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A21016 Certaine arguments and motives of speciall moment propounded to the consideration of our most noble King and state tending to perswade them to abolish that unhappy and unhallowed government of our church by bishops, and in stead thereof to set up the government of the Lord Iesus Christ and his holy ordinances in their purity and power. 1634 (1634) STC 739; ESTC S5086 18,494 38

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have indevoured to make a hotch-potch and a Gallimawfrie of both religions mixed and blended together to the utter subverting and rooting out of that glorious Gospel of our blessed Lord and Saviour which hath beene heretofore for many yeeres most couragiously constantly professed and maintained amongst us against all adversaries whatsoever If the Lord bee not the more merciful to us they will bring us back againe into Egypt before we are aware for it appeareth plainely now to all the world that that is the thing which they ayme mainely at it seemeth that they care not who knoweth it Nor is it any new or strange thing that Bishops should looke towards Popery for so have their Predecessours done before them An Archpriest many yeeres agoe being prisoner in the Clinke where divers Ministers of the Gospel were also prisoners at the same time said to one of them that hee marvelled of what religion the Bishops of England were Vs saith hee they committ because wee are Papists as they terme us and you they commit because you will not bee Papists That they persecute us saith hee it is not much to bee marvelled at because there is some seeming difference betweene them and us though it bee not much but that one Minister of the Gospel should persecute another that one Protestant should pursue another to bonds and imprisonment for religions sake that is a strange thing But of the two saith hee they love us the better A Papist they like well ynough if they durst shewit but Puritanes they hate with their hart and that all the world may see Surely hee spake the truth For Papists they love and like hug in their bosomes in secret but Puritanes as they nickname them all purity syncerity they do utterly abhorre Are these wolves then fitt to have the government of the sheepe of Christ Nay is it not more then time that they should bee unhorsed and throwne violently out of their places before they ruine and spoyle all which they will do very speedily if they bee let alone They have already brought this Kingdome into a most lamentable condition if they bee not looked to the sooner it is to bee feared that they will put all into a confusion combustion for they are desperately set upon mischiefe 7 It is a matter worthy to bee considered of how our State can quitt it selfe of guilt and sinne against God in that it tolerateth and hath not in all this time with indignation cast out these Antichristian usurpers which are so pernicious prejudiciall both to our church and commonwealth The Magistrate by the ordinance appointment of God is to take care that both the Tables of Gods law bee duely kept Now these proud Prelats are delinquents against both of them they transgresse with a high hand As their places are accursed so their demeanour and deportment in them is most tyrannous and cruel They robbe God of his glory and the Church of a great deale of comfort and the commonwealth they pill pole above measure And yet these sacrilegious traiterous Time-servers are not onely tolerated but countenanced also and upheld amongst us the more is the pity For most sure certaine it is that when sinne in a state is not duely punished the land is defiled and Gods wrath is provoked which will not bee pacified but by inflicting due and deserved punishment upon Transgressours Numb 35.33 In which regard there if good hope conceived that our King State will take this matter into serious consideration and will now at last execute the just vengeance of our God upon these enormous and agregious Malefactours who have so long so despitefully troden under foote the holy and blessed Ordinances of Christ and in stead of them have advanced and set up the fond foolish devises of their owne giddy braines which is such a high dishonour to our Lord Iesus Christ and such a horrible indignity offered to him as wee have good cause to hope that this Christian State will no longer endure especially when all these things above-mentioned shall bee laid together and well weighed in the ballance of Gods Sanctuary FINIS † B. Vaghan * B. Bancroft * B. Bancroft * B. Ravis * B. Whitgift * Sr. Francis Hastings † B. Vaghan * B. Morton * B. Mountague Blackwel