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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A73631	Quæres concerning the state of the Church of Scotland	Calderwood, David, 1575-1650.	1638 (1638)	STC 4362.5; ESTC S124661	7,010	16

charges which must be bestowed upon these idle functions and superstitious Ceremonies If the Abbeyes be recovered out of Noblemens hands I perswade my selfe they will eyther bee converted to the maintenance of Deanes Canons and Prebendaries Organs Copes and other unlawfull uses or els in time bee restored to the olde Crowes to builde their nests in againe VII IF there were a time of Conformitie to bee graunted which wee will never graunt yet is this a fit time When the reformed Churches abroad are in so great hazard and some presently under the fiery tryall When the Antichrist and all his adherents hath resumed fresh courage to prosecute their bloudy designes hoping wholy to extirpate true Religion out of Europe is it time to conforme to them to take on the badges of their profession Will not this encourage the enemie and discourage our friends VIII IF the Antichristian governement before described and the many superstions bee not matters of weight but trifles which they shall never bee able to prove with sound and solid arguments why are wee persecuted for them Is it a small matter to turne a Minister out of his Office wheerein hee hath served many yeares to send him and his familie wife children to begge their Bread so farre as in them lyeth For having dedicated themselves to the service of God and spent their former time in studies they are unable to make shifts as Artizans and Tradesmen can doe Was there ever a persecutor since the dayes of Christ who with one breath did both persecute and pronounce the cause wherefore then are worse by many degrees then the Ethnicke Hereticall or Popish persecutors and consequentlie the worst that ever were Our case is yet the more to bee pitied that wee are denyed the protection of Law when wee would flie to the Sanctuarie of Iustice wee are shut backe like unworthie beasts and no more pitied then if wee were dogges left or redelivered into the hands of mercilesse Tyrants who have given testimonie out of their owne mouthes of the loyaltie and good behaviour of those whom they have persecuted IX AFter so many Quaeres and expostulations in all humilitie and reverence to the honorable the true and native estates of Parlament Nobles Barronnes and Burgesses not regarding that bastard estate of Prelates I would demaund two things First Why they suffer the high Commission a Court not established by the Statutes of the Realme thus to tyrannise over the Church over dutifull and loyall Subjects fyning confyning suspending depriving warding and directing the Lords of Secret Counsell to banish or to give out letters of horning against Ministers or other Professors for not conforming to Popish Ceremonies against their conscience The Parlament is the highest Court of the Realme and therfore should provide that no strange Court be set up to oppresse the Subjects without their approbation and consent and therefore it is not only our Quaere why it is not but our request that it may bee put downe For it is the strangest the most tyrannicall and lawlesse Court that ever came in this Land lyker to nothing then to the Spanish Inquisition whereunto it will turne in the ende to the full as Papistrie increaseth That one or two Archbishops with two or three associats Ecclesiasticall or civill persons such as they please to assume to themselves being nominat in the Kings Letters Pattents should judge in all Ecclesiasticall causes and inflict both temporall and spirituall censures and punishments according to their pleasures is contrarie and repugnant to the word of God For spirituall power nether Princes not Parlaments may giue to Ecclesiasticall or Civill persons nether are Ecclesiasticall persons capable of the power of the Temporall Sword Seeing then nether the one nor the other can be lawfully done this high Commission so much grieved at in our neighbour Church should not be suffered to have place amongst us Next I demaund in all humilitie reverence Why acts of pretended and null assemblies are ratified in Parlament and Statutes made wherewith our pretended Prelats make snares to entrap their brethren and wherewith they countenance their tyranny Was ever the generall Assemblie convocat in time of Parlament or their advice and information sought since these alterations began In England howbeit the Prelats sit in the upper House as Barrons yet they haue besides a convention of the Clergie which is called the Convocation House which representeth almost our generall Assemblie for they have no other whose advyce was never neglected no not in time of Poperie What hath our Church deserved as thus to be neglected and misregarded and the report advice consent and wote of Prelats to bee taken who are both judge and partie in this cause The Acts of that corrupt and pretended assemblie at Glasgow were not onelie ratified and confirmed but also under name of explanation enlarged and Bishops exemed from the judgement and censures of the generall assemblie Shall the like be done now for that pretended null Assemblie holden last at Perth God forbid that the honorable Estates should make so light account of their owne credits among the Reformed Churches to whom the proceedings of that pretended Assemblie are discovered and if need bee may yet bee further discovered or that their Honours should make light account of many faithfull Subjects their owne deare Countreymen who are resolved rather then to conforme to suffer temporall losses and to render their liues Howbeit some of them have defiled themselves with these corruptions will they bee avenged on their Brethren who for cōscience sake have kept themselves free Queen Elizabeth of famous memorie did at the suit of the Commons and upon a Bill preferred into the House at the Parlament holden the 14. yeare of her Raigne signifie in expresse words yet upon record that her Will and Pleasure was that no Preacher or Minister should bee impeached or indicted or otherwise molested or troubled for the Rites and Ceremonies in question as the preamble of the said Bill did purport Adding these comfortable words further Diall betwixt the olde Protestant now Formalist p. 54.55 That her Majestie as Defender of the Faith would ayde and maintaine all good Protestants to the discouragement of all Papists Wee doe expect the like not onely at the hands of honourable Barrons and Burgesses but also of our Nobles who should bee nourish Fathers to faithfull Subjects but no maintainers of proud Prelats enemies to their Estate and the estate of Church and Countrie FINIS