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A65261	Akolouthos, or, A second faire warning to take heed of the Scotish discipline in vindication of the first (which the Rt. Reverend Father in God, the Ld. Bishop of London Derrie published a. 1649) against a schismatical & seditious reviewer, R.B.G., one of the bold commissioners from the rebellious kirke in Scotland ... / by Ri. Watson ...	Watson, Richard, 1612-1685.; Creighton, Robert, 1593-1672.	1651 (1651)	Wing W1084; ESTC R13489	252,755	272

very hardlie bestowed upon an hungrie beggar but pro pane lapidem without out saviours censure a stone instead of that bread which was never ordaind to stuffe the insataite stomach of every gaping Rebell that call'd for 't Yet whatsoever you had was you know but for a triennal experiment which being exspired in the yeare of libertie that was to succeed according to Gods paterne in Ezekiel if you could then praetend no better title then you had done it was to returne to your Prince and the inheritance of such an inseparable right to be his sonnes who of your adversaries gave this unseasonable advice I know not nor who have acknowledg'd and recanted for errours those divine truths ordained for peace but encountred with troubles and their abettours expos'd to susteime the envie and obloquie of the world Therefore alasse its in vaine for you to invite them to come nearer to hang out like a dead cat in her skin unlesse you meane to have every one of them moral the rest of the fable with an 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 But to leave off speaking in parables I desire the reader in plaine English to marke the base ingratitude of an unworthie Presbyter In that when a most ingenuous peace-desiring Prince for him he meanes when he speakes of his Praelatical adversaries invaded by audacious importunitie encompassed with all external visible necessitie placing himselfe upon the very pinacle of Christi-an charitie shall yeild all that the softest gentlest Casuist can indulge and that upon such conditions as how easie soever the perfidious contractours litle thinke to make good he must be argued with upon the ominous advantage of his owne gratuitie praetended from his adventurous kindnesse to be demonstrativelie convinc'd to give up the rest of that which rebellious license schismatical singularitie and degenerate malice have now so devested into a new creature as neither law custome nor honour can call that English Bishop which religion instituded and reformation confirmed But a crou'd of guiltie conjured malefactours presseth shame and the proverbe to nothing so that ingratum si dixeris nihil dixeris Seneca knew it who had studied the point and experienc'd the practice P●…dorem tollit multitudo peccantium definet esse probri loco commune maledictum But to send you backe some of your owne logike and language If this naked bird which you so pleasantlie play with be a new creature because the feathers are pluckt then you must confesse that old creature revested with those Euaugelical beauties and Royal graces which once it possessed to be that know'n true English Bishop that in honour law custome if not in conscience which I need not suppose is to be inviolablie maintain'd when it shall be made to appeare as it may very easilie and hath been very frequentlie that such an order not much differentlie fashion'd and habited ever was and ever is to be in the Christian Church To make good the mutual toleration indented for between your sectarian brethren and your alltogether as sectarian selves you closelie decline the warners confidence which avowes those texts of Scripture you wrest against Bishops with as much colour of reason and more truth the Independents may urge against Presbyters being resolv'd since you finde they can make you their province at pleasure if not command a transmigration of your Euangel to argue no more against them then to fight The triumph you make in two painted Syllogismes is very improperlie plac'd before the victorie where though you ●…ide like a George on horsebacke in a pageant you will passe for no beter then a dumbe shew and with your wooden launce be mistaken by none but children and fooles for that primitive armed Saint that kill'd the dragon If you cast not your texts in a couple of better molds your workemanship will beare as litle the image of Gods word as your selves doe of the reasonable men that he created Were His Lp. at better leisure his great promises would reengage him in more necessarie imployments then answering every silie Presbyter in his follie but his Acolythus servant if not because he hath taken up so much of the similitude allreadie will for once and it may be oftner follow Solomons advice in the next verse seeing you so very wise in your owne conceit The first text you are medling with is Ephes 4. 11. whence your imaginarie argument not to be denied adoration is this Maj All the officers that Christ has appointed in his Church for the ministrie of the word are either Apostles Euangelists Prophets Pastours or Doctours Mi But Bishops are none of these five Ergo. You pleade custome for the free unquaestionable passage of your major which you must give me leave to obstruct first excepting against the improprietie of your termes being such as may evacuate your argument the Ministrie of the word when the Bishops discourse is about the regiment of the persons to whom the word allreadie is ministred Secondlie demanding to have it under Saint Pauls hand whether the offices he mentions of Apostolate prophecie c were by Christs institution for the personal perfecting of Saints in a Church established and not as the word seemes rather to signific Pros ton Catartismon toon hagioon for jointing or knitting new Saints to the Church new membres to the bodie of Christ in the propagation of his gospel so aedisying the bodie of Christ by the worke of the Ministrie which in the next verse seemes to end in the unitie of ●…ayth that is the general conversion of nations to Christianitie Thirdlie whether this enumeration of the Apostle's be universal to which J finde more particulars addèd 1. Co. 12. 28. among them dynam●…is Kyberneseis Powers governments the former of which that you may not cavill about superinfused gifts he makes as much personal or persons as that of Apostle prophet Teacher vers 29. Besides that he expresselie calleth the Elders of the Church of Ephesus Bishops tells them they were instituted by the holie spirit which we know came downe to fulfill the promise by the mission of the sonne so they must passe upon account as officers appointed by Christ. Three fifths of your Minor thus you prove Bishops are not Apostles Euangelists nor prophets because they are confessed extraordinarie temporarie Bishops ordinarie perpetual To which I answer First That Bishops are Apostles in their ordinarie power of ordination jurisdiction though not in their extraordinarie of working miracles speaking with diverse tongues c. And this Tertullian hath sayd above 1300. yeares since who arguing with the haeretikes about succession bids them turne over their records shew that their first Bishop was an Apostle or Apostolical because personallie ordained by one of them This the Apostolical Churches could doe as that of Smyrna shewes Polycarp because placed there by Saint Iohn That of Rome Clement because ordained by St. Peter And such Bishops as

like boyes with changeable knots in their treaties or what you scornefullie charge them all with when you thinke on 't like children play at checkstone with their promises and oathes That His Maiestie did this of himselfe is false if mean'd exclusive of his Councel That he did it without a Parliament which he could not have and before it which his urgent necessities could not stay for is justifiable by that law which will never pleade for your pardon Salus populi suprema lex Nor is that currant law contraire to any standing law in such an exigence as his unlesse there be one as there is none that injoines him to follow the misfortune of his father to lot the Presbyterians binde his hands from laying hold upon any advantageous assistance from the Papists till his head be cut off by your bloudie Executioners the Independents Therefore whatsoever passed in this agreement if perswaded by the gracious partie no faction of the Praelates they exonerated their conscience if opposed by them they were no antagonists to their dutie if with moderation and patience heard their passionate zeale did not so transport them as to reject salvation from God when he gives it by the hand of Papists unto their King Who thinke it neither loyaltie nor prudence rather to deliver him up to the hazard if not assurance of the axe then he should by such meanes be delivered from the perill of the sword The Kings inclination toward covenanting protestants hath never hitherto made such an uglie appearance as to scare them in a dreame or awaken their art industrie in a furie Nor have you heard I beleeve His Majestie complaine that his sleep was broake by their midnight disswasions If in sermons by daylight they layd before him the mischiefes that lurke in your Covenant they did but bring him a message from his Fathers Ghost who it may be heard the low'd cries of those tongues that had toke it as he passed from the skaffold to Ahrahams bosome Or were sent from some other Ancients that were dead to tell him more truth then he ever will heare from the Scotish Interpreters of Moses and the Prophets That temporal death with any misfortune ought much rather to be embraced then the losse of his soul in the hell of the Covenant they could not beate too often in His Majesties head unlesse they infalliblie knew his Martyr'd Fathers instructions to be engraven with the point of a diamon'd or unchangeablie set as a seale on his heart And where as our Saviour assures him the whole world can be no proportionable profit for that damage mention'd in the 16. S. Matth. the ruine of his three Kingdomes need never be grudged in so good an exchange as he afterward speakes of Though His Majesties conscience or such of his Councel as look'd well about them could not hitherto tell him he hath been by any necessitie tempted to one of those two immediate extremities between which providence ever maintain'd a visible passe it may be none of the easiest nor ought is it but sloth and Athiesme except some treason may be in the composition that would scare him with fancies of prodigious monsters worse then Solomons lion in that way Your forsooth with a feigned lispe and a courtesie will winne your Mistresse the Covenant no favour in wisemens eyes who can not be catch'd with such red and white painting and patches as where with you so often praesent her Since their deare bought experience hath tought them that her crowne of pride can as litle brooke a societie with the Goddesse Regalitie as Prelacie Nor doth she oblige in sense how faire soever she speakes her takers to lesse in their station then to the abolition of them both If I conceiv'd my selfe in danger instead of answering I would cut out your next paragraph and weare it for an amulet or special guard against magical enchantments having read that things most rediculous or filthie are the best securitie that can be in such cases That you should appeale to Reason Experience for your Iudges of Presbyteries praeeminence before Episcopacie in learning honour wealth who stand selfe condemn'd by the frequent invectives you with your partisans make against the vaine philosophie which is the sciential learning of Prelatical preachers against the dignities of Praebendaries Archdeacons c. Against pluralitie of their livings which doubles their revenues is as if you were practizing with your pencil upon the first verse in Horace Poêtrie rather then disputing by your pen in divinitie or Logike with the Bishop The Severest of your Trial before ordination is about cutting to the root some Hebrew word and corrupting it in the sense graffing some yong vowel upon an hopefull stocke or in oeulating with a pricke to make it bring forth fruit pleasing to your tast though in all likelihoo'd never intended by the Holy Spirit that planted it in the Bible Your all sort of learning here called gifts utterance and knowledge in your first booke of discipline were it not reduced as it is in your liturgie to tatling halfe an houre beside a text would put his Lay if not his Clerical Iudges to a nonplus when they were to give their verdut of his parts And though here you talke of disputations upon controversed heads and there of the chief points of controversie betwixt you and the Papists Anabaptists Arrians c. We know what discouragements you give your yong students about looking into Schole Divinitie the most authentike Ecclesiastical Historie and Fathers without which they are proper champions for such an encounter It is not Davids sling but in Davids hand and with Davids God to guide the stone which goes out of 't that without other weapons can make these Goliaths fall upon their faces to the earth Our trial is personnallie by the Bishop or his Archdeacon unlesse in his absence some other learned Minister be appointed We have nothing to doe with lay Elders nor people in the examen who have no interest by the Catholike canon in the election Peri tou me tois o●…klois epitrepein tas eclogas poiersthai toon mellontoon Cathisasthai cis hieratcion is the 117. by Iustells account Our practice is seldome so remisse as yours if our rule be more it may be imputed to the necessitie of that time when learned men I meane reformed did not swarme in a number aequal to the cures to be served Against which what you argue in your owne case 1. Book Discipl may be replied to as in ours 1. That the Bishop His Deane and Canons or Cathedral Clergie may supplie the imperfections of others in his Diocese for if the lacke of ablemen be real your streight and sharpe examination may disparage by discovering the infirmities not one whit enable your Proponents or expectants for their duties 2. The rarite among the Gentiles in the begining of the Gospell was recompensed with the extraordinaire diversitie