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A07038	Oh read ouer D. Iohn Bridges, for it is worthy worke: or an epitome of the fyrste booke, of that right worshipfull volume, written against the puritanes, in the defence of the noble cleargie, by as worshipfull a prieste, Iohn Bridges, presbyter, priest or elder, doctor of Diuillitie, and Deane of Sarum Wherein the arguments of the puritans are wisely prevented, that when they come to answere M. Doctor, they must needes say some thing that hath bene spoken. Compiled for the behoofe and overthrow of the vnpreaching parsons, fyckers, and currats, that haue lernt their catechismes, and are past grace: by the reverend and worthie Martin Marprelat gentleman, and dedicated by a second epistle to the terrible priests. In this epitome, the foresaide fickers, [et]c. are very insufficiently furnished, with notable inabilitie of most vincible reasons, to answere the cauill of the puritanes. ...; Oh read over D. John Bridges. Epitome	Marprelate, Martin, pseud.; Throckmorton, Job, 1545-1601, attributed name.; Penry, John, 1559-1593, attributed name.	1588 (1588)	STC 17454; ESTC S112311	32,960	52

it then in deede I must thinke you not to be altogether so leaddenheaded as your brother Bridges For do you thinke that a man entreating of the Maior of London the two Shiriffs and their offices speaketh by by of some part of the order gouerment of the citie of London or of som of the gouernours of the citie As though my L. Maior the two Shiriffes were now become to be any of the gouernours of the citie of London or their offices any part of that gouernment Who seeth not by this example the folly of our precise brethrens reason euidently declared The Apostle say they speketh of Apostles prophets Euangelists pastors doctors and their functions for this M.D. confesseth therfore he speaketh of some ecclesiasticall gouernours and of some part of ecclesiasticall gouernement Apostles prophets pastors and doctors are church gouernours with them and their office a part of ecclesiasticall gouerment Let them learne let them learn simple siginnes as they are that the Apostle speaketh in this place of ecclesiasticall functions and not of any part of ecclesiasticall gouerment For so M.D. in this 61. pag compare line 17. with line 22. teacheth vs to speake English making an ecclesiasticall function to be a thing altogether differing in nature from euery part of ecclesiasticall gouernment A very proper and pleasant distinction In the second place this testimonie brought in by our brethren is prooued to make nothing to their purpose by two reasons And what bommination vmbertie of reasons here be to perceede foorth one head and yet euerye one fause as it is true that my good brother Ouerton the B. of Liechfield and Couentree sould his Chauncellorship at one time vnto two se●erall men to wit to D. Beacon and the good Chauncellor M. Zacharie Babington Well parson Bridges his 1. reason is after this sort That place which sheweth gifts and functions to be ordayned in the Church to the buylding vp of the bodie of Christe in the vnitie of the fayth and knowledge maketh nothing to prooue that there is an ecclesiasticall gouerment prescribed in the worde Thou sayst euen true parson Iohn For what hath the functions of pastors doctors Apostles c. to doe with Church gouernement A prettie matter euery beggerly Apostle pastor doctor or Euangelist y t cannot spende no I am sure no● 40. marks yearely by all the spirituall liuing he hath in his hande must nowe be a Church gouernour with our brethren their offices be a part of Church gouernment Why brethren what meane you by this place you haue brought O● you thinke that the Apostle by those functions and those persons spoken of Ephes. 4.12 meaneth that any of them functions shoulde be a Lordlike functiou or any of the persons Lord. You saye he doth not No doth not Then out of your owne grant he speaketh nothing of ecclesiasticall gouernment and gouernors Because euerie ecclesiasticall gouernour must needs be a Lord and so ecclesiasticall gouernment a lordly gouernement If this be not true aske my brother Bridges For should God ordaine great men and great Lords to be rulers in common wealths ouer whome hee hath not so great care as he hath for his Church and ordayne none but beggerly fellowes not able to spend 200. markes by the yeare nay nor 20. neither to beare rule in his Church I grant in deed that you brethren puritans saye the trueth as it ought to be that bishops or ministers ought not to be Lords in any wise eyther as ministers or as ciuill magistrates Thus in deed it ought to be I and my brethren the Bb. do grant vnto you And you knowe we would it were so But you know also that our laws will haue Church gouernours to be Lords and what should our Bishops good noble men refuse that which the law would haue them to take Get you the law to be against their lordly callings and see whether they will not giue ouer their Lord bishopdomes whensoeuer lawe compelleth them And whensoeuer they giue ouer they shall haue no cause to thanke suche enuious brethren as you are Howsoeuer it be you see the Apostle speaking of all sorts of ministers by your owne confession speaketh nothing of any Lord or Lordly gouerment among them all and therefore speaketh nothing of Church gouernment Againe all those functions whereof the Apostle maketh any mention as my brother Bridges hath well noted are ordayned to the buylding of the bodie of Christe in the vnitie of fayth and knowledge Nowe I would anye puritan of you all durst say that our Church gouernors that is our venerable and worshipfull Lord bishops are ordained of God for the building of his bodie which I know you will say to be done by preaching As though ● bishops being ciuill gouernours should preach Were it meete I pray you to see Steuen Gardiner being thē of the priuie Counsell in the pulpit Counsellors nowe must haue ●omething to doe with pulpit matters muste they I pray you Will you allow that ciuill gouernours should be ordinarie preachers in your new platforme of a reformed Church I know you will not And what reason is it then that you should require Bb. to be ordinary preachers seeing euery bishop is a ciuil gouernour I tel you true I am so far from thinking that bishops ought to be ordinarie preachers seeing they are ciuill gouernours that I hold it a sin for them to preache ordinarily And brethren you doe not well therefore in vrging ciuil gouernours to preach especially seing you your selues in your platformes are against this point And because it shall be seene that I deale vprightly betweene you and the P.P. prelates I will set downe my reason answer it when you can it shall be concluded I warrant you in moode and figure But in deed I haue inuented a newe moode of mine owne for I haue bin a great schooleman in my daies which containeth in it a great misterie The misterie I will expound it may be in a book for the purpose In the meane time if you resort to my sonne Martin senyor that worthy wight he it may be shalbe able to vnfolde the secresie thereof This is the syllogisme the moode answereth vnto Celarent elder daughter to Barbara and I will haue it called Perncanterburikenolde Perne No ciuill magistrate can be an ordinarye preacher without sinne Ce la rent Canterburie Euerie Lorde Bishoppe is a ciuill magistrate Therefore Ce la rent Kenolde No Lord Bishop can be an ordinarie preacher without sinne Ce la rent What say you now brethren would you haue ciuill gouernors such as our Bishops are to preach I hope not For although I cannot deny but som of our bishops are very great breakepulpits and haue as marueilous rawe gifts in preaching as any that euer came to Pauls wharff yet surely I cānot see what warrant you haue to vrge ciuil officers to preach Wherefore also you doe not well in crying out against ciuil gouernors because

they preach not as though their function were an ecclesiastical function or as though you would haue any to preach who had not an ecclesiastical function If you demaund then whether bishops be Ecclesiasticall or ciuil gouernours They themselues say beath and ai say brethren that for the stopping of your meathes and other causes I wad counsell thē if they wad be ruled bai me to be nether nother Now if yaw demaund againe whether Bishops sin in being ministers seing they are ciuil officers or in bearing ciuil offices seeing they are ministers I haue already shewed that ciuil officers must be no ministers And my brother London hath long since affirmed it to be dangerous for the common wealth that ministers should be ciuil gouernors and therfore brethren to answer this question of yours you are to know that I am fully of your brother Londons mind who saith page 24. line 19. of his Harborough These 2. offices I mean the ecclesiasticall ciuil be so iumbled together as it may be lawful for both parties to medle in both functions there can be no quiet nor any well ordered common wealth Nowe brethren you must not think the worse of this lerned mans iudgment because he is a Bishop him selfe For euen since he hath ioyned these 2. offices together he hath proued his owne saying to be true for his part in that his whole endeuor hath bene euer since he was Bishop that we should haue no quiet nor any wel ordered church or common wealth I hope by this time you see it plaine that Bishops sinne both because they are ciuill gouernours and being ciuill gouernours because they are bishops Your 2. reason is page .61 line 39. Paule speaketh of these gifts and of this building and of the orders and ends thereof therefore he speaketh nothing of ecclesiasticall gouernment This is put home I trow and ouerthroweth the puritans out of all cesse It is altogether as good a reason as an olde man yeelded sometimes to sir Thomas More concerning the cause of Goodwine sandes the stopping of Sandwich hauen which was y ● Tentertons steeple was the cause of Goodwine sandes M.D. 2. reason to shew that the place of Paul maketh nothing for ecclesiastical gouernment is after this sort Paul in rekoning vp these gifts referreth all to the vnitie in doctrine of fayth and to the holy conuersation of life Ergo he maketh no mention of Ecclesiasticall order of gouernment That were a pitifull hearing in deed sir that the Apostle should speake of ecclesiastical gouernment and speak not a word of any lordlike gouernment that the Apostle should make any mention of ecclesiasticall gouernours not name a Lord among them all Fie fie this were too bad and my Lord of Canterbury would neuer abide such scripture But in good sadnes saith the puritans presbyter Iohn Bridges will this place of Paule prooue no part of this gouernment which you oppugne will it not prooue that God hath ordayned pastors and doctors to continue in his Church vnto the worlds end No forsooth will it not quoth the Deane And I am so farre from thinking that God hath ordained your preaching pastors and doctors to continue alwayes in his Church that I haue made a praier pag 655. line 28. of my book as my brother Martin you know hath noted already that we might neuer see that day in England wherein preaching might be had in all places His grace of Canterburie I tell you hath condemned the preaching of the word as being the onely ordinarie meanes to saluation to be an heresie This scripture of Paule that God hath appointed preaching pastors to continue in his Church vnto the worlds ende is a chiefe ground of the former heresie I will allow of no such scripture I trow as may impech the opinion which my ● of Canterb. conceiued of the preaching of the word You see therefore my friendes that M. Deane in this point will haue nothing to do with you or Paules testimonie And you are not ignorant I am sure howe soone all lordes would be out of the ministerie if we had none in England but the pastors spoken of by Paule therefore M. doctor hath prayed against this order Yea and he hath brought such a reson against this your platform of gouernment as is iust Secundum vsum Sarum For in deed it is popish and therefore you might smell it a farre off If the Lorde sayth he page 62. had thought this gouernement needful for his Churche then he woulde not haue suffered his Churche to bee without the same But he suffered his Churche of a long time to be without this gouernment Ergo he thought it not needfull Ah craft craft craft and subtiltie that can in iest deceiue his brethren with a popishe reason in this sort But my masters you must not thinke that our brother Sarum bringeth this in good earnest but onely to trie whether you be so simple as you cannot know a popish reason when you see it And to this purpose I thinke that both his worship Iohn Whitgifts grace haue broght in their writings many things that are palpable popish that they might trie whether of knowledge or of peeuish and chollericke rashnes you speake against their gouerment Nowe if so be that you could not discerne their popish reasons whereof in deed you shall finde great store euery third reason I warraunt you in all their bookes then they woulde haue this aduantage against you that you were not able to knowe trueth from poperie For might they say we brought in papish resons of purpose but si●lie fellows thei● skill is so smal in all kinde of learning that they cannot know a popishe reason especially if we can face it out with a bragg that we haue olde and new writers of our side Now brethren you must not thē mislike your brother Bridges purpose in bringing in this popishe syllogisme This I speake to the ende you should not crie out as some of you haue done that our bishops haue no better warraunt for themselues then the pope hath for their gouernement I grant in deede that if you should take M. deane at the worst you might saye that he might herein reason as well for the Masse as he doth for the established gournement As for example hee might thus argue If the Lord had thought the Masse to haue bene a false worship of him then he would not haue suffered it so long to haue continued where anye weake one should be endangered of being enforced to be present thereat But he suffered it to continue a long time c. Therefore he thought it not to be a false worship I say you must not mistake M. doctor in this sort but knowe that he delt after the manner of the schooles wherein it is lawfull as Thomas Cartwright who hath bene professour of diuinitie both in Cambridge and in Gene●a knoweth well inough for men to argue pró and contrá as well with as

the ouerthrow by disputation or els I see that Martin hath vndone you Be packing bishops and keepe in the P●●rcivants or if you will needs send them abroad to molest good men then pay them thei● wages and let them not pull it out of poore mens throates like greedie doggs as they do You striue in vaine you are layd open alreadie Fryar● and Monkes were not so bad● they liued in the darke you shut your eyes lest you should see the light Archbishop Titus and Timothie will neuer maintaine your popishe callings I haue pulled off your vizards looke to your selues for my sonnes will not see their father thus persecuted at your hands I will worke your woe and ouerthrow I hope And you are alreadie cleane spoyled vnlesse you will grant the puritans a free disputation and leaue your persecuting Eyther from countrie or Court M. Martin Marprelate will do you hurt Rime doggrell Is good inough for bishops I can tell And I doe much maruell If I haue not giuen them such a spell As answere it how they cannot tell Doctor Bridges vp and downe Writeth after this fashowne The Epitome of the first booke of this worthye volume written by my brother Sarum Deane Iohn Sic foeliciter incipit THe whole volume of M. Deanes containeth in it 16 bookes besides a large preface and an Epistle to the Reader The Epistle the preface are not aboue 8. sheets of paper and very little vnder 7. You may see when men haue a gift in writing howe easie it is for them to daube paper The compleat worke very briefely comprehended in a portable booke if your horse be not too weake of an hundred threescore and twelue sheets of good Demie paper is a confutation of The learned discourse of Ecclesiasticall gouernement This learned discourse is a booke allowed by all the Puritane preachers in the lande who would haue all the remnants and reliques of Antichriste dauntehed out of the Church and not so much as a Lorde B. no not his grace himselfe dumbe minister no not dumbe Iohn of London his selfe nonresident archdeacon abbie lubder or anye such loyterer tollerated in our ministerie Insomuch as if this strong holde of theirs be ouerthrowne hoe then all the fat is run to the fire with the puritanes And therefore hath not the learned prudent M. Deane delt very valiantly how wisely let Iohn Cant. cast his cardes and consider in assaulting this fort of our precise brethren which he hath so shakē with good vincible reasons very notably out of reason that it hath not one steane in the foundation meare then it had Trust me truely he hath giuen the cause sicken a wipe in his bricke and so lamb skinned the fame that the cause will be the warmer a good while for it The reasons that moued him to take this paines was that at the first comming out of the Learned Discourse the D. in a Sermon of his at Paules crosse did not onely confute a great part of this booke but by his said learned sermon made many of the puritans relent and distrust their owne cause what cannot a smooth tongue and a schollerlike wit bring to passe Some other of the puritans in deede being more vntoward to learne then the rest stood stiffe in their former opinions concerning the gouernment of bishopps notwithstanding this sermon of M. doctors challenged him for his sermon offered him y e disputation yea the non plus too or els I am deceiued here M. dean promised them a large confutation of the Learned discourse which in this ●ooke he hath now performed wherein he hath behaued himselfe verye scholerlike His stile is as smooth as a crabtree cudgell The lieader cannot chuse but haue as great delight therein as a Iacke an Apes hath in a whip he hath so thumped the cause with crosse blowes that the puritans are like to haue a good and a sound cause of it as long as they liue In this one thing I dare preferre him before any that euer wrote to wit that there be not 3. whole periods for euery page in the book that is not graced with a verie faire and visible solacism O most excellent and surpassing eloquence He speaketh euery thing so fitly to the purpose that he neuer toucheth the matter in question A rare gift in a learned writer He hath vsed such varietie of lerning that very often he hath translated out of one mans writing 6. or 7. pages together note here a newe founde manner of bookemaking And which is more strange he bringeth those testimonies for his purpose whose very words translated set down by him are as flat against the purpose whereto he bringeth them as fire in quallity is contrary to water Had not he a right vse of his wits think you while they were thus bestowed Not to stand long in this place of those quallities in him whereof before I haue made some mention to his praise in the former Epistle Whatsoeuer might be for the ornament and furthering of an honest cause he hath in this booke so defied them all that elsewhere you are to seeke for them for here they are not to be found Wherin he hath very wisely and prudeutly obserued the decorum of the cause in hand Like lips like Lettice as it is in the prouerbe The goodnes honestie of the matter he handled required such good honest proffs as he brought Let those that handle honest and godly causes labor to bring good prooffs and a cleare stile Presbyter Iohn defended our Church gouernement which is full of corruptions therefore the stile and the prooffs must be of the same nature that the cause is The priest leaues not so much as the title of the Discourse vnexamined The title forsooth is A learned discourse c. A sawcie title but what sayth the lerned Bridges vnto it O you know he is good at a stale iest euer since he plaide my Lord of Winchesters foole in his sermon at Sir Maries Church in Cambridg therfore he iesteth at the title I vs the puritans haue nothing to doe with that sermon why should they hit their brother in the teeth therewith he hath made their betters to laugh at him for his Sermon since that time And whye should he not for his grace will allow him because he is content that bishops should be Lords he hath subscribed weareth a corner cap and a tippet woulde gladly come to the honor to weare that which might make him a lord spirituall and if it were a shauen crowne or a coxcombe which his grace his articles would enioyn him to weare what hurt could that do vnto him Now I wonder what our brethren will say to this that their booke is scoffed at at the first dashe I am sure their noses can abide no iest What say they man do you make anye question of that I warraunt you they will affirme that the author of the Learned Discourse and

500. green heads more that are on their side within 2. Syllogismes would set the deane of Sarum at a flat non plus and answere his whole worke in a threepenie booke● Are they so good at disputing and writing in deed I hope his Canterburinesse will looke to this geare and suffer them to haue liberty neither to write nor to dispute the black Oxe hath troden on his foote he hath had some trial by woful experience what small credite and lesse-gaine there is to be had either in writing or disputing with these fellows To the matter The state of the whole controuersie betweene my brethren bishops and my brethren the puritans and so betweene this worthie doctor and these discoursers is whether the externall gouernement of the Church of Christ be a thing so prescribed by the Lorde in the new testament as it is not lawfull for any man to alter the same any more then it was lawfull to alter y e form of regiment prescribed vnder the law in the old testamēt And see whether if there be any gouernment in y e Church as necessarily there must be or els all confusion will ensue the same must be by those offices and officers alone and by no other which the Lord hath set downe and limited in his word Or els whether man may alter these offices and officers at his will and pleasure and make newe offices and officers as he may in the ciuill gouernments The puritans saye that these offices and officers whiche our sauior Christe and his Apostles did ordaine ●re unchangeable and that it is not lawfull for any pri●ce to alter them no not though the circumstances of times places and persons should seeme in regarde of conuenience to enforce him thereunto The doctor with all the Lordly priests in the land hold the contrarie And sweare it to be lawfull for the magistrate to ordaine what gouernement he will in the Church yea that the Church gouernors contrary to the flat commandement of our sauior Christ Luke 22.25.26 may be Lordes And that the Church gouernment prescribed by our Sauiour Christe and enioyned by the Apostle was not immutable as the regiment vnder the lawe was In so much as in the opinion of M. Bridges and the rest of the cleargie Paul was deceiued Ephesians the 4.13 in saying that pastors and doctors were to cōtinue in the Church vntil we al meet together that is vnto the ende of the worlde Here then is the puritans●● for the permanencie of this gouernment and M doctors no. ● Our brethren for so of his meere curtesie it pleaseth M. deane to call them whome men commonly call puritans and precisians to make their partie good propound the cause by a like example after this sort The sacrifices of y e olde lawe after the building of the temple were to be offered onely at Ierusalem by a Leuite of the li●e of Alia●on onely vnlesse a prophet extraordina●ily ordained it otherwise as Eliah did And the said sacrifices were to be consumed and burned onely by a fire proceeding from the Lord. Briefly none were to m●ddle with the tabernacle or any thing belonging to the seruice of God but the sonnes of Leui whome the Lord appointed for his owne seruice So that if anye sacrifice were offered out of Ierusalem by any other then a sonne of Aaron consumed by any strange fire or any seruice about the Tabernacle performed by a stranger not appointed by y e Lord then an horrible breath of gods ordinance was committed and punished very memorable by the Lord in 〈◊〉 Corah Dathan Abi●am the two hundreth and fiftie captaines of the Congregation who not being of the sonnes of Aaron would needs offer incense before the Lord. In like sort Christe Iesus ordained that when there should be any ministers in his Church they should be able to gather together the saints and that those in their proper and limited places should be either pastors or doctors In like sort he ordained that som should bear rule and ouersee the flocke with the minister and they should be Elders that the ouersight of the Church treasurie the care for the maintenance of the poore should be committed vnto Deacons vnder which also the widowes Church seruants are contained He farther ordained that before these officers shoulde be instituted and as it were inuested into their offices there should be had one examination of their fitnes to exemte the same and their vnreprooueable life And that their ordination shoulde be by imposition of hands with fasting and prayer And by these 4. officers say our brethren Pastors Doctors Elders and Deacons God hath appointed that all matters of the Church should be decided determined For these officers onely and none else must haue to do with the preaching of the ●ord● administring the sacraments making of mu●sters excommunicating and administring of all other Churche censures and punishmentes But as for ciuill gouernment punishment and censures they must not meddle with them Because these thinges onely belongeth to the ciuill magistrate whose off●●e is not to be vsurped by any of the ●●●mer Thus our brethrē set downe the whol state of the controuersie and thus by Scripture they confirme their I and ouerthrow M. doctors no. Parlous fellowes I assure yo● For beleeue me it would put a man to his trumps to answer these things soundly by scripture againe Well M. Deane on the other side verye stoutly proosteth his no● page 54. of his by a conner axiome to beginne withall on this maner If this Church gouernement by pastors doctors elders and deacons be necessarie then the Church in some age place eyther had this gouernment or hath labored for it A most true and tried trueth what then brother Sa●●●● do you assume from this true gouerment ●ay sof● there ●a masse deane I trow the puritans will not driue me to make syllogismes in this booke That is no part of mine intent for if I had thought they would driue me to suche pinches I would not haue medled with them Naye by their leaue if the assumption or proposition bee eyther more then I can prooue or be against my selfe I will omit them Pardon me I praye ye my masters I will set downe nothing against my self I haue brought in a true proposition and that is inough for one man I thinke Let me see what you can saye to that Mine assumption shalbe brought forth at leysure Is the winde at that dore with you brother deane I perceiue you will be of the surer side howsoeuer it goeth But brethren what then say you to M. deanes reason Your answere I know may be of 3. sorts First you may say that the reason is popish Secondly you may demand whether it be mid sommer Moone with him or no because he bringeth in a couex proposition and assumeth nothing Can you blame him in so doing For the

I say although he hath therein spoken against bishopps euen our bishops now liuing and so against himselfe as being nowe a B. yet that his booke is a carnall and vnlearned booke smelling altogether of earth without rime and without reason And that his speaking against bishops therein was but a snare to catch a bishopprick as it now appeareth The particular sentences marginall notes shalbe set downe and where I set anye note vpon your booke there shalbe an m. for difference sake added thervnto We will beginn with your owne wordes vnto the Bb. that is vnto your selfe and your brethren page 23. Oh they may thanke God say you that they haue this time to breathe them and bethinke them of their naughtie and hellishe crueltie and to call dayly and hourely for pardon and forgiuenes for let them thinke that if they be not punished in this life nor repent God accounteth their deedes so vile and their ●ults so haynous that no temporall paines be inough for such offences And therefore reserueth them to eternall damnation Oh howle and wayle you priests and prelates not for the danger you stand in of loosing your bishopricks and benefices your pride your pompe your dignities and honors your riches and welth But for that hel hath opened her mouth wide and gapeth to swalow you for the sheding of so much innocent blood for murdering so manie martyrs though this her true in our bishops yet let me in steede thereof say for imprisoning so many innocents and murthering the soules of so many in ignorance and spoiling Christs church of so manie glistering and glorious ornaments commended of all for their learning and discommended of none for their liuing Nowa lest anye man shoulde thinke that he writeth these things to popish bishops you are to know that he wrote them vnto such as were bishopps in the raigne of her maiestie vnto bishops prosessing the gospel in name but in deed deniyng the power thereof And in the next page line 10. he hath these words against those bishops and now against himselfe But Christ knowing the bounds of his office would not meddle with externe pollicies translating of realmes and depriuing of true inheritors Now whē he was desired to be arbiter betwixt two brethren he asked not how the plea stood but who made him an officer Diuines me thinkes should by this example not giue themselues too much the brydle and too large a scope to meddle with matters of pollicie as this is whervpon dependeth eyther the welfare or ilfare of the realme If these two offices I meane ecclesiasticall and ciuill be so iumbled together as it may be lawful for both parties to meddle in both functions here can be no quiet nor well ordered common wealth Thus the reader may see what a paterne of hypocrisie this wicked bishop since he wrote this book hath shewed himself to be in taking vpon hi● not onely that calling whiche in his owne iudgement is vnlawfull but also in ioyning those two offices together the coupling whereof he confesseth to bee ioyned as well with the most vile disorder as with the dangerous disquietnes of the common wealth And yet he hath not here left off speaking against bishops Therefore as before in the Epistle hath bin touched he dealeth more roundly with thē page 103 then before in these wordes Come off you bishops away with your superfluities yeeld vp your thousandes be content with your hundreths as they be in other reformed Churches where be as great learned men as you are Let your portion be pristlike not prince like Let the Queen haue the rest of your temporallities and other landes to maintaine these warres which you procured and your mistresse left her and with the rest to build and found schools throughout the realme that euery parrishe Church may haue his preacher euerie citie his superintendent to liue honestly and not pompously which will neuer bee vnlesse your lands be dispersed and bestowed vpon many whiche now feedeth and fatteth but one Remember that Abimelech when Dauid in his bannishment woulde haue diued with him kept such hospitallitie that he had no bread in his house to giue him out the shewe bread Where was all his superfluitie to keepe your pretenced hospitallitie For that is the cause you aleage why you must haue thousands as though you were commanded to keepe hospitallitie rather with a thousand then with a hundred I woulde out countriman Wicklieffes booke which he wrote De Ecclesia were in print and there should you see that your wrinches and cauillations be nothing worth Hitherto you see that this Balaam who hath I feare me receiued the wages of vnrighteousnes spoken in generall as well against the callings of bishops and their vsurping of ciuill offices as against their pride pompe superfluitie Must not he thinke you haue eyther a most scared or a most guiltie conscience that can finde of his heart to continue in that calling yea and in the abuse of that calling which his owne conscience if he woulde but awake it telleth him to be vnlawfull The Lord giue him repentance if he belongeth vnto him or speedely rid his Churche of such a scourge And may not all the former speeches be fitly applied vnto him Is without dout But the next he may be thought to haue written to himselfe which he hath set downe page 34. As if you shoulde saye my L. Lubber of London is a tyrant Ergo he is no Byshop I warraunt you though he graunted you the antecedent which he can hardly denie yet he woulde denie the consequent or els he would call for wiely Watson to helpe him Here brother London you haue crossed your selfe ouer the costard once in your dayes I thinke you would haue spent 3. of the best Elmes which you haue cut down in Fulham and 3. pence halfepenie besides that I had neuer met with your booke But vnlesse you and Iohn of Excetor with Thomas Winchester who haue beene in times past hypocrites as you haue bene leaue off to hinder the word and ver godly men I will make you to be noble and famous bishops for euer And might not a man wel iudge yon three to be the desperat Dicks which you brother London page 29. affirm to be good bishops in England For to allude vnto your owne words page 28.29 Whereas other bishops in the land for the most onely Iohn Canterburie excepted lest they should one day answere for their proceedings vnto her maiestie and gaine the euill will of the noble men and gentlemen that fauour the sinceritie of the gospell will not seeme to bee such dealers as you 3. are though they serue at an inche in their place to maintaine his graces pride and cruelty to stay the course of the gospell and to fetch in men with in the compasse of subscription yet are they those for the most part that will imprison none