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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A85941	The down-fall of Anti-Christ: or, The povver of preaching, to pull down popery. In a briefe treatise on 2. Thessal. 28. By John Geree, Pastour of Tewkesbury, in Glocester-Shire.	Geree, John, 1601?-1649.	1641 (1641)	Wing G595; Thomason E157_17	18,755	26

what ever need there hath beene of them Yea the name of a Lecturer with many is Nomen invisum an hatefull or scornefull name so many places have beene left to the sole care of unfaithfull and unable Ministers by these meanes Here then is need of redresse An Act to make it lawfull for the people to procure any orthodoxe peaceable Preacher to supply the defect of their dumbe Ministers whether he would consent or no and to cashiere all illegall impositions put upon Lecturers would remove this Let and be an excellent and needfull helpe to this Nation till by Gods providence it be unburdened of all unable and unfaithfull Ministers Let 11 Eleventhly the tendernesse and respect that is had of idle and unfaithfull Ministers They must not be called dumbe dogs as they deserve and the Scriptures intitle them though they preach not yet the people most not goe to heare in other parishes if they doe they are presented and censured and the Idoll-minister countenanced and commended for his conformity The lawfullnes of their Ministry must not be questioned but it s accounted a cryme and hereby they are fostered and hardened in their ignorance and unfaithfullnesse and never think of renouncing that calling they have no fitnesse for or stirring up those gifts wherby they might be profitable If therefore a Law were made that till every place were furnished with godly and painfull teachers it might be lawfull for people that had none or corrupt preaching to goe where their soules might find better repast this no doubt would make some weary of and others more laborious in their callings and be no small furtherance by the preaching of the Gospell The last but not the least Let of Preaching is the excessive and lawlesse power that Archbishops Bishops c. exercise over the Preachers of the Gospell whereby they sometimes prevent them sometimes limit them sometimes suspend them from the preaching of the Gospell and that sometimes for their meere pleasure sometimes by vertue of Canons of their owne making sometimes for not observing some extraordinary injunctions of their owne procuring by all which they not onely impiously but unjustly hinder the preaching of the Gospell First tho a man be made Minister by themselves and then injoyned to preach tho he be inducted into a living and so his duty to his flocke doth inforce diligence in preaching yet he must not preach forsooth after all this without a licence from them and that many times they will not grant especially to Lecturers but upon their own termes Secondly when they are licenced yet they take upon them to limit them that they preach onely in the fore-noone and forbid them sometimes to Catechise too in any profitable way And if any in conscience of their duty will preach or so Catechise as may be as profitable to the people as a Sermon they often threaten sometimes suspend them Thirdly tho they be licensed and by vertue of that preach on the Lords Day and holy-dayes yet if a man will preach weekely in his owne parish which is commonly called a Lecture that they will not suffer without a speciall Licence at least in word yea when they have licenced Lectures or at least their Predecessours they take upon them to impose burthens on the Lecturers to dishearten them or else downe-rightly pro imperio prohibit them and put them downe as some have done throughout their Diocesses Fourthly many times out of meere power they suspend Ministers that are Pastours of congregations for not observing their orders tho injoyned by no order of Law or opposing their practises tho against Law or preaching Truths consonant to Gods word and our Churches Doctrine because contrary to their errours and humours Our Lawes confirme the morality of the Sabbath condemne pastimes upon it yet many for not reading a Booke that counts the strict observation of the Lords Day Jewish and licenceth and incourageth to dancing and other light recreations have beene suspended their charges left destitute some excommunicated and the benefit of appealing One because hee will not read a civill Proclamation another because hee will not read an illegall prayer another because hee will not givemony when they required tho illeg●lly denyed them Our Lawes forbid the bringing in of any new Ceremonies other than by Law are established yet some for preaching against the bringing in of Altars and bowing to them some for opposing or preaching against Jesus-worship have beene suspended or inhibited from the worke of the Ministry Some have beene suspended likewise for not Catechising out of the Common-prayer Booke tho their charges have beene in great Townes that have exceeded the ordinary pitch of hearers Some for preaching against Arminianisme some for preaching against Images some for preaching against dauncing some for preaching at the buriall of a child dying before Baptisme and many other things when the humours of Prelates are crost At admittance they enter them with an Oath of Canonicall obedience and upon that think their word shall be a Law and if not suspend them for neglect of Canonicall obedience and what ever the cause is when they have past the censure it s in vaine for a poore Minister to struggle If he would appeale they have provided a Canon unlesse he subscribe his appeale shall not be admitted nor then neither many times But if it be what hope of redresse when they from whom he appeales or their fellowes must be his Judges who count it a pernicious example that a Prelate should be thought to erre in any of his censures or be put to the worse by an unruly Minister as all must be thought who submit not to them This is it that hath made so many precious able Ministers leave our Church to our great wound and disgrace to goe into other Countries preferring the meanest condition with freedome from this yoake above the sweetest under this grievous bondage Unlesse therfore care be taken to curbe this exorbitant power in vain will all care be for providing good Ministers for the Prelates if they daunce not after their Pipe after the impression of a Parliament is a little over will quickely cast them out at pleasure not will any other care to restraine this pernicious power be a sufficient cure but onely abolition of it If it be never so neere cropt yet the influence of some superiour orbe will make it sprout and ill weeds grow apace Experience it selfe may teach how weake a security from the evill of this power the restraining of it is if it have any root left In our neere Sister Church of Scotland when Bishops had scarce any thing but a meere name at first were meere titular could doe nothing without the Presbyteries and not onely their power but persons were under them yet in time by little and little they grew to that height as not onely to over-top the Presbyteries but to degrade them as it were and make them as cyphers and having gotten this power they