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A05113	Mr Henry Barrowes platform Which may serve, as a preparative to purge away prelatisme: with some other parts of poperie. Made ready to be sent from Miles Mickle-bound to much-beloved-England. Togither with some other memorable things. And, a familiar dialogue, in and with the which, all the severall matters conteyned in this booke, are set forth and interlaced. After the untimely death of the penman of the foresaid platforme. & his fellow prisoner; who being constant witnesses in points apperteyning to the true worship of God, and right government of his Church, sealed up their testimony with their bloud: and paciently suffred the stopping of their breath, for their love to the Lord. Anno 1593.	Barrow, Henry, 1550?-1593.	1611 (1611)	STC 1525; ESTC S122418	73,650	164

Faultes escaped Pag Lin. Faultes Corrections 80. 9. in them and were in them 219. 14. Tius Titus 230. 25. ● that Dioceses were ● 231. 11. 25 85 241. 33.   ture be subverted 71. in margin Act. 3 6. Act. 6.3 163. in marg Mat. 86. Math. 16. The Christian Reader will pardon the rest Mr HENRY BARROWES PLATFORM Which may serve as a Preparative to purge away Prelatisme with some other parts of Poperie Made ready to be sent from Miles Mickle-bound to Much-beloved England Togither with some other memorable things And A familiar Dialogue in and with the which all the severall matters conteyned in this booke are set forth and interlaced After the untimely death of the penman of the foresaid Platforme his fellow prisoner who being constant witnesses in points apperteyning to the true worship of God and right government of his Church sealed up their testimony with their bloud And paciently suffred the stopping of their breath for their love to the LORD Anno 1593. Printed for the yeare of better hope To such as are already true Christians and all that desire so to be health salutation in the Authour of salvation THis Conference or Discourse between Desiderius and my self Togither with other things of excellent argument worthily beloved vvas for your sakes by our mutual consent put to printing Reape therefore the benefite thereof and defend it from the unjust cavils of all that set against the same And for the literall faults therein amend with the pen I pray you as they are espied in the reading And if in the materials all thinges hang not well togeither in your sense consider them better by the word of God and what agreeth therwith cast not away neither receive any thing that dissenteth therefrom But try all things and keepe that which is good M. M. TAke wings o Booke and fly abroade with speed The things in thee are good for men to reed Which haue not seen what thou canst to them show And what thou speakst is meete for all to know Who would discern some things amiss that bee Within the Land of our Nativitee To such thou shalt be iudged wondrous kinde Because thou canst right well informe their minde In such a sort as they shall bettred bee And well advantag'd by the things in thee Yet foes enough thou shalt be sure to finde 'Mong Priests that have the soules of many pinde And Prelates too which very seldome preach Or suffer those that carefully would teach Gods truth and give Christs sheep their wholsome food All such Restreyners make the sinfull brood And of that Ranck not one of them is found That feeds the flock in wholsome pasture ground If such bring food they poison give withall Which proveth worse then wormwood mixt with gall They suffer not the milk of Gods word pure To work vpon the soules of men a cure Though sincere milk therof that some is it Which makes for God the soule of each man fit And thou directs them in no other wise Nor wouldst haue any follow such mens guise As will not to that wholsome Word bend care And all his pathes unto Iehovahs seare A Dialogue or Discourse passing betweene Desiderius and Miles Micklebound by occasion of their old love and new meeting Miles Micklebound RIght glad am I to see you Desiderius but who ever would haue thought to haue met you here in these partes Some great weighty cause doubtlesse hath occasioned you to come hither But I praye tell me how doe all our friends in England and what good newes bring you from thence Desiderius It may be thought a wonder to see your selfe here my much beloved Miles for it was reported that you were at Rome that you were the Popes scholer c. But I am glad to see you so farre from his citie of seven hills where his seat is And that putts mee in better hope concerning you then others have Miles For certayn Desiderius I am and alwaies have been furder off and more opposi●e to the Popes religion and learning then now distant frō his citie and seate where I never yet came not purpose to come vnlesse I should happen to long for fyre and fagot Desiderius That increaseth my hope to bring like joy unto your selfe know this that our friends in England are generally well as I see you are whereof I am not a litle joyeux Miles And how goes it with religion Are there not good hopes for reformation Desiderius The hopes that way are as fewe small as ever they were Howbeit that which you call reformation others doe count deformation Miles But how then is it with the Prelats Are they so proud or doe they dominiere beare like sway as heretofore Desid Yea doubtlesse For there are none that are put down more then the Puritans as they are called nor none that rise up faster then the Prelates as you call them Miles Then in deed there can be no present hope for Bishops and the abuses brought in by them are a bane to the beawtie of true religion and doe greatly hinder all sound and sincere walking therein Desider Multitudes are otherwise minded then you are and many wiser then I doe think them to be the very pillars of the Church and chiefe upholders of true religion And what should I then think of the matter Miles Not as the multitude doe for then you think erroneously And if these be the pillars or propps of any Church it must needs be the church of Antichrist For wee finde no warrant in all the scriptures that their offices callings or administrations haue any place power or right in the Church of Christ as shal plainly appeare hereafter But where you seem to let your judgment rely upō the multitude and to approve of that which wiser then your self doe justify you are taught not to follow a multitude to doe evill Exod. 23. And the divine proverbe sheweth that it is as great an evil to justify the wicked as to condemne the innocent But as woe is pronounced to him that calls good evil so likewise to him that cal leth evil good Esa. 5.29 For your judgeing of matters in case of religion you ought to look to the lawe and word of God and not to the wisdome of man For the wisdome of the wise men of this world is foolishnes with God and the wisdome of God is foolishnes with them The Philosophers and other wise men could never by their worldly wisdome atteyne to the right knowledge of God heavenly things This apperteyneth to the foolish things of the world which God hath chosen to confound the wise As sayth the Apostle 1 Cor. 1. Read the whole chapter at your leasure for your better information But I pray you how sayd you that it was with the Puritans Desiderius I observe that there are none more detest●d mocked troden down then are they nor none more upholden then those that you so much dislike even

mysterie of iniquit● sprūg up by degrees til it came to that height and our Englih Prelates doe helpe to hold 〈◊〉 up still But God that condemneth it wil bring it downe But I hope that some others bette● furnished with bookes abilitie leisure the●● I either am or can possibly be in this pilgrimage from my native country will by this occasion both conferre the prophesies in the holy scriptures and gather togeither a Catalogue of writers as a cloude of witnesses for further manifestatiō of the truth against these remnants of the Antichristian race although very much is done that way already For touching the Ministerie of Arch and Lordbishops aforementioned with other ministeries under them That their offices were never appointed by Christ but is a new ministerie devised by man both in their office entrance administration and maintenance and ought not therefore to be continued the scriptures haue shewed such light as haue filled our land full of proofe 〈◊〉 severall workes aswel of the people called Brow●ists as of the forwarder sort of Ministers And it is certaine that all such offices are of evill note of very bad esteem in all well reformed Churches in the world Also the holy Martyrs and writers old and new haue condemned them Mr Chadderton of Emmanuel Colledge in Cambridge hath truely taught and confidently affirmed in his Sermon on Rom. 12. That the Church speaking of the Church of England abhorreth and loatheth the things which are abounding in her as namely Ach Bishops Lord Bishops Deanes Arch Deacons Chancellors Commissaries Officials and all such as are rather mēbers and parts of the whore and strumpet of Rome then of the pure virgine and spouse of the immaculate lambe Therfore saith hee shee will have these if they will needs bee of her body to shewe that they be created of God and united unto her by Christ her head If they will needs be of the heavenly Ierusalem let them shew that they came downe from heaven and who gave them from thence For the Apostles never knew them Sion hath not heard of them Ierusalem which is above will not acknowledge them The watchmen no doubt being a sleepe they haue crept into the citie of the Lord. But now they are espied now the church complaineth of them both because they haue no title nor interest in it as publike mēbers As also because of the length of their unlawfull swords they keepe out the lawfull members of the body Wee therefore which are the Lords remembrau ●ers must never s●ffer him to rest till he hath expelled out of I●rusalem wherin they haue no right to exercise 〈◊〉 unlawful authoritie Thus farre goeth hee ●e●e verbatim And it were endlesse to set downe wh●● others haue writtē in this kinde agreing therewith Wicl●ffs Tenth Article Mr Fox who wrote th●● Actes Monuments of the Church maketh to b● this That there be 12. Disciples of Antichrist Popes Cardinals Patriarks Archbishops Bishops Arch●● deacons Officials Deanes Monkes Chanons Fryers Pardoners And Mr Bales descendeth to the lower degrees of popish ministers even to Sir Iohn the parish priest which togither with the former he calleth the names of blasphemie written upon the head of the beast Mr Barnes in the 6. Art for which he was condemned said I will never beleeve nor can ever beleeve that one man may by the lawe of God be Bishop of 2. or 3. Cities yea of a whole Countrie for that is contrary to the doctrine of Paul who writing vnto Titus commandeth that he should ordeyne a Bishop in every town Hooper on the 8. Cōmandement sheweth that one man may nor haue two livings then he addeth But this is clawe me and I will clawe this If the Bishop permit not their Priestes to haue two Benefices ●● might likewise happen the Priests would say that the Bishop should be Bishop but of one citie and indeed so it should be and till Magistrates bring them to that pointe it shall be as possible to heare a Bishop wade godly and simply through the scripture in all case of religion as to drive a Camel through the eye of a needle c. The foresayd Christians called Brownists whom I finde very sound in these things have in their Apologie pag. 50. prooved by 8. good Reasons That the Hierarchy Ministerie of Popes Archbishops Lordbishops Suffragans Deanes Archdeacons are Antichristian And then by 12. sufficient Reasons moe doe proove that the Hierarchy and Ministerie aforesayd may not be set over the Church of Christ nor reteyned therein For which I refer you to the said Apology which you may procure amongst the people of that profession at London or else where It were tedious to tell the names of all the writers against the foresayd Hierarchy and Ministerie of Archbishops and the rest of that rable but endlesse to set downe all that is written concerning them and their princelynes I will here onely insert a few moe testimonies of the ministers themselves who being of one church with the chiefe ministers their own masters may better be credited against them then mere opposites which are not of them but separated from them And first for Henoch Clapham who in ans to the Bishops Arguments sayth in the 2. section of the 2. part of his Survey of the Church Their cock sure Argument as they take it is this Christ promised to be with his Apostles vnto the end of the world at the giving of the commission Mat. 28. 19.20 And Timothee is charged to keepe the commandement pure vnto the coming of Christ But none of those persons should live unto the end Therefore he spake to some other in their persons who must be as were the Apostles and E●angelists Lords over Pastors Churches And who should these be but such Lord Bishops as themselves who haue and occupy jurisdiction power over all the Churches and ministers of England If this be true that our Bishops be Apostles for if the successors should have had an other name the scripture would haue registred it If I say they be Apostles then England hath not dignified them truely in saying The Lord Bishop of such a place who rather should haue sayd My Lord Apostle of London My Lord Apostle of Lincolne Even as it was sayd Peter the Apostle of the circumcision and Paul the Apostle of the gentiles Then likewise England should for that great blessing haue been more bound to praise God she having more Lord Apostles of her owne then was in the whole world unto Christ who sent forth so fewe as twelve Paul with Barnabas They being for the most part men of occupations but these being men of state and stately Lords But before we admit them for Apostles let us compare them with Christs The first were elected and ordeyned to their office eyther by Christ the head or togither by some particular Church But these eyther by A Prince or by the Cannons of that sea confirmed by an Archbishop Secondly they

or any member thereof receive or obey other constitutions and traditions of men or Angels without incurring the wrath of God That this Church is the bride and body of Christ the citie house of the great King whereinto may enter no profane person o● impenitent sinner but onely such as by faith and ●●pentance have washed away the guilt of their synnes in the blood of the lambe are borne a new by the seed of the word by a willing covenant made with the Lord are under his goverment scepter of grace and so doe lead godly and christian lives That in this House every servant and member hath a like inter●st and libertie in the word of God by the power thereof to reprove cōdemne slay sin in themselves ●●l other men and are all bound to watch o●●er exhort and admonish one another even their shepherds leaders if need so require That this Church hath power from Christ to censure reprove and cast out of their fellowship all obstinate offenders and wicked men lest by any such the whole body should be infected and perish That they also haue authoritie to elect call and set over them watchmen and shepherds of their soules to break unto them the bread of life whom they are bound again to susteyne with all their temporall goods so farte as their abilities extend and the Ministers duetie shall require That whensoever the whole Church or any member therof wilfully transgresseth the law of the Lord and persisteth obstinate and incorrigible in any sin refusing to heare the voice of Christ they will cease to be the people and servants of God neither can be so esteemed untill they repent That all that wil be saved must joyne themselves to some particular Church of Christ to live therwith in faithful obedience peace order and love forsaking all false and adulterate synagogues of which sort we affirme the ordinarie parish assemblies of our woesull countrie to be and therfore haue abandoned them for these weighty causes 1. They are not a cōmunion of Saints called and severed from the world but doe consist of all sorts of men reteyning a multitude of irreligious profane Atheists Blasphemers Idolaters whoremongers and all manner wicked persons within her Majesties dominions 2. They haue not been wonne unto th● faith by the preaching of the gospell ney●ther ever made willing covenāt to walk up rightly before the Lord but were drawen by civil force in the beginning of her Majestie reigne 3. Their publick worship of God in thei● assemblies is false and idolatrous translate● out of the Popes blasphemous Masse book the cursed inventiō of the man of Sinne imposed both upon the Lord and them 4. The Ministery of Lordly Lord Arch bishops Bishops Deanes Arch Deacons c Parsons Vicars Curates c is not the true Ministery of Christ in his testament neithe● accordeth thereto in name office calling entrance administration or maintenance bu● is the same which was found and left in the Popes Church 5. Their Church is in bondage bea●eth the yoke of Antichrist the burdenou● traditions ceremonies injunctions of their Lords the Bishops their courts and canons 6. They are obsti●ate and incorrigible in these and other their transgressions and wil● not be brought unto the true obedience o● Christ and practise of his lawes but speake●vil of the trueth and witnesses of the same and of them some they haue killed many imprisoned all persecuted banished and blasphemed Therfore this people in this fearful estate cannot in any just intendement be estemed the childrē or church of God Neverthelesse the firme foundation of God standeth having this 〈◊〉 seate the Lord knoweth those that a●● his and let every one 〈◊〉 naming the name of the Lord depart frō iniqu●y● 2 Tim. 2.19 Delivered to Mr Wood a Scottish preacher in Ireland anno 1594. The humble most earnest and lamentable Complaint Supplication of the persecuted proscribed Church and servants of CHRIST falsely called Brownists Vnto the high Court of Parliament THe most high GOD possessor of heaven and earth bringeth at this present before your Lordships and Wisdomes Right Honourable his owne Cause his owne People his owne sworne and most trecherous Enemies togither with the most shamefull usage of his truth and servants that ever hath been heard of in the dayes of Sions professed peace and tranquility His Cause and People he offereth unto your confideration and defence in our Profession and Persons His Enimies and their outrage against his truth and servants in the persons bloody proceedings of the Prelates of this Land and their Complices Wee profosse the same faith and truth of the Gospell which her Majestie which your Honours this whole Land and all the reformed Churches under Heaven this day doe holde and mainteyne Wee goe beyond them being our onely fault even in the judgement of our tyrannicall and most savage Enimies in the detestation of all Popery that most fearfull Antichristian Religion and draw nearer in some pointsby our practise unto CHRISTS holy order and institution This is our Faith this is our Cause right Honourable yea the Lords Cause in our sinfull hands For the profession maintenance of which Faith the forenamed Enemies of GOD deteyne in their hands within the Prisons about London not to speak of other Gaoles throughout the Land about three score twelve persons Men woemen yong and old lying in cold in hunger in dungeons and in yrons Of which number they haue taken the Lords day last being the 3. of this 4. Moneth 1592. about some 56. persons hearing the word of God truly taught praying praysing God for his favors shewed unto us unto her Majestie your Honours and this whole Land and desiring our God to be mercyfull to us unto our gracious Prince countrey Being imployed in these holy actions and no other as the parties who disturbed them can testifie they were taken in the very place where the persecuted Church and Martyrs were enforced to use the like exercises in Queene Maries dayes The former number are now unbaleably cōmitted by the Prelate or Bishop of London unto close for the most part severall prysons As Bryde-well the Lymboe or Dungeon in Newgate the Feete the Marshalsee the Counters the Clyncke the Gatehouse the Wotte-Lyon c. Wherein wee willingly acknowledge the lott and inheritance in this life of our Fore-Fathers and Brethren the holy Martyres of the former age and the entayled A●eldama or bloody succession of the See of London and that whole lynage Well heere our brethren lye how long Lord holy and true thou knowest in Dungeons in hunger in colde in nakednes and all outward distresse For these bloody men will allow them neyther meat drink fyre lodging nor suffer any whose harts the Lord would stirre up for their releife to haue any accesse unto them purposing belike

appeare before in part Their Petitions also which I shewed you do manifest their hard intreaty sundry wayes and how that many of them through the envie of the Prelates haue been made to end their dayes in loathsome prisons And besides that six of them were executed unto the death who sealed up their testimony with their bloud and most chearefully left this world to goe unto Christ their Redeemer The 6. executed were these Mr Barrowe and Mr Greenwood at Tyburne Mr Iohn Penrie at Thomas a Waterings by Londō Mr William Dennys at Thetford in Norffolk And two others Coppin and Elias at S. Edmunds Bury in Suffolk And thus severall places of the land are sta●ed w●●h the bloud of Gods Saints whose death is precious in his eyes Ps. 116.15 King Saul who slew the Gibeonites had a better colour for that his fact then can be set upon the killing of these Christians For they were of the remnant of the Amorites whom he might lawfully haue destroyed yet when peace was made with them wherby the Lord gave them life Saul greatly sinned in putting them to death And for this the Lord brought famine upon the land in the dayes of David Wherupon that righteous King sayd unto them that remayned What shall I doe for you and wherwith shall I make the atonement that ye may blesse the inheritance of the Lord To whom they answered We will have no silver nor golde of Saul nor of his house neyther for us shalt thou kill any man in Israel And he sayd what ye shall say that will I doe for you Then they answered the King The man that consumed us and that imagined evill against us so that we are destroyed from remayning in any coast of Israel let seven men of his sonns be delivered unto us and we will hang them up unto the Lord in Gibeah of Saul the Lords chosen And the King sayd I will give them c. 2 Sam. 21. The dayes may come that God may also stirre up this or some other Prince like David to call into question the murdering not of the remnant of the Amorites but of the homeborne subjects of our own land who deserved to live rather then the prelates themseves that caused them to die But when justice by man or judgment from God doe take place these bloudy men will feele the reward of their iniquitie For Haman was not more enviously bent against the Iewes for the rooting out of them then our Haman-like Bishops have ben for the destoying of these whom they raile against as Puritans Brownists Sectaries schismatiques and what not Thus abusing not onely those who separate from their Antichristian jurisdiction adulterate ministerie false worship with their government ecclesiasticall but some such also as stand unseparated from the same who onely agree in judgement with the former But as I have put you in mind of the famine which God brought upon Israel in the dayes of David for that bloudy sin done against the Gibeonites in the dayes of Saul so you may remember and should not forget that in our land God brought a great pestilence in the daies of King Iames so as there died in one citie London above 3300. in one week besides those that died in other cities and townes of the same plague And who knoweth not but that it might be for that bloudy sin against the foresayd Christians thorow the instigation of the Prelates who by their murders made these to be martyrs in the dayes of Q. Eliz. who was of her selfe a most worthy Princesse God give men wisedome and grace to consider rightly of all thinges and so of these two thus compared togither Desiderius But would you wish the like reward to our Bishops that came upon Sauls bloudy house Miles No verily But if I knew it to be the will of God I would For we are taught to pray that his will may be done Mat. 6. And if some of the● might be so served by the command of their Kings and Princes it would make the rest prove mor● righteous and lesse hurtfull then they have beene or yet are But I wish with my heart their true repentance that they may escape the judgement of God finde mercie with men learning by this and other examples in the scriptures to be weaned frō their wickednes But if ever any King or Queene doe follow the footing of David for the executing of wrath upon them or if ever they do fall into the hands of such Lord Tyrants as themselves then let them acknowledge Gods justice as did their fore-runner who sayd as I haue done so God hath rewarded me Iudg. 1.5 But to passe from this returne to our former speech about idolatrous livings wherein while I think on it let me knowe your minde whether you haue not by our conference or by the Platforme or both perceived that the English Bell had but a bad sound which would call men from honouring God that noble King Henry for his heroicall acts against Babell in the overthrow of her buildings and inriching the cōmon wealth with the spoiles Desiderius I am very well satisfied and I thank you for your paines and love in applying your selfe to my capacity making me to know so many needfull things in such ample measure that though our sinful estate is discovered to be such in England as giveth just cause of sorrow yet my heart againe rejoyceth that I see the way how to shun the danger of it Miles That is wel for you and I wish the like good unto the whole nation of the English But what say you to those exploits of King Henry the 8 For me thinks they made greatly against the beast false prophet and his marked souldiers the marchants of his Babylonist wares who were by this meanes put in doubt that their trade would decay and come to an overthrow And if Princes in all dominions would now doe the like against the remainders of those places offices the utter downfall of that kingdome of Antichrist would suddenly follow to the high honour of God and gladnes of heart to all his people which should with due regard behold the fulfilling of the prophesies foretelling such a work Desiderius As one trueth leades unto an other so by degrees you haue brought me to be of your mind in this point like as in others But wherefore are the chiefe defēders of this cause called Brownists Miles Because one Mr Brown minister at Achurch heretofore professed their cause pubished it in printe and for a tyme continued the practise of it till the feare of persecutiō love of this world like Demas or of ease like Isacar made him to turne his back upon it And yet I think if he were asked his conscience wil not suffer his tongue to say that it is not the trueth although he hath left the reliefe of Sion to live upon the spoiles of Babylon Desiderius Were there none that did write for 〈…〉 Miles Yes