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A96590	The discovery of mysteries: or, The plots and practices of a prevalent faction in this present Parliament. To overthrow the established religion, and the well setled government of this glorious Church, and to introduce a new framed discipline (not yet agreed upon by themselves what it shall be) to set up a new invented religion, patched together of Anabaptisticall and Brownisticall tenents, and many other new and old errors. And also, to subvert the fundamentall lawes of this famous kingdome, by devesting our King of his just rights, and unquestionable royall prerogatives, and depriving the subjects of the propriety of their goods, and the liberty of their persons; and under the name of the priviledge of Parliament, to exchange that excellent monarchicall government of this nation, into the tyrannicall government of a faction prevailing over the major part of their well-meaning brethren, to vote and order things full of all injustice, oppression and cruelty, as may appeare out of many, by these few subsequent collections of their proceedings. / By Gr. Williams L. Bishop of Ossory.	Williams, Gryffith, 1589?-1672.	1643 (1643)	Wing W2665; Thomason E60_1; Thomason E104_27; ESTC R23301	95,907	126

the Communicants came to partake of those holy mysteries they were fain to returne home without it for want of Bread and Wine to administer it and yet now the Church Governours have not any power to redresse any of these abominable abuses 2. Under shew of reforming the Church discipline 2. Voted down all the governours of Gods Church and bettering the Government thereof they have voted down those very Governours the Bishops and their Assistants the Deanes and Chapters whose function was constituted by the Apostles and hath from that time continued to this very day as the most learned Archbishop of Armach Bishop Hull Master Mason Master Tayler and that worthy Gentleman Master Theyer and others have sufficiently shewed to all the world 3. Under the pretence of expunging Poperie 3. Vilified out Service-book which Bishop Jewell Bishop Parry Bishop Babington Bishop Bilson Bishop Morton Bishop Davenant Bishop Hall and abundance more of the Reverend Bishops have confuted expelled and kept out of our Church more than any yea than all their schismatical Disciples whose Learning was no wayes able to answer the weakest Arguments of our Adversaries the Service Book that is established by Act of Parliament and was by those holy Martyrs that lost their lives and spilt their blood in defence of the Protestant Religion and defiance of erroneous Poperie so divinely and devoutly composed as all the Reformation can bear witnesse and I am well assured the whole flock of these Convocants shall never be able without this to make any neer so pious must be totally cried down and hath been in many places burned used to the uneleanest uses and teared all to pieces and to let you see their abomination herein I must crave patience to transcribe that it may the more generally passe the Speech of Alderman Garroway where he saith pag. 7. Alderman Garreway pag. 7. Did not my Lord Maior that is Pennington first enter upon his Office with a Speech against the Book of Common Prayer Hath the Common Prayer ever been read before him Hath not Captain Ven said that his Wife could make prayers worth three of any in that Book O Masters there have been times that he which should speak against the Book of Common Prayer in this Citie should not have been put to the patience of a Legall triall we were wont to look upon it as the greatest treasure and the Jewell of our Religion and he that should have told us he wished well to our Religion and yet would have taken away the Book of Common Prayer would never have gotten credit I have been in all the parts of Christendome and have conversed with Christians in Turkey why in all the reformed Churches there is not any thing of more reverence than the English Liturgie not our royall Exchange nor the Navie of Queen Elizabeth is so famous as this in Geneva it selfe I have heard it extolled to the skies I have been three moneths together by sea and not a day without hearing it read twice the honest Mariners then despised all the world but the King and the Common Prayer Book How the Mariners esteeme the Liturgie he that should be suspected to wish ill to either of them should have made but an ill voyage and let me tell you they are shrewd youthes those Sea-men if they once discerne that the person of the King is in danger or the Protestant professed Religion they will shew themselves mad bodies before you are aware of it I would not be a Brownist or an Auabaptist in their way for And yet these men have so basely abused and are so violent to abolish this excellent Book and divine Liturgie that Many will not believe it though it should be told unto them Hab. 1.5 I would they did but reade that Act of Parliament which is prefixed unto the same to see if they regarded either the Law of God or Man the Religion of the Clergie that composed it or the wisedome of the Parliament that confirmed it 4. 4. Abused the images and pictures of the Saints and other holy things Under colour to shew their hatred to Idolatrie they have broken down the glasse Windowes of many Churches shot off the heads of the Images of the blessed Virgin and of our dear Saviour represented in her lap upon the porch of Saint Maries in Oxford thrown away the Pictures of Christ and of others his holy Apostles and Gods blessed Saints into the Rivers taken the Ministers Surplices to make Frockes to preserve their cloathes when they dressed their horses and in Worcester they have done what I am ashamed to speak and would loathe any modest ear to hear made the Pulpit and not farre from the Town the Fout their house of office as I was informed by one of the gravest Doctours and Prehends of that Church thrown down the Organs which cost above fifteen hundred pounds and taken the Pipes and Copes of the Prebends and gone round about the Streets with the Copes on their backes and the Pipes in their hands dancing the Moris dance so in Winscombe in Glocester shire they brake down the Organs and made that Church their Slaughter house when they killed certain Sheep that they had stolen and dressed the same upon the Communion table and in Lincolne Minster the Souldiers brought their horses into the Quire laid their hay upon the holy Table and made the House of God a Stable for their horses that did now eat their hay where the Christians did use to communicate the Bodie and Blood of Christ so that these men give their Saviour no better entertainment now in his glorie than the Jewes did when he came in his humilitie Luke 2.7 but he shall be still kept low and a Stable shall be good enough for his Mansion yet as in Canterburie they did but little lesse so in Winchester they added this to their former prophanations to take the ashes of those Saxon Kings that were kept in certain Urnes and threw them about the ground as if death it selfe could not appease their rage Scava sed in manes manibus arma dabant It would fill a whole volume to relate all the villanies that they did of this kinde the consideration of which prophane usage of holy places made a worthy Gentleman pathetically to set down these fervent speeches I would to God we had not cause to complain of the horrid and barbarous attempts of divers among us Christians I can scarce call them against some the mother Churches * Canterbury Worcester Winchester Glocester Chichester and many others who as if they had studied to affront the Almightie to his face and purposely with Manasses to anger him have not spared to prophane those goodly structures and irreligiously and Antichristianlike to deface the instruments there prepared and imployed in the service of the great God at the very thought whereof I tremble and stand amazed Master Theyer in his Treatise of Episcopacie p. 56.57

this new intended Synod Lay-men choosers of the Clergie as if a shepheard did choose pretious stones the Divines are nominated not according to the rules and Canons of the Church and the customes of all Nations since the first Synod or Councell of the Apostles by Divines that can best judge of their own abilities as when the spirit of the Prophets is subject to the Prophets but fearing the Clergie would have sent men that were too orthodoxall for their faith they deprived them of their rights and forgetting their Protestation to defend the right of the Subject the choice is made by themselves that are Lay men and young men and many of them perhaps prophane men or at least not so religious nor so judicious as they ought to be for a businesse of this nature of so great concernment as the direction of our soules to their eternall blisse And now they being nominated we know most of them what they are What manner of men they have chosen men not onely justly suspected to be ill disposed to the peace of our Church and too much addicted to innovation to alter the Government to reject and cast away the Book of Common Prayer to oppose Episcopacie and to displace the grave and godly Governours of Gods Church but also apparently fashioned to the humours of these their own Disciples who are to be the onely judges of their determinations that although some jew Canonicall men and most Reverend learned and religious Bishops and others for fashion sake to blinde the world are named amongst them yet when as in a Parliament so in a Synod the most desperate faction if they prove prevalent to be the major part will carry any thing in despite of the better part they shall stand but as cyphers able to do nothing they might abolish our old established Government erect their own new invented Discipline and propagate their well affected Doctrine in all Churches for you may judge of them by their compeeres Goodwin Burrowes Arrow-Smith and the rest of their ignorant factious and schismaticall Ministers that together with those intruding Mechanickes who without any calling either from God or man do step from the Botchers boord or their Horses stable into the Preachers Pulpit are the bellowes which blow up this fire that threateneth the destruction of our Land like Shebah's trumpet to summon the people unto Rebellion and like the red dragon in the Revelation which gave them all his poyson and made them eloquent to disgorge their malice and to cast forth floods of slanders after those that keep loyaltie to their Soveraigne and to belch forth their unsavery reproaches against those that discover their affected ignorance and seditious wickednesse in defence of truth and are the instruments of this faction to seduce the poor people to the desolation of the whole Kingdom if not timely prevented by their repentance and assistance to enable him whom God hath made our Protectour to defend us against all such transcendent wickednesse And these are the maine ends for which they summoned such a new Synod of their furious and fanatique teachers upon whose temper and fidelitie I believe no wise man that knows them would lay the least weight of his soules felicitie What Synod they should have chosen Whereas if they desired a Reformation of things amisse and not rather an alteration of our Religion and the abolition of our now setled Government they would have called for such a Synod as was in Queen Elizabeths time when the 39 Articles of our Religion were composed and such as they needed not to be ashamed to own in future times nor the best refuse to associaet the rest for the illegalitie of their election for if there be any scandalous Governours as we deny not but there may be a Cham in the Arke a Judas amongst the Apost'es and perhaps an unjustifiable Prelate among the Bishops as there was a proud Lucifer among the Angels or if they thinke it necessary to correct qualifie explain or alter some expressions or ceremonies in our Liturgie and Book of Common Prayer we are so farre from giving the least offence to weak consciences that we heartily wish a lawfull Synod which may have a full legall power as well to remove the offences as to punish the offenders and to establish such Lawes and Canons as well against Separatists and Schismatickes Anabaptists and Brownists as against Recusants and Papists and such as may be for the glorie of God and the peace of our Church which was our sole intention in the last Synod But seeing their plot was rather to establish a new Church than to redresse the defects of the old and to countenance and advance those boute-fues that schismatically rent our Church in pieces and most wickedly defile the pure Doctrine of the same by degrading and displacing the grave Governours thereof I will to give you a taste of what fruit you are like to reape from them very briefly set down the sum of these two points 1. Two points hindled 1. What they have already done in the affaires of our Church 1 Cor. 5.5 1 Tim. 1.20 1. Opened a gap to all licentiousnesse What they have already done 2. What discipline and doctrine are like to ensue if they should be enabled or permitted to erect their new Church for as you may finde it in the Remonstrance of the Commons of England to the House of Commons 1 Under colour of regulating the Ecclesiasticall Courts Courts that have been founded by the Apostles and had alwayes their Authoritie and reverence among Christians even before the Secular power when the Emperours became Christians had confirmed them they have taken away in respect of the coercive part thereof which is the life of the Law and without which the other part is fruitlesse all the Spirituall jurisdiction of Gods Church they have taken away Aarons rod and would have only Manna left in Gods Ark so that now the crimes inquirable and censurable by those Courts though never so heinous as adulterie incest and the like cannot be punished heresies and schismes which now of late have abounded in all places can no wayes be reformed and the neglect of Gods service can as hardly be repaired when as the Ministers cannot be enforced to attend their Cures the Church-officers cannot be compelled to performe their dutie and the Parishio●ners cannot be brought by our Law to pay their Tythes and other necessarie Duties which things are all so considerable that all Christians ought to fear how lamentable will be the end of these sad beginnings for my selfe have seene the House of God most unchristianly prophaned the Church-yard and the dead bodies of the Saints so rooted and miserably abused by hogges and swine that it would grieve meer men that scarce ever heard of God to see such a barharous usage of any holy place and when the Ministers have given a sevennights warning to prepare for the blessed Eucharist and