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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

discourse then this of mine will admit Againe he saith ‡ If there be a jealousie or doubt of the Sense of the Scripture we must repaire to the Exposition of the Primitive Church and submit to that or call and submit to a Generall Councel c. Now if he shall quarrell this Scripture and those words of Christ forementioned as being either jealous or doubtfull of the sense thereof and so send me to the Primitive Church or call me to a Generall Councel for the determination of this point what shall we say For in no case can he yeeld the Scripture the honour to be sole Judge of controversies in faith And for the Primitive Church which he meanes namely that which came after Christ and his Apostles that he will say had Bishops or Prelates And for a Generall Councel that by his own verdict must consist of Prelates and so then shal be Judges in their own cause Therefore herein I must tell him plainly that first for the Primitive Church which was that of the Apostles never any one of them was a Prelate or Diocesan Bishop as we shall see more anon Secondly the next ages of the Church succeeding that of the Apostles knew no such Lord Bishops or Prelates as are now adayes with their Traines and Courts And when they began to get Prelacies old Hierome reprooved them and so did others Thirdly never any Generall Councel yet concluded that Prelates were jure divino Fourthly For a Generall Councel now to be called for the determining of this controversie which must consist onely of Prelates I deny them to be competent Iudges in this Case For by the Prelates own Confession * No man ought to be both party and Iudge in his own Cause And again the ‡ Prelate is too strict and Canonicall in tying all men to the decision of a Generall Councel and to yeeld obedience unto it yea although it determine a matter erronious in the Faith Now then if a Generall Councel of Prelates should determine that Prelates are jure divino although it be erronious yet according to the Prelates Rule all must yeeld obedience and submit thereunto And then we are gone if we commit this matter to a Generall Councel But we will passe by these and come to some other of his passages for his Prelacy He saith ‡ I beleeve Christ thought it fitter to governe the Church Aristocratically by Diverse rather then by one Vice-Roy A●d those Diverse he makes to be Prelates or Hierarchs or rather Archprelates Now except he verily beleeve that Prelates are the best men in the world how can he beleeve that Christ thought is fittest to governe his Church by them For Aristocracie is a Government of the best men Aristoi Optimi and therefore called Optimates most honourable for their vertues But are Prelates so Doth their extreme pride ambition covetousnesse voluptuousnesse idlenesse hatred and suppressing of Gods word persecution of Gods Ministers oppression of Gods people even all that professe godlinesse and extreme both injustice and cruelty without all Law or Conscience in Censuring poore innocent soules that come before them doe these their vertues make them to be the best men for Christ to thinke the fittest by whom to governe his Church unlesse in this respect Christ might thinke it fittest that seeing he thought it fittest to keep his true Church his little sto●ke alwayes under manifold tryalls of afflictions and persecutions as being the exercises of all that will live godly in Christ Iesus and the way through which they must goe into the Kingdome of God therefore for this very cause he might thinke it fittest to suffer Satan to set up Anticr●ist in the Temple of God with his Traine of Prelates who should prove the most vengable Instruments of persecuting and oppressing Gods true children of all other men in the world And this I beleeve to be true And againe I beleeve this to be true also that Christ thought it fittest to governe his true Church Aristocratically that is by the best men because he hath so expressed himselfe in his word Why Where and who be those best men Let my Lord Prelate have patience and I will shew him a cleare ground of this my faith such as he can never shew for his blind faith Those best men that Christ thought is fittest to governe his Church by are the severall Ministerss rightly qualified and lawfully placed over their Severall Congregations respectively And they are called both Presbyteri and Episcopi Presbyters or Elders and Overseers or as Prelates falsely style themselves Bishops But how are these o i aristoi the best men Because Christ requires such to have the qualities of the best men What be those First such a Bishop or Overseer must be blamelesse the husband of one wife not therfore one tyed from Marriage which is for Antichrists Priests vigilant sober of good behaviour given to hospitality apt to teach not given to wine no strik●r not greedy of filthy l●●re but patient not a brawler not covetous c. And in Titus Not selfe-willed not soon angry a lover of good men● sober just holy temperate holding fast the faithfull word that he may be able by sound doctrine both to exhort and to convince the gainesayers Such therefore as call themselves the onely Bishops to exercise Lordship over many Ministers and Congregations and are proud heady high minded lovers of pleasures more then lovers of God cruell strikers with their High-Commission-weapons soone angry and never appeased againe not lovers but persecuters of good men not such as hold fast the wholesome word but suppresse it all they can forbidding others to convince the gainesayers as those of the Arminian party and the like and cutting off the Eares of those Ministers that should dare to reprove the Prelates notorious practises and attempts in setting up a false Idolatrous and Anchristian Religion for Christs Religion and such like such I say how can the Prelate beleeve to be of those diverse whom Christ thought it fittest to governe his Church by Againe another passage of his is this * She the Church of England beleeves That our Saviour Christ hath left in his Church besides his Law-booke the Scripture visible Magistrates and Iudges that is Arch-bishops and Bishops under a gracious King to governe both for Truth and Peace according to the Scripture and her owne Canons and Constitutions as also chose of the Catholick Church which crosse not the Scripture and the just Laws of the Realme So the Prelate In the next passage before the Prelate makes profession of his own Faith concerning Christs thought for Prelaticall Government and here he tells us what is the Faith of the Church of England about the same new Article of his beliefe●● And not unlikely it is ● that the Prelaticall Church of England is of the saine beliefe with her learned Champion and great Metropolitan But the faith both of the Prelate and his Church

First Protest against the Hierarchy as an Antichristian Tyranny over the Soules Bodies and Estates of all the Kings Subjects and therefore ought to be rooted out and not suffered in any Christian Church or Common Weale Secondly and consequently Protest against all Altars Images and such like Popish Idolatrous Reliques utterly unlawfull to be erected in any true Christian Church Thirdly Protest against all humane Rites and Ceremonies whatsoever imposed upon mens Consciences in the worship of God as being all of them Antichristian bringing into bondage mens Soules which Christ hath redeemed with his precious blood who is the onely Lord of the Conscience and the onely Law-giver to his Church for all matters of Faith and of the worship of God Fourthly Protest against all such generall Taxes layd upon the Subjects as whereby both their ancient Liberties and the fundamentall Laws of the Kingdome are overthrowne and so vindicate the Honour both of the King and of this noble Kingdome that it may not be recorded to Posterity for a State of Tyranny and Slavery Fiftly and consequently Protest against all those wicked Iudges which have in such wise declared their opinions for intollerable Taxes expresly contrary to the Laws and Liberties of the Kingdome as thereby they have given occasion for the betraying of all and the bringing of the whole Land under perpetuall Slavery Sixtly Protest against that Prelaticall Declaration set forth in the Kings Name before the 39 Articles wherein those Articles of the Dostrines of Grace are made voyd and so all preaching of them suppressed Seventhly Protest against that Booke for Sports on the Lords dayes as whereby both the fourth Commandement and the fifth are most desperately overthrown as also against all those Bookes that have been set forth for the maintaining of such profanation as whereby God is greatly dishonoured and his wrath provoked even to the Spewing out of such a Nation out of his mouth Eightly Protest against all that Prelaticall Tyranny in oppressing the preaching of Gods Word on the Lords dayes in the after-noone and other dayes in the week and their Antichristian persecuting and putting out of all godly and painfull Ministers such as will not conform to their lawlesse Ordinances Ninthly Protest against that most terrible and odious shedding of the innocont blood of those 3 forementioned now perpetuall Exiles and Closse Prisoners even their very Wives most lawlesly detained from them with a●● their other severe punishments one of them being a Minister who in discharge of his duty first preached in his own Church and then published his Sermons in Print against the Prelates notorious practises and Popish Innovations for which he underwent punishments so great so many as no Age● no Christian State can parallell so as their blood doth incessantly cry against this whole Land as guilty thereof though shed onely by the Prelates instigation as aforesaid untill it be purged Tenthly Protest against that accursed Booke Relation of a Conference c. published in Print and Dedicated to the King by the now Prelate of Canterbury wherein he belyes and so blasphemes God Christ the Holy Ghost the holy Scriptures the Church of England in saying it is one and the Same with that of Rome of the same Faith and Religion with that Whore of Babylon and many such like impious assertions the whole Booke professedly tending to reconcile England and Rome and so to bring the whole Land backe againe to Popery Eleventhly If this great and Warlike preparation be by the Prelates Diabolicall Instigation as by no other it can be except by the Pope and his Iesuiter and his Nuncio's Negotiation have also a hand in it to goe against the Scots and if the cause shal be found to be no other but that they have abandoned and Remaunded to Rome all their Prelates as the grand Enemies of Christ and his Kingdome and of the peaceable and prosperous estate of the Realme and consequently of the Kings Crown and Dignity and that they stand for the maintenance of their just Laws and Liberties the continuance whereof is the Kings honour and the establishment of his throne If I say no other cause can justly be alledged and yet they shal be invaded as Rebells Protest against all ayd and assistance of such an Invasion as being against the Law of God of Nature and of Nations and as being a Warre directly against Jesus Christ in the maintenance of Antichrist and his Antichristian Hierarchy and so such as must needs recoyle and that in divine fury upon England it selfe which having burned her neighbours house exposeth her owne to the flames Yea for England to Invade Scotland for no other cause in truth then before mentioned namely for their maintaining of the true Faith and Religion of Christ and their just Lawes and Liberties which all true Christians and Civil States ought to lay down their very lives for as the light of Nature taught the very Heathen Pugnare pro Aris ac focis and that Grecian could say A'iresomai teleutan mallon è a'neleutheros sun I choose rather to dye a Free-man then to live a Slave And the Monarchicall estate governed by good Laws was ever preferred and opposed to Tyranny were to renounce and give up her own ancient Liberties and to betray and persecute and destroy the true Faith and Religion of Christ and so set up and professe the Infidelity and Idolatry of Antichrist and so with him and his cursed Crue to goe into perdition The Primitive Christians under Julian the Apostata served him in the Warres against his Enemies but when he Commanded them to goe against Christians who refused to worship or offer Incense to his Idols they cast down their Weapons acknowledging the Emperour of heaven And when Saul * commanded his Servants to fall upon the Lords Priests none of them would doe it And I read of a Secretary to an Empresse who being commanded by her to draw an Edict againg the Christians he still found delayes but at length she growing instant upon him for it so as he could no longer delay it he tooke off his Military girdle the Ensigne of his service and cast it at her feet and so discharged himselfe from her Court Thus if you make and leave these Christian zealous and just Protestations among the Recods of Parliament in case it shal be by the malice and inchantments of the Prelates unhappily dissolved before you can produce them into a full Act and establish them for a Law though otherwise ye cannot effect a reall Reformation of all the mischiefes and maladies which the Prelates in speciall have filled the Land withall yet forasmuch as you have thus publickly both for your own persons and as the Body representative of the whole State of the Land solemnly protested against all these things there is no question to be made but that God in his mercy and favour will accept of your will for the deed it selfe and will still preserve both you and your

posterity and the whole Land from destruction and will find out some other way for the rooting out of the Hierarchy according to those Prophesies in the Revelation the full filling of which cannot be farre off Now the Lord Iesus Christ guide and govern the Kings heart to the love of God and of his truth and let him clearely see how miseraby he hath been abused by those notorious hypocrites his flattering and Sycophantising Prelates and so take off and divide his Noble heart from them that being reconciled to God in reforming the manifold and horrible abuses which the Prelates to the dishonour of God and of the King have been the Authors and Instruments of and being united to his loving and loyall People as the Head to the Body in this Body representative the Parliament he may long raigne over this Land and all his other Kingdomes in much peace and prosperity And the same Lord Iesus Christ so unite the hearts of this Parliament unto God and to the King and among themselves and so guide them by the wisdome of his Spirit and Grace that they may sit and consult and conclude such righteous Acts and Decrees as may be for the honour of God and of the King for the advancement of Christs Kingdome and the establishment of the Kings Throne upon the Pillars of good Government with justice and mercy● in punishing the wicked and relieving the afflicted and oppressed Innocents as David in that Psalme penned for his Sonne Salomon a type of Christ prayed saying * Give the King thy judgemens ô God and thy righteousnesse unto the Kings Son He shall judge thy people with righteousnesse and thy poore with judgement He shall judge the poore of the people he shall have the children of the needy and shall breake in pieces the oppressors Even as the Heathen also said of the duty of Kings which was Parcere subjectis et debellare superbos To spare his Subjects and the proud beat down And as they said of Iulius Caesar Caesar dando subl●vando ignoscend● gloriam adeptus est Caesar by giving relieving and pardoning got himselfe a glorious Name And lastly the same Lord Iesus Christ power his Spirit of Grace and Supplication upon all the people of the Land that being sensible both of their own Sins and of the Nationall Sins of the Land as also of the heavy yoake of Anticrhist and the burthens of Egypt wherewith those Taskemasters the Prelates have pressed them down and broken their backs and made their lives bitter unto them they may truly repent and reforme their lives and cry alowd to the Lord as his People in Egypt did against their Taskmasters and pray incessantly for the good successe of this Parliament that it may be as a Moses sent of God in the ‡ doubling of their Bricks to deliver them from the Spirituall Egyptian bondage of the Prelates and dayly to pray for the King their Soveraigne and for his happy and truly Religious Raigne over them that they may lead a quiet and peaceable life in all godlinesse and honesty Amen Even so come Lord Iesus and helpe thy poore England and thy poore People therein Amen FINIS * 2 Thes. 2. 4. Histor. Concilii Trident. ‡ Conference pag. 176 177. Confe pag. 200. Confer. pag. * Confer pag. 183. * Mark 9. 32. Luke 9. 45. * Mark 9. 33 34. * Luk. 19. 16 17 18 19. Math. 25. 16 17 18 c. ‡ Psal. 16. 11. ‡ Luk. 6. 24 25 26. * Luk. 46 7. § Phil. 3. 18 19. † lam 3. 15. * Confer. pag. 176. * 2 Cor. 11. 13. ‡ 2 Thess. 2. 3. * Rev. 13. 14. ‡ ver. 12. * 1 Pet. 5. ‡ 2 Cor. 1. 24. ‡ Dan. 6. 7. § Dan. 3. * Euergétal Horat. ‡ Mat. 23. 8. 9 10. ‡ Bernard De Consider. ad Eugen. 4. lib. 4. c. 2. Phil. 2. 6 7 8 9 10 1. * ver. 5. * Sect. 16. ‡ Confer. pag. ●57 * pag. 157. ‡ pag. 220. 226. ‡ pag. 200. ● Tim. 3● 2. Tit. 1 7. * pag. 210 21. * lbid. ‡ Gal. 4. 29. * Confe Epist. Dedicatory pag. 376. * Ioh. 19. ● * pag 15. * Heb. 12. 15. ‡ Mat. 15. 13. ‡ Rom. ●●● § 2 Thess. 2. † 1 Iohn 2. * Ovid Meta. ‡ Dan. 2. * M●t. 15. 9. * 1 Cor. 5. 3 4 5. * Confer pag. 175 176. ‡ pag. 183. ‡ Heb. 5. 4 5. § Confer. pag. 177. † pag. 198 199. * ler. 23. 30 31 32. ‡ 1 Pet. 5. ‡ Hist. Concil. T●id * Confer. pag. 370. ‡ Revel. 17. 15. Vid Espencaeum in Tim. Gen. 10. 8 9. * Hist. Concil. Trid. * Eph. 4. 11. * 1 Tim. 3. 1. ‡ 1. Pet. 5. 2. ‡ Vides omnem Ecclesiasticum zelum fervere sola pro dignitate tuenda Ber. 1 Tim. 3. ● ‡ Confer. pag. 176. ‡ 1 Pet. 1 2 3 4. * Chap. 2. ‡ Confer pag. 298. * Confer. pag. 204. ‡ Socrat. Hist. Eccle. lib. 1. c 2. * ● Pet. 5. 1. ‡ ● Luk. 16. * Luk 21. 12. Mat. 24. 9. * Iob. 16. 2. ‡ Heb. 10. 27. ‡ 2 Tim. 4. 8. * 1 Cor. 9. 1. ‡ Iohn 16. 13. ‡ Act. 8. 26. 16. 6. § Mat. 28. 19. 20. † Act. 13. 2● ‡ Phil. 2. 25. * Revel. 1. 20. ‡ An. 26. 1● Col. 1. 23. * Mat. 28. 20. Objection Answer ‡ Gal 3. 2. Act. 10. 44. § Gal. 4. 19● * Aristot. D● Ortu in teritu lib. 2. * Rom. 8. 14● ‡ Ioh. 15. 7. § Iob. 16. 13. † Ioh 14. 26. * Isa. 8. 20. * Cap. 3. ‡ See the Prelates Relation Sect. 16. throughout § Esa. 8. 20. ‡ Ioh. 6. 53. ‡ 1 Cor. 11. 23 * Relation of the Conf. p. 136. ‡ As in Dr. Coosins Booke of Private Devotions or Canonicall Houres * Esa. 56. 10 11 12. ‡ Act. 8. * Verse 16 17. ‡ verse 8. ‡ v. 18. § v. 19. † v. 20. ‡ v. 14. * v. 22. * v. 8. ‡ v. 18. § v. 10. † v. 21. ‡ v. 2● * Con. pag. 261. ‡ Confer pag 226. 227. § Epist. Dedi● pag. 19. 20. * 1 Cor. 2. 9. 10. ‡ Rev. 13. 8. 2 Thes. 2. 10. § Mat. 24. 5. * Math● * Hist. Concil. Trid. lib. 1. ‡ In Platina of the lives of the Popes § Mat. 19. 24. * Psal. 82. * See the Apologie His Epistle to the Iudges His Sermons ‡ Gen. 3. 15. * Tit. 1. 9. * pag. 378. ‡ pag. 31. * pag. 80. 194. ‡ Lighius Hosius de expresso Dei Verbo ‡ 1 Cor. 3. 10. 17. 6. 19. 2 Cor. 6. 16. * Mat. 24. 5. Mark 13. 6. Luk. 21. 8. * Tit. 2. 16. ‡ Psal. 45. * 2 Tim. 4. 5. ‡ Hist. Concil. * Epist. Dedi pag. 20. 2 Cor. 11. 13. 14. Gal. 1. * Gen. 11. ‡ Ephes. ● 15 16. Socrat. Hist. Eccl. lib. 1. c. 35. Confer pa. 176. * Euseb. Hist. Eccl. lib. 2. c. 15 ‡ Ibid c. 14. ‡ Ibid c. 14. * Psal. 81. 1● 12. ‡ Psal. 5. 10. ‡ Psal. 2. 1 2 3 4. * ● Psal. 33. 10 11. ‡ v. 16 17. ‡ Pro. 20. 5. * Mat. 20. 25. Mark 10. 42. Luk. 22. 25. ‡ 2 Thess. 2. 4. 7. 3 loh 9 10. * Mat. 12. 25. ‡ 1 King 22. * Pro. 24. 6. ‡ Iudg. 6. 31. ‡ Iudg. 6. 31. * 2 Thess. 2● * 1 Sam. 22. * Psal. 72. ‡ Cum duplicantur Lateres tunc venit Moses 〈◊〉 2● 2.