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A26279	Aaron's rod blossoming, or, The orthodox government of the Church of England by bishops, presbiters, and deacons, asserted from the practice of the apostles, the testimony of councils, synods, fathers and doctors, from the apostles time to this day ...		1680 (1680)	Wing A43; ESTC R22486	17,618	40

AARONS ROD Blossoming Or The Orthodox Government of the Church of England by Bishops Presbiters and Deacons Asserted from the Practice of the Apostles the Testimony of Councils Synods Fathers and Doctors from the Apostles time to this day And that it is Analogical to the Institution of the Church under the Law And thou shalt write Aaron's Name upon the Rod of Levi for one Rod shall be for the House of the Head of their Fathers And it shall come to pass that the Mans Rod whom I shall choose shall Blossom and I will make to cease from me the Murmurings of the Children of Israel whereby they Murmure against you Numb 17.3 5. LONDON Printed for Richard Butler next door to the Holy-Lamb and Three Bowls in Barbican 1680. THE EPISTLE DEDICATORY To the Honourable CONYERS D'ARCY Onely Son of the Right Honourable CONYERS Lord D'ARCY MEYNILL and CONYERS Honourable SIR IT is not my Ambition nor was it ever my Desire to appear in Print but was always of your Honours Opinion for that and did ever then think my self most secure when most private Nor had I now exposed this to the publick view had not the duty I owe my too much Dishonoured Mother the Church of England the Importunities of some Friends and the great desire I had to shew your Honour some Fruit of the Vine your Honour hath preserved like so many perswading Orators prevailed with me to present your Honour with this Clustre by the smalness whereof your Honour may well guess the Soyl to be a Wilderness wherein it grew I must confess my repentance is ready to arrest my design when I consider the small proportion the Present carries to your Honours Greatness till I call to mind that Heaven it self delights to have her name sung though from the mouths of Infancy and Ignorance and that small things do oft explain the greatness of devotion and though your Honours Piety Charity and Loyalty whereof the whole Fame of your Honours Countrey is but one entire Panagyrick may render your Honour the Admiration of this Age yet I here intend an Epistle not an Encomium lest I betray the shallowness of my Judgment in offering to draw an imperfect Coppy in a place where the Original can be its own Orator and appear with so much Lustre It is from hence I receive my Encouragement to commit this Orphant to your Honours Protection For though it be already Legitimated and Licensed by the Right Reverend the Lord Bishop of London yet I think it fit in these Seducing and Apostatising Times to Patronage it with as much Virtue as I could that under the name of two such God-Fathers it might with less scruple pass for a good Christian I humbly therefore implore your Honours acceptance thereof from him who will be ever ready to approve himself an obedient Son of this Orthodox Church and glory in nothing more than in being by your Honour esteemed The Humblest of your Honours Votaries Basiphilaos THE EPISTLE TO THE READER THou mayest perhaps wonder at my folly and confidence to hold a Candle to the Sun and imploy my Time and Pen on a Subject that hath been so copiously and curiously handled by several Worthies of this and precedent Ages eminent for Piety and Learning and Giants in both in comparison of my self For which I have only this Apolagy that this was at first intended for my own private satisfaction but the frequent Importunities of some Worthy and Learned Persons after some strugling I being ever averse to popularity have prevailed with me to make it publick in respect of its brevity whereby many who have neither Time nor Money to expend upon larger Volumnes may I hope receive so much satisfaction at least from this short Treatise as to stay their Stomachs and keep them from rebellion in these seducing times which is commonly the Child ef Ignorance Ambition Prejudice or misguided Devotion And it is probable the more Curious may find something that hath been omitted by others For though a Gyant may see further than another Man yet set a Dwarf upon a Gyants Shoulder and he may see further than he I confess the too violent Contentions and disputes of Eminent Learned and Pious Men of both sides upon this Subject caused me to decline both for fear of being biassed by either and apply my self to the Fountain of Scripture and Antiquity Reasons surest Guides Pruning I must confess and Reformation I allow of but Eradication and Deformation I tremble to hear of and hope never to see God forbid that personal Errours should destroy a thing so Ancient and sealed with the Blood of so many Martyrs Though Judas die in the Consciousness of his Treason yet another must succeed him in his Bishoprick I endeavour to croud as much as I can in a little room yet hope to satisfie all who are not more addicted to their Wills than Reason if mine deceive me not for I look upon Grave obstinacy Pride formal Ignorance and deluded Credulity to be my onely Gainsayers however I have hereby discharged the Duty I owe my Conscience and hope to find the benefit of that which is all I look for and sufficient to arm me against the Obloquies or Misconstructions of those whose Hearts are full of that which their Tongues must utter or break with the Plerophory But I had rather suffer the Censure of the Malevolent than to be thought to consent to that which my Conscience approves not if this excuse me for writing I am glad if not I have pleased my self in giving an account of thus much of my Faith to the World and in the discharge of my troubled Thoughts and Conscience AARONS ROD Blossoming Or The Orthodox Government of the Church of England by Bishops Presbiters and Deacons Asserted from the Practice of the Apostles c. IN Discourses Rhetorical men desire to shew the Power of Nature improved by Art which we call Eloquence in Logical Disputes the quickness of Apprehension and the improvement of Judgement the one often makes a difference betwixt Subtilties and attempts to puzzle Reason The other rightly imployed defines and settles a Truth obscured by different Falsities In matters of Faith we lay aside Reason and yield to Scripture's Truth as other Faculties of the Body do to their Informer the Rational Soul and as Young Scholars to their ipse dixits We believe therefore what neither Sence nor Reason can make us to conceive I believe the Scripture to be the Sacred Word of God and what Truth I find therein I conceive it to be Jure Divino My Reason I confess is bound and yields in the Point of Episcopacy that it is Jure Divino because I find for it so many ipse dixits in Sacred Writ My Judgement also is further strengthened therein by Reasons sufficient to settle Humane Belief Opinion we define to be haerens dubia de veritate in animo presumptio a questionable and doubtful presumption in ones conceit that a

〈◊〉 a good work of greater eminency and more Notable for certainly there cannot be a more blessed Work nor more holy Calling in the Clergy than to succeed the Glorious Apostles and Martyrs in their places and callings as Heirs do their Parents in their Estates and Possessions and to deliver and teach Sacred Doctrine to Faithful men who shall be able to teach others also as St. Paul bids Timothy Tim. 2.2 To this purpose St. Austin upon the 45th Psal Thus Glosses Pro patribus tibi nati sunt filii Children shall be instead of Fathers saying Patres missi sunt Apostoli pro Apostolis filii tibi nati constituti sunt Episcopi hodie enim Episcopi qui sunt per totum orbem unde nati sunt ipsa ecclesia patres illos appellat ipsa filios genuit ipsa illos constituit in sedibus patrum the Fathers sent to us were the Apostles the Sons which were appointed are Bishops for at this day the Bishops in all the world from whence did they arise the Church it self calls them Fathers she her self begot these Sons and she her self hath put them into the Seats of the Fathers Here you see the Succession of Bishops proved plainly by Austin as before by Ireneus Eusebius Ignatius and a Cloud of Witnesses who sealed their witness with their Blood and are those whose Robes are washt in the Blood of the Lamb and who shall shine brighter than the Cynosure amongst the Stars of Heaven Besides all the Witnesses and Proofs already brought I will produce one Text more to prove Bishops to be Successours of the Apostles jure divino In that Great Synod Acts 1. where were assembled the eleven Disciples fere centum viginti other persons Believers about an hundred and twenty St. Peter moved the consideration of an Election of one in the place of Judas and urges two places in the Psalms as Prophesies which must be fulfilled Psal 69.25 and Psal 109.6 there the Holy Ghost prophesied by the mouth of David concerning Judas Let his Habitation be void and let no man dwell therein Not his place only void but 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 let another take his Bishoprick Mark well the words and grant we these two Assertions First That no man will say there is a tautologie or vaniloquium in the words of Sacred Scripture or that any word may be altered or can be bettered Secondly That the Scriptures should be understood as near as we can litterally and as the plain sence of the place will bear and so as may stand with the Analogie of other Scriptures These things granted I thus argue That which the Spirit of God by the mouth of a prophet hath foretold and the blessed Apostles in a Synod have ratified that I say is an undeniable Truth and may plead its jus divinum But David did foretel by the Inspiration of the Spirit of Prophesie that Episcopacy should succeed Apostleship and the Apostles ratified it in their Synod therefore Episcopacy succeeded Apostleship jure divino It is not any other word which is attributed to Matthias's Place but 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 a Bishoprick and he succeeded Judas Object If any here object That Matthias had 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 the Bishoprick of Judas so that Judas's Apostleship is there called a Bishoprick in a general notion as it imports an Office or Charge and that therefore Episcopacy did not succeed Apostleship but that both of them were of right attributed to the Twelve chosen by Christ and both given to Matthias who succeeded Judas Answ Suppose this be granted it makes much more for what I intend For first If they be terms of so near Affinity that they serve to express one and the same Office in a different regard then it follows that in regard of their Affinity the one may more easily succeed in the others place For where there is a likeness of Nature there is facilior transitus an easier Change of one thing into another as of Air into Fire because of their agreement in the quality of heat Secondly Seeing the Term of Apostle was by those and after times in some sort appropriate to some few it remained that the other Term of Bishop should be left and turned over to their Successours and with respect to this Matthias is expresly said to succeed in Judas's Episcopacy And the chief Officers of the Clergy are termed Bishops rather than by any other Name This we read to have been the constant practice of the first Century in which as it is likely the Executors and Feofees in trust of our Lord best understood the Meaning of the Testator and had Gifts extraordinary ad ecclesiam fidem stabiliendam as to establish our Faith so the Church too and could best fit right terms to Persons and Callings But to come close to our selves This Island received Christianity very soon even in the days of Tiberius as Gildas Brietto a grave Authour writeth who wrote Anno 493. And as another Gildas after him confirms This Gildas was called Albanicus and as some will have it preceded the other He testifies that after the dispersing of the Disciples by reason of the Persecution Philip sent out of France Joseph of Arimathea and divers others who preacht the Gospel in this Kingdom their Doctrine as Malmsbury hath it was afterward confirmed by other Preachers and Doctors here This is also witnessed both by Origen and Theodoret not to speak of those who some of them affirm that Paul some that Peter and some that James were in this Island and visited the Church here established as Baronius a Romish Writer and of special note hath it It is further said that Insula Glacialis which we now call Glastenbury was granted them by Arviragus King of the Britains and that Joseph of Arimathea lived died and was buried there This is attested by divers memorable Records alledged by the studious and learned Searchers into the Brittish Antiquities As for that report of Lucius and Eleutherius of Romes Supremacy mentioned by Beda and Marianus Scotus and so often alledged by divers others I must either think that Rome had changed her Customs and many of her Tenents or question the Truth of the Relation My reason for this is because when in the year 601. Austin the Monk first required obedience to the Roman Church in three things viz. in pascate celebrando in baptismo ministrando in predicando Anglis Saxonibus In Celebrating Easter in Administring Baptism in Preaching to the English His Motion was refused and Austin utterly disliked quia to use the words of another Augustini fastum spernebant they disliked Austin's Pride and well they might for he was haughty and harsh and did contrary to his Directions from Gregory Bishop of Rome who sent him hither for he insensed Edelfred so against the poor Christians of Bangor that he put 1200 of them to the Sword Of this the reason is given quia noluere obsequium Augustino