The works of ..vindicating the church of England, as truly christian, and duly reformed: in eight books of ecclesiastical polityNow compleated, as with the sixth and eighth, so with the seventh, (touching episcopacy, as the primitive, catholick and apostolick government of the church) out of his own manuscripts, never before publishedWith an account of his holy life, and happy death . his matter, S that which in the title hath been propofed for the matter where-of we treat, is onely the Ecclefiaftical Law whereby we are Go-verned ; So neither is it my purpofe to maintain any otherthing, then t
The works of ..vindicating the church of England, as truly christian, and duly reformed: in eight books of ecclesiastical polityNow compleated, as with the sixth and eighth, so with the seventh, (touching episcopacy, as the primitive, catholick and apostolick government of the church) out of his own manuscripts, never before publishedWith an account of his holy life, and happy death . his matter, S that which in the title hath been propofed for the matter where-of we treat, is onely the Ecclefiaftical Law whereby we are Go-verned ; So neither is it my purpofe to maintain any otherthing, then that which therein triita and rcafon fliall approve-For concerning the dealings of men who adminilter Govern-ment, and unto whom the execution of that law belongeth , ,they have their Judge who litteth in Heaven, and before whofeTribunal Seat they are accountable for wliatfuever abiife or cor-ruption, wliicii (being worthily milliked in this Church) the want either ot care orufconfcience in them hath are no Patrons of thofe things therefore; thebeft defence whereof is fpeedy redrefs and amendment. That which i» of God wedefend, f o the uttermoll of that ability which he hath given: that which is other-wife, let it wither even in the root from whenceit hathfpnmg. Wherefbie all thefeabiifes being fevered and fet apart, which rife from the ton uption of men, and not from. EccleJiaJIical ^Politte. ^p from the Laws themfelves : Come we to thofe things which in the very whojeintire fomof our Church-Polity have been (as vve perfwade oiir felves) inj:iri-oufly blamed by them who indeavour to overthrow the fame, andinileadtnereof toeibbhfh a muchworfej onely through a llrongmifconceit they have, that the fame isgrounded on Divine Authority. Now, whether it be that through an earnelUon^-in;j deliret> fee things broight to a peaceable end, I do but imagine the matterswhereof we contend, to be fewer then indeed they are ; or elfe for that in truth tiieyarefewerwhefitiiey cometo
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