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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A27511	A short vievv of the prælaticall Church of England wherein is set forth the horrible abuses in discipline and government, layd open in tenne sections by way of quære and petition, the severall heads whereof are set downe in the next page : whereunto is added a short draught of church-government.	Bernard, Richard, 1568-1641.; Bernard, John.	1641 (1641)	Wing B2032; ESTC R45	18,506	43

The Consistory in Pauls The High Commission Court With the swarmes of Attendance on these Courts as Advocates Registers Doctours Proctours Pursevants Messengers and apparitours With all other belonging to them all which come to many hundreds QVAERE WHither all or any of these be of divine institution Whither the words of Christ forbidding to be gracious Lords extend not to these Mat. 20 25 26. Luke 22.25 26. Mar. 10 42 43 44 45. Whether any spirituall function ordained by Christ standeth in need of so great a Prelate and so great a dependance to discharge the duties thereof Whither this greatnesse hath any time beene the support of goodnesse and of good men in their places or rather hath not from this greatnesse risen great troubles as at this day and much persecution almost ever since the beginning of reformation The humble Petition THat the immeasurable greatnesse of these gracious Lords might be abated and the number of those their dependents lessened That they might be made to shew themselves Arch-teachers of Christs Gospel and to attend vnto some particular flocke to feed them That they might not be of Princes counsell for commonly God leaveth such to become ill States men because they doe contrary to Christs bidding It shall not bee so with you Mat. 20.26 Luk. 21.25 Mar. 10.42 And for that they neglect the sacred calling of the Ministery which is to be of Christs heavenly Counsell to give attendance vnto temporall affaires and to be of Earthly Kings counsell II. There be twenty foure Bishops Diocesan Lord Bishops They are seated in severall places throughout the Kingdome Of these three are under Yorke Carleile Durham and Chester All the rest are vnder Canterbury Dependents on these Their traine of Domesticke Servants Their Chapleines Their Officers concerning their temporalities Their 24 Courts And hereto belonging 26 Chancellours with wayters on them 24 Registers with their men 24 Gentlemen Apparitours 48 Proctours if but two to a Court 120 apparitours at least more then a good many QVAERE WHither these Diocesan Bishops be jure divino and have warrant from Scripture Whither St. Peters speech reacheth not to them that they should not Lord it over Gods heritage by over ruling it 1 Pet. 5.3 Whither we cannot be as well without them as all other reformed Churches or whither we will condemne those Churches for casting them out or not receiving them in Whether this be not a mocke to say no Bishop no King seeing they also say no Ceremony no Bishop therefore no Ceremony no King what a weake standing bring they a King unto But a King is Gods ordinance not so they and in Denmark hath beene a King and no Bishops this 100 yeares Whither Bishops wanting in Diocesses upon vacancy some 10 some 20 yeares as some have beene may not be so for more yeares and so for ever And if they may be wanting in a Diocesse why not in a Province and so why not every where Whither may not our King as lawfully cast them out as did the King of Denmark his Grandfather Whither by their authority have they advanced true religiō or upheld meere formes of it shewes habites gestures and Ceremoniall observances rather then the power of godlinesse What wickednesse and vanity is suppressed by him nay what errour what vice Idolatry and prophainnesse groweth not under them What one made better by them in the wayes of God What one brought to a pious reformation by their Citations Excommunications and imposed penancies The humble Petition THat they be seated in Pastorall charges every one over a particular flocke as at first all Bishops were there to preach and teach the people and so their many dependents might be taken away That their Chancellours be removed from them and their over swaying masterfulnesse in their Courts bee taken downe and cut off That they their Officers and their Courts may bee brought vnder some such authority as may rule over them question them and duely censure them when there is just cause and not suffer them to be like Kings free without command or any power of censure at all over them Is it fit they should judge all and be free from the Iudgement of any 3. There be threescore Archds. vnder these Bishops Dependents on these They have threescore Courts to which doe belong Commissaries Officials Surrogates 60 Registers with their servants 120 Proctours if but two to every Court 200 Apparitours at least The whole number appertaining to Archbishops Bishops Archdeacons with the many peculiars are judged to bee no fewer then ten thousand persons which need yearely two hundred thousand pounds to maintaine them all the greater and inefriour ones reckoning but 20 l. a man when many have 100 l a yeare some 200 l. others more QVAERE Whither these swarmes of Waspes be of necessary vse in the spirituall Kingdome of Christ Whether their Courts be reformative or deformative Whether there is any likelyhood that their grosse abbuses of Gods Ordinances in sending out excommunications and their commuting of penance c. can please God to bring an holy reformarion Whether it can be probably imagined that those Courts can reforme others who in themselves are so corrupt and mercenary and will employ such base and lewd companions in a spirituall businesse as be the Apparitors whom either they cannot or will not reforme Whether their Courts being taken away as in all other reformed Churches their want should be bewailed and their setting vp againe be desired Whether the masse of mony which is spent by these so many thousands might not well be spared and farre better employed The humble Petition THat these Courts be not longer permitted to take in so many thousand presentments every halfe yeare onely to make such gaine of the people as they doe for they reforme no mens persons but plague their purses That some other way might be considered of agreeable to Gods Word and the godly practise of other Churches for suppression of vice and the maintenance of vertue in every Parish That their lewd Apparitours so many and so many be not long suffred That in their Courts their proceedings may be open to the hearing of all and that they lap not vp businesses in secret as their manner is to shut their Consistory doore where they doe as they please with delinquents That they delay not men in their Courts forcing and vexing poore men to come very often before they can bee dismissed a grievous vexation to needy labouring men SECTION III. Of the meanes to support their Prelaticall greatnesse These have their Lordly Pallaces and great houses They have their Ecclesiasticall dignities and Spirituall Offices and what doe thereto belong They have their Baronries and the ample revenues thereof Viis modis such is their Income as it cannot but amount to an hundred besides their adherents which in all amounts to foure hundred thousand pounds or thereabouts and 40 thousand pounds per annum if not more so much their greatnesse