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A05113	Mr Henry Barrowes platform Which may serve, as a preparative to purge away prelatisme: with some other parts of poperie. Made ready to be sent from Miles Mickle-bound to much-beloved-England. Togither with some other memorable things. And, a familiar dialogue, in and with the which, all the severall matters conteyned in this booke, are set forth and interlaced. After the untimely death of the penman of the foresaid platforme. & his fellow prisoner; who being constant witnesses in points apperteyning to the true worship of God, and right government of his Church, sealed up their testimony with their bloud: and paciently suffred the stopping of their breath, for their love to the Lord. Anno 1593.	Barrow, Henry, 1550?-1593.	1611 (1611)	STC 1525; ESTC S122418	73,650	164

executiō of any thing that belongeth to the Princes and Magistrates office without the Princes speciall commandement and deputation therunto yet is it the bounden dutie of every true hearted subject and faithfull servant of God to witnes and crie out against all things that ar exalted against the knowledg● of God to pray for and by all hum●ble peaceable and godly meanes t● advertise exhort and excite thei● Prince and Magistrates to remove and depose all false worship fals● ministers in the land For this caus● haue we the Lord Iesus Christs mos● unworthy servants and witnesses hi● therto endured in all meeke and pa●cient manner the great outrage an● tyranny which this antichristian Ro●mish prelacie and clergy haue lon● exercised over our poore bodies ra●ther then to stoope downe eyther t● that patched traditionall worshi● which they devise and impose o● unto that unlawfull power whic● they usurp exercise over all men consciences yea at this present ●●specially upon your honours so gr●●cious acceptation we are bould y● in all reverence and humilitie t● declare our loyall heartes and inti● affections as in the sight of Chris● unto our most gratious soveraign Queene Elizabeth and unto this whole State by discovering these deceivers and manifesting these heinous abuses and intollerable inormities which remaine in the Land by their meanes to the high displeasure of God though it be with the present perill and danger of our lives which those Antichristian Bishops armed with such power and hostilitie will soone upon the knowledge that we haue revealed these matters dispatch one way or another But we make no reckning nor speach of these things neyther are our lives deare unto our selves so wee may finish up our testimony and course with joy and by giving warning if Gods will be to prevent the heavie wrath and judgements of God that hangs over this whole land for the hainous prophanation of Gods name contempt of his word and generall impietie even of all degrees All which enormities here to discuss in particular as they flow from them into all estates of the land would require a larger discourse then this present time or purpose will permit Onely in this place it may suffice that we engage our mortall lives undertake upon the losse of the same to make manifest proof unto all men by the undoubted word of God in any free and christian conference either publike or private or to make evident demonstratiō in writing by the scriptures if wee may be permitted That this whole ministery publike ministration which is by them exercised in the Church of England is false antichristiā such as cannot be joyned to the gospell of Christ nor used in the Church of Christ which being proved such then is it the Princes duetie as she tendereth the salvation of her owne soule and the safety of all this people which the Lord hath committed unto her charge to abolish and depose the same Neyther is there cause why her Majesty should make more scruple or delay herein then her most royal Auncestor of famous memorie King Henry the eight did in much lesse light and assurance when he expelled the Pope and suppressed the Abbies c. Especially when it shall be proved that the whole ministerie which now remayneth even from the Primate Archbishop to the lowest Sommoner togither with their Courtes Canons Offices Officers c. are of the same birth belonged to the same apostaticall throne have as litle mention place or use in the testament and Church of Christ as they and therfore ought in like maner togither with their foresayd father and brethren be cast out not to be suffered in the Church or cōmon wealth Neyther can this matter and motion now seeme strange seeing all forreign Churches in all other places haue cast out and changed this ministerie howsoever eyther of ignorance or fleshly policie they might for a tyme give handes thereunto yet except they can shew that Christ hath instituted divers sundry kindes of ministeries and governments unto his Church one in one age and place another in an other or that the Ministerie of the new testament is not certaine permanent and unchangeable the same in all Churches then doubtlesse these so divers ministeries in name office entrance administration as theirs and this are cannot both of them be of God Againe even at home the forward preachers of these present times not to speak of such motions unto the Kings of this land at sundry other times haue a long time sought and sued unto her Majestie and to the Parliaments for a Reformation viz. That these Arch bishops Bishops Arch deacons Deanes c. with all their Courts colleages government and administration might be removed and taken away their ample and great livings converted to the maintenance of sundry poore preachers and that the Church might be restored to that auncient order and governemēt which Christ hath instituted by them called discipline which matter they neither could nor durst have moved or attempted if the office ministerie goverment of these Lord Bishops c. had not beene wholly antichristian and directly contrary to the testament of Christ For if the office ministery and governement of these Lord Bishops and their accomplices had been of God they ought still of necessitie with all reverence to haue been reserved the corruptions and abuses that had grown therin to be corrected and purged But if their offices ministery governement were the institution and ordinance of Christ what a dangerous execrable motion had it been to perswade the Prince and Parliament to reject and cast out the true Offices Ministery and Government of Christ out of the Church They that should thus reject Christs Ministerie ordinances or any part therof reject Christ himselfe doe violence to his members spoile and ruinate the Church and cannot be of God But these men sought not the reformation or correction of the persons or abuses of these Lordly Bishops their Courts c. but the utter remooving and abolishing of their offices ministery and government for ever out of the land wherby it is manifest these men howsoever they haue since changed their copie tooke them to be Antichristian and such as ought not to be used or suffered in the Church of Christ. And now that these Bishops and their traine their offices ministery government are thus found even by the preachers themselves not to be of God as to any that will further examine thē by the rules of Christs testament cannot be hid or doubtfull we see not how even these Reformists themselves this choice reserved remnāt or this rable of Parsons Vicars Vagrant hireling preachers without certaine place office or charge which are but the very taile of the dragon should be exempt from the same judgment seing they all are derived and proceeded from the same apostaticall throne that the Bishops yea even from the throne of the Bishops So that if the Bishops be

of faith These things are not regarded or looked to amōgst them either of the Priest or people Yet these things prove that there can nor may be no such set permanent livings allotted to the Ministerie of the Gospell And now to the other part of their question How these Bishops Priests should live if their livings bee taken from them We answer as above They may for no worldly cause bee suffered to continue in so unlawfull ungodly yea so pernicious a course to themselves and to the whole land but must be compelled to walk orderly in some lawfull calling or other God giveth much to the diligent when the sluggard suffereth want worthily Such as haue faith gifts unto edification never had greater cause to use them to call the people to faith and to instruct them in the wayes of the Lord. The more they thus labour the more they shal deserve to be cherished and esteemed The labourer is worthy of shal not want his hire both with God man The others of them that haue not these gifts may apply themselves in civill things as to teach the tongues to instruct children c. They haue yet an other question how the people should be taught if al this ministery should be deposed To which we answer The people ought at no hand to be taught by a false Ministery And further though they be deposed from their Antichristian ministery which they exercised to the destruction of their owne soules and of as many as heard and followed them yet such of them to whom God hath given fit gifts and graces to teach ought from henceforth to imploy the same to the glory of God the benefit of others and the building up of Christs decayed Church Thus shall the people haue all the help they had before To whom if you ad such of the faithful as God hath given the gift of prophecie and interpretation of the scriptures unto who must and will labour in this work according to the measure of faith in all holy order and sobrietie as also those that the Lord shall daily raise up and send unto his vineyard the people shall want no meanes of instruction neyther be destitute of any good gift but haue them much more plentifully and excellently then ever they had without comparison Yea so shall God blesse his own ordinances their diligence and zeale as they shall in short time be throughly furnished of Teachers every where and the work in all places be orderly set up Onely let no man despise the day of these small things for they shall rejoyce and see the stone of tinne in the hand of Zerubbabel Your Honours humbly in all duety bounden HENRY BARROVVE RIght Honourable we haue as our fraile memories and small measure of knowledge would suffer in the middst of many encombrances in this our miserable imprisonment drawne an unperfect discourse of such weighty causes as we were desirous when God should call us thereunto to make knowne unto her Majestie or some of her Honourable Councell And now by your Honours desert and gratious allowance occasioned we most gladly relate present the same to your good Lordship onely as to one whose rare wisdome we know most able to discerne and whose care to preserve and defend the innocent according to right Wherefore we most willingly put both this waighty cause our wofull lives in your hand to be preserved to some equal triall from our enemies rage like to be increased here upon in that it so nearely toucheth their estimation and worldly prosperitie And howsoever these high causes of God which haue not been hitherto looked into since the first defection from the sincere practise of the gospell in the primitive Church may seem strange unto your Honour at the first view especially if they be weighed with humane reason yet being examined by that Archtype and true patterne of Christs testamēt we doubt not but your Honour shall see with us how far the present State is swerved from the inviolable order prescribed Espetially if your honour vouchsafe but to look into the office entrance and administration of this ministery you shal soon see it as some of their own writers confesse none can deny to be received by succession from the Pope who though he were expelled with many of his enormities out of this Land by her Majesties roiall progenitour yet remained these offices and lawes courtes worship c. untaken away or suppressed notwithstanding that the Lord of Hosts had sayd they shall not take a stone of Babel for a corner nor a stone for foundations for it shal be desolate for ever So that it is impossible antichrists ministry should build up or serve in the true Church of Christ himself having instituted and ordeyned an other Ministerie in his testament and forbidden and accursed all such as haue not their warrant from thence It is then our purpose Right honourable to make plain in our Treatise that when the Pope was expelled his ministery and orders which came out of the bottomlesse pit were still reserved and set up in sted of the Ministery and Testamēt of Christ and so still remaine Which their Ministery being thus found antichristian must by the Prince be abolished and suppressed that Gods wrath be not kindled against this whole Land for the wilfull violating defacing of Gods ordinances bowing down unto endowing and mainteyning of such bitter plants of Antichrists grafting Neyther will it suffice to say The Martyrs in Queene Maries dayes stood in these offices in King Edwards dayes seeing it were great impiety to justify any iniquity by the example of fraile man no man living without errour For that were to set the Martyrs of Christ against Christ either to build our faith wholy upon men and cast aside the Testament or else to rip up the ignorances of men to mainteyn som● sinne in our selves even presumptu●ously to tempt God to continue obstinate in knowne sinne which fa● be it from us seeing the spirite o● God teacheth us that neyther Martyr nor Angel from heaven can justify any thing Christ in his word condemneth nor may withdraw us from the evident rules in Christs testamēt or from any jote thereof much lesse from the pure and holie ordinances and government of Christ in his Ch 〈…〉 have stood in such offices 〈…〉 knowne it unlawfull suffering v 〈…〉 they did see Teaching us so far to folow their examples as they followed Christ Neyther need this matter now trouble us seeing all coūtries about us haue suppressed the Bishops and their Courtes with all that rable and many other abominations which flow from the same and remaine still with us The most learned also of the Clergy of this Land haue written and cried out for the utter abolishing of these offices So that it is of al cōfessed that the Prince ought to suppress abolish all such offices and orders as