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A31348 Catholicism without popery an essay to render the Church of England a means and a pattern of union to the Christian world. Hooke, John, 1655-1712. 1699 (1699) Wing C1497; ESTC R8878 84,579 258

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but otherwise let us not be bubled out of our Senses either by the Jus Divinum of Episcopacy or of Presbytery while by one is meant the English Hierarchy or the Seotch Church Government by the other Do not all Learned Men know that Pope Leo the Great who began his Popedom about the Year 440 in his 87th and 90th Epistles is express for a pular Election of Bishops And altho' Pope Symmachus in the latter end of the Fifth Century about the Year 498 endeavoured to exclude the People from the Election yet Pope Celestine the Second in the Year 1143 was the first Pope made without the Peoples Election even in the See of Rome where Priesteraft did most prevail And now in England the Dean and Chapter chose the Bishop in Pursuance of an Act of Parliament and by Authority from the Crown Hierom and Eutichius are express that in Alexandria from Mark their first Bishop one of the Presbyters was chosen to be Bishop by the rest So that the Presbyters could make a Bishop for we read of no Bishops that Ordained or Consecrated Him when so chosen which is the Practice in England The Learned Vsher acknowledges that the Presbyters Power which I plead for is taken from Him in England only by Law and may by Law be restored And yet because an Episcopacy was early in the Church the English Prelacy must be put upon us to be Jure Divino Take it as it is Jure Humano and I have not one word to say against it And 't is plain that notwithstanding the noise now made about the Jus Divinum of Bishops as a Superiour Order to Presbyters that was not the Sense of the Church at the Restauration of King Charles the Second for if it had the Lords Spiritual would never have agreed to the Stat. 12. Car. 2. Cap. 17. which restores Ministers Ordained by any Ecclesiastical Persons before the 25th of December then last past Alass Sir Christ himself and not the Apostles Ordained the Seventy Philip the Deacon sent Christianity into Abasinia where it still is by the Aethopian Eunuch who was no Bishop that I know of and yet they had Ordained Ministers before they received an Abuna or Archbishop from the Patriarch of Alexandria Let the Priests be Governed in all Countries as they are most Governable it hinders not but we may be all of the same and not of opposite Principles but of the same Perswasion in Matters of Religion I don't pretend to determine how far the Civil Power may enforce Reveal'd Religion but I hope all Christian Princes and States will take care that the Priests add not to or diminish from our Christianity in any Form and let them be Governed as they may but for God's sake let Discipline be restored and then 't is no great matter in what Form the Priests are managed Let every Minister who has the Cure of Souls be enabled to exercise Disciplinam Christi which I am sure is Jure Divino and perhaps the Reduction of Episcopacy to the Form of Synodical Government by Archbishop Vsher tho' not Jure Divine would be found so agreeable to Reason suitable to Primitive Practice and accomodate to the Ends of Discipline that a due Consideration thereof might in a while bring all Christian Churches into the same Form of Government without the Pretence of a Jus Divinum for it Let us have no Laws about the Matter of Reveal'd Religion but what are at least plainly justified by the Scripture and not be hampered by the Priests Additions in any Form and Discipline will be easie and without Difficulty But if the Parish Minister may not Excommunicate a Notorious Convicted Atheist Deist Blasphemer Idolater Prophane Swearer Sabbath-breaker Abuser of Parents Murderer Adulterer Thief Perjured Person Extortioner Barretor and such like but must complain to the Diocesan and an Appeal must lie to the Archbishop the same Reason may carry it to the Pope tho' our Laws justly prohibit it So in the other Form of Government if such a Criminal after Conviction by Law may appeal from his Pastor to the Sessions thence to the Presbytery thence to the Synod and thence to the General Assembly the same Reason will carry it to a General Council and I think there ought to be one Appeal more in such Cases viz. to the Day of Judgment Indeed if Priests may make us a Horse-load of Canons and Constitutions Ecclesiastical and load us with Ceremonies of which St. Augustine in his Second Epistle to Januarius complains that the Condition of the Jews was more tolerable than of the Church in his Time which was the 5th Century and the Transgression of every one of them shall be a new Sin there may be need of Appeals nor will it be sit to trust a single Person to teaze a Parish for not submitting to Priestcraft But the Laws of God are plain the Duties required by Christianity are well known and I am so far from Abridging the Ministers of the Gospel of their just Power that I think 't is a horrid shame that they have not more 'T is an excellent Passage cited out of Mr. Chillingworth by the late Author of a Discourse called the Principle of the Protestant Reformation I am fully assured that God doth not and therefore that Man ought not to require any more of any Man than this to Believe the Scripture to be God's word to endeavour to find the true Sense of it and to Live according to it The Bible the Bible I say the Bible only is the Religion of Protestants But though I agree with the Author page 5. That a Person by Baptism is not made a Member of any particular Church but only of the Christian Church Universal yet I conceive that he is wretchedly out when he insinuates That there is no Part of Primitive Church Communion which might not have been performed by a Woman as well as a Man and that a Woman 's Narrative would have been part of the Gospel Because that Bible tells me not that our Saviour had any She-Apostles or Evangelists Indeed Priscilla as well as Aquila did instruct Apollos but so may any good Woman instruct her Friend without being a Church-Officer And the Context of that Passage 1 Cor. 11.21 which he quotes seems to insinuate as if this Fancy of a Female Officer had got footing in the Church of Corinth but the Apostle tells us That the Head of the Woman is the Man ver 3. and that she ought to have Power or a Covering on her Head So far from being heard that she was not to be seen And in the next Chapter v. 28 29. he speaks of Church-Officers but of no She-Ones And again Chap 14. v. 34. He is plain in the Case Let the Woman keep Silence in the Church for it is not permitted to them to speak and so 1 Tim. 2.12 Again I think he is strangely out when he says page 11. That there is no absolute Necessity for
Ordination by laying on of Paul's Hands 1 Tim. 4.14 2 Tim. 1.6 and also of Ordination by laying on the Hands of the Presbytery The Primitive Church joined together the Bishops and Presbyters in Ordination and that will Please and Unite the Episcopal and Presbyterian And I don't know whether if any Independent or Antipoedobaptist be fond thereof it should be any Difficulty to the Church of England to let them Admit their Pastor with what Ceremonies they please so as he be willing to submit thereto perhaps they will have the better Opinion of him and he have advantage of doing more good And as for Reordination 't is but Confirming Ordinations made by Presbyters by Act of Parliament which is no new thing and that Affair will be settled without determining that difficult Point of Controversie Many of the Incumbrances on Conformity are removed particularly that which related to the Illegally Imposed Covenant and the Oxford Oath and if Subscription to the Terms of Union by all that shall receive Imployment in the Established Church together with fit Qualifications and a Sober Religious and Godly Life were accepted instead of all other Subscriptions and Oaths how happy should we see the Church of England Lastly These things would Answer the Objections and Remove the Antipathies and Prejudices of the Dissenters And as for the Indecencies justly complain'd of amongst some of them by those of the Established Part of the Church they do already sensibly Decay and would soon vanish away Good Manners is certainly as agreeable in Church as out of it and there is no necessity of being Guilty of Irreverence to avoid Superstition The Apostle advised the Women in the Church to have a covering on their heads 1 Cor. 11.10 because of the Angels And if the Angels gather the Devotion of our Souls from the Posture of our Bodies were it for no other Reason Men would neither Sleep nor Loll nor put on their Hats in Publick or Allow'd Assemblies especially they who keep them off all the Week besides The Service of the Body as well as the Soul is owing to him from whom the Glory of both is expected And the Apostle as if he had fore-seen the Folly of some People in this Matter expresly exhorts us to Present our Bodies a living Sacrifice holy and acceptable to GOD which is our reasonable Service But yet I 'm not so Sanguine as to believe it a Matter probable to be effected to bring the Episcopal Presbyterian Independent and Antipoedobaptist so near together immediately as that they should agree in one Mode of Worship or Form of Divine Service and yet I conceive they may be all United in the Church of England and under the Government of the Bishops without hurting their Consciences on the one side or cutting a Hem off the Surplice on the other And to this purpose I would propose I. That by a New Act of Vniformity Moderate Men may be comprehended and the Tolerable Tolerated II. That an Act of Parliament be pass'd for the more Positive Settling and Limitting the Bishops Courts and give them a Process suitable to their Civil Constitution III. That the Power of Excommunication and Absolution be restor'd to the Parish Pastor for Matter of Immorality or Gross Heresie and the Proof thereof be transmitted to the Court kept for that Diocess IV. That all the Teachers in Dissenting Congregations do make themselves personally known to the Diocesan and own his Civil Jurisdiction within his Diocess according to Law and Enter the Places of their Assemblies with him And that all Dissenters submit to the Conusance of those Courts if they are accus'd of Immoralities who may there have a Civil Punishment V. That because very many of His Majesty's Subjects are and probably will continue under the above-mentioned Denominations it might be advisable that the several distinguish'd Parties choose their Representatives to Assist at a Convocation in Matters of Manners and Good Life and other things which are not in Controversie VI. The Providence of God in the Instance of London-derry did shew us that all Endeavours of Agreement are blest by Miraculous and Extraordinary Appearances of the Divine Goodness And though we are not Besieged in England yet I doubt we are under an equal necessity of Unity and Concord in order to preserve to our selves and Posterity both the Commandments and the Creed And if the Episcopal Party though they will be render'd much more Numerous by such Comprehension reserving to themselves both the Property and Profits of the Church would nevertheless allow the Dissenters the Morning and Evening Hours for their Lectures and Assemblies they Engaging not to meddle with those Matters in Controversie which distinguish Parties amongst us but only to endeavour the Good of Souls which is the Interest and Duty of all Parties they would grow together insensibly and we should be in a short time the Happiest Nation on the Earth FINIS Books Printed for J. Lawrence at the Angel in the Poultry MR. Pool's English Annotations in Two Volumes Folio The Works of the Reverend Mr. Stephen Charnock B. D. in Two Volumes Folio The Life of the Reverend Mr. Richard Baxter with the History of the Times he lived in Written by himself Folio A Sermon Preach'd at the Interrment of Mr. Samuel Stephens Quarto A Sermon Preach'd at the Assizes at Buckingbam July 5. 1692. by Mr. John Howard Rector of Marston-Trussel Quarto The Evil of our Days with the Remedy of it A Sermon preach'd at a Visitation at Rothwell in Northamptonshire ●ctob 12 1697. By the same Author A Sermon preach'd before the Lord Mayor and Aldermen of the City of London at St. Mary-le-Bow Jan. 30. 1693. A Thanksgiving Sermon before the Lord Mayor Aldermen and Citizens of London at St. Mary-le-Bow April 16. 1696. Both by Will. Stephens B. D. Rector of Sutton in Surrey Quarto Mr. Lorimer's Apology for the Ministers who Subscribed to the Stating of the Truths and Errors in Mr. William's Book in Answer to Mr. Irail's Letter to a Minister in the Country Quarto Mr Lorimer's Remarks on Mr. Goodwin's Discourse of the Gospel Proving that the Gospel-Covenant is a Law of Grace and Answering the Objections to the contrary Quarto An Effort against Bigottry and for Christian Catholicism by Henry Chandler Quarto A Funeral Sermon occasion'd by the Death of the Eminently Pious Mrs Elizabeth Williams late Wife of the Reverend Mr. Daniel Williams Octavo A Practical Discourse concerning Vows with a Special Reference to Baptism and the Lord's-Supper Octavo Dr. Burton's Discourses of Purity Charity Repentance and seeking first the Kingdom of God Published with a Preface by Dr. John Tillotson late Archbishop of Canterbury Octavo Bishop Wilkins's Discourse of the Gift of Prayer and Preaching the Latter much Enlarged by the present Bishops of Norwich and Chichester Octavo A Free Discourse wherein the Doctrines that make for Tyranny are Display'd the Title of our Rightful and Lawful King William