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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A32788	Persecutio undecima, or, The churches eleventh persecution being a brief of the fanatick persecution of the Protestant clergy of the Church of England, more particularly within the city of London : begun in Parliament, Anno Dom. 1641, and printed in the year 1648.	Chestlin.	1681 (1681)	Wing C3786; ESTC R23249	54,531	40

the Minister's Wife proud if clad better than her self and as for habit so for place and precedency every Gossip could prattle that a Ministers Wife had no place though the Law is that all Wives shall take place according to their Husbands These Petticoat Quarrels bred much envy to the Clergy but majorcum superbia with far greater pride And besides that Laici Clericis oppido sunt infesti 4. So generally peevish and fanaticiz'd were the people that not any particular discontent or personal Quarrel with any private Clergy-man but these Bishops these Parsons the whole Coat began their furious threats of Revenge and for these many years hath the opposing the Bishops or regular Clergy been made the sign of a Babe of Grace and a professor of pure Religion and since this Parliament been the ready way to preferment as the sure Character of a fast Friend to the Parliament that divers have not only been afraid to show their wonted Neighbourhood to their Parsons but have grown active against them only to secure themselves from suspicion of Malignancy by being known to converse with a Malignant or sequestred Minister These and such like matters have thickened the mists of scandalous Clergy● and bringing in Popery cast before the Peoples eyes to widen the Breach into an impossibility of Reconciliation These seven years sad experience persuading me that the great Controversies of Christendome as of latter days so in elder Ages about the Arrian Heresie under Constantius Synod against Synod to revoke the Nicene Decrees and that other Division about the Celebration of Easter under Commodus were but some State Stalking-horses or at least maintained with such Vehemency for politick ends whereof Church History hath taken no Cognizance like the two Golden Calves of Presbytery and Independency set up in our days to cover Jeroboams policy for a new Government Presbytery being thought at first a Cloak large enough to serve all turns till new designs started up Independency both equally destructive to the old way which though woful experience hath proved the best way and most men at the bottom desire yet because it consisteth not with their rash temporal Ingagements they furiously oppose could we else think that Christians and Countrymen should engage in a Bloody Civil War to demolish a Cross or put down an innocent Ceremony to deshoy a Bishop of a Diocess and set a Pope in every Parish A meer Book-man of this Generation can find little difference above-board all sides professing they fight for the same things which surely made Dury and Dr. Mosely and Dr. Gibbons take so much pains and travel to seek Reconcilement in Religion but alas G. Cassander H. Grotius may write Votum pro pace Ecclesiastica Romish Priests may hazard their lives to reconcile Protestants and Protestants hope to convert Papists Church men may fast and pray and write and preach for Peace but all to no purpose Can they reconcile the King and the Pope's Supremacy in Causes Ecclesiastical Can they secure a Rebell against a King in Power Can they make Agreement between Publick-Faith Debts and Bishops Lands and Delinquents Estates Take away Temporal Differences and Church Controversies among Christians might soon be ended for what have the engaged men of this Generation long whispered and now speak out to the Citizens desirous of a Treaty for Peace while the pretence is Religion should the King be restored to his Throne what security can they Traytors have for their Necks and Estates What shall become of their Ordinance-Law Should Bishops come in again what shall become of our Moneys for the purchase of their Land The City Publick-Faith-Mongers tremble to think that their Debts will be desperate Souldiers say if peace come their Triumphs will be spoiled should the Kingdom be setled and every man enjoy his own the Fanatick Ministers cry out what shall they do who have intruded into other mens Livings These thoughts fright the Presbyterian Lecturers and the Assembly of Divines who these Twelve Months have been preaching against this Army into a zealous Union with this Independent Army yea with Turks or Jews or any Religion in the World consisting with their usurped possessions would they joyn rather than suffer the old Religion to be restored These these are the true Reasons that continue the differences of our Church to such a difficulty if not impossibility of reconcilement and when for such ends men have employed Conscience no wonder in presecution thereof what cruelty injustice and Tyranny is used as mediums for obtaining such wicked purposes whereof you have a small view in this following Discourse CHAP. III. What use the Fanaticks have made of Parliaments and the ways whereby that Faction in this Parliament and Kingdom have endeavoured to make the Clergy contemptible and odious to the people HOW old the Fanatick grudge is against the Church of England the Discourse of the Troubles of Frankford can tell the World and truly since Sacriledge hath been cryed up for Reformation hath that same Spirit of Darkness been tampering in Parliaments to make them their Engine for the work of destroying the Church under colour of Reformation that Archbishop Whitgift that holy meek man in Queen Elizabeth's days lying very sick and being told of a Parliament called out of his pious care for the Church prayed God that he might not live to see that Parliament as near as it was and God heard his Prayer and although as Lord Verulam confesseth the Parliament of England oweth some satisfaction for the many injuries and unjust oppressions formerly done by them to the Church yet since the first breach so thirsty were the Members after the remnant of the Church Lands few Parliaments but have rather sought to increase that debt till the Church be quite undone to this purpose how have the Fanaticks who for these many years have had the vogue of the people opening their mouths wide after any Game to which one of their Beagles should lead the trace superstitiously longed for Parliaments because their Plots and hopes were to pack them for their design against the King and Church as now they have done which made the Presbyterian Sectaries and all other sorts of Fanaticks so idolize this Parliament calling it the Perliament of their Prayers and a frequent Pulpit Title for the House of Commons was the House of Gods and the House of mortal Gods and truly they were an House of Gods like the Heathenish Roman 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 an House of Gods of all Countries the Images of English Sectaries for they do but represent and it 's but fitting that new Gods should have new Priests heaping up to themselves Teachers after their own hearts lusts no marvel then if the Ministers of Christ grow out of request and all the malice and slanders and cruelty of these new Gods be racked on those who would teach the people to serve the true God rather than men But God forbid but that the vvorld