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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A70861	Prophecys concerning the return of popery into England, Scotland and Ireland by Arch-bishop Usher, Mr. Herbert, Dr. D. Pareus ... [et. al.]	Ussher, James, 1581-1656.	1682 (1682)	Wing P3675; ESTC R7049	20,153	35

interrupted innovated divided destroyed while the reverence of primitive customes and examples is so slighted abated by Popish innovators while the cords of Christian harmony and Church-policy are so loosened and ravelled on every side while the just honour and encouragements of learning and learned men are so much damped and exhausted while the Ecclesiastick Glory of his Nation which was the chiefest in being and owning it self as a true and Reformed Church of Christ is so much eclipsed to the great reproach of this present age and the infinite hazard of posterity which will hardly ever recover the honour order beauty and unity of Christian and Reformed Religion formerly enjoyed in this Church and Nation when once the Jewels of it the learned ordained orderly and authoritative Ministers of the Gospel with all their Ministry and Ministrations Come to be either trampled under feet by Schismatical fury or invaded and usurped by vulgar insolency which in time will rake them all up and bury them in the dunghil of Romish superstitions and Papal usurpations From the Deformities Divisions and Degenerations of Religion also the Falsifications Usurpations and Devastations which of later years have been made by the violent sort of Anabaptists and other furious Sectaries against the Unity and Authority the Sanctity and Majesty of the Church of England destroying its Primitive Order and Apostolick Government its Catholick Succession its holy Ordination its happy and most successful Ministry to the great neglect and contempt of all holy ministrations and duties of Religion I cannot but further intimate to your piety and prudence O my honoured Countrey-men that which is most notorious and no lesse dangerous both in religious and civil respects namely the great Advantag●s Applauses and Increases which the Roman or Papal party daily gain against the Reformed Religion as it was once wisely honourably and happily established professed and maintained here in England which is now looked upon by the more subtil superstitious and malicious sort of Papists as deformed divided dissolved desolated so conclamat for dead that they fail not with scorn to boast that in England we have now no Church no Pastors no Bishops no Presbyters no true Ministry no holy Ministrations no Order no Vnity no Authority no Reverence as to things Divine or Ecclesiastick Insomuch that we must in this sad posture not onely despair of ever getting ground against the Romanists by converting any of them from the errours of their way to the true Reformed Religion but we must daily expect to lose ground to the Popish party and their Proselytes there being no banks or piles now sufficient to keep the Sea of Rome from over-flowing or undermining us in order to advance their restless interests which have been and still are mightily promoted not by the reverend Bishops and the other Episcopal Clergy who are men of Learning Piety Prudence and Martyrlike constancy as some men with more Heat than Wit more Spite than Truth have in their mechanick and vulgar Oratory of late miserably and falsly declaimed but by those who have most done the Popes work while they have seemed most furiously to fly in the Popes face as popularly zealous against Popery and yet at the same time by a strange giddiness headiness and madness they have risen up against that Mother-Church which bare them and those Fathers in it who heretofore mightily defended them and theirs from the talons and gripes of that Roman Eagle and this not with childish scufflings or light skirmishings to which manner of sight the illiterate weakness and rudeness of our new Masters and Champions hath reduced those Controversies but with such a Panoply or compleat Armour of proof such sharp Weapons such ponderous Engines such rare dexterity of well-man-aged Powers raised from all Learning both Divine and Humane that the high places and defences of Rome were not able to stand before them heretofore when they were battered by our Jewels our Lakes our Davenants our Whites our Halls our Mortons our Andrews and the late invincible Vsher who deserved to be Primate not only of Ireland but of all the Protestant Forces in the world All these were Bishops Worthies of the first three seconded in their ranks by able and orderly Presbyters as Whitakers Perkins Reynolds Whites Crakenthorps Sutcliffs and innumerable others while our Regiments were orderly our Marchings comely and our Forces both united and encouraged Whereas now there is no doubt but the merciless mowing down and scattering of the Clergy of England like Hay with the withering and decay of Government Regularity and Order in this Church these have infinitely contributed to the Papal harvest and Romish agitations the gleamings of whose Emissaries will soon amount to more than the sheaves of any the most zealous and reformed Ministers in England By the Papal interest and advantages I do not mean the Roman Clergies preaching or propagting those truths of Christians Doctrine and D●ties which for the main they profess in common with us and all Christian Churches if any of them be thus piously industrious I neither quarrel at them nor envy their successes but rather I should rejoyce in them with Saint Paul because however Christ crucified is preached by some whom common people will either more reverence or sooner believe than they generally do the decayed despised and divided Ministers of England who seem to have many of them so small abilities and carrying so little shew or pretence of any good authority for their work Ministerial nor can they be potent or esteemed abroad who are so impotent and disesteemed at home But I mean that Papal Monarchy or Ecclesiastical Tyranny by which the Church of rather the Court of Rome by such sinister Arts and unjust Policies as were shamefully used and discovered in the Tridentine conventicle seeks to usurp and continue an imperial power over all Churches and Bishops as if there had been but one Apostle or one Apostolick Church planted in the world also to corrupt and abuse that ancient Purity Simplicity and Liberty of Religion which was preserved among Primitive Churches and their co-ordinate Bishops Further without fear of God or reverence of man opposing some Divine Truths and undoubted institutions of Christ also imposing such erroneous Doctrines and superstitious Opinions upon all Christians to be believed and accordingly practised as become not the severity and sanctity of true Religion adding to that holy foundation which was indeed first laid by the great Apostles and continued happily for many hundred years by the successive Bishops of Rome those after-superstructures not of ceremonies onely which are tolerable many of them like feathers making but little weight in Religion but of corrupt Doctrines and superstitious Duties as seem at best impertinent to true Piety but some of them are erroneous s●crilegious pernicious In somethings they are boldly adding to or detracting from the Doctrine and Institutions of our blessed Lord Jesu● Christ in other things they impose for sacred and necessary