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A68614	The unbishoping of Timothy and Titus. Or A briefe elaborate discourse, prooving Timothy to be no bishop (much lesse any sole, or diocæsan bishop) of Ephesus, nor Titus of Crete and that the power of ordination, or imposition of hands, belongs jure divino to presbyters, as well as to bishops, and not to bishops onely. Wherein all objections and pretences to the contrary are fully answered; and the pretended superiority of bishops over other ministers and presbyters jure divino, (now much contended for) utterly subverted in a most perspicuous maner. By a wellwisher to Gods truth and people.	Prynne, William, 1600-1669.	1636 (1636)	STC 20476.5; ESTC S114342	135,615	241

lecture no wayes overburthen some to your memories which I shall here read unto you for your good if you please either so to interpret it or come with a sincere conscience for to heare it It may be that in regard of your sacred Episcopall Order you conceit your selves altogether plague-free and as wholly exempt from divine as you now strive to be from temporall Iurisdiction which makes you neither to dread the plague which hath seised upon sundry Kings and laid them in the dust nor as yet any way to endeavour by fasting and prayer to prevent either it or that famine likely to accompanie it But to instruct you how you are still but men and so exposed to all those mortall sicknesses which continually assault the crazy fortresses of our earthly Tabernacles Non obstante your Rochets Miters Crosiers and all other your Episcopall harnesse give me leave in a word or two to acquaint you That Pelagius the second though a Pope and Bishop of Rome notwithstanding his Pontificall Robes Exorcismes Pompe and Charmes was both seised upon and devoured of this impartiall disease Anno Dom. 591. as Platina Onuphrius Anastatius Stella Fasciculus Temporum Balaeus Luitprandius Vitelius and others testify in his life which Plague as Petrus Blesensis Archideacon of Bath records was sent by God as a just Judgement upon the Romans and Italians for giving themselves to drinking feasting DAVNCING sports and Pastimes even on Easter day and other following Holy-dayes after their participation of the blessed Sacrament of Christs body and blood many of them being cons●med and dying of the plague in the very midst of their sports mirth ales ord pos●●mes and on this Pope himselfe for not restraining them from this prophanes A president which should make your Lordships feare and tremble this present Plague beginning here on Easterweeke last as that Plague then did no doubt for the selfesame prophanation of Gods owne day and Sacraments with those abuses sports sinnes pastimes for which they then were plagued which your Lordships have not onely not restrained but countenanced patronized and propagated all you could this Pope going not so farre Cantinus Bishop of Avernium Cato his Successor in the same See Rupertus Bishop of Triers Hermannus Bishop of Verd●num Rainold Bishop of Colen Conrade Bishop of Augusta Walricus Bishop of Spiers Ruggerus Bishop of Herbipolis and Sigsridus of the same Eberhardus Bishop of Ratisbon Gerion Bishop of Halberstat all died of the plague In the great Plague that happened in the Emperor Frederike Barbarossa his armie in Italy many Germane Prelates and some German Princes which came with him died of the Pestilence neither their consecration nor their function being any antidote against this disease In the great Councell of Basil Anno 1431. to name no more forraigne examples Lodovicus Patriarke of Aquilcia the Bishops of Ebron Lubecke Constance and others died of the Plague Aencas Silvius himselfe afterwards Pope being there stricken with this disease where of bee lay three dayes together at the point of death all men despairing of his life but yet by Gods helpe escaped If any of your Lordships should thinke these forraigne Presidents proove not that any English Prelates are obnoxious to the selfe-same disease to rectify this mistake I shall present you with some domesticke examples worthy your most serious consideration Ann. Dom. 664 on the 26. day of October Ceadda the second Bishop of London with all the Monkes of his new erected Monasterie at Lestinghen were taken away with the Plague The very next yeare following Anno 665. Tuda the fourth Bishop of Durham died of the Pestilence Anno 1258. Fulco Basset the 45. Bishop of London was smitten to death with the same fatall disease Michael Northbrooke his Successor the 57. Bishop of London Anno 1361. perished of the Plague and the same yeare Reginald Brian Bishop of S. Davids being translated to Ely deceased of the Plague before his translation could be perfected And to cite no more in so plaine a case Anno 1500. Thomas Langhton Bishop of Winchester then Archbishop of Canterbury elect but not enstalled and Thomas Rotheram Archbishop of Yorke were both in the selfe same yeare swept away together with this pestilentiall disease These severall Presidents to omit all others may be a good Memento and Monition to your Lordships being Bishops and Archbishops to put you in minde both of your mortality in generall which most feare you seldome seriously consider off being so over-much taken up with secular imployments not compatible with your spirituall functions that you though Bishops are subject to this disease this stroke of God as well as others as these your Predecessors therfore should now at length after so many weekes delay endeavour to appease Gods wrath and cease this plague begun among us which every day spreads it selfe more and more by publike fasting prayer preaching and humiliation the remedy not onely prescribed in Scripture by God himselfe but likewise by the whole Church and State of England in the two last great plagues both in 1. Iacobi and in the first yeare of our present Soveraignes raigne as the severall Bookes of common prayer and order of fasting then published by these noble Princes speciall commaund yet testifie on record both of these bookes joyntly confessing and bewayling that among other sinnes occasioning these two dreadfull man-eating Pests this was not the least That the SABBATH DAY was not kept holy but prophaned and therfore no wonder that these plagues breake in upon us And may not your Lordships and the whole Kingdome justly feare that this very Sinne of Sabbath-breaking and prophaning Gods owne sacred day by sports WAKES MAYGAMES DAVNCING drunkennesse chambering wantonnesse idlenesse travelling unnecessary labor and the like which drew on these two former plagues upon us hath been one maine cause of this present Pest which beginnes thus freshly to destroy us It being most apparant to our shame and I feare to all our smart that the Lords-day Sabbath for so our owne Homilies ten times stiled it before the Troubles of Frankfort Anno 15●4 when Doctor Pocklington or Doctor Boundes Booke Anno 1595. when Doctor Heylynfables that the Lords day was first anabaptized a Sabbath day and Christned with this name by some Jewish Godfather to overthrowe the Liturgie and discipline of the Church of England who yet gave it this Title long before these ignorant Doctors dreame both in her Homilies and approoved writers workes hath of late beene more generally publikely audaciously prophaned in most places of the Realme by the fore named Pastimes abuses and disorders then beforethose two sweeping plagues not onely in point of practise which is ill but even in point of Doctrine which is worse many late authorized Histories Treatises and Discourses of the Sabbath not fearing publikely to maintaine the Lawfullnesse of dauncing morrises maygames dedication

lives and practises of our Bishops that I speake not of any others how they now openly fight against God his Word his Ministers Ordinances worship people grace holines yea morall vertue honesty civility and that with both hands both swords at once wee may rather wonder that the Lord himselfe doth not visiblie descend from heaven and raine downe fire and brimstone on us as hee once did on Sodome and Gomorrah and then tumble vs all headlong into hell yea our Archbishops Bishops and Prelates specially may justly feare hee will strike them all quite dead with Plague as hee did Pope Lucius the second who died of the pestilence Pope Caelestine the second swept away with the same disease both within the compasse of two yeares Wichardus Arch-bishop of Canterbury elect who going with great presents from King Oswy unto the Pope to Rome to fetch thence his pall and conse 〈…〉 ion hee and most of his company there perished with the Pest Thomas Bradwardin Archbishop of Canterbury An. 1348. The Bishop of Marselles and all his Chapter An. 1348. Daniel the 13 Bishop of Prague Anno 1116. The Bishope of Par 〈…〉 Rhegium and Millain Anno 1085. with many other Archbishops and Bishops forecited heretofore that they might no longer be an insufferable Plague and burthen to the earth or provocation and greivance even to heaven it selfe or else deale with them in that exemplary way of Iustice as hee did with Thomas Arundle Archbishop successively both of Yorke and Canterbury one of their predecessors a greivous persecutor of Gods people and great silencer and suspender of his Ministers who occupying both his tongue his braines and Episcop●ll power as too many of his successors have done since to stop the mouthes and tye vp the tongues of Gods Ministers and hinder the preaching course of Gods word was by Gods just judgmēt so stricken in his tongue with which hee had oft staundered the poore Ministers Saints of God as seditious factions people rebels Conventiclers to K. Henry the fourth as some of his Rochet doe now to his Maiesty that it swelled so bigge he could neither swallow nor speake for some dayes before his death much like after the example of the rich glutton and so hee was starved choked and killed by this strange tumor of his tongue This say all the marginall writers was thought of many to come upon him by the iust hand of God for that hee so bound and much stopped the word of the Lord that it might not be peached in his dayes Our Prelates now have farre greater cause then hee had then to feare Gods Iudgements in this or a more grievous nature and that in these regards First Because they have his Example with many other like Presidents of divine revenge upon persecuting truth-suppressing Prelates to wante and terrifie them which this Prelate never heard of and so are more inexcusable then hee Secondly Because his silencing of the Preachers and hindring the preaching of the Gospell proceeded rather from error ignorance of the truth and misguided zeale then malice or hatred against the Gospell Ministers and professors of it But our Bishops proceedings in this kinde proceeds from direct and willfull malice and emnity against the truth Gospell Ministers and Saints of God against inward conviction and the testimony of their owne consciences staring them in the face the very sinne against the holy Ghost himselfe or next degree thereto into which they are dangerously fallen Thirdly Because hee persecuted silenced or suspended none that professed the same truth faith and doctrine which hee and the Church of England then embraced but onely those whom hee and the Church of England then deemed both heretickes and Schismatickes But our Prelates now silence suspend excommunicate deprive imprison persecute those who professe and maintaine the established doctrine and discipline of the Church of England which themselves pretend to defend and strive for those who are members yea pillars of our owne Orthodoxe Church and neither seperate from it in point of doctrine nor discipline being likewise altogether spotles innocent undefiled in their lives even because they preach and defend Gods truth and the Doctrines the Articles of the Church of England against Papists Arminians and superstitious Romanizing Novellers A thing so strange that the like was never heard or read off in any age Church State but ours onely yea a thing so detestable as not found among the Savage b 〈…〉 ite beasts as Tygers Lyons Wolves Beares who ever hold together and prey not one upon the other Par●it cognatis maculis similis fera being as old as true and therefore most monstrous most detestable in our Christian Church and Prelates who must needs expect the extremity of Gods Judgements to light upon them for it Fourthly Because hee put downe preaching and silenced Gods Ministers in times of health and prosperity onely but our Prelates even now in this time of sicknesse and mortality when God in speciall maner cals upon them To crie aloude and spare not to lift up their voyces like a trumpet and shew the people their transgression and the howse of Jacob their sinnes yea which is the hight and upshot of all impiety they take advantage of this present pestilence and mortality to put downe all Lectures and preaching when as all former ages have set them up together with prayer and fasting to as a speciall anti 〈…〉 and preservative * against the Plague which they now pretend to be a meanes to spread it An impiety that heaven and earth may well stand am●azed at and future ages will hardly credit yea the very capitall sinne of which the Iewes were guilty f who both killed the Lord Jesus and their owne Prophets and persecuted and chased out as the margin renders it the Lords Ministers forbidding them to preach to the Gentiles that they might be saved to fill up their sinnes alway for the wrath is come upon them to the uttermost A text which should smite through the loynes and hearts of all persecuting Prelates and silencers of Gods Ministers who prohibit and put downe preaching the cheife and most principall office whereunto Preists or Bishops be called by the auehority of the Gospel as all the Bishops and whole Clergy of England have resolved in the Institution of a Christian man dedicated by them to King Henry the 8. and subscribed with all their names as the very Councell of Trent it selfe hath deemed in these words Praedicationis munus Episcoporum praecipuum est as the Church of England herselfe in the Homily of the right use of the Church p. 3. 4. 5. and before them all our Saviour Christ himselfe his Prophets and Apostles have past all dispute concluded I shall therefore desire these dumbe silencing and silent Prelates who would have all other Ministers as lasie mute and silent as themselves favouring all dumbe dogs that

neither will not nor cannot preach and persecuting none but the most painefull Preachers a thing well worthy noting discovering their emnity to be directly against preaching and the Gospell to remember that of Master Tyndall our godly Martyr That B●shops who persecute their owne office of preaching for and by which they hold their 〈◊〉 Bishoprickes are not worthy of it nor sufferable in it and that Bishops or Preists that preach not or that preach ought save Gods word are none of Christs nor of his anointing therefore not Jure divino but Servants of the Beast whose marke they beare whose word they preach whose Law they maintaine cleane against Gods Law and therefore both Ministers and people must and will henceforth call and deeme them such As for those Ministers most unjustly silenced suspended and excommunicated by them who now basely sit downe silent under their Suspensions when as they should goe 〈◊〉 couragiously in their Ministery in despite of them I shall desire them onely to consider First the example and answer of the Apostles themselves who when they were commaunded by the High Preists Elders and whole Councell of the Jewes who had as much or more power over them then any Bishops have over Ministers at this day not to speake at all or teach in the name of Jesus gave this answer Wee ought to obey God rather then men whether it be right in the sight of God to hearken unto God more then unto you judge yee for we cannot but speake the things which we have seene and heard and though they were thrice expresly inhibited from preaching yea imprisoned and beaten for violating these prohibitions yet they dayly in the Temple IN EVERI HOWSE which now forsooth must be a Conventicle I am sure an Apostolicall one they ceased not to preach and teach Jesus Christ filling Jerusalem and every place with their doctrine the very Angel of God himselfe commaunding them to doe it If then the whole Senate of the High Preists and Elders their terrible Prohibitions and Suspen●ions yea their imprisonments and stripes could neither keepe nor de●erre the Apostles from preaching why should our Bishops threats suspentions 〈◊〉 most unjust illegall Censures warranted by no Statute Law ot Commission from his Majesty hinder our Ministers from their duty Secondly The example of our owne godly Martyrs who both their Doctrine and example taught and professed That Ministers ought not to give over preaching for any unjust suspension excommunication inhibition Censure or persecution whatsoever either of the Pope himselfe or of any other Prelate going on boldly to preach the Gospell maugre all inhibitions menaces imprisonments and penalties to the contrary though fire and death it selfe Whereupon they never would give over their preaching upon any Prelates inhibition no not in their prisons where Master Bradford and others preached twice every day And shall our eminentest Ministers now in the Sunne shine of the Gospell under a most gratious Prince be more pusillanimous base and cowardly then these godly Martyrs were even in times of darknesse under Popish Princes Prelates and Tyrants when it was death to professe and preach the truth which now God be thanked it neither is nor can be God forbid Thirdly That position of our Godly Martyr Master John Wicklife excellently defended and notably proved by Iohn Hus at large in the Schoole of Prague as all may read at leisure in Master Fox That they which lea 〈…〉 off preaching and hearing of the word of God for feare of any excommunication threatning persecution or imprisonment threatned or inflicted by the Pope or any other whatsoever are already excommunicate by God himselfe and in the day of Iudgement shall be accounted the betrayers of Christ which is so well prooued and defended by Hus that all Godly Ministers and people must subscribe thereto And who of all our late suspended Ministers would be either accounted here or adjudged hereafter a man excommunicated of God and a betrayer of Christ yea of the very Word of God of Religion it selfe and of the soules committed to his Cure who are slaine for lacke of spirituall food whiles they out of a slavish feare of I know not what or whom sitt mute and silent and become so many laughing stockes to our Prelates who would be terrified daunted and repulsed by their Godly courage Fourthly That Popish Preists and Iesuites dare say Masse and preach in a maner publikely though a thing unlawfull and expressely prohibited both by the Lawes of God and the Realme and no lesse then high treason for which capitall punishments are prescribed If these Miscreants and generation of vipers then have so much courage for their false and trayterly religion that they will not be silenced nor scared from preaching neither by Lawes nor capitall punishments how much lesse then should zealous faithfull Ministers of the Gospell contrary to Gods Lawes and the Realmes give over their Ministrie and preaching upon the bare illegall suspension or excommunication of a Lordly Bishop warranted by no Law nor Statute of the Realme nor any Patent or Commission from the King and so no colour for any to obey or submit thereto Fiftly What a great blow and wound they have given to religion what great discouragement and ill example to their people and fellow Ministers what losse and prejudice to their flockes what encouragement to Iesuites Seminaries Papists and domineering Prelates who gett heart head by their faintheartednes yeelding silence and submission encroaching every day further on their liberties consciences and Religion so that they have brought themselves and others into a meere vassalage to the Bishops unruly lusts and pleasures all which their opposition and contemning of these their suspen●ions and excommunications beeing meere nullities in Law for want of a Commission from his Maiesty a lawfull ground a due maner of proceeding and his Maiesties stile and seale had prevented and may yet chance to remedie Sixtly That a necessity is layd upon them euen by God and Christ himselfe to preach the Gospell and to be instant in season and out of season and a temporall and eternall woe denounced against them if they forbeare or give over to doe it upon any unjust inhibition whatsoever which can neither nullify controll nor dispense with the commaunds of God How then can they avoyd or shunne this woe if the frowne or unjust suspension of a prophane unpreaching domineering Prelate may restraine them from this duety or dispense with this most serious taske imposed on them from heaven it selfe Seaventhly That solemne charge that was given them in the name and behalfe of Christ himselfe yea of the whole Realme and Church of England and that solemne promise they made before God and the Congregation when they were first made Ministers to wit that as they would answer it before Christs tribunall at the great day of judgement they should and would teach premonish feed and provide for the