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A16624	Twelve generall arguments proving that the ceremonies imposed upon the ministers of the gospell in England, by our prelates, are unlawfull; and therefore that the ministers of the gospell, for the bare and sole omission of them in church service, for conscience sake, are most unjustlie charged of disloyaltie to his Maiestie.	Bradshaw, William, 1571-1618.	1605 (1605)	STC 3531; ESTC S113554	22,354	86

Twelve generall Arguments Proving that the Ceremonies imposed upon the Ministers of the Gospell in England by our Prelates are unlawfull And therefore that the Ministers of the Gospell for the bare and sole omission of them in Church Service for conscience sake are most unjustlie charged of disloyaltie to his Maiestie 〈…〉 Math. 18.23 If I have spoken evill beare witnesse of the evill But if I have spoken well why smitest thou mee 1605. To the Reader GOod Reader We come not as voluntaries into this field of Contention but draug'd into it by the very haires of our head If our cause bee ●ighteous and good Thou wilt easily graunt ●in so great Imputations and Extremities ●nflicted upon us for the same that we can ●oe no lesse Then give reasons for our selves ●nd it All the favour I require of thee 〈◊〉 That thou wouldest looke into our cause 〈◊〉 not by the flashing lightninges that come ●ut of the mouthes of our Adversaries the Prelates but by the light of our owne Reasons by which if thou shalt see the goodnes of our cause and innocencie of our persons the● imbrace it with vs. And in pitie pray fo● vs that without shipwrack of Faith and a good Conscience wee may endure patientli● and meekely what so ever God shall suffer to bee inflicted vpon vs for the same in these wicked and licentious times The first Argument All Wil-worship is sinne To use these Ceremonies in Church Service in manner and forme prescribed is a Wil-worship Ergo To use them is sinne The Proposition can not be denied for the Apostle Paule plainly condemneth Wil-worship The Assumption may thus be proved All partes of Divine Service and Worship imposed only by the wil and pleasure of Man upon the Ministers of Divine Service and that of necessitie to be done is Will-worship But to use these Ceremonies in manner and forme prescribed is to use such Ceremonies as are 1. partes of Divine Service and Worship 2. imposed onely by the pleasure and will of Men upon the Ministers of Divine Service 3. 9 necessitie to bee done therein Ergo To use these Ceremonies in manner an● forme prescribed is a Wil-worship The Proposition is as cleare as the Sunne at noone-day The Assumption hath three parts 1. That they are parts of Divine Worship and Service This is proved evidently by this Argument All Mysticall and Ecclesiasticall Rites and formes of Divine Service institut●d by Ecclesiasticall authoritie to be● Ministeriall actions in the solemne Worship of God and performed in that manner and having that use in Divine Service that if God should but ratifie and confirme the same use they should then be parts of his true Worship I say all such Ceremonies are used as partes of Divine Worship But these Ceremonies in controversie are either all or the greatest parte of them such Ergo ●hey are partes of Divine Worship and Service The Proposition cannot with any modest face bee denied For els how ●ould a sole Divine ratification of the present use of them make them partes of his true Worship if they were not used as partes of his Worship before The Assumption is as manifest For if Christ should by some Revelation from heaven signifie That it is his will that a Minister in Divine Service should weare a white linnen garment In Baptisme make the signe of a Crosse To these endes and purposes that are expressed in the Service booke then certainly they should be essentiall parts of his Divine Worship els the Iewish Rites and Ceremonies and our Sacraments are no partes thereof The second part of the Assumption● the 1. Syllogisme That they are imposed onely upon t● pleasure and will of man This is evident For those things th●● God leaves as indifferent to the wi● and discretion of man to doe or leav● undone being imposed by man upo● man are imposed onely upon the wi● and pleasure of man The 3. part of the Assumption is That they are of Necessitie to be don● in Divine Seruice Which is also out of all doubt For● Minister standes bound to doe them upon paine of suspension and deprivation and God must haue no solemne Worship in England except it be administred in the same Upon all this it followes That to use these Ceremonies in manner and forme proscribed is to use such Ceremonies as are partes of Divine worship imposed onely by the will of Man c. The 2. Argument It is a sinne against God for him that is by way of Excellencie a servaunt of IESVS Christ without a precise and direct warrant from him at any time especially in the Solemne Worship of God to give speciall Honour to Antichrist and his members But to use these Ceremonies is in that manner aforesaid to give speciall Honour to Antichrist and his members Ergo It is a sinne against God to use them The Proposition is manifest cleare to any that have an eye of Reason and any light of Divinitie shyning in it For what is a sinne if this be not That a Servaunt of Iesus Christ even then when hee is in the Service of Christe should performe speciall Honour and Service to Antichrist or any of his limmes The Assumption is prooved If our adversaries will graunt it that the Pope is Antichrist and that all the visible members of his Church acknowledging him their supreame head are mēbers of him by this reason Such a Conformitie to Antichrist and his Members in the Ceremonies of Religion and Forme of Divine worship as is not only besides the word of God but in a speciall manner derogatorie to all reformed Churches that have departed from the Synagogue of Rome is a speciall honor to Antichrist and his members But to use these Ceremonies in Divine Worship is such a Conformitie to Antichrist and his members Ergo To use these Ceremonies in that manner aforesaid is to give speciall honor to Antichrist and his members The Proposition is without exception For if it should bee a speciall honor to the Bishops of England their conformed Cleargie For the Churches of Scotland voluntarily to leave conformitie to the Churches of the low Countries France Germanie and to conforme them selves in Ceremonies and Forme of Divine worship to the Prelaticall Cleargie of England It must needes bee a speciall honour to Antichrist and his members for anie to doe the like to them The Assumption is thus proved For a Minister of Iesus Christ to conforme him self in such peculiar Rites Ceremonies and formes of Divine Service to Antichrist and his members as all other reformed Churches have reiected for vaine foolish and superstitious is in a speciall manner derogatorie to all other reformed Churches But to use these Ceremonies in Controversie is in that manner to Conforme him selfe Ergo It is in a speciall manner derogatorie to all other Reformed Churches Both partes of the Syllogisme are such as may easilie bee prooved if they bee denied The 3. Argument All worship more then Civill performed to

is more notorious then for us that make scruple of these things to be reputed worse then Papistes One that is a great Iudge in these causes Ecclesiasticall affirmed it unto my selfe Another openly at Paules Crosse in myne owne hearing made no doubt but the Papistes were in the Church but he made great doubt whether the Puritanes were And yet we are Puritanes for nothing els but for refusinge Cōformitie to their Ceremonies For howsoever they sclaunder us with manie other grosse imputations yet they can not laye any thing to our charge but our Conscience in this For all other matters concerning their own estats and dignityes cōsidering how desperate they are and unreformable we can be content to leaue them to the Iudgment of God who as it seemes intendeth to gloryfie himself by some other meanes then by then conversion For the 4. Read Scottish Genevat The Survey Remonstraunce etc. And yea shal find all this laid to their charge Also their practise sufficiently proveth it for the ministers that are of late susspended and deprived only refusing to use these Ceremonies beare their cōdemnation vnder these names and Titles The 5 and 6 is proved by their owne late Canons ffor yf they bee to bee excommunicated ipso sacto as houlding damnable wicked errours that shall Professe any of these Ceremonies to bee vnlawefull a man ought not to acknowledge himself a member of any such Churche as doth affectedly cast them out of gods worship ffor for what error a perticular person is not to bee reputed a member of the Churche but as a heathen and publican ffor the same a whole church is not to be reputed a church but a Sinagoge of Sathan The 7 may be iustified by many instances of many vile and impious persons of those kindes tolerated in the ministry The 8 is proved by him that answers the Plea of the Innocent Whoe Saith that they that call in questiō the lawfulnes of these Ceremonies call in question hir late Maiesties Religion which they could not doe except at the least parte of hir religiō consisted in them Further yf this doth not sufficiently proue the maine assumption let these reasons following be wayed 1 If the Church be necessary to salvatiō and yf the pillars of the church be necessary to the Church and if the lord Bishops be the Pillars of the Church and these or such like Ceremonies be the maine Supporters of L. Bishops then are these Ceremonies in the iudgment of the prelates necessary to Salvatiō For no Church no Salvation no pillor of the church no Church no L. Bishop no pillar of the Church No ceremony no Lord Bishop Ergo no Ceremonie of this kinde no Salvation 2 All divine constitutions binding conscience are necessary to Salvatiō But by the late doctrine of the Prelates and others these Ceremonies being not vnlawefull when they ar commanded by the Church are said not to be humane but divine Constitutions binding conscience therfore they as they are vrged are necessary to Salvation For all divine constitutions binding conscience are necessary to Salvation or ●ls nothing on our part can be said in any sence to be necessary thereunto 3 It is necessary to Salvation that men should not only worship God but worship him in a comly decent and orderly manner it being a matter of damnation to worship God in a confused vnseemely and disordered manner but by the doctrine of our Prelates comelines decencie and order consists in the vse of these Ceremonies Ergo in their Iudgment they are necessary to Salvation Ob. The Church doth not intende to vrge these thinges as necessary to Saluation Ergo They are not urged ●s necessary to Salvation Ans 1 The Churche vrgeth not these things at all but onely 3 or 4 Bishops in the Churche whiche if theyr owne doctrine be true are Vsurpers over our Churches not so much as any true members of a Church 2 what if the Synode should decree that the Kinge should hould the arch bishop stirrop and the Prnce Nobles kisse his Toe once or twice a year and withall they should protest that they doe not require this as a worship or honor to the Archbishop but only for Comelines Order Edification were not this a shamefull shift as bad as the thing it self The 12 Argument All actions not required by the word of God though commanded by humane authoritie that are apparent meanes of the Damnation of the Soules of infinite numbers of men are directly against the Lawe of charitie and therefore Sin But these Ceremonies are such Actions Ergo The Proposition is without question For if without commandiment from God I may vpon the sole will and pleasure of the Magistrate or governors of the Church doe that by which I shal be a means of the damnation of my brothers Soule which is the greatest breach of the lawe of charitie that can bee Then may I do any sinn at theyr Commaundement without sinn for what greater sinne can there be against the 2 Table then this to be a witting instrument of my Neighbours Damnation Which though it be but a matter of Iest to our greate Doctors that haue many Cures and no care of Soules yet to them which know the price of a soul it is more then if vpon the more will of the Magistrates they should be forced to kill their owne Children and d●●rest b●loveds with their owne hand OB. The Ma●●●●are hauing authorit●e given him by God to commaund things Indifferent he commaunding th●● are to be done notwithstanding 〈◊〉 ●candall of our Nighbour Answ 1 Though the Subiect ought to obey his Magistrate in all Indifrent actions imposed vpon him what soever yet I desier that it may be proved that God in his word hath given to any Power or Potentate vpon Earth any such absolute authoritie The Magistrate is Gods Leifetenaūt and the glorie of the Magistrate consists in this in that vnder God hee beareth a sword to punish those that transgresse his Lawes but hee is by Gods Ordinaunce to be the procurer and protector of the christian libertie of his subiects That therfore he hath power graunted him of God vpon his owne pleasure to take away the same especially insuch a case requires profe out of the word of God 2. If he have such a power yet those things that God leaues to his will to commaund or not to commaund he cannot commaund vnder a greater penaltie then bodily death for his sword can cutt no deeper and then in the case of Scandall a christian subiect ought rather to suffer the Magistrate to take away his life then to doe that which shall procure the Damnation of his Brothers Soule And in thus doing he is noe contem nor of the Magistrates Lawe but a● fulfiller of the Lawe of Charitie in not distroying his brothers Soule vpon the mere● pleasure of a mortall man OB. But the commaundiment of the Magistrate takes away the scandall When the thing is done in

obedience to him An. This is a nother desperate shift As though the conscience of the weake brother that iudgeth a thing indifferent to be a Sinne wil be ever the more satisfied and releeved in the matter by the authoritie of the Magistrate nothing but the authoritie of God either can or ought to satisfie a doubting conscience And as for them that put superstitiō in things Indiffrent and are that way scandalized the authoritie of the Magistrate or church commaunding them their scandall is increased and not removed by the same OB But wee must more respect Obedience to the Magistrate then the scandall of inferiour persons the thing commaunded being indifferent and not evell Ans 1 The thing commanded is not Indiffrent then when it is a scandall and stumbling block to our brother 2 Wee must obay the Magistrate only in the Lord but this is not to obay him in the Lord onely vpon his pleasur to destroy a soule for whō Christ died 3. An obedience to the Magistrate so far as to the condemnation of our brothers soule must be a speciall obedience in some speciall good and iust commandiment which cannot be verified of a commaundiment that requireth onely a thing indifferent much les such an indifferent as is a scandall and meanes of distruction to mens soules 4 Such a forbeareing of obedience onely in loue to the salvation of our brothers Soule being without apparent contempt of the Magistrate and having adioined with it a meeke submission to the mercie of the Magistrat● cannot be called a dissobedience but is in deed a better obedienc then theirs that doe contrarie whoe in their obedience bring the bloud of the soules they destroy both vpon their owne heads and the Magistrate which is a sinn in the eyes of God wors then rebellion OB. But by obedience to these Ceremonies many soules by meanes of preaching are saved which shall want the meanes in the refusall Ans 1 Wee must not distroy the soules of some that we may saue the soules of other wee must doe that which is iust though the world goe to wreck for it 2. The greatest good that a man can doe cannot counteervaile the least evill much les so great an evell as to bee a witting instrument of the damnation of a brothers soule 3 Hee that preacheth cannot assure himself of the salvation of one soule by the same for that is wrought by the worke of the spirite of God And he hath litle cause to hope for a blessing vpon that preaching which hee purchaseth with the price of blood yea of the blood of soules OB But the K. the Magistrats state are scandalized also at the omission of them and their scandall is more to be respected then the scandall of inferiour parsons for the vseing of them Ans 1. For his Maiestie we doubt not but if the prelates would hee would easily yeald to the removall of them and therfore he cannot be scandalized at the refusall when it is of meere conscience though of conscience deceived 2 The States and Inferiour Magistrates of the kingdome have in all Parliaments shewed them selues willing and ready to set their handes to the removall of them 3 If the King State wil be scandalized because upon their mere will pleasure I will not doe that which I am perswaded will be a meanes of the destruction of their soules for whom Christ died They wil be much more scandalized at me if I doe it For such an obeydience as this must needs be a meanes of begetting or confirming straing sinns in their soules for as it is a kind of deifiyng of themselues To require even in the case of scandall a thing indifferēt to be done so they that shall in such a case obey cannot but nurish exceedingly that corruption from wh●ch such a cōmaudement shall proceed 4 The soule of the meanest and poorest in a kingdom cost as great a price and is as dear to Christ as the soule of the Noblest and in the matter of scandall as great heed is to be taken to them as to any other And it shewes of what spirit these men are of that thinke they may betray the soules of Christs little ones rather then displease a mortall man Ob. What Must the Magistrates lawes be chaunged for every humour that will pretend scandall Aunsw Yea such lawes as commaūd onely thinges indifferent in cases of generall scandall are to be chaunged of particular scandall are at the least to be dispenced withall For if laws that commaund things necessary are som times to be dispenced with and if of them it is said Extreeme right is Extreme wrong Much more then such lawes as require onely such things as are indifferēt 1 Such things that but for the cōmaunders pleasure makes noe matter whether they be done or noe Which are indeed vnworthy to be commaunded of worthies 2 A pretended scandall in humor is easily discerned by those that are wise and not malicious for they that are ready to performe all obedience to the Magistrate in all other heavier greater thinges are ready in his service to spend their goods lyues that think nothing to deare for the redeēyng of his safety that are in all other things as obedient and more obedient then any other of his subiects It is not to be supposed of any that are not possest with the malicious spirit of Antichrist That such should refuse to obey the Kings pleasure in a toye and a trifle such as are all things indifferēt except that in obeying him they were perswaded that they should sin against their own conscience which next vnto God they haue cause to please farr aboue all the Kings of the earth for it hath greater power to torment them then they haue But I proue the Assumption All apparent meanes of confirmyng mē in Scisme Superstition and Idolatry by meanes wherof many haue profesedly lived and dyed therein without repentaunce are apparent meanes of the dānation and destruction of many soules amongst us But These Ceremonyes are such Ergo. The proposition canot be denyed for what action of man can be sayde to be a meanes of the damnation and destruction of anothers soule If thes actions be not that confirme men in suche foule Sinnes So that either a man can doe nothinge that shall destroy his brothers soule which is dyrectly against the expresse wordes of St. Paule Or els such a conformitie in such actions as Confirme men in such Damnable Sinnes doth destroy his soule The Assumption is as evident as any such matter can be For 1. The Papists not onely amongst vs which are innumerable but others also doe professe that by our vse of thes Ceremonies which are consecrated mysteryes of their owne Religion they are confirmed in the truth of their Religion and the falshood of ours And good reason they haue so to iudge For if the broth be good that the Divill is sod in sure the Divill himself must needs be good also 2