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The Samaritan showing that many and unnecessary impositions are not the oil that must…The Samaritan shewing that many and unnecessary impositions are not the oyl that must…
The Samaritan showing that many and unnecessary impositions are not the oil that must heal the church together with the way or means to do it / by a country gentleman who goes to common-prayer and not to meetings.The Samaritan shewing that many and unnecessary impositions are not the oyl that must heal the church together with the way or means to do it / by a country gentleman who goes to common-prayer and not to meetings.
London: printed for Tho. Simmons, 1682
Modern spelling is a reading aid: the words are the author’s, only the spelling is modernized. Original shows the page as printed, with the transcription marks.
Redintigrationem amicitiae necessario sequi debet officiorum sedula communicatio atque familiaritas. Amyrald ubi supra.
The Last Proposal I have to offer, that is the Twenty-Fourth and chiefest, & therefore reserved to the last, is this: Let these Tolerated Churches be made, and then reputed Parts of the National Church, whereof the King is the Head. What other Head to find for it, under that Consideration, after all that hath of late been said concerning it, I am as yet to seek. If the Bishops be made ⟨p. 96⟩the Head of the National-Church, by the same Reason all the Bishops of the Christian World must be the Head of the Universal Church; (and indeed, those that affirm the One, affirm the Other) which some Men will say, is French Popery; and I know not how to confute them. If the Arch-Bishops be the Head of the Church, it will be enquired, whether they claim their Title Jure Divino, or Humano? If Jure Divino, they must prove it, which will not easily be done: If Jure Humano, I hope they will grant the King Superior to them, and that they are but His Officers and Delegates; which is the same thing that I desire, and which is agreeable to the Opinion of our First Reformers, as is apparent in Dr. Burnet's History of the Reformation: For Cranmer took a Commission from K. Edward, by which he held his Bishopric, and exercised his Jurisdiction. Vid. Par. 2. pag. 6. And so Bonner had done before him, from King Henry the Eighth. Vid. Par. 1. l. 3. p. 267. And this is the same thing, that hath been lately proposed by that Thoughtful Man, Mr. Humphrey, in the End of a Discourse written by Himself and Others, and dedicated to the Right Honourable, the Earl of Halifax, that great and sagacious Statesman. I know some Men are Deaf Adders, who will not be brought to regard it, let a Man have Charmed never so wisely; but These (I take it) are such only, who are Enemies to Peace, and will part with nothing for the sake of it.
The Last Proposal I have to offer, that is the Twenty-Fourth and chiefest, & therefore reserved to the last, is this: Let these Tolerated Churches be made, and then reputed Parts of the National Church, whereof the King is the Head. What other Head to find for it, under that Consideration, after all that hath of late been said concerning it, I am as yet to seek. If the Bishops be made