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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A30879	Leitourgia theiotera ergia, or, Liturgie a most divine service in answer to a late pamphlet stiled, Common-prayer-book no divine service : wherein that authors XXVII reasons against liturgies are wholly and clean taken away, his LXIX objections against our most venerable service-book are fully satisfied : as also his XII arguments against bishops are clearly answered ... so that this tract may well passe for a replie to the most of the great and little exceptions any where made to our liturgie and politie ... / by John Barbon ...	Barbon, John.	1662 (1662)	Wing B703; ESTC R37060	239,616	210

c. a See Grot Annot in Cassandr de Potestate Ecclesiastied Potestas Ecclesiae Praepositis ut quaedam constituant pacis ordin is majoris utili●atis causa quae nos obligent negari non debet Id Animadv i● Animadv c. p. 62. 6. The XX. Article of the Ch of Eng saith expressely That the Church hath power to decree Rites and Ceremonies and authoritie in Controversies of Faith 7 Paul commands Bishops to take care for the ordering of God's Publick Service 1 S. Tim 2. 1. where the words refer not to the private Devotions of particular persons but to the Divine publick Service of the Church as S. Chrysostome Theophylact Oecumenius among the Antients Estius the Romanist for the Church of Rome and also Calvin for the Protestants have interpreted 8. For what he adds about exercising dominion or as he puts it in marg lordship over the faith of Christians which saies he Paul an Apostle and Timothie a Bishop would not do we have considered the place b 2 Cor 1. 24. as also the matter here charged alreadie and shewed that our Bishops lie not under that guilt to be sure they are not necessitated by their Function so to do To his Twelfth and last Argument fetch'd from a Comparison instituted between them and the Bishops mentioned in Scripture particularly Timothie and Titus whereupon we are presented with XV. positive Characters of those holy Bishops together with XXIV disparallels 'twixt them and our Bishops Answ 1. To argue from the personal abuse of the Office to the non-use Vnwarrantablenesse Un-Scripturalnesse or Necessity of the Abolition of the Office is a most irrational processe 2. The faults possibly of some few men of an Order or Function ought not to be diffused upon all of that Calling even by congruitie of pure-natural Reason Parcito paucorum diffundere crimen in omnes 3. In his several heads of Description of Bishop Timothie and Titus we shall shew some particulars to be either falslie assigned or peculiar and restrained to those first times and then demonstrate the other Characterisms to belong to our Bishops also 1 The Choice of the persons was never in the People as appears by Cl Romanus's Testimonie above-cited which exhibits that the Bishops were made before there were any believers to choose So that 't is not imaginable how the examination and approbation could belong to the people or the whole Church when those over whom they were constituted were not yet come-in but they were made Bishops 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 of those which should after come into the Faith a See Doctor Hammond's Answer to Owen's Animedversions c. p. 88. The people's choice therefore was nor is no way required to nor constitutive of the being or constitution of Bishops which was compleat and stood valid without it though 't was most happy when the People's acceptation followed And for the choice of the Episcopi gregis as some will call them as contradistinct to Episcopi Pastorum they are indeed chosen by the consent of the People but that for the avoiding of factions and tumults b Adde and out of respect to those Lords of such Countrey towns where were Titles or Churches endowed with maintenance out of their own Lands c. who 't was thought fit should therefore have great interest in the choosing of Clerks in such places which purpose is Justinian's Decree to Novel Constit 123. c. 18. Canon Conc. Toletan Yet were they not called Lords of such places after dedication to God but Patrons c. The like is said of Emperours and Kings in reference to both Bishops and Presbyters See Dr Field of the Church l. 5. ● 54. p. 695. ib. c. 55. p. 701 c. incident to Popular Elections transfer'd upon the King and the respective Patrons 2 Of his Texts refer'd unto the first Act 6. 3. imports 't is true that the Nomination or Choice of the persons of the Deacons there was committed to the Communitie or Societie of Christians but that 1 by the Appointment of the Apostles declared to them v. 2 3. 2 they had by the Apostles these bounds set them first to take seven the number not left arbitrarie secondlie to pitch on men generally known and well reputed of thirdly with these qualifications 1 Faith supposed in the 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 some of you that is Believers Christians 2 fulnesse of the H. Ghost extrordinarie Gifts 3 fulnesse of Wisdom fitted by all these for this employment And when by the Apostles Appointment together with the observation of these prescribed Rules the multitude had sought-out the persons then still the Apostles reserve the 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 the Ordination or Constitution of them to themselves v. 3. and so in other Churches the Testimonie concerning the qualifications of the persons was refer'd to the Church Now as this is all we can grant him so 't is not that he designs Of his other place though I discern not so easily the pertinencie of it to this matter yet I set for the summe of it That the whole Church indeed joyned in the choosing and sending Messengers to Antioch with the Apostles and Elders or Bishops of Judea but that with a discernable distinction The Apostles and Elders as they whose Decree or Appointment it was it pleased or seemed good to the Apostles and Elders to send chosen men the choice and mission belonging to them and the persons sent men of them Bishops of the Council but this with the knowledge and approbation of the whole Church joyned with them as those that were Accessories not Principals in the sending Neither v. 23. were the Brethren members of the Council nor had voices in it they onely joyned with the Apostles and Bishops shewing their consent and approbation and submission to the Decree of the Council * 'T is acknowledged that Timothie and Titus travelled about preaching and in that respect they may be styled itinerant preachers But then 1 it is one of the things that is yeelded and accounted extraordinarie in those first ●fficers of the Church viz. the Extent of their Precinct or Diocese which of the Evangelists also was the whole World or those special parts of it which the Apostles had allotted to one another whither when they could not go themselves the Evangelists were sent so that they then were to make great and often journeys and be much upon Removes in those times and 2 became resiant or fix● also at length as is or will be manifest * 'T is acknowledged that they were Attendants and Ministers to the Apostles and were Messengers of the Churches but this visibly was an Extraordinarie unlesse the Apostles should revive again upon Earth and the Bishops attend them and be sent by them c. Why therefore doth he not say also that S. Timothie was circumcised and then exact that our Bishops that they may be like Timothie c. be circumcised also for this