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A10090	Vnto the most high and mightie prince, his soueraigne lord King Iames. A poore subiect sendeth, a souldiors resolution; humbly to waite vpon his Maiestie In this little booke the godly vertues of our mighty King are specified, with disscription [sic] of our late Queene, (and still renowned) Elizas gouernement: the Pope and papists are in their colours set forth, their purposes laid open, and their hopes dissolued, the happie peace of England is well described, and the long continuance thereof humbly prayed for.	Pricket, Robert.	1603 (1603)	STC 20343; ESTC S115229	27,405	47

Church vnto whom they administred greater titles riches and honor then T. Titus had who were the Bishops in the primitiue Church of which sort there must bee a continuall succession euen vntill the comming of the Lord Iesus yet notwithstanding if the Bishops now do execute no other office and that in no other sort then Timothie and Titus did then their titles riches and honours being but externall things lawfully giuen and lawfully receiued do not preiudice the worthines of their calling And about this the mēbers of the church of God ought not to contend For it is the zealous godly religious care in the execution of their office which doth onely dignifie the approbation of their calling And if they fail in the performāce of those godly duties to their place belonging then in the abuse of their titles riches and honors the fault consisteth And whereas many in these our times do take offence against the names titles wealthes and honors which our Bishops haue on them bestowed thinking that all such things at first proceeded from the Pope of Rome they are therin deceiued for since the time that christian Emperors kings Queens became the nursing fathers and mothers of the Church both titles riches and honors were by them bestowed vpon the Bishops in the Church who were notwithstanding obediēt subiects vnto their Emperours Kings and Queenes and were approued glorious ministers of the Gospell of Christ Iesus and all this was done before the Bishop of Rome did make himselfe the beast of Rome which now he is by vsurping vnto himselfe the sole authoritie ouer al the kingdoms in Christen dome Since which time both the Pope himselfe and all the Bishops vnder his Antichristian sea haue fled from the approued authoritie of Timothie and Titus in not being desirous to administer vnto the church but like tyrannicall Lords to rule and ouer rule the same and by their ouerruling vtterly to ouerthrow the church by extinguishing the purity of that light which shined in the same placing in stead thereof the traditions of men by their approbation of vnwritten verities And thus being desirous to raise themselues vnto a higher height then vnto them was limitted they lest to seeke the glory of God onely sought by peruerting the Scriptures to glorifie themselues aboue all the kingdoms of the earth and by this his pride the Pope hath made himself to be the open reuealed Antichrist as is before described But now my hope is that not any will continue to contend about the estate of Bishops as now they stand sith by their lawfull liberty of power they may receiue dignities on them bestowed by those vnto whō they administer which example was obserud by many christian Emperors kings many holy and reuerent Bishops long before the Pope was knowne to be that diuell which now he is And therfore let not any so contend about these things as if they thought the abuse of the Antichristian sea could extinguish or race out the lawfull liberty of power which was by the Apostles of Iesus Christ left vnto the godly Bishops in the church This may it please your Maiestie I haue aduentured to speake because I know some few vnlearned people in your land do desire to striue to much in this contention And though the authority of bishops be approued lawful yet al within the cōpas of your highnes kingdoms are your subiects and in their harts no doubt they vnfainedly desire to be so and do in their souls reioyce because they are so and your Maiestie shall find them reuerent godly wife learned men yet if there be negligent defects in any they will assuredly perceiuing that your highnes do looke into their course speedily by your directiō amend the things amisse henceforth not suffer that such vnworthy guides as are before described should by the laying on of hands be admitted to the ministry nor alow of any Nisi probatus vel Episcoporum examine vel populi testimonia Vnlesse he be allowed by the examination of the Bishops or testimonie of the people And the better to direct this course no doubt our Bishops will obserue the saying of S. Ambrose who speaketh thus in his exposition of Paules Epistle vnto Timothie Paul Chargeth Timothie before God the Father and Christ the Sonne and the elect angels Vnder this charge be commaundeth those things to be kept which pertaine to ordination in the Church least easily any man should get an Ecclesiasticall dignitie but inquisition be first had of his life and maners that a meete and approued minister or Priest may be appointed neither any to be ordayned whose faults deserue suspition for hee sinneth which or dayneth and trieth not This course obserued then shall your Maiestie ioyfully behold your Englands famous vniuersities send forth worthy men faithfully to labour in that worthiest work then should your highnes see your England furnished with the blessed number of those preaching pastors whose heauenly minds diuinely sanctified will iustifie the approbation of their calling by the inward testimony of the spirit of God Whose mouthes are touched with an hote coale taken from the fire of the Altar Whereby they are purged that the worke of God may be done by them with a pure performāce the approbatiō of whose ministry shall for euer ground it selfe vpon the foundation of that written truth contained in the holy Scriptures by the authority whereof they will like faithfull ministers truly teach the church of God arightly to vnderstand the worthines of hir peace in Iesus Christ vpon which corner stone the truth of their doctrine being established it will manifest vnto the world that they are sent of God and by the power of the holy Ghost are called to be the preaching ministers of saluation vnto all beleeuers Such as these are those of whome the Prophet Esay with admiration speaketh Oh how beautifull are the feete of those that declareth and publisheth peace that declareth good tidings and publisheth saluation saying vnto Sion thy God liueth These are the well commended watchmen which do continually with carefull diligence attend and waite vpon the Church giueth warning when the enemie approacheth neere vnto it or vnto any member of the same and so well they know all the publike and priuate enemies that they can describe the power likenesse craftes and policies by which and vnder pretext whereof The diuell with all his boares and beares and wolues and foxes seeketh to deface the beauty of the Church vtterly to destroy the same so wise these godly watch men are that they can prescribe and teach the true and perfect vse of euery powerfull meanes whereby the euent of each dangerous opposition shall soundly securely be preuented so that the church notwithstanding the force of all occasions shall at al times know how to enioy the safety of her peace These are the faithfull sheapheards who being

VNTO THE MOST HIGH AND MIGHTIE Prince his Soueraigne Lord King IAMES A poore Subiect sendeth A Souldiors Resolution humbly to waite vpon his Maiestie IN THIS LITTLE Booke the godly Vertues of our Mighty King are specified with disscription of our late Queene and still renowned ELIZAS Gouernement The Pope and Papists are in their colours set forth their purposes laid open and their hopes dissolued the happie peace of England is well described and the long continuance thereof humbly prayed for LONDON Printed by Iohn Windet for Walter Burre dwelling in Paules Churchyeard at the Signe of the Crane 1603. TO THE MOST High and Mighty Prince IAMES by the grace of God King of England Scotland France and Ireland defender of the Faith c. MAY it please your Maiestie when I consider my owne vnworthines I checke my selfe for my presumption in that I haue aduentured to write vnto a Prince of so great power and wisedom as is your kingly selfe but when I do remember that your Highnes desireth to be approued a good poore mans King then in the hope of your gratious acceptance I not repent the little labour that I haue bestowed in which the clearenes of my conscience beares me vp and makes me hope that in my vpright course I shall not in the least sort displease the mightines of your great maiestie I haue like a Soldier hent my selfe against your publike enemies and the foes of Christ in the iustice of which course my resolution hath resolued in life and death to doe your Highnes faithfull and obedient seruice your poorest subict my renowned Soueraign humbly entreateth that you would be pleased gratiousely for to accept this his trifeling gift and with your mercies eye to view the lines vnto your princelie selfe directed and if they shall procure your content your seruant then receiues the fulnes of his ioy and gaines vnto himselfe his most desired recompence with all submission he referreth himselfe and this his worke to be censured by your Maiestie vnto whome he wisheth Salomons wisedome Dauids heart and Ioshuas courage with al the best cōmended vertues which did attend on them that Englands king may be a mirror to the world and that the nations of the earth may wonder at the long continuance of your most happy and princely gouernment Your Maiesties poorest Subiect ROBERT PRICKET A SOVLDIERS Resolution MOst mightie Prince the Angelicall graces wherewith your kingly spirit is indued the diuine excellencie of whose vertues worthinesse your royal hand hath in heauenly lines vnto the worlde commended as an apparant testimonie of your sound belief arightly grounded vpon the corner stone Christ Iesus by the grace of whose asistance your sacred Maiestie is made to be the worlds chiefe Christian king so that in all the kingdomes of the earth that doth homage to the name of Christ there is not any Prince of so absolute a power being arightly incorporated in the proper strength of his owne inheritance that can cōpare with the greatnes of your Magnificence nor is their any king vnder the heauens great Canopie that standeth like your royall selfe so clearly sequestred from the Romane Antichristian leprosie the demonstration of which apparant truth doeth vndoubtedly prognosticate that God hath raisde your highnesse vp vnto the throne of royall dignitie that by the happines of your godly gouernment you may encrease beautifie the glorious kindgom of his blessed Son And that your Maiestie like a most valiant victorious and triumphant captaine vnder the banner of the worlds Redeemer Christ should with maiesticke power confront and vnderneath your princely foote treade downe all oppositions that by secret plots of diuelish treacherie or publike force of hostile armes dares but presume by their tirannicall aspiring menaces to threaten the ruine of the house of God And as the Church in Englande hath for these last precedent foure and fortie yeares beene ruled by a godly religious maiden Queene renownde Elizabeth of famous memorie vnto the glorie of whose vertuous gouernment may with a Christian consideration be ascribed the long-agoe prophetical wonder seene in heauen Of a woman cloathed with the Sunne in whome the Church was figured compassed about with the illustrate and shining beames of the Gospell of Iesus Christ. And vnderneath her feet the wauering and vnconstant Moone was put For by her meanes from forth the Church was cast the vaine inconstant mutabilities of Romes inuented straunge traditions And vppon her head a crowne of twelue starres stoode which did foreshew as was by her made manifest that from the doctrine of the twelue Apostles should deriued be the forme and order of her gouernment the brightnesse of whose illuminating light shoulde with an vncontrolled power from forth her kingdome driue the loathsome darknesse of that soules poysoning contagious smoke which flies from forth that hell-borne pit the gulfe of Antichrist And in despite of that great red Dragon hauing seuen heades and ten hornes seuen crownes vpon his heades By which is mentioned the diuel the Pope Spaine Monkes Friers Iesuites and Seminaries with the rabblement of that Antichristian power burning with furie agaynst the Spouse of Christ hauing made themselues red with the effusion of those streames of bloud which their cruelties caused to gush forth from the innocent bodies of thousād martired Saints yet maugre the force of al their hellish tyrannising rage diuine Eliza during all the time of her most happy blessed peaceful and victorious raigne trauelled in the desire of her religious care to be a gratious mother and a tender nurse vnto the children of the Church of God and in the continuance of her now out dated and yet datelesse time her subiects being fed with the Nectar and Ambrosia of a heauenly diet by the ministry of that euer-enduring truth contained in the canonicall Scriptures of the olde and new testament many thousandes were begoten vnto Christ and taught arightly how to ground their faith vpō the al and onely sufficient sure foundation of their redeemers loue That plain and simple people in her land could with diuine and godly wisedome maintaine the argument of their faithes beliefe against the cunning coosening sophistry of a pernicious Popish Priest But now that our late mayden Queene whose sanctified soule vnto her God brought forth so many Saints hath left this earth to bee a Saint in heauen whither should my eyes returne themselues with ioy vnlesse to looke vpon your Maiestie And in this thought my soule is rauished with a priuate meditation my Countrey England hath stoode as a glorious Cittie built vppon a Mountaines toppe whose beautie wealth strength and gouernment hath lifted vp it selfe with admiration to the world the temple of the house of God was from mount Sion brought and placed in the midst of Englandes territories And since this Island first conuerted was from Pagan Athisme it neuer stoode so dignified by the true profession of a sound religion as now it did by the instrumentall

swiftly flie as did the Princes of Salomon in their Chariots and them remouing commaund that in their place be set the siluer-sounding voyce of godly reuerend learned wise and preaching Ministers who by the power of their ministerie may cause the true vnderstanding of the peace of Iesus Christ to shew it selfe vnto the ignorant people of your land and that the onely light procuring beames of the most glorious Gospell may with a sweete reflexion beautifully shine and goldlike richly gilde all your poore and desolate darke and desart townes and villages that thereby all your English people may with ioy behold the beautie of Zion and glorie of Ierusalem shining in the Church This defect in Englands ministrie hath long go beene seene but not amended and our late godly Queene was in her time a straunger vnto this corruption that which in the Church did chiefly holde the too long continuance of some things amisse was the worde Improprio from whence Impropriations were deriued which were they backe returnd vnto their proper forme your Maiesty should quickely see a glorious Ministrie and till in this poynt reformation bee that men of godly knowledge and honest life may go before the flocke vnto their charge committed and by example teach the true performance of a Christian doctrine your Englands people will neglect the duties due vnto their faythe 's profession For though I know good workes can claime no merit yet as faith onely doth iustifie vs before the God of heauen so good works should serue to iustifie the soundnesse of our faith on earth agaynst all tongues that would desire to frame obiections against the puritie thereof And vndoubtedly most mightie Soueraigne in your Englande there is nothing of more strength that giues a powerfull libertie vnto the exercises of sin then the vilde example of vngodly Ministers Begin therefore most mighty Prince at the first with them and purge the Sanctuarie let it please your highnes not to suffer prophane and irreligious men in the place of Ministers to haue to deale with the administration of diuine and holy things nor once with their vncleane handes to touch the seales and Sacraments of our saluation For indeed they are no other then wormeaten trees clouds without raine dumbe dogges foxes wolues deceiuers destroiers which haue thrust thēselues into the church by some vnlawfull means their owne consciences can beare them witnes that in them their resteth no sufficient power to teach the church the way vnto the bridegromes loue for they rather make deuorcement betwixt the bridegroome his spouse they haue no right no vnderstanding no knowledge nor wisdoms skil to marry them togither in the vnitie of peace themselues are of all others merely strangers thereunto they are in deed the vngodly number of those intrusiue flocks which proudly and vniustly haue made themselues to seeme as if they were the brides companions but did the Church arightly know them as they are she would not then of thē enquire the way which leads vnto the place where her souls beloued feedeth nor would she endure any longer to be led by their deceiuing dissembling and destroying painted ignorance she would not assuredly be as one that turnes her selfe aside vnto the wickednes of their vngodly cōpany But whither am I led with such like words as these to speake against their grosse impieties Strange thing it is that such should be the watchmē in the house of God that better knoweth what an Alehouse meaneth and more delighteth to watch whole nights at dice and cardes then to spend one houre in the studie of diuine and heauenly things a paire of true rūning bowles are more esteemd with them then all those truth teaching bookes which should be the weapons for men of their profession Come honest neighbors and my good friends in such like wordes consisteth all the smoothnesse of their eloquence Let vs in a merry humor go drinke halfe a doozen pots of Beare this is the pith of their perswasion at the signe of the Cocke or some other place directly knowne vnto them There is say they as good heart-warming liquor as a man would desire to drinke and in this is comprehended the whole argument of their diuinitie Whereupon being once at their place appointed togither met they set them downe and fall to reasoning and all their bare-barly proofs being brought in pots they vse of them so many that at last growing all togither reasonlesse they are plainly ouerthrowne in the dust by the force of their owne argument in as modest order as I can most mightie soueraigne I haue described the manner of their immodest brutishnesse I will forbeare to speake of worse vncleannesse done by many of them But it would make a Christian heart to rend it selfe with griefe in the consideration of that iniurious wrong which is done by them vnto the church of god but now in the loue your Maiestie beareth vnto Iesus Christ let thē all be turned out that they may learne to vse their seuerall occupations find some means to liue without feeding vpon the soules of men For my owne part mighty soueraigne I affect not Browne Barrow Penry nor the schismes by them inuented I am a Protestant pro Deostans and do in my heart accord vnto your Englands gouernment by our late godly Queene established and doe account that the reuerend Bishops in your land are worthy instruments for the glorie of God and benefite of his Church so farre forth as they will with a religious care striue in their places to beautifie the Spouse of Christ by a conscionable and religious gouernment to which ende they are vndoubtedly ordained and there authorities approued lawfull for the Apostle Peter which commandeth that men of their calling should not rule as Lords ouer Gods heritage doeth not say neyther shall you accept of any such titles nor indure to be called Lordes ouer the flocke of Christ no though the Church of God shal in the loue and reuerence that they beare vnto you for their masters sake cal you their Lords their gouernors and teachers in diuine and heauenly things Surely out of the Apostle Peters words to me appeareth no such kinde of doctrine For I haue reason to resolue that the Apostle could not teach it to be a thing vnlawfull for himselfe or any other of the apostles or minister after thē to receiue liuing or honor at their handes vnto whom they should administer in the Lord. For the Apostle Paule in his Epistle to the Corint and 9. chapter doth plainly approue the lawfulnes thereof And howsoeuer he did forbeare to exercise his power for the good of the Church then being in her infant age yet notwithstanding it appeareth euidently that hee left that libertie of power to bee vsed in the Church And therefore if the Bishoppes since the time of the Apostles haue by their lawfull libertie of power wherof Paul speaketh receiued as giuen vnto them by the