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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A27115	The royal charter granted unto kings, by God himself and collected out of his Holy Word, in both Testaments / by T.B. ... ; whereunto is added by the same author, a short treatise, wherein Episcopacy is proved to be jure divino.	Bayly, Thomas, d. 1657?	1649 (1649)	Wing B1514; ESTC R17476	64,496	181

they admit of many being there is b●● one This I speak in reference to the Country not to particular men Neither is there a sort of Christians in the world who are less servants unto Christ if it be enough to make them so to be the greatest prophaners of his day for the Sabbath day is only distinguished from other daies by a Sermon in the Church and the Alehouse being full of Mechannicks drinking and carousing from morning untill night the shops are open and buying and selling all the day long excepting halfe the window which is to distinguish the day but the door is open to let in the buyers and the other halfe of the window is open to let in the light and wonderfully strange it is and remarkable to consider how these people who shook off their allegiance to their Prince upon pretences of Reformation should be so besotted as to fall into such a strange and unheard heard of prophanenesse of him and the day whereon Christ himself is to be worshipped as in their Metropolis or chief City to have a dog ●arket kept to the utter scandall of ●●ue Religion and Christianity it selfe ●●is is no more then what I have seen ●●d if it were not true it were easily re●●rned upon my self as the greatest im●●udence that could be imagined but O ●●e partiality of the picture-drawer ●hen he receives large wages for a si●ilitude he insults over his own work ●nly because it is like when the face it ●elf is most abhominable Now for their freedome from Ty●anny and oppression if the Turkes or Tartars had conquered them they never would nor never did where ever they extended their dominions impose such taxes and rates as they have imposed on one another incredible even to the full value of the severall commodities which run through their natives hands but you will aske me how it is possible they should live then to which I answer you by sharking and cosening of strangers Let any forraigners come there and ask for a dinner and for such a dinner as they may well afford for eight pence a piece they will ask you five shillings a man find but the least fault with them and they will demand twelve pence a piece more for fouling of linnen and if you seem angry at that you shall mend your self with the payment of six pence a piece over and above for fouling the roome and seeke a remedy and you shall be told the Prince of Orange himself if he were there could not help it altom all is all the reason they will give you if in sadnesse you shall complaine of such abuses to indifferent Judges they will tell you that the States do lay such heavy taxes upon the Inhabitants that they are faine to fly to such shifts for their subsistance thus men pleased with the itch of Innovation are contented to scratch the bloud out of their own bodies till they feel the greatest smart rather then their Physitian should let out a little spare bloud to cure the disease and preserve them in good health but you will say that for all this they thrive and prosper abundantly so do the Argiers men but with what credit and reputation in the eye of the world I believe both alike It was not their strength or policy which brought them to this height and flourishing condition but it was our policy of State in ●●mulation to other Princes which hel●ed these calfes to Lions hearts teeth ●nd clawes untill the high and mighty ●utter-boxes stood in competition with the Crowne and I am afraid the siding with such Rebels hath turned Rebel●ion into our own bosomes as a just ●udgement from that God who is a re●enger of all such iniquities they may call it the Schoole of War whilst wanting a good cause it could be no otherwise then the Christians shambles I should be sorry that Holland should be the English-mans Looking-glasse a spur for his feet or a copy for his hand I hope the hand of providence will cure us like the Physitian who cur'd his patient by improving his disease from a gentle Ague to a high Feaver that he might the better help him CHAP. XV That Episcopacy is Jure Divino IN this discourse I shall not trouble my selfe nor you with Titles Names and words of Apostles Evangelists Arch-Bishops Bishops Patriarchs Presbyters Ministers Angels of Churches c. which were all from the highest to the lowest but tearmes reciprocal and were often taken in the Church of God and in the Scripture it self for one and the same for if any man though never so meane a Minister of the Gospel converted any Nation the Church ever called him the Apostle of that Country as Austin though but a Monke was every where tearmed the Apostle of England and Saint Paul being an Apostle stiles himselfe a Minister of the Gospel of Jesus Christ Paul bids Timothy being a Bishop to do the work of an Evangelist and therefore no wonder if Bishops and Presbyters be ●ften mentioned for one and the same ●ut it is a great wonder that any man●er of men should make this a ground ●or any argument against Episcopacy ●hese kind of arguments instead of stri●ing fire that should light the candle ●hey do but pin napkins over our eyes ●nd turne us round untill we know ●ot where we are and then we grope ●or we know not who and lay hold ●f we know not what he that will ●ut down this over-grown up-start tree ●f errour must first clear his way to the ●oot and brush away all those bram●les and briers which grow about it ●e must not leave any thing standing ●hat may lay hold of the hatchet and ●eviate the stroke turning the same ●dge upon the feller that was intended ●or the tree if we should insist upon ●ames and titles we should make but a ●onfounded piece of worke and run our ●elves into a most inextricable labourinth and Mazes of errour Where we might run and go forwards and backwards and round about and nere the near Christs are Kings Kings are Gods God is Christ and Christ is Bi●hop of our souls Bishops are Presbyters Presbyters are Ministers a Minister is an Apostle an Apostle is a Minister and so if you will quite back againe I must put off these as David threw away Sauls Armour non possum incedere cum iis I love to knock down this monstrum informe ingens in lumen ademptum with a blunt stone taken out of a clear River which with the sling of application may serve well enough to slay this erroneous Philistine though he were far greater then he is In the first place therefore let as understand what is meant by Jus Divinum if any man meanes that Episcopacy is so Jure Divino that it is unalterable and must continue at all times and in all places so that where it is left off there can be no Church he meanes to give much offence and little reason for there

is no question but the Church may alter their own government so that it be left to themselves to alter as they shall thinke most convenient as well as alter the Sabbath from the seventh day to the first of the week or as well as they chang'd immersion into aspersion of the baptised and many other things which carried as much Jus Divinum with them as Episcopacy and yet were chang'd The Jus Divinum that is in Episcopall Government doth not consist in the Episcopacy but in the Government be it Episcopall or what it will but where the government is Episcopall no question but there Episcopall government is Jure Divino because a government and if it were otherwise that government into which Episcopacy degenerateth would be Jure Divino as well it provided that none touch this Ark of the Church but the Priests themselves for if the hand which belongs to the same body pull the hat from off the head the man loses not his right only he stands in a more humble posture but he is in as strong possession of his owne right as when 't was on his head but if another hand should chance to pull it off the party stands disgracefully depriv'd of his highest right and ornament So if Episcopall Government of the Church be put down or altered by Church-men themselves the Jus Divinum is but removed from the supremacy of one and fastened in the stronger hold of many members for this is a Maxim that admits no posterne power never fals to the ground neither in Church nor State but look what one lets fall another takes up before ever it comes to ground wherefore loosing nothing they keep their own but whether this power in Church or State in the point of convenience be better in the hands of one or many let whose will look to that that 's not my work neither the names of governments nor the numbers of governours shall ever be able to fright away this Jus Divinum out of the Church government be the government what it will bene visum fuit spiritui sancto nobis keeps in the Jus Divinum be the government never so altered whereas forbidden and improper hands actions as unusuall as unwarrantable lets out this Jus Divinum when they have changed it to what they can imagine now whether or no it be proper for a Lay Parliament or a Representative of Lay-men by the power of the Sword declining the Kings Authority will and pleasure who was appointed by God to be a nursing Father of his Church to alter Church-government so Antient so begun by Christ himself in his own person over so many Apostles so practis'd by the Apostles over others so continued all along I mean Episcopacy that is to say one Minister constituted an overseer of many and to lay hold upon tumults and insurrections to pull down these overseers and for men who in such cases should be governed by the Church to pull down the Church-government without any the least consent of the Church-governours I leave it for the world to judge only my own opinion is this That any government thus set up or by such practises as these altered must needs be so far from being Jure Divino that it must needs be Jure Diabolico but it may be objected that if they should have stayed untill the Bishops had altered themselves they might have staied long enough to which it may be answered that had the Bishops been but as poor as Job there would have been no such haste to change their cloathes The Ark was a tipe of the Church and whatsoever was literally commanded concerning the tipe must be analogically observed in the thing tipified God sate in the Mercy-Seat that was over the Ark the Ark contained within it Aarons Rod and a pot of Manna so the Church containes the Law the Gospel the killing letter and the reviving spirit others interpret the Rod to signifie the government and discipline of the Church as the Manna the Doctrine of Christ and food that came down from heaven I take it to signifie both and both answers my purpose if both be therein contained neither must be touch'd but by the Priests themselves neither must we confine this prohibition to the Priests of the Law only but we must extend it also to the Ministers of the Gospel both which were tipified by the two Cherubims or ministring Angels of the Almighty these Ministers or Angels though opposite to one another yet they both lookt alike and neither of them upon one another but both of them upon the Ark that was between them there was mutuality in their looks and their wings touch'd one another so though the Ministers of the Law and the Gospel seem opposite in the administration of the same grace yet they must come so near as to touch one another in the manner of the administration exempli gratia as there was in the old Law High Priests Priests and Levites so in the new Law Bishops Presbyters and Deacons as none but Priests were to touch the Ark so none but the Ministers should reforme the Church Thus much for Government now for Episcopacy the question then concerning Episcopacy will be whether or no Jure Divino one Minister which answers to all names and sorts of Church-men and Church-officers whatsoever may not exercise jurisdiction and power over many Ministers within such a place or territory if this be granted the Bishops aske no more if it be denied how then did Christ Jesus Bishop of our souls give orders and directions to his twelve Apostles and taught them how they should behave themselves throughout this Dioces the whole world how did Saint Paul exercise jurisdiction over Timothy and Titus who were both Bishops and how did these two Bishops exercise jurisdiction over all the Ministers of Creet and Ephesus was not this by divine institution If I find by divine writ that Christ laid the foundation of his Church in himselfe alone being over all the Apostles and if I find that these Apostles every Apostle by himselfe in imitation of ou● Saviour accordingly exercised jurisdiction and authority over many Minister● which were under them and commanded others to do the like as Paul Timothy and Titus and if I find the practise of the Church all along through the whole tract of time to continue the like Discipline shall not I believe this Discipline to be Jure Divino except Christ sends down a new conje deslier from heaven upon the election of every new Bishop Christ laies the foundation we build upon it he gives us the modell we follow the pattern the Church is built is not this by Divine Right because he doth not lay the severall stones with his own hands Christ promised that he would be alwayes with his Church and that he would send his holy spirit amongst them which should lead them into all truth so that the gates of Hell should not prevaile against it