Keimåelia 'ekklåesiastika, The historical and miscellaneous tracts of the Reverend and learned Peter Heylyn, D.D. now collected into one volume ... : and an account of the life of the author, never before published : with an exact table to the whole.

A TABLE OF THE CONTENTS.

The Way of the Reformation of the Church of England declared and justified.

SECT. I.

• I. THE Introduction shewing the Occasion, Method, and Design of the whole Dis∣course. Page 1
• I. Of Calling or Assembling the Convocation of the Clergy, and the Authority thereof when con∣vened together. Page 2
• II. Of the Ejection of the Pope, and vesting the Supremacy in the Regal Crown. Page 5
• III. Of the Translation of the Scriptures, and per∣mitting them to be read in the English Tongue. Page 7
• IV. Of the Reformation of Religion in the points of Doctrine. Page 10
• V. Of the Reformation of the Church of England in the Forms of Worship; and the times ap∣pointed thereunto. Page 14
• VI. Of the power of making Canons, for the well ordering of the Clergy, and the directing of the people in the publick duties of Religion. Page 18
• VII. An Answer to the main Objections of either Party. Page 20

SECT. II.

• I. That the Church of England did not innovate in the Ejection of the Pope, and setling the Su∣premacy in the Regal Crown. Page 23
• II. That the Church of England might proceed to a Reformation without the approbation of the Pope or the Church of Rome. Page 26
• III. That the Church of England might lawfully proceed to a Reformation without the help of a General Council, or calling in the aid of the Protestant Churches. Page 30
• IV. That the Church did not innovate in Transla∣ting the Scriptures and the publick Liturgy into vulgar Tongues, and of the Consequents thereof to the Church it self. Page 34
• V. That the proceedings of this Church in setting out the English Liturgy were not meerly Regal; and of the power of Sovereign Princes in Eccle∣siastical affairs. Page 38
• VI. That the Clergy lost not any of their just Rights by the Act of submission, and that the power of calling and confirming Councils did anciently belong to the Christian Princes. Page 41

Of Liturgies.

CHAP. I. What doth occur, and whether any thing at all, for set Forms of Prayer from the time of Adam unto Moses.

• I. PRayer, and the chief Exercise of publick Worship. Page 49
• II. The ground, use, and necessity of publick prayer. ibid.
• III. What priviledg belongs unto the Priest or Mi∣nister, in that part of Gods worship which consists in Prayer. Page 50
• IV. The inconvenience and confusion that must needs arise for want of set forms in the Worship of God. Page 51

• V. Liturgies, or set Forms of Prayer in use amongst all sorts of people, Jew, Gentiles, Chri∣stians. ibid.
• VI. The meaning of the werd Liturgy, 〈 in non-Latin alphabet 〉〈 in non-Latin alphabet 〉, in the Civil sense. Page 52
• VII. As also in the Ecclesiastical Notion of it. ib.
• VIII. Whether the Offerings of Cain and Abel were regulated by a prescribed Form. Page 53
• IX. A prescribed Form of Worship conceived by some to have been introduced by Enos. Page 54
• X. The Sacrifices and Devotions of the ancient Pa∣triarchs for the most part occasional only. Page 55
• XI. The consecrating of set places for Gods wor∣ship, first begun by Jacob. ibid.

CHAP. II. That from the time of Moses unto that of Da∣vid, the Jews were not without a Liturgy, or set Form of Worship.

• I. The Israelites in the Land of Egypt bad not the liberty of publick worship. Page 56
• II. That people made a constituted Church, first, in the time of Moses. Page 57
• III. The prescribed Rites and Form of Legal Sa∣crifices in the time of Moses. Page 58
• IV. Set Forms of Prayer and Benediction used at the offering of Sacrifices in the time of Moses. Page 59
• V. The Song of Moses made a part of the Jewish Liturgies. ibid.
• VI. The Form and Rites used in the celebration of the Passover, according to Joseph Scaliger. Page 60
• VII. The same, together with the Hymns then used, described by Beza. ibid.
• VIII. The several Prayers and Benedictions which were used therein, according to the Jewish Rab∣bins. Page 61
• IX. A form of Blessing of the people prescribed by God unto the Priests: a prescribed Form used by the people at the offering of their first fruits and tithes. Page 62
• X. The like in burning of their Leaven, and in confessing of their sins to Almighty God, as also in the excommunicating of impenitent per∣sons. Page 63
• XI. An Answer to two main Objections from, and against the Jewish Rabbins. Page 64
• XII. The Forms of Marriage, and Rites of Bu∣rial used amongst the Jews. Page 65

CHAP. III. Of the condition and estate of the Jewish Li∣turgy from the time of David unto Christ.

• I. Several hours of Prayer used among the Jews, and that the Prayers then used were prescribed Forms. Page 66
• II. The great improvement of the Jewish Liturgy, in the time of David, by the addition of Psalms and Instruments of Musick. Page 67
• III. The form of celebrating Gods publick service according to Davids Institutions, prescribed by the Jewish Rabbins. Page 68
• IV. The solemn form used in the Dedicating of the first and second Temples. Page 69
• V. The Temple principally built for an House of Prayer. Page 70
• VI. The several and accustomed Gestures used a∣mong the Jews, in the performance of Gods publick worship. ibid.
• VII. The weekly reading of the Law on the Sab∣bath days not used until the time of Ezra. Page 72
• VIII. The reading of the Law prescribed and re∣gulated according to the number of the Sections, by the care of Ezra, and of the 18 Benedictions by him composed. Page 73
• IX. The Exposition of the Law prescribed, regu∣lated, and ordered by the Authority of the Church. Page 74
• X. The first foundation of Synagogues, and Ora∣tories, and for what employments. Page 75
• XI. The Church of Jewry ordained Holy-days and prescribed forms of Prayer to be used there∣on. Page 76
• XII. Set days for publick Annual Fasts appoint∣ed by the Jewish Church, with a set form of Prayer agreeably to the occasion. Page 77
• XIII. The form of celebrating Gods publick Ser∣vice, according as it is described by Jesus the Son of Syrac. ibid.
• XIV. Jesus the Son of God conforms himself unto the Forms established in the Jewish Church. Page 78
• XV. A transition from the Forms received in the Jewish Church, to those in use among the Gen∣tiles, Page 79

CHAP. IV. That antiently the Gentiles had their Liturgies or prescribed Forms of Prayer and publick Worship of God.

• I. The use of Sacrifice amongst the Gentiles before Moses time. Page 80
• II. Times, Priests, and Temples, sanctified and selected by the Gentiles, for the publick service of their gods. ibid.
• III. A general proof, that antiently the Gentiles had their Liturgies, and set Forms of worship. Page 81
• IV. Preparatory Forms used at the celebration of their Sacrifices. Page 82
• V. The Rites and Forms used in the Sacrifice it self. Page 83
• VI. Several short forms of words observed amongst the Gentiles, both Greek and Latin, in their publick Sacrifices. Page 84

• VII. Set Forms of prayer used unto Jupiter, Mars, Janus, Juno, and other of the gods and god∣desses. Page 85
• VIII. The solemn Form used by the Gentiles in evocation of the gods of besieged Cities. Page 86
• IX. As also in devoting themselves, or Enemies, to a certain ruine, for preservation of the Common∣wealth. Page 87
• X. The several Gestures of the Gentiles in the act of publick Worship prescribed and regulated. ibid.
• XI. The Rites and Forms used by the Greeks par∣ticularly in their solemn Sacrifices. Page 89
• XII. A prescript Form of Matrimony amongst the Romans. ibid.

CHAP. V. That in the time of the Apostles Liturgies or set Forms of Ministration in the Christian Church, were composed and used.

• I. The Jews and Gentiles made one Church by Christ our Saviour. Page 91
• II. A Form of Prayer prescribed by Christ to his Disciples. Page 92
• III. The Institution of the Christian Sacrifice, with the set Form thereof by our Lord and Saviour. Page 93
• IV. That the Lords Prayer, with other Benedicti∣ons, were used by the Apostles in the celebration of the blessed Eucharist. Page 94
• V. A Form of celebrating Gods publick service, prescribed in the first of St. Paul to Timothy, according to the judgment of the Fathers. Page 95
• VI. The Form and manner of Gods publick Ser∣vice described in the first to the Corinthians. Page 96
• VII. The Hymns and Psalms used in the Church of Corinth, were not voluntary, but prescribed and set; and of the Musick therewith used. Page 97
• VIII. That 'tis probable, that the Apostles ordain∣ed Liturgies for the publick use. Page 98
• IX. What may be said, touching the Liturgies a∣scribed unto St. Peter, Mark, and James. Page 99
• X. The Form of ministring the Sacrament of the blessed Eucharist, described by Dionysius the Areopagite. Page 100
• XI. That of the ministring of the Sacrament of holy Baptism, described by him; and seconded by the Constitutions ascribed to Clemens. Page 101
• XII. Places appointed in this Age of Gods publick Worship, and honoured with the name of Chur∣ches. Page 103

CHAP. VI. What doth occur concerning Liturgies and Set Forms of Worship, betwixt the death of the Apostles, and the Empire of Constantine the Great.

• I. The Form observed in Baptism, and admini∣stration of the Eucharist, and in celebrating of the Sundays service, according unto Justin Mar∣tyr. Page 105
• II. The order used in Baptism, and in the pub∣lick meetings of the Congregations in Tertul∣lians time. Page 106
• III. That in those times, the use of Psalms and Hymns, was intermingled with the other parts of publick Worship. Page 107
• IV. Tertullian cleared from a wrong sense im∣posed on him, in the point of Worship, by some late Writers. ibid.
• V. The course and order of the Ministration, ac∣cording to the Author of the Constitutions, who lived about those times, in their account who placed him latest. Page 108
• VI. The order of reading holy Scripture in the Congregation, prescribed and regulated in those times. Page 109
• VII. Proofs for a publick Liturgy, or set Form of prayer, from the works of Origen. Page 110
• VIII. As also from the Writings of Saint Cy∣prian. Page 111
• IX. Touching the Form of Prayer prescribed by the Emperour Constantine, for the use of his Army. Page 112
• X. That prescribed Forms of prayer were not oc∣casioned by the Arian or Pelagian Heresies, as it is supposed. Page 113
• XI. What was decreed conducing to set Forms of prayer in the antient Coun••il of Laodicea. ibid.
• XII. Several Offices or Forms of prayer at that time in use, agreeably unto the several sorts of people in the Congregation. Page 114
• XIII. A list of several solemn Festivals appointed by the Church for Gods publick Worship in those early days. Page 116
• XIV. Churches erected by the Christians in these two Ages, for the publick duties of Religion. ibid

CHAP. VII. Apparent proofs for Liturgies and Set Forms of Worship, betwixt the Reign of Constan∣tine and St. Austins death.

• I. The Form of Baptism described by Cyril of Hierusalem, conform unto the antient Patterns. Page 118
• II. As also of administring the blessed Eucharist. Page 119
• III. Conclusive proofs for Liturgies or set Forms of Worship in Saint Basils time. ibid.
• IV. And from the Writings of Saint Chrysostom. Page 120
• V. The Liturgies of Chrysostom and Basil vindi∣cated, and the Objections answered which are made against them. Page 121

• VI. Liturgies or set Forms of Worship in the We∣stern Churches, by whom, and what degrees established. Page 122
• VII. Proofs for the intient Liturgies, and prescri∣bed Forms of Worship from Austins works. Page 123
• VIII. What was decreed concerning Liturgies or prescribed forms of Worship in the African Councils. Page 124
• IX. The Form of ordering Bishops, Priests, and Deacons, prescribed and regulated. Page 125
• X. A prescribed form of Marriage, and set Rites of Burial, used anciently in the Church of Christ. Page 126
• XI. Touching the Habit used of old, by Gods Priests and Ministers in the officiating his divine service in the Congregation. Page 127
• XII. Several Gestures used by Gods people in the Congregation, according to the several parts of publick Worship. Page 128
• XIII. A brief Essay concerning the Antiquity of the Gloria Patri, the time when it was first made a part of the publick Liturgies, and the accustomed Gestures at the pronouncing of the same. Page 129

CHAP. VIII. A Corollary touching the Dedication of Churches, and of the Anniversary Feasts thereby occasioned.

• 1. Dedication of Religious places used anciently by all Nations, and the reasons why. Page 133
• 2. A repetition of some things that were said be∣fore, with reference and application to the point in hand. Page 134
• 3. The Tabernacle consecrated by Gods own ap∣pointment, and the consequents of it. ibid.
• 4. Antiquity of the like Dedications amongst the Romans, and by whom performed. Page 135
• 5. The Form and Ceremonies used in those Dedica∣tions by the antient Romans. Page 136
• 6. The antiquity and constant usage of such Dedi∣cations in the Church of Christ. Page 137
• 7. Titulus and Encaenia what they signifie in the Ecclesiastical notion. Page 138
• 8. The great Solemnities and Feasts used by the Jews and Gentiles in the Dedication of their Temples. Page 139
• 9. As also by the Primitive Christians. Page 140
• 10. Dedication Feasts made Anniversary by the Roman Gentiles. Page 141
• 11. And by the Christians in the times of their greatest purity. ibid.
• 12. Continued till our times in the Church of En∣gland. Page 142
• 13. The conclusion of the whole, and the Authors submission of it to the Supream Judg. Page 143

Of the Form of Prayer appointed to be used by Preachers before their Sermons.

• 1. THE Introduction to the whole. Page 148
• 2. The Canon of the year 1603. Page 149
• 3. The meaning and purpose of that Canon. ibid.
• 4. The Injunction of Queen Elizabeth to the same effect. ibid.
• 5. The Injunction of King Edward VI. to the same effect. Page 150
• 6. The like Injunction of King Henry VIII. ibid.
• 7. The ground and reason of the Injunction of that King, and the exemplification of it in the pra∣ctice of Bishop Latimer. ibid.
• 8. The difference between Invocation, and that bidding of Prayer which is required by the Ca∣non. Page 151
• 9. The Canon justified by the practice of Bishop Andrews. Page 152
• 10. By the practice of Bishop Jewel in Queen Eli∣zabeths time. Page 153
• 11. By the practice of Arch-bishop Parker, in King Edwards time. ibid.
• 12. By the like practice of Bishop Latimer in that Kings time also. Page 154
• 13. More of the practice of Bishop Latimer in this point. ibid.
• 14. The same proved also by the practice of Bishop Gardiner. Page 155
• 15. The result arising both from the precept and the practice of the Church herein. ibid.
• 16. How the now Form of Prayer, by way of In∣vocation was first taken up. Page 156
• 17. No Prayer by way of Invocation used by the Antients in their Sermons. Page 157
• 18. The Prayer appointed by the Canon, and the Injunctions used rather heretofore as a part of the Sermon, than as a preparation to it. ibid.
• 19. Bidding of Prayer more consonant unto the meaning of the Law, than any set Prayer in the way of Invocation. Page 158
• 20. Bidding of Prayer more proper for the place or Pulpit, which was not made for Prayer, but for Exhortation. ibid.
• 21. The like concluded from the posture of the Preacher also. Page 159
• 22. Some inconveniences arising from the Form of Prayer by Invocation. ibid.
• 23. More inconveniences of that nature by accusing the Liturgy as defective. Page 160
• 24. The conclusion and submission of the whole to his Lordships judgment. Page 161

The Undeceiving of the People in the point of Tithes.

• 1. THAT never any Clergy in the Church of of God, hath been or is maintained with less charge to the Subject than the established Clergy of the Church of England. Page 167
• 2. That there is no man in the Kingdom of Eng∣land, who payeth any thing of his own towards the maintenance and support of his Parish-Mi∣nister, but by his Easter-Offering. Page 171
• 3. That the change of Tithes into Stipends will bring greater trouble to the Clergy than is yet considered, and far less profit to the Countrey, than is now pretended. Page 174

The History of Episcopacy.

PART I.

CHAP. I. The Christian Church first founded by our Lord and Saviour, in an imparity of Mini∣sters.

• 1. THE several Offices of Christ our Saviour in the Administration of his Church. Page 187
• 2. The aggregating of Disciples to him. Page 188
• 3. The calling of the Apostles out of them, and why twelve in number. ibid.
• 4. Of the Name and Office of an Apostle. Page 189
• 5. What things were specially required unto the making of an Apostle. Page 190
• 6. All the Apostles equal in Authority amongst themselves. ibid.
• 7. The calling and approinting of the 70 Disciples. Page 191
• 8. A reconciliation of some different Opinions about the number. Page 192
• 9. The twelve Apostles superiour to the Seventy by our Saviours Ordinance. ibid.
• 10. What kind of superiority it was, that Christ interdicted his Apostles. Page 193
• 11. The several powers, faculties, and prehemi∣nences given to the Apostles by our Saviour Christ. Page 194
• 12. That the Apostles were Bishops, averred by the ancient Fathers. ibid.
• 13. And by the text of holy Scripture. Page 195

CHAP. II. The foundation of the Church of Hierusalem under the Government of Saint James the Apostle, and Simeon one of the Disciples, the two first Bishops of the same.

• 1. Matthias chosen in the place of Judas. Page 196
• 2. The coming of the Holy Ghost, and on whom it fell. Page 197
• 3. The greatest measure of the Spirit fell on the A∣postles, and therewithal the greatest power. ibid.
• 4. The several Ministrations in the Church then given; and that in ranking of the same, the Bi∣shops are intended in the name of Pastors. Page 198
• 5. The sudden growth of the Church of Hierusa∣lem, and making Saint James the first Bishop there. ibid.
• 6. The former point deduced from Scripture. Page 199
• 7. And proved by the general consent of Fathers. ib.
• 8. Of the Episcopal Chair, or throne of James, and his Successors in Hierusalem. Page 200
• 9. Simeon elected by the Apostles to succeed Saint James. Page 201
• 10. The meaning of the word Episcopus, and from whence borrowed by the Church, ibid.
• 11. The institution of the Presbyters. Page 202
• 12. What interest they had in the common business of the Church, whilst St. James was Bishop. ib.
• 13. The Council of Jerusalem, and what the Pres∣byters had to do therein. Page 203
• 14. The institution of the Seven, and to what Of∣fice they were called. ibid.
• 15. The names of Ecclesiastical Functions promis∣cuously used in holy Scripture. Page 204

CHAP. III. The Churches planted by Saint Peter, and his Disciples, originally founded in Episcopacy.

• 1. The founding of the Church of Antioch, and that Saint Peter was the first Bishop there. Page 205
• 2. A reconciliation of the difference about his next Successors in the same. Page 206
• 3. A List of Bishops planted by him in the Churches of the Circumcision. Page 207
• 4. Proofs thereof from St. Peters general Epistle to

• the Jews dispersed, according to the exposition of the Ancient Writers. ibid.
• 5. And from Saint Pauls unto the Hebrews. Page 208
• 6. Saint Pauls Praepositus, no other than a Bishop in the Opinion of the Fathers. ibid.
• 7. Saint Peter the first Bishop of the Church of Rome. Page 209
• 8. The difference about his next Successors there, reconciled also. ibid.
• 9. An Answer unto such Objections as have been made against Saint Peter's being Bishop there. Page 210
• 10. Saint Mark the first Bishop of Alexandria, and of his Successors. Page 221
• 11. Notes on the observations of Epiphanius and Saint Hierom, about the Church of Alexandria. Page 212
• 12. An observation of Saint Ambrose applyed un∣to the former business. ibid.
• 13. Of Churches founded by Saint Peter and his Disciples in Italy, France, Spain, Germany, and the Isle of Britain, and of the Bishops in them instituted. Page 213

CHAP. IV. The Bishoping of Timothy and Titus, and other of Saint Pauls Disciples.

• 1. The Conversion of Saint Paul, and his ordain∣ing to the place of an Apostle. Page 214
• 2. The Presbyters created by Saint Paul, Acts 14. of what sort they were. Page 215
• 3. Whether the Presbyters or Presbytery did lay on hands with Paul, in any of his Ordinations. Page 216
• 4. The people had no voice in the Election of those Presbyters by Saint Paul ordained. Page 217
• 5. Bishops not founded by Saint Paul at first, in the particular Churches by him planted; and upon what reasons. ibid.
• 6. The short time that the Churches of Saint Pauls Plantation, continued without Bishops over them. Page 218
• 7. Timothy made Bishop of Ephesus by Saint Paul, according to the general consent of Fa∣thers. Page 219
• 8. The time when Timothy was made Bishop, ac∣cording to the holy Scripture. Page 220
• 9. Titus made Bishop of Cretans; and the truth verified herein by the antient Writers. Page 221
• 10. An Answer unto some Objections against the subscription of the Epistle unto Titus. ibid.
• 11. The Bishoping of Dionysius the Areopagite, Aristarchus, Gaius, Epaphroditus, Epaphras, and Archippus. Page 222
• 12. As also of Silas, Sosthenes, Sosipater, Cre∣scens, and Aristobulus. Page 223
• 13. The Office of a Bishop not incompetible with that of an Evangelist. ibid.

CHAP. V. Of the Authority and Jurisdiction given unto Timothy and Titus; and in them to all other Bishops by the Word of God.

• 1. The authority committed unto Timothy and Titus was to be perpetual, and not personal only. Page 224
• 2. The power of Ordination intrusted only unto Bishops by the Word of God, according to the exposition of the Fathers. Page 225
• 3. Bishops alone both might and did ordain without their Presbyters. Page 226
• 4. That Presbyters might not ordain without a Bishop, proved by the memorable case of Collu∣thus and Ischyras. ibid.
• 5. As by those also of Maximus, and a Spanish Bishop. Page 227
• 6. In what respects the joint assistance of the Presbyters was required herein. Page 228
• 7. The case of the Reformed Churches beyond the Seas, objected, and declared. ibid.
• 8. The care of ordering Gods Divine Service a work peculiar to the Bishop. Page 229
• 9. To whom the Ministration of the Sacraments also doth in chief belong. Page 230
• 10. Bishops to have a care that Gods Word be preached, and to encourage those that take pains therein. ibid.
• 11. Bishops to silence and reprove such Presbyters as preach other Doctrines. Page 231
• 12. As also to correct and reject the Heretick. ibid.
• 13. The censure and correction of inferiour Presby∣ters in point of life and conversation, doth belong also to Bishops.
• 14. And of Lay-people, if they walk unworthy of their Christian calling. ibid.
• 15. Conjectural proofs that the description of a Bishop in the first to Timothy, is of a Bishop strictly and properly called. Page 233

CHAP. VI. Of the estate of holy Church, particularly of the Asian Churces, toward the later days of Saint John the Apostle.

• 1. The time of Saint Johns coming into Asia. Page 235
• 2. All the seven Churches except Ephesus, of his Plantation. ibid.
• 3. That the Angels of those Churches were the Bi∣shops of them, in the opinion of the Fathers. Page 236
• 4. And of some Protestant Divines of name and eminency. ibid.
• 5. Conclusive Reasons for the same. Page 237
• 6. Who is most like to the Angel of the Church of Ephesus. ibid.
• 7. That Polycarpus was the Angel of the Church of Smyrna. Page 238

• 8. Touching the Angel of the Church of Pergamus, and of Thiatyra. ibid.
• 9. As also of the Churches of Sardis, Philadelphia, and Laodicea. Page 239
• 10. What Successors these several Angels had in their several Churches. Page 240
• 11. Of other Churches founded in Episcopacy by Saint John the Apostle. ibid.
• 12. Saint John deceasing, left the Government of the Church to Bishops, as to the Successours of the Apostles. Page 241
• 13. The ordinary Pastors of the Church. Page 242
• 14. And the Vicars of Christ. Page 243
• 15. A brief Chronologic of the estate of holy Church, in this first Century. Page 244

PART II.

CHAP. I. What doth occur concerning Bishops, and the Government of the Church by them, during the first half of the second Century.

• 1. OF the condition of the Church of Corinth, when Clemens wrote unto them his E∣pistle. Page 249
• 2. What that Epistle doth contain in reference to this point in hand. Page 250
• 3. That by Episcopi, he meaneth Bishops truly and properly so called, proved by the scope of the Epistle. Page 251
• 4. And by a text of Scripture therein cited. ibid.
• 5. Of the Episcopal Succession in the Church of Corinth. Page 252
• 6. The Canons of the Apostles ascribed to Cle∣mens, what they say of Bishops. Page 253
• 7. A Bishop not to be ordained under three or two at least of the same Order. ibid.
• 8. Bishops not barred by these Canons from any Secular affairs, as concern their Families. Page 254
• 9. How far by them restrained from the employ∣ments of the Common-wealth. ibid.
• 10. The jurisdiction over Presbyters, given to the Bishops by those Canons. Page 255
• 11. Rome divided into Parishes, or tituli, by Pope Euaristus. Page 256
• 12. The reasons why Presbyteries or Colleges of Presbyters, were planted first in Cities. ibid.
• 13. Touching the superiority over all the flock gi∣ven to the Bishop by Ignatius. Page 257
• 14. As also of the Jurisdiction by him, allowed them. Page 258
• 15. The same exemplified in the works of Justin Martyr. Page 259

CHAP. II. The setling of Episcopacy together with the Gospel, in the Isle of Britain, by Pope Eleu∣therius.

• 1. What Bishops Egesippus met with in his Pere∣grination; and what he testifieth of them. Page 260
• 2. Of Dionysius Bishop of Corinth, and of the Bishops by him mentioned. ibid.
• 3. How Bishops came to be ordained, where none were left by the Apostles. Page 261
• 4. The setling of the Gospel in the Isle of Britain by Pope Eleutherius. Page 262
• 5. Of the Condition of the Church of Britain from the first preaching of the Gospel there, till the time of Lucius. Page 263
• 6. That Lucius was a King in those parts of Bri∣tain which we now call England. Page 264
• 7. Of the Episcopal Sees here founded by King Lucius at that time. Page 265
• 8. Touching the Flamines and Arch-flamines, which those Stories speak of. ibid.
• 9. What is most like to be the reason of the number of the Arch-bishopricks and Bishopricks here, of old established. Page 266
• 10. Of the Successors, which the Bishops of this Ordination are found to have on true Record. Page 267
• 11. Which of the British Metropolitans was antiently the Primate of that Nation. Page 268

CHAP. III. The Testimony given to Episcopal Authority, in the last part of this second Century.

• 1. The difference betwixt Pope Victor and the Asian Bishops, about the Feast of Easter. Page 269
• 2. The interpleading of Polycrates and Irenaeus, two renowned Prelates, in the aforesaid cause. Page 270
• 3. Several Councils called about it, by the Bishops of the Church then being; with observations on the same. ibid.
• 4. Of the Episcopal Succession in the four prime Sees, for this second Century. Page 271
• 5. An Answer to some Objections made against the same. Page 272
• 6. The great authority and esteem of the said four Sees, in those early days. ibid.
• 7. The use made of this Episcopal Succession by Saint Irenaeus. Page 273
• 8. As also in Tertullian, and some other Anti∣ents. Page 274
• 9. Of the authority enjoyed by Bishops in Tertul∣lians time, in the administration of the Sacra∣ments. Page 275
• 10. As also in enjoyning Fasts, and the disposing of the Churches treasury. ibid.
• 11. And in the dispensation of the Keys. Page 276

• 12. Tertullian misalledged in maintenance of the Lay-Presbytery. Page 277
• 13. The great extent of Christianity and Episco∣pacy, in Tertullians time, concludes this Cen∣tury. Page 278

CHAP. IV. Of the Authority in the Government of the Church of Carthage, enjoyed and exercised by Saint Cyprian and other Bishops of the same.

• 1. Of the foundation and preheminence of the Church of Carthage, Page 279
• 2. Of Agrippinus and Donatus, two of Saint Cyprian's Predecessors. ibid.
• 3. The troublesome condition of that Church, at Cyprian's first being Bishop there. Page 280
• 4. Necessitated him to permit some things to the discretion of his Presbyters, and consent of the People. Page 281
• 5. Of the Authority ascribed by Cyprian to the People, in the Election of their Bishop. Page 282
• 6. What power the People had de facto, in the said Elections. ibid.
• 7. How far the testimony rf the People was re∣quired in the Ordination of their Presbyters. Page 283
• 8. The power of Excommunication reserved by Saint Cyprian, to the Bishop only. Page 284
• 9. No Reconciliation of a Penitent allowed by Cyprian without the Bishops leave and licence. Page 285
• 10. The Bishop's power as well in the encourage∣ment, as in the punishment and censure of his Clergy, Page 286
• 11. The memorable case of Geminius Faustinus, one of the Presbyters of Carthage, Page 287
• 12. The Bishop's power in regulating and declaring Martyrs, Page 288
• 13. The Divine Right, and eminent Authority of Bishops fully asserted by Saint Cyprian. Page 289

CHAP. V. Of the condition and affairs of the two Patri∣archal Churches of Alexandria, and Antiochia.

• 1. Of the foundation and first Professors of the Di∣vinity-School in Alexandria. Page 290
• 2. What is affirmed by Clemens, one of those Pro∣fessors concerning Bishops, Page 291
• 3. Origen the Divinity Reader there, permitted to expound the Scriptures, in the presence of the Bishop of Caesarea, ibid.
• 4. Contrary to the custom of the Alexandrian and Western Churches, Page 292
• 5. Origen ordained Presbyter by the Bishops of Hierusalem and Caesarea, and excommunicated by the Bishop of Alexandria, Page 293
• 6. What doth occur touching the superiority and power of Bishops in the Works of Origen, ibid.
• 7. The custom of the Church of Alexandria altered in the election of their Bishops, Page 294
• 8. Of Dionysius Bishop of Alexandria, and his great care and travels for the Churches peac, Page 295
• 9. The Government of the Church in the former times, by Letters of intercourse and correspon∣dence amongst the Bishops of the same, ibid.
• 10. The same continued also in the present Century, Page 296
• 11. The speedy course taken by the Prelats of the Church, for the suppressing of the Heresies of Sa∣mosatenus, Page 297
• 12. The Civil Jurisdiction, Train, and Throne of Bishops, things not unusual in this Age, Page 298
• 13. The Bishops of Italy and Rome, made Judges in a point of title and possession, by the Roman Emperour, Page 299
• 14. The Bishops of Italy and Rome, why reckoned as distinct in that Delegation. Page 300

CHAP. VI. Of the estate wherein Episcopacy stood in the Western Churches, during the whole third Century.

• 1. Of Zepherinus Pope of Rome, and the Decrees ascribed unto him concerning Bishops, Page 301
• 2. Of the condition of that Church, when Corne∣lius was chosen Bishop thereof, Page 302
• 3. The Schism raised in Rome by Novatianus; with the proceedings of the Church therein, Page 303
• 4. Considerable observations on the former story, Page 304
• 5. Parishes set forth in Country Villages, by P. Dio∣nysius, ibid.
• 6. What the words 〈 in non-Latin alphabet 〉〈 in non-Latin alphabet 〉 and 〈 in non-Latin alphabet 〉〈 in non-Latin alphabet 〉 do sig∣nifie most properly in ancient Writers, Page 305
• 7. The great Authority which did accrue unto the Presbyters, by the setting forth of Parishes, Page 306
• 8. The rite of Confirmation, reserved by Bishops to themselves, as their own Prerogative, Page 307
• 9. Touching the ancient Chorepiscopi, and the Authority to them entrusted, Page 308
• 10. The rising of the Manichean Heresie, with the great care taken by the Bishops for the crushing of it, Page 309
• 11. The lapse of Marcellinus Pope of Rome; with the proceedings the Church in his condem∣nation, Page 310
• 12. The Council of Eliberis in Spain, what it de∣creed in honour of Episcopacy, Page 311
• 13. Constantine comes unto the Empire with a brief prospect of the great honours done to Bishops in the following Age, Page 312
• 14. A brief Chronology of the estate of holy Church, in these two last Centuries, Page 314

The History of the Sabbath.

BOOK I. From the Creation of the World to the destruction of the Temple.

CHAP. I. That the Sabbath was not instituted in the Be∣ginning of the World.

• 1. THE entrance to the Work in hand, Page 325
• 2. That those words, Gen. 2. And God blessed the seventh day, &c. are there deli∣vered as by way of anticipation, Page 326
• 3. Anticipations in the Scripture confessed by them, who deny it here, Page 327
• 4. Anticipations of the same nature not strange in Scripture, Page 328
• 5. No Law imposed by God on Adam, touching the keeping of the Sabbath, Page 329
• 6. The Sabbath not ingraft by Nature in the soul of man, ibid.
• 7. The greatest Advocates for the Sabbath, deny it to be any part of the Law of Nature, Page 330
• 8. Of the morality and perfection, supposed to be in the number of seven, by some learned men, Page 331
• 9. That other numbers in the confession of the same learned men, particularly the first, third, and fourth, are both as moral, and as perfect as the seventh, ibid.
• 10. The like is proved of the sixth, eighth, and tenth, and of other numbers, Page 332
• 11. The Scripture not more favourable to the num∣ber of seven, than it is to others, Page 333
• 12. Great caution to be used by those who love to re∣create themselves in the mysteries of numbers, Page 334

CHAP. II. That there was no Sabbath kept, from the Cre∣ation to the Flood.

• 1. Gods rest upon the Seventh day, and from what he rested, Page 335
• 2. Zanchius conceit touching the Sanctifying of the first Seventh day, by Christ our Saviour, Page 336
• 3. The like of Torniellus, touching the Sanctify∣ing of the same, by the Angels in Heaven, ibid.
• 4. A general demonstration that the Fathers before the Law did not keep the Sabbath, Page 337
• 5. Of Adam, that he kept not the Sabbath, ibid.
• 6. That Abel and Seth did not keep the Sabbath, Page 333
• 7. Of Enos, that he kept not the Sabbath, Page 339
• 8. That Enoch and Methusalem did not keep the Sabbath, ibid.
• 9. Of Noah, that he kept not the Sabbath, Page 340
• 10. The Sacrifices and devotions of the Ancients were occasional. ibid.

CHAP. III. That the Sabbath was not kept from the Flood to Moses.

• 1. The Sons of Noah did not keep the Sabbath, Page 341
• 2. The Sabbath could not have been kept in the dis∣persion of Noahs Sons, had it not been com∣manded, Page 342
• 3. Diversity of Longitudes and Latitudes, must of necessity make a variation in the Sabbath, Page 343
• 4. Melchisedech, Heber, Lot, did not keep the Sabbath, Page 344
• 5. Of Abraham and his Sons, that they kept not the Sabbath, ibid.
• 6. That Abraham did not keep the Sabbath in the confession of the Jews, Page 345
• 7. Jacob nor Job no Sabbath-keepers. ibid.
• 8. That neither Joseph, Moses, nor the Israelites in Egypt did observe the Sabbath. Page 346
• 9. The Israelites not permitted to offer Sacrifice while they were in Egypt, ibid.
• 10. Particular proofs that all the Moral Law was both known and kept amongst the Fathers. Page 347

CHAP. IV. The nature of the fourth Commandment: and that the Sabbath was not kept among the Gentiles.

• 1. The Sabbath first made known in the fall of Mannah, Page 348
• 2. The giving of the Decalogue; and how far it bindeth, Page 349
• 3. That in the judgment of the Fathers, in the Christian Church, the fourth Commandment is of a different nature from the other nine, Page 350
• 4. The Sabbath was first given for a Law by Moses. Page 351
• 5. And being given, was proper only to the Jews, Page 352

• 6. What moved the Lord to give the Israelites a Sabbath, ibid.
• 7. Why the seventh day was rather chosen for the Sabbath than any other, Page 353
• 8. The seventh day not more honoured by the Gen∣tiles than the eighth or ninth, Page 354
• 9. The Attributes given by some Greek Poets to the seventh day, no argument that they kept the the Sabbath, Page 355
• 10. The Jews derided for their Sabbath, by the Grecians, Romans, and Egyptians, Page 356
• 11. The division of the year into weeks not generally used of old, amongst the Gentiles. Page 357

CHAP. V. The practice of the Jews in such observances as were annexed unto the Sabbath.

• 1. Of some particular adjuncts affixed unto the Jewish Sabbath, Page 358
• 2. The Annual Festivals called Sabbaths in the Book of God, and reckoned as a part of the fourth Commandment, Page 359
• 3. The Annual Sabbaths no less solemnly observed and celebrated than the weekly were, if not more solemnly, Page 360
• 4. Of the Parasceue or Preparation to the Sab∣bath and the solemn Festivals, Page 361
• 5. All manner of work as well forbidden on the An∣nual as the weekly Sabbaths, Page 362
• 6. What things were lawful to be done on the Sab∣bath days, Page 363
• 7. Touching the prohibitions of not kindling fire, and not dressing meat, Page 364
• 8. What moved the Gentiles generally to charge the Jews with Fasting on the Sabbath day, Page 365
• 9. Touching this Prohibition, Let no man go out of his place on the Sabbath day, Page 366
• 10, All lawful recreations, as Dancing, Feasting, Man-like Exercises, allowed and practised by the Jews upon their Sabbaths. ibid.

CHAP. VI. Touching the observation of the Sabbath, unto the time the People were established in the Promised Land.

• 1. The Sabbath not kept constantly during the time the People wandred in the Wilderness, Page 368
• 2. Of him that gathered sticks on the Sabbath day, ibid.
• 3. Wherein the sanctifying of the Sabbath did con∣sist, in the time of Moses, Page 369
• 4. The Law not ordered to be read in the Congre∣gation every Sabbath day, Page 370
• 5. The sack of Hiericho, and the destruction of that People was upon the Sabbath, Page 371
• 6. No Sabbath, after this, without Circumcision, and how that Ceremony could consist with the Sabbaths rest, Page 372
• 7. What moved the Jews, to prefer Circumcision be∣fore the Sabbath, Page 373
• 8. The standing still of the Sun at the prayers of Josuah, &c. could not but make some alteration about the Sabbath, ibid.
• 9. What was the Priests work on the Sabbath day; and whether it might stand with the Sabbaths rest, Page 374
• 10. The scattering of the Levites over all the Tribes, had no relation unto the reading of the Law on the Sabbath-days. Page 375

CHAP. VII. Touching the keeping of the Sabbath, from the time of David to the Maccabees.

• 1. Particular necessities must give place to the Law of Nature, Page 376
• 2. That Davids flight from Saul was upon the Sabbath, Page 377
• 3. What David did, being King of Israel, in order∣ing things about the Sabbath, ibid.
• 4. Elijahs flight upon the Sabbath, and what else hapned on the Sabbath in Elijah's time. Page 378
• 5. The limitation of a Sabbath days journey, not known amongst the Jews when Elisha lived, Page 379
• 6. The Lord becomes offended with the Jewish Sabbaths, and on what occasion, ibid.
• 7. The Sabbath entertained by the Samaritans, and their strange niceties therein, Page 380
• 8. Whether the Sabbaths were observed during the Captivity, ibid.
• 9. The special care of Nehemiah to reform the Sabbath, Page 381
• 10. The weekly reading of the Law on the Sab∣bath days, begun by Ezra. Page 382
• 11. No Synagogues nor weekly reading of the Law, during the Government of the Kings, Page 383
• 11. The Scribes and Doctors of the Law impose new rigours on the People about their Sabbaths. Page 384

CHAP. VIII. What doth occur about the Sabbath, from the Maccabees to the destruction of the Temple.

• 1. The Jews refuse to fight in their own defence upon the Sabbath; and what was ordered there∣upon, Page 385
• 2. The Pharisees, about these times, had made the Sabbath burdensome by their Traditions, Page 386
• 3. Hierusalem twice taken by the Romans, on the Sabbath day, Page 387
• 4. The Romans, many of them, Judaize, and take up the Sabbath: as other Nations did by the Jews example, Page 388

• 5. Augustus Caesar very gracious to the Jews in matters that concerned their Sabbath, Page 390
• 6. What our Redeemer taught, and did, to rectifie the abuses of, and in the Sabbath, ibid.
• 7. The final ruin of the Temple, and the Jewish Ceremonies on a Sabbath day, Page 391
• 8. The Sabbath abrogated with the other Cere∣monies, Page 392
• 9. Wherein consists the Christian Sabbath, men∣tioned in the Scriptures, and amongst the Fa∣thers, Page 393
• 10. The idle and ridiculous niceties of the modern Jews, in their Perasceves, and their Sabbaths conclude the first Part. Page 394

BOOK II.

CHAP. I. That there is nothing found in Scripture, touch∣ing the keeping of the Lords day.

• 1. The Sabbath not intended for a perpetual ordi∣nance. Page 400
• 1. Preparatives unto the dissolution of the Sabbath, by our Saviou Christ, Page 401
• 3. The Lords day not enjoyned in the place thereof, either by Christ, or the Apostles; but instituted by the authority of the Church, Page 402
• 4. Our Saviours Resurrection on the first day of the week, and apparitions on the same, make it not a Sabbath, Page 404
• 5. The coming down of the Holy Ghost upon the first day of the week, makes it not a Sabbath, Page 405
• 6. The first day of the week not made a Sabbath, more than others by S. Peter, S. Paul, or any o∣ther of the Apostles, ibid.
• 7. S. Paul frequents the Synagogue, on the Jewish Sabbath; and upon what reasons, Page 406
• 8. What was concluded against the Sabbath, in the Council holden at Hierusalem, Page 407
• 9. The preaching of S. Paul at Troas, upon the first day of the week, no argument, that then that day was set apart by the Apostles for religious exercises, Page 408
• 10. Collections, on the first day of the week, 1 Cor. 16. conclude as little for that purpose, Page 409
• 11. Those places of S. Paul, Gal. 4.10. Coloss. 2.16. do prove invincibly, that there is no Sabbath to be looked for, Page 410
• 12. The first day of the week not called the Lords day, until the end of this first age: and what that title adds unto it. Page 411

CHAP. II. In what estate the Lords day stood, from the death of the Apostles to the Reign of Constantine.

• 1. Touching the orders setled by the Apostles, for the Congregation, Page 413
• 2. The Lords day and the Saturday, both Festivals, and both alike observed in the East, in Ignatius time, Page 414
• 3. The Saturday not without great difficulty, made a Fasting day, Page 415
• 4. The Controversie about keeping Easter; and how much it conduceth to the present business, Page 416
• 5. The Feast of Easter not affixed to the Lords day, without much opposition of the Eastern Churches, ibid.
• 6. What Justin Martyr and Dionysius of Corinth, have left us of the Lords day; Clemens of Alexandria, his dislike thereof, Page 417
• 7. Ʋpon what grounds the Christians of the former times used to pray, standing, on the Lords day, and the time of Pentecost, Page 418
• 8. What is recorded by Tertullian, of the Lords day, and the Assemblies of the Church, Page 419
• 9. Origen, as his Master Clemens had done before, dislikes set days for the Assembly, Page 420
• 10. S. Cyprian, what he tells us of the Lords day: and of the reading of the Scriptures in S. Cy∣prians time, ibid.
• 11. Of other holy days, established in these three first Ages; and that they were observed as so∣lemnly as the Lords day was, Page 421
• 12. The name of Sunday often used for the Lords day, by the primitive Christians, but the Sabbath never. Page 422

CHAP. III. That in the fourth Age from the time of Con∣stantine to Saint Austine, the Lords day was not taken for a Sabbath day.

• 1. The Lords day first established by the Emperour Constantine, Page 423
• 2. What labours were permitted, and what re∣strained on the Lords day, by this Emperours Edict, Page 424
• 3. Of other Holy days, and Saints days, instituted in the time of Constantine, Page 425
• 4. That weekly other days, particularly the Wed∣nesday and the Friday, were in this Age, and those before appointed for the meetings of the Con¦gregation, ibid.
• 5. The Saturday as highly honoured in the Ea∣stern Churches, as the Lords day was, Page 426
• 6. The Fathers of the Eastern Churches cry down the Jewish Sabbath, though they held the Sa∣turday, Page 427
• 7. The Lords day not spent wholly in Religious

• exercises; and what was done with that part of it, which was left at large, Page 428
• 8. The Lords day, in this Age, a day of Feasting; and that it hath been always deemed Heretical to hold Fasts thereon, Page 429
• 9. Of Recreation on the Lords day; and of what kind those Dancings were, against the which the Fathers enveigh so sharply, Page 430
• 10. Other Imperial Edicts about the keeping of the Lords day, and the other Holy-days, Page 432
• 11. The Orders, at this time in use, on the Lords day, and other days, of publick meeting in the Congregation, Page 433
• 12. The infinite differences between the Lords day and the Sabbath. Page 434

CHAP. IV. The great improvement of the Lords day, in the fifth and sixth Ages, make it not a Sabbath.

• 1. In what estate the Lords day stood in S. Austins time, Page 435
• 2. Stage plays and publick Shews prohibited on the Lords day, and the other Holy days, by Imperial Edicts, Page 437
• 3. The base and beastly nature of the Stage-plays at those times in use, Page 438
• 4. The barbarous bloody quality of the Specta∣cula, or Shews, at this time prohibited, ibid.
• 5. Neither all civil business, nor all kind of pleasure, restrained on the Lords day, by the Emperour Leo; as some give it out, The so much cited Canon of the Council of Mascon, proves no Lords day Sabbath, Page 440
• 6. The French and Spaniards in the sixth Age, begin to Judaize about the Lords day, and of re∣straint of Husbandry on that day, in that Age first thought of, Page 441
• 7. The so much cited Canon of the Council of Mascon proves no Lords day Sabbath, Page 442
• 8. Of publick honours done in these Ages, to the Lords day, by Prince and Prelate, Page 443
• 9. No Evening Service on the Lords day, till these present Ages, Page 444
• 10. Of publick Orders now Established, for the better regulating of the Lords Day-meetings, Page 445
• 11. All Business and Recreation not by Law prohi∣bited, are in themselves as lawful on the Lords day, as on any other. ibid.

CHAP. V. That in the next six hundred years from Pope Gregory forwards, the Lords day was not reckoned of, as of a Sabbath.

• 1. Pope Gregories care to set the Lords day free from some Jewish rigours, at that time obtruded on the Church, Page 447
• 2. Strange fancies taken up by some about the Lords day, in these darker Ages, ibid.
• 3. Scriptures and Miracles in these times found out, to justifie the keeping of the Lords day Holy, Page 448
• 4. That in the judgment of the most Learned in these six Ages, the Lords day hath no other ground than the Authority of the Church, Page 449
• 5. With how much difficulty the People of these times were barred from following their Husban∣dry and Law-days, on the Lords day, Page 450
• 6. Hüsbandry not restrained on the Lords day in the Eastern Parts, until the time of Leo Philo∣sophus, Page 451
• 7. Markets and Handicrasts restrained with no less opposition than the Plough and Pleading, Page 452
• 8. Several casus reservati in the Laws themselves, wherein men were permitted to attend those busi∣nesses on the Lords day, which the Laws re∣strained, Page 453
• 9. Of divers great and publick actions done in these Ages on the Lords day, Page 454
• 10. Dancing and other sports no otherwise prohi∣bited on the Lords day, than as they were an hin∣derance to Gods publick Service, Page 455
• 11. The other Holy-days as much esteemed of and observed as the Lords day was, Page 456
• 12. The publick hallowing of the Lords day, and the other Holy-days in these present Ages, Page 457
• 13. No Sabbath all these Ages heard of, either on Saturday or Sunday; and how it stood with Sa∣turday in the Eastern Churches. Page 458

CHAP. VI. What is the judgment of the School-men, and of the Protestants; and what the practice of those Churches in this Lords day business.

• 1. That in the judgment of the School-men, the keeping of one day in seven, is not the moral part of the fourth Commandment, Page 640
• 2. As also that the Lords day is not founded on Di∣vine Authority, but the Authority of the Church, Page 461
• 3. A Catalogue of the Holy-days drawn up in the Council of Lyons; and the new Doctrine of the Schools, touching the native sanctity of the Holy-days, Page 462
• 4. In what estate the Lords day stood, in matter of restraint from labour at the Reformation, Page 463
• 5. The Reformators find great fault, both with the said new doctrine and restraints from labour, Page 464
• 6. That in the judgment of the Protestant Divines, the keeping of one day in seven, is not the moral part of the fourth Commandment, Page 465
• 7. As that the Lords day hath no other ground on which to stand, than the Authority of the Church, Page 466
• 8. And that the Church hath power to change the day, and to transfer it to some other, Page 467

• 9. What is the practice of all Churches, the Ro∣man, Lutheran, and Calvinian chiefly in mat∣ter of Devotion, rest from labour, and suffe∣rance of lawful pleasures, Page 468
• 10. Dancing cryed down by Calvin and the French Churches, not in relation to the Lords day, but the sport it self, Page 470
• 11. In what estate the Lords day stands in the Eastern Churches; and that the Saturday is no less esteemed of by the Ethiopians, than the said Lords day, Page 471

CHAP. VII. In what estate the Lords day stood in this Isle of Britain, from the first planting of Religion, to the Reformation.

• 1. What doth occur about the Lords day, and the other Festivals, amongst the Churches of the Brittans, Page 472
• 2. Of the estate of the Lords day, and the other Holy days in the Saxon Heptarchie, Page 473
• 3. The honours done unto the Sunday and the other Holy-days by the Saxon Monarchs, Page 474
• 4. Of the publick actions, Civil, Ecclesiastical, mixt, and Military, done on the Lords day, un∣der the first six Norman Kings, Page 476
• 5. New Sabbath doctrines broached in England, in King Johns Reign; and the miraculous original of the same, Page 477
• 6. The prosecution of the former story; and ill suc∣cess therein of the undertakers, ibid.
• 7. Restraint of worldly business on the Lords day, and the other Holy-days, admitted in those times, in Scotland, Page 478
• 8. Restraint of certain servile works on Sundays, Holy-days, and the Wakes, concluded in the Council of Oxon, under Henry III. ibid.
• 9. Husbandry and Legal process prohibited on the Lords day first, in the Reign of Edward III. Page 479
• 10. Selling of Wools, on the Lords day, and the so∣lemn Feasts, forbidden first by the said King Edward as after, Fairs and Markets generally, by King Henry VI. Page 480
• 11. The Cordwainers of London, restrained from selling their Wares on the Lords day, and some other Festivals, by King Edward IV. and the repealing of that Act by King Henry VIII. Page 481
• 12. In what estate the Lords day stood, both for the doctrine and the practice, in the beginning of the Reign of the said King Henry. ibid.

CHAP. VIII. The story of the Lords day, from the Reforma∣tion of Religion in this Kingdom, till this present time.

• 1. The doctrine of the Sabbath, and the Lords day, delivered by three several Martyrs, conformably to the judgment of the Protestants before re∣membred, Page 483
• 2. The Lords day, and the other Holy-days, con∣fessed by all this Kingdom, in the Court of Parlia∣ment, to have no other ground than the Authority of the Church, Page 484
• 3. The meaning and occasion of that clause in the Common-Prayer-book, Lord have mercy upon us, &c. repeated at the end of the fourth Com∣mandment, Page 485
• 4. That by the Queens Injunctions, and the first Parliament of her Reign, the Lords day was not meant for a Sabbath day, Page 486
• 5. The doctrine in the Homilies delivered, about the Lords day, and the Sabbath, ibid.
• 6. The sum and substance of that Homily; and that it makes not any thing for a Lords day Sab∣bath, Page 487
• 7. The first original of the New Sabbath Specula∣tions, in this Church of England; by whom, and for what cause invented, Page 489
• 8. Strange and most monstrous Paradoxes, preached on occasion of the former doctrines; and of the other effects thereof, Page 490
• 9. What care was taken of the Lords day in King James his Reign; the spreading of the doctrines, and of the Articles of Ireland, Page 491
• 10. The Jewish Sabbath set on foot; and of King James his Declaration about Lawful sports on the Lords day, Page 493
• 11. What Tracts were writ and published in that Princes time, in opposition to the doctrines before remembred, ibid.
• 12. In what estate the Lords day, and the other Holy-days have stood in Scotland, since the Re∣formation of Religion in that Kingdom, Page 494
• 13. Statutes about the Lords day, made by our present Sovereign; and the misconstruing of the same: His Majesty reviveth and enlargeth the Declaration of King James, Page 496
• 14. An exortation to obedience unto his Majesties most Christian purpose, concludes this History. Page 497

Historia Quinqu-Articularis: Or, a Declaration of the Judgment of the Western Churches; and more particularly of the Church of England, in the five Controverted Points, &c.

CHAP. I. The several Heresies of those who make God to be the Author of Sin, or attribute too much to the Natural freedom of Man's Will in the Works of Piety.

• 1. God affirmed by Florinus to be the Author of sin, the Blasphemy encountred by Irenaeus, and the foul Consequents thereof, Page 505
• 2. Revived in the last Ages by the Libertines, said by the Papists to proceed from the Schools of Calvin, and by the Calvinists to proceed from the Schools of Rome, Page 506
• 3. Disguised by the Maniches in another dress, and the necessity thereby imposed on the Wills of men, ibid.
• 4. The like by Bardesanes, and the Priscilianists, the dangerous consequents thereof exemplified out of Homer, and the words of St. Augustine, Page 507
• 5. The Error of the Maniches, touching the servi∣tude of the Will revived by Luther, and conti∣nued by the rigid Lutherans, ibid.
• 6. As those of Bardesanes and Priscilian, by that of Calvin, touching the Absolute Decree; the dangers which lie hidden under the Decree, and the incompatibleness thereof with Christs coming to Judgment, ibid.
• 7. The large expressions of the Ancient Fathers touching the freedom of the Will, abused by Pe∣lagius and his followers, Page 508
• 8. The Heresie of Pelagius, in what it did consist, especially as to this particular, and the dangers of it, ibid.
• 9. The Pelagian Heresie condemned and recalled: the temper of S. Augustine touching the freedom of the Will in spiritual matters, ibid.
• 10. Pelagianism falsly charged on the Moderate Lutherans: How far all parties do agree about the freedom of the Will, and in what they differ. Page 509

CHAP. II. Of the Debates amongst the Divines in the Council of Trent, touching Predestination and Original Sin.

• 1. The Articles drawn from the Writings of the Zuinglians, touching Predestination and Repro∣bation, Page 510
• 2. The Doctrine of Predestination, according to the Dominican way, ibid.
• 3. As also the old Franciscans, with Reasons for their own, and against the other, Page 511
• 4. The Historians judgment interposed between the Parties, ibid.
• 5. The middle way of Catarinus to compose the differences, ibid.
• 6. The newness of St. Augustines Opinion, and the dislike thereof by the most Learned men in the Ages following, Page 512
• 7. The perplexities amongst the Theologues, touch∣ing the absoluteness of the Decrees, ibid.
• 8. The judgment of the said Divines, touching the possibility of falling from Grace, ibid.
• 9. The Debates about the nature and transmitting of Original Sin, ibid.
• 10. The Doctrine of the Council in it. Page 513

CHAP. III. The like Debates about Free-will, with the Conclusions of the Council, in the five Con∣troverted Points.

• 1. The Articles against the Freedom of the Will, ex∣tracted out of Luther's Writings, Page 314
• 2. The exclamation of the Divines against Luther's Doctrine in the Point, and the absurdities there∣of, ibid.
• 3. The several judgments of Marinarus, Catari∣nus, and Andreas Vega, ibid.
• 4. The different judgment of the Dominicans and Franciscans, whether it lay in mans power to believe, or not to believe; and whether the free∣dom of the Will were lost in Adam, ibid.
• 5. As also of the Point of the co-operation of mans Will with the Grace of God, Page 515
• 6. The opinion of Frier Catanca, in the point of irresistibility. ibid.
• 7. Faintly maintained by Soto a Dominican Fryer, and more cordially approved by others, but in time rejected, ibid.
• 8. The great care taken by the Legates in having the Articles so framed, as to please all parties, Page 516
• 9. The Doctrine of the Council in the five Contro∣verted Points, ibid.
• 10. A Transition from the Council of Trent, to the Protestant and Reformed Churches. Page 517

CHAP. IV. The judgment of the Lutherans and Calvinians in these five Points, with some Objections made against the Conclusions of the Council of Dort.

• 1. No difference in Five Points betwixt the Luthe∣rans and the Church of Rome, as is acknow∣ledged by the Papists themselves, Page 518
• 2. The Judgment of the Lutheran Churches in the said five Points, delivered in the famous Con∣fession of Ausperge, ibid.
• 3. The distribution of the Quarrel betwixt the Franciscans, Melancthonians, and Armini∣ans, on the one side, the Dominicans, rigid Lutherans, and Sublapsarian Calvinists on the other; the middle way of Catarinus parallell'd by that of Bishop Overal, Page 519
• 4. The Doctrine of Predestination as laid down by Calvin, of what ill Consequence in it self, and how odious to the Lutheran Doctors, Page 520
• 5. Opposed by Sebastian Castellio in Geneva it self, but propagated in most Churches of Calvins Plat-form, and afterwards polished by Per∣kins, a Divine of England, and in him cen∣sured and confuted by Jacob Van Harmine, a Belgick Writer, Page 521
• 6. A brief view of the Doctrine of the Sublapsa∣rians, and the odious Consequences of it, Page 522
• 7. The Judgment of the Sublapsarians in the said five Points, collected and presented at the Confe∣rence at the Hague, Anno 1610. ibid.
• 8. The Doctrine of the Synodists in the said Points, Page 523
• 9. Affirmed to be repugnant to the holy Scripture, as also to the Purity, Mercy, Justice, and Since∣rity of Almighty God, ibid.
• 10. And the subversion of the Ministry, and all Acts of Piety, illustrated by the example of Tiberius Caesar, and the Lantgrave of Thurin. Page 524

CHAP. V. The Doctrine of the Remonstrants, and the story of them, until their final Condemna∣tion in the Synod of Dort.

• 1. The Doctrine of the Remonstrants ancienter than Calvinism in the Belgick Churches, and who they were that stood up for it before Ar∣minius, Page 525
• 2. The first undertakings of Arminius, his prefer∣ment to the Divinity-Chair at Leiden, his Com∣mendations and death, Page 526
• 3. The occasion of the Name Remonstrants, and Contra-Remonstrants; the Controversie re∣duced to five Points, and those disputed at the Hague, in a publick Conference, ibid.
• 4 The said five Points according to their several Heads first tendred at the Hague, and after at the Synod at Dort, Page 527
• 5. The Remonstrants persecuted by their Opposites, put themselves under the protection of Barnevelt, and by his means obtained a collection of their Doctrine. Barnevelt seised and put to death by the Prince of Orange, Page 528
• 6. The Calling of the Synod of Dort, the parallel betwixt it and the Council at Trent, both in the conduct of the business against their Adversaries, and the differences amongst themselves, Page 529
• 7. The breaking out of the differences in the Synod in open Quarrels, between Martinius one of the Divines of Breeme, and some of the Divines of Holland; and on what occasions, ibid.
• 8. A Copy of the Letter from Dr. Belconqual to S. Dudly Carleton, his Majesties Resident at the Hague, working the violent prosecutions of those Quarrels by the Dutch Divines, Page 530
• 9. A further prosecution of the parallel between the Council and the Synod, in reference to the Ar∣ticles used in the draught upon the Canons and Decrees of either, and the doubtful meaning of them both, Page 531
• 10. The quarrelling Parties joyn together against the Remonstrants, denying them any place in the Synod, and finally dismist them in a furious Ora∣tion made by Boyerman, without any hearing, Page 532
• 11. The Synodists indulgent to the damnable Do∣ctrines of Macorius, and unmerciful in the ba∣nishment or extermnation of the poor Remon∣strants, ibid.
• 12. Scandalously defamed, to make them odious, and those of their persuasions in other places, Ejected, Persecuted, and Disgraced. Page 533

CHAP. VI. Objections made against the Doctrine of the Remonstrants; the Answer unto all, and the retorting of some of them on the opposite Party.

• 1. An Introduction to the said Objections, Page 534
• 2. The first Objection, touching their being enemies to the Grace of God, disproved in general, by comparing the Doctrine with that of S. Au∣gustine, though somewhat more favourable to Free Will than that of Luther, ibid.
• 3. A more particular Answer, in relation to some hard expressions which were used of them by King James, Page 535
• 4. The second charging it as Introductive of Popery, begun in Holland, and pressed more importunate∣ly in England, answered both by Reason and Experience to the contrary of it, ibid.
• 5. The third, as filling men with spiritual pride, first answered in relation to the testimony from which it was taken, and then retorted on those who object the same, Page 536
• 6. The fourth Charge, making the Remonstrants a factious and seditious People, begun in Holland,

• prosecuted in England, and answered in the ge∣neral by the most Religious Bishop Ridley, ibid.
• 7. What moved King James to think so ill of the Remonstrants as to exasperate the States a∣gainst them, Page 537
• 8. The Remonstrants neither so troublesome nor so chargeable to the States themselves, as they are made by the Assertor, the indirect proceedings of the Prince of Orange, viz. the death of Barnevelt, and the injustice of the Argument in charging the practices of his Children, and the Prince upon all the party, ibid.
• 9. Nothing in the Arminian Doctrine, which may incline a man to sediti us courses, as it is affirmed and proved to be in the Calvin, Page 538
• 10. The Recrimination further proved, by a passage in the Conference of the Lord Treasurer Burleigh with Queen Eliz. in a Letter of some of the Bi∣shops to the Duke of Buckingham, and in that of Dr. Brooks to the late Archbishop, ibid.
• 11. More fully prosecuted and exemplified by Campney's, an old English Protestant, Page 539
• 12. A Transition to the Doctrine of the Church of England. ibid.

CHAP. VII. An Introduction to the Doctrine of the Church of England in the points disputed, with the Removal of some rubs which are laid in the way.

• 1. The Doctrine of the Homilies, concerning the En∣dowments of man at his first Creation, Page 541
• 2. His miserable fall, Page 542
• 3. And the promised hopes of his Restitution in the Lord Christ Jesus, ibid.
• 4. A general Declaration of the judgment of the Church of England in the points disputed, ex∣emplified in the story of Agilmond and Lamistus, Kings of Lombardy. ibid.
• 5. The contrary judgment of Wicklif objected, an∣swered, and applied to all modern Heresies. Page 543
• 6. A general answer to the like Argument preten∣ded to be drawn from the Writings of Frith, Tyndal and Barns. But more particularly, Page 444
• 7. The judgment of Dr. Barns in the present point, and the grounds on which he builded the same, ibid.
• 8. Small comfort to be found from the works of Tyndal, in favour of the Calvinian Doctrines, Page 545
• 9. The falsifyings of John Frith and others in the Doctrine of Predestination, reproved by Tyndal, Page 546
• 10. A parallel between some of our first Martyrs, and the blind man restored to fight in the eighth of Saint Mark. ibid.

CHAP. VIII. Of the Preparatives to the Reformation, and the Doctrine of the Church in the present points.

• 1. The danger of ascribing too much to our ancient Martyrs, &c. exemplified in the parity of Mini∣sters and popular elections unto Benefices, allowed by Mr. John Lambert, Page 547
• 2. Nothing ascribed to Calvins judgment by our first Reformers, but much to the Augustine Con∣fession, the Writings of Melancthon, Page 548
• 3. And to the Authority of Erasmus, his Para∣phrases being commended to the use of the Church by King Edward VI. and the Reasons why, ibid.
• 4. The Bishops Book in order to a Reformation, call∣ed, The institution of a Christian man, com∣manded by King Henry VIII. 1537. correcied afterwards with the Kings own hand, examined and allowed by Cranmer, approved by Parlia∣ment, and finally, published by the name of Ne∣cessary Doctrine, &c. An. 1543. ibid.
• 5. The Doctrine of the said two Books in the points disputed, agreeable unto that which after was established by King Edward VI. Page 549
• 6. Of the two Liturgies made in the time of King Edward VI. and the manner of them; the te∣stimony given unto the first, and the alterations in the second, Page 550
• 7. The first Book of Homilies, by whom made, ap∣proved by Bucer, and of the Argument that may be gathered from the method of it, in the points disputed, ibid.
• 8. The quality and condition of those men who prin∣cipally concurred to the Book of Articles, with the Harmony or consent in judgment between Arch∣bishop Cranmer, Bishop Ridley, Bishop Hooper, &c. Page 551
• 9. The Doctrine delivered in the Book of Articles, touching the five controverted points, ibid.
• 10. An Answer to the Objection against these Arti∣cles, for the supposed want of Authority in the making of them, Page 552
• 11. An Objection against King Edwards Catechism, mistaken for an Objection against the Articles, re∣felled, as that Catechism by John Philpot Mar∣tyr, and of the delegating of some powers by that Convocation to a choice Committee, Page 553
• 12. The Articles not drawn up in comprehensible or ambiguous terms to please all parties, but to be understood in the respective, literal and Gram∣matical sense, and the Reasons why. ibid.

CHAP. IX. Of the Doctrine of Predestination delivered in the Articles, the Homilies, the publique Li∣turgies, and the Writings of some of the Reformers.

• 1. The Articles differently understood by the Cal∣vinian party, and the true English Protestants, with the best way to find out the true sense thereof. Page 555
• 2. The definition of Predestination, and the most considerable points contained in it, ibid.
• 3. The meaning of those words in the definition, viz. Whom he hath chosen in Christ, according to the Exposition of S. Ambrose, S. Chrysostom, S. Jerom, as also of Archbishop Cranmer, Bishop Latimer, and the Book of Homilies, Page 556
• 4. The Absolute Decree condemned by Bishop Lati∣mer, as a means to Licentiousness and Carnal living, ibid.
• 5. For which, and making God to be the Author of sin, condemned as much by Bishop Hooper, ibid.
• 6. Our Election to be found in Christ, not sought for in Gods secret Councils, according to the judgment of Bishop Hatimer, Page 557
• 7. The way to find out our Election, delivered by the same godly Bishop, and by Bishop Hooper, with somewhat to the same purpose also from the Book of Homilies, ibid.
• 8. The Doctrine of Predestination, delivered by the holy Martyr John Bradford, with Fox his gloss upon the same to corrupt the sense, Page 558
• 9. No countenance to be had for any absolute, perso∣nal and irrespective decree of Predestination in the publique Liturgie, ibid.
• 10. An Answer to such passages out of the said Li∣turgie, as seem to favour that opinion; as also touching the number of Gods Elect.

CHAP. X. The Doctrine of the Church concerning Re∣probation and Universal Redemption.

• 1. The absolute Decree of Reprobation not found in the Articles of this Church, but against it in some passages of the publick Liturgie, Page 560
• 2. The cause of Reprobation to be found in a mans self, and not in Gods Decrees, according to the judgment of Bishop Latimer and Bishop Hooper, ibid.
• 3. The Absolute Decrees of Election and Reproba∣tion, how contrary to the last clause in the seven∣teenth Article, Page 561
• 4. The inconsistency of the Absolute Decree of Re∣probation, with the Doctrine of Ʋniversal Re∣demption by the death of Christ, ibid.
• 5. The Ʋniversal Redemption of man-kind by the death of Christ, declared in many places of the publick Liturgie, and affirmed also in one of the Homilies and the Book of Articles, Page 502
• 6. A further proof of it from the Mission of the Apostles, and the Prayer used in the Ordination of Priests, ibid.
• 7. The same confirmed by the Writings of Arch∣bishop Cranmer, and the two other Bishops before mentioned, Page 563
• 8. A Generality of the Promises, and an Ʋniver∣sality of Vocation, maintained by the said two godly Bishops, ibid.
• 9. The reasons why this benefit is not made effectual to all sorts of men, to be found only in them∣selves. ibid.

CHAP. XI. Of the Heavenly influences of Gods grace in the Conversion of a Sinner, and a mans co∣operation with those Heavenly influences.

• 1. The Doctrine of Deserving Grace ex congruo, maintained in the Roman Schools before the Council of Trent, rejected by our ancient Mar∣tyrs, and the Book of Articles, Page 564
• 2. The judgment of Dr. Barns and Mr. Tyndal, touching the necessary workings of Gods grace on the will of man, not different from that of the Church of England, Page 565
• 3. Ʋniversal grace maintained by Bishop Hooper, and approved by some passages in the Liturgie and Book of Homilies, ibid.
• 4. The offer of Ʋniversal grace made ineffectual to some, for want of faith; and to others, for want of repentance, according to the judgment of Bishop Hooper, ibid.
• 5. The necessity of Grace Preventing, and the free co-operation of mans will being so prevented, maintained in the Articles, in the Homilies, and the publique Liturgie. Page 566
• 6. The necessity of this co-operation on the part of man, defended, and applied to the exercise of a godly life, by Bishop Hooper, ibid.
• 7. The Doctrine of Irresistibility, first broached by Calvin, pertinaciously maintained by most of his followers, and by Gomarus amongst others, Page 567
• 8. Gainsaid by Bishop Hooper, and Bishop Lati∣mer, ibid.
• 9. And their gain-sayings justified by the tenth Ar∣ticle of King Edwards Books, Page 568
• And 10. The Book of Homilies, ibid.

CHAP. XII. The Doctrine of Free-will agreed upon by the Clergy in their Convocation, An. 1543.

• 1. Of the Convocation holden in the year 1543. in order to the Reformation of Religion in points of Doctrine, Page 569
• 2. The Article of Free-will in all the powers and workings of it, agreed on by the Prelates and Clergie of that Convocation, agreeable to the present Doctrine of the Church of England, ibid.
• 3. An Answer to the first Objection concerning the Popishness of the Bishops and Clergie in that Con∣vocation, Page 571
• 4. The Article of Free-will approved by King Henry VIII. and Archbishop Cranmer, Page 572
• 5. An Answer to the last Objection concerning the Conformity of the Article to the present Establish∣ed Doctrine in the Church of Rome. ibid.

CHAP. XIII. The Doctrine of the Church of England, con∣cerning the certainty or uncertainty of Per∣severance.

• 1. The certainty of Grace debated in the Council of Trent, and maintained in the Affirmative by the Dominicans, and some others, Page 573
• 2. The contrary affirmed by Catarinus and his adherents, ibid.
• 3. The doubtful resolution of the Council in it, Page 574
• 4. The Calvinists not content with certainty of Grace, quoad statum praesentem, presume up∣on it also quoad statum futurum, ibid.
• 5. The bounds and limits wherewith the judgment in this point ought rationally to be circumscribed, Page 575
• 6. The Doctrine of the Church of England in the present Article, ibid.
• 7. Justified by the testimonies of Bishop Latimer, Bishoop Hooper, and Master Tyndal, Page 576
• 8. And proved by several arguments from the pub∣lick Liturgie, ibid.
• 9. The Homily commends a probable and stedfast hope, Page 577
• But 10. Allows no certainty of Grace and perseve∣rance (in any ordinary way) to the Sons of men. ibid.

CHAP. XIV. The Plain Song of the second Homily, touch∣ing the falling from God, and the Descants made upon it.

• 1. More from some other Homilies, touching the possibility of falling from the grace received, Page 578
• 2. The second Homily or Sermon touching falling from God, laid down verbatim, Page 579
• 3. The sorry shifts of Mr. Yates, to illude the true meaning of the Homily, plainly discovered and consuted, Page 581
• 4. An Answer unto his Objection, touching the pas∣sage cited from the former Homily, in Mr. Moun∣tagues Appeal, ibid.
• 5. The judgment of Mr. Ridley, Arch-Deacon of Canterbury, in the points of Election and Re∣demption, Page 582
• 6. As also touching the reasons why the Word was not preached unto the Gentiles till the coming of Christ, the influences of grace, the co-workings of man, and the possibility of falling from the truth of Christ. ibid.

CHAP. XV. Of the Author and Authority of King Edwards Chatechism, as also of the judgment of Mar∣tin Bucer, and Peter Martyr, in the Points disputed.

• 1. The Catechism published by the Authority of King Edward VI. Anno 1553. affirmed to have been Writ by Bishop Poinet, and countenanced by the rest of the Bishops and Clergy, Page 583
• 2. Several passages collected out of that Catechism, to prove that the Calvinian Doctrins were the true, genuine, and ancient Doctrins of the Church of England, Page 584
• 3. With a discovery of the weakness and imperti∣nency of the Allegation, Page 585
• 4. What may most probably be conceived to have been the judgment of Bishop Poinet, in most of the Controverted Points, Page 586
• 5. An Answer to another Objection derived from Mr. Bucer, and Peter Martyr; and the influ∣ence which their Auditors and Disciples are sup∣posed to have had in the Reformation, ibid.
• 6. That Bucer was a man of moderate Counsels, approving the first Liturgy of King Edward VI. assenting to the Papists at the Dyet of Ratisbone, in the possibility of falling from grace; and that probably Peter Martyr had not so far espoused the Calvinian quarrels, when he lived in Oxon, as after his return to Zurick and Calvins Neighbourhood, Page 587
• 7. The judgment of Erasmus, according as it is delivered in his Paraphrases on the four Evange∣lists, proposed first in the general view, and after more particularly in every of the Points disputed. Page 588

PART III.

CHAP. XVI. Of the first breakings out of the Predestinarians, and their Proceedings in the same.

• 1. The Predestinarians, called at first by the name of Gospellers, Page 589
• 2. Campney's a professed Enemy to the Predesti∣narians, but neither Papist nor Pelagian, Page 590
• 3. The common practices of the Calvinists to defame their Adversaries, the name of Free-will men, to whom given, why, ibid.
• 4. The Doctrine of John Knox, in restraining all mens actions, either good or evil, to the determi∣nate Will and Counsel of God, Page 591
• 5. The like affirmed by the Author of the Table of Predestination; in whom, and the Genevian Notes, we find Christ to be excluded from being the foundation of mans Election, and made to be an inferiour cause of salvation only, ibid.
• 6. God made to be the Author of sin, by the Author of a Pamphlet, entituled against a Privy Papist, and his secret Counsels called in for the proof thereof, both by him and Knox, with the mis∣chiefs which ensued upon it, ibid.
• 7. The Doctrine of Robert Crowly, imputing all mens sins to Predestination, his silly defences for the same, made good by a distinction of John Verons, and the weakness of that distinction shewed by Campneys. Page 592
• 8. The Errours of the former Authors opposed by Campneys, his Book in answer to those Errours, together with his Orthodoxie in the point of uni∣versal Redemption, and what he builds upon the same, ibid.
• 9. His solid Arguments against the imputing of all actions either good or evil to Predestination; justi∣fied by a saying of Prosper of Aquitain, Page 593
• 10. The virulent prosecutions of Veron and Crowly, according to the Genius of the sect of Calvin. Page 594

CHAP. XVII. Of the disputes amongst the Confessors in Pri∣son, in Queen Maries days, and the resetling of the Church on her former principles under Queen Elizabeth.

• 1. The Doctrine of Predestination disputed amongst the Confessors in Prison in Queen Maries days, Page 595
• 2. The Examination of John Carelese between Dr. Martin, in reference to the said Disputes, ibid.
• 3. Considerations on some passages in the conference betwixt Dr. Martin and the said John Carelesse, Page 596
• 4. Review made of the publick Liturgie by the command of Queen Elizabeth, and the ••ara∣phrases of Erasmus commended to the reading both of Priest and People, Page 597
• 5. The second Book of Homilies how provided for, and of the liberty taken by the Gospellers, and Zuinglian Sectaries, before the reviewing and confirming of the Book of Articles, by the Queens Authority, ibid.
• 6. Of the reviewing and authority of the Book of Articles, Anno 1562. and what may be from thence inferred, Page 598
• 7. An Answer from the Agreement drawn from omitting the ninth Article of King Edwards Book, the necessity of giving some content to the Zuinglian Gospellers, and the difficulty where∣with they were induced to subscribe the Book at the first passing of the same, ibid.
• 8. The Argument taken from some passages in the English Catechism, set forth by Mr. Alexander Nowel, and the strength thereof, Page 599
• 9. Several considerations on the said Catechism, and the rest of the Authors making; and what his being Prolocutor in the Convocation might add to any of them in point of Orthodoxie, ibid.
• 10. Nothing to be collected out of the first passage in Mr. Nowels Catechism, in favour of the Calvi∣nian doctrine of Predestination, and the points de∣pending thereupon, and less than nothing in the second, if it be understood according to the Au∣thors meaning; and the determination of the Church. Page 600

CHAP. XVIII. A Declaration of the Doctrine in the Points disputed under the new establishment made by Queen Elizabeth.

• 1. The Doctrine of the second Book of Homilies con∣cerning the wilful fall of Adam, the miserable estate of man, the restitution of lost man in Jesus Christ, and the universal redemption of all man∣kind by his death and passion, Page 601
• 2. The doctrine of the said second Book concerning universal grace, the possibility of a total and final falling, and the co-operation of mans will with the grace of God, Page 602
• 3. The judgment of Reverend Bishop Jewel, touch∣ing the universal redemption of man-kind by the death of Christ; Predestination grounded upon faith in Christ, and reached out unto all them that believe in him, by Mr. Alexander Nowel, ibid.
• 4. Dr. Harsnet in his Sermon at St. Pauls Cross, Anno 1584. sheweth that the absolute decree of

• Reprobation turneth the truth of God into a lie, and makes him to the Author of sin, Page 603
• 5. That it deprives man of the natural freedom of his will, makes God himself to be double-minded, to have two contrary wills, and to delight in mocking his poor Creature, Man, ibid.
• 6. And finally, that it makes God more cruel and unmerciful than the greatest Tyrant, contrary to the truth of Scripture, and the constant Doctrine of the Fathers, Page 604
• 7. The rest of the said Sermon reduced unto certain other heads, directly contrary to the Calvinian Doctrine in the points disputed, ibid.
• 8. Certain considerations on the Sermon aforesaid, with reference to the subject of it, as also to the time, place, and persons in and before which it was first preached, Page 605
• 9. An Answer to some Objections concerning a pre∣tended Recantation falsly affirmed to have been made by the said Mr. Harsnet, ibid.
• 10. That in the judgment of the Right Learned Dr. King, after Bishop of London, the altera∣tion of Gods denounced judgments in some certain cases, infers no alteration in his Councils; the difference between the changing of the will, and to will a change, Page 606
• 11. That there is something in Gods decrees re∣vealed to us, and something concealed unto himself, the difference between the inferiour and superiour causes, and of the conditionality of Gods threats and promises, ibid.
• 12. The accomodating of the former part of this dis∣course to the case of the Ninevites, Page 607
• 13. And not the case of the Ninevites to the case disputed. ibid.

CHAP. XIX. Of the first great breach which was made in the Doctrine of the Church; by whom it was made, and what was done towards the making of it up.

• 1. Great alterations made in the face of the Church, from the return of such Divines as had withdrawn themselves beyond Sea in the time of Queen Mary; with the necessity of imploying them in the publick service, if otherwise of known zeal against the Papists, Page 609
• 2. Several examples of that kind in the places of greatest power and trust in the Church of Eng∣land; particularly of Mr. Fox the Martyrolo∣gist, and the occasion which he took of publishing his opinion in the point of Predestination, ibid.
• 3. His Notes on one of the Letters of John Brad∣ford Martyr, touching the matter of Election therein contained, ibid.
• 4. The difference between the Comment and the Text, and between the Author of the Comment, and Bishop Hooper, Page 612
• 5. Exceptions against some passages, and observa∣tions upon others, in the said Notes of Mr. Fox, ibid.
• 6. The great breach made hereby in the Churches Doctrine, made greater by the countenance which was given to the Book of Acts and Monuments, by the Convocation, Anno 1571. Page 613
• 7. No argument to be drawn from hence, touching the approbation of his doctrine by that Convocation, no more than for the Approbation of his Marginal Notes, and some particular passages in it, dis∣graceful to the Rites of the Church, attire of the Bishops, ibid.
• 8. A counterballance made in the Convocation a∣gainst Fox his Doctrine, and all other Novelisms of that kind. Page 614

CHAP. XX. Of the great Invocation made by Perkins in the publick Doctrine, the stirs arising thence in Cambridge, and Mr. Barrets carriage in them.

• 1. Of Mr. Perkins and his Doctrine of Predestina∣tion, with his recital of the four opinions, which were then maintained about the fame, Page 614
• 2. The sum and substance of his Doctrine according to the Supralapsarian, or Supra-creatarian way, Page 615
• 3. The several censures past upon it, both by Papists and Protestants, by none more sharply than by Dr. Rob. Abbots, after Bishop of Sarum, Page 616
• 4. Of Dr. Baroe, the Lady Margarets Professor in the Ʋniversity, and his Doctrine touching the di∣vine Decrees, upon occasion of Gods denounced Judgment against the Ninivites, ibid.
• 5. His constant opposition to the Predestinarians, and the great increase of his Adherents, Page 617
• 6. The Articles collected out of Barrets Sermon, de∣rogatory to the Doctrine and persons of the chief Calvinians, ibid.
• 7. Barret convented for the same, and the pro∣ceedings had against him at his first conventing, Page 618
• 8. A Form of Recantation delivered to him, but not the same which doth occur in the Anti-Armini∣anism, to be found in the Records of the Ʋniver∣sity, ibid.
• 9. Several Arguments to prove that Barret never published the Recantation imposed upon him, Page 619
• 10. The rest of Barrets story related in his own Let∣ter to Dr. Goad, being then Vice-Chancellor, ibid.
• 11. The sentencing of Barret to a Recantation, no argument that his Doctrine was repugnant to the Church of England, and that the body of the same Ʋniversity differed from the heads in that particular. Page 620

CHAP. XXI. Of the proceedings against Baroe, the Articles of Lambeth, and the general calm which was in Oxon, touching these Disputes,

• 1. The differences between Baroe and Dr. Whit∣acres, the address of Whitacres and others to Arch-bishop Whitgift, which drew on the Ar∣ticles of Lambeth. Page 621
• 2. The Articles agreed on at Lambeth, presented both in English and Latine, Page 622
• 3. The Articles of no authority in themselves, Arch∣bishop Whitgift questioned for them, together with the Queens command to have them utterly supprest, ibid.
• 4. That Baroe neither was deprived of his Professor∣ship, nor compelled to leave it, the Anti-Calvi∣nian party being strong enough to have kept him in if he had desired it, Page 623
• 5. A Copy of the Letter from the Heads in Cam∣bridge to the Lord Treasurer Burleigh, occa∣sioned as they said by Barret and Baroe, Page 624
• 6. Dr. Overalds encounters with the Calvinists in the point of falling from the grace received; his own private judgment in the point, neither for total nor for final, and the concurrence of some other Learned men in the same opinion, Page 625
• 7. The general calm which was at Oxon at that time, touching these disputes, and the Reasons of it, ibid.
• 8. An Answer to that Objection out of the writings of judicious Hooker, of the total and final falling, Page 626
• 9. The disaffections of Dr. Bukeridge, and Dr. Houson to Calvins doctrins: An Answer to the Objection touching the paucity of those who op∣posed the same, ibid.
• 10. Possession of a truth maintained but by one or two, preserves it sacred and inviolable for more fortunate times; the case of Liberius Pope of Rome; and that the testimonies of this kind are rather to be valued by weight than tale, Page 627

CHAP. XXII. Of the Conference at Hampton Court, and the several encouragements given to the Anti-Calvinians in the time of King James.

• 1. The occasion of the conference at Hampton Court, and the chief persons there assembled, Page 628
• 2. The nine Articles of Lambeth rejected by King James Page 629
• 3. Those of the Church being left in their former condition, ibid.
• 4. The Calvinian Doctrine of Predestination de∣cryed by Bishop Bancroft, and disliked by King James; and the reasons of it, Page 630
• 5. Bishop Bancroft and his Chaplain both abused; The inserting the Lambeth Articles into the confession of Ireland, no argument of King James his approbation of them, by whom they were inserted, and for what cause allowed of in the said Confession, ibid.
• 6. A pious fraud of the Calvinians in clapping their Predestinarian Doctrines at the end of the Old Testament, Anno 1607. discovered, cen∣sured and rejected, with the reasons of it, Page 631
• 7. The great incouragement given by King James to the Anti-Calvinians, and the increasing of that party both in power and number by the stirs in Holland, ibid.
• 8. The offence taken by King James at Conradus Vorstius, animateth the Oxon Calvanists to suspend Dr. Houson, and to preach publickly a∣gainst Dr. Laud, Page 632
• 9. The like proceedings at Cambridge against Mr. Simpson, first prosecuted by King James, and on what account that King was more incensed heainst the party of Arminius, than against their perswasions, ibid.
• 10. The Instructions published by King James in order to the diminishing of Calvins Authority, the defence of universal Redemption, and the suppressing of his Doctrines in the other points, and why the last proved so unuseful in the case of Ga∣briel Bridges, Page 633
• 11. The publishing of Mountagues Answer to the Gagger, the information made against it; the Author and his Doctrine taken by King James into his protection, and his Appeal Licensed by the Kings appointment, Page 634
• 12. The conclusion of the whole discourse, and the submission of it to the Church of England. ibid.
• A Postscript to the Reader, concerning some particu∣lars, in a Scurrilous Pamphlet Entituled, A Review of the Certamen Epistolare, &c. Page 635

The Stumbling-Block of Disobedience and Rebellion, &c.

CHAP. I. The Doctrine of Obedience laid down by Calvin, and of the Popular Officers supposed by him, whereby he overthroweth that Doctrine.

• 1. THe purpose and design of the work in hand, Page 645
• 2. The Doctrine of Obedience unto Kings and Princes, soundly and piously laid down by Calvin, Page 646
• 3. And that not only to the good and gracious, but even to cruel Princes and ungodly Tyrants, Page 647
• 4. With Answer unto such Objections as are made against it, Page 649
• 5. The Principles of Disobedience in the supposal of some particular Officers ordained of purpose to re∣gulate the power of Kings, Page 650
• 6. How much the practice of Calvin's followers doth differ from their Masters Doctrine as to the point of Obedience, Page 651
• 7. Several Articles and points of Doctrine, wherein the Disciples of Calvin are departed from him, Page 653
• 8. More of the differences in point of Doctrine be∣twixt the Master and the Scholars, ibid.
• 9. The dangerous consequences which arise from his faulty Principles, in the point or Article of Diso∣bedience, Page 654
• 10. The method and distribution of the following work. Page 655

CHAP. II. Of the Authority of Ephori in the State of Sparta, and that they were not instituted for the ends supposed by Calvin.

• 1. The King of Sparta absolute Monarch at the first, Page 656
• 2. Of the declining of the Regal power, and the condition of that State, when Lycurgus under∣took to change the Government, Page 657
• 3. What power Lycurgus gave the Senate; and what was left unto the Kings, ibid.
• 4. The Ephori appointed by the Kings of Sparta, to ease themselves, and curb the Senate, Page 658
• 5. The blundering and mistakes of Joseph Scaliger, about the first Institution of the Ephori, Page 659
• 6. The Ephori from mean beginnings grew to great Authority; and by what advantages, Page 660
• 7. The power and influence which they had in the publick Government, Page 661
• 8. By what degrees the Ephori incroached on the Spartan Kings, Page 662
• 9. The insolencies of the Ephori towards their Kings, altered the State into a Tyranny, Page 663
• 10. The Spartan Kings stomach the insolency of the Ephori, and at last utterly destroy them, Page 664
• 11. An application of the former passages to the point in hand. Page 665

CHAP. III. Of the Incroachments of the Tribunes on the State of Rome; and that they were not insti∣tuted for the ends supposed by Calvin.

• 1. The Tribunes of the People why first Instituted in the State of Rome, Page 666
• 2. And with what difficulty and conditions, Page 667
• 3. The Tribunes fortifie themselves with large im∣munities, before they went about to change the Government, Page 668
• 4. The Tribunes no sooner in their Office, but they set themselves against the Nobility and the Senate, contrary to the Articles of their Institution, Page 669
• 5. The many and dangerous Seditions occasioned by the Tribunes in the City of Rome, Page 670
• 6. The Tribunes and the People do agree together to change the Government of the State, Page 671
• 7. By what degrees the People came to be possessed of all the Offices in the State, both of power and dignity, Page 672
• 8. The Plots and Practices of the Gracchi, to put the power of the Judicature and Supream Ma∣jesty of the Senate into the hands of the People, ibid.
• 9. The Tribunes take upon them to commit the Consuls, and bring all the Officers of the State under their command, Page 673
• 10. The Office and Authority of the Tribunes re∣duced unto its antient bounds by Corn. Sylla; and at last utterly destroyed, Page 674
• 11. An Application of the former passage to the point in hand, Page 675

CHAP. IV. Of what Authority the Demarchi were in the State of Athens; and of the danger and un∣fitness of the instances produced by Calvin.

• 1. Athens first governed by Kings, and afterwards by one Sovereign Prince under other titles, Page 676
• 2. The Annual Magistrates of Athens, what they were, and of what Authority, Page 677

• 3. By whom and what degrees the State of Athens was reduced to a Democratie, Page 678
• 4. Of the Authority of the Senate, and the famous Court of the Areopagites, Page 679
• 5. What the Demarchi were in the State of Athens, and of what Authority, Page 680
• 6. The Demarchi never were of power to oppose the Senate, nor were ordained to that end, ibid.
• 7. Calvins ill luck in making choice of three such instances, which if true, would not serve his turn. Page 681
• 8. The danger which lyeth hidden under the disguise of such popular Magistrates as are here instanced in by Calvin, Page 682
• 9. What moved Calvin to lay these dangerous stum∣bling-blocks in the Subjects way, Page 683
• 10. The dangerous positions and practices which have hence ensued in most parts of Europe, Page 684
• 11. The sect of Calvin professed Enemies to Mo∣narchy, and the power of Princes. Page 685

CHAP. V. What are the three Estates in each several King∣dom, of which Calvin speaks, and what par∣ticularly in the Realm of England.

• 1. Of the division of a People into three Estates; and that the Priests or Clergy have been always one, Page 687
• 2. The Priests employed in Civil matters and af∣fairs of State, by the Egyptians and the Per∣sians, the Greeks, Gauls, and Romans, Page 688
• 3. The Priests and Levites exercised in affairs of Civil Government by Gods own appointment, Page 680
• 4. The Prelates versed in Civil matters and affairs of State, in the best and happiest times of Chri∣stianity, Page 690
• 5. The Clergy make the third Estate in Germany, France, Spain, and the Northern Kingdoms, Page 692
• 6. That anciently in the Saxon times the Ecclesia∣sticks of this Realm were called to all publick Councils, Page 694
• 7. The Prelates an essential fundamental part of the English Parliament, ibid.
• 8. Objections answered, and that the word Clerus in the Legal notion, doth not extend unto the Prelates, Page 698
• 9. That the inferior Clergie of the Realm of Eng∣land, had anciently their Votes in Parliament, to all intents and purposes as the Commons had, Page 700
• 10. Objections answered; and that the calling of the Clergie to Parliaments and Convocations, were after different manners, and by several Writs, Page 703
• 11. The great Disfranchisement and Slavery ob∣truded on the English Clergy, by the depriving of the Bishops of their Votes in Parliament, Page 705
• 12. A brief discussion of the question, whether any two of the three Estates conspiring or agreeing to∣gether, can conclude any thing unto the prejudice of the third. Page 706

CHAP. VI. That the three Estates of every Kingdom where∣of Calvin speaks, have no Authority either to regulate the power, or controll the Actions of the Sovereign Prince.

• 1. The Bishops and Clergy of England, not the King, make the third Estate, and of the dange∣rous consequences which may follow on the con∣trary Tenet, Page 708
• 2. The different influence of the three Estates upon conditional Princes, and an absolute Monarch, Page 710
• 3. The Sanhedrim of no Authority over the Persons or the actions of the Kings of Judah, Page 711
• 4. The three Estates in France, of how small Au∣thority over the actions of that King, Page 712
• 5. The King of Spain not over-ruled, or regulated by the three Estates, Page 713
• 6. Of what Authority they have been antiently in the Parliaments of Scotland, Page 714
• 7. The King of England always accounted here∣tofore for an absolute Monarch, Page 715
• 8. No part of Sovereignty invested Legally in the English Parliaments, Page 716
• 9. The three Estates assembled in the Parliament of England, subordinate unto the King, not co∣ordinate with him, Page 719
• 10. The Legislative power of Parliaments is proper∣ly and legally in the King alone, Page 720
• 11. In what particulars the power of the English Parliament doth consist especially, Page 723
• 12. The Kings of England ordinarily over-rule their Parliaments by themselves, their Council, and their Judges, Page 724
• 13. Objections answered, touching the power and practice of some former Parliaments, and the testi∣monies given unto them, Page 726
• 14. No such Authority given by God in Holy Scrip∣ture to any such Popular Magistrates as Calvin dreams of, and pretends, Page 727
• 15. The Application and Conclusion of the whole Discourse. Page 728

De jure Paritatis Episcoporum: The Right of Peerage vindicated to the Bishops of England, Page 739.

FINIS.