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A47551	That neither temporallitie[s] nor tythes is due to the bishops, prelates nor clergy, by a Gospel rule And that kings, princes and lords temporal, may j[ust]ly take the temporallities and tythes from them, and dispose of the ... the defence and benefit of the kingdom, and the relief of the poor. Proved by the laws and pract[i]ce of twenty Kings of Judah, England, and France as also by the testimonies of the Universities of Oxford and Prague, fifty four of ... nobles of Bohemia and Morania, two hundred and fifty years agone, and als[o] one hundred and twenty authors beside. Together with some directions how gospel ministers ought to have maintenance, according to the gospel rule, and institutions of Iesus Christ. By E. K.	Netherlands. Emancipatiekommissie.	1672 (1672)	Wing K6A; ESTC R218954	82,628	97

strictly enjoyn men to observe and obey their own Canons and constitutions than the very word of God and do punish the transgressors of their Canons with greater punishments than the transgressors of the word of God and thus they do not only set themselves in Gods stead and make themselves Gods but they exalt themselves above God by punishing men for disobedience to their Canons more than for disobedience to the Canons of holy Scripture and thus our Lord Bishops and Prelates by their abhominable usurpation they are the very abomination of desolation standing in the holy place Matthew 24.15 VVhose readeth let him understand and you will find that Bishops and Prelates are the very same Bishops ought to conform themselves 〈◊〉 the rule of Christ And therefore is it not high time for Kings and Princes and Lords temporal c. And a duty which God requires from them having invested them with power to reform such abuses the which cannot be done but by taking the usurped temporallities and tyths from Bishops and Prelates and so to call them back from their erronius usurped wicked wayes and compel them to conform themselves and submit unto the rules and institutions of Jesus Christ and no longer suffer them by their usurped power to tyranize and constrain men against their Consciences to decline or forsake their conformity to the rules and institutions of Christ and to conform to their wicked usurped Authority in their Idolatrous way of worship of their own devising for mans intention maketh not Gods worship saith Mr Perkins but doing Gods will and Gods will is not to be worshiped by an immaginary devised formality of worship which is but as an Image or representation of Gods divine instituted worship for we may not think to bind the presence of God the operation of his Spirit and his hearing and accepting of us to any thing to which God hath not bound himself either by word of Commandement or promise or both now God hath not any where bound himself either by word or promise to hear us nor accept us in a formal way of worship of mens devising but according to his own institution for God is not worshipped but when it is his will to accept of our worship and it is not his will to accept of our worship but when it is according to his own will and institution and not according to our will and devising for what God hath not instituted he will not accept of in any part of his worship therefore we ought not to add nor diminish from Christs institution though our pretences seem never so plausible in the conceit of men It was the real intention of the Israelites to worship the God of their Fore-fathers in the Golden Calf and is was the intention of Jeroboam to do the like in the Calves at Dan and Bethel and yet the holy Ghost gives his judgement upon them that the Israelites worshipped the Molten Image Psal 106.19 And that Jeroboam sacrificed to the Calves that he had made 1 King 12.32 The reason why their worship was esteemed the worship of the Calves was because they worshipped according to their own invention and not according to Gods divine institution as in Psal 106.39 They were defiled with their own works and went a Whoring with their own inventions and can any Prelate give a reason why they might not as well worship after their own inventions as our Bishops and Prelates may worship after their own inventions and compel others to worship so too was such a worship counted Idolatry in them and will it not be counted Idolatry in us what assurance can our Bishops give us to the contrary that in so worshipping we shall not be Idolaters by their invented way of worshiping an Idol For thus you see that to worship according to mens inventions it is by the holy Ghost counted Idolatry therefore if you would have a right reformation and a right conformity and unity in the Church in Religion the right way to do it is to compel the Bishops and Prelates especially and all others to conform themselves to the rules and institutions of Jesus Christ and his Apostles And this belongs especially to the King to cause it to be done for he beareth not the Sword in vain saith the Apostle he is the Minister of God for good to those that do well and for terror to those that do evil for saith the Text He is Gods Minister attending continually upon this very thing Rom. 13. to verse the 7. He primarily hath power given him of God to break the power of wicked usurping Prelates and their carnal traditions and cannons except by conniving at their usurped wickedness we endanger our selves to partake with them in their punishments which God forbid Again when God is adored and worshipped according to mens invention the worshippers are said to forget God Psal 106.21 though they think that they well remember him the reason is because they forget his Commandements and institutions for God commandeth that we shall not add nor diminish from his institutions Deut. 4.2 Nor turn aside to the right hand or to the left Deut. 28.14 And that if we do turn aside all the curses from verse 15. to the 68. shall come upon thee and over take thee for those that worship with a devised worship of their own invention they do also worship a devised God of their own invention for such as the worship is such is the God that is worshipped The Samaritanes worshipped the God of Abraham Isaac and Jacob and yet Christ saith of them ye worship ye know not what because they worshipped the true God in a way devised by men Gods worship must be according to this nature Heavenly Divine and Spiritual but all devised worship is according to the nature and disposition of the deviser foolish carnal and vain as Christ saith In vaine do they worship me teaching for Doctrine the Commandements of Men Mat. 15.9 God will not have nor accept of any worship but such as himself hath appointed mens intention to worship God is nothing unless they worship him according to his own will and appointment It is said 1 Cor. 10.20 The things which the Gentiles sacrifice they sacrifice unto Devils and not to God and yet the wiser sort of the Gentiles their intention was to sacrifice unto God in Images and the Children of Israel who by the Commandement of God were to offer sacrifices unto the Lord yet they might not offer their sacrifices in every place as Deut. 12.13 Nor in any City or Field but in the place which the Lord had chosen namely at the Door of the Tabernacle of the Congregation as in Leviticus 17.3 4 5. They must neither sacrifice any thing but what God had appointed to be sacrificed nor in any other place but where God appointed for if they did their sacrifice was accounted as sacrificing unto Devils Leviticus 17. and 7. and in Deut. 32.17 18. They sacrifice unto

his minority as the Child of sin or the man of sin in his Childhood for laying aside the rankness of those extravagancies of the Popes temporal power or that power in temporalities it will appear that the Arch Bishops power in spiritualibus is of the same kind for he assumes a peerless power unto himself that look what the King is to his Counsell which he takes unto himself for consultation but the final determination and resolution lyes in his own bosome Downam even so the Bishop is to his Inferior Clergie he will hear them speak when he pleaseth to give them allowance Bilson but it is in his own brest to cast the ballance which wayes seems best to himself so say Downam Bilson and Saravia Saravia It is incredible that Christ should appoint such an high Officer in the Church as the Lord Bishop or Diocosan Bishop or Lord Primate or Lord Metropolitan to bear such an high handover the Church and people of God and yet never give them any name in all the new Testament whereby they should be known and distinguished from other Church Officers which Christ at his Assention gave for the perfecting of the Saints for the work of the ministry and for the edifying of the body of Christ Eph. 4.11 12 13. Hence it is clear that they are no Gospel Creatures nor their Authority and Jurisdictions were never instituted by Christ nor his Apostles for Paul saith Acts 20.20 that he kept back nothing that was profitable for the Church but taught them both publickly and from house to house and shunned not to declare unto them all the Counsel of God verse 27. And yet Paul hath not in all his Epistles named one of these Officers nor their offices God himself in the time of the Law prescribed all the Circumstances and Ceremonies Officers and Offices that was to be used in his worship and service and left not any thing to the will and devising neither of Moses nor Aaron nor any other God hath given Christ to be head to the Church Eph. 1.22 he is the head of all Principallity and power Col. 2.10 So that Christ is Soveraign and Supream the Sole and only Lawgiver to the Church which is his Mistical body to give Laws unto his Church both for the outward polity and inward purity of the same in the duties of his worship and service And I think it doth argue a very unworthy If not blasphemous carriage towards Christ for any man or men Inconsiderately to intrude upon Christs prerogative to alter or change to add or diminish from Christ the Lawgivers institutions either for matter or manner for Circumstances or Ceremonies Officers or Offices other than Christ gave at his Assention for the perfecting of the Saints Eph. 4 11 12 13. For so to do is to condemn Christ of ignorance or of negligence as if he knew not or cared not for ordering the affairs of his own house which God hath intrusted him with but should leave it to sinful men who presume to command things that Christ hath not prescribed to be done under the name of indifferency but I conceive that things indifferent ought to be left to mens free choice to be done or not to be done but when those things which they call indifferent are imposed by Mulcts and penalties it changeth the nature of the thing and makes that which before was indifferent to be of absolute necessi y the which thing for any man or men to do viz to impose and command in the duties of Gods worship that which Christ hath not commanded it is to exalt themselves above Christ to impose and give Laws to the Church which Christ hath not given Mr. Perkins Mr. Perkins saith in his first Volum Page 676. That if God be either represented or worshiped in at or before an Image he is presently transformed into an Idol and in Hab. 2.18 He saith that Images which also in the same verse he calleth dumb Idols they are teachers of lyes because assoon as God is represented in an Image he is deprived of his glory and changed into a bodily visible Circumscribed and finite Majesty for so when the Children of Israel intended to worship God in the Golden Calf they proclaimed to morrow is a holyday unto the Lord. Exod. 32. And yet the Psalmist saith in so doing they changed or turned the glory of God into the Similitude of a beast that eateth Grass Psal 106.20 Humain devised worship is Idolatrous Worship Now if to represent or worship God in at or before an Image be an Idolatrous worship because God hath not any where in his word appointed nor required such a kind of worship doth it not hence follow upon the same ground and reason that to worship God by the traditions and devices and inventions of men in a way that Christ nor his Apostles never instituted nor appointed and this kind of worship also to be celebrated by Officers in the Church which neither Christ nor his Apostles did ever institute or appoint unto such Office but they are also of mens devising as Lord Primate Lord Metropolitan Lord Arch-B shop Lord-Bishops Deans Sub-Deans Dean and Chapter Arch-Deacons Sub-Deacons Chancellors Vice-Chancellors Chanter Sub-Chanter Prebends resident and non resident Canons resident and non resident Vicars-Corrals Vicars Choristers Curates and a rabble of the like the Spawn of Antechrist and is not this as Idollatrous to worship God by such usurping Officers in a way of their own devising as to worship God in at or before an Image let wise impartial men judge for Mr. Perkins saith Page 696 That the worship of God which is devised and taken up by men it is in deed and effect Idolatry because it is a worship that God doth abhor and detest who will precisely be worshiped according to his own word and institution without any addition detraction or change and it is so much the more Idolatrous because the Officers that do the service have not their Authority from God but from men as themselves have confessed Bishops and Prelates are the abominatie of desolation In 2 Cor. 44. Satan is called the God of this world because men obey his suggestions rather than Gods word and in this respect also Antechrist the Pope is called God because he more strictly enjoyneth men to obey his own traditions then the very word of God saith Mr. Perkins Page 681. And in this respect also our Bishops and Prelates make themselves Gods because they presume to prescribe a form of worship to God which God hath not prescribed nor appointed and so they set themselves in Gods stead to order the affairs of Gods house as God for none but God himself can prescribe the matter and manner of Gods worship and yet our Bishops and Prelates do alter and change do add and diminish in the duties of Gods worship both for matter and manner of worship and so make themselves Gods and do a so more

temporalities but Prelates have been unfaithful Stewards and therefore it is high time to compell them to deliver up their Stewardship that they may be no longer Stewards for the Priests as they call themselves and desire to be called ought to have no temporal possessions or inheritance for their service as Eze. 44.28 I am their Inheritance ye shall give them no possession in Israel I am their possession yea even the Primate himself as he expecteth to be called who thinks himself to be Successor to Aaron cannot by Aarons example possess any temporalities as in Num. 18.20 And the Lord spake unto Aaron then shalt have no inheritance in their land neither shalt thou have any part amongst them I am thy part and thine inheritance among the Children of Israel and Josh 13.33 But unto the tribe of Levi Moses gave not any inheritance the Lord God of Israel was their inheritance If Prelates consciences were not seared as with an hot iron how could they pretend any right to Temporal possessions either by example of the Levitical Priesthood unto whom you see Temporal possessions was prohibited neither by the example of Jesus Christ nor his Apostles if it were not as Cardinal Aralatensis said in the Council of Basil that Prelates value their Temporalities above their Spiritualities Therefore if you observe the rule of Christ by their Fruits you may know them and their Fruits in that way hath been the occasion to bring in and to uphold and maintain Antichrist the Pope in his Throne for if it were not for his great Temporal possessions he could not domineer over Emperors Kings and Princes as he hath done and whilst Prelates possess their Temporalities they do uphold him in his Throne for both of them are one upheld by the other if once the one fall the other will shortly follow Angelo Cararo Whosoever saith Angelo Cararo beholds the surpassing state and magnificence of the Church and Court of Rome above other Kings and Princes cannot but wonder that she upon so slender a foundation and so far from the intention of her Founders should raise her self to so proud a height as to turn those benefits she hath received against and to the prejudice of them that gave her those possessions for the Canonists other Emissaries of that Court study nothing more than how to strengthen and extend their Ecclesiastical Jurisdiction and abase and demolish the power of Secular Princes if they can possible A Book of the Image of a Bishop In a Book called The Image of a Christian Bishop and of a Counterfeit Bishop set out in the year 1539. he speaks of some that he calls shadows of Bishops that have raised themselves to dominion and Lordship against both God and man against reason common sence and judgement after the nature of Tyrants which rule only by the wrath and indignation of God for Prelates saith he if they be not good and virtuous to promote the word of God unfeignedly with all their hearts they are Wolves and cruel murtherers of Souls much like as if Satan should have a Mitre on his head and Rings on his fingers and should sit in a Chair to rule the people for B●shops that do not preach the pure word of God they are as much to be eschewed as the Devil himself And whereas Bishops exercise their tyranny over men under pretence of Conformity to keep men from sedition and strife he saith the word of God doth not stir up to sedition and strife but the stubborn obstinate disobedience of Bishops themselves against the truth and their rage against the word of God is the cause of sedition for whosoever receives the word of God that man raises not up sedition albeit he no longer fears such vain Buggs nor worship such Episcopal Puppets for since he knows the word of God he doth not fear nor reverence their vain humane Innovations and Traditions But wilt thou that I tell thee at one word that they are they are Wolves Tyrants Traytors Man-quellers monsters of the World burthens of the Earth the Apostles of Antichrist to corrupt and destroy the Gospel And therefore it is the part and duty of all Christian men with the word of God to destroy and pluck up by the roots them and their Kingdom which our heavenly Father hath not planted who by their Tyranny destroy the Gospel Institutions of Christ to establish their own Institutions so that if there be any Christianity in our minds and breasts we ought saith he to speak unto the King for a Reformation Thus he and much more to this purpose See Mr. Prynns Book of the execrable Treasons Conspiracies and Rebellions of Prelates pag. 389 390 394. William Wroughton William Wroughton in his rescuing of the Roman Fox dedicated to King Hen. 8. We have saith he put down some of the Orders of the World there remains yet two viz. the pompous Bishops and the dependants thereon and the gray Fryers which if they were put down also as well as the other I reckon that there would not be any Kingdom wherein Christ would more reign than in England and there he proves at large the Prelates Canon Law to be the Popes Law and that so long as the Bishops maintain it in England they maintain the Pope in his Soveraignty and Legislative power in England Thus and more to the same purpose Roderick Morce To the very same purpose Roderick Morce in his Complaint to the Parliament the 37 of Hen. 8. writes thus The whole Body of the pestiferous Canon Law according to which Judgement is given through the Realm so that we are still in Egyptian bondage to the Popes Law And so long as ye walk in those wicked Laws of Antichrist the Pope and maintain his Knights the Bishops in such inordinate riches and unlawfull Authority so long ye shall never banish that monstrous beast the Pope out of England yea and it shall be a means saith he in process of time to bring us into bondage to the Pope again and that knows our forked Caps full well meaning Mitres Wherefore if you will banish the Pope you must fell down to the ground these rotten posts the Bishops c. And in another place he said that one Bishop one Dean or Colledge or House of Canons hath ever done more mischief than ten other Religious Houses The King saith he hath done well in weeding the Garden of England but yet he hath left the fowlest stinking weeds standing the pompous Bishops Canons of Colledges and Deans c. But now saith he I will speak no more against the particular Pope seeing every Bishop now is a Pope Martin Bucer Martin Bucer professors of Divinity in Cambridge writ to King Edward the sixth that the reformation of the Church could never be expected from the Bishops and said that the wealth of Princes which ought to be bestowed upon faithful Ministers upon Schools and upon the Poor the Prelates sacraligiously spend it in ryot and