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A01039 An ansvvere to M. I. Forbes of Corse, his peaceable warning Calderwood, David, 1575-1650. 1638 (1638) STC 11143; ESTC S102458 22,575 36

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catholica non esse hierarchiam divina ordinatione institutā quae constat ex Episcopis Presbyteris ministris anathemasit Bellarmine likewise in his booke de clericis cap. 11. answering to Chemnitius alledging Dionysius Areopagita for three orders only to wit of Bishops priests and dea●ons whom hee calls Ministers sayeth that that Dionysius did not set downe the number of the Orders but of the hierarchies For sayth hee there are three hierarchies in the militant Kirke the first of Bishops the second of priests the third of Deacons and that the deacons are also princes if they bee compared with the people but for inferiour orders subdeacons acolythes lectors exorcists and ostiaries or doore keepers they beare no rule or charge over the people but onely serve the Deacons or the priests For hierarchie properly is sacer principatus a sacred preheminence or rule The fore-named counterfeit writer Dionysius calleth the Bishop the Hierarch because hee is the chiefe Hierarch The Pope himselfe is not within the hierarchie primats Metropolitans or Arch-bishops but as they are Bishops Whereas some alledge that in our Confession wee detest and abhorre his hierarchie that is to bee interpret as the rest are to be interpreted to be his as canonization of Saints dedicating of Kirkes dayes altars c. are called his not that there is another lawfull canonization or dedicating of Kirkes dayes altars c. Whereas some alledgde that this hierarchie was before there was a Pope Wee answere that it is called his notwithstanding as dedicating of Kirks dayes altars oyle salt c. are called his Because what ever corruption was in the Kirk either in doctrine worship or government of the Kirk since the mysterie of iniquitie began to work that is Poperie began so much as hee retained and maintained and obtruded by his authoritie upon the Kirke are his Next we must consider the Pope or Roman Antichrist not only in his growth and perfite age but from his conception and first birth Farther this hierarchie is distinguished in the confession from the Popes Monarchie Neither can it bee interpreted of the manifold orders in the Kirke of Rome For that is mentioned before in the Confession of faith where we abjure his manifold orders Next in the Confession of faith we professe that we abhorre and detest all kinde of Papistrie in generall and particulare heads even as they were then damned and confuted by the Word of GOD. and Kirke of Scotland But so it is that the office of a Bishop was condemned by the Kirk of Scotland and confuted in the pulpits by M Lowson M. Arburthnot M. Pont and many other godly and learned men From the yeere 1575 to 1579 when the heads of constant policie and plat-forme of discipline were agitate in Assemblyes it was declared that such as had the Bishoprickes and were called Bishops should bee tyed to particulare flocks that they should be called by their owne names or the name of brethren that they should bee content with reasonable rent and not lift up for the maintenance of their ryotousnesse the emoluments of the Kirk which may sustaine many Pastors the Schooles and the poore that they should not claime the titles of temporall Lords that they should not usurpe criminall jurisdiction that they should not exerce temporall jurisdiction that they must not empire above particulare elderships nor usurpe the power of presbyteries In reforming the corruptions of that estate they abolished Episcopacie after they had agreed on all the heades of the constant policie in Aprile anno 1578 which are extant in the booke of policie or 2 booke of discipline But besides there was a speciall act made in Iulie 1580 at Dundie with full consent of the whole Assembly against the office as followeth For às much as the office of a Bishop as it is now used and commonly taken within this Realme hath no warrant authoritie nor ground in the word of God but is brought in by the folly of mans invention to the great overthrow of the Kirke of God The whole Assembly of the Kirke in one voice after libertie given to all men to reason in the matter non●opponing themselfe in defending the said pretended office finds and declares the said pretended office used and termed as is abovesaid unlawfull in it self as having neither fundament ground nor warrant in the scriptures of God and ordaines that all such persons as brook● or shall brooke heereafter the said office shall bee charged simplie to dimitt quyte and leave off the same as an office whereunto they are not called by God and suchlike to desist and cease from all preaching of the Word ministration of the Sacraments or using any way the office of Pastors till they receive de novo admission from the general Assembly under the paine of excommunication wherein if they bee found disobedient or to contraveene this Act in any point the sentence of excommunication after due admonition is to bee executed against them The Confession of faith was not authorized and subscribed till March and the yeere following It is cleare then that that office is abjured in the Confession of Faith seing it was consuted by the word of God and Kirk of Scotland In the Assembly holden at Glasgow in April 1581 we have this Declaration in the sixth Session Anent the act made in the assembly holden at Dundie against Bishops because some difficultie appeared to some Brethren to arise out of the word Office contained in the said act what should bee meant thereby the Assembly consisting for the most part of such as voted and were present in the assembly at Dundie to take away the said difficultie resolving upon the true meaning and understanding of the said act declareth that they meant wholly to condemce the whole state of Bishops as they are now in Scotland and that the same was the determination and conclusion of the Assembly at this time Thirdly in that Confession we professe that we joyne our selves willingly to this true reformed Kirke in doctrine faith Religion discipline use of the Sacraments as livelie membere of the same in Christ our head promising swearing by the great name of the LORD our GOD that we shall continue in the obedience of the doctrine and discipline of this Kirke shall continue in the same according to our vocation and power all the dayes of our life under the paines contained in the Law and danger both of body and soule in the Daye of Gods fearefull Iudgment But so it is that the Episcopall governement was damned and the presbyteriall rested upon as most consonant to the word of God to be observed in all time comming before the Confession of faith was subscribed And while the generall assemblies wtre about the constitution of presbyteries the King sent with the Laird of Capringtoun to the assemblie holden at Glasgow in Aprile 1581 a plot drawne up for that purpose together with a letter which was to