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A73049	Englands pvrginge fire Conteyninge two petitions, the one to the Kinges most excellent Majesty, the other to the High Courte of Parliament held at this tyme in England. Shewinge in diverse perticulers, how the Church in England might be ordered, yet more conformably to the Will of God reveiled in his worde then at this day it is. Herewithall is declared, the evell and lamentable effects of our vnable and negligent ministers: and the happy fruict of our learned and painefull pastors. A worke most needefull for theise tymes, as servinge to turne away the wrath and iudgements of God from this lande, through the removinge, (accordinge to the advertisements herein given) such disorders and evells, as for which the wrath of God may be, and is, kindled against this Land, and the church therein.	Proctor, Thomas, fl. 1621.	1621 (1621)	STC 20408.5; ESTC S124597	53,590	98

worde you shall fynde a comforteable shewe of Godliness Here a true evidence of Christian life and conversation Here therefore is indeede an evidence of the inseazoninge and habitation of the Spirit of God both in Pastor and People Here a plaine evidence both of the Kingedome of Heaven in Power and also of the weakeninge if not castinge out of the contrary Kingedome even the Kingedome of Satan Of theise Ministers and Parishes therefore I rejoice and for your gratious favour towards them for their better incouragement in well doing I humbly petition your sacred Majestie in this writing But some and too many of theise are in the number of those whose Ministers are silenced and whose people are reproached with the nick name of Puritanes My Lord and Kinge I petition not that their errors be suffered but this I petition that the Ministers leaving their errors and the people also forsakinge them both Ministers and People may fynde you gratious towards them by restoringe the Ministers to their former Ministration and by acceptinge the people as the Lights of our Lande for Religion There is no Garden where vveedes will not growe neither doe men destroy the Garden for the vveedes sake but rather vveede out the vveedes and preserve the Garden still We may not conceave that none that are true Christians and have the Spirit fal into any errors for Peter had his error Galat. 2 11 and the Churches of Corinth Galatia had their strayinges from the truth vvhen yet neither Peter was silenced but onely the error he fell into withstoode nor those Churches forsaken but onely the vveedes weeded out And it is truly a harde thinge that Mens Ministeryes are wholy suppressed for an error or two in Iudgement whereas rather first they should be but staied from Preachinge such errors and afterwardes upon obstinate persistinge silenced But seinge many of our learned and painefull Divines whose Ministry hath bene very proffitable in this Church of Englande are wholy for some few errors silenced I am now a petitioner that their Ministery may be restored so as they forsake those things which truly are errors in them And for the people I humbly pray that leaving to speake against Lawfull Powers and Offices in the Church and against our Divine Service leaving to condemne Gods people in lawfull things they may be relieved from those scandales which vvicked Men cast upon them Surely Dread Soveraigne theise Congregations vvhere silenced Ministers have bene doe manifestly declare themselvs to be Gods Saincts in your Kingdome yea I have observed that vvhere a Minister conformable to the Ordinances of our Church hath succeeded in the place of a silenced Minister Godliness hath more and more decayed in your People I vvill not say it is the fault of their Conformity God forbid but this I say it is the fault of their not exercisinge like Pastorall dutyes as the silenced Ministers exercised and it is the fault of our Bishops not pressinge them to exercise such but rather leavinge them to a prejudiciall Liberty in Life and Conversation Thus have I my most gratious Soveraigne adventured to set before your viewe the diverse dispositions of your People according to the diversely disposed Ministers set over them I neede not now doubt of your Majesties quick apprehention and discerninge where in your Kingedome the Kingedome of Heaven most prevaileth neither yet where are the best evidencyes of the Spirit of God You have given such Signes of your excellent judgement in theise things that I rather rejoice thereof then infourme you oughts at all True it is that it is not rigour of Punishment no nor Lawes that vvill bring people on to theise holy exercises in their familyes and to this blessed restreinte from ungodly conversation so well as the vvorde of God frequently preached wisely directed by a skilfull Minister Neither is there any expectation that a vvhole People should at an instant be brought to this measure of conformity to the Ghospell of Christe Yet if Parishionall Goverment might accompany Parishionall ministration of the vvorde the people would doubtless the sooner be brought hereunto Not that there should be any violent disgracinge or proceedinge against all that presently are not conformable for this were to provoake untymely the people before the Lords tyme for their conversion be come but that by little and little with Meekeness and Gentleness the Parishionall Governours drawe them on to conforme themselvs to the Rules of the Ghospell But where any family is too obstinate refusinge for longe tyme to exercise therein any religious dutyes there I humbly pray that your Majestie incourage the Parishional Governours to proceede on orderly against such for surely a family that within its self doth wholy neglect all pions exercises is neere unto Atheisme yea though they observe customarily their comminge to Church This if your Majestie vouchsafe to doe you shall surely make your Memoriall blessed for ever even as is the memory of theise good Kinges blessed of whom before I have vvritten If it be obiected that Tradition shews us no evidence that ever at all the Church had such a Goverment by Lay Elders also as which I now press for this is the difficultest Change I petition for then I answere If we receave the Office of Bishops Arch-Bishops because Tradition brings them to us when yet we have not any great vvarrant from Scripture both for Bishops and Arch-Bishopps though indeede for one set over Teachers and Churches we have great evidence shall we not much more receave a Goverment by Lay Elders vvhich hath evidence as I have before showen in Scriptures yea though corrupted Tradition affoorde us no Light for such The Lord hath not given such evidence to a Reformation which hath aymed at the purest Tradition onely as to that which hath aymed to Reforme things by his vvorde in Scripture therefore to Conforme the Offices and Goverment Ecclesiasticall to that vvhich the Scripture gives us Light for is surely most acceptable to God and shall receave the greatest blessinges Therefore I vvill conclude this my vvrytinge first vvith a petition to your Majestie for the admittinge of such a Parishionall Goverment having an eye rather at the Ordinance of God as we fynde it in holy Scripture then at corrupted Tradition and its testimony and authority and secondly with my Praier to God That he give you a hearte to execute his will and establish your Throane in the Church continuinge your flourishinge Kingedomes to your selfe and your posterity for ever For truly our Church prayeth well where it saith Almighty God whose Kingedome is everlastinge and power infinite have mercy upon the whole Congregation and so rule the hearte of thy chosen Servante Iames our Kinge and Governour that he knowinge whose Minister he is may above all things seeke thy honour and glory And that we his Subiects duly consideringe vvhose authority he hath may faithfully serve honour humbly obey him in thee and for thee according to thy blessed vvorde and ordinance through IESUS CHRISTE our Lord. 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or commended they acknowledge no Power in that read unto them out of a Homily Neither are Homilyes written to occasion in our Cleargy a Negligence of Study but rather for the help of those onely who cannot Preach soundly at all therefore fart be it from our Church to fetter a Congregation to a Homily reader onely if the tymes affoorde Ministers who cann divide the vvorde of the Ghospell aright Thus having vvritten of one sorte of Ministers I humbly pray that I may proceede to another Other Ministers there are who though they cann and doe Preach vvell yet they preach as seldome as Lawe will permit them Herewithall many of them are loose of life prophane in Conversation Yea they are common pot companions they serve as jesters at great Mens tables and make no conscience of their Speach so as they may gaine a Meales meate in such company of Credit In a vvorde neither commonly in their Conversation nor commonly in their dealings with Men they shew any Signes of a Religious disposition of mynde If you examine their family you shall fynde there as little exercise of religious Dutyes as in those familyes where there is neither faith nor feare of God In such Parishes the voice of the people is That they have a Parson that cann doe well if he would that he is a good fellowe and the like but they cannot commned him either for any painefull Preachinge or for any evidence of Piety And according to his evel disposition and example so you shall commonly fynde the Parishioners to take all liberty in vvickedness so farr fourth as they dare for the Law of your Kingedome Here what faith vvhat Sanctification vvhat feare of God vvhat talke of religious thinges here you may fynde some dusty Bibles in familyes but they serve not for any use all the yeate longe save onely to carry to Church on Sundaies Here scarce in any one family of the Parrrish you shall fynde or Morninge or Eveninge Prayer the whole yeare thorowe here no Repetition of Sermons no Catechising of the family at any tyme yea scarcely Grace before or after meate What evidence here then of the Kingedome of heaven vvhat childe of that Kingedome would not mourne to see here so smale fruicts of the Ghospell If it be obiected that Morninge and Eveninge Praier Readinge the Scriptures Repeatinge of Sermons and Catechisinge of the family are new taxes not laid upon Men by the Ghospell then I answere That theise dutyes are included either expressly or by consequence in the Commandements given us in the Ghospell Moreover because those commonly doe theise things in whom the Ghospell most prevayleth therefore the not doing them servs as a Signe that there the Ghospell prevailes not in people as it ought Lastly seinge every family is a Charge where Parents have Charge of Children and Masters of Servants therefore in every family there ought to be some Religious exercises by which faith and devotion may be furthered Another sorte of Ministers there is who both cann and doe Preach vvell yea and often as every Sabbaoth day once but though of the aboundance of their learninge they leave excellent Sermons with their Parishioners yet what comes of it they care not neither ever looke after its takinge any effect at all And for all their Preachinge yet observe them in their life and conversation and you shal never heare them speake of religious things longer then they are in the Pulpit for abroade all the weeke and yeare after their Parishioners fynde that their talke is wholy of worldly matters so that by true Signes the Parishioners discover them to be wholy worldly mynded Civilly courtious they are but Men may easely see that it springs but from Civility not from Religion Theise love their Parishioners but it is but because they reape Proffit by them not for that they fynde the Ghospell and the Grace of God to prevaile in them If you search into the familyes even of theise you may fynde commonly more store of Bibles and more use also made of them then in the Ministers howses of whom I have before vvritten but yet here you shall fynde the use to bee onely as for a vvearinge out of the tyme with readinge vvhich else they could not at present tell how to pass away Here you may fynde Graces before and after meate generally more civility in the family more showe of Religion also then in the former Ministers howses but yet for Morninge or Eveniuge Praier Repetition of Sermons or Catechisinge you shal hardly fynde theise things the whole yeare thorowe As for the People in such Parishes you shall commonly fynde them better disposed then in the Paris hes whereof before I have written they are commonly more Civill and respective of their life and conversation They resorte with more reverence to the Church and have more store of Bibles then in the Parishes before written of but as for family exercises at home such as are Morninge or Eveninge Praier Readinge the Scriptures at convenient tymes Repeatinge of Sermons or Catechisinge you shall not commonly fynde theise things used throughout the yeare If you search them more narrowly you may fynde indeed some good measure of knowledge of Divine Mysteries but as for faith or Sanctity through the Spirit as for any conversinge of things of faith as for any joy of things hoped for accordinge to the Ghospell of Christe you shall hardly fynde theise things in them no nor Signes of them Here we may thanke God for the evidence of the prevaylinge of the Kingdome of Heaven in this your Kingedome and this by the sight of a sounde Divine Service and Preaching and peoples resortinge to the Church but we cannot here rejoyce of that Kingedomes prevaylinge in the hearts lives and conversations of your people I grante indeede Dread Soveraigne that it is no smale matter that the Ghospell pressed vvith your Royall Lawes prevailes over Lords and inferior Governours of familyes so much as to bringe their familyes to the Church neither indeede is it a smale Power that hath brought even this to pass Moreover if Lords and other Governours of familyes usinge their familyes to the Church doe leave them therewithall to God hopinge that the vvorde preached and Gods Grace accompanyinge the same worketh in their family to make them inwardly good Christians not further using their family publickly to Morning or Evening Praier daily or to a reading of the Scripturs thorow every one his or hir part at convenient tymes or to Repeating of Sermons or to Catechisinge yet we may not doubt but that in every such family there is one or some in whom the worde of God worketh and faith in God groweth in them accordinge hereto and so herethorowe there is in that family a private prayinge and a private reading the Scriptures and private Meditations and selfe-Catechisinges therefore also vve may not condemne or reproach all such families as wherein publiquely the family gathered togeather