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A68614	The unbishoping of Timothy and Titus. Or A briefe elaborate discourse, prooving Timothy to be no bishop (much lesse any sole, or diocæsan bishop) of Ephesus, nor Titus of Crete and that the power of ordination, or imposition of hands, belongs jure divino to presbyters, as well as to bishops, and not to bishops onely. Wherein all objections and pretences to the contrary are fully answered; and the pretended superiority of bishops over other ministers and presbyters jure divino, (now much contended for) utterly subverted in a most perspicuous maner. By a wellwisher to Gods truth and people.	Prynne, William, 1600-1669.	1636 (1636)	STC 20476.5; ESTC S114342	135,615	241

his but theirs and hee if hee should chance to chalenge and resume them as his owne might not henceforth owne or claime them to be his they have litle reason now to attempt and his Majesty farre lesse to suffer and so having neither God nor the King divine nor humaine Right to support them they must as the proverbe is between two stooles the arse goes to the ground now at last in the middest of their usurped greatnes fall flat upon the ground and this their fall q proove very great because they now of late are growen so not being content with the office of a Bishop but they must be also Kings temporall Lords and cheife state officers against Christs expresse commaund and Gods owne Law to sway both Church and state at pleasure so they may ingrosse into their sacred hands the sole rule and government of the world having great possessions and being great Lords also as they are Prelates and yet doing nothing therefore at all in point of preaching fecding and instructing the people committed to their spirituall charge but onely playing the part of a Bishop as a Christmas game-player doth of a King and as a Poppet which springeth up and downe and cryeth Peepe Peepe and goeth his way as Doctor Barnes writes wittily of the Bishops of his age Which swelling greatnesse 〈◊〉 ambition of theirs as it will make their downefall the greater so the speedier being a sure prognosticke of their approaching ruine as the greatnesse of any unnaturall swelling in the body is of its present ensuing rupture u Pride ever going before destruction and a lofty spirit before a fall and they usually dogging them at the heeles because God himselfe resisteth the proud but then most of all when they are at the highest according to that of the Psalmist Thou puttest away all the wicked of the earth like drosse which assoone as ever it hath gotten up to the top of the pot and elevated it selfe above the 〈◊〉 mettle is then scummed off and cast away Towards which their desired speedy downfall if these my unworthy labours shall through Gods blessing on and thy prayers for them contribute any assistance for the ease releife or comfort of Gods poore people who are every where most wrongfully without yea against all Law and reason oppressed and cast out of their benefices freeholds possessions imprisoned fined excommunicated silenced suspended vilified crushed and troden under feet by their intolerable tyrannie might and unbounded extravagant power I shall neither repent me of the penning nor thou thy selfe of the reading of it wherefore here humbly prostrating it to thy impartiall Censure and commending it to the blessing of that omnipotent God who to shew the infinitenes of his wisedome and power doth oft times choose the foolish things of the world to confound the wise the weake things of the world to confound the things that are mighty and base things of the world and things that are despised yea and things that are not to bring to nought things that are that no flesh should glory in his presence I shall take my leave of thee till some further occasion Farewell and pray for me To the Right Reverend Fathers in God William Lord Archbishop of Canterbury And Richard Lord Archbishop of Yorkes Primates and Metropolitanes of all England MY Lords I have sundry times heard both of you joyntly and severally protesting even in open Court not onely in the High-Commission but in Dr. Laytons and two other cases since Starchamber too whether seriously or vauntingly onely let the event determine That if you could not proove your Episcopall Iurisdiction and function which you now claime and exercise over other Ministers and your selves as you are Bishops to be superior in power dignity and degree to other Ministers Iure Divino a doctrine which Patricke Adamson Archbishop of S. Andrewes in Scotland publikely recanted in the Synod of Fiffe Anno 1591. as directly repugnant to and having no foundation at all in the word of God you would forthwith cast away your Rochets of your backes lay downe your Bishoprickes at his Majesties feet and not continue Bishops on ehower longer What your Lordships have so oft averred and publikely promised before many witnesses I hope bonâ fide because judicially in full Court upon goodadvise not rashly on some sodaine fitt of choler I shall make bold to challenge you to make good without more delay either by giving a solid satisfactorie speedy answere to this short Treatise consisting onely of 2. Questions which you may devide between you and so speedily reply to if your great secular occasions not your praying and frequent preaching which are onely truly Epicopall though you deeme them overmeane imployment for Arch-bishops interrupt you not which manifests all that Jus Divinum which hitherto both or either your Lordships have pretended for your Episcopalities to be but a meere absurd ridiculous faction having not the least shadow of Scripture to support it or in case you either cannot or faile to give such an Answer to it in convenient time by pulling off your Rochets and resingning up your Archbishoprikes which without all question are but a meere humaine and no divine Institution as I have evidenced into his Majesties hands from whom you dare not deny you onely and wholly received them with all your Episcopall Jurisdiction and Authority thereunto annexed whereby you difference your selves from or advance your selves above your Fellow-Ministers as their supreme Lords unlesse you will split your selves against the hard rocke of a Praemunire and the Statutes of 26. H. 8. c. 1. 31. H. 8. c. 9. 10. 37. H. c. 17. 1. Ed. 6. c. 2. 1. Eliz. c. 1. 5. Eliz. c. 1. 8. Eliz. c. 1. which Acts as they will informe your Lordships notwithstanding all your former vaunts and brags of divine right That the Archbishops Bishops Arch-deacons and other Ecclesiasticall persons of this Realme HAVE NO MANER OF IVRISDICTION ECCLESIASTICALL BVT BY VNDER AND FROM THE KINGS ROYALL MAJESTY to whom by holy Scripture ALL AVTHORITY AND POWER IS WHOLY GIVEN to heare and determine all maner causes Ecclesiasticall and to correct vice and sinne whatsoever and to all such persons as his Majesty shall appoint thereunto That all authority and Iurisdiction spirituall and temporall is derived and deducted from the Kings Majesty as supreme head of the Church and Realme of England and so justly acknowledged by the Cleargy thereof That all Courts Ecclesiasticall within the Realme were then and now ought to be though they are not kept by no other power or authority either forraigne or within the Realme but by the authority of his most excellent Majesty onely and that by vertue of some speciall commission or letters Patents under his Majesties great Seale and in his name and right alone That all power of Visitation of the Ecclesiasticall State and Persons much more then of our Vniversities

Lords flocke for whom hee shed his blood AND NEVER THEIR LABOVR CARE AND DILIGENCE HEREIN untill they had done all that lyeth in them according to their bounden duety to bring all such as were or should be committed to their charge unto that agreement of faith and knowledge of God and to that ripenes and perfectnes of age in Christ which none of them hath yet done that there should be no place left among them neither of errour in Religion or for viciousnes of life and that for the same cause they should and would forsake and sett aside as much as in them lyeth all worldly cares and studies and give themselves WHOLLY to this thing and draw all their cares and studies this way and to this end and that they should and would preach and be faithfull dispensers of Gods Word in their Congregations which charge being layd upon them by the Bishop at their ordination in the name of Christ by the whole Church and State of England and the Booke of Ordination confirmed by three severall Acts of Parliament the 8 Canon and their owne subscriptions to it and they particularly promising in a most solemne maner to performe it to the ●ttermost of their power How any Bishop can by Law suspend them from preaching as long as they continue Ministers and are not actually degraded or deprived of their livings for some just or lawfull cause warranted by an expresse Act of Parliament or how any godly Minister in point of Law or Conscience can give over his preaching or Ministry upon any unjust suspen●ion inhibition excommunication or commaund of any Bishop Visitor or Ordinary who cannot countermaund this charge or Booke of Ordination ratified by 3 Acts of Parliaments I cannot conjecture Finally That if Ministers will thus suffer every Bishop at his pleasure without any speciall Commission from his Maiesty vnder the great Seale of England or any just cause in point of Law upon every humor fancy or new minted Article of his owne which by the Statute of 25. H. 8. c. 19. and the 13. Canons resolution yea and his Maiesties too in his Declaration before the 39. Articles hee hath no power to make to suspend excommunicate and put them downe from preaching then it will be in the Bishops power to suppresse and alter Religion at their pleasure without his Maiesties or a Parliaments assent and so all shall hang vpon their wills who have no power at all either by the Lawes of God or the Realme to institute any new rites Ceremonies Articles Canons or Injunctions or to alter or innovate any thing in Religion much lesse to suspend or silence Ministers Wherefore in case our Prelates presently revoke not these their anti-christian illegall suspen●ions inhibitions injunctions or other Censures to hinder Ministers from preaching I hope every Godly Minister who hath any care either of his owne soule liberty people any love at all to God or Religion any zeale or courage for the truth or desire of the good either of Church or State taking these considerations into his thoughts and finding the Bishops Jurisdiction and proceedings to have no lawfull warrant either from the Lawes of God or man will readily protest both against their usurped authority and proceedings as meere nullities and vanities and proceed to preach pray and doe his duetie as the Apostles and Martyrs did of old without any feare or discouragement that so Gods judgements Plagues and punishments which the Prelates late practises with the Ministers silence and cowardize and all our sinnes have drawen downe upon us may be asswaged and remooved and wee may ever retaine the Ordinances and Word of God among vs in purity power sincerity and plenty both to our present and future happines I shall close all with this Syllogisme That calling authoritie and jurisdiction which obliterates persecutes suppresseth oppugneth the very Law Gospell and word of God with the frequent powerfull preaching preachers and professors thereof is doubtles not of divine right or institution but Anti-christian and Diabolicall 1. Thess 2. 14. 15. 16. Rom. 2. 13. 10. Iohn 8. 39. to 48. 1. Tim. 3. 1. to 7. Tit. 1. 5. to 10. But this doth the calling authority and jurisdiction of Lord Archbishops and Bishops as the premises and all stories witnes especially our Booke of Martyrs Therefore it is doubtles not of divine right or institution but Anti-christian and Diabolicall If the Minor be not sufficiently evidenced by the Premises by the silencing of many Ministers suppressing of so many Lectures throughout the Realme give me leave to instance but in two fresh examples more The first in Doctor Peirce Bishop of Bath and Wels who in his Visitation in the midst of August last expresly prohibited all Ministers in his Diocesse to preach on the Lords day afternoone threatning some Ministers to suspend them both from their office Benefice if they durst presume to preach any more on the Lords day afternoone without alleadging any Law or Canon which there is none or any danger of bringing or spreading the plague which there is not feared but onely out of his malice to preaching and to deprive poore people of the sprituall food of their soules to affront the Sta●utes of 5. and 6. E. 6. c. 1. 3. and 1. Eli. c. 2. which require OFTEN PREACHING AND HEARING of the Gospell upon every Sunday and Holy day and prescribe preaching twice a day as well as much as Common-prayer coupling them together in the same words to oppugne the Homily of the right use of the Church p. 3. 4. 5. which prescribes and enforceth the dayly and continuall preaching of Gods word and specially on the Sabbath-dayes from our Saviours and his Apostles owne Precepts and Examples to make all Ministers perjured who at the time of their Ordination make a solemne promise and covenant before God diligently and painefully to instruct their people never to give over preaching c. as the Booke of Ordination and the Church and State of England both in and by it injoyne them and to spite S. Paul● himselse who as by the space of three yeares together hee ceased not to warne every one Night and Day therefore hee preached Evenings as well as mornings publikely from howse to howse Acts. 20. 20. 31. So hee chargeth Timothy and in him all Ministers To preach the word instantly in season out of season that is on Lords dayes and weekedayes Morning and Evening yea and at Midnight to if need be in times of prosperity and adversity of health and pestilence when preaching is most seasonable to raise men from their sinnes 2. Tim. 4. 2. which Apostle were hee in this Bishops and some other of his Brethrens Diocesse they would schoole him roundly for such good doctrine and stop his mouth to prevent the great mischeife of often preaching yea 〈◊〉 our Saviour Christ himselfe and his Apostles were now among our Prelates and should preach DAYLY in our temples as they

All which this King caused to be drawne up into a Remonstrance which lasted three houres reading and on the 10. of August Anno 1537. two dayes before his Coronation he caused a scaffold and Throne to be erected in the most publicke place of Hafnia the Metropolis of Denmarke where he sitting with all his Nobles and Senators in State caused this remonstrance of these Prelates detestable Treasons Conspiracies Rebellions and disloyall usurpations on the Crowne to be read publikely before them and all the people declaring that for them he had imprisoned the Bishops and demanding the Nobles and people whether they desired that these trayterly Prelates should any more sway the Common weale of the Kingdome or be restored to their former dignity and power Whereupon they all cryed out No and that they would be no longer molested with this Antichristian trayterly generation of Vipers Which ended a publike Decree or Act of State was made by their unanimous consents that these Bishops should be removed and that the politicall office and power of Bishops should be thenceforth wholy abolished out of the Realme which was forthwith put in execution the Bishops removed their temporalities and revenues confiscated to the King and seven Superintendents being but ordinarie Ministers ordained in their steed And thus was Denmark freed from trayterly Prelates by our Kings great grand-father after it had been long oppressed by them Anno Domini 1571. Iohn Hamilton Archbishop of Saint Andrewes in Scotland was apprehended arraigned condemned and hanged at Sterling by Mathew Steward then Viceroy during King Iames his minority for two notorious suocessive Treasons the first for conspiring and having a chiefe hand in the Murther of Henry Steward King of Scots father to our late King James of famous memory and grand-father to our present Soveraigne King Charles Anno 1565. for causing Iames Earle of Murra Viceroy of Scotland during King Iames his infancy to be traiterously murthered likewise Anno 1567. For which Treasons not long after all Lord Bishops were thrust out of Scotland by King Iames and the whole Parlements consent though since restored as Traytors to their Princes contrary to Christs institution as the chiefe suppressors of the preaching of the Gospell in all Countries Gustavus Ericus that famous King of Sweden banished deprived hanged up and beheaded some of his Archbishops and Bishops for their many execrable Treasons against himselfe and the whole Realme and refused to be crowned before he and the whole State of Sweden had by publike Act of Parleament though with much opposition of the Prelates stripped the Prelates of Sweden of their excessive temporalities revenues wealth and all temporall Offices and Jurisdiction which made them oft times to rebell against their Princes Kings and Magistrates to stirre up many seditions and to molest that Realme with almost continuall and dayly warres and schismes for about an hundred yeares then last past and had and did make them slow bellies and unpreaching Prelates serviceable neither to God nor man either in words or deeds serving rather to intice them to riot pride idlenes and seditions then to true piety and having no Title in the word of God to warrant them Since which the Prelates in Sweden ever rebellious and seditious to their Princes before have beene more dutifull to their Soveraignes and entermedled onely with their spirituall functions which they altogether neglected while they were Lords These three late examples of his Majesties royall Progenitors to omit others as they may instruct all Princes how false that idle Paradox of the Prelates is No Bishop no King the contrary being an experimentall truth and how little trust and fidelity there is in Lordly Prelates who have ever beene treacherous to their Soveraignes when and where they have born greatest sway So they may move his Majesty to follow Father Latymers councell to King Edward the 6 to unlord all our Lordly Bishops and remove them from all their temporall offices and imployments that so they may follow their spirituall Plough-tayle which they will scorne to doe as long as they are Lords it being an unseemely and dishonourable thing for Lords to goe to plough and no longer silence their fellow Brethren oppresse molest and vex his faithfull Subjects and roote out all powerfull frequent Preaching and Preachers of Gods word as now they doe From which kind of Lordly Prelates with their Antichristian Romish practises and Innovations now on foote Good Lord deliver us since they have neither Gods nor the Kings Law to authorize them or support that usurped Papall tyrannicall Iurisdiction which now they exercise under which the whole Kingdome groanes and languisheth desiring to be unburthened of it as an intollerable yoake of bondage which it can no longer beare as now it is aggrevated I shall therefore close up all with the Canon of the Councell of Paris under Lewes and Lotharius An. 829. l. 1. c. 23. worthy our domineering proud Prelates most serious rumination Quia sunt plérique qui non paternū affectū circa gregem sibi comissum sed quendam exercere videntur Dominatum eumque non ut Dominicum sed flatibus vertosae arrogantiae inflati ut suum proprium tractare non verentur Quantum a paternitatis officijs aberrent subter collecta documenta declarant Dominus in Evangelio Si diligis me pasce oves meas ME AS inquit non TV AS Item qui major est vestrum erit minister vester Et non post multa Non ita erit inquit inter vos Sed qui voluerit inter vos major fieri erit vester servus Petrus Neque dominantes in clero sed forma facti gregis ex animo Solomon Principem te constituerunt nolli extolli sed esto in eis quasi unus ex ipsis Fulgentius in libro de veritate praedestinationis et gratiae Non ideò inquit se solùm quilibet episcopus vas misericordiae putet in gloria praeparatum quia pontificali militia fungitur sed si progrege sibi redito solicitus SEMPER invigilet et PRAEDICET VERBO instet opportunè impertunè arguat obsecret increpet in omni patientia et doctrina Nec sibi dominatum superbus usurpare contendat sed Apostolicis informatus eloquijs et exemplis servum se cunctis exhibeat neque sedis illius altitudine collatum sibi gaudeat temporale fastigium sed humili corde fidelibus Praebeat bonae conversations exemplum Quicunque igitur sacris officijs servituri sub quolibet ordine applicantur dignum est ut illius dicantur cujus servitio mancipantur Quia ergò temeritate immò PRAESVMPTVOSAVANITATE quilibet praelatorum dicere praesumit Illa congregatio mea est aut Ille praesbyter vel Clericus meus est cum NONSITILLIVS SED ILLIVS CVI DICATVS EST Proinde quia is inolitus sesus ecclesiasticae non concordat regulae corrigatur NECESSE EST. Christian Reader this passage should

exempt from Archiepiscopall Episcopall Iurisdiction is united and annexed as a royall prerogative to the Kings Imperiall Crowne and to be executed by none but by Patent under him And that all your Citations processe Excommunications Probates of Wils Commissions of Administration c. ought to be made onely in his Majesties name and sealed with his seale as they were in King Henry the 8. and King Edwards dayes witnesse the Bishops Registers Proces and Probates of wils in their two raignes and now are in your High-Commission that so both the Courts and processe migth be knowen to be his Majesties by leaving his Image stile and superscription ingraven on them and to be derived unto you not by any divine right but by his Princely grace alone who hath as absolute an Ecclesiasticall Iurisdiction as any of his royall progenitors enjoyed both by the Lawes of God and of the Realme So they will inforce your Lordships to acknowledge unlesse you will renounce your Alegiance to your most gracious Soveraigne whose meere grace hath advanced you to what you now are that all your Episcopall Iurisdiction whereby you are distinguished from or elevated above any ordinary Presbyters and Ministers is not from any divine Charter or Commission from Christ but onely in by from and under his Majesty and so not Jure Divino as you have thus frequently craked and boasted to the world so as you must either now forthwith renounce your Bishoprikes according to your Protestations or else be guilty of breach of promise unlesse you can proove you enjoy them onely by a divine right and yet onely in by from and under his Majesty which is a contradiction If your Lords to maintaine your divine pretended Episcopall Iurisdiction shall flie to Doctor John Pocklington for ayd who by one of your Domesticke Chaplaines approbation hath verily published in print That you by Gods mercy to our Church are able lineally to set downe your Succession in your Episcopall dignity from S. Peters Chaire at Rome to S. Gregory and from him from our first Archbishop S. Augustine though we had many Archbishops before his comming our English Apostle so the Papists would have him stiled though Bishop lewel Fox and others renounce him downeward to his Giver that now sits in his chaire Primate and Metropolitane of all England I shall then desire your Lordships and this Doctor to proove First that S. Peter was a Bishop by divine Institution Secondly that he was Bishop of Rome of which this Doctor is so impatient that he breakes out unto these passionate words well worthy your Episcopall Censure Whereby their vanity may appeare that upon idle ghesses against all antiquity makes fooles beleeve that S. Peter w as never at Rome mking the Succession of Bishops and truth of the Latine Churches as questionable as the Centurists orders Thirdly Wheter Peter was sole Bishop of Rome or rather Paul also Bishop as well as hee at the same time and that by divine institution whence it will follow that there ought to be how Bishops of Rome and so of Canterbury at the same time not one alone as two severall persons at least to constitute one Bishop Fourthly Whether it will follow from Peters being Bishop of Rome Iure Divino that the Arch-bishops of Canterbury and Yorke most necessarily be Archbishops Iure divino Fifthly Whether if this Doctrine be true this Proposition can be denied that your Lordships being lineally descended from the Church and Popes of Rome are both the true and genuine sonnes and members of these two ghostly Parents If you deny this inference then you must renounce this divine Title to your Prelacies if you subscribe unto it as I presume you dare not then all his Majesties loyall subjects who have in their oath of allegiance and supremacy renounced all forraigne Iurisdiction with the Bishops and Church of Rome abandoned by severall Acts of Parliament must renounce both you and this your Episcopall Iurisdiction to thus claimed which since you can no wayes substantially proove to be Iure Divino I hope you will now lay downe your Bishopriches according to provise or else be though●never worthy faith or credit more in future time Neither may the seeming strangnes of the thing it selfe deterre you from it this being no new thing for Bishops to resigne and give over their Bishoprikes For not to mention that famous Gregory Nazianzen that great Patriarke of Constantinople or p Hi●rax Iohn of Antioch with sundry others in the primitive Church who either out of conscience or for quietnes sake voluntarily renounced or repudiated their Bishoprikes betaking themselves to a more retired private life wherein they might serve God better Nor yet to recite the History of Ammonius who when the Cleargy and people elected him for their Bishop and urged him to take a Bishopricke upon him fled away secretly and cut off his right eare that the deformity of his body might be a Canonicall impediment to his election and being yet deemed meet to be a Bishop by Timothius the Patriarke though his Nose and eares had beene both cut off by reason of his learning and vertues and the people drawning him against his will to accept that office hee replyed that hee would likewise cut off his tounge to which pleased them unlesse they would specdily let him goe Nor yet to remember Euagrius the Philosopher who when he was constrained to accept a Bishopricke by Theophilus Alexandrinus renounced his Ministery rather then hee would accept it such a dangerous and ill office did hee then repute it and many good men else who as Nicephorus records refused aunciently to accept thereof though nothing so dangerous and pernicious an office then as now Or Nicephorus Blemmides who being elected Patriarch of Constantinople absolutely refused to accept it upon any termes Or Werinbaldus unanimously elected Bishop of Spier who could by no meanes be induced to embrace it Or Theophil●us Archdeacon of Adaina who being chosen Bishop of that See refused to receive it and being forced both by the Ministers and people to take it against his will relinquished it shortly after though in an idle manner I find it recorded of Arsenius Germanus Paulus Cyprius Iosephus Becus Gregorius Cyprius Athanasius Iohn Ioannes Glicis Antonius Studites Cosmas and Theodosius all Patriarkes of Constantinople as likewise of Gildenutus Bishop of Malden Vlfranius Bishop of Shetne Arnulphus Bishop of Mets Addo-Bishop of Lyons Victerbus Bishop of Ratisbon Herigerus Bishop of Meniz Michael Bishop of Ephesus Adelberus Bishop of Wirtenburg Michael Opites Patriarch of Athens Desiderius Bishop of Flaunders Bruno the third Bishop of Colen Vlrious the second Bishop of Constance Walther Bishop of Augusta Gerhardus Bishof Herbipolis Vlricus Bishop of Rhesia Brincingus Bishop of Hildeshem Conrade the second Bishop of Lubecke Adam Bishop of Morini in Flaunders Christianus the second Bishop of