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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A79937	Clement, the blessed Paul's fellow-labourer in the Gospel, his first epistle to the Corinthians: being an effectuall suasory to peace, and brotherly condescension, after an unhappy schism and separation in that Church. From whence the understanding reader may receive satisfaction concerning the businesse of episcopacy, or presbytery, as it stood in the age of the Apostles, and some time after. The ancient'st writing the Church hath, and the onely extant to that purpose, next to the divinely-inspired Scriptures. And being made good use of, may prove a remedy against the breaches and sad divisions of these distracted churches and times.; First epistle of Clement to the Corinthians	Clement I, Pope.; Burton, William, 1609-1657.	1647 (1647)	Wing C4629; Thomason E396_24; Thomason E396_25; ESTC R201660	59,432	63

Jewish Ordinances The g John 4.23 true worshippers of God in Spirit and Truth being now no more confined h Gal. 4.10 9. to observe dayes and months and times and years being part of those h Gal. 4.10 9. weak and beggarly rudiments of the Law then we are God be thanked in respect of place bound to go on Pilgrimage to Jerusalem i John 4.20 sometime notwithstanding the onely seat of his publique Worship XXVIII But the Lay-man is bound to the observation of Lay-ordinances CLEMENT in the words next going before doth set down the degrees of the Jewish Hierarchy consisting of the High-Priest the Priests and the Levits calling all the rest Laics or Lay-men as we now term them that is more obscure and less noble That heer he onely means and mentions the Orders of the Jewish Church is most plain and evident for those of the Christian he names not till anon in what follows where you shall hear of them By how much the more I wonder that a man of that great learning and gravity should with such assurance and confidence urge this place to confute the k Episcopacy by Divine Right part 2. § 11. p. 75. 76. weak suggestions ignorance and Cavils of Vedelius and others as he pleases to speak denying that in Ignatius's time somewhat after Clement any distinction in the Church as of the Clergy and Laity to be on foot as he doth likewise understand the sentence save one next afore this 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 c. So the Priests have their own place or office assigned them of Christian Priests or Presbyters For Priest and Presbyter are the same with him And to back this Authority alleged out of Clement none at all in effect to his purpose he brings as bad a one or worse out of Ignatius his Epistle to the Church of Smyrna Let the Lay-men be subject to the Deacons and so forth and so forsooth they shall have a fine time of it 'T is true indeed that in those six more genuine Epistles of his there is l Ad Smyrn Magnesianos twice mention of Lay-men 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 But there are infinite interpolations and additions which have by bad hands been intermixed there and interlaced in the current of time and this mentioning of Laics is one of those patches which have been sow'd to the old garment as appears by comparing the later Greec copies with the antient Latin Translation out of the yet not corrupted Copies in Greec or at least not with that boldnesse and liberty as they have been since to the unspeakable wrong as well of antiquity as posterity And this being observed will with the Readers good leave and patience give me occasion to doe Ignatius a piece of right for which indeed he is especially beholding to that true Bishop Dr Vsher whose learning it were an offence to praise or admire his piety being such and the holiness of his conversation There is a passage in one of his Epistles at which * Guil. Perkins in Probl. Jo. Milton c. very learned men have taken great offence and very deservedly It is that to the Church of Smyrna where we find in the Greec edition 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 m Prov. 24.21 My son saith he honour God and the King But I say Honour God indeed as the Author and Lord of all and the Bishop as the High-Priest and after him we ought to honour the King This they say and truly doth in plain terms contradict the Spirit of God in Salomon From which presumptuous gain-saying to excuse Ignatius we may take notice that this is but an adulterate piece and foisted in of late which for very shame the greatest friends of Episcopacie forbear to urge in their behalfe and it is utterly wanting in that antient Latin Interpreter of these Epistles never publisht till within these two years by that most reverent and godly Primate But to return to these Laics Of the two witnesses we see urg'd to prove a distinction between them and the Clergy in the first age of the Church one of them saies nothing to it the other is spurious and supposititious That the word Laic might indeed be in some use in the most primitive times we may grant because we find it heer Yet then was it but as one of those words which the Grammarians call n Quae semel tantùm ab aliquo auctore usurpatae sunt v. Eustath ad 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 and to this day it hath not gotten any room in our common Lexicons Neither hear we any more of it after this except in Acula the Jewes Gr. who translates the * 1 Sam. 21.6 Shew-bread 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 as Theodoret witnesseth till Tertullian's time and the Compiler of those Canons and Constitutions which they call Apostolicall both who undoubtedly had it from hence but applied it otherwise as they had the businesse of the Phenix likewise before mentioned and other things also So in like manner was o Dionys. Halicarn Plin. hist li. 2. c. 17. 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 a known word to the world in the Apostles time yet not so applyed by the Primitive that we can any where read of as it was by the Church in after Ages when she called not onely her self but the Epistles also of James Peter John and Jude Catholique But the word it self being no more rife at that time then it was the thing then assuredly could not be in any very common use or practice Now in Clement himself where it is onely to be found in that age 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 signifies no more Christian Lay-people then in Quintilian who liv'd when Clement p Instit li. 2. cap. 13. praecepta 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 signifies the Catholic commands of the Church For indeed how could it that difference in persons as we may well conjecture and not be laugh'd at for our weakness being not yet observed And we know that names are not altogether of as antient birth as things themselves are I said but conjecture But Salmasius q Olim omnes Presbyteri erant Laici De Pres Ep. ca. 5. p. 396. 398. c. 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 will tell you aloud and peremptorily that there was no distinction at all that the Presbyters or Clergy as we call them and Laymen were all one For the Christian Presbyter * Vid. Clariss Selden Com. in Eutych n. 9. being derived from the Jewish they were no more separated from the peeple by any priestly holiness then the Presbyters among the Jewes were who indeed had nothing of the Priest about them save by accident which might distinguish them from the Laity *********** It appeares then by what hath been said that although after ages did admit of this distinction of Laity and Clergy in the Church yet no such difference is to be proved out of Clement or Ignatius as