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A67119	Eleutherosis tēs aletheias, truth asserted by the doctrine and practice of the apostles, seconded by the testimony of synods, fathers, and doctors, from the apostles to this day viz. that episcopacie is jure divino / by Sir Francis Wortley ...	Wortley, Francis, Sir, 1591-1652.	1641 (1641)	Wing W3637; ESTC R34763	18,183	38

ΕΛΕΥΘΕΡΩΣΙΣ ΤΗΣ Αληθειασ TRVTH ASSERTED BY THE DOCTRINE AND Practice of the Apostles seconded by the Testimony of Synods Fathers and Doctors from the Apostles to this Day Viz. That Episcopacie is Iure Divino BY Sir Francis VVortley Knight and Baronet LONDON Printed by A. N. for I. K. and T. W. and are to be sold at the White Horse in PAVLES Church-yard 1641. To the most High and Illustrious Charles Prince of GREAT BRITAIN SIR YOu set back the Clock of my age and make it day-spring when it is past the mid noone of my life I court my fancy in my observations of you My first Love my first Master your Vnkle Prince Henry whose name is and ever must bee sacred to Mars and the Muses whose memory is still precious to the World justly was the Rivall and Competitour to Honour with your glorious Grandsier Henry the Great of France the greatest In you deare Sir I finde the Character of them both as if you were sole heire to both and it joyes my Soule to see it I had the Honour to gird the first sword about you with this wish that you might use it in peace like our Northern Solomon King Iames and drawn as that Boanerges the sonne of Thunder the glory of France your Grandfather When your Father whose goodnesse makes him glorious shall be gathered to his Fathers his Titles must as your Birthright descend on you amongst the rest that which is {non-Roman} {non-Roman} {non-Roman} {non-Roman} {non-Roman} Defender of the faith This as it is well worthy observation was given by him who they say could not erre in Cathedra plenario Consistorio pleno Concilio to him who as some of his Successors say even in that gave him the lye who gave him the title t is true t was an unkind requitall but there was Digitus Dei in it for it was like the selling of Ioseph into Egypt faelix scelus in eventu guided by that hand which cannot erre It was a worke of great and high daring a voyage wherein many of his Predecessours had suffered shipwracke and Sir Walter Rawleigh observes the worke suited the man and the man was made for the work as Nebuchadonezar was for Tyre Sure it is strange that out of the ruines of good workes faith should spring disorder set all the Church in order Sed Deus est qui fecit est mirum in occulis nostris Sir the Title is the most glorious your Royall father hath and his Second is that he is the best Friend living It was a promise of the Prophets that Kings should bee Nursing Fathers and Queenes Nursing Mothers to the Church And believe mee Sir the words are Emphaticall for the Fathers wisdome and power should provide for the childe ad extra the mothers care ad intra The fathers is and should be protegendo instruendo promovendo corrigendo The mothers in her Oeconomicks pro victu amictu Necessaries and Decency and all with a Nurses affection And I am so much Irish that as they love the Children the Nurse and the Children their Nurses and foster brothers as much or more then their own such mutuall love wish I betwixt the Prince and the Church and as that habit is acquired partly and partly infused So may God infuse that into your heart and by many mutuall reciprocall actions may it become habituall So shall the Church be happie in future and you shall be glorious in your timely reigne and blessed in your Succession as your Father is in you and the Prayers of the Church attracted as the Dew and Exhalations by the glory and heate of the Sunne above shall bee returned in rich showers of blessing upon you and yours Poets are Prophets or at least would be If I be one this is my prophecie Your name 's no stranger to the Imperiall seate Our turn comes next wee must have Charles the Great Your highnesses most humble servant FRANCIS WORTLEY To the well affected Reader or otherwise PRuning and reformation I allow but eradication and deformation I tremble to heare of and hope never to see God forbid that personal errors should destroy an Institution so ancient sealed with the bloud of so many blessed Martyres Though Iudas die in the consciousnesse of his treason yet an other must succeed him in his Bishoprick As an obedient sonne to my mother the Church I wish her honour and happinesse to the Common Weale as a member of it and that these two as Mercie and Truth may kisse each other and in their unitie make the Soul and Bodie the King and his people happie so shall our Common-weale flourish and our Church be glorious and God even our own God shall blesse us Peace shall be within our Walls plentie within our palaces I study Multum in parvo and to put as much as I can into a little room and hope to give satisfaction to such as are not more addicted to their wills then reason if mine deceive me not However I have discharged the dutie I ow my conscience and hope to finde the benefit of that which is all I look for and is sufficient to arm mee against the obloquies or misconstructions of those whose hearts are ful of that which their tongues must utter or their hearts will breake with their Plerophory I protest I have no end in it but Gods glory the discharge of my own studied thoughts have therein conquered my inclination by the assistance of my reason grounded upon much more paines then the World holds me guiltie of And thus satisfied I would not that succeeding ages should finde my name amongst those who consented to eradicate Episcopacie For my part I had rather suffer the censure of the malevolent then to be thought to consent to that which my conscience approves not If this excuse me for my writing I am glad If not I have pleased my selfe in discharge of my troubled thoughts and conscience ΕΛΕΥΘΕΡΩΣΙΣ ΤΗΣ Αληθειασ Truth asserted by the practice of the Apostles confirmed by the Testimonie of Synods Fathers and Doctors from Christs time to this day IN Discourses Rhetoricall men desire to shew the power of Nature improved by Art which wee call Eloquence in Logicall Disputes the quicknesse of apprehension and the improvement of judgement The one often makes a difference betwixt subtilties and attempts to puzle Reason The other rightly employed defines and settles a Truth obscured by different falsities In matters of Faith wee lay aside reason and yield to Scriptures truth as other faculties of the body doe to their informer the Rationall soule and as young Scholars to their Ipse dixit We believe therefore what neither sense nor reason can make us to conceive I believe the Scripture to bee the sacred Word of God and what truth I find therein I conceive it to be Iure Divino My reason I confesse is bound and yields in the point of Episcopacie that it is Iure

run cleare down to the after times I have to his end above defined Episcopum a Bishop if we observe what he is then shall we evidently see whether Saint Paul did institute such a calling or no Of Civill Bishops I speake not but of Spirituall A Bishop of this kind I defined to be Presbyterum cum additamento superioritatis quoad regimen in Ecclesia he governs the Clergie and their flocks in spirituall matters Bishops of this Kind Saint Paul did institute He made Timothy and Titus Episcopos Cleri Gregis quoad regimen in Ecclesia Bishops of the Clergie and their flocks and to have Ecclesiasticall government over them whereas before they were but Presbyters or Disciples brought up under him By this institution were other Presbyters made subordinate to them in governing and teaching the Church Which to prove I thus argue He that is ordained and so ordained that hee hath power Constituere Presbyteres per civitates to ordain presbyters in every City is greater then those who have no such power in their Cities or Churches and those who may correct what is defective are superiour to those for whom matters defective are corrected But Titus and Timothy had such power given them and did so correct things defective and none of the Presbyters had the same from the Apostles Therefore I conclude undeniably that Titus and Timothy were superiors as Bishops over their Presbyters in their severall charges and Divisions viz Titus in Creet and Timothy in Ephesus That they had this power given them by Paul appeares 1. Tim. 5. 22. Lay hands suddenly on no man Tit. 1. 5. For this cause I left thee in Creet that thou shouldst set in order things which are wanting and ordain Elders in every City as I had appointed thee If any other in these Churches could have ordained Presbyters why was Timothy sent to Ephesus and Titus left at Creet for this very purpose And if the Cretians and their Presbyters could have set in order things defective what neede was there that Tit. alone should have this commission Saint Ierom himselfe who was accounted no great friend but rather harsh against Episcopacie in his Epistle to Evagrius pag. 329. gives us this as a distinction {non-Roman} {non-Roman} {non-Roman} {non-Roman} {non-Roman} remarkable betwixt a Presbyter and a Bishop saying Quid facit excepta ordinatione Episcopus quod non facit Presbyter What doth a Bishop except the ordaining of others which a Presbyter doth not And it is worth the observation that the ancient Father and great Champion for the blessed Trinity Athanasius hath in his second Apologie viz. that Colythus a Presbyter of the Church of Alexandria had constituted Presbyters but what became of them Rescissa est haec ejus ordinatio omnes ab eo constituti in laicorum ordinem redacti fuere The ordaining of others by him was made invalid and they who were ordained by him were degraded and made Laicks So then you see that Bishops are in this eminenter superiores Presbyteris eminently superior to Presbyters having power affirmative and negative by the opinion and practice of the ancient Fathers This confirms what the Apostles had taught practised and appointed others in place above the ordinary Presbyters to do Now I come to shew a second difference betwixt a Bishop and a Presbyter and wherein a Bishop hath eminentem superioritatem a cleere superiority above a Presbyter That is excommunication and was called Mucro Episcopalis the Episcopall weapon and was a power given to Bishops successors of the Apostles and was ever practised by them This appears in that an account of it was and is expected at their hands as is manifested by the quarel which our blessed Saviour had against the Angell of the Church of Pergamus namely that he suffered some of his Church who held the doctrine of the Nicolaitans and against the Angell of the Church of Thyatira viz. That hee suffered the woman Iezabell to teach and seduce the people By this it is apparent that Christ expected they should doe what they had by their places power to doe namely that they being Angells of their Churches whom I affirme to bee also Bishops therof and successors to the Apostles as is sufficiently proved by the most reverend and learned Arch-bishop of Armach and by Beza himselfe called {non-Roman} {non-Roman} {non-Roman} {non-Roman} {non-Roman} men in place above others should haereticos coercere ex Ecclesia ejicere Keepe under Heretikes and cast them out of the Church If here it be objected that wee must not argue from darke and mysticall places of Scripture such as the Apocalypse I answere that I argue from a plain place and from the plain words and direct scope of the place not the mystical sense or interpretation Neither can we here admit of that distinction that Angelus is in this place to bee taken collectively pro tota Ecclesia for the whole Church For I conceive that there is not a word in the Scripture but hath its weight and was it not as easie to have said Ecclesiae as Angelo Ecclesiae if Angelus had not something more in it then Ecclesiae And why not Angelus Ecclesi● but Angelus Ecclesiae The Angell the Church but the Angell of the Church if it had beene to be taken collectively But the tearmes be distinct and of a different force like those panis Domini the bread of the Lord and panis Dominus bread representing the Lord Besides to return to Timothy and Titus they are injoyned to command others {non-Roman} {non-Roman} {non-Roman} {non-Roman} {non-Roman} not to teach other doctrine and obturare ora deceptorum haereticos rejicere to stop the mouthes of deceivers and to reject Hereticks These things were commanded them and an account accordingly exspected of the performance thereof which manifestly proves that every Church had his Angelum who had Episcopall authority and jurisdiction eminent above other inferior Clergie-men And not many Angels in each of these Churches all of equall authority and place Or at least the Angell in each of the seven churches was so absolute in his power that he was {non-Roman} {non-Roman} {non-Roman} {non-Roman} {non-Roman} chief Governour the Presbyters assistants to him he a spirituall Justicer and of the Quorum they of the Counsell The difference also of Episcopal authority from that of Presbyters appears in the cause of excommunication where there was an appeal to the Synods which either confirmd them or dissolved them but none to the people none to the presbyters This is confirmed by the ancient Councill at Nice Can. 5. and at Antioch Can. 6. And Ierom himselfe writing to Riparius concerning Vigilantius an Hereticall Presbyter is angry that the Bishop under whom he was did acquiescere eius furori non virga Apostolica virgaque ferreavas inutile confringere tradere ad interitum carnis ut spiritus salvu● fiat Did quietly give way to his fury

Divino because I find for it so many ipse dixit's in sacred Writ My judgment also is further strengthned therein by Reasons sufficient to settle humane belief Opinion we define Haerens dubia deveritate quorumvis in animo praesumptio A questionable and doubtfull presuming in ones conceit that a matter is true And Cognitio est rerum conceptarum per experientiam scientia Knowledge is a sure apprehension of the matters which we conceive by experience of their causes and undoubted grounds of truth And Resolution is Dubii depositio the abandoning of all doubting I am past opinion and acknowledge my selfe satisfied and well resolved that Episcopacie is Iure Divino and am ready to give an account thereof and endeavour so to doe in this Discourse I will not {non-Roman} {non-Roman} {non-Roman} {non-Roman} {non-Roman} withstand and resist or seek evasions or subtle answers to elude Gods Truth Nor doe I love {non-Roman} {non-Roman} {non-Roman} {non-Roman} {non-Roman} to be in suspense having well weighed the truth here asserted I finde cause to say {non-Roman} {non-Roman} {non-Roman} {non-Roman} {non-Roman} Great is the force of truth and hath prevailed To satisfie the World what reason I have of this my confidence I leave a Testimony thereof in this my discourse I define Episcopum Presbyterum cum additamento superioritatis quoad regimen in Ecclesia A Bishop to bee a Presbyter having an addition of superioritie for the government of Gods Church his charge is to oversee the Clergie and their flocks The word I confesse in a large signification may be taken for a Major of a Citie for hee is Over-seer thereof In Homer Ajex is {non-Roman} {non-Roman} {non-Roman} {non-Roman} {non-Roman} the Bishop or Orderer of his Army But our Episcopus est Cleri Gregis in sua Dioecesi Is Over-seer of his Clergie and his flock bounded within his own Diocesse Hee is also called Presbyter an ancient and therefore experienced and able to informe and direct As for the inferiour Presbyter or ancient and Diaconus Minister or Servant they are distinct and subordinate to the Bishop or superiour Presbyter both in the New Testament and in the practice of the first Centurie and in all Ages even to this day Let it not stumble any man that the Apostles sometimes terme themselves and Bishops by the title of Presbyters they call themselves also Diaconos Deacons in a generall notion Our Presbyterians would have Bishops to be Pastores jure divine Praesides jure Ecclesiastico Principes jure humano Diabolico Pastors by Gods Law Presidents by Ecclesiasticall Law Lords by humane and Diabolicall law How faultie this assertion is let my following Discourse testifie Our Bishop is a Presbyter or ancient Pastour set in eminent superiority over the Clergie and their flocks with a relation to the government of them in matters Ecclesiasticall And such I say the Apostles instituted and to them gave a charg how to demean themselves A perpetuall Succession hereof by practice hath continued from Christs Apostles to this day Now for Ius divinum I take that to be of Divine Right which is warranted in sacred Scripture de credendis agendis in matters to be believed or done Let this serve for the present it wil be more enlarged occasionally in some part of this treatise Only here I adde that {non-Roman} {non-Roman} {non-Roman} {non-Roman} {non-Roman} the practice of the Apostles which never was questioned or excepted against and is recorded in the canonicall Scripture hath in it Ius Divinum and shews what is of divine right defacto These things being premised I proceed to Objections against my Assertion and Answere unto each of them particularly Eminent superiority Lordly authority over their people is that which the Lords of the Gentiles may do challenge practice as their due Iure human● by humane right Therefore {non-Roman} {non-Roman} {non-Roman} {non-Roman} {non-Roman} by law of things opposite eminent superiority and Lordly authority over the Clergie the people of God is that which Bishops ought not to challeng or practice Iure Divino For proofe hereof see Mat. 20. 25. 26. The Princes of the Gentiles Dominantur Lordly rule over them but you non sic not so or it shall not bee so with you And 1. Pet. 5. 2. 3. Feed the flock of the Lord taking the over-sight therof not by constraint but willingly not for filthy Lucre but of a ready minde neither as being Lords over Gods Heritage To this I answere that the measure of domination not the matter lies in the word sic and so is expounded by the words aforegoing not by constraint but willingly not churlishly or covetously not as though ye were Lords domineering over them but that yee may be ensamples to the flock Non herile aut Regale imperium exercentes sed pastorali superioritate paterna gubernatione utentes Not exercising a masterlike or Kingly command but using a pastorall superiority and fatherly government And so this rather as I conceive confirms superiority and Episcopacy then destroies them For the word sic so takes not away the legality but qualifies the power given by saying let it be used sic so This I prove to bee the meaning of the Apostle by this argument The practice of the Apostles is not contrary to Christs and their Doctrine and the sense thereof But the Apostles did practise eminent superiority and such lawfull authority as Christ forbids not over the Clergie and flock and instituted successors Therefore their doctrine allowed the same And so that cannot be meant by the words above which is pretended viz. that there should be a parity in the Clergie and that Episcopacie is Dominium in Clerum a Lordly rule over the Clergie and {non-Roman} {non-Roman} {non-Roman} {non-Roman} {non-Roman} an usurped authority The successors which they instituted are warranted by Christ when hee said I am with you to the end of the world that is I am with you whilst you live and with successors in your stead governing and teaching the Church to the worlds end Hence it was that the Apostles ordained Bishops to succeed them so did the ancient Fathers in the purer times This course continued ever since The practice of the Apostles was in a superiority above others of the Clergie and to the Bishops whom they constituted to succeed themselves in place over the Clergie they gave a superior authority neither did they either practise or ever mention that parity in power which the presbyteriās so much endeavour to introduce And therefore the Apostles never understood the words as these men doe viz. that they should disallow of Bishops in superior authority above other of the Clergie To make the practice of the Apostles more evident I appeale to Saint Paul who gave to Timothy and Titus Episcopall power To the one in Ephesus to the other in Creet Now to cleere this let us first cleanse the spring head and then the streames will