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A67551	The principall duty of Parliament-men, or, A short and compendious treatise concerning the unity and unanimity, which should be in the members of that honourable assembly / Richard Wood ...	Ward, Richard, 1601 or 2-1684.	1641 (1641)	Wing W805; ESTC R11713	54,613	68

their bodies and lives For the Papists say Th●…t it is lawsull to violate promise and oath in favour of the Romane Church as it was concluded in the Councell of Constance and with the death of John Hus and Hiero●… of Prague 〈◊〉 contrary to the publike faith and safe-conduct granted unto them from the Councell And 3. In respect of their soules and that many wayes namely 1. By teaching people ignorance The Scripture teacheth us that the ignorance thereof is the cause and mother 〈◊〉 er●…ors h and therefore we are commanded both in the old and new Testament to read meditate and search the holy Scriptures i But the 〈◊〉 teach us that ignorance is the mother of Devotion and that to keep Religion safe it is needfull to forbid the lay or s●…cular men the reading of the holy Scriptures seeing it is the cause of many 〈◊〉 k In the County of Burgundy in France i●… an 〈◊〉 of long continuance and therein a Colledge of Jud●…sites or as they call themselves Jesuites who fearing lest t●…e 〈◊〉 doctrine might creep in upon them have not onely d●…barred the people of the Protestants books but also express●…ly forbidden them to talk of God either in good sort or bad l And 2. By permitting favouring and conniving at fornication and uncl●…annesse The Scripture teacheth us That marriage is honourable amongst all men m and that it is better to marry then to burn n yea that to forbid marriage is a doctrine of Devils o But the Papists teach That matrimony is a carnall estate and therefore with such severity to be forbidden to the Cl●…rgy that it is more tolerable for a Prelate or Ecclesiasticall person to live in fornication then lawfully to marry according to the Law of God or that it is a greater wickednesse for an Ecclesiasticall person to marry then to commit fornication and Bell●…rmine who boldly averres this gives this base reason for the confirming of it Because he which is married is made unable to keep his vow which he that committeth fornication is not p And this holy doctrine he learned from his most holy Father Pope Nicolas the first who prohibited the Clergy marriage saying That it was more honest to have to do with many women privately then to marry one wife openly Whence a Priest of Placentia being accused to have wife and children was deprived of his 〈◊〉 but proving the sai●… woman to be another mans wife and onely his concubine he was again restored q As this doctri●…e hath been taught by inerring and infallible Popes so also by such Councels for in the first Councell of Toledo held in the reigns of the Emperours A●…adius and Honorius this Canon was agreed upon for the keeping of Concubines Caeterum is qui non babet ux●…em pro uxore con●…binam babet à communione non repellatur tamen ut unius muli●…ris aut uxoris aut concubinae ●…t ei placuerit su conjunctione content us that is He is not to be debar●…ed from the Commu●…ion as unworthy thereof who hath no wife but in stead of one keeps a Concubine if that he do not defile himself with many women but content himself with one wife or one woman or one concubine And about two hundred years after Isodore as Gratian quoteth him in his Decrees D●…stinc 34. hath written hereof in these words Christiano non dicam plurimas sed nec duas simul babere licitum est nisi unam tantum aut uxorem aut 〈◊〉 loco uxoris si conjux deest concubinam And thus we see as ignorance so also fornication and uncleannesse is taught to people and permitted u●…to them as though they were not prone enough there●…nto of themselves by nature And 3. By teaching uncertainty of salvation and thereby making men hang in fuspence all the dayes of their lives d●…prived of all true comfort The Word of G●…d indeed teacheth us That faith is not doubtfull but assured of salvation which it hath by the blood of Christ r But the papists teach That the particular iustification of men and much more the s●…lvation is very uncertain so th●… men must alwayes doubt of their salvation And that not to doubt of the favour and grace of God is presumption s Oh what greater misch●…ef can be done unto religious and conscientious men then thus to make them halt between heaven and hell as altogether uncertain all their daies whether they shall at last be ever lastingly saved or damned I will conclude this fourth mark of popish doctrine with this argument That Religion which teacheth men ignorance of divine and saving truths and the sacred Word and Will of God and fornication and uncleannesse and uncertainty of their f●…ure eternall estate and condition is a most pernicious and pestilent doctrine in regard of peoples souls because ignorance is the mother of disobedience fornication the defiler and destroyer of the soul and the uncertainty of salvation the depriver of the heart of all true peace and comfort But popery is such a Religion as hath been proved Therefore it is a pernicious and pestilent doctrine in regard of mens souls And thus we see That popery is a perillous Religion both to princes and people wherefore let both prince peers and people be one in the rooting out of popery and all popish superstitions out of the Land And 5. Popery is a divelish dectrine 1. Tim. 4. 13. For the forbidding to marry and the commanding to abstain from m●…ats for conscience sake which are there called Doctrines of Devills are both expresly taught and commanded by the Church of Rome And 6. Popery is a theevish doctrine and a robbing Religion For 1. It robs people of the sacred Word of God the food of our souls which they must not enioy in a known tongue And 2. It robs people of the Cup in the Eucharist for the papists teach That the Sacrament ought to be given and dispensed in bread and in wine to the priests onely but to the Laity the bread alone ought to be administred t And 7. Popery is a cruell doctrine and bloody religion witnesse the Spanish Inquis●…tion the Martyrs in Queen Maries dayes and the bloudy persecutions massacres and treasons practised by the pope and his agents in all places where he hath authority upon those who will not yeeld to his idolatry superstition and Antichristian power And 8. Popery is an hereticall doctrine and a masse or lump of errours For 1. From the Manichees they have learnt these heresies viz. First as the Manichees forbad lawfull marriage but allowed fornication so do the papists And as the Manichees thought not Marriage in their Laity unlawfull but onely in their priests and prelates even so do the papists And Secondly as the Manichees received and administred the holy mysteries under one kinde so also do the papists And Thirdly as the Manichees abstained from flesh and yet

THE PRINCIPALL DUTY OF Parliament-Men OR A SHORT AND COMPENDIOUS TREATISE CONCERNING THE UNITY AND UNANIMITY WHICH SHOULD BE IN THE MEMBERS OF THAT HONOURABLE ASSEMBLY By Richard Ward Master of Arts and Minister of the Word at Stansteed-Mount-Fitchet in ESSEX 1 COR. 1. 10. I beseech you brethren by the Name of our Lord Jesus Christ That you all seek the same thing and that there be no divisions among you but that yee be perfectly joyned together in the same minde and in the same judgement London Printed by J. R. 1641. TO All the Right Honourable and Right Worthy of all Honour together with the Right Worshipfull and Right Worthy the Members of the High and Honourable Court of PARLIAMENT In especiall In regard of a more especiall Engagement To the Right Worshipfull Sir Edward Deering Knight and Baronet and Sir Thomas Middleton Knight his very noble Friends and Sir Thomas Barington Sir William Massam and Sir Martin Lumley Knights and Baronets Of and for the County of Essex RIght Honourable Right Worshipfull and Religious Senators I know that to the ayd and furtherance of some great enterprize and design there is more required then Wishes and Desires and therefore as to the building of the Lords House every one brought some thing according to his ability so to the Prosperous successe and happy issue of this long desired Parliament there is required not only a Religious care and endeavour in your Honours but also that we whose causes you are pleased to agitate and manage and whose grievances you take into your grave considerations should afford unto your Honours that furtherance and assistance which lyes in our power that is both in zealous and fervent calling upon God for you and in a modest and humble enforming and advising of you The secious Animadversion hereof emboldened your humble Orator to present this Petition for it is no other unto your Honours for Unity and Unanimity in Religion among yourselves considering with my self the necessity and excellency of the Theam for the furtherance of your Christian consultations and deep designes and that none as yet have tendred any Treatise unto your Honours of this Subject As fair faces need no Painting nor good Wine a gaudy Bush So a rare and transcendent Subject needs no poor Oratory to praise it nor affected Language to set it forth And therefore I will not make any Encomions in commendation of that religious Amity and Unity which should shine and shew forth it self in your Honours but only give you a short hint of the necessity and excellency thereof and then referre your Honours to the pious consideration of the Treatise it self An Emblematist by an acute Embleme endeavours to shew the excellency of Unity Unanimity and mutuall accord and ayd in those who are joyned in Commission together for any publike good His Impresse or Embleme is Diomedes and Ulisses the two Gretian Worthies The former whereof be supposeth to be wise politike and prudent able to advise counsell contrive and manage a Warre and the latter strong couragious and bold yea able to atchieve any feazible enterprize His word or Motto is Unum nihil duos plurimum posse One is as good as none but two can do much The declaration and amplification of the Embleme is expressed in these verses Viz. Viribus hic praestat hic pollet acumine mentis Nec tamen alterius non eget alter ope Cum duo conjuncti veniunt victoria certa est That is When one is strong the other very wise To help each other they must not despise For when both strength and wit conjoyned are Then crowned victory doth follow warre I have so amply amplified and applyed this Embleme in this Discoursive Petition presented to your Honours pernsall that I will wholly here balk the application thereof That the Treatise dedicated unto your Honours might carry the more weight the Dedicator being of small worth I have not stoln a Coal from the Altar but borrowed a sentence from Haven of Him who spake nothing but Golden Sentences and unto whom Kings Princes Peers and the mightiest Monarches must stoop that your Honours may look upon and accept of this Present as a Stem sprung from that Stock though it be very rough hewn as an explication of our Saviours own prayer for your prosperous Proceedings although not unfolded with ●…hat curious art that it deserves as a sacred saving and necessary truth though folded up in course cloath and as a Message sent unto your Honours from Heaven from the King thereof though by a most mean Messenger and unworthy servant of his And then he shall think himself happy in being an instrument of Peace Love Unity and Concord unto your Honours who will alwayes pray for your Persons and proceedings and all that concerns you and acknowledge himself ever Your Honours most humble and observant Orator RICH. WARD THE PRINCIPALL DUTY OF PARLIAMENT-MEN JOHN 17. 21. That they all may be one as thou Father art in me and I in thee RIght Honourable Right Worshipfull and grave Senators Astorides having once seen Roscius his gestures du●…st never after come upon the Stage Hiparchion hearing Rufinus blow upon his Pipe would never after play upon his Flute Two things daunt the minde of a Speaker or Writer Viz. The skill and Person of the Reader or Hearer Whence Demosthenes that famous Orator of Athens was so astonished at the Majesty of King Philip that he lost his Speech And Carvitus se●…ing Hannibal come into the Schools became dumb I may justly apply these Antiquities un●…o my self considering the worth of those to whom I write and the unwort●…inesse and weaknesse of the Writer I dedicate these lines to those who are of acute wits strong judgements profound knowledge sound learning and eloquent tongues but for my self although I cannot say truly That I am like Moses a man of a slow speech and stammering lips yet most justly That I am not like Aaron of an eloquent tongue neither an ear-tickling Orator And therefore may justly fear to speak or write unto so learned an Assembly But because your Honours are not ignorant that it is not more tedious to a Carpenter to work against the grain then it is for a Scholler to force his Genius or to handle a Subject Iuvità Minerva I will therefore make no more excuses for my self but passe from the Apology to the Proeme CHrist being to give up that body to death for our redemption which he took in a humane life for our sins before his now approaching end fore-arms his Church with a four-fold warning to wit I. An exemplary document of Love and Humility shewed in washing his Disciples feet Chap. 13. 1. c. And. II. A propheticall prediction of his death and their scattering Chap. 13. 18 c. And III. A large Sermon continued from Chap. 13. 31. to Chap. 16. to the end And IV. A most pious prayer as is used after our Sermons for