Answ. I have heard that Dr. Ames had so much charity for Corvinus, that he said, He did not doubt but to meet him in Heaven: Why then Mr. Baynes passeth, and Dr. Ames approveth such a smart Censure on the Bishops Families, I cannot tell. Yet 'tis not to be imagined that Mr. P. Baynes meant that the Bishops had no Religion in their Families; If so, I cannot commend his Charity. I think this is a sure and clear truth, That neither Bishops not silenced Ministers can ⟨p. 114⟩be said to have all Religion or no Religion amongst them and their Followers. I hold a Monopoly in Religion as unlawful, as some have thought those in the State illegal. Never the-less it must be confessed, That the Articles of Visitation, or the Injunctions of the Great Apostle St. Paul, are Canonical: A Bishop must rule his own House well; for if a man know not how to rule his own House, how shall he take care of the Church of God? 1 Tim. 3.4, 5. He that writes the Life of Archbishop Usher, tells us, That he had four times a day Prayer in his House; that there was an hour spent in Catechising once a Week, viz. every Friday; that he had on the Lords day in the Evening the Sermon which he preached in the Morning, repeated in his Chapel by one of his Chaplains. This was the way to have a Church in his House. All Bishops do not write after this Canon, nor this Copy. I know a Minister, a learned, sober, and zealous Conformist, that after he had been with his Diocesan, at his House or Palace, to subscribe; came home with a sad heart, and professed it was not for any thing he had done, but for the profaneness and disorder he observed in the Bishops Family amongst his Servants. 'Tis to the great commendation of the present Archbishop of Canterbury, that which is reported of him, That he keeps a good House; that is, in Bishop Goodman's Dialect, he spends Church-Means in a Churchly manner: And that ⟨p. 115⟩he keeps a well-governed House, allows not Debauchery; if a Servant be drunk once, there's no place for a second Error. If so, it must be acknowledged that there is Discipline in that School, where nothing saves but a primum tempus.
Answ. I have heard that Dr. Ames had so much charity for Corvinus, that he said, He did not doubt but to meet him in Heaven: Why then Mr. Baynes passeth, and Dr. Ames approveth such a smart Censure on the Bishops Families, I cannot tell. Yet 'tis not to be imagined that Mr. P. Baynes meant that the Bishops had no Religion in their Families; If so, I cannot commend his Charity. I think this is a sure and clear truth, That neither Bishops not silenced Ministers can ⟨p. 114⟩be said to have all Religion or no Religion amongst them and their Followers. I hold a Monopoly in Religion as unlawful, as some have thought those in the State illegal. Never the-less it must be confessed, That the Articles of Visitation, or the Injunctions of the Great Apostle St. Paul, are Canonical: A Bishop must rule his own House well; for if a man know not how to rule his own House, how shall he take care of the Church of God? 1 Tim. 3.4, 5. He that writes the Life of Archbishop Usher, tells us, That he had four times a day Prayer in his House; that there was an hour spent in Catechising once a Week, viz. every Fryday; that he had on the Lords day in the Evening the Sermon which he preached in the Morning, repeated in his Chappel by one of his Chaplains. This was the way to have a Church in his House. All Bishops do not write after this Canon, nor this Copy. I know a Minister, a learned, sober, and zealous Conformist, that after he had been with his Diocesan, at his House or Palace, to subscribe; came home with a sad heart, and professed it was not for any thing he had done, but for the prophaness and disorder he observed in the Bishops Family amongst his Servants. 'Tis to the great commendation of the present Archbishop of Canterbury, that which is reported of him, That he keeps a good House; that is, in Bishop Goodman's Dialect, he spends Church-Means in a Churchly manner: And that ⟨p. 115⟩he keeps a well-govern'd House, allows not Debauchery; if a Servant be drunk once, there's no place for a second Error. If so, it must be acknowledged that there is Discipline in that School, where nothing saves but a primum tempus.
