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A28368	A remonstrance against the non-residents of Great Brittaine, or, Non-residency condemned by Scripture, by strength of arguments, by fathers, councels, canon-law, by the iudgement of reverend and learned divines	Blaxton, John.	1642 (1642)	Wing B3177; ESTC R4482	34,053	62

with all manner of learning we have abundance of quotations and allegations out of Fathers Schoolemen and other learning which no question edifies much and therefore we may be the better borne with and ought not to bee accused of idlenesse though wee preach but once or twise in a yeare Let Non-Residents know that they justly displease good men because they propound to themselves not Gods glory or the edification of the Church but their owne praise and applause To what end else is this vaine ostentation of Wit Eloquence Reading and all variety of learning wherein first they prevaricate with Christ pretending to wooe the soules of men unto Christ but indeed intending to win reputation to themselves Secondly they faile the hope and expectation of their brethren who repairing to them for instruction received no more benefit by their Sermons than Calicula's guests did by his golden banquet which onely delighted the eye but neither pleased the palate nor satisfied the stomack VVise and wholsome is the Counsell of Saint Hierome when thou teachest in the Church non clamor populi sed gemitus suscitetur stirre you up not the applause but the grones of the people Lachrymae anditorum laudes tuae sint let the teares of thy auditory be thy praises if thou canst with Peter pricke the people at the heart and make them say Men and Brethren what shall we doe if by discoursing of righteousnesse Temperance and Iudgement to come thou canst make Felix tremble thou shalt both glorifie God and procure honour unto thy selfe But if neglecting the glory of God thou ayme at nothing but thine owne prayse and commendation God will sure powre downe contempt upon thee for his mouth hath spoken it Them that honour mee will I honour and they that despise mee shall be lightly esteemed Our carelesse Non-Residents should from Schoole-masters learne a point or discretion they range their Schollers into Formes and though themselves bee never so learned yet they read unto their seuerall Formes no deeper points than they are capeable of if they should doe otherwise well might they shew their learning they would shew no discretion neither would the Schollars be the better for that which they should teach them and let these men remember that it concernes them so to distinguish their auditors Some learned Divines will not use the Latine or the Greek tongue when their hearers have not Latine or Greeke eares and they will content themselves with the delivery of GODs word because their Auditors are content to take GODs bare word without any further band or Testimony and may not Non-Residents preaching in a Country Parish imitate such a worthy Divine as this They say a plaine Sermon is but like their ordinary Communication their meaning is when they are in a good mood that is not to bee understood of all times and in all places for to my knowledge they usually rayle upon faithfull Ministers when they are at their Tables at their Dice and in their conference with their idle companions but let these Cathedrall Non-Residents know that there be many Ministers in the Country that preach twice upon the Lords day constantly and keepe also a Lecture upon a weeke day and if their Sermons bee weighed in the ballance of the Sanctuary they will every one of them excell in worth those Sermons that they bring with them into the Country such as effect nothing else but quaint and curious phrases or are unmeasurable in their allegations out of all Authors both Ecclesiasticall and prophane or ●ore aloft in unnecessary speculations farre above the capacity of their auditors these over doe magno conatu magnas nugas take great paines and eviscerate themselves as it were to weave a webbe which when it is ended is fit for no other use but onely as an unprofitable thing to be swept away THough we be Non-Residents yet wee have done God good service executing the office of Magistrates and if we might still bee Magistrates wee would cut downe sinne and iniquity with the sword of Justice Hee is of a shamelesse forehead that will denie your desire to Magistrates how did they struggle for the sword of Justice at Salisbury enquire of the Citizens and they will tell you but it is unlawfull for Ministers of the Gospell to be Magistrates this appeareth by the words of our Saviour expressely forbidding his Apostles to be Rulers of Nations and leaving it to Princes the Kings of Nations rule over their people and they that bee great ones exercise authority with you it shall not be ●o that is you shall neither beare rule nor exercise authority over your brethren Object The word is {non-Roman} {non-Roman} {non-Roman} {non-Roman} {non-Roman} they over-rule their Subjects with injustice and violence you shall not doe so Answer Christ in that place doth not traduce the power of Princes as unjust or outragious but distinguisheth the calling of his Apostles from the manner of Regiment which God hath allowed the Magistrate Christ saith not Princes be Tyrants you shall deale more courteously than they doe but hee saith Princes be Lords and Rulers over thei● people by Gods Ordinance you shall not be so againe the word which Saint Luke hath is {non-Roman} {non-Roman} {non-Roman} {non-Roman} {non-Roman} without any composition They be Lords and Masters and Saint Paul confesseth of himselfe and other Apostles {non-Roman} {non-Roman} {non-Roman} {non-Roman} {non-Roman} not that wee bee Lords or Masters of your Faith yea the Compound {non-Roman} {non-Roman} {non-Roman} {non-Roman} {non-Roman} is with power and force to rule men whether they will or no not with wrong and injurie to oppresse them and therefore the conclusion is inevitable that Princes may lawfully compell and punish their Subjects which Bishops may not This distinction betweene them is evident by their severall Commissions which God hath signed the Prince not the Priest beareth the sword Ergo the Prince not the Priest is Gods Minister to revenge Malefactors Peter himselfe was sharply rebuked by Christ for using the sword and in Peter all Pastors and Bishops are straitly charged not to meddle with it All that take the sword shall perish with the sword and of all men a Bishop must be no striker for hee that should feed his Masters houshold fall to striking hee shall have his portion with Hypocrites The servants of God must be gentle towards all instructing those that resist with mildnesse not compelling any with sharpnesse their function is limited to the preaching of the word and dispensing the Sacraments which have no kind of compulsion in them but invite men only by sober perswasions to beleeve and imbrace the promises of God to conclude Pastors may teach exhort and reprove not force command or revenge onely Princes be Governours that is publike Magistrates to prescribe by their Lawes and punish with the sword such as resist them within their Dominions which Bishops may not

Magistrates p 36. l. 4. r. 〈◊〉 t. p. 37. l. 5 r. had l. 28. r had he p. 47. l. 8. r. denegarent A REMONSTRANCE Against Non-Residents CHAP. I. Non-Residency described Answer IT is an ordinary absence of the Minister from his charge namely from that particular Congregation committed unto him They that ordinarily reside not upon their Cures are not Pastors for a Pastor is he that resides upon his cure and takes care of the people to instruct them in the knowledge and feare of God and recals them when they go astray and comforts them in perplexities of conscience CHAP. II. In what cases the Minister is permitted to be absent Answer FIrst Sicknesse The Councell of Mentz 25. Can. If a Bishop be not at home or be sick or upon some exigent cannot be present at his Parish let him procure one who upon Sabbaths and Festivall dayes will preach unto his charge and Aug. testifies Epist. 138. that he was absent on the like occasion Secondly Allowance of the Church to be absent for a time upon some necessary and publique commodity for the same Col. 1. 7. Epaphras is their Minister but Cap. 4. 12. He being absent saluted them And Ambrose though hee were Bishop of Millan yet went he twisce Ambassador into France to make agreement betwixt Maximus and Valentinian Thirdly If by reason of persecution he be enforc'd to fly and see no hope to procure the safety of his people This made Cyprian to absent from Carthage as he testifieth in his Epistles But from hence our Non-Residents cannot justifie their ordinary absence from their Cures First Sicknesse is not the cause of their absence for their health serves them to live at Cathedrals and from hence to compasse all the Kingdome for preferments Esau did never more greedily hunt after Venison than these men after Dignities Secondly nor have they Allowance from the Church to be absent from their Parsonages and Vicarages in such manner as they usually are If they preach once or twice in a whole yeare in their Cures we must beleeve that have done God sufficient service and that they deserve many hundred pounds per annū for these great performances Thirdly nor is persecution any cause at all of their absence for they will not be persecuted for the Truth Armenianisme Popery and new * Canons withall the ridiculous ceremonies of the Church of Rome they will as willingly swallow down if the minds and pleasures of the High Priests be made known unto them as they devoure 2 or 3 Steeples CHAP. III. Arguments against carelesse Non-Residency 1 Argument THat which is not honest and of good report is not to be practised by the Ministers of Christs Gospell For the Scripture teacheth us that we should do such things as are honest and of good report providing for honest things not only before God but also before men absteining from all shews of evill But this carelesse Non-Residency as it is practised by our lazy Cathedrall Priests and other Non-Residents is neither honest nor of good report Ergo I prove the Assumption First by Scripture Secondly by Councels Thirdly by the Canon Law Fourthly by the testimony of learned Bishops and judicious Divines First by Scripture Ezek 3. 18. Ier. 48. 10. Cursed be he that doth the work of the Lord negligently Esa. 62. 6. I have set watchmen upon thy wals O Jerusalem which all the day and all the night continually shall not cease Ye that are mindfull of the Lord keep not silence and give him no rest till he repaire and till he set up Jerusalem the praise of the World Acts 20. 28. c. Take heed therefore unto your selves and to all the flock whereof the Holy Ghost hath made you Overseers to feed the Church of God which he hath purchased with his own bloud for I know this that after my departing shall grievous Wolves enter in among you not sparing the flock Moreover of your selves shall men arise speaking perverse things to draw Disciples after them Therefore watch and remember that by the space of three yeares I ceased not to warne every one night and day with teares 1 Pet. 5. 2 3. Feed the flock of God which depends upon you carying for it not by constraint but willingly not for filthy lucre but of a ready mind not as though ye were Lords over Gods heritage but that ye may be ensamples to the flock Secondly by Councels The Councell of Antioch the 17 Canon If any Bishop by imposition of hands inducted into a charge and appointed to governe a people do neglect to take upon him that office and delayeth to go to the Congregation alloted unto him such a one shall be prohibited from the Lords Table till he be enforced to attend upon that charge or at the least somewhat be determined by a compleate assembly of the Ministers of that Province The Councell of Sardice the 14 Canon We remember that our brethren in a former assembly decreed that if any Lay-man remaining three Sabaths or Lords-dayes that is three weekes in a City did not in the same City frequent the Church assemblies he should be excommunicated If then such things are not allowable in Lay-men much lesse in Ministers for whom it is neither lawfull nor convenient without urgent necessity to be absent from his Parish Church longer than the time above mentioned to this Decree there was not one Non-placet but every one saith it likes us well The 8 Councell held at Constantinople in the 24 Canon decreed that Ministers ought not to have their Substitutes or Vicars but in their own persons with feare and chearefulnesse performe all such duties as are required of them in the service of God The Canon Law doth conclude the same things Can. siquis vult Distinct 36. debent indesinenter c. The Bishop saith the Canon ought to be continually resident in Gods Tabernacle that they may learne somewhat of God and the people of them whilst they read often and meditate upon Gods Word Againe in the Canons intituled Pontifices Et si quis in Clero Episcopos qui Dominici gregis suscipiunt Curam c. The Bishops which take upon them to feed Gods flock ought not to depart from their duty lest they lose that excellent Talent which God hath bestowed upon them but rather strive with that one talent to get three more talents And in the 80 Canon of those which are termed the Canons of the Apostles there is expresse mandate that such whether Bishop or Senior who attendeth not upon their office in the Church shall forthwith be removed from that place The Calcedon Councell Canon 10. Let no man be ordained Minister of two Churches in two severall Cities but let him remaine in that unto which he was first called and if for vaine-glory he shall afterward go to a greater Congregation let him immediatly be recalled to his first charge and in that only