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A90571	A Petition humbly presented to his Highnesse the Lord Protector, and to the High-Court of Parliament, the supream governors of the Commonwealth of England, Scotland, and Ireland, with the dominions thereunto belonging. By divers ministers for the establishment of themselves and others their brethren (for their own lives) in the places to which they were admitted to officiate (as ministers of the gospel) without institution or induction from the bishops. With reasons thereto annexed whereof the contents are set down in page next after the petition. And at the end of the book an epistle to the sincere and pious preachers of the word of God written before the beginning of Parliament by Philotheus Philomystes.	Philomystes, Philotheus.	1654 (1654)	Wing P1759; Thomason E820_6; ESTC R207349	27,843	37

A PETITION Humbly presented to his HIGHNESSE the LORD PROTECTOR AND TO THE High-Court of PARLIAMENT THE Supream Governors of the Common-wealth of England Scotland and Ireland with the Dominions thereunto belonging BY DIVERS MINISTERS FOR THE Establishment of themselves and others their Brethren for their own Lives in the places to which they were admitted to officiate as Ministers of the Gospel without Institution or Induction from the Bishops WITH Reasons thereto annexed whereof the CONTENTS are set down in the Page next after the PETITION And at the end of the Book an Epistle to the Sincere and Pious Preachers of the Word of God written before the beginning of the Parliament By PHILOTHEUS PHILOMYSTES ACTS 1.24 And they praied and said Thou Lord which knowest the hearts of all men shew whether of these two thou hast chosen LONDON Printed for Edw. Brewster at the Signe of the Crane in Pauls Church-yard MDCLIV To his Highnesse the LORD PROTECTOR AND To the High Court of PARLIAMENT The Supream Governours of the Common-wealth of England Scotland and Ireland and of the Dominions thereto belonging The Humble Petition of diver Ministers of the English Nation for themselves and others their Brethren Sheweth THat your Petitioners by Authority of Parliament appointed to preach the Gospel in divers Congregations from which the former Incumbents were by the same Authority removed for their scandal and disaffection to Reformation both Civil and Religious have by them and the people leavened by their unsound doctrine and prevaricating practise been harshly entertained and injuriously dealt withall by manifold both personall and real wrongs and some of us may truly adde to our complaint the threats and attempts of some of them to take away our lives For none other cause that we can conceive but 1. for that in the great divisions of our Nation our judgements and consciences divided us from them and their party 2. Because we disuse the Service book and other superstitious formalities especially customary and promiscuous Communions at Easter and Christmas Holidaies as they commonly call them and 3. for that we press the precise and pious observation of the Christian Sabbath or Lords Day and the daies of occasional Humiliation and Thanks giving as alone obliging the conscience under the state of the Gospel And lastly because they take us to be but unlawful intruders into the Rights of their outed Ministers for that our tenure determines not with our own but with their lives and we are ordered to pay a fisth part of the Sequestred Benefices toward the maintenance of their Wives and Children as part of their Revenue for if the Delinquents were dead wherby their Widows and Orphans might have more need no part or portion should be assigned unto them though they were not guilty of such scandalous offences against God and man as their Husbands and Fathers have been May it please your Highnesse and this most Honourable Senate weighing the Premises with the Reasons hereunto annexed in such a way as your prudence and goodnesse shall direct you to trke a course for a redresse and remedy to the grievances fore-mentioned so that so many of us your Petitioners as have continued constant to our Ministerial duties both for preaching and practice and faithful to the cause of Religion and the peace and welfare of our Nation with others our Brethren who by the great Seal or the authority of private Patrons have been admitted to ministerial Offices since the deposition of Bishops may be confirmed in the places where we reside and officiate for term of our natural lives unlesse we deserve by any manner of miscarriage to be cast out of the favour and protection of publike Authority and may be invested with the like power and priviledge both to require and recover the sights of our personal Incumbencies which others have enjoied upon their presentations to them by them by the Title of Patronage and institution induction by Bishops in former times And your Petitioners shall humbly pray c. THE CONTENTS OF THE Following DISCOURSE SECT I. A necessary Caution premised against the conceit of partiality to our selves and injury to others four Reasons for the Minister settlement where the Parliament placed him The first drawn from the Parliament Reason 1. the second from the people to whom he is sent Reason 2. the third from himself the fourth from the evil effects of his removal Reason 3. in regard of others both goed and bad Pag. 1. Reason 4. SECT II. The fifth Reason against the present Ministers dissettlement by the Patron Reason 5. taken from the practice of primitive antiquity most contrary to it p. 5. SECT III. The Sixth Reason taken from the distinction of Parishes Reason 6. when and by whom it was made p. 7. SECT IV. The seventh Reason taken from the Original right Reason 7. priviledge and duty of Patrons and from the corruption of many Patrons and their abuse of Patronages particularly in England both before the Parliament summoned by the late King and since p. 8. SECT V. The respect due to Religious Patrons with advice for a Consciencious discharge of the trust reposed in them wherein some passages in Mr Prinnes late Book of the Right of Patronage seeming to prejudice our cause are proposed and answered p. 13. SECT VI. The Conclusion briefly recollecting the chief contents of what is before more largely delivered p. 20. REASONS Humbly offered to the pious and judicious Consideration of his Highnesse the LORD PROTECTOR and of the High Court of PARLIAMENT why an able painfull and faithfull Minister placed by the Supream power of this Nation in the room of a Delinquent Sequestred for Scandal and disaffection to the State should not after the Delinquents death be displaced upon pretence of the right of Patronage to present another in his stead if until then he have persisted in a sincere and conscientious execution of his office SECTION I. A necessary Caution premised against the conceit of partiality to our selves and injury to others four Reasons for the Ministers settlement where the Parliament placed him The first drawn from the Parliament the second from the people to whom he is sent the third from himself the fourth from the evil effects of his removal in regard of others both good and bad THough we conceive such a Minister as above-mentioned ought to be confirmed in his Incumbency during life his own life not anothers yet as we would not have him stand upon the fickle terms of durante bene-placito either in respect of the people or of any person claiming priviledge above them so we desire not that any of us should enjoy any publique maintenance or countenance any longer then Quam diu bonè se gesserit 2. We professe we are not of their minde a An exact relation of the Proceedings and transactions of the late Parliament who were dissolved Decemb. 12. 1653. p. 18. Printed 1654. Who say that Patrons

to our Ministry for of such we may expect to suffer both for their sakes and for our own Sure we are we have the more enemies and our enemies are the more spightfull against us and more ready to wrong us by all the waies they have in their power as in part we have touched in our Petition Because 1. We adhered to the Parliament while they so farre as their power and courage carried them opposed it and obeyed the authority thereof in submitting to such commands as are rather conformable then contrary to the Word of God which they deny and disobey as boldly as if the government that is over them had nothing to do with them but to protect them in a priviledge to say and do what they please 2 We do not admit of such promiscuous Communions as make no difference between the clean and unclean as there should be Eze. 22.26 to which confusion the common people have been so accuftomed especially at Easter that they think we do them more wrong in denying them the Sacramental bread and wine at that time though for grosse ignorance or open scandall then they can do us though they defraud us of our dues throughout the whole Year 3. We do not officiate by the service-Service-Book which divers of them so much dote on that we fear it would offend them more to be deprived of it then if the Bible were taken from them 4. We are more strict in our doctrine and practise concerning the Sabbath and other points of Christian piety and are more zealous against the Superstitious and prophane observances which meet together though otherwise opposite in their unchristian Christmas Revellings then our Predecessors have been By all which as we are made the objects of a deeper degree of hatred by our advesaries so we hope for the same causes we shall be accounted the more capable of his Highnesse and the Parliaments compassion for prevention of that evil which may befall us if we survive our Predecessors and succeed them not in the favour of the Patron to settle us where by authority of Parllament we were formerly placed The Copy of the Letter mentioned in the 4th Section at the Letter t in the margine of the 2d Alphabet Right Honourable and my very good Lord I Shall first desire to represent my most affectionate and humble sence of the favour your Lordship sheweth me and of the honour you do me in that at so little leisure as your many and weighty affairs will allow you you are pleased not only to bestow so many lines upon me at once but in them both to instruct me what to think and hope of our present Optimates and to chear me up in my many conflicts with the Pessimates of these by a promise of more frequent exchange of Letters with me in time to come Though I shall not be so presumptuous in taking your word as to expect a commerce with you in this kinde upon even returns but only as it shall please your Lordship to take the occasion and make the proportion Next because you referre me to the Diurnals for common intelligence I shall crave leave to present you with some thoughts and doubts I have concerning a report in the moderate as the Authours miscals his News-Book of this last week in the last page of it which he delivereth in these words An Act for Sale of all Ecclesiastical Promotions in the gift of the Crown great Seal c. which was twise read and committed If he relate aright somewhat as I humbly conceive is wrong at least in the design of some which if it should proceed to accomplishment unlesse it be lessened with so many limitations as would bring it next to nothing would east a greater reproach upon our Reformation then could fairly be cleared by the most able Apologist for the Sale of Ecclesiastical Offices is condemned by Scripture by reason by humane constitutions of all sorts by the godly in all ages and the better sort of both Religions Protestant and Papist In the Title of this Act as this man sets it down in contrary terms of sale and gift there is the confession of a fault at least implicitly and a profession in ance of a more corrupt administration of Ecclesiasticall matters then in the late Kings time in setting that to open sale which hath been and should be bestowed meerly as a gift there is something in our Laws I confesse as your Lordship better knoweth then I which permitteth the sale and purchase of Ecclesiastical Patronages and of advowsons and so they permit Duels Pluralities Non-residence but I hope the abolition of such Laws will be a further degree of our departure from the corruption of Popery and Papal prelacy and if the State will allow of such scandalous traffick but I hope it will never do so their next act must be command them that have bought Ecclesiastical Benefices to give them freely to those that are to officiate in the Church as Dionysius k k Dionysius victoriolas aureas Pateras coronasque simulachrorum tollebant c. ferunt haee quae dixi sublata de fauis in forum protulisse per praeconem vendidisse exactaque pecunia edixisse ut quod quisque a sacris baberet id aute diem certam in suum quidque fanum referret Cic. de Nat. deor l. 3. p. 255. num 63. when he had spoiled the Heathens Temples of their riches and ornaments and had by Proclamation of a Crier sold them in the market and received money for them gave charge to the buyers to restore them to the Tèmples from whence they were taken to which Edict the Orator that reports it addes this Epiphonema l l Ita ad impietatem it Dcos in homines adjunxit injuriam Ibid. so to impiety against God he joyned injury against men and how shall those two be separated in the sale of such things as appertaining to Religion should be freely given for Religions sake And if they ratifie their sale so far as to allow men to sell that which they have bought that is a doubling yea a multiplying of the impiety as oft as the alienation of such things passeth from hand to hand which must needs amount to a greater guilt then of Dionysius for he for ought we finde upon record offended but once in that kinde and presently retracted the wrong done to Religion by a Decree of Restitution of his Temple-spoils though he restored not the money to them that bought them as conceiving it to be a lesser crime to be injurious towards men then sacrilegious toward God wherein in Thesi he did not erre though in hypothesi I grant it was worse so to defraud men then to take away the goods from such Idol-gods supposing he took them for meer Idols and not for true gods whom he robbed Your Lordship I trust hath read thus farre with patience since you know it is a service of duty and charity