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A96350	The first centvry of scandalous, malignant priests, made and admitted into benefices by the prelates, in whose hands the ordination of ministers and government of the church hath been. Or, A narration of the causes for which the Parliament hath ordered the sequestration of the benefices of severall ministers complained of before them, for vitiousnesse of life, errors in doctrine, contrary to the articles of our religion, and for practising and pressing superstitious innovations against law, and for malignancy against the Parliament. It is ordered this seventeenth day of November, 1643. by the Committee of the House of Commons in Parliament concerning printing, that this booke intituled, [The first century of scandalous, malignant priests, &c.] be printed by George Miller.	White, John, 1590-1645.; England and Wales. Parliament. aut	1643 (1643)	Wing W1777; Thomason E76_21; ESTC R19192	42,473	60

admiration and acknowledge with love and thankefulnesse the transcendent mercie of the Lord to his poore people among us that whereas he hath infinite just cause to destroy these Priests and people together cloath them with desolation and doe unto them after their waies and judge them according to their desert h Ezek. 7.27 He is graciously pleased to stirre up a spirit of zeale and judgement in the Parliament to deliver the people from the mouthes of these Shepheards that feed not the flocke but kill them that are fed eate the fat and cloath themselves with the wool l Ez k. 34.3 10. and to set true shepheards over them to seeke that which was lost and bring againe that which was driven away to bind them that were broken and strengthen them that were sick and to feed them all with knowledge and understanding and to feed with judgment the wicked shepheards that before with force and cruelty ruled over them k Eze. 34.15 16. Fiftly Behold with comfort and assured expectation of good from Heaven that as the Lord hath manifested his gracious purpose to reforme his Church in this Land and set up the Kingdome of Christ among us in the purity of Doctrine and Discipline and hath for that purpose called this Parliament fixed it set it upon that worke and maintained it therein and in all these hath manifested his immediate hand and finger in stupendious works of Divine providence opening obstructions working that himselfe which his servants could not making the very enemies of Reformation meanes to further it discovering and preventing the horrid hellish treacherous plots of his and our enemies turning the counsells of Achitophell into folly discovering the rotten hearts of them that said they were for the Cause of God but are found lyers and holding up the hearts of his faithfull ones in the middest of and against all discouragements So the Lord is pleased to carry on his great worke of Reformation in the very face and in aispight of all oppositions and dangers that it gaines ground and creepes on every day These Priests of Baal sonnes of Beliall that know not the Lord whose sinne is very great before God in making multitudes abhorre the Offerings of the Lord a 1 Sam. 2.12 17. are taken away and removed as filthy rubbish from the house of God The Antinomians that destroy the Law as neither directory nor obligatory of a Christian to duty and teach that God sees not is not angry with will not correct requires not sorrow for nor repentance of the grossest sinnes that are committed by such as beleeve they be in Christ and that the elect are actually justified as soone as borne though they have not faith in forty yeares after and many such absurdities and barbarismes in Divinity are questioned and in a good way to be suppressed and the Doctrine of our Church in a great part cleared from all aspersions and misconstructions This is the Lords doing and it is marvellous in our eyes And certainely these works of God are so many earnest-pence unto us as the first fruits to the harvest that God will in his own way and time perfect his said worke of a through Reformation and bring forth and lay the head and top-stone thereof that we and our postority shall rejoyce and cry grace grace unto it b Zech. 4.7 Sixthly Whereas in severall Proclamations Declarations and Pamphlets set forth in his Majesties name and otherwise sent us from Oxford the Parliament hath been exceedingly reproached and condemned as in truth they have been for all the good they have done for the Kingdome for Sequestring the Livings of Reverend Divines as they stile them thou mayest by a serious perusall of this Booke cleerely see what Divines the Authours and publishers of the said Pamphlets doe so reverence and esteeme And from thence observe of what spirit these men are that side with honour pleade for and receive unto them such Priests of Baal of Bacchus of Priapus Doth not their affection unto and high esteeme of such uncleane beasts abundantly evince that they serve and prostitute themselves unto the same dung-hill Idols and filthy lusts and that they are all of the same Father And note further that these Libellers not only speake evill of Dignities but also of those things that they know not c Jude 8.10 they Censure the Supreame Court of Judicature themselves being Delinquents deferving the severest judgement and that without hearing them or informing themselves of what they have done notwithstanding all their acts and proceedings lie fairely of record in their Journall bookes obvious to every man that desires to understand the same And that the Parliament may appeare just in their doings and the mouth of iniquity may be stopped this Narrative of the crimes * The grossest faults stand proved by many witnesses seldome lesse then six and misdemeanours of those sons of the earth are here published that all the world may see that the tongues of these that speake evill of the Parliament are set on fire of Hell and lift up against Heaven and that they hide themselves under falsehood and make lies their refuge And let not the Learning of some few of these men for which if they had any grace to use it well they were considerable move thee to thinke they be hardly dealt with for learning in a man unsanctified is but a pearle in a Swines snout Arrins Pelagius Arminius all of them learned but thereby the more serviceable to doe mischiefe in the Church like Curio who was facundus only ad reipublicae perniciem Learning and knowledge we honour in any but vitiousnesse and lewdnesse we condemne in all had some of these men sanctity of life as well as light of knowledge they had been honourable to Religion and usefull to soules but their abhorred lusts casting out of them the guidance of light it is but justice to cast them off from being guides to others I say Justice to them and withall mercy to the poore people who at once are ridde of a plague and enjoy a blessing are freed from such who poisoned their soules and supplied by such as take care to feed and save their soules a None succeed these sequest red Priests but such as are examined and approved by the Assembly of Divines I know well that all we say or doe in this particular will be reproached by some but good services must not therefore be deserted because reproached When the fat Abbies were taken downe in Henry the eights time the Friers cried out that holy Church was destroyed yet when the draughts and ponds were searched so many bones and skulls were found which assured men of practises distant enough from holinesse For my part I shall not cease to endeavour and pray for a perfect reformation of the Church which is the garden wherein God delighteth to walke and therefore must be purged of all stinking and noysome weeds And doe thou whosoever

and said that the House of Commons in Parliament was an unjust Court and doth ordinarily sweare and curse and useth superstitious bowing and cringing to the Communion Table 8. The Benefice of Iohn Gordon Rector of the Parish Church of Ockley in the County of Sussex is sequestred for that he is a common haunter of Ale-houses and Tavernes sitting and tipling there night after night and hath spent the whole Sabbath there so that no Service nor Sermon was in his Church by reason thereof and is a common drunkard and hath not preached on any Fast day since it was enjoyned by King and Parliament and hath published in his Church all those to be Traitours that lent to the Parliament and hath deserted his said Church for about six Moneths last past and is reported to have been seene in the Army of Cavalieres raised against the Parliament 9. The Benefice of Lawrence Washington Rector of Purleigh in the County of Essex is sequestred for that he is a common frequenter of Ale-houses not only himselfe sitting daily tipling there but also incouraging others in that beastly vice and hath been oft drunke and hath said That the Parliament have more Papists-belonging to them in their Armies then the King had about him or in his Army and that the Parliaments Army did more hurt then the Cavaleeres and that they did none at all And hath published them to be Traitours that lend to or assist the Parliament 10. The Benefice of Philip Leigh Vicar of the Parish Church of Redburne in the County of Hertford is sequestred for that he is a common drunkard and haunter of Alehouses usually drinking healths and pressing others thereunto a common swearer and quarreller and hath expressed much malignancy against the Parliament 11. The Benefices of Francis Fothersby Vicar of S. Clements in Sandwich and Parson of Lingsteede in the County of Kent are sequestred for that he is a common drunkard and common swearer and curser and hath expressed great malignancy against the Parliament in not only refusing to contribute to the publike defence of but saying that they that would not lend the Parliament money should be sent with Ordinances to Hell 12. The stipend of Daniel Tutivall Preacher of Suttons Hospitall in the County of Middlesex commonly called Charterhouse is sequestred for that he hath been often drunke and that on the Lords day and hath taught in his Sermons to the said House that Moses and Aaron being before them meaning two Pictures set up in the Chappell and the Organs behind them newly also set up there they were a happy people and what greater comfort could mortall men have and hath wholy neglected the observation of the Monethly Fast not preaching thereupon and procured scandalous and Malignant Ministers to preach there to corrupt his people 13. The Benefice of Iohn Gorsuch Doctor of Divinity Rector of the Parish Church of Walkerne in the County of Hertford is sequestred for that he is a common haunter of Ale-houses and Tavernes and often drunke and oft sitteth gaming whole nights together and is seldome in the Pulpit preaching scarce once a quarter And hath often denied many of his Parishoners the Sacrament of the Lords Supper without any cause shown and refused to administer it to such as would not come up to the railes And endeavoured to hire one Ioanes to ride a Troope-Horse for Prince Rupert to serve under him against the Parliament saying withall he had a snotty nose Iade to send to the Parliament to poison the whole Band and hath published a wicked Libell against the Parliament That some of the Lords whom he Named were Fooles Bastards and Cuckhoulds 14. The Benefice of Edward Thurman Rector of the Parish Church of Hallingbury in the County of Essex is sequestred for that he is a Common drunkard and hath presented his Parishioners for going from their own Church to heare Sermons when they had none at home and hath affirmed that he would drive away all the Puritans out of his Parish and enforced his Parishioners to come to the railes and hath wholy deserted his said Cure for the space of halfe a yeare now last past 15. The Benefice of Robert Snell Vicar of the Parish Church of Maching in the County of Essex is sequestred for that he hath often refused to administer the Sacrament of the Lords Supper to such of his Parish that refused to come to the railes to receive it and there being a Crucifix in the window over the Altar he useth to bow towards it and would not suffer it to be pulled downe notwithstanding the Order of Parliament for it And hath taught his people that God hath now an Altar and that the Table set Altar-wise put him in mind of God to worship him the better and in administring the Sacrament called one of the Communicants Puppy for that being left-handed he put forth that hand to receive the Bread and caused the Church-wardens to present such as would not come up to the railes to receive there and kneele before them and hath expressed great Malignancy against the Parliament 16. The Benefice of Robert Hiliard Vicar of the Parish Church of Ewell in the County of Surry is sequestred for that he said The Parliament is a Parliament for the Devill and the Devils Court and that the Petitions of the Parliament to the King are like the Petitions of Jeroboam to Rehoboam commands and not Petitions and hath discouraged divers from giving or lending towards the publike defence expressing that he hoped they that did so should never see penny of it againe and that he would rather live under the government of a Heathen then of the Parliament and is a common frequenter of Tavernes and Ale-houses sitting tipling and quarrelling there and is often drunke and is a common curser and swearer and hath jeared the holy Spirit of Grace saying We have Ministers now will preach forsooth and pray by the Spirit and hath threatned to kill those that have exhibited Articles against him in Parliament in case they should proceed against him and went about with the Cavalieres at Kingstone directing them to plunder honest men there 17. The Benefice of Ioseph Soane Vicar of Aldenham in the County of Hertford is sequestred for that he is a common Gamester a common Ale-house haunter and frequently drunke and a common quarreller and hath called the Parliament Souldiers under the command of his Excellency the Earle of Essex Parliament doggs 18. The Benefices of William Fairefax Doctor in Divinity Rector of the Parish Church of S. Peters in Cornhill London and Vicar of East-Ham in the County of Middlesex are sequestred for that he hath refused to deliver the Sacrament of the Lords Supper to such of his Parishioners as refused to come up to the railes and refused to let his Parish have a Lecturer on the Lords day in the after-noone except he might have 50lb. given unto him for the same And for the space of eight yeares refused to

for not coming up to the railes though some of them begged it with teares and openly reviled them for not conforming to that superstitious Innovation calling them Doggs Rogues and Beggers and presented them to the Commissaries Court for the same to their great damage and vexation and hath published in his Church the Booke of Sports on the Lords day and commended the same and hath publikely in his Sermons affirmed That preaching is not necessary for the sanctification of the Sabbath and that the Sabbath was made for Ministers to rest in as well as for the people and that Lay-men ought not to meddle with the Scriptures but must beleeve as the Church beleeves which Church he made to be Arch-bishops and Bishops And the railes being removed he placed formes instead of them making his people kneele at them to receive the Lords Supper And hath preached That if the King should set up flat Idolatry we ought to submit and not to take up Armes as some doe now and enveighed against the Parliament for endeavouring to take away Episcopacy and hath not only refused to joyne in the publike defence but hath also discouraged such as have so done 25. The Benefice of Iohn Peckham Rector of the Parish Church of Hosteede parva in the County of Sussex who giveth out that he is the Kings Chaplaine is sequestred for that he hath been very negligent in his Cure absenting himselfe from his Parishioners sometimes a whole Moneth together without leaving any to Officiate for him and hath refused to administer the Lords Supper to those of his Parish that would not come up to the Railes and is a common drunkard and notorious adulterer and uncleane person having drawne divers women to commit uncleannesse with him and hath bragged that he could lie with women and never get them with child and hath used sordid and beastly carriages towards women to intice them to satisfie his lust not to be named among the Heathen and hath expressed great malignity against the Parliament and proceedings thereof and hath affirmed publikely that a man might live in murther adultery and other grosse sinnes from day to day and yet be a true penitent person 26. The stipend of Iohn Kidd Curate of Egerton in the County of Kent is sequestred for that he preacheth not to his Parish above once in a fort-night sometimes not once in a Moneth or two Moneths though there be in the said Parish neere 400. Communicants nor provided any other to instruct them and hath used frequent and unreasonable bowing to the Communion-Table in his said Church and perswaded his people so to doe and called them openly unreverent Puppies that passed by it without such bowing and in administring the Sacrament of the Lords Supper when he had received himselfe and was going to administer the Bread to his people assaulted one of the Communicants and pulled him by the haire of the head and thrust him out of the Church and Congregation without any just cause and hath never preached to his Parishioners upon any of the Fast dayes 27. The Benefice of Griffith Roberts Vicar of the Parish Church of Ridge in the County of Hertford is sequestred for that he hath not only practised the late Innovations and neglected the publike Fast and imployed his neighbours to carry home wood for him upon a Fast day but hath openly declared the Earle of Essex and all his followers and Armies of the Parliament to be Traitours and that whosoever sent Horses Money or Plate to the Parliament were also Traitours and that this Land was governed by Children and Fooles and that the Parliament had done that that they must die for even the best of them if ever the Lawes were setled and that the said Roberts is a common drunkard and tipler in Ale-houses and drinker of healths quarrelling with them that will not pledge him therein 28. The Benefice of Peter Dausem Vicar of the Parish Church of Camberwell in the County of Surry is sequestred for that he is a common drunkard and drunke at the times of his officiating at Burials and Baptizings and hath by his debaushed conversation disabled himselfe from preaching and hath not preached for these 12. yeares and upwards and did protect and hide a Romish Priest in his house from the Officers that came to seek him and hath extorted undue and unreasonable fees from his Parishioners and after the administring of the Sacrament of the Lords Supper expended the money given to the poore in Sack and dranke it in the Church And in delivering the Sacrament to one Mistris Wilson one of his Parishioners cast the Bread upon the ground saying to her take it there if thou wilt have it and is a common curser and swearer and hath read in his Church his Majesties Declaration against the Parliament concerning Levies and being told of an Ordinance of Parliament against the reading of such things answered He cared not for it 29. The Benefice of Iohn Mountford Doctor in Divinity Rector of the Parish Church of Austie in the County of Hertford is sequestred for that he hath introduced into his said Church and other Churches a turning of the Communion-Table Altar-wise and having a great Crucifix and Picture of the Virgin Mary in the East window over the said Table used bowings and cringings before the said Table and Crucifix set Altar-wise and caused the said Table to be railed in and the Jesuits Badge to be set upon the Carpet there compelled the people to come up to the railes there to kneele to receive the sacrament teaching them that God was alwayes present at the Altar by the presence of his grace and was therefore to be bowed unto and in his going up to the Table to reade second Service usually caused that part of the 43. Psalme to be sung viz. Then shall I to the Altar goe of God c. And hath endeavoured to leaven his people with the doctrines of Arminianisme and hath forbidden by vertue of a Commissary or Surrogates place he held under the Deane and Chapter of Paules preaching in the afternoone on the Lords day and expounding of the Catechisme within his Jurisdiction only tying them to use the same by bare Questions and Answers and pressing the reading of the Booke of Sports on the Sabbath day and usually enveighed in his Sermons against those that went out from his said Parish Church to heare Sermons when they had none at home and did arrest the Church-wardens of the said Parish and the Glasier for pulling downe the said scandalous Pictures in the said window in obedience to Order of Parliament and hath preached against praying ex tempore as unlawfull and hath in his absence substituted a very scandalous Curate very superstitious in his practises who preached that that conscience was neither good nor quiet that could not be content with one Sermon a day on the Lords day and charged them as Rebells that did not observe his superstitious practises of the late

THE FIRST CENTVRY OF Scandalous Malignant PRIESTS Made and admitted into Benefices by the PRELATES in whose hands the Ordination of Ministers and government of the Church hath been OR A Narration of the Causes for which the PARLIAMENT hath Ordered the Sequestration of the Benefices of severall Ministers complained of before them for vitiousnesse of Life errors in Doctrine contrary to the Articles of our Religion and for practising and pressing superstitious Innovations against Law and for Malignancy against the PARLIAMENT IT is Ordered this seventeenth day of November 1643. by the Committee of the House of Commons in Parliament concerning Printing that this Booke Intituled The first Century of Scandalous Malignant Priests c. be printed by George Miller JOHN WHITE LONDON Printed by George Miller dwelling in the Black-Friers M.DC.XLIII To the READER Reader THis ensuing summary Declaration of the Grounds and Causes whereupon this Parliament hath proceeded against divers Ministers to sequester their Benefices from them and to place in their roomes godly learned orthodox Divines diligent Preachers of the Word of God may serve thee for many excellent parposes First To open thine eyes and clearely convince and satisfie thee that the Parliament had good and very great cause from hence among many other things to declare and resolve that the present Church Governement by Arch-bishops Bishops their Chancellours Commissaries Deanes Arch-deacons and other Ecclesiasticall Officers depending upon the Hierarchie is evill and justly Offensive and burdensome to the Kingdome a great Impediment to Reformation and growth of Religion and very prejudiciall to the State and Government of this Kingdome and therefore to be taken away a See the Preamble of the bill for the Assembly of Divines and of the Ordinance by which they sit They have beene by our Lawes entrusted with the Care and Provision for the soules of the King and Subjects to heed feed and watch over them b Acts 20.28 1 Pet. 5.2 Heb. 13.17 And to attend upon the great Embassie they pretend unto to pray and beseech them to be reconciled unto God c 2 Cor. 5.20 and to preach and to cause to be preached by able and faithfull men d 2 Tim. 2.2 The Word of God in season and out of season e 2 Tim. 4 2. They have not onely neglected their Personall Execution of this weighty trust but also have generally and mostly committed the same to Persons illiterate and insufficient dumbe Doggs as the Scripture calls them f Isa 56.10 that cannot barke against whom God hath protested for their ignorance g Hos 4.6 and to men swallowed up with Wine and strong drinke whose Tables are full of vomit and filthinesse h Isai 28.7.8 Quorum ess et vivere est esse bibere Whoremongers and Adulterers who as fed Horses neigh after their Neighbours Wives i Jer. 5.8 Buggerers that change the naturall use into that which is against Nature k Rom. 1.26 And to others scandalous of corrupt mindes and ill affected to the Peace and Safety of the Kingdome men unfit to preach to or live among Christians their wickednesse being so great as that they are condemned by Heathens And hereby they have taken the high-way to destroy the souls committed to them and to drown them in Perdition The evill life of a Minister being like the rods which Jacob spread before the Sheepe m Precepts are iter longum Examples iter breve the people write after his copie with ease and confidence Sinnes are reputed as none or as veniall which receive Patronage from the Ministers Example n Hae hominum faces non Dei ministri sed Satanae satellites non Christi seblatores sed Antichriste successores And though some few of these Church Governors have been men that have otherwise expressed in the course of their lives a true feare of God yet by a strange Influence of the Divine Curse upon their Offices branches of the Hierarchy of Rome plants not planted by our heavenly Father these as well as the rest have unhappily laid hands suddenly upon many and preferred divers wicked and unworthy by partiality o 1 Tim. 5.2 to marry and put off their hands a Daughter a Kinswoman and upon other bie and base respects without regard of the good of the soules of them over whom they were set And in this Booke thou shalt have an Assay of the Gall and Worme-wood of the Episcopall Governement taken out of London the Metropolis and of the Counties adjacent that when thou seest what Vermine crawles upon and devoures the principall and vitall parts thou maist reflect with a mournefull heart upon the more miserable condition of Wales and of the North the more remote parts of this Kingdome where upon scrutiny will be easily found many for one as vile and abhominable as these And if thou wouldost have the people perish for want of vision or impoysoned with the destructive Errours of Popery and Arminianisme and the Land yet more defiled with cursing swearing drunkennesse whoredome sodomie then put thy shoulders still to the support of the said Church-Government and Governours but if thou be better minded as in Charitie I hope thou art then joyne heart and hand with the Parliament to purge out such Popish dreggs and together with them pray for and endeavour a through Reformation according to the word of God Secondly Thou maist by perusall of this booke clearly see what manner of persons those Cleargie-men be that favour the present course of his Majestie against his Parliament and people and dislike and maligne the wayes of the Parliament they will appeare unto thee to be such as cannot endure the purity power and strictnesse of the true Religion that hate Reformation and to be brought in their hearts Religion and lives to the holy Word of God that seeks themselves and not the things of Jesus Christ that are given over to vile affections to superstition ambition persecutions covetousnesse malignity and all wickednes and knowing the judgement of God and what they deserve that commit such things yet not only doe the same but have pleasure in them that doe them a Rom. 1.28 29 32. Thirdly Thou maiest hereby discerne one principall ground and cause of the generall ignorance and debauchery of the Gentry and people of this Kingdome Like Priest like people b Hos 4. ● They cause the people to erre by their lyes and by their lightnesse c Jer. 23.31 They are a snare on Mispah and a net spread upon Tabor d Hos 5.1 They have wrested and broken the law of the Lord defiled his holy things hid their eyes from his Sabbaths polluted his Sanctuary e Ezek. 22.26 and seduced the people to the same wickednesse dawbing with untempered Morter f Ezek. 13.10 These Prophets prophesie falsly the Bishops beare rule by their means and the people love to have it so g Jer. 5.31 Fourthly Behold with