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I I EXPOSITION, hi Defended. 1 TH E Vindicator begins with a Story of a Clergyman's defiring his Rcpre- fentative in Convocation to tak Care of Epi/copacyy becaufe feveral of the !Bifl)opf were againjl it. That Clergyman would have done a piece of Juftice to the whole Epifco'^ pal College, had he particularifed thofe Si/hops. For fuch a loofe and indefinite Charge could ferve no other End, but to create in the inferiour Cler- gy a Jealoufy and Diftrujl of their Diocefans ; And perhaps it is to fuch JdVice as this, that we may impute thofe DifiraEiions in the Reprefentative Body of our Church, which all good Men he- wail^ and all others laugh at. Ifliall not enquire into the Grounds of this Charge any farther, than the Gentleman^ who is pleafed to ftile himfelf a Vindicator of the twen* ty third Article, hath labour'd to make my Lord o^Sarumh Expofition of it pafs for fuch. Icall it my Lord of SarumSy tho this' Writer it feeras A 2 ' can- v^C-,.. \ ■1 5^% 0. n n .1. <,■» '..J -^f -..' CO c»tAet but »acljfnE, oi mmtm m ®acta« hmm iw tbe Conffteffatkin, Mo^ je u mm\^ calleU iu«i fmt to cKccttte tfie fame, ann tljofc me msU to jii5fi:c loHJfuli? eancn ana fcnt, to&tc5 be cfiofen aim tah leo to tfiis moiii bp ^en tutio |)atie pttWicfe aut8o?ttp Ctiieit unto tljem tntjie Confftejyatton, tocalf anu ftno i)3in(ffei:0 fnto t!)e to^D'jii Of iteparlr/ In which the 'Bi/hop obferves two Particulars, whereof " the Firft is againft any that {halt af ^ft?" *' fume to themfelves without a lawful Vocation, frj'/*^' " the Authority of difpencing the things of God. " The Second is the defining in very generals " Words what it is that makes a lawful Call. To what he hath faid upon the firft of thefe the /^/i^/V^f or hath nothing to obje<5t : But what he hath faid upon the fecond, or fomewhat elfe, hath raifed his O)oler to fuch an heighth, that it hath overflowed his whole Performance, Title Tif^e • and all. We have little elfe in it, but a bitter Declamation,- however I [hall let his <^hetorick alone, and confine my felf to the Examination of what may feem material: By this means, I (hall bring my Bufinefs into a very w Corapafs ,♦ for, believe me, he that fets himfelf to confider only the Logic k of the Vindicatioti, cannot find much to do. " The -^ '>*# Expofihn of the 39 a57- cc cc enominat ion they \v\\\, The Biflbop fays fariher, ^^ that the Article does not rclolve this into any particular Con- ftitution, but leaves the matter open and at large for fuch Accidents as had happen d, and ^' iuch as might ftill happen. They that drew *' it, had the State of the feveral Churches before " their Eyes, that had been differently reformed, i. e. according to the Vindicator's cWiJ Interpre- tation, they left it open ami at large for all the Irregu- larities and unwarrantable Proceedings in this mat- ter^ which hitherto they have been^ or may hereafter be guilty of* But are fome Accidents and all Irregu- larities^ Synonymous Terms : And are all Proceed* ings unwarrantable^ vdiich are by mecr Neceffity ren- dered Irregular ? And doth not the Bifhop rnani^ feftly reft rain this to Cajes of NeceJ/lty^ wherein Churches arc forced to go out of the beaten Path . cc cc -4C t iSi l> #^ 1 n i< > i ■ ~ . C5 Path ? Are not his immediate Words, ^^ and al-' Expojttifm. ^ chough their own (vi^. Church) had beenlefs I'X '^^' *^ forced to go out of the beaten Path than any ^^ other, yet they knew that all things among " themfelves had not gone according to thofe " Rules that ought to be facred in regular times. " NeceflTicyhis no Law, and is a Lawtoitfelf ? Who can write fo, as not to give fuch Readers Offence ? ^ The Vindicator proceeds, and asks, in a very hifulting manner, How comes the Expofitor to know ^„^,v^^/^ that tiny which drew the Article^ had tU State of the'"*^^^'^- federal ^^eformed Churches before them f Was he prefent at their Debates^ &cc. To this I anfwer, that the Expofitor m^iy be very well fuppoled to know this, and yet the Vindicator not know how he came to do fo. But yet the Vindicator difputes againft the very Probability of thisSuppofal, and that by two very wonderful Arguments j whereof the firft isi That we did not reform our febes according to their y^ndicatp-^ Model : whence he infers, that //, in the reformij^ '"' ^^' our Churchy the Churches abroad were conftderd. folit^ tkj ^fis Very unlihly that^ in the framing our Articles'^ they p?ould be confiderd fo much. i. e. if our ^for^ wer5 would not do (6 fmaH a Matter, as abolirti^ Epifcopacy out of a Complement to them, it is very unlikely, they fliould do fo great 2l thing as^ the framing an Article in fuch Words, as might not " adually. 5" Vmdicati" •», p. 6. 7 #w,pag. 5 ■I a(9;uaUy condimn their whole Cojijlitution : Here is, Demojiflratm (ov you. His lecond Argument iS; altogether as good, Vt:^ *n?ey did mt deferVe to be, confederd hy u$. But what then ? May it not be reafonably fuppofed that our Church might deal by them better than they deJerVd ? Had (he ne- ver learn'd the Do(5lrine o( forgiving Injuries^ and oyer coming Evil with Good ? But after all, What if it be proved^ that the Foreign Churches did not deferye fo ill at her hands, and that (he adtually did lay their Interejls to heart? then I hope the jS/y^o^iSuppofal, that, in the framing her Articles, {he had regard to their State^ may not be altoge- ther improbable. Firft then, let us hear what the p^indicator ac- cufes the Fom^w Churches of: And he fays, they were Lifolent and Troud^ were for obtruding their Forms upon uSy their Dijciples were the Authors of all our Con- fufions^ fow^d the Seeds of all our Diyifions^ reVikd the Cap and Surplice^ and at loft flew in the Face of Epifcopacy itfelf And has the Vindicator the Con* fcience to charge the Foreign Churches with the Guilt of all this ? Has he never readfuch a Book as Foxes and Firebrands ? Did he never hear of the Prafticcs of Heth and Commin ? And knows he not, that the Church of ^me hath made it her Bufinefs, from the very beginning of our Refor- mation, to dijlra^ and divide us ? How then comes « It It to pafs, that the ^e/ormV Churches abroad muft be anfwerable for thofe MJchiefs, which were chiefly owing to the TroBkesoi the a«rct of l^ow?, and carried on by none but Come fef conceited, un- traElaljk and turbulent Spirits among our felves ? Alas 1 fo far were tkey from beginning or encoura- ging our Viviftom, that they did their beft En- deavours to reconcile and unite us. 'Tis true in- deed, they difliked many of our Ceremonies, and fo did feveral of our own Si/Zw^j. Yec Beza and the reft of his Brethren, wridng to the Turitan Faaion here, required and be/ought \hem even with Tears, willingly to obey the Queen's Maje/iy and the Tre ■ lates. Bucer, Martyr, Gualter, Zanchy, wrote all to the fame Purpofe ; j as their brethren, and whenfoever they wrote to them, did it in fuch Terms of 'Deference ^.n^ %4pe^y as may be a Reproach to many of thofe, that pretend aa *"iri, ^'g^^f Ejieem for the Order. Nay, we are aflur'd p«rt id. 'upon very good grounds, that Cabin, ^ulimger^ and ^Jfij!" others made an Overture to King Edward the VI,. *^ '^**- to conftitute him and his Heirs^ chief Defenders of the froteftant Intereft, and to eftablifli Epifcoptu^ cy among themfelvcs : But the Arts of thcTapiJis brought it to nothing. Upon the whole therefore it appears, that the Vindicator has calumniated the Foreign Churches, in laying that they deferred fo ill at the hands of ours. It remains to be proved, that as they were want- ing in no juft ^fpeSi to her^ fo neither was (he wanting in any to them. And a more pregnant hftance of this we cannot defire, than that which flie gave upon occaHon of the unhappy Difputes that were rifen among them, about the ^d ^re- fence in the Euchariji. For, altho flie was not troubled with thefe within her fdf, yet (he cndea- vour'd t 9 3 vourM all that in her lay, toputan end to them and reduce the contending Parties to Union and Concord. Her Archbi(hop Cranmer wrote on pur- pofc to Calvin, MlanSlhon, and 'Bullmger about it ^ Cain„ propofed the ;«eer/,{. of a general 5j«^ and the'S:^de„. J^mg otter d a place in his own Dominions for the '"*'«■ ^embly. An evident Demonftration, that ouri°«- *''' Church was of too Noble and Catholick a Spirit to confim all her Cares to herfelf ; and that, accord- mg ro the Apoftles Precept, Thii 2. 4. She looKd mt onher own things, hut on the things of otkrs al/l Nocwithftanding all this, the Findicator very confi- ^w,v... aently attirms, thatowr ^formers were too Modeft'"''"'^ '*• fid Wife to meddle with what was done abroad. True indeed, they were no 'Bufte-bodies ; but yet it ap- pears that they medled fo far as Chrijiian Charity re- quired. Surely he hath fome very ringular No- tions of Mode/iy znd m/dom. But, by the way It our (I(eformers fliew'd their Uodejiy and Wi/dom m not medlhig at all, how, I pray, has he (hewn his in medltng fo far as he has done, even to the accuftng and condetnning the Foreign Churches almoft in every Page? For a private Perfon thus to take upon him, more than it is Mode/iy and m/dom in a whole Omrch to do, can certainly in him be no great fign of either. We come now to confider the Definition k fdf viz Wfc toe mm to irngt uomi^ caiien ami feiit, mi B » fK he cfiofen anHcaHeli tatW Wlofx bp ^en^ tDfio f^tK puUicft 9utlio^ situn tfiem in t|)e Congresatfon, to call aim fettti ^ttttOetst mto tljc loitfis ajineparti. Thij the ^ip?op fays, is put in very general Words. And is it not lb ? It doth indeed ^rhnarUy agree to Bi- P>ops ; but had the Church ^defign'd thereby none but ^ip?o^s^ it would have been more proper to have named them, than to have given a Vefimtion^ which as the World then flood, they could not but forefee would be conftrued in a larger Senfe, They faw all the Reform d Churches, allowing the Tower o( Ordination toTreshyters^ and many a- mong themfclves illaflefled towards !B//?;ofj ; was k not a time then, for them to have fpoken f^ort and plain ^ and to have afler ted in downright Terms, thzz they y and only they ^ were lawfully calCd and JeiU^ who were chojenand call d by Bijhops ? No, faith the Vindicator^ there was no occafion for it ; for when this Article was made^ there was no room for doubting in the matter ; 'twas plainly feen in whm this Authority was lodgedy and known as well that they that had this Authority were 'SiJJ?o[>s^ as that 'Bifloops were they that had this Authority. This Period the Vmdicator gave us, I fuppofe, more for the Chiming and Mufick of it, than for any Truth that he knew to be in it. He could not certainly befo gwar^rof the Hiflo-^ ry of thofe times, or indeed [o forgetful of what he himlelf had told us but a few Pages before, >/;<• That if "That when tJ?e Articles were reViewd^ the Difciples o/'^'^^'V^/- the Foreign Churches had flown in the Face of Epifcd ^'"' ^'^' ^' pacy^ and had openly declard and maintain d that e^>ery Chnflian Church (lands bound by the. Law of God to put down Btfl7ops. And what ? Did not (uch as the/e doubt at all of the matter ? Did thefe Co plainly fee in whom the Authority of Ordaining was hdgdi Did thefe know as well that they that had this Authority were ^ifjops^ as that 'Bip7ops wtre they that had this Au thority i But thus it is, when Men make not the Truth their '/(w/^i but, to ufe his own Words, ^/»^/v^r/. fpcak their AffeElions and not their Judgments^ they are '"' ^'^' ^' ape to talk backwards and forwards ^ and often con> tradici themfclves. Well, but what then can we fuppofe to be the reajon why the Frojners of the Articles chofe to fpeak by fuch a Circumlocution^ rather than in ex- frejs Terms ? truly none that I know of, buc their Tendermfs to the ^fornid Churches abroad^ and the Honour of the Reformation in generaL They faw that either thro Keceffity^ or perhaps involuntary Mtflah i for as Do(5ior Maurice obfervcs, f^^^,^,, 7he Scriptwes have not left jo per feci an Account of'^'^''^' icati^ the Lonflitution and Government of the prjl Churches^ church, as might be wip7ed ; and as Mr. Dodwelly Diffe- ^2/'^^^^ rences about Church Government are fo denVcd''^,g .^^^ fix ^iicrUu from the Nature of the Things, as that they may cau/e DiVifton amo)ig Terfons otherwife well meanings atiiof — ^<— ^■ ^ ' U. ' ■- ■ ■ ,vg ■ _*-— -.-«^^ C " 3 - a peaceable Vifpofitm ; Thro me or th' other of thefe, r fay, our (!{eformrs faw that the Foreign Churches had gone out of the ordinary Courfe m the Calling of their Miniftry, and therefore chofe fuch a form of Words, as might at the fame time ju/li fie their own Praaice, and not condemn theirs. Charitably fuppofing that the Grace and Mrcy of God had abundantly fupply'd all the DefeBs which either their Necepy or Infirmity had occafion'd ,• , and knowing withal, that there could not arife a greater Scandal to the ^formation, than from the leveral Churches, in their puhlick Confcffions, con- demning one another. \^ My Lord of Sarum therefore had great reafon to fay, as he hath, that the Article doth not refolve this into any particular Conjiitution ; nor doth the Tra. Bice of our Church imply the contrary. It doth indeed from thence appear, ih^itSiJhops only have puhtick Authority given unto them in our Congre- gation, to call and fend Mtnijlers into the Lord's ViiK- W> and confequently, that all the Ordinations o£ the Tresbyterians and others among us, arc M«i/and -i/otd. But the ^raBice of out Church can no more affe(a the Foreign Churches, than their (pra- Bice can afFed us. Tho the feveral Churches have determined themfelves to particular Forms i yet they have all taken care to draw up their pub- Uck Confeflions in fuch^cwrd/ Words, as to leave each each other /|« ,• fo that the Fom^w Churches havr neither condemned us, nor ire them. We indeed fet a juft value upon our own Form, and prefer It much before theirs, as we have great reafon to do. It being unqueftionably the moft (primitive and Apoftolical i but yet, the ^es of external Go- vernment were never look'd upon by us, of that tndijpenfable Obligation, nor their Deviation from them of fo fmnous a Nature, as to illegitimate their Ordinations, and of confequence unchurch them \Vould the Tejiimony of the Divines of that Age' wherein the Articles were framed, be admitted' I could produce enough to this purpofe j but the Fmduator has excepted againft thefe, being well a- ware that here the Bifiop had been too true aft^ Hpnan And ColleBor. 'Tts to no purbofe faith he . here to tell us, what Charitable Opinions tli Ten-men S?S of tk Articles had for other Churches, or the 'Body of our Clergy for half an Age after ; let it he true or falfe, HIS not much to the matter, for what they did as prl Vate Men, will not come up to the Cafe, but what they did rphen oBmg m a body, either in Provincial or Na- tional CoumU. One would have thought that Jhey which pennd the Articles, fliould have beft known, the Intent mdmeaning of them, and not fo far have forgotten themfelves, as to contradid in their Writings, what thcmlelves had eftablifli'd by the' moft folemn Aifts, Do Men ufc to be of one Mind C '4 3 Mind in Henry Vlfs Chappel, and of another in their private Studies ? No Man that had any juft Confidence in hisGiw/e, would have excepted ro fuch Authorities. But fince the Vindicator has ex- ceptcd to them, I will give him one of a later dare, vi;^, Biflhop Andrews i whofe Authority, tho of gx^zi weight in it felf, I fliall yet ftrengrhen, by quoting at the /ero?2^ hand, Vi^ from Dodtor Ijham : For by this means, I (hall at once produce nor on • ly the ^fhop's Authority, but that of the DoElor too, as great a Man as any the Church is at pre fent blels'd with ; nay, moreover, and of the Lower Houfe oi Convocation it lelf, which gave him their juft Tl^anh for the Sermon^ whence 1 quote it, and at whofe ^equeji it was printed. The ^ip?jp's Words then, as quoted by the Dodlor, are thefe. Nee tamen Ji mjlra divini juris fity inde fequh tur^ Vel quod fine ea falus non fit^ Vel quodjlare non cotofati^ /^#^ Ecclefia. Cmus Jjt^ qui non Vtdeat Jlantes fine w,^Apr.4,^^ Ecclefias: Ferreus fit^ qui falutem eis neget. Nos /^. 25. nonjumus illi ferret : latum inter ijia dij crimen poni^ mus. Totejl abejfe aliquid quod diVmi juris fit (in ex- teriore qutdem regimine) ut tamenfubjiet falus. Non ejl hoc damnare rem^ melius illi aliquid anteponere. Non efi hoc damnare Veflram Ecclefiam^ ad for mam aliam qua toti antiquitati magis placuity i, e. ad noflram reVo^ care : Sed ubi Deus dederitj <^ res Vefir^t ferent. O- pufcul, p. 176, 177. Wcfee here, that tho the Jus Strmen he* fore the Lover ^{ ■V. > »*«.«» of Epijc,(ac) be afferted. yet OWA, «e acknowledged to (land mhu, i J" ^7^ Way cmdenm^ dio' ours be frefer^'d b fore i Tht «e<9 ehatofour»>io'eChurch. The verv T^^/i-^ duce one ml/ t L ™ "'^''^""«, I ftall pto duce one more, which my Reader perhaps 11 *WOT, and lays TW thetr Deviation frf»» ^i.fD ■ '^"^'"t/. a Society wihout i„,/«/ Paftors, mav be cxW'A, C^fon} of Chriftian, , but cannoTL ^^ \ Churchy ^TgM^ -- -•— ws^rv^ '•f»r-»- . j^jl^ ^^^J|^% Church, any more than the Meetings o( Quakers may be call'd Churches, If then, according to the Vnidi- cator himfelf, our Clntrch have no where blamed the Foreign Churches, if he Himfelf allow them to be Churches, and their Orders Valid -, 1 would fain know what we have all this Strife about ; and why is the !Bipop of Sarum exclaim'd againil by thofe, who, at the very lame time that they exclaim againd him^ €ai\not but grant all that he ajferts ? But it may be reply*d upon me, that what I have here cjuotcd out of the Findicater^ is contradiBory to what he vinduttt. himfelf has inferrd from the Article, vi<. Tljot Tref- ",?'&■ ''• jfyigfians and others are not lawfully calld, becauje they are not called by Men invejled with 'Publick. Authrity. To this I anfwer, that if by Presbyterians and other s, he means only the Separatijis from our Church, we agree with him, and he agrees well enough wiih himfelf J but, if he mean the Foreign Churches (as fome Expreffions in that very place, and the gentral purport of his Book too plainly intimate that he doth) I muft confefs, that I cannot reconcile him to himfelf, and muft then be content to drophh Au- thority. For he that contradiBs himfelf, is not to be alleged on the one fide or the other» To explain what is meant by lawful or puhlickAu' sxfojitim, thority in the Article, the ^ifhop fays, " That which fs- »J8' li ^g believe to be lawful Authority, is that Rule, " which the Body of the Paftors, or Bithops, and !! Clergy C >7 ] ;; Clergy of a Church (hall fettle, being met ,n a « ^ jrfr" '^' "^"^ ^'^P^<^ ^o ^^ Powers that ^^ Cod (hall fet over them; Rules thus made be- u *"^j '? nothing contrary to the \»^ord of God ^^ and duly executed by the particular Perfons, to whom that Care belongs, are certainly the lawful Authority Than which there can be nothing more i^^n/y exprefs'd. But yet the Vindicator ima gming that he had here gotten the (Bifhop at an Ad- vantage, refolves to make his befi of it, and at^ a'^^^ru'' I "^^'"g therefore firft diftin,,^.,,. guiOi d betwixt the Tower of Ordaining, and the"-'"* p«-a/e of it he tells us. That tk matter in difpute "" bewm tk 'B.Jhop and hm, is not cmcerning the eJenife of this Tower, but only concerning the Tower it felf- whether they who have Jutkritygiven them intkcLrcL to cf and fold have tk Tower it felf of calling ard fendmg by ^uks of tk Taflors making' 'ku king pre, mtfed k proceeds to fhew that this cannot k tk Autho- rs which ts meant in tk Article. Hereupon he has ka^en the ^/r foi: two or three Pages together, com- hated noihmg m the World but his own Fancy and Imagination. For my part, I know not who 4«r« this matter with him, the ^ijhop, f am fure, doth not J tor he has always acknowledged tk Tower of s., v Ordination to come from Chrift, nor could any Mai Si? ^er.T??'^"f1'J"t^''<^r'->' havefuppo^'dtha^r-" Jic had here laid the Foundation of that Tower in the En^'lS MiMMMMilMMIb ■iHi. 11n C «8 1 ■ ^«/m or Camns of particular Churches: For the fl(ules themfelves extending no farther than to the particular Churches, by which they are made, nei' ther can the Juthority that is founded upon them. The lawful Authority therefore here fpokcn of, can be no other, than the Authority to ordain \n particular Churches. And this is of fuch ahjolute necefficy to the If?4/jfj> of an Ordination, that no Man can be hipfully calN and fent^ who is not calf d and fait by thofe,whom theConfiltutms ohhit particular Church, to the fervice whereof he is calU and fmt, have empower d to call and fend him. Suppofe a 'Bip^op of the Greek or %man Church fliould come hither, andprefumc, of hisoiP/iHead, to ordain Minifters for usi riiould we accept of fuch, as lawfully call'd and fent? no certainly ,• not but that fuch a fBif?op lias all the^Pow^r that is effentially neceflary to Ordi- natim^ bat foralinuch as in this Ordaminghc would not a«a by the ^les of our Church, he would not a^, by lawful Authority. This is as much as the Si- pop, by anyreafonable Conftrudion of his Words, can be fuppofed ro mean j and they that will find fatih with this, will dtaS fault with every thing. Thus much may ferve for an Anfwer to all that the Fm- dicator hath difcourfcd upon this Head ; for the Reader may hereby difcovcr the Impertlnency of it. As for what die Vindicator objea:s to the ^fhop's M- fcrtion of the Qnfent of the Laity, either perfonally or [ ^9 ] or v/rf«4^ given, being requiftteto^W Ecckfiafikal Aas: 1 (hall only fay, that he hath herein aLted no more m^enerd, dian what he had a long time fince as to the particular Cafe, we are now upon V\p then tn\A ..^ TT-.^.J. /T> r . .. "f""' He then told us, That the fomr of chufm^ Chop's '''"^'"■'•- mixed things m which or^n^ti. /7 « . /twr Sr^ was in all Ages thought at mofl a ....... „.„^, ,„ ,,,,,,„.,. Laymen aswelasChurdmm had a /hare, and that forTlt'^ tk three firJiCentunes tk ElcBionswere^nade by \he ' Tcojle Had he faid as much in his £x/,o/?f,W, he had been charged with Era/lianifm, (a word made «A of by more than it hunderfiood) but fo far was he then from being cenfured, that his Book was //- cenj,d by Dr. Jane, the prefent %m Trofeffor of Oxforl Some Men's Vivtnsty, wfe fee, isis W ^fe as their (P.,^o«x, and liable to as many TaJJIom as . the Chatk they wear, it would be eafy to anfwer the little Objections die Fmdicator has here ftarted • ^»*- but, becaufe the Sijhop is to be call'd toaccount for '""'"'• this hereafter, I fliall wave it. 1 might now turn over /»o or ri/-« Pages toae- has befbw d to no manner of purpofe .- but yet I ' \^J % ^f ^'' '^^^^^<^^r one O^e^L he ha* a gainft the Bifiofs Notion of /^«/2/ J ' whTch by his fo frequent mention of it, \^ iiems m bv m ^^uks, then they who are -empower'd h fuch ^ules '"''■ '"-^ ha,e fewertoordatn , for they Le CJto^!^ '* that I "^S^ I 30 ] that have lawful Authority ^iven them to dofo; and tkrefore wl)etkr tUy he Bip?ops or TresbyterSy if they are once empowered by fuch ^leSy they may lawfully or- dain ^ bee aufe they have lawful Authority given them to or- dain -y and then i What then? why, then the Confequence is clear y that at Geneva and Scotland Tresbyters law- fully ordain^ bee aufe fuch ^des are there viaile by Ta/iors who have Authority to make them^ and Presbyters ordain there by Vertue of them. This is fo confeJerable an Ob jedion, that the Vindicator thought fit to /pare no Words to make us underftand it. But yet little need be faid to it ; for if the Reader do but look back on the fBifhop's Words, he will find an Anfwer already given, in effedt. " Rules thus made, (ays ^^ the B'lfhopy being in nothing contrary to the Word of ^' Crod^ and duly executed by the particular Pcrfons *' to whom that Care belongs, arc certainly the " lawful Authority. Now 1 ask the Vindicator^ Are Presbyters in Ge/i^v^ and 5rof/4M^ empowered to or- dain by ^des made according to the Word of God^ or no ? If they are, why does he find fault ; If they arc not, how doth the ^ifhop juftific them ? \/^ The next thing I have to obfervc, is the Vindi- vindicMti' cator's Chalenge to the BiOiop, Let himfhewus^ if he <»>,p^g'i .^^^^ either ^bricks y Canons^ Articles^ or any other pub- Uck AEl of our Clergy ^ that tky allow^dy in any Cafe what- foeWy of Presbyters Ordinations^ or affirmed that p4- jiors met in a body could authori;^ them to do foy by Ver- tue c 21 \- 1 ¥ K ^ tueofany^deoftheirmakpig? What, I pray, has the %iJhop to do with this Chalenge^ more than the Vindicator himfelf ? Did he ever undertake the Caule oiTresbytery ? fo far from that, that he has been an- Affertor of Epifcopacy from his Youth up to this, very day. He doth in this very Work af^rm that ChriftappohitedaSuccef/ion of TaflorSy in dijferent ^^^'^^^^'"^^ ranks y to be continued in his Church for the Work of the Oof pel y and that as the Apo[lles fetled the Churches y they appointed different Orders^ of BifhopSy Triefls and Vea- com. Nay, the Vindicator himfelf tells us, that his vMuatu Lordfhipy not long agOy in a Speech he made to his Clergy y""* ^' ^^' was asfliffy and as high for the Vivine Tnfliiution of £ pifcopacy^ as the mo ft Magiflerial Dilator of them all. Tho, by the way, he has ilLrewarded him for it. But wharever the ^ifhop of Sarum fays or does, it is all oney fpeak for Epifcopacy or againft it, he muft. be with fome Men a rank 'Pre/^r^teri^j in his Heart. Upon this uncharitable Prefumption it is, that the Vindicator has thought fit to enter upon the proof ^,. of the Divine Inflitution of Bifliops 5 for which, aU *», tho the ^Bijhop hath given no manner of Caufe, and fo it might be fairly difmifid 2ls an Impertinency^ yet the Management of it is fo very (ingular^ that I cam not but take fome notice of it. Firft then he produces, and that in a very tru^'^^^'^^^'^ umphant manner, the Authority ot two very anttent Writers ,• and if Dr. Maurice's Judgment may be rely'd. '.naicatf /. 17. # 1 22 :i - ^^^i. rely'a on, (who tells us that the .W^^n,. in St Ot KZruA "^"^ °"^?' ^m^^^erO but one for his purpofc -« ,ss. ^°^fcrve nouhis out of any I>.y?^„ or hcLLo weaken his Proofs, but only to ftew the extrao^ dmary Judgment of this Author, fn his next Quo. mm we ftiall have a taft of his Sincerity. He^e- tends to give us an Account of the Dofl.we of our Church as to this matter, from Bifliop Sa,ider/on whom he makes to fpeak thus " That r,7L«« Mp %s no ruch thing; and I appeal to puj own &»/.„„, whether you are not here guilty of that t>,fmgemuy, wherewith you are fo free to tar mat my Reader would here confult the Soo^t it felf . but becaufe it may not be in every Bodies hands' 1 ftall give a M/»i Extrafl out off. The ®1» anfweru.g an OMi™ drawn from the Doftrini o^f '' jfowjus Divmum », « ,fe kft rc/ult m more, 1,2 rdit^fcia anippr ^ji^rlt^i \1' * ? ^ J\'v^^^y "^ ^ore than r.L,ai ^ »'^^'- ^ff N'cety i that Term being not always taken -;;. ^^one and the fame latitude of Sip^ificftion. sLefZ .^. 3. n mporteth 4 Divine Precept, (which indeed is the pri. ^^'^ry and moft proper Signification) when it appear! hy u"V7' eW, W;^,,;,,^, Comma^tdofGodin 1 ^Zi '?// '^ ^^^ 'f^''^ '^^ ''^ '% > com- manded Jhouldk perpetually and univerfally .^/,,W 0/ f I C 29 ] -Of which fart, fetting afide the Articles of the Creel and the moral Duties of the Law, there m, as Itakl it, yoyfew things that can be f aid to be of divine po- fitive right und^r the New Teftament. The preach, vigofthe Gofpel andjdminijiratton of the Sacrament, ^retwoi wlHch when I hay e named, I think I have named all. ' 'Buttkre is a fecondary and ;«a;-. extended Si^m I'^-^u..,. ficaion of that term which is aljo offre^umt Ufe among Dmncs. In which Jenfe fuch things, as having r^ et prejs Command m the Word, yet are found to have Au- thoruy and Warrant from the Infiitution, Example and 4^rohation^ either of Chr\^ Inmfelf or his Apoftlesj . andhave {mregard of the Importance WUleFulnefs of the things themfelves) been held by the confentient Judgment 0/ all the Churches ofChriJl in the 'Primitive and fucceedmg Jges, needful to be continued: Such things lay, are (though notfo properly as the former yet)ujuallyand uuerpretatively faid to be of divineright' Again he proceeds, Numb. 5. 1 find thatmr ViVines that have traVelledmoJi in this Argument, where they purpofely treat of u, do rather chu/e to/iand to the tenure of Epifcopacy ex Apoftolica defignat.one, than to hold a Conteflupm the fitle 0/ Jus d.vinum, no ne- ceffity requiring the J me to be done, ^ey therefore that fojpeak 0/ this Government as tjlabltjh'd by Divine '^tght are not all of them neccjfarily fo to be underjlood as if thy meant it in thatfir/i andfiriSlefl Senfe. Suf ^ ficient Num^. 6, jicum ittsfor the Juftificat'm of the Church 0/ England m the Conjiitution and Government tJxreof, that it is (as certainly it is) ofDiVme <^ht in the Utter and larger Jignification i that is to fay, of Apoflolical Injiitution and jipprohation j exercifed by the Jpojiles tkmfebes, and by other Terfons in their times, appointed and enabled thereunto by them, according to the Will of our Lord Jeftis Chrifl, and by Virtue of the CommiJJion they hadrectiVd from him. Which be fides that it is clear from eVident Texts of Scriptures, and from the Tefiimony of as ancient and authentick ^cords, as the World hath any to ^jew for tk attejiing of any other part of Ecclejia/iical Story ; it isalfoin truth a part of the eflahltflM VoEirim of the Church of England ; evidently deduced out of ftmdry Taffages in the 'Book, of Confecrarion, and hath been conjlantly and uniformly maintain d by our bejl Writers, and by all the fober, orderly and orthodox Sons of this Church. The Importance of the Subje^, and. the Efteem of the Writer will, I hope, attone for the higth of this Quotation. I was unwilling to fliort- en it, being defirous to give my Reader as full x. View as poflible, of the 'Bijhop's Opinion in- this matter, that he might the better judge of the Fin- dicators dealing with him. And upon the whole, I think it is clear that, befides the Mmifiry of the Word and Sacraments, the Bifliop acknowledges nothing, to be Jure divino in the primary and moft proper i n t^5] proper Senfe ,■ that he reckons Epifcopacy amono thofc things which are Jure divino in a lefs proper and /e- xondary Senfe onlyi chat the main Diftinaion be tween thefe things and the other, is that thofe are to be perpetuaUy and MmW/d/Z^obferved by virtue of an exprefs Command, but thefe owe their concinu. ance in the Church, not to any obligatory Force in their Institution, bjt to their own Importance and UJefulnels. Where then was tlie Vindicator's Inroye it to ^e Jure divino. And to the Queftiotr hereupon, Whence cotneih it then to he ft generally re-- ceivd through the Chrijlian World } He anlwers that, Ihe A^Ojflles in their life time ordain dmatiy 'Bifhops ,• and left a fattern to fojierity. Tl}e Church, follotping the Commodioufnefs thereof embraced it in all Ages through the Chrijlian World. After thefe Quotations, 1 need not ft'and about the Vindicators Reafonings upon our Form of Ordi- nation. It is readily granted, that from thence may be deduced the Jus diVimm of Epifcopacy, accord' ing to Bifliop Sanderfons and Mr. Mafons Senfc of the Words, but not according to the Vindicator^, And, to fpeak my Thoughts freely, I don c appre* hend that the Vindicator hath fo duly weigh'd the Book of Ordination^ as he ought to have done • for if he had, he could never eerrainly have beenguil' ty of fo^ro/jaMiftake, as to fay, that in the Co«* Jecration of Sifl^ops^ Jour Gofpels are named^ when there are but three. Had the Expofitor of the Ar- ticfes committed fuch a 'Blunder^ what a Noife fhould we have had on't > However, I fliall make no o- ther Advantage of this Slip of the Vindicators, than only to admonifli him of human Frailty, and that he would from hence learn to (ktw that Charity to- wards . , ' [27] wards others which he ftands fo much in need o£ himlelf, when in the counting three he mifcounts one. I am now come almoft to a Conclufion ,- for I need fay litdc or nothing to what the Vindicator has <«ilcours d about the Unakerablenefs oi DiVme Inftkuti^ ons, becauie he proceeds altogether upon a MMe, foppohng Epifcopacy to be grounded upon as po. /me a (precept, and of confequence to be as mmu- table, as the Mminijiration of the Sacraments or the Scriptures them/elves. A Miftake which his own Author, Bifliop Snnderfon, had he been duly attend- ed to, would have correded. AH that he hath faid upon this Head, fervesonly to aggravate his Charge againft the Foreign Churches, which, to fay the truth he draws up in a moft terrible manner. The titound of It he lays in the Divine Mution of EpiC copacy, which he will have fo- immutable, as that 2^ceffity ,t felf can hardly juOify a Deviation from it • or It It could, he endeavours to fet afide that Pica' ^tnObJlmate. O horror I mtt\imks\ hear that dread- ""' p^^h bl Sound, Goye curfed, &c Lord, what a Heart has the Vmdicator, that could bear him out in fuch • a Charge as this ? Had 1 undertaken it, 1 muft havey««^ under it, and my Pen would have drob'd out of my Hand. He himfelf doth indeed begin to relent, but not till the very laft, and fays, He « heartily gneVed, that he has bm forced fo oflen to^;! fpeak Jgi&x^ [ 58 1 /peak of foreign CburcheSy and not on the mild and fa- ^fotirabk fide : Ttut this he could not ayoid. However, thugh he has JJjewn, that their Ordinations are not ac- cording to our SaVfOur^s Infiitution ; arid that neither our Church J nor any of herfober^ orthodox Sons approve of them ; yet God forbid that he fhould go about to un- church them, or Jay, that for this reajon, they are out of the Tromife of our Saviours Grace and 9roieHion ,• tho in this they are irregular^ yet he cannot think that e- Very Deviation from the Primitive Form, will make tkm ceafe to be Churches, or exclude them from tk \krcies of God-y who, tho* his Laws he perJeB and unalterable^ isplea/edin the Execution of them, to refpeB the Weak-^ nejs of Men; and if the befl of us ft and in need of his Mercy in other Cafes, we ought to be fo charitable, as not to deny them bis Grace and Pardon in tins. Here is more of Chriflianity in this owe Paragraph than in his v>hok Book befides j and he concludes it with a ,, There would be fomewhat of LhrilUanay in fuch an Undertaking as thisj and the Church would have caufe to hlefs them for the -Per. fornume. But to to lie pecHng at the Mo/, here ^d theit, and inftcad oifolid Difcourfes to give us Satyrs and LtM, is confiftent, neither with the Ve- £cncy of Presbyters, nor the Education of Scholar^ nor the Charity of Chriftians, no, nor even with cjoramon Humanity it felf. Fin is. S.M.^ > ' M l 1 A