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A62252	Toleration with its principal objections fully confuted, or, An answer to a book intituled, Sions groans for her distressed, &c. offered to the Kings Majesty, Parliament, and people wherein is pretended to be proved by Scripture, reason, and authority of fifteen ancients, that equal protection under different perswasions is the undoubted right of Christian liberty, but, hereby confuted : wherein the power and proceedings of the Kings Majesty and the Church are vindicated / by H.S.	H. S. (Henry Savage), 1604?-1672.	1663 (1663)	Wing S765; ESTC R24513	70,771	96

sacra c. 11. And I more wonder that these men should say that there is not one word for them in the New Testament or that they should be set up by us as Antitypes of the high Priests under the Law No Christ is onely that Neverthelesse in regard of the distinction which was an Ecclesiastical thing among the Jewes I say that the Bishops do resemble the High Priests and the inferiour Clergy the other Priests For there were in this respect many High Priests at once of whom we read many to have been assembled together Mark 14. 1. every one of which was summus sacerdos istius Classis the High or chief Priest of that Rank These ranks had their several courses Zachary was of one of these courses viz. of that of Abia Luc. 1. 5. not all these but one only was typical shadowing forth Jesus Christ unto them And even in this High Priest there was something besides the representation as is plain by St. Paul who yielded his obedience to the High Priest as governour of the people Acts 23. 5. and that after the Type was expired which had been unlawfull had there not been somewhat remaining in him besides the figure Eleazar in Aaron's life-time was Princeps Princip●m or Pralatus Pralatorum Num. 3. 32. and yet not reputed a Type of Christ and 2 Chron. 35. 8. we read of three at once one onely whereof was the High Priest which was the Type of Christ the rest were not so yet by reason of their dignity paramount to others might resemble Archbishops themselves And the other forementioned High Priests in regard of the place they held above the rest of their Classe are in a sort resembled by our Bishops And that this may not seem strange to any 't is a matter obvious to our observation that scarcely any Ordinance or Order under the New Testament can be named which is not derived from others under the Old by some kind of resemblance intended between them Imposition of hands by the Apostles was taken up in imitation of that practised under the Old Testament for the designation of successors as Moses used it towards Josuah Num. 27. 18 20. That the whole frame of Church Government answers to the like order and distinction of persons and offices in the Old Testament is evidenced by the learned Bishop of Winton in a scheme to that purpose thus drawn viz. Aaron should be resembled by Christ Eleazar Archbishops Princes of Priests Bishops Priests Presbyters Princes of Levites Archdeacons Levites Deacons Nethinims Clerks and Sextons And hereunto he is led by the opinion of the ancient fathers who seem to be of the same mind viz. that the same form should serve both so is St. Cyprian so St. Hierome St. Lee and Rabanus de vita clericor The Government of the Church of the Old Testament saies the Archbishop of Armagh was committed to Priests and Levites unto whom the ministers of the New Testament do now succeed in like sort as our Lords day hath done unto their Sabbath So he in his Original of Episcopacy and if it were reasonable for Christians to take the Jewes for their pattern in drawing their scheme of Church government much more is it for modern Christians to follow the ancient a thing which our Church has done in her reformation which has retained all things of ancient usage in the Church of Rome lest men should be scandalized at us whilest we seemed to set up a new Religion instead of reforming the Old The very Lords Prayer hath much of conformity not only to the forms used by the Jewes as others have observed but also as it seems to me to the very design of the sacrifices of the Law which are all reducible to three kinds The first was the whole burnt-offering to God as absolute Lord of Heaven Earth and as one to whom belongeth honour from us should he never bestow any special favour upon us The second was the peace-offering whereby to obtain at his gracious hands all those blessings and the degrees thereof whereof men stand in need whether publick or private as also to expresse a thankfulnesse for all blessings and for all those gracious returns he makes to the prayers of his people from time to time or at any time The third was the sin offering for the expiation of all or any transgressions of his holy and divine commandments and for health of soul In conformity whereunto our Saviour hath in that perfect and absolute form taught us to offer by him a spiritual holocaust to the honour of his name who inhabits eternity in these words Our Father which art in heaven hallowed be thy name Secondly a spiritual peace-offering for the advancement of his Kingdom in us and the adimpletion of his will by us as also for a supply of all outward necessaries in these words Thy Kingdom come thy will be done in earth as it is in heaven Give us this day our dayly bread Thirdly a spiritual sin offering for the forgivenesse of sins past and for prevention of sin for the time to come in these words And forgive us our trespasses as we forgive them that trespasse against us and lead us not into temptation but deliver us from evil And these not without a doxology as a spiritual Libamen or meat-offering without which no burnt-offering was to be made under the Law in these words For thine is the Kingdom the power and the glory for ever and ever Amen And so having not only proved the order and distinctions of Ecclesi●sticks under the New Testament but also the first Liturgy so the Lords Prayer is proved to be by Cassander in Liturgic●s ex Dionysio and stands undeniably true to be instituted in resemblance of the like under the Old Testament I come now to prove the jurisdiction that they have one over another and over the rest of the Church wherein two things are to be considered in relation to o●r Bishops viz. 1. Their power 2. The distribution of this power As for the first Their power is so connatural that the chief Judge in Areopagus was a Priest hence Cohen in Hebrew was a common name to Magistrates and to Priests Gen. 41. 45. Potipherah was Priest h. e. Prince of On. The Druides among the Galls were of the noblest stock of kindred they were so in Epirus and Cappadocio it was usual as well among the Grecians as Romans for Kings to be Priests and as Schedus de Dis Germ notes out of Fenestella the Priest was never made a distinct person from the civil Magistrate till the expulsion of Kings out of Rome and that this power so challenged by the voice of Nature in the Heathen themselves is warranted by the Scriptures of the New Testament I shall have occasion to shew anon in answer to their objections against it Mean while I shall prove the second thing considerable viz. The distribution of their power And this is distributed according to the

confess that they are something that is not ceremonial Their deceit they would have lye under the ambiguity of the word Type For 1. it is taken for a material print or impression made by nails or otherwise as John 20. 21. and such types they cannot be 2. For the sum of an Epistle or the like as Acts 23. 25. and such they cannot be 3. For a shadow or adumbration of a thing or person to come and this by their own confession or rather affirmation they are not for this were to make them ceremonies which they will have to be contradistinguished from types 4. For a form of doctrine Rom. 6. but Organs c. and Voices are not forms of doctrine 5. For an Image or Statue Acts 7. 43 and this they cannot be neither these being the work of Painters and Engravers 6. For examples to be feared 1 Cor. 10. 6. but these they cannot be there being no judgement in all the Scripture inflicted upon any that used singing or musical Instruments no nor threatned against them unless such as abused them to luxury 7. For a samplar to be followed Phil. 3. 17. and as it were a copy given to be taken out by others And such Types they are being proposed to us to be imitated under the Gospel and no other as has been proved by us and confessed by themselves Sect. 5. AS for Vestments the same may be said of these as of Musick That though under the Law they were typical of things to come under th● Gospel yet under the New Testament they are not so but meer distinctions of persons serving and of services to be performed which we learn not from the Law of Moses alone but from that of Nature too The Sacrificers among the Heathen had their Infulaes h. e. Sacerdotates vittas The Druides performed no facred services without the leaves of Oak and not only the Germans but the Greeks adorned their Altars with green leaves of Oak In the Rites performed to ●eres they were crowned with Oak in those to Apollo with Bayes in those to Hercules with Poplar in those to Bac●hus with Myrtle The Victims and Vessels were likewise crowned Sched de Dis Germ. c. 1. In all which was a decency intended agreeable to the work they were about It is very obvious how full the New Testament is of declamations against the abominable practices of the Heathen yet let these men tell me where in all the Epistles of the Apostles these or the like Ceremonies were reprehended I know some would have me say as Pliny does namely that the Druides sacrificed in white garments that they might thence infer our Surplices to be a Ceremony derived from Heathens and abused to superstition And was not the Oak abused by the Druides to superstition being had in so great veneration among them And yet our late Reformers gave order which was universally observed accordingly for the Acorn the fruit of the Oak to be set upon the top of their Maces and Crowns and that instead of the Cross which had never been abused by the Heathen who had it in detestation as a figure most unlike that which is best pleasing to him they worshipped h. ● the Devil Which thing so done by them was nevertheless of happy presage to us viz. That the tree which bore such fruit should like that in the Plains of Mamre serve for the shelter of our earthly Angel King Charles from the heat and fury of Rebellion which was then in the very Noon until the Cross reassumed its place again upon the top of his Crown So unlucky are contentious spirits many times that they confute themselves by going about to condemn others Oh but these men accounting themselves the only Saints and Servants of the most high God any thing they wear or do must be sanctified to them For to the pure all things are ture but unto them that are defiled and unbelieving is nothing pure And if so then they must prove that our Church consisteth of unbelievers that it teaches and practises the uncleanness and other abominati●ns of the Heathen so often noted by the Apostles yea our very worship of God to be unclean and abominable before they can conclude our Ceremonies to be unclean and unlawful But whilest we maintain the worship of the true God and give up our selves to be ordered by his Laws we are pure and consequently to us all things are pure Tit. 1. 15. a thing which cannot be said of them whilest they would have any error in doctrine or worship yea blasphemy it self to passe unpunished which is the whole drift of this their Sions groans Wherefore definant maledicere malefacta ne noscant sua Let them look into themselves and their own practises and they will find little reason to think themselves in Heaven much less to pull up the ladder after them as if none were worthy to follow St. Paul pleads not for this decency only but for order two 1 Cor. 14. which doubtless was used also among these Sacrificers And therefore as well for the expediency of the thing in it self as the avoiding of the imputation of rudeness and confusion wherewith the Grecians here were apt to load them the Apostle concludes the Chapter with this Canon Let all things be done decently and in order since therefore they can prove nothing but decency order and usefulness in such ceremonies as we use what they say against them must go for nothing and prevail as little with us as a Rationale would with them Which should I produce whereby to give an account of particularities it would not make me justly liable to the dicterium of Beza in his Epistle to the Prince of Conde put before his Translation of the New Testament cast upon those who as he saies collabentibus aedium fundamentis de instaurando fastigio laborarunt Sect. 6. AS for Bishops there are some we read of in the Scripture who had the appellation to be called Bishops but were not distinguished into a superiour order above others Others were both called so and distinguished into an order superiour unto others and these are the Bishops here meant by us Such were Timothy and Titus as we learn from the several Epistles written unto them by St. Paul Such were the seven Angels of the seven Churches of Asia in the Revelation in the judgement of Dr. Reynolds in his conference with Hart in the end of the third and the beginning of the fifth Division and in the judgement of the Archbishop of Armagh of the Original of Bishops and Metropolitans both printed together Those who by these Angels would have the Churches to be meant do manifestly contradict the Scripture For saies Christ there the Candlesticks are the Churches and the stars are the seven Angels of the Churches I wonder therefore saies Grotins what spirit of contradiction carries men away that they dare confound things which the Spirit of God so manifestly distinguisheth de Imp. sum not circa