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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A70359	The Ivry of inqvisition de jvre divino vvhether by divine right it is lawfvll to inflict punishment vpon the offending lordly bishops, yea, or no.		1641 (1641)	Wing J1215; ESTC R31547	3,578	6

THE IVRY OF INQVISITION DE JVRE DIVINO VVhether by Divine Right it is lawfull to inflict punishment upon the offending Lordly Bishops yea or no. They who being within the Church have offended against Faith and discipline let them know the rigour of Princes and let the Princes power establish that discipline which the distressed Church is not able to execute upon the neckes of the proud Saith Isidorus in his booke of Authority and care of Kings TO inflict punishment upon the offending Lordly Bishops is no unholy thing but is a thing both lawfull just and right The Argument Argument TO inflict punishment upon evill doers is no unholy thing But the troubers of the Church and State are evill doers therefore Lordly Bishops being troublers of the Church and State it must needes appeare that they are evill doers Conclusiion And so it must needes of consequence follow that to inflict punishment upon the offending Lordly Bishops it is no unholy thing but lawfull just and right To prove that it is lawfull to punish evill doers Saint Peter saith That we ought to submit our selves to the King and to the governors set over us by him for the punishment of evill doers 1 Peter 2.13.14 And Saint Paul saith If thou doe that which is evill be afraid for hee beareth not the sword in vaine for he is a minister of God and a revenger to execute wrath upon that man that doth evill Rom. 13.4 To prove that the troublers of the Church and State are evill doers The Prophet Ieremie saith that the Lord is against them that Prophesie false dreames and doe tell them and cause the people to erre by their lies and by their lightnesse as it is Ieremiah 23.32 And how have our Lordly Bishops and Prelates prophesied false dreames and endeavored to corrupt the Church with errours and by their lies and lightnesse troubled the whole land nay all the Kings Dominions from consideration whereof Theodoretus ●ooke 1. cap. ●0 The office of Bishop that saying of Constantine is no more but justice If the Bishops saith he move troubles by my hand they shall bee put ●i●●ed for my hand is the hand of Gods Minister The office of a Bishop is to teach the People truth and to instruct them in the waies of peace and love Therefore our Lordly Bishops who have set up lies and falshoods in stead of Truthes and have moved troubles in stead of Peace and Love have much abused that holy office unto which they pretend they are called ●eason The Reason why to inflict punishment upon the offending Lordly Bishops is no unholy thing is plaine Because the Lordly Bishops are movers of troubles in the Church and State ●ow they ●●ve trou●●ed the ●hurch I. They have beene movers of troubles in the Church both by their establishing of Popish Ceremonies and by their Lordly Goverment By their establishing of Popish Ceremonies by binding the consciences of men to the observance of them as setting up of Alters Images and Crusifixes wearing of Surpluses bowings Chringings and the like Of which Saint Paul warned the Colossians to take heede of saying beware least any man spoyle you through Phylosophy and vaine deceit after the tradition of men after the rudiments of the would and not after Christ And Saint Ambrose saith that by good right Booke of ●●gins we are to condemne all new things that Christ hath not taught even all such things saith he are to be judged detestable and to bee defied By their Lordly goverment in silensing and punishing holy Ministers and neglecting and passing by the too great abuses of others of whom the Prophet Ezekiel speakes saying will ye pollute me among my people for handfulls of barley and for peeces of bread to slay the soules that should not die and to save the soules alive that should not live Ezekiel 13.19 and as the Prophet Malachy speakes now wee call the proud happie yea they that worke wickednesse are set up Malachi 3.15 In his 11● Epist It is not long since we might have taken part with Saint Austin in his lamentation nay the time of comfort doth now consist chiefly in hope This thing saith he doth greeve mee that so many things wholesomely commanded in the holy Scriptures are not regarded and that our times are full of so many presumptions that he hath beene more sharpely punished which with his bare feet hath touched the earth in the octavas then the drunkards c. II. They have also been movers of troubles in the State and that both with our neighbour nations and also among our selves By troubles with our neighbour nations in so much that had not God beene mercifull to us How they have troubled the State our land ere this might have beene a wofull desolation with our streets full of blood and our fields full of dead vnburied Carkasses whilest wee having our Swords embrude in the bloud of our neighbouring united nation of Scotland and their swords also persed into our sides all being the subjects of one King In the middest of this woefull tragidie we might have beene all surprised by a forraine enemie witnesse that great spanish fleet with all their munition wives and children But ever blessed bee our good God who hath preserved us By troubles amongst our selves by compelling to ungodly and unlawfull oathes by abuses in their unjust proceedings in their Courts but we now hope to see these cockatice egges crushed to peeces Excellent is that saying of Cyrill we travill saith he 17. Epistle to Theodosi●● earnestly in this thing above the rest that the Ecclesiasticall estate may remaine sure in such sort as is seemely for the glory of God and fit for our times that it may continue in peace and tranquility by common consent without varience that it may be quiet in Ecclesiasticall matters that godly religion may be preserved and that the life of such as are chosen into the Clergy and Priesthood may be cleare from scandall Let us but consider what the issue of their proceedings might produce should they have gone on in bringing Popish ceremonies The end of their seremonies superstition and Idolatry into the Church as may appeare by their jestures by their ornaments and by their actions By their jestures in their bowings and adorations before the Altar with their faces towards the East or at the name Jesus as if God was inclosed in the Altar as if the East were fuller of Gods Majestie then the West or other parts And as if the name Jesus was above or before the name of Iehovah all which is Idolaty and superstitious By their ornaments In that they would make us beleeve that holinesse is in the Surpli●e Cap Tippet or Cope above other garments that the Altar is holier then the rest of the Temple and that the Temple walls make them people holy And by these ceremonies our Lorly Bishops and Prelates would have us to worship God which is nothing but Idolatry and superstition therefore saith the Prophet Ieremiah Trust ye not in lying words saying the Temple of the Lord the Temple of the Lord are these Ier. 7.4 By their actions In that they assume to themselves Lordly titles and rule over other Ministers which our Saviour Chrrist reprooveth saying if any man desire to be first the same shall bee last of all and servant to all Marke 9.36 This indeede is the practise of that great Idoll of Rome the Pope But oh that all our Lordly Bishops and idle Prelates would call to minde that saying of Saint Austin 〈◊〉 his 7. Homil. O brethren most deare saith hee If the best of men at the last day of Judgement shall scarse be able to give an account for themselves what shall become of our Idle Lordly Bishops and dumbe Prelates at whose hands so many soules shall then be required These superstitious ceremonies belong to Rome that great whore of Babylon but our reformed Churches cannot digest them It hath been found recorded in the ancient records of London remaining in Guild Hall that when King Lucius sent to Rome to Elutherius the Pope to know the customes lawes and there established that so the same might be practised here in England he received this answer ye may saith he reject the lawes of Rome but the lawes of God can ye not reject ye have received saith he through the Grace of God the lawes of God and the Doctrine of the faith of Christ into your Kingdome you have the old and new Testament in your Realme take out of them by the grace of God and advise of your selves a law and by that law through Gods sufferance rule your Realme But be you Gods Vicor in that Kingdome but blessed be the Lord who hath put it into the Kings heart so to doe without sending to Rome for should wee not have sent to Rome for lawes of discipline we should have found Elutherius dead and instead of his grave counsell nothing but Idolaty and Superstition and if our Lordly Bishops had not such counsell from Rome I wonder how they met with all their Romish Ceremonies But now happie is this our Kingdome since our gratious King doth now advise with his subjects in calling that honorable and happie assembly of Parliament to establish the lawes of this our Realme according to the waves of God written in his holy word and that since the Pastors are become brutish and have not sought the Lord Iermiah 10.21 our gracious King himselfe is the true Vicar of God and maintayner of his holy lawes allowing no lawes in his Kingdome but the lawes of God Yet albeit these prophane Prelates In his coment on Isay 13.13 as Calvin saith would turne and withdraw us from under this goverment yet will we hold our selves fast unto it because we assuredly know our selves to belong to it and leave them to your Majesties further consideration and to the high and Honorable assembly of Parliament FINIS