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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

a famous Canonist concludeth that a Doctor allowed may be disallowed again yea rather saith Bartol a famous Civilian he may be degraded as a Souldier Bartol and as a Clerk for those things saith he which I have spoken in degrading of a Souldier the same is to be verified touching the degrading of Doctors and Clerks Herenius Modestimus Hereneus Modestimus said that a Senator was not therefore a Senator because his name only was in the Table or Regester where the names of Senators was written unless he also were made a Senator according to Law and the gloss upon that Law verifieth the same to be an argument against those who are not rightly placed in the Churches and it is manifest that none of our Bishops nor Prelates accord to their titles and jurisdictions are rightly placed in the Churches of Christ because they are not of the institution of Christ as themselves do confess both Protestants and Papists and also not having the Seal of divine approbation upon them they are not rightly placed in Churches nor are not lawful Ministers of Jesus Christ according to his holy institution in truth but only in name but in real truth they are the Ministers of Antechrist the Pope for their titles and jurisdictions is of the Popes Hierarchical institutions they cannot deny it and therefore it is a work of mercy to their souls to unlord them and being them into the right way to imitate Christ and his Apostles by taking the temporallties and tythes from them as once an Emperour said and did That which we unadvisedly have done we will advisedly revolve and undo And Prelates to excuse their tyrany pretend decency in imposing their unnecessary Ceremonies upon the People but let it be considered whether the people who are turned unto God and endeavour to observe the rules of Christ rather than the rules of men or the Prelates who have forsaken the rules of Christ as appears above all along to imbrace and follow the rules and devices of Men let wise men judge which of these walk most undecently and let Bishops consider and examine themselves whether there robbing the Poor and murthering of Souls by granting dispensations to none residence and in giving pluralities be not an undecent walking can any but those whose Consciences are seared count these and Covetousness Pride hypocrisie ambition hatred mallice and revenge decent and comely in themselves and the endeavouring to observe the rules of Christ to be uncomely and undecent in others if Bishops and Prelates would first reform themselves and take the beam out of their own eyes or if the King and Nobles would compel them to a reformation according to the word of God then what the people were required to do that is decent and comly according to the word of God they would readily obey provided as Paul saith they cast not a snare upon them but for that which is comly 1 Cor. 7.35 But now our Bishops take as much upon them as the Pope viz. to make nothing something and to make the rules and institutions of Christ which is something nothing in respect of their own traditions and Canons and to make nothing somthing that is to make their own Canons and traditions c. which are nothing in comparison of the word of God to set them above the word of God and punisheth the transgressors thereof with sorer punishments than the transgressors of the word of God and thus they make their nothing something and Christs something nothing And thus they make sin to be no sin and no sin to be sin by their unjust Laws and their disobedience to the Laws and institutions of Iesus Christ may not God justly complain as once he did of Israel they have defiled the Land by their own way and by their doings their way is before me as the uncleanness of a removed Woman Ezek. 36.17 and chap 22.13 I have smitten my hand at thy dishmest gain which thou hast made there is a conspiracy of her Prophets like roaring Lyons ravening the Prey they have devoured Souls they have taken the Treasure and pretious things can our Prelates think that God will not thus charge them who have taken the treasure of the Church from those who are the true Church indeed and from Widows fatherless and other poor that should be releived with that treasure it follows her Priests have violated my Law as you see in this page above they have prophaned mine holy things they have put no difference between the holy and prophane neither have shewed difference between the unclean and the clean except it be in countenancing the prophane and unclean and discountenancing the holy and the clean see the 25. and 26. vers Mr. Tindall Mr. Tindall an English Man and a Martyr in Flanders petitioned to King Hen. 8. to have compassion on his Subjects that the Realm should not utterly perish through the wicked counsel of his pestilent Prelates for saith he the cause of false Preachers is the cause that the people have not love to the truth being kept ignorant of the truth through their neglect in not preaching the truth Mr. Hookers Episcopus Divinus Mr. Hooker in the second part of his Survey of Church disciplin page 23. he saith Episcopus is threefold Divinus Humanus Satanicus First a Bishop by divine Institution is such an Officer as Christ hath set in his Church whose Office is set forth and discovered in the word of God and such are Pastors and Doctors and Teachers Tit. ● 7. and 1 Tim. 5.17 Episcopus and Presbyter is one thing in Scripture sence Episcopus Humanus Secondly Episcopus Humanus is a president or moderator chosen by consent of Ministers meeting and consulting about the affairs of their Churches in their common consociations to whom it appertaineth to moderate the actions of the assembly to propound things to be agitated to gather voices to pronounce the Sentence which passeth by common approbation and he had no more but his equal suffrage with the rest and when the action was ended he was but in equal honour with the rest and it may be in less respect in regard of years or gifts and yet to leave this constantly upon one man it is perillous and might be an inlet to worse inconveniences than at first could have been suspected Episcopus Satanicus Thirdly Episcopus Satanicus is such an Episcopus which the enemy Satan acting the Pride and suiting the Soveraignity of the Spirits of men hath by a misterous way successively and secretly brought into the Church that so he might Midwife Antechrist into the world this being the next step to that man of sin and he becomes Princepe Episcopus who by his Insolencie hath arrogated and assumed and at last confirmed even a Monarchicall power unto himself and however the Pope who is Universal Bishop is the man of sin yet the Bishop especially when he is ascended to his Arch Bishops Chair is the same but only considered in

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