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A64760	The dovvnfall of the pretended divine authoritie of the hierarchy into the Sea of Rome from some arguments and motives, to the finall extirpation of that unlawful government of the prelacy : as having no foundation in the Scriptures, but onely in that filthy dung-hill of by V.N.V.	V. N. V.	1641 (1641)	Wing V14; ESTC R1331	28,994	45

any of his predecessors because he sins against greater light and more warnings yea let Prelate Vsher speak whether his hands be cleare of the bloody persecutions in Ireland of late and if they will not the earth shall discover her blood and no more hide her slaine the infection of the bloody office is growne to such a height as hath not left any one of them untainted one way or other 4. If they all should hold their peace the stones will cry in their High Commissions and Courts their books and Court Records shall testifie to posterity of their tyranny in government So as it hath been an old tryed Maxime of their Courts That a good man makes a bad cause there how hath the terrour of their Courts made many Ministers and people like the figge-tree cast their fruit before they felt the storme upon the first puffe of winde of appearance of troubles when they have heard an I seene how other men have been crushed and undone by them * Vestigia terrent The very sight of a Puritane as they brand them in their Courts makes their blood rise and their spirits rage and swell as against the mortall enemies of their Dominion And if the Papists plot of a long intended bloody Massacre had prevailed and not of late from Heaven been prevented I beleeve their white sleeves would have been dyed in our blood ere now their dog-like appetite so hungers after the Puritanes blood as the very nature of their office so to doe and cannot be otherwise for this is the fruit of the old withered stock of Romes Hierarchy and the longer this tree of Prelacy springing out of that root shall stand it grows taller and stronger from the nourishment it receives from the sap and root in the dunghill foundation of the Canon Law and according to the nature of the soyle the fruit must be and so of necessitie bring forth daily more bitter fruits to the Church of God like apples of Sodome 5. The brightnesse of divine truth in this point of discipline hath so dazled the Prelaticall partie that of late they have confessed the discipline of the Church of England to be the same with the Church of Rome and yet they are either so modest as ashamed to have it called Antichristian or els so impudent as to deny the Pope to be Antichrist as whores and bawds love the gaine asid pleasarcof their filthy trade but cannot endure the name What a shame is it to our Religion and Nation to uphold Artichrists filthy trade and government the mother of all abhominations and mistresse of whoredomes a thing so scandalous to all the reformed world of Protestants 6. Let our deare friends and exiles in America speake and the whole Kingdome at home of the scattered families of Christs servants witnesse what havock they have made of the Church and what rule they keep in Court and Countrey Towne and Citie from the Metropolitane to the meanest son of the Church how they pierck and pranse it above all Nobilitie and Centry and become the onely brave fellows and fac t●●ums in all affaires in the Common-weale as well as in the Church So as at length they have over-shadowed the whole State Eclipsed the very royall Authoritie hindred the Sun-shine of his Princely aspect from his loyall subjects and which is not the least of all by the mists of then inventions and smoak of their superstitious abhominations arising out of their sulphurious Seas like the Asphaltites they darken the light of the sun of Righteousnesse and hinder us of the Lord Jesus his beautifull and shining rayes and influence of his sweet countenance which like the Sun in his strength would revive all our droopings and make the Land to flourish when once his throne his rest were set up amongst us O how would he make his rest glorious Isa 11.10 Thus at last to conclude this argument we have found in the office of Prelacy the principall markes of Antichrist corrupt doctrine corrupt worship and tyranny in government all naturally flowing through their offices out of the same dunghill foundation with Antichrist for if it were not in the nature and power of their offices thus to doe their kingdome would long agoe have falne and come to nothing And therefore the Prelates are wrongfully blamed for abusing their offices thevery nature and right use whereof is to wast and overthrow the Church and offices of Christ to overturne Kingdomes and Lawes to propagate the kingdome of Antichrist the office is so bad they cannot use it otherwise no more than one of them can ride a horse blind and lame of all leggs over mountaines and hills without hazard of his neck the office or Episcopacy is the blind and lame Jade which they are mounted upon to over-ride all divine and humane authoritie and will certainly breake their necks ere long and therefore the best office their friends can doe them is to stop their gallopping and to save their necks helpe to dismount them Ob. This cannot be so will some say why should the Prelates be so venturous or ride so madly they sure have a more care of themselves than so desperately precipitate themselves to fatall ruine Ans Because they ride for a better horse whence they had this which makes them so loath to part with the Jade and rather will venture a fall every Priest rides for a parsonage every person for a Prebendary every Prebend for a Deanery so for a Bishoprick an Archbishoprick a Cardinallship till some of them that ride fastest at last be mounted on mens shoulders to make Princes run at their stirrup Complaine not then of the Prelates abuse of their offices in trampling upon you when it is the nature of the beast and ride he must if you would be eased of your paine dismount the rider and knock the lame Jade on the head And thus we see how under a pretence of love to Christ they overthrow all his offices as Prophet Priest and King and therefore the conclusion stands firme that they are not of Christ but of Antichrist and then our next Argument tells us what will be the end of them Argument VII Every plant which my heavenly Father hath not planted shall be rooted out Mat. 15.13 The Prelacy and their offices are no plants of the Fathers planting Ergo they shall be rooted out and as an abhominable branch of the old withered stock of Romes Hierarchy be cut downe and cast out of the Church as the garments of the slaine thrust through with the sword of authoritie and as a carcasse trod under foote Isa 14.19 The Major proposition is undeniable being out of his mouth who is faithfull and true Apoc. 13.14 and will make it good in his own time for out of his mouth goes a two edged sword the sword of his Spirit sharpening and thrusting forth the sword of the Magistrate which in due time he will cause to be forbished and made bright to the