Answ. 'Tis I think to use Moderation, to rule with Love, and not with Rigour; and that notwithstanding some young Counsellors, some Hotspurs, may advise them, as of old the young men did Rehoboam; when their Brethren come to them, and say, Your Fore-fathers (or your Predecessors divers of them) made our Yoke grievous: Now therefore make ye, we pray you, the grievous Service of your Fore-fathers, and their heavy Yoke which they put upon us, lighter, and we will serve you: To say to them, Our little Finger shall be heavier than our Fore-fathers Loins; and now whereas they did lade you with a heavy Yoke, we will add to your Yoke: Our Fore-fathers chastised you with Whips, but we will chastise you with Scorpions. The deeper you lay the Foundation in Humility, and the broader in Charity, the higher you may probably build your House, and it may likewise stand the longer. A well-grounded Jus Humanum, may stand longer than a high-built pretended Jus Divinum. And Reason shows, saith one, that Episcopacy will stand more firm in conjunction with Presbytery, than by it self alone. There be two circumstances; saith my Lord Chancellor ⟨p. 135⟩Bacon, wherein I could never be satisfied; the one, the sole exercise of their Authority; the other, the deputation of their Authority. For the first, he saith, surely I do suppose (and I think upon good ground) that ab initio non fuit ita. And that the Deans and Chapters were Counsels about the Seas and Chairs of Bishops at the first, and were unto them a Presbytery or Consistory. And again, we see that the Bishop of Rome (Fas est & ab hoste doceri, and no question in that Church the first Institutions were excellent) performeth all Ecclesiastical Jurisdiction, in Consistory, with advice, that is, of the Cardinals or Parish-Priests of Rome. And hereof again (saith he) we see divers shadows yet remaining: as that the Dean and Chapter proformâ chooseth the Bishop, which is the highest point of Jurisdiction.
Answ. 'Tis I think to use Moderation, to rule with Love, and not with Rigor; and that notwithstanding some young Counsellors, some Hotspurs, may advise them, as of old the young men did Rehoboam; when their Brethren come to them, and say, Your Fore-fathers (or your Predecessors divers of them) made our Yoke grievous: Now therefore make ye, we pray you, the grievous Service of your Fore-fathers, and their heavy Yoke which they put upon us, lighter, and we will serve you: To say to them, Our little Finger shall be heavier than our Fore-fathers Loyns; and now whereas they did lade you with a heavy Yoke, we will adde to your Yoke: Our Fore-fathers chastised you with Whips, but we will chastise you with Scorpions. The deeper you lay the Foundation in Humility, and the broader in Charity, the higher you may probably build your House, and it may likewise stand the longer. A well-grounded Jus Humanum, may stand longer than a high-built pretended Jus Divinum. And Reason shews, saith one, that Episcopacy will stand more firm in conjunction with Presbytery, than by it self alone. There be two circumstances; saith my Lord Chancellor ⟨p. 135⟩Bacon, wherein I could never be satisfied; the one, the sole exercise of their Authority; the other, the deputation of their Authority. For the first, he saith, surely I do suppose (and I think upon good ground) that ab initio non fuit ita. And that the Deans and Chapters were Counsels about the Seas and Chairs of Bishops at the first, and were unto them a Presbytery or Consistory. And again, we see that the Bishop of Rome (Fas est & ab hoste doceri, and no question in that Church the first Institutions were excellent) performeth all Ecclesiastical Jurisdiction, in Consistory, with advice, that is, of the Cardinals or Parish-Priests of Rome. And hereof again (saith he) we see divers shadows yet remaining: as that the Dean and Chapter proformâ chooseth the Bishop, which is the highest point of Jurisdiction.
