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A64702	The church-papist (so-called), his religion and tenets fully discovered in a serious dispute ... whereby the common ... arguments of pretended visibility, succession, universality, &c., of the Roman Church ... are briefly confuted : whereunto is added, a short discourse proving episcopacy to be of divine institution, kingly government of Gods setting up, and the religion of the Church of England, to be the best in the world / by one of the children of the late captivity, 1680.	Underwood, John, fl. 1680.	1680 (1680)	Wing U46; ESTC R7367	28,086	42

well beloved Son in whom I am well pleased hear ye him and to hear him is Life And I know They committed two Evils that forsook the Fountain of Living Waters to hew out to themselves Cisterns broken Cisterns that can hold no water Jer. 2.13 That Episcopal and Kingly Government are inseparable in England and the Establishment of both are Jure Divino WE have in the late Tragical Revolutions been too severely taught that no Project of Government either in Church or State Episcopacy excluded is consistent with England's happiness and that Episcopacy and Monarchy are inseparable and the only props of this Nations Peace we by the same cruel Experience have been made sensible whereby it appears that 't is England's great Interest to uphold both for her safety and that the one cannot subsist without the other was well understood by that second Solomon King James of blessed memory from whom we have the Maxim in his Basil Do. Sublato Episcopo tollitur Rex no Bishop no King And no Faction or Profession though nick-naming themselves Protestants deviating from the Principles in Doctrine and Practise in Worship from the present Church of England can stand with Monarchy A right Protestant of the English Church protests not only against the errors of Rome but against all Schism and errors of every Sect and against all Doctrine not agreeing with the Primitive Profession and Practise of the antient Church of Christ There are sorts of People that are ever clamorous and designing to Reform the Reformed and even to amend Reformation it self chiefly plotting a great alteration which is more than a Reformation of Church Government by removal of Bishops from the Government but these are enemies to good Reformation for no good Reformer ever held Episcopacy unlawful the Order doth emanare ab Apostolis The Government is of Divine Right of which Christ himself the Great High-Priest Heb. 4. v. 14. and Bishop laid the Foundation was Bishop over all and the Apostles were Ministers After him every Apostle had his Charge many of them a Diocess and was Overseer that is Bishop over many Churches and they left this way of Government a Pattern for all Posterity to follow So it is manifest that Church-Government by Bishops is as old and universally practised as Christian Religion and Christian Faith was received in England soon after the Crucifixion of our Saviour and the Government of the Church by Bishops entred with it as well it ought for there was no other Government Order or Constitution in the Primitive Church Apostles Angels Bishops Patriarchs c. are Synonima one Office under several Denominations St. Paul an Apostle not of men neither by man but by God was a great Apostle or Bishop Timothy had a Jurisdiction over the Ephesians and was ordained Bishop Tim. 3.22 and so was Titus Bishop of Creet and had many Ministers under them Thus entred Episcopacy and that Order of Priesthood to the Government of the Church in the beginning There was an order of Priesthood in the old Law of which the high Priest was chief and there were Priests and Levites so in the new it seemed meet to the Eternal Builder of the Church to leave by the example set by his Apostles an Order and Method of Government therein and this divine Emanation the Universal Church hath in all Ages embraced and this Order best keeps the Presbyters and Clergy in Unity one with another and in an Union of Doctrine and Worship in the Church throughout which otherwise the order of Church-Discipline left to every Presbyter's private fancy to use after his own modelling would greatly hazard the introducing as many Novels may be Schisms and Factions as there are parochial Churches in the Land what a Medly what a Confusion what a Hydra what a Babel what an open Mockery as it were of God would there be throughout the Nation to the scandal thereof so the Church in England would have no appearance no face and constant dress to be known by Strangers would be at a loss for the true English Church finding here a Hydra of many faces not one like another But who and what generation of men are wiser and more holy than the Apostles and Fathers of old to set up a new way of Government of their own contriving in Christ's Church what Power on Earth can abrogate that Government by divine Institution reared and continued by the same right all Ages in the Church of God And what necessity is here of a change or alteration of Government in the Church from that which is Apostolical to that which peradventure may prove Diabolical for what good can be expected by pulling down that which is of Gods setting up and introducing a new we know not what of Man's absolute devising But if perchance any Irregularities have crept in or undue practices contrary to the established Order have been committed in any part of this Government which should call for or minister a Necessity of Reformation surely not unhallowed hands of the prophane Laity who should be governed by the Church and not the Church corrected by them are fit Instruments of this Work especially in a Nation that hath so lately felt the dire Effects and Issues of a popular pretended Reformation and wherein those men have shown to the World what ill Workmen they are Let the people reform their own Manners This reforming part of what is amiss in the Church belongs only to them to whom the Holy Spirit said I will be with you always to the end of the World with the Church i. e. with the Apostles whose personal continuance lasted not in the World and their Successors in the Office of Apostles Bishops Pastors Patriarchs c. in the Church who shall have the assistance of the Holy Spirit for ever As my Father sent me so send I you And as Christ sent them so they sent others so what shall seem meet to the Holy Spirit and to them whom Christ hath sent and through whose word we are to believe in Christ St. Jo. 17.20 the Governours of the Church successively to whom Christ hath promised to be with and in whom only the Jus Divinum remains may reform and alter what they judge convenient for it is of the same power that chang'd the Sabbath from the last to the first day of the week and 't is from and by the same Power and Divine Authority that the Church conveys all the Ordinances Sacraments and Holy things of God to his People from Generation to Generation These Pastors and Governours with whom Christ according to his word is always present to the end of the World may I grant transfer the Government should they deem a necessity into more hands under other names than that of Bishop which note will still be but Episcopacy degenerated into another denomination the Power will be the same not altered but translated from one to many in whom the Supremacy and Jus Divinum will remain In all

Territories who hearing the Story of the Stupendious Miracle of restoring the King of England to his People and the Protestant Religion to the Nation even the sudden Redemption from Banishment and returning the Captivity of Church and People in peace in the midst of Armies without bloodshed was startled into an Amazement and holy Rapture and in the high Transport passionately cryed out Oh had I the happiness to be acquainted with that blessed Prince His Religion should be my Religion His God should be my God It is no new thing that Miracles have Converted Nations but 't is a strange thing that there should be so stupid and benummed a Generation of Men in any Nation whom Miracles move not even this wondring of the Mahumetan like Nebuchadnezzar Dan. 3.29 There is no other God can deliver after this sort in a holy Reverence to this power of the Almighty and work of his Mercy is a kind of Adoration of the God of the Protestants of England and as much as in him lies an embracing of the Faith in his Heart Can then any Christian of England forget these Magnalia Caeli or forsake that Faith Doctrine Worship and Discipline which not the Arm of Flesh but the Might of Providence hath so amazingly Replanted and Sceptred in this Land and be good This Profession of the Church of England is apparently owned by God himself to be his own Church for lately taking of his Rod of Correction and in his good time ceasing Chastising his People whom he for their sins had afflicted he dissipated all Sects from Government and every Religion from Establishment but that which he call'd back from Captivity which he Redeemed from Thraldom to Liberty and to him who continued his Faith he restored his Kingdoms for the sake of the Church he re-Inthron'd the King in his Rights and for the sake of the King he re-Established the Church Oh the Majesty and Divinity of Kings whose Government is Ordained by God himself By me Kings Reign c. Diadema Regis in manu Dei Isa 62.3 The Lord doth set the Crown upon the Kings head Psal 21.3 Kings are of Gods setting up 1 Sam. 9.10 17. 1 Sam. 10.24 See ye him whom the Lord hath chosen and ought not to be of the Peoples pulling down They are Christi Domini the Lords Anointed Touch not mine Anointed c. And who can stretch forth his Hand against the Lords Anointed and be guiltless 1 Sam. 26.9 Every mans right the property of every English Man is preserved to him by the Law per Magnum Chartam Anglia so the Right of Kings is conveyed and confirmed to them by the great Charter of Heaven an indelible Law greater than that of the Medes and Persians that no man may presume to attempt to alter Kings have their Titles from above and hold their Kingdoms under God for all Kingdoms are his and not the Peoples He establishes Thrones and Kingdoms for ever 1 Chron. 28.4 5. and Chap. 29. v. 23.2 Sam. 7.13 Psal 89. A King is more honoured than the Angels hath Gods more peculiar Divine Stamp upon him and is made the Son of God I have chosen him to be my Son and I will be his Father Chron. 28.6 2 Sam. 7.14 And who can without highest Rebellion to the King of Heaven attempt to deface this holy Stamp by approaching to hurt Gods Son and Vicegerent in Office or Person The Persons of Kings are sacred invested with Divinity which strike an Awe on all good men This David when a Subject well knew and felt and Adored the Divinity David the most undaunted Courage of the Earth the great Champion of Israel whom no danger could affright that encountred the mighty Goliah in the Head of the puissant Army of the Philistins was the most Valiant of the World that slew his ten thousands yet when his King though a single Person became his Enemy and sought his Life causelesly to take it away he could not lift up a hand against his Person when it seemed easie to have destroyed him in the Cave dread fell upon David and his heart smote him but for cutting off the Skirt of Saul's Garment 1 Sam. 24.5 and said The Lord forbid that I should do this thing unto my Master the Lords Anointed to stretch forth mine Hand against him seeing he is the Anointed of the Lord v. 6.10 And David though he knew he was to succeed Saul in the Throne and be King after him and had a second opportunity to have been avenged of his Enemy Saul who again pursued after his Life and might have slain him in his Trench and put to the Sword his whole Guard of Armed Men whilst they lay sleeping yet he became afraid to unsheath a Sword against his Enemy to cut him off and would not permit any man to hurt the Lords Anointed but saved him from danger 1 Sam. 26.9 11. Yea sharply robuked the Kings Guards for being no more watchful over their Charge telling them what they for their Carelesness justly deserved Ye are worthy to die because ye have not kept your Master the Lords Anointed v. 16. Now to escape meriting this Sentence of David let all English Spirits unite in a vigilant Care to preserve his Sacred Majesty our Royal Master the Lords Anointed the Protector and Defender of us all Let every good Subject and Son of the Reformed Church the Protestant Church of England still Fear God and Honour the King and meddle not with them that are given to change Prov. 24.21 Vigeat Ecclesia Anglicana verè Catholica Vivat Rex Angliae Regum Protestantissimus Exurgat Deus And let the Enemies of both be for ever dispersed Amen FINIS