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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A17576	The pastor and the prelate, or reformation and conformitie shortly compared by the word of God, by antiquity and the proceedings of the ancient Kirk, by the nature and use of things indifferent, by the proceedings of our ovvne Kirk, by the vveill of the Kirk and of the peoples soules, and by the good of the commonvvealth and of our outvvard estate with the answer of the common & chiefest objections against everie part: shewing vvhether of the tvvo is to be follovved by the true Christian and countrieman.	Calderwood, David, 1575-1650.	1628 (1628)	STC 4359; ESTC S107402	71,807	74

one time and the spirituall joy strength and resolution after the action into terrors of conscience in some the opinion of indifferencie in all matters of religion in others and of loosenesse of life in many to the mocking of God the reentrie of Antichrist renting of the Kirk obduring of the Papist stumbling of the weake and grief of the godly 15. The PASTOR thinketh it no Judaisme nor superstition but a morall duetie to obserue the Sabbath because first the observation of one day of seauen albeit it be positiue divine yet it is not ceremoniall nor for a time but unchangable and obligeth perpetually as is manifest by the time when it was appointed before the fall when there was no type of redemption by Christ and by numbring it amongst the tenne precepts of the morall law written by the finger and proclaymed by the voyce of God which cannot be said of any changable law Neyther can it be called perpetuall and morall in this sence that a certaine time is to be allotted to divine worship for then the building of the Tabernacle and temple the new moones and other legall festivities conteyning in them a generall equitie might aswell be accounted morall Secondly the change of the Sabbath from the last to the first day of the weeke is by divine authoritie from Christ himselfe from whom it is called the Lords day who is Lord of the Sabbath who did institute the worship of the day and rested from his labours that day whereon all things were made new by his resurrection and sanctified it euen as in the beginning God rested from all his works on the seauenth day blessed it He thinketh it no more contrarie to Christian libertie then it was to Adam in his innocencie to keepe one of the seauen and therefore he laboureth to make the Sabbath his delight observeth it himselfe and by his doctrine example and discipline teacheth others to doe the like and to cease uot onely from all servill workes which require greate labour of the bodie but from all our owne works whatsoever drawing our minds from the exercises of religion and serving for our owne gaine and commoditie except in the case of necessitie caused by divine providence He would haue it well considered wherein the Jewes were more strictly obliged then Christians and what libertie we haue that they had not Beside the Sabbath he can admitte no ordinary holy dayes appointed by man whether in respect of any mysterie or of difference of one day from another as being warranted by meere tradition against the doctrine of Christ and his Apostles but accounteth the solemne fasts and humiliations unto which the Lord calleth to be extraordinarie Sabbaths warranted by God himselfe The PRELATE by his doctrine practise example and neglect of discipline declareth that he hath no such reverend estimation of the Sabbath He doteth so upon the observation of Pasche Zuile and festivall dayes appoynted by men that he preferreth them to the Sabbath and hath turned to nothiug our solemne Fasts and blessed humiliations 16. The PASTOR findeth that everie parte of his office and everie name whereby he is called in Scripture doeth call upon him to be personally resident and where he resideth to be a terror to the wicked and a comfort to the godly The PRELATE eyther waiteth upon Counsell Session or Court or dwelleth so farre from his charge that 〈◊〉 ●each of Caranza proving the necessitie of the personall residence of ●●●ops may be applyed to him He is a Bishop but without overseer● an Embassador but runneth where his errand lyeth not a ●●ptaine Soldier but farre from his station a Father and steward but suffereth the children to perish for want of foode Or if he happen to be resident his Lordship is a protection to the Papist to the carnall professor and to the Idoll-Minister and Idle-belly and such a vexation to the vigilant Pastor that he had much rather he were a Non-resident 17. The PASTOR must be so unblameable that he haue a good testimonie of them that are without he must rule well his owne house having his children in subjection with all gravitie not accused of ryot or unruly He must be sober not giuen to wine he must not be greedy of filthy lucre nor covetous he must not be a brauler a stryker nor fighter The PRELATE mocketh at conscience gravitie sobrietie modestie patience painfulnes c. and calleth them Puritanizing 18. The PASTOR laboureth to keepe faith in a good conscience and by the blessing of God upon his labours findeth the encrease of the gifts of God in his old age and the grace of God growing in the hearts of the people The PRELATE by loosing a good conscience maketh shipwrack of fayth and by the curse of God upon his slouth and defection may finde himselfe like Balaam who seeking hornes did loose his eares that is seeking preferment he lost the gift of prophesie may see grace decayed worne out of the hearts of the people The Prelates objection THe Prelate will object notwithstanding all the evill that hath been sayd or that ye can say against him That the name the calling the power and the life of the Bishop is set downe in the Word The Pastors answer THE question is not of the Bishop but of the prelate or Diocesane Bishop whether he be the divine Bishop Haman could thinke upon no man but himselfe when the man was named whom the King would honour euen so the Prelate imagineth no other Bishop to be spoken of in Scripture but himselfe And as Alexander the great tooke Jupiters ominous salutation 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 O Child or Babe for 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 O son of Iupiter euen so in the Prelates ambitious eare everie word of a Bishop sounds honour unto him But the trueth is that the pastor not the Diocesane Bishop is the Bishop divine 1. The Diocesane Bishop is but one in a Diocie over many kirks The divine Bishops may be many in one citye and over one Kirk 2. The Diocesane bishop hath a forme of ordination of his owne different from the ordination of the pastor The divine Bishop hath no other but the ordination of the pastor 3. The Diocesane Bishop preacheth at his pleasure and is not obliged to preach by the nature and necessitie of his calling The divine bishop is bound by his calling to preach with all diligence 4. The Diocesane Bishop hath no particular congregation for his flock to feede with the Word and Sacraments The divine bishop is tyed to a particular flock 5. The diocesane Bishop is for the greater part a secular person The divine Bishop is a person meerly ecclesiasticall Therefore the diocesane bishop is not the divine bishop neyther doeth the Word of God acknowledge any diocesane Kirk or any prelate or diocesane bishop charged with the care of many particular congregations and having majoritie of power to

3. The primitiue Bishops knew not such a creature as was designed afterward by the proude name of an Archbishop who should be a Bishop of bishops having power over Comprovinciall bishops his suffraganes Our Prelate prydeth himselfe in this proude title and will haue one the same creature to be Metropolitane Archbishop and primate that what he may not doe as Metrapolitane he may doe as Archbishop and what he may not as Archbishop he may as Primate and as another Pope 4. The primitiue Bishop was in the presbyterie like the Consull in the Senat as first amongst the presbyters he moderated in their meetings reported matters done before asked the voters and what they concluded he did see it executed upon others and was subject to it himselfe Our Prelate in the Presbyterie will be like a king in his Counsell and thinketh his authoritie no lesse without the presbyterie then with it and what the Synode may doe with the Arch-bishop that he may doe without the Synode 5. The primitiue bishops dwelled so neare together that sixe of them convened in a cause that concerned an Elder and three for a deacon In a Synode they convened in great numbers Privatus was condemned by 90 Bishops Against Novatus were convened 84 bishops In some Synods 217 in some 270. Our Prelate spreadeth his wings over some hundreds of Kirks lying in divers provinces also wide as Mers Louthian Fyffe Angus Mernes c. As therefore our Prelate was shewed before not to be the Lords bishop authorised by Scripture so is he not mans bishop made up in the primitiue times of the Kirk but the same that we had before the reformation the same with the Italian Spanish or French Prelate under the Pope and the same with the Antichristian Prelates in the most corrupt times of the Kirk especially the last 500 yeares excepting his subordination to the pope by which exceptiō our princely prelate is made greater then the popish And what was written of the popish prelate in those times is of new againe reverified of ours as of their civill offices and advocations Vintoniensis armiger Praesidet ad Scacanium Ad computandum impiger Piger ad Euangelium Sic Lucrum Lucam superat Marcam marco praeponderat Et librae librum subjicit Some Bishops Metropolitane Presides at the Exchequor For counting he 's a busie man To preach the Gospell slacker Lucre worth is more then Luke marks thē marke weigh better He sets the pound aboue the boke And cares not for the matter Of their zeale in urging ceremonies upon others while they fayled in substance themselues the old Poem called Asini poenitentiarius wherein the wolfe confesseth himselfe to the fox the foxe to the wolf and both are absolved but the poore asse trusting to his innocencie for absolution was condemned to dye by the other two for no other cause but that in his extreame hunger he had been so profane as to eate the strawe garters of a religious pilgrime Immensum scelus est injuria quam peregrin● Fecisti stramen surripiendo sibi Non advertisti quod plura pericula passus Plurima passurus quod peregrinus erat Non advertisti quod ei per maxima terrae Et pelagi spatia sit peragranda via Totius ecclesiae fuerit cum nuncius iste Pertulit abstracto stramine damna viae Cum sis confessus cum sis convictus habes ne Quo tales noxas occuluisse queas Es fur ignoto cum feceris hoc peregrino Scis bene fur quali debet honore mori How great a sinne were this to thee A Pilgrim poore to wrong Had thou not mind what dangers he Had travelled farre among Could thou not thinke that he dull asse B'hou'd passe through Sea and land That nunce of holy Kirk he was Running at their command Thou hast confessed convinced thou art Nothing thy crime can hide Thiefe thou did eate his strawe garters Death shall thee now betyde THE THIRD PART The Pastor Prelate compared in their judgment and practise about things indifferent BESIDE the speculations of the Schoolmen devided amongst themselues in their subtilties aboute things indifferent which vvorke mightily upon mens wits but more weakely upon their affections then to make any greate division There hath beene much adoe in the Kirk since the beginning about adiaphorismes things indifferent First in the infancie of the Christian Kirk the heate and the contention was greate betwixt the converted Jewes and Gentiles aboute the keeping of the Ceremonies of the lavv which before vvere commanded afterwards were forbidden but in that tract of time were in a manner indifferent Concerning vvhich we finde that the Apostles never imposed them upon any people or person that judged them unlavvfull that they thought that every man should be persuaded in his ovvne mind and should doe nothing against or vvithout the vvarrant of his conscience that by all meanes scandall should be avoyded as vvhich bringeth vvoe upon him by vvhom it commeth and destruction upon him upon vvhom it commeth and many such rules of conscience and Christian prudence vvhich serue to the Kirk for direction in matters indifferent to the comming of Christ. Secondly there vvas greate businesse aboute ceremonies and things called indifferent in the infancie of the Reformed kirks in the time of the Interim vvhen vvith so greate povver and persecution the Romish corruptions vvere forced againe upon them under the name of indifferencie at that time politicks and vvorldly men more carefull of their ovvn vvealth then of Gods trueth gaue themselues to serue the time and received all that vvas obtruded under the saide cloake of indifferencie These vvere accounted friends to Augustus Others of greate gifts and esteeme in the Kirk vvished from their hearts that these ceremonies had never been urged yet thought it a lesse evill to admit some thing in the externall part of Gods vvorship and thereby uniformitie in religion vvith the enemies then by a stoicall stifnes as they call it and an obstinacie to provoke authoritie and thereby to bring upon themselues banishment and upon Kirk and common vvealth desolarion Such men looking more to unitie then to veritie more to the event then to their ovvn duetie vvere called cānie vvise and peaceable men A third sorte setting aside all sophistication and collusion vvith the enemie taught plainly by vvord and vvrit from Scripture and not from the grounds of policie that vvhen any part of Gods vvorship is in danger that then for the honour of God confirmation of the tr●eth and edification of the Kirk Confession is necessarie He that confesseth not me he that is ashamed of me before men c. They taught that it vvas not lavvfull to symbolize vvith the enemie that in the case of confession the smallest ceremonies are not indifferent that at such times the Kirk should stand fast to her libertie against such as vvould bring her into bondage that yielding to such ceremonies vvas a