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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A10190	Lord bishops, none of the Lords bishops. Or A short discourse, wherin is proved that prelaticall jurisdiction, is not of divine institution, but forbidden by Christ himselfe, as heathenish, and branded by his apostles for antichristian wherin also sundry notable passages of the Arch-Prelate of Canterbury in his late booke, intituled, A relation of a conference, &c. are by the way met withall.	Prynne, William, 1600-1669.	1640 (1640)	STC 20467; ESTC S115311	76,101	90

much St. Jerome tells us Though being none himselfe he was no great friend to Bishops And this was so sei●ed in the minds of men from the very Infancy of the Christian Church as that it had not been to that time contradicted by any So that then there was no Controversie about the Calling The difficulty was to accommodate their Precedencies● And the ‡ Ordine Primus whereof there was a necessity falling to the Roman Prelate by reason of the Imperiall Seat this was the very fountaine of Papall Greatnesse the Pope having his Residence in the Imperiall City So he Now for Answere hereunto First for the Authority of Bishops or Prelats over the Inferiour Clergie as he calls it first he must prove their Calling before he can make good their Authority Now Prelates have no such Calling from God And the Apostle saith ‡ No man taketh this honour unto himselfe but he that is called of God as Aaron So Christ glorified not himselfe to be made an High Priest but he that said unto him Thou art my Son to day have I begotten thee Thou art a Priest for ever after the Order of Melchisedec But that the Prelates have no such Calling from God the Prelate himselfe as before is noted doth as good as confesse saying § Among Bishops there was effectuall Subjection respectively grounded upon Canon and Posuive Law in their Severall Quarters Ergo this was not jure divino And if not where is their Authority then And therfore as the Prelate saith of the Popes Supremacy in being the Sole Living Iudge in and over the universall Church † Neither saith he hath he power from Christ over the whole Church to doe it nay out of all doubt 't is not the least Reason why De Facto he hath so little Successe because De Jure he hath no Power given So I may say as truly of all Prelates who challenge to be the living visible Iudges as before is shewed which is one maine part of their usurped Authority over the Ministry that they have no such Power from Christ over their severall Diocese Provinces or Quarters to doe it nay out of all doubt 't is not the least Reason why De Facto they have so little Successe because De Jure they have no Power given According to that in the Prophet * Behold saith the Lord I am against the Prophets that steale my word every one from his Neighbour Behold I am against the Prophets saith the Lord that use their tongues and say He Saith Behold I am against them that prophecie false dreames saith the Lord and doe tell them and cause my people to erre by their lyes and by their lightnesse yet I sent them not nor commanded them therefore they shall not profit this people at all saith the Lord And this is the very case of the Prelates they are faise Prophets they steale Gods word from the people of God and instead thereof use their own word prophecying false dreames saying The Lord saith the Lord hath sent us we have our Calling and Authority from God over all Ministers we are the sole living visible Iudges in matters of Faith and Religion so as all must rest in our Iudgement according to our own Canons and Constitutions c. thus causing simple people to erre by their lyes and by their lightnesse yet the Lord hath not sent them nor commanded them they have no Calling and so no Power and Authority from God and therfore the Lord is against these false Prophets and because he hath not commanded them nor sent them therfore they shall not profit the people at all But Secondly the Prelate saith that his Prelaticall Iurisdiction over the inferiour Clergie was a thing of known use and benefit for preservation of unity and Peace in the Church Now first for his Inferiour Clergie Clergie being appropriated to the Ministry is an abusive Monopoly and usurpation for all Gods people redeemed by Christ are his kleros his Lot or ●nheritance whereof the word Clergie is derived As Peter saith writing to the Presbyters ‡ Not as Lording over t●n kleron Gods heritage but as ensamples to the flocke So that the flocke of God are his kleros his heritage But to passe over this Secondly he tells us of an Inferiour Clergie he meanes his Priests and the rest as Archdeacons and so forth to the number of 7 Orders as they call them A rabble of Orders not unsutable to the Subjects of a Lord Prelate as being all of them of humane devise and institution of which their Hierarc●ie is made up another word of mans invention which some call rather ‡ Hierodoulia but what holy Orders Christ hath left in his Church we shall see anon Thirdly this was saith he a thing of known use and benefit Of the known use we have formerly spoken But now what 's the benefit Namely for the preservation of unity and peace in the Church How proves he this From S. Ierome who said That one was chosen over the rest in Sckismatis remedium to remedy Schisme in the Church But by the way these very words of Ierome doe argue that Prelates were of humane Institution for unus electus est one was chosen I ●rgo of men But lerome speaks more expresly which the Prelate wisely passeth over dry foot where he saith that Prelacy was set up humana praesumptione non Institutione Divina by humane Presumption and not by Divine Institution Well but had it that successe the Prelate speaks of Did it produce the fruitfull benefit of unity and Pea●e Or what unity Or what peace Indeed we find by wofull proof that this Hierarchy was the very egge of which the Cockatrice Antichrist was hatched so as the Hierarchy consisting of so many Prelates grew at length co●lescere to grow together into one Antichrists ●n body whereof the Ordine Primus came to be the head And herein unity and Peace are so conjoyned as they have made up one intire new Catholicke Church that whereof the Prelate professeth himselfe with the Church of England and of Rome and all other Prelaticall Churches in the world all other not Prelaticall as the Reformed Protestants beyond the Seas excluded as before is noted to be in all which this his Catholick Church as * elswhere he saith hath its existence Which Prelaticall Catholicke Church is the ver●head and body of Antichrist Even as the Prelate tells us that the Ordine Primus the Roman Prelate having his Throne in Rome This saith he was the very fountaine of Papall Greatnesse So I may say The Prelacie or Hierarchie was the very fountaine● when●e hath issued the maine Ocean of th●se ‡ many waters over which the Whore sitteth which though it be distinguished into many severall Seas of so many Prelates yes all make up but one Maine Sea as it were one Catholicke Church And this is that unity and Peace the benefit of both the constitution and preservation

and this at the end of the Chancel their highest part of the Church Secondly do they not alter Christs institution by adding to the Sacraments of their own superstitious inventions Doe they not adde an empty and 〈◊〉 signe of the Crosse to Baptisme the o mission whereof is no lesse heinous then of Baptisme it selfe And have they not added a long Forme of Liturgie to the administration of both the Sacraments Have they not altered the Table for the Lords Supper into an Altar for a sacrifice which is also as great a derogation from the sufficiencie of Christs onely sacrifice on the Crosse as it is an alteration yea and an annihilation of this Sacrament which is to be administred as a supper on a Table not as a sacrifice on an Altar And this they doe also in imposing a necessity of kne●eling at the receiving of the Sacrament whereby they overthrow the nature of a Supper To omit their necessity of private Baptisme and of carrying their Host to a man on his death bed would they not also of ‡ late yeares have brought againe into the Church of England the other 5 Sacraments of the Romish Church that so the Church of England and of Rome might in nothing be unlike in their practise as they are not in profession as our said Prelate saith Thus are our Prelates herein Successors of the Apostles Secondly for the Apostles practise in point of Discipline And this is either in Ordination of Ministers or Reformation and correction of manners or imposition of Ceremonies For the first Ordination of Ministers we read of Timothies ordination no lesse by the imposition of the hands of the Presbytery then of Paul himselfe Titus indeed was appointed by Paul to ordaine Elders in every City in Creet as was noted before but if he did this alone without the Presbytery 2 necessity must needs be supposed which is neither Rule nor Law in ordinary Cases And by the way whether Titus and Tim●thy were Diocesan Bishops as the Prelates pretend we shall see in a more fit place And for Ordination this we are sure of that whoever have the charge of it Prelates have nothing at all to doe with it because as is already proved they are no lawfull Ministers of Christ much lesse Successors of the Apostles Againe whom did the Apostles and Presbytery ordaine Ministers of the word but such as were every way qualified with gifts and graces for preaching and the like as we see prescribed in 1 Tim. 3. Tit. 1 They were not like to Ierobeams Priests nor any of those whom the Prelates doe make Priests which are * dumb dogs as the Prophet calls them blind watchmen that love to s●●ep to take their ease greedy dogs that are never satisfied with heaping up Living upon Living they fill themselves with strong drinke and are good Fellows not good Ministers Yea such as are truly qualified either Prelates doe not ordaine them or they doe afterwards seeing how they prove painfull in their Ministry put them to silence or suspend and persecute them as before is noted And againe Thirdly The Apostles and Presbyters in their time Ordayned none for money for offering whereof ‡ Simon Magus was accursed but our Prelates Ordaine tag and rag for money so as the ordinary Fees come to 3 4 5 or 6 pounds So as in point of Ordination how doe our Prelates prove themselves to be Successors of the Apostles And lastly the Apostles and their lawfull successors Ordained none but lawfull Ministers of the Gospell but our Prelates do ordaine a new Order of Priests bringing in and setting up a new Priesthood which is Antichristian not having any foundation in the Sccripture Prelates therefore in Ordrnation are no Successors of the Apostles Secondly for matter of Censure or for Reformation and correction of Manners as for instance in the Censure of Excommunication the Apostles though as Apostles they might doe of themselves yet as Ministers they did it not but with the whole Congregation or else the Congregation with the Presbyters as we see 1 Cor. 5 3. 4. 5. Insomuch as even Prelates themselves after they first had taken footing as being the time of their Innocency as I may say observed this Order So as Cyprian who lived about 250. yeares after Christs nativity would doe nothing in this kind without the consent both of the Presbytery and people This lasted during the 10. Persecutions but Peace and Prosperity Succeding it degenerated into that height of Tyranny by degrees● to which we see it arrived at this day Secondly Excommunication was for weighty Causes as in the same place and 1 Tim. 1. 20. The Apostles had no Prelates Courts or Consistories where they did Privately by themselves or by a dumb Priest Excommunicatt for every trifle and especially for the least breach of a Canon and the like as we noted before but the Consistory was the whole Congregation solemnly assembled where no Censure was imposed but for great offences and those breaches of Gods Laws and of Christs Ordinance Nor were those Censures remitted but in and by the whole Congregation after publick satisfaction given by the offender to the offended Whereas our Prelates in all doe quite contrary absolving also great offenders for a fee without any signes of Repentance much lesse fruits of Reformation and satisfaction made to the Congregation offended Whereas the Apostles absolved none before the Congregation was first satisfied by and so pacified towards the offender as 2 Tim. 2. 10. Do our Prelates thus No such thing Therfore no Successor of the Apostles Thirdly for Imposition of Ceremonies in the worship of God the Apostles were so farre from laying any such yoake upon Christians necks or any such snares for their feet as they did utterly condemne all humane Rites and Ordinances whatsoever in Gods service laying also a speciall charge upon Christians not to put their necks under such yoakes unlesse thereby they would renounce Iesus Christ for their onely King and Lord over their Consciences and Soules in all matters of faith and the worship of God In one Chapter colloss. 2. the Apostle beats them all down whether they be old Iewish Ordinances now abolished under the Gospell or of mans devising and imposing First for Iewish Ceremonies he saith they are * Shadows which now upon the death of Christ are all vanished and abolished Secondly all other Rites and Ceremonies which are of mans devising he calls them ‡ Philosophy and vaine deceit traditions of men rudiments of the world not after Christ a ‡ voluntary humility as worshiping of Angels and so Idolatry an intrusion into things not seen in Scripture of a fleshly mind vainly puft up which seperate from the § head Christ they † evacuate Christs death wherein he did ‡ blot out the handwriting of all such Ordinan●es nayling it to his Crosse c. So as now to be subject to such is to renounce Christs death and make it of