The Honour of theMariedClergic. -Rome, for her tyrannous Primacy, could bring forth buc fuch Car.is , the world wouldbe mo frrai t fur her. Helhall (m•ugre)be forced to confelfe,that eitherthcre were never trueOrders in the Churchof England (which he dues nnt fay) or elfe thottheyarefiillOms. TheBofbops in the time ofKingH<IIf}thceigh r, \Tcre undoubted; If they left Rome in fame correlted opinions, theirCh!falter was yet, by confeffion, • indelible. They laid their hands according mEccle6Jfticall coofiimtion, upon theBilbops in King E!dtJP~rds dayes; and they bothupon theBilbops in the beginningofQueene E!lizdeth; They-againc, upon the fucceeding · Inheritorsof their half- Sees, and they lafHy u~n us; 10 as never man could fbew a o,n,;.,,,,,;;,,,. ( more certaine and exquifite pedegree from his great Grandfather, then wee can from theacknowledged Bifuops of KingHeiJries time, and thence upw21ds ro hun- 1 dreds ofGenerations. I confeffe indeed , ourArchbifuops and Bi!hops havewanted "". f<Ium fome Aaronicall accoull:rerneors, Gloves, Rings, Sandals, Mirers, and Pall, and ~~;;!~;,.::. fuch other trafh: and oar inferioorOrders have wanted Oreazingand Shaving, and .,1/.,.J, 8 ,,._ fame other pelting Ceremonies. Buc let c. E!. prove thefc effentiall which wee P"tJo+<.ro. want, or thofe Afls and Formes noteffentiall which we have, E!l PhJIIida fol"' hakto. In themeane time, theChurch ofEngland is blelled with a true Ciergie, and glorious; and fuch aone, as his Italian genemion may impotently envy, and fnarle ar, !hall never prefumerocompete with, in worthinetfeand honour; And (as DoQor T •Jiir, that couragious Martyr, faid at his parting) BlrJTedkeGodfor hol; MatrillllnJ. S,;cT. XVIII. MYC3villerpnrpofelymiftakesmy rule of B•fil the Great, and my rexr ofthe ~,fo,; Great Apo{\le,whiles from borh lrefolvc chn<: Ipaf{e not r>hatlheare ""' ' or j Angels faJ, whdt I heareGod fitJ, Let him het he HuJbandofoneWif : he will ne.ed.Co con{\rueic, as ifl tookc this ot S. l'A•tls fur • eommmd, not toran allowance: As if!) meant to imply from hence, that every Bi<boptSbound ro have awife. Whoisfo blindasthewilfQII? TheirLeo•ca!lsrh fewordsJ Preccption, I did nor. Jf he •uot;S1.<h.<· knew any thing, he could not be ign..>r n: thac tht5Jenf<isagainfhhe{\reameofiS<. r,.,,"" ourChurch, and no letfe then aOreci>< ·;rc.u . Who knowe~ noc the extreamesof ('"''; '" Greece and Rome, and theTrack ot T""hbetwixt them both? TheGreekChurch :;~· ' Htc6nRot bein hofJ Oriers, that k n~t married: The Romi!h Church faith, He inhoiJortkrs,th•t is ma!ied: The Church RefOrmed fayes,He11faJ beiiJhoiJ w'''"''-'''"'is m•ried, andconvertibiJ- Some good friends would needs fetch as into Grecifine, and to the fociety of the old Frifons •, and (ifSaintieroiJie •ft,.a-.,. rakeiraright oflligila6ti11s) EJPence~,& Bellarmi11e, & our Rhemifts free us. '""'""·'· is no kiTe d11ference betwixt them and us, then betwixt May and Mufi; Libeny and Necet!ity. Ifthen (Let him he tht H•sbamlofoneWife) argue that a Bifhopmly be amaried man, I have what I would , and paffe not for thecontrary from Men and Angels. Wewillingly grant with Lttlher, that thisch>rge is negative: Non vel•t dicit, faith chrJfoftonu. But this negative charge implies an affirmative we feeke for no more: As for the authoriti<S which my Dereltor bath . ofhisUnclesofRh<mes, they might have been well fpared: He tells us, ••f•'·P·••·••· Samt Jerome fayes, ffl.!ti unam habutrit,nonhde61;He who hathh•do~<e Wife, not he th•t h4thom; I tell himSaintPaulfaith, •(•ln<i"') if 4"J man be th< H<HbamlofoneWift, not, Ifhe hove been. Let' SaintCh'1foft•methereiH anfwer Hierome and E!plphaniiH, and all other : objfr~tere pror( 111 inttfJd# h£retic()rU.ora,f/Hin11pti• •rl•mn•nt · toJI•P the tJtONthJ ofHmt>rkr,thdl comlemnedma- .......-,r•·, 1vpreciouJ, that with it amanmight kt~rJePilfcol>a/1 Ch,<ir. their learned ' Bifbop E!JPtttc.tNS fethisfenfe againO:all concradillion. ·de E!pifcopis, &c. For(flithhe)thoft placuofs.Paulconre'"ing Bill"""•''"'"·'-.. De6<ons,c4/lnot befo el•rled,M th., th'] doe 0111) belong to"''" thot h•ve
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