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order_n	bishop_n	church_n	ordination_n	3,732	5	10.3279	5	true

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A62487	Three letters of publick concernment as to the present affairs ... as also concerning the late publication of the covenant in all churches / by a person of quality and of a publick spirit.	Person of quality and of a publick spirit.	1660 (1660)	Wing T1097; ESTC R38805	11,970	30

as all our Laws and PARLIAMENTS have declared Thirdly That King CHARLES the son of his late glorious Father and our Soveraign hath de jure the same and cannot without Rebellion a sin as high as that of witch craft be denied him Fourthly That EPISCOPACY is of divine institution an order deduced through all ages of Christs Church and continued to us by lawfull and undoubted ordination Fifthly That Bishops have in all ages had Reverence payed them as the Pillers supporters of Christianity by their pious learned and painfull labours when living and propagating it when dead by their bloud shed in Martyrdome when one dying man made many living Saints Sixthly That it was not the Calling but exorbitancies in it not the Tree but the Luxurious branches these times at first complained of and desired to prune not dig up Seventhly That it was a Government admired and approved by all the Reformed Churches abroad as essential to the bene esse of a Church and by many learned Divines ancient and modern to the esse the very being of a Church Eighthly That Presbytery as propounded by our Synod of Divines is of a bastard extraction and a late birth being a stranger to antiquity and an alien lately legitimated amongst us a thing so far from being countenanced as it was never known in the Christian Church Yet waving all these and infinite more considerations I could offer humbly casting my self upon your mercy for a pardon of this deviation I shall not so much reflect upon your LORD-SHIPS reasons against introducing MONARCHY and EPISCOPACY as to shew you they were never taken away by any just power admit it were in the late PARLIAMENT when Full and Free for untill severall forces and violences were acted upon them and the Secluded Members denied their Votes There was no Regicide no murthering of the Heirs that the Vineyard might be ours no Votes for altering our ancient and BEST FABRICATED Government in the world but on the contrary ALL the PARLIAMENTS Protestations Declarations Actions and Covenants were for KING and PARLIAMENT Conjunctim not divisim and were so intended to be adhered to by our Confessours though not Martyrs the lately restored Members and onely surviving honourable mention of that expired Parliament Nor did the people of this Nation ever voluntarily contribute either of their persons or purses to other ends then the Parliament had declared even a confining of arbitrary power and keeping all things in their own bounds and channels a reforming a mending the the Watch not the taking it in pieces So as the peoples Interests in this are safe but cannot be entituled to the endeavours of the changes you mention without a just forfeiture of all they enjoy a maintaining of perpetuall divisions at home and inviting War from the injured persons and their now powerfull united confederates abroad having no Free nor Full Parliament to countenance them in such actings And that this was the sense the Covenant was taken in and of the Kingdome now in General I desire may be submitted to their Votes in the FREE REPRESENTATIVE to be called or that they may have a Ballut for it and then they will appear a hundred for one to make it good Nor is the glory of the City and opening of Trade at home and abroad to be boyed up by any other Engine than what the name of KING actuates It being the splendor of Courts encrease of Nobility Amities abroad and Peace at home that loads the Vine with Clusters and makes the Wine-presse to overflow as Londons experience evincingly may prove if we compare their now withering and formerly sprouting and flourishing condition together so as a COMMON-WEALTH in those and many other respects would rather prove a heightning to the disease than a remedy And for the Government of the Church so far as it is prudential it ought to be submitted to the Parliament and a Convocation of Divines justly called but what is of Divine Right in it ought to be preserved and preferred before our Lives and Liberties And therefore I most humbly contend for EPISCOPACY as an order at least if not to maintain it in its primitive glory and in that none can be sure there is a good Ordination without it unlesse in case extraordinary and that all doe agree the Ordination by BISHOPS lawfull we ought to chuse a safe before a doubtfull way as all Casuists agree However having fully as I conceive undermin'd the grounds and satisfied the reasons your LORDSHIP laid and urged for a Common-wealth I shall proceed no further upon this head since you have made my Conclusion That EPISCOPACY holds best proportion and symmetry to MONARCHICALL GOVERNMENT and that I have made it appear there neither is nor can be any other form justly introduced into this Nation Yet to take in all Interests and concenter them in a consciencious obedience the sinew of Government I wish both may be so moderated in their exercise of power as there may be no more leading into captivity nor complaining in our streets But that the KING with his PARLIAMENT and the BISHOPS with their Presbyters may joyn to make the close of our Harmony most melodious For thus our KING will have an inexhaustible treasure in the affections of his People and they best secure their Liberties in becoming their SOVERAIGNES Favourites which happy Espousalls I will yet hope to see YOU solemnize in a Concurrence with the whole nation whose desire it is as well as the prayers of Your EXCELLENCIES most humble Servant The third Letter Concerning the just placing of the Legislative Power and its Influence upon Ecclesiastical Laws and Persons Sir MVch is due to you for your many repeated favours but more for your Freedome in communicating your judgment upon the late actings of the men of these times which seem to be troubled with the vertigo in the brain by their giddy and suddain turnings of the man his reason out of himself and us out of all our dearest Liberties and rights Yet the Obligation swells highest by your humble descent in desiring from me any thing that might either convince or confirme you in your opinion concerning the Just placing of the Legislative Power and its influence upon Ecclesiasticall laws and Persons when I can but bring a Spark to your Flame However since your commands are to be submiited to by me not disputed I shall reflect my apprehension of it to you in a very contracted way in this surprise of time and be ready to support both by reason divine and humane Authority if it be required what I shall positively assert And to the first I affirme First That as God is the Spring and Fountain of all power it being essentiall in him and derivative only to us none can have any just propriety in the Legislative but such who are Commissioned for it according to Gods revealed Will by a Divine as well as Civill right Secondly That who otherwise takes or uses the