Lordly Prelates aunciently yea lately done or endeavoured at least to doe the like in Germany France that I say not in England too Their chiefe practise 〈◊〉 allwayes beeâ—…e to aliâ—…nate subjects affectiens from their Kings by putting them upon unjust Taxes 〈◊〉 Projects Monopolies oppressions Inâ—…ations by giving them evill counsell by â—…opping the course of lawes of common Right and Iustice of the preaching power and progresse of the Cospell by advancing Idolatry popery 〈◊〉 with their owne intollerable 〈◊〉 and Lordly iurisdiction by fathering all their unjust 〈◊〉 uâ—…on Kings c. and on the contrary to estrange the Kiâ—…gs hearts â—…om their Subjects by false Calumnies by sedicious Court-Sermons and by infusing jealousies and discontâ—…nts into their heads and hearts against their best and loyallest Subjects without a cause A divellish practise never more used then in these our dayes 29. Satan will not bee devided against Satan for feare his Kingdoâ—…e should not stand Math. 12. 10. So these Lordly Prelates wil never be devided one against another in point of their Antichristian Iurisdiction Pompe and Hierarchie which they all concurre iâ—… though they have oft many deadly personall and particular fendes one with another nor yet against the Pope or Devells Kingdoâ—…s for then their oâ—…ne kingdome a branch and meâ—…ber of the Pâ—…pes and divells as many of our godly Mâ—…rtyrs and Writers have resoâ—…ved should soone fall to ruine 30. The divell that Red-Dragon had seven crownes upon his head Revel 12. 3. to shew his royall power So have the Popes and other Prelates Crownes and Miters oâ—… their pates to testify their royalty and Lordly doâ—…inion over Kings and others as they vaunted in D. Baâ—…twicks Censure 31. The Divell had a seate and Throne in the Church of Pergamus wherein hee sate in state Revel 2. 13. So have the Prelates in their Cathedralls and Chappell 's as they then also boasted yea their great Cathedralls are but châ—…ires for these great two legged Foxes Lordly tayles to sit in 〈◊〉 a lesser meaner Chayre did then câ—…ntent the divell who now sits in greater state and is farre better served and attended in our Cathedrals then ever hee was in the Church of Pergaâ—…us 32. The divell that Red-Drogon with his tayle drew the third part of the Starres from heaven and cast them to the earth Revel 12. 4. So have Lordly Prelates the tayle of that fell Dragon anciently and of late times swept downe the third part or more of our starres to wit of all our faithfull powerful painâ—…full zealous Ministers fâ—…om heaven to wit from their Pulpits and â—…hurches and by their suspensions excommunications imprisonments deprivations suppressing of Lectures persecutions c. have cast them to the ground nay trampled them under their dragon-like pawes depriving them of their office and Benefices thereby robbing God and Christ of the glory the poore peoples soules of the fruit and comfort of their Ministry to their greatest griefe 33. This greate Red Dragon the divell stoode before the Woman the Church which was reddy to be delivered of a man-childe for to devoure her Childe her spirituall regenerate Children as soone as it was borne Rev. 12. 4 5. Thus those Lordly Prelates doe No sooner can the Church be reddy to be delivered of a man-childe of a godly faithfull Pastor new Minister or zealous Christian but these great redd scarlet Dragons wâ—…o can suffer dumbe Dogges deboist licentious dissolute drunken scandalous Ministers and supersticious Popelings to sit still and doe what they list without danger or countroll are at hand like Pâ—…aroah and the divell to devoure silence suppresse persâ—…cute and destroy thâ—…m as sâ—…one as they are borne or â—…ginne but once publiquely to appeare in the world as experience too well â—…ifieth in most places where a godly Minister or Christian can no sooner shew his head or beginne to doe God faithfull service but they presently lay trappes and snares to hamper or send Apparitors Pursevants with such other Hellish Furies to seize upon them that so their Lordships may swallow them all up at a bit Yea if any good Booke shall beginne to peepe out against their tyranny Prelacy and Innovations Howses Shipps Studdies Trunks and Cabinets must be broken up and ransacked for them Such ravenous redâ—… Furious Dragons are they and such open wide Sepulchers are their devoâ—…ring throates to swallow 〈◊〉 all things that any way make against them 34. This Dragon and his Angells make ware in heaven fiâ—…hting with Michaell to wit our Saviour Christ and his Angells Rev. 12. 7. Soe the Lordly Prelates and their Angells To wit their Deanes Arch-deacons Officialls Chauncellors Commissaries Surragates Advocates Proctors Registers Pursevanst Sumâ—…ers Apparitors Howshold Chaplaynes too for the most part have in al ages to this very moment made warre in heaven Gods Church militant with Christ and his Angells To wit his faithfull poâ—…erfull godly Ministers Preachers Saints and Servants as all Histories ages witnesse And now this Battaile seemes to be at the hottest here amongst us More godly Ministers hâ—…ving been silenced suspended deprived driven from their Ministry chased out of the Realme within these 5. yeares though conformable to the established doctrine and discipline of our Church then in many ages before 35. When the divell coâ—…es downe among the inhabitants of the earth and of the Sea then woe be to them Rev. 12. 12. Soe woe be to the kingdomes Churches and people where Lord Prelates come and beare most sway amongst them witnesse our Booke of Martyrs and Chronicles of England to these Diocesse wherein they domineere Witnesse Norwich Diocesse and others at this present 36. When this Dragon and the Divell was cast out to the earth he persecuted the Woman the true Church of God Rev. 12. 13. So have these Lord Prelates in all ages as the Bookes of Martyres record at large since they were cast out of heaven Christs true spirituall Church for their Lordly pride 37. When the Dragon saw the Woman had such swift winges given her that Shee escaped his hands and fledd into the wildernesse out of his reach and danger where Shee was nourished for a time then he cast out of his mouth a floud of water after her to devoure drowne her Rev. 12. 14 15 16. So these Lord Prelates when any godly Ministers or Christians have escaped their Lordships their Apparitors Pursevants or other Cathpoles hands by flight or otherwise power out of their mouthes a floud of Execrations Excommunications Intimations Suspensions Maledictions reproaches obloquies and outragious Censures against them to devoure and over whelme them Yea Excommunications with agravations that no man shall buy sell trade eate drinke or have any conversation with them An Hellish Antichristian tyranny lately practised and revived against all lawes and Statutes of the Realme against 4. men in Norwich Only for not bowing at the name of Iesus and against Mr. Samuell Burrowes of Colchester for Indicting Parson Newman for enforcing the
26. l. 7. fends r. feudes p. 29. l. 25. Newman r. Nucoman p. 30. l. 25. ods p. 33. l. 37. Altars p. 34 l. 13. cease p. 37. l. 30. have p. 39. l. 28. Postils p. 40. l. 15. strumpet p. 41. l. 1. haunt r saunt l. 12. Gor. r Gee l. 16. hung l. 19. home p. 42. l. 9. them r. then p. 44. l. 15. 29 set up p. 46. l. 8. committing p. 47. l. 3. power r. Boner p. 48. l. 15. their expunging p. 51. l. 27. presents eate r. persecute rate p. 52. l. 2. drinke r. drunken p. 55. l. 28. memorable p. 56. l. 25. this for any answer of bisp 59. l. 16. Cant. 〈◊〉 Court p. 62. l. 13. Kings r. 〈◊〉 l. 23. condemne p. 63. l. 8. Thou r. then p. 64. l. 2. r. upon one Crosse but the Bishops nayle him againe unto p. 66. l. 13. Archbishops l. 19. to be p. 67. l. 11. bedde l. 22. grace r. yeare p. 83. l. 6. obedient apparant l. 13. Tipes r. texts l. 27. friends r feindes p. 80. l. 9. bletout the. l. 30. early r. rarely p. 87. l. 10 deaths p. 79. l. 22. no doubt p. 80. l. 8. enrich l. 28. pompe p. 89. l. 26. r walke directly p. 97. l. 5. for r. fore p. 92. l. 23. c. and. p. 96. l. 10. money r. many l 12. illegall l. 15. wofull l. 19. which of r. whether p. 97. l. 20. Occupie 98. l. 10. thus r. there l. 11. birelings l. 9. blot out are l. 13. humble r. tremble p. 100. l. 14. or r. 2. 101. l. 18. beats r. brats p. 102. 1. his r. this p. 103. l 5. insteed r. infested l. 13. been r. beire l. 22. 1 beseech In the Margine P. 9. l. 5. r. 414 p. 82. l. 3. 9. sublimiori columnae p. 97. l. 24. p. 14. this is omitted A LOOKING-GLASSE For all LORDLY PRELATES THERE is nothing now more rife in the mouthes of many great domineering Lordly Prelates then that their Lordly Episcopall Iurisdiction Pompe and Soveraignty is of divine Institution and that their Sacred Lordships are undoubted Sonnes Successors heires of Christ and his Apostles Which men might well enough believe did not their lives and actions most apparantly contradict these their ambicious windy words But if men may judge of a Tree by the fruits as our Saviour concludes they may Math. 7. 16. or of mens true Fathers and Pedigrees by their works as hee also resolves Iohn 8. 44. I hope these arrogant lofty Prelates will not bee offended with me if I make it apparant to them and others by their fruites and workes that they are so farre from being the Sons or Successors of Christ and his Apostles or of divine Institution that they are of their Father the Divell for his workes and lusts they doe the successors from the Iewish high Priests who crucified our Saviour Persecuted silenced imprisoned excommunicated his Apostles And so of Diabolicall ordination not Divine This I shall plainely and briefely demonstrate in two distinct Parallers The first betweene the Divell and Lordly Prelates The second betweene the Iewish high Priests and them The 1. Parallel betweene the Divell and Lordly Prelates 1. First the Divell for his condition and quality is an Apostate Angell who kept not his first estate and 〈◊〉 and abode not in the truth Iude 6. Iohn 8. 44. Such are all Lordly Prelates and Bishops both by their own exposition of Rev. 2. 1. 5. 6. Where they interpret the Apostate Angell of the Church of Ephesus to bee the Lord-Bishop of that Church alledging this Text as the principall Scripture to prove their Hierarchie of Divine Institution and by common experience For as Lord Bishops are fallen from the pietie holinesse humility poverty zeale meekenesse laboriousnesse heavenly mindednesse charity and equallity with other Ministers that was in the true Christian Bishops of the Primitive Church and now openly avow the Popish and Arminian Doctrine of The Totall and Finall Apostacy of the Saints from grace So most of them being made Lord Bishops to prove this doctrine of Apostacy true by their practise fall away from the pietie zeale holinesse meekenesfe diligence frequency in preaching and most other vertues which they had or used in verity or pretence before they were made Bishops in case they had any vertue or goodnesse in them before of which too many of them were never guiltie and become farre worse Christians â—…arre greater Persecutors and enemies to God his truth his people and more unholy covetoâ—…s lasie vicious in their lives then ever they were before as all histories and experience manifest beyond all contradiction And how many of our present Lord Prelates are turned open Apostates from the established doctrine and discipline of this Church of England to Poperie Arminianisme and Romish superstition and all the zeale the honesty the piety and goodnesse they had or seemed onely to have before they were Lord Bishops I leave to every mans experience to determine some of the best of them being so strangely warped of late that it made a great Popish learned Lord confesse openly at the Table this last summer That if ever hee altered â—…is Religion hee would turne Puritan for Puritans saith hee are constant to their owne Religion and Tenets but the Bishops so fable and wavering with the times that wee know not where to have them such Apostate Angels are they Secondly the Divell is an uncleane spirit void of holinesse full of all filthinesse and impiety and is hardly â—…ast out of those he once possesseth Math. 10. 1. 6. 12. 43. Marke 1. 23 26 27. c. 5. 2. 8. c. 7. 25. Luke 4. 33. 36. c. 6. 18. Acts 8. 7. Such are most Lordly Prelates in all respects witnesse their uâ—…cleane profane voluptuous impious godlesse lives and actions in all ages Of which all histories stincke and surfet to omit the present filthinâ—…sse of many of them And how hard they are to be cast out where once they get but footing our owne histories and instant experience too well demonstrate Thirdly the Divell is a dumbe and deafe spirit making some mâ—…n dumbe yet never any Preachers that I read of except Prelates or thosâ—… that â—…ould be such dâ—…b that they cannot speake and othâ—…s 〈◊〉 that they cannot hâ—…re till Christ dispossessed them of these Divells Marke 9. 17 25. Luke 11. 14. Such are Lordly Prelates for the most part they are not only dâ—…be themselves very seldome or never preaching in their Diocesse or opening their moâ—…thes in the Pulpit to teach the people whom they ofâ—…er bite and â—…eare with their teeths then instruct with their toungues And also deafe in turning the deafe care to the cries petitions and lamentable complaints of those many godly faithfull painfull Ministers and people now most injuriously oppressed persecuted silenced imprisoned vexed ruined and deprived by them both of the fooâ—… of their soules bodies such inexorable mercilesse deafe Devils are they to
people up to his new rayle to receive 38. The divell if stoutly and manfully resisted will flie from us ever raging like a coward over those with greatest extremity that make the least resistance 1 Pet. 5. 9. Iames 4. 7. Thus doe these Lordly Prelates where they are stoutly and manfully withstood in their tyrannicall exorbitant procedings vsurpations and incroachments by men of courage there they for the most part flie giue over these ever fareing best that most manfully oppugne them Where they are crowched bowed and basely submitted to or faintly resisted or not opposed as late experience too well manifesteth there they rage tyrannize triumph most and make strange havock in the Church Yf Ministers or people then will ever be free from the tvranny bondage insolency rage or desperate oppressions the unjust illegall Excommunications Suspentions exacted Fees Visitation Oathes Articles Ceremonies Innouations Citations Procedings of these outragious divells made in their owne names and rights alone under their propper Seales without any Patent or Commission from his Majesties authorizing them Contrary to the expresse Statutes of 25. H. 8. c. 19 20 21. 26. H. 8. c. 1. 27. H. 8. c. 15. 31. H. 8. c. 9 10. 32. H. 8. c. 26. 37. H. 8. c. 17. 1. Ed. 6. c. 2. 1 El. c. 1. 2. 5. El. c. 1. 8. El. c. 1. 13. El. c. 12. or from their high Cō nission ex officio Oathes Pursevants imprisonments and Fines contrary to Magna Carta c. 29. the Petition of Right 1 Eliz c. 1. on which their commission is grounded 3 ◅oli and the Lawes and Statutes of the Realme as their very last High Commission it selfe expressely resolves and therefore add a non obstante these their ex officio oathes imprisonments fines and censures bee contrary to the Lawes and Statutes of the Realme Such is the Prelates Iustice conscience piety fatherly charity and obedience to his Majesties Lawes to foist such a desperate Papall non obstante into their High Commission Let then them manfully couragiously unanimously resist and withstand them to the uttermost of their power by all just warrantable lawfull meanes that may bee as loyalty to their King Countrey Charity to themselves and their posterity and Conscience towards God enioyne them and then these base-borne ignoble cowardly mushrom Lords and divells animated flushed enraged only by mens former cowardise faint-hartednesse and strange unchristian sordid basenesse will flee away shortly from them and never assault or oppresse them more in such a tyrannicall uniust illegall manner as they have lately done as Phil 1. 27. Iam. 4. 7. resolve and certifie us for comfort and encouragement 39. There is and hath been from the fall of Adam to this present a bitter perpetuall implacable enmity and warre betweene the old Serpent the divell and his feed and Christ the seede of the Woman his Church and her seed the elect and regenerate Saints of God Genes 3. 15. So hath there beene betweene the Lordly Prelates their officers spawne and generation and Christ and his true spirituall seede and faithfull members even from their first originall till this present witnesse the desperate enmity the implacable malice and horrid cruelty of the ancient Lordly Arrian Court-Bishops towards the orthodox Christians of old Of the Popes and popish Prelates to the true Ministers Professors of the Gospell and Protestants and of the ceremonious pompous Lordly English Lord Prelates towardes the Puritans and Precisians as they nickname them the powerfull painefull zealous godly Preachers Ministers and Christians since Of all which our Bookes of Martyrs with other Ecclesiasticall Histories and late Treatises give ample testimony which present experience cannot but subscribe to 40. The divell is a malicious malignant spirit whose malice is never satisfied ended mittigated or appeased but with the ruine of the parties maligned as appeares in Iob. 1. 13. to 22. c. 2. 1. to 8 Where he could not be satisfied with the destruction of Iobs Children Oxen Asses Sheepe Camells Servants and estate but he would have had his life too and when that could not be obtayned Yet he would torment his body with sore painefull boiles from the Crowne of his head to the sole of his foote So Lordly Prelates malice and rankor against Gods faithfull Ministers is endlesse boundlesse implacable they cannot be content to vex molest and trouble them with causelesse suites vnlesse they silence stop their mouthes when that is done they are never quiet till they have quite deprived them of their livings and Ministry stripped them of all their lively-hood cast them into some nasty Prison or bannished them the Realme When this is acco◅plished Yet is not their rage abated nor their malice extinguished euen in Prison they will keep an hard hand against them use them with all de◅pit and rigor depriue them as much as may be of all releife resort and comfort seeke out new occasions to vex and persecute them But if perchance they escape beyond the Seas and get out of their clutches then they persecute them as the high Preists did the primitive Christians euen into strange Cities and Countries Acts 26. 11. raising up fresh troubles and stormes against them by their Catholike agents even there to destroy them as they did against Mr. Tindall and other Martyres of olde and against some of our godly Ministers of late being never at rest or peace till they have either sucked their bloud or seene them dead in their graves A truth too apparant by many present Examples fresh before our eyes 41. The divill hath his Angells his Ministring spirits and spirituall Sonnes to doe his service advance his kingdome and execute his Commandements Math. 25. 41. Iohn 6. 70. c. 8. 44. 1. Iohn 3. 8. 10. Yea to perswade men to worship the divill and Idolls of gold and silver and brasse and stone and of wood which neither can se nor heare nor walke Rev. 9. 20. Math. 4. 8. 9 10. Luke 4. 5 6 7. 1. Kings 22. 28 29 30. So have Lordly Prelates their Angells their spirituall Sonnes and Ministring spirits to execute their severall Injunctions Commandments Their Angells To wit their howshold Chaplaines now knowne Apostate Angells from their first faith love and workes and their spirituall Sonnes To wit their Preists serving at their ◅ew erected Altars as themselves now pray write and preach who now call themselves the Sonnes of the Church to wit of the Bishops who like an Oven heated by the Baker send out nothing but black fiery Coales from the Altar with which their owne tongues and others lips being touched by these greate Seraphins Commandments according to their usuall formes of prayer before their Sermons insteed of crying out against the Idolatrous Altlas of Bethell as the man of God once did by Gods speciall Commandment in the very presence of K. Ieroboam 1. King 13. 2 3 4. they doe nothing else but preach and cry out for Altars setting up of Altars Images
them as enemies to Caesar as factious sedicious pestilent fellowes and tell them Yf they let them goe they are not Caesar the Kings or Churches friends Yea when any time of grace release or Pardon comes they can and doe perswade Kings and temporall Magistrates to pordon and release Barrabas theeues murtherers whores bawdes Preists Iesuites Adulterers drunkards and all other notorious malefactors but yet Iesus his innocent Saints and servants must have no grace at all no mercy enlargment grace or justice but be imprisoned ruined molested destroyed and by this meanes at last they most vnjustly Crucify vex and ruine these pure innocent Saints of Christ as they did Christ himselse Aâ—… whizh our Booke of Martyrs and dayly experience witnesse to the full in each particular yea many of our present Prelates doe as much as in them lieth to crucfiy Christ himselfe and that in a farre more barbarous manner then ever the Iewes did For First they crucified and set him only unto many Crosses 2. The Iewes crucified him but once they oft times one after another 3. They kept him no longer on the Crosse then till he was dead upon it then gaue Ioseph of Aramathea leave to take him downe beseeching Pilate that he might not hange thereon till the next day Iohn 19. Our Lord Prelates keepe him allwayes hanging before their eyes on the Crosse and never take him downe as if he had still continued on his Crosse till now and never been taken off buried raysed againe from the dead and carried into heauen And why so I pray First to shew their cruell and bloudy disposition it being their daily practise to crucify Christ in his Image and Saints which makes them so much in love with the sight of the Crucifix 2. To maâ—…st themselues to be the high Preist vndoubted Successors who crucified Christ. 3. To testify that they delight so much in the picture of Christs death as they haue no care nor thought at all to imitate him in his paynefull preaching life 4. To manifest to all men that if Christ were now a live in the flesh they would as certainely crucify him againe as the high Preists did 5. To tax the Sacraâ—…nt of the Lords Supper Scriptures of much imperâ—…ction as if they were not sufficient to shewe forth Christ death till he came without this additament of a Crucifix to their Dull Lordships who seldome receive the one or seriously meditate of preach the other 6. To manifest that they desire not to have Christ to liue ruleas a King or supreame living Lord in his owne Church which he canot do as long as he hangs as a dead manon his Crosse that so they themselues may Lord it and rule Christs Church at their owne pleasures according to their owne Canons Lusts and pleasures not his word as the Iewish high Preists did 7. To testify that their Lordships thinke there is litle neede to preach Christ crucified that a dumbe blinde painted Crucifix is a farre better preacher of Christ and his death then their Lordships And if so what neede of Bishops or Preachers when we may haue store of Crucifixes at a farre cheaper rate 18. Finally soâ—…e of the Iewes high Preists were rebells and traytors to their Soueraignes as Abiâ—…thar was to Solomon who there upon depriued him of his office but spared his life though he deserued death 1. Kings 1. 7. c. 2. 26. 27. So many hundred LOrd Prelates in forraigne partes and aboue 60. of our owne here at some Especially the Arch-Bishop of Canterbery Yorke haue bene notorious Arch-Traytors Conspirators Rebells too against their Soueraignes Especially those Emperors and Kings who haue most fauored magnified and advanced their secular greatenesse pompe and power A just Iudgment of God upon them for aduancing these Prelates be Lords and temporall Princes against Christs owne precept Math. 20. 25. and I pray God all of them be now faithfull to their Kings and Soveraignes which I have cause to feare In all these regards then you see how the Iewish high Preists and Lordly Prelates are direct Parallels and so in verity their vndoubted Successors one mayne argument and pretence to support their Lordly Hierarchie over their Brethren being deduced from the high Preists example The disparity or Antithesis betweene Christs and Lord Prelates IF any now in these Prelates behalfe replie that they are of our Sauiour Christs owne institution his true Disciples Sonnes and followers not the divells as the First Paralell manifests them To disprove this Cavill let them a little consider the Antipathie or disparity betweene our Saviour Christ and them in these ensuing particulars First our Saviour Christ was so poore that hee had not so much as an house or kedde of his own whereon to rest his head Math. 8. 20. Our Lord Prelates though in regard of their birthes for the most part very like our Saviour borne in a stable or some poore Obscure Cottage yet when once they become Lord Bishops they have many Manfions Palaces and stately princely habitations wherein they wallow take their pleasure as if they were borne Prelates or Princes and yet not content therewith they still complaine their are poore Prelates craving and hunting after farre more farre greater Possessions though not borne heires to one farthing by the grace nor demeriting halfe so much for their paines or preaching at the poorest ten-pound Curate in their Diocesse Secondly Our Saviour Christ had but one poore threed-bare-Coate without a seame woven from toe to toe for which the Soldiers cast lots Math. 27. 35. Iohn 19. 23. 24. 〈◊〉 Iohn Baptist the greatest Prophet that euer was borne of a Woman hath his 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 of Camels haire not silke or satin and a leatherne not a brave great silken girdle about his loynes Math. 3. 4. Oâ—…r Lordly Prelates have many silken sattin scarlet Gâ—…nes câ—…ssockes robes coapes rochets hoodes patched up with â—…any seaâ—…es and piebalde colours with many new inuented Pontificall vestments disguise and quadrangular caâ—…s and â—…rinkets peculiar to their Holinesses which poâ—…re Câ—…rist never wore saw knew or dream'te of and would have certainly disdained to looke on much more to weare being as unseemely for as displeasing to him as the purple scarlet â—…obe and Crowne of Thornes that the Soldiers violently put upon him in derifiâ—… when they mocked and Crucified him Thirdly Our Saviour Christ had but course farre and hard diet for himselfe and his Apostles and Guests to wit a few barly loâ—…ves and some small fishes â—…or the most part served in on the bare ground it being his chiefest meate drinke to doe his Fathers will and to finish his worke Iohn 4. 31. 34 c. 6. 5. to 15. Math. 14. 17. to 22. c. 15. 34. to 38. c. 16. 9. 10. Iohn 21. 9. 10. 13 Yea great Iohn Baptists ordiâ—…y food was nought else but Locusts and wild hony Mith. 3. 4. Our Lordly Prelates have all variety of costly 〈◊〉 cates iunkets
that vow they made to God in Baptisme to forsake the divell and all his workes the vayne pompe glory of the world with all covetous desires of the same and al carnall desires of the flesh so that they will â—…ot follow nor be ledd by them and that 〈◊〉 of St. Iohn 1. Iohn 2. 15 16. Love not the world nor the things of the world if any man love the worâ—…d the love of the Father is not in him For all that is in the world the lust of the flesh the lust of the eye and pride of life is not of the Father but is of the world intangle themselves in worldly secular state affaires and offâ—…s become Lords Tâ—…mporall insteed of Spirituall â—…meddle with all 〈◊〉 affaires hunt after the Kingdomes goverment honour pompe state and pleasures of this world with all greedinesse and diligence iâ—…steed of preaching the Gospell and converting soules to God ingâ—…sse all power and temporall Iurisdiction into their hands smite with both swords at once like madde-men on every side and though they pretend their Lordly calling to bee of God yâ—…t they and it are plainely of this world and â—…ot oâ—… Christ as their actions manifest 21. Câ—…rist both 〈◊〉 and administred the Sacrament to his disciples in his ordinary apparell sitting at a Table and that standing in the midst of the â—…me Math. 26. 26 27 28 29. Marâ—… 14. 18. 22 23 24. Luke 22. 14. to 21. Iâ—…n 13. 4. 25. 28. â—…or 10. 21. c. 11. 23 24 25. Yea when he sent abroad his disciples to preach he sent them in their usuall 〈◊〉 expressely â—…hibiting them to provide them either silver or gold in their purses or to take or weare two Coates Math. 10. 9. 10. Marke 8. 8 9. Luke 9. 3 4 5 c. 10. 4. Therefore certainely they wore no cassâ—…cks hoods gownes coates or surpluses alias surplusages or rochets on their backs or any such new Massing masking vestments as our Prelates have since invented and prescribed under the severest penalties for Ministers to preach to administer the Sacraments and read their divine Service in our Lord Prelates when they preach or administer the Sacrament themselves or by others preach and adâ—…inister it in their Pontificalibus coapes surplusses hoods cassocks gownes rochets with other disguized extraordinary apparell Yea they administer the Lords Supper in these holy vestments only at an Altar standing at the East wall not a Table in the midst of the Qâ—…ire as of of old commanding all to receive the Sacrament of Christs Supper kneeling not sitting and why not Baptisme then as well as it the betrer to adore the Eucharist condemning Christs and the Apostles gesture of sitting as irreverend unmannerly and undecent adoring the very Altar and bowing to it even to the ground when as they have the consecrated Bread Wine in their hands as if it were more honorable and worshipfull then that for which they say they bow unto it All which antichristian Popish vestments ceremonies and â—…opperies Thomâ—…s Becan hath learnedly refuted in his display of the Popish Masse to which I shall referre you only I shall answer a Scripture or two which they alledge for their white rochets and surplesses To wit Revel 3 4 5. 18. c. 6. 11. c. 7. 9. 13. c. 19. 11. Where the Saints and Martyrs are said to be clothed in white linnen robes Therefore Bishops ought toweare white rechets and Ministers white surplesses A learned argument if well prosecuted 1. For these white linnen robes and garments mentioned in these Texts were no rochets or surplesses as these fond men dreame but the spotlesse white robes of Christs owne merits and innocency wherewith these Saints who had put on the Lord Iesus Christ and made their robes white in his precious bloud were inuested as is obedient by Rev. 19. 18. c. 3. 18. 4. 5. c. 7. 13. 14. compared with Pom. 13. 14. Ephes. 5. 26 27. which kinde kinde of sacred white rochet or surplesse few Lord Prelates ever yet wore upon their backes oâ—… gownâ—… eves 2. These white robes were not worne only by Bishops Ministers Clergie Cathedrall men as rochets and surplesses are but by all the Saints and Martirs of Christ alike Yf these Tipes then prove any thinge it is only this That all men ought to weare rochets and surplesses not Bishops and Church men only 3. These white robes were their ordinary daylie garments which they never put of upon any occasion no not when they rode in â—…riumph upon white horses â—…ev 19. 14. Therefore no argument foâ—… rochets and surplesses whâ—…ch are put on only upon speciall occasions and not ever worne as ordinary apparell These Lordly Prelates perscribing only blacke gownes and garments wearing none but such out of the Church and their supplisses rochets to testify their spotlesse purity and holinesse for the most part only in the Church to testify that they are only white Saints in shew whiles they are in the Church and Quier but blacke friendes and divells for the most part in all places else in theiâ—… lives and actions The true significant reason as I conceive why they weare white robes and rochets only in the Church in time of diuine services where they commonly leave and put them off with all their seeming purity and holinesses with their surplesses but black coates vestments under them and in all places else A thing worthy observation 4. These robes were not worne by these or the Martyrs on earth whiles they lived but put upon them in heaven after they were dead Therfore no argument for but against the wearing of rochets and surplesses here 5. The Disciples and Apostles when they were sent to preach had câ—…rtainely but oâ—…e Coate and garment on the them and that vndoubtedly no white rochet nor surpâ—…esse These Scriptures therefore make nothing for both or either of them 6. These Saints are said to ride upon white horses only and in these their white linnen garments Revel 19. 14. I may therefore better argue hence That Bishops and Ministers ought ever to ride upon white hoâ—…ses and no other and that in their rochets and surplesses not thâ—…ir Canonicall coates cloakes or halfe-gownes then they thence infâ—…r That they ought to preach read prayers in their surplesses But of these surplesages enough and too much I proceed 22. Christ professeth of himselfe that he came into the world of purpose for to preach the Gospell Mark 1. 38. Luke 4. 18. Lord Prelates professe that they were not ordayned Lords or Bishops to preach Gods Word but to rule governe and Lord it over their fellow Brethren and their diocesse 23. Our Saviour Christ maketh continuall prayer intercession to his Father for all his chosen people Rom. 8. 34. Heb. 7. 25. Our Lord Prelates as they seldome preach so they earely or never contend earnestly or make intercâ—…ssion unto God in earnest hearty fervent prayer for their people that they may be saved and