The instance of his contradicting others , shall be part of the story concerning the infamous separatist Browne : Sir George Paul in the life of Archbishop Whitgift , Pag. 53 , acquaints us , that Brown in the Archbishops time was changed from his fancies , and after obtained a benefice called Achurch in Northamptonshire where he became a painful Preacher . But Dr. Heylin , Lib. 7. Pag. 297. tells us , he was prevailed with to accept a place , Achurch in Northamptonshire , beneficed with cure of Souls ; a benefice of good value , which might tempt him to it the rather , in regard that he was excused as well from Preaching as from performing any other part of the publick Ministry . Certainly , if he became a painful Preacher , there was no need of excusing him from Preaching .

But who is in the truth ? I think neither the Knight nor the Doctor ; painful Preacher to be sure Brown never was , after his presentation to Achurch ; nor is it probable that he was excused from Preaching , any more than from living quietly with his Wife . Bishops have strained their power very high , but I am unwilling to believe that any Prelate since our Reformation would institute a man healthful and able to Preach , into a cure of Souls , and yet excuse him from all parts of the publick Ministry .

Nay , thirdly , If men take the field against the Nonconformists before they have sufficiently tried their strength , they may chance to be mastered by these arguments they imagined themselves able to master ; and so even face about in the day of battel , fighting against those from whom they received their first pay . Mr. Henry Jeanes had never seen a Nonconformist using his own weapon , and therefore thought him contemptible , and adventured to defie him in a Printed Treatise upon 1 Thes. 5.22 . But when he came to Read the very Books of the Nonconformists themselves , he found himself no longer able to withstand the dint of their arguments , but went over to them , and died their Convert , as all know who were his Neighbour Ministers : some Papists by reading Protestant Books , with an intent to confute them , have been converted by them ; and therefore the Grandees in the Roman Church , will not give leave to one of a thousand , to Read all manner of Books ; nay in some places they will scarcely permit Bellarmines works to be commonly sold , lest that little which is in them of Calvin should purge all Catholocism out of their young Students . I wish the Prelates of our Church would consider how far the prudence of Papacy is imitable ; certainly every one who is willing to have a Prebendship from them , is not able to stand under the weight and burden that is laid upon Episcopacy . If our Church must be vindicated , let it be vindicated by another Hooker , made up of learning and modesty ; as for Mr. Durel , if he have got a lask , and must needs ease himself in the Press , it may be worth consideration , whether he be not fit to succeed to Tom Nash , whose scoffing Pen was not altogether useless in Queen Elizabeths days .

I had almost added , that he who will to purpose defend our Church , must not be a Jersey man ; not only , because such a one can scarce be supposed sully to know the intrigues of our differences ; but also because it can scarce be thought , that he should be conscientiously a friend to our Hierarchy : for we are not now to be told , that the Episcopal Government setled here in England , could not get into Jersey , but by wile , if not force . Jersey , Guernsey , &c. are the only remainders of the Crown of England in the Dukedom of Normandy , and in former times belonged to the Jurisdiction of the Bishop of Constance , but were governed immediately by a subordinate Officer mixt of a Chancelor and Archdeacon ; they entertained the Reformed Religion in King Edwards time , and some of their Inhabitants suffered for it in the time of Queen Mary ; Queen Elizabeth reigning , by the help of some French Ministers , the generality were again brought to seek after Reformation ; but withall Petition the Queen for an allowance of the Presbyterian Discipline , Anno 1563 ; and Anno 1565 , obtain it for all , or some part of the Islands : on which allowance they adventure to put it in execution , and hold a Synod in the Isle of Guernsey , Sep. 2. 1567. Nor do I find that they had any considerable disturbance in it , till Sir John Peiton was made their Governour , who with the Kings Attorney protested against that choice of Mr. Brevin , which was made by the Colloquy , upon the decease of the Curate of St. Johns : the ground of the Protestation was the prejudicialness of such Elections to the Rights and Profits of the King , deprived thereby of Vacancies , and first Fruits . This Protestation , though over-ruled for a season , wrought so effectually , that about 1615 , the Governour presented one Mr. Messering to the Parish of St. Peters ; this Messering had been ordained Priest by Dr. Bridges Bishop of Oxford , but his presentation was so offensive to the Colloquy , that Governour and Ministers appear before King James , referring the whole concernment to his Majesties final Judgment ; and the Ministers for ought I find , had continued in Statu quo , had they been unanimous ; but Monsieur De la Place being brought into a golden dream , that if a Dean were again established in the Isle , he , and no other should be the man , betrayed his brethren , and violated the Oath he had before taken , so as it was at length ordered by the Council of England , That an Officer invested with the authority of the ancient Dean , should again be established in the Isle of Jersey , and that the Bishop of Winchester should by Commission under his seal give authority unto the said Dean , to exercise Ecclesiastical Jurisdiction in the said Isle : but not Monsieur Place , but Mr. Bandinel , an Italian , is put into the Deanery ; which Mr. Places high stomack not digesting , he retires into Guernsey , breathing out nothing but disgrace to the English Liturgy , and the Change of Government made in Jersey , by his own Treachery . The sum of all is : The Islanders of Jersey had the English Liturgy translated into their own Language in the reign of King Edward the sixth ; in Queen Elizabeths reign , they forsook it , aesired the Presbyterial discipline , and by Oath bound themselves to keep and observe it . The Episcopal Government was obtruded upon them , through the perjury of an Ambitious Minister who declaimed against it as soon as he saw he could not serve his own ends by it . Doth any Law oblige us to believe that any Natives of this Isle heartily embrace it ? I think it will be no uncharitableness to say — Timeo Danaos , & dona ferentes .

A fourth qualification required in him that will go a warfare for our Church , is a good knowledg of all the rules and forms of Argumentation ; he that wants such knowledg , will no more be able to manage the Churches Arguments , than David was to use Sauls Armor ; nay , he will be a stumbling-block and stone of offence to our young students . When Dr. Heylin's Certamen Epistolare came abroad , I had spent Three years and no more at Cambridg ; yet I must needs buy the Book , because the Author was famed for his Geography , and had been represented to me as a very living Library ; thought I , Si pergama dextra Defendi possent , certe hac defensa videbo . But reading his Answer to Mr. Baxter , I found my self quite frustrated in my expectation ; for whereas Mr. Baxter had made a conditional Syllogism , and instead of assuming the words of the antecedent at large , had used an allowed brevity , But the antecedent is true : The Dr. tells him Page 80. That it was a strange piece of news to him , to read any one making use of that brief form of conditional Syllogism . This startled me , for I was sure that almost every System of Logick , that fell into the mention of conditional Syllogisms , not only allowed , but commended it to us , for brevity sake , after a conditional major to proceed thus , But the Antecedent is true , Ergo , so is the Consequent ; or , but the Consequent is false , Ergo , so is the Antecedent : I was as sure that those Schoolmen ( in whose Logicks and Metaphysicks I had wasted too much time ) did usually so argue , and I had read that long before them , the Stoicks were much pleased with this form of Argumentation , and called it 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 ; how then ( said I within my self ) comes it to pass , that an ancient Dr. in Divinity , who hath combated not only Puritans , but also Bishops and Heads of Houses , and sometimes nibbles at Bellarmine himself , should upon the reading of such a Syllogism fall into such a fit of admiration ? What Answer I gave my self , is not material ; but I resolved to lay aside my opinion of the Doctors abilities ; but rather to hope that he would make known some mystery that was bid from Duncan , Burgesdicius , Isendorne , &c. till I came to his 8 , Page , where I met with these words , The Antecedent in all Hypothetical propositions being conditional , imperfect , and of no full sense , cannot be said to be either true or false . When I had read them , I then concluded the Dr. was void of all rational learning , and perhaps did not know what hypothetical signified ; for certainly every hypothetical Proposition is a compound Proposition ; and if it be compound , it must consist of Two Propositions , and one of those Propositions must needs be the Antecedent : Now if the Antecedent be a Proposition , it must needs be either true or false . I know that sometimes the Antecedent , as well as the Consequent , is not formally a Proposition ; but it 's evermore , at least virtually a Proposition , and therefore may be said to be true or false ; if it could not , why do our Logicks so carefully tell us , that we must not estimate the verity or falsity of a conditional , from the verity or falsity of its parts , but from the true or false connexion that is betwixt them ? It were perfectly needless to tell us , that we are not to estimate the verity of a conditional , from the verity of the Antecedent , if the Antecedent neither can be said to be true nor false . Besides , if there may be affirmation and negation in the Antecedent , then may the Antecedent be either true or false ; but there may be affirmation or negation in the Antecedent , Ergo. The minor I prove from the common rule given for the right making of those conditional Syllogisms , in which the major only is Hypothetical ; the Rule is , That we must either proceed from the position of the Antecedent , to the position of the Consequent ; or from the destruction of the Consequent to the destruction of the Antecedent ; if we proceed not thus , we may from true premises infer a false conclusion : Now what is it to put ponere the Antecedent ? Why , it is to bring it into the minor , with the same quality it had in the major ; That is , if it were affirmative in the major , it must be affirmative in the minor ; if negative in the major , then negative in the minor : Ay , but whatever dull Logicians prate , is not the Antecedent in every Hypothetical , conditional , imperfect ? Answ. Certainly it is not ; for the [ if ] which is commonly prefixed to the Antecedent , is no part of the Antecedent ; but it is the copula that converteth the Antecedent and the Consequent , just as the Verb [ is ] in a Categorical , coupleth the subject and predicate . Let this be the example , if the Sun shineth , it is day ; here be two propositions , the Sun shineth , it is day , both are joined into one compound proposition by the Conjunction if ; and the plain meaning is , if the first proposition be true , the second is also . No less ignorance doth the Dr. bewray , when he saith , In every hypothetical Syllogism , the major proposition consisteth of two parts , or branches , whereof one is called the Antecedent , the other the consequent : For I can make him an Hundred Hypothetical Syllogisms , in which the minor only and conclusion shall be Hypothetical , and the major a plain Categorical . It may be Mr. D. will say , this shakes not his Corn ; and indeed it doth not : but he also might have done well , before he dabled in the Printers Ink , to read over some Compendiums ; then would he have amended the Title of above Fifty Pages in his Book , not writing The Conformity of the Reformed Churches , with the Reformed Church of England ; for this Enunciation , There is a conformity betwixt the Reformed Churches , and the Reformed Church of England in the things of present controversie , cannot be proved , but by an Induction , shewing , that all , or the most , or the most famous Reformed Churches , agree with the Church of England in all , or most , or the chiefest of those matters the present Nonconformists scruple . Hath he shewed this ? he doth as good as confess he hath not ; for Page 53. Sect. 63. giving us the summa totalis of his atchievements , he plainly says , it amounts but to thus much , There is hardly one of the Rites and Ceremonies of the Church of England that is not used in some one Reformed Church or other . Which suppose he had proved ( as he hath not ) he is , many stages off from the conclusion he propounded to infer ; if he deem he is not , let him write a Book to prove that the Language of the Matachuses is conformable to the English Language , because there is some one word in which both languages do agree , and see whether he will not be laughed at to purpose .

But I will free my mind from all prejudices that may be taken against Mr. D. on the account of his Country ; nor will I create him any odium from the high elogiums he bestows on the Earl of Clarendon , sentenced by King and Parliament to perpetual banishment , as unworthy to live in England , ( though I wonder Mr. D. doth no where bewail his sin or misery in heaping so many praises on him who deserved so few ) 'T is not the man , but his Book I am to undertake , and in it I will shew ,

1. Where there is a real controversy betwixt Episcoparians and Presbyterians , he quite mistakes it .

2. That he takes a great deal of pains to prove that which was never questioned by any sober man among us .

3. That he defiles his Paper with many untruths and falshoods .

4. That he hath let fall not a few passages which are manifestly prejudicial and destructive to the Church of England , as it is now established .

As to the real controversies now on foot , the principal of them may be reduced to three general Heads , Episcopacy , Liturgy , Ceremonies .

The Presbyterians say , that if they conform , they must receive Episcopacy as an order by Divine Law , superior to Presbytery , and invested with sole power of order and jurisdiction : Search Mr. Durell's Book with Candles , and if there be in it any one Line tending to prove that either there is any such Episcopacy in any one reformed Church , or that any one Reformed Church , if her judgment were asked , would approve such an Episcopacy , and I will confess my self mistaken . He reckoneth himself most secure of the Lutheran Churches , and among the Lutherans , especially of such as are governed by a Monarchy , particularly he tells us , That in Denmark they have Bishops , and Arch bishops , name and thing , Page 5. How much he is mistaken in this , will soon appear , if we consult the History of the Reformation of that Kingdom . About the year 1537 , Bugenbagius is sent for into Denmark , where the Twelfth of August , he performed all the Ecclesiastical part of the Kings Coronation ; and Fourteen days after that Coronation , he ordained Seven Superintendents , to be keepers and executors of all Ecclesiastical Ordination , and to do the office of Bishops : Now I ask , seeing Bugenhage was but a Presbyter , whether he put the Superintendents into an order higher than his own ? if he did , who gave him an authority so to do ? If he did not , then are there no Bishops properly so called in Denmark . Melchior Adam , who relates this of Bugenhagius , relates also in the life of Luther , that he , calling Three other Presbyters to join with him in laying on of hands , ordained Nicholas Amdsorf Bishop , repudiating one chosen by the Colledg of Canons , and very dear to the Emperor ; That is , he ordained one by the name of a Bishop , but he was only a Presbyter , and could not think himself to be of an higher Order , being ordained by Luther that was but a meer Presbyter .

Gerhard acquaints us , That the Papists , or at least some of them , did proclaim the Ordinations in their Churches to be void and null , because performed by Luther who was no Bishop ; but that ever any Lutheran thought their Ordinations less valid on that account , will never be proved . I have read Hunnius his Demonstration of the Lutheran Ministry ; and though he were himself a Superintendent , yet he so little magnifies his Office , that he sticks not to affirm , That he who ordains , ordains only as the Officer of the Church ; and that any one whatever that should by the Church be set to ordain , would ordain as validly as a Bishop doth . And , if it will do Mr. D. any kindness , I can , and will on his desire , direct him to a Lutheran , who calls us Anglos Papizantes , for straining Episcopacy so high , and appropriating Ordination to that Order : Chemnitius had occasion to examine the Anathematizing Decrees of the Conventicle of Trent ; one of them was , If any one shall say that a Bishop is not superior to a Presbyter , let him be Anathema . There he was necessitated to shew the judgment of the Lutheran Churches , and yet he there delivereth nothing , but what the English - Presbyterians can subscribe to ; and though the incomparable Philip Melancthon was blamed for giving more to Bishops than was meet ; yet he hath not given more to them , than what the English Nonconformists are ready to give them .

Thus of the Lutheran Churches . It will not be so difficult for me to find out the judgment of the Churches more strictly called Reformed , because I shall find the most famous of them except the Gallican , meeting together at the Synod of Dort . Of the Gallican therefore by themselves ; and I say , that the Writers of those Churches have done more against our English Hierarchy , than the Writers of any , or all Reformed Churches besides . For ,

1. Some of them have made it their business to overthrow the credit of Ignatius his Epistles , from which , more than from any writing whatever , our Hierarchy doth strengthen it self . Did not Salmasius and Blondell strain their diligence , to prove that even the most correct Copy of Ignatius is spurious ? And when our learned Hammond had taken some pains to vindicate the Epistles , Maresius quarrels with B●ondell , because he did not presently all other business laid aside ) take the Doctor to task , and maintain against him the Apology he had made for St. Hieroms opinion ; yet Dally tells us , that Blondell had intended to answer for himself , had he not been prevented by death . Because death did prevent him , therefore his friend Monsieur Dally hath done that work for him ; and it is said , that Dr. Pierson hath news sent him , That if he think meet to reply upon Dally , he shall not long want a rejoinder .

2. Those that have defended our English Hierarchy , have not been more uncivilly dealt with by any , than by learned French-men . I will not now ( because indeed I am ashamed ) tell what language Danaeus gave Saravia , because of his Book De diversis Ministrorum gradibus . Salmasius imagining himself disparaged by a word never intended as a disparagement , could not forbear calling Dr. Hammond Knave . Maresius ( in the first question he handleth against Dr. Prideaux ) not so bluntly , but more virulently , tells us , That Dr. Hammond had proceeded to such a degree of fury , as that he did professedly propugne the cause of the Pope ; not content to spit in a single Doctors face , he thus censures all our Bishops , Melius suae 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 consuluissent Praesules Anglicani , si & moderatius in ea egissent , & illam cum reliquis Protestantibus maluissent agnoscere juris ecclesiastici , quam mordicus asserere juris Divini . Nam ut arcus nimia intensione frangitur , sis & illi nimium intendentes suam authoritatem , & dignitatem ea penitus exciderunt , instar Cameli in fabula , qui quod cornua affectasset , etiam auribus multatus fuit , page 68. And then page 70 , speaking of some mischiefs that had befallen the Bishops , he thus expresseth himself , Ipsimet Praesules Angli , fuissent ea declinaturi , si fortunam suam magis reverenter habuissent , neque ex parte collimassent ad Papismi restitutionem , jure postliminii , licet majorem aut saltem meliorem partem corum haec iniquitatis mysteria latuerint . Quare nobis eminus hanc catastrophem spectantibus ; id solum dicendum restat , domine justus es , & justa judicia tua . And then page 111 , speaking of our Bishops arrogating to themselves temporal jurisdiction , he dreads not to let fall these Lines ; Haec defensio Jurisdictionis temporalis pro Ecclesiae Ministris portio aliqua est , illius fermenti Papistici , quo Hierarchiae Anglicanae massa , paulatim se infici passa fuit , dum magis ambit typhum saeculi , ut loquar cum patribus Africanis , quam humilitatem crucis meditatur : potuissent forte Episcopi Anglicani suam 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 & sua rura retinuisse , nisi vo●uissent penitus suum Episcopatum ad modulum Romanum componere .

3. But above all , let that be considered which is laid down by Peter Moulin in his Letter to the Bishop of Winchester , Where to excuse himself for not making the difference betwixt Bishops and Presbyters to be of Divine appointment , he pleads , that if he had laid the difference on that foundation , the French Churches would have silenced him .

Will the French Churches silence him that should assert the jus Divinum of Episcopacy ? and yet will Mr. Durell go about to perswade us , that they do not condemn our English Hierarchy , which asserts it self to be Divine , and cares not for being at all , if it be not such ? The Two Archbishops in Dr. Bastwicks Case , did protest even in open Court , That if they could not prove their Episcopal Jurisdiction and Function , which they claimed and exercised over other Ministers , and themselves as they were Bishops , to be superior in power , dignity , and degree to other Ministers , Jure Divino , they would forthwith cast away their Rochets off their backs , lay down their Bishopricks at his Majesties feet , and not continue one hour longer Bishops . If therefore Mr. D. can bring any eminent French Divines that found Episcopacy , as distinct from , and superior to , Presbytery , on any Divine Law , he will do something to stop the mouths of Nonconformists ; but such he will never be able to bring , unless he first cause the Golden Ball to run before them , or fill them with that which blindeth the eyes of the wise . Certain I am , that Dr. Andrew Rivet , in his summa Controver . Second Tract . 22. Quest. thus states the question : We dispute not whether Bishops be , de facto , above Presbyters ; but whether they be so , de jure ; nor is the question of Humane , but Divine Law : We deny that Bishops by Divine Law have any pre-eminence above Presbyters . This is the more considerable , because it is dedicated to four great Protestant Divines , Peter Moulin , William Rivet , John Maximilian Langle , Samuel Bochart ; and because it is again repeated in Rivets Writings against Grotius . When some Ministers were by the Assembly employed to get foreign Divines , by some Letters , to signifie their minds in the controversy of our Episcopacy ; among others , the said Ministers went to this Dr. Rivet , then at the Hague , desiring him , that he would be pleased to signifie his mind : He excused himself from Writing , because of his relation to — but took down one of his Books , in which he denied the Divine Right of Episcopacy ; declaring , That was his judgment , which he would never deny . This I had from the mouth of a very Reverend person still alive , who was one employed to discourse him .