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A56127	The antipathie of the English lordly prelacie, both to regall monarchy, and civill unity: or, An historicall collection of the severall execrable treasons, conspiracies, rebellions, seditions, state-schismes, contumacies, oppressions, & anti-monarchicall practices, of our English, Brittish, French, Scottish, & Irish lordly prelates, against our kings, kingdomes, laws, liberties; and of the severall warres, and civill dissentions occasioned by them in, or against our realm, in former and latter ages Together with the judgement of our owne ancient writers, & most judicious authors, touching the pretended divine jurisdiction, the calling, lordlinesse, temporalities, wealth, secular imployments, trayterous practises, unprofitablenesse, and mischievousnesse of lordly prelates, both to King, state, Church; with an answer to the chiefe objections made for the divinity, or continuance of their lordly function. The first part. By William Prynne, late (and now againe) an utter-barester of Lincolnes Inne.	Prynne, William, 1600-1669.	1641 (1641)	Wing P3891A; Wing P3891_vol1; Wing P4074_vol2_CANCELLED; ESTC R18576	670,992	826

I trow that God would commend his Priests if they woulden forsake worldly Lordships and holden them apayd with lifelot and with cloathing and busie them fast about their heritage of Heaven And God saith Numer 18. That is You shall have no inheritance in their Land nor have no part amongst th●m I will be your part and inheritance amongst the children of Israel Deut. 18. The Priests and Levites and all that be of the same Tribe shall have no part nor inheritance with the rest of Israel because they shall eate the Sacrifices of the Lord and his oblations and they shall take nothing of the possession of their Brethren The Lord himselfe ●s their possession as he spake unto them And the fourteenth chap●er of Luke Even so every one of you which forsaketh not all that he possesseth cannot be my Disciple And Ierome in his 14 Epistle hath the like words And Bernard in his 20 Booke to Eugenius the Pope And a●so Hugo in his booke De Sacramentis the second part of his second booke the 7 chapter And also in the 12. q. first chapter Duo sunt and in the chapter Clericus And againe Bernard in sermone de Apostolis upon this place Ecce nos reliquimus omnia Behold we leave all c. Chrysostome upon the Gospell of Saint Matthew c. Walter Brute this Swinderbyes Disciple was Articled against before the Prelates for maintaining the same positions his Master did namely That all Priests are of like power in all points notwithstanding that some of them are in this world of higher dignity degree or preheminence And touching the wealth and Temporalties of Prelates and Clergy men and the taking away of tbem he thus concludes in his Examination before the Bishop of Hereford As touching the taking away of temporall goods from those that are Ecclesiasticall persons offending habitualiter by such as ●re temporall Lords I will not affirme any thi●g to be lawfull in this matter as in other matters before that is not agreeable to charity And that because it is a hard matter for a man to take another mans goods from him without breaking of charity because peradventure hee that taketh away is the more moved to such manner of taking away by reason of the desire he hath to those goods which he endureth to take away or else because of some displeasure or hatred to the person from whom he goeth about to take away those goods more then that he from whom those goods be tak●n ●●ould be amended Therefore unl●sse he that taketh away be onely moved of charity to the taking away of such goods ● dare not affirme that such taking is lawfull And if such taking away proceed of charity I dare not judge it unlawfull because that the Bishop of Rome which received his temporall dominion of the Empe●our when the Emperour rebelled and was not obedient unto him deprived him from his t●mporall jurisdiction How much more then may temporall Lords doe the same which have bestowed upon them many temporall Dominions and Lordships onely to the intent that they might the better intend to serve God and ke●p● his Command●ments Now if they perceive that they be against the Lawes of God and that they be ove● busily occupied about wordly matters I cannot see but that they may well enough take from them those temporall goods which to a good purpose they gav● them But if in time to come after this those that be● temporall Lords shall take from Ecclesiasticall persons such temporalties let him that desireth to understand this read the Prophet Ez●kiel in the chapter of the shepheards of Israel which fed themselves in stead of their flock and so let him read the Apocalyps of the fall of Babylon Let him also read the Popes Decretal● against Hereticks and in those he shall find that the taking away of the temporalties from the Clergy shall come to pas●e for the multitude of their sinnes This opinion That the temporall Lords might t●ke away the temporall goods from Church●● offending habitually w●s likewise maintained about the same time by Nicholas Hereford Philip R●●●ington John As●●on and generally by all the Wicklivists of that age and that without any danger at all of sacriledge or sinne with Walter Brute his limitations which opinion the Lordly Prelates of England 〈◊〉 very importunate to cause them to recant by force and flattery William Thorpe a Martyr in Henry the fourth his raigne averred That the covetousnesse of Priests and pride and the boast that they have and make of their dignity and power destroyeth no● onely the vertues of Priesthood in Priests themselves but also over this it stirreth God to take great vengeance both upon the Lords and upon the Commons which suffer these Priests charitably Whereupon Arundel the Archbishop said to him Thou judgest every Priest proud that will not goe arayed as thou doest by God I deeme him to be more meek that goeth every day in a Scarlet gowne then thou in thy thredbare blew gowne Whereby knowest thou a proud man And hee said Sir a proud Priest may be knowne when he denyeth to follow Christ and his Apostles in wilfull poverty and other vertues and cove●eth worldly worship and taketh it gladly and gathereth together with pleading menacing or with flattering or with Simony any-worldly goods and most if a Priest ●usy him not cheifly in himselfe and after in all other men and women after his cunning and power to withstand sinne And finally he adds that the viciousnesse of these foresaid named Priests and Prelates hath been long time and yet is and shall be cause of wars both within the Realme and without and in the same wise these unable Priests have been and yet are and shall ●e chiefe cause of pestilence of men and murren of beasts and the barrennesse of the earth and of all other mischiefes to the time that Lords and Commons able them through grace to know and to keep the Commandements of God inforcing them then faithfully and charitably by one assent to redresse and make one this foresaid Priesthood to the wilfull poore meeke and innocent living and teaching specially of Christ and his Apostles So hee Iohn Purvey a Martyr about the same time in a Treatise of his declared how the King the Lords and Commons may without any charge at all keepe fifteene Garrisons and find 15900 Souldiers having sufficient Lands and revenues to live upon out of the temporalties gotten into the hand● of the Clergy and ●ained religious men which never doe tha● which pertaineth to the office of Curats to doe nor yet to secular Lords And moreover the King may have every yeare 20000 pound to come freely into his coffers and above also he may finde or sustaine fifteene Colledges more and 15000. Priests and Clarks with sufficient living and an hundred Hospitals for the sick and every house to have a hundred Markes in Lands And all this may they take

or fellowship promised unto us of the Prophet and of those Fathers long agoe reproved Whilest that Christ called thee the Synagogue of Satan and likened thee to the mighty Whore which committed fornication with the Kings of the earth the adulterous Spouse of Christ and of a chast person made a Strumpet Thou hast left thy first Love and cleaved unto us O our beloved Babylon O our Citizens which from the transmigration of Hierusalem come hither We love you for your deserts we rejoyce over you which contemn● the Lawes of Simon Peter and imbrace the Lawes of Simon M●gus our friend and have them at your fingers ends and exercise the same publickly buying and selling spirituall things in the Church of God and against the Commandement of God Ye give Benefices and Honours by Petition or else for money for favour or else for filthy service And refusing to admit those that be worthy to E●clesiasticall dignity you call unto the inheritance of Gods Sanctuary Bauds Liers Flatterers your Nephews and your owne Children and to a childish Boy ye give many Prebends the least whereof ye d●ny to bestow upon a poore good man Ye esteeme the person of a man and receive gifts Ye regard money and have no regard of Soules Ye have made the house of God a denne of Theeves All abuse extortion is more exercised an hundred fold in your judgement seats then with any secular Tyrant Ye make Lawes and keepe not the same and dispence with your dispensations as it pleaseth you you justifie the wicked for reward and take away the just mans desert from him And briefely yee perpetrate or commit all kinde of mischiefe even as it is our will yee should And ye take much paines for Lucres sake in our Service and especially to destroy the Christian faith For now the Lay people are almost in doubt what they may believe because if yee preach any such to them at sometimes although it be but seldome seene and that negligently enough even as we would have it yet notwithstanding they believe you not because they see manifestly that ye do clean contrary to that yee say Whereupon the co●mon people d●ing as yee doe which have the government of them and should be an example unto them of well doing now many of them lea●●ing to your rules doe runne headlong into a whole s●a of vices and continually a very great ●ultitude flocketh at the strong and well fenced gates of our dungeon And doubtlesse● yee send us so many day by day of every sort and kinde of people that we should not be able to entertaine them but that our insatiable Ch●os with her thousand ravening jawes is sufficient to devoure an infinite numbe● of soules And thus the soveraignty of our Empire by you hath beene reformed and out intolerable losse restored Wherefore most specially we commend you and give most hearty thankes exhorting all you that in any wise yee persevere and continue as hitherto yee have done neither that you slacke henceforward your enterprise For why by ●our helps wee purpose to bring the whole world under our power and dominion Over and besides this we commit unto you no small authority to supply our places in the betraying of your brethren and we make and ordaine you our Vicars and the Ministers of Antichrist our Sonne now hard at hand for whom ye have made a very trim way passage Furthermore we counsell you which occupy the highest roomes of all other that you worke subtilly and that yee faignedly procure peace betweene the Princes of the world and that yee cherish and procure secret causes of discord And like as craftily yee have destroyed and subverted the Roman Empire so suffer yee no kingome to be overmuch enlarged or enriched by tranquillity and peace lest perhaps in so great tranquillity all desire of peace set aside they dispose themselves to view and consider your most wicked workes suppressing on every side your estate and from your treasures take away such s●bstance as we have caused to be reserved and kept in your hands untill the comming of our welbeloved sonne Antichrist We would you should doe our commendations to our entirly beloved daughters Pride Deceit Wrath Avarice Belli-cheere and Lechery and to all other my daughters and especially to Lady Simony which hath made you men and enriched you and hath given you suck with her owne breasts and weaned you and therefore in no wise-see that yee call her sinne And also be yee lofty and proud because that the most high dignity of your estate doth require suck magnificence And also be yee covetous for whatsover yee get and gather into your fardell it is for Saint Peter for the peace of the Church and for the defence of your patrimony and the Crucifix and therefore yee may lawfully doe it you may promote Cardinalls to the highest seat of dignities without any ●et in the world in stopping the mouth of our adversary Jesus Christ and a●leaging againe that he preferred his kinsfolkes being but of poore and base degree unto the Apostle●hip but doe not you so but rather call as yee doe those that live in arrogancy in haughtinesse of mind and fil●hy lechery unto the sta●e of wealthy riches and pride and those rewa●ds and promotions which the followers of Christ forsooke do yee distribute unto your friends Therefore as you shall have better understanding prepare yee vices cloaked under the similitude of vertues alleage for your selves the glosses of the holy Scripture and wrest them directly for to serve for your purpose And if any man preach or teach otherwise than yee will oppresse yee them violently with the sentence of excommunication and by your censures heaped one upon another by the consent of your brethren let him be condemnned as an heretique and let him be kept in most strait prison and there tormented till he die for a terrible example to all such as confesse Christ. And setting all favour apart cast him out of your Temple lest peradventure the ingrafted word may save your soules which word I abhorr● as I doe the soules of other faithfull men And doe your endeavour that yee may deserve to have the place which we have prepared for you under the most wicked foundation of our dwelling place fare yee well with such felicity as we desire and intend finally to reward and recompence you with Given at the Center of the earth in that darke place where all the rablement of Devills were present specially for this purpose ca●led unto our most dolorous Consistory under the Character of our terrible Seale for the confirmation of the premises Divers other writings of like argument saith Master Fox both before and since have beene devised As one bearing the Title Luciferi ad malos principes Ecclesiasticos ●mprinted first at Paris in Latine And under the writing thereof bearing this

wicked Doctrine at Oxford were brought into judgement before the King and the Bishops of the kingdome who being devious from the catholique Faith and overcome in tryall Facies cauteriata notabiles cunctis exposuit qui expulsi sunt aregno they were stigmatized in the face which made them notable to all and then banished out of the kingdome VVhat this pravum dogma or wicked opinion was for which these men were thus stigmatized and exiled I finde not specified in Paris and Walsingham but Iohn Bale out of Gu●do Perpin●anus de Haeresibus relates that those men were certaine Waldenses who taught That the Church of Rome was the whore of Babylon and the barren Fig-tree whom Christ himselfe had long agoe accursed and moreover said Non obediendum esse Pap● ET EPISCOPIS Ordinesque Characteres esse magnae bestiae That men are not to obey the Pope AND BISHOPS and that Orders to wit Popish Orders are the characters of the great beast Had these Waldenses lived in our dayes they should not have beene branded onely in the face by our Lordly Prelates procurement but set ●n the Pillory and had both their eares cut off then banished into forraigne Islands and there been shut up close prisoners so strictly that neither their wives children friends should have any accesse unto them nor they enjoy so much as the use of bookes Pen Inke or Paper onely for opposing Episcopacy as we know some others have lately been for this very cause Expertus loquor So dangerous so fatall is it for any to oppose our Lordly Prelacy as these men did in their generation though ●hey smarted for it Yet this could not deterre our most learned ● Gualter Mapes Archdeacon of Oxford flourishing in king Iohns raigne about the yeare of our Lord 1210. from following their footsteps who in his Satyrs doubted not to stile Prelates Animalia bruta stercora Bruit beasts and dung and in his books Ad impios Praelat●s and Ad malos Pastores complaines that Alegis doctoribus Lex evacuatur Dilatatur impii regnum Pharaonis comparing the Bishops to wicked Pharaoh for their tyranny and oppression But of him before This Doctrine of his and other our Martyrs was this seconded by Sir Iohn Borthwike knight martyred in Scotland Anno 1540. as appeares by his answers in the sixth and seventh Articles objected against him by the Prelates The sixth Article Agreeable to the ancient Errors of Iohn Wickliffe and Iohn Hus Arch-Heretiques condemned in the Councell of Constance hee hath affirmed and preached That the Clergy ought not to possesse or have any temporall possessions neither to have any jurisdiction or authoritie in temporalties even over their owne subjects but that all things ought to bee taken from them as it is at this present in England Borthwicke The Lord in the eighteenth Chapter of the Booke of Numbers said thus unto Aaron Thou shalt possesse nothing in their Land neither shalt thou have any portion amongst them I am thy portion and inheritance amongst the Children of Israel for unto the sonnes of Levi I have given all the Tithes of Israel that they should possesse them for their Ministry which they doe execute in the Tabernacle of the Congregation Albeit I doe not doubt but that the Order of the Levites and of the Clergy is farre different and variable For the administration of their sacred and holy things after their death passed unto their posterity as it were by right of inheritance which happeneth not unto the posterity of our Clergy in these dayes Furthermore if any heritage be provided or gotten for them I doe not gain●-say but that they shall possesse it but still I doe affirme That all temporall jurisdiction should be taken from them For when as twice there arose a contention amongst the Disciples which of them should be thought the greatest Christ answered The kings of Nations have dominion over them and such which have power over them are called beneficiall you shall not doe so for hee which is greatest amongst you shall be made equall unto the youngest or least and hee which is the Prince or Ruler amongst you shall be made equall unto him that doth minister minding thereby and willing utterly to debarre the Ministers of his Word from all terrene and civill dominion and Empire For by these points he doth not onely declare that the office of a Pastor is distinct and divided from the office of a Prince and Ruler but they are in effect so much different and separate that they cannot agree or ioyne together in one man Neither is it to be thought that Christ did set or ordaine an harder Law then hee himselfe did take upon him For so much as in the twelfth of Luke certaine of the company said unto him Master command my brother that he divide his inheritance with mee Hee answered Man who made me a Judge or a divider amongst you Wee see therefore that Christ even simply did reiect and refuse the office of a Judge the which thing hee would not have done if it had beene agreeable unto his office or duty The like thing also hee did in the eighth Chapter of Iohn when as hee refused to give iudgement upon the woman taken in adultery which was brought before him● Whereas they doe alleage ●hat Moses did supply both offices at once I answer that it was done by a rare miracle Furthermore that it continued but for a time untill things were brought unto a better state besides that there was a certaine forme and rule prescribed him of the Lord then tooke hee upon him the civill governance and the Priesthood he was commanded to resigne unto his b●other and that not without good cause for it is against nature that one man should suffice both charges wherefore it was diligently fore-seene and provided for in all ages Neither was there any Bishop so long as any true face or shew of the Church did continue who once thought to usurpe the right and title of the sword whereupon in the time of Saint Ambrose this proverbe tooke his originall That Emperours did rather wish or desire the office of Priesthood then Priests any Empire For it was all mens opinions at that time that sumptuous palaces did pertaine unto Emperours and Churches unto Priests Saint Bernard also writeth many things which are agreeable unto this our opinion as is this his saying Peter could not give that which hee had not but hee gave unto his succes●ours that which hee had that is to say carefulnesse over the Congregation for when as the Lord and Master saith That he is not constituted or ordained Judge betweene two the servant or Disciple ought not to take it scornfully if that he may not judge all men And lest that hee might seeme in that place to speake of the spirituall judgement hee straightway annexeth therefore saith hee your power and authority shall be in offence and transgression not in possessions For