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A79930	The cleere sense: or, A just vindication of the late ordinance of Parliament; forbidding persons not ordained, or not allowed of, as intending the ministry, to preach, from such malignant interpretations as some ill-affected labour to fasten on it, therby to authorize their opposition against those other most warrantable duties of expounding scriptures, mutuall edification, &c. which the scriptures do require of every Christian within his own sphear and relations. Which may also serve for an usefull caution to those gentlemen of the magistracy, souldiery & committees in the severall towns, garrisons, places of strength, cities, counties, througout the kingdome, to whom the said ordinance is respectively recommended by both Houses of Parliament. Published according to order.	England and Wales. Parliament.	1645 (1645)	Wing C4621; Thomason E282_9; ESTC R200047	8,527	15

and whatsoever shall be found contrary to sound Doctrine and the power of godliness lest we partake in other mens sins and thereby be in danger to receive of their plagues In the sixt Clause of the solemn League and Covenant Thus We shall also according to our places and callings in this common Cause of Religion Liberty and peace of the kingdomes assist and defend all those that enter into this League and Covenant in the maintaining and pursuing thereof and shal not suffer our selves directly or indirectly by whatsoever combination perswasion or terror to be divided and withdrawn from this blessed Union and conjunction whether to make defection to the contrary part or to give our selves to a detestable indifferency or neutrality in this Cause which so much concerneth the glory of God All which we shall do as in the sight of God In the Epilogue or Conclusion of the solemn League and Covenant Thus And because these kingdoms are guilty of many sins and provocations against GOD and his Sonne Jesus Christ as is too manifest by our present distresses and dangers the fruits thereof we professe and declare before God and the world our unfained desire to be humbled for our own sins and for the sins of these kingdomes especially that we have not as we ought valued the inestimable benefit of the Gospel that wee have not laboured for the purity and power thereof and that we have not endevoured to receive Christ in our hearts nor to walk worthy of him in our lives which are the causes of other sins and transgressions so much abounding amongst us And our true and unfained purpose desire and indeavour for our selves and all others under our power and charge both in publike and in private in all duties we owe to God and man to amend our lives and each one to go before another in the example of a reall Reformation that the Lord may turn away his wrath and heavie indignation and establish these Churches and Kingdomes in truth and peace And this Covenant we make in the presence of Almighty God the searcher of all hearts with a true intention to perform the same as we shall answer at that great day when the secrets of all hearts shall be disclosed most humbly beseeching the Lord to strengthen us by his holy Spirit for this end and to bless our desires and proceedings with such successe as may be deliverance and safety to his people and encouragement to other Christian Churches groaning under or in danger of the yoke of Antichristian Tyranny Now wherein doth the power of godlinesse here asserted protested for and owned to be maintain'd by Solemne League and Covenant more properly at least in the externall part of it consist then in the diligent improvement of gifts and graces by the holy practices of the aforesaid duties Can the Parliament of England think we thus ingaged thus unanimously appearing for the defence of the power of godlinesse before the world for which end the Solemn League and Covenant was turned into Latine and Cent to all the Protestant Churches be rationally supposed to intend any such mischievous sense in the Ordinance as hath been mentioned Thirdly should the giving an advantage to persecuting spirits be any way at all aimed at in this Ordinance which is the generall though injurious apprehension of ill minded men would not this be an an establishing of Tyr anny by a Law and incouragement for oppressi●n a justifying of what is already more then once condemned by this present Parliament Were not the Courts of Star-chamber and High Commission therefore abolished by an Act because the just Liberty of the Subject not only in his estate and person but also in the tendernesse of his conscience and the innocency of his practice in wayes of godlinesse was so much struck at by them And can it be now rationally imagined that the Parliament of England who with the rest of the Kingdome in those Star-chamber and high Commission dayes so sorely smarted under Prelaticall pride and power should now voluntarily inslave the whole body of the nation by whom they are trusted under bondage and misery far worse then the former because allowed by that very Authority which should suppresse it Are not the eyes of the whole kingdome set upon this present Parliament in expectation of deliverance rather from such like and all other grievances Fourthly were there any the least ground as indeed there is none at all to believe such a destructive scope from any one syllable in the Ordinance would it not soon beget a jealousie of a very dangerous plot indeed for the breaking our new moulded army by weakening the hearts and hands of all the faithfull and valiant both Commanders and Souldiers who stand ready girt with the utmost hazard of their lives to save the three kingdomes Fifthly should the prosecution of this Ordinance be according to the aforesaid malignant sense and latitude would not all the great powers of the kingdome to whom it is recommended become no better then executioners to torment the precious of the land and that for doing no other then those most known duties the neglect whereof either for feare or favour of any mortalls whatsoever would necessarily render them obnoxious to the danger of eternall wrath in hell fire Sixtly by this means would not the hands of the rude multitude which needs no stirring up be strengthened and the violence of the spoiler against the insolent be increased without controul Would not fasting and prayer godly conference and all religious exercises quickly be even hooted at and banished out of every town and family throughout the kingdome Can it be imagined with any sense or shadow of reason that a reforming Parliament should consent to this God forbid that any man should ever finde place for such a feare Seventhly How ill a requitall would this be for all the loyalty and love which the godly party in this kingdome have exprest in the losse of their estates and of many of their lives and blood and which the superviving remnant are still willing to hazard with as much cheersulnesse as any other whatsoever either have done or ever shall do Lastly if after so many yeers indefatigable labours and serious consultations seconded with innumerable prayers and teares if after so many brave hopes of a Reformation pleaded contended fought for the issue of all should be a leaving of the godly party to a necessity of flying from persecution countenanced and rais'd against them in their own native Countrey and this by that very Parliament which hath been preserved by them by that Parliament which hath found them both prevalent and powerfull helpers in the hour of their distresse as well by their prayers at home as their successe abroad would not this be a guilt of a very large extent even spreading over the whole nation in their representative body of it Would it not be a crime reaching up to heaven and fetching down all manner

The cleere Sense Or a Just VINDICATION Of the late ORDINANCE OF PARLIAMENT Forbidding Persons not Ordained or not allowed of as intending the Ministry to Preach From such Malignant Interpretations as some ill-affected labour to fasten on it thereby to Authorize their Opposition against those other most Warrantable Duties of Expounding Scriptures mutuall Edification c. which the Scriptures do require of every Christian within his own Sphear and Relations Which may also serve for an usefull Caution to those Gentlemen of the Magistracy Souldiery Committees in the severall Towns Garrisons Places of strength Cities Counties throughout the Kingdome to whom the said Ordinance is respectively recommended by both Houses of PARLIAMENT Published according to Order LONDON Printed by M. Simmons 1645. Die Sabbathi 26. April 1645. IT is this day Ordained and Declared by the Lords and Commons in Parliament assembled That no person be permitted to preach who is not Ordained a Minister either in this or some other Reformed Church except such as intending the Ministry shall be allowed for the triall of their Gifts by those who shall be appointed thereunto by both Houses of Parliament IT is this day Ordered by the Lords and Commons in Parliament Assembled That this Ordinance be sorthwith printed and published and that it be forthwith sent to Sir Thomas Fairfax with an earnest desire and recommendation from both Houses That hee take care that this Ordinance may be duly observed in the Army and that if any shall transgresse this Ordinance that hee make speedy representation thereof to both Houses that the Offenders may receive condigne punishment for their contempts It is further Ordered by the Lords and Commons That this Ordinance be forthwith sent to the Lord Major and Committee of the Militia in London to the Governours Commanders and Magistrates of all Garrisons Forces Places of strength Cities Townes Eorts and Ports And to the severall and respective Committees of the severall and respective Counties with the like Injunction unto them respectively that they take care that this Ordinance be duly observed in the places aforesaitd respectively and that they make speedy representation to both Houses of such as shall offend herein that they may receive condigne punishment Iohn Brown Cler. Parliamentorum A Cleer and Just VINDICATION of the late Ordinance of Parliament forbidding Persons not Ordained or not allowed of as intending the Ministry to preach from such malignant interpretations as some ill-affected labour to fasten on it c. WHereas the Enemies of Gods People were wont to keene their tongues against them with the malicious calumnies of Puritans and Conventiclers thereby rendering godlinesse it self with the power and practice of it odious to the world but now of late have invented other Stratagems every whit as diabolicall to do the same infernall work while they bitterly scorn at godlinesse truly so called under the nick-name of Independencie and at all the Religious and undoubtedly known duties of it under the reproachfull term of Tub-preaching and contrary to the intentions of the Parliament as shall presently be manifested by unanswerable demonstrations do violently extort such a pernicious sense from the Ordinance forbidding Persons not ordain'd or not allow'd of as intending the Ministry to preach as the words themselves in the plain and grammaticall construction of them can never yeeld thinking by this means to justifie their own evill practices against the Saints of the High God Let us a little examine the naturall and genuine interpretation of the said Ordinance as well to vindicate the Parliament therein as to caution those to whom the care of the execution of it is respectively recommended ●lest besides the intent of both Houses of Parliament it become a snare and vexation to very many of the best affected in the Kingdome The chief Passages to be confidered in the Ordinance are the persons to whom preaching is forbidden and the true sense of the word Preach For the first Persons not ordain'd may be distinguished for they are either such as never were at any Vniversity or Schooles of Learning nor have attain'd unto a competent measure of learning by any other means such as never intend the Ministry were never called thereunto by any company of people that are acknowledged to have a power to call them such as are ingaged in their Trades Artificiall crafts or other civill imployments and course of life these doubtlesse are the persons which most properly and intentionally are forbidden to preach Or secondly there are other persons not yet ordain'd which have been educated in the Schooles of Learning have received degrees in the Vniversities have preached for severall yeeres together are every way gifted with parts both naturall and acquired that may fit them for the Ministry which likewise they really intend and give up themselves unto but yet notwithstanding have not been ordained partly because never call'd to office ordination as they conceive being proper to no other but such as are so call'd and partly because formerly they scrupled ordination by Bishops and since the reigne of Bishops till now lately no persons have been appointed to administer ordination to those that should desire it And lastly do still scruple the present form of ordination which is acknowledged on all sides to be extraordinary and beside the rule and but for the present exigencie for which among other weighty reasons as they apprehend they judge it better to forbeare till Church-matters be fully setled in the Kingdome Now though the first sort not ordain'd or not intending the Ministry are forbidden to preach yet how far the Parliament intends that such as these last should be silenced from preaching must be left to wise men rationally to judge Only thus much may be said that there are no lesse then many hundreds of this latter sort very able and orthodox some living as Chaplaines and Students in private families others at this time preaching many eminent Lectures in this Kingdome with much blessing upon their labours besides the many Schoole-masters and Fellowes of Colledges which by this means will be laid aside as uselesse from their profitable course of preaching if no difference be put betwixt them and the first sort of persons not ordain'd and how prejudiciall this may be to the Reformation intended especially in such a time as this is when there is so great a scarcity of able preaching Ministers and so little hope of supply from the Vniversities either at home or abroad and hereby what discontents it may occasion to the minds of the well affected how much prophanenesse among others at least in the remoter parts of the Kingdome since it will necessarily follow that many Congregations will be depriv'd of that faithfull and painfull preaching they were wont to injoy And lastly how many ingenuous and consciencious men who are of known ability and honesty but yet cannot for the reasons above mentioned submit to the present ordination will be left under an impossibility of subsisting