangelist read Acts 21.8 he that was Deacon was there after advanced to be an Evangelist Alwayes wee gaine thus much that Deacons must preach and administer the Sacrament of Baptisme and therefore they are not Lay-men That Deacons are not Lay-men but Preachers and a third order of Church Governours it is evident Acts 6. for as soon as there was any need of men of that office that was when the number of the Disciples was multiplied they were chosen and elected by the Apostles yea they were elected too before the Apostles went out of Jerusalem separated themselves to preach the Gospell to all Nations for they behoved to be helpers of the Apostles and to assist them in the work of Ministery to have a care of the poore under them and to baptize new converts at their command that so the Apostles might give themselves to prayer and the Ministerie of the Word Acts 6.4 The truth of this may be seen Acts 10.48 where the Apostle Peter gives commandement no question to the Deacons to baptise Cornelius and those who were with him so we may see 1 Cor. 1. that the Apostle Paul attributes the care of Baptisme to others then the Apostles where he saith that hee was not sent to Baptize it being chiefly the charge of the Deacons but to preach the Gospell not that he might not baptise for wee see the contrary in the words but because the Apostles gave themselves chiefly to Prayer and the Ministery of the Word and committed the care of Baptisme to the Deacons and the administration of the Sacrament of the Supper to the Evangelists called hereafter Elders as may be gathered out of 1 Cor. 10.11 We see also Col. 1.1 a manifest distinction between Bishops and Deacons for the Apostle writes to them as their chiefe Bishop and Overseer for as yet the Apostle reserved the chief care of that Church to himself although some think that Epaphroditus was chief Bishop of that place howsoever we see two Orders here of Church-men and I hope none will deny but the Apostle was in order and degree above them we see them also made mention of in the Epistles of Paul to Timothy and Titus over whom Timothy and Titus are placed as their chiefe Governours so that it is more then evident that Christ and the Apostles continued three Orders of Church Governours under the Gospell But I know that it will be objected that there should be but two Orders of Church Governours now under the Gospel because Christ himselfe appointed but two Apostles and Evangelists both of them called at first Disciples only distinguished by their number twelve and seventie Answ Christ appointed but two indeed because hee supplyed the room of the High Priest himself neither would hee have any more during his own Ministery he was chiefe Governour of the Church himselfe and hee would have no Suffragans as long as he lived Where the King is present himself he needs not a Commissioner nor a Vice-roy Again had Christ chosen three Orders in his owne time then there should have been foure Orders of Church Governours all the while of Christ his Ministery upon earth First Christ himselfe for I hope no man will refuse Christ for one and for the chief too and the other 3 ordained by Christ Now our blessed M. Saviour because he would keep Analogie so farre as I can conceive with the number and degrees of Church Governours under the Law he would choose but two and leave the third to be added by the Apostles after his departure which they did with all diligence as we may see Acts 6. That our Saviour used this analogie in this I will prove by other particulars wherein he observed the like analogie and first in the number of the Sacraments as his Father appointed but two under the Law Circumcision and the Paschall Lambe so hee appointed but two under the Gospell Baptisme and the Supper of the Lord the one to succeed in place of Circumcision the other in place of the Paschall Lambe And againe as Circumcision did represent unto us the guilt of sin so our Saviour would have Baptisme to represent to us remission of sins And as the Passeover represented to the people of Israel their bodily deliverance from the bondage of Egypt so our Saviour would have his last Supper to represent to us our spirituall deliverance from the bondage of sin and Satan When our Saviour instituted Baptisme hee devised no new Ceremony but took that Ceremony of Washing which the Jews used in their Purification appointed it to represent our spirituall washing from sin So likewise in the Institution of the other Sacrament hee did not devise any new Ceremony to represent his Death and Passion but took the last part of the Paschall Supper and appointed it for that us●e The custome of the Iews was after the Supper was ended and the Paschall Lambe caten hee that was Master of the Feast tooke as many pieces of bread as there were people present at the eating of the Lamb and there behoved to be between the number of ten and the number of twenty for there might not be fewer then ten nor more then twenty and gave every one a piece saying these words This is the bread of affliction which your Fathers eat in the wildernesse and thereafter hee took the Cup and gave it to them saying This is the cup of affliction which your Fathers dranke in the wildernesse Now our Saviour Christ reserved the same Ceremony for the Text saith that first he took bread and after that He had given thanks he brake it and gave to every one a portion and said This is my body which is broken for you Doe this in remembrance of mee And in like