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A65559	A sermon against neutrality whether as to the main substantials of religion or matters of injoyned order / preached at the visitation of the Reverend Doctour Cary, Arch-deacon of Exon, at St. Marie's Exon, on Friday in Easter Week, 1663 by E.W.	Wettenhall, Edward, 1636-1713.	1663 (1663)	Wing W1516; ESTC R27060	24,015	54

party cannot except in that they have owned I should have said slandered him for their friend as an acknowledgement from Vedelius himself that they are genuine To conclude this parallel The observation of the Lords day hath ever since the Apostles times continued in the Catholick Church though not so Vniversally till the Jewish Sabbath was laid asleep and in every particular Church that we read of And in the same Catholick Church as it conteins under it as well the Eastern as the Western Churches hath this Order held from the same Apostles times till this very day unquestioned that I know of except by Aerius who for his questioning of it was Excommunicated in every particular Church till about the last Century and in this Church ever from it's very first plantation till the late interruption as well in England and Wales as * This ancient Order viz. of Episcopacy was embraced in the Scotish Church for of that he speaks at the Reformation Ann. 1560 a●● continued in ●h● persons of Superintendents and Bishop till the year 15●1 after that time it was born down till ●598 when it b●gan to be restor●d Doctor Lyndsay in his Narrat of the proceedings in the Assemb at Perth Scotland it self as is manifest for any Ancient times in Bedes History of these Churches After all which the same as to the substance of the heads with what Doctor Hammond of famous memory writ in this cause about the beginning of the troubles I remember the Authour professeth he knew no more to be said in the behalf of the Lords day and as I believe it is abundantly more than could be said by them whose main allegation for it is the fourth Commandment so I think that none after him will be able ever to find more in the case which having said I presume it is now seasonable to desire that the same plea may be entred for both and that seeing there is the same reason for one as for the other the one being already granted to be of such Divine Right that it would be a most horrid innovation and impudent wickedness for any particular Church either to attempt its alteration or not submit to its observation to demand also that it may be reputed as horrid to desire the Change and as unchristian not to submit to the Government of Episcopacy If any one seek to ward off all this with that old Smectymnuan Buckler the chief of those Cavils which that party meant for Arguments against our Government and say Our Bishops are not what the antient primitive ones were I confess it their state is different and so God be thanked is the case of the rest of the Clergy they having a setled and commonly not an illiberal maintenance Now if the others could be content to enjoy the amplest Parsonages of these Ages it is surely unjust in them to envy the Bishops their scarcely proportionable Revenues and much more unjust for that their Club of Divines having if they hold with their Brethren a Beam in their own eyes and claiming no small power over a The Ecclesiastical Assemblie● have power to abrogate and abolish all Statutes and Ordinances concerning Ecclesiastical matters that are found noysome and unprofitable and agree not with the time or are abused by the People II. Book of D●scip chap. 7. Laws and b To discipline must all estates within this Realm be subject as well the Rulers as the Ruled I. Book of Discip Head 7. As the Ministers and others of the Ecclesiastical state are subject to the Civil Magistrate so ought the person of the M●gistrate to be subject to the Ki●k in Ecclesiastical Government II. Book Disc ch 1. And again just after As Ministers are subject to the judgment of the Magistrates in external things if they offend so ought the Magistrates if they transgress in matters of conscience and Religion Ibid. And that without any R●clamation or appeal to any Judge Civil or Ecclesiastical in the Realm II. Book of Disc ch 12. And lest charity should construe all this of some lower and subordinate Magistrates the XIII ch saith The Princes and Magistrates themselves nor be●ng exempted Princes themselves to meddle with the Mote in others and upbraid those of any usurped either Power or Titles who assume nothing of either but what the indulgent piety of the nursing Fathers and Mothers of the Church that is Christian Princes hath so long thought fit by divine permission if not instinct to devolve upon them As to those other objected degeneracies of innovated Elections and sole jurisdiction they are for the most part false and where they are not justifiable at least that small experience which this Church hath in these few years of Mis-rule had of Presbytery though curb'd by its own Patrons as fearing haply its lash themselves will force from all indifferent persons this Confession That the little finger thereof is heavier than the whole loyns of the Bishops Consistories and all the rest against which they pleaded offence and that neither Clergy nor People can enjoy under any Government more liberty and yet no more than Christian than they do under the Prelatical For my further Answer hereunto I remit them to a sober Authours judgment no less in their esteem than ours If so be saith he you will bring again the Si revocas illorum temporum mores etiam statu revoca Wolfg. Muscul usages of those primitive times in every thing you must bring again the same state of the Church which if you do the Office it self will continue still There being then for the Office that which in other cases is acknowledged a divine institution submit thereto and if the Lord be God follow him I shall onely touch upon the last member of Memb. 2. the Prophet's Argument to gratifie the respective Adversaries of all which I have said already by a liberal concession of what he granted his If Baal be God follow him Baal I take to be the same with Belus in profane Authours relying besides the affinity of the names upon Lactantius his computing Belus out of one Instit. lib. 1. ● ult Thalus to have been antienter than the Trojan War which is commonly said to have hapned Judges 2 3● chap. about the time of the Judges now in their days we finde the Jews serving Baal the Worship of whom they receiving it from the Sidonians or other Nations which were left to prove them must needs have been antienter than that Age so that as well the time of the original as name of both agreeing we may in all likelihood conclude them to have been the same Now saith the Prophet if this so general Idol Baal or as in the Apocrypha Bel or Belus can by any means prove himself to be God I give you leave to follow him and desert the God of your Fathers Would it not have exceeded the bounds of a Sermon we should have applied this to