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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A68614	The unbishoping of Timothy and Titus. Or A briefe elaborate discourse, prooving Timothy to be no bishop (much lesse any sole, or diocæsan bishop) of Ephesus, nor Titus of Crete and that the power of ordination, or imposition of hands, belongs jure divino to presbyters, as well as to bishops, and not to bishops onely. Wherein all objections and pretences to the contrary are fully answered; and the pretended superiority of bishops over other ministers and presbyters jure divino, (now much contended for) utterly subverted in a most perspicuous maner. By a wellwisher to Gods truth and people.	Prynne, William, 1600-1669.	1636 (1636)	STC 20476.5; ESTC S114342	135,615	241

lecture no wayes overburthen some to your memories which I shall here read unto you for your good if you please either so to interpret it or come with a sincere conscience for to heare it It may be that in regard of your sacred Episcopall Order you conceit your selves altogether plague-free and as wholly exempt from divine as you now strive to be from temporall Iurisdiction which makes you neither to dread the plague which hath seised upon sundry Kings and laid them in the dust nor as yet any way to endeavour by fasting and prayer to prevent either it or that famine likely to accompanie it But to instruct you how you are still but men and so exposed to all those mortall sicknesses which continually assault the crazy fortresses of our earthly Tabernacles Non obstante your Rochets Miters Crosiers and all other your Episcopall harnesse give me leave in a word or two to acquaint you That Pelagius the second though a Pope and Bishop of Rome notwithstanding his Pontificall Robes Exorcismes Pompe and Charmes was both seised upon and devoured of this impartiall disease Anno Dom. 591. as Platina Onuphrius Anastatius Stella Fasciculus Temporum Balaeus Luitprandius Vitelius and others testify in his life which Plague as Petrus Blesensis Archideacon of Bath records was sent by God as a just Judgement upon the Romans and Italians for giving themselves to drinking feasting DAVNCING sports and Pastimes even on Easter day and other following Holy-dayes after their participation of the blessed Sacrament of Christs body and blood many of them being cons●med and dying of the plague in the very midst of their sports mirth ales ord pos●●mes and on this Pope himselfe for not restraining them from this prophanes A president which should make your Lordships feare and tremble this present Plague beginning here on Easterweeke last as that Plague then did no doubt for the selfesame prophanation of Gods owne day and Sacraments with those abuses sports sinnes pastimes for which they then were plagued which your Lordships have not onely not restrained but countenanced patronized and propagated all you could this Pope going not so farre Cantinus Bishop of Avernium Cato his Successor in the same See Rupertus Bishop of Triers Hermannus Bishop of Verd●num Rainold Bishop of Colen Conrade Bishop of Augusta Walricus Bishop of Spiers Ruggerus Bishop of Herbipolis and Sigsridus of the same Eberhardus Bishop of Ratisbon Gerion Bishop of Halberstat all died of the plague In the great Plague that happened in the Emperor Frederike Barbarossa his armie in Italy many Germane Prelates and some German Princes which came with him died of the Pestilence neither their consecration nor their function being any antidote against this disease In the great Councell of Basil Anno 1431. to name no more forraigne examples Lodovicus Patriarke of Aquilcia the Bishops of Ebron Lubecke Constance and others died of the Plague Aencas Silvius himselfe afterwards Pope being there stricken with this disease where of bee lay three dayes together at the point of death all men despairing of his life but yet by Gods helpe escaped If any of your Lordships should thinke these forraigne Presidents proove not that any English Prelates are obnoxious to the selfe-same disease to rectify this mistake I shall present you with some domesticke examples worthy your most serious consideration Ann. Dom. 664 on the 26. day of October Ceadda the second Bishop of London with all the Monkes of his new erected Monasterie at Lestinghen were taken away with the Plague The very next yeare following Anno 665. Tuda the fourth Bishop of Durham died of the Pestilence Anno 1258. Fulco Basset the 45. Bishop of London was smitten to death with the same fatall disease Michael Northbrooke his Successor the 57. Bishop of London Anno 1361. perished of the Plague and the same yeare Reginald Brian Bishop of S. Davids being translated to Ely deceased of the Plague before his translation could be perfected And to cite no more in so plaine a case Anno 1500. Thomas Langhton Bishop of Winchester then Archbishop of Canterbury elect but not enstalled and Thomas Rotheram Archbishop of Yorke were both in the selfe same yeare swept away together with this pestilentiall disease These severall Presidents to omit all others may be a good Memento and Monition to your Lordships being Bishops and Archbishops to put you in minde both of your mortality in generall which most feare you seldome seriously consider off being so over-much taken up with secular imployments not compatible with your spirituall functions that you though Bishops are subject to this disease this stroke of God as well as others as these your Predecessors therfore should now at length after so many weekes delay endeavour to appease Gods wrath and cease this plague begun among us which every day spreads it selfe more and more by publike fasting prayer preaching and humiliation the remedy not onely prescribed in Scripture by God himselfe but likewise by the whole Church and State of England in the two last great plagues both in 1. Iacobi and in the first yeare of our present Soveraignes raigne as the severall Bookes of common prayer and order of fasting then published by these noble Princes speciall commaund yet testifie on record both of these bookes joyntly confessing and bewayling that among other sinnes occasioning these two dreadfull man-eating Pests this was not the least That the SABBATH DAY was not kept holy but prophaned and therfore no wonder that these plagues breake in upon us And may not your Lordships and the whole Kingdome justly feare that this very Sinne of Sabbath-breaking and prophaning Gods owne sacred day by sports WAKES MAYGAMES DAVNCING drunkennesse chambering wantonnesse idlenesse travelling unnecessary labor and the like which drew on these two former plagues upon us hath been one maine cause of this present Pest which beginnes thus freshly to destroy us It being most apparant to our shame and I feare to all our smart that the Lords-day Sabbath for so our owne Homilies ten times stiled it before the Troubles of Frankfort Anno 15●4 when Doctor Pocklington or Doctor Boundes Booke Anno 1595. when Doctor Heylynfables that the Lords day was first anabaptized a Sabbath day and Christned with this name by some Jewish Godfather to overthrowe the Liturgie and discipline of the Church of England who yet gave it this Title long before these ignorant Doctors dreame both in her Homilies and approoved writers workes hath of late beene more generally publikely audaciously prophaned in most places of the Realme by the fore named Pastimes abuses and disorders then beforethose two sweeping plagues not onely in point of practise which is ill but even in point of Doctrine which is worse many late authorized Histories Treatises and Discourses of the Sabbath not fearing publikely to maintaine the Lawfullnesse of dauncing morrises maygames dedication

Feastes pastimes sports and ordinary labor even in Gods owne day as the Doctrine of the Church of England when as acute Master Iohn Sprint in his proposition for the Christian Sabbath day printed by license London 1607. p. 4. newly reprinted and learned Doctor John White in his way to the true Church 5. times printed by Authority yea sett forth and defended by Doctor Francis White now Bishop of Ely expresly brand it not onely as a Popish and Heathenish practise but likewise as a point of Popish religion which directly tends to the maintenance of open sinne and liberty of life and expresly allowes most palpable wickednesse directly tending to the desolation of publike government and private honesty being that which hath made the Papists the most notorious Sabbath-breakers that live Zanchius and Musculus also branding this very Doctrine of liberty they now teach and the practise of 〈◊〉 as Popish and all the Bishops Cleargy King Lords Commons and Parliament of England in King Henry the S. his raigne condemning it in two severall bookes as meerly Iewish to checke the dotage of those Novell Doctors who defi 〈…〉 the strict sanctification of the Lords day by abstinence from dauncing sports and pastimes Iudaizing when as that they plead for is truly such This grosse prophanation therefore of the Lords day both in Doctrine and practise aggravated with the late suspending silencing excōmunicating pursevaning vexing persecuting depriving croushing of many learned painfull godly conscionable Ministers both against all the Rules of Canon Law Common Law Statute Law conscience reason piety charity justice and the Presidents of all former ages meerly for refusing out of conscience upon their Episcopall Mandates to have any hand or finger in acting in proclaiming any thing which might animate their people to this pestiferous sinne punished within these three yeares with many memorable particular judgements of God immediately executed from heaven hath no doubt so farre provoked our most gracious God that now he can hold off his hands no longer from smiting us with his dreadfull Iudgements which some of us have allready felt and most of us now feare who questionlesse will never take off his Pests and Iudgements from us till your Lordships shall take off your most unjust Suspensions and censures from those who have thus suffered in his quarrell and all of us repented of this our crying sinne of prophaning Gods owne sacred day both in point of Doctrine and practise An abhomination never more rife in any then this our present age by reason of your Lordships patronizing propagating and defending of it in such a publike shameles violent maner as no former age can ever paralell to Gods dishonor your owne eternall infamie and the fitting of your selves and this whole Kingdome for those publike judgements not onely of a late extraordinary cold winter and two successive drie summers which threaten a famine of bread to recompence that Famine of Gods word that you have lately caused to omitt all other miseries which we suffer but likewise of that plague which is now dispersed In the pulling downe whereof as your Lordships have had nodoubt a deeper hand then others so you have great cause to feare you shall feele the irresistable mortiferous stroke thereof as much or more then others The Plague you well know is Gods owne Arrow Psal 91. 5. who ordaineth his arrowes against the Persecutors Psal 7. 13. And are not some at least of your Lordships such It is Gods owne hand 2. Sam. 24. 14. 15. Ier. 21. 6. Now Gods hand shall finde out all his Enemies his right hand shall finde out those that hate him Psal 21. 8. And are not many of your Lordships in that number It is Gods owne brandished sword Psal 8. 6. And whom doth God wound and slay therewith but the † head of his Enemies and the hayry scalpe of those who goe on still in their trespasses And are not to many of your Lordships such who even now in the very midst of Gods Iudgements proceed on still in your malicious violent implacable hatred enemities and persecutions against Gods faithfull Ministers Saints and the very power of holinesse in your Lordly Pompe ambition avarice pride envy arrogance cruelty oppression injustice luxury secularity suppression of preaching prayer fasting Communion of Saints and what ever savours of piety and in profaning of Gods owne sacred day both in your doctrine practise which is seldome worse solemnized or more prophaned as Master Bucer long since observed Quam in ipsis Episcoporum aulis then in Bishops owne Pallaces where neither Lord nor Chaplaine nor servant make any great conscience of prophaning it sundrie wayes to give the better example of piety and holinesse unto others How then being heavy laden with these many sinnes and having the prayers the cries the clamours the teares the sighes and groanes of all Gods people against you if not of the whole Kingdome to the dayly imprecations of many distressed Ministers people whom you have most injuriously and inhumanely handled without any lawfull cause can you but feare Gods vengeance and expect his plagues to sweepe such Clods of sinne and mischiefe such Pests and Prodigies as you are cleane away Be wise now therefore O yee Kings for such are you now become by giving absolute Lawes and prescribing what Ceremonies Articles Rites Oathes and Novelties you please even in your owne names and rights alone unto his Majesties people and executing all Lordly Kingly Soveraignity and Dominion over mens bodies and estates as well as soules contrary to your Saviours expresse Inhibition Math. 20. 25. 26. be learned O yee Iudges of the earth for such are you now in many temporall Courts and would be gladly such in more in steed of being preaching Bishops in our Pulpits and Pastors of mens soules Serve the Lord in feare for that is in truth your duty not to be Lords your selves or reverenced and served with feare as Lords are wont to be and rejoyce unto him not with Organes Choristers Pipes and Daunces but with trembling kisse the sonne whom you have hitherto buffeted persecuted in his faithfull Ministers and Servants least he be angry and ye perish in the way even now when his wrath is kinded but a litle and his plagues but newly kinded least if ye refuse to turne from all your former sinnes and wickednesses hee begin at last to bruise you with this his rod of Iron and dash you in peeces like a Potters vessell and there be none to deliver you from this his raging fury Remember I beseech you that of the Prophet Nahum God is jealous and the Lord revengeth the Lord revengeth and is furious the Lord will take vengeance on his adversaries and he reserveth wrath for his enemies And though he hath a long time suffred you with much patience as he doth other vessels of wrath fitted to destruction to spoyle oppresse and