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A00289	A very lively portrayture, of the most reverend arch-bishops, the right reverend bs. of the Church of England set forth in XX. irrefragable positions, concerning their authority, power, and practise, as they onely are our diocesan lord bishops, so grounded upon Scripture, reason, and experience, by evident demonstrative practises, as their troublesome opposites, may cleerely see, how greatly they are deceived in all these. A labour undertaken for the peace of all Gods people, and for a just condemnation of al those, that cause division, and offences, contrary to the doctrine and discipline of Christs Church.		1640 (1640)	STC 10406; ESTC R212270	37,262	65

together 3. But here note that the Church consists of the Laity as well as of the 〈◊〉 Acts 15. ●… so as if the house of Parlament lower and upper be not of them but secluded they are not the representative body of the Ch●… of England but of the Clergie onely and the Prel●… Church In the time of their sitting 1. All these Priests and Clarkes sit there to gaz●… 〈◊〉 upon another and to whisper of matters nothing o●… 〈◊〉 to the purpose of their meeting but wait for their 〈◊〉 from their Lordships like Schoole boyes 2. When they have received their directions a bo●… se are so seiseth upon almost all of them as thereby thy are moved to agree to contradict nothing but if it so happen that some take courage a rare vertue among them for the truth and doe oppose in some materiall things which crosse their Lordly designements Then 3. Either they labour by a strong side and more in number for the greatest and most are not ever the best to make them yeeld or to say nothing or else to get their Canons passe They devise a time when the better sort al or most are away to finish the worke thus the Church of England makes here decrees to all her beloved children but yet are of no force without an act of Parlament After the Convocation is dissolved 1. If any matter be not onely in shew questionable but is justly to bee questioned their Lordships by their sole wisedome in their severall di●…sse must interpret the meaning and men must also rest satisfied though the meaning given be absurd for its a folly to goe from a Bishop to an Arch-Bishop time hath taught men their lost la●…our therein 2. If in time the One great one and some two three or foure bethinke themselves of any course better befitting their secret plots and intentions in altering in adding or taking from in any innovation whatsoever then they have wayes to beare out all these their doings with gaining help of Royall declarations and proclamations to beare them out which being setled in peace then they become the orders allowed by the Church And thus may all wise men see who are this Church of England one with two three or foure of the diocesan Lord-Bishops for they find it written with clipping the text that if two of them much more three or foure with a body of Cyphers be gathered together and agree in the Convocation house touching any thing it shall be done Mat. 18. 19. O Lord open the eyes of our 〈◊〉 both to see and consider and also to 〈◊〉 against these 〈◊〉 Lord Bishops to make them Bishops indeed or else to remove them 〈◊〉 very ill 〈◊〉 the Church and State Let them fall by their owne Councels and let all the people of God say Amen FINIS Twenty irrefragable POSITIONS 1. THat Bishops Jure divino are superiours to other Ministers 2. They are Diocesan Bishops by divine right 3. They are worthily called Lord Bishops 4. They may very well busie themselves in civill affaires and sit in Courts of Iustice 5. They need not preach often but seldome or never if they please 6. They are Priests and may be so rightly called Though they be Bishops yet they forget not their Priesthood but will be called Priests 7. They stand for and d●…c maintaine all Ceremonies upon very good grounds 8. They judge it necessary that what soever is amisse in the Church should be carefully and speedily reformed and this is evident to all 9. They may very well rule by their sole power alone 10. Their high authority so lawfull they all obtaine by very lawfull meanes 11. They may not forsake their sowarrantable Lordly Prelaticall standing 12. No Bishops no King this is undeniable 13. They stand wholy for a learned grave painefull and godly ministery 14. They hate to flatter the King 15. They greatly further the peoples knowledge in divine things 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 their ignorance 16. They have a speciall care that God being a spirit should have a spirituall worship and this onely according to his written word 17. They preferre the Churches union and what God requireth to be done before their owne Lordly dignity and what they themselves command 18. They be the greatest Enemies that the Church of Rome hath here amongstus 19. They abhorre all shew of idolatrie 20. They may very lawfully minister the Oath ex Officio to any whom they dare call before them They have the same name Th●… 〈◊〉 on th●… s●…me T●…●…nour and ●…ard the same They ●…ad on●… and the same charge over the flock Acts 20. 28. 1. Pet. 5. 2. Many 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 ter the epi●…les were written See the unbi●… of Tim. and Tit. See the answer to Bishop D. serm. pag. 113. 114. pag. 115. See T. and T. unbish●… page 4. Ibidem 〈◊〉 Pag. 117. T. and Tit. 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 168. What was given them was of 〈◊〉 and not of due as an invested title Abusing Gods name by s●…eming to pray for that which never is intended Sess. 24. This rule they onely make use of when all the rest are of like authority divi●… and Apo●…ol call and delivered by the same Apostle which they take no notice of not careing to sinn●… against their brethren and against Christ 1 Cor. 8. 12. See Tim and Tit. 〈◊〉 B. M. Three grounds of 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 They will 〈◊〉 call them Martyrs but 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 may in print call them 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Numb. 35. 30 Deut. 19. 15 and 17. 6 Heb. 10. 28. Plin. 〈◊〉 10. Epist. 98. Victor de persocut Vandal Jer. 4. 2. Digest lib. Decret. pag 2 Cous 23. quast 4. In Epist. 1 Cor. c1 5. Statute 15. 〈◊〉 8. ca 15 cemmen Law See 〈◊〉 touching Bishops effictalls pag 62. This master Fuller hath fud manisesled in the defence of 〈◊〉 Client Crompton 182 〈◊〉 de ●… 〈◊〉 brev. pag. 141 〈◊〉 pag. 36. 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 ●… 1 Tim. 1. 3. and 3. 14. 15. Tit. 1 5. Laid their hands They ordained They layd their hands on them

spirituall Pri●…st which is but one Iesus Christ after the order of 〈◊〉 such a Priest none may presume to bee without hellish presumption and high arrogancy Or the Christian Priest in which sense every Christian man and woman is a Pri●… unto God R●…v 1. 6. 4. B●…cause the title of Priest was a name of divine O●…fice from Godunder the Law but under the Gospell it is a lying title without the office For there is now no Priests O●…fice for a Priests Office is to off●…r sacrifice a bloudie sacrifice but now uuder the Gospel after Christ no such sacrifice to be offered And wee all doe acknowledge and have taught hitherto 5. Because now it is the P●…pish name of the Romish Masse Priests pu●… upon them by the Babylo●…ish Seat of Rome that great 〈◊〉 the Mother of Harlots and abhominations of the Earth R●…v 17. 1. 5. out of which we are commanded to come forth R●…v 18. 4. both from their idolatrous wordes and idolatrous workes 6. Bec●…use its much dishonour to Gods holy spirit in his holy Apostles to leave the names set downe in holy writ and to take up a name from the ●…re of R●… and put it upon the Ministers of the L●…rd I●…us Lastly because we all prof●…sse to have re●…ounced her and therefore it is a derogation to our Church a Church of Christ to retaine a name of her idolatrie as if still we ●…ither were her slaves or had a mind to become so For now of late the name Priest is so extolled as the Elders of Ephesus Act. 20. 17. mus●…in in the pulpit bee againe and againe called Priests as if the name of El●…ers Presbyt●…rs given by the holy Ghost and they made Overfe●…rs of the flock were too base except it should be turned into the name of Romish Priest●… for other Priests by office there are now none Thus with impudent boldnesse is the holy Gh●…st controlled and m●…de to speake aft●…r the R●…ish fashion to bring us backe to that Wh●…re againe POSITION 7. They stand for and d●…e mai●…taine all Cerem●…nies upon very good grounds 1. B Ecause they ●…annot bee knowne whence they be withou●… these R●…mish trincket●… for without thei●… Lordly 〈◊〉 and these their Ceremoni●…s the Mother Roare would soone be ●…orgotten 2. Because they were first brought in by that bloudy Monke 〈◊〉 the Arch-Bish●…p o●…Canterbury who dyed them in the 〈◊〉 of the Monks of Bang●…r which red Scarlet colo●… they have kept eversince ●…or many Ministers have been●… cruelly delt with in witnessing against th●…se suspended excommunicated deprived ●…d imprisoned And therefore Ceremonies laid in this scarle●… dye in g●…ine a colour very costly 〈◊〉 no marvel that they are held at so high a price by them and not valued at ●…o low a rate as they be by others 3. Because they say no Ceremonies no Bishops therefore ●…ust c●…use they have to sta●…d for them to keep their standing and Ceremonious observances though with much off●…nce of which they take no care for they find it writt●…n W●… bat●… th●… by wh●… offences 〈◊〉 Mat. 18. 7. 4. Because there was a time in the Apostles 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 when there was Bishops El●…rs and y●…t no s●…ch Popish ceremonies nor pope-like Bishops 5. Because ●…ue religion and 〈◊〉 pure worship and service can stand well without them as in other ●…formed Chu●…ches 6. Because go●…y Bishop Ho●…per withstood them for a time and desired to be discharged of his Bishoprick rather than to use them wherein hee was opposed by Ar●… Bishop Cra●…er and Bis●…p Ridl●…y but when they were out of their Rochets they did judge●…t to be wisdome in him and simplicity in themselves for urging him to the use of them 7. Because they have beene nothing else but snares and traps unto many Godly Min●…sters laborious men in the Lords Vin●…rd scourges in their sides and thornes in their eyes and heavy burth●…s to them for they find it written that the Scribes and Pharises did bind burthens gr●…v to be borne upon the Pe●…le and laid them on mens shoulders Mat. 23. 4. 8. Because if they hold them as necessary in themselves they have no authority from GOD to impose them so upon mens consciences and it is against their faithfull promise made at their còns●…cration which was to maintaine as required of necessity to salvation nothing but that which may be concluded and proved out of Scrip●…ue If they hold them in themselves as things indifferent y●… in the practise and imposing of them they answere not to the rules prescribed for the use and practise of indifferent things For indifferent things must be 1. Not onely lawfull but ●… expedient convenient and profitable 1 Cor. 6 12. 3 making for peace Rom. 14. 19. 4 for Charity Rom. 14 15. 5 done to the ed●…ying of one another R●… 14. 19. 1 Cor. 10. 23. Which is that we may more and more grow up in CHRIST and be o●…r in our faith and become better 〈◊〉 Done 〈◊〉 and in order 1 Cor. 14 40 That is as it becommeth the House of GOD Dec●…tly that is agr●…ble to the pure worship of GOD without vanity sup●…stition and Spirituall filthines In Order that is without confusion in a setled course fit for a holy As●…mbly 7 Done to the glory of GOD Cor. 10. 31. tending to set forth the LORD eith●…r in his titles attributes word worship and workes by all which God is knowne praised and obtaineth glory 8 That the use be without offence whereby a Brother may stumble or be offended or made weake Rom. 14 ●…1 by being made to do those things with a doubting and so with a wounded conscience and thus hee sinneth Rom. 14. 23. and is made to perish 1 Cor. 811. For they find it written what is that to us see th●…n to that Mat. 27 〈◊〉 9. Because our Saviour CHRIST stood not upon idle Ceremonies nor imposed any upon his Disciples but rebuked the Scribes and Pharises as Hypocrites for their strict observation of such things as they had devised and taken upon them to observe Mar. 7 2 9. So it 's Pharis●…icall to devise and undertake to observe of themselves what GOD never commanded 10. Because Saint Paul would abstaine from the use of indifferent things all his daies lest hee make his Brother to offend 1 Cor. 8. 13. Lastly because Sain●…Paul tell●…th them that by using things indifferent wee are not the better and by not using them are wee the worse 1 Cor. 8 8. but they by making others to use them who are not perswad●…d of the Lawfull use thereof they sinne against their Brethren and so against Christ 1 Cor. 8. 12. By all those 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 they not very good cause to maintaine to defend and urge with great violence the use of these so pious and needfull Ceremonies so much tending to peace edification and GODS glory He must be very blind that cannot see what truth charity edifying conveniencie profit and glory commeth to GOD where these Ceremonies be