talk of our Children, we mean our felves, ] befides, they that have Pofterity are more obliged to the King, than they that are only for themselves, in all the Reafon in the World.

11. How fhall the Clergy be in the Parliament, if the Bishops are taken away? Answer. By the Laity, because the Bishops, in whom the reft of the Clergy are included, are sent to the taking away their own Votes, by being involv'd in the major Part of the House. This follows naturally.

12. The Bishops being put out of the House, whom will they lay the Fault upon now? When the Dog is. beat out of the Room, where will they lay, the Stink ?

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Bishops out of the Parliament.

I like, like the Gentlemen in the Country, whereN the beginning Bishops and Presbyters were a~ of one is made Deputy Lieutenant, and another Justice: of Peace, so one is made a Bishop, anorher a Dean; and that kind of Government by Arch-Bishops, and Bishops no doubt came in, in imitation of the Temporal Government, not Jure Divino. In time of the Roman Empire, where they had a Legatus, there they placed an Arch-Bishop, where they had a Rector there a Bishop, that every one might be inftructed in Christianity, which now they had received into the Empire.

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They that speak ingeniously of Bishops and Presbyters, fay, that a Bishop is a great Presbyter, and during the time of his being Bishop, above a Presbyter: as your Prefident of the Colledge of Physicians, is, above the reft, yet he himself is no more than a Doctor of Phyfick.

3. The Words.[ Bishop and Presbyter] are promifuously used that is confeffed by all; and tho the

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Word [Bishop] be in Timothy and Titus, yet that will not prove the Bishops ought to have a Jurisdiction over the Presbyter, tho' Timothy or Titus had by the Order that was given them: Some Body must take care. of the reft, and that Jurifdiction was but to Excommunicate, and that was but to tell them they should come no more into their Company. Or grant they did make Canons one for another, before they came to be in the State, does it follow they must do fo when the State has receiv'd them into it? What if Timothy had Power in Ephefus, and Titus in Creet over the Presbyters? Does it follow therefore the Bishops muft have the fame in England? Muft we be govern'd like Ephefus and Creet?

4. However fome of the Bishops pretend to be Jure Divino, yet the Practise of the Kingdom had ever been otherwife, for whatever Bishops do otherwife than the Law permits, Westminster-Hall can controul, or fend them to abfolve, &c.

5. He that goes about to prove Bishops Fare Divino, does as a Man that having a Sword, fhall strike it against an Anvil, if he strikes it a while there, he may peradventure loosen it, tho' it be never fo well rive ted, 'twill ferve to strike another Sword (or cut Flesh) but not against an Anvel.

6. If you should fay you hold your Land by Mofes or God's Law, and would try it by that, you may perhaps lofe, but by the Law of the Kingdom you are fure of it; fo may the Bishops by this Plea of Jure Divino lofe all. The Pope had as good a Title by the Law of England as could be had, had he not left that, and claim'd by Power from God.

7. There is no Government enjoyn'd by Example, but by Precept; it does not follow we must have Bishops ftill; because we have had them fo long. They are equally mad who fay Bishops are so Jure Divine

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that they must be continued, and they who fay they are fo Antichriftian, that they must be put away, all is as the State pleases.

8. To have no Minifters, but Presbyters, 'tis as in the Temporal State they should have no Offieers but Conftables. Bishops do beft ftand with Monarchy, that as amongst the Laity, you have Dukes, Lords, Lieutenants, Judges, &c. to fend down the King's Pleasure to his Subjects; fo you have Bishops to go→ vern the inferiour Clergy: These upon occafion may addrefs themselves to the King, otherwife every Perfon of the Parish must come, and run up to the Court.

9. The Proteftants have no Bishops in France, beeaufe they live in a Catholick Country, and they will not have Catholick Bishops; therefore they must govern themselves as well as they may.

10. What is that to the purpose, to what End were Bishops Lands given to them at firft? you must look to the Law and Cuftom of the Place. What is that to any Temporal Lord's Eftate, how Lands were first divided, or how in William the Conquerour's Days? And if Men at firft were juggled out of their Estates, yet they are rightly their Succeffors. If my Father cheas a Man, and he confent to it, the Inheritance is rightly mine.

ri. If there be no Bishops, there must be fomething elfe, which has the Power of Bishops, though it be in many, and then had you not as good keep them? If you will have no half Crowns, but only fingle Pence, yet Thirty fingle Pence are half a Crown; and then had you not as good keep both? But the Bishops have done ill; 'twas the Men, not the Function: As if you fhould fay, you would have no more half Crowns, because they were ftolen, when the Truth is they were

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12. They that would pull down the Bishops and erect a new way of Government, do as he that pulls down an old Houfe, and builds another in another Fafhion; there's a great deal of Do, and a great deal of Trouble; the old Rubbish must be carried away, and new Materials must be brought; Workmen must be provided, and perhaps the old one would have ferv'd as well.

13. If the Parliament and Presbyterian Party should difpute, who should be, Judge? Indeed in the beginning of Queen Elizabeth, there was such a Difference, between the Proteftants and Papifts, and Sir Nicholas Bacon, Lord Chancellor, was appointed to be Judge, but the Conclufion was, the stronger Party carried it: For fo Religion was brought into Kingdoms, fo it has been continued, and so it may be caft out, when the State pleases.

14. 'Twill be great Discouragement to Scholars, that Bishops should be put down: For now the Father can fay to his Son, and the Tutor to his Pupil, Study hard, and you fhall have Vocem & Sedem in Parliamento; then it muft be, Study hard, and you shall have a Hundred a Tear, if you please your Parish. Obje. But they that enter into the Ministry for Preferment, are like Judas that look'd after the Bag. Anfw. It may be fo, if they turn Scholars at Judas's Age; but what Arguments will they use to perfuade them to follow their Books while they are young.

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Books, Authors.

HE giving a Bookfeller his Price for his Boobs

will do lo,

have the Refufal of whatfoever comes to his Hand,

and fo by that means get many things, which otherwife he never should have seen. So 'tis in giving a Band her Price.

2. In buying Books or other Commodities, 'tis not always the best way to bid half fo much as the Seller asks: Witness the Country Fellow that went to buy two broad Shillings, they ask'd him three Shillings and he bad them eighteen Fence.

3. They counted the Price of the Books (Ads 19. 19.) and found Fifty Thousand Pieces of Silver, that is fo many Sextertii, or fo many Three-half-pence of our Money, about Three Hundred Pound Sterling.

4. Popish Books teach and inform, what we know, we know much out of them. The Fathers, Church Story, Schoolmen, all may pass for Popish Books, and if you take away them, what Learning will you leave? Befides who must be Judge? The Cuftomer or the Writer? If he difallows a Book,. it must not be brought into the Kingdom, then Lord have Mercy upon all Scholars. These Puritan Preachers, if they have any things good, they have it out of Popish Books, tho' they will not acknowledge it, for fear of difplea fing the People: He is a poor Divine that cannot fevere the Good from the Bad.

5. 'Tis good to have Translations, because they ferve as a Comment, fo far as the Judgment of the Man goes.

6. In answering a Book, 'tis beft to be fhort, otherwife he that I write against will fufpect I intend to weary him, not to fatisfie him, Befides in being long I fhall give my Adversary a huge Advantage, fomewhere or other he will pick a Holc.

7. In quoting of Books, quote fuch Authors as are ufually read, others you may read for your own Satisfaction, but not name them.

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