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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A18079	A second admonition to the parliament	Cartwright, Thomas, 1535-1603, attributed name.	1572 (1572)	STC 4713; ESTC S110798	53,046	74

honourable worshipfull and others by whose meanes they are heere supported and maintained And I am sure of it we all fare the better for it at God hys handes And I beseche the whole state beseeche God that the whole stare may bend thēselues to haue more and more care for the godly straungers y are of the churches in deede and not to be greeued that they are so many but to pitte their present persecution and to comforte them For the other swine that are not of the churches I pray God they may fynde litle fauoure except they repent ioyne themselues to the churches Thus muche also of the Leacons Thys order of the church gouernment is grounded vpon that saying of our sauioure Tei the churche wherin it is certayne he alludeth to that consistorie of the Iewes and the scriptures that directe their gouernement And it is so certain that such a consistory they had and such elders as it shall not nede further to examine those scryptures but to come to the practise of the Apostles the churches plāted by them The apostle noteth y there are in the church bearing offyce ruling which should be had in estimation for their offyce two sortes of elders and rulers wherof the one sort also ruleth but they laboure in the woorde and doctrine to and their offyce is the principall He distinguisheth them to the Corinthes the teachers and the gouernoures because all gouernoures are not teachers but because al teachers are gouernoures as to Timothie before is said so to the Romaines deuiding the offyces of the churche into two sortes gouernment and ministring to the pore To the first office he assigneth doctors pastors and gouernors calling them by these names teachers exhorters and rulers and to the second offyce he assigneth deacons widowes callyng the first those that minyster and the widowes those that shew mercy Of the widowes I will say no further but vpon lyke decasyon it is God hys order But for the other orders they must be in all well ordered churches of Christians The Apostle Paul and Barnabas set suche order in the churches whyche they planted It was so in the churches of Rome of Cornith of Ephesus An order is sette downe what mē they must be How they are to be chosen the ministers the assistantes the deacons yea and the widowes is declared in the Actes of the Apostles and the epistle to Timothie as ● sore is noted Howe they are to procede against offenders is declared by our sauioure and practised amōg the Thessalonians the Corinths and likewyse of the receiuing agayne of an excommunicate persone and howe they should vse hym while he abydeth excommunicate And the ordering of things comely and remouing abuses euery one to keepe hymselfe wythin his vocation so playne y places be that it nedeth no more but that it would please you to reade them and waighe them And in lyke sorte for conferences and councels to d●ale for the stay of the churches in true doctrine and in godly order and quyetnesse to the Corinthes it is plaine and the councell at Ierusalem wherein is dealt for all those causes of the churches at once The persons that were sent to the councel the persons that chefely dealt and how and the generall consent of the Apostles Elders and brethren would be well obserued as geuing great light for many purposes Well now who are our doers in this church gouernment how are they chosen what causes doe they deale in and how do they deale In euery parishe a consistorie there is not nor in euery great towne containing many paryshes nor in euery shire but onely one in a diocesse whych contayneth diuers shires I may peraduenture d● deceyued for there may be so many in adiocesse as there are Archdeaconries besydes the graund consistorie of y byshop or his su●stitute the Chauncellor for they say the Archdeacon or his substitute y officiall may visite oftner then y bishop kepe courts oftner then y Chancellor there are in some diocesse diuers Archdeacōs But what of all thys whence haue they their aucthoritie who called them what causes deale they in and how of God they haue not their authoritie they hold it by the Canon lawe and by the bishop And some of them pay the bishop full well for it they say And so they say that Chancellors offyces are so gainfull that some of them are in fee wyth their byshops for them yea they say some bishops haue payed for their byshoppricks other wayes though not to the Quene and that some of them haue large fees going out of their bishopprickes to their frends that holpe them to their preferments These are not rightly called And whereas there is a statute to auouche thys calling and aucthoritie that the byshops vsurpe the statute may make it good by lawe to holde suche titles and dignities but not before god I haue spoken of it before and seeing ministers must be equall and the order must be that some must be gouerned by all and not all by some in the church gouernment then y same argument is of force against Archdeacons and all such highe prelates which is agaynst Lorde byshops Lord byshops I say for the name bishop is not the name of a Lord but of a painfull minister and pastor or teacher and yet in deede in England euery byshop is a Lorde I knowe the common people would maruel yea and ioly wyse men too if they heard their pastor say I am your byshop a byshoppe on God hys name when were you made Lorde and so take him to be proude for no man is a byshop heere but he is also a Lord whych thyng I say because I doe not meane that the scripture alloweth not a byshop but not a Lord byshop A byshop or ouerseer or pastor and teacher in euery congregation the scripture doth allowe and hym or them to be the principal of the consistorie of their congregation it doth allowe but thys hyghe Prelacie it alloweth not but forbiddeth it vtterly Nowe then seeing they haue no lawfull callyng howe can they deale in any causes lawfully but yet they doe deale though not lawfully before God and that in infinite causes And the proctors and doctors of that law say the studie of the lawe is infinite because the causes are infinite one I trow en gendering another and so surely are the delayes and fees of those courtes infinite They haue to examine all transgressions agaynste the boke of common prayer the iniunctions the aduertisements the canons the metropoliticall articles the bishops articles of the diocesse all the spirituall causes as they call them of the whole diocesse or euery Archdeacon of hys circuite and the Archbishop of hys prouince and the Arches of the whole realme and for certayne causes the prerogatiue court of my Lord his grace of Canterburie is ouer the realme also Also of spirituall yea and many carnall

Ther is required in euery wel reformed church these two things A righte ministerie * of the worde and sacraments and a right * gouernement of the churche which two things are by our sauioure commended to hys church before there were any churches gathered And in the Apostles time when they had gathered seuerall churches or congregations they not onely teache what shoulde be but they establishe orders accordingly In the ministerie therefore after rehearsall made of those rare and extraordinarie functions of Apostles Prophets and Euangelistes there is declared in the last place those ordinarie functions of * shepheards and teachers which endure in euery well ordered church till we all meete together into the vnity of faythe and knowledge of the sonne of god There are then in the ministery only two sortes of ministers namely pastors teachers which doe not differ in dignitie but in distynction of office and exercise of theyr gifts and yet in many things their office is so like that they are confounded in the name of Elders as also the gouernours are with the ministers in the same name confoūded But these two offices differ in this y the pastor or pastors are they y haue y ouersight charge of the whole parish to instruct to admonish to exhort to correct bi doctrine al and euery one in the assemblies or in the priuate houses of the same parishe and to minister the sacraments in the same parish The teacher saue that in the consistory of the same parishe and in all conferences of ministers he is to beioyned with the ministers shall in such places as prouision is made for him being lawfully called as afore onely intend lectors and expositions of the scriptures to the end that there may be set furth and kepte a soundnes of doctrine a right naturall sence of the scriptures and playne and manifest proues of the articles of the Christian religiō so that he oughte to be an exquisite and mighty man in the scriptures The vse of suche an one is most nedeful wher the frie of the churche as I might call it is to enter them well which after shuld be emploied to the ministrie whether it be in the vniuersitie or elswhere that such be brought vp to this turne So that in deede the titles of oure vniuersitie doctors and bachelors of diuinitie are not onely for vayn glory sought and graunted but there they are the names of course cōferred rather by y prophane iudgmēts of them that know not what office of y church they belong too and by the importunate sute and meanes made by such vaine men as desire to clime and to haue hygh names and also of a blinde custome partly which besydes the graces gotten easely by frendship or corrupt brtherie compounding I should say althoughe no shew of learning be vttered nor exercises kept doth in respect of cōtinuāce of stāding in māner throw these titles vpon many dolts which neither do nor can do any thing y is required in a teacher or doctor And a plaine case it is y ostētation and outwarde glorye is soughte by these names by the name of master of Arte which is esteemed many degrees beneathe the titles of Doctor or Bachelor in diuinitie for otherwise they would not offer those titles to suche as the vniuersities would shewe pleasure vnto as to noble men and others as though they were noble names nobilitating them that otherwise wer vnnoble and adding to their nobilitie that without them were noble And thus haue they turned vpside downe and made a mockery of God hys or●●● conferred vpon his churche for the benefite of the same excepte they will not be ashamed to professe themselues heerein to folowe the heathenish tradition of prophane scholes which rather seke by suche titles to aduance learning as they say then by their learning to aduan̄tage the church of god For none other are true teachers or doctors but they which doe teache and be founde meete and be called by the churche to teache how so euer the vniuersitie doctors seeme to haue some indelible Caracter that once and euer doctor as the popishe priestes once shauen were euer priestes and can neuer be no priestes after but such doctors as these though they had neuer so many graces shall be but idol doctors as truely doctors as an image ●s a man whych hath nothing but the shew of a man eyes and see not eares and heare not and so they teachers doctors and teache not These vaine names become suche vaine men but the churche of God they become not and are forbidden by oure sauioure * Be not you called Rabbines and to be called Rabbines is the matter with oure doctors but to teach that is to base or needelesse for them I haue spoken the mere of thys bicause the abuse is great and not thoughte of for howsoeuer it will be faced out the name is not a name ●f dignitie but a name of duety to be done to the church of God by him that hath y excellent gyft of faithfull right expounding of the scriptures and of the vndoubted prouing and auouching of all the articles of our christian religion whych is moste requisite in place where I said before and very requisite euery where is to be had where competent prouision may be made for suche an one Thus you see breefely howe these two differ and what is the vse of the teachers or doctors office Now the pastors in their charges and parishes haue not only to propounde sounde doctrine but also charge to exhort and to admonish publiquely and priuately them that they finde to neede it and to examine them and to Cathechise them in their faith vpon whome onely lyeth the charge of the whole cōgregation whether there be a teacher or doctor or no. For if the doctor faithfully kepe his lectures and answer hys calling by godly life there is no further thing to be required of him saue y in the consistorie againe I say he app●y hymselfe with the pastors to guide and directe the rest of the assistantes and in lyke sorte ioyne himselfe with the pastors in theyr cōferences councels and such like meetings But euery congregation must haue a pastor I saye not a parsone vicare or stipendarie priest or curate as they call him but a pastor or shepherd which is able and dothe intend feeding of them euery way by preaching doctrine by exhorting to the same and to godly life by admonishyng offenders by conference wyth them by visityng the sicke to teache and counsell them by Cathechising the congregation by making prayers by ministring the sacraments and examining before hand the communicantes and whatsoeuer he is directed vnto by the prescripte of the woorde of god And these two offices thus set vp according to the scriptures there remaineth no vse of fat canons prebendaries petie canons synging men quiresters virgirs and the rest of