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A91955	Episcopal government instituted by Christ, and confirmed by cleere evidence of Scripture, and invincible reason. / Collected by the pains of R.R. Preacher of the Gospell.	Rollock, Robert, 1555?-1599.	1641 (1641)	Wing R1885; Thomason E238_6; ESTC R4045	29,352	39

and neither of things present nor by-past Thirdly the High Priest as he was chiefe Governour he could not be a type and figure of Christ because if there had been but two ranks of Church Governours one of them behoved to be chiefe and so still there should have been a chiefe Governour And lastly the order that was among Church Governours was not Ceremoniall but Morall and as necessary for the Government of the Christian Church as the Jewish for God is the God of Order now I am sure as well as he was then now nothing that was Morall was typicall and therefore Aaron was not a type and figure of Christ as hee was chiefe Governour of the Iews Now I will shew you in what respect hee was a type and figure of Christ First as the High Priest was one man he did typifie Christ as the one High Priest of our profession and therefore Christ would not commit the chief Government of the Church to one any more but to many in one and the same rank and order Next the High Priest his offering of one Sacrifice once in the yeere within the Veil was a Type of that only one propitiatorie Sacrifice once offered up for the sins of the quick and the dead by our Saviour Christ Thirdly the High Priest his once in the yeere only entring within the Veil was a type of our Saviour his once entring into Heaven to make intercession for us For these respects then AARON was a type and figure of Christ but no ways in relation to his Government for the Reasons before alleaged I have another Reason yet that moves mee to think that there can be no fewer then three Rankes of Church Governours now under the Gospel and it is this The number of Three is mysticall as is evident by many examples both in Scripture things above Nature Naturall things and Spirituall things In Supernaturall things wee see the truth of this assertion in the Divine Essence which subsists in the number of three Persons which is the mysterie of all mysteries in the Divine Essence also there are three Communicable properties Goodnesse Power and Wisdome to these three all the rest may be referred as Life Love Justice c. three incommunicable properties Simplicitie Eternitie Ubiquitie of These no creature is capable According to this similitude the faculties of the Soul were formed by God himselfe for the Soule hath three chiefe faculties Judgement Memory and Will yea the renewed minde consisteth of three Theologicall Vertues Faith Hope and Charitie which are the three dimensions of every Christian soule the bodily Substences of all creatures are composed of Three Longitude Latitude and Profunditie without the which the Creatures can have no Subsistence There are also three degrees of Life Vegetative Sensitive and Rationall and all these in analogie to the three Persons of the Godhead it were easie to shew you divers resemblances between them if it were necessary and to the purpose It was more then the light of Nature that taught Aristotle to esteeme the number of three to be the perfectest number of all numbers yea to be all in all Qui dicit tria saith hee dicit omnia qui dicit ter dicit omnifariam He that saith three saith all and he that saith thrice saith always But to come to the Scriptures saith not Iohn 1 John 5.7 8 that there are three things that beare witnesse in Heaven the Father the Word and the Holy Ghost and these three are one and that there are three things that beare witnesse on earth the Spirit the Water and the Bloud and these three agree in one Christ loved three Disciples above all the rest with whom he conversed most familiarly Peter James and Iohn to them he shewed himselfe in his glory at the Transfiguration and also in his greatest agonie and humiliation in the Garden of Gethsemanie Our Saviour fulfilled his Ministery in the space of three yeeres hee lay three days in the Grave three times appearred to the eleven after his Resurrection and many mo then these are to be found in the New Testament In the Old Testament you shall finde many numbers of three wherein some mysterie may be found wee read of three only that went to Heaven bodily Enoch Elias and Christ to teach us that salvation both in body and soule is obtained under all the three kinds of Church Government for God hath governed his Church three severall wayes since the Creation one way before the Law another way under the Law and a third way under the Gospell The Worship of God hath been also of three severall formes according to the severall ages of the World Three men saved in the floud of Noah of whom the World hath been replenished the second time Sem Ham and Japhet Three great Patriarchs out of whose loins the Church of God did spring Three great Sabbaths the seven dayes Sabbath the seven yeers Sabbath and the yeer of Jubilee Three great Feasts the Feast of Tabernacles Easter and Pentecost Three ranks of Church Governours the high Priest inferiour Priests and Levits and a number more so that I say if there be any number mysticall it is the number of Three wee have not so great reason to call Seven Mysticall as for Nine it is only thought Mysticall because it contains thrice three But here my opponents will reply That they keep this analogie of three for they also maintain three Degrees of Churchmen preaching Elders Lay-Elders and Deacons who are all Governours of the Church and preaching Elders the chiefe Governours I answer if preaching Elders be the chiefe Governours then according to the Replyers opinion who maintains that the High Priest was a Type and figure of Christ as he was chief Governour of the Church they must be cashiered for wee cannot have chiefe Governours now under the Gospel according to my opposites tenet and so it will follow we must have no publike Ministery at all nor no publike Government neither but private in every man his own Family or rather every man must doe according as hee is moved by the spirit I answer further that those three Orders are neither Christs nor his Apostles Ordinance for any evidence that I can see in Scripture no not so much as any shew or appearance As for Lay Elders I can not find them once named in all the Scripture although the Apostle Paul doth particularly make mention of all Church Governours under the Apostolicall Order in his Epistles to Timothy and Titus he particularly declares what preaching Elders and Deacons must be how they must be qualified before they enter into holy Orders but never one word of Lay Elders Deacons indeed he nominates but not Lay Deacons but such as must preach the Gospel and baptise at their Superiours direction and therefore the Apostle Paul requires that Deacons keep the mysterie of Faith in a pure conscience which cannot be required of Lay men such a measure of knowledge as is understood

by the mystery of Faith is not requisite in these to whom is only committed the over-sight of the poore More yet Lay Elders cannot answer to the Priests because the Priests sacrificed as well as the High Priest and there was no difference between them in regard of their office of sacrificing except that the High Priest was only appointed by God to offer sacrifice within the Veile once in the yeere for his owne sinnes and the sinnes of the people but the High Priest and the inferiour Priests agreed in these particulars They both burnt Incense and offered Sacrifice 1 Chron. 6.49 They both sounded the Trumpets Numbers 10 and they both slue the Sacrifices 2 Chron. 29.22 They both instructed the people Malachie 2.5 They both judged of Leprosie Leviticus 13.2 So that if Lay Elders will needs succeed in place of inferiour Priests and be the second degree of Church Governours they must preach and administer the Sacraments and so turn Pastors and Doctors and then the Preaching Elders must be Bishops for they must be a degree above them Now follows to shew you the truth of the last branch of the Assumption That three Ranks of Church Governours have governed the Church of God since the dayes of Christ and his Apostles but because it would take up much time and paper and might be wearisome to the Reader I referre him to the Writings of many learned Divines who have proved that point to the full I dare say wee may as well deny all the humane Histories that ever were written as deny the cleere evidence of so many Histories whereby Episcopall Government is defended and accounted by all the Ancients except Aerius who is enrolled among Heretikes by Augustine and Epiphanius for his pains for the first order of Church Government having alwayes two subordinate to it inferiour Bishops and Deacons But here I know it will bee said that I confound Apostles and the chiefe Bishops together and Evangelists and Inferiour Bishops whereas Apostles and Evangelists were extraordinary callings and ceased with themselves Ans Truly this mistake is the cause of all our dissenting one from another in this point for if wee did hold the callings of Apostles and Evangelists to be appointed by Christ to continue in the Christian Church for the Government thereof untill the end of the World as they are indeed this division that is amongst us had never beene And therefore I will endeavour by Gods grace to prove both by Reason and Scripture that these callings are ordinary and cannot without high sacriledge be cast out of Gods Church I will shew you then in what respects their calling was ordinarie and perpetually necessary for the Government of the Church and for what respects it is called extraordinary It is ordinary and perpetually necessary in regard of that power which Christ conferred upon them to preach the Word and Administer the Sacraments and also in regard of the power of Absolution and Excommunication Ordination and Jurisdiction spirituall which our Saviour also granted unto them as all men confesse and in regard of all those parts of the Episcopall Function to be continued untill the second comming of our Saviour and I think no man should denie this neither It is called extraordinary for these respects following First because they were extraordinarie persons not being of the Tribe of Levi who had only ordinary power in those days to be instruments of Gods publike Worship and to serve at the Altar Next because their gifts were extraordinary for Christ who was anointed with the oile of gladnesse above his fellows and had the spirit in super-abundance hee gave his Apostles an abundant measure of the spirit but to after-ages hee imparted only a certaine Sufficiencie Grace for Grace Thirdly the extent of their charge was extraordinary they were tyed to no setled Residence but the whole World was their Diocesse Go ye unto all the World saith our Saviour Fourthly The manner of their calling was extraordinary without Education Tryall or Ordination Fifthly they had the infallibilitie of the Spirit in matters of Faith they could not erre And lastly their calling was extraordinary quo ad ante ●ut not quo ad post even in respect of the ordinarie parts of the Ministeriall Function quo ad ante because the calling of Church-men in those dayes was to offer up Sacrifices unto God of Bullocks Rams and Lambs and other Creatures and to burne incense into him but so was not the calling of Apostles Their calling was to preach the Word and administer the Sacraments open the Gates of Heaven to the Penitent and shut them upon the impenitent c. and so I may say Their Calling in Analogie to the Priests calling under the Law is to offer up the Sacrifice of Prayer Prayse and Thanksgiving to God and to teach every man to present their bodies in a living holy and acceptable Sacrifice Quo ad post it was not extraordinarie because Christ established that government for the Christian Church in all Ages to come or else none at all for other wee see not but this is manifest yea our Saviour continued the Apostolicall and Episcopall calling in regard of the substance of it in the full latitude of Apostolicall Authoritie and all this I will prove after this manner and first If the callings of the High Priest Priests and Levits was not extraordinary quo ad post in the dayes of Moses then the callings of Apostles Evangelists and Deacons was not extraordinary quo ad post in the dayes of Christ But the first is true and therefore the second The reason of the connexion of the Proposition is this because those callings of Priests and Levits were newly established in the House of God and the Church was not so governed before and so although they were extraordinary quo ad ante in regard of the time by-past yet not in regard of the time to come so I thinke that these callings established by Christ for the Government of the Church under the Gospel although they were extraordinary in regard of the time past yet not in regard of the time to come more then the callings of the Priests and Levits under the Law For why shall these Governours instituted by Christ in the insancie of the Church cease to be of that Dignitie and Authoritie in after ages that they were of in the first Constitution more then those Governours which his Father appointed to rule the Church of the Iews at the first promulgation of the Law I would faine have my opposite to shew mee a reason for the one more then the other Truly those who took offence at the Superioritie of Church Governours under the Law might have alleaged that after the dayes of Moses and Aaron Churchmen were all to be of equall Authoritie because their calling was extraordinary in regard of the time past But I am confident that as God the Father appointed the one government to remain untill his sonnes comming in