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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A47908	The relaps'd apostate, or, Notes upon a Presbyterian pamphlet, entituled, A petition for peace, &c. wherein the faction and design are laid as open as heart can wish by Roger L'Estrange.	L'Estrange, Roger, Sir, 1616-1704.	1641 (1641)	Wing L1293; ESTC R16441	60,742	101

Antichrist Pag. 80. Pride Rebellion Treason Unthank-fulness which have issued from Episcopacy Pag. 85. These were Favours of the Bishops own laying up and so much for the Reverend Moderate and Learned It seems a Presbyter in the Chayre is not Infallible why may they not mistake themselves as well in the Bishops opinion as in his Character Or may they not forget their Proposalls they have offer'd as well as the Injuries Will these Gentlemen subscribe to the Bishops Episcopacy by Divine Right Or will they shew wherever he pass'd a Contradiction upon himself Nay come to his Modest offer to the Assembly in 1644. Is That the Piece shall rise in Judgement against us and That yet was par'd as Close as close could be the better to comply with the Sullenness of a Prevailing Faction Hear what the Bishop says in That Treatise then There never yet was any History of the Church wherein there was not full mention made of Bishops as the only Governours thereof The Rules of Church Government laid forth in the Epistles to Timothy and Titus do suppose and Import that very proper Jurisdiction which is claim'd by Episcopacy at this day The Co-assession of a Lay-Presbytery he disapproves and in his Epistle Dedicatory to his Episcopacy by Divine Right This If any man Living can shew any one Lay-Presbyter that ever was in the World till Farell and Viret first created him let me forfeit my Reputation to Shame and my Life to Justice See now what the late Primate of Armagh sayes in his Direction of 1642. Episcopal Ordination and Jurisdiction hath express Warrant in holy Scriptures as namely Titus 1.5 For this Cause left I Thee in Crete that thou should'st set in order things that are wanting and ordeyn Presbyters that is Ministers in every City as the first of Timothy 5.22 lay hands suddenly on no man and Verse 19. Against a Presbyter or Minister receive not an Accusation but under Two or Three Witnesses Pag. 4. No other Government heard of in the Churches for 1500. years and more then by Bishops Pag. 5. This is enough to clear the Authority of the Institution But That they 'll say is not the Question These Reverend Bishops gave their Judgements of and for a Primitive Episcopacy and to a Government so Regulated these Divines offer to submit That is they will allow a Bishop to Rule in Consociation with his Presbyters and This looks gayly to the Common-People Rule with his Presbyters they cry and will not that content him what would the Bishops be as absolute as Popes and Then the Order's presently proclaim'd for Antichristian and War denounc'd against all Constitutions of Their framing as Superstitious Nay the most Solemn Forms and Orders of the Church though venerable for their long Continuance Vse Decency and Vniversal Practice are thrown out as Idolatrous because the Bishops favour them Of so great moment are the Fallacies of pleasing words where there wants skill or care to tast the bitter meaning But alas Those simple Wretches that inveigh against the Tyranny and Claim of Bishops and with an undistinguishing rage confound the persons with their Calling how do they draw upon themselves the thing they Fear and furiously oppose the sum of their own wishes Do they first know what 't is To RULE in CONSOCIATION It is To Degrade a Bishop into a Prime Pastor to disrobe him of his Apostolical prelation of Degree and allow him a Complemental priority of Order This Imminution of Bishops will doubtless not displease their Enemies but let them have a care for in that very Act and Instant wherein they fetch a Bishop down to a Presbyter does every Presbyter become a Bishop so that for five and twenty they pluck down they set up some ten thousand This was the Cheat that fool'd the People into those Tumults which the Smectymnuans entred the Lists to justifie A Primitive Episcopacy was the Pretense which they boyl'd down at length into a rank Presbytery and more Imperious Thus was the Government of the Church destroyed and after the same manner That of the State The King was to govern with his Parliament This saying carryed a Popular sound and the Multitude were not able to comprehend the Drift of it In short they brought his Majesty first to be one of the Three Estates thence by degrees lower and lower till they Dethron'd him and at last Murther'd him This was the cursed Issue of a Pretense to the Regulation of Monarchy and Episcopacy But to end this point The Reformers would perswade the world That they have made a Tender of more yielding than the foremention'd Reverend Bishops have accounted necessary to Fraternal Vnity and Peace We answer That to make This good they must prove that These Bishops have renounc'd their Episcopal and Superintendent Authority or Instance for Themselves wherein They acknowledge it Not to insist upon their Vsurpations of Framing a new Liturgy without a Commission and Imposing upon the Established Government without either Modesty or Reason C Touching Reordination with submission I do not understand it either Requisite or Vnlawful nor can I learn that it is Press'd as they pretend The Canon whereupon they ground is This. Si quis Episcopus aut Presbyter aut Diaconus secundam ab aliquo Ordinationem susceperit deponitor tam ipse quam qui ipsum Ordinavit nisi fortè constet eum Ordinationem habere ab haereticis Qui enim à talibus Baptizati aut Ordinati sunt hi neque Fideles neque Clerici esse possunt If any Bishop Presbyter or Deacon shall receive from any man ab aliquo a second Ordination let the Person Ordaining qui ipsum ordinavit and the Person Ordained be both Deposed unless it appear that his prior Ordination was by Hereticks For those that are either Baptized or Ordained by such cannot be reputed either Believers or Clergy-men Observe first that This Canon presupposes a Regular and Episcopal Ordination ab aliquo qui ordinavit referring singly to the Bishop whose Assistance is deem'd so Essential to the work as that No Bishop no Ordination Next there 's an Error in the Canon For If Baptism seriously be administred in the same Element and with the same form of words which Christs Institution Teacheth there is no other defect in the world that can make it Frustrate So that This Canon availes them little either in respect of the Scope of it or the Authority But is Re-ordination say they so new and strange a thing I am sorry to see Smectymnuus quarrel with himself We had it in the beginning of Queen Elizabeth urg'd and received and with less colour Then th●n Now for there a true necessity lay upon them They fled for Conscience and received Orders in the Reformed Churches not in contempt of Bishops but onely for want of them Whereas our cavilling Pretenders have cast them off Rejected their Authority Vsurped their Power laid violent hands upon their sacred Order and