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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A43314	The government and order of the Church of Scotland	Henderson, Alexander, 1583?-1646.	1641 (1641)	Wing H1432; ESTC R221287	31,992	84

their brightnesse the mists and mildewes gathered before were scattered and evanished And as by the order and power of these assemblies Foxes are taken that they spoile not the Vines and Gangrenes are prevented that they spread not against truth and unity all sorts of lewd and wicked men are discouraged and put to shame So is there excited among the Godly Ministers an holy emulation by acquaintance conference and by perceiving the gifts one of another which maketh them returne from the assemblies with a meane and humble conceipt of themselves and with new and strong resolutions for greater diligence in their studies and faithfulnesse in every Pastorall duty to the common benefit and edification of all the Churches all the Ministers are made more wise in matters of Governement and all the Congregations are affected with reverence to what is required of them by their particular Elderships as having the consent and approbation of the whole Church Many such fruits are reaped of these assemblies which without them no particular person or congregation can have any ground to hope for or expect They have no Arch-bishops Diocesan Bishops Suffraganes no Chapters no Curats dumbe nor idle Ministers no hirelings non-residents nor pluralists no Deanes nor Arch-Deacons no Chanters Sub-chanters nor Treasurers no Chancellors Officials nor Apparitors no Canons Peti-canons Prebends Singingmen nor boyes And yet without these and the like they have practise and use of all the ordinances of Christ all matters Ecclesiasticall determined remitting questions of tithes mariages divorcements c. to the civill Judge to whom they properlie do belong and all petitions complaints and Church grievances heard and redressed which they esteeme as the sweet yoke of Christ and think it a great ease both to their consciences and estates to be free of such bundles and burthens of trash and superfluities They conceive that to erect Presbyteries Synods and Nationall assemblies and still to keepe Prelates and the members of that Hierarchie is in the matter of Church government not unlike the Popish adding of Traditions to Scripture in the rule of faith or works unto faith in the point of justification c. additions to Christs institution being not only in respect of their author humane inventions and for any use they can have idlements vanities and follies but that they do also corrupt the purity and eat out the life of the ordinances of Christ. Here there is a superiority without tyrannie for no Minister hath a Papall or Monarchicall Jurisdiction over his own flock far lesse over other Pastors and over all the Congregations or a large Dioces Here there is a paritie without confusion and disorder for the Pastors are in order before the Elders and the Elders before the Deacons the Church is subordinate to the Presbyterie the Presbyterie to the Synod and the Synod to the Nationall assembly One Pastor also hath priority before another for age for zeale for gifts for his good deservings of the Church each one honouring him whom God hath honoured and as he beareth the image of God which was to bee seene amongst the Apostles themselves But none hath power or jurisdiction above others even as in nature one eye hath not power over another only the head hath power over all even as Christ over his Church The same may bee seene in the Common-wealth and in some of the offices of the Roman Church it selfe And lastly here there is a subjection without slaverie for the people are subject to the Pastors and Assemblies yet there is no Assemblie wherein everie particular Church hath not interest and power nor is there any thing done but they are if not actually yet virtually called to consent unto it As they have done and suffered much for vindicating and maintaining the libertie of their Religion that what belongeth unto God may be rendred unto God So do they desire that according to the rule of righteousnesse each man have his owne and above all men That the things which are Caesars be rendred unto him and to give him that which is Gods were a wronging both of God and Caesar. They have ever beene willing to taxes and to pay subsidies above that w ch they were able They joyne w th the inward reverence of their hearts externall honour and obedience in all things lawfull They powre forth their prayers to God in private and publick for all blessings spirituall and temporall upon his Royall Person and Government and upon his Progenie and for the same blessings upon the Queenes Majestie especially that God by his Spirit would give unto her the knowledge and love of the truth They long for her conversion as an happinesse to her selfe and a meane of great happinesse to the King to their Children and to all their Subjects And that the Lord may answer their praiers they think it incumbent to the Church of England nor can any bond whatsoever oblige them to the contrarie to use the best and most powerfull meanes and would most willingly in all humilitie love and respect joyne their endeavours for that blessed end And as they thus present their best desires and prayers so are they readie to sacrifice their lives to God for his Majesties good and in their hearts are grieved that their loyaltie which they account their no small glorie should have beene called in question Neither is this all But moreover they doe acknowledge that his Majestie as supreame Magistrate hath not onely charge over the Common-wealth but doth watch and hath inspection over the Church and Church matters but in a civill way Vos Episcopi in Ecclesia saith Constantine Ego extra Ecclesiam Episcopus à Deo constitutus sum And therefore that he is by his high calling and place Custos utriusque tabulae to command the precepts of the first table as well as of the second table to bee obeyed That he is Vindex Religionis by his sword as the Spirit of God in Scripture is Iudex and the Church is Index That hee hath power to turn the constitutions of the Church into lawes and to confirme them by the civill sanction in Parliament That he may constraine all his subjects to do dutie in matters of religion and may punish the transgressors That when debates arise about Religion hee hath power to call the Assemblies of the Church to be present and civilly preside in them and to examine their constitutions that he may discerne of them both as a Christian caring for his own soule and as supreame Magistrate watching over his people and that he may do all things which can prove him to be a kinde and carefull nursing Father They account all that is vomited out to the contrarie as that they liked Anarchie better then Monarchie and that they would turne a Kingdome into a democratie to be but the fictions and calumnies of the malitious enemies of God and his truth not unlike the lies which were devised against the Christians of old their consciences their words writings and actions even then when the world did put the worst constructions upon them were witnesses of the integritie of their hearts They doe still hold that there can bee no antipathy betwixt one ordinance of God and another By him Princes do reigne and hee hath also appointed the Officers and Government of his own house They do desire nothing more then that the Sonne of God may reigne and that with and under the Sonne of God the King may command and they as good subjects to Christ and the King may obey FINIS Sed quum omnia ratione animoque lustraris omnium societatum nulla est gravior nulla carior quum ea quae cum Repub. unicuique nostrum est Cari sunt Parentes Cari liberi propinqui familiares sed omnes omnium caritates patria una complexa est pro qua quis dubitet mortem oppetere si ei sit profuturus quo est detestabilior istorum immanitas qui lacerarunt omni scelere patriam in ea funditus delenda occupati sunt fuerunt Cicer. Offi. l. 1. Nec multo post illi quoque qui insulam Hii incolebant Monachi Scoticae Nationis cum bis quae sibi subdita erant monasteriis ad ritum paschae tonsurae Canonicum domino procurante perducti sunt c. And afterward Quod mira divinae factum constat dispensatione pietatis ut quoniam Gens illa qua noverat scientiam divinae cognitionis libenter ac sine invidia populo Anglorum communicare curavit ipsa quoque postmodum per Gentem Anglorum in eis quam minus habuerat ad perfectam vivendi norman perveniret Beda eccles hist. gentis Angl. l. 5. c. 23.