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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A96061	A century of reasons for subscription and obedience to the laws and government of the Church of England, both ecclesiastical and civil. With reasons against the covenant Justifi'd by scripture, confirmed by the laws of the kingdom, the right and power of kings, ecclesiastical and human authorities, with an harmony of confessions. [T]o which is annexed the office and charge belonging to the overseers of the poor, &c. [By] W. Wasse school-master in Little Britain near unto Christ-church.	Wasse, William.	1663 (1663)	Wing W1030A; ESTC R231143	60,180	186

One Lord one Faith one Baptism ver 6. One God and Father of all who is above all and through all and in you all 1 Thes 5.12 And we beseech you brethren to know them which labour among you and are over you in the Lord and admonish you ver 13. And to esteem them very highly in love for their work sake And be at peace among your selves 2 Thes 3.6 Now we command you Brethren in the name of our Lord Jesus Christ that ye withdraw your selves from every Brother that walketh disorderly and not after the Tradition which he received of us 1 Tim. 1.3 As I besought thee to abide still at Ephesus when I went into Macedonia that thou mightest charge some that they teach no other Doctrine ver 5. Now the end of the Commandment is Charity out of a pure heart and of a good conscience and of faith unfeigned ver 6. From which some having swarved have turned aside unto vain Janglings ver 7. Desiring to be teachers of the Law understanding neither what they say nor whereof they affirm ver 18. This charge I commit unto thee Son Timothy according to the Prophecies which went before on thee that thou by them mightest Warr a good warfare ver 19. Holding faith and a good conscience which some having put away concerning faith have made Ship-wrack 3.4 One that ruleth well his own House having his Children in subjection with all Gravity ver 6. Not a Novice lest being lifted up with pride he fall into the Condemnation of the Devil ver 10. And let these also first be proved then let them use the office of a Deacon being found blameless ver 14. These things write I unto thee hoping to come unto thee shortly ver 15. But if I tarry long that thou mayest know how thou oughtest to behave thy self in the House of God which is the Church of the Living God the Pillar and Ground of Truth 5.1 Rebuke not an Elder but entreat him as a Father and the younger men as Brethren ver 17. Let the Elders that rule well be counted worthy of double honour especially they who Labour in the Word and Doctrine ver 21. I charge thee before God and the Lord Jesus Christ and the Elect Angels that thou observe these things without preferring one before another doing nothing by Partiality ver 22. Lay hands suddenly on no man neither be partaker of other mens sins keep thy self pure 2 Tim. 1.6 Wherefore I put thee in remembrance that thou stir up the Gift of God which is in thee by the putting on of my hands 2.14 Of these things put them in remembrance charging them before the Lord that they strive not about words to no profit but to the subverting of the hearers ver 15. Study to shew thy self approved unto God a work-man that needeth not to be ashamed rightly dividing the word of truth ver 16. But shun Profane and Vain bablings for they will increase unto more ungodliness 3.6 For of this sort are they which creep into Houses and lead captive silly Women laden with Sins led away with divers Lusts ver 7. Ever learning and never able to come to the knowledge of the truth ver 13. But evil Men and Seducers shall wax worse and worse Deceiving and being Deceived ver 16. All Scripture is given by inspiration of God and is profitable for Doctrine for Reproof for Correction for Instruction in Righteousness Titus 1.5 For this cause I left thee in Crete that thou should'st set in order the things that are wanting and ordain Elders in every City as I had appointed thee ver 10. For there are many Unruly and Vain talkers and Deceivers especially they of the Circumcision ver 11. Whose mouths must be stopped who subvert whole houses teaching things which they ought not for filthy lucre's sake ver 15. Unto the pure all things are pure but unto them that are defiled and unbelieving is nothing pure but even their mind and conscience is defiled ver 16. They profess that they know God but in works they deny him being Abominable and Disobedient and unto every good work Reprobate 3.1 Put them in mind to be subject to Principalities and Powers to obey Magistrates to be ready to every good work ver 2. To speak evil of no man to be no brawlers but gentle shewing all meekness unto all men ver 9. But avoid foolish Questions and Genealogies and Contentions and Strivings about the Law for they are unprofitable and vain ver 10. A man that is an Heretick after the first and second admonition reject ver 11. Knowing that he that is such is subverted and sinneth being Condemned of himself Heb. 13.17 Obey them that have the rule over you and submit your selves for they watch for your souls as they that must give account that they may do it with joy and not with grief for that is unprofitable for you ver 24. Salute all them that have the Rule over you and all the Saints 7.7 And without all contradiction the less is blessed of the better 9.6 Now when these things were thus ordained the Priests went always into the first Tabernacle accomplishing the service of God ver 7. But into the second went the High-Priests alone once every year not without blood which he offered for himself and for the errors of the people 1 Pet. 2.13 Submit your selves to every ordinance of man for the Lord sake whether it be to the King as Supreme ver 14. Or unto Governours as unto them that are sent by him for the punishment of evil-doers and for the praise of them that do well ver 15. For so is the will of God c. ver 17. Honour all men Love the brother-hood Fear God Honour the King 3.17 For it is better if the will of God be so that ye suffer for well-doing than for evil-doing 5.1 The Elders which are among you I exhort who also am an Elder c. ver 5. Likewise ye younger submit your selves unto the elder yea all of you be subject one to another and be clothed with Humility c. Jude v. 8. Likewise also these filthy Dreamers defile the Flesh despise Dominion and speak evil of Dignities ver 10. But these speak evil of those things which they know not but what they know naturally as brute Beasts in those things they corrupt themselves ver 17. But beloved remember ye the words which were spoken before of the Apostles of our Lord Jesus Christ ver 18. How that they told you there should be mockers in the last time who should walk after their own ungodly lusts ver 19. These be they who separate themselves sensual having not the Spirit Rev. 2.1 Unto the Angel of the

appellat quia Ceremoniarum ad eos Religionumque cura tutela pertinet The Spirit of God doth very often call Kings and Princes Priests because the cust dy and care of Ceremonies and of Religion belongs to them Bilson Kings and Princes before Christ subverted Idolls Reformed Religion in their Realms by their Princely Power and Zeal Stat. 25. Hen. 8. It was Enacted by Parliament That no Canons or Constitutions should be made by the Bishops c. and by them Promulgated without the King's Command Records of Convocation The Clergy were forced to give up their Power of Executing any old Canons of the Church without the King's consent had before Heylins History All former Constitutions Provincial and Synodal though hitherto in force by the Authority of the whole Western Church Stat. 25. Hen. 8. were Committed to the Arbitriment of the King and of sixteen Lay persons and sixteen of the Clergy appointed by the King to be Approved or Rejected by them according as they conceived them Consistent with or Repugnant to the King's Prerogative as Head of the Church or to the Laws of God c. Stat. 26. Hen. 8. Authority was allowed to the King to Repress and Correct all such Errors Heresies Abuses and Enormities whatsoever they were which by any manner of spiritual Jurisdiction might Lawfully be repressed c. any thing to the contrary notwithstanding Ibid. All manner of Jurisdiction Ecclesiastical was by Parliament acknowledged to belong to the King as Head of the Church So that no Bishop had any Ecclesiastical Jurisdiction but by under and from the King Stat. 37. Hen. 8. c. 17. Supreme Power of dispensing with any Ecclesiastical Constitutions is ascribed to the King and Parliament as recognized Supreme Head of the Church Stat. 25. Hen. 8. c. 21. and the Arch-bishop made the King 's Delegate so that in Case he should refuse two other Bishops might be named to Grant such Dispensations And after all the King and His Court of Chancery are made the last Judge what things in such Dispensations are repugnant to Scriptures and what not Stat. 37. Hen. 8. Though the King did not Personally himself Exercise the Power of the Keys yet this Right He claimed that no Clergy man being a Member of the English Church should Exercise it in His Dominions in any Cause or over any Person without the Leave and Appointment of Him the Supreme Head Nor any refuse to Exercise it whensoever He should require Stat. 32. It was Enacted that whosoever should teach contrary to the Determinations which were set forth by the King Hen. 8. c. 26. should be Deemed and Treated as a Heretick Stat. 2.5.6 E. 6. An Act is made in which the King and Parliament Authorize Bishops c. by Vertue of their Act to take Informations concerning the not using the Form of Common-prayer then prescribed and to Punish the same by Excommunication c. Confirmed by 1 Eliz. cap. 1. 5 Eliz. cap. 1. 23 Eliz. cap. 1. Because in doubtfull matters the resolution of the Major part must be obeyed Now it hath been resolved by many Kings and Princes that our Government is not repugnant to the Word of God from whose Judgment there is no appeal but only to God by Prayer Because Schism did grow out of and arise from Presbyterian Government in the purest time which caused the Churches then to out it and to establish Episcopacy as the best Antidote against Schism and for the Restauration and Maintenance of the Churches Peace which was by Succession from the Apostles if not of Divine Institution The Apostles of Christ ordained Bishops in the Church Bullinger 5. Ser. Now it seems a desperate course to use Presbyterian Government as a soveraign Antidote in our time Lloyds prim Epis which had the effect of Poison upon the Churches in the Apostles time Because Contention is a deadly Enemy to Charity and Holy-living Now the refusing of Subscription and Obedience to Church-Government must needs kindle Contentions and why will you thus Contend seeing that the Government by Bishops is the Government of Christ and what better Government can we expect from Man A Government most of the Godly have Conformed to Baxter Most of the Godly able Ministers of England since the Reformation have Judged Episcopacy Lawfull or most Fit and most of them did Subscribe and Conform to Episcopal Government as a thing not contrary to the Word of God but as instituted by the Apostles to which all or the most of the Ancient Fathers do agree so that it is very Evident that it is very Consistent with a Godly Life to Judge Episcopacy lawfull and fit or else so many hundred of Learned and Godly men would not have been of that mind Because they ought to be under the Obedience of all Laws Ecclesiastical and Civil which that Prince commands under whom they Live Division in Government makes Division in a Kingdome and a Kingdome divided cannot stand Omne regnum in se divisum desolabitur Because the Grandest opposers of the Government of the Church of England have ever been of Unconstant principles though Violently zealous in opposing Indifferent things Which if simply Unlawfull they were sin why then do they not contend against them as sinfull but as formerly they did so now they can dispense with them under their own Cure in the Person of another and Subscribe themselves if they might be Dispensed with as to a Compliance in their own Persons which by the Act they are Enjoyned Nor do we find any great Opposition in the time of the Reign of our Immortal Queen Elizabeth untill Her Majesty Commanded Her Bishops and Her Bishops by Her Authority Commanded due Obedience to the Government of the Church which doth manifest it was not nor is not Conscience that doth raise this Opposition against them as if Unlawfull but as not Convenient for them that have been and still are Braindistempered opposers of them Because no Persons for the reason of inconveniency ought to reject what Publick Authority hath allowed Sith that it is apparent that the Composers of our Divine Service-book made choice of the best things out of the most Ancient Liturgies of the Churches which Flourished long before the Birth of Antichrist Because it hath not been manifested unto the Church of England by any Irrefragable positions that the Government of the Church is Unlawfull or the Ceremonies thereof Impure for which impurity the Church should lay aside the Practice of them being Warranted by the Word of God or not Dissonant from it And that they are Unlawfull hath not nor cannot be Proved though Disallowed by some whose Approbation makes nor the Government of the Church of England ever a whit the more Lawfull though Consented unto by them Because we have the Truths of Doctrine Christian Ordinances and a Holy People of the Church of England exercising themselves in the Holy Duties