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A36444	Martyrion Christianon, or, A Christian and sober testimony against sinfull complyance wherein the unlawfulness of hearing the present ministers of England is clearly demonstrated, severall weighty queries proposed, objections impartially weighed in the ballance of the sanctuary and found wanting / by Christophilus Antichristomachus.	Douglas, Thomas, fl. 1661.	1664 (1664)	Wing D2039; ESTC R26734	81,925	102

way appointed by him to the end of the World Eph. 4. 11. 6. That there is not one promise of a blessing in the whole Scripture upon persons atending on such a Ministry with innumerable things of the like tendency and import that might be produced if needful are such a basis upon which the truth of the major Proposition stands as cannot be easily shaken or removed The Minor wants not sufficient demonstration First The present Ministers of England are either from Christ or from Antichrist There is no medium a Linsey-woolsey-Ministry that is partly of Christ partly of Antichrist as 't is not to be proved by Scripture so will it not be abetted That they are not from Christ hath in part been proved already and may farther be evinced 1. Their Names are forreign to the Scripture Where reade we of Deacons in their sence Priests as distinguished from Christians in the New-Testament Deans Cannons Petty-Cannons Prebendaries Arch-Deacons Lord-Bishops Parsons Vicars c. these are onely found in the Popes Pontifical whence they are derived So are 2. Their Offices Deacons attending Tables we reade of but Deacons Praying Preaching Administring Sacraments so called by vertue of an Office-power an order of the first step to the Priesthood we find not Priests in the Old-Testament both true and false we reade of in the New Saints are so called First in respect of analogie to the ritual Priests of old whose prerogative it was to come near to God Deut. 21. 5. to whom through Christ Saints have access with boldness Ephes 2. 18. and 3. 19. Jam. 4. 8. Secondly in respect of their union and engrafture into Christ the great High-Priest over the House of God Thirdly in respect of that analogy there is betwixt what Christ hath done for them as Priest and by his Spirit worketh in them He offered up Sacrifice so do they Psal 116. 17. and 141. 2. Rom. 12. 1. Heb. 13. 14. He was crucified died so are they Rom. 6. 6 7 8. c. Gal. 2. 20. Fourthly as Priests they are anointed to the participation of do thereby attain to a kind of holy and intimate communion with Christ in all his glorious Offices Rev. 5. 10. But an Office of Priesthood in men for the Ministry of the Gospel that are to be bounded by men in that their Office must preach what they would have them and cease when they would have them as is the case of the present Ministry of England the Scripture is a stranger to So is it 3. to their admission into this their office viz. by a Lord-Bishop without the consent of the Congregation in which they act as Officers The very truth is both in their Names Office and admission thereunto the present Ministers of England symbolize not with the Ministers of Christ but the Popish order of Priests so that if these do act by vertue of an Antichristian office-power then do they as he that runs may read in the ensuing parallel particulars 1. They are both called and own themselves Priests which though some may make light of yet considering that it is a term borrowed either from the Priests of the Law the assertion of such a Priesthood being a denial of Christ come in the flesh or from the Priests of the Heathen in conformity to whom as the Druides of old our Priests wear their white Garment or Surplice or from the Antichristian Church so called of Rome Such idolatrous superstitious names being commanded by the Lord to be abolished Hos 2. 15. Zech. 13. 2. wants not its sufficient weight the retention whereof being also a sore suspition of too great a compliance with if not a willingness to return to that from whence they are derived Of the same mind with us herein is Hierom upon the 2d of Hosea the Hebrew Doctors Kimchi and Aben-Ezra the Caldee Paraphrast Ribera though a Jesuit Zanchi Danaeus Sanctius Polanus Rivet and almost all that write upon the said Scripture The last mentioned viz. Learned Rivet hath these words in his Corollaries from Hos 2. 15 16. There are many names which in themselves are good enough and might be used but God abhorreth the use of them because they have been abused to Idolatry he instanceth indeed in the word Mass but Priest or Altar being of the same allay upon the same foot of account is to be rejected The reformed Churches in Helvetia in their harmony of Confessions are of the same mind The Ministry say they and the Priesthood are things far different the one from the other he himself viz. Christ remaineth only Priest for ever and we do not communicate the name Priest to any Minister lest we should detract something from Christ 2. The Priests of Rome must be first Deacons ere they are Priests So must the present Ministers of England 3. The Priests of Rome must be ordained to their Office by a Lord-Bishop or his Suffragan So must the Ministers of England 4. The Priests of Rome must at their ordination be presented by an Archdeacon or his Deputy with these words Reverende Pater c. Reverend Father I present these men unto thee to be admitted unto the order of Priesthood So are the present Ministers of England 5. The Priests of Rome must be ordained to their office according to their Pontifical devised by themselves the Priests of England according to their Book of ordering Priests and Deacons which is taken out of the Popes Pontifical as is evident to any that shall compare the one with the other and as hath been long since confest by some of themselves in an Admonition to the Parliament in Queen Elizabeths dayes in their second Treatise 6. The Popish Priests must kneel down upon their knees at the feet of the Lord-Bishop that ordains them and he must say to them blasphemously enough Receive ye the Holy Ghost Whose sins ye remit or forgive they are remitted whose sins ye retain they are retained which exactly accords with the fashion of ordaining the Priests of England 7. The Popish Priests are not ordained in and before the Congregation to whom they are to be Priests but in some Metropolitan Cathedral City several miles from the place So are the Priests of England 8. The Popish Priests take the care of souls though not elected by them from the presentation of a Patron by the institution and induction of a Lord-Bishop and do not the present Ministers of England the same 9. The Popish Priests wait not the Churches Call to the Ministry but make suit to some Prelate to be ordained Priests giving mony for their letters of Ordination So do the present Ministers of England 10. The Popish Priests are ordained to their Office though they have no Flock to attend upon So are the Priests of England 11. The Popish Priests must swear Canonical Obedience to their Ordinary So do the present Ministers of England 12. The Popish Priests may at their pleasure without the consent of the People resign and give over their

VVorship of England we shall be so far from condemning them therein that we shall bless God for them But this is not to the purpose in hand the attendance of our Brethren upon the Ministry of England is quite another thing that requires other Arguments for its support than we have hitherto met with Parvas habet spes Troja si Tales habet Object 3. Paul rejoyceth at the Preaching of the Gospel though 't was preached out of envy Phil. 1. 15 16. To which briefly 1. There may be cause of rejoycing in respect of the issue and event of things by the wise Providence of God though the means used for their production be evil and not to be abetted or complyed with In what have Christians greater cause of rejoycing than in the death of Christ Yet had it been utterly unlawful to have joyn'd in counsel with or any wayes abetted or encouraged those wicked persons that crucified and slew him Should the Pope send some Jesuits into any remote parts of America to preach the Gosplel to the poor Indians there here were upon some accounts ground of rejoycing yet no ground for Saints to attend upon a Jesuitical Ministry But 2ly it appears not that these Paul speaks of were not true Gospel-Ministers and so it reacheth not the case in hand This being that we have proved the Ministers of England guilty of viz. an acting in the Holy Things of God without any Commission from Christ which when our Dissenting-Brethren prove they have we shall easily acknowledge the lawfulness of attending upon their Ministry 3ly It follows not in the least that these the Apostle speaks of were either not real Saints or not true Ministers of Christ because they are said to preach him out of envy the object whereof was not Christ for had they envied him they would never have preach'd him but Paul thinking says he to add affliction to my bonds which is consistant with Grace and a lawful Mission to the preaching of the Gospel Yet 4thly Here is not in this Scripture the least word requiring Christians to hear them That because Paul rejoyces at their preaching therefore 't is the duty of Saints to attend upon their Ministry is such a Non-sequiter as will never be made good Object 4. The Ministers of England preach Truth and is it not lawful to hear Truth preached We answer 1. That 't is lawful to hear Truth preached is readily granted but this must be done lawfully and in the way of Christ's Appointment 2ly All that preach Truth are not to be heard nor will our dissenting Brethren say they are For 1. There was never yet any Heretical-Preacher in the world but he preached some Truth is it lawful to hear such this will not be said 2. The Devil himself preached Truth yet Christ forbids him and commands that he hold his peace 3. The Popish Priests preach Truth yet who will say 't is lawful to attend upon their Ministry But 3dly As the present Ministers of England preach Truth So 1. They preach it but by halves and dare not for fear of the L. Bishops Inhibition preach any doctrine though never so clearly revealed in the Scriptures and owned by them as the Truth of Christ he commands them not to meddle with 2. The main Truths they preach at least many of them are contradicted in their practice They 'l tell you that the Lord Jesus is the great Prophet and King of his Church but how palpably this is contradicted by them in their practice conforming to Institutions and Laws that are not of his prescription who sees not This we have already abundantly demonstrated 3. With the Truth they preach they mingle many Errors directly contrary to the Scripture and the Revelation Christ hath made of his Will therein Instances of this kind have been already exhibited to which may be added many more we shall mention but a few 1. That the Ministry Worship and Government which Christ hath appointed to his Church is not to be received or joyned unto unless the Magistrates where they are reputed Christian do allow it 2. That the Apocryphal books which have in them Errors 2 Mac. 12. 44 45. 14. 41 42. Eccles 46. 20. Wisd 19. 11. Untruths 2 Esd 14. 21 22 23. 2 Macc. 2. 4-8 Tob. 5. 11 12 13. with 12. 15. Judith 8. 33. 10. 9 with v. 12. 11. 6 12 13 14 15. 1 Mac. 9. 3 18. with 2 Mac. 1. 13 to 17. 9. 1 5 7 9 28 29. Blasphemy Tob. 12. 12 15. with Rom. 8. 34. 1 Tim. 2. 5. Rev. 8. 3 4. Magick Tobit 6. 6 7 8. 9. 2 3. with 3. 7 8. 11. 10 11 13. with 2. 9 10. and contradiction to the Canonical Scriptures Judith 9. 2 3 4. compared with Gen. 49. 5 6 7. Esther in the Apocrypha chap. 12. 5. 15. 9 10. with Ester canonical chap. 6. 3. 5. 2. Eccles 46. 20. with Isa 57. 2. may be used in the Publick Worship of God 3. That the most wicked and their seed may be compelled and received to be members of the Church 4. That Marriage may be forbidden at certain seasons as in Lent Advent Rogation-week c. 5. That Baptism is to be administred with a Cross in the forehead and that as a symbolical sign 6. That though the most notorious obstinate Offenders be partakers of the Lord's Supper yet the people that joyn with them are not defiled thereby 7. That there may be Holy-dayes appointed to the Virgin Mary John Baptist to the Apostles All Saints and Angels together also with Fasts on their Eves on Ember-dayes Fridayes Saturdayes so called heathenishly enough and Lent 8. That the Cope Surplice Tippit Rocket c. are meet and decent Ornaments for the Worship of God and Ministry of the Gospel 9. That the Book of Common-Prayer is the true Worship of God 10. That Christ descended into Hell as if Christ descended into the place of the Damned as the Papists hold 11. That Lord Bishops can give the holy-Holy-Ghost and power to forgive and retain Sins 12. That Altars Candles Organs c. are necessary and useful in the Church of God 13. That all Children † Common-Prayer-Book of Publick Baptism when baptized are regenerate and received by the Lord for his own Children by Adoption Yea 14. That Children being baptized have all things necessary for their Salvation and shall undoubtedly be saved So they profess in the Order of Confirmation in the Common-Prayer-Book with much more that might be offered in this matter Object 5. Judas preached though a wicked man and no doubt 't was lawful yea the duty of Saints to hear him To this we say No doubt but it was so But 1. Judas was not a visible wicked man at the time of his preaching but so close an Hypocrite that he was not known to be so no not to the Disciples But some of the present Ministers of England are visibly wicked and prophane 2. Judas was