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A41500	Prelatique preachers none of Christ's teachers, or, A Disswasive unto the people of God from attending the ministry (so called) of those, who preach by verture of an (Apocryphal) ordination, received from an order of men, commonly stiled Lord Bishops wherein arguments are tendered to their serious considerations, by way of motive against that practice ... .	Goodwin, John, 1594?-1665.	1663 (1663)	Wing G1192; ESTC R33795	80,325	88

Prelatique Preachers NONE OF CHRIST'S TEACHERS OR A Disswasive unto the People of God from attending the Ministry so called of those who preach by vertue of an Apocryphal Ordination received from an Order of men commonly stiled LORD BISHOPS Wherein Arguments are tendered to their serious considerations by way of Motive against that practice the unlawfulness thereof demonstrated and the Pretences briefly answered which commonly are or lightly can be pleaded in justification of it And what agreement hath the Temple of God with Idols for ye are the Temple of the living God Wherefore come out from among them and be ye separate saith the Lord and touch not the unclean thing and I will receive you and will be a Father unto you and ye shall be my Sons and Daughters saith the Lord Almighty 2 Cor. 6. 16 17 18. For such are false Apostles deceitful workers transforming themselves into the Apostles of Christ And no marvel for Satan himself is transformed into an Angel of Light Therefore it is no great thing if his Ministers also be transformed as the Ministers of Righteousness whose end shall be according to their works 2 Cor. 11. 13 14 15. From such turn away 2 Tim. 3. 5. Then Jesus said unto them Take heed and beware of the Leaven of the Pharisees and of the Sadduces that is of their Doctrine Matth. 16. 6 12. He that is not with me is against me and he that gathereth not with me scattereth abroad Matth. 12. 30. Let them return unto thee but return not thou unto them Jer. 15. 9. Tell me O thou whom my soul loveth where thou feedest where thou makest thy flock to rest at noon for why should I be as one that turneth aside by or unto the flocks of thy Companions Cant. 1. 7. 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Ignatius Epist 6. Malus Ecclesiae Praepositus deseri cum suâ communione potest imo debet Cyprian 1. 1. Ep. 4. LONDON Printed in the Year 1663. A Disswasive unto the People of God from attending the Ministry so called of those who preach by vertue of an Apocryphal Ordination received from an Order of men commonly stiled LORD ` BISHOPS Take heed whom you hear THE Idolatrous madness of the Common-PrayerBook-worship hath of late been made so manifest to all the Houshold of Faith in the Nation that my confidence is great that it shall not proceed any further to ensnare and pollute any of the Sons and Daughters of God by joyning in the offering up of such strange fire unto him And though there be some who having formerly cast it off as a menstruous rag of Popish devotion are of late with the Dog returned unto their vomit making themselves transgressors by building up what once they destroyed yet God I trust will suddenly stop and heal this unclean issue in the body of his People and so curse the root of this bitterness that it shall not bring forth much fruit nor many be defiled with it Yea though a second Repentance in such cases be not a fruit that groweth very plentifully on the Tree of flesh and blood yet am I not without all hope but that through the grace and mercy of God some of those may awaken and recover themselves out of this Snare of Satan whose foot hath been taken and is at present held in it I confess the World hath of late given a furious on-set and charge upon the Saints of God amongst us yea upon all that professed any thing almost after the manner of Saints and as becometh the Gospel to cause them to give back from that holy ground which they had gained and on which they stood Neither is it any marvel there being so many millions of a stricter Profession in the Nation that all of them should not prove valiant in fight or that some of them for fear of the fiery Furnace being het seven times hotter than ordinary should not how down to the golden Image of that Worship which the Nebuchadnezzar-like Interest of the Prelatical party in the Nation had set up But leaving those who tremble to make gods of men by ascribing unto them the incommunicable property or prerogative of God in appointing and imposing his own Worship unto the safeguarding of his blessing upon those convictions of the Truth which have subdued their Judgments and Consciences under it and those that are turned aside like a deceitful or warped bow unto the mercies of God for the bringing of them back again from Babylon unto Sion that they be not surprized in the vengeance of Babylon which is now even at the door I shall proceed to tender unto the Consciences of those whose sovereign interest it is to approve themselves throughly unto God a few Considerations by the light whereof they may see how unlawful it is especially as the case now standeth to be Hearers where men of Episcopal Ordination by vertue hereof are the Teachers CONSIDERATION I. That Authority of Teaching wherewith the Teachers we speak of are invested by that kind of Bishop which presumes to give it is a meer nullity and lye The Gospel knows no Bishop of such a character or complexion as are appropriately theirs who claim and exercise a power as of obtruding upon Christ and his Churches on the one hand what persons they please in the name of Ministers or Teachers only if they be desirous to accept of this sacred investiture from their hand so on the other hand to keep back such from their Service whom both the one and the other most desire in this relation only because God hath not given them Darkness for a Vision or sent them this strong delusion confidently to imagine that they see Prelates or Diocesan Bishops walking like Angels in the plains of the Gospel and Christ giving them power to prescribe in his Church what forms of Worship be they never so uncouth and what Ceremonies be they never so apish they please Besides many other Writings both formerly and more lately published which demonstrate the Generation of such Bishops to be Aliens and Strangers to the Laws and Statutes of the Common-wealth of Israel The Un-Bishopping of Timothy and Titus with the Angel of the Church of Ephesus a Book first compiled and printed Anno 1636 and lately reprinted with sundry Enlargements by the Learned Gentleman William Prynne Esq clearly vindicates the Gospel from all complyance with them and sends them to seek their pedigree and original where they will be ashamed to find it And doubtless the contest about Prelatical Usurpations had been comprimised long before this and the Churches of Christ discharged of such unsupportable burdens were not all disputes against carnal Interests like gapings against an Oven and the Truth though Speaking with the tongues of Men and Angels a Barbarian unto those whose Judgements and Consciences are under an arrest by the pomp and grandure either in Spe or in Re of this present world For to reason Un-bewitched it cannot lightly but appear an

Heavenly Glory So that one of these two Propositions must needs be yielded either that conversion for many ages by-past hath been wrought by other means and by another Ministry than that of a Prelatical descent and so not necessarily by this or in case this Ministry hath converted any that these upon their conversion have been required by God not to remain or sit still under it but to seek their edification amongst their Brethren in Assemblies of a beter complexion and from a Ministry of a more honourable and lawful extraction The former of these granted confirmeth the Argument in hand the latter the main cause we have undertaken 4. and lastly Concerning that great good Service in the cause of Religion which is pleaded to have been done in former dayes by the Ministry so much decried by us in this our Nation I confess that our great High Priest who is more able than Priests taken from among men 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 sufficiently to compassionate the ignorant 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 and those that are led out of the way Heb. 5. 2. did so far shew mercy unto some who in the simplicity and uprightness of their heart suspecting no evil in such an action comported I might say compounded with the Prelates for their Ministerial functions that he kept them faithful unto him in his work and vouchsafed them the great honour of co-operating with them to the bringing home of souls unto God But 1. The number of these was but small scarce exceeding the proportion of one of a City and two of a Tribe Out of the great Cloud of Prelatical Priests for their Ordination baptizeth them by that name nor are they offended at it Sathan rained upon the people Snares of Idolatrous and Superstitious conceits and practises without end and in these snares of death the feet of the greater part of the poor ignorant souls in the Nation are taken and held fast to this day Nor is it any breach of charity to conceive and think that for the greatest part of these Ministers were in their course of preaching more zealously bent to beget Sons and Daughters to the Church of England in their notion than unto God although possibly to allay all seeming hardness in the saying they might suppose that men and women being made the true Sons and Daughters of the Church of England were hereby made the true Sons and Daughters of God also For what may not Ignorance and Interest conspiring together suppose Doth not the Apostle speaking of men of corrupt minds and destitute of the Truth say that they supposed gain to be godliness admonishing Timothy to with-draw himself from men of such importune and unreasonable suppositions 1 Tim. 6. 5. But for the Church of England who shall live when either of her Sons or Fathers will be able to declare her Generation or satifie the world who or what kind of creature she is 2. Those few Ministers of the Prelatical Sanction whom Christ was pleased to separate from their fellows in blessing their labours to the begetting of Sons and Daughters unto God in the Nation were smoak in their noses and as thorns in the eyes of those who had intrusted them with a Ministerial employment being by them looked upon as a spurious and illegitimate brood of children and as walking contrary to the Interest both of the Spiritual Lords their Fathers and of the Lady the Church of England their mysterious Mother Yea for their laboriousness zeal and faithfulness unto God and men in the work of their Ministry which by reason of the success that God gave unto them in the hearts and affections of the people their Ghostly Fathers were not able or rather not willing to distinguish from Schism Faction Popularity c. they were evil entreated injuriously handled vexed with Summoners and Apparitors cited into their Courts where they must at their peril appear at the day and hour appointed how long and wearisome how unseasonable or expersive how tempestuous or dangerous soever their journey hither should be here to be falsely charged to be vilified and reproached before all that are present by Chancelors Commissaries c. persons who many times know not their right hand from their left in things appertaining unto God as meet to fit in judgement upon a learned and godly Minister as in the Greek proverb 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 as an Asse is to play upon a Harp and after all this were sometimes silenced or suspended deprived degraded imprisoned yea constrained through an experimental sence of the implacableness of these bloody avengers to commit themselves unto the Seas how inconvenient or dangerous soever either through age tenderness or weakness of constitution present indisposition of body or otherwise such journying were like to prove unto them and to seek for a Sanctuary in strange Lands So that the Ministers that with greatest zeal and faithfulness planted the saving knowledge of God and promoted the Interest of true Godliness in the Nation though being led out of the way by the false light of those times they owned the Prelates in their Usurpations by accepting their Office of Ministry from their unhallowed hands yet the Prelates soon after namely as soon as they saw or heard that they held a straight course in preaching the Gospel disowned them and took from them at least from many of them and their will was the same towards them all but that prudentials hindered the sameness of execution upon some by silencing and suspending them the exercise of that Ministry and so in effect the Ministry it self which they had conferr'd upon them So that by this time if we respect the reality of things rather than the rigour or formality of words the Ministers we now speak of were no Ministers of a Prelatical investure for they who had invested them devested them again Adde hereunto that which we may not only in charity but according to the guidance of reason it self suppose their conscienciousness and loyalty unto God in all other their wayes and actings considered that had they known or once suspected the great evil of putting their heads under Prelatical hands to receive an Evangelical function from them they would rather have suffered them to be taken from their shoulders as John Baptist's head was by the hands of the common Executioner This being so they were but in a very deminutive sense Ministers of a Prelatical Ordination nor ought they in reason to be simply or absolutely termed such For when the mind and will of a man are really set and bent against the doing of any thing whatsoever that is sinful in case he shall through ignorance or mistake do any thing which is sinful this action is imputable unto him onely in the letter not in the spirit of it For so far as his will stood against it and was not consenting to it that is or as far as it was sinful it was not properly or in a moral and equitable consideration