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A90474 An antidote against the contagious air of independency. Shewing I. Six sufficient grounds, why they ought to revoke their schismaticall principles. II. Six paralells betwixt theirs and the Iesuiticall practices. / By D.P.P. Feb. 13. 1644. Imprimatur Ja: Cranford. D. P. P. 1645 (1645) Wing P15; Thomason E270_3; ESTC R202030 11,261 26

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that Agrippina was made away by her impious son they both give themselves over to commit before the sun all manner impiety which they committed before secretly for feare to displease or grieve their mothers It is therefore the Lawes and the respect of Magistrates that curbeth the pernitious inclination of men But if this new way should take place what Impiety would not be committed or what Heresies would not be invented to please the palat of their Auditors for to increase the number of their congregations and the revenew of their contributions or out of ambition to be reputed more precise and singular then their brethren or neighbor (q) Iud. 17.5 Pastors upō which would insue unheard of divisions contentions and confusions as it fell out in the time of Micah when there was no King in Israel As long as Iehojada lived Joash King of Judah feared the Lord but as soon as he was dead he gave himself over to Idolatry and Impiety for he caused Zacharias (r) 2 Chr. 24.20 the Son of Iehoiada that had raised him to the Crown most cruelly and ingratefully to be stoned to death because he admonished him to returne unto the Lord. And shall we hope better of men of lower degree that are risen from nothing to ride on (ſ) Eccl●s 1● 7 Horse-back when their Master walkes a foot have we forgotten rhe Proverb Set a begger on horseback and he will c. No surely but rather worse for there never was two such insulting Prelates in the Christian world as Card Woolsey and William Laud Arch Bishop of Canterbury and yet the first was but a Butchers Son and the second a poore Cloathworkers Son the first durst presume to name himselfe before his King and the second to controul his Prince reforme the Royall Oath and insult over the supream Court of this Kingdom Even so if this new way should take place we should have many thousand petty Tyrants domineering over their Congregations as the last Arch-bishop did in the Star-chamber and the High Commission Court and as many Religions as Pastors for every one of them would frame a Religion after their owne Idea But the Presbyterian Discipline is a medium way between Hierarchy and a Democraticall Government much like to the Civill Government of the Venetians that hath continued this twelve hundred yeare and so may this continue to the last day because it is free from all extreames which in all Discipline are dangerous But the Kingdome being divided into twelve Classis and every Classis having six Reverend Divines appointed to call twice a yeare all the Pastors that shall be under their Iurisdiction before them and to examine and determine of all Cases as well for Doctrine Discipline and misdemeanour in life and conversation And these twelve Classis to be called once a yeare to a Nationall Synod for to judge of the Appeals and of the greater affaires of the Church This medium way I say is able to suppresse all Schismes and Divisions and to keepe the Clergy in that purity of Doctrine and Discipline as is beseeming the true Ministers of God These Reasons then should in my opinion induce the Independants to re-unite themselves with the Church of God to abhorre all separation and to disdaine to shelter any longer the Sectaries that live in and about this City but rather to endeavour to convince them of their errours by the sword of the Spirit But if they will desperately remaine obstinate then to lend their helping hand to their Brethren of the Ministery to remove them from hence that they may not draw any longer the Iudgements of God upon this Nation as they have done for conniving at them which kind of halting between two opinions is most odious to God for it is impossible to serve God and Mammon And in so doing they will vindicate themselves of these six imputations following which are daily cast upon them which otherwise will confirme this opinion in the common people that there is seldome any smoake without fire I. THat they are as like the Roman Jesuits in their Principles Method Insinuations 6. Paralells Equivocations and Fallacies as two Paralell-lines are like one another II. As the Jesuits will not charge themselves with any parish cures but desire rather to instruct Schollers in the liberall Arts preach Funerall Sermons all the Lent long even so our Independents shun all parish cures and endeavour to obtain as many Legative Lectures as they can for to avoid the extraordinary pains that parish cures require and in lieu of Schollers they gather to themselves as many Disciples as they can and of them they frame privat congregations of which they require a Covenant for to contribute to the necessities of their Pastors and an oath or promise to follow him wheresoever he is inforced to flee whether it be in Holland or in America and so by these Lectures that are the most certain rents to men and punctually paid of any and the contributions of their private congregations their yeerly revenew doth excell the yeerly coming in of the best parish Cures III. The Jesuits intice all the ingenious spirits of a County to their Schools and allure thither the eldest sons of the richest Families living about them whereby they insinuate themselves in the affections of their Parents which leave them great Legacies at their decease so that in few yeers they get the greatest part of the free-land seated neer unto their Colledges and if the Magistrates in Romayne and in the state of the Venetians had not by an Edict prevented their wiles they had in a short time incroached the greater part of their demains But they have now made an Edict That if any leave any land by his last Will to the Jesuits they are upon pain of forfeiture to sel the same within the yeer to Lay-men that they may no more incroach upon their Territories But the Jesuits finding means notwithstanding this Edict by supposed names to hold these Legacies The state of Venice for this and another of their Wiles viz. About the Oriculary confession have been constrained to banish them out of their State for as long as they remained in Venice the most secret Councels and Resolutions of the Senate was revealed to the Pope and the King of Spain by the insinuations used in the Oriculary-confession of the Venetian Ladies Even so the Independants intice and allure to their side the most accute spirits and insinuate themselves cunningly with the richest and most eminent persons where they live and allure the best and richest families to their private congregations whereby they increase their Revenew and obtain the best Legative Lectures about the City and had they the use of the Oriculary confession as well as the Jesuits that they might use their insinuative faculty to dying men and women they would undoubtedly excell the Jesuits in riches and demaines IV. WHeresoever the Jesuits set footing they drive away or impoverish all the