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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A77490	The unlavvfulnesse and danger of limited episcopacie· VVhereunto is subioyned a short reply to the modest advertiser and calme examinator of that treatise. As also the question of episcopacie discussed from Scripture and fathers. / By Robert Bailly pastor of Killwunning in Scotland.	Baillie, Robert, 1599-1662.	1641 (1641)	Wing B470; Thomason E174_4; ESTC R11030	25,095	50

as the other who were esteemed more guiltie by their doings who so will be pleased to make an accurate search by what meanes the Prince of darknesse did most enable the one I mean the Canterburian Prelats to be so active and successfull in their evill designe and by what means the other who still in private did professe their disaffection from these ways were subdued to be so passive and silent when errour superstition and oppression in the Church were advancing with such speed before their face Episcopacie will be found the instrument which closed the mouth and tied the hands of the one from speaking or doing those things which the honour of God and welfare of the Church then so deeply wounded did require but opened the mouth and strengthened the hand of the other for saying and doing what ever they found conduceable for their mischievous ends How happie and glorious a work would it be for this gracious Parliament to adde as a Crown and Coap-stone to all the blessings which the Church and State hath felt already and yet expects from their hands the breaking in pieces of this unhappie instrument which in the hands of evill men is a very sharp sword and firebrand for executing of all their furious follies and in the hand of good men becometh a bond of brasse or steel for binding them up from those good words and works which the World would certainly have expected from them if they had beene free of such slavish fetters If it might bee the will of God to move the minds of the House of Commons to behold the teares the sighes the prayers which for many yeeres numbers of godly souls have been powring out before God and men from their heavie sense of the cruell oppression spirituall and temporall of the hierarchie to read with a compassionate eye the supplications which from the hands and hearts of many thousands in all the corners of the Kingdome are come already and daily encrease against that root of all their woe to looke vpon the respectfull faces of all the Reformed Churches who at this instant of time with more passionate desires with a greater measure of hope then ever before are greedily gazing to behold if now at last that great stumbling blocke and sole impediment of a full conformitie amongst all the gracious Sisters can be gotten removed and cast into the Sea But above all to blenke up and fix their thoughts upon that great God who but just now here saved them all from so horrible a danger and in the midst of despaire has lifted up to them an ensigne of the fairest hopes Unto that God who daily walks in the midst of these Honourable Houses which he alone has both assembled and kept thus long together above the thoughts of all men whether friends or foes expecting by way of thankfulnes from those who desire to bee counted faithfull servants either to him or their Countrey a full resolution to govern themselves in the affaires of his House especially this great one which so neerly concernes his honour by his sole pleasure without any regard of worldly midses or base ends which may draw them away one haires breadth from his Majesties direction If it may be the good pleasure of the Lord to settle such thoughts in the hearts of the house of Commons they are few who make question but by their means the higher house of the Peeres may be induced as in all things else so in this to concurre in a joint supplication towards our gratious Soveraigne that by the strength of their threefold cord they may pul up that old bitter root which so long hath beene noxious to the soile both of the Church and State If otherwayes the thoughts of the lower house should be diverted from these and the like considerations if they should faint and give over to prosecute with courage with faith and hope this truly noble designe they would do well to forethink unto whom after ages will impute all the inconveniences which readily may be procured to the King to the Countrey to the Churches abroad by this unhappy Episcopacie which if now retained after so full an examination of its nature and consequences in so grave and wise a Court cannot but take deeper root then ever be more firmly established against all possibilitie of any future removall What ever the events hereof may prove our Gracious Sovereigne and higher House of Parliament may not so well be charged therewith they having given so many late documents of their great readinesse to hearken unto all the equitable motions though never so full of difficulties at the first appearance which the House of Commons with any unanimitie and earnestnesse have as yet proponed Beside it is to that House alone unto which the numerous petitions demonstrating not only the excesses of the men but the inherent and essentiall corruptions of the office hath been presented It is the state of Commons that most have tasted of Episcopacies bitterfruits It is the Commons of the Land who will most be beaten if Bishops remain with their pastorall rod who most will be trod upon by the feet of their pride and spoiled with the violence of their rapacious hands To this House therefore above all others since for this once God has put in their hand to may if they will shall be ascribed either the un-utterable grief of the Godly for retaining or their unspeakable joy for utter abolishing all degrees of Episcopacie FINIS Errata IN the Epistle l 19 r. thy p. 10. l. 3. r. us with p. 17. l. 2. r. Gersem Bucous p. 25. lin 23. for that read what The Stationer to the buying Reader LOving Reader bee pleased to take notice that the question of Episcopacie discussed from Scripture and Fathers promised upon the title of this Book was intended by the Reverend Author to be joyned to this Reply but some weighty cause having brought this to publike view first and by it selfe I thought good after the printing of the said title in service both to him and thee to give notice of it I rest Yours T. V.