to mirth I tooke that course I might lawfully doe it I for jesting is lawfull by circumstances even in the greatest matters The circumstances of time place and persons vrged me therevnto I never profaned the word in any jest Other mirth I vsed as a covert wherein I would bring the truth into light the Lord being the Author both of mirth and gravity Is it not lawfull in it selfe for the truth to vse either of these wayes when the circumstances doe make it lawfull My purpose was and is to doe good I know I have done no harme howsoever some may iudge Martin to mar all They are very weake ones that so think In that which J have written J know vndoubtedly that I have done the Lord and the state of this Kingdome great service Because I have in some sort discovered the greatest enemies thereof And by so much the most pestilent enemies because they wound Gods religion and currupt the State with Atheism and loosenesse so call for Gods vengance vpon vs all even vnder the colour of Religion I affirme them to be the greatest enemies that now our state hath for if it were not for them the truth should have more free passage herein then now it hath All states thereby would be amended and so we should not be subject vnto Gods displeasure as now we are by reason of them Now let me deale with these that are in authority I doe make it knowne vnto them that our Bishops are the greatest enemies which we have For they doe not onely goe about but they have long since fully perswaded our state that they may lawfully procure the Lord to take the Sword in hand against the state if this be true have J not said truly that they are the greatest enemies which our state hath The Papists worke no such effect for they are not trusted The Atheists have not infected our whole state these have The attempts of our forraine enemies may be pernicious But they are men as wee are But that God which when our Bishops have and doe make our Prince and our governours to wadge war who is able to stand against him Well to the point many have put his Maiestie the Parliament and counsell in mind that the church officers now among vs are not such as the Lord alloweth off because they are not of his owne ordaining They have shewed that this fault is to be amended or the Lords hand to be looked for The Bishops on the other side have cried out vpon them that have thus dutifully moved the state They with a loud voyce gave out that the magistrate may lawfully maintaine that church government which best fitteth our estate as living in the time of peace What doe they else herein but say that the magistrate in time of peace may maime and deforme the body of Christ his church That Christ hath left the government of his own house vnperfect and left the same to the discretion of the Magistrate whereas Moses before whom in this point of government the Lord Christ is justly preferred Heb. 3 6. made the government of the legall policy so perfect as hee left not any part thereof to the discretion of the Magistrate Can they deny church Officers to bee members of the church they are refused by the expresse text 1 Cor. 12. will they affirme Christ to have left behind him an vnperfect body of his Church wanting members at the least wise having such members as were onely permanent at the Magistrates pleasure Why Moses the servant otherwise governed the house in his time And the sonne is commended in this point for Wisedome and faithfulnesse before him Heb. 3.6 Either then that commendation of the sonne before the servant is a false testimony or the sonne ordained a permanent government in his Church If permanent not to be changed What then doe they that hold it may be changed at the Magistrates pleasure but advise the Magistrate by his positive lawes to proclaime that it is his will that if there shall be a Church within his dominions he will maime and deforme the same hee will ordaine therein what members he thinketh good He will make it knowne that Christ vnder his government shall be made lessefaithfull then Moses was That he hath left the placing of members in his body vnto the Magistrate Oh cursed beasts that bring this guilt vpon our estate Repent Caitifes while you have time you shall not have it I feare when you will And looke you that are in authority vnto the equity of the controversie betweene our wicked Bishops and those vho would have the disorders of our Church amended Take heed you be not carryed away with slanders Christs government is neither Mar-prince Mar. state mar-Mar-law nor Mar-magistrate The living God whose cause is pleaded for will be reuenged of you if you give eare vnto this slander contrary to so many testimonies as are brought out of his word to prove the contrary He denounceth his wrath against all you that thinke it lawfull for you to maime or deform his church he accounteth his Church maimed when those Offices are therein placed which hee hath not appointed to bee members thereof he also testifieth that there be no members of this appointment in the Church but such as hee himselfe hath named in his word and those that he hath named man must not displace for so he should put the body out of joynt Now our Bishops holding the contrary and bearing you in hand that you may practize the contrary doe they not drive you to provoke the Lord to anger against your owne soules And are they not your enemies they hold the contrary J say for they say that his Maiestie may alter this government now established and thereby they shew either this government to be vnlawfull or that the magistrate may presume to place those members in Gods Church which the Lord never mentioned in his word And I beseech you marke how the case standeth betweene these wretches those whom they call puritans 1 The puritans falsely so called shew it to be vnlaw full for the Magistrate to goe about to make any members for the body of Christ 2 They hold all officers of the Church to be members of the body Rom. 12 6.1 Cor. 12.8 28. 3 And therfore they hold the altering or the abolishing of the offices of church government to be the altering abolishing of the members of the Church 4 The altering and abolishing of which members they hold to be vnlawfull because it must needes be a maime vnto the body 5 They hold Christ Iesus to have set downe as exact and as vnchangeable a Church government as ever Moses did Heb. 3.6 These and such like are the points they hold let their cause be tryed and if they hold any other points in effect but these let them be hanged every man of them Now I demand whether they that hold the contrary in these points and cause the
REFORMATION NO ENEMIE Or a true DISCOVRSE betweene the Bishops and the Desirers of Reformation WHEREIN Is plainely laid open the present corrupt government of our Church and the desired forme of Government plainely proved by the word of GOD. PROV 24. Vers 24. Hee that saith vnto the wicked thou art righteous him shall the people Curse Nations shall abhorre him Printed in the yeare 1641. A man of worship to the men of worship that is Martin Mar-prelate gentleman Primate and Metropolitane of all the Martins wheresoever To the Iohn of all the Sir Iohns and to the rest of the terrible Priests saith have among you once againe my clergie masters For O Brethren there is such a deale of love grown of late I perceive betweene you and me that although I would be negligent in sending my Pistles unto you yet I see you cannot forget me I thought you to be very kind when you sent your Pursivaunts about the Country to seeke for me But now that you your selves have taken the paines to write this is out of all cry Why it passes to thinke what loving and carefull Brethren I have who although I cannot be gotten to tell them where I am because I love not the ayre of the Clinke or Gatehouse in this cold time of Winter and by reason of my businesse in Pistle-making will notwithstanding make it known vnto the world that they have a moneths mind towards me now truly brethren J find you kind why ye doe not know what a pleasure you have done me My worships bookes were vnknowne to many before you allowed T. C. to admonish the people of England to take heed that if they loved you they would make much of their Prelates and the chiefe of the Clergie Now many seeke after my bookes more then ever they did Againe some knew not that our brother Iohn of Fulham was so good vnto the porter of his gate as to make the poore blind honest soule to be a dum Minister Many did not know either that Amen is as much as by my faith and so that our Saviour Christ ever sware by his faith or that bowling and eating of the Sabboth are of the same nature that Bishops may as lawfully make blind guydes as David might eate of the Shew bread or that father Thomas Tul-trimmer of Winchester good old student is a master of Arts of 45. yeares standing Many I say were ignorant of these things and many other pretty toyes vntill you wrote this pretty booke besides whatsoever you overpasse in my writings and did not gainsay that I hope will be iudged to be true and so Iohn a Bridges his treason out of the 448 page of his booke you grant to be true Your selves you deny not to be petty Popes the Bishop of sir Davids in Wales you deny not to have two wives with an hundred other things which you doe not gainsay so that the reader may judge that I am true of my word and vse not to lye like Bishops and this hath greatly commended my worships good dealing But in your confutation of my book you have shewed reverend Martin to be true peny indeed for you have confirmed rather then confuted him So that brethren the pleasure which you have done vnto me is out of all scotche and notche And should not I againe be as ready to pleasure you Nay then I should be as vngratefull towards my good brethren as Iohn of Cant. is to Thomas Cartwright The which Iohn although hee hath beene greatly favoured by the said Thomas in that Thomas hath now these many yeares let him alone and said nothing vnto him for not answering his bookes yet is not ashamed to make a secret comparison betweene himselfe and Thomas Cartwright As who say Iohn of Lambehith were as learned as Thomas Cartwright What say you old deane Iohn a Bridges have not you shewed your selfe thankefull vnto his Majestie in overthrowing his supremacie in the 448 page of your book I will lay on load on your skincoat for this geare anon And I will have my penyworths of all of your brethren ere I have done with you for this paines which your T. C. hath taken with me This is the Puritans craft in procuring me to be confuted I know I le be even with them to a crafty whoresons brethren Bishop did you thinke because the puritans T. C. did set Iohn of Cant. at a non-plus and gave him the overthrow that therefore your T. C. alias Thomas Cooper Bishop of Winchester or Thomas Cooke his Chaplaine could set me at a nonplus simple fellowes me thinkes he should not J gesse your T C. to be Thomas Cooper but I doe not peremptorily affirme it because the modest old student of 52. yeares standing setteth Winchester after Lincolne and Rochester in the contents of his booke which blasphemy would not have beene tollerated by them that saw and allowed the booke vnlesse Mistresse Coopers husband had beene the author of it Secondly because this T. C the author of this booke is a Bishop and therefore Thomas Cooper he is a Bishop because hee reckoneth himselfe charged amongst others with those crimes whereof none are accused but Bishops alone pag. 101. lin 26. Ha olde Martin yet I see thou hast it in thee thou wilt enter into the bowels of the cause in hand I perceive Nay if you will commend me I will give you more reasons yet The stile and the phrase is very like her husbands that was sometimes wont to write vnto Doctor Day of Welles You see I can doe it indeed Againe none would be so groshead as to gather because my reverence telleth Deane Iohn that hee shall have twenty fists about his eares more then his owne whereby J meant indeed that many would write against him by reason of his bomination learning which otherwise never meant to take pen in hand that J threatned him with blowes and to deale by stafford law whereas that was farre from my meaning could by no meanes be gathered out of my words but onely by him that pronounced Enlogeni for Eulogin in the pulpit and by him whom a Papist made to beleeve that the Greek word Eulogein that is to give thankes signifieth to make a crosse in the forhead py hy hy hy I cannot but laugh py hy hy hy I cannot but laugh to thinke that an old soaking student in this learned age is not ashamed to be so impudant as to presume to deale with a Papist when he hath no grue in his pocket But I promise you Sir it is no shame to be a L-Bishop if a man could though he were as vnlearned as Iohn of Glocester or William of Liechfeld And I tell you true our brother Westchester had as live play twenty nobles in a night at Priemeero on the cards as trouble himselfe with any Pulpit labour and yet hee thinks himselfe to be a sufficient Bishop What a Bishop such a cardplaier A Bishop play 20 nobles in a
the Summer Lord with his May game or Robin Hood with his Morice daunce going by the Church out goees the boye Good Glibery though he were in the pulpit yet had a mind to his old companions abroad a company of merry grigs you must thinke them to be as merry as a vice on a stage seeing the boy going out finished his matter presently with Iohn of Londons Amen saying ha ye faith boy are they there then ha with thee and so came downe and among them he goes Were it not then pitty that the dignity of such a Priest should decay And I would gentle T. C. that you would take the paines to write a treatise against the boy with the red cap which put this Glibery out of his matter at another time For Glibery being in the pulpit so fastened his eyes vpon a boy with a red cap that he was cleane dasht out of countenance in somuch that no note could be hard from him at that time but this Take away red cap there take away red cap there it had beene better that he had never beene borne he hath marred such a Sermon this day as it is wonderfull to thinke The King and the Counsell might well have heard it for a good Sermon and so came down An admonition to the people of England to take heed of boyes with red caps which make them set light by the dignity of their Priests would doe good in this time brother T. C. you know well Reverend T. C. The cause why we are so spighted You may hereby perceive that T. C. is a Bishop is because we doe endeavour to maintain the lawes which his Majestie and the whole state of the Realme have allowed and doe not admit a new platforme of government devised I know not by whom Reverend Martin Why T. C. say Eulojin for Eulogein as often as you will and I will never spight you or the Bishop of Win. chester eyther for the matter But doe you thinke our Church government to be good and lawfull because his Maiestie and the state who maintain the reformed religion alloweth the same Why the Lord doth not allow it therfore it cannot be lawfull And it is the fault of such wretches as you Bishops are that his Maiestie and the state alloweth the same For you should have otherwise instructed them they know you not yet so thorowly as I doe So that if I can prove that that the Lord disliketh our Church government your endeavours to maintaine the same shew that thereby you cannot chuse but bee traytors to God and his word whatsoever you are to his Maiestie and the State Now T C. looke to your selfe for I will presently make all the hoopes of your Bishopricks fly assunder Therefore Our Church government is an vnlawfull Church government and not allowed in the sight of God Because That Church government is an vnlawfull Church government the Offices and Officers whereof the civill magistrate may lawfully abolish out of the Church marke my craft in reasoning brother T. C. I say the Offices and Officers for I grant that the Magistrate may thrust the Officers of a lawfull Church governmeÌ„t out of the Church if they be Drotrepheses Marâ—elmes Whitgifts Simon Magustes Coopers Pernes Renoldes or any such like ludases though the most of these must be packing Offices and all but their Offices must stand that the same may be supplyed by honester men But the Offices of Archbishops and Bishops and therefore the Officers much more may be lawfully abolished out of the Church by his Maiestie and our state And truely this were brave weather to turne them out it is pitty to keep them in any longer And that would do me good at the hart to see Iohn of London and the rest of hiâ— brethren so discharged of his businesse as hee might freely run in his cassocke and hose after his bowle or florish with his two hand sword O t is a sweet trunch fiddle But the Offices of Archbishops and Bishops may be lawfully abolished out of the Church by his Maiestie and the state as I hope one day they shall be Therefore marke now T. C. and cary me this conclusion to Iohn of Lambehith for his breakefast our Church government by Archb. Bishops is an vnlawfull church governmeÌ„t You see brother Cooper that I am very courteous in my minor for J desire therein no more Offices to bee thrust out of the Church at one time but Archbs and Bishops as for Deanes Archdeacons and Chancellors I hope they will be so kind vnto my Lords grace as not to stay if his worship and the rest of the noble clergie Lords were turned out to grasse I will presently prove both maior and minor of this syllogisme And hold my cloake there some body that I may goe roundly to worke for I le so bumfeg the Cooper as it had beene better to have hooped halfe the tubs in Winchester then write against my worships pistles No civill Magistrate may lawfully either maime or deforme the body of Christ which is the Church but whosoever doth abolish any lawfull Church Officer out of the church government he doth either maime or deforme the Church Therefore T. C. no civill Magistrate no Prince no state may without sinne abolish any lawfull Officer together with his office out of the government of the Church and per consequens the Offices of ArchbiÌ„shops and Lordbishops which his Maiestie may without sinne lawfully abolish out of the Church are no lawfull Church Officers and therefore also the Church government practised by Iohn Whitgift Iohn Mar-elme Richard Peterborow William of Lincolne Edmond of Worcester yea and by that olde stealecounter masse priest Iohn of Glocester with the rest of his brethren is to be presently thrust out of the Church And me thinkes this geare cortons indeed my masters And I tould you T. C. that you should be thumped for defending Bishops Take heed of me while you live The minor of my last â—yllogisme that whosoever doth abolish the Office of any lawfull Church Officer out of the church he either maimeth or deformeth the church I can prove with a wet finger Because every lawfull Church Officer even by reason of his Office is a member of the body of Christ Iesus which is the church and being a member of the body if the Magistrate doth displace him by abolishing his Office and leaveth the place thereof voide then the Magistrate maimeth the body if hee put another Office vnto an Officer in stead thereof he deformeth the same Because the Magistrate hath neither the skill nor the commission to make the exembers of the body of Christ Because hee cannot tell to what vse the members of his making may serve in the Church Doe you thinke T. C. that the Magistrate may make an eye for the visible body of the Church For you must vnderstand that we all this while speake of the visisible body can he make a foot or a hand
omitting the Major and minor because he was not able to answer thereby granteth the conclusion to be true His answer unto the conclusion is that all Lord B. were not petty Popes Because page 74 Cranmer Ridley Hooper were not petty Popes They were not petty Popes because they were not Reprobates As though you block you every petty Pope and petty Anti-Christ were a reprobate Why no man can deny Gregory the great to be a petty Pope and a petty Antichrist For he was the next immediate Pope before Boniface the first that knowne Antichrist and yet this Gregory left behind him vndoubted testimonies of a chosen child of God so might they and yet be petty Popes in respect of their Office Profane T. C. his first and second reason for the lawfulnesse of our church government And what though good men gave their consent vnto our Church government or writing vnto Bishops gave them their Lordly titles Are their offices therefore lawfull Then so is the Popes office For Erasmus was a good man you cannot deny and yet he both allowed of the Popes office since his calling and writing vnto him gave him his titles So did Luther since his calling also for hee dedicated his booke of Christian liberty vnto Pope Leo the tenth The book his Epistle vnto the Pope are both in English Heere I would wish the Magistrate to marke what good reasons you are able to afford for your Hierarchie Thirdly saith profane T. C page 75. All Churches have not the governmene of Pastors and Doctors but Saxonie and Denmarck have L. Bishops You are a great State man vndoubtedly T. C. that vnderstand the State of other Churches so well But herein the impudency of a proud foole appeareth egregiously As though the testimony of a silly Schoolemaster being also as vnlearned as a man of that trade and profession can bee with any honesty would be beleeved against knowne experience Yea but Saxonie and Denmarck have Superintendents what then ergo L. Archb. and Bishops I deny it Though other Churches had L. Archb. and Bb. this proueth nothing else but that other Churches are maimed and have their imperfections Your reason is this other good Churches are deformed therefore ours must needes bee so too The Kings sonne is lame therefore the children of no subjects must goe vpright And these be all the good reasons which you can bring for the government of Archb and Bishops against the government of Christ You reason thus It must not be admitted into this Kingdome because then Civilians shall not be able to live in that estimatâ—on and wealth wherein they now do Carnall and senslesse Beasts who are not ashamed to preferre the outward estate of men before the glory of Christs Kingdome Here againe let the Mogistrate and other Readers consider whether it be not time that such brutish men should be looked unto Which reason thus The body of Christ which is the Church must needes bee maimed and deformed in this Commonwealth because otherwise Civilians should not be able to live Why you enemies to the state you Traytors to GOD and his Word you Mar-prince Mar law Mar-magistrate Mar-Church and Mar-common wealth doe you not know that the World should rather go a begging then that the glory of God by mayming his Church should be defaced Who can abide this indignity The Ptince and state must procure God to wrath against them by continuing the deformity of his church and it way not be otherwise because the Civilians else must fall to decay I will tell you what you monstrous and ungodly Bishops though I had no feare of God before mine eyes and had no hope of a better life yet the love that I owe as a Naturall man unto his Majesty and the state would inforce me to write against you his Majesty and this Kingdome whom the Lord blesse with his mighty hand I unfainedly beseech must endanger them selves under the perill of Gods heavie wrath rather then the maime of our Church government must be healed for we had rather it should be so say our Bishops then wee should be thrust out for if we should be thrust out the study of the civill Law must needs goe to wracke Well if I have lived sometimes a Citizen in that old and ancient though Heathenish Rome and had heard King Dejotarus Caesar yea or Pompey himselfe give out this speech namely that the City and Empire of Rome must needes be brought subject unto some danger because otherwise Catelin Lentulus Cethegus with other of the Nobility could not tell how to live but must needs goe a begging I would surely in the love I ought to the safety of that state have called him that had vsed such a speech in judicium capitis whosoever he had beene and I would not have doubted to have given him the overthrow And shal I being a christian English Subject abide to heare a wicked crue of ungodly Bishops with their hangones and parasites affirme that our King and our state must needs be subject unto the greatest danger that may be viz. the wrath of God for deforming his Church and that Gods Church must needes bee maimed and deformed among us because otherwise a few Civilians shall not be able to live Shall I heare and see these things professed and published and in the love I owe unto Gods religion and his Majeity say nothing I cannot I will not I may not bee silent at this speech come what will come of it The love of a Christian Church Prince and State shall I trust worke more in me then the love of a Heathen Empire and State should doe Now judge good Reader who is more tolerable in a Common-wealth Martin that would have the enemies of his Majesty removed thence or our Bishops which would have his life and the whole Kingdomes prosperity hazarded rather then a few Civilians should want maintenance But I pray thee tell me T. C why should the government of Christ impoverish Civilians Because saith he page 77. the Canon law by which they live must be altered if that were admitted Yea but Civilians live â—y the Court of Amralty and other courts as well as by the Arches viz. Also the Probats of Testaments the controversies of Tythes Matrimony and many other causes which you Bishops Mar-state do usurpingly take from the Civill Magistrate would be a meanes of Civilians maintenance But are not you ashamed to professe your whole government to be a government ruled by the Popes Canon Lawes which are banished by statute out of this Kingdome This notably sheweth that you are Mar-prince and Mar-state For how dare you retaine these Lawes unlesse by vertue of them you meane either to enforce the supremacy of the Prince to goe again to Rome or to coure to Lambeth It is treason by statute for any subject in this Land to proceed Doctor of the Canon law and dare you professe your Church government to bee ruled by that law As though one
statute might not referre all matters of the Canon law unto the temporall and common law of this Realme and is this all you can say T.C. 2 Yes saith he the government of Christ would bring in the judiciall law of Moses As much as is morall of that law or of the equity of it would be brought in And doe you again say it But you sodden headed Asse you the most part of that law is abrogated Some part thereof is in force among us as the punishment of a Murtherer by death and presumptuous obstinate Theft by death c. 3. His Majesties prerogative in Ecclesiasticall causes should not be a whit diminished but rather greatly strengthened by Christs government And no law should be altered but such as were contrary to the Law of God and against the profit of the Common wealth and therefore there can be no danger in altering these 4 The Ministers maintenance by Tythe no Puritane denyeth to be vnlawfull For Martin good Mr. Parson you must understand doth account no Brownist to be a Puritane nor yet a sottish Cooperist 5. The inconvenience which you shew of the government which is that men would not be ruled by it is answered afore And I pray you why should not they be better obedient unto Gods Law if the same also were established by the law of the Land then to the Popes Law and his Canons You thinke that all men are like your selves that is like Bishops 〈◊〉 as cannot choose but break the Lawes and good orders of God and his Majesty 7 The lawes of England have beene made when there was never a Bishop in the Parliament as in the first yeare of Qeen Eliz. And this reason as all the rest may serve to maintaine Popery as well as the hieratchy of Bishops 8 The government of the Church of Christ is no popular government but it is Monarchicall in regard of our head Christ Aristoeraticall in the Eldership and Democraticall in the people Such is the civill government of our Kingdome Monarchicall in his Majesties person Aristocraticall in the higher house of Parliament or rather at the Counsell Table Democraticall in the body of the Commons of the Lower house of Parliament Therefore profane T.C. this government seeketh no popularity to be brought into the Church much lesse intendeth the alteration of the Civill state that is but your slander of which you make an occupation And I will surely pay you for it I must be briefe now but more worke for Cooper shall examine your standers They are nothing else but proofes that as by your owne Confessions you are Bishops of the Divell so you are enemies unto the state For by these slanders yon goe about to blind our State that they may never see a perfect Regiment of the Church in our dayes I say that by your owne Confession you are Bishops of the Divell I will prove it thus You confesse that your Lordly government were not lawfull and tolerable in this Common wealth if his Majesty and the state of the Land did disclaime the same Tell me doe you not confesse this deny it if you dare For will you say that you ought lawfully to be here in our Common wealth whither his Majesty and the Counsell will or no. Is this the thankes that his Majesty shall have for tolerating you in his Kingdome all this while that now you will say that you and your places stand not in this Kingdome by his courtesie but you have as good right vnto your places as he hath vnto his Kingdome And by this meanes your Offices stand not by his good liking and the good liking of the state as doe the Offices of our Lord high Chaneellor high Treasurer and high Steward of England But your Offices ought to stand and to bee in force in spight of his Majesty the Parliament Counsell and every man else unlesse they would doe you injury So that I know J you dare not deny but that your Offices were unlawfull in our Common wealth if his Majesty the Parliament and the Counsell would have them abolished If you grant this then you doe not hold your Offices as from God but as from man His Majesty hee holdeth his Office and his Kingdome as from GOD and is beholding for the same unto no Prince not State under Heaven Your case is otherwise for you hold your Offices as from his Majesty and not from God For otherwise you needed not to bee any more beholding unto his Majesty for the same in regard of right then hee is bound to bee beholding unto other states in regard of his right and so you in regard of your Lordly superiority are not the Bishops of God but as Ierom saith the Bishops of man And this the most of you confesse to be true and you see how dangerous it would be for you to affirme the contrary namely that you hold your Offices as from God Well Sir if you say that you are the Bishops of man Then tell mee whether you like of Deane Iohn his Booke O yes saith T. C. For his grace did peruse that book T. C. 38 we know the sufficiency of it to bee such as the Puritans are not able to answer it Well then whatsoever is in this booke is anthenticall It is so saith T. C. otherwise his grace would not have allowed it What say you then to the 140 pag. of that booke where he saith answering the trertise of the Bishop of God the Bi◠of Man and the Bishop of the Divell that there is no Bishop of man at all but every Bishop must bee either the Bishop of GOD or the Bishop of the Divell He also affirmeth none to be the Bishop of God but he which hath warrant both inclusively and also expresly in Gods Word Deane Iohn lib 1 page 340 line 7. Now you Bishops of the Divell what say you now are you spighted of the Puritans because you like good subjects defend the Lawes of his Majesty or else because like incarnate Divels you are Bishops of the Divels as you your selves confesse Here againe let the Magistrate once more consider what pestilent and dangerous Beasts these wretches are unto the civill state For either by their owne confession they are the Bishops of the Divell and so by that meanes will bee the undoing of the state if they bee continued therein or else their places ought to be in this Commonwealth whether his Majesty and our state will or no because they are not as they say the Bishops of man that is they have not their superiority and their Lordly callings over their brethren by humane constitution as my Lord Chanceller Treasurer and other honourable personages have but by divine ordinance Yea and their callings they hold as you have heard not onely to be inclusively but also expresly in the word What shift will they use to avoid this point Are they the Bishops of men that is hold they their jurisdiction as