242 Mr. NE AL'S IIa Vol. of the the Provincial Bifhops to perform, as (hall be lhew'd hereafter.' Variety of Authorities, in confutation of this Af- fection, may be met with in the Books refer'd to in the * Margin. Neal, p. 413. The Root and Branch Petition was prefented to the Houfe, December r r, 1640. by iIlderman Pennington, and others, in the Name of his Majefty's Subjets in and about the City of London, and the adjacent Counties. Dr. Nalfon fays of it, as follows ; t ' That which is the moft obfervable in thefe Mechanick Statefnen and Divines, is their quarrelling the E- pifeopal FunUion, as invading the Rights of the ' Crown, when with the fame Ink they were la- c bouring to divert their Sovereign of that glorious Flower of his Imperial Crown, of being over all Perfons Supreme Governor ; endeavouring to de- ' molifh and pull down that Church, Root and ' Branch, whereof he, by folemn Oath, was ac- knowledged political Head ; the Reformation whereof, however publick Perfons might pretend to, yet they being private, could not have the leaf{ Colour to attempt.' Neal, p. 418. Two Days after the delivery of this Petition, [viz. of the Minifters for the Reforma- tion of the Hierarchy] fan. 25. his Majefty came a Abrahami Ecchelen/'s Eutychius vindicatus ; five refponfto ad Johannis Seldeni Origines AQlexandrinas, &c. Rom 1661. Morinus, de Ecclefiæ Ordinationibus, Paris 1653. p. 151. Hoo- ker's Ecclefiaftical Polity, Book 7. Se&. r. Bp. Hall's De- fence of the Mumble Remonftrance, p. 62. Dr. Hammond's Differtation again ft Blondell, x. and xi. Chapters. Pierfon's Vin- diciæ Epiflolar. S. Ignatii, Par. T. Chap. x. xi. Bp. Stilling- fleet's Ordination Sermon. Sermons, p. 371. Bp. Hoadley's Defence of Epifcopal Ordination, p. 418, 4z t. Maurice's Vin- dication of the Primitive Church, p. 433. Scriveneri Apolo- gia pro Ecclefiâ Anglicanâ, p. St, Sa, Xaafon, Vol. 3. p. 664< to
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