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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

and the Holy Ghost Now as we received the Holy Ghost by hearing of Faith preached So this Spirit of God doth guide us into all truth by and according unto the Scripture And as the Holy Ghost is as I may so say § begotten in us by the Seed of Gods word Sown in our hearts though properly we are begotten again by the Holy Ghost so this Holy Ghost is as it were nourished and preserved in us by and through the word of God even as the light of the Lamp is nourished by the Oyle or as the breath goeth with the voyce or word spoken or as the blood hath its course in the veins or the vitall Spirits have their S●at in the heart or as the Animall Spirits in the braine when they are derived into all the parts of the body in the Arteries and veines so as all the members are thereby actuated and moved And as the Philosopher saith of naturall bodies * A'panta trephétas tois a●utois e'x o`pér e`isi All things are nourished by selfe same Substance whereof they are begotten or have their beginning or beeing So in a sort it may truly be said that as we begin Spiritually to live by the Holy Ghost through Faith by the Preaching of the word of God So this Holy Ghost in the severall graces and operations there of is preserved and as it were nourished in us by the continuall ministration of the food of the same word in our Soules Or in a word the Holy Ghost hath no operation in us either for instruction or illumination or consolation or corroboration of any Grace in our Soules but in and by or according to the word of God So as besides Gods written word there are no revelations of the Spirit to be expected in Gods true Church Secondly therefore the promise of the Holy Ghost to Christs true Church and Children succeeding the Apostles even to the end of the world is made good to all and every particular member of Christs Mysticall body whether Ministers or People so as in the matter of their faith and whatsoever appertains to their salvation they are by Christs Spirit guided into all truth being led by the rule and light of Gods word which to those that are in Christ never goes unaccompanied with the Holy Ghost For even as * so many as are led by the Spirit of God they are the Sons of God● So as If any man have not the Spirit of Christ the same is none of his So none are led by the Spirit of God but those that are led by the word of God And therefore as Christs Spirit dwells in all his so his ‡ Word also For these two are inseperable the Holy Ghost teaching us no other things but what we find written in the word of Christ To which purpose Christ saith When § the Spirit of Truth is come be will guide you into all truth for he shall not speake of himselfe but whatsoever he shall heare that shall he speake Now the whole Scripture is Christs word this the Holy Ghost receiving from Christ revealed to his Apostles or as Christ saith † brought to their remembrance and the Apostles commited those things to writing as the Holy Ghost directed them for our both instruction and remembrance So as if * any Speake not according to this word it is because there is no light in them Whatever Spirit men bragge of not indurcing the Law and Testimony of the Scripture it is without light a counterfet Spirit a lying spirit And this is that very Spirit of Antichrist and of his Prelates who to advance their own Canons and Decrees and to cry up their usurped Antichristian Authority in taking upon them to be the onely visible Iudges in matters of faith as * before we have noted of our Prelate of Cant● as if they had the Spirit of Infallibility and were the onely men of Gods Privy Counsell and the onely Privilegiats not to erre doe so much depresse vi●ifie and cry down the Authority and Sufficiencie of the Scripture as if it were a ‡ dumbe dead and blind Iu●ge having not so much light in it as is sufficient to demonstrate it to be the word of God but what it must be beholden to the Authority and Tradition of the present Prelaticall Church●or But ● ye blind Guides § To the Law and to the Testimony for while ye Speake not accordiag to this word but contrariwise blaspheme the same it is a manifest signe that there is neither light nor ‡ life in you Come we now to prosecute the remainder of the former particulars propounded the second generall whereof is the Practise of the Apostles as they were Ministers of the Gospell whose example all true Ministers imitating are said to be their true Successors And first of this Practise in regard of Doctrine to wit in their Ministy of the Word and Sacraments First for their Doctrine it was sound and sincere the very word of God which they preached with all diligence and good Conscience exhorting other Ministers also to the like diligence and faithfullnesse in preaching as 2 Tim● 4. 1 2. I charge thee therefore before God and the Lord Iesus Christ c. Preach the word be instant in season out of season c. Thus did the Apostles But doe our Prelates thus First do they preach diligently Are their Sermons any more then 2 or 3 Festivalls in the yeare And doe they preach sound Doctrine Nay as the Apostle there saith They will not indure sound doctrine they neither preach it themselves nor permit others And instead of exhorting Ministers to be diligent in preaching and teaching the people they flatly forbid them to preach so of●en as twice on the Sabbath or to expound the Catechisine for instructing the People Thus they are enemies of Gods word and so of the salvation of Gods people Are these men then Successors of the Apostles Againe for the two Sacraments the Apostles administred them duly according to ‡ Christs institution not varying one title from it they neither detracted any thing from i● nor added ought of their own inventions Now doth the Prelaticall Catholicke Church wherein that of England and of Rome are both one and the same and doe professe one and the same faith and Religion as our great Prelate saith noted before thus Now Romes detractions and additions we all know But what hath the Prelaticall Church of England done in this kind 1. Doe they not detract both from Christs institution and from the dignity of the Sacraments while they set dumb Priests no better then Masse-Priests to administer Doe they not detract from Baptisme while they doe as much debase it in comparison of the Lords Supper as they doe exalt this which they * call the Great Eucharist in comparison of that Do they not administer that neere the Belfrey or Church-door the lowest part of the Church as they estimate it

against Christ and so are all our Prelates as shall yet further appeare And this is truly and properly the Mystery of Iniquity In which respect the Turke and other profest Enemies of Christ and Christian Religion cannot come within the compasse of this Mystery of Iniquity and so cannot be full Antichrists because they doe gumme kephale openly without any vaile professe this Iniquity of being Adversaries to Christ And for the further application of this Mysterie of Iniquity to the Prelates we come to the third Proposition That What is spoken of the great Antichrist himselfe is spoken of all Prelates as members of the same Head or as so many inferiour antichrists though in themselves great enough Let us therefore see the properties of Antichrist here described by the Apostle First he is called That man of Sinne And this is Antichrist in two respects 1. in respect of himselfe as being carnall proud covetous ambitious voluptuous and a most malicious hater and most cruel persecuter of the Saints and Servants of Christ a proper Sinne of Antichrist● These Sinnes and Lusts are the proper Sinnes of a Prelate and common to every Prelate and especially those of the latter Stamp since Antichrist mounted aloft now for above 600. yeares yea a 1000. yeares from Boniface 3. Secondly Antichrist is that man of Sin in respect of others as being a prime instrument of causing others to Sin as by giving Indulgence Dispensation and Liberty to men to Sin and by suppressing the means whereby they should be kept from Sin The Pope is notorious for this And our Prelates come not farre behind him For they allow profane sports on the Lords day by which the 4th Commandement is broken and that to Servants and Ch●ldren so as their Parents and Masters may not restraine them which is a manifest breach of the Fift Commandement so as by this means many other Commandements are broken in committing many Sinnes Thus they both * breake the greatest Commandements and teach men so Againe instead of suppessing of sports they restraine and Suppresse the Preaching of Gods word whereby men should be kept from Sinne and learne to live soberly righteously and godly in this present world denying all ungodlinesse and worldly lusts Thus Antichrist is that man of Sinne Secondly Antichrist is called the Son of Perdition For as he is that man of Sinne so by consequence he is that Son of Perdition and that in both the foresaid respects as of Sinning so of Perishing for as he both Sins himselfe and causes others to Sin so he both perisheth himselfe and causeth others to perish as 2 Thess. 2. 10. And this is proper to the Pope in the first place whose necessity of perishing is such that himselfe confesseth an impossibility of amendment As is noted of Adrian 6. who said * That the condition of Popes was miserable seeing it was evident that they could not doe good though they desired and indeavoured it never so much And Pope ‡ Marcell flapping his hand on the Table said It was impossible that any one Sitting in that Chaire could be Saved And his own Decretalls say That if the Pope carry with him millions of Soules to be tormented with the great Devil no man may reprove him So incorrigible he is And this is according to Christs saying § That it is easier for a Camel to goe through the ●ye of a needle then for a Rich man to goe into the Kingdome of heaven And are Prelates in any better condition Is there any more hope of them then of the Pope that ever they can or will repent If they will repen● indeed that they may not be the Sons of perdition either in themselves or also in others they must get them out of the Chaire of Pestilence they must in one word abandon their Prelacie and Prelaticall practises Will they doe this and so cease both to Sinne themselves and to cause others ●o Sin This were happy for them And this were the onely way to free them from being the Sons of Perdition namely by ceaseing to be those men of Sin But if Chrysostome said of Prelates in his dayes that he wondred if any of them could be saved then what would he have said of the Prelates in our dayes Thirdly Antichrist is called o `antikeímenos that Adversary But still under a pretext of being a friend as before is noted Thus Antichrist is the grand Adversary ●a'ntikeímenos opposit or set against But against whom Against Christ against his word against his Ministers against his people even all true professors of the Gospell against all true Religion Such is the Pope and such are the Prelates as their practises doe plainly prove and openly proclaime them to be And Fourthly here is added by a Copulative kaì u`prairomenos and He that exalts himselfe as our English renders it Over whom Over all that is called God or that is worshiped Epìpantà Over all or against all as some Translation hath it that is called God For the Preposition e'pì may signifie both But for Against we have a'ntikeímenos opposite and so this we may take for lifting himselfe up over all that is called God or that is worshiped which we may understand two wayes either over all Religion as before we noted or over all Policy and Civill Government over Kings and Princes and Magistrates who are * called Gods and over the Emperour himselfe who is called s●bastos which is venerable or worshipfull and the honour of Caesar which is called sèbasma as in the Text over which this Antichrist exalts himselfe Now that this is verified of the Pope it needs no proofe as being as cleare as the Sun at noone day and which Impudencie it selfe hath not the face to deny But now for our Prelates how is this verified of them For they would seem to be friends to Kings and Princes insomuch as they are by Princes themselves openly proclaimed to be a holy Order most Christian in it selfe most peaceable in Civil States and most consonant to Minarchie or the like For answere whereunto First if the Pope their Sire be such an Adversary and so exalted how can the Prelates be excused seeing they are of the same Spirit as the members actuated by the Head Secondly if Prelates be as their ordinary practises doe shew Adversaries and opposits to Christ and to his word aswell as the Pope is as before is noted how can their Hierarchie be said to be either most Christian in itselfe or most peaceable to Civil States or most consonant to Monarchie Can such an Hierarchie be most Christian which is most Antichristian Or can it be peaceable for a Civil State that professeth Christianity yea and the true Religion to uphold and maintaine such as are most notorious Adversaries to Christ and to the Gospel Or can that be most Copsonant to a Monarchy professing to be under Christ the onely Monarch on whom all others depend and to be governed by good

also as in all the rest at least petty Gods Sitting in the Temple of God shewing themselvs to be so many Gods As for their materiall Princely Thrones in materiall Temples they have them set up in great State But this is nothing to that Throne which they have set up and wherein they sit and raigne over the Consciences and Soules of Gods people their multitude of Canons and Ceremonies being so many Laws by which they rule over them and so many bonds or Chaines whereby they hold them in Spirituall bondage And thus they sit also as God in the Timple of God shewing themselves to be God in saying they are Christs Vice-Roys and the Apostles Successors having Authority from Christ to exercise that their Iurisdiction and Power over Gods People who are the living Temples of the living God Thus we see all along how this Army of Priests as G●egory and others call them the Prelates do follow their Captain and King Antichrist step by step in all his properties here described by the Apostle The last thing we propounded here to speake of is That Apostacie must goe before to strow the way to the full revealation of the Mystery of Iniquity and so of Antichrist which Apostacie was partly and primarily the Prelacie I say partly and primarily For partly the removall of the Imperiall Seat from Rome to Constan●inople by Constantine and partly the decaying and declyning of the Empire and partly the defection of sundry Kingdomes from the Empire made way for Antichrists greatnesse to which he grew not but by degrees and that through many Ages Yet the prime foundation of his Babylonian Tower was layd in the Apostles own times they labouring to hinder it all they could but not prevailing herein they preached and writ against it and so forewarned Gods people to beware of it And this foundation so long agoe begun to be layd was the Prelacie or rather the Spirit of Prelacie which had a time of working even while the Apostles lived and became to be as it were an Embrio or little Masse but did not receice the forme of a body till afterwards and was long a growing up untill it came to the full stature Now I say the spirit of Prelacie was the very beginning of the Apostacie which was Antichrists way-maker But how doth it appeare that this spirit of the Prelacie began to worke in the Apostles dayes And then secondly how will it appeare that this spirit of the Prelacy was and is an Apostacie For answere First that the Prelacie began to get life in the Apostle time it is manifest by sundry places of Scripture As 2. Cor. 11. 20. Ye suffer saith the Apostle to the Corinthians if a man bring you into bondage if a man devoure you if a man take of you if a man exalt himselfe if a man smite you on the face Now the Apostle meanes here of those immediately mentioned before to wit false Ministers whom he calls false Apostles deceitfull work●rs is transforming themselves into the Apostles of Christ v. 13. 15. These as young Prelates would be Apostolic●ll men and they have the qualities of Prelates they Captivate Gods people as before they devoure take exalt themselves smite● just Prelate-like And for brevity to omit sundry other places we find one pretty briske Prelaticall man in 3. Iob. 9. 10. his Name was Diotrephes and he did beare himselfe according to his Name as one of Iupiters nurslings his qualities are these 1. He loveth to have the preeminence 2. he receiveth not the Apostles and brethren 3. he prateth against them with malicious words 4. he neither receiveth the brethren and forbiddeth them that would 5. he casteth them out of the Church Loe here a pretty well grown Prelaticall Child a pregnant Sparke to make a Lord Prelate of For all his Properties are proper to a Prelate for a Prelate first loves the preeminence 2. though he pretend to Succeed the Apostles yet his deeds shew that he hates both their Doctrine and Example persecuting them in their true Successors 3. he receiveth not the brethren yea 4. he so hates the very name of holy brethren that he forbids all men to receive them and 5. he casteth them out of the Church he playes fy gib with his thunderbolt of Excommunication I might insist more and inlarge all these particulars but this may suffice to shew that the Spirit of the Prelacie was stirring in the wombe of the Church even while the Apostles lived Now for the Second it is no lesse true that the Spirit of the Prelacy was and is an Apostacy from Christ This first appeares by the Apostles former words of falling away first which made way for Antichrist And this began in the Prelacie for the Prelacy is the setting up of a new Church a new Kingdome turning Christs heavenly Kingdome into an earthly and the Spirituall into a carnall and the Kingdome of Grace into a Kingdome of terrene glory and the Church militant into a Church malignant and triumphant as before is noted and the true Catholicke Church which we beleeve to consist of all the Elect onely Christs living members into a new Catholicke visible Church of all nominall Christians tagge and ragge Papists and others and in a word the Church of Christ into the Church and Synogogue of Antichrist Is not here then a fearefull Apostacie and falling from Christ Time calls me off and therefore I must be very briefe I will adde therefore but one place more for the proofe of this That Prelacy is Apostacy from Christ It is in 1 Io. 2. 18. Little children it is the last time and as ye have heard that Antichrist shall come even now are there many Antichrists whereby we know that it is the last time They went out from us but they were not of us for if they had been of us they would no doubt have continued with us but they went out that they might be made manifest that they were not all of us Loe here is an Apostacie and it is of certaine Antichrists that were then sprung up even many Antichrists But how doth this concerne our Prelates Let us looke but a little lower and as before we found them wrapped in the Swadling Clouts of the Mystery of Iniquity So here we shall behold them in the very robes of Antichrist For v. 22. Who is a lyar but he that denyeth that Iesus is the Christ He is Antichrist c. Now what is it to deny Iesus to be the Christ Surely we must so take these words as we hold the Analogie of faith and so as they crosse not the Mystery of Iniquity which we shewed before to be a denying of Christ under a colour of confessing him Now then there is a twofold denyall of Christ one in words another in works So the Apostle saith of such * They porfesse that they know God but in works they deny him being abominable and disobedient and unto every good worke reprobate So