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A45589 A detection or discovery of a notable fraud committed by R.B., a seminary priest of Rome, upon two of the articles of the Church of England in a booke imprinted in anno 1632, intituled, The judgment of the apostles and of those of the first age in all points of doctrine, questioned betweene the Catholikes and Protestants of England as they are set downe in the nine and thirty articles of their religion : with an appendix concerning Episcopacy / by a lay gentleman. Harlowe, Pedaell. 1641 (1641) Wing H780; ESTC R21855 37,934 54

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whereas Sir Humphrey Lynd said that although the Doctours of antient Church did rest in Two Sacraments Baptisme and the Lords-Supper as generally Necessary to salvation yet they called many Rites and Ordinances by the name of Sacraments as The signe of the Crosse Exorcisme holy-Bread given to Catechumeni●s Novices in the Faith One Master Iohn Heigham a Papist taking on him to answer that Booke does most unconscio ably turne the word NOVICES into NOVICES and so very untruly pretending that Sir Humphrey Lind had thereby yeelded that the Signe of the Cresse Exorcisme holy-bread holy-water and the like are Novices in the Faith endeavours most absurdly to make Sir Humphrey dispute against himselfe and the Church of England And by that silly devise this Heigham takes occasion to slide from the point without any answer at all to it Hi sunt Fratres in Malo Falshood incorporates it selfe in Fraternity against sacred Truth walking here desolate a while Sed magna est veritas et in die suo pravalebit divine and holy Truth will in her season become Victorious and Tryumphant with Gloria in excelsis hurling blacke and ugly Error and False-kood headlong into the Bottomeles Pit the dark and noysome Cave of that wicked monster Abaddon the Father of Lyes Amen Amen EPILOGVE or APPENDIX Num. 21 NOw this Tract is finished me thinkes I heare two sorts of people among us whisper their Conceits the one are the Preciser sort people of good intents demanding of me why I have in this Tract severall times used the word Priest and Sacerdotall rather than the word Minister and Ministeriall doe's it not savour of Popery Are you not inclined Sir a little to allow and relish the Masse-Priest Sacrifice and Altar For removall of such misconceits if any such arise I say I used the word Priest and Sacerdotall because it is indifferently used with the word Minister sometimes the one sometimes the other not onely in our publike Lyturgie but also in these two Articles now in some sort vindicated against our Romish Antagonist R. B. And in the same sense doe I also intend it And for mine owne part I conceive that Sacrifice Altar and Priest may be all indifferently used as Supper Table Minister even in this present age as well as in the Primitive age and as farre it is now from any just and reall offence unto judgements and consciences rightly informed and disposed as it was to the Fathers of antient Church and unto the Primitive Christians being holy Saints and Martyrs But Popery which came in by Intrusion secretly into the Church betwixt the Primary and later purity hath caused such a distaste to words and phrases of aniquity extremely abused by Romanisme as that these termes Sacrifice Altar Priest are become edious or at least scrupulous especially unto weake judgements and tender consciences which may I suppose be easily rectified and sufficiently satisfied with this one Distinction or Method for many when the Holy Eucharist is spoken of as a Sacrifice as often it is among the Antients and so might be by them and may also by us be called Sacrifice to wit Commemoratory and Sacramentall then may be useed th word Priest and Altar as words relatively sutable and convenient But when the Eucharist is spoken of as the Lords Supper as so it is according to Scripture Phrase then the words Table and Minister is the meetest adjuncts for that subject And thus we may joyne with Antiquity both in language and sence without offence and thereby explode and reject as erronious the doctrine of Sacrifice proper and propitiatory Masse-Priest and reall-Altar Num 22 Affront to Episcopacy The other is Popish Faction whom me thinkes I heare say that although we Papists must confesse that the frauds of our Brother R. B. are now so discovered and laid open as that Hee cannot by any of us be fairely defended or excused And therefore the Consecration of Archbishop Parker and consequently of all the English Bishops since and now being must stand sacred and valide notwithstanding any thing produced pleaded or proved by R. B. to the contrary yet ne-verthelesse let us Romanists cheere up our selves sparing our labours and paines to seeke the overthrow of the Episcopacy of the Church of England For see we not that a great multitude of the Members of their owne Church yea of their Clergie too doe lowdly crie downe Episcopacy not onely quoad personas for exorbitancy by personall misdemeanours and for over large exercise of jurisdiction in their function too too bad as is alleaged but also quoad officium jus Episcopatus against the Right of Episcopacy as Antichristian and intollerable in the Church devised by man and not ordained by Christ And therefore they would have it utterly abolished out of their Church And instead of it they would have their new devised Presbyterie to be Consistorially set up for Government of the Church as that which is indeed de jure divino and consequently Presbyterie ought to be put into Possession of the Church and Episcopacy to be ejected out of it Howbeit others indeed doe allow of the right of Episcopacy onely desiring moderately some Reformation and limitation of the Bounds and exercise of it to the end it may be brought into some convement Temper Wee Romanists doe with great expectation waite upon the successe thereof not doubting but that this Division will doe the English-Protestant-Church more harme and mischiefe than a thousands such as our R. B. can doe with Frauds and lias and will sooner destroy their Church than our Gunpowder plot had it taken effect could have done Marke 3.24 25 26. For Christs Maxime is infallibly true Si regnum aut domus contrasese dissideat non potest stare illud Regnum aut illa domus A Kingdome or house at division within it selfe cannot stand but must fall to ruine and destruction Num. 23 P. H. Now therefore seeing many men have of late vented themselves in this cause let me also come in with my vote tco as an Appendix to this Tract of mine conceiving it to be a fruitlesse worke Episcopacy vindicated by Scripture to quit our English Episcopacy from the Batteries raised up against It by Romesh R. B. a knowne and professed enemy of our Church if it suffer by Brethren at home naturally wounding deepest I therefore adventure to say That me thinks seeing Ordination of our Ministers hath hundreds of years beene and is in this Kingdome immediatly derived from Episcopacy this clamour specially by Ministers against Episcopacy as Antichristian should be spared even for their owne sakes and should be by Ministers more tenderly handled least it be retorted upon them that upon their owne grounds their owne Ordination and Admission into the Church is from Antichristianity and and from a Power before God unlawfull Ejectione firme But howsoever for as much as these Presbyterians have brought an Ejectione firme against Episcopacy pressing to have
Episcopacy to shew forth It's Evidence and to prove it's Title to be Ex Iure Divino or else to be ejected out of the Church I Causidically say in Defence of it That Episcopacy ought not under favour by leg all proceedings to be compelled thereto because Episcopacy hath possession in the Church of God And so hath had many hundred yeares Some for it say sixteene hundred yeares and upwards ever since Christianity was imbraced in the World And it's Adyersaries doe either acknowledge or cannot fairely deny it to be so for the space of thirteen or foureteene hundred yeares and not in a corner of the Church but universally in Christendome And in such a Case Possidenti conceditur without Prescription Possession is a good right and title a gainst all men saving him onely that can make a good and better title first to appeare And untill the Pretender doe make his Right and Title to appeare the Possessour should not be enforced either to prove or shew forth his Right and Title Let then the Consistoriall Presbytery both shew and prove that A standing Ecclesiasticall Court consisting of Presbyters and of twice so many Laikes to be annually elected to beare Rule to Governe Hooker Eccles. Polity preface page 5. and to be Iudges in the Church were by Christ or his Apostles ordained or established and this Consistoriall Power and it onely and no other should for ever beare away this Government Ecclesiasticall which proofe ought to be made not by Texts stretcht from the genuine sence or by words of equivecall and double sence or severall significations but by cleare and manifest Record of Scripture which I beleeve is a taske unperformable I am sure it wanteth that prosperous Successe and blessing which accompanies Divine Institutions according to that divine Axiome truly delivered by Gamaliel Act. 5.38 39. Si est ex hominibus hoc opus dissolvetur Sin ex Deo est non potest dissolvi what is of humane invention may perish or come to nothing what is of divne Ordination cannot perish though at some time and in some place be resisted and persecuted and so become clouded and eclipsed yet it will be resident somewhere or other and it will in time convenient be disclouded and become conspicuous and transplendent againe apply to the present Case The Blessing hath ever gone in an eminent and conspicuous manner with Episcopacie But Presbyterie Consistoriall is at the best supposed to have had buta little entrance in some narrow part of the Church once in the first hundred yeares and againe in this last hundred yeares but hath beene at an inter-regnum at a losse and vacation for many hundred years How can wee then judge your Presbytery to be of God and our Episcopacy to be of Antichrist Presbytery non surted it this be the Evidence on the behalfe of Consistoriall Presbytery as such it is as I conceive clearely then must it become non suite and Episcopacy must keepe it's Possession still amending it selfe or else be caused to amend what is amisse in it by personall defects or by bad Customes Num. 24 Episcopacies Title Although Episcopacy thus prevaile upon this Nonsuite yet nevert helesse ex abundante I will produce such evidence as I have found and collected for it out of divine Records to prove Episeopacy to be ex Iure divino assuring my selfe that others as well those of ablest parts as those whom it more concernes are provided of other evidence and also of a way to apply the same better than I can But for making good my undertaking I offer these three particulars to be considered concerning Episcopacy Num. 25 1. An office or power Ministeriall 2. An office or power meerely Episcopall 3. Exercise of jurisdiction Title of Honour and Dignity and competency of Revenewes First the office or power Ministeriall or Sacerdotall is Authority to preach the Gospell and to distribute and give the Sacraments this power ex Iure divino it is Christs owne Ordination as is agreed on both sides without Contradiction Wherein there is indeed a Parity in the Ministery in so much as such Ministeriall-acts done by an inferiour-Minister or Priest are as valid and effectuall as if the same were done by the highest Prelate in the Church Secondly the office or power meerely and truly Episcopall is to ordeine and to admit Ministers into the Clergie To suspend or punish such of the Priest-hood as become delinquent or neglect their Cure or charge to make use of the Keyes in binding and loosing by judiciall sentence out of and into the Assemblies of the Church both Clerkis and Laicks upon just and weighty causes and generally to governe the Churches for the prevention of the creeping in and growth of Heresie and Error for support and maintenance of Unity without Schisme or Division And for to Rule Governe and Command and to be ruled governed and to obey in such sort as Church affaires may be duly and rightly performed and done in the Churches whereof they are Superintendent Thirdly Exercise of jurisdiction bic non illic sic et non sic in this and not in that Dioces or province in this and not in that manner or other than is allowed prescribed and authorized Title of Honour and Dignity to be Lords and Piers of Parliament and to be endowed with faire Estates and Revenewes annexed as adjuncts unto Bishopricks in this Kingdome to wit to be Lords and Peers of Parliament and to possesse and enjoy Lands and Tenements of value correspondent which are called Temporalities c. These are ex gratiâ Principis et Reipublica So as of the first and the last there is no controversie or doubt as I take it And therefore the first being ex Iure divino may not be abolished out of the Church it being de esse of the essence of the Church and the last being ex Iure humano and de bene esse of accommodation may be corrected restrained and limited in such Moderation as shall by Superiours be found and adjudged most meet and convenient for the welfare of the Church and Common-weale of England Num. 26 But the Controversie is I thinke onely concerning the second particular Episcopacy not de jure humano whether it be de Iure divino or humano of Christs Institution Invention and if it be divine or of mans whether it was conferred upon all the then Clergie equally or to some conjunctim or divisim as Superiour over the rest I assume in the first place that this office is not de Iure humano Reasons of mans ordination for these two Reasons The one because this office was in the Church long before Emperours and Princes became Christians so as the Temporal power could not be the Parent or Founder of this office in the Church but when the Emperour Const intine became Christian he indeed advanced Bishops both with honours and Revenewes and so other good Emperours and Christian Kings