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A10189	A looking-glasse for all lordly prelates Wherein they may cleerely behold the true divine originall and laudable pedigree, whence they are descended; together with their holy lives and actions laid open in a double parallel, the first, betweene the Divell; the second, betweene the Iewish high-priests, and lordly prelates; and by their double dissimilitude from Christ, and his Apostles.	Prynne, William, 1600-1669.	1636 (1636)	STC 20466; ESTC S121078	71,933	128

they will have nothing or very little at all to doe with Christ whose sacred presence Either by the powerfull preaching of his word the Purity of his Ordinances the reprehēsion of their sines the approach or meditation of the day of death or Iudgment or by the growth or progresse of his true spirituall Kingdome under their noses is so irksome to them that it ●…ments them before the time make them frett fume rage vex chafe and play about them like madd men as appeares by the Booke of Martirs yea by present experience with out further evidence And if at any time after they are made Bishops they leave their former habitations and repaire to their Diocesse or bee translated from one See to another they commonly take with them seaven other spirits as bad ar more wicked themselves to wit Archdeacons Chauncellors Registers Appariters howshold Chaplaines Secretaries and private Informers against good men who reside either neere or with them in their Diocesse which are so vexed pilled polled spoyled corrupted by these Horseleaches and Caterpillars that the last estate of them when they leave them is commonly farre worse then the first when they repaired thither yea their Bishopricks too are usually so pared by the sale of woods renewing of leases granting of offices Reversions and such other usuall devices of these Ghostly Fathers before their deathes and translations that they leave them commonly in farre worse estate then they found them So like are they to the divell to make all things worse and worsethey meddle with The reason I take it of our usuall English Proverbe when any Milke or Broth on the fire is burnt and thereby marred that the Bishop hath been in the Pot Because they commonly marre all things where they come as the divell doth Seaventhly The divell takes men captive at his will and few that are taken by him recover themselves but with great difficulty out of his snares 2 Tim. 2. 26. So domineering tyrannizing Prelates imprison pursivant and take men captive at their pleasures against all Iustice equity piety pitty Lawes of God and man against Magna Charta the Petition of Right and all other Acts of Parliament for the Subiects liberties Take but one fresh instance for an example insteed of hundreds more on the 26. of this instant Ianuary one Knight a Glasse-man in London for repeating a Sermon in Norfolke was conuented before the Archbishop and other High-Commiffioners at Lambeth and tend●…ed an Ex Officio oath not warranted by any Law of God or man and in direct termes for ever exploded and not warrantable by the Lawes and Statutes of this Realme in the late Petition of Right 3. Caroll hee thereupon answered that he was not fully satisfied in conscience of the lawfulnesse of that oath and therefore humbly desired his Grace that he might be satisfied first in point of conscience errehe tooke it The Archbishop hereunto replied like a learned Prelate You shall bee satisfied I warrant you take him laylor to ●…he Fleet where he now is Alas is this the learned satisfaction the argumentation and sole Logicke of our Prelates to quiet mens consciences and remove their doubts Take him laylor away with him Purfevant to the Fleet and that against the expresse Petition of Right which enacts that no man hereafter shall be compelled to take SVCH AN OATH or be confined or molested or disquieted concerning the same or for refusall thereof Was ever such language heard out of our Saviours or his Apostles mouthes Take him Iaylor to Prison with him c. or did they ever give such satisfaction to mens conscience as this No verily This onely is the divels language law and spirituall satisfaction Who takes men captive at his will as these Lord Prelates now daily doe by his example And as those who are taken captive by the divell can hardly recover themselves out of his snares againe So those who are thus uniustly imprisoned and apprehended by them can hardly recover themselues out of their snares Such tenacious divells are they Eightly The Divell goeth about like a roaring Lion seeking whom he may devoure 1 Pet. 5. 9. Iob. 1. 7. c. 2. 2. So doe Lordly Prelates their Officialls Commissioners Pursevants and Apparitors especially when they ride about to visit pill and poll their diocesse only this is the difference that the Divell goeth and they ride and coach it about in state Ninthly The divell layes snares and trappes to entangle and catch men 2 Tim. 2. 26. Rev. 2. 23. So doe Lord Bishops lay baites snares and spies in every corner especially to intrap and catch betray or informe against godly Ministers Professors of Religion with all other sorts of men of whom they may gaine mony or advantage to themselves or Officers 10. The divell is and hath been a murtherer of mens soules and bodies from the beginning till this present Iohn 8. 44. Such have Lord Prelates beene in all ages from their very beginning to this instant as a●… histories our Bookes of Martyrs and present experience manifests 11. The divell is a lyar yea the Father of lyes and there is no truth in him yea when he speaketh a lye he speaketh of his owne Iohn 8. 44. Such are all Lorly Prelates in raysing up a false enormous schandals tales reports accusations and forged calumnies of all good Ministers and people in broaching false Doctrines Errors Heresies and forging many fabulous stories false glosses miracles tales and spurious Antiquities to support their tottering Hierarchies and vsurped Episcopall Iurisdictions in being trecherous yea perfideous in all their wordes and actions both towards God and men Especially to their Princes and those who have most relied on them as all the Italian German and English Stories Writers of the lives of Popes and Prelates and Mr. Tindals practise of Popish Prelates testify at large and present experience much complaines of there being no such grosse Hypocrites Machiavils Equivocators perfideous faithlesse persons breathing as some Prelates shewe themselves and that aswell in Divine as temporall affaires and transactions 12. The divell is an accufer a false Ruducing calumniator of the Brethren true Saints of God Reb. 12. 10. whence false accusers are stiled divells in the Originall Greeke 2. Tim. 3. 3. Such have malicious Lordly Prelates been in all ages and never more then now accusing all godly faithfull Christians Preachers and Ministers of the Golpell whom they and the Papists now terme Puritains to Kinges and greate Officers of State of seditions rebellion disobedience disloyalty treason schisme inconformity conspiracy vnlawfull conventicles and assemblies false dangerous Doctrines puritanisme and the like only for their godly holy just and blame lesse liues their powerfull Zealous freq●…ent preaching praying the discovering of or declayming against their idlenesses lordlynesses luxury persecutions tyranny covetousenes secularity Superstitio is Popish Doctrines Innovations and intollerable enchroachments both Superstitio●…s his Majesties Ecclesiasticall Prerogatives and the Peoples liberties

A LOOKING-GLASSE for all LORDLY PRELATES WHEREIN THEY MAY Cleerely behold the true divine Originall and laudable Pedigree whence they are descended together with their holy lives and actions laid open in a double Parallell The first betweene the Divell The second betweene the Iewish High-Priests and Lordly Prelates and by their double dissimilitude from Christ and his Apostles ESAY LI. I. Looke unto the Rocke whence yee are hewen and to the hole of the pit whence yee are digged IOHN VIII XXXXIV Yee are of your Father the Divell and the lusts of your Father yee will doe Hee was a Murtherer from the beginning and abode not in the truth because there is no truth in him MATH VII XV. XVI Beware of false Prophets which come unto you in Sheeps cloathing but inwardly they are ravening Wolves yee shall know them by their fruits Printed Anno M. DC XXXVI To the PONTIFICIALL LORDLY PRELATES of England MY LORDS Being put by your pieties from my Ministry function contrary to the fourth Commandement and Gods sacred Word To keep my selfe from idlenesse o●… worse imployments I have adventured to draw up and present this Looking-Glasse for a New yeares gift to your Lordships not to defame you God is my witnesse but to informe and so reforme you if possible by the Parallels therein comprised If any of the comparisons therein specified seeme odious as commonly most doe to your holynesse you must blame your selves not me who relate only your actions and compare them with the divells the Iewish high Priests Christs and his Apostles but was not the author nor occasion of them And if you amend them and become new men the Parallels will soone grow out of date Neither doe I involve you all 〈◊〉 but coniuctim in these Parities and disparities All of you are not alike culpable But some more some lesse and some of you perchance altogether innocent I desir●… therefore every of you to apply so much of it and no more to himselfe as his owne conscience upon serious examination shall ascertaine him doth appertaine to him Sure I am that the whole concernes you all as united And the greater part many of you as divided God grant you grace to make good use of it It is the first degree of reformation to discover your enormities to you This is my part not yours Loe I have here performed it The next degree is to repent and amend all things amisse and not to relapse That is your part by Gods concurring grace I trust you will speedily execute it If not As it was no rayling or slander in Christ to call Iudas a divell Iohn 6. 70. and to tell the Iewes that they wereof their Father the Divel Iohn 8. 44. So it will be no reviling or Scandalum magnatum in me to say as much to your Lordships If your actions prove you such or to tell you that you are none of Christs Disciples Sonnes or followers but the divells None of the Apostles successors but the Iewish high Priests really though not morally ceased in Christ of whom they were a Tipe Consider therefore seriously what is here written and view your lives and actions in this impartiall Glasse and the Lord give you both understanding and reformation in all things amisse which now are many that so you may be Christs and his Apostles followers and Disciples in verity as you are now onely in pretence as is here in briefe discovered I hope without offence Now least your Lordships should take any just exceptions against any thing I haue written be it knowen to you and all men by these ptesents that I am both able read●… to make good euery particular Parallel against all gainesayers by Histories testimonies and examples of Lord Prelates in all ages which for breuity sake I haue omitted the rather because your selves at leastwise some of your Holinesses haue experimentally ratified all and euery of them past all contradiction But yet to stop your monthes I shall only acquaint your Lordships what some of our Martyrs haue written of Lord Bishops Dr. Barnes our Learned Martyr recites That their was no great Clarke in the Church of God this 400. yeares but he complained vehemently against the pride and lewde liuing of the Bishops c. They say they be ●…he successors of Christ and his Apostles but I can see them follow none but Iudas For they beare the purse and have all the money And if they had not so great possessions I am sure an hundred would speake against them where now dare not one for lofse of Promotion As for this Article I will overcomme you with the witnesse of all the world you may well condemne it for herefie but it is as true as your Pater noster Iudas sould our Master but once and you sell him as often as he commeth in your hands But I would it were you could prove me a lyer and that you followed any of the Apostles saving Iudas only Yea I would that you were in certaine points as good as Iudas was c. Take it to you and make the best you can of it Yea hee goeth one straine higher I doe reckon saith hee of our English Lord Prelates your Lordships Predecessors that you are ten times worse then the great Turke for hee regardeth no more but rule and dominion in this world and you are not therewith content and I shall say the same to you my Lords but you will also rule over mens consciences yea and oppresse Christ and his holy word and blaspheme and condemne his word They call themselues in words the seruants of seruants but in very deed they will be Lord ouer all Lords and desire to be taken as Lords and King ouer al Kings These truths he sealed with his blood Iohn Frith our godly Martyr writes thus After that the office of a Bishop was made so honorable profitable they that were worst both in learning living most labored for it For they that were vertuous would not intangle themselues with the vaine pride of this world And in conclusion it came so farre that whosoever would give most mony for it or best could flatter the Prince which he knew well all good men to abhor had the preheminence and got the best Bishopricke and then insteed of Gods word they published their owne Commaundments and made Lawes to haue all under them and made men belieue they could not erre whatsoeuer they did or said And euen as in the roomes and steede of Moses Aaron Eliazer Iosua Calib other faithfull folke came Herode Annas Cayphas Pilate and Iudas which put Christ to death So now in steede of Christ Peter Paul Iames and Iohn and the faithfull followers of Christ we haue the Pope Cardinals Arch-Bishops Bishops and proude Prelates with their Proctours the malicious Minister of their Maister the divell which notwithanding transforme themselues into a likenesse as though they were the Ministers of righteousnesse whose end

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Occupie 98. l. 10. thus r. there l. 11. birelings l. 9. blot out are l. 13. humble r. tremble p. 100. l. 14. or r. 2. 101. l. 18. beats r. brats p. 102. 1. his r. this p. 103. l 5. insteed r. infested l. 13. been r. beire l. 22. 1 beseech In the Margine P. 9. l. 5. r. 414 p. 82. l. 3. 9. sublimiori columnae p. 97. l. 24. p. 14. this is omitted A LOOKING-GLASSE For all LORDLY PRELATES THERE is nothing now more rife in the mouthes of many great domineering Lordly Prelates then that their Lordly Episcopall Iurisdiction Pompe and Soveraignty is of divine Institution and that their Sacred Lordships are undoubted Sonnes Successors heires of Christ and his Apostles Which men might well enough believe did not their lives and actions most apparantly contradict these their ambicious windy words But if men may judge of a Tree by the fruits as our Saviour concludes they may Math. 7. 16. or of mens true Fathers and Pedigrees by their works as hee also resolves Iohn 8. 44. I hope these arrogant lofty Prelates will not bee offended with me if I make it apparant to them and others by their fruites and workes that they are so farre from being the Sons or Successors of Christ and his Apostles or of divine Institution that they are of their Father the Divell for his workes and lusts they doe the successors from the Iewish high Priests who crucified our Saviour Persecuted silenced imprisoned excommunicated his Apostles And so of Diabolicall ordination not Divine This I shall plainely and briefely demonstrate in two distinct Parallers The first betweene the Divell and Lordly Prelates The second betweene the Iewish high Priests and them The 1. Parallel betweene the Divell and Lordly Prelates 1. First the Divell for his condition and quality is an Apostate Angell who kept not his first estate and 〈◊〉 and abode not in the truth Iude 6. Iohn 8. 44. Such are all Lordly Prelates and Bishops both by their own exposition of Rev. 2. 1. 5. 6. Where they interpret the Apostate Angell of the Church of Ephesus to bee the Lord-Bishop of that Church alledging this Text as the principall Scripture to prove their Hierarchie of Divine Institution and by common experience For as Lord Bishops are fallen from the pietie holinesse humility poverty zeale meekenesse laboriousnesse heavenly mindednesse charity and equallity with other Ministers that was in the true Christian Bishops of the Primitive Church and now openly avow the Popish and Arminian Doctrine of The Totall and Finall Apostacy of the Saints from grace So most of them being made Lord Bishops to prove this doctrine of Apostacy true by their practise fall away from the pietie zeale holinesse meekenesfe diligence frequency in preaching and most other vertues which they had or used in verity or pretence before they were made Bishops in case they had any vertue or goodnesse in them before of which too many of them were never guiltie and become farre worse Christians ●…arre greater Persecutors and enemies to God his truth his people and more unholy coveto●…s lasie vicious in their lives then ever they were before as all histories and experience manifest beyond all contradiction And how many of our present Lord Prelates are turned open Apostates from the established doctrine and discipline of this Church of England to Poperie Arminianisme and Romish superstition and all the zeale the honesty the piety and goodnesse they had or seemed onely to have before they were Lord Bishops I leave to every mans experience to determine some of the best of them being so strangely warped of late that it made a great Popish learned Lord confesse openly at the Table this last summer That if ever hee altered ●…is Religion hee would turne Puritan for Puritans saith hee are constant to their owne Religion and Tenets but the Bishops so fable and wavering with the times that wee know not where to have them such Apostate Angels are they Secondly the Divell is an uncleane spirit void of holinesse full of all filthinesse and impiety and is hardly ●…ast out of those he once possesseth Math. 10. 1. 6. 12. 43. Marke 1. 23 26 27. c. 5. 2. 8. c. 7. 25. Luke 4. 33. 36. c. 6. 18. Acts 8. 7. Such are most Lordly Prelates in all respects witnesse their u●…cleane profane voluptuous impious godlesse lives and actions in all ages Of which all histories stincke and surfet to omit the present filthin●…sse of many of them And how hard they are to be cast out where once they get but footing our owne histories and instant experience too well demonstrate Thirdly the Divell is a dumbe and deafe spirit making some m●…n dumbe yet never any Preachers that I read of except Prelates or thos●… that ●…ould be such d●…b that they cannot speake and oth●…s 〈◊〉 that they cannot h●…re till Christ dispossessed them of these Divells Marke 9. 17 25. Luke 11. 14. Such are Lordly Prelates for the most part they are not only d●…be themselves very seldome or never preaching in their Diocesse or opening their mo●…thes in the Pulpit to teach the people whom they of●…er bite and ●…eare with their teeths then instruct with their toungues And also deafe in turning the deafe care to the cries petitions and lamentable complaints of those many godly faithfull painfull Ministers and people now most injuriously oppressed persecuted silenced imprisoned vexed ruined and deprived by them both of the foo●… of their soules bodies such inexorable mercilesse deafe Devils are they to

〈◊〉 Law to spurre up yea precipitate the people to al manner of disorder the profanation of Gods owne sacre●… day to the ruine both of their soul●…s and bodies Yea the ouerthrowe of all pietie and Religon silencing suspending excommunicating yea suing such in theire Consistories and high Commissions who refuse to puplish it though there be no Law or Canon for it notwithstanding Gods Commaundements and many late examplary Iudgments from heauen ●…or which some Prelates threaten to binde God Allmighty himselfe to the peace and good behauiour at the next Quarter Sessions and Assizes expressly prohibit it Soe like are they in this particular to their Spirituall Father the divill in perswading enforcing men to fall downe and worship them and their Commandments against Gods owne heauenly Precepts 19. The divill is a great enemy to the purity of Gods word and ordinances and whiles men sleepe soweth Tares among the wheate and good seede to corrupt and mar●…e them Math. 13. 24. 25. 38. 39. So doe Lord Prelates who sophisticate pollute depraue yea marre the purity of Gods word worship Sacraments and other Ordinances with their Idolatrous Superstitious Antichristian Ceremonies vestments genuflexions additaments mixtur●…s and humane inuentions And whiles many of our Spirituall Watchmen are a sleepe and silenced they have sowne so many Popish Tares among our wheate that little else but Tares appeare now upon the ground by that time Harvest comes If men awake not the sooner we are like to reape nothing but a crop of these pernitious Tares insteed of wheate being already ledd by some leading Prelates like the Sirians by the Prophet Elishah into the midst of Samaria 2. Kings 6. almost into the uery midst of Roome like persons hoodwinckt before we are aware of it as all whose eyes God hath opened plainely se. 20. The divell hinders Gods Ministers to goe and preach the Gospell to the people that they may be saued 1. Thess. 2. 8. So doe the Prelates now by suspending silencing excommunicating imprisoning most of the best and powerfullest Ministers and forbidding them to preach unto the people that they might be saved Yea even in the times of Pestilence and mortallity to fill np their sinnes allway ●…or the wrath is come upon them to the uttermost 1. Thes. 2. 16. 21. Where the divill cannot hinder the preaching of Gods word altogether there he comes and steales it away presently out of mens harts and mindes as soone as it is sowen that so it may take no roote and bring forth no fruit at all Math. 13. 19. So Lord Prelates where they cannot altogether suppresse the preaching of the word doe just-like the divell indeavour pr●…ntly to catch and steale it out of mens hartes by giuing them liberty on the Lords owne day as sone as ever the Sermon is ended to fall to their May-games Morisses dancings sportes and pastimes practise condemned in expresse termes long agoe by Clemens Alexandrinus Pedagogil 3. c. 11. Tertullion de spect●… lib. Chrisostom H●…m 5. in Math. and by all Divines of note since their age tot his as Hellish Heathenish Diabolicall impious and pernitious depriving mens soules of the benefit of all Gods Ordinances and by prohibiting them to meete together to repeate their Ministers Sermons with their freinds neighbors and families punnissing them for Conventicles if they doe it contrary to St. Paules St. Chrisostoms Theophelacts Caesarius Arelatensis Bishop Iewells Dr. Boyes Mr. Iohn Sprintes Bishop Baglies and all other Diuines Doctrine that I ever read or heard of Yf not to the Canons 1571. p. 16. 1602. Can. 13 79 who much vrget his Repetition of Sermons as a necessary dutie on all Christians though of divers families A stupendious straine of Atheisticall profanenes and desperate impeity which no Prelates ever aspired to before these of this last impious age in affront of al the Prelates and Clergie of England in H. 8. his dayes who prescribe and vrge it much to these Nouellers eternall shame 22. The divi●…l to worke his owne divellish ends and designes will sometimes transforme himselfe into an Angell of light though he be still a divell in truth 2. Cor. 11. 14. So the Prelates the archest Hypocrites breathing will sometimes doe the like putting on a counterfeit vizard of pietie and holinesse to cloak their divelish designes seeming Angells of light in shewe when as they are still meere Divells incarnate in verity as appeares by seuerall Popes by Thomas of Becket Anselme Edward Thomas and William of Canterbury with divers of our anuncient English and late out landish Prelates whose lives are at large related in Antiquitates Ecclesiae Britanicae Malmesbury Godwyn in the 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13. Centuries of Magdeburg cap. 6. 7. 10. of each in Crantzins ●…is Metropolis Catalogus Testuum veritatis Auealini An Boiorum others who manifest Lordly Bishops in all ages to have been the greatest Pypocrites dissemblers Schizmatickes Atheists Traytors Rebells Villaines and Monsters of impiety under the pretence of Sanctity that ever had existence in the world as you may there read at leisure and in Doctour Iohn White his way to the true Church Sect. 55. n. 9 10. Sect. 57. n. 9 10 11. Sect. 38. n. 45 6. and Defence of the way c. 6. 23. The divell is a proud insolent domineering spirit falling as most hold by this sinne of pride and arrogance 1 Tim. 3. 6 7. Isay. 14. 12 13 14 15. Such and no other are the Lordly Prelates witnesse all stories present unanswerable experience and the common Proverbe As proud as a Prelate they being the most arrogant insolent domineering proud ambitious Luciferian generation of all the Sonnes of men trampling all others under their Lordly feet when as if they were Christs members or disciples they should bee the lowliest and humblest of all othes both in heart and conversation as hee was Math 11. 29. An infallible Character that they are none of his institution but the Divels whose pride they imitate equall if not transcend and which sinne no doubt will shortly ruine them Prov. 16. 18. as it did their father the divell 24. The divell entred into Iud●…s Christs Lord Treasurer Iohn 12. 6. 13. 29. and moved him for 30. peeces of silver to betray his M●…ster Math. 26. 14 15. Marke 14 10 11. Luke 22. 3 4 5 6. Iohn 13. 17 18 19. c. 18. 3. So these Lordly Prelates for hopes of honour money or preferments sell and betray even Christ himselfe his Word truth Gospell Saints members to the Pope yea the divell himselfe or any that will hire them to doe it Nay hundreds of them both at home and abroad have for lucre honour and money betrayed murdered deposed conspired and rebelled against their owne Soveraignes Emperours Kings and Princes such notable treacherous varlets have they beene in all ages as sundry Stories manifest at large yea in former ages and this present too they insinuate into mens heates with p●…omises and