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I.
APPENDIX
a
Bithop, z.
You
make me to do
it
in
order
co
prove the
Power of
Minders
có
impofe Hands
on the Confirmed
and
Reconciled,
when even Bilhop
Downame
brought
in
that
and thefe
Teftimonies thereto,
but
as
fubfèrvient to the
orhers.
But
perhaps
I
left
you
fotne oçcafion
of
this
tiiiflake,
to charge me with the
Words
of
the Bithop:
No,
none
at all,
I
enclofed
his
Words
with
this Mark
[
]
and
af-
ter I wrote
[fo
far
Bithop
Downame]
that there
might
be
no
place
for
fuch
an
Overfight. But where
you
talk
of
[but two Authors] for this
I thought
you had
known
how
eafÿ
it
is
to bring
more
:
For
if it
be
the Ceremony
of
favoring
Hands
that you would deny
to the
Presbyters, it was
fo
far
from being denied them
anciently,
that even
the
Englifh Bithops allowed
it them
in
Ordination,
which
is
the
greater.
If
you mean the
Power of
Confirming and Reconciling, it's known
the
Bishops
might delegate Presbyters to ir, and the
Corepifcopi
ufed it
a
yea, Peel-
byters I think in
fome Cafes. And for
Reconciliation, Bithop
Ufher
tells
you in the
Words
I
cited, that
even Deacons
ufed it
or had
it
:
Yet
is
not the Teftimony
of
thofe Authors contemptible ;
that
afcribed
to
Ambrofe,
is
taken by
Erafmus
to
be
Re-
migius
or
Anfelme ;
by Maldonate
to
be Remigiur,
by
Brugenfs
and
Bellarmine
to
be
Hiiarius
Diatoms:.
And
well
might
Downame
alledge them againft the Papifls
when
BellarmPne,
the
Rhemifls,
Alan, and others
fo
efteem them and
quote them,
as
Ambraj when
it
ferves
their
turns. And
for the
Book
of
ueit.
in vet.
er
note.
7é/l.t.
T
he
Papills citing it
(
.Bellarmine,
Harding, Turrian,
Eckuts,
Cope,
Rbemiffs,
&e.
)
Downame
might
well cite
it ad
Hominem;
yea,
ad
Rem,
it
being
matter
of
Fall
that
he fpeaks to, and the
Author
fo
ancient, that
Hierome
feems
to
take
notice
of
him.
Except.
to
Sett.
29.
In
all
this
you
fee I
have
not
difputed the Cafe with him
(but
only difcovered
to
you
his
manner)
for
that
he
himlelf
profeffes
he
is
refolved
in
this Book
to
for-
bear the Difpute,
p.
i9.
princip.
er
pag.
77. he would
give
us
to
underhand that he
bath
much more behind that he can
fay by
way
of
Argument (for
this
is
only
cry-
ing out, Popery,
Popifh,
&r.)
for Presbyters
Power
of
Governing, Excommuni-
eating, ordaining without
a Bilhop.
Let
him
be
intreated
to
do
it,
and
lay
aide
his poor
kind
of calumniating
his
Adverfary, and deal Chriftianly by Arguments
only, and he
(hall
loon be anfwered, I
believe.
For
the prefent he may know
his
Papers prevail
not,
but
only
provoke chafe he writes againft.
,
Reply to
Sea..
29.
It's
Brange
that to
call
a
Papift
a
Papift
fhould be
accounted
Calumniation!
I
profefs
to
fpeak
of
none but
Caffandrien
Papifls. I name none,
They that
are
nor
fuch,
have
no
reafon
to
fay
that Icalumniate them, when I
profeffedly accept,
and
and honour, and
feek
Reconciliation with them.
They that
are fuch, methinks,
fhould
not
be
afhamed
of
it. It's
an
ill Religion which
a Matz muff be afham
d
of
;
and an
ill
Profef ion
that
is
afhamed
of
a
true Religion.
z.
That
my Papers
pre-
vailnot
but provoke,
is
no
wonder;
a.
The
Papills I
expelled
to provoke by dif
-
covering their Defigns, and attempted not to prevail with them.
2.
The
Prote-
ftants whom
I
fpoke
to may
be prevailed
with for ought you know
:
All be
not
of
one
Spirit.
If
they
be
not, I
have Comfort
in
following Peace
as
far
as
I could,
which they will never
find
in
flying from it. While every
Man mull
be
a
Pope,
and reduce
all
the World to
his infallible
judgment
as
the only means to Peace,
and
will agree with none but
Men
of
his
ownPrinciples,
no
wonder
if
Pacificatory
At
tempts are fruftrate..
Durand,
Acentiets,
Davenant,
Hall, MelanPboss,
&c. found
that
better,
Labours than mine have been fruflrate, for
Unity,
I
biefs
God,
my
Succefs
is
far more
than ever
I
did expelf
; but
it
is
with
the
Sons
of
Peace.
Excep. to
Seib.
30.
Thefe
things
(hall
be defended againft him
(through God's Grace)
:
t.
That if
there
be
no
Bifhop in
any
Diocefs, yet
in
a
National
Church,
where many
Bithops
had
united themfelves to govern parts of one National
Church, they ought
to have
recourfe
to
force neighbour Bilhop.
a.
That if
Presbyters
(in defell of
Bithops)
might Ordain,
Excommunicate
;'yet
not
one tingle Presbyter.
;.
That
fuch
as
were never
Ordained
by Bithops
where they might,
are none
of
of
thefe Presbyters
;
none
at
all.
Reply
to Sect.
;o.
I
am
of
as
quarrelfom a
Nature
as
others
;
but
yet
I
will
not be
provoked
to turn
a
conciliatory
Defgn
into
a
Contention,
and
if I
would,
your Quell
ions
are ill fit-
ted
to our
ufe.
t.
The Firfì
will neceffarily carry
us
to difpute the
7w
Divinum
of
Bithops,
which I purpofely avoid,
and i; fhould be after
the
haft.
a.,
The
Second
C
if