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A64760 The dovvnfall of the pretended divine authoritie of the hierarchy into the Sea of Rome from some arguments and motives, to the finall extirpation of that unlawful government of the prelacy : as having no foundation in the Scriptures, but onely in that filthy dung-hill of by V.N.V. V. N. V. 1641 (1641) Wing V14; ESTC R1331 28,994 45

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wherein it s as possible for them to bring forth good fruit as for an Apricock to grow in a dunghill Wee have Christs assurance for it A corrupt tree cannot bring forth good fruit the tree still signifies the office not the person for it s spoken of false Prophets and tryall of them by their fruits Doe men gather grapes on thornes or figges on thistles still shewes it to be the office of those false Prophets where Christ never ordained any good fruits to grow and therefore none to be expected but of a corrupt tree corrupt fruit Therefore every tree which brings not forth good fruit shall be hewen downe and cast into the fire Mat. 7.16 to 20. This good fruit as wee shewed even now is fruit unto holinesse We will try then the fruits of this tree of Episcopacy and the severall branches of its offices and we finde them all taste of the dunghill soyle they are rooted in and receive their proper nourishment from and are no fruite unto holinesse For wee doe finde by wofull experience that the fruits of their offices and government hath filled the Land with all prophanenesse and sinning with greedinesse in all licentiousnesse and therefore unholy offices an unholy government which not onely countenance sincks of sin and wickednesse but live in and are maintained by the vices of men as the hire of whores selling of sinnes and filthinesse commutations of pennance and oppressions of his Majesties Subjects and disabling them for King and Countryes service This is the chiefe maintenance of their offices which if once with the Canon Law that warrants these practices were taken away we should quickly see this great Amphitheater of Prelacy moulder downe and fall into the dunghill from whence it arose and then one faire flood of Justice from this honourable Parliament would soone sweep away all the filth together and clense the Land of these corrupt and contagious offices The seats of their offices their Cathedrall Cities and Pallaces are very donnes of all filthinesse and prophanenesse the most uncleane birds in the Countrey resort to dwell under their shadow as having there libertie to live in all licentiousnesse The name of holinesse there is as a Jew to an Egyptian an abhomination their Abbeyes Deaneries and Episcopall Seas are like the A●phaltites pitchy sulphurious Lake nothing that favours of or breaths holinesse can live there Their Courts and Judgements-seats are so many batteryes against holinesse thundering and flaming out fire and smoke from their Canons and murthering pieces at the very name of or persons that looke after holinesse as the mortall enemies of their dominion and government against which if a man let the least word fall presently ex officio excommunicate him ipso facto ere he stirre from them he shall not have a warning peace to be gone but a whole battery of Canons discharged upon him in such heate and rage fire and smoke of their fulminations as he shall scarce know what ground he stands on till for change of ayre he be hald away to a stincking prison to complaine to the bare-walls Oh if he be a Puritane that 's condemnation in the abstract enough to rid the Land of him yea the world too if they get their opportunitie And for their language in the exercise of their offices they speak half in the language of Ashdod Nehem. 13.24 like the mingled people Jere. 50.37 of many religions yea of any save the true because that 's no friend to them and their functions But because they boast so much of their descent from Christ and his Apostles but are found lyers Apoc. 2.2 We will by their leave take a walke further through their Orchards and taste of their ripest fruits and try what soyle they taste of whether the fruits of the functions of Christ and his Apostles or of Antichrists functions and offices 1. When Christ was to leave his deare Disciples in a troublesome world he left his peace with them for a Legacy Ioh. 15.27 to comfort them in all their troubles and commands them to love one another because the world would hate them as it hated him Ioh. 15.17 But these Prelates by their vexatious offices suffer Christs Ministers and servants to have little peace and lesse love hate them Cain-like even to the death but a Papist is a brave companion for them at Table in Coach in counsell and familiaritie in all their affaires as Blackwell the Priest said long agoe I wonder said he of what religion your Bishops are us they persecute because we are Papists but they hate a Puritane and of the two they love us the better and how that love is encreased shews they are birds of the black feather like the Raven that after she once got out of the Arke never returned so as soone as ever one of these Prelates is got into a Bishops Sea they are flowne out of the Church the infection of the fowle nest like the plague of Leprosie strikes them some sooner some later so as they take to their wings and flie home to Rome the resting place of their ambitious minds and who can blame them for it is the nature of the office to be like and love their mother and not rather help them forward to her Sic canibus catulos similes sic matribus haedos Virgil. Of this their flight to Rome see it clearly in their endeavours of reconciling us to their Mother and others of them not so skilfull in the art as forward in the flight labouring openly to reduce us wholly to Rome Ex professo tanquam ex officio as the very nature of the office so to doe to beget and bring forth many children to their mother ther 's some plaine dealing in these if they doe not turne with the winde which now troubles them in their flight and work For as birds nodding their heads let us see which way they are flying so the Prelates and their sonnes of the Church by their nodding Eastward let us see their ayme is Rome-ward And when in this late Episcopall quarrell with the Scots by their sole instigation they saw a necessitie of open flight to the Popes and Papists ayde or lose their fat Bishopricks expecting this faire season for their flight they were so ready for it as they had their excuses ready before hand That if Popery came into England againe the Puritanes were the cause of it * Prelate of Duresme as Tenterton Steeple is the cause of Goodwin Sands 2. Christ would not meddle with the Magistrates authoritie in dividing the Inheritance Luk. 12.13.14 as without compasse of his office his kingdome was not of this world Ioh. 18.36 These Prelates are wholly worldly must be chiefe in Parliaments in the Kings Councells in chiefe offices Lord Chancellour Lord Treasurer c. and oversway all the affaires in Court and Countrey as if by their pretended divine Authoritie they had full Commission from Christ to divide the world amongst them and
colour He also nourishes in his Diocesse a company of popish-Arminian Ministers of Wil Cants. chiefe correspondence by whom as by the like in other parts of the Land he hath had constant intelligence of all matters and of all the persons and families that favour our religion in those parts that once they might get a day to rid the world of them He also connives at dangerous meetings of the most stirring Papists their baptismes and night burialls with tapers and torches and bells ringing but without the use of the Service Booke and against their owne Canons whereby it appeares their Service Booke and Canons serve onely against puritanes and must not be discharged against Papists So as the chiefe Townes of his diocesse are of late become dennes of Papists and places of resort to their meetings and Masses and of traffique and trade in their Books and Beads and Romish Merchandize All which considered he may be said to have given the lye to all his former works and writings against the Papists So that it may be verified of him that he is the greatest Papist friend that ever came in Duresme since our reformation See here how the Antichristian office hath blasted all his fruits and made him the shame of his old age and of that pretended divine office of Episcopacy which now the Lord will have made naked to the world And all this flowes out of the dunghill foundation and filthy nature of the office serving principally to propagate Antichrists kingdome to waste the Church and overthrow the offices of Christ So as it would seeme that Episcopacy now is come to its full height and ripenesse in this Land it hath ever since our reformation opposed Christs kingly office as its mortall enemy whereby it s growne to this height at this day to overthrow his Propheticall and Priestly offices also that all the world may see as in the Sun-shine that the offices and government of the Prelacy are meerly Antichristian By this time I thinke they have done and so have we with their divine Authoritie as having too long raked in that dunghill and therefore we come now to the issue That since they cannot reckon up their genealogie from Levie from another divine authoritie than the Canon Law let them as polluted be put from the Priesthood Nehem. 7 64. Thus did good Nehemiah and the Princes true patternes of reformation before us The Lord put into the hearts of his Majestie and the Worthies of this Honourable Parliament to follow their example and to clense the Land of this polluted Priesthood and filthy dunghill offices of Antichristian Authoritie which hath so long eclipsed the Gospels light and the name and fame of our Nations glory in the eyes of all the reformed world who with the bulk and body of Popery have also cast off this heavie yoke and regiment of Episcopacy Therefore as not compatible with Christs kingly office and scepter of his World with Our royall Kings Authoritie our Sions peace and Kingdomes glory in the flourishing of Christs Kingdome Wee hope this Honourable Parliament will no longer suffer this tree of Sathans planting to stand but root it out according to Christs owne sentence and will Away with all the reverend Fathers and their sonnes of the Church with all their trumpery Mat. 17.16.20 and 15.13 Cut off from Babell roote and branch son and nephew name and remnant destroy her utterly let nothing of her be left Ier. 50.26 Isa 14.22 thinke it not to be sufficient for you will not finde it so to curbe the insolency and lop off the loftie spreading branches of this tree of Episcopacy when the Lord Jesus hath said it shall be rooted out and hath laid the axe of his Word to the roote and will have it cut downe Mat. 3.10 and cap. 17 20. and east into the fire Doe you Right Honourable and Noble workmen of the Lord take it as a choise blessing that now the Lord hath by a Parliament put into your hands the axe of authoritie to be also layd to the root of this tree and count it your greatest honour every one of you to lend it a blow and it will suddenly fall God hath done his part if you set to yours he will put strength into your hands against all difficulties Ios 1.9 be strong and of good courage these Cananites shall be but bread for you Numb 14.9 for the Lord is with you to remove mountaines of difculties that lye in your way if yee faithfully trust to his assistance yee shall say to these mountaines remove and they shall be cast into the Sea Mat. 21.22 Plow up the very roots and weed the ground the land of it that nothing of it be left and the place will be a fruitfull soyle Their pluralities and fat Livings they have enclosed and impaled to serve their ease their pomp and pleasures will be as Sharon Sheepfolds for Christ to feed his flocks by his Shepheards tents Cant. 1.8 Therefore doe not this work of the Lord negligently if you curbe their greatnesse and lop the branches never so much and leave the root the office in the ground within their warme nests and Episcopall Seas though you shall binde it downe with Iron bands and lay upon it all the weight of good Lawes you can possibly devise it will through the sent of the puddle water Iob 14.9 bud and spring againe next season and bring forth more bitter fruits than ever Episcopacy not the persons is the root of all our evills it is that uncleane bird we spoke of that is flowne out of the Arke and will never be drawne to your lure never be disciplined Set up Christs Kingdome and it will bring in Arm-fulls of blessings to us and our posteritie and make our Kingdome flourish If men were but once acquainted with that royall Scepter and government his sweet and easie yoake they would quickly see the benefit of reformation and what a heavy yoke the Prelacy hath been to our King and State and whole Land Now having shewed the unlawfulnesse and evills of the offices and tryed them both by the Word and by their fruits to be Antichristian If any yet will be so venturous against so cleare light to open their mouthes to plead for Episcopacy oppose the setting up of Christs Kingly office in his throne and glory we will shew them the danger of it for their warning in two shorts Arguments Argument IX If the Prelates and their officers in the exercise of their unlawfull offices doe many things in the worship of God without warrant of the Word of God they are guilty of the sinne and punishment of Nadab and Abihu of Corah Dathan and Abiram But so doe the Prelates and their Officers as witnesse the whole source of their superstitions and mens inventions of old and late innovated abhominations of Jewish Popish and Heathenish fopperies and Ceremonies which they have brought into the worship of God Ergo they are