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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A87575	The angel of the Church of Ephesus no bishop of Ephesus, distinguished in order from, and superior in power to a presbyter. As it was lately delivered in a collation before the Reverend Assembly of divines. By Constant Jessop Minister of the Word at Fifeild in Essex. Imprimatur Charles Herle.	Jessop, Constantine, 1601 or 2-1658.	1644 (1644)	Wing J699; Thomason E42_22; ESTC R11787	72,800	73

it hath been an Episcopall thunderbolt that is to say brutum fulmen a thunderbolt which doth neither fright nor hurt any the denuntiation of this sentence being much corrupted that I say not quite altered from the practice of the Apostles and the Church in former dayes when no punishment was imposed without great lamentation of the multitude and greater of the better sort saith the a Lib. 4. p. 330. Author of the History of the Councell of Trent which he doth prove from those expressions of the Apostle b 1 Cor. 5. Ye have not lamented to separate such an one from among you And x 2 Cor. 12. I feare that at my coming I shall lament many of those who have sinned before But as for those amongst us which have challenged this power and taken it into their hands they have rather carried themselves like Salomons foole or mad-man which casteth arrowes firebrands and death and yet saith Am I not in sport Concerning this you are not ignorant what Hierome said of old y Presbytero licet si peccavero tradere me Satanae in Ep. ad Heliod A Presbyter may deliver me to Satan if I offend However this power hath been by the Prelates wrested out of the hands of Presbyters yet there have not been wanting those who when Prelates were in the height of all their pride and darted out their thunderbolts as it pleased them have maintained that the power of denouncing and executing that sentence did belong to the Presbyters I will only produce a witnesse or two in this and proceed z Defensor pacis part 2. cap. 15. pag. 256. Marsilius Patavinus disputing concerning the order of Priesthood or of a Presbyter for they are all one and the power of the Keyes to binde and loose observeth out of the forementioned Father the Church hath these Keyes in the Presbyters and Bishops and gives this reason why Hierome speaking of this power of the Keyes doth mention Presbyters before the Bishops a Preponens in boc pretbyteros quoniam authoritas baec d●betur presbytero in quantum presbyter primò secundum quod ipsum because this authoritie belongs to a Presbyter as a Presbyter primarily and properly From the same Authour I first tooke notice of this b Cap 6 pag. 165 in init albeit Timothy a Bishop as our Hierarchists say was then at Corinth when the Apostle gives charge to excommunicate the incestuous person yet we heare not a word of command to the Bishop to doe it but a mandate unto others When ye are gathered together and my spirit with the power of the Lord Jesus Christ to deliver such an one unto Satan The charge is given to the Presbyters of Corinth it was not the act of one but of c 2 Cor 2.6 many who did denounce and execute the sentence on him Had it been proper to a Bishop St Paul would not have so much forgotten himself as to lay the blame and burthen upon others and omit the mention of him I finde also that d Glos in caus 2 q. 1. ca. 11. verbo Excommunicet Ecclesiarum praelati de jure communi possunt excommunicare licet episcopi jam praescripserint contra multos praelatos Bartholomaeus Brixniensis and Johannes Semeca both Glossators of the Canon Law doe maintaine and prove even out of it that by right Presbyters may excommunicate though the Bishops by custome and Prescription have taken the power out of their hands The same Interpreters of the Canon Law agree in this also e Non debet Episcopus revocare sententias excommunicationis justè lat as ab eorum praelatis sine corum consensit Gloss in dist 50. cap 64. verb. injungere A Bishop ought not to revoke the sentence of excommunication which a Priest hath on just ground pronounced without the Priests consent which did pronounce it By this which hath been spoken it is evident I hope that though there were a Primacy granted yet at first the Bishop had no Superioritie of power much lesse was the power of Ordination or Jurisdiction put into his hands alone you are not ignorant that Calvin Bucer Bullinger and Zanchie have maintained that the Bishop was at first no other then a President of the Presbytery his Act and Office in their meeting as of the Consul in the Senate to propound matters to gather votes and declare the resolutions of the Presbyterie With what scorn this is rejected by our Episcopall Monarches you all know as if they were the meere fancies of Calvins braine and the testimonie of the rest which confirme their assertions by pregnant passages out of antiquitie slighted because they are Disciplinarians of the Geneva cut If Protestant Divines be not regarded let us see whether the judgement of a Fryer and consent of a Jesuite will be of more weight with our Prelates there is good reason to expect it considering that Papists and Prelates were so linked together in their votes whilest they had any Jesuites and Bishops are at this day as all the world seeth so neerly conjoyned in their designes The Fryer is Petrus Suavis that Historian of note who discoursing at large touching the Originall of Episcopall power and Church censures as they were anciently administred tels us f Hist of the Councell of Trent lib. 4. p. ●3● The judgement of the Church as is necessary in every multitude was to be conducted by one who should preside and guide the action propose the matters and collect the points to be consulted on This care due to the more principall and worthy person was alwayes committed to the Bishop Judge now I pray you Fathers and Brethren whether this be any more then to be a President of the Presbyterie or Senate Ecclesiasticall How the Bishops power came afterwards to be ampliated you shall there finde set forth to the full the passages are all of them too large for me to repeat or transcribe they are worth his reading that shall take paines to peruse them I shall only mention one g Ibid. pa. 331. The goodnesse and charity of the Bishops mark this I pray you he doth not say the Superioritie and power but the goodnesse and charity of the Bishops made their opinion for the most part to be followed and by little and little was the cause that the Church charity waxing cold and not regarding the charge laid upon them by Christ did leave the care to the Bishop and ambition a witty passion which doth insinuate it selfe in the shew of vertue did cause it to be readily embraced This and much more that Fryer in the same place The Jesuite is Salmeron who expounding the words of the Apostle to Titus I left thee in Creete to ordain Elders in every City positively affirmeth h Nec hoc loco permisit Paulus Tito ut praefi●iat omnibus ecclesiis ministros baec enim regia esset potestas ju● eligendi tolleretur ecclesiis