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A29456 A Brief history of Presbytery and Independency from their first original to this time shewing I. wherein and the reasons why they separate from the Church of England, II. wherein they differ from each other : with some remarks on the late heads of agreement assented to by the united ministers of both perswasions ... 1691 (1691) Wing B4598; ESTC R7644 23,656 32

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ab instituto It was not so from the Beginning nor Christ's Institution therefore our we think steps higher into We are sure Such Devised Ceremonies as Surplice Crossing Kneeling c ought not to be Embraced having none of Christ's Mark but rather of Anti Christ's upon them 't is a Symbolizing with Rome c. Reason the 3d. A free Assent and Consent cannot be given to such Innovations wherewith the meer Prudentials of Byassed-Church Governours have spoiled the naked Truth and simplicity of the Gospel What was it but Humane Prudence in those Corrupter times succeeding the Apostles that formed new Churches new Officers c. Wholly differing from those Instituted by Christ and his Apostles for then it was pretended that to keep Peace among the Pastors of particular Churches they devised a Bishop to be set over them and to keep the Bishops from falling together by the Ears they Invented an Arch-Bishop and because those Metropolitans might possibly quarrel they found out a Patriarch to keep them in peace and lastly because Patriarchs were subject to the same Passions with other Men they from the like Prudentials Instituted a Pope and placed him in the Infallible Chair to overtop them all and to Hector them with his Bulls into a due Decorum The same may be said of all other unscriptural Additions and Innovations in the Worship of God both as to Service and as to Ceremony c. Which we cannot have Faith for being the Devices of Men and not the Appointments of God Now without Faith 't is impossible to please God Heb. 11.6 and whatever is not of Faith is Sin Rom. 14.23 We may not offer to God what we think will displease him and is a sin against him Reason the 4th The Law of Love and Charity commanded by God to be the Temper and Character of the True Church is by the Church of England changed into a Law of Uncharitable Compulsion Severity and Persecution which are evermore the Marks of the false Church as of the Church of Rome which by their mischievous Impositions upon the Consciences of Men their meer Pretensions hath filled most Nations of Europe with Bloody Massacres and Martyrdom Ten times more Blood of the tenderest Christians hath been shed by that false Church than was shed in all the ten Primitive Pagan Persecutions All that dissent from them may say Quae Regio in Terris nostri non plena Cruoris Is there any Nation in Europe that is not filled with our Blood Now where-ever this Spirit of Persecution turns up Trump and is Regnant Raging and Triumphant there is like Mother like Daughter an Evil Spirit from the Devil himself that Envious and Evil one the Spirit of Cain who as Luther saith will be clubbing his Brother Abel to the end of the World 't is the Spirit of a Pharisee that Compels Saints to Blaspheme Act. 26 11. and saith to that See of Knowledge which the Lord hath promised shall fill the Earth as the Waters cover the Sea Isa 11.9 Toms far then shalt go in Conformity and no further which is only God's Prerogative Job 38.11 How can we give the Right-hand of Fellowship to such a Persecuting Church c. CHAP. IV. REason the Fifth O here be too many High-flown Church-Men that do assert Arminianism to be the Doctrin of the Church of England thinking thereby to force all into an Embracement of it And some do hold up all Canons not only made in England but in Rome it self if not repugnant to our Law s labouring to possess the People that all these are setled by Law and therefore to be continued and imposed without Alteration and that all who seek a Reformation of them do violate the Establish'd Laws of the Land as the Rigour of Conformity to those Canons did cost the casting forth of many able godly and useful Ministers in Queen Elizabeths Reign and of many more under King James notwithstanding the Conference at Hampton-Court yet many Illegal Canons were made and Inforc'd so far to be subscribed unto that within the space of two years 70 worthy Ministers were Deprived ab Officio Beneficio and 113 were Suspended and not suffered to Preach and about 94 more were under Canonical Admonition the next door to Deprivation I need not add the horrible Effects which Canonical Obedience and severe Conformity produced under the Reign of King Charles the First such Confusions as turn'd England into an Aceldama a Field of Blood in the Civil Wars abhorred to be mentioned and trembled at to remember wherein Father was against Son and Son against Father c. Quis talia fando Temperet a Lachrymis 'T is fresh in some of our Memories Nor need I mention the Reign of King Charles the Second when the black Bartholomew Act for Uniformity turn'd out about three thousand Ministers from their Ministry omitting the Exile of many Ministers and People into America before Many more Reasons might be added which this small Tract is not capable to comprehend I shall add only one more Reason the Sixth The great Growth of Popery hath been usher'd in at this Door as Adam Contzenus the Jesuit directeth for restoring Popery before the People be awake In his Politicks lib. 2. cap. 16 17 18. c. His Sixth Rule is to make use of the Protestant Dissensions forcing the Puritans to approve of Bishops the Magistrate joyning with the Conformists easily overturns the Nonconformists as Paul did by the Dissention between the Pharisees and Sadducees joyning to one Side he escaped Discords ' wixt Lutherans and Calvinists 'twixt Arminians and Anti-Arminians are the best Musick to Romanists These are the finest Tools out of Julian's Shop and refined in Machiavels with his Divide and Rule As the Imposing of Creeds usher'd in the Pope at the first to end Controversies so the Imposing of Ceremonies may again usher in Popery As bloody Bonner said If they like our Pottage so well we will make them eat our Beef also c. CHAP. V. The Differences betwixt the Brethren of the Presbyterial and Congregational Judgment come next to be discours'd REmark the First is when the Reduction of Episcopacy to its Primitive Form by that Learned Humble Holy Peaceble and Reverend Bishop Doctor Vsher was tendered and consented to by Dr. Holdsworth Dr. Brownrigg Dr. Reynolds and other Learned Doctors It was greatly hoped that this would have given Content But the high-flown Prelate neither so Gracious nor so Learned nor such Lovers of the Church's Peace as was that Learned Primate of Ireland broke all the Measures for Accommodations both at the latter end of K. Charles l's Reign and at the beginning of K. Charles Il's Restoration Hereupon the Brethren both of the Presbyterial and of the Congregational Way were constrained to shift as well as they could for themselves Remark the Second is at or towards the end of K. Charles I's Reign before the Civil Wars broke forth the Brethren of both those Perswasions made