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A87263	The doctrine of the Church of England, established by Parliament against disobedience and wilfull rebellion. Published by G. I. for satisfaction to his parishoners of Watton in the county of Hartford.	Ingoldsby, William, d. 1645.	1642 (1642)	Wing I188; Thomason E130_30; ESTC R14126	37,574	49

from them the second Commandement that bewrayeth his impiety by a subtill sacriledge Had the Emporours subjects like wise knowne and beene of any understanding in Gods word would they at other times have rebelled against their Soveraigne Lord and by their rebellion have holpen to depose him onely for that the Bishop of Rome did beare them in hand that it was simony and heresie too for the Emperour to give any Ecclesiasticall dignities or promotions to his learned Chaplaines or other of his learned Clergy which all Christian Emperours before him had done without any controulement would they I say for that the Bishop of Rome bare them so in hand have rebelled by the space of more then forty yeares together against him with so much shedding of Christian bloud and murther of so many thousands of Christians and finally have deposed their Soveraigne Lord had they knowne and had in Gods word any understanding at all Specially had they knowne that they did all this to pluck from their Soveraigne Lord and his Successours for ever their ancient right of the Empire to give it unto the Romish Clergy and to the Bishop of Rome that hee might for the confirmation of one Archbishop and for the Romish ragge which hee called Paul scarce worth twelve pence receive many thousand crownes of gold and of other Bishops likewise great sums of mony for their Buls which is simony indeed Would I say Christian men and subjects by rebellion have spent so much Christian bloud and have deposed their naturall most noble and most valiant Prince to bring the matter finally to this passe had they knowne what they did or had any understanding in Gods word at all And as these ambitious usurpers the Bishops of Rome have overflowed all Italy and Germany with streames of Christian bloud shed by the rebellions of ignorant subjects against their naturall Lords and Emperours whom they have stirred thereunto by such false pretences so is there no Countrey in Christendome which by their like meanes and false pretences hath not beene over sprinkled with the bloud of subjects by rebellion against their naturall Soveraignes stirred by the same Bishops of Rome And to use one example of our owne Countrey The Bishop King Iohn of Rome did pick a quarrell with King Iohn of England about the election of Steven Langton to the Bishoprick of Canterbury wherein the King had ancient right being used by his Progenitours all Christian Kings of England before him the Bishops of Rome having no right but had begunne then to usurpe upon the Kings of England and all other Christian Kings as they had before done against their Soveraigne Lords the Emperours proceeding even by the same wayes and meanes and likewise cursing King Iohn and discharging his subjects of their oath of fidelity unto their Soveraigne Lord. Now had English-men at that time knowne their duty to their Prince set forth in Gods word would a great many of Nobles and other English-men naturall subjects for this forraigne Innocentius 2. and unnaturall usurper his vaine curse of the King and for his faigned discharging of them of their oath and fidelity to their naturall Lord upon so slender or no ground at all have rebelled against their Soveraigne Lord the King Would English subjects have taken part against the King of England and against English-men with the French King and French-men being incensed against this Realme by the Bishop of Rome Would they have sent for Phillip the French King Lew is Dolphin of France and received the Dolphin of France with a great Army of French-men into the Realme of England Would they have sworn fidelity to the Dolphin of France breaking their oath of fidelity to their naturall Lord the King of England and have stood under the Dolphins banner displayed against the King of England Would they have expelled their Soveraigne Lord the King of England out of London the chiefe City of England and out of the greatest part of England upon the South-side of Trent even unto Lincolne and out of Lincolne it selfe also and have delivered the possession thereof unto the Dolphin of France whereof hee kept the possession a great while Would they being English-men have procured so great shedding of English bloud and other infinite mischiefes and miseries unto England their naturall Countrey as did follow those cruell warres and trayterous rebellion the fruits of the Bishop of Romes blessings Would they have driven their naturall Soveraigne Lord the King of England to such extremity that hee was enforced to submit himselfe unto that forraigne false usurper the Bishop of Rome who compelled him to surrender up the Crown of England into the hands of his Legate who in token of possession kept it in his hands divers dayes and then delivered livered it againe to King Iohn upon that condition that the King and his Successours Kings of England should hold the Crowne and Kingdome of England of the Bishop of Rome and his Successours as the Vassals of the said Bishops of Rome for ever in token whereof the Kings of England should pay a yearely tribute to the said Bishop of Rome as his Vassals and Liege-men Would English-men have brought their Soveraigne Lord and naturall Country into this thraldom and subjection to a false forraign usurper had they knowne and had they any understanding in Gods word at all Out of the which most lamentable case and miserable tyranny raveny and spoyle of the most greedy Romish Wolves ensuing hereupon the Kings and Realme of England could not rid themselves by the space of many yeares after the Bishop of Rome by his Ministers continually not onely spoyling the Realme and Kings of England of infinite treasure but also with the same mony hyring and maintaining forraigne enemies against the Realme and Kings of England to keepe them in such his subjection that they should not refuse to pay whatsoever those unsatiable Wolves did greedily gape for and suffer whatsoever those most cruell Tyrants would lay upon them Would English-men have suffered this Would they by rebellion have caused this trow you and all for the Bishop of Romes causelesse curse had they in those dayes knowne and understood that God doth curse the blessings and blesse the cursings of such wicked usurping Bishops and Tyrants as it appeareth afterward in King Henry the eighth his dayes and King Edward the sixt and in our gracious Soveraignes dayes that now is where neither the Popes curses nor Gods manifold blessings are wanting But in King Iohns time the Bishop of Rome understanding the brute blindnesse ignorance of Gods word superstition of English-men and how much they were enclined to worship the Babylonicall beast of Rome and to feare all his threatnings and causelesse curses hee abused them thus and by their rebellion brought this noble Realme and Kings of England under his most cruell tyranny and to bee a spoyle of his most vile and unsatiable covetousnesse and raveny for a long and a great deale

too long a time And to joyne unto the reports of Histories matters of latter memory Could the Bishop of Rome have raysed the late rebellions in the North and West Countries in the times of King Henry and Edward our gracious Soveraignes in their time but by abusing of the ignorant people Or is it not most evident that the Bishop of Rome hath of late attempted by his Irish Patriarkes and B●shops sent from Rome with his Buls whereof some were apprehended to breake downe the barres and hedges of the publique peace in Ireland onely upon confidence easily to abuse the ignorance of the wilde Irishmen Or who seeth not that upon like confidence yet more lately hee hath likewise procured the breach of the publique peace in England with the long and blessed continuance whereof hee is sore grieved by the ministery of his disguised Chaplaines creeping in Lay mens apparell into their houses and whispering in the eares of certaine Northerne borderers being then most ignorant of their duty to God and to their Prince of all people of the Realme whom therefore as most meete and ready to execute his intended purpose he hath by the said ignorant Masse-priests as blind guides leading the blind brought those silly blind subjects into the deepe ditch of horrible rebellion damnable to themselves and very dangerous to the state of the Realme had not God of his mercy miraculously calmed that raging tempest not onely without any shipwrack of the Common-wealth but almost without any shedding of Christian and English bloud at all And it is yet much more to bee lamented that not onely common people but some other youthfull or unskilfull Princes also suffer themselves to bee abused by the Bishop of Rome his Cardinals and Bishops to oppressing of Christian men their faithfull subjects either themselves or else by procuring the force and strength of Christian men to bee conveyed out of one Countrey to oppresse true Christians in another Countrey and by these meanes open an entry unto Moores and Infidels into the possession of Christian Realmes and Countries other Christian Princes in the meane time by the Bishop of Romes procuring also being so occupied in civill warres or troubled with rebellions that they have neither leisure nor ability to conferre their common forces to the defence of their fellow Christians against such invasions of the common enemies of Christendom the Infidels and miscreants Would to God we might onely read and heare out of the histories of old and not also see and feele these new and present oppressions of Christians rebellions of subjects effusion of Christian bloud destruction of Christian men decay and ruine of Christendom increase of paganism most lamentable pittifull to behold being procured in these our dayes as well as in times past by the Bishop of Rome his Ministers abusing the ignorance of Gods Word yet remaining in some Christian Princes and people By which sorrow and bitter fruits of ignorance all men ought to be moved to give care and credit unto Gods Word shewing as most truely so most plainely how great a mischefe ignorance is and againe how great and how good a gift of God knowledge in Gods Word is And to begin with the Romish Clergie who though they doe bragge now as did sometimes the Jewish Clergie that they cannot lacke knowledge yet doth God by his holy Prophets both charge them with ignorance and threaten them also for that they have repelled the knowledge of Gods word and law from themselves and from his people that he will repell them that they shall be no more his Priests God likewise chargerh Princes as well shall be no more his Priests God likewise chargeth Princes aswell as Priests that they should endeavour themselves to get understanding and knowledge in his Word threatning his heavie wrath and destruction to them if they faile thereof And the wise man saith to all men universally Princes Priests and people where is no knowledge there is no good nor health to the soule and that all men bee vaine in whom is not the knowledge of God and his holy Word that they who walke in darkenesse wot not whither they goe and that the people that will not learne shall fall into great mischefes as did the people of Israel who for their ignorance in Gods Word were first led into captivitie and when by ignorance afterward they would not know the time of their visitation but crucified Christ our Saviour persecuted his holy Apostles and were so ignorant and blinde that when they did most wickedly and cruelly they thought they did God good and acceptable Service as doe many by ignorance thinke even at this day finally through their ignorance and blindnesse their Countrey Townes Cities Ierusalem it selfe and the Temple of God were all most horribly destroyed the chiefest part of their people slaine and the rest led into most miserable captivitie for he that made them had no pitty upon them neither would spare them and all for their ignorance And the holy Scriptures doe teach that the people that will not see with their eyes nor heare with their eares to learne and to understand with their hearts cannot be coverted and saved And the wicked themselves being damned in hell shall confesse ignorance in Gods Word to have brought them thereto saying we have erred from the way of truth and the light of righteousnesse hath not shined unto us and the Sunne of understanding hath not risen unto us we have wearied our selves in the way of wickednesse and perdition and have walked cumbrous and crooked wayes but the way of the Lord have we not knowne And as well our Saviour himselfe as his Apostle Saint Paul doth teach that the ignorance of Gods Word commeth of the devill is the cause of all errour and mis-judging as falleth out with ignorant subjects who can rather espie a little moate in the eye of the Prince or a counseller then a great beame in their owne and universally it is the cause of all evill and finally of eternall damnation Gods judgement being severe towards those who when the light of Christs Gospell is come into the world doe delight more in darkenesse of ignorance then in the light of knowledge in Gods Word For all are commanded to read or heare to search and studdy the holy Scriptures and are promised understanding to be given them from God if they so doe all are charged not to beleeve any dead man nor if an Angell should speake from heaven much leste if the Pope doe speak from Rome against or contrary to the Word of God from the which we may not decline neither to the right hand nor to the left In Gods Word Princes must learne how to obey God and to governe men in Gods Word subjects must learne obedience both to God and their Princes old men and young rich and poore all men and women all States sexes and ages are taught their severall duties in the Word of God For the Word of God is bright giving light unto all mens eyes the shining lampe directing all mens pathes and steps let us therefore a wake from the sleepe and darkenesse of ignorance and openour eyes that we may see the light let us rise from the workes of darkenesse that we may escape eternall darkenesse the due reward thereof and let us walke in the light of Gods Word whilst we have light as becommeth the children of light so directing the steps of our lives in that way which leadeth to light and life everlasting that we may finally obtaine and enjoy the same which God the Father of lights who dwelleth in the light incomprehensible and inaccessible grant unto us through the light of the world our Saviour Jesus Christ unto whom with the holy Ghost one most glorious God be all honour praise and thankesgiving for ever and ever Amen The Prayer O Most mighty God the Lord of Hosts the governour of all creatures the onely giver of all victories who alone art able to strengthen the weake against the mighty and to vanquish infinite multitudes of thine enemies with the countenance of a few of thy servants calling upon thy Name and trusting in thee defend O Lord thy servant and our governour under thee our King Charles and all thy people committed to his charge O Lord withstand the cruelty of all those which be common enemies as well to the truth of thy eternall Word as to their owne Naturall Prince and Countrey and manifestly to this Crown and Realme of England which thou hast of thy divine Providence assigned in these our dayes to the government of thy servant our Soveraigne and gracious King O most mercifull Father if it be thy holy will make soft and tender the stony hearts of all those that doe exalt themselves against thy truth and seeke either to trouble the quiet of this Realme of England or to oppresse the crowne of the same and convert them to the knowledge of thy Son the only Saviour of the world Jesus Christ that we and they may joyntly glorifie thy mercies Lighten we beseech thee their ignorant hearts to embrace the truth of thy Word or else so abate their cruelty O most mighty Lord that this our Christian Realme with others that confesse thy holy Gospell may obtaine by thine ayd and strength surety from all enemies without shedding of Christian blood whereby all they which be oppressed with their tyrannie may be releived and they which be in feare of their crueltie may be comforted and finally that all Christian Realmes and specially this Realme of England may by thy defence and protection continue in the truth of the Gospell and enjoy perfect peace quietnesse and securitie and that we for these thy mercies joyntly altogether with one consonant heart and voyce may thankefully render to thee all Laud and praise that we knit in one godly concord and unity amongst our selves may continually magnifie thy glorious Name who with thy Sonne our Saviour Iesus Christ and the holy Ghost art one eternall Almighty and most mercifull God to whom be all Laud and praise world without end Amen FINIS