Two treatises, one of the Christian priesthood; the other of the dignity of the episcopal order, written to obviate the erroneous opinions in The rights of the Christian Church [by M. Tindal].

A TREATISE OF ISAAC CASAUBON DE LIBERTATE ECCLESIAS-

TICA," TRANSLATED FROM THE ORIGINAL LATIN

CHAP. I.

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THE EXPLICATION OF

THE CAUSE AND OCCASION OF THIS TREATISE.

THE WORD LIBERTAS. VARIOUS KINDS OF LIBERTY. THAT CHRISTIAN

LIBERTY GIVEN BY GOD, IS OFTEN MENTIONED BY THE ANCIENT FATHERS,

BUT NOT ECCLESIASTICAL, OR THE LIBERTY OF THE CHURCH. A MIS-

TAKE OF THE INTERPRETERS OF THE CANON LAW IN DEFINING THE

LIBERTY OF THE CHURCH. A PARTICULAR ENQUIRY INTO ITS DEFINI-

TION

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CHAP. II.

WHAT, AND OF WHAT KIND THE LIBERTY OF THE ANCIENT CHURCH WAS,

FROM ITS FIRST RISE TO THE TIMES OF CONSTANTINE THE GREAT. A

COMPARISON OF BOTH POWERS, ECCLESIASTICAL AND CIVIL, AND CON-

CERNING THE RIGHT OF EACH, AS WELL ORDINARY AS EXTRAORDINARY

I. The Church and the State differ sometimes both in reality and concep-

tion; sometimes in conception only -

121

ib.

II. In every Society, which has different ends, the same persons may in dif-

ferent respects both be superiors and subjects

III. The Christian Church and State acknowledges Christ only as King

and Priest

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IV. The prince and the priest, or the bishop, receive their power from Christ,

both King and Priest; the one the civil, the other the sacerdotal power,

but in different respects

V. The supreme power in a well-ordered State is the civil not the sacerdo-

WHAT AND OF WHAT KIND THE LIBERTY OF THE CHURCH WAS FROM THE

TIMES OF CONSTANTINE THE GREAT TO GREGORY THE GREAT, BISHOP OF

ROME

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I. The Christian Church received the liberty of religion from princes

II. The ancient Church under Christian princes was wont to convene sy-

nods, either by the prince's express command, or with his tacit consent 156

III. The councils of the ancient Church of these times were confirmed by

the emperor and not by the pope of Rome

IV. There lay an appeal in those times from the sentences of councils to a

greater council or to the prince

TESTIMONIES OF ENGLISH DIVINES AND OTHER WRITERS TO

THE DOCTRINES CONTAINED IN THE TREATISE ON THE CHRIS-

PRELIMINARY DISSERTATIONS TO THE EDITION OF ST. CHRY-

SOSTOM DE SACERDOTIO, BY THE REV. JOHN HUGHES, A.M.,

OF JESUS COLLEGE, CAMBRIDGE; TRANSLATED FROM THE

ORIGINAL LATIN

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DISSERTATION I.

THE CHRISTIAN CHURCH IS A TRUE AND PROPER (ALTHOUGH IT BE A SPIRI-

TUAL) SOCIETY, AND DISTINCT from all the SOCIETIES OF THIS WORLD;

AND A SOCIETY TO WHICH ALL MEN ARE OBLIGED TO JOIN THEMSELVES

UNDER THE GREATEST PERIL OF THEIR SOULS

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DISSERTATION II.

THE APOSTLES CONSTITUTED BISHOPS FOR THE PERPETUAL GOVERNMENT

OF THE CHURCH, WITH A PECULIAR POWER OF ORDINATION

DISSERTATION III.

THE CHRISTIAN SOCIETY FROM THE TIMES OF CONSTANTINE HAS NEVER

INCORPORATED WITH THE CIVIL BUT WITH RESPECT TO ALL ITS PURELY

SPIRITUAL POWERS HAS EVER REMAINED ENTIRE AND DISTINCT

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THE RIGHT OF EXCOMMUNICATION BELONGS TO THE CHRISTIAN CHURCH BY

DIVINE RIGHT

THE LAITY NEVER RECEIVED THE HOLY SACRAMENT OF THE LORD'S SUPPER

WITHOUT HAVING IT FIRST CONSECRATED BY PRIESTS

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DISSERTATION VI.

OF THE POWER OF THE CHRISTIAN PEOPLE IN THE ELECTIONS OF THE

CLERGY

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AN ADVERTISEMENT CONCERNING THE TWO PRECEDING TRANS-

LATIONS OF ISAAC CASAUBON DE LIBERTATE ECCLESIASTICA,

AND OF MR. HUGHES' PRELIMINARY DISSERTATIONS

451

APPENDIX. No. 9.

TESTIMONIES TO THE DOCTRINES OF THE TWO TREATISES FROM

THE WRITINGS OF DR. THOMAS JACKSON

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APPENDIX. No. 10.

SANCTI PATRIS NOSTRI EPHRAEMI SYRI, DIACONI ECCLESIÆ

EDESSENÆ RELIGIOSISSIMI DE SACERDOTIO. INTERPRETE

ET SCHOLIASTE GERARDO VOSSIO TUN GRENSI

APPENDIX. No. 11.

A LETTER FROM THE REVEREND MR. J. M-N TO DR. GEORGE

HICKES, CONCERNING SOME PASSAGES IN HIS CHRISTIAN

PRIESTHOOD; WITH DR. HICKES' ANSWER

THE ORDER FOR THE ADMINISTRATION OF the Lord's Supper, ACCORDING
TO THE FORM OF THE BOOK OF COMMON PRAYER AND ADMINISTRA-
TION OF THE SACRAMENTs, and other RITES AND CEREMONIES of the
CHURCH, AFTER THE USE OF THE CHURCH OF ENGLAND, set fortH BY
ACT OF PARLIAMENT ANNO 2 & 3 EDWARDI VI., TO BE USED THROUGH-
OUT ENGLAND, AND IN WALES, AT CALICE, AND THE MARCHES OF THE
SAME, AND PRINTED AT LONDON BY EDWARD WHITCHURCH. 1549.

Anno 2 & 3 Edwardi VI. cap. i. § 1.

[The king's majesty . . hath appointed the arch-

bishop of Canterbury and certain of the most

learned and discreet bishops and other learned

men of this realm to consider and ponder the

premises,] And thereupon having as well eye

and respect to the most sincere, and pure

Christian religion taught by the Scripture,

as to the usages in the primitive Church,

should draw, and make one convenient and

meet order, rite, and fashion of common and

open prayer, and administration of the Sacra-