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A04026	Informations, or a protestation, and a treatise from Scotland Seconded with D. Reignoldes his letter to Sir Francis Knollis. And Sir Francis Knollis his speach in Parliament. All suggesting the vsurpation of papal bishops.	Knollys, Francis, Sir, d. 1643.; Rainolds, John, 1549-1607.; Simson, Patrick, 1556-1618.	1608 (1608)	STC 14084; ESTC S107421	32,696	102

estate of Christ his Kirke under the Gospell must be inferior unto the estate of the Kirke under the law which had the accomplishment of all offices ministeries and lawes needfull and sufficient for the regiment therof But none will graunt that the estate of the Kirke of Christ is inferior to the estate of the Kirk under the law Therefore the aforesayd offices are sufficient for the Governement of the Kirk of the New Testament And therefore this forme order of Government by the foresayd offices and Ministeries of Preachers and assisting Elders being grounded vpon the written word of God practise of the Apostles Kirkes in their time Rom 12. 6 7 8. Eph 4. 11 12. Act 14 23. et 20. 17. 28. 1. Tim 5. 17. Tit 1 5 c. It can admit no prescription or change by any mortall man or by any humane tradition whatsoever Which forme of Discipline as it hath been practised in the Apostolicall and Primitiue Kirke quhilk is evident by scriptures afore aledged so hath it the testimony of antiquitie in the auncient Kirkes as is collected not very obscurely out of Ignatius Epist ad Trallen Tertul in Apoc. cap. 39. et lib de Baptism Christian. Cyprian lib 2. Epist. 5 et lib. 3 Epist. 10. 18. 22. et lib. 4. 5. Augusti de verb. Dom. in Math Serm. 19. But more clearly out of Ambrose in 1 Tim. 5 1 Ierom in Isai 2. et ad Rustic Epist 16. Possidonius in vita Augustini Socrates Eccle. hist. lib. 5. ca. 20. and others also alledged be the defenders of this christian and true Kirke Governement Amongst the quhilk I cannot passe by for proofes sake the cleare sayinges of Ambrose and Ierom. Ambrose writteth thus upon 1 Tim. 5 Whence it is that both the Synagage and afterward the Kirk had Elders without whos counsell nothing was done in the Kirk Quhilk by what negligence it is growne out of use I know not unlesse perhaps by the slouthfulnes or rather prid of the Teachers whilst they alone will seeme to be something Ierom ad Tit. cap. 1. Vntill schismes were made in religion by the diuely suggestion the Kirkes were governed by the common counsell of Elders and in the same place speaking of the corruption that followed therafter addeth this But this was rather by custome than by the truth of the Lords disposing This forme of Discipline according to the word the Kirk of Scotland hath used many years by past being authorised and ratified by the three Estates in Parliament receaved and practised by all the Preachers within the whole Realme with on consent concord even by thē also who now haue made defection frō it taking upon thē Episcopall authority Siclik it hath the testimony of all the reformed Kirkes in Europe in France in Freisland in Geneva in Helvetia Polonia Vngaria in Palatinatu in Germania Saxonia Bohemia in Suedia Dania and all other reformed Kirkes except Englād alone Siclik also it hath the testimony generally of the Divīes of later times as Zuinglius Martir Aretius Calvinus Bucer Hiperius Bullingerius Musculus Hemingius Beza Olevianus Iunius Sadael Nowel Fulke Whitakers with all other learned famous Preachers in the Countries reformed professing truely the Gospell only Englād excepted wherin also the best yea the greatest parte haue sought and dayly seiks the liberty of the same Governement according to the word most clearely haue defended it with their penne and most pithie writtings and most constantly haue avouched it by their manifold suffrings at home and abrode for the glorifiyng of God and the witnessing of the truth of Christ Iesus All that afore hath been breifly sayd anent the deduction of this purpose may be more largely intreated and more particularly handled if any within this land will proue so obstinat as to refuse consent to the truth of Christ Iesus THE SECOND PART OF KIRKE GOVERNEMENT CONTEINING AREfutation of Episcopall Governement by Lord Bishopes IT pleased our Heavenly Father to compasse us with compassion and mercy whē we were lying in darknes and under the shadow of death by sen ding his owne deare Sonne Christ Iesus with the brightnes of his Gospell delivering us from Idolatry and super stition and the darknes of the former times vnder the bondage and tyranny of Antichrist and that by the Ministery of few not the greatest to the great admiration of the world And forder of the same mercy it hath pleased him from time to time to multiply the nūber of the faithfull and to increase his graces among men for the beutifiyng of his Kirk within this land and finally to croune his owne worke adding the keepstone of sincerity both of doctrine and Discipline as it was prophesied by that holy Martyr M. George Wiseheart quhilk two glorious staues our Kirke hath brooked with Concord Unitie with peace prosperity many yeares within the gates of Ierusalem in this land wherby our Kirk by the unspeak ble bountifulnes of God became famous renoumed and in great accōpt before many others amonge forren Nations and Kirkes reformed in Europe For the which belongeth everlasting prayse to this our boūtifull God through his Sonne Iesus Christ our deare Saviour But now of late hath risen ane whirle wind among our selues like the whirle winde that devoured the children of Iob shaking the foure corners of the house of God and throwing doun the kepston and this wind of discord Schisme and dissention is not come from the wildernes but risē from our owne bowels and the riches of the Temple dispoyled not by Assyri ans Chaldeans or Arabians but by the Preistes and Ministers themselfes hom-bredd and borne in the bosome of our Kirke and fostered sometime by the sincere milke of the Gospell who also haue made avoumemt of the same sinceritie both of Doctrine and Discipline not only in Preaching and practising but also with solemne Oath binding themselfes therto From quhilk an manifest slyding backe and Apostasie is seene this day lamented with greiff by the godly and mocked be the enemyes the Papists and Atheists whose number strength and power daylie in cresseth by this lamentable renting inbringing of Episcopall Gubernation be Lord Bishops quhilk before had ben banished with Antichristian corruptions from the Kirk of Scotland For the working of this Mysterie many intentions haue bene proponed many sheapes cullours haue bene changed As for example in the begining nothing for such was meened but Ministers to haue vote in Parliament and that to vindicat the Ministerie from povertie and cōtempt c. quhilk practise God even then at the begining discovered unto his servantes and they unto the world foretelling the effectes that visibly now appeares before the eyes of the world viz. renting of our Church overthrowing of Christian Discipline setting up a fewe Episcopall men with contempt bondage and povertie of the rest which this day is to be seene to the great greife of the godly and hinderance