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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
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

people up to his new rayle to receive 38. The divell if stoutly and manfully resisted will flie from us ever raging like a coward over those with greatest extremity that make the least resistance 1 Pet. 5. 9. Iames 4. 7. Thus doe these Lordly Prelates where they are stoutly and manfully withstood in their tyrannicall exorbitant procedings vsurpations and incroachments by men of courage there they for the most part flie giue over these ever fareing best that most manfully oppugne them Where they are crowched bowed and basely submitted to or faintly resisted or not opposed as late experience too well manifesteth there they rage tyrannize triumph most and make strange havock in the Church Yf Ministers or people then will ever be free from the tvranny bondage insolency rage or desperate oppressions the unjust illegall Excommunications Suspentions exacted Fees Visitation Oathes Articles Ceremonies Innouations Citations Procedings of these outragious divells made in their owne names and rights alone under their propper Seales without any Patent or Commission from his Majesties authorizing them Contrary to the expresse Statutes of 25. H. 8. c. 19 20 21. 26. H. 8. c. 1. 27. H. 8. c. 15. 31. H. 8. c. 9 10. 32. H. 8. c. 26. 37. H. 8. c. 17. 1. Ed. 6. c. 2. 1 El. c. 1. 2. 5. El. c. 1. 8. El. c. 1. 13. El. c. 12. or from their high Cō nission ex officio Oathes Pursevants imprisonments and Fines contrary to Magna Carta c. 29. the Petition of Right 1 Eliz c. 1. on which their commission is grounded 3 ●…oli and the Lawes and Statutes of the Realme as their very last High Commission it selfe expressely resolves and therefore add a non obstante these their ex officio oathes imprisonments fines and censures bee contrary to the Lawes and Statutes of the Realme Such is the Prelates Iustice conscience piety fatherly charity and obedience to his Majesties Lawes to foist such a desperate Papall non obstante into their High Commission Let then them manfully couragiously unanimously resist and withstand them to the uttermost of their power by all just warrantable lawfull meanes that may bee as loyalty to their King Countrey Charity to themselves and their posterity and Conscience towards God enioyne them and then these base-borne ignoble cowardly mushrom Lords and divells animated flushed enraged only by mens former cowardise faint-hartednesse and strange unchristian sordid basenesse will flee away shortly from them and never assault or oppresse them more in such a tyrannicall uniust illegall manner as they have lately done as Phil 1. 27. Iam. 4. 7. resolve and certifie us for comfort and encouragement 39. There is and hath been from the fall of Adam to this present a bitter perpetuall implacable enmity and warre betweene the old Serpent the divell and his feed and Christ the seede of the Woman his Church and her seed the elect and regenerate Saints of God Genes 3. 15. So hath there beene betweene the Lordly Prelates their officers spawne and generation and Christ and his true spirituall seede and faithfull members even from their first originall till this present witnesse the desperate enmity the implacable malice and horrid cruelty of the ancient Lordly Arrian Court-Bishops towards the orthodox Christians of old Of the Popes and popish Prelates to the true Ministers Professors of the Gospell and Protestants and of the ceremonious pompous Lordly English Lord Prelates towardes the Puritans and Precisians as they nickname them the powerfull painefull zealous godly Preachers Ministers and Christians since Of all which our Bookes of Martyrs with other Ecclesiasticall Histories and late Treatises give ample testimony which present experience cannot but subscribe to 40. The divell is a malicious malignant spirit whose malice is never satisfied ended mittigated or appeased but with the ruine of the parties maligned as appeares in Iob. 1. 13. to 22. c. 2. 1. to 8 Where he could not be satisfied with the destruction of Iobs Children Oxen Asses Sheepe Camells Servants and estate but he would have had his life too and when that could not be obtayned Yet he would torment his body with sore painefull boiles from the Crowne of his head to the sole of his foote So Lordly Prelates malice and rankor against Gods faithfull Ministers is endlesse boundlesse implacable they cannot be content to vex molest and trouble them with causelesse suites vnlesse they silence stop their mouthes when that is done they are never quiet till they have quite deprived them of their livings and Ministry stripped them of all their lively-hood cast them into some nasty Prison or bannished them the Realme When this is acco●…plished Yet is not their rage abated nor their malice extinguished euen in Prison they will keep an hard hand against them use them with all de●…pit and rigor depriue them as much as may be of all releife resort and comfort seeke out new occasions to vex and persecute them But if perchance they escape beyond the Seas and get out of their clutches then they persecute them as the high Preists did the primitive Christians euen into strange Cities and Countries Acts 26. 11. raising up fresh troubles and stormes against them by their Catholike agents even there to destroy them as they did against Mr. Tindall and other Martyres of olde and against some of our godly Ministers of late being never at rest or peace till they have either sucked their bloud or seene them dead in their graves A truth too apparant by many present Examples fresh before our eyes 41. The divill hath his Angells his Ministring spirits and spirituall Sonnes to doe his service advance his kingdome and execute his Commandements Math. 25. 41. Iohn 6. 70. c. 8. 44. 1. Iohn 3. 8. 10. Yea to perswade men to worship the divill and Idolls of gold and silver and brasse and stone and of wood which neither can se nor heare nor walke Rev. 9. 20. Math. 4. 8. 9 10. Luke 4. 5 6 7. 1. Kings 22. 28 29 30. So have Lordly Prelates their Angells their spirituall Sonnes and Ministring spirits to execute their severall Injunctions Commandments Their Angells To wit their howshold Chaplaines now knowne Apostate Angells from their first faith love and workes and their spirituall Sonnes To wit their Preists serving at their ●…ew erected Altars as themselves now pray write and preach who now call themselves the Sonnes of the Church to wit of the Bishops who like an Oven heated by the Baker send out nothing but black fiery Coales from the Altar with which their owne tongues and others lips being touched by these greate Seraphins Commandments according to their usuall formes of prayer before their Sermons insteed of crying out against the Idolatrous Altlas of Bethell as the man of God once did by Gods speciall Commandment in the very presence of K. Ieroboam 1. King 13. 2 3 4. they doe nothing else but preach and cry out for Altars setting up of Altars Images