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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A52055	Smectymnuus redivivus Being an answer to a book, entituled, An humble remonstrance. In which, the original of liturgy episcopacy is discussed, and quæries propounded concerning both. The parity of bishops and presbyters in scripture demonstrated. The occasion of the imparity in antiquity discovered. The disparity of the ancient and our moderne bishops manifested. The antiquity of ruling elders in the church vindicated. The prelaticall church bounded.	Smectymnuus.; Marshall, Stephen, 1594?-1655.; Calamy, Edmund, 1600-1666.; Young, Thomas, 1587-1655.; Newcomen, Matthew, 1610?-1669.; Spurstowe, William, 1605?-1666.	1654 (1654)	Wing M784; ESTC R223740	77,642	91

of God hath alwayes been as diligent to resist novelties of words as her adversaries are busie to invent them for which cause she will not have us communicate with them no● follow their fashions and phrase newl● invented though in the nature of the words ●ometimes there be no harm Le● us keep our forefathers words and we shall easily keep our old and true saith that we had of the first Christians let them say Amendment A●sti●ence the Lords Supper the Communion-Table Elders Ministers ●uper-inten●●nt Congregation So be it Praise ye the Lord Morning Prayer Evening Prayer and the rest as they will Let us avoid those novelties of words according to the Apostles prescript and keep the old terms ●enance ●ast Priests Church ●ishop Mas● Ma●●in ●ven-Song the B. Sacrament Altar Oblation Host Sacifice Hal●elujah Amen Lent Palm-●unday Christmass and the words will br●ng us to the faith of our first ●postles and condemn th●●● new Apostates new faith and phrase Whether having proved that God never set such a Government in hi● Church as our Episcopal Government is we may law●ul●● any l●●ger be subject unto it be present at their Courts obe● th●ir Inju●ctio●s and especia●ly be instruments in publishing and ex●c●ting their Excommunications and Abs●ustions ●nd ●hus we have given as we hope a sufficient answ●r an● brief as the matter world permit to t●e Remon●●rant With 〈◊〉 though we agree not in opinion touching Episcopacie and Liturgie yet we fully consent with him to pray unto Almighty God Who is great in power and infinite in wisdom to poure down upon the whole Honourable Assembly the spirit of wisdom and understanding the spirit of Counsel might the spirit of knowledge and of the fear of the Lord That you may be able to discern betwixt things that differ seperate between the precious and the vile purely purge away our dross and take away all our tin root out every plant that is not of our heavenly Fathers planting That so you may raise up the foundations of many generations and be called the Repairers of breaches and Restorers of paths to dwell in Even so Amen A POSCRIPT THough we might have added much light and beauty to our Discourse by inserting variety of Histories upon several occasions given us in the Remonstrance the answer whereof we have undertaken especially where it speaks of the bounty and gracious Munificence of Religious Princes toward the Bishops yet unwilling to break the threed of our discourse and its connexion with the Remonstrance by so large a digression as the whole series of Historie producible to our purpose would extend unto We have chosen rather to subjoyn by way of Appendix an historical Narration of those bitter fruits Pride Rebellion Treason Unthankfulness c. which have issued from Episcopacy while it hath stood under the continued influences of Sovereigne goodness Which Narration would fill a Volume but we will bound our selves unto the Stories of this Kingdom and that revolution of time which hath passed over us since the erection of the See of Canterbury And because in most things the beginning is observed to be a presage of that which follows let their Founder Austin the Monk come first to be considered Whom we may justly account to have been such to the English as the Arrian Bishops were of old to the Goths and the Jesuits now among the Indians who of Pagans have made but Arrians and Papists His ignorance in the Gospel which he preached is seen in his idle Judaical consultations with the Pope about things clean and unclean his proud demeanour toward the British Clergy appears in his Council called about no solid point of faith but celebration of Easter where having troubled and threatened the Churches of Wales and afterwards of Scotland about Romish Ceremonies he is said in fine to have been the stirrer up of Ethelbers by means of the Northumbrian King to the slaughter of twelve hundred of those poor laborious Monks of Bangor His Successors busied in nothing but urging and instituting Ceremonies and maintaining Precedency we pass over Till Dunst●n the Sa●nted Prelate who of a frantick Necromaacer and suspected fornicatour was shorn a Monk and afterwards made a Bishop His worthy deeds are noted by Speed to have been the cheating King Eldred of the treasure committed to his keeping the prohibiting of marriage to the increasing of all filthiness in the Clergy o● those times as the long Oration of King Edgar in Stow well testifies In Edward the Confessors dayes Robert the Norman no sooner Archbishop of Canterbury but setting the King and Earl Godwine at variance for private revenge broach't a Civil War till the Archbishop was banisht Now William the Conquerour had set up Lankefrank Bishop of Canterbury who to requite him spent his faithful service to the Pope Gregory in perswading the King to subject himself and his State to the Papacy as himself writes to the Pope Suasi sed non persuasi The treason of Anselm to Rufus was notorious who not content to withstand the King obstinately in money-matters made suit to fetch his Pall or Investiture of Archiepiscopacy from Rome which the King denying as flat against his Regal Sovereignty he went without his leave and for his Romish good service received great honour from the Pope by being seated at his right foot in a Synod with these words Includamus hunc in orbe nostro tanquam alterius orbis Papam Whence perhaps it is that the See of Canterbury hath affected a Patriarchy in our dayes This Anselm also condemned the married Clergy Henry the First reigning the same Anselm deprived those Prelates that had been Invested by the King and all the Kingdom is vext with one Prelate who the second time betakes himself to his old fortress at Rome till the King was fain to yield Which done and the Archbishop returned spends the rest of his dayes in a long contention and unchristian jangling with York about Primacie Which ended not so but grew hot between York and London as Dean to Canterbury striving for the upper seat at Dinner till the King seeing their odious pride put them both out of doors To speak of Ralph and Thurstan the next Archbishops pursuing the same quarrel were tedious as it was no small molestation to the King and Kingdom Thurstan refusing to stand to the Kings doom and wins the day or else the King must be accurs'd by the Pope which further animates him to try the mastery with William next Archbishop of Canterbury and no man can end it but their Father the Pope for which they travel to Rome In the mean vvhile marriage is sharply decreed against Speed 448. and the Legate Cremonensis the Declamour against Matrimony taken with a Strumpet the same night In King Stephens Reign the haughty Bishops of Canterbury and Winchester bandy about Precedency and to Rome to end the Duel Theobald goes to Rome against