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A43681	The spirit of popery speaking out of the mouths of phanatical-Protestants, or, The last speeches of Mr. John Kid and Mr. John King, two Presbyterian ministers, who were executed for high-treason and rebellion at Edinburgh, August the 14th, 1679 with animadversions, and the history of the Archbishop of St. Andrews his murder, extracted out of the registers of the Privy-Council, &c. / by an orthodox Protestant.	Hickes, George, 1642-1715.; Kid, John, d. 1679.; King, John, d. 1679.	1680 (1680)	Wing H1874; ESTC R6348	165,592	93

are obliged by our Religion not to Worship Daemons nor approach their Altars which are polluted with Blood Thou hast Commanded us to Sacrifice or every Tenth Man of us shall be put to Death Know assuredly that we are all Christians who as to our Bodies are thy Subjects but not as to our Souls which now look up to the Founder of our Religion Christ. Afterwards Exuperius the Standard-Bearer spoke unto them thus You see Fellow-Soldiers I bear the Eagle the Sign of Secular War but it is not to these Arms that I desire to provoke you nor in War of this nature That I would have you shew your Valour but in another way of Combating by which and not by your Swords you shall win the Kingdom of Heaven He left also this Message to be sent to the Emperor That Desperation which made all other men Valiant in Dangers could not prevail with them to use their Arms against his Majesty who had refused to Resist with their Swords in their hands because they had rather Die than get an unlawful Victory and perish in Innocency than Survive in Sin All which shews First That Passive Obedience is no Chimaera but a real Notion Secondly That it is the indispensible Duty of all Christians when they are Persecuted by Authority and Thirdly That it is so far from justifying Rebellion as the Author of Behem foolishly Asserts That it is the only Doctrine which can keep Subjects who are really Persecuted and Oppressed or phansie themselves to be so from Rebelling against their Sovereign and therefore the Popish and Presbyterian Jesuits who love to have it in their Power to trouble the Government of Christian Monarchs declare it to be as great a Sin as active Obedience to their unlawful Commands And now when all Sects whereof some are not Chistians with great confidence call themselves Protestants upon the account of their Opposition No Orthodon Protestants who deny the Doctrine of Passive Obedience whether real or pretended to Popery I freely declare That none of them are or ought to be esteemed so in a strict and Orthodox sence but such as Profess the Doctrine of Passive Obedience as strictly as it was both Professed and Practised in the Primitive Catholick Church Nay furthermore seeing there are some common Maxims of Christian Divinity which were always professed by the Church Universal for undoubted Truths although they are not set down expressly neither in the Scriptures nor in the Apostles Creed and the truth of which were never questioned but by some few Hereticks who had no proportion to the rest I also assert That no Man nor Society of Men how Antipapistical soever they may be ought to be looked upon as Orthodox Protestants unless they profess these common Notions of Christianity without the Belief and Profession of which none could be counted Orthodox Christians in the Primitive Catholick Church These common Principles wherein all Christian Churches agreed are these That the Scriptures are the Word of God That there are Three distinct Persons in the holy Trinity the Father the Son and the Holy Ghost and that these Three † That Infant are to be Baptized are one God That Christ is both God and Man in the same Person That the Lords-Day or First Day of every Week ought to be kept Holy That a Solemn Yearly Commemoration of the Passion Resurrection and Ascention of our Lord and of the Descent of the Holy Ghost ought to be Observed and that the Church Universal is to be Governed by Bishops above and distinct from Presbyters There never was any Church from the Apostles and downwards for above Fourteen hundred Years which did not consent to the Truth of These and some other Doctrines and look upon them as the common Notions of the Christian Religion delivered down from its first Original with the Articles of Christian Faith And therefore as no Arrian Photinian Sabbatarian or Aerian how Opposite soever they were to the Jews and Heathens the common Enemies of Christianity were admitted for truly Catholick or Orthodox Christians in the Primitive times but were Condemned and Anathematized for Hereticks The true not on of Protestancy so now no Society of Antiscripturists Antitrinitarians Socinians Antidominicans for I will not call them Antisabbatarians Antipaedobaptists Antiepiscoparians of what Denomination soever and likewise no Society of men professing the Observation of the Apostolical Holy-days to be Superstitious and Idolatrous how opposite soever they pretend to be to the common Enemie of the Reformed Churches ought not to be considered as Orthodox Protestants who by that name are understood to Protest against the Errors Innovations Corruptions and Usurpations of the Romish but not against the Common Doctrines of the Primitive Catholick Church the Lord. And that I Preached at Field-Meetings which is the other ground of my Sentence I am so far from acknowledging that the Gospel Preached that way is a Rendezvouzing in Rebellion as it is so termed that I bless the Lord that ever counted me worthy to be Witness of such Meetings which have been wonderfully Countenanced and owned not only to the x The Delusion of many Thousands as their numerous Field-Meetings do shew Conviction but even to the Conversion of many Thousands yea I do y I observed before That the Covenant-Preachers are apt to speak mighty things of their Party So Naphtali speaking of the Covenanted-Army which rebelled at Pentland-Hills 1666. saith That there hath not been in Britain such another Company of men joyned in Arms for the Covenant and Cause of God for sound Judgment true Piety Integrity of Heart Fervent Zeal undaunted Courage c. Whereas they were for the most part Crack-Brained men of broken Fortunes and such as had been processed for Fornications and Adulteries as all those who went to Christs Standard out of the Parishes of Kilmarnock and Phimus were known to be being in all Twenty Persons And if any man will take the pains to enquire into their Morals they will find this Sect to be one of the wickedest People not only for Treason Schism and Rebellion but for Sensual Sins and Abominations that ever professed the name of Christ. They use all manner of Care and Secrecy to Conceal their Wickedness but yet so many undeniable Stories of their Privy Pranks are come to Light as make them the Scandal of the Christian name Lysimach Nicanor First Edition page 79. Tells us of one Andrew Lesly who forsook Ireland to come and take the Covenant after which he immediately left his own Wife to live with a Whore the Daughter of an holy Sister at Edinburgh who Blasphemously said That her Child was fallen into an holy Fornication with a Brother not out of Lust but Love and therefore resolved That she should not Confess it lest the Gospel should be Scandalized and that it was better to fall into the hands of God by False-Swearing than to fall into the hands of men by Confessing the Fact which appeared

authority of Bishops to be above and distinct from that of Presbyters and also a Divine Institution For in his Catalog Script Ecclesiast 3. † Gal. 1. 18. 19. Acts 12. 17. Gal. 2. 12. Acts 21. 18. Acts 15. Jacobus frater Domini cognomento Justus post passionem Domini statim ab Apostolis Hierosolymorum Episcopus ordinatus Hegesippu● vicinus Apostolicorum temporum in quinto commentariorum libro de Jacobo narrans ait Suscepit Ecclesiam Hierosolymae post Apostolos frater Domini Jacobus cognomento Justus 11 Timotheus autem † Euseb. l. 3. c. 4. Ephesiorum Episcopus ordinatus à beato Paulo 12 Titus Episcopus Cretae 27 Polycarpus Johannis Apostoli discipulus ab eo Smyrnae Episcopus ordinatus totius Asiae princeps fuit Com. in Galat. 1. 19. Paulatim procedente tempore alii ab his quos dominus elegerat ordinati sunt Apostoli sicut ille ad Philippenses sermo declarat dicens necessarium existimavi Epaphroditum Here he asserts That the Apostles who were chosen by Christ Ordained other Apostles as Epaphroditus Phil. 2. 25. and Mark Catal. Script Eccles. 15. Marcus discipulus interpres Petri primus Alexandriae Christum annuncians Bishops proved to be a distinct Order from Presbyters constituit Ecclesiam And Prooem in Matth. Marcus interpres Petri Apostoli Alexandrinae Ecclesiae primus Episcopus Here by the way it may be observed in answer to NAKED TRUTH That St. Hierom saith That such and such persons were Ordained Bishops by the Apostles and surely in saying so he meaneth that they had a new Ordination distinct from that of Presbyters for it 's most reasonable to suppose that the Father used the word in the signification it had in his own time when and long before there was a distinct Ordination of Bishops by a new imposition of hands by three Persons of the Episcopal Order So in Euseb. l. 6. c. 4. 3. Cornelius Bishop of Rome Anno Dom. 255. writes to Fabius touching the Ordination of Novatianus Hosce tres accitos Episcopos manuum impositione 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Episcopatum ei dare coegit And the same Bishop to St. Cyprian Epist. 46. Tantummodo circumductos se quoque commisisse schismatica ut paterentur ei manus qu●si in Episcopum imponi And Cyprian Epist. 68. plainly distinguishes the Ordinations of Bishops Priests and Deacons each from other Nec hoc in Episcoporum tantum Sacerdotum sed in diaconorum ordinationibus observâsse Apostolos animadvertimus and afterwards Ut ad ordinationes ritè celebrandas ad eam plebem cui Praepositus ordinatur Episcopi ejusdem provinciae proximi quique conveniant Episcopus deligatur plebe praesente quae singulorum vitam plenissimè novit uniuscujusque actum de ejus conversatione perspexit quod apud vos factum videmus in Sabini Collegae nostrae ordinatione ut de universae fraternitatis suffragio de Episcoporum qui in praesentiâ convenerant quique de eo ad vos literas f●cerant judicio Episcopatus ei deferretur manus ei in locum Basilidis imponerentur See also Cyprian Epist. 52. and Eusebius l. 5. c. 6. of the like Ordinations and Can. 1. and 2 Apost Episcopi à duobus vel tribus Episcopis ordinentur Presbyter ab uno ordinetur diaconus reliqui clerici From all which it is plain that Bishops before St. Hierom's time had a different Ordination from Presbyters and if so then the new Ordination must infer a new Authority and the same Authority which this Father understood to have been conferred on Timothy and Titus Bishops by the Apostles the same he understands to have been conferred on Polycarp and Epaphroditus and the other Bishops and hence it appears that That notion of Blondels which Mr. Baxter hugs so much in his Nonconformists plea of the Senior Presbyter's being a Bishop without new Ordination is a meer Phancy and Shift But to go on with St. Hierom in the conclusion of his Epist. to Evagrius which the Presbyterians rely so much upon Ut sciamus traditiones Apostolicas sump●as de veteri testamento quod Aaron filii ejus atque Levitae in templo fuerunt hoc sibi Episcopi Presbyteri Diaconi in Ecclesiâ sibi vendicent Epist ad Nepotianum esto subjectus Pontifici tuo quasi animae parentem suscipe quod Aaron filios ejus hoc Episcopum Presbyteros esse noverimus and Epist 54. speaking of the Bishops of his own Age he saith Apud nos Apostolorum locum tenent Episcopi And in Psalm 45. 16. Nunc quia Apostoli à mundo recesserunt habes pro his Episcopos filios sicut hi patres tui quia ab ipsis regeris And Epist. 1. ad Heliodor speaking of the Modern Bishops he saith Stant loco Pauli tenent locum Petri and Epist. ad Riparium adversus Vigilantium Miror Sanctum Episcopum in cujus parochiâ esse presbyter dicitur acquiescere furori ejus non Virgâ Apostolica confrigere vas inutile tradere in interitum carnis Here he plainly asserts the Bishops Apostolical Rod or Authority in Excommunicating a Presbyter and by that expression Quid enim facit exceptâ ordinatione Episcopus quod presbyter non faciat he asserts That only Bishops had power of Ordination and from this Expression compared with the † Those who desire to see more may consult Dr. Hammond di●●ert 2. Cap. 29. forecited passages I appeal to any Presbyterian in the World whether they think that this Father durst have undertaken to have Ordained a Presbyter himself or durst have owned any Presbyter for such made such only by the Imposition of Presbyters hands Nay in this very Epistle Ad Evagr. he saith That the Greatness or Littleness Richness or Poverty of Diocesses makes not one Bishop above another but that they are all Ejusdem Meriti sacerdotii Apostolorum Successores And in his Prooem to St. Matth. speaking of St. Johns Gospel he saith The Apostle wrote it against the Cerinthians and Ebionites Coactus ab omnibus pene tunc Asiae Episcopis multarum Ecclesiarum legationibus The truth is this Father being offended at the arrogance of the Deacons of his time and especially of those of Rome wrote this Epistle to E●agrius Contra eos qui diaconum Presbytero aequabant and had no ill design at all upon the Apostolical or Episcopal Office but only he scrued up the dignity of the Priests Office to as high a pitch as he could which made him contradictory to himself in asserting the original Identity of Bishops and Presbyters in that Epist. and his Commentaries upon Titus 1. 5. where he writes Idem est ergo Presbyter Episcopus antequam diaboli instinctu Schismata in religione fierent dicerent in populis ego sum Pauli ego Apollo ego autem Cephae communi Presbyterorum consilio Ecclesiae gubernabantur postquam vero unusquisque

ye will all give me now your Charity being within a little space to stand before my Judge and I pray the Lord That he may forgive them that did so misrepresent me but I thank the Lord whatever men have said of me concerning this that on the contrary I have been often dissuading from such Ways and Practices and of this my Conscience bears me Witness but here I would not have you mistake me as if I did approve of Ways and Practices contrary to the Word of God and that of our Covenanted and Reformed Religion and as I ever abhorred Division and Faction in the Church as that which tends to its utter ruine if the Lord prevent it not so I would in the Bowels of my Lord and Master if such a feckless one as I may presume to exhort and perswade both Ministers Nor in the Faith or Profession of the Apostles who both Taught and Practised the contradictions to the fore-mentioned Doctrines and whereof some for † See Rom. 16. 7. Eph. 4. 11. Gal. 1. 19. Rev. 2. 2. 2 Cor. 8. 23. Phil. 2. 25. there were more Apostles than Barnabas and Paul and the Twenty two especially so called were Bishops fixed to particular Diocesses as St. a Euseb. lib. 3. c. 23. John at Ephesus St. b Hierom. de Script Eccles. in Tit. c. 1. Mark at Alexandria c Euseb. lib. 3. c. 4. Titu● in Cr●te James called the d Compare Matth. 13. 55. 27. 56. Marc. 15. 47. with John 19. 25. Lords Brother Son of Cleopas at e See the Authors quoted in Spalat l. 2. c. 2. 16. Hegesip apud Euseb. l. 2. c. 23. Hierom de Script Eccles. Gal. 2. 18 19. Acts 12. 17. Gal. 2. 12. Acts 21. 18. Acts 15. All which places shew That James was resident in Jerusalem and had some singular Ecclesiastical Authority and Presidency there Jerusalem not to mention f Euseb l. 3. c. 4. Hierom de Script Eccles. Timothy the first Bishop of Ephesus and the Angels of the Seven Churches in the Revelations whom universal Tradition hath delivered for Bishops of the Seven Asiatick Churches and Professors if there be any Fellowship of the Spirit any Consolation in Christ if any comfort in Love if any Bowels of Mercy that ye be like-minded having the same Love being of one accord of one mind in lowliness of mind let each esteem others better than himself Phil. 2. 1. 3. Harmoniousness and Oneness in the things of God can never enough be sought after and Harmony and Unitedness in things that tend to the 3 He means the Presbyterian Government which according to them is Christs Interest Dignity Crown Kingdom Scepter Government and Royal Prerogative by which he Reigns as King in Sion Prejudice of Christs Interest can never enough be avoided and fled from And as I am willing to lay down my Tabernacle so also I Dye in the 4 Not in the Faith of the holy Scriptures which command every Soul to be Subject to the higher Powers and which neither teach directly nor indirectly That the Episcopal Government is an Antichristian or the Presbyterian by Kirk-Sessions Presbyteries and Synods a Divine Institution or that the Magistrate hath no privative Power over Ecclesiastical Persons or in causes Ecclesiastical or that Passive Obedience to an unjust Sentence is as great a Sin as Active Obedience to an unrighteous Command c. Faith of the Holy Scriptures and in the 5 Not in the Faith of the holy Scriptures which command every Soul to be Subject to the higher Powers and which neither teach directly nor indirectly That the Episcopal Government is an Antichristian or the Presbyterian by Kirk-Sessions Presbyteries and Synods a Divine Institution or that the Magistrate hath no privative Power over Ecclesiastical Persons or in causes Ecclesiastical or that Passive Obedience to an unjust Sentence is as great a Sin as Active Obedience to an unrighteous Command c. Nor in the Faith of the Primitive Christians who looked upon the Bishops as the Successors of the Apostles who derived upon them the same Ecclesiastical Authority which they received from Christ. Every one that is but tolerably versed in the Writings of the Primitive Christians must needs confess that this was the belief of the Primitive Catholick Church but to confute the shameful assertion of this ignorant Pseudo-Minister let us descend to particular Primitive The Office of a Bishop proved to be distinct from that of a Priest and of Divine Institution Writers and see what They say upon this Subject Ignatius in his Epistles insists wholly upon the avoiding of Heresie and Schism and the Avoiding of Schism is every where inculcated by him to consist in this That without the Bishop nothing be done and all with the advice of the Presbyters Heretofore some Paraphrastical Copies of this Fathers Epistles have gone abroad in the World in which could not be found the many places which the Fathers quoted out of them at least in the same words but since the Edition of the Medicaean Greek Copy by Is. Vossius and the two old Latin Copies by Bishop Usher which differ from the former Copies and agree with one another and wherein are found all the places quoted out of them by the Fathers and in the same Expressions wherein they are quoted no tolerable reason hath been given why they should not pass for pure and genuine neither by Blundell nor Salmasius who probably had written their Books against Episcopacy before they had seen these latter Copies nor our own † See their two Answers at the Isle of Wight and the Appendix to the Jus Divinum Minist Anglican Prop. 3. pag. 108. men who still cry down these Epistles without mentioning these latter Copies or distinguishing between them and the former This Father who was Bishop of Antioch Anno Dom. 69. and contemporary with St. John in his Epist. ad Magnes saith thus Vos decet non concuti aetate Episcopi sed Secundum virtutem dei patris omnem reverentiam ei tribuere Ad Smyrnens omnes Episcopum Sequimi●i ut Jesus Christus patrem Presbyterium ut Apostolos diaconos autem revereamini ut dei mandatum Nullus sine Episcopo aliquid operetur eorum quae convenit in Ecclesiam illa firma gratiarum actio Eucharistia reputetur quae sub ipso est vel quam utique concesserit Ubi utique apparet Episcopus illic multitudo sit quemadmodum utique ubi est Jesus Christus illic Catholica Ecclesia non licitum est sine Episcopo neque Baptìzare neque Agapen facere sed quod utique ille probaverit hoc est deo beneplacitum ut stabile sit firmum omne quod agitur Honorans Episcopum à deo honoratus qui occultum ab Episcopo aliquid operatur diabolo praestat obsequium Ad Ephes. Concurrite sententia dei etenim Jesus Christus incomparibile nostrum vivere patris sententia ut ipsi