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A09294 The historie of Corah, Dathan, and Abiram, & c Numb. 16. Chap. Applied to the prelacy ministerie and church-assemblies of England. By Mr Iohn Penry, a martyr of Iesus Christ. Penry, John, 1559-1593. 1609 (1609) STC 19607; ESTC S103159 36,369 50

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THE HISTORIE of Corah Dathan and Abiram c. Numb 16. Chap. Applied to the Prelacy Ministerie and Church-assemblies of England By Mr Iohn Penry a Martyr of Iesus Christ. Numb 16.26 And Moses spake vnto the Congregation saying Depart I pray you from the tents of these wicked men and touch nothing of theirs least ye perish in all their sinnes Rev. 18.4 And I heard another voyce from heaven say Go out of Babylon my people that ye be not partakers in her sinnes and that ye receive not of her plagues Imprinted in the yeare 1609. The Publisher to the Reader THere comming to my hands Christian reader the copie of this treatise following wherof many copies have passed abroad in writing I thought good weying well the matter vndertaken the partie by whom it was written to publish the same to the further view of the world And chiefly for the good of my country which all true subiects are bound by all good meanes to seek and advance The subiect of this book or matter undertaken is A declaration of th' estate of the Church and Ministery of Engl. compared with Corah Dathan Abiram their Tents and conspiracie against Moses and Aaron Num. 16. chap. Which therefore all in whom the true fear of God is ought carefully to look vnto and examine For we should trie all things and keep that which is good And they who never examine the things charged to be evil and out of order in that Church must needs be ignorant whether their estate therin be good or evill But if they cōsider that ignorance will not excuse them it behooveth all to take knowledge whom I hartely wish to lay aside all partialitie and with indifferent mindes to weigh things well trying them by the rule of Gods word that whatsoever therby is required of them they may resolve to do it although it turne to the losse of all worldly pleasures and preferments knowing that we have here but a short time and our God hath reserved for vs a more induring substance and richer inheritance in the kingdome of heaven if in obedience we submit vnto him and in faith and pacience do wayt vpon him Touching the authour Mr Iohn Penry by name he was a godly man learned zealous of a most Christiā cariage courage as he * In his Apologie saith of himself borne and bred in the mountaines of Wales And wel known it is that with all godly care labour he endeavoured to have the Gospell preached and planted among his poore countrymen whose case he greatly pittied had compassion of in that they wanted the meanes of salvation among them After all this God vsing him as a further instrument for the more clear manifestation of the truth he was hardly intreated imprisoned condemned and executed so suffred Martyrdome for the name of Christ. Being adiudged at the Kings bench by Sir Iohn Popham Knight Lord cheif Iustice of England and the rest of the Iudges there assembled the 25. of the 5. month called May and executed at Thomas a Waterings by London the 29. of the same month in the year of our Lord 1593. And here let the Reader observe that he was not executed the next day after the iudgement as it was expected nor the second nor third day after but when men least looked for the same then was he brought forth being at dynner as I have heard by a warrant vnder the hands of the * Iohn Whitgift Archbishop of Cāterbury of Sir Iohn Puckering Knight Lord Keeper of the great seale and Sir Iohn Popham aforesaid being then Lord chief Iustice of England and the matter being caried after a close manner was sodeinly conveyed to the place of execution where he was as hastily bereaved of his life and not suffred though he desired it to make declaration of his faith towards God or of his allegiance to her Maiestie Which m●ner of dealing I thought good to note here by the way that it might be knowen and esteemed of all according as it deserveth Furthermore concerning this treatise whether he had finished the whol or was taken intercepted when he had thus far proceeded in it or what he would further have done about it I know not Wherfore if others have more of it they shall do wel to impart it to the world as I have done this which came to my hands In the mean time I wish all to make good vse of this part now printed they vnto whose hands it shal come to enterteyn it as a poore Orphane who is left as it were Fatherles by the authours vntimely death procured by the Prelates who as vncleane spirits like frogges croaking about Kings Courts do stir vp the Magistrates Rulers of the earth Rev. 16.13.14 to make warre against Gods Saintes Whereas these should rather hearken to that which God speaketh vnto them in his word saying Be wise now therefore ye Kings be learned ye Iudges of the earth Serve the Lord in feare and rejoyce in trembling Kisse the sonne least he be angry and ye perish in the way when his wrath shall suddenly burne Blessed are all they that trust in him Psal 2.10.11.12 THE HISTORIE OF CORAH c. Numb 16. chap. Applied to the Church-assemblies of England IT is certayne and apparant that this age cannot in any wise brook to have the truth manifested spoken in the same except it be by peece meales So that if ever it were said to the Seers See not to the prophets prophesie not unto us right things Isa 30.10 but speak flatteries prophesie errors depart out of the way go aside out of the path cause the holy one of Jsraell to ceasse fom vs the very same is now sayd and stood vnto in these miserable dayes nay those that would be reconed our leaders our eyes our guides are nowe become the men of Anathoth and say plainelie Jer. 11.21 prophesie not in the name of the Lord that thou dy not by our hands All estates and sorts of men high and low have reasons why to reiect the truth why to condemne it why to tread it vnder foot and to persecute the same It is not pleasant it is odious it is offensive it is hard knotty uncivil proud hauty and what not It is not pleasant because it draweth men into incouveniences it reproveth them to their faces discovereth their evil walking it in dangereth those that professe the same it carrieth but a mean trayn after it It is odious and offensive for the same causes It is vncivil proud and haughtie because it wil correct and reform all it wil alter states it regardeth not the years learning credite wisdome and estimation of those that stand against it but goeth about to bring all under foot and to make them all to stoop unto it or els threatneth to break thē like a potters vessel it wil not be silent at their commaundement but contrary wise enforceth them
the Popish offices of Preists and Deacons were reteyned and that the offices of Christs kingdome were not restored And it is by vertue of the Popish offices of the Preisthood and Deaconrie that the whole worship of God is performed or rather polluted and prophaned in all the Assemblies of this Land for the proofe whereof I call not onelie her Majestie her lawes and this high Court of Parliament to witnes but also the cheifest mainteiners of the parish-Assemblies namely the forwardest Preachers of the Land who in times past confessed whatsoever they do now that the offices of Christ were not planted and therefore laboured to her Majestie and the Parlement to have them established in the parish assemblies In regard of her Majesties lawes the case is cleere that the State then being led by the sight of our fathers in king Edwards daies accounted the popish Church to be the Church of Christ though corrupt popish offices of Bishops Preistes and Deacons to be the offices of the Church of Christ and therfore retained them for so we find it set downe in the booke of ordering Bishops and Preistes made in King Edwardes time and established by her Majestes Lawes as the ground rule whence and according to the which all the Ministeriall offices of the parish meetings yea of the whole Land must be squared The book saith That it is evident to all men diligentlie reading the holie Scripture and the auncient authors In the Preface that from the Apostles time there have bene these orders of Ministers in the Church of Christ Bishops Preistes Deacons And therfore saith the booke to the intent that these orders should be stil continued reverentlie used esteemedin the Church of England it is requisite that no man not being at that present Bishop Preist or Deacon should execute any of them except he be tried examined admitted according to this booke Again no man in this Land can take a spirituall living either Parsonage Vicarage Curatship but by vertue of this Preisthood Deaconrie or a Popish licence equivalent unto this Preisthood so that if a Preacher be beneficed the same day that he denieth his licence his Preisthood his Deaconrie is he also deprived ipso facto if it please his Ordinarie and another may presentlie conveigh himselfe into his living if it were worth millions of gold Nay whosoever he be that wil cast of these Popish orders he is but a meere lay or private man and so not capable of anie office in anie of the assemblies of this land for so her Majesties lawes to wit the foresaid book doth conclude that these offices were evermore had in that reverend estimation that no man by his owne private authoritie might presume to execute any of them and consequentlie that all men should be called to the order of the Preisthood Deaconrie Prelacie according as this book doth allow He that is made a Minister in som reformed Church beyond the Seas is not capable of the Cure of a parish assemblie in this land except he shall receive a Deaconrie a Preisthood after the order of our land and yet he that receiveth orders in Rome is correspondent and answerable unto the pattern of our Deaconrie and Preisthood and so capable to buy sel that is to execute any publike function They are knowen cases that he who received his Preisthood or Deaconry in King Henrie the 8 his dayes is a Preist a Deacon under King Edward Queene Marie Queene Elisabeth by vertue of the same orders and he preacheth if he can preach being licensed therunto in King Henrie King Edward Queen Marie Queen Elisabeth their daies by vertue of the same Preisthood for the office is the same as both the booke and everie man for the most part doth account it He that hath received but primam tonsuram in King Henrie the VIII or Queen Maries daies being the first stepp of this abhominable order may by lawe performe those things under her Majestie which no lay man as they call him must presume to take in hand This case being cleer apparant if it be now demaunded why wee will not heare the truth taught by the preachers of the land why we wil not receive the Sacramentes at their hands we answere that this we refuse to do because we must not submit or consciences our soules and bodies being the temples of the holy Ghost to be wrought upō to be sat in unto any power in religion save only unto the power which is derived from our head Iesus Christ We answer that our head and Maister having all power dwelling in him hath this peculiar interest in vs being his members that he onely must sit in our Consciences by his ordinances This interest of his he will not communicate with any creature and therefore wee dare not though we should suffer a thousand deathes to transferre the same unto anie save unto himselfe alone and to joine with the popish assemblies of the Land If the preachers do seeke I ESVS CHRIST and his honour by their preaching they wil begin first with a lawful calling and office they wil derive their power from him by vertue of the offices that he ordeined in his word When they shall do this walk according to the doctrine which is according unto godlines wee will be the most willing to joine with them the most glad to hear them and to cōmunicate with them everie way to reverence them as the Ministers of Iesus Christ In the meane time let them not wonder that we hold this for undoubted truth namely That whosoever he be that sitteth in the temple of God that is worketh upon the consciences of men by vertue of an Antichristian power office and calling he is an Antichristian Minister whatsoever truth he bringeth with him The trueth which such Ministers do teach is but the bait whereby Satan in his mysticall delusion powerfull subtilties hideth the false power by meanes whereof hee in his ordinances ruleth over those that otherwise would yeeld him no subjection none obedience When he cannot utter his ordinances by falsehood he is glad to make them awaie by meanes of the truth And he ruleth in the consciences of men not onely by false doctrine but also by his false power and ordinances His kingdome of darknes consisteth not onelie in the lies and false doctrine and worship which he hath coined but also in the false and Antichristian ordinances which he hath invented for the ruling of his Idolatrous denne And therefore the children and Saintes of God avoyd both the one and the other We owe him none obedience in either of them and farre be it even farre be it I say that we should sinne so treacherouslie against our Lord Maister and so greivouslie against our owne soules to be subject unto Satan in either of them seing by the most precious bloud of Christ Iesus and by the power of his crosse and resurrection we have bene