of the deity of Christ Psal 110. 1. Act. 2. 32. c. Solution Iesus is both God and man This is the 2. Article of the Primitiue faith and of our Reformed faith The Arians deny that Iesus is God nomine re The Manichees and others deny that Iesus is man But if Master Prinne will not belieue our Churches faith let him learne of the good theife that was hang'd on the Crosse who then prayed thus to Iesus Lord remember me when thou comest into thy kingdome Luc. 23. 42. And how was Iesus then Lord to the theife but according to the Godhead Thus the theife called Iesus Lord and according to the Godhead Iesus answear'd the theife This day Thou shalt be with me in Paradise Obiection 4. The name aboue euery name hath reference to all to Deuills to the damned But Iesus is not Iesus to them Solution This Fourthly is a Fourthly before a fourth reason of Master Prinnes second Argument that Iesus is not the name intended at Philip. 2. 10. and there you may see that Iesus is exalted aboue all and the Commanding Iesus of Devils and Reprobats although he be not a sauing Iesus to them Obiection 5. Every tongue shall confesse that Iesus is the Lord. Therefore Lord is the name in the Text and so say all Orthodoxe Interpreters c. but Bishop Andrewes Solution That Lord is the name aboue euery name is the General Argument of these fiue last reasons very oft repeated a signe of much violence But moderately let Master Prinne demand according to Philip. 2. 11. Who is the Lord And the text will answeare him that every tongue shall confesse that Iesus is the Lord. So 't is apparent that Master Prinne did neuer vnderstand Orthodoxe Bishop Andrewes nor other Orthodoxe Interpreters as hereafter you may read Obiection 2. After the Excellency of Iesus a superlatiue name being exalted aboue every name Master Prinne is come to a Secondly and sayth That this name The only begotten Sonne of God is the name aboue euery name Thus 'T is peculiar only to Christ Heb 1. 5. A name more Excellent than any name of men and Angels verse 4 5. declaratiuely giuen to the Person of Christ after his Resurrection Rom 1 4. And therefore Theophylact Anselme Musculus Aretius and others say that this is the name aboue every name Solution That Iesus is the one and only begotten Sonne of God 't is the text begotten before all worlds 't is the Councell of Nice Greater in dignity and nature than men and Angells 't is Heb 1. and whether He were not declared to be the only begotten sonne of God till after his Resurrection aske the Holy Ghost at Matth 3 vlt. Ioh 3 16. In Essence and Person The only begotten Sonne of God is the greate name But still only Iesus is the greatest deserving name vpon the Couenant of Circumcision and Baptisme and therefore Iesus is the only Exalted name aboue every name That at the name of Iesus every knee shall bow In this sense Theophylact c. doe not deny but Iesus is the name aboue every name Non maior humiliatio nec maior exaltatio fieri potest so Anselme on Philip 2. Iesus is exalted aboue all because he was more humble than all the world Iesus is exalted to be King of Heauen and Earth so Musculus on Philip. 2. And so Aretius on Matth 28. Why Because Iesus died for our sinnes Therefore Iesus is the name aboue euery name so Theophylact So Master Prinne is deceau'd in his owne Aurhors Obiection 3. These arguments taken from the compare of Iesus his seuerall Attributes are disputed in the 3. argument of the letter of the text Yet the daring Attributist cannot choose but come to repetitions Thus Emmanuel is the name aboue euery name For this signifies Iesus to be God equall to the Father and the Holy Ghost to be God with vs to vs and in our nature And this then is the name in substance aboue every name Solution Then Emmanuel is in substance our Sauiours Greatest name Without question Emmanuel signifies the greatest Substance in the world which is God and God incarnate The Holy Ghost is witnes Matth. 1. 23. But which was Iesus his name most Reviled and exalted and therefore aboue euery name In that Relatiue sense Master Prinne is silent And yet that is the meaning of Philip. 2. That therefore Iesus is exalted aboue euery personal deserving name because his person was most dishonoured in the name of Iesus Master Prinne might haue learned this note of learned Bishop Andrewes if he had in him True Christian humility to follow so worthy a Guyde whose note it is that all the Fathers except Origen vpon Philip. 2. say that Iesus his most deseruing humility is the cause why Iesus is exalted aboue every name and that so much as that at the name of Iesus every knee shall bow and on chap. 2. of Saint Luke and Rom 14. there Origen sayth that we must Bow at the name of Iesus because he was humble Obiection 4. Intercessor is the name which Iesus hath gained since his exaltation to sit on his Fathers Right hand intercede for vs 1. Tim 2 5. Therefore this is the name aboue euery name Solution By baptisme Iesus was bound to bee our Intercessor to fulfill all righteousnesse Matth 3. And he still liueth to make Intercession for vs by his prayers Heb 7 23 24. This then is the doctrine of that text That Iesus is the All Glorius Priest a glorified Intercessor In this world he was the gracious Intercessor the deseruing Mediator and therefore he is now preferred to be the glorious Intercessor This argumēt smels of Popery For Iesus our high Priest as intercessor is not Souereigne Lord of the Church Triumphant and militant but Iesus as King of kings and Lord of Lords at whose exalted name Iesus every knee shall bow This is that Iesus whom the 4 Beasts cease not to worship day and night saying Holy holy holy Lord God Almighty which was which is and which is to come Before whome the 23 Elders fall downe and worship and cast their Crownes before his Throne Revel 4. 8. 9. 10. This is He to whom the kings of the earth shall bring their glory and honour Revel 21. 24. Yet the Puritans suppose his name Iesus to be but a nominal consisting of fiue letters What pretending simple ones are these and yet they are very malitious to accuse our Church for worshipping this bare Articulate Iesus as if they were the fiue letters to whom we bow and whom we confesse to be the Lord. Objection 5. The highest name is supremacy But Iesus is not supremacy The head of the Church is supremacy Ephes 1. 20. 21. Solution Iesus is head of the Church Ephes 1 20 21. He is supreame commander a supremacy aboue heauen and earth Iesus is called Wonderfull in his works Counsellor in the lawes of heauen The mighty God in his Omnipotence
over all the world Psal 95. Sonne of God signifies Iesus in his eternall generation before all worlds Ioh. 8. Lambe of God signifies Iesus the eternall sacrifice Ioh. 1. Emmanuel signifies Iesus incarnate and so God with vs. Matth. 1. God signifies Iesus his providence Iehouah his infinite incomprehensible omnipotent essence which is the Godhead All these names doe thus signifie Iesus But was any name of God so abus'd as this name Iesus was Signification is not the cause why Iesus is the name aboue every name But the cause is because God was most of all vilified in this name When his person was tyed in covenant to God to be our Surety to fullfill the law and to die for our sinnes Matth. 1 Luc. 2. Matth. 3. Then the world did hate him Iohn Chap 6. 7. 8. 9. Then he was called Coniurer and Beelzebub his familiar So St Hierome St Ambrose St Chrysostome and St Augustine This willfull abuse being the sinne against the Holy Ghost Mar. 3. Was a vilifiing of Iesus The Scribes and Pharises did so persequute him as the Puritans doe now neglect his name They kill'd the Prince of life Act. 3. Because Iesus God and man the saving surety of the Church was thus dishonoured more in the name of Iesus then in any other name therefore we must bow rather at the name of Iesus then at any other name of God Gods will is that his Church shall honour him in that name most of all in which he was most of all dishonoured by the world The letter of the text is thus so Bishop Andrews out of St Augustine Humana natura res humilis est ipsa quoque exaltari intelligitur Nunquam de verbo Dei tale quid in scripturis invenies nisi secundum quod factum est caro habitauit in nobis D. Cyril Thesauri lib. 8. pag 99. Because Iesus did humble himselfe in our nature therefore his humbled name Iesus is exalted and is become the Greatest name of God Deificauit quod induerat Athanasius Contra Arianos Orat. 2ª pag. 101. Iesus is honoured in his Deifying and Deified nature so honoured with double honour at least in a double māner with the same vndivided honour we adore the divinity and humanity of Iesus so the Councell of Ephesus as Binius Crabb and Nicolinus haue obserued in their collections of Councells And this is an honour aboue every honour For as Iesus is God so he is the highest and his honour aboue all honour But yet this text saith more that Iesus is the greatest name of God the greatest in desert and now the greatest in Reward in the glory of essence the three persons are coequall but not in the glory of merit or rewarded humilitie which is proper to the second person If Mr Prinne would haue disputed according to the letter of this Text obedience and therefore the exaltation of Iesus must necessarily haue bin his argument But his letters are in otherscriptures in 1 Tim. 2. 5. Luc. 2. 12. Math. 1. 16. c. This is bafling not disputing Obiection 4. The letter of the text is that Every knee shall bow But the litterall Expositors doe bow their heads and vayle their hats Therefore they obserue not the letter of the text Solution Wee must giue Iesus all the honour that we can Our hat vayl'd and the bowing of our head are more honour than Puritans giue to the Lord Iesus Their hats are nailed to their heads when Iesus is nam'de shewing noe more manners and reverence then children in vnderstanding which want discretion The truth is that we should be vncouered in the house of the Lord 1. Cor. 11. 4. 5. 7. 'T is thus at the 18th Canon of our Church But because the canon saith it therefore the Non-Conformist is a contradictist The hat and head knee-worship are to litle And I would to God that they might be reformed who will not bow that with punishment if Admonition shall not prevaile My reason is no man dares put on his hat in his Maiesties Chāber of presence signifying thereby the honour due to so great a Prince And therefore a Christian should be afraid much more to put on his hat in Gods house For this is the place of Gods presence his cheifest place of his honour amongst vs where he is worshipped with holy worship where his Ambassadors deliuer his Embassage where his Priests Sacrifice their owne and the Militant Churches prayers and the Lords supper to reconcile vs to God offended with our daily sinnes All should bee bare For Iesus is the Greatest Prince in all the world the King of Kings and the Lord of Lords 1. Tim. 6. 15. The practise of some Puritans is to sit bare in the Church not so much for reuerence to be done to God as to obscure their neglect of the name of Iesus I pray God giue them more grace and more wit Obiection If euery knee must bow at the name of Iesus of things in heauen and of things in the Earth and things vnder the Earth Then there is one kinde of bowing in all things viz. the bowing with the knee But this cannot be For Angells Deuills and soules departed haue no knees Solution At 148. psalme all things are commanded to praise the Lord viz Angells sunne and moone the heauens the waters vnder the heauens the Dragons and all deepes fire and hayle c. Must all these creatures then praise the Lord in one and the same manner or rather according to that ability which God hath giuen to euery creature The Angells praise God in their kinde singing their Halleluiahs Apocalyp 19. The sunne and the moone praise God in an other manner in running their Courses c. psal 19. Euery thing in his owne way doth praise the Lord. It is thus in bowing at the name of Iesus The Angells and Saints in heauen doe bow at the name of Iesus as it becometh them who liue in the state of glory and the Militant Church doth bow as they ought which liue in the state of grace so farre forth as they cōforme their will to God The Deuills Reprobates bow as stubborne Prisoners The Puritans grant that Angells and soules departed and Deuills shall confesse that Iesus is the Lord. But what tongues haue they if they haue no knees They haue tongues so St Paule 1. Cor. 13. Analogicall tongues so BP Andrewes And so they haue analogicall knees which the Schoolemen call potentiam obedientialem power for to obey But what if Angells haue but similitudinary knees yet they bow better than we are able Let vs not prate but pray that we may imitate the good Angells in their perfect serving of God saying Thy will be done in Earth as it is in Heauen As for the Deuills and stubborne Men they must bow A greater weight than the Wydowes Almes shall bringe them downe on their knees Whether Bowing at the Name of IESVS be a Duty according to the Meaning of the Text HVMILITAS
Iesus when the Gospell is read but he saith not that then is the only time of bowing Mr Prinnes argument is enough to confound the law if men were so simple as to belieue him Thus thou shalt loue the Lord thy God with all thy heart with all thy soule and with all thy strength This is the cheifest law Then if Mr. Prinns manner of dispute be true there is no other law Then honour thy Father and thy Mother c. the lawes of the second table are no lawes Then wee neede not loue our neighbours nor the Church Is this Schismaticall divinity The heart is the cheifest member of mans body then according to Mr Prinns argument man hath only an heart then he hath no braines no religion The blind may follow the blind til both fall in the ditch but let vs follow the Churches direction the 18th Canon and accordingly bow at the name of our Lord and Sauior Iesus Obiection 5. The primitiue Church never vs'd this bowing at the name of Iesus as a religious duty Therefore to bow at the name of Iesus is not dutie of the text Then t was nothing at all among them Solution But to bow c. was the custome of St Hieromes time these are his words on Esay cap. 45th Moris est Ecclesiastiei c. T' is the twentith Canon of the Councell of Nice Antiquissima consuetudo Zanch It was in the beginning of the Church Arch. Bishop Whitguift Was S. Cyrill of Alexandria a Primitiue Father And so was Athanasius Arch-Bishop of Alexandria and they teach that bowing at the name of Iesus is a worshipping and adoring of Iesus Bishop Andrews saith that all the Fathers but Origen doe literally vnderstand and approue of actuall bowing at the name of Iesus The Councell of Ephesus consisting of 200. Bishops against Nestorius hath inserted bowing at the name of Iesus amongst their Acts so Binius Tom. 1. Collect. of Councells Cap. 5. pag. 685. The Councell of Ephesus saith that we must adore Iesus with the worship of God so Crabbe at the 8. Act of the Councell of Ephesus And then did not the Primitiue Church bow at the name of Iesus Si quis Crucifixum non adorat sit Anathema inter Dei. cidas censeatur So Nicholinus in his Collection of the Councell of Ephesus cap. 7. Tom. 2. pag. 1004. If any man adore not Crucified Iesus let him be accursed for the God-slaier And so great was the authority of the Councell of Nice Calcedon Constantinople and Ephesus that S. Gregory the Great said let him be accursed that doth not esteeme as well of them as of the Evangelists so Surius Tom. 1. pag. 254. on the life of Theodosius Coenobiarcha Obiection 6. All the Protestant Churches haue reiected bowing at the name of Iesus For they haue frequently writt against it For they doe expound this bowing at the name of Iesus to be only the bowing at the last day Solution When Reformation of Religion in King Henry the 8 ths Reigne was striuing in the wombe then Thomas Cantuarien Iohannes London Stephanus Winton c. Edvardus Ebor. Cutbertus Dunelmen Robertus Carliolen with all Arch-deacons with the Professors of diuinity and law did not write against bowing at the name of Iesus but did magnifie Iesus vilified by the Iewes This is written in their Exposition of the Apostles Creede entituled the Institution of a Christian man which King Henry the Eight commanded the two most Reverend Arch-Bishops all the Right Reuerend Bishops of both Provinces to write to suppresse remooue and vtterly take away all Errors Doubts Superstitions and Abuses in the Church to the Honour of Allmighty God c. to the perfect establishing of his Highnes subiects in good vnity and Concord and perfect quietnesse both in their soules and bodies Thus the Epistle Dedicatory to the High and most Excellent Prince c. King Henry the 8th Againe Queene Elizabeth of ever blessed Memory commands thus at 52. Iniunction That whensoever the name of Iesus shall be in any Lesson Sermon or otherwise in the Church pronounced that due Reverence be made of all persons young and old with lowlinesse of curtesie and vncovering of Heads of the mankinde as therevnto doth necessarily belong and heretofore hath beene accustomed This is the 52. Iniunction The 22. Iniunction is that Ministers shall teach c that no man ought obstinately and malitiously to breake and violate the laudable Ceremonies of the Church c. In King Iames his Reigne Blessed for memory to the worlds end then in the yeare of the Lord. 1604 The Answere of tâ—â— Vicechancellor the Doctors both the Proctors and other the Heads of Houses in the Vniversity of Oxford agreeable vndoubtedly to the Ioynt and vniforme opinion of all Deanes and Chapters and all other the Learned and obedient Cleargy in the Church of England and confirm'd by the expresse coÌ„sent of the Vniersity of Cambridge doth testifie thus Reverence done at the name of Iesus is no superstition but an outward signe of inward subiection to his divine Maiesty and apparant token of our devotion Cap. Concerning the matter of the complaint of some Puritans Par. 10. And by successiue protection our gracious King Charles his 18th Canon which is now in force commands all present at Church to bow at the name of Iesus in time of Divine Service Then 't is a manifest truth that our Church hath ever since her Reformation bowed at the name of Iesus As concerning other Churches reformed I read that their teachers Preach bowing at the name of Iesus to be necessary For Calvin writes on Philip. 2. that God is to be worshiped by externall profession And Iesus is God He is God and Man Marlorat saith on the same place that 't is a worship due to God Zanchius on the same place that 't is a testimony of our adoring Iesus Musculus that 't is a witnesse of our inward reverence and worshiping of Iesus That all shall bow at the last day Angels Devills Reprobates and that now the godly and faithfull shall bow Eilhardus Lubinus on Philip. 2. writeth that he is a wicked man that vncovers and bowes at the name of his Prince and yet will not vayle nor bow at the name of Iesus For who is greater God or the King Or must not we honour God more then the King Or is bowing with the knee or putting off the Hatt too much honour for Iesus the exalted Lord of life The Puritan picks a quarrell at the fiue letters IESVS So ignorant the captious Schismatiques declare themselues to be What if some write against bowing at the name of Iesus What must be done therefore Let vs be tried by the letter and meaning of Philip. 2 and then I hope the Controversie shall be perfectly ended Whether Bowing at the name of IESVS bee a duty according to the letter of Philip. 2. 10 SPELL and then t is Thus by articulation At the name of Iesus euery knee shall bow