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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A67227	The prelates pride, or, The manifestation, that the bishops lordly government from the originall institution, is not de iure divino, by divine right, but meerely humane and contrary both to the holy word of God, the practice of the Apostles, and of the primitive churches in the purest times whereunto is added the Bishop of Lincolnes prophecie concerning the prelates.	Walker, Henry, fl. 1641-1660.	1641 (1641)	Wing W378; ESTC R3875	12,380	30

holy Scripture so expresseth it which as the Prophet Ieremiah saith is vanity to speake the visions of a mans owne heart and not out of the mouth of the Lord Ier. 23. 16. 3. St. Hillar saith that the tradition of man shall be taken away saith he for it is humane Surely by this time I hope any reasonableman may be well satisfied concerning the first proposition for the eyes of any may here behold how cleere this is laid downe and proved that such institution as is from men and not from the Word of God is not of divine right but meerely humane II. That institution onely which is from the word of God that alone is of divine right and not the institutions or acts of the inventions of after Ages being from themselves alone Doth the scripture confirme it then it must needes be divine Is it onely from man Oh fond Age wilt thou maintaine such things as divine which the holy writ doth not then may many Caterpillers more plead free priviledges in Gods garden and many wolves nest themselves amongst Gods sheepe Have not some preferred playes before the Word of God who have protested that the spirit of GOD hath more wrought upon their hearts at the conceit of some shadowed Tragedy then being present at a Sermon The Vsurer can pleade that God is honoured by his doing good The Papists can pretend their Zeale before their Crosses and Crucifixes and all these and many more can claime Antiquity and pleade as much for themselves as any Prelate but all this while they are but humane and permitted by men as the Prelates are they are not permitted by Gods holy word nor no such vaine inventions which caused holy David to take up this resolution I hate saith he vaine inventions but thy Law doe I love Psal. 119. 113. And though our Lordly Bishops would prove themselves to be the Lords Bishops from divine right yet let them but consider that saying of St. AUSTIN for as much saith he as Christ hath not revealed these things who dare be so vaine or rash amongst us as to affirme without any testimony of the scriptures that such things are divine which the Lord hath not so declared of them III. To prove that the Lordly government of Bishops is from men and not from God and that shall be first from a briefe survey of history how they have received their institution from men secondly by a briefe Catalogue of some particular places of Scripture in every booke through the whole Bible to prove that they are not permitted thus to stand by the word of God 1. To prove that their institution is from men that to be briefe I will give you a litle glimps of Linus in the first place by the way because he was the first Bishop of Rome that we reade of from the time of the Apostles suffering who never was recorded to be exalted to the prelasie or Lordly government whō St. Paul stiles a brother and not a Lord amongst those other brethren Eubulus and P●dence and Claudia and the rest of the brethren whom as I take it St. PAVL aimes 2 Timoth. 4. 21. In those dayes also was Clement Bishop of Rome and the text of Scripture by St. Paul calls him no Lord Lord Bishop was a strange language with him no it was faithfull yoak-fellow it was Clement and other fellow-labourers with the rest of the Preachers of the Gospell these were the stiles of the Ministers after the Apostles Custome as it is Philip 4. 3. There were then also many Christian preachers in Ierusalem as Marcus Crassianus Publius Maximus Valen●e these and other Bishops in those dayes wee never reade of any of them that were made Lords or that were exalted to temporall dignities except onely such as Demas who fell in love indeed with the glory of the world but the Apostle brands him for a forsaker of his calling for his labour 2 Timoth. 4. 10. Indeed some decretall Epistles have beene forged on Zephyrinus the 14. Bishop of Rome but they are very foolish and ridiculous onely forged of late as many judicious Readers judge As to consecrate the holy Cup to be in a vessell of glasse That a Bishop being accused shall choose his own Iudges and that no diffinitive sentence shall be denounced against a Bishop untill the time that his cause were heard of the Patriarch of Rome c. But alas this is but a mocking of the Church of God to attribute such swelling pride such unaccustomed formes of judicature such fencing and guarding of unrighteous men against just deserved punishment which being falsly forged upon the fathers were without all doubt altogether unknowne unto them in those dayes And so also some decretall Epistles ascribed unto Pontianus as Pontianus sanctae vniversalis Ecclesiae Episcopus c. how palpable doth this seeme to be false and forged for such magnificent stiles as these were not as yet in use And afterwards when they crept into the Church they were onely at the first ascribed to them by such as admired the vertues of some singular and rare men such as Cyprian Athanasius but no church man of any degree whatsoever did in those times usurpe such proud and arrogant titles of dignity in his owne writings directed to other Christians and therefore the learned reject this Epistle as composed by some late unlearned and flattering fellow Some have bin so bold not onely to attribute to Cajus the 27. Bishop of Rome the constitution of these Ecclesiasticall orders but to attribute it even to the Apostles themselves but I say beatus qui non credit they father the institution of these degrees upon them as first to be Ostiarius 2. to bee Lector 3. Exorcista 4. Acoluthus 5. Subdiaconus 6. Diaconus 7. Presbetor 8. Episcopus but happy is he who beleeves no such lyes As for Cajus the time wherin he lived was a time of persecutiō Cajus he was fain to hide himself a long time in a Cave Had this bin attributed to Bonifacius the 8. Gregory the 7. or to Alexander the 3. it might have bin more probable And as for the Apostles indeed we find allowed 2 orders of Ministers a Bi. and a Deacon or an Elder and a Deacon 1 Tim. 3. 1. but surely with them a Bishop Elder Pastor Shepheard was all one and not two distinct degrees Acts 15. Titus 1. 5 6 7. Gordius 8. Narcissus and a worthy man called Alexander were Bishops in Ierusalem all at once yet none of them desired preheminence or any Lordly title or rule over other Ministes But to come to after times some there are who have gone about to prove that Constantine did confirme the Bishop of Rome in his glory but how can that be since the purple garment the Palace of Lateran the Superiority of Rome and government of the West all these honours the Emperours successours to Constantine