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A27512	A short view of the prelatical church of England laid open in ten sections by way of quere and petition to the High and Honourable Court of Parliament, the several heads whereof are set down in the next two pages / written a little before the fall of that hierarchie, about the year 1641, by Iohn Barnard, sometime minister of Batcomb in Somerset-shire ; whereunto is added The anatomy of The common-prayer.	Bernard, Richard, 1568-1641.; Bernard, John.	1661 (1661)	Wing B2034; ESTC R17815	85,593	122

their unjustifiable courses and grievous wrongs Whether we should not endeavour to introduce that which may better the Ecclesiastical government and bring this Prelatical power within bounds and our selves from the intollerable burthen thereof The humble Petition That for these so many great and grievous evils they may be questioned and caused to reform or else be censured and punished For they never had poss●ssion peaceably but they have been 1 Prayed against for a long time 2 Preached against by many 3 Written against by divers on this side and beyond the Seas 4 Testified against by suffering Suspension Excommunication ' deprivation open punishment to the cropping of Eares slitting of the Nose standing on the pillorie imprisonment and some have suffered death 5 Withstood by the Sword And what now remaineth but for these their evils they should be condemned by the Honorable and happy Assembly in Parliament That a better way of Government might be thought of after the wisdome of God in the State tending not to the subversien of Ecclesiastical Government but to moderate the now Prelatical governours ease the Land of excessive charges rid our selves of these insufferable evils weaken the Kingdome of Satan advance the glory and procure our own peace and happiness A short Letanie From this Prelatical pride and their Lordly dignities From all their superstitious vanities and Popish Ceremonies From their late innovations and mischievous policies From the cursed oath Ex officio and high Commission cruelties From their Romish Clergy and the peoples unsufferable maseries From their greedy gainful visitations and the Church-wardens enforced perjuries From their most corrupt Courts and their vexing slaveries From all their fruitlesse shadows and hypocritical formalities From their hatred and malice against Christs appointed Ordinances From their needlesley devised and troublesome conformities From all their Illegal proceedings and oppressing Tyrannies From their sinful Synods and all their Papal Hierarchy From Abaddon and Apollyon with their Priests Jesuites their favorites and all their furious blasphemies Good Lord deliver us A short draught of Church-government to be erected I. In every Parish THat there be a meeting of choise men for wisdome gravitie and love of Religion to wit Churchwardens else-where called Elders and Over-seers of the poor in other Churches called Deacons the number more or sewer as the place shall require These with their Pastour to come together as often as shall be judged fit at a set time and place once a moneth to look unto all within the Parish concerning their Religion their honest behaviour and peaceable demeanure and to see all abuses reformed according to the word of God and according to the godly and Ecclesiastical laws which shall be prescribed unto them This will free us from all weekly corrupt Courts and free the people from all burthensome expences and not suffer sin to raign as it doth in every Congregation II. In every division or Circuit That there be a Presbytery of Ministers such as they should be learned grave and godly men The meeting to be appointed at a certain time and place once a fortnight and in every meeting an Election to be freely made of a fit moderator in it These are to see how the government is to be observed in Parishes and how Ministers and Overseers do discharge their duties at this meeting Minister● gifts are to be shewed and tryed that such as come thither may be edified and instructed and here are they to be ordained III. In every Province That there be a Provincial Synod gathered once a year of godly and learned Pastors and out of every County certain learned and grave Divines selected and the number to be according to the Circuits in every County In this to look into the Presbyterian Assemblies and to see that all things be well ordered according as they ought to be IV In the whole Nation That a general Assembly National be gathered once in three year of chosen men to consult for the general good of all to make Canons and to establish Ecclesiastical Government Of the Excelleny of this Government I. It may stand with a Monarchy for what is here that justly can be said to hinder it II. It takes off all Prelatical Lordly tyranny for every part is subordinate to another the Parochial meeting to the Superintendent and his Presbytery this Presbytery to the County Assembly this Assembly to the Provincial Synod and this to the National Convocation III. It keeps Pastours to their spiritual function and suffers them not to intermeddle in Civil and worldly affairs IV. It sets up a learned and preaching Ministry and casts out the before mentioned Prelatical destroying Clergy V. It furthers the power of Religion in Families Villages Townes Cities in Vniversities and in Princes Palaces VI. It s Christs government and easie yoke freeing Gods people from great payments as hath before been named from all the corruptions of the Courts which all the Land doth groane under from that cruel oath ex officio and that unlimited high Commission grievous to be born It s a government that aymeth at godliness and not at greatness and gain It makes none jealous of painful Pastors none to be offended at Christian meetings as if they were Conventicles none to envie other mens graces but stirreth up to wrath one over another and freely to admonish one another to further one another to Heaven It graceth very highly the godly and learned Laity It s grounded upon the word proceedeth by the word rejecting the Popish Canon Law Popish Ceremonies Popish Superstitions and Idolatry and all mens vain inventions in Doctrine Sacrament worship and government of CHRIST Lord Jesus advance thine own self in thine own Ordinance The second part of the Letanie That it may please thee to take into thine own hand thine own cause to plead against all thine Enemies which would not have thee to raign over them That it may please thee to deliver us from cruel and unreasonable men and let them be snared in the work of their own hands let their feet be taken in their own net and let them fall into the pit they dig for others We beseech thee to hear us good Lord. The Conclusion of all is this and the summe of my desire viz. that there may be a full Conformity in Doctrine and Discipline with the rest of the Protestant Churches of Scotland reformed Church of France Geneva c. 1. For this will prevent future differences betwixt the two Nations 2. Prevent the removal of many of the Kings good subjects into other countries with many other benefits This I humbly request to be taken into Consideration which being done will bring a blessing upon this Kingdome and Church The manner of CONSECRATION Of the BISHOPS IN DUBLIN By the LORD PRIMATE in this present year 1660. WHereas we have thought fit to appoint the 27th of this instant January 1660. for the Consecration of Bishops To the end therefore that the same may be

got the Saddle with some more new girts trappings upon the Scots as they intended they had gone near to have rid Religion and Policy to death Gen. 49.17 but as the Scots have proved like Dan. Lyons for Prowess and Serpents for Providence in overturning both the Saddle and Rider up in the Name of the Lord and do the like What should we do with the Mass Deut. 23.22 some of whose Friends nor so well acquainted with the Nature of it would storm if we should call a spade a spade but they must believe their Book-mens testimonies published under the favor of their little great Land-lord of the Soyle who knows best how it should be called ●one of whose Bandiliers tells us in great heat Pocklington Sunday no Sabbath none but Schismatiques will deny the harmony of missification away with it then To finish this point I will enforce the conclusion with this Argument We are not to name an Idol but with detestation much less are we to offer it as a worship of God But the Service or Mass-book is an Idol Ergo we are not to mention it but with detestation much less to offer it to God as a Worship The Spirit is abundant in the proof of the former Proposition Exod. 22.13 Hos 13.2 2.17 Psal 16.4 all remarkable Places teaching us to be wary with what Worship we joyn with but in the first of these places there is a Triplication of the charge in divers terms yet all beating upon the same thing to make us to look to it In the latter Proposition there are two things one implyed namely that the Service-book is the Mass-book for proof whereof Habemus confitentes we have their own avouchment and if they should deny it we shall in the point following prove it whereunto now we come CHAP. III. Of the Original THe second thing considerable for the matter in hand is whence the Lyturgie hath his rise or Original Namely from the Masse-book that whose Original and rise is naught must be naught in it self Can there come clean water out of a corrupt Fountain Note that the Lyturgie is wholly from the Masse-book and other Popish pieces as it shall be full cleared First by comparing of the Books Secondly for that mutual liking that our Lyturgie-Masters and the Masse-Bookmen have one of anothers peace And thirdly from the evidence given from the King and Councel of England Sect. Now to the first every piece and Parcel of the Lyturgie word for word is out of these pieces namely the Breviary out of which the Common-prayers are taken the Ritual or Book of Rites out of which the Administration of the Sacrament Burial Matrimony Visitation of the sick are taken the Mass-book out of which the Consecration of the Lords Supper Collects Epistles and Gospels are taken As for the Book of Ordination of Arch-Bishops Bishops and Ministers that is out of the Roman Pontificial we might further prosecute the proof hereof from the division of the Masse into parts essential and integral with the enumeration of the said parts Lib. 2. de Missa c. 16. as the ten or eleven parts of the preparation to the Introit as Pater noster the first Collect which Bellarmine calls the Masse because they are the best part of the Masse p. 44. The Introit for which see Doctor Lauds † pleading in his Star-chamber Speech the Kyrie Eleyson or Lord have mercy upon us c. The Gloria Patri the Misereatur the Confession the Absolution the Angelick Hymn Gloria in Excelsis word for word in the Scottish Lyturgie Cap. 3. p. 107. the Salutation the Lord be with you Lastly the posterior collects all patches of Popes devising which the brevity which we study will not suffer us to instance Be pleased to see Morney de Missa If any object that in our Introit the Ave Maria is wanting we answer as hath been said that though every thing in the Masse-book be not in our Lyturgie yet all that is in our Lyturgie is word for word in the Masse-book Again though Ave Maria be not actually in it yet if purpose had holden it was in more than a fair possibility to have been the head Corner-stone of the Lyturgie Witnesse Staffords invective defence thereof Printed at London not disallowed nor retracted in any point by Heylin or Dow Canterburies surveyors of the piece further that which hath been said of the pieces of the Introit may also be said of our Creeds Epistles and Gospels Offertory and other things whether more or lesse Principal in regard of our calling them from the Mass-book Sect. Secondly the second ground or reason is from that love and liking that the lovers of the Lyturgie bear to the Mass as also from that mutual contentment or complacency that the Mass-mongers take in the Service-book we have shewed already p. ult how they agree in Name and now we are to give evidence of their mutual liking of the Matter there be abundance of instances for the Papists approving of our Liturgy witness Mortons Appeal Pope Pius Explicat Illust qua 4. p 112. p. 46. the fourth and Gregory the thirteenth offered to Queen Elizabeth to confirm the English Liturgy witnesseth Doctor Abbot then Prelat of Canterbury and Master Cambden in the life of Queen Elizabeth to these I adjoyn Doctor Boyes who was a bitter expositor of the English Liturgy as Heiga by the Doctors of Dowayes appointment was of the Mass after he had whetted His Teeth upon the Schismatiques in his Epistle to Bancroft he produceth the letter of Pius for the approbation of the Service book and notes also the testimony of approbation from Bristow in his motives Motiv 34. Queen Elizabeth being interdicted by the Popes Bull Secretary Walsingham wrought so that he procured two Intelligencers to be sent from the Pope as it were in secret into England to whom the Secretary appointed a State Intelligencer to be their guide who shewed them London Canterbury Service in all the Pomp of it which the Popish Intelligencers viewing and considering well with much admiration they wondered that their Lord the Pope was so ill advised or at least ill informed as to interdict a Prince whose Service and Ceremonies so symbolized with his own and therefore returning to Rome they possest the Pope that they saw no Service Ceremonies or Orders in England Consid p. 45 Sect. 9. but they might very well serve in Rome whereupon the Bull was recalled to this also Doctor Carrier a dangerous seducing Jesuite gives ample evidence the Common-prayer-book saith he and the Catechism contained in it hold no point of Doctrine expresly contrary to antiquity that is as he explaineth himself the Romish Service c. and thereupon he comforteth himself with hope of prevailing and of the like mind were Harding and Bristow as hath been said one more and we have done not long ago a Jesuite meeting a woman in Pauls