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A29830	Catholick schismatology, or, An account of schism and schismaticks in the several ages of the world : to which are prefixed some remarks on Mr. Bolde's plea for moderation / J.B.	J. B. (J. Browne)	1685 (1685)	Wing B5116; ESTC R37483	61,193	209

Wentworth was sent to the Tower Mr. Bromley and some others of the Commons committed to the Fleet. N. 25. In this Parliament it was enacted that If any Person should come to or be at any unlawful Assemblies Conventicles or Meetings under pretence of Religious exercise contrary to the Laws and Statutes made in that behalf c. that every Person so offending should be committed to Prison without Bail or Mainprise or depart the Realm at such time and place as was assigned with this Proviso N. 27. that if he departed not at the time appointed or come back without leave first granted he should suffer Death as in the case of Felony And when all other means failed these sharp Laws made against them and some severe Executions done upon them humbled the Ringleaders of them ruined the whole Machina of their devices and effectually promoted the Peace and Tranquillity of Church and State and the happy Preservation of Her Majesties Person to a prosperous and peaceable Reign And 't is believed that at King James's first coming to the Crown of England about the year 1603 the Presbyterians in both Kingdoms England and Scotland were brought so low Lib. 11. N. 1. that they might have been suppressed for ever without any great danger had that King held the Reins with a steady hand and not remitted so much as he did in the cares and severities of Government particularly in admitting the Presbyterian-petitioning and especially in that called the Millenary-petition because said to be Subscribed by a thousand hands when indeed it wanted some hundreds of it This Petition was for Reformation of sundry Ceremonies and Abuses viz. Cross in Baptism Church-Musick c. which occasioned the conference at Hampton Court where the King himself was present as Moderator N. 6. between the Episcopal and Presbyterian Divines the result of the conference was this sharp reprimand If this be all they have to say saies the King I 'le make them conform Conf. at Hamp Court p. 85. or I 'le hurry them out of the Kingdom or somewhat worse at the conclusion of the conference The Presbyterian Divines when they saw that they could not obtain their desires in such Concessions and Alterations as they disputed for they were notwithstanding not transported with heat and passion or any such bigottery as the modern Dissenters are on such occasion but ingenuously promised the Bishops their Antagonists That they would nevertheless reverence them as spiritual Fathers and joyn with them against the common Enemy Upon this Conference N. 8. the Kings Proclamation was issued forth commanding strict Conformity and admonishing all his Subjects of what sort soever Never after to expect any Alteration in the publick form of Gods Worship and things being accordingly put in Execution and the Government holding a hard hand upon them inconformity soon grew out of fashion again N. 10. Till the Gunpowder-Treason N 12. Presbytery out of Popery the second time from whence they took occasion to possess the People with fears and jealousies of new dangers from the Papists and by a shew of greatest Zeal for the Protestant Religion they got a Party in the House of Commons who by the specious pretences of standing for the Subjects Property and the Preservation of the Protestant Religion weakened the Prerogative Royal and advanced their own and by degrees got so strong in Parliament that at the beginning of the Reign of King Charles the first they were able to proceed from Council to Execution beginning their Embroilments first in Scotland by sending thither the English Liturgy and Book of Canons Sir R. Bak. Anno 1638. whereupon the Scots took up Arms declaring not to lay them down till the Presbyterian Religion was setled in both Nations they being incouraged so to do by some of the English Parliament Ibid. 1640. which the King understanding went to the House of Commons to demand five of their Members whom he accused of seditious Intercourse had with the Scots in that Insurrection And here began the first Eruption The King wanting Money to manage the War with Spain was forced to have almost continual Parliaments of which many Members being Scotized fell presently on Voting the Ship money unlawful the Convocation of the Clergy Illegal and their Canons void Bak. Chron. 1641. 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 passed a Bill for taking away the Bishops Votes in Parliament Which when the King consented to he saies he never enjoyed comfortable day after they passed a Bill for a Triennial Parliament c. All which they forced from the King by terror of the Scottish Army which they kept in pay nine Months on purpose And tho the Lords and others at York in their Declaration Bak. Chron. 1642. protested before God and testified to all the World as they had often done before that they were fully perswaded that the King had no intention to make War upon the Parliament but that all his endeavours tended to a firm Settlement of the Protestant Religion the just Priviledges of Parliament the Liberty of the Subject c. yet they proceeded chiefly on pretence of the fear of Popery to wrest the Militia out of his hand as also the Tower of London the Navy Royal and all his Revenues using all Terror imaginable to affright his Subjects from Supplying or Assisting him In short a rebellious and most unnatural War being commenced which shed the Blood of so many thousands they reduced the King to consent to these and the like Proposals Baker Chron. Anno 1648. That the Presbyterian Discipline should be set up for three years in the interim of which they would endeavour the Settlement of Peace in Church and State That the Militia should be lodged into their hands for twenty years That the whole Government of Ireland both Military and Civil should be put into their hands That they should confer all Officers and all chief Magistrates of the Kingdom of England for twenty years And having thus got the whole Soveraignty to themselves they were willing on these most unnatural Concessions to comply with the King and voted a full agreement with him But alas too late they having by this time cut off his hands and feet empowered the Independent Army to cut off his Head And now when the Presbyterian Discipline was to be compleatly setled the Army which themselves had raised declare for the Independent Way and serve them as they had served the King turn them out of Doors and resolve upon nothing less then the Death of the King which was at first attempted by private Conspiracy with Poyson and Pistol by Captain Rolph Baker's Chron. Anno 1648. with the privity of Collonel Hammond and some other chief Officers of the Army But afterwards effected with such Hell-bred Solemnity and in such barbarous manner as to the everlasting reproach of the Protestant Religion Turks and Tartars have startled at Thus did they wade through the

great Learning and good Life was chose in his stead who after the Election declared himself to be a Catholick whereupon they persecuted him grievously causing the Circumcellians to pull out his Tongue and to cut off his Hand They dragged Restitutus a Presbyter Aug. de gestis cum Emerit through a Channel of Mud and after twelve days cruel Torment killed him They murdered Maximianus Bishop of Vaga in like manner for nothing but demanding of them the Possession of a Church which they had took of him and which he recovered of them at Law They put out the Eyes of others and poured Lime and Vinegar in the Holes Aug. Concresc Possid in vit Aug. in Hist of the Don. They terrified with Fire and Sword all the Churches of Africa insomuch that the Catholicks were afraid to Travel for fear of their Circumcellians They not only silenced the Catholicks but proclaimed it by the common Cryer that whoever did Communicate with Maximianus Aug. Ep. 166. lett E. should have his house burnt They laid wait for Possidius Bishop of Calame with a design to kill him and because he escaped their Snares as St. Augustines word is they fired the house twice in which he took Sanctuary The like outrages did these Pseudo-Zealots commit upon Marcus a Presbyter of Caspalia on Marcianus Vrgensis Ibid. and innumerable others In a word so long as they had Power no good Catholick that lived among them could be secure of his Possessions or Life its self C. 62. Obvios quosque erroribus suis alienos saies Danaeus all that were not of their Party and Opinion they made no Conscience of Killing and yet themselve would cry out of Persecution upon the least touch of restraint A further account of these Donatists may be seen in the 48 50 68 166 167 168 170 171 172. and others of St. Augustines Epistles shewing the great agreement of the modern Schismaticks with those of St Augustines time AERIANS AND PRESBYTERIANS PRESBYTERIANS were so called at first for the great share that they assigned to the Lay-Elders in the Government of the Church and State as also for a Parity that they would have among Ministers or a Coaequality between Bishops and Presbyters The Greek word 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 is best rendred an Order of Elders an Ecclesiastical Senate or Clasis and so the word Presbyterian signifies one that is for the Government of the Church by Lay-Elders But custom which commands the propriety of words has made it appropriate to such Protestants as are for a Parity among Ministers in opposition to Episcopal Government Some perhaps may frame the Denomination from Aerius the first of that Opinion thus 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 old Aerius or Presbyter Aerius who was the first of any Sect that stood up for a Parity among Ministers in opposition to Episcopacy which was on this occasion Dan. on Aug. de Haeres c. 53. Aerius being ordained Presbyter by Eustathius Bishop of Sebastia was afterward by the Bishop made Master of an Hospital as I understand those words of Danaeus Ptochodocheio preficitur The Bishop controuling him in the managery of the Hospital He first quarrels the Bishop and then separates from him broaching this Error Presbyterum ab Episcopo 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Ibid. ordine gradu non differre sed qui Presbyter est Episcopum dici c. that a Bishop and a Presbyter differ not either in Order or Degree but that a Presbyter is a Bishop c. On which very account Danaeus himself tho a sworn Enemy to Episcopacy confesses that Epiphanius Augustine and Isidore accounted him and his Followers Hereticks Aerianos Haereticorum albo ascripsere Epiph. Aug. Isid in eo quod Presbyteri Episcopi parem dignitatem constituerunt and Epiphanius Adv. Aerium calls the Aerians the most brainsick Hereticks that ever were for holding that Presbyters may ordain Presbyters and that Bishops and Presbyters were all one About the Year 1561. the Presbyterians began to be called Puritans on this account Queen Elizabeth having published a Book of Orders injoining strict Conformity to the Orders and Discipline of the Church in Opposition to Popery and Presbytery both Such as proceeded in Opposition to the Queens Injunctions relating to Presbytery or Nonconformity were called Puritans as the Novatians were Catheri as men professing the greater purity in the Worship of God which they placed chiefly in a shew of great Detestation of the Ceremonies and Corruptions of the Church of Rome above other men But taking the word Presbyterian in its first and most proper Acceptation for all such Protestants as are for a Parity among Ministers in Opposition to Episcopacy and to such Church-Ceremonies as the Episcopal Government requires there is this following account given of them Their first rise was in Geneva a City not above two miles compass governed by a Duke Heyl. Hist of Presb. l. 1. n. 2. n. 4. and a Bishop chiefly a Bishop who as Mr. Calvin confesses had not only the Ecclesiastical but Civil Jurisdiction over it till Viretus and Farellus exceeding studious of a Reformation in Religion laboureth with the Bishop for such Alteration as had been made in the Church of Berne But not able to prevail with the Bishop they practiced on the inferior sort of People and that so effectually that in a tumultuous manner they drove the Bishop and Clergy out of Town and not only alter'd every thing that displeased them in the Church but changed the Civil Government disclaiming all Allegiance to their Bishop or Duke either Ibid. n. 4. for which rebellious Atchievement Calvin calls Farellus the Father of the publick Liberty The Government of the City being thus put into the hands of the Common People by the endeavours of Farellus N. 5 Mr. Calvin was chose one of the Preachers of Geneva and soon after Divinity-Reader which done he presently negotiates with them to abjure all Obedience to their Bishop for the time to come Beza on the Life of Calvin and to admit of such a form of Discipline as he and his Colleagues had devised for them And having prevailed herein the said Discipline viz. the Presbyterian Discipline was generally sworn and subscribed to on July 20. 1537 the very same Year as I remember that the Order of Jesuits was founded and this was the first Extract of Presbytery as my Author says begot in Rebellion born in Sedition and nursed up in Faction No sooner was it setled in Geneva Hist of Pres lib. 1. n. 6. but Calvins next endeavours were to promote it in other places which he did effectually notwithstanding the Jars and Discords that it occasioned by these and the like means N. 11. 1. By the great Reputation that Calvin had attained to for his diligence in Preaching and Writing whereby he became the Oracle of the Times 2. His imposing it on the People on pain of Gods high displeasure and Beza after