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A64760 The dovvnfall of the pretended divine authoritie of the hierarchy into the Sea of Rome from some arguments and motives, to the finall extirpation of that unlawful government of the prelacy : as having no foundation in the Scriptures, but onely in that filthy dung-hill of by V.N.V. V. N. V. 1641 (1641) Wing V14; ESTC R1331 28,994 45

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people drinke these troubled waters or drive their backs to the wall 4. They have turned the Ministery wholly into a Jewish-Popish Sacrificing Priesthood 5. They set up a new kinde of reading-preaching and suppresse sound preaching silence and suspend the orthodox Preachers and fill their places with Metaphysicall cloudy-brain'd Humanists Arminian * Mountebancks and Popish fellowes who usually stuffe their Sermons out of Aristotles Ethicks and the Fryars Postills 6. In stead of the word they set up Images Crucifixes Altats and teaching Ceremonies to stirre up the dull minds of men against Christs prerogative and propheticall office to which it belongs to teach his Church by his word and works and not by mens inventions and works of mens hands 7. They Pope-like corrupt the word with their stinking breath breathing forth for Scripture what they please some are the Fathers others the sonnes of the Church and in summa the Church of themselves and exalt themselves above the Scriptures especially when they meet in the Convocation house and have their Canons in casting they make lawes above and against the word and preach for them punish the breach of them more than the breach of Gods Commandements 8. By vertue of their offices they assume a power to conferre holinesse upon things and places consecrate Churches Altars and places and place holinesse in their superstitions and abhominations as Altars Altar-cringing Jesus and East-worshipping c. Whereas the word alone hath power to sanctifie and make holy Thus by bringing in the accursed thing of Romes Idolatry they are become the A●bans that trouble the Land 8. Nature works so strongly in their offices as you may now see it in their bold impudent faces professing reconciliation of us to Rome pronouncing them happy that shall be the instruments to reconcile the petty seeming differences and make us at one with their mother but I hope before that be done they and their mother shall be both confounded Jere. 50.11 12. For the light hath dazled them the Sunne is gone downe and the day is dark over them to make them confounded and ashamed Zach. 14.17 Mich. 3.6 7. 2. For Prayer 2 Prayer how doe they by their very office professe and practice the corrupting of it which as incense should be purely offred Mal. 3. They 1. fill the house of God with smoke of the strange fire of their abhominations of all sorts new and old inventions Letany and long som service said and sung with yelling and chanting like the Priests of Baal their old and new inventions fopperies second Service and corrupt prayers all put together as like the Masse as an apple is like an Orenge 2. By their offices they ordaine Priests of the lowest of the people to offer up their corrupt prayers as dunibe Sir Iohns ale-house-keepers and generally vile persons who like Elyes sonnes cause men to abhorre their offerings 3. All this corruption in worship flowes out of the Canon Law as the filthy fountaine through their offices as the pipes to set it abroad to infect the world and is preserved as in cisternes in the Canons and service-booke the second maine basis whereupon Episcopacy stands in the dunghill Canon Law which casts such a foule savour in the nosthrills of God as we may admire his patience in suffering it so long without sweeping it and us all together away in some strange inundation of Judgement Nothing but a flood of Justice and reformation will prevent his kindled anger against us manifested of late in so many fearefull and prodigious signes and wonders especially in and about Churches as if he had pointed with his finger that there is his quarrell one strange fire procuring another and threatning yet greater if we repent not reforme not 3. 3 Sacraments For the Sacraments how have they changed them into Sacrifices witnesse their baptismall regeneration kneeling at Sacrament or bread-worship wherein wee are beholding to Costerus the Jesuite for telling us their meaning right out if Christ saith he were not teally in the bread our kneeling were worse and more grosse Idolatry than that of the Heathen Thus they turne the Sacraments into propitiatory Sacrifices to wash away sinne and conferre grace xapere op rato and so the inward work of Gods Spurit banished it would be too tedious to be more in particulars 4. 4 Discipline For discipline the nature of the office shews it selfe here most as in the strongest pulse working with all its might continually by their Canons and Canon Law authoritie to oppose and suppresse Christs Kingly office and government to repaire and restore the ruinous kingdome of Antichrist and that Iudas-like Antichrist-like under a feigned profession of friendship to Christ 2. Their offices uphold the Popish Canon law government which hath left us no footsteps of the Apostolike discipline and kingly office of Christ wholly swept away in the great deluge of Popery and never yet restored as our first reformers aymed which may appeare by the Preface to the commination in the common prayer-booke and were enough to set all reformed Spirits on work to perfect what they in the infancy of reformation left undone or saw not clearly being then newly risen out of the long darksome night of Popery and how should their diligence shame our negligence in so bright a Sun-shine of the Gospel as we have had since and stirre up our spirits to search out and set up that primitive discipline they aymed at now above fourscore yeares agoe which hath been so much disputed for written for and petitioned for at so many Parliaments and been onely hundred by these Antichristian Prelates whose office it is to justle Christ from his throne untill the words of God be fulfilled * Apoc. 17 1● because they know the setting up of his kingdome will be the downfall of theirs they cannot stand together therefore this hath been long their master-peice with all their craft and cunning to uphold their Papall government and tyranny by their Canons and Canon law to crush all who have stood in their way to oppose them and plead for Christs owne discipline using them worse than Turkes would have done as witnesse the multitude of Ministers and people in prisons murthered of thousands banished of families scattered and estates ruined for standing for Christs discipline 2. The very nature of their office is to thirst after the blood of Gods servants Where Antipas my faithfull martyr is slaine there is Sathans throne Apoc. 2.13 Of this tyranny let one of themselves be witnesse out of whose mouth the Lord exacted this testimony Prelate Vaughan in a speech to Dr Morton long agoe now Prelate of Duresme confessed that the persecution of these times were worse than in Queene Maries dayes and gave reasons for it Now let Prelate Morton speak how they are encreased in his time and by him or if he will not it may be God may exact it of him sometime with more horrour of conscience than
small short sweeping out root and branches and clensing the Land of all their remnants The next two Canons are planted upon their passage to cut off all ayde and succour from them whiles the other are battering 9 Canon Minans or stand of Assistants 10 Canon flagrans a long Basiliske whose siery eyes at long distance threatens death and destruction to all that come neare to plead for them or partake with them against the Lord Iesus the mighty King incensed to wrath against their working And thus courteous Reader if thou mindest aright this service I hope thou shalt finde it not unprofitable at this time but affording some usefull instructions to all sorts of men whereby t is hoped some may be bettered in some measure 1. The first to be looked at are the suffering servants of God who have lyen under long and great oppressions under the Prelates these may hence be comforted to see their long deserted cause at length victorious though the seidge prove long these Canons are strong will not miscarry if the service be hot nay if some of them be not discharged at all that depend on mens hands and handling yet there are enough besides in the number that will not spare them and are in the divine hand of a jealous God who will let flie at them one thunderclap from on high at their blasphemy will teare their building from top to bottome or a word from the Lord Iesus mouth shall roote them when he begins to roare in mount Zion his voice is powerfull and full of majestie Psal 29.4 he will shake their deepe rooting and lay them on the ground his eyes are as flames of fire if once his wrath begin to burne woe to them he finds in his way of advancing his kingdome he will make waste mountains and hills of greatest enemies for the Lord is jealous the Lord avengeth the Lord avengeth and is furious the Lord will take vengeance on his enemies Nahum 1.2 and he will comfort Zion and build her waste places he hath had respect to the prayer of the desolate and will not tarry they may then be comforted to them belongs the songs and palms of victory over the beast of Rome and his Image in these bratts of Babell these are they that come out of great tribulation that keepe the Commandements and faith of Jesus that are not defiled with the silthinesse of the whorish woman for they are the virgins that follow the Lambe and shall enter with him through the gates into the Citie The consideration whereof should mitigate their present sorrowes having an eye to the recompence of reward 2. The enemies of Christs kingdome may read their doome from the righteous judgement of the Lord of hoasts and be at last provoked to repentance and resignation of their unlawfull offices and doe homage to Christs Scepter who otherwise will come as a these in the night upon them and cut off their pompe and power and make them naked and unarmed and cast them out as dogs out of the holy Citie and so there be left them no place to repentance though they seek it with teares out of time when the gate of the Kingdome is shut against them they may howle and cry and knock till they be weary ere St. Peters keyes come to open This will certainly befall them sooner or later if they repent not 3. Those that are gone back to the flesh-pots of Egypt and are swimming downe with the streame of the time may be forewarned to returne and come out of the tents of these wicked men least by partaking in their sinnes they partake of their plagues Isa for it is the time of the Lords vengeance the yeare of recompence of the Controversies of Zion 4. All sorts of men loyall subjects of the King and good Patriots of their Countrey may be moved with pitty to helpe to remove the insupportable burthens which presse downe the land to ruine and misery Vbi dolor ibi digitus is the part and dutie of every member of the body all flowing from the Hierarchy and till the pressures in Religion be removed and Christs kingdome advanced the Common-weale cannot be eased they are like Hippocrates twinns they mourne and rejoyce live and dye together T is the office of Prelacy that keepes out Christs kingly office is the Achan sin that troubles the Land and is the cause of all our miseries and threatens still greater if that be not removed Gods wrath will not be appeased our troubles not ended The Lord pitty us and ease himselfe and us of these his Adversaries who will not have Christ to reigne over them Undique concurrunt ac crescit turba malorum sed cum probrosi castra superba tenent Lament 5.17 18. For this our heart is faint our eyes are dimme because of the mountaine of Zion which is desolate the Foxes walke upon it SOME ARGVMENTS AND MOTIVES TO The finall Extirpation of the usurped unlawfull Government of the HIERARCHY AS Having no foundation in the Scriptures but meerly in that filthy dunghill the Canon Law of the Popes Authoritie and therefore Antichristian Argument I. THat Name which is onely proper to the Lord Jesus is unlawfull yea blasphemy for any man to assume But so is the name Archbishop onely proper to the Lord Jesus 1 Pet. 5.4 Heb. 13.20 Acts 3.15 5.31 the chiefe Shepheard and Bishop of our soules 1 Pet. 2.25 Ergo for any man to assume that name is unlawfull yea blasphemy and the blasphemer should be stoned to death Levit. 24.11.14 II. That office whose originall is not knowne is unlawfull But the originall of the office of Archbishop is not knowne as the chiefe champion of Prelacy confesseth Whitgift cont Cartwright pag. 351. And further nothing can be said for the primacy of a Metropolitane Bishop but what will as well maintaine the primacy of the Pope as universall Bishop of all the world Ergo the office of an Archbishop is unlawfull III. That name and office which is unlawsull and blasphemy for any man to assume no Prince or humane power may lawfully give But so is the name and office of Archbishop as before Ergo no Prince or humane power may lawfully give it to any man and wee hope his Majesty when he is rightly informed will explode the remembrance of it this is the very corner stone of their building if this once faile the whole fabricke will suddenly tumble upon their heads The Lord grant it and put into the heart of our royall Soveraigne to execute his will upon these Bratts of Babell IV. No officer in the Church is lawfull who cannot prove his function from the word as Iohn did when the Priests questioned him 1 Iohn 20.23.25 But all these officers in the Hierarchy from the chiefe Metropolitane to the meanest Apparitour are such as cannot prove their functions from the word when they are questioned their onely prooses are fulminations of Canons censures excommunications prisons and fines