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A56144	Canterburies doome, or, The first part of a compleat history of the commitment, charge, tryall, condemnation, execution of William Laud, late Arch-bishop of Canterbury containing the severall orders, articles, proceedings in Parliament against him, from his first accusation therein, till his tryall : together with the various evidences and proofs produced against him at the Lords Bar ... : wherein this Arch-prelates manifold trayterous artifices to usher in popery by degrees, are cleerly detected, and the ecclesiasticall history of our church-affaires, during his pontificall domination, faithfully presented to the publike view of the world / by William Prynne, of Lincolns Inne, Esquire ...	Prynne, William, 1600-1669.	1646 (1646)	Wing P3917; ESTC R19620	792,548	593

hallowed as they say with their conjured water Crossings Censings Processions c. But blessed be that God our Lord which by the light of his Word doth confound all such wicked and fond fantasies which they devise to fill their bellies and maintaine their Authority by Although these Ceremonies in the old Law were given by Moses for the hardnesse of the peoples hearts to keep thē exercised that they fall not to the Idolatry of the Gentiles yet is there no mention of them in the New Testament nor yet commanded now either to us or them but forbidden to be used of all both of us and them We be no longer under shaddowes but under the truth Christ hath fulfilled all and taken away all such darke kind of Ceremonies and hath placed the cleare light of his Gospell in the Church to continue to the end The Popes Church hath all things pleasant in it to delight the people but where the Gospell is preached they knowing that God is not pleased but onely with a pure heart they are content with an honest place appointed to resort together in though it were never hallowed by Bishops at all It is written that God dwels not in Temples made with hands nor is worshipped with any worke of mens hands but he is a spirit an invisible substance and will be worshipped in spirit and truth not in outward words onely of the lippes but with the deepe sighes and groanes of the heart and the whole power of the mind and earnest hearty calling on him in praier by faith And therefore he doth not so much require of us to build him an house of stone and timber but hath willed us to pray in all places and hath taken away the Iewish and Popish holynesse which is thought to be more in one place then another All the earth is the Lords and he is present in all places hearing the Petitions of them that call upon him in faith Therefore those Bishops which thinke with their conjured water to make one place more holy then the rest are no better then the Jewes deceiving the people and teaching that onely to be holy which they have censed crossed oyled and breathed upon for as Christ said to the woman thinking one place to be more holy to pray in then another Woman beleeve me the time is come when yee shall worship neither at Jerusalem nor in this Hill but the true worshippers shall worship God in spirit and truth So it is now said the place makes not the man holy but the man makes the place holy and ye shall not worship your Idols Stocks and Stones neither at Wilsingham Ipswich Canterbury nor Sheen for God chuses not the people for the places sake but the place for the people sake But if yee be in the midst of the field God is as ready to heare your faithfull praiers as in any Abbey or Priory yea a thousand times more for the one place he hates as defiled with Idolatry and the other he loves as undefiled and cleane If the good man lie in prison tyed in Chaines or at the stake burned for Gods cause That place is holy for the holynesse of the man and the presence of the holy Ghost in him as Tertullian saith yet there should be common places appointed for the people to Assemble and come together therein to praise our God c. Those who in the Apostles times were buried in no Church or Church-yard nor Christen-moldes as they be called when it is not better then other earth but rather worse for the conjuring that Bishops use about it It appeares in the Gospell by the Legion living in graves the Widdowes sonne going to buriall Christ buried without the Citty c. That they buried not in hallowed Churches by Bishops but in a severall place appointed for the same purpose without the Citty which custome remaineth to this day in many godly places c. A most expresse Authority against Bishops Popish consecrations of Churches and Church-yards to make them holyer then other places The second Authority they produced was Mathew Parker Archbishop of Canterbury in the beginning of Queene Elizabeths reigne who was of a quite contrary judgment to this his Popish Successor condemning this manner of consecrating Churches Altars c. as Superstitious Paganish childish ridiculous in his Antiquitates Ecclesiae Brittannicae p. 85. 86. 87. in these termes Legat enim qui volet recentiores et nostro praesertim avo editos Pontificales ac Missales libros reperiet eos et Caeremoniarū multitudine peragendi difficultate atque taedio et exorcisationis amentia priores illos longè superare Quibus enim non dicam verbis sed portentis has et ejus modi a Pontisiciis adhuc adjurantur c. Dedicatio recentis Ecclesiae Altaria vasa indumenta Linteamina et ornamenta Ecclesiastica Hac omnia quam solemni ritu sanctarum scripturarum sententiis ad suas decantationes perperā adhibitis Potificij peragunt paucis videamus c. In dedicatione Ecclesiae jam exstructae Episcopus ter ' circumiens ostium bacculo pastorali ferit hoc Psalmi carmine Attollite Portas c. Cui Diaconus intus existens respondet fere exanimatus Quis est iste Rex gloriae c. Deinde ingredicus Episcopus in fundamento Ecclesiae Cineribus sparso Alphabetum Gracum et Latinum bacculo describit tum variis multisque Episcopi Clerique incessibus rectis obliquis retrogradis transuersis parietes ac pavimenta aqua sparguntur cruces in parietibus chrismate cum dextro Episcopi pollice depinguntur infinitis penè completis caeremoniis ad extremum precatur ut populus in ea conveniens per sacerdotum libamina caelesti sanctificatione salvatus animae salutem perpetuam consequatur discedens portam his verbis Episcopus ungit chrismate porta sis benedicta sanctificata consecrata consignata Deo commendata c. Altaria autem innumeris hujus generis precibus consecrantur c. Et sane valde deflenda est hujus temporis conditio quod Ecclesiae Patres eadem mentis acie ab ecclesia resecare has hujusmodi caeremonias seu potius nugas aut nolunt aut non possunt qua priora illa Ordalii vitia cernebant atque corrigebant sed illis ut superstitiosis damnatis deletis hac quae mordicus retinent quamvis puerilia deliria sint ex illis tamen fabricantur atque struunt Quanto modernis Pontificibus aequior fuit Gregorius qui scribit Quomodo regulae sanctorum Patrum pro tempore loco persona negotio instante necessitate traditae sunt Hi autem nulla neque temporis neque loci neque negotii neque personae neque cujusquàm rei quàm suae voluntatis atque gloriolae rationem habentes ne pusillis in rebus veritate cedere volunt A very good character of the Prisoner at the bar and his proceedings in this kinde

with the Arch-bishops own hand Received Jan. 30. 1640. L. Exon Concerning his book and the submission of it to my judgement The Propositions inclosed in this Letter were these following to which the Arch-bishop added this Title and some insertions with his own hand here noted with a distinct Character Concerning Church Government and the estate of Episcopacy 1. God had never any Church upon earth that was ruled by a Parity 2. The first Church of God which was reduced to a publike policy was among the Jewes and by his owne appointment was governed by a settled imparity of High-Priest Priests Levites 3. The Evangelicall Church was founded by our Saviour in a knowne imparity for though the Apostles were equall among themselves yet they were above the 70. and all other Disciples and were specially indued with power from on high 4. The same God and Saviour after his Assention did set severall ranks and orders of the holy Ministry First Apostles Secondly Prophets Thirdly Teachers c. all which acknowledged the eminence and authority of the Apostles 5. The Apostles after the Assention of our Saviour by the direction of Gods spirit did exercise that power and superiority of spirituall Jurisdiction over the rest of the Church which was given them by Christ and stood upon their Majority above all other Ministers of the Gospell 6. The same Apostles did not carry that power up to heaven with them and leave the Church unfurnished with the due helpes of her further propagation and Government but by vertue of this power and by the same direction of Gods spirit ordayned in severall parts spirituall guides and Governours of Gods people to ayde and succeede them 7. The spirituall persons so by them ordained were at the first promiscuously called Bishops and Presbyters and managed the Church affaires by common advice but still under the Government of the Apostles their Ordayners and overseers 8. But when the Apostles found that Quarrels and Emulations grew in the Church even while many of them were living through the Parity of Presbyters and side takings of the people The same Apostles by the appointment and direction of the same spirit raised in each City where the Church was more frequent one amongst the Presbyters to a more eminent Authority then the rest to succeed them in their ordinary power of ordination and censure and encharged them peculiarly with the care of Church-Government such were Timothy and Titus and those which were stiled the Angells of the seven Asian Churches 9. These selected persons were then and ever since distinguished from the rest by the name Episcopi-Bishops 10. In the very times of the Apostles and by the imposition of their hands there were divers such persons setled in the Church of God being severally ordayned and appointed to the over-sight of those populous Citties where their charge lay to whom all the Presbyters and Deacons were subject 11. These Bishops continued their fixed superiority over their Clergy all the time of their life with the well allowed expresse of spirituall Jurisdiction and after their death other Presbyters were chosen to succeed them by the due imposition of the hands of their fellow Bishops 12. There was no Church of Christ upon earth ever since the times of the Apostles governed any otherwise then by Bishops thus successively after decease ordayned 13. This course of Government thus set by the Apostles in their life time by the speciall direction of the holy spirit is not alterable by any humane Authority but ought to be perpetuated in the Church to the end of the world 14. Those which in the new Testament are called the Elders of the Church were no other then spirituall persons such as had the charge of feeding the Flocke of Christ by Word and Doctrine 15. It is not lawfull for any Lay-person to lay hands on those which are to be ordayned nor to have any hand in managing the Censures of the Church which onely pertaine to them who have the power of the Keyes delivered to them by Christ 16. There was never any Lay Presbyter heard or read of in the Church of Christ in any History untill this present age All which wee declare to the Doctrine and Judgement of the Church of England concerning these points of Church Government These Propositions were thus endorsed with the Arch-Bishops owne hand Rec. Decemb. 29. 1639. Bishop Hall of Exeter his propositions concerning Episcopacy These perhaps may be thought fit for a subscription of others There were two more Letters which passed between these Prelates about this subject and Book which we have referred to a more proper place where you may peruse them All which compared together will fully discover the whole plot and designe of the Archbishop and his confederates in maintaining their Lordly Episcopall Superiority to be of divine Institution and Right and how it was driven on by them till it brake them all in pieces by the authority and Justice of the present Parliament The last head I shall mention is the summe and substance of all the fore-mentioned namely 21. That the Church of Rome is a true visible Church and never erred in fundamentalls no not in the worst times That she is the Ancient holy Mother Church That her Religion and ours of the Church of England is all one That men may be saved in that Church and Religion as well as in ours and that it is a crime to be recanted to hold Papists as Papists to be damned This main comprehensive Proposition ratifies and clearly demonstrates to us the true drift scope of all the former to wit a 〈◊〉 and reconciliation with the Church of Rome the foundation whereof was first laid by this Arch-bishops creature Bishop Mountague who determines thus in his Gagge pag. 14. The Articles of our Creed are confessed on both sides and held plain enough The controverted points are of a larger and an inferior alloy of them a man may be ignorant without any danger of his soul at all pag. 50. Moderate men on both sides confesse this controversie may cease Ecclesia Romana manet Christi Ecclesia sponsa c. In his Appeal pag. 136. Since there first was a Church in England France Spain and Rome there hath not ceased to be a true Church there pag. 139. The Church of Rome is and ever was a true Church since it was a Church pag. 113. I am absolutely perswaded that the Church of Rome is a true though not a sound Church of Christ as well since as before the Councell of Trent In essentialls and fundamentalls they agree in holding one faith in one Lord. This Position was strenuously maintained by Master Chomley and Butterfield who soon after turned Seminary Priest in their Books against Master Burtons Babel no Bethel wherein they justified the Church of Rome to be a true Church this being the subject matter of both their Treatises Tho. Chuneus in his Collectiones Theologicae

should wonder both at the mans selfe and at the mans men not at the Jesuits onely and the Seminary Priests you shall not know them to make them the wonderment But the Recusant Papist yea every profest Papist let us wonder at them too They wax in number and in spirit and their mouthes speak presumptious things Think you they censure that treason from their heart surely I will think that he that sayes as the Pope sayes will also doe as the Pope does Say he comes to Church and hold the Kings supremacy tamen Romanus est as Segismond the Emperour said of a Cardinall yet he is a Papist nullus est fidus eorum affectus quorum est diversa fides therefore trust not that man that holds any Popery if he kisse like a Serpent he sure will sting too his peace is with thee but rebus sit stantibus he is that womans Son he thirsts for blood even thy blood that embraceth him he sayes with Esau in his heart the dayes of mourning for Isaac will come one day then I will kill my Brother Ia●cob but let us wonder Ibid. page 286. l. 10. these words are expunged Instance but in the Pope he is but one Serpent but a great one Draco magnus in the Apocalipse He curseth Kings and States by his B●le that is his Hisse murders and massacres by his Jesuits they are his sting page 416. l. 25. I will not say the Jew but surely the Gentile before the Jesuit page 420. l. 14. Rome is no Court of Arches to license the Jesuit to teach where he will page 427. l. 6. No Papist no right Papist is a right Israelite for there is guile in him page 435. l. 5. The Epie●re Jesuits and Stoick Priests call these Calvinists bablers others of them say they set forth strange gods for they preach to the people Iesus sola sides a Male God and a Female may we not know what this doctrine this new doctrine whereof these Calvinists speak is we will know what these things doe meane Unhappy Recusants Page 348. l. 6. To so many hearers so intelligent little need application yet the times crave it Is not this Land a limbe of this Ierusalem of Jerusalem it is but not of this not of David's Ierusalem you heare Jerusalem taxt roughly by the Prophet both for murther and adultery for shedding Saints blood and serving strange gods England is no persecutor but it is an halter between two Religions Dagon affronts Gods Arke here 's both Eucharist and Masse Babylon is in Ierusalem It 's not unworthy the observing that Jerusalem in the Originall tongue is of the Duall number there are two Ierusalems David bid● pray for Ierusalems peace but whether Ierusalem that surely which he here describes where is Unity v. 2. Religion v. 4. and Justice v. 5. Ierusalem is a City that is at Unity within it self thither goe up the Tribes to prayse the Lord and there are our seats of judgement Is our Jerusalem such schisme in the Church and faction in the State shew there is no Unity Popery and Atheisme spread over the whole Land prove there is small Religion and impunity lesse Justice and may we pray for peace on this Ierusalem we may but yet it must be by some other Text pray we may for any Moses did for Israel though fallen greivously Samuel for Saul though a grand sinner we may well curse though happily in vaine for God sayes non est pax there 's no peace to the wicked sinne at length captiv'd Israel sackt the City raced the Temple nunc seges est grasse growes at Ierusalem Yet despaire not daughter Zion return our Sullamite there 's no peace to the wicked cease we to doe evill sorry we for sinnes heartily weep we pray we God for peace we shall have peace the prodigious pride of women their wanton vanities censured often by preachers but in vaine they will come with them to Church in spite of us I think in spite of Angels too who are ever present in our Church and the drunkennesse of men their whoredomes and blasphemies draw downe divine revenge on our Jerusalem France will be Gods ●od and Spaine will be his hammer to scourge and beat Ierusalem to powder mature repentance will preuent all and peace will be on Israel And page 445. 446. Jesuits must speak for Mammon he is their god There are seekers of soules a phrase frequent in Scripture seekers of blood Iesuits are such seek fooles they should Iesus selfe did it he sought to save them Iesuits doe but to destroy them They Querere animas but not in Christs sense in Satane sense to devour them they seek carefully for they will 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 do as the devil does walk about the world to doe that worke There are seekers of lyes v. 42. The Church of Rome swarmes with such seekers That 's from below too another of Satans seekers whom Christ cals father of lyes These passages are all deleted by the Lincenser as heterodox In Master Ward 's Comentary upon Matthew these clauses were purged out by the Licenser fol. 120. Thirdly Fishes i. e. men not onely rich men but all men and therefore the Monks are but bad fishers who fish onely for great and rich men labouring onely to draw them into their nets Fol. 148. First my servants shall drink and ye shall be thirsty and therefore it is a great insolency in the Papists thus diametrally to contradict the direct promises of God Secondly Aliquando bonus dormit Hom●rus wise men may play the foole sometimes and subtle Sophisters dispute absurdly as our witty country-man Stapleton doth in this present Argument disputing thus c. Secondly if our country-man Stapleton had not been a professor of Divinity and a teacher of others he might have gone to the Logick professor to learne to frame a better Argument this thus framed by him being so absurd Those that desire temporall things are wicked therefore those who want temporall things are not happy he had need look well to this Syllogisme or Argument least with its foure feet it runne away from him Fol. 154. Secondly there is an anlawfull Hospitality which is shewed to Traytors Jesuits popish Priests Fourthly they are faulty here who give unto the rich as the Papists who plentifully feast the fat Monks and send large presents to the Jesuits and Cap●chins Secondly there are sowers of discord in Kingdomes viz. those who instigate others unto warres as the Cardinals and Jesuits upon every occasion doe whisper in the eares of Princes to make warre upon their Neighbours when they perceive any advantage to be had thereby Fol. 212. Secondly adde nothing to the Word of God Neither first the chaffe of superstition with the Papists Nor secondly Machavillinisme and unwarrantable policy with some Statists Neither thirdly New opinions c. Fol. 213. Secondly that is no true sense of Scripture which doth make any sentence in Scripture false as the Papists