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A77488	The true coppy of the complaint of Roderyck Mors, sometime a gray Fryer, unto the Parliament House of England, about an hundred yeares agoe, when the Bishop of Rome being banish'd out of the realme, the Bishops of England acted his part by power of the old Romish canon, newly translated into English law.; Complaynt of Roderyck Mors. Chapter 23.	Brinkelow, Henry, d. 1546.	1642 (1642)	Wing B4696; Thomason 669.f.4[41]; ESTC R210695	4,713	1

Canon Law according to the which judgement is given through the Realme and men condemned after the prescript of it so that we be still in Egypt and remaine in captivity most grievously laden by observing and walking in his most filthy drosse aforesaid which is a misty and endlesse maze And so long as ye walke in those wicked Lawes of Antichrist the Pope and maintaine his Knights the Bishops in such inordinate Riches and unlawfull Authority so long say I ye shall never banish that monstrous Beast the Pope out of England Yes and it shal be a meane in processe of time to bring us into a temporall bondage also againe and to have him reigne as he hath done like a God And that know our forked Cappes right well which thing maketh them so boldly and shamelesly to fight of their Gods quarrell against Christ and his Word The Bishops of England never tooke so great paines to defend the Pope and his Kingdome as they have done since the Kings grace took rightfully from him his accustomed pollages which usurpedly he had out of this Realme To prove this to be true what blood have they shed since that time of the beloved servants of the everlasting God for preaching teaching writing and walking in the truth as Teukisbery Bainam Frith Bilney Barnis Garet Ierom with divers other in Kent Salisbury and diverse other places And William Tindall the Apostle of England although he were burnt in Brabant yet he felt the Bishops blessing of England which procured him that death which he looked for at their hands Neverthelesse I doubt not but that all these be of the number of them that S. Iohn speaketh of in the Apocalyps which lye under the Altar till the number of their Brethren be fullfilled which shall be slaine for the Gospells sake I rehearse not their names for any praise to be given to them but that the Congregation of Christ may laud and praise the everliving God for giving them grace to stand so faithfull in the Lord to the end leaving us the victory which is part of your spirituall comfort For God promiseth the Preachers and Ministers of his Word no other reward in this life And thorow the preaching of these poore wretches but outcastles in the sight of the world he hath wrought this that whereas the King was before but a shadow or at the most but halfe a King now he doth wholly reigne thorow theie preaching writing and suffering But now to the tyranny of the Bishops once againe which besides the murthering of these Saints how have they bewitched the Parliament-house in making such viperous Acts as the Beast of Rome never made himselfe for the Pope never made the Marriage of Priests to death and such other Thus by your subtilties and most crafty wiles ye make the People to abhorre the name of the Pope of Rome for a face and compell them to walke in all his wicked Laws And the Word of God which we say we have received is not nor cannot be suffered to be preached and taught purely and sincerely without mixing it with your invented traditions and service For whosoever doth standing faithfully to it he shall die for it Thus you may see that the things which we say that we have cast off we receive cherish maintaine and walke therein and againe that thing which we say we have received by the craft and tyranny of the Bishops is abhorred despised taken for Sedition called new Learning and men be driven from it for feare of losse of goods of punishment of body and danger of death so weake and frayle is our flesh What a lamentable thing is this that men should be driven from the Gospell of Christ the glad tidings that bringeth peace in Conscience to the faithfull that is forgivenesse of sinnes in Christs blood By these fruits all men may know that they be more naturall to their wicked Father the Pope than any Child can be to his naturall Father and that shall the Realm feel at the change of a Prince or at such times as they look for unlesse God of his very mercy break the wicked councels of them What is the cause that the Bishops be so diligent to sit so often upon the six wicked Articles but only that they be establishing of the Popes authority be thou sure Now therfore that same God which gave grace to Achab to hearken unto the voyce of Elyab the 3. of the Kings the 18. to the confounding of the false Prophets give our noble King that same grace if it be his Godly will and pleasure to hearken to the godly learned to confound and destroy all the false Prophets in England and then I am sure there shall not be remaining one pompous Bishop in the Realme Wherfore to open the conclusion of this little Lamentation if ye will banish for ever the Antichrist the Pope out of this Realme ye must fell downe to the ground those rotten posts the Bishops which be clouds without moisture and utterly abolish all and every his ungodly Laws decrees Traditions and Ceremonies without Sgnifications for they wait but for a time to robbe some Noble man of his wit as they would haye done with the Marquesse of Exetor This is as sure as Winchester received a Letter from the Pope at his being at Regenspurg Well these filthy dregges once expelled then make no Laws but such as shal be agreeable to Gods Word and so shall ye drive out Antichrist and his members or else never and thus we shall not only avoide our temporall bondage but also our spirituall captivity which thing is most to be desired And surely seeing there is no power upon earth above the Temporall to redresse civill matters Common-wealths and to change wicked Laws and evill customes and inasmuch as the higher powers be fully certified by the Scripture that as the Pope is enemy to the Gospell so be his Children the Bishops which thing is open and manifest to as many as will not wilfully be blind therfore I say I cannot see how they can suffer them thus to reigne persecuting the setters forth of the Gospell but that they be partakers of their iniquity and sprinkled with them in the bloud of the righteous FINIS Printed in time and place of publique observation of the English Prelats so contrary handling the matter with the peace-seeking Protestant Subjects of SCOTLAND and the blood-sucking Popish Rebells of IRELAND 15. Jan 1641