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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A92025	A reply to the answer of Anonymus to Doctor Gauden's Analysis of the sense of the covenant: and under that, to a later tract of one Mr Zach. Crofton of the same fraternity with him. By John Rowland Oxoniensis, CCC. Rector of Footscray in Kent.	Rowland, John, 1606-1660.	1660 (1660)	Wing R2070; Thomason E1038_4; ESTC R207862	40,193	52

that hath made such a rent in the Church for the devil and all his works to enter by against which we covenanted in Baptism and being you can finde no shelter for it in the New Testament you have recourse to the Old and there you are in as bad a case for unless you will make use of Korah and his Conspiracy I know not what precept or pattern you finde for it for you produce none onely you make a question Is there no precept nor pattern for covenanting against our English Episcopacy and you make your own answer There is not any for it I say nor is it much material that he hath found none against it for we can finde no such Episcopacy in the New Testament nor warranted by it But we can finde patterns of Episcopacy both in the Old and New Testament that were not barely typical but an excellent form of Church-Government by High Priests Priests and Levites by the apostles extraordinary in whose room our ordinary Bishops succeeded under whom were the 70. the Presbyters in a large sense sometimes called Bishops also and under them the Deacons This is as clear from the New Testament as noon day in the Acts of the Apostles St. Paul to Titus and Timothy c. and he must wilfully shut his eyes that sees not the distinction of these Offices in the Church which continued from the primitive times until this late Covenanting way pat the Church of God into a confusion and sought to destroy all order and uniformity and I think they are no little proud of it that without either Precept or Pattern were the first inventers of it and would fain propagate it to future times but I hope they will be deceived for it hath cost men so dear already that it is probable they will take warning and learn to be wiser hereafter We have shewed you ground enough for establishing Episcopacy shew us as much if you can for your Piesb terial Government The Covenant is not onely against his adored Episcopacy but in the full latitude extended against Popery heresie schism c. how chance then you break it by being so schismatical profaneness and whatsoever is contrary to sound doctrine c. and for Preservation and Reformation of Religion c. It s well you put Preservation first and we wish you had done so for where you begin to resorm you destroy all witness your information of the Liturgy casting it quite out of doors You say it was not made onely against Episcopacy but it was principally as if that were worse then Popery for you must it seemes stretch it in its full latitude to take in Popery heresie or any thing else and had it not been that Episcopacy stood in your way which you knew not how to remove your Covenant had never been made against any of the rest or else surely you would as there was always cause enough have entred into it long before but Popery heresie schism and all that you were pleased to make to depend upon Episcopacy in the Covenant were onely added to perswade the people who understood no better that Episcopacy was the foundation of them all You have put in also many sweet ingredients to make it go down the better to maintain true Religion You have maintained it fairly Defence of His Majesties person And did you not well defend him Ad populum phaleras And why are you so offended with the Doctor to throw off and abominate the Covenant meerly for onely one single Clause for extirpating the late Hierarchy if so intended You did intend it sure enough and therefore is that single Clause sufficient were it not safer to throw the Covenant away than to take it when the poison lies close in it is discovered Speak I pray you or else let some men of more reason and religion answer for you For the Doctor to desor be particularly what Episcopacy he would have retroduced I think you understand his meaning or let me tell you such as it was before your Covenant drove it out onely with this limitation that particular mens errors should not be imputed to the Government which allows them not but declaims against them You say you might leave it to all sober Christians how little your Covenant differs from the Covenant of Baptism c. wherein every man stipulateth to deny all ungodliness and to live soberly c. If you will leave it so I am certain you will be condemned by them for it for they were no sober Christians that penned the Covenant but hot-spurs and fiery zealots who will force all men to be guided by what they please to set up as Nebuchadaezar did his golden image that every man must fall down and worship it do you say how little your Covenant differs from the sacred Covenant of Baptism You gave that Epithere Sacred to your Covenant before and do you th●nk they are so much of a kinde because of that they differ toto coelo they are no more like as the Proverb is than chalk and cheese and I believe I may safely call it blasphemy to compare the factious Contrivances of seditious men to Gods sacred Ordinances And what you insist upon concerning the Baptismal Covenant to strengthen yours is but vain babling for it signifies nothing to any understanding man Do true Christians truly entred in o the Baptismal Covenant break it by wilful and presumptuous sins Because the Doctor said we break our Covenant in Baptism by wilful and presumptuous sins did you never sin wilfully since you were baptized is all weaknesses with you who I might say have wilfully and maliciously contrary to Gods Law fallen away from your due obedience to your Governors and erected a Covenant a Calf in Horeb to make your selves famous amongst the congregation and to exalt your selves above your Superiors you take too much upon you ye sons of Levi. You say you have insisted upon this the longer because of the Doctors words That by repentance we renew our Covenant in Baptism surely say you no more then it renews the remission of our sins which no repentance but Christ in Baptism hath bestowed upon us once for all Thus you trifle away the time by sinister interpretations of what will admit a very safe and Orthodox construction for without Christs merits all Baptism and Repentance is of none effect yet you have a very acute nose that you can smell here a strong savour of Arminianism and Popery I shall make amends by brevity in the rest You need not have croubled us with so much idle discourse as you have done Whereas the Doctor saith That there is neither Law of God or man requiring or comprobating any such Covenant at the best it is but a matter of Will-worship of human private invention c. an Engine framed of purpose to batter down Episcopacy to seize their Estates and the Church-patrimony to the great enrichment of some sacrilegious Protestants to the great joy of