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A68614	The unbishoping of Timothy and Titus. Or A briefe elaborate discourse, prooving Timothy to be no bishop (much lesse any sole, or diocæsan bishop) of Ephesus, nor Titus of Crete and that the power of ordination, or imposition of hands, belongs jure divino to presbyters, as well as to bishops, and not to bishops onely. Wherein all objections and pretences to the contrary are fully answered; and the pretended superiority of bishops over other ministers and presbyters jure divino, (now much contended for) utterly subverted in a most perspicuous maner. By a wellwisher to Gods truth and people.	Prynne, William, 1600-1669.	1636 (1636)	STC 20476.5; ESTC S114342	135,615	241

Marcte Sebotho Bishop of Augusta Everhardus Bishop of Reformes Vlricus Bishop of Saltsburg Conradus Bishop of Hildesheim Conradus Bishop of Halberstat Ludolphus Bishop of the same See Gunterus Bishop of Magdeburge Iosia Odolpleus Archbishop of Vpsal 〈…〉 in S 〈…〉 hland with sundry other Patriarkes Archbishops and Bishops many of them by reason of age or sicknesse others out of discontent others out of a desire of peace quietnesse and case from unnecessary cares and troubles others of them meerly out of conscience of the unlawfulnesse danger hurt and sinnes accompanying the very office of Bishops as then it is and yet is used have voluntarily renounced revived relinquished their Patriarkships Archbishoprikes and Bishoprikes and betooke themselves to a more retired religious quiet private godly life wherein they might serve God better and showe those manifold occasions of evill and temptations unto which their Episcopall function would expresse them both a hazard of their Soules If these many forraigne examples will no wayes moove your Lordships as seeming over strange we have many pregnant Domestique presidents of like nature which may perswade you to make good your promise and induce you to an imitation of them For I find that Robert Gemetiensis S. Edmund Boniface and Robert Kalwarby Archbishops of Canterbury Richard Beaueyes and William de sancta Maria Bishops of London Iohn Bokingham and Philip Ripingdon Bishops of Lincolne Richard Peche and Roger de Weseham Bishops of Coventre and Lichfeild Herman Bishop of Sherborne Shaxton Bishop of Sabisbury William Warmest Iohn Voysy and Miles Coverdale who being deprived in Queene Maries time cared not to returne to his Bishoprike in Queene Elizabeths setling himselfe in London and there leading a private life as an ordinary Minister Bishops of Exeter Iohn Carpenter and Master Hugh Latimer Bishops of Worcester the later of whom skipped for joy when hee had cast off his Rochet for that hee was eased of so heavy a burthen and blessed God that he had given him grace to make himselfe a Quondam Bishop Ralfe de Maydestan Bishop of Hereford Putta Quickhelmus and Haymo Bishops of Rochester the first of them becoming a Schoolemaster spent the residue of his dayes in that kinde of life and could never abide to heare of returning to his Bishoprike Dubricius Bishop of Carleon Sulghein Bishop of S. Davids Iohn Hunden Bishop of Landaffe Caducanus Bishop of Bangor Elguensis Bishop of S. Assaph Colman S. Cuthbert Egelrit and Nicholas de Farnham Bishops of Lindesfarne and Durham the later of whom first of all twise refused and then at last resigned his Bishoprike out of conscience Paulinus de Leedes who peremptorily refused out of conscience to accept the Bishoprike of Carlile though thereunto elected and earnestly intreated by King Henry the second to accept the place who offer● him 300. Markes yearly revenue for the increase of his living there as did Sylvester de Everdon for a time to Walter Malclerke Bishop of Carlile Cedda Coena aliàs Albert Athelwold Thurstan William Wickwane Archbishops of Yorke who all voluntarily most out of conscience some out of choller others for their ease some for their age others for other causes best knowen to themselves resigned both these their Archbishops and Bishoprikes being so many domesticke presidents to your Lordships who have long since given over the maine part of your Episcopall function preaching now to doe the like according to your joint and severall Promises in case you cannot proove your Archiepiscopall and Episcopall lurisdictions lure divino and give a satisfactory Answer to these few papers which I presume you can never doe since not onely Hieron Ambrose Chrysostom Augustine Sedulius Remigius Primasius Theodoret Haymo Beda Rabanus Maurus Theophilact Isidor Hispalensis Alcuminus Oecumenius Gratian the Councells of Carthag● 4. Con● 22. to 26. of Aquisgran c. 8. 10. 11. Iuo Camotensis Peter Lombard Bruno and other ancient but even Anselme Archbishop of Canterbury Richard Archbishop of Ardmagh all the Archbishops Bishops and Cleargy of England in 37. H. 8. in their Institution of a Christen man chapter of Orders subscribed with all their names Stokesly Bishop of London Tonstall Bishop of Durham Reginald Peacocke Bishop of Chichester Bishop Hooper Bishop Latimer Bishop Iewel Bishop Alley but even Arch-bishop Whitgift himselfe and Bishop Bridges to omit Wickliffe Swinderby Walter Brute S. Iohn Oldcastle Master Iohn Lambert Master Iohn Bradford and other our Martyrs Master Thomas Beacon Master Iohn Fox Master Alexander Novell Doctor Whitaker Doctor Humfry Doctor Willet Doctor Agray Doctor Taylor Doctor Ames Doctor Raynolds Doctor Fulke and others in their authorized writings printed here in England cum privilegio and publike allowance with the forecited statutes of our Realme and all the Bishops Patents in the Raigne of King Edward the 6. in expresse termes conclude your Archiepiscopall and Episcopall Iurisdiction to over other Ministers to be a meere humaine invention long after the Apostles time to prevent or rather as the event hath ever since prooved to engender foment occasion all schismes factions errors and disorders in the Church when as Christ himselfe and his Apostles since ordained a Parity an equality both among his Apostles and Ministers and ever instituted many Bishops elders over every particular Church but never any one Bishop or Minister over many as the best meanes to preserve unity and roote out sinnes occasioned onely by the pride ambitious couvetousnesse power and Tyranny of domineering Prelates Thus craving pardon for my boldnesse in pressing your Lordships like two honest plaine dealing men to make good your words that so we may once againe become fellow-brethren and walke hand in hand together like equals without that infinite Lordly distance which is now between us I take my leave and rest Your Lordships faithfull Monitor A. B. C. A briefe Exhortation to the Archbishops and Bishops of England in respect of the present Pestilence MY LORDS for so you stile your selves and will be intiteled by all men notwithstanding the Lords owne inhibition to the contrary the Prophet Isay c. 26. 9. hath informed me that when Gods Judgements are on the earth the inhabitants of the world will learne righteousnes and who knowes whither your Lordships as properly inhabitants if not servants and louers to of the world as any of what ever profession though you should not be so may not now in this time of Pestilence when Gods Iudgements are everywhere so rife among us learne righteousnesse as well as others if you thinke not your selves to wise to learne to old to be instructed if any man will but take the paines to teach you Hearken therefore I beseech you as you tender either the preservation of your lives in this time of mortality or the salvation of your soules in the great day of Iudgement or the lives and soules of his Majesties Subjects committed to your pastorall charge to a short

of the Homily against Disobedience willfull rebellion Fox Acts and Monuments throughout Catalog Testium Veritatis b Com. in Phil 1. 1. in Tit. 1. 5. 7. in 1. Tim 3. 4. c De Quest. Armenorum l. 11. c. 1. to 8. d Balaeus Cent. 8. c. 19. e Fox Acts Monuments p. 9 2. 973. f On the 8 Commandement g Defence of the Apologie part 2. c. 3. Divis 1. 5. p. 85. 99. 100. 101. c. 9. Divis 1 p. 196. 202. h Poore mans Library part 1. f. 95. 96. i Exposit on Aggius vers 1. 2. k Against Cartwright p. 389. l Of the Princes Supremacy p. 359. ‡ Maith 6. 24. Lu. 16. 13. 1. Iohn 2. 15. 16. m See Chownaeus Collect Theolog. and Shelford his 5. Treatises n Pag. 2. 43. 44. * See Henry Stalbridge his Exhortatory Epistle William Wraghton his Hunting of the Romish Fox Rodericke Mors his Complaint c. 23. Master Tyndals his obedience of a Christian man and Practise of Popish Prelates Fox Acts and Monuments pa● 414. 514. 516. 518. Master Whethenhall his Discourse of the Corruptions now in Question with others o Matth. 7. 26. 27. * See Sir Iohn Dauis his Irish Reports f. 97. 98 an excellent passage to this purpose q Math. 7. 27. * Doctor Barnes Articles Artic. 8. p. 211. Master Tyndals Practise of Popish Prelates p. 342 343. c. and Obedience of a Christian man ‡ 37. H. 8. c. 17. * What the Keyes of the Church be p. 266. u Prov. 16. 18. * 1. Pet. 5. 5. ‡ Psa 119. 119. * See Thomas Be●● on his supplication Vol. 3. of his Workes in folio f. 21. to 25. A most excellent passage to this purpose suitable to our times ‡ Magna Charta c. 29. The Petition of Right 3. Caroli and other Statutes in Ractall Accusation z 1. Cor. 1. 27. 28. 29. * In Master Thomas Brewers Doctor Bastweekes and sundry other cases a An. Melvini Patricij Adamsoni Palinodia printed An. 1630. b See Master Tyndals Obedience of a Christian man The holy Practise of Popish Prelates c 1. Tim. 3. 2. 3. 2 Tim. 4. 1. to 5 Tit 1. 2. 1 Pet. 〈◊〉 2. 3. d 31. H S. c 9 37. H. 8 c. 17. 1. E 6. c. 〈◊〉 all the Bishops Patents for their consecration and Cong † Not Arch-bishops or Bishops who can make no Chancellours Vicar generals Commissaries or Officials unlesse the King by his speciall Patent give them power so to doe in expresse words as these Statutes evidence and the Bishops Patents in Edward the 6. Raigne ‡ Matth. 22. 20. 21. Sir Iohn Davis his Irish Reports p. 97. 98. a 26. H. 8. c. 1. 37. H. 8. c. 17. 1. E. 6. c. 2. 1. Eliz. c. 1. 5. Eliz. c. 1. 8. Eliz. c. 1. * In case they have 〈…〉 Character or Commission under his Majesties Seale which all of them now want and so are meere usurpers on his Majesties Crowne and Ecclesiasticall Prerogative in keeping Confistories Visitations and Exercising Episcopall Iurisdiction in their owne names with Patent or Commission from the King b Sunday no Sabath p. 〈◊〉 44. † W. Bray d See Antiquit Eccles Brit. Bodwines Conversion of Brittanie with others who write of King ●ucius and Speedes History Booke 6. c. 9. p. 73. to 82. * Defence of the Apolog. part 5. c. 1. Divis 1. Artic. 1. Divis 24. f Acts and monum f. 2. p. 9● to 120. g Sped Hist. l. 6. c. 9. h Page 43. † See Quest. 1. Object 6. Answer 2. and most of our learned writers who have affirmed that Peter was never at Rome much lesse Bishop there upon such grounds as this Doctor cannot answere k Epiphanius Contr. Haereses l. 1. Haer. 27. col 88. 89. Eusebius Eccles Hist. l. 3. c. 21. Irenaeus l. 3. c. 3. 4. 5. write that both of them were Bishops of Rome at once and not Peter the sole Bishop and Eusebius writes Paul in the first place before Peter ‡ See Euseb s 3. c. 10. 11. or So●r Schol. Eccl. Hist. l. 7. c. 3 m 28. H. 8. c. 10. 1. Eliz. c. 1. * See Rastall Tit. Rome * Oratio ad 〈◊〉 50. Episcopus in his life before his workes Socrates Eccles Hist l. 5. c 7. p Isidor Pe'usiotae Epist l. 3. Epist 223. † Nicephorus Eccles Hist. l. 10. c 11. * Socr. Scholast l. 4. c. 18. in the Greeke 23. Niceph. Eccles Hist. l. 11. c. 37. Petrus Blesensis Epist 23. † Socrates Eccl. Hist l. 4. c. 18. Niceph. l. 11. c. 37. * Nicephori Gregorae Hist Rom. l. 3. c. 1. 2. f. 9. Cent. Magd. 13. Col. 982. u Cent. Magd. 10. Col. 599. * Cent. Magd. 6. Col. 644. ‡ Niceph. Greg. Hist Rom. l. 4. 2. 1. f. 11. 13 14. l. 5. fol. 16. l. 6. f. 20. 21. 22. 24. l. 7. f. 29. l. 8 f. 31. Cent. Magd. 8. Col. 669. 672. Cent. 11. Col. 516. 518. Cent. 12. Col. 1384. Cent. 13. Col. 932. 983. * Vincentius Spec. Hist. l. 24. c. 25. Cent. Magd. 7. Col. 502. 507. 508. Cent. 8. Col. 763. 786. Cent. 10. Col. 586. Cent. 11. Col. 515. 576. Cent. 12. Col. 1387. 1458. 1468. 1484. 1486. 1491. 1519. 1530. 1544. Cent. 13. Col. 1042. 1052. 1057. 1062. 1078. 1092. 1093. 1094. 1102. 1146. * Godwine Catalogue of Bishops London 1615. p. 70. 113. 118. 120. 188. 192. 219. 305. 306. 313. 318. 323. 336. 353. 397. 413. 414. 437. 438 446. 447. 456. 477. 487. 504. 508. 532. 536. 543. 559. 565. 567. 581. 596. 629. 631. 632. 635. 636. 654. 655. 675. 676. ‡ Fox Acts and Monuments p. 1578. His 2. 3. and 4. Sermons before King Edward t Epist. 2. 83. 85. in Tit. 1. Phil. 1. 1. Tim. 3. u In Eph. 4. 1. Tim. 3. x Rom. 1. in Phil. Hom. 11. in 1. Tim 3. Hom. 2. in Tit. 1. y Ep. 19. 83. 85. Quaest. ex utroque impert 100. 101. z In Phil. 1. 1. Tit. 1. 5. 7. 1. Tim. c. 3. 4. Acts. 15. 20. 17. 28. a Ori. l. 7. c. 12. l. 8. c. 5. De Ecclesiast Officiis l. 2. c. 7. b De divinis officiis l. 2. c 35. 36. c In Acts. 15. 20. 1. Tim 3. Phil. 1. 1. Tit. 1. 5. 7 d Distinct 80. 93. Causa 2. Qu. 7. e Decretal pars 5. c. 58. 59. 72. 107. 143. 144. f Sent. l. 4. Distinct. 24. g In Phil. 1. Tit. 1. 1. Tim. 3. h Amalarius Fortunatus de Eccles officiis l. 2. c. 13. Basilius Magnus in c. 3. Isayae Nizianzen Orat. 9. 13. 15. 21. 28. * Quoted by Gersonius Bucerus the Petition to Queen Elizabeth Master Parker Doctor Bastweeks Bookes k Matth. 20 20 to 29 Marc. 10 35 to 48 Lu. 22. 23 to 28. l 1. Pet. 5 1 to 6 Acts. 14 23 c. 20 17 28 Phil. l 1 Tit. 1 5 7. 1. Tim. 3 c. c. 5 17 c. 4. 14 Iam. 5 14 m See Bp. Iewels Defence of the Apologie part 2 c.

THE VNBISHOPING OF TIMOTHY AND TITVS OR A briefe elaborate Discourse prooving Timothy to be no Bishop much lesse any sole or Diocaesan Bishop of Ephesus nor Titus of Crete and that the power of ordination or imposition of hands belongs Iure Divino to Presbyters as well as to Bishops and not to Bishops onely Wherein all Objections and Pretences to the contrary are fully answered and the pretended superiority of Bishops over other Ministers and Presbyters Iure Divino now much contended for utterly subverted in a most perspicuous maner By a Wellwisher to Gods truth and people Matthew 15. 13. Every plant which my heavenly Father hath not planted shall be rooted out Chrysostom Opus imperfectum in Matth. Hom. 35. Quicunque desideraverit Primatum in terra inveniet in Coelo confusionem ut jam in ter servos Christi non sit de Primatu certamen In the Yeare M.DC.XXXVI To the Reader CHristian Reader what that Oracle of wisedome hath registred Proverb 13. 10. Onely by pride cometh contention was never more really verified in any one particular then in the Prelates whose ambitious windy tumor and overswelling pride as in al former ages so in this hath filled the whole Christian world with warres with civill dissensions and the Church it selfe with endlesse schismes controversies contentions which else would never had existence The pretended primacy of the great Pontificall Bishop of Rome what tumults battles warres treasons rebellions murders martyrdomes hath it ingendred on the one hand what disputes bookes of controversie and paper-battles on the other What innumerable Schismes Treatises which the endoubted parity of Ministers and Bishops Iure Divino had prevented have the Prelates pretended superiority by divine institution over Presbyters and their fellow-Ministers produced in all ages Churches especially in our owne which from the first glimmerings of the Gospell in Iohn Wiclifes dayes till now hath beene more or lesse disquieted with this unhappy controversie which being raked up in the ashes for a space by reason of our Bishops waiving of their divine right which not onely Archbishop Anselme Richardus Armachanus and Bishop Peacocke of old but likewise Bishop Tonstall Bishop Stokesly Bishop Hooper Bishop Iewell Bishop Alley Bishop Pilkington yea Archbishop Whitgift himselfe and Bishop Bridges to omitt all others have since them publikely disclaimed confessing Bishops and Presbyters lure Divino to be allone equall and the same and the Statutes of 37. H. 8. c. 17. 1. Ed. 6. c. 2. 1. 2. Mariaec 8. 1. Eliz ab c. 1. for ever judicially in full Parliament resolved against yet our present ambitious Prelates studying to surmount their predecessors not onely in worldly pompe and power derived from their indulgent Soveraigne but likewise in spirituall Iurisdiction claimed from God himselfe though they have neither time nor care to preach pray or doe him any Episcopall service being wholly taken up with secular offices and affaires and unable to serve God for serving his incompacible enemies Mamōn and the world have lately blowne abroade the coales and resuscitated the violent flames of this contention afresh by a new ambitious claime of all their Episcopall Soveraignity and Iurisdiction Iure Divino even in the High Commission Court it selfe in the late censure of Doctor Bastwicke for a Booke written onely against the Pope and Italian Bishops without any reflection upon them as all men then conceived and therefore wondred at till their magnifying of the Church of Rome as a true Church in that Censure of his and some late licensed Pamphlets their Antichristian and Papall proceedings against Gods truth Ministers Ordinances and the late authorizing of Doctor Pocklingtons Sunday no Sabbath by the Archbishop of Canterburies owne Chaplaine Master Bray which expressly avers that our Arch-bishops and Bishops can and doe lineally derive their Pedigree and Succession from Peter and the Popes of Rome hath since in structed the ignorant people that Popes Italian and English Bishops are in truth all members of the same body whelpesof the same litter branches of the same tree and our present Prelates the Pope of Romes owne lineally discended sonnes so as they could not but be sensible of and highly offended if not actually lashed wounded with their fathers scourge Flagellum Pontificis Episcoporum Latialium being a whip for them as well as for the Italian Prelates Now because in that late Censure of theirs they all founded the divine right of their Episcopall Superintendency and Dominion over their Fellow-Pres byters onely on the examples of Timothy and Titus whom they then new consecrated Diocaesan Bishops over Ephesus and Crete 1608. yearely after their decease though Christ and Paul himselfe had never done it in their life times and on a supposed divine Monopoly of conferring Orders and imposing hands appropriated by God himselfe to Diocaesan Bishops distinct in Iurisdiction power and degree from Ministers and Presbyters I have therefore here for the future quie●●●ing of this much agitated controversie confined my discourse within the lists of such questions not formerly fully debated by any in the English tongue that I have met with by the discussion whereof I have I suppose so shaken these rotten pillars and undermined these sandy foundations of their high-towring over-swelling Hierarchy as that I have left them no divine prop or groundworke to support it longer so as it must now certainly for any stay is left it in Scripture come tumbling downe headlong to the very ground and me thinkes I heare the fall of it allready sounding in my eares unlesse with speed they wholly quit these false foundations and bottom their Prelacy and Iurisdiction onely on his Majesties Princely favour not Gods or Christs divine institution which because they have so lately judicially disclaimed in open Court and even at this present execute all Acts of Episcopall Iurisdiction by their owne inherent power without any speciall Commission from his Majesty under his greate Seale keeping their Courts visitations and making out all their citations proces excommunications probate of wils Letters of administration c. in their owne names and under their owne Seales as if they were absolute Popes and Monarches contrary to the Statutes of 25. H. 8. c. 19. 26. H. 8. c. 1. 37. H. 8. c. 17. 1. Ed. 6. c. 2. 1. Eliz. c. 1. 8. Eliz. c. 1. their Oath of Supremacy and their High-Commission it selfe which might teach them another lesson as that it confines them to doe all things by his Majesties speciall Commission in his name and under his Seale when they are all there joyned together much more therefore when they are divided in their severall Dioces and because they have blotted out Caesars Image and superscription his Armes and royall Title out of their Courts proces and all ecclesiasticall proceedings and inserted onely their owne in leive thereof that so they may appeare to all the world to be no longer

hee that ordaineth or consecrateth Ministers is greater in Iurisdiction power order or degree then the parties consecrated and ordained is a notorious dotage and untruth broached at first by Epiphanius to confute Aërius his orthodox opinion of the parity of Bishops and Presbyters and since that taken up at second hand by Bellarmine and other Iesuites the Councell of Trent Bishop Downham with other Patriots of the Popes and Prelates Monarchy and last of all like Coleworts twice sodde usurped by all our Prelates in their high Commission at Lambeth in their Censure of Doctor Bastwicke who laid the whole weight and burthen of their Episcopall superiority and precedency over other Ministers upon this rotten counterfeit Pillar unable any wayes to support it as these ensuing demonstrations will evidence at large bejond all contradiction For first of all we know that Cardinals and Bishops at this day as the people and Clergy yea the Emperor heretofore doe elect and consecrate the Pope yet they are not greater in order dignity power or Iurisdiction then the Pope but inferior and hee farre superior to them in all these We read that Metropolitanes Patriarkes Primates and Archbishops are created consecrated and installed by ordinary Bishops as the Arch-bishops of Canterburry and Yorke have oftentimes beene by the Bishops of London Rochester Winchester Salisbury and the like yet are they not greater in dignity power authority place or order then they but subordinate and subject to them whom they thus ordaine in every of these We know by dayly experience that one Bishop consecrates and ordaines another and hee a second and that second a third yet all of them are of equall power and Iurisdiction not different or distinct in order or degree and sometimes the last of the three in respect of his Bishopricke takes precedency of the rest that ordained him as the Bishops of London Durham and Winchester doe here with us and other Bishops the like in forraigne parts So some Ministers joyne with the Bishop in the ordination and laying of hands on others yet one of them is not superior in Iurisdiction order or degree to the other Now were this our Prelates objected Paradoxe true the Cardinals should be greater in order power and degree then the Popes the Bishops then Patriarkes Metropolitanes Primates and Archbishops one Bishop one Minister then another yea there should be so many different degrees among Bishops and Ministers as there are successive subordinate ordinations which is both false and absurd S. Hierom in his Epistle to Evagrius and on Titus 1. with Alcuvinus De Divinis Officiis c. 37. affirme that in the primitive Church Bishops were both Elected and consecrated by Presbyters and the Scripture is expresse that both Paul and Timothy were ordained by the Presbytery Acts 13. 3. 4. 1. Tim. 4. 14. If the Bishops reason then be orthodoxe it followes inevitably that in the Apostles times and the primitive Church Pres byters were superior in Iurisdiction order and Degree to Bishops yea to Paul and Timothy the one an Apostle the other an Euangelist and not Bishops Lords paramount over them as they now pretend and then farewell their Hierarchy which they so much contend for The Archbishop of Canterbury who stood much upon this argument at Doctor Bastwicks Censure both crowned our Soveraigne Lord King Charles and baptised his sonne Prince Charles will hee therefore conclude that hee is greater in power authority place and Iurisdiction then they The Archbishops of Canterbury have usually crowned and baptized the Kings of England and the Archbishops of Rheemes the Kings of France will they therefore inferre Ergo they are greater in power dignity and authority then they as the Popes argue that they are greater then the Emperors because the Bishops of Rome have usually crowned the Emperors Are the Princes Electors in Germany greater then the Emperors or of Poland Bohemia and Sweden greater then their Kings because they elect and create them Emperors and Kings Are the Lord Major of London and Yorke or the Major of other Citties inferior to the Commons or the Lord Chauncellors of our Vniversities of Oxford and Cambridge lesse honorable potent and inferior to the Doctors Procters and Masters of Arts or the heades or Masters of the Colleadges and Halls in them subordinate or lesse worshipfull or eminent then the fellowes because they are elected constituted and created by them to be such Are the Knights Citizens and Burgesses of the Parliament not so good as those freeholders Cittizens and Burgesses who elect them or the Masters of Companies inferior to those that choose them If not as all must grant how is this maxime true that hee who constitutes ordaines or consecrates another is greater then the parties constituted ordained or consecrated and that in Iurisdiction place order and degree Our Popish Preists are not afraid to proclaime that in their consecration of the Sacrament they create their very Creator and make no lesse then Christ himselfe are they therefore greater and higher in order and degree then Christ the great and onely High Preist the * Cheife Shepheard and Bishop of our Soules whose Vicar and Substitute the Pope himselfe doth but claime to be Certainly if this their Popish proposition be true they must needs be one order and degree Higher in point of Preisthood then Christ himselfe who must then lose his titles of High Preist and cheife Shepheard because every Masse-Preist will be paramount him in that hee not onely consecrates but creates him too We read in Scripture that Kings Preists and Prophets were usually annointed and consecrated to be such with oyle was therefore the oyle that consecrated them greater or better then they Are the font and water better then the children baptized in or with them The Diadems better then Kings because they crowne them or the very hands of Bishops and Ministers worthier then Ministers ordained by them If not then are not Bishops greater then the Ministers which they ordaine or consecrate since both are but instruments Servants not prime originall agents Lords or Supreme absolute actors in these severall consecrations and actions If we cast our eyes either upon nature or policy we finde this proposition of our Prelates a meere ●alsehood In nature we ●ee that a man begets a man an horse an horse an asse an asse a dogge a dogge c. equall one to the other in nature quality species and degree the sonne being as much a man as the Father the colt as much an horse as the steed that begott him In Civill or Politique Constitutions wee see the like In our Vniversities Doctors and Professors of Divinity Phisicke Law Musicke create other Doctors of the same Professions equall to themselves and as much Doctors in these arts as they one Doctor in each of these being as much and no more a Doctor then another save onely in point of time or antiquity