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A55668 Prelacie is miserie, or, The suppressing of prelaticall goverment [sic] and establishing of provintiall, and nationall Sinods, is a hopefull meanes to make a flourishing church, and happie kingdome 1641 (1641) Wing P3211; ESTC R21720 4,495 12

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PRELACIE IS MISERIE OR THE SVPPRESSING OF PRELATICALL GOVERMENT and establishing of Provintiall and nationall Sinods is a hopefull meanes to make a flourishing Church and happie Kingdome Imprinted for a good intent After Chrismas before Lent 1641. PRELACIE IS MISERIE PRelaticall Goverment is the Churches Ruine and Misery The Argument The Argument THat Goverment whereby Herisies Prophanines Idolatry and Superstitions hath great opprotunitie to creepe into the Church ● is the Ruine and Misery of any Church Nation or Kingdome But Prelaticall Goververment gives great opportunity for Herisies Prophannesse Idolatry and superstition to creepe into the Church Conclusion therefore Prelaticall goverment is the Churches Ruine and Misery First to prove that that Goverment whereby herisies prophanennesse Idolatrie superstition hath great opportunity to creepe into the Church is the Ruine and Misery of the Church Nation or Kingdome The Prophet Isay saith The Ancient and Honorable man he is the head and the Prophet that teacheth lies hee is the taile for the leaders of the people cause them to erre and they that are led by them are devoured Jsay 9.15 16. And Solomon saith that Iustice exalteth a Nation but sinne is a shame to to the people Prov. 14.34 And the Prophet Hosea saith Heare the word of the Lord ye children of Israel for the Lord hath a controversie with the Inhabitants of the land because there is no Truth nor Mercy nor knowledge of God in the Land by swearing and lying c. Hosea 1.2 Therefore saith the Lord shalt thou fall in the day and the Prophet shall fall with thee in the night and I will destroy thee verse 5. Therefore saith Constantine writing to the Nicomedians if saith he Theodorus in his first book Chap. 19 there bee any Bishop which is inflamed to continue Herisies his presumption shall presently be corrected Secondly to prove that Prelaticall goverment gives so great an opportunity for Herisies Prophannesse Idolaty and Superstitions to creepe into Church I lay downe these two grounds First in regard of the Prelates themselves Secondly in regard of the Church 1. In regard of themselves whose calling is but an usurpation and such as is no waies warrantable nor lawfull but contrary both to the lawes of God the patterne of the Apostles the Primative Churches and also the custome of our latter reformed Churches It is an unbecomming thing for a Minister to be lifted up into places of worldly Honours and dignities whose office it is in all humility to Preach the Gospel of Christ and to set the Kingdome of Heaven as a marke before him and not like those Lordly Bishops who whine after Lordships and Earldomes and Kingdomes here on earth which our Saviour Iesus Christ forbiddeth marke Saint Paul setts forth the true approved Ministers of God not to bee such as lift themselves up as Lords but such as like the faithfull servants and Ministers of Christ are faithfull Preachers and disposers of his holy word 1 Cor. 4.1.2 And let our Lordly Bishops pleade for Episcopacie as much as they will S. Gregory saith plainey In his 4. 38 chap. that hee who shall have a guard of Priests to attend upon him is Antichrist 2. In regard of the Church our Lordly Bishops being so willing to bee taken from their calling of teaching instructing of their flocks upon whose charge the cure of their soules doth lie which made Saint Paul to call to minde that woe which lieth on those Ministers who forbeare to Preach the Gospel no he will not forbeare to Preach in regard of that necessity which is layd upon them no looking and labouring for the things which are seene but for the things which are not seene 2 Cor. 14.18 What can wee expect then but that our Prelates will bee ready to entertaine any Heresie prophannesse idolatrie or superstition so they be established in their usurped Seas or addeth profit to their estates and Earledomes of whom Cornelius Brit●o●o saith In the Chap. of Trident. would God saith he they would not goe wholly with generall consent from religion to superstition from Faith to Infidility from God to perjury for they all sought their owne and not for the things which pertaine to Iesus Christ The Reason which Prelaticall Reason or Lordly goverment of the Bishops is the ruine and misery of the Church is plaine because by their goverment Heresies Prophannesse Idolaty and Superstition hath great meanes and opportunity to creepe into the Church and that I shall make plaine to be true as may appeare by the woefull experience of the Churches under them I. If the Bishop himselfe of any Diocesse bee infected with any Heresie Prophannesse Idolatry or Superstition to binde the consciences of men to mens traditions to give liberty to prophane the holy Sabboth bee given to bowings and superstitious seremonies to have Alters and Images in the Church c. What shall we think will bee his dealing with those Churches within his Diocesse The holy people of the Lord see these things and are grieved to see them but they know not what course to take to reforme them 1. If they complaine at the Visitation they doe but like birds runne among limetwigges and in stead of reforming the Church hamper themselves into troubles 2. Secondly if they complaine to the Minister of the Parish either hee is one that will bee ready to defend it or if hee be an honest Minister that would gladly see these things reformed yet he dares not speake for feare of suspention or if he doe complaine he is silenced if not suspended Ipse facto yea it may be and loose his eares for his labour too 3. If they complaine to the Magestrate hee dares not meddle with it to goe about any reformation because hee will say it belongs to the Church Oh what a misery is this for any Church to be under such goverment where shee is constrained thus to bewaile her woefull miserie and cannot be reformed II. Those Ministers who are under any Bishops Diocesse have their mouthes so stopped by their Lordly Prelate that they dare not reprove any Heresie Idolaty or wickednesse which the Bishop doth either practise in himselfe or favour in others III. If any Heresie bee in the Church any Drunkard Horemonger or Papist that can but get into the Bishops favour either by bribes or friends or any other way then may such prophane persons still abide and goe on from time to time in their filthinesse without controulement and thus the corrupting of one Lordly Prelate is the misery of all the other Churches under him Can not not onely Lordly Bishops amongst the Iewes and in Germany Cullen Mense with many others but also those of our owne Nation bee a testimony herein under whose tirannicall Hierarchical goverment many faithful painefull Ministers have beene silenced and punished and some imprisoned some suspended others dyed in Prison others having their members taken from them c. But Drunkards Hereticks prophaners of Gods