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A09880	A consideration of the depriued and silenced ministers arguments, for their restitution to the vse and libertie of their ministerie exhibited in their late supplication, vnto the honorable states assembled in this present Parliament. By Gabriel Powel.	Powel, Gabriel, 1576-1611.	1606 (1606)	STC 20142; ESTC S120763	50,016	84

and singular Archbishops and Bishops and every of their Chancellours Commissaries Archdeacons and other Ordinaries having any peculiar Iurisdiction Ecclesiasticall shall have full power and auctoritie by vertue of this Acte aswell to enquire which they may do ex Officio in their visitations Synods and elsewhere within their Iurisdiction at any other time or place to take accusations and informations of all and of every the things above mentioned touching the Booke of Common prayer c. done committed or perpetrated within the limits of their Iurisdictions and auctoritie and to punish the same by admonition excommunication sequestration or DEPRIVATION and other censures and processe in like forme as heretofore hath beene vsed in like cases by the Queenes Ecclesiasticall Lawes 7. Concerning the Oath ex Officio and many of the late Canons and other things if the Suppliants had obiected any thing against them they should haue beene considered Eadem enim facilitate reijcitur quod sine ratione affirmatur 8. The Errour is 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 And 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 IX ARGVMENT MAy it further please them to whom this present writing is directed to call to minde the promises made to them that shew any kindnesse to any of the Children of God and disciples of Christ especially to any Prophet in the name of a Prophet Mat. 10.41 As also to consider that God is not vnrighteous that he should forget such workes and labour of loue Heb. 6.10 but that he is faithful that hath promised Heb. 10.23 and that God is not as man that he should lie neither as the sonne of man that he should repent hath he said it shal not he do it and hath he spoken shall not he accomplish it Num. 23.19 He that made Saule though vnnatural to his own children 1. Sam. 14.49 and a cruell murderer of the Priests of the Lord. 1. Sam. 22.18 to shew mercy to the Kenits as it were the Rocke to yeeld water 1. Sam. 15.6 for the kindnesse of Iethro otherwise called Keni Iudg. 1.16 towards the Israelites in giuing onely good counsell to Moses for the better outward governmēt of the Israelites 400. yeares before Exod. 18.17 Shall he forget the kindnesse that shall bee shewed to the a) Ministers are to be rewarded as they be such and in their Office but not as they be schismatikes and disturbers of the peace of the Church Ministers of the Gospell and to the people committed vnto them and depending vpon them for the foode and saluation of their soules Was the kindnesse of the Shunamite towards one prophet Elisha plentifully recompenced 1. by the gift of a Sonne after long barrennes 2. by restoring her said sonne to life being dead 2. Kings 4.16.3 by forewarning her of a famine to come and admonishing her to provide for her selfe Chap. 8.1.4 by directing her by God his gratious providence to come with petition to the King for restitution of her lands that had beene seised in her absence to the kings vse at that very instant when Gehazi was telling the King the great acts of his M. Elisha and particularly how he had raised this womans son frō death to life by which her comming in such a season shee presently obtayned not only her lands but also al the meane profites that in time of her peregrination had beene taken by the Kings receiver was I say such little kindnesse of this woman to one prophet so plentifully recompensed and shall not the favour that is shewed to many Ministers of the Gospell the least wherof for b) Arcadian wisdom The place is to be vnderstood not in regard of the Office but in respect of the cleare knowledge that they should haue of Christ after his Resurrection office is greater then Iohn the Baptist who notwithstanding was greater then any prophet and then whom there was not a greater among the sonnes begotten of women Math. 11.9 shall not I say such kindnesse towards such Ministers as are in c) How great I pray you so great reckoning with God be remembred and rewarded Resolution of the 9. Argument God doth ever plentifully recompence any kindnesse shewed vnto his Children specially vnto the Ministers and Disciples of Christ Ergo The high Court of Parliament ought to shew kindnesse vnto the Refractarie Ministers ANSWER To the Consequence 1. OVr Sauiour saith He that receiueth a Prophet in the name of a Prophet shall receiue a Prophets reward Math. 10.41 So shall he also that doth any kindnesse vnto a Minister as he is a Minister But if a Minister do otherwise then he ought as these Refractaries do what kindnesse then ought such to haue done vnto them 2. Let the Refractarie Ministers dutifully serue GOD and his Church in their diligent and humble obedience in the worke of their vocation and then let them supplicate for kindnesse to be shewed vnto them 3. The Errour is 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 X. ARGVMENT ON the contrary consider who hath said Touch not mine annointed and doe a) Well My Prophets not false or schismaticall Prophets my Prophets no harme Psal 105.15 As also what is threatned to thē that doe the least harme to the least of the childrē of God even in their outward states Yea what God commanded to be written against the Amalekites sware to performe onely for resisting his people in their iourney towards the earthly Canaan which was but a type of the heavenly Exod. 17.14.15 And what also afterward even 400. yeares after the premises he caused to be executed by Saule against them without any pity or compassion towards any man woman infant or suckling Oxe Sheep Cattell or Asse 1. Sam. 15.3 Was it so hainous before the Lord to hinder his people in their iourney towards the earthly Canaan and shall it be a light thing with men now not to b) They cānot be said to farther the Elect that wilfully forsake the Ministery of the Gospel as the Refractaryes do further the elect in their meanes of and in their iourney vnto the heavenly Canaan typically prefigured by that earthly If the Lord did also sweare by the excellencie of Iacob that surely he would never forget the crueltie that was exercised by the rich men of Iudea against the poore of the land in their outward state yea that the very land should tremble and that every one should mourne that dwelled therin c. for the said sinne Amos 8.7 Will the same Lord then which is alwayes the same in Iustice as well as in mercy lightly passe by any c) They may be said to bee Cruel towards the soules of m●● that for little or no cause leaue then diligent and honest calling in the Ministery of the Gospell cruelty towards the soules of his people Let not the states assembled in this High Court of Parliament or in any place of auctoritie grace and fauour where their word spoken in his place may be like vnto Apples of golde with pictures of silver