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A88109	Yperaspistes or a buckler for the Church of England against certaine queries propounded by Mr Pendarvis (late lecturer of Wanting) called Arrowes against Babylon. By way of reply to the most remarkable passages contained in them, and an addition of severall anti-queries in the close. / By William Ley Minister of the Gospell at Wanting in Bark-shire.	Ley, William, b. 1620 or 21.	1656 (1656)	Wing L1888; Thomason E882_1; ESTC R207277	27,478	28

that which is unprofitable or Noxious for lack of which the sincere part may be infected It is my Prayer that God would put into the heart of our Cyrus to set up the hedge of discipline in the Church and curbe the insolent d Magnum est Probrum quod inter fili●s Dei locum habent Porci Canes Zanch. T. 2. affronts of such as grumble to let the Children eate their own bread except they may prophane the banquet with their unhallowed lives and Persons Parliament and Synod here is a second ground to answer your grand querie Whether England be Babylon For a Parliament and Synod are the State and Church Representative If they be gold and silver though the commonaltie be some of them drosse our feare need to be the Iesse Math. 21.42 43. When the builders reject Christ and great men in office God doth either overturne them or the Nation If we have not forgot our Logick it tels us that parts are either principall or lesse principall e Quibus ablatis tollitur totum Principall are the head and heart if these be sound there is no great perill lesse principall as finger hand foote which though taken away the whole still retaines its old denomination The f Tibia Paralysi vel 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Laborans vera quidem est Tibia Twiss Vind. Gratiae contra Armin. Errat 8. §. 13. p. 39. in 40. defect therefore that kills is not in integrall parts but essentiall A man may live though his Arme or Legge be Paralyticall syderated or mortifyed with a Gangreen Q. 8. Whether the saints and Servants of God ought not to declare the Church of England to be indeed no Church of Christ 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 but a Daughter of Babylon God forbid rather let our Names be blotted out of the Book of Life then God should thus reject his people I see your distempered Argument is now at the height therefore I will expose it to view and then cut its nerves asunder the summe of all that hath been spoken or hereafter perhaps shall be spoken may be reduced to a Prosyllogisme and a Syllogisme The prosyllogisme runnes thus Rome is Babylon S. John bids us fly from Rome Ergo from Babylon The Syllogisme is this An incurable Daughter of Babylon is to be departed from But England is an incurable Daughter of Babylon Ergo to be departed from I deny the Minor and answer to the Predicate N. 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 and to the Determination of it That shee is neither a Daughter of Babylon nor Incurable Let England be taken here not 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 but 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 for the noble part and most principall not for the degenerate part of the Commonalty Ob But you will say will it not be granted That she was a Daughter of Babylon in Queen Maries daies Sol. The relation may be taken away from the Subject while the subject remaines as though she might be a Daughter of Babylon in Q. Maries daies a Mauere potest Materiale sublato formali Melanct. Log. Membrum Christi posse esse membrum meretricis nullam in se continet 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Twiss Vind. Grat. p 94. yet she may be a Daughter of Reformation in Q. Elizabeths daies and in ours That you may see how easy 't is to play the part of an Opponent I will frame an Argument 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 or by way of Recrimination Incurable Authors of Confusion in Church and State are to be declared b 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 M. P. Q. 15. Babylon for so the name Imports according to your own judicious observation of it But such were and such may be the c Anabaptistae nuper nati etiam Turpiter docent conjun gem debere descendere a Conjuge abhorrente a Secta Anabaptistica alicubi per seditionem pepulere Legitimos Magistratus Melanct. Loc. Com. p 188. in 80. This mav induce the Judicious reader warily to observe that remarkable passage discovered by M. Tickell Antiq 4. concerning M. D. Anabaptists or Catabaptists if we believe the Common opinion Ergo they are to be deserted I leave you to distinguish betwixt the Germane and Brittaine Anabaptists and Time to verify the Premises Q. 9. Whether a bare forsaking of the Nationall Church 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 and a verball declaring against it is a sufficient witnesse bearing for Christ And whether Gods People ought not to hold forth a true Baptisme and Church Worship To this I answer Non sumus Milites sed Piscatores What we embrace not by our gathering is for the present reputed as a refuse No other Power is given to the Church besides the Key of Doctrine and Discipline such as are unworthy are they not excluded by these Where the word of God is Purely taught the Sacraments Purely administred a People that Honour God by Publique Profession and dishonouring him not by their Conversations There is the Church saith Luther whether they be few in number or many And from such in regard of Christs spirituall Presence and Residence it is dangerous to separate Trouble not your selfe any more with a Notionall Nationall Church already answered Q. 3. Zancheus is contented to a Non Inficiamur multa esse vitia in nostris Ecclesiis Avaritiam superbiam inhospitalitatem c. neque Magistratus admodum solliciti sunt ut haec vitia ab Ecclesiis Christi tollantur sed omnes quae sua sunt Quaerunt Zanch. T. 2. p. 78. confesse and so the Prophets what they cannot remedy There are many vices saith that good man in our Churches Covetousnesse Pride Inhospitality which is a matter of greatest grief unto us but above all the remissenes of inferior orbes in the State fabrique refusing to redresse sundry enormities such are Carding b Lex sine Executione est Campana sine Pistillo Buc. Chronolog Dicing Drunkennesse Swearing Sabbath breaking Acts of Hostility to Religion while all seek their own few or none the things of Christ Thus farre Zancheus Hold forth a true Baptisme What is that Anabaptisme An unscripturall unwholsome Ceremony Erroneous in regard of the Forme and Subject First of the Forme for sundry are Rebaptized with a threefold demersion which is Popish as is related by Sleiden c Baptizant Eutychiani non in Nomen Trinitatis sed in Morte Christi solum Euseb Ecc. Hist l. 7. p. 376. Arriani Baptizant in Nomen Genitoris Geniti spirantis Voce Pater Natus Corpore Flamen ave tota Triuitas in Baptismo Christi se vid. praebuit Til. p. 884. de Bap. others are Rebaptized only in the name of the Lord Jesus contrary to his sacred Institution who commandeth to Baptize in the name of the Father Sonne and Holy Ghost And though you may tell mee of some in the Acts that were Baptized only in the name of the Lord Jesus Acts 19 5. These places are not to be understood of the forme of Baptisme but of the End and Scope of it for the whole Vertue and Efficacy of Baptisme is contained in Christ because he only doth bestow what Baptisme signifieth It is the nature of some to Innovate as the Arrians that Baptized In nomen Genitoris geniti spirantis and the Eutychians that Baptized not in the name of the Trinity but

ΎΠΕΡΑΣΠΙΣΤΗΣ OR A BVCKLER for the Church of England Against Certaine Queries Propounded by M R PENDARVIS late Lecturer of Wanting called Arrowes Against Babylon By way of Reply to the most Remarkable Passages contained in them and an addition of severall Anti-Queries in the Close By WILLIAM LEY Minister of the Gospell at Wanting in Bark-shire Ecclesia dum Contemnitur profecit dum Laeditur vineit dum Arguitur intelligit Tunc stat cum superari videtur Hilar. Zechar. 3. And he shewed me Joshua the High Priest standing before the Lord and Sathan standing at his right hand to resist him v. 1. And the Lord said unto Sathan The Lord that hath chosen Jerusalem rebuke thee is not this a Brand plucked out of the fire v. 2. OXFORD Printed by LEON LICHFIELD Printer to the Vniversity for THO. ROBINSON 1656. To The Right Honourable COLONELL SIDENHAM one of his Highnesse Councell of State SIR HAving offered A Sacrifice of praise to God for that great deliverance which was wrought for the Ministry in preventing the subtile designes of such as would have subjected the Gospell to the Law In the next place I waited for an occasion whereby I might shew my selfe gratefull to the Instruments that procured this liberty for us and broke the snares from off our feet while we were almost sinking under the burthen of legall triall And Sir though it graciously pleased his Highnesse to grant a publique and seasonable redresse for which we stand dutifully engaged to his Highnesse yet in particular you were the happy Medium whereby the first dawning of deliverance appreached For in my first addresse your answer was no lesse Accurate then Cordiall while you resolved to Crush the designe before its full birth and to make it finem operantis if not operis and indeed blessed be God you made it finem 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 an end of the Artifice as well as of the Artificer To you therefore Worthy Sir I presume to dedicate this ensuing Discourse It is a Buckler both for Church and State against some Arrowes lately darted at us by M. P. who hath attempted to prove our England Babylon and our Ministry not to say Magistracy Anti-Christian I know Sir it is safer to contend in words then deeds And that the Arrowes of the tongue are more blunt then the Arrowes of the Feild yet I favour the peace of Jerusalem so much that I would not willingly have her shot at in a Type I will not speake so a Munceri lactantia Sleid. Com. boldly as to say I dare take up all the Arrowes he hath shot against England in my skirt I leave the Reader to judge of the issue Yet I hope by vertue of this Buckler I have vindicated the cause of Church and Common-Wealth and placed them 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 out of all perill of being endamaged by his Quiver If this be not enough the Author is willing upon so great an interest if need require not only to interpose his Buckler but expose his life and to become a publique Sacrifice The Lord ever preserve this Church and Common Wealth and make you yet farther instrumentall to accomplish his manifold and glorious ends which is the prayer of Your Honours Humbly devoted Servant in Christ WILLIAM LEY To the Author of the Queries SIR YOU have presented the world with Queries and whether you desire a Solution of them or a compliance with them will soon be decided by your Acceptation or rejection of this ensuing Answer Had the first part of your Booke been Correspondent with the two last I suppose you had deserved encouragement But seeing your Arrowes against Babylon are indeed prepared against England I stand amazed to think how England that is so farre distant from it in place and so lately distant from it in Affections should so soone be crept to Babylon by a Retrograde Motion her Rulers and Watchmen not aware of it and the Primum Mobile of the Nation at this houre preparing a formidable Army against it Me thinks the Tendernesse of the subject calls for a moderate hand it is the Church of God and who can expresse how cheary we should be in giving her a bill of Divorce or instigating others to give it before shee be manifestly Proved to be an Harlot yea an obstinate one whom no admonition or conviction can cure But I will cast aside the speech of Babylon for the present till I meet with it againe in your papers and view the Type of it which is Aegypt as your first Query doth unfold it selfe Q. 1. VVHether Israels going into Aegypt their Bondage and their deleverance were not Typicall 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 And whether this hath not been confessed by all the Godly party in England c. Ans 1. Though Symbolicall Argumentation by Types and Figures be like a Feather in a Souldiers Cap more for shew then for service yet if we distinguish Types into Necessary and Arbitrary there will be some just occasion for this present query This Type is mentioned by the holy Ghost Revel 11.8 Spiritually called Sodom and Aegypt It is also acknowledged by a Si compares Romanum Ischarioten caeteris in orbe Tyrannis qui sunt fuerunt vel esse possunt videbis illos fuisse Vmbras Tyrannicas corpus autem Tyrannum ipsum esse Remanum Idolū Luther b Whitaker Praelect in Sacram. p. 109. in 4º Whitaker c araus in Revel p. 496. Paraeus and sundry other famous Divines We grant you therefore that upon the same account that we hold Circumcision to be a Type of Baptisme we doe receive this of Aegypt to be a Type of Rome but of this briefely because we allow it and 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 only observe by the way as there is but one Aegypt Literall so there is but one Mysticall for what is true in the Type is also true in the Antitype We now agree like sundry travellers at our setting forth if we part hereafter upon the rode it shall be upon Sober and Religious Grounds for I hope you count it with me a main branch of our Christian freedome to keep no man company farther then he is or if rightly informed would be a companion to the Truth Q. 2. Whether the Church of Rome and principally the Head of that Body the Ecclesiasticall Powers the Pope 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 with his Cardinalls be not Mysticall Babylon Revel 17. and whether those Characters may be applyed to any Church whatsoever as to the Church of Rome Ans 2. That the Church of Rome is Mysticall Babylon I supsuppose an ingenuous a Famosa dicam an Infamis Meretrix fornicata cum Regibus Terrae Illa quidem es Quam in Spiritu sacer vidit Evangelista illa eadem inquam es non alia sedes super Aquas multas Petrarch Ep. 16. Berk. Evid p. 62. Papist will not deny but that the particular Characters laid down by the holy Ghost to describe Rome are as applicable to any State whatsoever no ingenuous Protestant will grant for all know the nature of