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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A28225	Unity of priesthood necessary to the unity of communion in a church with some reflections on the Oxford manuscript and the preface annexed : also a collection of canons, part of the said manuscript, faithfully translated into English from the original, but concealed by Mr. Hody and his prefacer.	Bisbie, Nathaniel, 1635-1695.	1692 (1692)	Wing B2985; ESTC R31591	83,217	72

Hebraei that whilst the Jews were governed De Success in Pontific l. 2. c. 5 6 10. Lond. 1636. by their own Laws the Legitimate Succession where no impediments prevented ever took place and that it was high injustice to reject or expell any to whom the Priesthood belonged unless some or more of those irregularities were really to be found upon him The Crime indeed of Abiathar being no less than a Crime of High Treason could not but be animadverted upon But then the Crime being Capital and the High Priest the Criminal we may well conclude that before ever Solomon thrust him from the Priesthood the Sanedrim had previously judged and passed their Sentence upon him And so it fared with Joab one of his fellow Criminals for it is plain if Josephus says true That before Ant. l. 7 8. c. 11. Edit Gen. 1634. ever Solomon sent Bennajah to fall upon him he first sent him to fetch him from the Altar in order to bring him 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 to the Seat of Judicature there to purge himself if he could And if this formality was used towards Joab before ever the command was given to have him slain it 's probable the like was used towards Adonijah the King's Brother before he was slain and the like also to Abiathar before he was thrust from the Priesthood Nay though it should be true as some assert That the Kings of Judah were more absolute in their Authority than the Kings of Israel and did not always so formally proceed by way of Justice as the other did and that this proceeding against Abiathar might be one of those extraordinary instances of their power yet this is certain that they had th●ir standing Courts of Judicature all the Land over for the right and full administration of Justice to all sorts and degrees of Men the chiefest of all which and to which the last Appeal was made was ever at Jerusalem as being most near unto the King Thus Jehosaphat having constituted Judges throughout all the fenced Cities of the Land is said to have done the same at Jerusalem setting Amariah the High Priest over all in the matters of the 2 Chron. 19. 11. Lord and Zebadiuh the Son of Ishmael for all the King's matters the Secular concerns to be transacted by the King through the assistance of his Secular Judges and the Ecclesiastical by the Ministery of his Ecclesiasticks In like manner David having set out the form of the Temple and given Solomon directions for the building and ordering of it leaves him to his Priests and Levites to be farther advised The courses saith he of the Priests and Levites shall be with thee for all the service of the House of God And I dare say this power so fixed and 1 Chron. 28. 21. managed cannot but be thought so just and reasonable that as the Church of England hath all along granted it to their Kings so there is not at this time one Church-Man of the old Foundation among us that will deny it them but wish that it were so are troubled that it is not so nay can say By the waters of Babylon we sit down and weep whilst we remember thee O Sion 34. I confess there are not instances wanting in History to shew that it hath often been the practice of Emperors and Kings by their own Authority and without concerning themselves at all with a Synod to depose Bishops and thrust them from their Bishopricks But then this hath been as Petrus de Marca observes in apertissima Canonem violati Lib. 4. cap. 6. Part 1. in such cases only where the Canons of the Church have been most notoriously and scandalously violated so notoriously that there needed no proof as to matter of fact nor any thing farther to be done but to apply the punishment And of this he gives us two instances in reference to the case in hand The one of Justinian the Emperor and the other of Zeno the first deposing Anthimus for that contrary to the Canon he had deserted his own Church and invaded the See of Constantinople the latter for doing the same thing to Peter surnamed Moggus for that contrary to the Canon he had seized upon the Patriarchship of Alexandria Timothy the lawfull Bishop thereof and under Banishment being not yet dead And referring us to the Acts of the Council held by Mena at Constantiople he farther tells us That such violations aut à Principe Loco citat aut a Synodo castigari posse may be punished either by the Prince or by a Synod But now for Emperors or Kings to take this power upon them when there is no breach of Canon nay when it is contrary and contradictory to all Canon and purely for their own Will and Pleasure or because it may serve their Interest to have others in their Places and Bishopricks that may lick their spittle and cry 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 to them in all their actions This certainly must be pernicious and fatal to the Church and can bode nothing less than an utter and speedy ruine to it Of what dismal consequences this kind of dispositions have been and what sad and deplorable mischiefs they have brought along with them to the most flourishing Churches in the World I shall in a more particular manner evidence from the Jewish and Greek Churches being provoked thereunto by some of the late Treatisers 35. And because the Jewish Church offers it self first to our View I shall consider it first and shew what Success it met with whilst it was thus rid Josephus tells us that the first that ever executed this deposing Ant. l. 15. c. 3. Power was Antiochus who depriving Onias put Jason into his place a fitting Priest for so wicked a Tyrant For no sooner was he made so Lib. de Mac. cap. 4. saith the same Author but he forced all the People to Impiety and to forsake Religion Nay such saith the Author of the Book of Maccabees was the height of Greek Fashions and encrease of Heathenish Manners through 2 Mac. cap. 4. 13 14. the exceeding Prophaneness of Jason that ungodly Wretch that the Priests had no courage to serve any more at the Altar but despising the Temple and neglecting the Sacrifices hastened to be partakers of the unlawfull Allowance in the place of Exercise not setting by the Honour of their Fathers but liking the Glory of the Grecians by reason whereof sore Calamity came upon them About three years after Menelaus had Jason laid aside and himself put into the 2 Mac. 4. 24. Jos Ant. l. 12. cap. 15. High Priesthood though he was not 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 of the race of the High Priests He saith the Book of Maccabees came with the King's Mandate having nothing worthy of the High Priesthood but having the fury 2 Mac. 4. 25. of a cruel Tyrant and the rage of a savage Beast And such an one he was for he stole certain