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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A10177	A briefe suruay and censure of Mr Cozens his couzening deuotions Prouing both the forme and matter of Mr Cozens his booke of priuate deuotions, or the houres of prayer, lately published, to be meerely popish: to differ from the priuate prayers authorized by Queene Elizabeth 1560. to be transcribed out of popish authors, with which they are here paralelled: and to be scandalous and preiudiciall to our Church, and aduantagious onely to the Church of Rome. By William Prynne Gent. Hospitij Lincolniensis.	Prynne, William, 1600-1669.	1628 (1628)	STC 20455; ESTC S120656	100,630	151

A BRIEFE SVRVAY AND CENSVRE OF Mr COZENS His Couzening Deuotions Prouing both the forme and matter of Mr Cozens his Booke of Priuate Deuotions or the Houres of Prayer lately publ●shed to be meerely Popish to differ from the priuate Prayers Authorized by Queene Elizabeth 1560. to b● transcribed out of Popish Authors with which they are here paralelled and to be scandalous and preiudiciall to our Church and aduantagious onely to the Church of Rome By William Prynne Gent. Hospitij Lincolniensis MAT. 7.15 16. Beware of false Prophets which come to you in Sheepes clothing but inwardly they are rauening Wolues Ye shall know them by their fruits 2 COR. 11.14 15. For Satan himselfe is transformed into an Angell of light Therefore it is no great thing if his Ministers also be transformed as the Ministers of righteousnesse whose end shall be according to their workes Printed at London 1628. To the Right Honourable the Knights Citizens and Burgesses of the Commons house of Parliament now assembled RIght honorable thrice worthy a●d true Christian Senators your pious z●ale and zealous pietie in questioning some Popish and Arminian Bookes which haue beene lately published and I would I could not say authorized and patronized by some spurious and Romanized if not Apostalized Sonnes and Pastors of our Church to the inquietation of o●r State the h●zzard of our Church the propagation of Pop●ry and Arminianisme the be●r●ying of the truth the encouragement of our Enemies and the inexpiable blemish of our orthodox and Apostolicall Religion hath as at first inuited me to pen so now emboldened mee to p●blish and dedicate this BRIEFE SVRVAY and Censure of Maste● Cozens his cozening Deuotions to your Honours if not to animate helpe or further yet at least to ease you in the Anatomie and cleare Discouery of that virulent and popish poyson which is couched in the veines and cloaked vnder the Coule and Saint-like habit of those new Deuotions which now expect nay neede your doome and censure As it fares with potent States and ample Cities that they can no sooner want an enemie abroad but presently they finde and feele some foes at home so hath it of late befell our Church who hauing secured her selfe against the feare of foraigne Enemies by those sundry victories and glorious Trophi●s which her Tyndall her Fox her Iewell her Rainolds her Whitakers her Fulke her Perkins her Abbot her Whites her Willet her Morton her Vsher and her other learned Wo●thies haue oft-times gained ouer Romes Master-Champions and greatest Goliahs who proclaime vs Victors by their long continued silence is now endangered and almost surprised by Couzning and Domesticke foes who in fighting for her doe but warre against her her foraigne peace hath bred her warres and iarres at home and raisd a Troian Horse within her bowels which is like to set her all on fire at vnawares vnlesse some showers of soueraigne Iustice quench her flames Now blessed be the God of heauen who hath infused this Christian prouidence and zealous care into your pious hearts to single out these wilie and friend-seeming enemies of our Church before you haue seized on those rauenous and oppressing Wolues which prey vpon our State What Authority and right a Parliament hath to deale in Ecclesiasticall affaires to patronize Religion to vindicate plead its cause and to arraigne conuent and censure such who violate the setled and receiued Doctrines of our Church let Christ Iesus testifie who informes his Apostles and Saints that they should be brought not onely before Councels and Synogouges but likewise before Kings and Rulers that is before secular Magistrats not for temporall and State affaires onely but for his name sake and for bearing witnesse to his truth and Gospell Whereby hee admits that temporall Magistrates may intermeddle with Religion if occasion serue Whence it was that not onely Iohn the Euangelist and other Christians in the Primatiue Church were conuented before temporall Magistrates for matters of Religion but likewise St. Paul himselfe was by the very Iewes themselues accused before Faelix Festus and Agrippa for his very preaching and Doctrine before whom he pleads his cause and at last appeales to Caesars iudgement seate euen in these particulars of Religion which he would not haue done had not Princes and secular Magistrates a Iurisdiction and Prerogatiue as well in Church as State affaires Not to trouble you with the petition of Mr. Iohn Witcliffe to the Parliament in the time of Richard the 2. for the Reformation of the Clergie for the weeding out of many false and the establishment of sundry Orthodox point● of Doctrine in our Church his seuerall posi●ions That the Parliament or temporall Lords might lawfully examine and discusse the State the disorders and corruptions of the Church That they might lawfully and deseruedly yea that they were bound in conscience vpon the discouery of the Errors and corruptions of the Church depriue her of all her Tithes and temporall endowments till she were reformed And that any Ecclesiasticall person yea the Pope of Rome himselfe might be lawfully accused censured and corrected by Lay men do sufficiently confirme your Parliamentary praerogatiue in matters of Religion Not to recite the opinions and Resolutions of two reuerend and learned Praelates of our Church Iewell and Bilson who both acknowledge that Eccl●siasticall or Church affaires and matters of Religion both may and haue been alwayes debated determined and setled in Parliament as well in former as in latter ages Our Common prayer-booke our Articles and our Homilies in which the body of our Religion doth subsist which are all established and setled in our Church by Act of Parliament together with Articuli super Clerum 1. E. 2.36 E. 3. c. 8.1 R. 2. c. 13.15.2 H. 4. c. 25.4 H. 4. c. 17.2 H. 5. c. 7.26 H. 8. c. 1.2.27 H. 8. c. 15.28 H. 8. c. 10.31 H. 8. c. 9.14.32 H. 8. c. 15.26.33 H. 8. c. 31.32.34 35. H. 8. c. 1.35 H. 8. c. 5.1 Ed. 6. c. 1.2 2. 3. Ed. 6. c. 1.19.20.21.23.3 4. Ed. 6. c. 10.11.12.5 6. Ed. 6. c. 1.3.12.1 2. Phil. and Mary c. 8.1 Eliz. c. 1.2.5 Eliz. c. ● 28.27 Eliz. c. 2.39 Eliz. c. 8.1 Iac. c. 4.11.12.3 Iac. c. 1.4.5.7 Iac. c. 8. and sundry other Statutes both in the times of Popery when as Clergy men had the greatst iurisdiction and command and since for the establishing and setling of Religion the ordering of Ecclesiasticall persons and affaires and the suppression of haeresies and haeretiques doe abundantly testifie that the Parliament hath an ancient genuine iust and lawfull praerogatiue to establish true Religion in our Church to abolish and suppr●sse all false all new and counterfeit Doctrines whatsoeuer and to question and censure all such persons who shall by word or writing oppugne the setled and receiued Articles and Doctrines of our Church what euer some ignorant or