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A59764	The excellence of the order of the Church of England, under Episcopal government set forth in a sermon at the visitation at Blandford, Anno 1640 / by William Sherley ...	Sherley, William.	1662 (1662)	Wing S3240; ESTC R21422	23,064	42

raised a Question Aug. de Civit. Dei l. 9. c. 15. whether or no in case Adam had not faln there should have been a Sub and a Supra any Subordinations at all in the Societies of Men and seems likewise to incline to the Negative for that the very first time we meet in Scripture with the word Servant which too according to the forecited Fathers observation is in the 9th of Gen. and the 25th it being there spoken by way of a Curse he from thence collects that Nomen istud Culpa Meruit non Natura Sin alone and not Nature gave a Being unto that Condition Yet for certain ever since the Fall as matters have stood without an orderly Series of Men wherein as in a Predicament some may be Summa Genera above others Species Infimae beneath and a third between both Genera subalterna there can be no subsisting for any one Society whatsoever This being so necessary for all Common-wealths as that without this so many Men being but as so much confused Rubbish or like a multitude of Stones lying in an heap together come to be without any benefit at all each of other whereas being once disposed of to such divers uses and several places as they by their education have been fitted for they then may make not an handsome onely but a good serviceable piece of Building And if it be thus in the State then doubtless must it be more then so in the Church She having ever been esteemed an Hierarchy whose Members ought in that manner to be ranked and sorted into higher and lower Classes as that hereupon upon at the 6th of the Canticles and the 4th she is likened to an Army with Banners nay however an Army having once displayed her Banners and going on upon a March be a great Desciple and Servant unto Order yet is it conceived by St. Chrysostome Chrysost 10 Hom. in 1 Ep. ad Thess 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 that the Church in Her Discipline is and ought to be more precise and regular then the Field Military is in its For hence Beloved came it here to pass that my Apostle Saint Paul having planted now a Church in Corinth suffers not those Elders whom he had there ordained to be their own Bishops or reciprocally and by turn as it were to be Governors each to other but knowing that in the Church especially nothing could be more unequal then such an equality He therefore holds in his own hands the reigns of Government he himself reserves unto himself Episcopal Jurisdiction which too he did not onely exercise for that year and half alone mentioned in the 18 h of the Acts and the 11th that he lived amongst them all which time 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 as the word used there by the Holy Ghost in the Orignal is most observable he sate there and governed as a Bishop in his Cathedral but being once removed and absent he grew even in this respect the bolder towards them whilst in this very Epistle at the 4th Chapter and the 21 Verse he threatens them a whipping with his Apostolical Rod at the 5th Chapter and the 5th Verse he sends out a thundring Excommunication against the Incestuous Person at the 11th Chapter and the 2d Verse he constitutes Canons and Ordinances whereas at the sixteenth Chapter and the first Verse he enacts a special Edict for the observation of them Nay finally that it might appear that he was not wanting in any one particular that might declare him to be their Bishop he acquaints them here in the Text that for the Ordering of all such matters as in that Church of theirs were yet out of Order he himself would come and visit them and who is there but will acknowledge that without all contradiction the less ever hath thus been visited by the greater So that if we lay all together and adde to this his visiting here those other Episcopal Acts of his but now spoken off which he did otherwhere and then however that illiterate ignorant Scotchman for before so Learned an Assembly as this Scoti 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Paraclesis contra Pan. Tileni Paraenesin to whom now I speak the Author otherwise then so is not worth a naming hath in a jeer as silly altogether as himself been pleased to snear it out that Profecto Paulus fuit Pessimus Dominus Episcopus Verily Paul was but an ill Lord Bishop yet will it hereby appear that Saint Paul for however the Man for fear of Idolatry dur'st not bestow the Saint on the Apostle yet Religion hath taught us better manners then not to do it that I say even Saint Paul himself did in his Authority Lord it as much as any of those our Reverend Prelates whom he out of the depth of his ignorance can by no means fancy Neither ought it to be conceived as a Marvel that my Apostle so early now at the first erects this kinde of Church-Government amongst the Clergy here at Corinth since as if this were in a manner natural and essential to her the Church seldom or never hath anciently been observed to have stood without it Thus in the old Testament we finde that amongst the Jews there were not onely Priests and Levites but an High-Priest also who was even then so lively an Emblem of Episcopacy as that hereupon 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 and Summus Sacerdos have since familiarly been used in the Writings of the Ancients no otherwise then as Synonoma's with the word Bishop Whereas in the New it is to be read that our blessed Savior whom Ignatius is not afraid to call 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Ignat. Ep. ad Magnes Tertull. l. 4. cōtra Mar. c. 35. and after him too Tertullian Authenticum Dei Patris Pontificem all other Bishops being as it should seem but Copies onely taken from him like one of that Order licenceth the Twelve together with the Seventy to Preach the Gospel until at last immediately before his ascension lifting up his hands and blessing the Apostles Luke 24.51 Aug. 97. quaest de Novo Test Per istam manuum impositionem as St. Austin seems to believe Apostolos ordinavit Episcopos By that laying of his hands upon the Apostles he ordained them to be Bishops Sure I am that Antiquity thought it no prejudice at all to the Apostles to have this Opinion of them and therefore Theodoret. l. 4. c. 18. Basil Cyprian Ep. 65. Hierom ad Marcellum as the Greek Fathers were wont to call Episcopal Government 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 and 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 So likewise who knows not but that it is as usual with the Latine to stile the Apostles themselves in plain terms Bishops as having no meaner authority for this then that of St. Peters own example who in Acts 1.20 speaking of Judas his Apostleship calls it there by no other name then by 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 his Bishoprick But though Episcopacy lived in these Renowned Worthies yet may

to make his own Eyes their over-seers whil'st for that purpose he here doth promise by way of Visitation to come himself first amongst them Neither may we imagine that my Apostle came to write so well as he did without a Copy as having many good precedents which directed him to this particular course of proceeding which here he took Thus in that very first Visitation which ever was held for the setting in Order again our first Parents after that irregularity of their's which they had committed Venit Omnipotent the Almighty Himself comes in Person to view the Delinquents For they heard the voice of the Lord walking in the Garden Gen. 3.8 Nay however this All knowing Visitor by reason of his Omniscience might justly have sentenced them without a Tryal yet before he proceeds so far as the Act of Excommunication for the expelling them out of a Paradice he vouchsafes as Chrysostome very well observes 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Chrysost 17 Hom. in Gen. To ask questions receive their answers and then again to question them farther And why all this but onely to teach such as sit at the Stern of the Church this Lesson That they draw not suddenly the Spiritual Sword upon every trifle But as often as there is just occasion given to unsheath it that they forget not the Words of the fore-cited Father 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Chrysost loc suprae citat to use much deliberation and have themselves an inward seeling of heart before they strike as being at such times for to consider that even in this very act they cut off a Limb from the Body of that Church whereof they themselves are Members I list not to mention the Lords ordering of Cain for the Blood of his Brother Abel the doom that he passed on Sodom the punishment wherewith he confounded Babel Though in all these God had his Venit and his Visitavit also for he went down to see whether their defaults were answerable to that Cry that came up unto Him Having onely begun with the first Visitation which the Lord ever held I shall end my Observation with that last Visitation which He intends to make that general one I mean when 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 for so 't is stiled by St. Peter 1 Pet. c. 2. v. 12. as in the day of an Episcopal Visitation both quick and dead shall be summoned to appear before his Consistory And though I dare not with the boldness of the School-men resolve on the Ubi or the place where the Lord shall then sit and Visit and therefore cannot direct you to what particular part of the World that great Visitor of Heaven and Earth shall then bend His Progress yet that the Lord even then shall have his Venit a coming likewise you have the Authority of an Apostle for it 1 Thess c. 4. v. 16. the Lord himself saith St. Paul shall descend from Heaven with a shout with the voice of the Archangel and with the Trump of God the Saints arising out of their Grave to meet Him in the Air shall welcome Him as those Ancients did their Prelates coming into their Cities with Acclamations and Shoots of Joy an Arch-angel shall be His Voice His Cryer and Heaven it self shall sound that summoning Trump more powerfully then that Bell which ere while for this purpose you all heard rung to call you together And since that God Himself hath had His Comings His Visitations no marvel that the Church of God in imitation hereof hath had Hers whereby She endeavors to heal those Breaches which that great Compasser of Sea and Land Latimer the Devil quo non habet Anglia Episcopum diligentiorem as old Father Latimer was pleased once to express it in those his Visitations likewise inflicts upon her A practice of that Antiquity as that even in the Old Testament may you finde some plain foot-steps of it thus Eliah you read at the 2d Book of Kings and the 2d Chapter went from Bethel to Gilgal from Gilgal to Jericho and from that to Jordan visiting the Children of the Prophets in all those places which doing too immediately before his being taken up to Heaven He seems to intimate by the very time it self wherein He did it that the Act was Divine and Heavenly which He left till then to be performed Neither stood Eliah in this Point alone whil'st in this one particular undertaking of his the later Prophets succeeded him no less then they did in his office and therefore at the 3d of Zachary and the 7th are they as it is at least in the Hebrew stiled 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Walkers Whereas in the New Testament it said of our Savior that Great Bishop of our Souls for so is he called in 1 Pet. 2.25 that he visited us from on High Luke 1.78 nay that he went about all the Villages and Cities of the Jews teaching in their Synagogues the Gospel of the Kingdom Mat. 9.35 upon which place the Note of St. Hierom is Hierom. Comment in 9. c. Mat. Quod aequaliter vicis urbibus magnis parvis praedicavit That our Saviour preach'd equally the Gospel to the villages and cities both to the great and the small alike Non considerans Nobilium Potentiam sed salutem Credentium Not considering or having respect to the Power of the Noble but to the Salvation of Believers And where the Master of the House was such it may be well imagined that his Servants the Apostles would endeavor to shew themselves like unto him who were in this Point so active as that their Life seem'd little else but a kinde of a continued Visitation and the whole World but one great Diocess which they travelled over Isidor Pel. l. 2. Ep. 251. The time would fail should I tell you with what expedition those 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 for so are the Apostles stiled by Isidor those winged Husband-men did flie from this place to that from one Nation to another Country scattering the Seeds of Discipline in divers Regions planting some Churches confirming others reforming a third and visiting all That Book which is written of their Acts is full of no one thing more then of this Act of theirs Amongst whom nevertheless we may not but in an especial manner make a particular Remembrance of this my Apostle here in the Text St. Paul who having by his own acknowledgement in 2 Cor. 11.28 the care of all the Churches with so an indefatigable an endeavor went from each to other as that he appeared hereupon unto St. Chrysostome Chrysost 34 Hom. in Gen. 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 a kinde of somebody no-body a body without a body an Incorporeal Man The Sun it self seems hardly to go a larger Circuit then that which he visiting as his manner was the Brethren went over Read but this Itinerary as it is drawn out partly by St. Luke in the 20. and 21. Chapters of the Acts and partly by