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A16624	Twelve generall arguments proving that the ceremonies imposed upon the ministers of the gospell in England, by our prelates, are unlawfull; and therefore that the ministers of the gospell, for the bare and sole omission of them in church service, for conscience sake, are most unjustlie charged of disloyaltie to his Maiestie.	Bradshaw, William, 1571-1618.	1605 (1605)	STC 3531; ESTC S113554	22,354	86

Earles Dukes and Princes yet except they were Gods Christes wee have no reason to give spirituall homage unto them which is it that in very deede they require in these things And therefore hence it comes to passe That as they turne out of their Pallaces Those servauntes that refuse their liveries and to doe their civill Services So as though they were Lords Masters in the Church They turne the Ministers out of their offices shut them out of the Church if they refuse to weare their spirituall Liveries and to doe them spirituall and Religious Service But I come to the second part of the Assumption II. That the authoritie of our Lorde Archbishops and Bishops is a usurped authoritie This is sufficiently proved of late by Mai. Iacob in his I. Assertion by many reasons Onely because the weight of the Argument leaneth upon it I will use one Reason Those Officers and Rulers in the Church that make claime to be of Divine institution chalenge to them selves Apostolicall authoritie and Iurisdiction as the onely Successours of the Apostles to sitt onely in Moses chaire To have sole power of the Keys To cut from the visible Church receyue againe To haue power of creating displacing all other Ecclesiasticall Officers To bee the Vniversall Pastors of whole Dukedomes and Kingdomes under whom all other Pastors are as Curates c. And yet for all this are such as stand are supported only by humane Traditions and Ceremonies such as a civill Magistrate may without sinne put out of the Church And such as the true Churches of God may renounce and yet continue the true Church as Antichristian Vsurpers and spirituall Tyrants I say all such Officers Rulers exercise a usurped authoritie in the Church But our Archbishops Bishops are such Rulers and Officers as are aforesaid Ergo They execute a Vsurped power over the Church The Proposition may easily be iustified For it inferiour officers viz. Pastors of particular Congregations have had and may have firme continuance in the Church without these humane devises inventions If the Magistrate cannot without sinne put them out of the Church And if those can bee no true Churches that renounce to haue perticular Pastors and Ministers over them It must much more hold in such church-Officers Rulers as these are if their authoritie be lawfull and good For whilest the Apostles lived They needed not any humane Traditions divises to support their authoritie The Magistrates that sought to putt them downe sinned with a high hande And that was no Church that renounced and disclaimed their Office Authoritie and Iurisdiction The Assumptiō is as easilie iustified For 1. They make claime and Title to all those Prerogatives before rehearsed in the first part of the Proposition and unto more then that as shal be proved if it be denied 2. It is an Embleme of their own NO CEREMONIE NO BISHOP Ergo No humane Tradition and Invention no Bishop Ergo The office of a Bishop is supported by them either only or specially 3. Their Ecclesiasticall Iurisdiction is derived from the King els it is a flat deniall of his Supremacie Also them selves graūt in their last Tables of Discipline That the King hath power to increase or diminish the Circuit of a Bishopricke That he may make two or more Bishopricks of one one Bishoprick to be two or more Yea what should hinder but that he may divide the Bishoprike of London into 800. For where God hath not defined the number of Parishes that a Bishop is to raign over it must needes bee a thing indifferent in which by their owne Doctrines the King hath authoritie without sinne to dispose If therefore the King may as well notwithstanding any thing in the Law of God Give the Keyes of the Church to everie particular Pastour of a Congregation over his owne Congregation as to a Bishop over a Diocesse which taketh away the very Essence of an English Bishop He may without sinne take away the very Office of the Bishop which cōsistes in having Iurisdiction over many Cōgregations Also it being not defined by the word of God but left free what attire Bishops shall weare as also what maintenance they shal have The K. having absolute power in things indifferēt according to their owne Doctrine hee may turne them out of their Rochetts and Parliament Robes Thrust them out of their Pallaces and put them to their stipendes to live upon voluntarie devotions of poore Christian people and then a man may easily imagine what the office of a Bishop would bee worth For he that hath authoritie to prescribe to a Bishop and other Ministers the Formes Rites and Ceremonies of their Divine Service hath also power much more To prescribe moderate and appointe their Apparell Diet and manner of maintenance So that it is cleare That the King may without sinne disanull the authorities dignities and prerogatives of Bishops Any of which shal be if it bee denied prooved to be matters of greater indifferencie and therefore more appertayning to his Supremacte then the prescribing of Formes of Divine Service and mysticall Rites of Religion For let the King take from the Bishop all indifferent things which he may doe by their owne doctrine and a Bishop will be no Bishop as shal be prooved if it be denied 4. There is no true and sober Christians but will say that the Churches of Scotland Fraunce the low Countries and other places that renounce such Archbishops Bishops as ours are as Antichristian and usurping Prelates are true Churches of God which they could not bee if the authorities prerogatives they claime to them selves were of Christ and not usurped For if it were the ordinance of Christ Iesus That in every Kingdom that receaveth the Gospel There should bee one Archbishop over the whole Kingdome One Bishop over many hundred Pastors in a kingdome and all they invested with that authoritie and iurisdictiō Apostolicall which they claime iure Divino to be due vnto them and to reside in them by the ordināce of Christ certainly that church that should renounce and disclaime such an authoritie ordayned in the Church cannot be a true Church but a Synagogue of Sathan For they that should renounce and denie such must needes therein renounce and denie Christ him selfe Thus the Assumption is cleared The 11. Argument All humane Traditions and Rites enioyned to bee performed in Gods Worship as necessarie to Salvation are unlawfull These Ceremonies in controversie beeing but Humane Traditions are enioyned to bee performed in Gods worship as necessarie to Salvation Ergo These Ceremonies are unlawfull The Proposition is freely graunted of all our Adversaries hitherto If anie heereafter bv reason of some difficulties the cause may bee thrust into by graunting the same shal be desperate as to denie the same we shal be readie to make it good at any time The Assumption is thus prooved What soever Humane Tradition Ceremonie or Action That may without sinne

London Ministers before him was this They are Ceremonies that teach good Doctrine Ergo They are good Ceremonies Whereas the filthiest actions and thinges that are may teach good doctrine The holy Ghost resembleth the soule polluted with sinne to a menstrous cloth A man fallen againe into sinne to a Sowe wallowing in the mire might therfore a filthie sow and such uncelane clothes be brought into the Church to be visible shadowes representations of such thinges Nay what may not by this meanes bee brought into Gods worship yet by this reason be defended to bee a good Ceremonie if the Magistrates and Bishops should decree the same A fooles coate and a beggers worne in Divine Service may fitly teach this doctrine Not many Wise not many Noble A Minister clothed in such apparel as those that act the Divels part in a playe may teach this That by Nature we are lymmes of Sathan and firebrands of hell Men might weare Womens apparell and Womens Men The one to teach That the Church is Christes Wife The other to teache That Women in Christ are equall to Men. Beare-bayting may teache us How Christ was bayted before the Tribunals of the Pharisies or the combate betweene the flesh and the spirit But the grossenes of these Assertions will appeare in our Speciall Reasons against the Ceremonies in particular The 9. Argument To Administer unto the Church of God Sacramentes that are not of Divine institution is to sinne To use divers of these Ceremonies viz. The Crosse in Baptisme the Ring in Mariadge the Surplice c. is to administer unto the Church of God Sacraments that are not of Divine institution Ergo To use these Ceremonies is to sinne The Proposition is graunted of all both Papist and Protestant The Assumption is thus prooved All mysticall bodily Rites and Signes of spirituall grace administred to the Church of God in his solemne service to confirme grace and that by him that representes the person of Christ are Sacramentes The greatest part of these Ceremonies in controversie are such not of any Divine Institution Ergo To use them is to administer Sacramentes that are not of Divine Institution The Proposition is most evident can not bee denied of any that beares the face of a Divine The Assumption is as evident only this one clause may bee doubted of Whether these Ceremonies bee administred to confirme Grace whiche is thus proved Those Ceremonies that are administred to edifie the soule and consciences are administred to confirme grace These Ceremonies are administred to edifie the soule and conscience Ergo They are administred to confirme Grace The Proposition can not with anie colour be excepted against For to edifie the soule to confirme grace in the soule and to feede the soule are equivalent The Sacrament of the Supper therfore being for this onely cause a Sacrament because it is a Mysticall Rite whereby the soule spiritually feedeth uppon Christ i. is edified in Christ These being Mystical Rites also wherby the soule is edified which it cannot be but also by feeding upon Christ It must needes follow That these Ceremonies are Sacramentes The Assumption is their owne for when they are urged with this That all things must be done to edification They hold all with one consent That they doe edifie The 10. Argument It is a Sinne against Christ the sole Head of the Church For any one of his Ministers especially in the Administration of Divine things either by Worde or Signes solemnely to professe and acknowledge a spirituall Homage to a usurped spirituall authoritie in the Church But to use these controverted Ceremonies in manner and forme prescribed is even in the solemne Service of Christ by solemne Signes to acknowledge a spirituall Homage to the spirituall authoritie of Lord Archbishops and Bishops which is usurped Ergo It is a sinne to use these Ceremonies The Proposition may not be gainesaid For all spirituall power usurped over the Churches of God is an Antichristian authoritie and to professe spirituall homage thereunto is to professe spirituall homage unto Antichrist which must needs be a sinne The Assumption hath two partes I. That these Ceremonies are an acknowledging by solemne signes a spirituall Homage to the spirituall authoritie of Archbishops and Bishops Which is most evident for it having bene proved before that they are meere Ecclesiasticall Religious spirituall Actions injoyned by an Ecclesiasticall and spirituall authoritie They must needes be Signes of spirituall homage to the same authoritie For either the doing of a Religious and spirituall Action in obedience to a spirituall authoritie is a Signe of spirituall homage or no Actions can bee a Signe thereof As therefore a serving man being a civill person upon the Bishops pleasure wearing a Tawnie Cote and a Chaine of Golde holding vp his Trayne Going bare-headed before him holding a Trencher at his Table lighting him to the house of office dressing his meate rubbing his Horses c. doeth by these Actions as it were by solemne Signes acknowledge Civill homage to him being a Civill Lord and Maister So a Minister of the Gospell and a Pastor of a particular Congregation beeing by his office a mere spirituall man beeing commaunded by the Bishop as he is a spirituall Lord and Maister over the Church of God To weare a Tippet a square cap a Priestes Gowne Cloke a Surplice to make Crosses upō childes faces To put Rings on Brides fingers c. and all this in their Divine Service I say a Minister doeth thereby give solemne Signes and Tokens of spirituall homage to their spirituall Lordships even as by preaching the Word Administration of Sacramentes prayer he professeth by solemne Signes a spirituall homage to the spirituall authoritie of Christ If they shall peremptorilie affirme That they are onely Civill matters as some in high place have done to my self Then this will follow of it Wheras the Bishops commaunde now Ministers To weare a Surplice a Priestes Cloke c. hee may commaund them to weare Tawnie Cotes livry clokes in their courses to waite and attend upon him as serving Creatures For there is no more civill authoritie shewed in requiring the one thē the other If the one as well as the other bee civill matters Neither will it helpe their cause That the Magistrate requireth these things to be done For the Magistrate com̄aunding Ecclesiasticall matters to be done his commaundement doth no more make them civill thē his commanding the Sacraments other partes of Divine worship to bee administred duly doeth make them civill matters For the ratificatiō by civill authoritie the Constitutions of Ecclesiasticall authoritie doeth no more make them civill matters thē the ratification and confirmation of civill matters by Ecclesiasticall authoritie doeth make them Ecclesiasticall or spirituall matters Though therefore there is none of us that stande out in these matters but have ever been content to yeeld unto their Lordships all civill honor such as is given to Barons