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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A45405	Considerations of present use, concerning the danger resulting from the change of our church-government	Hammond, Henry, 1605-1660.	1682 (1682)	Wing H528; ESTC R11941	9,937	23

of the great fruits of Government and if it may be agreed that it is very expedient and will be taken in good part that Governours hereafter be more severe as well as more diligent more couragious as well as more laborious in using the Weapons of their warfare to cut off or to cure without any respect of persons wheresoever there is need of them I shall hope this objection will then be throughly Answered if as yet it be not A second consideration apportioned to the former head will be this whether supposing Government of the Church to be a considerable part of Religion the change of it from Established Episcopacy to any other namely to that of Prebytery by many without any Superiour over them or as that is opposite to Episcopacy be not a sin against Religion That it is or will be so I shall endeavour to convince the gainsayer by these steps or degrees of proof which though perhaps not each single yet all being put together will I believe where prejudice doth not hinder be sufficient to doe it 1. Because this Government by Bishops superiour to Presbyters is of Apostolical Institution But this being an affirmation as demonstrable by Ecclesiastical Records as any thing can be or as the Canon of Scripture which we receive is demonstrated to be the Canon of Scripture and in regard it hath by others been sufficiently proved I shall therefore wholly spare the repeating of that trouble and add unto it 2. That it hath the example though not the distinct precept of Christ who with his twelve Apostles and the many other Disciples in time of his residence upon Earth superiour one to the other are the copy of which the Bishops Presbyters and Deacons in the following Age were a transcript who are therefore by St. Ignatius S. Johns Contemporary allowed to receive honour the Bishops as Christ the Presbyters as the Apostles the Deacons as the Seventy 3. That as far as concerns superiority of one order to the other which is sufficient to eject the Presbytery which supposes an 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 or equality of all it is Authorized by sacred Scripture-practise where it appears that when Judas fell from his orbe of motion the dignity of being one of the Twelve is by the direction of the Spirit and by lot bestowed upon Matthias who though before a Disciple of Christ was not till then assumed to that dignity Fourthly that supposing it to be in this manner Apostolical there is little colour of reason to doubt but that the preserving of it is of as great moment as many Doctrines of Christianity not only because many doctrines were not so explicitely delivered by Christ but that they needed farther explicating by the Apostles and are therefore by the Church grounded not in any words of the Gospel but in the Epistles of the Apostles but also because it was in Gods providence thought fit that Government should be setled not by Christ personally but by the Apostles that is mediately by Christ as doctrine was by Christ immediately Christ in his life time gives them the ground of a Church divine truth the word of his Father the acknowledgment of which is the rock on which his Church is built on this the Apostles are to build and gather members and to settle the whole edifice 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 or ordinately and that they may not err in that work the Holy Ghost is promised to descend upon them and Christ by that power of his to be with them in eminent manner 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 to the end of the world And Government being necessary to the setling was undoubtedly thus referred and left to them by CHRIST and so their Authority in instituting that which they instituted as evidently deduced from CHRIST as their power of Preaching what they preached or baptising whom they baptised And having gone thus far I cannot but resume my consideration thus far made more considerable and appeal to any sober conscience whether it be not some irreligion thus to displace or remove that which the Apostles to whom only by Christ it was intrusted according to Christs own Samplar and Scripture-grounds thought fit to settle in the Church supposing it to be a matter of Religion which is spoken of as before we proved nay whether if an Angel from Heaven were to be anathematized for teaching any other Doctrine than what one Apostle had taught it would not be matter of just terrour to any that should have any part in the guilt of instituting any other Government than that which the Appostles had instituted especially when the acts of Councels tell us that what S. Paul denounces against the heterodox Angel the Church did practise against Aerius anathematized him for impugning this Government which now we speak of And if still the Authority of all this be blemisht by this one exception that this institution af the Appostles is not affirmed in Scripture or there commanded to posterity to continue and retain for ever To this I answer by saying that which may be a fourth Argument to prove the irreligiousness of such change That there is as much or more to be said in both those respects both for mention of this institution in Scripture and for Apostolical precept for continuing of it for this Government as for some other things whose chang would be acknowledged very irreligious I will only instance in one the Institution of the Lords day of which there is nothing can be said to the setting up the Authority and immutability of it which will not be said of Episcopacy A ground of it there was in nature some Time to be set a part to the special publick service of God and the like ground there is in nature for this that some Persons should be designed to and rewarded for the special publick service of God A pattern of that there was among the Jews one day in the seven designed for Gods Quotum or portion the like pattern there is among the Jews for this a Government by High-Priests and Levites That was an Institution not of Christ in his life time immediately but of his Apostles after his departure invested with such power the like Institution there is of this by the same Apostles after Christs Ascension directed and assisted by the holy Ghost The occasion of pitching on the first day of the week was a solemn action of Christ his Resurrection on that day the occasion of this the several distinct orders in the Church in Christs time Christs Apostles Disciples and the manifest superiority of him before all of them who affirms himself their Lord even when he speaks of his office Ministerial his coming to Minister to them and of the Apostles before the Disciples as even now was shewed The mention of that was found once in the Revelation distinctly 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 the Lords day and twice or thrice in equipollent terms the first day of the week and the mention