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A67119	Eleutherosis tēs aletheias, truth asserted by the doctrine and practice of the apostles, seconded by the testimony of synods, fathers, and doctors, from the apostles to this day viz. that episcopacie is jure divino / by Sir Francis Wortley ...	Wortley, Francis, Sir, 1591-1652.	1641 (1641)	Wing W3637; ESTC R34763	18,183	38

ΕΛΕΥΘΕΡΩΣΙΣ ΤΗΣ Αληθειασ TRVTH ASSERTED BY THE DOCTRINE AND Practice of the Apostles seconded by the Testimony of Synods Fathers and Doctors from the Apostles to this Day Viz. That Episcopacie is Iure Divino BY Sir Francis VVortley Knight and Baronet LONDON Printed by A. N. for I. K. and T. W. and are to be sold at the White Horse in PAVLES Church-yard 1641. To the most High and Illustrious Charles Prince of GREAT BRITAIN SIR YOu set back the Clock of my age and make it day-spring when it is past the mid noone of my life I court my fancy in my observations of you My first Love my first Master your Vnkle Prince Henry whose name is and ever must bee sacred to Mars and the Muses whose memory is still precious to the World justly was the Rivall and Competitour to Honour with your glorious Grandsier Henry the Great of France the greatest In you deare Sir I finde the Character of them both as if you were sole heire to both and it joyes my Soule to see it I had the Honour to gird the first sword about you with this wish that you might use it in peace like our Northern Solomon King Iames and drawn as that Boanerges the sonne of Thunder the glory of France your Grandfather When your Father whose goodnesse makes him glorious shall be gathered to his Fathers his Titles must as your Birthright descend on you amongst the rest that which is {non-Roman} {non-Roman} {non-Roman} {non-Roman} {non-Roman} Defender of the faith This as it is well worthy observation was given by him who they say could not erre in Cathedra plenario Consistorio pleno Concilio to him who as some of his Successors say even in that gave him the lye who gave him the title t is true t was an unkind requitall but there was Digitus Dei in it for it was like the selling of Ioseph into Egypt faelix scelus in eventu guided by that hand which cannot erre It was a worke of great and high daring a voyage wherein many of his Predecessours had suffered shipwracke and Sir Walter Rawleigh observes the worke suited the man and the man was made for the work as Nebuchadonezar was for Tyre Sure it is strange that out of the ruines of good workes faith should spring disorder set all the Church in order Sed Deus est qui fecit est mirum in occulis nostris Sir the Title is the most glorious your Royall father hath and his Second is that he is the best Friend living It was a promise of the Prophets that Kings should bee Nursing Fathers and Queenes Nursing Mothers to the Church And believe mee Sir the words are Emphaticall for the Fathers wisdome and power should provide for the childe ad extra the mothers care ad intra The fathers is and should be protegendo instruendo promovendo corrigendo The mothers in her Oeconomicks pro victu amictu Necessaries and Decency and all with a Nurses affection And I am so much Irish that as they love the Children the Nurse and the Children their Nurses and foster brothers as much or more then their own such mutuall love wish I betwixt the Prince and the Church and as that habit is acquired partly and partly infused So may God infuse that into your heart and by many mutuall reciprocall actions may it become habituall So shall the Church be happie in future and you shall be glorious in your timely reigne and blessed in your Succession as your Father is in you and the Prayers of the Church attracted as the Dew and Exhalations by the glory and heate of the Sunne above shall bee returned in rich showers of blessing upon you and yours Poets are Prophets or at least would be If I be one this is my prophecie Your name 's no stranger to the Imperiall seate Our turn comes next wee must have Charles the Great Your highnesses most humble servant FRANCIS WORTLEY To the well affected Reader or otherwise PRuning and reformation I allow but eradication and deformation I tremble to heare of and hope never to see God forbid that personal errors should destroy an Institution so ancient sealed with the bloud of so many blessed Martyres Though Iudas die in the consciousnesse of his treason yet an other must succeed him in his Bishoprick As an obedient sonne to my mother the Church I wish her honour and happinesse to the Common Weale as a member of it and that these two as Mercie and Truth may kisse each other and in their unitie make the Soul and Bodie the King and his people happie so shall our Common-weale flourish and our Church be glorious and God even our own God shall blesse us Peace shall be within our Walls plentie within our palaces I study Multum in parvo and to put as much as I can into a little room and hope to give satisfaction to such as are not more addicted to their wills then reason if mine deceive me not However I have discharged the dutie I ow my conscience and hope to finde the benefit of that which is all I look for and is sufficient to arm mee against the obloquies or misconstructions of those whose hearts are ful of that which their tongues must utter or their hearts will breake with their Plerophory I protest I have no end in it but Gods glory the discharge of my own studied thoughts have therein conquered my inclination by the assistance of my reason grounded upon much more paines then the World holds me guiltie of And thus satisfied I would not that succeeding ages should finde my name amongst those who consented to eradicate Episcopacie For my part I had rather suffer the censure of the malevolent then to be thought to consent to that which my conscience approves not If this excuse me for my writing I am glad If not I have pleased my selfe in discharge of my troubled thoughts and conscience ΕΛΕΥΘΕΡΩΣΙΣ ΤΗΣ Αληθειασ Truth asserted by the practice of the Apostles confirmed by the Testimonie of Synods Fathers and Doctors from Christs time to this day IN Discourses Rhetoricall men desire to shew the power of Nature improved by Art which wee call Eloquence in Logicall Disputes the quicknesse of apprehension and the improvement of judgement The one often makes a difference betwixt subtilties and attempts to puzle Reason The other rightly employed defines and settles a Truth obscured by different falsities In matters of Faith wee lay aside reason and yield to Scriptures truth as other faculties of the body doe to their informer the Rationall soule and as young Scholars to their Ipse dixit We believe therefore what neither sense nor reason can make us to conceive I believe the Scripture to bee the sacred Word of God and what truth I find therein I conceive it to be Iure Divino My reason I confesse is bound and yields in the point of Episcopacie that it is Iure

ancient except another be setled and fixed which we are sure is right and fitted to our purpose which yet for all the workmans skill may have a private flaw in it which cannot be discovered by the most skilfull and so may the building fall on the builders head Thus much for the analogie and proportion betwixt Episcopacie and the Church government of the Jews Now in the third place wee come to prove that Episcopacie was pointed at and in some sort deciphered in the New Testament What I produced before concerning the authority of Ordination convention punishment and reward put upon some speciall persons may serve sufficiently to this purpose yet some thing more I will here adde Bee it so that when the Apostle saith {non-Roman} {non-Roman} {non-Roman} {non-Roman} {non-Roman} If any one desire the office of a Bishop hee desireth a good work that this is spoken of an inferior Bishop or Presbyter who is an Overseer of the people committed to his charge as well as of a Bishop Superiour who hath the oversight of the Clergie and people yet will it follow that if the office of an inferiour Bishop or Over-seer of his flock bee a good work as indeed it is then much more they who first have laboured in that painful harvest and afterward in their elder yeeres are advanced to the Superiour Bishops office of Over-seeing the Clergie of ordaining conventing and the like as above undergoe and performe {non-Roman} {non-Roman} {non-Roman} {non-Roman} {non-Roman} A good work of greater eminencie and more notable For certainly there cannot be a more blessed worke nor more holy calling in the Clergie then to succeed the glorious Apostles and Martyrs in their places and callings as heires doe their parents in their estates and possessions and to deliver and teach sacred Doctrine to faithfull men who shall bee able to teach others also as Saint Paul bids Timothy 2 Tim. 2. To this purpose S. Austin upon that Ps. 44. or as we have it 4● Propatribus tibi nati sunt filii Childrē shall rise in steed of their Fathers saith Patres m●ssi sunt Apostoli pro Apostolis filii tibi nati sunt constituti sunt Episcopi Hodie enim Episcopi qui sunt per ●orum orbem unde nati sunt Ipsa Ecclesia Pa●tes illes appellat Ipsa filios genuit ipsa illos constituit in sedibus Patrum The Fathers sent to us were the Apostles insteede of the Apostles the sons which were appointed are Bishops For at this day the Bishops in all the World from whom did they arise The Church it selfe calls them Fathers shee her selfe begot these Sons and shee her self hath put them into the seats of the Fathers Here yee see the succession of Bishops proved plainly by Saint Augustin as before by Ireneus Eusebius Ignatius and a cloud of witnesses who sealed their witnesse with their bloud and are those whose robes are washed in the bloud of the Lamb and who shall shine more brightly then the Cynosure amongst other starrs of Heaven Besides all the witnesses and proofes already brought I will produce one text more to prove Bishops to bee successors of the Apostles Iure divino In that great Synod ACT. 1. where were assembled the eleven Disciples and {non-Roman} {non-Roman} {non-Roman} {non-Roman} {non-Roman} fere centum viginti other persons believer 120. Saint Peter moved the consideration of an election of one in the place of Iudas and urgeth two places of the Psalmes as prophecies which must be fulfilled Psal. 69. 26. and 109. 6. There the Holy Ghost prophesied by the mouth of David concerning Iudas Let his habitation be void and let no man dwell therein {non-Roman} {non-Roman} {non-Roman} {non-Roman} {non-Roman} and let another take his Bishoprick Mark wee well the words and grant we these two assertions 1 That no man will say that there is a Tautologie or Vaniloquium in the words of sacred Scripture or that any word may be altered or can be beitered 2 That the Scriptures should be understood as neere as we can literally and as the plaine sense of the place will beare and so as may stand with the Analogie of other Scriptures These things being granted I thus argue That which the spirit of God by the mouth of a Prophet hath foretolde and the blessed Apostles in a Synod have ratified that is an undeniable truth and may pleade its Ius divinum But David did foretell by the inspiration of the Spirit of Prophecie that Episcopacie should succeed Apostleship and the Apostles ratified it in their Synod Therefore Episcopacie succeeded the Apostleship Iure divino It is not any other word which is attributed to Matthias place but {non-Roman} {non-Roman} {non-Roman} {non-Roman} {non-Roman} a Bishoprick and hee succeeded Iudas If any here object that Matthias had {non-Roman} {non-Roman} {non-Roman} {non-Roman} {non-Roman} the Bishopricke of Iudas so that Iudas his Apostleship is there call'd a Bishopricke in a generall notion as it imports an office or charge And that therefore Episcopacy did not succeed Apostleship but both of them were of right attributed to the 12 chosen by Christ and both given to Matthias who succeeded Iudas I answer Suppose this be granted it maketh much more for what I intend For first if they be termes of so neere affinity that they serve to expresse one and the same office in a different regard then it followeth that in regard of their affinity the one may more easily succeed in the other place for where there is a likenesse of nature there is facilior transitus an easier change of one thing into another as of aire into fire because of their agreement in the quality of heat Secondly Seeing the terme of Apostle was by those and after-times in some sort appropriate to some few it remayned that the other term viz. Bishop should be left and turned over to their successors And with respect to this Matthias is expresly said to succeed in Iudas his Episcopacie and the chiefe Officers of the Clergie are termed Bishops rather then by any other name This we read to have beene the constant practice of the first Century in which as it is likely the Executors and Feoffees in trust of our Lord best understood the meaning of the Testatour and had gifts extraordinary ad Ecclesiam fidem stabiliendam as to establish our faith so Gods Church too and could best fit right terms to persons and callings But to come close to our selves This Isle received Christianity very soon even in the days of Tiberius as Gildas Brito a grave Authour writeth who wrote Anno 493. And as another Gildas after him confirmeth This Gildas was cald 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 preached the Gospel in this Kingdome Their Doctrine as Malmesbury hath it was afterward