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england_n	high_a	lord_n	steward_n	3,887	5	11.1026	5	false

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A43120	Hay any worke for Cooper, or, A briefe pistle directed by way of an Hublication to the Reverend Byshops counselling them if they will needes bee barrelled up for feare of smelling in the nostrills of His Majesty and the state that they would use the advise of Reverend Martin for the providing of their Cooper because trhe Reverend T. C., by which mysticall letters is understood either the bouncing parson of east-meane or Tom Coakes his Chaplaine, to be an unskilfull and a beceitfull Tub-trimmer : wherein worthy Martin Qvits himselfe like a man I warrant you in the modest defence of his selfe and his learned pistles and maketh the Coopers hoopes to slye off and the Bishops Tubs to leake out of all cry / penned and compiled by Martin the metropolitan.	Marprelate, Martin, pseud.; Penry, John, 1559-1593.	1642 (1642)	Wing H1205; ESTC R13144	39,553	59

to Lambeth It is treason by statute fot any subject in this Land to proceed Doctor of the Canon law and dare you professe your Church government to bee ruled by that law As though one statute might not referre all matters of the Canon law unto the temporall and common law of this Realme and is this all you can say T. C. 2 Yes saith he the government of Christ would bring in the judiciall law of Moses As much as is morall of that law or of the equity of it would be brought in And doe you again say it But you sodden headed Asse you the most part of that law is abrogated Some part thereof is in force among us as the punishment of a Murtherer by death and presumptuous obstinate Theft by death c. 3. His Majesties prerogative in Ecclesiasticall causes should not be a whit diminished but rather greatly strengthened by Christs government And no law should be altered but such as were contrary to the Law of God and against the profit of the Common wealth and therefore there can be no danger in altering these 4 The Ministers maintenance by Tythe no Puritane denyeth to be vnlawfull For Martin good Mr. Parson you must understand doth account no Brownist to be a Puritane nor yet a sottish Cooperist 5. The inconvenience which you shew of the government which is that men would not be ruled by it is answered afore And I pray you why should not they be better obedient unto Gods Law if the same also were established by the law of the Land then to the Popes Law and his Canons You thinke that all men are like your selves that is like Bishops such as cannot choose but break the Lawes and good orders of God and his Majesty 7 The lawes of England have beene made when there was never a Bishop in the Parliament as in the first yeare of Qeen Eliz. And this reason as all thu rest may serve to maintaine Popery as well as the hierarchy of Bishops 8 The government of the Church of Christ is no popular government but it is Monarchicall in regard of our head Christ Aristocraticall in the Eldership and Democraticall in the people Such is the civill government of our Kingdome Monarchicall in his Majesties person Aristocraticall in the higher house of Parliament or rather at the Counsell Table Democraticall in the body of the Commons of the Lower house of Parliament Therefore profane T. C. this government seeketh no popularity to be brought into the Church much lesse intendeth the alteration of the Civill state that is but your slander of vvhich you make an occupation And I will surely pay you for it I must be briefe now but more worke for Cooper shall examine your standers They are nothing else but proofes that as by your owne Confessions you are Bishops of the Divell so you are enemies unto the state For by these slanders you goe about to blind our State that they may never see a perfect Regiment of the Church in our dayes I say that by your owne Confession you are Bishops of the Divell I will prove it thus You confesse that your Lordly government were not lawfull and tolerable in this Common vvealth if his Majesty and the state of the Land did disclaime the same Tell me doe you not confesse this deny it if you dare For will you say that you ought lawfully to be here in our Common wealth whither his Majesty and the Counsell will or no Is this the thankes that his Majesty shall have for tolerating you in his Kingdome all this while that now you will say that you and your places stand not in this Kingdome by his courtesie but you have as good right vnto your places as he hath vnto his Kingdome And by this meanes your Offices stand not by his good liking and the good liking of the state as doe the Offices of our Lord high Chancellor high Treasurer and high Steward of England But your Offices ought to stand and to bee in force in spight of his Majesty the Parliament Counsell and every man else unlesse they would doe you injury So that I know J you dare not deny but that your Offices were unlawfull in our Common-wealth if his Majesty the Parliament and the Counsell would have them abolished If you grant this then you doe not hold your Offices as from God but as from man His Majesty hee holdeth his Office and his Kingdome as from GOD and is beholding for the same unto no Prince not State under Heaven Your case is otherwise for you hold your Offices as from his Majesty and not from God For otherwise you needed not to bee any more beholding unto his Majesty for the same in regard of right then hee is bound to bee beholding unto other states in regard of his right and so you in regard of your Lordly superiority are not the Bishops of God but as Ierom saith the Bishops of man And this the most of you confesse to be true and you see how dangerous it would be for you to affirme the contrary namely that you hold your Offices as from God Well Sir if you say that you are the Bishops of man Then tell mee whether you like of Deane Iohn his Booke O yes saith T. C. For his grace did peruse that book we know the sufficiency of it to bee such as the Puritans are not able to answer it Well then whatsoever is in this booke is anthenticall It is so saith T. C. otherwise his grace would not have allowed it What say you then to the 140 pag. of that booke where he saith answering the ●…rertise of the Bishop of God the Bi. of Man and the Bishop of the Divell that there is no Bishop of man at all but every Bishop must bee either the Bishop of GOD or the Bishop of the Divell He also affirmeth none to be the Bishop of God but he which hath war●…ant both inclusively and also expresly in Gods Word Now you Bishops of the Divell what say you now are you spighted of the Puritans because you like good subjects defend the Lawes of his Majesty or else because like incarnate Divels you are Bishops of the Divels as you your selves confesse Here againe let the Magistrate once more consider what pestilent and dangerous Beasts these wretches are unto the civill state For either by their owne confession they are the Bishops of the Divell and so by that meanes will bee the undoing of the state if they bee continued therein or else their places ought to be in this Commonwealth whether his Majesty and our state will or no●… because they are not as they say the Bishops of man that is they have not their superiority and their Lordly callings over their brethren by humane constitution as my Lord Chancellor Treasurer and other honourable personages have but by divine ordinance Yea and their callings they hold as you have heard not onely to be inclusively but also