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A10189	A looking-glasse for all lordly prelates Wherein they may cleerely behold the true divine originall and laudable pedigree, whence they are descended; together with their holy lives and actions laid open in a double parallel, the first, betweene the Divell; the second, betweene the Iewish high-priests, and lordly prelates; and by their double dissimilitude from Christ, and his Apostles.	Prynne, William, 1600-1669.	1636 (1636)	STC 20466; ESTC S121078	71,933	128

rewardes causing Servants to betray their Masters Wives their Husbands Children their Parents People their Pastors Nay one Minister one Professor at least in 〈◊〉 another and cause one friend one neighbour to accuse intrappe and betray another whom they malice for their grace and goodnesse or any other occasion that so they may persecute hamper ruine them in their ecclesiasticall or high Commission Courts or crush them by their temporall power and greatnesse at their pleasures by putting them from their freeholds and lawfull callings confining them to some prison or forcing them to flie the land in case they stoope not to their lusts in all particulars as hundreds of late Presidents manifest a●…●…ull 25. The divell doth buffet and binde Gods servants till Christ by his infinite power doth loose them 2. Cor. 12. 7. Luke 13. 16. So have done and yet dayly doe Lord Prelates buffet and binde Gods people by their Censures Excommunications officers Pursevants Iaylo●…s till Christ by his omnipotent power shall rescue and deliver them from this their tyranny 26. The diuell filleth mens hearts to lie to the Holy Ghost Acts 5. 3. So Lord Prelates with promises and perswasions do the like by suborning their instruments in their writings and Sermons before Kings Princes Vniversities and the most eminent assemblies to maintaine their Episcopall Iurisdiction Lordlinesse pompe and power their superstious Popish Ceremonies Altars Crucifixes Tapers genuflexions Conservations adorations c. to bee all Iure divino warranted an●… prescribed by Gods Law and word of purpose to deceive the Auditors when as their consciences know t●…e contrary to bee true and that they lye against the Holy Ghost in what they preach and write and to forge divers notorious fables and calumnies of Puritans Precizians and godly Christians out of their owne poeticall braines as false as any figments in the golden Legend to bring both them the practise power and profession of Religion into publike scorne that so Popery Atheisme and Profanenesse may overflo●… the world A dangerous yet now a common sinne and practise which I wish the guilty would reforme by Ananias and Saphirahs exemplary punishments for this very sinne Acts 5. 3. to 10. 27. The divell tempts and encourageth men to all kindes of sinne of wikednesse and to disobey all Gods Commandements Gen. 3. 1. to 7. to ●…cleanenesse 1 Cor. 7. 5. to cruelty and implacablenesse 2 Cor. 2. 11. to wantonnesse worldlinesse lasciviousnesse profanenesse and fleshly lusts Ephes. 2. 2 3. 1 Tim. 5. 15. besides murther treachery lying and other forenamed sinnes So doe the Prelates witnesse their many late vngodly Superstitious licentious Bookes and practises to spurre men on to Popery and superstition but especially to profane the Saboath to use dancing Morrisses May-games erect Ales May-poles Bacchavalls drinke swill and play the Epicures the Pagans even on Gods owne sacred day and that whiles we lye all under Gods scourge plagues for this very sinne to tumble them headlong into hell and draw downe all Gods wrath and plagues upon us from heaven at once to our speedy certayne ruine Take but one fresh instance of this kinde Master Skinner the Bishop elect of Bristoll this last S●…mmer even in the heate of the Plague invited one Sir Garret Ramsford a prisonner in the Kings Bench with his Lady to dine with him at his Countrey house on the Lords day and charged them not to fayle him for they would bee very merry They came accordingly and his elect Lordship according to promise was so merry that hee called for Bristow milke strong Sacke to season him for that diocesse and sucked it up so freely that hee had almost got the Staggars and his men seeing their new Lord set upon so merry a pinne plied him so fast with it that at last he bad them take away the Sacke for feare they should kill him with it and what then should his Majestie doe for a new Bishop as if enough would not bee reddy to succeed him if hee were gone Well their company was so good that they must stay at Supper with him too they did so and they were very merry Supper ended his Lor●…ship cals for a paire of Cardes and to play they must all goe Sir Garret thereupon answered My Lord I thinke you are of their opinion who hold that the Saboath endeth at six of the clocke that you will now goe to Cardes for I hope you will not play upon the Saboath No saith hee I am not of that opinion but his Majestie cōmandeth us to play on this day A notorious untruth For where I pray commandeth his Majestie or alloweth B●…shops or Ministers to play at Cardes or Dice or Tables on the Lords day when as he commands that nothing bee done against the Lawes aud Canons of the Church in that very Declaration they would father on his Highnesse and the 73. and 74. Canons expressely pro●…ibit Bishops and Ministers to play at Cardes Dice or any other unlawfull games on any day Much lesse then on the Lords day which the 13 Canon and the Homilie of the time and place of prayer with 5. 6. E. l. c. 3. and his Majesties prime Act. 1. Carolic 1. will inf●…rme them ought otherwise to be spent then in Carding Playes and pastimes Sir Garret replied that hee conceiued it was against the fourth Commandement and that his Majestie neither would nor could command any thing against Gods Law or if he did we were not to obey in such cases His Lordship replied that the fourth Commandement was ceremoniall and abrogated long agoe So said Sir Garret you may say as well of all the rest and if his Majestie should command any thing against the other 9. Would you obey it That said his Lordship wee must dispute when there shal bee occasion intimating that if his Majestie should command any thing against a●…y of Gods Commandements which wee trust hee will never doe the Bishops would obey it without any great dispute Well Sir Garret would not play at that time and thereupon the Cards were sent backe againe And is not this a man thinke you like to make a very ho●…y Prelate It may be so for hee hath since beene consecrated and that with some new Popish Ceremonies as is reported And in truth he needed a Consecration for I remember well when hee was fellow of Trinity Colledge in Oxford hee after pretty Bes Bauger so long that he begate a strong kinde of spurious tympany in his belly for which I never heard hee did any pena●…ce or made any purgation But his Consecration doubtlesse hath purged this and all other his sinnes cleane away Such holy examples are Lord Prelates whose doctrine had need convert mens soules for few of their lives will doe it 28. The divell stirreth up Kings to offend God to the destruction and prejudice of their subjects 1 Chron. 21. 1. and rayseth discordes and dissentions and disaffections betweene Kings and their subjects Iudges 9. 23. And haue not

wines drinkes and Provisions both for themselves wives children guests servants equall to any Barons Lords or Earles of the Real●…e making commonl●… as sumptuous great if not more luxu●… feastes then they Witnesse the more then 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 royall excess●…e feast of Wi●…liam Warham 〈◊〉 of Canterbury at which the great Duke of Buckingham with his 120 attendants waited on this Archprelate as his High-Steward and Butler too meane an office for the greatest Peere then living going bareheaded before his Grace ush ring in his first Service bowing his body to his Holinesse as to the Pope of this other world Witnesse the unparalleld monstrous Feast of George Ne●…ell Archbishop of Yorke the greatest that England ever knew or heard of the particulars whereof you may read at large in Godwins Catalogue with others which I pretermit of which Antiqui●…tes 〈◊〉 Brit Godwin and Sir George Paule in the life of Archbishop Whitgift can informe you And it is so farre from being their meate and drinke that it is their least thought and care their least desire and endeavour their greatest trouble paine and purgatory to preach Gods Word and doe his will and worke as Christ our Saviour did Fourthly Our Saviour Christ was so poore and so ill stored with moneves that hee had not so much as a Didrachma about fiften pence of our money to pay tribute money for himselfe and his followers but was enforced to send Peter to the Sea to borrow it of a poore Fish for want of a friend to lend him so much hee and his whole retinue not being able to make up so small a summe among them Math. 17. 27. But Lordly Prelates borne-not to a Didrachma have not only their hundreds and thousands by the yeare and yet doe none or little spirituall worke for it most of them all put together not preaching halfe so often as a poore Sti●…endiary Curate that hath but eight or ten pound by the veare yea their hundreds or thousands lying by them in their bagges besides and yet are not contented So like are they to our Saviour i●… this particular Fifthly Our Saviour Christ and his Apostles too went about on foote from village to village preaching the Gospell throughout all Galilee and Iudea Math. 4. 23. c. 51. 2. c. 10. 5 6 7 9. 10. 14. c. 12. Iohn 4. 6. Marke 1. 38 39 Luke 9. 2 3 4 5. c. 10. 3. to 12. Acts 10. 38. Math. 14. 13. Marke 6. 33. Acts 20. 13. And when hee rode in state into Ierusalem which was but once hee rode but on an Asse Math. 21. 1. to 16. But our Prelates when they goe abroad to visit or preach before the King for they seldome preach in any Countrey village in an age or when they have any businesse to Court to Parliament or any Citie yea when they goe to their Cathedralls or a Church that is necre them are so farre from going a foote that they seldome ride on horsebacke and then on a stately Palfray but in a Coach or Chariot drawne with foure or six pampred horses with many horses horsemen and footmen environing them and if they meete a poore cart or wagon by the way or a lighter meete their Barges on the watter where they ride in pompe to if they stirre not presently out of the way to give their Lordships passage they will lay the poore Carters and Lighter-men by the heeles for their paynes as some of thē have lately done So like are they to our Saviour And here I cannot pretermit a merry Story A certaine Germain Clowne or Boare as they terme him seeing the Bishop of Colen ride in state with a greate traine of horsemen before and after him stood gaping on the Bishop as he passed by and smiled to himselfe The Bishop perceiving it made a stand and demanded of the Boare why he thus smiled bidding him speake the truth freely without feare for he should sustayne no dammage Wherevpon the Boare replied that he smiled to thinke with himselfe whether St. Martin Patron and First Bishop of ●…olen ever rode in such state as he did now The Bishop herevnto answered that he was an ignorant silly fellow for he did not ride in his state as he was Arch-Bishop of Colen but as he was the cheife Prince Elector of Germany Where upon he wittily retorted Suppose said he my Lord the divell should come and fetch away the Prince Elector I pray what would become of the Bishop I feare me he would to Hell too At which the Bishop being confounded went his way Our Prelates may apply it to themselves without my helpe 6. our Saviour Christ was meeke and lowlie in heart full of compassion and mercy and gaue rest to mens soules and bodies Math. 11. 28 29. c. 9. 36. Luke 10. 33. Heb. 5. 2. Ephes. 4. 32. Our Prelates like men exalted from law degree are for the most part feirce chollerick furious proud haughty insolent arrogant malicious revengefull implacable full of mercilesse and barbarous inhumanity vexing and disquieting both the bodies and consciences of godly Ministers and people as the Booke of Martirs and experience testifie Take but this one remarkeable fresh instance in leive of many This last pestilentiall Somer the Lord Brooke his Lady was delivered of a child ●…t Dallam in Suffolke within Bishop Wrems D●…ocesse of Norwich The Earles of Bedford Doncaster 3. or 4. Lords more were here upon invited to the christning which being solemnized on the Lords day afternoone these Lords earnestly pressed the Lord Brooke that they might have a Sermon then preached upon this extraordinary occasion He therevpon desired one Mr. Ash his houshold Chaplaine to preach who knowing the Bishops perversnesse was vnwilling to doe it till at last upon his Lords commaund to preach he condesc●…nded and preached accordingly Bishop Wren h●…aring of it some two dayes after sends his Apparitor with a Citation to somon Mr. Ash to appeare before him who being rode that morning to Cambridge the Appa●…itor after he had beene courteously entertained at my Lords house defired to speake with my Lord Brooke himselfe who comming to him he acquainted his Lorship that he had a Citation for his Chaplaine who it seemed was rode abroad therefore he would leave the Citation with his Lordship to serve it on his Chaplaine when he returned My Lord therevpon demaunded of him whether he tooke him to be an Apparitor or intended to make him one He replied that the Bishop commaunded him to leave it with his Lordship in case his Chaplaine was not within and if is Lordship would not receive it he would sue out an excommunication against his Chaplain and have it published in the Church the next Lords day Vpon which he tooke the Citation and upon his Chaplaines returne rode over with him to the Bishop who fitting in state like a great Lord or demy Pope my Lord Brooke acquainted him how his Apparitor had left a Citation with him

to make and impose new visitation Oathes Articles 〈◊〉 Orders Innovations to make Mini●…ers Churchward●…ns 〈◊〉 to keepe visitations and Consistories without any Patent or Commission from his Majestie in their owne names and rights alone to graunt out Citations Proces Excommunications Probate of wills Commissions of administration c. in their owne names under their owne Seales not his Majesties to fine imprison censure and 〈◊〉 his Majesties good Subjects c. their fellow brethren at their pleasures to bee coached and barged up and downe from place to place I am sure seldome to the pulpit to bee courted capped attended cloathed like petty Kings and Princes to fare deliciously every day to have stately Pallaces great possessions Knights and brave Gentlemen to attend them Lords and Earles to crowch unto them all to feare them flatter them none to rebuke oppose or control them no not in their oppressing and unjust courses to bolster out their encroachments upon the Kings Prerogative and Lawes and on his Subjects Liberties with might threats and violence to tramp●…e all Lawes of God and man under foot and doe all things by will power not Law or Canon to bee implacable unmercifull pittilesse proud stately cruell to shake up terrifie and b●…ow-beate imprison Excommunicate deprive degrade presents their fellow-brethren and eate them like their Curres to set forward all profanenesse disorders sports and E●…hnicke pastimes even on Gods own day and make no conscience of it to doe all things like absolute Law-givers Lords Popes and Monarks or rather professed Atheists fearing neither God ●…or man and breaking all their lawes to bolster up base drinke idle scandalous clergie men exempting them fro●… secular power jurisdiction to maintaine their Officers in 〈◊〉 open exortions oppressions abuses exhorbitant misdemeanor the like Which is now only to be and play the Bishop in point of Doctrine and practise Then thus to bee and act the Bi●…hop is in truth to 〈◊〉 and play the very divell and to parallell him in all forecited respects let those who are such Lordly Prelates deny it if they can or dare The second Parallel BETWEENE THE IEWISH HIGH PRIESTS And Lordly Prelates AS Lordly Prelates resemble their Father the divell in all the forenamed particulars so doe they the Iewish high Priests in these ensuing Particulars 1. The high Priests of the Iewes were ordained of men to offer gifts and sacrifizes on the Altar Heb. 8 3. Exod. 40. Levit. 1. to 22. So our high Priests the Lord Prelates are and will bee ordayned and also ordaine others high Priests for this end to offer Sacrifices and gifts at their new erected Altars not to preach the end why they every where erect advance consecrate and bow downe to Altars which now want nothing but a Masse to grace them withall 2. The Iewish high Priests had their Miters and brave costly pontificall Robes ornaments and attires whereby they were differenced from other men Exod. 31. 1. to 32. c. 28 2. to 43. So have the Lordly Prelates and that in imitation of the Iewish high Priests from whence they derive them 3. The Iewish high Priests went but once a yeare into the second Tabernacle to offer for the people Heb. 9. 7. And our Lordly high Priests commonly goe but once a yeare and many of them scarce once in 3. or 4. yeares witnesse both our present Arch-prelates some other unpreaching Bishops examples into the Pulpit to preach unto the people or to offer sacrifice on the Altar 4. The Iewish high Priests commanded the Apostles not preach any more in the name of the Lord Iesus to the people that they might be saved and apprehended imprisoned and scourged them for do●…ng it Acts 4 5. 1 Thess. 2. 16. Our Lordly Prelates heretofore and at this very day silence and suspend our best our painfullest Ministers from preaching Gods Word unto their people that they may bee saved though God the King the Books of Ordination and Statutes of the Realme enjoyne them for to doe it and threaten to apprehend imprison and fine them if they preach contrary to their suspensions as the Apostles did Who in despite of all the high Priests threats inibitions imprisonments stripes three times one after another Daily in the Temple and in every howse which now would bee a Conventicle ceased not to teach and preach Iesus Christ Acts 5. 41 42. And so would and should our Ministers now silenced against Law and Canon too were they true successors of the Apostles and not intoxic●…ted with a base unworthy spirit of carnall feare and cowardize which makes them betray their liberties Religion Flocks Brethren to the will and rapine of these beastly ravening Lordly Wolves 5. The Iewish high Priest granted out warrants or letters missive to Saul brea●…hing out threatnings and slaughter against the disciples of the Lord that if hee found any of this way whether they were men or women hee might bring them bound to Ierus●…em Acts 〈◊〉 2. Lordly Prelates heretofore and now grant the like letters missiue warrants and Attachments to their Pursuivants and other malicious wicked Informers that breath out threatnings and slaughter against the Lords disciples against divers godly Ministers Christians and all such as they please to stile Puritans and Cowventicklers wheither men o●… women to breaks open and ransacks their houses take their bodies bring them up Prisonners to London Ye k●… or Durham before their Lordships holynesses to fine censure deprive imprison and undoe them though Christ his Apostles and the primitive Bishops never claymed or exercised any such Lordly secular tyranny or Iurisdiction but condemned it as unlawfull and unbeseeming Clergie-men 6. The Iewish high-Priest Ananias when Paul was convented before the Counsell and beganne to make his Apologie and plead his owne cause commanded them that stood by to smite him on the mouth and would not suffer him to speake in his owne defence Acts 33. 1 2. Thus doe our Lord Prelates deale with Gods Ministers when they come before them in the High Commission or elsewhere they will not suffer them to speake in their owne defence or pleade their owne causes to the full but when they offer to speake enjoyne them silence or else commaund the Pursevant or Iaylour to smite them on the mouth or take them away to the Prison So imperious are their Lordships growne Take but one fresh memorables instance insteed of many others One M. Snelling a graue Kentish Minister was suspended ab Officio Beneficio about a veare and halfe since by D. Wood commissary to the Bishop of Rochester and after that excommunicated pursuiuanted and articled against before the High Commissioners at Lambet●… only for not reading the Declaration for sports fathered falsely upon his Majesty by the Prelates To which Articles hee drawing up a full answer shewing the reasons both in point of law and conscience why hee conceived himselfe not bound to read it and so not culpable of any crime the

which he themselves have subscribed Such undoubted Sons disciples and followers are they of our Saviour in this particular 11. Our Saviour Christ when he preached read only his Text and then closed the Booke and gave it againe to the minister sate down preached without book Luke 4. 17. to 22. Our Prelates when ever they chance to preach commonly read not onely their Texts but their who●…e Sermons too if not their very prayers being so dull of memory that whereas our stage-players can get their parts by heart though they act every day of the weeke yet their stupid block-headed Lordships cannot conne one Sermon by heart in a yeare or two their doctrine being so far from sinking into their owne hearts that it never so much as enters into their heads when they preach it but onely into their books where they leave shut it up close prisoner into their lips which presently vent it out againe Are they not then very deuout Preachers very much in ●…oue with Gods word with which they will neither trouble their braines nor hearts sweet followers of our Sauiours steps in this particular 12. Our Sauior Christ with fasting praying weeping preaching was so leane that he might tel al his bones Psal. 22. 17. Our Lord Prelates with feasting Lording laughing sleeping loytering are so fat plumpe for the most part that they or others can neither tell nor feele their bones 13. Our Sauiour Christ was full of grace goodnes and truth Iohn 1. 14. Lord Prelates are cōmonly ●…ul of gracelesnes profanenesse malice enuy pride ambition couetousnes idlenes di●…imulation and hypocrisy hauing little reall but only meere titular grace to adorne them 14. Our Sauior Christ made both the deafe to heare the blind to see and the dumbe to speake Math. 9. 33. c. 12. 22. c. 15. 30. 31. Our Lord Prelates make the hearers of Gods Word deafe for want of preaching the seing blinde through ignorance and our preaching Ministers dumbe by silencing and suspending them 16. Christ sent forth his disciples not to read Homilies or divine service which every clowne or schoole boy can doe as well as the learnedst Minister but to preach the Gospell Math. 10. 7. 10. 14. Luke 9. 2 3 4 5 6. c. 10. 2. to 15. and that as well in mens private houses as the publicke Synagogues Ibid. and Acts 5. 42. c. 20. 20. which now for sooth our Lordly Prelates condemne and censure for a conventicle yea hee bid and commanded his disciples goe into all the world and preach the Gospell to every creature teaching them to observe all things that hee had commanded them Math. 28. 19. 20. M●…rke 16. 15. yea he enjoyned them earnestly to seed his flocke and Lambes Iohn 21. 15 16 17. Our Lord Prelates silence and suspend Christs faithfull Ministers prohibiting them not only in private houses but in Churches to to preach the Gospell to their people send them about only to read divine service and homilies and command them to observe and subscribe to whatsoever Canons Orders Articles Ceremonies and Injunctions they shall prescribe them though con●…rary to Christs charging them not to feed but fleece their Lambes and Sheepe And are they not then good Pastors 16. Our Saviour Christ was the goo●… Sheopard that laid downe his life for his Sheep●… hee knew his Sheepe and was knowne againe of them and they heard and knewe his voyce Iohn 10. 6. 11. to 16. Lord Prelates are rather Wolves then Sheopards reddier to take away theire Sheepes lives then to lay downe their lives for their Sheepe many of them being so farre from knowing their Sheepe by name that they never so much as saw them the most of their Sheepe never so much as seeing or knowing their faces much l●…sse hearing or knowing their voyces in the Pulpit many of them though they have thousands by the yeare of purpose to preach to their Sheepe not so much as bestowing on Sermon on them in 3. or 4. yeares space receiving above 3. or 4000. pounds for every Sermon they preach too greate a rate sor so little w●…rke Yt thesemen were Tankard-bearers and should sell their watter at that rare they take for their Sermons our water certainely would be far●…e dearer then the richest wine Yet many of their Sermons for which they take so much are scarce so good as ditch watter 17. Our Saviour Christ though he were equall with God the Father yet he made himselfe of no reputation but tooke upon him the forme of a Servant was made in the likenesse of men ●…ubling himselfe for farre that he became obedient to death even to the dreath of the Crosse Phil. 2. 6 7 8. Our Lord Prelats though equal comonly in birth to the meanest Peasants yet in doubt in imitation of our Sauiour make themselves of so greate reputation that they take upon them not only the forme and title but the pompe and state of Lords and Petty Princes not servants and as if they were not made in the likenesse of men but borne Princes Angels or demy Gods they become disobedient to all lawes of God and man and insteede of humbling themselves to death and the Crosse for Christs sake they tyrannically humble their brother Ministers and other Christians to the Prison the Pillary the Crosse Stocks for Christ. Witnesse our Bookes of Martires and late experience 18. Our Saviour Christ though he were rich yet for our sakes he became poore that we through his poverty might be made rich 2. Cor. 8. 9. Our Lord Prelates though poore and beggarly at first yet for Christs sake they are content to become greate and rich that so others through their power riches avarice tyranny and extortion may be made poore to enrigh themselves the more 19. Our Saviour when Peter drew his sword to cut of Malchas eare therewith immediately healed it againe commanding him to put up his sword into the Scabbard Iohn 18. 10 11. Luke 22. 50 51. Math. 26. 51 22. Our Lord Prelates now ingrosse both swords into their sacred hands and insteede of putting them into the Scabbard draw them out like valiant men smiting off some mens eares and noses with it and now threaten to maine and mangle more in like manner insteede of curing those allready maymed by them Such swashbucklers and gladiaters are they growne Yf we have warres with Spayne we hope his Majestie will send these hacksters packing to those warres to mangle and hackle off the Spainards eares and noses insteede of his loyall Subjects 20. Our Saviour Christ after he began to preach refused to inter meddle with secular affaires or to devide the inheritance betweene the too Brethren refused the kingdomes Pomde and glory of this world affirming openly that he and his kingdome were not of his world Math. 4. 8 9 10. Luke 12. 13 14. Ioan. 6. 15. c. 17 16. c. 18. 36. Our Lord Prelates after they become Lords forgetting their primitive base originall and pedigree with