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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A67807	A vindication of my Lord Bishop of Worcester's letter touching Mr. Baxter from the animadversions of D. E.	Yelverton, Henry, Sir, 1566-1629.	1662 (1662)	Wing Y30; ESTC R34109	13,719	17

derive not from Christ but from the Secular Magistrate Now when the Magistrate is Christian it is necessary that the limits of each Bishops Jurisdiction be determined by him but were the Magistrate Heathen the Church had that power to prescribe the limits of each Bishop as we see they did in the first 300. years after Christ and we find no Christian all that time ever question them And the reason is evident because Christ that left the Bishops the Successors of the Apostles Governours of the Church could not but give them sufficient Power to do all things which was necessary to the peace increase and aedification of the Church which certainly the appointing of limits for each Bishop to act in must necessary conduce But in the third place I understand not how our Animadvertor agrees with himself when he tells us the King may conferr the management of Ecclesiastical affairs upon Lay Men calls the Episcopal power undue Dignity and Praelation of his inferiour Officers and yet some few lines before says his judgement is much for the Order of Bishops If he be for the Order of Bishops he must believe they have a power from Christ which no earthly man can either give or take from them but I believe he mistook himself or else he would not use such uncharitable Epithetes of their whole Order in calling it undue Dignity and as some Antichristian There is nothing more in these words but what before is answered His third Reason against this Union is worst still Because it will be found none hath been greater Enemies to the undoubted Soveraignty of Princes than some Bishops have been Ergo Episcopacy and Monarchy are not necessarily united I would in answer to this desire our Animadvert or to name me any sort of Men that are necessary to a Monarchy and let him examine himself whether this Argument is not against them There are by Historians esteemed two Foundations of Monarchy Nobility or Arms and have not many Noble-men which should be support of Monarchies been the ruin of them Witnesse the Barons Warrs what necessities were several of our Kings brought into by them And how often do we read in story of Armies deposing one Prince and setting up another So that this Argument is as strong against any sort of Men that a Monarchy makes use of as against Bishops But now to use Argumentum ad hominem for I confesse I cannot esteem our Animadvertor a friend to Bishops though he sayes he is since he useth no civiler language to one of them than to say the Pope is his Father Is that party that call the Dignity of Bishops Antichristian less Enemies to Soveraign Power than some Bishops have been I believe whosoever shall read the Ecclesiastical History of Scotland written by Archbishop Spostwood or shall but hear an impartial Relation of the Barbarous and unchristian usage of our present King when he was there will be soon convinced there never were a Generation of Clergy so Antimonarchical as that Nation hath produced amongst the Presbyterian party I think now I have sufficiently overthrown his Arguments against the Union of Monarchy and Episcopacy It still remains as firm as before Yet I would not be mistaken 't is possible a Monarchy may subsist without Episcopacy for we may fancy all people so peaceable and just as that a Nation may subsist without Laws But that Axiom doth mean that Episcopacy is necessary to the well-being of a Monarchy not simply to the being of it that the Church under a Monarchy can no wayes be prudently governed but by Bishops nor the King can no way have that influence over the inferiour Clergy as by the Bishops I speak here only in reference to the State But as to the Church Bishops are an Order so necessary that I doubt it will puzle our Animadvertor or any person whatsoever to prove any Ordination but by their hands lawful in any case whatsoever His second Exception against this Reverend Prelate is that he is the sole Pastor of all the Congregations in his Diocese I could hardly believe our Animadvertor wanted Ingenuity before For where doth my Lord Worcester say he is the sole Pastor of all the Congregations in his Diocese The Bishops words are these For it is the Bishop of Worcester and not Mr. Baxter that is Pastor of Kederminster as well as of all other Parochial Churches in that Diocese For there is much difference between my Lord Bishop's saying he is the Pastor and the sole Pastor for the Bishop is the Overseer and chief Pastor not only of all the Congregations but of all the Pastors in his Diocese and Mr. Baxter was not by any right present Pastor there and had no relation at all to that Parochial Church as in his third Excep I shall make appear So that this angry confirmation of the Justice of his Exception falls to the ground But let us follow him If this be defensible 't is only by those Arguments which are commonly alleged to maintain the Popes Supremacy over all Churches whatsoever For since a Bishop can no other way discharge his duty herein but by providing Substitutes what hinders but that the Bishop of Rome may oversee a Million of Churches as the Bishop of Worcester 500 This illustration I think was purposely chosen to fling dirt in this Bishops face that the World might suppose Prelacy Popery go hand in hand as their Covenant joyns them But we must allow Ill words from those that write little Reason This is grounded absolutely upon a false Hypothesis for here it must be supposed that every Bishops chief work is to feed his people where his work is to govern to see that the inferiour Clergy over his Diocese do their duty teach therein sound Doctrine And this work as it is more honourable so it is far more labourious Neither is there the least correspondence between 500. and a Million of Parishes because the account of the one may easily be done the other is impossible Besides 't is quite a different thing the Popes claim and our Bishops for the Pope claims to be Universal Bishop the only Successor of the Apostles and that Christ hath left him sole Governour of the Church and that all other Bishops derive their power solely from him whereas our Church teacheth according to the Opinion of the antient Fathers as were it necessary I could shew you that the Power of each Bishop is alike and as to their Precincts and Jurisdiction the Governours of the Chuch under persecution appointed more or fewer according as the place required and ever since what alterations have been made in their limits have been done by Civil Magistrates to whose care it belongs as Governours of the Church to see that each Bishop performs his duty But let us follow him to his Proofs letting alone his unnecessary parenthesis his first is Act. 10.28 when Paul sent for the Elders of the Church at Ephesus he bids