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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A57258	Dr. Reignolds his letter to that worthy councellor, Sir Francis Knolles concerning some passages in Dr. Bancrofts sermon at Pavles Crosse, Feb. 9. 1588. in the Parliament time. As also A qvestion resolved by a learned doctor, whether the angels of the seaven churches, Revel. 2, & 3. make for Episcopall præ-eminence Jure Divino.	Rainolds, John, 1549-1607.	1641 (1641)	Wing R142B; ESTC R214217	7,935	16

D R. REIGNOLDS HIS LETTER TO that Worthy Councellor SIR FRANCIS KNOLLES Concerning some passages in Dr. Bancroft Sermon at PAVLES Crosse Feb. 9. 1588. in the Parliament time As also A QVESTION RESOLVED BY A LEARNED DOCTOR whether the Angels of the seaven Churches Revel 2 3. make for Episcopall prae-eminence Jure Divino LONDON Printed by W. I. dweling in Red-crosse Street 1641. DOCTOR REIGNOLDS his Letter to Sr. Francis Knolles concerning Dr. Bancrofts Sermon at Pauls crosse Feb. 9. 1588. in the Parliament time ALbeit Right honourable I take greater comfort in labouring to discover and overthrow the errours of Iesuits Papits enemies of religion then of the ministers of Christ yet seeing it hath pleased your Honour to require me to shew mine opinion of some things that certaine of these men maintaine and stand in I thought it my duty by the example a Deut 33 9. of Levi who saide of his father and mother I regard them not nor acknowledged he his brethren to declare the truth without respect of persons Of the two points therfore in Doctor Bancrafts sermon which your honour mentioneth one is concerning that he semeeth to avouch the superiority which Bishops have among us over the Clergie to be Gods owne ordinanc though not by expresse words yet by necess●ry consequence In that he affirmed that there opinion who oppugne that their s●●●riorety to be heresie wherin I must confesse he hath cōmitted oversight in my Iudgmēt himselfe I thinke advertised therof will acknowledge it for havinge b pag 18. said first that Aerius affirmeth that ther was no difference by the word of God betwixt a Prest a Bishop afterwards that Martin and his companions do maintaine this point of Aerius he addeth that Aerius persisting therin was cōdēned for an hereticke by the generall consent of the whole Church c pag 19. and likewise d pag 69 that Martins and all his companions opinio●● hath herein been condemned for heresie Touching Martine if any man behave himselfe otherwise then in discretion and charitie he ought let the blame be laid where the fault is I defend him not but if by the way he utter a truth mingled with whatsoever else it is not reason that that which is of God should be condemned for that which is of man no more then the doctrine of the resurection should be reproved because e Act 2 3.8 it was maintained and held by the Pharises Wherefore removing the odious name of Martin from that which in sincerety and loue is to be dealt with it appeareth by the aforesard words of D. Bancroft that he avoucheth the Superiorety which Bishops haue over the Clergie to be of Gods owne ordinance for he improveth the impugners of it as holding with Aerius that there is no difference by the word of God betwixt a Prest and a Bishop which he could not doe with reason unlesse he himselfe proved the Bishops supreriorety as established by Gods word and he addeth that their opinion who gaine say it is Heresie whereof it insueth he thinke it contrary to Gods word sith Heresy is an errour repugnant to the truth of the word of God as according to f 1 Tim 6 3. Titus 3 10. 2 Pet 1 19 21. the Scriptures our owne Church g The defence of the Apolog. part 1 et 7 de vision 2 answ to the Rhem. Titus 3 10 doth teach us Now the Arguments which he bringeth to prove it an heresy are partely overweake and partly untrue ouerweake that h pa 18 he beginneth with out of Epiphanius untrue that he adjoyneth of the general consent of the Church For though Epiphanius do say that Aerius his assertion is full of folly i pa 19 et 69 yet he disproveth not the reason which Aerius stood on out of the Scriptures nay he dealeth so in seeking to disprove it that Bellarmine the Iesuite k Tom. 1 cont 5 lib 1 ca●pt 5 though desirous to make the best of Epiphanius whose opinion herein he maintaineth against the Protestants yet is f●rced to confsse that Epiphanus his answer is not all of the the wisest nor any way can fit the text As for the generall consent of the whole Church which D. Bancroft saith condemned that opiniō of Aerius for an Heresy himselfe for an Hereticke because he persist●d in it that is a la●ge speach but what proofe hath he that the wh●le Chur●h did so It appeareth he saith in l Heresy 15 Epiphanius It doth not and the contrary appeareth by m in epist ad Titum 1 et Epist 85 ad Evagrium S. Ierome and sundry others who liued some in the same time som after Epiphanivs even Saint Austin himselfe though D. Bancroft cite him as beareing witnes thereof likewise I grant S. Austin n cap 53. in his booke of heresies ascribeth this to Aerius for one that he said Presbiterum ab episcopo nalla differentia deberi discerni but it is one thing to say there ought to be no difference betwixt them which Aerius saying condemned the Churches order yea made a schisme therin to is censured by S. Austen counting it an heresie as o In Ar●ument prefix lib 3 Epiphanius be tooke it recorded himselfe as p de heres ad quod vnit De umin prefatio ne he witnesseth not knowing how farre the name of Heresy should be stretched another thing to say that by the word of God there is no difference betwixt them but by the order custome of the Church which S. Austen q Epist 19 sayth in effect himselfe so farre was he from witnssing this to be heresy by the generall consent ôf the whole Church Which untruth how wrongfully it is fathered one him and on Epiphanius who yet are all the wi●nesses that D. Bancroft hath produced for the proofe hereof or can for ought that I know it may appeare by this that our learned country man of godly memory Bishop r defence of the Apolog part 2 cap. 9 divis 1 pag 198. Iewell when Harding to convince the same opinion of heresie alleaged the same witnesses cyting to the contrary Chrisostome Ierom Austen and Ambrose knit up his Answer with these words All these and other moe holy Fathers together with the Apostle S. Paul for thus saying by Hardings advice must be held for heritickes And Michaell Medina s a man of great account in the Councell of Trent more ingenious here in then many other Papists affirmeth not onely the former ancient writers alleadged by Bishop Iewel but also an other Ierom Theodoret Primasius Sedulius and Theophilact were of the same minde touching this matter with Aerius With whom agree likewise t in 1 Tim 3. Oecumenius ſ De sacris hom orig et confir lib 1. cap 5. v in Epist ad Titum Anselmus Arbp B of Canturbury an x Collect can lib 7 cap 87 and 127. other