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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A91581	Queene Elizabeths bishops or, a briefe declaration of the wickednesse of the generality of those bishops of England that lived in the purest times of King Edward the sixth, and Queen Eiizabeth [sic], and some things concerning ours. Writ of purpose to keepe the Kings good subjects from being cheated of their loyalty, honesty, peace, wealth, religion, God and salvation, all which they had like to have lost of late.		1642 (1642)	Wing Q152; Thomason E180_23; ESTC R12758	7,533	16

The Rebels hanging a shepheard up by the thumbs The Rebels being drinking each man slew his fellow QVEENE ELIZABETHS BISHOPS OR A BRIEFE DECLARATION OF THE WICKEDNESSE OF THE GENErality of those Bishops of ENGLAND that lived in the purest times of King EDWARD the sixth and Queen EIIZABETH and some things concerning ours WRIT OF PURPOSE TO KEEPE THE KINGS GOOD SUBJECTS FROM BEing cheated of their Loyalty Honesty Peace Wealth Religion God and Salvation all which they had like to have lost of late LONDON PRINTED 1642. THe Worke of the begun Reformation in K. Edward the Sixths dayes was a glorious Worke of the All-glorious God by the instrument of men and such a Worke hath crowned the names of the Instruments thereof with eternall honour but who were they not those that pretended to be the onely Fathers and Builders of the House of God the Bishops they had pulled it downe and laid Jerusalem waft and when the foundation of a true Church began to be laid they were against it might and maine witnesse Martin Bucer in a Speech of his to King Edward Martin Bucer de regno Christi lib. 2. cap. 1. Your Majestie saith he doth see that this restoring againe the Kingdome of Christ which we require yea which the salvation of us all requireth may in no wife be expected to come of the Bishops seeing there be so few among them which doe understand the power and proper Offices of this Kingdome and very many of them by all meanes which possibly they can and dare either oppose themselves against it or deferre and hinder it And had not King Edward though young set his heart for Reformation more than all yea then the best of the Bishops it had never proceeded so farre as it did when Cranmer and Ridly pressing him to permit his Sister the Lady Mary to have Masse in her house the King having heard what they could say replied out of the Scriptures so fully that they were inforced to give place to his Replication and grant the same to be true Then they after long debatings with his Majestie in this manner laboured politiquely in another sort and alledged what dangers the denying thereof might bring to his grace what breach of amity on the Emperours part what troubles what unkindnesses and what occasions sundry wayes it would inforce unto whom the King answered willing them to content themselves for hee would hee said spend his life and all he had rather than to agree and grant to that he knew to be against the truth the which when the Bishops heard notwithstanding they urged him still to grant and would by no meanes have his nay then the good King seeing their importunate suite in the end his tender heart bursting out into bitter weepings and sobbing hee desired them to be content whereat the Bishops wept as fast as he and acknowledged the good King had more divinity in his little finger than they had in all their bodies Fox Acts Mon. p. 653. Edit 1631. Almost all of the Bishops all King Edwards Reigne even after Reformation were base dessembling Hipocrites Popish Athesticall fellowes for though they made a shew of true Religion all while that good King was living yet when Queene Mary survived they all turned bloody persecuting Papists except Hooker Ridly Frarrer and Cranmer The unholy men of that unholy Order of Bishops were such inhumane beastly-caniball-blood-sucking-persecutors of the true professors of Christs Gospell in Queen Maries Time that they made themselves drunke with the blood of many of our great Grandfathers and great Grandmothers which yet cries to God for vengeance either upon the Bishops and Papists who were the spoilers of it or else upon the Land for omitting in a Parliamentary way the execution of it Thus you have seene what manner of creatures the Bishops in King Edward the Sxiths time were Now to declare what the Bishops of Queene Elizabeths time of Ever-blessed Memory were too I thought good to cause to be Reprinted an Epistle of many Reverend and learned Divines and Gentlemen of those times viz. Mr. Vdall Mr. Penry Mr. Cartwright Mr King Mr. Prudler Mr. Paine Mr. Knightly Mr. Wigston and others to the then Bishops of England verbatim to a Coppy I have by me in Print Printed long agoe without adding or diminishing a word wherein they are notably set out to the Life TO THE SUPPOSED GOVERNOURS Of the Church of ENGLAND the Archbishops Lord Bishops Archdeacons and the rest of that order MAny and most evident have our declarations been concerning the truth of that government which Christ hath prescribed in his Word for the ruling of the Church which we have manifested unto you both by our writings and speeches as occasion hath been offered Never hath any one of you taken in hand to say any thing against it but it hath made his eyes to dazle as the clearest Sunshine whereby he hath been driven to wander hither and thither groping for evasions and yet could not escape but hath fallen into infinite most monstrous absurdities and blasphemous assertions as by their writings yet extant may appeare so forcible is the truth to amaze the gainsayers thereof and so pregnant is falshood to beget and bring forth thousands of absurdities and every one worse then other And will you still continue in your damnable and most devillish course Have you sold your selves unto Satan to fight for him untill you be damned in hell with him Have you morgaged the salvation of your soules and bodies for the present fruition of your pompe and pleasure is it because you see not what you should doe It may be so for many are so blinde that they grope even at noon day but me thinkes it can hardly be so unlesse you be they that have eyes and see not for the cause hath been by the blessing of God so managed that many Ploughmen Artisicers and children doe see it and know it and are able by the Word of God to iustifie it and condemne you to be adversaries unto the Gospell in resisting it But you thinke that government not so needfull and your fault but small if it be any in continuing your course begun The necessity of the thing to many wayes apparent both in that it hath so plentifull warrant from Gods owne Word as the course of this booke doth evidently declare and also in that the Gospell can take no roote nor have any free passage for want of it And the greatnesse of your fault appeareth by this that in so doing you are the cause of all the Ignorance Atheisme Schismes Treasons Popery and ungodlinesse that is to be found in this Land which we challenge to prove to your faces if we may indifferently be heard and whereof in the meane while we will give you a taste For the first it is cleare that you are the causers of that damnable ignorance wherein the people are so generally wrapped for that you have from time to time stopped the