faid Oath in a Low Senfe, or with a Declaration. He would not till the Confecration of other Bishops into the Sees of the Deprived, yet Separate from the Publick Prayers of the Church, notwithstanding fome Petitions therein to which he could not fay Amen; as not Judging thofe a fufficient Ground for a Separation, till by fetting up Bishop against Bifhop a Schifm was fully made. But no fooner were thefe New Bishops Confecrated, but he immediately. withdrew all Communion both with them and with as many as did Own them. And having Learnedly Vindicated the Old Bishops, as ftill retaining their Authority, and Juftly Challenging, notwithstanding any Lay-Deprivation, their Rights as Spiritual Fathers in the Church, he during their Lives perfifted to Communicate with thofe his Invalidly Deprived Fathers, as he was wont to call them. But when he had Lived to fee all except One or Two of them. to go before him into Eternity, he began. thereupon to re-confider what had been Written by him fo early after the Revolution: And being defirous that this Rapture might be Clofed; and an End put to this moft unhappy Schifm, that he might Dye in Peace, he Wrote and Publifhed his Cafe in View, to fhew, that in cafe thefe his Invalidly Depriv'd Fathers fhould, either

by

by Death or Refignation, leave all their
Sees Vacant, none would be then longer
obliged to keep up their Separation from
thofe Bifhops, who, according to him,
were as yet Involved in the Guilt of
Schifm. Upon the Death of the Bishop
of Norwich, and the Surrender of the
Bifhop of Bath and Wells, he returned
hence into the Communion of the National
Church: And to Vindicate this his Practice,
as not different from his former Principles,
he Writ his Cafe in View now in Fact
and then, not long after, A farther Prospect
of the Cafe in View. In the Two and
Fiftieth Year of his Age, fome Months
before Mr. Kettlewell's Death, he Married
upon the Principles by him defended in a
Difcourfe against Marriages in different
Communions: And died in his Seventieth
Year, leaving two Sons, Henry and William,
and Four Daughters. Mr. Kettlewell had
a very Just Esteem for his great Learning
and Piety, notwithstanding that in fome
few Particulars he could not but express his
Diffent from him. A farther Account of See Hearn's
which truly Great Man in the Learned vol v.
World, and of this Particular Controverfy And the
by him managed, as alfo of all his Works Dodwell by
both in the Latin and English Tongue, Francis
both Publifhed and Un-Published, who-Brokesby,
foever is defirous to have; he fhall find the
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fame given by the Learned Oxford Anti-
quary in his Curious Edition of Leland,
Reverend Worthy
and by the late
Clergyman his Friend who affifted him in his
laft Hours,

Sect. 53. By what Mr. Kettlewell hath Dodwell offer'd, in this Book of Chriftian Comin another munion, about the Authority and Effect not only of State-Deprivations but even of Depofitions by Synods too, wherein there is fome Difference (as was faid) betwixt Mr. DoD WEL L's Reasonings and his; Several it feens have been convinced, that the faithful Paftors and Minifters of CHRIST are not difabled by any fuch Deprivations, or Depofitions, from the Exercife of their Spiritual Miniftrations, to which by fo many Obligations they stand bound: As alfo that the pretended Prefervation of External Communion and Peace in the Church, to warmly by Some contended for, ought by no means to debar their How he due Difcharge of thefe. For having with Matter of all Plainnets fhewn when a Schifm is properSchifm. ly made, and by whom, and stated the Nature of it; he proceeds to declare those very Things which, in his Judgment, may be a Juft Ground to break off from any Perfons or Churches, without incurring Schifm; there being fome things not to be born with,

Treats the

nor

nor others to be parted with, for the fake of an External Union: And to clear up ¡ what ought to be the Communion of a Good Chriftian under a Rupture in the Church, and how he is to deport himself with those who cut themselves off from the Unity thereof. And for as much as he had obferved the King's Ecclefiaftical Supremacy, And of aflerted by the Church of ENGLAND, the King. Supremacy. to be made use of for a main Argument in Favour of Lay-Acts in Spiritual Cafes he undertakes to prove that this lieth not in being invested with a Soveraign Difpofal of the Powers of Holy Orders, but in retaining a Civil Power over all Perfons Secular and Ecclefiaftical, and in a Subordination of Ecclefiaftical Courts and Caufes, on account of their Secular Mixtures an Jurisdictions: As likewife in Oppofition and Bar to all other Earthly, but especially Foreign Jurisdiction and Dependence. Both before and after the Revolution this is known to have been his Opinion.

Sect. 54. And whereas all Perfons having How he the Cure of Souls, with all other Preachers interprets! and Readers of Divinity in the Univerfities, the Canons, were, by the Ecclefiitical Conftitution of this Land, obliged Four Times every Year at least to Treat, Manifeft, Open, and Declare, without any Colour or Diffimulation, to the utmost of their Wit, Knowledge, and Learning, purely and fincerely,

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their moft ftrict Loyalty and Obedience to the Kings Majefty, afore and above all other Powers and Potentates on Earth: And where as alfo at the fame Time that all Ufurped and Foreign Power of the Bishop of Rome was for very Juft Caufes taken away abdicated, and abolished by the Statutes of this Realm; it was moreover thereby provided against all Ufurpations whatsoever, Foreign and Domeftick, Civil and Ecclefiaftical, and against all Rebellions in Church or State, carried on under pretext either of Religious or Civil Rights; Mr. Kettlewell with all poffible Sincerity, but without the leaft Affectation or Singularity, would be fure to lay hold on every proper Opportunity of Teaching and Opening the Scriptures, both Publickly and Privately, for that End: So that Glory might be given to GOD in the Higheft, by a Duty fo abfolutely neceffary to the procuring and keeping of Peace upon Earth. For though the Ufurpations of the Court of Rome were indeed the Occafion of making the Law, yet he could fee no reafon why the Law fhould be restrained to that only, which was no more than the Occafional Caufe of its making; for as much as let the Occafions of any Law, Civil or Ecclefiaftical, be never fo Particular; yet according to the Obfervation of all Civilians and Canonifts, the Law it felf, though Enacted upon a

particular