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A00011	Englands complaint to Iesus Christ, against the bishops canons of the late sinfull synod, a seditious conuenticle, a packe of hypocrites, a sworne confederacy, a traiterous conspiracy ... In this complaint are specified those impieties and insolencies, which are most notorious, scattered through the canons and constitutions of the said sinfull synod. And confuted by arguments annexed hereunto.		1640 (1640)	STC 10008; ESTC S101178	37,368	54

that the Children of Israel came up out the Land of Aegypt unto this day consider of it take advise and speake that same may be said of this Oath There was never such a deed done or seen since we came out of spirituall Aegypt Consider of it take advise and speake what shall be done to these Innovators It 's against the King and his Prerogative Royall who by the Statutes and Customes of this Kingdome hath power to appoint any of his naturall Subjects to exercise all manner of Ecclesiasticall Jurisdiction under him as appeareth by Stat. 1. Elizab. cap 1. and Stat. 25. Hen. 8 cap. 19. and 37. Hen. 8. cap. 17. but this Oath spoyles his Majesty of all such power investing onely Arch-bishops Bishops Deanes c. with Ecclesiasticall power and so takes from his Majesty what his Predecessor Henry the had who gave a Commission to Lord Cro●●●d to 〈◊〉 cise under him all Jurisdiction Ecclesiasticall as you may 〈◊〉 in Mr. Fox his Martyrologie Volume 2. pa. 1000. Printed An. 1597. It 's against the Oath of Supremacy in taking of which we acknowledge the Kings Majesty to be Supreme Governour of the Church in all Causes and over all persons Ecclesiasticall as well as Civil and the King by Law having power to alter Church Government and to delegate whom he pleaseth of his Subjects to exercise Ecclesiasticall Jurisdiction as appeares by what is foresaid and still is in practise in the High Comission in which are alwayes the Lords of his Majesties Privy 〈…〉 If the Oath be once lawfully taken what new power can discharge it in such a case they may aswell Unchristian me as unsweare me How can any honest sworne Subject take this New Oath without manifest danger and great suspition of per●ary for having sworne before for the King in case he alter the Government by vertue of this Oath I have sworne against the King set up Oath against Oath myselfe against my Soveraigne and that which is yet worse must not repent of it For I am sworne from ever consenting to what his Majesty hath done And is that all No I must dissent and become a Schismatick and Seperatist for ever Neither is that all but I must take up Armes twice a year at least and Preach for the Hierarchie and their present Government against my Soveraigne and that he hath charged This I am bound to by vertue of the 〈◊〉 Canon and if not by the Oath of Canonicall obedience And in case a Minister refuse or neglect this it's Suspension by his 〈◊〉 and if it be done who knows but it may c●st Hang●● tuum for resisting Supreme Authority Againe this Oath is a plot to sweare in the conceit of Epis●●pacie to be jure divino of late they have step'd off from their ancient foundation thinking to weaknesse either to depend vpon humane Laws or Princes favours and have published to the whole world that their standing is by divine right and therfore 〈…〉 Now this Oath will hinder the alteration of the Church Government to a better For being once sworn to Melius non mutabis pejus Christs Kingdome must be kept out Antichristian Offices government rules and wayes of proceeding be established in the Church and that by an Oath If the Book of Common Prayer would better the Discipline and doe much wish therefore to have publique Penance restored this Oath contradicts it and tells us that we have all the Discipline is needfull to Salvation and that the Government by right ought to stand a● now it stands But there are great grievances dreadfull disorders and horrible corruptions in the Discipline and Government of the Church as now it stands and men should rather sweare to indeavour their utmost to get them removed in this approaching Parliament then give consent to have them unalterd one day longer as Iesu-worship Altar-worship kneeling at Sacrament promiscuous receivers subscription Oaths ex Officio Canonicall obedience reading of Apocrypha Books abuse of Excommunication the exorbitant power of Bishop interdicting whole Churches perverting equity in all their Courts changing times and seasons for Marriage at their pleasure hindring Preaching and praying where they list imposing new and unlawfull things upon the Ministry illegally outing them from their livings c. The proceeding yet in many things by the Popes Canon Law the taking away the power of the keyes from the Pastors of particular Congregations and setting up Chancellors over them and their flocks putting into Laymens hands for a Chancellor is no other the power of Excommunication Lay-Elders are much cryed out of and condemn'd by us in the Scottish and Forraigne Churches and yet we set and hold them up at home with both hands The Bishop delegates his power to the Chancellour and so the sentence of Excommunication is devolv'd upon a meere Lay-man which dealing with Presbyterians we say is incompatible to a Lay-man and what is this but to destroy with the hand what we bind with the tongue Neither is that shift avayleable to say it 's some grave Minister that must pronounce the sentence because he is but os Canceliarij the mouth of the Chancellour to pronounce what he decrees who can stoppe it if not pronounc'd call it out of the Ministers hand and must give the A●solution if pronounced and so the whole power lyes still in the Chancellors hand If these things therefore and diverse other were altered we should not abjure them but thinke our selves bound by right and Conscience to intertaine them Againe this Oath appeares further to be unlawfull First because it doth insuare our Consciences and takes away the liberty of them binding us not so much as to consent unto any alteration although it should be in the judgement of all farre better then what we have Secondly it doth make us vassals and bondslaves to the Prelary we must be their sworn Subjects and tye our selvs by Oath to uphold their tottering Kingdome And if the Prelacie have its pedegree from Rome as some of themselves 〈◊〉 me what is this Oath but a policie to setch in our shoulders so support Antichrist and his Government what is it but the plain marke of the Beast which some make to be an Oath and others a submitting to his power and acknowledging of him to be Lord Me●d in Comment. 〈◊〉 Here is both an Oath and an absolute 〈◊〉 unto the 〈◊〉 and acknowledging of them to be 〈◊〉 By this Oath free 〈◊〉 become 〈◊〉 which 〈◊〉 contrary to the Petit●on of Right 30. 〈◊〉 3. It is an 〈◊〉 and perpetuating of humane and 〈…〉 for the whole Hierarchie mention'd in the Oath from Arch-bishops to the end of the c. are sufficiently known to be moore Ecclesiasticall Constitutions and subject to such coruptions from time to time as may necessitate an altert●ion Are there not such ●oule corruptions now amongst them as er● mightily to the Parliament for alteration and without redresse will sinke the whole Kingdome What safety or 〈◊〉 then

the Doctrines of thy Grace and Gospel with the preaching thereof all preaching on thy Dayes in the afternoons and all true Catechising mainly cryed down and that all thy painfull and godly Ministers are persecuted suspended deprived cast out of all and can have no remedy either by course of Law which is stopped or by the King himselfe to w●om they complaine and that the Prelates of late more especially usurped a false Title to their false Government Ecclesiasticall by claiming their Prelaticall Jurisdiction from thine own divine Authority So as we cannot be any longer ignoran● except we will be wilfully blind that the Doctrine of the Church of England established in Queene Elizabeths dayes hath now suffered not onely an Innovation but an utter eversion and extirpation of the very foundations thereof And this Innovation this eversion being now finally concluded on in a Synod confirmed by the King and injoyned to be Sworne unto by all those aforesaid and besides all this the King himselfe professing that he hath diligently with great contentment and comfort read and considered of all the said Canons Orders Ordinances and Constitutions of the late Synod aforesaid and that he finds the same such as he is perswaded wil be very profitable to the whole Church and Kingdome And thereupon doth propound publish and straightly injoyne by his Authority and Letters Patents the same to be diligently observed executed and equally kept of all his Subjects within this Realme Now ô Lord all these things weighed and layd together Solemne and Sacred Protestations against Innovations on the one side and a mighty flood of Innovations on the other side which by Royall Authority have made a terrible universall invasion and irruption both into thy Spirituall Kingdome and this Temporal threatning speedily to sweep all away at once what shall we thinke Or what shall we say Wouldst thou have us still to dreame or imagine that here are no Innovations at all brought in either of Doctrine or Ecclesiasticall Government and all because the King hath so frequently so solemnly before G●d and Angels and Men protested to the contrary Or that the Innovations concluded in this Synod are therfore no Innovations because ratified and confirmed by the Kings Letters Patents and by all the strength of Royall Authority and because commended by the King to be such as he is perswaded wil be very profitable to the whole Church and Kingdome Or may we not rather thinke or rather most certainly beleeve that for the iniquities of the Land oppression in the State persecutions of thy Ministers effusion of innocent blood of thy Servants open Profanation of thy Sabbaths and that by publicke dispensation yea in a word a contemptuous trampling of all Laws divine and humane underfeet nay yet more● more especially as the orginall source and cause of all the rest a damnable Apostacie from the Gospel joyned with a desperate League with Rome too palpable to be seen so as Antichrists Religion is imbraced instead of thy True word and Gospell for this for these crying sins is it not lawfull for us to thinke at least yea to beleeve that thou in thy just judgement restrained and withheld from us the benigne influence of the Kings heart and hast so farre for a time at least for our humiliation given him up to be Seduced by the Prelates and their Romish faction and to be guided and led by their Councels as refusing to hearken to any true Information of his most loving and loyall Subjects whereof we have had of late lamentable experience he will rather hazard all his Kingdomes then either displease them or disobey their Councels But yet ô Lord seeing thy judgements are unsearchable and thy wayes past finding out we will not take upon us to judge in so deep a matter onely thou hast sayd you shall know them by their fruits But Lord the King saith He doth these things by his Prerogative Royall and Supreme Authority in Causes Ecclesiasticall Holy and Righteous Lord hast thou given to any mortall Creature to any Kings on Earth any such Prerogative Royall any such Supreme Authority over thy Church as to alter Religion at his pleasure or to confirme the alteration of the true Religion for others pleasure to make voyd by Edicts or Declarations the Saving Doctrines of thy word thy holy Commandements thine eternall Law or to sit in thy Throne over the Soules and Consciences of thy People captivating and oppressing them under the burthens of humane inventions and Superstitious Ceremonies Nay hast thou not expresly * forbidden thy People to subject their necks under any such yoake as being a denyall of thee our King and of our Redemption by thy precious blood Such usurpations therfore of man we doe ô onely Soveraigne of our soules even before Angels and men utterly renounce ‡ O Lord our God other Lords besides thee have had dominion over us but by thee onely will we make mention of thy Name And Lord be thou our Judge between us and our oppressors in this thing and give thy People holy courage and zeale to use all lawfull meanes for the upholding of this thy Sole Royall Soveraignty over our poor Soules and Consciences against all Antichristian usurpations to the contrary And last of all whereas our King saith that he hath called and given free leave to this Synod to treat and agree upon certaine other Canons necessary for the advancement of Gods Glory the edifying of his holy Church and the due reverence of his blessed Mysteries and Sacraments which words are taken out of the Act for Conformity in Queen Elizabeths Raigne If it shall clearly appeare by this our Complaint following that the things concluded in the said Synod be neither for the advancement of Gods glory nor the edifying of his Church nor the due reverence of Christs holy Mysteries and S●●raments but quite contrary then how the Kings Authority extends to the confirmation of those things therein so concluded do thou ô Lord Judge In the next place we present our Complaint before thee ô Lord touching the most materiall Canons concluded by the ●●id Synod and confirmed by the King The first is Concerning the Regall power 〈…〉 〈…〉 or absolute as all Tyrannicall States as that of the Turke seeing the Kingdome of England is ●empered seasoned and conditioned with good Laws which are the ordinary rules of good and just Government of the Subject the due execution whereof in the administration of the Kingdome is an essentiall part of the Kingly ●ffice which cannot be seperated one from the other To this purpose King Iames in 〈…〉 * Speec●es in Parliament expresly distinguisheth between an absolute Monarchie not bounded with Laws but depending onely on the will of the Prince and the King of England who saith he doth by 〈…〉 that by Oath ●nter upon the Kingdome to of their Estates let him but call a Parliament and yeeld to the redressing of their heavy grievances and he shall find us