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A56127	The antipathie of the English lordly prelacie, both to regall monarchy, and civill unity: or, An historicall collection of the severall execrable treasons, conspiracies, rebellions, seditions, state-schismes, contumacies, oppressions, & anti-monarchicall practices, of our English, Brittish, French, Scottish, & Irish lordly prelates, against our kings, kingdomes, laws, liberties; and of the severall warres, and civill dissentions occasioned by them in, or against our realm, in former and latter ages Together with the judgement of our owne ancient writers, & most judicious authors, touching the pretended divine jurisdiction, the calling, lordlinesse, temporalities, wealth, secular imployments, trayterous practises, unprofitablenesse, and mischievousnesse of lordly prelates, both to King, state, Church; with an answer to the chiefe objections made for the divinity, or continuance of their lordly function. The first part. By William Prynne, late (and now againe) an utter-barester of Lincolnes Inne.	Prynne, William, 1600-1669.	1641 (1641)	Wing P3891A; Wing P3891_vol1; Wing P4074_vol2_CANCELLED; ESTC R18576	670,992	826

againe whereupon the King threatned to make him recant in another manner and to turne him out of his Bishoprick but the then Duke of Buckingham and the other Prelates procured his peace and translated him from Rochester where he then sate Bishop to Glocester In which Diocesse proceeding in his former courses he turned Communion Tables rayled them Altarwise set up an Altar or two in his owne private Chappell with Tapers on them one of which Altars many say he dedicated to the Virgin Mary besides he set up diverse Crucifixes and Images in the Cathedrall at Glocester and elsewhere and after the Popish manner consecrated diverse Altar-cloathes pulpit Clothes which other vestments for the Cathedrall whereon Crucifixes were embroydred to the great scandall of the people And as if this were not sufficient to proclaime his Popery to the world he hath bestowed much cost in repairing the High-crosse at Windsor where he was a Prebend On one side whereof there is a large statue of Christ in colours after the Popish Garbs in forraigne parts● hanging on the Crosse with this Latine inscription over it Iesus Nazarenus Rex Iudaeorum in great guilded Letters On the other side the picture of Christ rising out of the Sepulcher with his body halfe in and halfe out of it And to manifest that hee is not ashamed of this scandalous worke it is thereupon ingraven That this was done at the cost of Godfry Bishop of Glocester one of the P●●bends there Besides he suspended one Master Ridler minister of Little Deane some 8 miles from Glocester upon the complaint of some Papists whom he favou●s of which there are many in that parish for preaching Th●● a P●pist living and dying a papist in all points could not be saved enj●y●ing him to make a publike Recantation of this his scandalous and erroneous doctrine as he termed it though caught by all Orthodox Protestant Divines in the Cathedrall Church of Gl●cest●r in a Sermon there to be preached Febr. 2. 1636. which this minister not retracti●g in his Sermon according to the B●shops expectation he thereupon dre● up a Recantation himselfe enjoyning Master Ridler to p●blish it in the open Ca●hed●●ll on Mat●hias day following● which hee refusing was thereupon suspended and his suspension openly read in the Cathedrall March the 5. 1636. This strange Recantation was marked in the front w●th the Jesuits badge ●HS● and began thus In the name of God Amen In which he stiles the Church of Rome the Catholike Church avers that wee did separate from her only in point of policy for which he cites a Sta●ute in King Henry the 8. his raigne as if there had beene no further separation from her sin●e not in point of D●ctrines and in substance determines that the Church of Rome and our Ch●rch are both one for we have both the sam● Hierarchy and governement the same Liturgy Holy dayes Fasts Ceremonies Sacraments c. So as those who affi●m● that Papists are damned do but through the sides of the Church of Rome give a deadly blow to the Church of England deny that we are saved More such good Romish stuffe is expressed in this R●can●ation over-tedio●s to recite Since this when the New Canons were compiled in the late pretended Synod this Bishop at first ref●sed to subscribe them only as most conceive because some of them made literally against Popery whereupon he was suspended from his Bishoprick for a season Since this some Citizens and a Minister of Glocester have exhibited a Petition against him in Parliament to prove him among other things to be a Papist or popishly affected he hath beene a great encou●ager of Revells M●ygames Morrices and dauncing meetings on the Lords day both by his presence at exhortations to and rewards for them causing one Master Workeman a Reverend minister of Glocester to be questioned suspended and censured in the high Commission only for preaching against those prophane Sports and Images in the very words of our Homilies He hath beene a great setter forwards of all late Popish Innovations and an open favourer of Papists so that when the Petitions against him come to be fully heard as they have beene in part I doubt his name and person will but ill accord However if he prove himselfe a G●od man at the best he will fall out to be like his brethren an Ill-B●shop I have now run cu●●orily over our Bishops disloyall seditions extravagant actions in particular I shall give you but two instances more of their Acts in their Convoca●ion in generall in affront of our Parliaments and Lawes the one ancient the other moderne and so conclude with our English Prelates The first is this In King Edward the second his reigne Hugh Spencer the Father and Son who seduced and abused the King Kingdome were banished the Realme by Act of Parliament for ever as Traytors and enemies of the King and of his Realme the Bishops consenting pe●swading the K. to condescend thereunto Yet after this An. 1319. Hugh S●enc●r the Younger and his Father Petitioned the King against the award in Parliament whereby they were formerly banished and disinherited without consent of the Prelates desiring it might be reversed the King delivered this Petition to the then Archbyshop of Canterbury Walter Raynolds and his Suffragans assembled in their Provinciall Councell requi●ing to have their advise and opinion ●herein The Prelates upon deliberation had to humour the King declared that in their opinion the said award as touching the disinheriting and ban●sh●ng ●he Spensers Fa●h●r and Son was erroneous and not rightly decreed and for themselves they deemed that they neither did or could think it reason to consent thereto though Walsingham writes expressely that they perswad●d the King to consent to this banishment and the●efore they required that it might be repealed whereupon the King disanulled the same which afterwards occasioned much bloodshed civill warres and cost Hugh Spencer the Elder his head and the King his Crowne and Life in Conclusion The later is yet F●esh in memory to wit the Canons c. Oath and Subsidies lately made and granted by our Present Prelates An. 1640. in their pretended Synod held and continued against Law in affront of the Parliament then dissolved What strange kind of me●●●ll these Canons and Oath c. were compounded of appeares by the perusall of them in the printed Booke and how culpable our Prelates were in casting mounting and discharging them upon the inferiour ministers and people in contempt of our Lawes and Liberties their late impeachment at the Barre in the Lords house by the house of Commons will best demonstrate the true Copy whereof here ensueth August the 4. 1641. The Impeachment against the Bishops sent up by Serjeant Wilde delivered at the Bar in the Lords house verbally by Order of the House MY Lords the Knights Citizens and Burgesses of the Commons house of Parliament being sensible of the great Infelicities and Troubles which the

Canterbury by whose meanes he was translated to Coventry and Litchfield where you may reade more of him Bishop Cooke who succeeded him was a more moderate and ingenuous man at first but became too obsequious to Canterburies wayes and Innovations afterward Robert Skinner the present Bp of this See promoted to it by Can●●rburies meanes whose great creature he is hath bin very violent in railing in and turning Communion Tables Altar-wise himself with his owne hands and his men turning some in magnifying the booke for sports on the Lords-day which he hath used to give others good example in bowing to Altars to the bread and wine at the administration and at the naming of Jesus hee threatned to punish a Church-warden for perjury in not presenting the Minister for Preaching twice on the Lords day commanding some able ministers to Preach but once a fortnight and not to preach on holy-dayes He affirmed in his last Visitation That conceived prayers before and after Sermons were never used till Cartwright that factious fire-brand brought them up Hee hath beene a great Patriot of Arminianisme and stiled the Doctrine of the Saints ●inall perseverance in grace A Doctrine of Devills enjoyning a minister to recant it else he would vexe him in the high Commission and running violently at him sayd He would have no such Vipers preach such Doctrine in his Diocesse upon which ground he prohibited a Schoolemaster to teach children Mr. Perkins his Chatechisme and sayd of his booke entituled A golden Chaine that he might stile it as one had done A chaine of damnation Hee hath reviled divers ministers calling them Vipers Dunces Devils Traytors Dogges Scottish-hearted-Raskals and the like for teaching Orthodox Doctrine and preaching out of their Cures in his owne Diocesse and commanded the ministers of Bristoll not to suffer any strangers to preach in their Churches unlesse they first asked his leave and shewed him the Notes of their Sermons Hee caused the Kings Armes to be taken down in a Church in Bristoll onely because it stood over the Altar He tooke the late c. Oath at his Visitation upon his knees and imposed it upon others assuring them that if they did not take it the Church would not suffer her selfe to be at a losse He hath forced ministers to pay in the Benevolence money granted by the late pretended Synod and constrain●d them to pay for their very acquitances He caused a minister to be brought up by a Pursevant before the Councel Table for omitting some words of the prayer against the Scots and praying God to discover more more the Kings enemies in this Kingdom he hath excommunicated divers for denying to take an Ex Officio Oath threatned to pul down a house built by a Tenant of the Dean and Chapter neare his Palace in such furious manner that the Tenants wife soone after with the feare fell distracted and dyed Neither will he permit another of their Tenants who hath an house at the West end of the Cathedrall to place a Tenant in it saying He will not suffer so great a Prophanation threatning to put the Deane and Chapter into the High Commission and there to fine them more than they had for the house if they admitted of a Tenant alleadging he could not looke the Arch-Bishop in the face as long as ●hat house stood he was an active instrument in compiling the late Canons Oath and Benevolence for which hee now stands impeached by the Commons He hath much disaffected and censured late Parliaments and after the dissolution of the last Parliament was so confident we should never see another as he openly said We should go whoop when he saw another and should say the King was brought to a very low ebbe He threatned to interdict a Faire kept in the Parish of S. Iames in Bristoll if they would not set up a pair of de●ayed Organs in that Church But of him enough Peterborough IOhn Chambers a Doctor of Physicke and last Abbot of Peterborough became the first Bishop of it It seemes the office was not then thought very spirituall that a Doctor of Physicke and an Abbot could supply it David Poole a Doctor of Law and Deane of the Arches succeeded him and was deprived the first yeare of Queene Elizabeth for Popery and denying her Supremacy Will●am Pierce one of the late Bishops of this Diocesse was a very turbulent man both to Ministers and people playing the same prankes there as he hath since more plentifully exercised in his Diocesse of Bath and Wells whither hee was translated of his misdemeanors and impeachment for them by the Parliament you have already heard Doctor Lyndsie who succ●eded him a great creature and servant of La●d and Neale was an earnest promoter of the booke of pastimes on the Lords day a great champion for the Arminians and all the late Innovations in doctrine ceremony or worship introduced among us a bitter enemy to preaching Lecturers Lectures and godly people whom he opposed all he might Being translated to Hereford hee would there needs visit the Cathedrall Deane and Chapter being a donative by his owne Episcopall power and would turne the Communion Table there Altarwise the Deane and Chapter in defence of their priviledges with-stood him and would neither turne their Table nor suffer him to visite whereupon he fell into such a raging choler and passion as presently put him into a fit of the stone whereof he dyed within few dayes after Iohn the present Bishop of this S●e stands now impeached by the House of Commons for the last Canons Oath and Benevolences made and granted in the late pretended Synode Glocester THe Bishoprick of Glocester erected in King Henry the eight his reigne wa● first possessed by Iohn Wakeman Abbot of T●ukesbury and by others since some popish persecutors as Iames Brookes in Queene Maries dayes the Popes Commissioner who passed sentence of condemnation against Cranmer Ridley and Latymer at Oxford and represented the Popes person there in which regard these eminent M●rtyrs would neither bend their knees nor once move their caps unto him whereat he was much offended Cranmer taxeth this Bishop for being perjured both to the King and Pope and violating his oath to both The succeeding Bishops of this See I shall wholly pretermit and give you onely a short account of Godfrey Goodman the present Bishop of this Diocesse This Prelate hath beene ever ●eputed a Papist in opinion if not in practise In his booke intituled The fall of man he maintaines some Popish Errors and in Parliament ti●e 3. Ca●oli broached no lesse then five severall points of flat Popery in one Sermon preached at White-●all before his Majesty and that impertinently neither of them falling within the compasse of his text of which complaint being made in Parliament the King enjoyned him publikely to recant those Errors in a Sermon at White-hall but he insteed of recanting defended them

by foolish men If Aerius was an Hereticke in this thing he had Ierome a companion of his Heresie and not onely him but also many other Ancient Fathers both Greeke and Latine as Medina confesseth Alphonsus de Castro saith that the Church was sarre enough off from the minde of Hierome and a certaine man hath written in the Margin that Ieromes opinion is to be dissembled not to be urged Pighius writes that Ierome is involved in such difficulties out of which he could not winde himselfe and that he fell into perplexed absurdities no wayes cohearing and fighting among themselves It is no wonder if they speake evill of us who thus petulantly insult over Ierome Marianus Victorius endeavours to excuse Ierome and writes that he speakes not of Bishops and Presbyters but o● Bishops onely and that verily all these are equall and that many did ill interpret Hierome otherwise But Ierome most manifestly compares Presbyters with Bishops and that Marianus had most easily seene unlesse he had beene miserably blinde yet at length by the opinion of Marianus all Bishops are equall Turrianus otherwise and more acutely answers Hieronymum non dicere Presbyterum idem sed eundem esse cum Episcopo What knots doth this Jesui●e here seeke in a Rush If a Presbyter be the same that a Bishop is and the Bishop the same that a Presbyter is what at last good Jesuite canst thou thinke to be between a Presbyter and a Bishop Thus verily our adversaries yea Bpp finde not how they may defend themselves from this sentence of Hierome and truely all of them sticke in the same mire albei● some of them are more foulely plunged than others The matter now returnes to Bellarmine as to the Triary he most confidently pronounceth that Ierome differeth as much from Aerius as a Catholick from an Hereticke I most firmely averre the contrary that their opinions concer●ing this thing can by no meanes be disjoyned nor distinguished Aerius thought that a Presbyter differed not ●rom a Bishop by Divine right and authority Hierome contends this very thing and defends it by the same testimonies of Scriptures as Aerius doth Now quam inepte pueriliter how foolishly and childishly Epiphanius answereth to those testimonies all may perceive For he saith that the Apostle was wont to write thus because that at that time there were not any Presbyters in many C●urches by reason of the paucity of Presbyters I admire so great a Theologue who tooke upon him to refute all Heretickes saw not how shamefully he was mistaken For what was the●● at that time greater plenty of Bishops than of Presbyters that whereas there were many Bishops in one City yet there were no presbyters there The notable absurdi●y of this an●were Bellarmine himselfe acknowledged And yet this is that Epiphanius who first of all proscribed Aerius as an Hereticke absque Synodi aut Ecclesiae judicio without the judgement of a Synod or of the Church But what saith Bellarmine he propoundeth a double difference betweene Aerius and Hierom. The first is that Ierom writes everywhere That a Bishop is greater than a Presbyter as to the power of Order I answere that it is most false Hierome never writ so neither doth he by any meanes acknowledg a Bishop to be greater than a Pre●byter unlesse it be by custome which he distinguisheth from divine disposition And if there were so great a difference wherefore doth Ierome that he may revok Deacons to modesty reduce them into order affirme that Presbyters are Bishops Whence doth he admonish that this contention taken up against Presbyters belongs to B ps themselves seeing Presbyters by the first institution of this order and Ministry are B ps Now if there were the greatest difference between these in the power of order had not Ierome bin very sottish in his argument Now whereas he saith What doth a B p except ordination which a Presbyter may not do He speaks of the custome of those times that not even the when by the custome of the Church a Bishop was greater then a Presbyter could a Bishop doe more then a Presbyter in any thing except in ordination yea elsewhere Hierom himselfe attributes ordination to Presbyters And indeed so he doth for in Zoph 1. 2. Tom. 5. pag. 218. D. he writes thus Sacerdotes c That Priests who baptize and consecrate the Lords Supper which is the greater MANVS IMPONVNT LEVITAS ET ALIOS CONSTITVVNT SACERDOTES lay on hands ordaine Levites and other Priests which is in truth but the lesse The second is that although Ierome doth not acknowledge any difference jure divino betweene the jurisdiction of a Bishop and Presbyter yet he grants that this was lawfully introduced by the Apostles and that necessarily to avoyd Schismes I answere first that Bellarmin hath resolved out of the opinion of Ierome that there is no difference in the Jurisdiction of a Bishop and Presbyter whence it is manifest what Ierome thought of the Jurisdiction and Primacy of the Pope For seeing the Primacy of the Pope consists in Jurisdiction Ierome thinks that Iure Divino the Jurisdiction of a Bishop is not greater than that of a Presbyter it followes from Ieromes opinion that the Papacy and Prelacy Divino mullo ju●● nitatur rests upon no divine Law Secondly ●●llarmine fights with himselfe and makes Ierome to speake contradictions For if Ierome thought that jurisdiction of a Bishop not to be Iuris Divini how the● was that difference introduced by the Apostles or how could Ierome prove out of the Apostles writings that there was not any difference betweene them Certainely that which the Apostles instituted and introduced hath the force of divine right Finally this profound Doctor in his ad●0 ●0 Rationem Campiani p. 51. concludes thus of Aerius●is ●is opinion And ●ruely if to condemne prayers for the dead● Et Episcopo Presbyteros aequare sit h●●reticum NIHIL CATHOLICVM ESSE POTEST and ●o equall Presbyters to a Bishop he Hereti●all nothing can be Catholike Thus this great Doctor William Whitaker with whom his Coaetaneans Doctor Willet in his Synopsi● Papismi Controversie Generall 5. part 2. in the Appendix p. 272. to 284. in the last Edition and Master William Perkins in his Reformed Catholicke Cont. 18. c. 21. concurre I wonder therefore with what impudency and shamelesse brow Bishop Hall and others dare condemne the defenders of the identity and Parity of Presbyters and Bishops by Divine right for Aerian Heretickes Schismatickes Novillers and oppugners of the received Doctrine of the Church of England when as the learnedest Prelates Martyrs and writers of our Church as appeares by the premises have pro●essedly justified this opinon as Apostolicall Orthodox Ancient and Catholike warranted by the unanimous consent both of Scriptures and Fathers ●s will further appear● by the next Authority with which I shall conclude And that is our incomparably learned Doctor Iohn Rainolds once professor of Divinity

in the University of Oxford who in his Letter to sir Francis Knoles Sept. 19. 1598. concerning some passages in Doctor Bancrof●s Sermon at Pauls Crosse Printed in King Iames his time and now reprinted writes thus both touching the pretended heresie of Aerius and the Divine right of Episcopacy It appeareth by the aforesayd words of Doctor Bancroft that he avoucheth the Superiority which Bishops have over the Clergie to be of Gods owne Ordinance for he improveth the impugners of it as holding with Aerius that there is no difference by the Word of God betwixt a Priest and a Bishop which he could not doe with reason unlesse he himselfe proved the Bishops superiority as established by Gods Word and he addeth that their opinion who gainsay it is Heresie whereof it ensueth he thinketh it contrary to Gods Word sith Heresie is an errour repugnant to the truth of the Word of God as according to the Scriptures our owne Church doth teach us Now the arguments which he bringeth to prove it an Heresie are partly over-weake and partly untrue Overweake that he beginneth with out of Epiphanius U●true that he adjoyneth of the Generall consent of the Church For though Epiphanius doe say that Aerius his assertion is full of folly yet he disproveth not the reason which Aerius stood on out of the Scriptures nay he dealeth so in seeking to disprove it that Bellarmine the Jesui●e though desirous to make the best of Epiphanius whose opinion herein he maintaineth against the Protestants yet is forced to confesse that Epiphanius his answere is not all of the wisest nor any way can fit the text As for the generall consent of the whole Church which Doctor Bancrof● saith condemned that opinion of Aerius for an Heresie himself for an Here●ick because he persisted in it that is a large speech but what proofe hath he that the whole Church did so It appeareth he saith in Epiphanius It doth not the contrary appeareth by S. Ierome sundry others who lived some in the same time some after Epiphanius even Saint Augustine himselfe though Doctor Bancroft cite him as bearing witnesse thereof likewise I grant Saint Augustine in his booke of Heresies ascribeth this to Aerius for one that he sayd Pres●yterum ab Episcopo nulla differentia deberi discerni but it is one thing to say there ought to be no difference betweene them which Aerius saying condemned the Churches order yea made a Schisme therein and so is censured by S. Austin counting it an heresie as Epiphanius from whom he tooke it recorded himselfe as he witnesseth not knowing how farre the name of Heresie should be stretched another thing to say that by the Word of God there is no difference betwixt them but by the order and custome of the Church which S. Austin saith in effect himselfe so farre was he from witnessing this to be Heresie by the generall consent of the whole Church which untruth how wrongfully it is fathered on him and on Epiphanius who yet are all the witnesses that Doctor Bancroft hath produced for the proo●e hereof or can for ought that I know it may appeare by this that our learned Country man of godly memory Bishop Iuel when Harding to convince the same opinion of heresie alleadged the same witnesses citing to the contrary Chrysostome Ierome Austin and Ambrose knit up his answere with these words All these and other Holy Fathers together with the Apostle S. Paul for thus saying by Hardings advice must be held for Heretickes And Michael Medina a man of great account in the Councell of Trent more ingenuous herein than many other Papists affirmeth not onely the former ancient writers alleadged by Bishop Iuel but also that another Ierome Theodoret Primasius Sedulius and Theophylact were of the same mind touching this matter with Aerius with whom agree likewise Oecumenius and Anselmus Arch-bishop of Canterbury and an other Anselmus and Gregory and Gratian and after them how many● It being once inrolled in the Canon Law for sound and Catholike Doctrine and thereupon publickely taught by learned men All which doe beare witnesse against Doctor Bancroft of the point in question that it was not condemned for an Heresie by the generall consent of the whole Church And the rather which is observable because Isiodor Hispalensis Originum lib. 8. c. 5. and Gratian himselfe Caus. 24. qu. 3. reciting the heresie of Aerius omits his equalizing of Bishops and Presbyters out of the li●● of his errours because an Orthodox truth approved by themselves and other Fathers which is worthy observation If he should reply that these latter witnesses did live a 1000. yeares after Christ and therefore touch not him who sayd it was condemned so in the time of S. Austin and of Epiphanius the most flourishing time of the Church that ever hapned since the Apostles dayes either in respect of learning or of zeale First they whom I named though living in a latter time yet are witnesses of the f●rmer Oecumenius the Greeke Scholiast treading in the steps of the old Greeke Fathers and the two Anselmes with Gregory and Gratian expressing S. Ieromes sentence word by word Besides that perhaps it is not very likely that Anselme of Canterbu●y should have bin Canonized by the Pope of Rome Worshipped for a St that the other Anselme Gregory●hould ●hould have such place in the Popes Library and be esteemed of as they are that Gratians workes should be allowed so long time by so many Popes for the golden foundation of the Canon Law if they had taught that for Catholike and sound which by the generall consent of the whole Church in the most flourishing time that ever happened since the Apostles dayes was condemned for Heresie chiefely in a matter of such waight and moment to the Popes supremacy● which as they doe claime over all Bishops by the Ordinance of God so must they allow to Bishops over Priests by the same Ordinance as they saw at length and therefore have not onely decreed it now in the Councell of Trent but also in the new edition of their Canon Law have set downe this note that one Hughs Glosse allowed by the Arch-deacon saying that Bishops have differed from Priests alwayes as they doe now in Government and Prelateship and Offices and Sacraments but not in the name and Title of Bishop which was common to them both must be held hereafter for S. Jeromes meaning at least for the meaning of the Canon taken out of S. Ierome though his words be flat plaine against this Glosse as Bellarmine himselfe confesseth Whereto may be added that they also who have laboured about the reformation of the Church these 500. yeares have taught that all Pastours be they entituled Bishops or Priests have equall authority and power by Gods Word First the Waldenses next Marsilius Patavinus then