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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A79944	The Clergyes bill of complaint, or, Submissive suite of one in the behalf of all the orthodox and great sorrow-suffering church-men throughout England. Exhibited to the most honourable houses of Parliament, against Brownists, Anabaptists and other schismaticks, shewing amongst other things, how the materiall churches on earth and our reverend divines are made despicable through their misdemeanors. Besides necessary annotations in the end, whereunto the reader is respectively referred by certain alphabeticall letters, from A to T included in severall lines to this work.		1643 (1643)	Wing C4644; Thomason E84_44; ESTC R11008	6,440	15

ra●k th● word of God If this be not with Icarus to she without wings I know not what that saving of Plantus means I do also passe over the Brethren of ignorance o what a breeding age is this of such Brethren to whom the white Garment which we call a Surplice is no lesse form●dable then the Coate of a certain Martyr his name I now rem●mber not mbrodered with horrible images of 〈◊〉 Spirits I touch not the Anabaptists nor E●thyli●sts the plagues of our times that use the best meanes they can to extinguish all humane learning and by whose judgements most unjust our Vniversities of Cambridge and Oxford the most renowned mansions of the muses do suffer as if they were the Seminaries of Heresie and the Apple of Contention Finallie I do not mention the Giant boldnesse of those that honor the house dedicated to Almightie God and therefore called Royall and Lordlie no more then the Stable of Augaeus and contemne Saint Ambrose Saint Augustine Saint Ierome c. Defenders and Champions for the Standard of the Orthodox Faith as so manie old men overcome with Dotage But lest anie one more perverse then others should say what man is this whence comes he and when borne who alone inculcates and reculcates these things even to loathing I call to witnesse the sound Doctors of this and the age past of whom some have propagated with life pen tongue and bloud the repurged Religion which we professe Behold first the blessed Cranmer Ridley Latimer c. in heaven now triumphing with purple Crownes of Martyrdom next the most absolute men Whitgift Archbishop of Canterbury and Hooker at lowest lost but of prime note and others in the dayes of our English Deborah and David numberlesse lastlie a thousand preachers of this age whose names J spare most worthy of double honour as well for profound Doctrine as for Sanctimony of life on either part did with one tongue pen generally affirme the Hierarchie Liturgy and our Church Rites to be most consonant and agreeable to that book of God If therefore any one do compare so many Divines of the greater sort with the upstart Smatterers in Divinity of the common flock rushing rather than entring into the Sanctum Sanctorum the Church of God can he beleive that those n. o. night Owles do more sharply see the truth than these Eagles Nay rather what man well in his wits dares preferre a very few English Geneva Preachers of different minde though otherwise not unlearn'd and whose authority in other things may be sound before so many heavenly wits of the Columnes or Staples of Christs Church Neverthelesse if they had beene somewhat more perverse than is meet and more unjust than those blessed souls do think otherwise let them faithfully compare the strong p arguments of those with the weak and slender reasonings of the dim-sighted Schismaticks For they not with sollid and invincible reasons but only with scoffes obloquies calumnies cavells and impudent reproaches and distractions do scurriously handle their cause and undeservedly desteine with many Criminations and Revilings Some the best in words Chrysostome in deeds Polycarps worthy to be honor'd with all kinde of duties and maliciously traduce their fame with more than a certain dog-like rage or madnesse q Yea more the most Reverend Fathers and Doctors of the Church whom all our Orthodox Divines do reverence with the name of Saint they vilifie as men unworthy of Sanctfiication And the materiall Churches being Gods peculiar Houses edified and ordained for Preaching and Prayer as in Gen. 28.13 to 18 Esay 56.7 and Mat. 11.13 which by our forefather of blessed life were set apart and consecrated to divine Service by the names of the holy Evangelists Apostles Martyrs and other most Religious men they most prophanely and irreligiously endeavour not only by scandalous speeches but by most abusive papers to unsanctifie or at the least unsaint and whom they cannot deny to be blessed Saints in in Heaven will not acknowledge to be worthy of that appellation some of them nicknaming and opprobriously terming as I have been credibly informed the Churches dedicated to the honor of S. John S. Matthew S. Bartholmew S. Mary and S. Thomas Jacks church Mats church Bats church Mobs church and Toms church holden also or seeming to hold themselves to be so just and faithfull that they rather deserve to be sainted before others and all Churches so Consecrated fit to be utterly demolished or converted to ware-houses and barns or such other prophane uses r O good God pardon them I humbly and earnestly desire that know not what they write thinke or babble Yet unto those men of desperate condition that under the vaile of zeale and piety both with a raging Pen and Stentorean voice either for the filling of their purses or the catching of popular applause have violated thy holy Orders be thou asevere Judge and revenger And you Heroicke Personages and Senators I being the meanest amongst the Students of sacred Theologie with all the reverence in my poore power do beseech that with conjoyned strength and associated hearts you would conserve the Church of England the most beautifull Spouse of God amended and defended aswell from lightharnessed Souldiers fighting not with Thunder but with Haile thick enough s as especially from her capitall enemies aforesayd that would put their Sieth ahlas too sharpe unlesse they feared your Thunder due to Church-Robbers deep enough into the Ecclesiasticall Harvest Heare you Magnanimous Persons I most humbly entreat what a Reverend and famous Divine perfectly well and readily spake of those Arch-hereticks and wicked wretches whom he knew without and within They corrupt saith he the Decrees of faith they break the Bonds of charity and practise both with evill speeches to cur in pieces and with evill deeds to rend asunder the seamlesse Coat of Christ that is our Church flourishing in all-maintaining Peace under most Royall Charles her foster Father amongst so many elsewhere most turbulent Tempests of Controversies The 32 Articles of the Brownists confession impiously cry out That either we must go out of the English Synagogue or perish And they doe both write and also thinke those things of us their Brethren which being christians and English Protestants which neither scourge-bearing Spaniard nor mis-beleiving Turke nor Antichristian Pope nor any Jew nor Judas himselfe if he were living ever dream't of neither barbarous Scythia nor the savage Irish nor fierce Hercania nor monster-breeding Affrick nor the Sun it selfe the Worlds eye hath beheld or the earth brought forth any thing more inhumane than the envy and cruelty of these men hither that blessed man You therefore the true Patriarchs of the English Israel and the most excellent Gentry thereof succor with your benignity the labouring Church opportunely quench the kindled fire-brands of Sedition suppresse the monstrous opinions now of late risen and in a word the rage of the Clergy scourging people and other Schismaticks who if they be once