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A95843	The supreme povver of Christian states vindicated against the insolent pretences of Guillielmus Apollonii, or A translation of a book intituled, Grallæ, seu vere puerilis cothurnus sapientiæ, &c. Or, the stilts, or most childish chapin of knowledge upon which William Appolonius of Trever, and minister of the church of Middleburgh boasts, among such as are ignorant, in his patcht rhapsodies, which hee set forth concerning supreame power and jurisdiction in matters of religion. Against the book of the most famous Dr. Nicholaus Vedelius, intituled Of the episcopacy of Constantine the Great.; Grallæ. English.	Vedel, Nicolaus, 1596-1642,	1647 (1647)	Wing V168; Thomason E388_5; ESTC R201503	255,312	305

to be called Spiritual what the Holy Spirit doth or commandeth either by himselfe or mediatly For so the workes of Creation and all naturall things should be called Spirituall and so must all mans civill and naturall actions be called There is then another condition required to make a thing spirituall namely that it tend to the worship of God and salvation of soules These are Hope Charity but chiefly Faith and its seed Gods word then the reading and preaching thereof prayers Sacraments and their use and whatsoever God hath appointed for his worship and for begetting and strengthening of Faith And here again I will shew how Apolonius rageth with hatred as Papists doe against Magistrates The old Papists have perswaded Christians long since that matters of salvation and of holy worship belong not to Princes as being lay-men because they cannot attaine to that end but that these onely belong to Church-men as being spirituall by which cunning they first exempted themselves from the Civill power and then subjected Lay-men and Princes to their Church as all know This new Walachrian Papist walkes upon the same Stilts For hee sayth plainly We think that the Civill power can never bee drawn out of its owne kind and elivated to another end to be produced by it selfe Part 1. p. 47.49.52 c. which is not wholly naturall He also every where affirmes That the end of the Magistrate is not yea cannot nor must not be the procuring of mens salvation Ye he saith it is Pelagianisme for any to affirme that the Magistrate as a Magistrate can doe any thing towards the procuring of mans salvation but that he is worldly and is to medle onely with the things of this world As for salvation it is the sole worke of Church-men as being solely spirituall In this hee doth not onely play the Papist in removing godly Magistrates so farre from this spirituall end in procuring salvation but also openly resisteth the truth which he might have learned out of Calvin Calv. 2. in 1 Tim. 2.2 who compares Magistrates to the earth and plainly sayth that the propagation of Religion depends no otherwise from them then the producing of Corn from the earth Now every one knowes that the end and proper effect of the earth is to produce corne so that he who will now perswade us that the earth brings not forth corne and that it conferres nothing to this production or that this production is no wayes the end or effect of the earth will make himselfe ridiculous to Husband-men and Children Yet that is not made Spirituall whatsoever by Consequences depends upon this end or by winding or doubtfull wayes tend to this end We see this consequentiall dependencie of spirituall things to have been under the Leviticall Priesthood The Temple was holy and spirituall from this flowed the Spirituality of the Levites which served in the Temple From their spirituality came the spirituality of their garments and of the Temples utensils and lastly the touching of all things which were made sacred because they served for the worship in the Temple which though according to Gods prescript they were thus accounted I doubt not but the succeeding Levites added many things to increase their Spirituality which wee know were not of the same esteem The old Papists in multiplying of spiritualities did not onely imitate but also in many things exceed the Levites so that among them not onely is that spirituall which immediatly and primarily tends to the end of salvation and worship but whatsoever also hath reference to this end though a-farre off is in a manner honored with the same priviledge of Spirituality by them For example The Pope with them is most spirituall Hence whatsoever hath relation to the Pope as to the end is also spiritual So his Crown Keyes Cloake Shooes Hose Conclave Servants yea almost his Concubines Mules and Asses are accounted for holy and spirituall The Masse with them is chiefly spirituall From this every thing that hath relation to it as to the end is also spirituall Such are the Place Challice Water-Box Altar Veile Pictures Gifts Priest Deacon and whatsoever hath reference to this end though never so remotely The new Walachrian Papists are yet sitting upon their egges of spirituality if their Chickens be well hatched we shall have a wonderfull brood of Spiritualities at this day these are reckoned for spirituals at least not to be touched to wit right to preach and pray publickly to administer the Sacraments to censure to call to make Church-laws the right of Synods and Dependencies and which Apolonius lately hath hatched the power of collecting and distributing of Almes of each whereof I will hereafter speak This is sure that whatsoever God hath appointed for the salvation of soules is spirituall but if it bee collected from hence that all these things are spirituall which are referred to this as to the principall end there will arise a million of Spiritualities As if one would say the Bread in the Sacrament is spirituall because ordained by Christ for a spirituall use Hence some curious Caviller should doubt whether the Wheat of which the bread is made was not also spirituall Whether the Meale the Baker the Oven the Servant and Basket in which that bread was carried to the Consistory or whether the Keeper of it or Dish in which the Bread lay on the Table be not all spiritual For this vain Arguer will proceed the same way that Apolonius doth who faith that the use of the Supper is sacred and spirituall because of Christs ●●●ination and end will conclude that he also is eminently spirituall above all Preachers Proponents Doctors of Divinity Elders and Deacons because hee thinkes that by speciall right he may take that bread breake and distribute it If this intention of spirituality ariseth from the vicinity of the principall end then either some new Scotus must arise for these Walachrians or else Apolonius must be endowed with the Seraphicall Spirit of Scotus that he may unfold the quotlibeticall trifles which will arise in Walachria concerning the beginning end and degrees of Spiritualities an example of which I give in the Sacramentall bread for some will ask When will that Bread in the Supper first become spirituall Whether then when it is carried into the Consistory But so the Bakets Boy should be spirituall or else he shall prophane holy things because he toucheth that Bread Or is it then first when the Preachers being solemnly assembled in the Consistory they first tast the bread and wine to try whether it is made of good Corne and of a good relish And give me leave here to report what I heare of the Walachrian Divines whose custome is to meet the day before the Sacrament in their Consistory where they tast of the Loaves which are to be used in the Supper But because that dry spirituality would chea● them and so stop their preaching spirit the wine of the Supper is brought by tasting of

preach what they list make Lawes as they think good at last censure when and whom they will This he thinkes was absolutely done under the crosse and because hee perceives that Magistrates doe meddle with these affaires by reason of the fleshly corruptions and sins which they observe are introduced in these things by Church-men Hence surfeiting with this peace like the dull Oxê in the Port he wisheth for a saddle and with the Horse desires to plough the ground hee thinkes the Church was happier under the crosse when she had no Magistrates then now when she hath such This I will confesse if the Churches happinesse consists in this that new Walachrian Papists domineere in her as they please but this is a childish happinesse For youths are glad when in the absence of their Parents they manage the estate and Family as they will and they wish it might be so still whereas things are never more unhappily managed in the family then in such a case So that it is a Proverb among us when things are in a confusion there is none at home but the children How happy this Ecclesiasticke selfe-government is without the Magistrates inspection may bee seen in Popery where the Magistrate being thrust out onely Church-men rule but how happily When there is nothing there except miserable butcheries both of bodies and soules The Game was not much unlike this which the spirituall king Becholtius played at Munster swelling there with as great pride as the Pope doth at Rome who wanted nothing to make him happy but continuance if the Stilt-walker thirsteth for this he deserveth to consume away with despaire Hee speakes too freely of the Churches happinesse under the crosse Apollonius thinkes it no trouble to leane upon cushions stuffed with other mens bloud and as they say subdue Alexander at the Table if hee had seene but a farre off the whips roddes wounds and tortures all his courage would quickly be cooled I have insisted somewhat long upon this discourse not as if I disliked the Worship of Christians or the lawfull Church-government but that I might shew the impudent fooler●es of the Walachrian Stilt-walker whose purpose is not to maintaine true Religion but to introduce a new Popedome therefore I hope impartiall Judges will not thinke I have done amisse that I have with laughter exploded his unsavourie fraudulencies not that I mock at true holy matters but because I would tread downe the Walachrian swelling leven of Popery For no godly Magistrate intends to overthrow the Churches true order to defile the sacred things of Religion or to destroy them this were a madnesse fit for Libertines Atheists from which I am very averse Neither do I thinke that any godly Minister doth seriously beleeve there is such abstruse spirituall sanctity in the affairs of modern Church Discipline as this Walachrian Rat dreameth out of the Iesuites writings read by him without judgement for this were to thrust upon Magistrates in stead of truth the Legends of Frances or the Ottoman trifles of the Turkish Alcheran which we saw lately whom no wise man wil beleeve except he be carryed headlong by Superstition or violently compelled to confesse disseble that to be true which he knowes is false such is the impudency of these Walachrian sticklers who are not content to perswade christians to esteem of that which the Scripture recordeth hath beene by Christ ordered in matters of Religion but they will have men also beleeve chiefly that in the worke wrought in the persons working and in other circumstances there doe lurke wonderfull and secret worth of holinesse with which they so bewitch ignorant men that neglecting the kirnell of truth they doe nothing almost but licke the outward rine of holiness● by which madnesse it comes to passe that Church-men are puffed up and obtaine too much respect which is that they hunt for and account superstition Religion I will freely appeale here to the conscience of godly Ministers who will here confesse ingenuously I know that in the whole outward worke of Church-government at this day there is not any such internall mysticall spirituall and untouchable holinesse for where doth this lurke the word of God is read the Psalmes are sung by all prayers are said either by heart or in the booke the Text of Scripture is explained by a humane manner and way knowne to all he that is haptised is besprinkled with ordinary water in the name and after the ordinance of God Men sit at the table common bread and wine are distributed ●ats and drunke by all concerning the order of administring the Sacra● eats care is taken that confusion may be avoided they that transgresse in the Church are admonished and reproved or by publicke authority are seperated from the communion of Christians The gifts and alines of Christians are received and as much as can be are bestowed on the poore All these things I rehearse as they are done in a most simple manner and come as neare as may be to the Apostles custome from which wee see how far every day the Wallachrians depart so that almost there is not greater corruption in Popery then there is among them in matters of censure c. Will any ingenuous man say that in these there is such abstruse mysticall sanctitie or in the Ministers themselves and if this were necessarily in them who will say that it proceeds from moderne vocation they are men that choose that call that lay on hands and although the Church at this day useth imposition of hands prayers fastings and other meanes yet Christ never promised that he would so concurre by his Spirit with these actions that the same effects should be prounced which the Apostle she wed by their vocation neither will any man except he be superstitious affirme that he hath upon imposition of hands received suddenly the gifts of tongues and sciences and if this Wallachrian smatterer should brag any such thing of himselfe experience and his owne act ons will refute him who then seeth not that the Stiltwalker is a foole who in such things seeks for the lurking holes of speciall sanctitie that he may beg a domineering power in the Church to the overthrow of all Religion●●● true piety If it were lawfull to bewith men with such fictions what may not wee beleeve of Magistrates for as soone as they are chosen to the supreame government although they were private men before now on a sudden they become Gods holy Logats Vicegetents and servants every soule to them is presently subject the Sword to them is committed with the power of life and death nest her matters it how they obtaine this power whether by right or wrong how they use the sword whether justly or unjustly and although they since against God yet they must be obeyed by their subjects except they will resist Gods ordinance and bring judgement on themselves Lastly they become Gods not by humane but divine right Who then will wonder if Hered