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Religion and loyalty maintained against all modern opposers in a treatise on the 29th of May 1681, being Trinity-Sunday and anniversary day of His Majesties happy birth and King and kingdoms restauration / by Henry Anderson.
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Anderson, Henry.
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unanimitas Erasm Paraph. in Act. 1. being conjoyned together in one Communion and Fellowship in the mystical Body of Christ And we can't be joyned to Christ our Head except we be glued with charity one to another For he that is not of this Unity is not of the Church of Christ which is a Congregation or Unity together and not a Division The Churches unity which is by one Spirit from one Head is but one in all and though many Members Eph. 4.15 16. yet but one Body As Gregory ‖ Gregor Mor. l. 19. c. 14. speaks Sancta Ecclesia sic consistit in unitate fidelium sicut corpus nostrum unitum est compage membrorum In the structure of the natural Body all its parts conspire for the good and benefit of the whole There 's such a Symmetry and proportion as that the Members are joyn'd by Nerves Veins Arteries and Ligaments to their Head from whence they receive strength and sensation and by virtue of this union to the Head retain a Fellowship and Community among themselves So it is in the Body Politick the King's Majesty the Golden Head of our Land the Honourable Council the Eyes of it the Nobles Lords and Barons the Shields and Shoulders thereof the Reverend Bishops and Clergy the Chariots and Horsmen of Israel the Tongues of the Land the Judges those grave Sages the Hands of our Land for the Execution of Justice the flower of our Gentry and Commons the Feet of our Land Head Eyes Tongues Shoulders Hands Feet all even all should concur for the general good and publick safety and in both for Gods Glory and Worship that we may lead peaceable and quiet lives in all godliness and honesty because peace is the foundation of happiness and lustre of any Government and the fiercest Enemy of peace is dissention in Religion therefore unanimity is a work worthy of every ones best endeavours and of absolute necessity to the 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 the bene esse of the Church it is the Life and Soul of it Ecclesia nomen est consensûs concordiae And that multiplication of Unities Eph. 4.6 one Spirit one Hope one Lord one Faith one Baptism one God and Father of us all declare that we should be all of one mind in the Lord all keep the unity of the Spirit in the bond of peace It is a good thing when Unity and Concord Peace and Religion go hand in hand two gentle Companions as full of love as they are of innocence and it is a great pity that two of so near alliance should suffer ever an injury of a Divorce examine their descent the root of both signifies to bind Religion is a bond between God and man Peace is a tye between man and man Christian and Christian And one would think the very name of Christian should have a greater efficacy and power to still and suppress disorders in the Church than that of Quirites was presently to hush and allay the commotions in Caesars Army because the Church is a spiritual Building made up of Souls cemented with love 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 as S. Chrysostome speaks It is a Body compact and knit together in one and the same Orthodoxal Verity which was once given to the Saints in the holy Apostles days and in all Substantials maintained by the holy primitive Fathers for which we ought as S. Jude tell us 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 to contend earnestly even all that owne and profess the same Faith in sincerity The irrational prejudice of many Schismatical Sectaries against the present Discipline would soon be removed if they do impartially weigh the purity and simplicity of the Doctrine of the Church of England A Church that teaches no other Doctrine but what Christ and his Apostles delivered derives none of its Principles from the impure Fountain of vain and uncertain Tradition but a sure word of Prophecy is that Spring that sends forth all her Doctrines So that all her Articles all the parts of her Worship all her Canons and Constitutions are by derivation pure and holy Add unto this the innocency and decency of her Ceremonies the regularity and Decorum in her Offices and Administrations the integrity and candour of her Manners and Principles It holds no Tenets nor teaches * Lib. Can. discip Eccl. Angl. injunct Regin Eliz. Anno Domin 1571. Can. de Concionatoribus any thing pernicious to Salvation or dissentaneous to the rule of Faith in purity of life and holiness of conversation every way consonant to the Doctrine and Discipline of primitive times in the first and purest Ages of the Church And what Faith can be the foundation of a more solid peace the surer Ligaments of Catholick Communion or the firmer Basis of a holy Life and of the hopes of Heaven hereafter than the measures which the holy primitive Church did hold and we after them Therefore we may conclude the Religion of our Church certainly Primitive and Apostolick and the best Transcript and Original Copy of Christianity that is left in the World And there needs no better demonstration for bringing of men into the unity of Faith and the knowledge of the Son of God or establishing a Community among us than purity of Doctrine and of Worship in the Service of God by Prayers * The Liturgy of the Church of England or publick Form of Divine Worship though contemned and depraved by its malicious Adversaries out of a Spirit of contradiction and singularity who do preach or speak perverse things against the Discipline and Government of our Church out of their own Fanatical asseverations 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 saith S. Basil and the novel imaginations of their own brains yet it is notwithstanding religious and holy and recommends to us the wisdom and simplicity purity and spirituality of Christian devotion It is a compound of Texts of Scripture exhortations to repentance Psalms Hymns Doxologies Lessons and Creeds Forms for the Administrations of the holy Sacraments Comminations against impenitent sinners all mixed and diversified with great care to quicken attention and stir up devotion Praises and Sacramental Celebrations which are the great characters and confirmation of true Christians Communion with the blessed and glorious Trinity with God with their Saviour and the holy Spirit and by the Grace of these with one another for the holy Word of God the Scripture of the Old and New Testament which stream from the Fountain of our Saviour is the only Standard * The Authority of the holy Scripture for which it ought to be believed and obeyed dependeth not upon the Testimony of any man or Church but wholly upon God 2 Pet. 1.19 21. 2 Tim. 3.16 1 Joh. 5.9 1 Thess 2.13 who is Truth it self the Author thereof and consequently the Supreme Judge by which all Controversies of Religion are to be determined and all Decrees of Councils Opinions of ancient Writers Doctrines of men and private Spirits are to
another They carry with them fierce Bulls such as the Poet doth mention Vulcanum naribus afflant and breathe or speak nothing but in the fiery accents of desolation of which temper the Jesuitick Spirit seems to be which deceives the Nations with the Cup of Errour setting out Truths in a painted and meretricious Bravery nay blending them with humane inventions teaching for Doctrines the Commandments of men And there can be no greater Sacriledge in the World than to put our own Image upon the Ordinances of Christ 1. Our Lord and Saviour hath commanded us to read the holy Scripture Joh. 5.39 and the Holy Ghost blesseth them that delight therein Psal 1. But the Roman Church forbids the reading thereof to the Laity in the vulgar Tongue * Haeresin â—sse si quis dicit necessarium esse ut Scripturae in vulgares linguas convertantur Sander Visib Monar lib. 7. Credo institutum hoc à Diabolo esse inventum Peres de Trad. part 1. assert 3. pag. 47. which if they should be permitted the perusal of would easily discover their new Articles of Faith to be erroneous their Image-worship to be Idolatry and their not erring Bishop to be a grand Deceiver Pope Clement VIII in the Index of prohibited Books says That the Bible published in vulgar Tongues ought not to be read and retained no not so much as a Compendium or History of it And Bellarmine says That it is not necessary to Salvation to believe that there are any Scriptures at all written This is to blot out the Canonical Scripture and give us Apocrypha in the room of it to make the Divine Oracles to speak to the patronizing of their own interest and would suborn God for a Witness to their Errours As Caligula dealt with Jupiters Statue taking off the head of it and placing his own in its stead So they substitute the devices of their own Brain in the place of Gods Word putting that most excellent Candle under a bushel to make the Decretals of the Pope as authentick as holy Writ and wholly rely on the Dictates of the Priest setting more by an old Tradition than a Divine Precept Thus these insolent Usurpers who seek not so much to oppress the bodies as exercise their Tyranny over the Souls of men and pitifully inthral them to everlasting servitude As the wicked Shepherds of Midian would drive their Neighbours flocks from the watering Troughs and the Philistims would stop the Patriarchs Wells So the Emissaries of Rome use all Arts to keep the people from the use of the Scriptures the Wells of Salvation hindering them from instruction It is a great glory to the Church of England that the Bible * The difference between Pope Sixtus the Fifth and Clement the Eighth the one commanding one Bible only to be used the other another under their Curses whereby the Romish Partisans are involved into a miserable necessity being constrained not to read any or be liable to the Anathema of Pope Clement if they use Sixtus's Bible or of Sixtus if they use Clement's which was shut up in an unknown Tongue from the generality is now in our own Mother-tongue and Language of the Kingdom And what S. Chrysostome spake of old concerning the British Islands is verified at this day every where a man may hear the people discoursing of the Scriptures strangers indeed in speech yet of the Houshold of Faith in tongue Barbarians but in conversation drawing nearer unto Saints for the Christian Laity in the Britannick Church which is not permitted in the Roman walk in the most clear Light of the Gospel and drink their fill of the pure streams of the water of Life in Scripture * It is a weighty Saying of Tertullian Adoro pl nitâ—dinem Scripturarum for all Scripture was given by Divine Inspiration 2 Tim 3.16 and profitable 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 for doctrine 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 for redargution 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 for correction 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 for instruction that the man of God may be perfected unto all good works And we all have not only liberty by Proclamation to enjoy it but several Acts of Parliament to confirm our use of it Religion and Liturgy God grant that which is so great a mercy and happiness to us we make it not our misery by turning the cause of our thanksgiving into murmuring repining and dissatisfaction for if ever Times were under cross and unluckly Aspects if ever there were a publick Spirit of Phrensie and mischief in the World certainly this Lot is fallen upon ours in contending for Mint and Cummin disagreeing in the lesser ‖ Disunanimity and disuniformity are a breaking not only of the King 's but of God's and the Churches peace It causeth distraction hinders devotion and indisposeth men unto Religion and clouds the understanding in the disquisition of Truth and consequently hinders that blessed light which clarifies the Soul of man and predisposeth it unto the brightness of eternal felicity only when they all agree in the substance and in the greater as matters of Faith and Articles of Belief viz. to believe in the Father Son and Holy Ghost one Divinity of equal Majesty in the holy Trinity It were to be heartily wish'd that in matters that truly concern so much the glory of God the honour peace and welfare of the Church and Commonweal that all prejudicate Opinions varnish'd with plausible errour through pride and ambition might be laid aside and in the zeal of affection not forget our Duty and the Unity that should be among Christians 2. Christ administred to his Disciples both Species of the Sacrament of Eucharist and his Command stands in Sacred Record Mat. 26.27 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 drink ye all of this Mark 14.23 and they all drank of it saith the Canon of Scripture Christ ordains it but the Church of Rome forbids it as if they were wiser than our Saviour setting their mouths against Heaven and correcting his holy and divine Institution For in the Council of Constance * Et similiter quod licèt in primitiva Ecclesia hujusmodi Sacramentum reciperetur à fidelibus sub utraque specie tamen haec consuetudo ad evitandum aliqua pericula scandala est rationabiliter introducta quod à conficientibus sub utraque specie Laicis tantummodo sub una specie suscipiatur c. Const Sess 13. they alter'd the Testamental Legacy and Ordinance of Christ himself in taking away from the Laicks the Chalice of the Sacrament the holy Symbol of Christs Blood stiled by the Apostle 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 the Cup of Blessing for the Eucharistical Elements are not Theories or empty Signs but Seals to confirm and Instruments to exhibit Christ with all the benefits of his Passion and blessings of Heaven unto every believing Christian therefore the Romish Church does great injury to Christendom in her half Communion the deprivation of the Chalice Quomodo