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A65261	Akolouthos, or, A second faire warning to take heed of the Scotish discipline in vindication of the first (which the Rt. Reverend Father in God, the Ld. Bishop of London Derrie published a. 1649) against a schismatical & seditious reviewer, R.B.G., one of the bold commissioners from the rebellious kirke in Scotland ... / by Ri. Watson ...	Watson, Richard, 1612-1685.; Creighton, Robert, 1593-1672.	1651 (1651)	Wing W1084; ESTC R13489	252,755	272

among them true Praelatical hearts can not be trulie considerate or loyal if they be not obstinate in this perswasion and beleefe The place cited to which you send us for a view of your tender care in providing the parents consent to the mariage of their children gives us a full prospect of your tyrannie over Nature whose throne is usurped whose praerogative trampled downe and her Paternal Princes enthralled to the dominion of your spirit For your publike inhibition of private mariages there mentioned is not so much to carie the streame of childrens obedience to their Parents and Curatours as to make sure that the water goe not by your mill that due homage be payd to the consistorian powers that are above them Therefore in some cases and we know no●… which you except 't is sayd The Minister or Magistrate to whom though not you your Discipline gives the pr●…cedence and praedominance may enter in the place of parents .... may admit them to mariage For the worke of God ought not to be hindred c. This worke of God is there called the touch of the heart with desire of mariage As if all hearts so touched had Gods hand layd upon them and the Scotsh climate were so cold as all natural or carnal inclinations were frozen untill fire came downe from heaven to dissolve them As if then good soules they were melted in a minute and had outrun the bounds of all selfe moderation all rational perswasion all love martyrdom in a passive submission to the just rigour or unjust wilfullnesse of cruel parents contradicting their sodaine affections and amourous violence For if these Flames warme by degrees at a distance and some danger drawes on of being scorch'd without screening their du●…ie should prompt them to withdraw in due season and repraesent to their parents the first sense they finde of that heate the increase of content or comfort they take in it and with their approbation farther cherish these desires or upon their dislike in gratitude and justice to their sufferance of many infant troubles elder petulancies endure a litle hardship for their pleasures For to change the allegorie if children first set saile of themselves then call to their parents at shoare for leave to take shiping this mocke respect would rellish more of scorne then good nature or dutie And as well may they bid adieu to relations as when before a strong gale of winde looke for a nod or waving hand to incourage that course wherein they themselves are steering and necessitie carying then not to be resisted Yet no other is that honour which your Discipline sayth they are bound to give to their parents the parts whereof you make these To open their affection To aske their counsel and assistance how that motion .... may be performed it speakes not of asking pardon for entertaning it before approved You know the Civile and Canon law are divided that standing much upon the necessitie this onelie on the decencie or honestie of having the parents consent A friend of yours that îs hugg'd for his paines in opposing our Church presseth hard the coincidence of the former with the determination in Scripture and objects her concurrent practice with the later To tell you how Bucer playes the strict Civilian in this businesse whose authoritie is very oracular when for you would it may be render him but a private opiniatour now against you And as litle might it availe to produce the Acts of your Brethren in Holland who seem to declare for a necessitie in their provincial Synod Nemo proclamabitur de contrahendo nisi prius attulerit testimonium de consensu parentum No more then a convenience in their National and that determinable by their Presbyterie when controverted .... Siquis autem irrationabiliter in his c●…s refractarie se gesscrit sic quod nullo modo velle●… consentire .... presbyterium constituit quid in talibus casibus sit faciendum In this division you doe well to quit your selve of all wonted interest and appeale even from Scripture it selfe to the Tribunal of reason and aequitie Where yet you will scarce get your hearing before you prove that the authoritie of Parents is to be restrained by the many times unreasonable though lawfull and honest desires or motions in their children As if a Kings daughter should be taken with a beggar borne under an hedge With which instance your Presbytrie is scarce to be trusted who it may be are readie enough to justifie the match by the eminencie of his vertues to which they may beter dispose daughters then distribute crownes saying Regna virtuti non generi deberi Epictetus that was a very good Master of his reason gave this general rule unto his disciples That all obligatorie offices are measured by the relative habits of the persons He begins with the Father as most absolute in his power all whose injunctions and actions are to have an active or passive obedience from his children Pater estin hypagorenetai epim●…leisthai para●…horein hapantoon anechesthai laidorountos paientos If you talke to him as Bishop to the of a cruel parent a●…using his antgoritie c. He will tell you Nature hath not tied you to a good father but a father your dutie must bepayd him in his natural capacitie not moral ●…ete ●…un pros agathon patera phys●…i ok●…iothes alia pros patera There is indeed somewhat in humanitie it selfe which may be call'd the office of a father to his sonne To moderate sometimes his autocratical power by affection run his iron heart into the same molds with the softer metall of his childrens at least not t●… make it the hammer and anvil whereby to fashion youth to the humourous morose severitie of age It was upon some such advantage that Pamphilus argued in the Comoedie Hoccine est huma●…m factum aut incoeptum Hoccine officium Patris .... Pro Deum atquchomi●…m quid est si non haec contumelia est Vxorem decreverat dare sese mihi ho●…ie nonne oportuit praescisse me ante nonne prius communicatum oportuit Yet afterward Simo contrapones his improper choyce of a match misbeseeming him against custome law and his dutie as a sonne Adeon impotenti esse anime ut praeter civium Morem atque legem sui voluntatem patris Tamen hanc habere cupiat cum summo probro In fine Pamphilus convinc'd in likelihood by his reason made a filial exemplarie submission in our Case Ego me amare hanc fateor si id peccare est fateor id quoque Tibi Pater me dedo quidvis oneris impone impera Vis me uxorem ducere hanc amittere ut potero seram Yet among Christians when such submission's not found from a frenzie of love which will take no advice from Nature or Reason I confesse the Magistrates and Ministers shall doe an act of charitie in their mediation with his father by complying with to

from Christ or deputation at least to overrule both his Kingdomes upon the earth Your Ifs And 's about the necessitie of a warre in that moment of time when the British Monarchie Lay gasping for life demonstrates what good meaning you had to praeserve the Person or Government of Kings The constant proofe of that integritie you required in the officers must have been the covenant-proofe of their rebellion and wickednesse which if blemished from the beginning of the warres with no religious nor loyal impression no sincere pietie toward God nor real dutie to the King had marck'd them out for your Mammon Champions and Goliahs men most likelie to make good the interest you aim'd at This you were before practising in England where your Sectarian Masters that had set you on horsebacke mean'd not to take your bridle in their mouthes and be rid by your ambition to their ruine Though you advis'd them faire for 't in your Papers March 3. 1644. requiring to have the officers in their armie qualified to your purpose ... men know'n to be zealous of the reformation of religion and of that uniformitie Which both Kingdomes are obliged to promote and maintaine c. As in September the yeare before you told them you could not confide in such persons to have or execute place and authoritie in the armie raised by them who did not approve and consent to the Covenant Which I finde by one well acquanted with your meaning interpreted thus You desired to have zealous hardi●… men out of the North whose judgement about the Covenant and treatie had concurred so as to introduce your Nation to be one of the Estates of England to have a negative voice in all things who would have pleaded your cointerest with the Parliament of England in the Militia of the Kingdome disposal of places and officies of trust c. Having faild there of your cointerest with the Parliament you straine here for your cointerest with the King and would have the commanding power of his militant Kingdome in their hands that should have held His Majestie like a bird in a string which if he once stretch'd for recovering his own just liberties or his peoples they could have pluck'd him in to clip his troublesome wings or cage him at their pleasure The firmnesse of your Covenanting Commanders to the interest of God the Dispeller reveales in his experience of their striking hands with hell in cursing and swearing plundering and stealing which might have fill'd the hearts of the people had your poison not been administred under the guilt of wholesome advice with more rational j●…lausies and feares then any by past miscariages of them whose designe at that time was very hopefull and honourable otherwise then as it caried the fatal praetext of your Covenant before it To let the world know how long your mysterie of iniquitie hath been working in the bowells of the State the Bishop alledgeth ancient praecedents of 80. yeares standing from more impartial more credible relations then those in your Romance falselie intitled An Historical Vindication What you shovell in here about treacherous correspondence with Spaine is but an handfull of sand without lime adhaeres not at all to the Inquisitours troubling the Merchants in their religion nor that to your admonishing the people to be warie in their trade nor all at all to the truth which the Bishop tells you was a Synodical Act prohibiting their traffique under the rigid poenaltie of excommunication which all the art you have can not melt into a friendlie advertisement Those of the Merchants whom you say the Inquisitours seduced required no relaxation Nor were the rest so persecuted as to be discourag'd in their trade when they petition'd the King to maintaine that libertie where of your spiritual chaines had depriv'd them Therfore all your courteous mediation was but a disguis'd Imperious prohibition whereby you checkt the King and in ordine ad spiritualia tooke it for granted you mated him by the Merchants weake submission to your Censure Could we but once take it your Church in agrieving fit for her owne so publike profanesse in the daylie breach of the 5 6 other commandaments that follow we would tolerate her zeale though not commend her discretion in her will worship superstitious nicitie touching the violation of the fourth But when we finde her enlarging her conscience to laugh at rebellion murder c. We guesse her crocodiles teares to be more out of designe then compassion her mouth open for the destruction of them that are not through knowledge of her hypocritie delivered The profanation of the Sabbath is not so in conjunction with à Monday mercate but that à Saterdays journey with some sixpeenie losse or à Sunday nights watch and labour might separate them Your holie supplications were leven'd with Iudaisme which had not the Bishops in Christian libertie eluded as your advantage might lie the Parliament might have next been importund to Dositheus's follie to erect à rediculous statuarie Sabbath in your Countrey Though I heare all were not so hard hearted as you make them but that Patrike Forbes Bishop of Aberdene did translate the mercates which are none of the least in his diocese to wednesday as the provincial records of that place will testifie From the obstruction made by the rest to your petitions you can not inferre what you have formd in a calumnie about their doctrine example on that day What sorts of playes which were not all if you reckon right the most emminent Bishops either us'd or tolerated were such as consisted with and spirited the Dominical dutie of publike and private devotion wherein they had the authoritie and praecedent of otherguesse Christians then any scotish Assemblie praecisians and seconded with reason such as hitherto you never seriouslie and solidelie answered If they endeavoured to make the Sunday no Sabbath they did it in a farre better sense and on better grounds then Rob. Bruce could have changd it as you know he endeavoured to Wednesday or Friday and Lent from spring to Autumne on purpose to priviledge the pure brethren ' in the singularitie of their worship and free them from a profane communion though not in the time with Papists and Praelates If the Bishops had a designe to advance their Kingdome by such old licentiousnesse and ignorance as this innocent libertie might be feard to reduce We know to whom the Presbyters somewhere are beholding at least for their Sabbath policie though they thinke good to enlarge it beyond Episcopal sports and playes to publike mercates to brewing fulling grinding carying beer corne dung and indeed what not except opening whole shops and wearing old clothes For redressing which I doe not finde your compassionate prayers to god or advice to them which I remember you us'd so effectual as to make any amendment or gaine any proselytes to your circumcised severitie Therefore till you

objectts their interposing in a case of debt between J. T. and P. T determined by the Lords of Session Their discharging Munday mercates against leters Patents under the Great Seale professeth that like infinite instances might be produced and one more of them he brings with the several circumstances about a decree and judgement obtined by Master Iohn Grahum In general your judicial Vsurpations are censur'd by the Authour of Episcopacie and Presbyterie considered Whereof he brings no particulars because he sayth nobodie can be ignorant that hath look'd into the knowen stories of this last age Somewhat to this purpose is in him that writ the Trojan Horse ... unbowelled K. Iames's Declaration against you in the case of the Aberdene Ministers is in print Beside many other of this nature that I have not seen or doe not thinke on Where Master Baylie hath slept out all this noyse J can not guesse if above ground So that a lasse the Curtisan Bishops may passe away unquaestion'd with a few innocent prohibitions in their pockets when the Traverse is draw'n and the Palliard Presbyters discovered in multitudes at the businesse heaping up such loades of repeales and protestations as crush all iniquitie into scandal make Civile Courts Parliaments Councel and King responsable for their sentences to the Synods The next injurie against Masters and Mistresses of families as it stands in your discipline not as you subtilie yet vainlie advantage it is criminal at least so farre as it is a transgression of Saint Pauls rule which requires all things to be done euschemonoos cata taxin decentlie and in order 1. Cor. 14. 50. Whereas for them to be brought to such a publike account who at all other times without personal exception are constituted instructours of their children and servants is not eushemonoot it caries litle decencie with it it too much discountenanceth their authoritie it levels their natural and politike Dominion for the time nor have those different lines as they are draw'n in your Discipline such a just symmetrie as to produce an handsome feature of one person It is not cata taxin take it in what sense you will no man will say there is a due order observed nor any such praescription in Christs Holy Catholike Church The same Apostle that gave particular directions in the case made no canon for this An antecedent examination he appointed but the Ancients interpret it more of the will and affection then the understanding mind Or if he meant it of both he made every man judge of himselfe as you doe when he is praesent at the ministration of baptisme that had before renderd a reason of his fayth to the Church neither Presbyter and inquisitour of course nor parishoner a witnesse of his unworthinesse and ignorance Ourh heteros ton hetecon ... all autos heauton sayth Oecumenius which put Cajetan upon the thought that confession was not at this time required for which he is taken up by Catharinus And Chrysostom referres us to a text in St. Pauls second epistle which tells us what discoverie may put the examination to an end Examine your selves whether ye be in the fayth Omnem prolationem quaerendi inveniendi credendo fi●…isti hunc tibi modum statuit fructus ipse quaerendi is intended I beleeve as a glosse upon it by Tertullian So that the knowledge how to pray was no praerequisite of St. Pauls Nor can we heare from him that the ignorance of other your disciplinarian articles exclude a man more from the Sacrament of the Lords supper then from the communion of Saints Christianitie he professeth in his Creed Beside 't is easie to conceive what discouragement it brings upon such good Christians as hunger and thirst after this spiritual nourishment of their soules and how much it derogates from that reverence Antiquitie render'd to this Sacrament and the high degree of necessitie they held often to participate hereof by such clauses as this All Ministers must be admonished to be more carefull to instruct the ignorant then readie to serve their appetite and to use more sharpe examination then indulgence in admitting c. Which hath a different sound from the earnest crie of the Euangelical Prophet Isai 55. 1. and the free invitation made by the High Priest of our profession in the Gospell S. Luk. ●…4 you accounting profanelie the losse hereof no more then the misse of a meale and the disappointment no other then depriving an hungrie appetite of a diner Our Fathers of old were otherwise minded and excommunicated those that were peevishlie averse not those that being engag'd in no penance humblie desir'd the benefit hereof Apostrephomenous tea metalephin tes cucharistias cata fina ataxian toutous apobletons ginesthaites ecclesias was part of a canon at the Councel of Antioch A. 341. I could adde That you declare not what may passe among you in the Master and Mistresses answers for the summe of the law what for the knowledge wherein their righteousnesse stands without which you say they ought not to be admitted So that the sharpnesse of your examen and acceptance of their answer being arbitrarie much roome is left for private spleen antipathie and passion no justifiable causes of separation from this communitie of Christians and therefore made the ground of enquirie and cognizance in every halfe yeares Synod by the Nicene Father that such partialitie might not be tolerated in the Bishops But whereas you excommunicate the parent and Masters for negligence when their children and servants are suffered to continue in wilfull ignorance Why not aswell the God Fathers and Pastours whose subsidiarie care should not onelie be restaurative but praeventive Why not such aged women as are not teachers of good things That the yong women be sober love their husbands and children c. Tit. 2 3 Why not all those in whom the word of Christ should dwell richlie in all wisdome and they teach and admonish one another Col. 3. 16. Which being a like duties of the Text alike require your inspection nor doth i●… appeare any more that you are left to a libertie of discrimination in your censure then that for any of these defaults you may exercise it at all Your familie visitations if sincerelie intended for the inspection of maners and conversations is commendable if done with the spirit of discretion moderation meeknesse When this was practiz'd by the most conscientious Priests of the Episcopal partie your knowledge whereof to denie by oath would looke litle beter then perjurie it was calumniated by many of your brood for gadding and gossiping defam'd by some for more sinfull conversing And when the generalitie of them the Episcopal Clergie remitted the frequencie of preaching the studie for which they found inconsistent with this more necessarie more beneficial catechizing the people it was nicknam'd suppressing the word And when at such times as the sacramental solemnities they entred into any private spiritual