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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A91233	Nevves from Ipswich discovering certaine late detestable practices of some dominiering lordly prelates, to undermine the established doctrine and discipline of our church, extirpate all oxthodox sincere preachers and preaching of Gods Word, usher in Popery, superstition and idolatry.	Prynne, William, 1600-1669.	1641 (1641)	Wing P4021A; Thomason E177_12; ESTC R9558	6,302	9

NEVVES FROM IPSWICH Discovering certaine late detestable practices of some dominiering Lordly Prelates to undermine the established Doctrine and Discipline of our Church extirpate all Oxthodox sincere Preachers and preaching of Gods Word usher in Popery Superstition and Idolatry VVoe be unto the Pastors that destroy and scatter the sheep of my Flocke saith the Lord. Ierem. 23. 1. Only Canonicall prayers no afternoon sermons Alter Cringing Priest Church wardens for Articles First printed at Ipswich and now reprinted for T. Bates 1641. Newes from Ipswich CHristian Reader this is the deplorable newes of our present age that our Presses formerly open onely to Truth and Piety are closed up against them both of late and patent for the most part to nought but error superstition and prophanesse witnesse many prophane erroneous impious bookes printed within these 3. years by authority point blanke against the established doctrine of the Church of England and his Majesties p●om declarations in defence of Arminianisme and Popish ceremonies and which is yet more impious and detestabl● against the very morality of the Sabbath and 4. Commandement the divine institution title and intire religious sanctification of the Lords day Sabbath and the necessity of frequent preaching exceedingly pressed in our Homil●es and book of Ordination which some of our unpreaching dominiering secular Prel●ts our of their A●ch-piety towards God and Arch-charity to the peoples soules which they seek to eradicate now so far derest that they not only give over preaching themselves as no part of their function and suppresse most wickedly Lectures in divers countries but have likewise lately shut up the mouthes of sundry of our most godly powerfull painfull Preachers who have won more soules to God in a yeare then all the Lord Bishops in England or the whole world have done in divers ages out of meere malice to religion and the peoples salvation contrary to the very lawes of God and the Realme strictly prohibited under paine of suspension in sundry Diocesses all afternoone Sermons on the Lords own day that so the prophane vulgar might have more time to dance play revell drink and prophane Gods Sabbaths even in these dayes of plague and pestilence to draw downe more plague and judgements on us for that sin of Sabbath-breaking when as not only the Synod of Dort but sundry Popish Synods and Bishops have been so religious as to preferre the two Sermons every Lords day at least in every Parish Church to keep the people from such prophanations of this sacred day Alas what could Belzebub the Prince of Divels had he been an Archbishop or Lordly Prelate here in England as there were many such Bishops in Bernards age and most sure there are too many now have done more against the strict intire sanctification of the Christian Sabbath day to abuse the Lords day and to advance Popish innovations on it or against the frequent powerfull Preachers and preaching of Gods word and salvation of the peoples souls then some Luciferian Lord Bishops have lately done whose impiety in this kind transcends all prefidents whatsoever in former ages And yet these prophane Atheisticall persecuters of all holinesse piety sincerity godly Ministers preaching of Gods word yea in these pestilentiall times as meanes to spread the plague though the Scripture and all former ages have prescribed fasting preaching and praying as the chiefe antidotes and cure against it will needs be Lord Bishops Iure divine by the holy Ghosts own institution who never yet instituted any unpreaching rare preaching Prelates or persecuters and suppressors of preaching and shame not to stile themselves the Godly holy Fathers of our Church and pillars of our faith when as their fruits and actions manifest them to be nought else but very Stepfathers and Caterpillers the very pests and plagues of both Take one fresh instance for an example these desperate Archagents for the Divell and Pope of Rome and Master underminers of our Religion as they were the onely instruments of delaying the present generall Fast in the beginning of the pestilence when it was most acceptable and requisite so to shew their inveterate malice against preaching the thing that the Divell wrastleth most against all whose study hath been to decay the office of preaching which should not be diminished they contrary to his Majesties pious intention who hath so oft protested against all innovations have cunningly caused all Sermons the very life and soul of a Fast as being the only means to humble men for their sinnes and bring them to repentance to be prohibited on the Fast day both in London and the Suburbs and in all other infected places during the time of the infection in them in Parishes not infected as if preaching only of all Gods ordinances were pestilentiall and that on the Fast day not on others contrary to the presidents of all former ages and the orders for the generall fasts in the two last great plagues which prescribed two Sermons of one houre long apeece forenoon and afternoon every fast day and that as well in Parishes infected as others even in the Summer season when the infection was more contagious raging then now By which device they have not only made this fast distastfull to all sorts of men in infected places who have little heart unto it robbed the poor of much charitable relief and deprived the people of the spirituall food and physick of their souls when they need and desire it most to their intolerable griefe and discontent but quite suppressed all setled Wednesday Lectures in London and other infected townes as long as the infection shall continue in any one Parish though it should last these 7. yeares the thing they principally aimed at forced many Ministers and people to flye out of infected places into the Countrey to keep their Fasts where there is preaching brought in a famine of Gods word the greatest plague of all others to the increasing and further spreading of the present pestilence and drawing down of Gods wrath upon us to the uttermost by inhibiting Ministers in the time of greatest need to preach unto the people that they may be saved O heavens stand amazed at this unparalel'd practise of impious Popish Prelates But is this all No verily for whereas his Majesty commanded That the book of common prayer for the fast formerly set forth by his authority upon the like occasion should be reprinted these Romish Inquisitors have miserably gelded it after it was new printed in sundry particulars First they have purged out the prayer for seasonable weather one cause of the shipwracks and tempestuous unseasonable weather since its publication Secondly they have dashed the Lady Elizabeth and her children in the old Collect quite out of the new as they have expunged both them with our gracious King Queen and their children out of the catalogue of Gods elect by blotting out this clause who art the father of thine Elect and of their Seed out of the Collect for them in

this and all new Common prayer bookes as if they were all reprobates and none of the number of Gods elect either to a temporall or an eternall Crowne O intolerable impietie affront and horrid treason Thirdly they have left out this Collect It had been best for us c. in the new booke though the most effectuall prayer of all because it magnifies continuall often preaching of Gods word and the Scriptures and c●lls our powerfull Preachers Gods serv●nts A sign● these Prelates have conspired together like so many execrable Traytors to extirpate our frequent powerfull Preachers and continuall preaching of Gods word as they have done in many places of late though prescribed by God himselfe and our Homilies Fourthly they have dashed this remarkable clause out of the first Collect Thou hast delivered us from superstition and idolatry two grand causes both of many former and our present plagues no doubt wherein we were utterly drowned and hast brought us unto the most cleare and comfortable light of thy blessed word by which wee are taught how to serve and honour thee and how to live orderly with our neighbours in truth and verity the rest of the Collect remaining as before Now what can be the cause of this strange purgation but a resolved professed conspiracie of these Romish Prelates even now again utterly to drown us in Popish superstition and idolatry which have now drowned us in Gods judgements by their stupendious late increase among us and to remove us out of the most cleare and comfortable light of Gods Word by the which we are taught how to serve and honour him the true cause why they now suppresse Lectures Preaching and suspend our powerfullest Preachers every where that so we may walke on in Romish hellish darknesse serving and honouring the Pope and Divell in stead of God and live in all disorder without truth of verity Fifthly in the sixth order for the fast they have pared away this passage To avoid the inconvenience that may grow by by the abuse of fasting Some esteeming it a meritorious worke others a good work and of it selfe acceptable to God without due regard of the end Onely to gratifie the Papists whose doctrine is this and to place some merit in this present fast adding this clause to it in places where Sermons are allowed by the Proclamation on purpose to put downe Wednesday Lectures and preaching in London and other places where any Parish is infected If these Prelates bee thus desperatly wicked and Popish as to take advantage of Gods judgements to suppresse the preaching and Preachers of his word when it is most necessary and usefull and to countenance justifie and set up Popery superstition idolatry error and disorder the chiefe causea of our plagues even in these dayes of pestilence and that is the very fast-Fast-book to abuse and mocke God to his face to dishonour his Majesty and grieve his peoples soules how transcendently impious and Popish will they prove when God shall stay this plague if they be not deservedly punished for these their notorious impieties And is it not high time then for his Majesty to punish such Arch-traytors to our Faith Church Religion and such true-bred sonnes to Roman Antichrist from whom Dr. Pocklington boasts they are lineally discended and to execute judgement on them for these strange purgations and other Romish innovations whereat the whole kingdome cries shame which breed a generall feare of a sudden alteration of our Religion Certainly till his Majesty shall see these purgations rectified superstition and idolatry removed Gods Sabbaths duly sanctified the suppressed Preachers and preaching of Gods word restored and purge out some of the Romish Prelates and Inquisitors wee can never hope to abate any of Gods plagues or draw downe any of his blessings on us by such a Fast and Fastbook as this but augment his plagues and judgments more more which have strangely increased since this fast begun contrary to all humane reason and probability whereas it much decreased before the totall number dying of the plague the weeke before the Fast being but 458. and 58. Parishes infected and the very first weeke of the fast 838. treble the number the two last greatest plagues and 67. Parishes infected in Cambridge Norwich Hampton Bath and other eminent places cleare before being likewise visited since this Fast begun a cleare evidence that God is much offended with these purgations and the restraint of preaching on the Fast day against which some Prelates are so mad that they have silenced and persecuted divers Ministers since the Fast proclaimed there being now so many suspended in our Norwich Diocesse onely for not yeelding to Popish innovation that in sundry Churches they have neither prayers preaching nor fasting which hath brought the plague among them and made the people at their wits ends many Ministers and people there having left the Kingdome and thousands more being ready to depart the Land there being never such a persecution and havock made among Gods Ministers since Q. Maries daies as a proud insolent Prelate hath there lately made against all Lawes of God and man to the astonishment of the whole Realme What then can we expect but plagues upon plagues till such desperate persecuters be cut off and Gods Word and Ministers restored to their former liberty by our most gracious Sovaraigne Persecution of Gods Ministers and People being one chiefe cause of plagues Wherefore O England England if ever thou wilt bee free from pests and judgements take notice of these thy Antichristian Prelates desperate practices innovations and Popish designes to bewaile oppose redresse them with all thy force and power O all yee English Nobles Courtiers and others who have any love or spark of religion piety zeale any tendernesse of his Majesties honour or care for the peoples the Church or Kingdomes safety yet remaining within your generous breasts put to your helping hands and prayers to rescue our Religion and faithfull Ministers now suspended from the jawes of these devouring Wolves and tyrannizing Lordly Prelates who make havocke of them both O our most pious King Charles as thou hast in two severall Declarations protested before God to all thy loving Subjects that thou wilt never give way to the licensing or authorizing of any thing whereby any innovation in the least degree may creep into our Church nor never connive at any Backsliding to Popery And that is my hearts desire to be found worthy of that Title which thou esteemest the most glorious in all thy Crowne Defender of the Faith So now behold these desperate innovations purgations and Romish practices of thy Prelates in open affront of these thy Declarations and now or never shew thy selfe as wee all hope beleeve and pray thou wilt a Prince more worthy of this glorious Title then any of thy Royall progenitors by rooting all Popery Superstition Idolatry Errours Innovations out of this Church and Kingdome by restoring the preaching the Preachers of Gods Word and