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A34096	An exhortation of the churches of Bohemia to the Church of England wherein is set forth the good of unity, order, discipline, and obedience in churches rightly now, or to be constituted : with a description premised of the order and discipline used in the churches of the Brethren of Bohemia / by J. Amos Commenius.	Comenius, Johann Amos, 1592-1670.	1661 (1661)	Wing C5507; ESTC R27266	107,538	185

custom if you would not be offensive to them nor have them so to you Which judgement of Ambrose Augustine saith he always looked on Tanquam coeleste Oraculum As for the state and pomp of that pretended Order which is as the Alder in our Garden I 'll tell you a story There was a Garrison of Souldiers and divers Commanders over them amongst the rest there was one a true Veteran that had been trained up in the School of War under most of the Princes of Christendom This Captain instead of those soft delights other Gentlemen and Commanders wasted their time in spent his inconversing with and training his Souldiers would be upon the Guard when his turn came himself no weather could prevent it his house instead of being furnished with silken beds rare looking-glasses curious pictures was stored with barrels of meal rice pease so placed low that they served instead of chairs and stools his rooms hung with flitches and gammons of Westphaly bacon dried beef fish c. materials with which he kept a constant table and welcomed all his Souldiers in the Sum was always in fight or service and he had these Souldiers close to him they would go through fire and water with him what men soever failed of their duty his never did but were all of a knot and unanimous in their attendance upon him in any service I 'll only apply it thus that would our reverend Fathers of the Church be more upon the guard themselves be employed in the Churches duty and not commit that Solecism in Government which the learned Bacon thinks one of the insolubilia to do their work by deputation of a Chancellor would they instead of keeping distance converse more familiarly with their flocks and step in now and then to a Countrey Minister on a sudden whom it may be they may finde standing sentinel and encourage him in his duty would they instead of giving and forcing on the people Quelchechoses of Forms and Ceremonies give them solid meat and nourishment the pure Word of God in the institutions of Christ suffer that only to be read expunded urged in the Church would they instead of making their houses Lordly Courts to fright poor people and Ministers from coming at them make them Oratories for Prayer and expounding Scripture of Gods institution setting up catechistical and expository Lectures so many days in the week either by themselves or their Chaplains or calling in the assistance of some learned and pious Presbyters would they enquire in their Visitations after prophaneness and censure that more deeply then some have done non-conformity to self-invented will-worship and encourage painful conscientious Ministers more then their Predecessors have done lazy idle drones I durst become their bondman if one or both of th●se two things did not follow that all the godly sober religious people in the Land would become their fast friends and strive who should do them most honour or else the Devil and all his Instruments would be as mad against them as they are now again already against the Puritans 3. Once again we see what it is that makes the Church glorious and unanimous viz. living up to the noble principles of Religion in self-denial humility piety in all ranks of people For till the love of the Lord Jesus and the desire of the salvation of souls hath taken more root in the hearts of Pastors and Christians we cannot expect any Settlement Beauty or Order in the Church 'T is not the priding of a mans self in the name of a Son of the Church can advantage Religion no more then the Jews boasting they had Abraham to their Father did promote it among them For our Saviour tells them when that cry was loudest the state of Religion was at the lowest among them No the Church the Spouse of Christ is meek-hearted and lowly full of tenderness and goodness and her children indeed are like her But they which instead of this spirit fall a beating their Brethren or scoffing or envying at them may indeed be in the Church but yet as Cain in Adams and Ishmael in Abrahams family onely the spots and blemishes thereof 4. Yet again I observe the ligaments and soder of these Churches to be their mutual consent in Discipline which we see required not onely of Ministers but of all Christians how necessary this is experience doth demonstrate For the first primitive Church had no other bond nor have the Reformed Churches abroad in many places any other not but that the Patronage of Princes and Magistrates is a great Strength and Bulwark to Religion and that people are bound to bless God exceedingly when he raiseth up such Nursing Fathers for the Church to be over it in the Lord. Yet we see that meer Politique bands do snap asunder and make way for schism and division especially when the Prudential superior Order of the Clergie do ride and the inferior grind for then they are apt to take the first opportunity to unyoke themselves But if a superiority among Ministers in the Church on a prudential account be thought necessary for Humanum institutum episcopatus non damnamus sed tantum negamus a Christo esse Imperatum as we say with Junius let it be set up by the mutual consent and choice of the rest or the Body of the Ministry and their obedience will be more constant in the Lord and more fixed then by any subscription of oaths of Canonical obedience whatsoever In a word let the poyson and what was not from the beginning be taken out of the Ordinances and offices of Christ in the Church and the power of godliness in good earnest endeavoured and this Church which is otherwise giving up the ghost will yet through the blessing of God recover and do well and we shall have great cause to bless God for this true Protestant Bishop Comenius his pious Endeavours in laying this Book at his Majesties feet as an expedient for an Accommodation not with the Romish but the Reformed Churches Which that it may effect is the earnest prayer of him how is Thy Servant in the Work of the Lord JOSHVA TYMARCHVS Books printed for and sold by Tho. Parkhurst at the Three Crowns over against the great Conduit at the lower end of Cheap-side Folio's THe History of the Evangelical Churches of the Valleys of Piedmont containing a most exact Geographical description of the place also a relation of the bloody Massacre 1655 and a Narrative of all Transactions to 1658. Justified partly by divers ancient Manuscripts written many hundred years before Calvin or Luther By Samuel Morland A Commentary upon the holy Writings of Job David and Solomon viz. Job Psalms Proverbs Ecclesiastes and the Song of Songs Being part of those which by the ancients were called Hagiographa Wherein the diverse Translations and Expositions of all the most famous Commentators are propounded examined and censured By John Mayor D.D. To the Church of England Hitherto tossed with divers tempests

Bohemians always getting the better 34. Besides at home also the affairs of the Bohemians were in great confusion For some abetted Caesar and the Pope others maintained the Sacrament cause of the Cup So that both were incensed unto onslaughts on each other with horrible outrage the Papist especially raging against the greatest Zealots against the Superstitious as it is recorded in the History of the Persecutions of the Bohemian Church Chap. 10. where many instances of Martyrdom are recited 35. So that the Bohemians falling into Schisms among themselves the greater part of them which was the worst helped on the Persecution of the true faithful Christians They had been indeed all zealous in opposing Antichrist after the example of Mr. Huss but now by reason of his death they being destitute of some eminent prudent valiant Person to b● their Captain which might keep the hurring rout in some good order they fell a pieces one against another and stirred up cruel dissention among themselves for the meaner sort both of the Laity and Clergy onely letting out their strength for the Cup-communion whence they were called Calixtini were securely negligent of the other points of Mr. Luther But the Taborites among whom Wencenslaus Coranda and Nicholaus Episcopius far excelled the rest with a few others attempted to keep up simplicity and purity in all the Articles and Ceremonies The one part cryed we must not separate from the Church in all Rites the other we will not endure any Superstitious Altars 36. Some persons also stept in under an hypocritical disguise which to promote the Kings and the Popes cause widened the breaches and traducing the Abettors of more pure Doctrine with the odious name of Piccardi stirred up the common peoples abhorrence of them Now the Waldenses were called Piccardi who in former time being banished out of France seated themselves in Austria and had been there branded with the name of the foulest Hereticks Nay some also there were that so powerfully wrought upon Zisca the Captain of the Taborites that he came over and adhered to the Calixtini and Persecuted the said Piccardi with fire and sword even as much as the very Pontificians did Thus tumultuously were all things in all places carried 27. So that truly it had been no wonder if the Pontifical Faction had utterly rooted out this people they being at such variance among themselves But wonderful was the goodness of God which so wisely over-ruled Humane folly that neither foes nor friends got any thing of which they could boast themselves For as often as the King came near the self-divided Bohemians with his Army so often did they renewing peace among themselves make good the common cause with common strength Zisca and Procopius both as one Captain of the Taborites having the chief conduct of affairs and God granting them wonderful successes and victories 38. Now therefore the King and Pope seeing they could make no work of it by force of Arms betook themselves to fraud and calling yet another Council to Basil in the year 1432. there very fairly cog the Bohemians into a friendly Treaty about these differences and for their publique security they would give them any satisfaction whatever they would desire The Legates then being sent to the Council among whom of Divines the chief were John Rokyzanus Bishop of Prague and Nicholaus Episcopius Bishop of the Taborites of the Statesmen Procopius Holy Duke of the Taborites Wilhelmus Kostka Baron of Postupira c. They were courteously entertained and their Questions or Positions being demanded they offered four Articles which they desired might be granted them or they were ready to make them good The Articles were thus formed 1. That the use of the Cup ought to be restored to the people and all the holy things to be celebrated in their Mother Tongue 2. That the Clergy must have no secular Government 3. That the Word of God must be freely taught 4. That publique offences must be publiquely reproved The Popes Legate demanding Whether they had any more for he was told that they held that the Orders of the Monks was from the Devil Procopius answered Why whence can it be which is instituted neither by Patriarchs nor Prophets nor by Christ nor his Apostles c. 39. Then appointed they some on both sides to hold the Disputation concerning the Questions given and the Dispute lasted full fifty days Now when they could not confute the Bohemians they came to a friendly Composition and all things were so carried Rokyzan being charmed and he inchanting others with the hope of an Archbishoprick that the said Articles were yielded to the Bohemians onely that they should promise to return to their obedience to the Roman See and to observe the Ceremonies thereof This Transaction they called Compactata i. e. Articles of Agreement or Covenants and so the Legates were dispatched from the Council and the King into Bohemia to acquaint them That the Bohemians were received into the bosom of the Church and esteemed as dear Sons thereof They call a Convention of Estates wherein Rokyzan sets before them in much state of words how that according to their own hearts desire they had now obtained those things for which they had so much wasted the Kingdoms treasure telling them that now they had better thoughts of the King and Pope then sometime afore when they called them the Apocalyptical Whore and Beast 40. It grieved most of them especially the Zelots of Tabor that they should thus swerve from Husses steps and return into the Tents of Antichrist again So that they opposed the agreement what they could and it came to blows again But herein the Taborites were worsted and fain to yield being so grosly beaten out that they could not rally to make any further head or attempt So that they had nothing left to defend themselves withal save onely the Sword of the Word and the Shield of Patience This was done in the year 1434. 41. In year 1435. Rokyzan was solemnly in the Convention of Estates chosen Archbishop but he taking it impatiently that his Consecration with the solemn Rites was put off by the King and he deluded began again together with his Faction to busle against the injustice of the King and State and domineering power of the Pope But fearing the King he withdrew himself from ●rague for three years For a little after this time Sigismund dyed and Albert his Successor also within two years space leaving behinde him his Son Ladislaus who had been brought up with Frederick the Emperour 42. Now here in the interregnum and much more when Ladislaus being deceased George Podebrand whom Rokyzan had fully at his lure succeeded began that prophecy very much to be fulfilled Manass●h shall devour Ephraim and Ephraim Manass●h and both shall be against Judah For the Pope with Interdicts Censures Execrations raved against George and the Calixtins they banding back again upon the Pope and the Monks even as good as they brought