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A63876 Animadversions upon a late pamphlet entituled The naked truth, or, The true state of the primitive church Turner, Francis, 1638?-1700. 1676 (1676) Wing T3275; ESTC R15960 53,553 71

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thither that they Personally examin'd all the People in that place who with one accord gave heed unto those things which Philip spake And yet they laid their hands on them being I presume well satisfied with Philip's account of them and they received the Holy Ghost For Philip's Examination of them was in order to Baptism and after that it was usual to administer Confirmation and the Eucharist also to Adults at the same time For his Exception at Baptizing tolerated in Necessity to Midwives and he would gladly see any such thing in Antiquity Tolerated by whom by the Church Pray let him look upon the Rubrick concerning Private Baptism before he writes again where the words are these First let the Minister of the Parish or in his absence any other lawful Minister that can be procured with them that are present call upon God Yet were Tertullian now alive who knew the Customes of the Ancient Church as well I suppose as this Author he would not have censur'd our Church for Tolerating so much in that point For sure he goes much farther and will shew him somewhat more than this in Antiquity in case of Necessity such a Necessity they did believe of Baptism his known words are these that in such a case Quilibet Laicus ting it And I know not in this case and according to this Author's Principles what a Lay-man can do more than a Woman For the great things he speaks of the Power of the Keys in his Chapter of Church-Government they are well and truly spoken but so is not that which follows Yet this is in a manner quite relinquisht to Chancellors Lay-men c. The Church perhaps was never happier since the Reformation in men of this Profession that fill up those places with great Ability and Integrity and I add with great deference to their Superiours the Bishops No doubt they are most capable to examine and declare upon matter of Fact whether or no this or that person have done the fact to which the Canon has decreed Excommunication but they understand too well to think they have the Power of the Keys wherefore the Sentence where things are regularly done is pronounc'd by a Priest not by a Lay-Chancellour And his Similitude of the Parish-Clark jingling the Keys when the Rector has lockt any one out of the Church to which he likens those proceedings in the Spiritual Court is a Jingle it self and no better You will answer me saies he The Bishops themselves pass it over c. Truly in this you have reason and the blame must wholly light on them No I will not answer him so but I will ask him one plain Question Are the Bishops wholly to blame that the Canons of 1640 are not observed which make abundant provision against such Abuses or rather Are not those to blame who explode these Canons He tells us that in the times of Popery when Spiritual and Temporal affairs were all intermingled and horribly confounded the Bishops were frequently Lord-Keepers Treasurers Chief-Justices Vice-Roys and what not which is strangely Unapostolical and unlawful No men were greater Blessings to their times even in those times of Popery when they sat at the Helm than the Bishops 'T was Bishop Morton's Industrious brain that made up the Fatal breach and United the two Houses of York and Lancaster in the happy marriage between King Henry the Seventh and the Lady Elizabeth and it was under the Ministry of Bishop Fox who was Lord Privy-Seal and by his reaching Parts that the grounds were laid for a more happy Union between the two Kingdoms of England and Scotland in that Marriage which was design'd with a deep and long train of memorable Policies that the eldest Daughter of Henry should marry James of Scotland and the younger should ma●ch into France that so if ever they should come to inherit Scotland might be the Annexe to the Imperial Crown of this Realm and that England might never be in the nature of a Province to France In the Old Testament there are Examples enow of Priests that were Ministers of State those I confess were Unapostolical that is long before the Apostles but he will have much adoe to prove them unlawful He might have omitted Lord-keepers and Treasurers for Bishop Williams and Bishop Juxon's sake one of them as able in the Chancery as the other in the Treasury And whereas the King is graciously pleased at this time to bestow the great Seal of Ireland upon a Reverend Praelate there I hope this Author will not deny but his Majesty has put him into a lawful Calling But whereas in the end of this Chapter he justly complains of exempt Jurisdictions as meerly Papal and a thing altogether unknown to Antiquity wherein he is much in the right I wonder he does not discern his own Scheme concerning Bishops and Priests to be Papal too and that Presbyterianism has no pretence to Antiquity but what it has from Popery It was Pope Innocent the 4th whom for such pranks as these his Party celebrate for a most wise Pope who decreed that ex dispensatione deputatione solius Pontificis Romani one Priest might ordain another whosoever then writes the History of Presbytery should make it begin from Rome and not take its rise from Geneva who does not know that the Popish Schoolmen and Canonists have made it their business to degrade their Bishops and confound them into one and the same order with the Presbyters to exempt the Regular Clergy from Episcopal Jurisdiction and as many of the Secular as they please who made the Cardinals that were but mere parish-Priests and many of them no Bishops to this day superiors to all the Bishops nay Governers and Judges over all Prelates in the vacancy of the Popedom The Consistory of Cardinals is then their only head of the Catholick Church upon earth which is all one as if it were headed with a Geneva-Consistory both Papists and Presbyterians take down the Superior order and advance the middle only Mr. Calvin and his Followers will have all this depend immediately on Christ himself whereas the Romish Party makes it depend immediately on one they call Christ's Vicar For how vehemently did the Papalins even in their Council of Trent urge and press it That the Power and Jurisdiction was wholly given to the Bishop of Rome and that every particular Bishop being only de Jure Canonico may be removed by the Pope's Authority he that would see more to the same purpose let him consult the Cardinal Pallavicino if he will not trust Padre Paolo where he may read the long Speech of Father Laynez all to this effect But though I had prepared some Animadversions upon this Chapter too concerning Bishops and Priests yet it has been so learnedly confuted in a Sermon preached at Whitehall which I hear is to be published by His Majesties special Command that I shall not need nor presume to touch that Chapter Animadversions on his Charitable