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A47083	Of the heart and its right soveraign, and Rome no mother-church to England, or, An historical account of the title of our British Church, and by what ministry the Gospel was first planted in every country with a remembrance of the rights of Jerusalem above, in the great question, where is the true mother-church of Christians? / by T.J.	Jones, Thomas, 1622?-1682.	1678 (1678)	Wing J996_VARIANT; ESTC R39317	390,112	653

vain glory to be constant to Antient Errour and will accept to be Gods Catholicks although they may be branded for being Hereticks to the Pope therein may the blessings of Heaven be multiplyed upon every one of them and their Posterity for ever according to the numbers and Myriads of hearts in Heaven and Earth they shall with their own refresh thereby In the second respect as the Church is a Society of Christian men standing in need of Government and Peace and Order and outward decency and Regulation in its publick Worship and Communion against scandalls from within 1 Cor. 5.11 or tongues and censures from without 1 Cor. 14.23 Authority and power must of necessity be allowed in such external matters to those that are Superiours and Governours in such a body without whom it were as impossible for it to be kept in any order as for an Army to subsist without any Officers or Commanders And here if any where the Pope is to put in his plea and claim for Supremacy which cannot be well denyed him at Rome and his Suburbicarian Territories where he hath the Power both of Prince and Bishop but he never originally had over (a) Praefat. Monastic Anglican part 1. Millain and his next neighbours the seven Provinces of Italy heretofore under their own peculiar Jurisdiction without appeal to Rome or conformity with it in several of its Catholick Ceremonies and ways of Devotion particularly the Roman Fasting upon Saturday much less over our British Isles which never were within the Diocess or Bayliwick of Rome by any right besides its new exclusion by the Supremacy of our Kings becoming Christian the rising of the one being the setting of the Glory of the other like the Baptist giving place to Christ For though before Kings be Christians the Bishops and Officers of the Church were Supream in their several limits It being equally incongruous and inconvenient for the Church in Church Affairs to be under Heathen Government as under none at all Yet Bishops themselves though of Christs own appointment and Institution gave place and precedence to Kings and Emperours becoming Christians who are Lords of our outward-man and Gods of the outside in all communities allowing them to be now Christian heads of their Christian as they were Civil heads before of their Civil Dominions and Territories And contenting themselves to be eyes to these Christian heads and not the head it self their Counsellours under them and not their Lords above them under any colour or pretence The Bishops of the Church being to resemble the Stars in the Firmament of the Church as they are stil'd by our Saviour Revel 1.10 who are to Rule by night as chief when there is no Sun to shine but as soon as the Sun appears who resembles Christ and Kings his proper Deputies and Vicars then though never so fixt they withdraw their splendor and dis-appear as to Lustre but not as to influence and assistance being ready in case of any Antichristian Ecclipse to peep and shine at mid-day as the dotage of Parents manumits the Sons and in case not only the Sun be overcast but the Stars also with it by some Carnal Sympathy and compliance or thick storm and cloud be intercepted from us why may not private Souls below take each Gods word and will in the Bible or Conscience in the Creed or Babtismal vow as a Lamp to their feet and a guide to their path when there is no other light Ps 119.105 Why not beg the guidance of the Holy Spirit that leads to all truth which is not denyed to fervent prayer 1 Joh. 2.20 27. Luc. 11.13 The Cessation of Fathers and guides on Earth doth not dissolve the Allegiance or hopes of Orphan Christians from their Heavenly Father but very commonly makes the dependance nearer and closer and the assistance wonderful as in the Case of the late glorious King deprived of his Chaplains of numbers of Religious Christians such as St. Bernard Gerson and others under the darkest times of Popery and many British Families in England deprived of their Teachers in the Pagan Invasion of the Saxons The right Christian Soul neither is nor can be deprived of Christ her best self whether her guides on Earth remove or stay Rom. 8.38 39. where she hath Superiours left she obeyes them in Christ which is the best obedience on Earth where none are left Christ alone hath her whole heart and immediate service which is the obedience that 's paid in Heaven as Noah is said to walk with God the times being so corrupt he had none else to walk with here Gen. 8.9 But when God doth bless a Nation with guides and deputies under him the chiefest heed and duty of the Soul wherein her wisdom or folly before God and man and her self appears is in her chusing and cleaving to her true guide and superiour and not the wrong for by mistake herein the rights and honour of the true Superiour and representative of Christ shall be Sacrilegiously with-held and prophanely conferred on the false which is her case and fate in every sin that engrosses her affections where the honour that 's due to God alone is paid to an Idol for want of heed and difference to be made between what is her real and that which is only her seeming good and lure to deceive her And the Errour that may be commited in the Recognition of wrong Superiours over us under Christ in External matters of Religion For in Internals or externals there is none to be over us but himself is twofold either 1 In specie in kind or 2. gradu in degree The first is a mistake in the whole as if a Subject of France should take the King of Spain for his Soveraign in such a case his obedience to the wrong is Treason against the right Superiour and is not his obedience but his sin the mistake in degree is between Superiour and Subordinate where respect and obedience is due to both but the respect that 's due to the Master is given to the Servant and the Steward honoured above the Lord and the Officer above the Prince that Authorizes him which is the usual honour of those that make blind obedience and advantage more than conscience the measure of their duties The last is more absurd and faulty for the first is liker madness and distraction one purblin'd in his Intellects may be guilty of the one but none can be guilty of the other but him who is wholly blind and mad For God and nature directs men and Christians and Irrational Creatures themselves to make a difference between Friends and strangers and though to be civil to all yet not to rely and trust on those we know not as much as on those we know The word Hostis for an Enemy at first did signifie a stranger so easy is the transition that is between them and in Church dependance which is our present case God hath given great Instances to the world

World it seem'd agreeable to Ministerial obligation as well as Loyal Reputation to communicate my satisfactions to the World in the view of your R. H. that all might see that nothing else was able to make a Loyal Brittain shrinke from the steps of his Prince but a greater Loyalty to the manifest rights of God and the King and the Truth Which I trust will not be construed Contempt but Constancy nothing being more the duty of every Loyal Servant and a Minister especially than to be as faithful to his Prince and consequently to God and the Nation as Conscience is in every breast which will never approve or agree to any disloyal revolt from Heaven and Truth but will chuse rather to be silenc'd for a time than consent and with patient agony refer the matter to God himself Nor are any to be reckon'd straight-way unfortunate as is the manner of some weak and Carnal reasons and Turba Bemi and also the Divinity of some grave Deacons of the belly and present ease and greatness for any wound or inconvenience they may bring upon themselves for such fidelity to the Temporal and Eternal Interests of their Master either from declar'd which is more faire or undeclar'd and invisible Hostilities which is less For such suffer in their manifest duties which is therefore to be presum'd to be their choice by consequence when such need require and their right and best self-preservation if they be right men or Christians for if we are bound to love our Neighbours as our selves at the least so much more our Prince and Countrey above our selves as the hand doth the head And greater and truer love cannot be express'd than by long misery and durance for the Truth like an Anchor under Waves to hold fast the great Soul of one's Prince compos'd of Grace and Mercy and the fear of God by his bowells and compassion stronger than any Cable from running against Eternal Rocks and clashing with his Heavenly Sovereign which is the first and Original disloyalty and insurrection against the Chief whereof the Tumults of Subjects against Secondary Mortal Soveraigns are usually but copies and fatal consequences by man's manifest fault but Gods secret righteous judgement as the fear and subjection of the Creature is observ'd by Divines to be abated and impair'd towards Adam after his fall And no Prince can more deserve such Martyrial fidelity from Servants and Subjects than your R H. not only upon the score of Loyalty and Conscience common to all Princes but of personal and peculiar merit and exemplary frequent fatigues and hazards and lovely deportments on the confines of life and death for the glory of your Country which your R. H. valued above your life and present and hereditary greatness as much as many mean and vulgar spirits do below their petty self-ends and differences And that great fight cannot easily depart from my remembrance of your serene Magnanimity and cheerful unconcernedness on Quarter Deck June 3d. 1665. which betoken'd to my hopes a great distance of dangers from your R. H. even then when Roaring deaths hail'd thick about your R. Person and besprinkled your Buff with the bloud of your ever memorable Companions that fell by you Such contempt of death and the Pomp and Glory of this World for the defence of your King and Country being a lively resemblance of that true Christian Charity which doth the like for Christ and souls and fits the understanding to receive and embrace the truth And I have just cause often to bless God for a kind of Publick reward then of my many Prayers in private for your R. H. which was my chief and sole Armour in your defence that your R. H. should observe and declare it as an Omen of Victory annext to the publick Service and Exhortation performed by me the even before the fight by your R. H. appointment that one of the greatest Ships of the Enemy should take fire in that moment in the fight of both Fleets reported to be one of the member that were particularly bound to destroy you And why should I distrust in God or the power of truth or the success of sincere love and loyalty but that these my prostrate sentiments proved and preferred through much patience before all the offers of this World may not contribute with the Prayers of all good Christians and far greater Abilities and Counsels and the consideration and candor of your R. H. own breast and Princely Loyalty to God and Truth the greatest of all to beget that satisfaction and stability in your R. H. as may kindle more Bon-fires in our Streets than did that your Renowned Victory Quinctius the Roman General proclaiming in the name of the Senate by sound of Trumpet unexpected Liberty to all the Cities of Greece then newly Conquered as the Nation met to begin their Olympick games did so discompose and lick up all their inclinations after their sports with the suddainness of the good tydings that when they could believe it to be true they could think on nothing else And rushing one upon another with excess of joy and thankfulness to kiss his hands and to cast their Crowns and Garlands at his feet went nigh to put him in manifest danger of his life with their Crowd and immoderate Transports that forgot all man●rs and distance had not his great strength of body and the Vigour of his years being 33 saith Livy and some content and satisfaction to observe whence their Rudeness sprang served to Rescue him from the danger of too great love Such a Jubile to our Brittain and such a lovely danger to your R. H. as may be gather'd from the General pulse the dismission of some scruples would soon produce which many suspect and fear but I never did nor can before a special declaration being so over-ruled to the contrary by your Princely wisdom and justice for what greater violation of the Law of Nations can there be to the dissolution of all Faith and Truth among men whereon Allegiance to Princes and the peace of the World hang than openly or secretly to oppose or prejudice a Religion professed before it be Renounced or wherein can the Catholick plaister of dispensation to equivocate mend the matter with Generous and sober understandings whereby the soul is licens'd to be damn'd to save the skin Least therefore by any pretence or whisper of Right or colour of Conscience wherein all the fear can lye your R. H. should be mis-led to espouse unnaturally a Forreign and wrong Superiour to the manifest dethroning of our Right Mother-Church of Brittain more Ancient as well as more sound and Orthodox than the other I have leaving all speculative Controversies and hard questions to Scholars and Students throughly handled one Practical point of plain Right and Title or meum and tuum or the Pretences and Immunities of both Churches which will give great light if not a final end to all the rest and which all sorts of

l. 28. d of p. 599. l. 35. r. may Col. 3.23 Whatsoever you do do it from the Heart as unto the Lord and not unto men 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 from the Soul THe difference between the Soul and the Body which is the foundation of all Religion and Honesty and Honour is not so plainly demonstrable from Natural marks and arguments wherein the resemblance of Organs and Animal operations in man and beast puts a meer Naturalist often to a stand as from Moral effects and experiments and signatures undenyable For men's Actions good and bad like the Men themselves consist of two Essential parts Body and Soul or the outside of the Action which men regard answering to the Body or Carcass and the inside or the intent and manner which God respects answering to the Heart and Soul which is all in all to assigne a few instances received throughout mankind without controll It is the mind and kindness of the giver which is as the Soul of the guift and not the bulk and quantity which is but as the Body that gives price and valuation to presents with God and God-like men And a Dinner of Herbs or Bread and Water where there is love and a cheerful countenance as a signe of hearty welcom which is the life and Soul of entertainment digests better than the most Sumptuous Magnificent Feast that is where these are wanting If a life be destroyed yet if the will and intention that is the heart appear to have no manner of hand at all therein there is a non est factum in the Case it 's neither Murder nor Slaughter but Chance Lucretia though Villanously Ravished in her Body stands Chast and undefiled in Story because she fully proved after her Roman way her mind to have been pure and unconsenting It was done against my will is a plea of Natural Logick in tender Age and Riper for their indemnity in any fault committed unawares ●●ir promises and Professions that proceed not from the heart none value but as wind or as God doth the worship or repentance of a Hypocrite that hath a relapse and falsehood in his heart The Roman General knew not how to be angry with the transported Greeks that went nigh to press him to death with their excessive joy and thankfulness at his unexpected Publication of their liberty at the Olympick Games the verity of their heartiness drown'd the danger of their outward rudeness Whereby as by a tast it is apparent that the want and absence of the Soul or heart render all our actions not only pale and ghastly and ill favour'd but also null and void and dead and that the least touch and tincture communicated from the Soul unto them gives them a new and admirable life and beauty How great then must the loveliness and beauty of the Soul itself be if the image of the Sun shines so bright in a Pail of water How glorious is the Sun it self in full body in his own orb and firmament Upon this account so great a stress is laid upon the heart in all mens Actions by all wise and holy men by Solomon My Son give me thy heart Prov. 23.26 By our Blessed Saviour from the heart proceed all evil thoughts and works and all good by the contrary Mat. 15.19 By St. Paul in my Text Whatsoever you do do it from the Heart c. without which all Religious worship would be Insignificant and Cadaverous and dead as without brotherly love from the heart amon●●t brethren your solemn Festivals would be but jejune Pageantry but a Feast of Artificial Napkins or painted Pastboard or that wooden treat of the Poet Et tot á sonat ulmea Caena saburrâ 2. The Text is a rule and lesson given to Servants But doth God take care of Servants only Doth it not as well belong to Masters also yea it doth as much belong to Masters Col. 4.1 For if the Servant is bound to eye the Authority and fear of Christ in his Master is not the Master bound by Counter-part in Equity to appear in the mercy and tenderness of Christ towards such an awful and conscientious Servant Or is there or can there be any better regulation of Master and Servant than when Christ is made a Rule for both And wherein lies the main-stay and support of all the Societies and Communities of the World more than in the right Regulation of Master and Servant Superiour and Inferiour For Communities ever stand or fall decay or flourish as Servants and Subjects Masters and Governours neglect or discharge each their several parts and duties For in all our service and subjection we have two Lords and Masters before us our 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 v. 22. those our visible Lords and Masters whom we outwardly and subordinatly serve in our Mortal bodies with a condition and reservation ever that they interfere not in their Commands with God Acts 4.19 And our Invisible and supreme Lord and Master whom we absolutely and unconditionally serve and obey with our immortall Souls and Spirits which know no Superiour but God alone or Christ the Lord in my text who because he hath right to the entire service of the heart and soul according to our Apostle in this text is therefore truly God And seeing we are to do all from the heart and soul or else nothing in reason is by us ever done And the heart or the soul knows none over it but only God the Apostle therefore takes Christians off from serving Earthly and perishing Lords Masters to serve our only ever-living Master in Heaven from the heart of whom Masters on Earth to Christians are as Signs and Symbols changing eye-service for fear into heart-service for Conscience v. 22. Our Earthly drudgery to men into Heavenly worship towards God fear of blows into fear of Hell temporal liberty and salary into everlasting bliss and Glory knowing saith he v. 24. That of the Lord you shall receive the reward of the Inheritance for ye serve the Lord Christ Ye serve the Lord Christ and you are to serve your Masters and Governours over you in the flesh nevertheless yea the more because they are now to you vested with Christ By the Christian Hypothesis Earthly Masters and Governours are as I may say Sacramentally chang'd and consecrated into Christ yet continue the same Masters and Governours nevertheless un-transubstantiated un-removed from their beings and stations to make room for Christ So that a Quaker may with a safe conscience ye● ought in conscience to express Reverence from his heart as to Christ in the first place so to his Superiour in the next yea to Christ himself in the persons of his Superiours at once And as the Blessed Sacrament is Holy Bread to our sense while yet Christ himself to our Faith so the Christian Servant or Subject serves an Earthly Prince or Master in the flesh but serves the Lord Christ himself in his heart and Faith the outside of the service

s insensibly received and admitted into its rest at last and then and there lost forever and found forever in the Bosom of the Immense Ocean so is it most an end with every Christian soul at the beginning and progress and end of his Christian Race who is as sure to reach to his rest and glory in the bosom of God forever as Rivers to reach the Sea which they are reaching every day nearer and nearer as they move towards it in the channel that leads unto it and is the very same Element with it To conclude if all could be perswaded and won to walk up to this short and Catholick Rule which reaches all Nations and Churches and Conditions and Vocations and degrees to discharge all their duties to one another from the heart as unto Christ there would be more truth and veracity in the World not only towards Brethren but towards enemies and strangers who have Christ in mens hearts to hold in their behalf any promise pawn'd and made unto them the violation whereof carries as much of Atheism and contempt of Christ within the heart as dishonesty without towards him it wrongs There would be more meekness and patience towards enemies and persecutors if not for their sakes yet for Christs who commands forgiveness and love to enemies More obedience or submission to all Governours to the best for Christ's sake and their own to the worst for Christ sake however being our necessary duty and their due Almes There would be more love and readiness to help one another by Counsel or Purse or Prayer instead of eating and devouring one another by Craft and Power when it shall be consider'd that every benefit or wrong we do to our Neighbour without we do both in a higher degree and greater edge to Christ himself within our hearts to our Eternal reward or reckoning This would make men true Christians and Loyal Subjects and tender Fathers and Governours and just Masters and right members in their respective Communities and Societies and trusts and Genuine Sons of the Church not only of England our Mother on Earth but of Jerusalem above the Mother of us all in Heaven to the saving of our Souls Infallibly when the whole stock of Mountebank Indulgencies shall faile to effect the Cure This little Commandment well observ'd would be the Harmony of the World set Heaven and Earth in Tune again and God at peace with his Creatures and plant joy and concord and the peace of God which passeth all understanding in every Kingdom in every City in every Family in every Breast And that Angelical Prophetical Anthem at our Saviours Birth would recover its Truth and Power in the World And Glory should be to God on high and on Earth peace and good will towards men FINIS A Particular Table of the Contents PART I. MOral experiments proving the Body to be as nothing in comparison of the Soul pag. 1 2 11. Masters and Princes Symbols of Christ how 4. How the Stature of a Christian reaches from Earth to Heaven p. 5. The Heart is never without its God p. 7. 20. Sincere Heathens and Carnal Christians compar'd and which preferr'd 7. Outside Duties in Religion necessary though nothing when compar'd to the Inside p. 8. None ought to vilifie their own Faith before a fair and open Renuntiation ibid. Sincere and dangerous mistakes arising from the comparative excellency of the Soul above the Body p. 9 Monkery and Non-conformity compar'd p. 9 10. How a thought of the Soul true or false is preferr'd before Estate Health and Life p. 11. Three properties requir'd to Act from the heart p. 12. Of force about Religion p. 13 14. Both good and bad men are for pleasure and the difference and the necessity of Divine Grace to set the will free p. 14 15. The Heart is for God and Christ and none beside why How p. 16. seqq Two reasons why the heart is so and how the Soul is Correlate to God p. 19. seqq An Irrefragable proof of the Deity from wicked mens experience and why it operates not upon some p 20 21. The Scheme and Hypothesis of the Christian Faith out of St. Paul and Creed and Fathers and Baptismal Vow p. 21 22. The right rule to chuse or avoid Communion with Churches p. 23. The Christian Hypothesis the best foundation and support of Societies p 23 24. A description of a true and right member of a Society p. 25. seq Honour is more than Life Conscience more than Honour what more than Conscience p. 27. Of a false member and of self-love how sordid and destructive of it self p. 28. seqq What makes good Men good Subjects good Rulers p. 31. seqq The great Rule of doing as we would be done by fenc'd and exalted by the Text p. 32. seq Blind obedience and implicit Faith in the Church of Rome to Superiours fairly examin'd and found unsound and unworthy p. 32. 33. seq What is Truth p. 37. Which the greater sin Tyranny or Rebellion p. 38 39. Plenitude of Soveraignty and Liberty consistent p. 40. Christs Divinity prov'd against Socinians p. 41 42. SECT I. An Exhortation to adhere to the Church of England against Rome p. 43. seqq The way to be Infallible p. 44. Worship in an unknown Tongue excludes the heart p. 44. seq Men are to be Infallible for themselves first for their Brethren next p. 47. The Controversy consists in the Election of a right or wrong Infallible guide p. 47. This Question stated in the sense of both parties p. 48 49 51. All other Controversies would end if this were decided p. 51. Obedience to the wrong is disobedience to the Right Soveraign ibid. Three Questions propos'd to find out the true p. 52. The heart cannot be without a guide Christ or sin or man of sin p. 53. The Principles of Government with the last p. 54 55 No Law of Christ or Conscience or Countrey must be heeded against his Authority and Interest p. 56 57 The Soul is Gods Temple and the Pope instead of Christ affects to be Soveraig● there p. 61 62. Great folly and danger to hearken to a Perkin Warheck p. 63 64. The Principles of Protestants how they prove the uniform Loyalty of the heart to Christ as the right Soveraign p. 63 64. How the Brittish Church knowes the Scriptures to be Gods word p. 64. How our Controversies about things indifferent are decidable by these Principles p 65 66. Christ is the Judge of quick and dead and who are his Depu●●●●on Earth 47 67. And nothing to be acted against him by ●●●s Authority p. 67. Such as be Hereticks with the Pope but Catholicks with God are in no danger p. 67. SECT II. Rome no Mother Chur●h to us not Loyal to Christ her Soveraign p. 68 69. Every Church may be consider'd three wayes 1. According to its Inside 2. Outside 3. Or extraction p. 69. Jerusalem above not Rome is the Mother Church to all Christians in respect of their inside