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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A35038	Analepsis, or, Saint Peters bonds abide for rhetorick worketh no release, is evidenced in a serious and sober consideration of Dr. John Gauden's sense and solution of the Solemn League and Covenant : so far as it relates to the government of the church by episcopacy / by Zech. Crofton.	Crofton, Zachary, 1625 or 6-1672.	1660 (1660)	Wing C6984; ESTC R7749	30,761	39

conscience made legible by the Lancashire and Cheshire plea for Non-subscribers and the testimonies of the Ministers in the several Counties of England published with their names subscribed and indeed Imprinted by the invasion and divastation of Scotland the Sequestrations and Sufferings even unto imprisonment and death of many in England pursuing His Majesties restitution on the account of the Covenant How can the Doctor confess Doubtlesse the sence of the Covenant hath lately quickned many mens consciences in their allegiance to the King so as to bring Him as David home with infinite joy and triumph page 25. and yet here complain that it was so easily vacated in point of its express Loyalty for the King's preservation If it were ever vacated when or how was it renewed and re-inforced If I may speak it without vanity had not the firm bond of the Covenant vigorously contended in the point of Loyalty against the violent powers which bare it down His late Majesties Martyrdom had not broken forth with such lustre not His now Majesty whom God long preserve been restored to that estate of Honour in which we now enjoy Him so that the Antecedent of this suggested Argument will be most positively denied But if we should admit it I cannot but wonder to hear a Divine say and inferre upon it If it were so easily vacated in point of Loyalty I do not see how it can be so binding against Episcopacy I think it to be no good Logick and worse Divinity from some mens evasion and violation to infer a vacation and non-obligation or from a vacation of it in one point to infer its non-obligation as to others sin indeed is apt but it must not be allowed to engender sin by Gods grace gradual violation shall not effect in me a total rejection of the Covenant His sixth suggestion seems indeed to be of more force than the former viz. 6th Suggestion in his indirect answer p. 8. The Covenant if so interpreted must needs grate sore upon and pierce to the quick those former lawful Oaths which had prepossessed the souls and consciences of most of us in England not only of Subjects as those of Allegiance and Supremacy besides that of Ministerial Canonical obedience to our lawful Superiours but even the conscience of the late King as bound by his Coronation-Oath c. From which Oaths as we know no absolution so neither can there be any superfetation of such a contradictory vow and Covenant without apparent perjury To all which I offer to consideration That the dissatisfaction of His late Majesty of Blessed Memory and in nothing more blessed than in the conscience He made of the Oath of God upon Him and the charge He hath left His now glorious Majesty That if God brought Him to His own Right on hard conditions He should be careful to performe what He should promise that is now beyond dispute and His Majesty that now is not only free from those Fetters which restrained His Royal Father but also is engaged in the same League and Covenant and this supposed contradiction cast out of doors and as to the contradiction of the Covenant to the Oaths of Allegiance and Supremacy non constat it appeares not nor would it ever as it hath done have quickned the hearts of some to suffer for and to struggle under their Loyalty untill His Majesties Honourable Restitution if it were so repugnant to them Let its contradiction in this point be noted and we shall speak to it and as to that of Canonical obedience to our lawful Superiors its contradiction is suggested with an If it be so interpreted Let the interpretation be cleared before the contradiction be concluded and argued for if that Oath did bind an obedience to Bishops as invested with paternal authority and as a distinct and superior order of Ministry and it s unexplained etcaetera included more a grating upon and piercing to the quick this Oath was no other but duty and then the Argument is of no more force save to speak the fretting of their spirits who foolishly sware they know not what and now desire to maintain it more for fancy than conscience for it is not yet proved that such are lawful superiors in Church or State His seventh Answer or Argument is ab incommodo the inconvenience which must be very great and visible if it discharge an Oath And here he tells us It must needs run us upon a great Rock of not only Novelty but Schisme c. unto which I desire Sir you will please to observe 1. The loss we are at by the uncertainty of the object he urgeth this Argument with his universal discretive all Episcopal order and government We must Sir have a clear Notion of Episcopal Order and Government before we can with care shun the Schism nor is it explained to us by the general terms of Practice and Judgement of the Catholick Church in all ages and places till of later dayes for we know that superiority and paternal power over other Bishops and Ministers did too soon appear and too universally spread after the Apostles days unto the advancement of the man of sin though it prevailed not without great reluctancy and its removal hath been aimed at and endeavored by the Reformation Again must we take it for granted that conformity is essential to communion with the Church and agreement in discipline unavoidally necessary to union Certai●ly if so we must make the very form of Discipline an Article of our Creed And truly Sir the jus divinum or Apostolical institution of the form he seems to plead for lieth too much in the dark for such a conclusion and therefore the most himself tells us of it is That it looks like an immediate institution of Christ preceptive and explicite or tacite and exemplary pag. 13. but he knows not whether yet well knows simile non est idem and therefore he here calls it but an ancient tradition and universal observation and then the 34 th Article of the Church of England secureth us from this Rock of Schisme whilst it teacheth us 39 Articles of Religion in the Convocation held 1562. It is not necessary that traditions be in all places one and utterly alike c. In Politicks we well know different forms of Administration are consistent with union in the same Kingdome and Communion in the same Government It is no strange thing to see Corporations in England governed by their twelve Jurors without a Mayor and Court of Aldermen but it would be thought very strange from thence to charge them with sedition and it must be a jus divinum and immediate institution not Apostolical tradition or Universal observation must bar us from the priviledges any more than the dictated properties common to all policy Moreover Sir if this form of Discipline which he noteth some few Reformed Churches of later dayes want though they do not contemne but approve and venerate in others be so necessary a