REFORMATION
NO
enemie
to
her
Maiestie
and
the
State
.
ALthough
it
be
most
true
,
that
our
Saviour
Christ
Iesus
doth
vouchesafe
vnto
nations
and
kingdomes
,
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.
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.
word
.
This
hatred
of
God
&
his
word
,
because
th'
aduersaries
of
reformation
in
England
dare
not
avowe
,
therefore
as
a
foundation
of
the
whole
treatize
following
I
lay
downe
this
ground
,
which
they
themselues
wil
not
call
in
question
.
Namely
:
That
the
reformation
whiche
at
this
daye
wee
endevour
to
bringe
into
our
Churche
,
is
moste
vnjustly
and
wrongfully
accounted
an
enemie
vnto
our
state
,
if
it
can
bee
prooved
to
be
a
matter
approoued
off
,
and
maintayned
by
the
worde
and
gospell
of
IESVS
CHRISTE
.
Where
I
would
gladly
knowe
two
thinges
of
them
.
First
whether
they
judge
that
which
we
labour
for
to
be
according
to
to
the
worde
or
no
?
They
must
answere
,
that
they
cannot
so
thinke
of
it
:
for
if
they
did
,
they
woulde
not
stand
against
vs
as
they
doe
.
Secondly
,
if
they
thought
our
cause
to
be
good
,
that
is
,
if
they
thought
it
to
be
according
vnto
Gods
word
:
I
demaund
of
them
,
whether
notwithstanding
the
goodnes
of
our
cause
,
they
woulde
yet
thinke
vs
that
labor
in
the
same
,
to
be
enemies
vnto
the
state
or
no
?
Wee
make
no
question
but
they
haue
a
better
opinion
of
vs
.
For
whatsoeuer
they
saye
of
the
cause
,
they
can
report
no
otherwise
of
the
favourers
thereof
,
them
of
those
that
haue
alwayes
shewed
themselues
most
faythfull
and
trustie
towards
their
prince
and
cuntrie
.
For
although
within
these
31.
yeres
,
there
haue
bin
many
seditious
and
treasonable
attempts
,
vndertaken
against
her
Majestie
and
the
state
,
by
men
of
all
sortes
and
degrees
:
yet
by
the
goodnes
of
God
it
cannot
be
shewed
,
that
any
one
hath
had
a
hande
in
any
of
these
practises
and
conspiracies
,
who
euer
opened
his
mouth
for
reformation
,
or
any
wise
fauored
the
same
.
And
as
for
attempting
any
vndutifull
or
disloyall
action
in
the
promoting
of
the
cause
it selfe
:
we
haue
bene
so
farre
from
being
guiltye
in
that
point
,
Seeing
then
it
is
cleare
,
that
reformation
is
therfore
accounted
an
enemie
vnto
our
state
,
because
it
is
supposed
to
haue
no
grounde
in
the
worde
of
God
:
and
seeing
the
fauorers
thereof
are
thought
to
be
turbulent
men
,
not
for
anye
thing
that
in
a
good
matter
they
haue
seditiously
attempted
;
but
inasmuch
as
they
labor
to
promote
a
cause
,
that
of
it selfe
is
an
enterprise
daungerous
vnto
her
Majesties
crowne
and
dignitie
:
we
are
for
the
clearing
of
the
one
and
the
other
,
to
see
whether
the
endeuors
of
those
,
who
desire
to
haue
the
Churche
of
England
otherwise
reformed
then
hither
to
it
hath
bene
,
be
such
,
as
they
require
nothing
in
that
whol
worke
,
but
onely
that
whiche
the
worde
of
God
commandeth
to
be
put
in
execution
.
The
whiche
course
if
they
be
founde
to
take
,
then
also
doth
it
follow
,
that
neither
they
,
nor
the
cause
maintained
by
them
,
can
with
any
couler
be
accounted
enmity
vnto
the
kingdome
wherein
they
liue
.
And
here
if
I
should
demaund
of
the
most
that
condemne
both
vs
&
the
cause
wherein
we
stand
,
what
that
is
,
which
is
sought
to
be
reformed
in
our
Church
,
To
the
ende
then
it
may
appeare
what
that
reformation
is
which
we
seeke
for
,
and
which
these
men
do
account
the
enemie
of
our
state
;
it
is
to
be
vnderstood
,
First
then
we
holde
it
intollerable
,
that
the
holy
ministerie
of
the
worde
and
Sacraments
,
and
the
charge
of
soules
,
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.
blinde
leadeth
the
blinde
,
who
also
by
his
owne
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9.36
.
mark
.
6.34
.
example
,
hath
taught
vs
what
compassion
we
ought
to
haue
of
our
brethren
,
that
are
scattered
as
sheep
without
a
sheepheard
,
hauing
none
to
leade
them
,
nor
feede
them
in
the
way
of
aeternall
life
.
And
therefore
is
so
far
from
disliking
this
care
of
ours
towardes
the
saluation
of
our
brethren
&
cuntrimen
,
that
he
hath
enjoyned
vs
,
when
we
see
our
brethren
thicke
and
threefold
to
fall
into
the
ditch
of
blindnes
and
ignorance
,
and
so
into
the
pit
of
aeternall
wo
&
destruction
,
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Matth.
9.34
.
to
pray
vnto
the
Lord
that
he
would
raise
vp
meet
guides
,
who
may
leade
his
people
in
the
true
and
vpright
waye
that
leadeth
vnto
life
.
Before
we
go
any
farther
,
behold
here
how
the
case
standeth
betweene
vs
and
our
aduersaries
,
and
judge
vprightly
.
Our
Sauiour
Christe
IESVS
teacheth
vs
to
be
mooued
with
pitie
and
compassion
,
when
we
see
the
blinde
lead
the
blinde
,
and
our
owne
fleshe
perishe
for
want
of
the
true
knowledge
of
God
.
We
see
this
lamentable
sight
in
our
land
euery
where
,
&
we
may
heare
the
blood
of
ignorant
soules
crie
day
and
night
in
the
eares
of
the
Lorde
,
for
juste
vengeaunce
to
bee
powred
vpon
their
blind
leaders
,
and
such
as
maintaine
them
.
What
shall
we
do
in
this
case
?
shall
we
not
be
touched
with
any
remorse
at
all
?
Farre
be
it
but
we
should
.
We
are
therefore
mooued
therewith
,
and
as
christian
duetie
bindeth
vs
:
we
doe
endevor
both
by
our
prayers
vnto
the
Lorde
,
and
by
our
petitions
and
suits
vnto
our
Majestrates
,
and
euerye
other
way
that
become
Christians
,
to
haue
these
murtherers
remooued
,
and
to
haue
those
placed
in
their
roomes
,
who
bring
with
them
,
&
faithfully
execute
this
great
and
high
commission
,
wherof
the
Apostle
speaketh
in
the
person
of
al
true
ministers
.
Now
then
are
we
Embassadors
for
Christ
,
Concerning
the
true
worship
of
God
,
we
are
to
knowe
,
that
the
worde
who
alone
is
to
instruct
vs
therein
maketh
two
sorts
thereof
.
The
true
outwarde
worship
of
God
then
,
This
outwarde
worship
,
or
this
outward
meanes
to
serue
God
truely
and
sincerely
,
consisteth
of
two
partes
or
ordinances
,
according
vnto
the
twofolde
end
for
the
which
the
Lord
hath
appointed
the
said
outward
worship
of
his
.
The
first
part
hereof
,
is
that
ordinance
whereby
the
Lord
hath
appointed
,
not
only
to
beget
fayth
in
men
,
or
to
engraffe
them
into
Christ
,
but
being
engraffed
to
builde
and
aedifie
them
forwarde
as
liuely
stones
of
that
holy
temple
,
whereof
Christ
Iesus
is
both
the
head
&
the
foundation
.
This
ordinance
of
God
,
appointed
both
to
beget
&
to
aedifie
faith
,
is
onely
the
word
preached
The
second
ordinance
wherein
the
outwarde
worship
of
God
consisteth
,
is
contained
in
those
exercises
of
religion
,
which
the
Lord
ordained
onely
for
aedification
,
and
were
neuer
appointed
to
begett
fayth
.
By
aedification
I
meane
whatsoeuer
concerneth
our
furthering
in
the
worke
of
our
saluation
,
begun
in
vs
through
faith
by
the
worde
preached
.
Vnto
this
second
part
,
we
are
to
refer
publike
prayers
,
singing
of
Psalmes
,
reading
of
the
scriptures
,
receiuing
of
the
sacraments
,
and
administring
of
the
Church
censures
,
Now
then
according
vnto
that
which
hitherto
hath
bene
spoken
,
let
your
Hb.
weye
what
seruice
your
people
throughout
all
hir
Majesties
dominions
for
the
most
part
,
can
yeald
vnto
the
Lord
,
and
how
they
stand
in
the
hope
of
saiuation
,
and
consequently
how
carefull
you
haue
bene
of
the
glory
of
god
and
the
saluation
of
his
Church
.
Your
people
you
will
say
euery
where
,
haue
had
these
31.
yeares
the
vse
of
publike
prayers
,
singing
of
Psalmes
,
reading
of
the
Scriptures
in
their
owne
tongue
,
they
haue
further
enjoyed
the
sacraments
of
baptim
&
the
Lords
supper
.
Be
it
so
,
but
what
is
all
this
?
Can
these
thinges
going
alone
without
the
word
preached
,
be
any
thing
effectuall
to
that
worship
in
spirit
and
trueth
,
which
is
the
onely
seruice
that
the
Lord
regardeth
,
and
without
which
,
all
exercises
of
true
religion
are
but
swines-blood
before
his
Majestie
?
Or
can
they
bee
anye
thing
forcible
to
worke
the
saluation
of
your
people
.
Questionlesse
you
see
that
they
cannot
.
For
they
are
ordained
of
god
,
not
to
lay
the
foandation
of
the
spirituall
worshipp
,
but
as
meanes
to
aedifie
and
build
vpon
,
the
foundation
being
laid
.
They
are
ordained
you
see
also
,
not
to
go
alone
,
but
to
accompany
the
word
,
without
the
which
they
are
fruitles
and
to
no
purpose
.
Nay
though
it
were
possible
that
without
the
word
they
could
worke
some
aedification
in
men
,
yet
notwithstanding
they
were
neuer
appointed
to
beget
men
into
the
hope
of
aeternall
life
.
For
regenerate
flesh
and
blood
they
cannot
,
because
they
were
onely
appointed
to
edifie
those
whome
the
word
should
beget
.
So
that
men
may
all
their
life
time
enjoy
these
exercises
of
true
religion
,
and
yet
be
far
from
the
outward
meanes
whereby
the
Lord
requireth
himselfe
to
be
worshipped
in
spirit
and
trueth
,
and
whereby
the
saluation
of
their
soules
should
be
wrought
.
And
though
your
Honours
shewe
youre selues
neuer
so
greate
fauourers
of
reading
the
worde
,
publike
prayers
,
&c.
which
in
themselues
are
acceptable
to
God
;
but
among
our
people
for
the
most
part
,
abominablie
profaned
:
yet
because
you
maintain
those
to
outcountenance
the
preaching
of
the
worde
,
and
to
be
polluted
by
such
men
as
ought
not
to
deal
with
the
holy
things
of
the
Lord
:
You
are
no
otherwise
accounted
of
in
his
sight
,
then
the
professed
enemies
of
that
pure
worship
in
spirit
and
trueth
(
wherein
alone
he
delighteth
)
the
maintainers
of
the
profanation
of
his
seruice
,
and
aduersaries
vnto
the
saluation
of
his
Churche
.
And
what
other
account
I
beseeche
you
can
he
make
of
you
,
which
dare
presume
to
platte
him
out
the
perfection
of
his
seruice
,
and
appoint
him
a
way
to
saue
his
people
according
vnto
your
owne
pleasure
.
He
hath
set
down
in
his
word
,
that
without
faith
it
is
vnpossible
to
please
him
,
and
so
that
without
faith
it
is
vnpossible
for
men
to
worship
him
in
spirit
and
trueth
,
and
come
to
aeternall
life
.
In
this
point
I
hope
you
will
not
gainesay
his
Majestie
.
He
goeth
farther
,
and
manifesteth
the
ordinarie
meanes
to
beget
fayth
and
saluation
,
to
be
onely
the
word
preached
.
And
therefore
requireth
the
forwardnes
of
all
those
that
would
not
be
guiltie
of
neglecting
his
honour
,
to
promote
the
saide
preaching
of
his
worde
.
Herein
you
oppose
your selues
vnto
him
,
&
reply
againe
,
that
he
must
needs
prouide
himselfe
of
newe
ordinances
,
or
els
he
can
neither
in
this
life
be
worshipped
in
trueth
of
your
people
,
nor
glorified
with
their
saluation
in
the
life
to
come
.
For
vnlesse
reading
of
the
worde
,
publike
prayers
,
the
profanation
of
his
sacramentes
by
the
polluted
fingers
of
most
ignorantmen
,
can
worke
all
that
he
requireth
,
he
can
haue
no
meanes
in
the
most
congregations
within
the
dominions
of
England
to
be
purely
worshipped
,
and
to
gaine
himself
a
name
,
by
the
sauing
of
the
distressed
souls
of
men
.
And
you
are
so
resolute
with
the
Lord
in
this
point
that
you
proclaime
all
them
to
bee
enemies
vnto
your
state
,
whosoeuer
dare
open
their
mouthes
in
his
cause
against
your
vnaduised
resolutions
.
So
that
whatsoeuer
fauour
your
Honors
pretend
vnto
some
part
of
the
true
outward
seruice
of
his
Majestie
:
yet
inasmuch
as
you
lende
your
whole
force
to
maintaine
and
keepe
in
the
Church
,
the
reading
idol
ministerie
,
which
you
may
know
wel
inough
,
can
neither
beget
faith
,
nor
any
true
aedification
in
your
people
,
and
by
whome
the
Lorde
accounteth
himselfe
&
his
ordinances
to
be
profaned
:
the
very
trueth
is
this
,
that
you
stand
at
this
day
guiltie
in
his
sight
,
of
the
defects
,
ruines
and
profanations
of
his
worship
,
and
also
of
the
vtter
vndoing
of
many
a
thousand
soule
within
England
.
And
I
do
not
see
what
you
can
alledge
for
your
defence
,
except
you
will
joyne
with
that
notable
seducer
of
your
people
,
Well
,
he
saith
that
men
may
be
saued
by
hearing
the
word
read
,
as
by
the
ordinarie
meanes
.
If
it
be
not
so
,
wo
be
to
him
that
euer
he
was
borne
,
whose
practises
these
20.
yeeres
almost
haue
tended
to
no
other
ende
,
then
to
maintaine
this
damnable
error
of
his
.
For
if
men
cannot
be
saued
by
reading
,
where
shall
he
stande
,
which
hath
brought
vpon
himselfe
the
guiltines
of
so
many
soules
,
by
silencing
so
many
faythful
preachers
,
and
planting
readers
in
their
stead
.
And
therefore
I
doe
not
so
much
blame
him
for
framing
his
corrupt
judgement
according
vnto
the
rule
of
his
vngodly
practises
.
For
if
his
practise
were
contrarie
vnto
the
light
of
his
knowledge
,
then
hath
he
a
more
fearfull
account
to
make
,
who
hath
quenched
the
light
of
his
vnderstanding
to
the
ende
he
might
with
lesse
remorse
,
raue
against
the
Majestie
of
God
.
But
his
blindnes
cannot
make
others
inexcusable
,
that
willingly
follow
after
such
a
leader
,
&
therefore
let
vs
see
what
the
word
saith
vnto
this
assertion
.
The
Apostle
Paul
affirmeth
,
[
*
](A09299-e11130-b)
*
Math.
5.19
.
shal
be
the
least
in
the
kingdome
of
heauen
.
And
if
God
had
not
blinded
his
right
eye
,
as
a
token
of
a
farther
judgement
which
is
like
to
fall
vpon
him
,
he
might
haue
sene
long
since
,
that
the
Apostle
Peter
attributeth
the
worke
of
mens
regeneration
or
new
birth
,
and
so
faith
and
saluation
vnto
the
word
preached
and
not
read
.
For
so
he
writeth
.
But
what
can
he
see
,
who
hath
voluntarily
so
blinded
himselfe
(
and
laboreth
to
wrapp
others
in
the
same
darknes
)
as
he
will
make
men
beleeue
that
he
is
of
judgement
,
that
the
meaning
of
the
Apostle
in
saying
,
How
can
they
beleeue
without
a
preacher
,
is
as
if
hee
sayd
,
how
can
they
beleeue
without
a
reader
?
For
what
els
doth
he
affirme
then
this
,
in
holding
reading
to
be
preaching
.
For
he
that
auoucheth
reading
to
be
preaching
,
cannot
denie
readers
[
(a)
](A09299-e11170-b)
(a)
Reading
engendreth
fayth
sayeth
he
pag.
570.
yea
,
and
sometimes
prevavleth
more
than
preaching
.
pag.
574.
to
be
prechers
.
And
here
is
al
the
light
which
the
Lorde
hath
lefte
in
that
darke
vnderstanding
of
his
,
which
is
justly
made
bruitishe
,
inasmuch
as
it
hath
blinded
it selfe
,
to
the
end
(
as
I
said
)
he
might
with
the
lesse
compunction
,
or
gnawing
of
his
conscience
fight
against
God
.
But
let
him
and
all
his
maintainers
know
from
me
,
that
he
who
spared
not
the
Angels
,
that
had
sinned
,
but
cast
them
downe
into
hell
,
and
deliuered
them
vnto
chaines
of
darknes
,
to
be
kept
vnto
the
damnation
of
the
great
day
,
is
able
to
make
this
bruitish
man
an
example
vnto
all
those
that
hereafter
shall
tread
in
his
vngodly
steps
,
especiall
seeing
in
these
things
,
which
naturally
he
might
know
,
he
(
as
lude
sayth
)
hath
corrupted
himselfe
.
For
if
there
had
bene
no
scripture
to
haue
instructed
him
,
yet
very
natural
reason
might
haue
taught
him
,
that
reading
and
preaching
are
of
that
diuers
nature
,
that
in
common
reason
,
the
one
of
them
cannot
be
the
other
.
For
I
pray
you
,
who
is
so
simple
but
knoweth
by
the
light
of
nature
,
that
the
preching
that
carieth
saluation
with
it
,
which
he
affirmeth
to
be
reding
,
is
another
maner
of
work
than
can
be
lerned
by
the
industrie
of
man
in
a
moneths
labor
.
And
yet
behold
,
such
is
the
preaching
which
this
man
hath
framed
vnto
vs
in
his
writings
,
wherby
the
Church
of
England
should
be
saued
,
that
an
vnlettered
man
comming
from
the
plough
,
might
in
one
moneths
studie
be
made
an
able
preacher
,
and
so
an
able
minister
of
the
doctrine
of
saluation
.
For
if
reading
be
preaching
(
as
he
sayth
)
yea
and
such
a
preaching
as
is
able
to
beget
men
to
saluation
,
which
also
he
affirmeth
,
then
also
doth
it
folow
,
both
that
an
able
reader
is
an
able
preacher
,
and
also
that
anye
man
enjoying
the
benefite
of
his
senses
,
may
in
one
moneth
,
be
made
an
able
minister
of
that
great
and
admirable
worke
of
mens
soules
.
The
conceit
wherof
,
is
such
an
indignitie
vnto
the
Majestie
of
God
,
and
to
the
misteries
of
true
religion
,
as
a
greater
cannot
be
offered
.
And
is
this
al
the
thanks
,
that
we
in
England
giue
vnto
the
Lord
,
for
the
fruition
of
his
gospell
?
Or
is
this
all
the
commendation
that
true
religion
hath
deserued
at
our
hands
?
to
be
made
faire
baser
then
any
of
the
common
crafts
of
the
world
.
Well
,
the
Lord
seeth
this
vile
injurie
offred
vnto
his
gospell
,
and
the
ministerie
thereof
,
and
in
his
time
will
recompence
it
.
Concerning
this
absurde
and
sencelesse
errour
,
I
will
saye
no
more
at
this
time
:
But
first
,
that
if
the
father
hereof
,
to
wit
,
the
Archb.
of
Cant
,
had
liued
in
some
of
the
former
ages
that
imbraced
the
truth
,
he
had
bene
commended
vnto
posteritie
,
as
a
detestable
forger
of
errors
,
amongst
the
nomber
of
these
pernicious
hereticks
,
that
haue
endeuoured
to
obscure
the
light
of
the
trueth
.
Secondly
,
that
it
maketh
the
ministers
prayer
for
the
spirit
of
vtterance
,
and
his
care
in
his
studie
,
to
be
altogether
needles
&
superfluous
matters
.
And
so
this
man
hath
found
out
suche
a
methodicall
kinde
of
preaching
,
as
the
spirit
of
God
neuer
thought
off
.
The
Apostle
Paul
desireth
the
brethren
to
pray
for
him
,
that
vtterance
might
be
giuen
vnto
him
,
to
the
end
he
might
bold
ly
open
his
mouth
,
to
publish
the
secrets
of
the
gospell
:
&
he
further
chargeth
Timothie
,
to
take
heed
vnto
learning
and
to
continue
therein
,
for
in
so
doing
hee
shoulde
both
saue
himselfe
and
those
that
heard
him
.
But
this
godlesse
man
,
that
indeede
hee
might
shewe
himselfe
not
vnlike
that
sonne
of
perdition
,
of
whose
bodie
and
kingdome
,
by
vertue
of
his
Antichristian
prelacie
,
he
is
also
a
limbe
and
a
member
,
presumeth
to
enter
into
the
Lords
chaire
,
and
to
create
newe
ordinances
for
ministers
to
bee
guided
by
,
in
publishing
the
mysteries
of
the
gospell
.
But
though
he
be
like
to
continue
as
he
is
,
vz.
a
deceiuer
that
waxeth
worse
and
worse
,
For
our
owne
parts
,
the
defectes
of
Gods
religion
being
thus
lamentable
in
our
land
,
and
the
souls
of
our
brethren
with
pitifull
cries
requiring
our
aid
and
assistance
,
we
cannot
in
conscience
denie
them
the
remedie
that
we
are
able
to
minister
:
namely
,
the
painting
out
of
their
miserie
,
and
the
meanes
howe
to
be
deliuered
therefrom
.
And
assuredly
,
if
we
should
holde
our
peace
and
winke
at
these
calamities
,
the
stones
in
the
streate
,
woulde
rise
vp
in
judgement
against
vs
.
Wherefore
also
,
your
Hh.
may
accuse
vs
to
be
dangerous
subjects
as
well
,
because
we
are
not
without
christian
affections
,
as
for
that
you
see
vs
mooued
with
pitie
at
the
ruines
of
Gods
house
,
and
the
likely
damnation
of
our
cuntrimen
.
For
such
is
the
opperation
of
Gods
spirite
in
his
children
,
that
they
are
altogether
voyd
of
the
assuraunce
of
aeternall
life
,
yea
without
God
in
the
world
,
whosoeuer
are
not
mooued
with
griefe
and
sorow
,
when
they
see
either
the
seruice
of
their
God
,
or
the
saluation
of
those
with
whom
they
liue
not
to
be
regarded
.
Vnles
then
you
of
hir
Majesties
counsell
,
woulde
goe
about
to
quenche
the
motions
of
Gods
spirite
in
the
heartes
of
hir
Majesties
people
,
you
cannot
charge
them
with
any
euill
practize
against
the
state
,
for
laboring
the
rooting
out
of
this
dumb
and
ignorant
ministerie
,
whereby
as
you
see
the
Lordes
seruice
is
most
wretchedly
profaned
,
&
the
saluation
of
his
Churche
most
cruelly
hindered
and
withstood
.
Nay
as
your
Hh.
would
shew
your selues
to
haue
anye
sparke
of
Gods
spirite
in
your
hearts
:
so
you
must
be
carefull
to
joyne
with
vs
in
this
worke
,
wherein
indeede
you
ought
to
be
our
foreleaders
.
For
otherwise
(
neuer
deceue
your
own
hearts
)
there
is
not
a
man
of
you
that
can
possibly
be
saued
.
Weye
the
speech
my
Ll.
for
it
concernes
you
as
much
as
the
price
of
your
soules
is
worth
.
I
say
then
,
What
is
the
conclusion
then
,
surely
that
youre
Hh.
must
either
manifest
yourselues
,
to
be
of
their
number
,
for
whome
the
blacknes
and
terror
of
the
greate
daye
is
prepared
,
or
els
you
must
joyne
with
the
rest
of
the
saintes
of
God
within
hir
Majesties
dominions
,
not
onely
in
mourning
for
the
wantes
of
true
religion
among
our
people
,
and
the
misery
that
ensueth
thereof
,
but
also
in
labouring
moste
earnestly
to
finde
speedie
meanes
for
the
curing
of
so
deadlye
a
wounde
.
You
see
then
howe
the
case
standeth
betweene
the
Lord
,
nay
,
between
your
felues
,
and
your
owne
soules
.
The
day
will
come
,
when
all
those
whose
sinnes
are
not
forgeuen
,
and
iniquities
couered
by
Christ
Iesus
,
shall
drinke
of
the
deadly
wyne
of
Gods
wrath
.
And
you
see
that
Christ
wil
be
a
couering
vnto
none
,
saue
onely
vnto
those
,
in
whome
he
dwelleth
by
his
spirit
:
and
more-ouer
,
that
his
spirit
cannot
be
in
them
,
who
are
not
mooued
with
the
dishonor
of
his
name
,
&
the
destruction
of
men
.
The
Lord
warneth
you
of
these
things
,
and
requyreth
of
you
,
that
although
for
the
loue
of
his
Majestie
,
and
the
mercies
both
outward
and
inward
which
hee
hath
&
doth
offer
to
heape
vpon
you
,
you
cannot
bee
mooued
to
regard
his
ruinous
Church
,
and
wofull
people
:
yet
,
that
you
would
be
styrred
forewarde
here-vnto
by
the
care
which
you
are
to
haue
of
your
own
soules
.
It
is
a
fearefull
thing
to
fall
into
the
hand
of
the
liuing
God
.
Vengeance
is
his
,
and
hee
will
recompence
it
.
Wherefore
as
you
woulde
not
drynke
of
the
dreggs
of
that
bitter
cup
of
his
indignation
,
declare
vnto
the
world
,
by
the
speedy
remouing
of
this
dumb
ministery
,
and
apoynting
faithfull
teachers
in
their
stead
,
that
the
Lorde
hath
not
in
this
age
placed
ouer
England
,
a
counsell
of
men
that
are
carelesse
of
his
glorie
,
cruell
towardes
the
people
committed
vnto
their
charge
,
and
consequenthe
,
a
counsel
of
men
that
are
without
God
in
the
world
,
fed
with
honor
and
promotion
against
the
day
of
slaughter
.
Men
that
are
so
far
from
respecting
the
honour
of
their
God
,
and
the
aeternall
salvation
of
men
,
that
they
are
altogether
without
naturall
affection
towards
the
good
of
their
owne
soules
.
For
assuredly
my
Ll.
whatsoeuer
good
opinion
you
may
haue
of
your selues
,
and
yourowne
proceedings
:
the
Lorde
and
his
Churche
both
in
this
age
,
and
also
among
posterity
,
can
make
no
other
reckoning
of
you
,
than
of
those
that
liued
without
the
true
God
in
this
worlde
,
as
long
as
you
shall
bee
found
vpholders
of
the
ignorance
which
raygneth
among
your
people
.
Where-vpon
also
you
shall
one
day
by
experience
finde
it
to
be
true
,
that
because
the
sauing
spirite
of
God
neuer
came
neere
your
harts
,
to
worke
a
sorrow
and
a
mourning
therein
,
for
the
spirituall
aniserie
of
your
brethren
&
counuiemen
:
you
made
no
other
vse
of
your
being
heere
vpon
earth
,
them
to
prouide
for
your selues
,
an
exceeding
measure
of
plagues
and
torments
,
that
may
endure
vpon
you
for
euer
and
euer
.
You
see
it
cannot
bee
otherwise
:
for
,
to
be
without
compassion
towardes
the
miserable
dispersion
of
poore
sheep
that
wander
without
a
guyde
,
is
to
be
voide
of
Christ
Iesus
and
his
fanctifying
spirite
,
vnto
the
want
whereof
there
is
joyned
no
thing
els
,
but
finall
damnation
both
of
body
and
soule
.
Wherefore
good
my
Ll.
suffer
the
words
of
exhortation
to
enter
into
your
soules
.
The
Lord
is
my
witnes
that
I
speake
not
vnto
you
,
without
the
consideration
and
reuerence
due
vnto
your
places
.
It
pityeth
me
to
see
the
case
wherein
ye
stande
before
the
Lord
:
for
surely
ye
cannot
(
as
I
haue
sayd
)
posiblie
be
saued
,
so
long
as
you
hold
on
your
course
in
consenting
vnto
ignorance
and
blindnes
.
There
is
nothing
but
judgement
merciles
vnto
those
that
deferre
their
turning
vnto
him
.
Deceaue
not
your selues
then
,
for
as
I
shall
answere
before
the
Lord
,
in
the
fearefull
day
of
judgement
,
I
haue
set
before
you
the
way
of
life
,
&
the
way
of
death
.
Chuse
life
therfore
that
you
may
liue
,
which
you
shall
neuer
doe
,
except
you
do
ridde
your
hands
of
the
defence
of
this
pestilent
ministery
,
&
consecrate
them
to
make
vp
the
breaches
of
Gods
sanctuarie
.
Where
you
see
,
how
little
beholding
ye
are
vnto
those
wicked
men
the
are
your
Chaplains
,
who
haue
neuer
made
your
estates
knowen
vnto
you
.
You
may
justly
acconut
those
vngodly
flatterers
,
to
be
the
greatest
enemies
you
can
haue
.
For
they
are
guiltie
of
your
blood
,
&
serue
you
almoste
for
no
other
vse
,
than
to
hasten
Gods
judgements
vpon
you
.
But
their
guilte
and
punishment
shall
not
delyuer
you
in
the
daye
of
wrath
,
for
the
soule
that
sinneth
shall
dye
the
death
And
therefore
nowe
that
the
light
is
made
knowen
vnto
you
,
let
it
not
be
your
condemnation
,
that
[
*
](A09299-e11260-b)
*
Iohn
3.19
.
light
comming
among
you
,
yet
you
loued
darkenes
more
than
light
.
Well
hetherto
it
appeareth
how
wrongfullie
the
fauorers
of
reformation
are
charged
with
enmitye
vnto
our
state
,
for
laboring
to
haue
the
dumb
ministery
rooted
out
.
The
next
bane
of
our
Church
are
,
Though
I
preach
,
[
*
](A09299-e11330-b)
*
Ezek.
44
1.
they
place
others
in
their
steade
to
take
the
ouersight
of
the
Sanctuary
.
And
whensoeuer
they
are
absent
from
all
their
benefices
,
it
is
not
without
some
reasonable
cause
:
for
at
all
such
tymes
they
attend
either
in
the
Courte
,
in
the
Vniuersitye
,
or
are
otherwise
necessarilie
bestowed
in
their
private
or
publick
affaires
.
As
for
you
my
Ll.
who
winke
at
all
the
abhominations
of
these
tyrannous
murtherers
,
and
shewe
not
your selues
mooued
with
the
dishonor
wherewith
they
staine
true
religion
,
&
the
misery
which
they
haue
brought
vpon
our
Church
,
the
Lord
bee
mercifull
vnto
you
.
For
I
see
no
way
for
you
,
but
as
you
allow
the
wicked
course
of
these
men
,
so
you
shall
be
partakers
of
their
heauie
damnation
.
And
as
you
cannot
washe
your
handes
from
any
of
the
bloode
that
is
spilte
in
our
Churche
,
because
your
eyes
haue
seene
it
,
and
eyther
shewe
no
dislyke
thereof
,
or
maintaine
the
same
:
so
of
all
other
the
murthers
committed
vpon
the
soules
of
men
within
England
,
you
are
most
guilty
of
this
,
whereof
the
non-resident
is
the
butcher
:
because
a
great
parte
of
this
cruelty
is
committed
in
our
Church
by
your
meanes
:
And
as
your
Hh.
are
bound
in
the
sight
of
God
,
to
washe
your
hands
from
the
maintenance
of
this
sinne
in
your
fore named
seruantes
,
that
in
a
good
conscience
you
may
testifie
before
the
Lorde
and
say
,
Now
the
kingdome
of
Christ
being
taken
in
this
latter
sence
,
for
that
government
of
the
Church
ordained
vnder
the
new
testament
,
wherby
he
which
is
the
sonne
being
manifested
in
the
fleshe
,
to
take
vpon
him
the
regiment
of
his
owne
house
,
doeth
nowe
from
heauen
by
the
operation
of
his
spirite
,
guide
and
governe
his
Church
,
is
such
:
as
no
part
thereof
must
be
administred
by
any
offices
,
or
officers
,
saue
onely
by
those
,
whome
in
his
worde
he
hath
apointed
therevnto
.
The
which
case
standeth
vpon
such
manifest
grounds
of
aequitie
and
iustice
that
their
madnes
is
apparantlie
wicked
,
who
go
about
to
attempt
the
contrarie
.
For
seeing
no
office
can
haue
anie
place
in
the
kingdome
and
bodie
of
Christ
,
viz.
the
Church
,
which
is
not
a
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*
](A09299-e11540-b)
*
Rom.
12.6
.
1.
Cor.
12.
●
.
14.27.28
.
member
thereof
:
and
seeing
our
Sauiour
Christ
hath
not
left
his
Churche
vnperfect
,
but
absolute
and
compleat
of
all
hir
members
(
otherwise
he
should
bee
an
vnperfect
builder
of
his
house
,
and
far
more
vnperfecte
than
Moses
is
saide
to
bee
,
Nowe
according
vnto
these
grounds
,
Concerning
the
puritie
of
the
Gospell
,
their
callings
pollute
the
same
2.
maner
of
wayes
,
and
infringe
the
libertie
of
the
church
by
as
many
.
Firste
they
will
bee
Ministers
,
and
civill
magistrates
too
,
that
is
,
they
wil
bee
ministers
of
the
kingdome
of
Christ
,
and
the
kingdome
of
the
world
all
at
once
.
Whereby
they
declare
vnto
vs
,
that
they
thinke
it
not
sufficient
to
bee
as
their
[
*
](A09299-e11600-b)
*
Mat.
10.24.25
.
Iohn
18.36
.
maister
was
,
who
affirmed
his
king
dome
not
to
be
of
this
worlde
:
that
is
,
that
he
was
not
manifested
in
the
flesh
,
to
intermedle
with
the
execution
of
civill
functions
:
but
to
be
ruler
of
a
kingdome
,
that
consisteth
in
an
other
manner
of
gouernment
and
dominion
than
the
kingdomes
of
the
world
doe
.
Whose
example
in
this
point
,
all
his
true
ministers
muste
needes
followe
,
vnlesse
they
will
make
a
shamefull
defection
from
their
maister
,
vnto
whome
(
being
heere
vpon
earth
)
though
he
were
the
lord
of
all
his
creatures
,
it
had
bene
vnlawfull
,
to
haue
taken
vpon
him
the
function
of
the
civill
magistrate
.
And
therefore
we
reade
that
when
the
multitude
woulde
haue
made
him
king
,
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*
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*
2.
Thes.
1.9
.
beleeue
and
obeye
his
gospell
.
Vnlesse
therefore
we
would
make
the
Lord
,
to
be
the
Redeemer
of
mankinde
,
in
that
respect
that
hee
is
the
Creator
and
the
gouernor
thereof
,
&
so
confound
thedecree
of
the
gouernment
of
the
creatures
,
with
the
decree
and
ordinance
of
mans
redemption
,
we
cannot
without
the
breach
of
the
Lords
holy
will
,
confound
these
two
callings
together
.
And
surelie
by
how
much
the
work
of
mans
redemption
from
the
aeternall
wrath
of
God
,
is
more
excellent
,
than
the
worke
of
the
creation
and
government
of
the
creatures
:
by
so
much
the
more
detestable
and
odious
doe
they
manifest
themselues
:
who
being
as
they
would
be
accounted
ministers
of
that
reconciliation
made
betweene
God
&
man
,
do
either
vtterly
reiect
their
ministery
,
because
they
think
it
to
base
,
and
gainlesse
a
calling
:
or
els
as
a
farther
countenan e
vnto
the
most
glorious
vocation
vnder
the
sunne
,
doe
adde
the
ciuill
magistracie
there-vnto
.
Whereby
they
shewe
themselues
indeede
to
haue
made
a
shamefull
apostacie
from
the
doctrine
and
practise
of
our
sauiour
Christ
and
his
Apostles
.
The
weapons
of
whose
warfare
were
not
carnall
,
For
the
first
point
,
to
wit
,
of
the
superiority
which
they
as
ministers
claime
ouer
the
church
&
messengers
of
Christ
,
it
is
intollerable
tyrannous
,
&
directly
against
a
plain
moral
act
set
down
in
the
canon
of
the
new
testament
by
our
Sauiour
Christ
himself
.
The
place
is
commonlie
knowen
,
and
hath
beene
cited
for
this
purpose
,
I
thinke
by
all
those
that
ever
dealte
in
this
cause
.
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*
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*
Fuergetai
a
title
wherewith
the
kings
of
Egipt
were
honor'd
.
gracious
lords
,
but
ye
shall
not
be
so
.
Heere
we
see
plainely
that
hee
forbiddeth
his
disciples
to
beare
the
name
whereunto
preheminence
is
joined
which
may
further
appeare
,
if
wee
consider
that
in
forbidding
them
to
[
kurieuein
]
that
is
,
to
rule
lyke
lords
,
he
forbiddeth
them
also
to
be
[
kurious
]
viz.
lordes
,
as
farre
as
that
name
[
kurios
]
is
a
title
of
worldly
honor
,
preheminence
and
gouernment
,
&
no
farther
.
And
no
farther
I
say
,
because
the
word
[
kurios
]
in
the
greeke
tongue
,
(
as
also
the
word
[
*
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*
Compare
the
1.
San●●
,
15.
&
2
Kin.
5.25
.
with
2.
king
6.12
.
[
adhon
]
in
the
hebrew
,
and
[
dominus
]
in
latine
,
)
signifieth
a
maister
,
or
Sir
,
as
well
as
a
Lord
,
which
is
proued
,
Iohn
12.21
&
20.5
.
where
Philip
the
apostle
,
&
our
Sauiour
Christ
(
supposed
by
Maric
to
be
the
gardiner
)
are
called
[
kurici
]
sirs
,
or
maisters
.
In
which
sence
it
is
not
forbidden
vnto
ministers
to
be
called
[
kurioi
.
]
Which
I
adde
to
stoppe
theynlearned
and
foolish
cavils
of
our
aduersaries
,
who
go
about
to
proue
it
as
lawful
for
our
bishops
to
be
called
lords
in
the
English
tongue
,
which
alwayes
are
names
of
worldly
honor
and
promotion
,
in
our
common
speach
,
as
it
were
for
them
,
to
haue
the
former
greek
,
hebrue
,
&
latine
names
,
attributed
vnto
them
.
Whiche
by
the
places
before
quoted
,
&
to
any
man
of
vnderstanding
in
the
tongues
appeareth
to
bee
a
cavill
vnworthie
the
aunswere
.
And
that
our
Sauiour
Christe
forbidding
his
ministers
to
[
kurieuein
]
viz
,
to
rule
lyke
lordes
,
forbiddeth
them
also
to
be
called
Lords
,
it
is
most
cleare
in
that
otherwayes
he
should
open
a
wide
dore
vnto
the
ambition
and
pryde
,
of
proude
and
ambitious
men
.
For
it
is
a
farre
greater
token
of
pride
and
ambition
for
a
man
who
cannot
by
any
right
haue
the
dignitye
of
a
lorde
,
to
desire
the
name
and
title
thereof
:
than
for
him
to
be
so
called
that
is
a
Lord
indeed
.
So
that
in
forbidding
his
disciples
to
(
kurieuein
)
beare
rule
as
the
lords
of
the
nations
doe
,
he
forbiddeth
them
also
to
bee
called
and
tearmed
by
their
titles
.
I
know
what
hath
beene
obiected
by
the
Archb.
vnto
these
thinges
,
and
will
againe
bee
said
,
if
it
be
not
prevented
:
namely
,
that
our
Sauior
forbiddeth
tyrannous
lordship
and
tyrannous
bearing
of
rule
in
the
former
place
,
&
not
just
,
vpright
,
and
lawfull
government
.
Where
I
beseech
your
Hh.
to
lend
me
your
attention
,
&
you
shall
see
the
intollerable
boldnes
of
this
man
in
peruerting
the
truth
,
who
is
not
ashamed
(
whensoeuer
it
may
be
for
his
behoofe
)
to
teach
points
of
doctrine
meere
directly
against
the
words
&
mind
of
the
Lord
Iesus
.
I
demand
then
of
him
,
whether
our
Sauiour
Christ
did
not
in
the
place
afore
cited
,
so
aunswere
his
disciples
in
the
pointe
whereof
they
doubted
,
as
hee
did
fullie
resolue
them
?
He
dares
not
deny
it
I
am
sure
.
For
in
pointes
that
are
needfull
to
be
knowen
&
reuealed
,
our
Sauiour
being
demanded
one
thing
doeth
not
frame
his
answere
vnto
that
whereof
no
question
is
made
,
and
so
leaue
his
church
vnsarisfied
.
What
was
the
question
then
?
Was
it
whether
any
of
them
should
rule
lyke
a
tyrant
?
was
it
whether
any
of
them
should
gape
after
promotion
?
no
such
thing
.
For
they
knew
well
enough
,
that
it
was
very
gainlesse
for
them
to
demaund
of
our
sauiour
which
of
them
should
be
a
tyrant
?
which
of
them
should
abuse
his
lawfull
superioritie
,
or
whiche
of
them
should
be
an
ambitious
prelate
?
they
knewe
well
enough
that
he
would
allow
no
such
dominion
and
preheminence
.
Besides
,
the
apostles
(
we
may
well
think
,
)
were
not
so
blinde
,
as
to
demand
any
such
question
of
their
maister
.
Nowe
then
they
demanding
no
such
thing
at
his
handes
,
to
what
end
should
he
tell
them
,
that
they
should
not
be
tyrannous
rulers
?
They
made
no
question
of
any
suche
matter
,
&
therefore
a
resolution
of
that
which
they
called
not
into
controuersye
,
was
nothing
to
the
purpose
,
but
left
them
as
doubtful
as
they
were
before
.
Wherefore
wee
are
to
conclude
,
that
as
the
question
was
concerning
lawfull
preheminence
&
bearing
of
rule
,
his
negatiue
answere
being
frained
vnto
their
question
,
denieth
vnto
them
,
not
only
a
tyrannous
and
an
ambitious
prelacie
,
wherof
they
made
no
question
,
but
euen
that
dominion
&
preheminence
which
of
it self
is
lawfull
in
them
,
who
by
the
ordinance
of
God
are
capable
of
it
:
to
wit
,
in
the
civill
magistrate
.
And
whereas
the
Apostles
dreaming
of
a
worldly
kingdom
,
might
alledge
for
themselues
,
that
their
demand
was
not
altogether
without
ground
,
because
they
contended
for
no
other
superioritie
then
was
allowed
off
,
in
the
rulers
of
worldlie
kingdomes
:
our
maister
Christ
answereth
that
obiection
,
and
telleth
them
,
that
although
it
bee
lawfull
for
ciuill
gouernours
to
beare
rule
ouer
their
fellow
officers
and
collegues
,
that
is
,
ouer
ciuill
magistrates
,
and
althoughe
it
bee
lawfull
for
them
to
beare
lordlie
rule
and
authoritie
,
and
to
haue
highe
stiles
and
titles
,
yet
among
you
that
are
Ministers
of
the
Gospell
,
it
shall
not
bee
so
saieth
he
.
And
to
perswade
them
herevnto
,
Of
all
these
things
then
wee
doe
conclude
,
that
this
threefold
corruption
of
our
Archb.
and
Bb.
First
,
in
vsurping
vpon
the
government
of
the
civill
magistrate
:
secondlie
,
in
claming
vnto
themselues
those
highe
names
and
titles
,
which
belong
vnto
worldly
honors
and
promotions
:
lastly
in
the
lordlie
preheminence
and
superioritie
,
which
they
vsurpe
ouer
the
whole
body
of
the
Church
,
within
their
diocese
in
generall
,
and
ouer
their
fellow
ministers
in
particular
,
is
altogether
a
matter
to
be
detested
of
all
true
christians
,
as
abhominable
and
odious
in
the
presence
of
the
Lorde
.
And
seeing
our
head
Christ
Iesus
granteth
vnto
his
body
this
libertle
,
that
al
the
members
thereof
should
be
servants
and
not
lordes
therein
,
(
as
he
himself
did
serue
&
not
beare
rule
in
the
kingdome
of
the
gospell
)
and
hath
giuen
all
true
ministers
this
priuiledge
,
that
none
of
them
shoulde
rule
ouer
the
other
,
it
muste
needs
be
that
this
lordlyke
gouernment
which
our
bishops
arrogate
vnto
themselues
ouer
the
church
of
God
and
the
Ministers
of
it
,
cannot
in
it selfe
,
though
it
were
never
abused
,
but
bee
preiudiciall
vnto
the
liberties
of
the
church
,
and
the
ministers
thereof
.
Therefore
my
Ll.
maintaine
the
Hierarchy
of
Bb.
as
long
as
you
will
,
you
vpholde
thereby
nothing
els
,
but
the
tyranny
and
bondage
of
the
church
,
together
with
a
chiefe
and
an
especiall
portion
of
the
kingdome
of
Antichrist
.
For
as
this
pestilent
Hierarchy
hath
bene
proued
,
not
to
appertain
vnto
the
kingdome
of
Christ
:
so
your
Hh.
are
to
know
,
that
the
same
belongeth
vnto
no
other
body
,
then
vnto
that
regiment
whereof
the
sonne
of
perdition
is
the
head
.
For
vnto
the
kingdome
of
Christ
as
you
see
,
it
doth
not
belong
,
to
the
kingdome
of
the
world
,
that
is
,
vnto
the
civill
magistracie
it
cannot
appertaine
,
for
it
would
bee
accounted
an
ecclesiasticall
constitution
,
and
not
any
civill
regiment
.
To
Mahometisme
,
or
to
any
other
heathnish
Idolatry
,
it
cannot
belong
,
because
it
is
onely
retained
among
those
that
pretend
the
name
of
Christ
,
and
are
eyther
the
true
churche
in
deede
,
or
at
the
leaste
doe
wrongfully
retaine
the
name
of
the
true
churche
.
Now
vnto
the
true
church
it
doeth
not
belong
,
as
we
haue
already
proued
,
because
it
is
a
government
consisting
of
those
offices
,
which
the
head
neuer
ordained
to
be
in
the
bodie
,
and
consisteth
of
suche
members
,
as
would
beare
rule
and
not
serue
in
the
ministerie
of
the
Gospel
.
We
must
then
place
them
in
deede
where
of
right
they
ought
to
be
,
that
is
in
the
false
sinagogue
,
which
vniustly
arrogateth
vnto
it selfe
,
the
name
of
the
true
churche
of
God
,
and
that
is
in
the
kingdome
of
Antichriste
,
the
Pope
:
Whose
kingdome
must
begin
in
the
church
of
god
and
not
among
the
heathen
,
as
it
was
expresly
fore tolde
by
the
apostle
Paule
.
But
wee
are
not
to
think
that
Sathan
,
by
whome
these
offices
of
Archbishops
and
L.
Bishops
,
were
firste
invented
,
doeth
at
all
tymes
and
places
vse
them
to
the
one
and
selfe
same
purpose
,
hee
knoweth
full
well
,
that
hee
cannot
alwayes
effecte
what
he
would
do
with
them
,
and
therefore
hee
is
content
,
vntill
conveniencye
bee
offered
,
to
bestowe
them
as
he
may
.
But
alwayes
this
is
a
ground
,
hee
hath
some
seruice
for
them
in
all
ages
.
At
the
firste
planting
of
them
,
and
long
after
that
,
hee
did
not
vohold
open
Idolatry
,
and
manifest
apostacy
from
Christ
by
their
meanes
,
hee
coulde
not
doe
it
,
the
times
woulde
not
suffer
him
,
who
thoughe
otherwayes
very
corrupt
,
were
yet
far
from
that
vile
dishonour
of
God
.
Example
heereof
you
may
see
in
Pope
Gregory
the
first
of
that
name
,
And
in
earth
,
not
simplie
as
hee
is
the
second
person
in
trinitie
,
God
aboue
all
,
blessed
for
euermore
,
but
as
he
is
the
sonne
manifested
in
the
flesh
,
Christ
god
and
man
,
and
so
the
head
of
his
Church
.
In
respect
of
this
regiment
of
his
,
the
worde
of
God
speaketh
of
his
kingdome
2.
maner
of
wayes
:
first
it
maketh
the
same
to
be
everlasting
:
secondlie
it
considereth
of
it
as
it
is
temporarie
and
to
remaine
for
a
tyme
.
In
the
former
respect
it
cannot
possible
any
wayes
decay
.
Of
this
aeternall
kingdome
of
his
the
Angell
Gabriell
spake
vnto
the
holye
Virgine
Marie
,
after
this
sort
:
Now
the
kingdome
of
Christ
being
taken
in
this
latter
sence
,
for
that
government
of
the
Church
ordained
vnder
the
new
testament
,
wherby
he
which
is
the
sonne
being
manifested
in
the
fleshe
,
to
take
vpon
him
the
regiment
of
his
owne
house
,
doeth
nowe
from
heauen
by
the
operation
of
his
spirite
,
guide
and
governe
his
Church
,
is
such
:
as
no
part
thereof
must
be
administred
by
any
offices
,
or
officers
,
saue
onely
by
those
,
whome
in
his
worde
he
hath
apointed
therevnto
.
The
which
case
standeth
vpon
such
manifest
grounds
of
aequitie
and
iustice
that
their
madnes
is
apparantlie
wicked
,
who
go
about
to
attempt
the
contrarie
.
For
seeing
no
office
can
haue
anie
place
in
the
kingdome
and
bodie
of
Christ
,
viz.
the
Church
,
which
is
not
a
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12.6
.
1.
Cor.
12.8.14.27.28
.
member
thereof
:
and
seeing
our
Sauiour
Christ
hath
not
left
his
Churche
vnperfect
,
but
absolute
and
compleat
of
all
hir
members
(
otherwise
he
should
bee
an
vnperfect
builder
of
his
house
,
and
far
more
vnperfecte
than
Moses
is
saide
to
bee
,
Nowe
according
vnto
these
grounds
,
Concerning
the
puritie
of
the
Gospell
,
their
callings
pollute
the
same
2.
maner
of
wayes
,
and
infringe
the
libertie
of
the
church
by
as
many
.
Firste
they
will
bee
Ministers
,
and
civill
magistrates
too
,
that
is
,
they
wil
bee
ministers
of
the
kingdome
of
Christ
,
and
the
kingdome
of
the
world
all
at
once
.
Whereby
they
declare
vnto
vs
,
that
they
thinke
it
not
sufficient
to
bee
as
their
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10.24.25
.
Iohn
18.36
.
maister
was
,
who
affirmed
his
kingdome
not
to
be
of
this
worlde
:
that
is
,
that
he
was
not
manifested
in
the
flesh
,
to
intermedle
with
the
execution
of
civill
functions
:
but
to
be
ruler
of
a
kingdome
,
that
consisteth
in
an
other
manner
of
gouernment
and
dominion
than
the
kingdomes
of
the
world
doe
.
Whose
example
in
this
point
,
all
his
true
ministers
muste
needes
followe
,
vnlesse
they
will
make
a
shamefull
defection
from
their
maister
,
vnto
whome
(
being
heere
vpon
earth
)
though
he
were
the
lord
of
all
his
creatures
,
it
had
bene
vnlawfull
,
to
haue
taken
vpon
him
the
function
of
the
civill
magistrate
.
And
therefore
we
reade
that
when
the
multitude
woulde
haue
made
him
king
,
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2.
Thes.
1.9
.
beleeue
and
obeye
his
gospell
.
Vnlesse
therefore
we
would
make
the
Lord
,
to
be
the
Redeemer
of
mankinde
,
in
that
respect
that
hee
is
the
Creator
and
the
gouernor
thereof
,
&
so
confound
the
decree
of
the
gouernment
of
the
creatures
,
with
the
decree
and
ordinance
of
mans
redemption
,
we
cannot
without
the
breach
of
the
Lords
holy
will
,
confound
these
two
callings
together
.
And
surelie
by
how
much
the
work
of
mans
redemption
from
the
aeternall
wrath
of
God
,
is
more
excellent
,
than
the
worke
of
the
creation
and
government
of
the
creatures
:
by
so
much
the
more
detestable
and
odious
doe
they
manifest
themselues
:
who
being
as
they
would
be
accounted
ministers
of
that
reconciliation
made
betweene
God
&
man
,
do
either
vtterly
reiect
their
ministery
,
because
they
think
it
to
base
,
and
gainlesse
a
calling
:
or
els
as
a
farther
countenan e
vnto
the
most
glorious
vocation
vnder
the
sunne
,
d
ee
adde
the
ciuill
magistracie
there-vnto
.
Whereby
they
shewe
themselues
indeede
to
haue
made
a
shamefull
apostacie
from
the
doctrine
and
practise
of
our
sauiour
Christ
and
his
Apostles
.
The
weapons
of
whose
warfare
were
not
carnall
,
For
the
first
point
,
to
wit
,
of
the
superiority
which
they
as
ministers
claime
ouer
the
church
&
messengers
of
Christ
,
it
is
intollerable
tyrannous
,
&
directly
againsta
plain
moral
act
set
down
in
the
canon
of
the
new
testament
by
our
Sauiour
Christ
himself
.
The
place
is
commonlie
knowen
,
and
hath
beene
cited
for
this
purpose
,
I
thinke
by
all
those
that
ever
dealte
in
this
cause
.
Of
all
these
things
then
wee
doe
conclude
,
that
this
threefold
corruption
of
our
Archb.
and
Bb.
First
,
in
vsurping
vpon
the
government
of
the
civill
magistrate
:
secondlie
,
in
claiming
vnto
themselues
those
highe
names
and
titles
,
which
belong
vnto
worldly
honors
and
promotions
:
lastly
in
the
lordlie
preheminence
and
superioritie
,
which
they
vsurpe
ouer
the
whole
body
of
the
Church
,
within
their
diocese
in
generall
,
and
ouer
their
fellow
ministers
in
particular
,
is
altogether
a
matter
to
be
detested
of
all
true
christians
,
as
abhominable
and
odious
in
the
presence
of
the
Lorde
.
And
seeing
our
head
Christ
Iesus
granteth
vnto
his
body
this
libertle
,
that
al
the
members
thereof
should
be
servants
and
not
lordes
therein
,
(
as
he
himself
did
serue
&
not
beare
rule
in
the
kingdome
of
the
gospell
)
and
hath
giuen
all
true
ministers
this
priuiledge
,
that
none
of
them
shoulde
rule
ouer
the
other
,
it
muste
needs
be
that
this
lordlyke
gouernment
which
our
bishops
arrogate
vnto
themselues
ouer
the
church
of
God
and
the
Ministers
of
it
,
cannot
in
it selfe
,
though
it
were
never
abused
,
but
bee
preiudiciall
vnto
the
liberties
of
the
church
,
and
the
ministers
thereof
.
Therefore
my
Ll.
maintaine
the
Hierarchy
of
Bb.
as
long
as
you
will
,
you
vpholde
thereby
nothing
els
,
but
the
tyranny
and
bondage
of
the
church
,
together
with
a
chiefe
and
an
especiall
portion
of
the
kingdome
of
Antichrist
.
For
as
this
pestilent
Hierarchy
hath
bene
proued
,
not
to
appertain
vnto
the
kingdome
of
Christ
:
so
your
Hh.
are
to
know
,
that
the
same
belongeth
vnto
no
other
body
,
then
vnto
that
regiment
whereof
the
sonne
of
perdition
is
the
head
.
For
vnto
the
kingdome
of
Christ
as
you
see
,
it
doth
not
belong
,
to
the
kingdome
of
the
world
,
that
is
,
vnto
the
civill
magistracie
it
cannot
appertaine
,
for
it
would
bee
accounted
an
ecclesiasticall
constitution
,
and
not
any
civill
regiment
.
To
Mahometisme
,
or
to
any
other
heathnish
Idolatry
,
it
cannot
belong
,
because
it
is
onely
retained
among
those
that
pretend
the
name
of
Christ
,
and
are
eyther
the
true
churche
in
deede
,
or
at
the
leaste
doe
wrongfully
retaine
the
name
of
the
true
churche
.
Now
vnto
the
true
church
it
doeth
not
belong
,
as
we
haue
already
proued
,
because
it
is
a
government
consisting
of
those
offices
,
which
the
head
neuer
ordained
to
be
in
the
bodie
,
and
consisteth
of
suche
members
,
as
would
beare
rule
and
not
serue
in
the
ministerie
of
the
Gospel
.
We
must
then
place
them
in
deede
where
of
right
they
ought
to
be
,
that
is
in
the
false
sinagogue
,
which
vniustly
arrogateth
vnto
it selfe
,
the
name
of
the
true
churche
of
God
,
and
that
is
in
the
kingdome
of
Antichriste
,
the
Pope
:
Whose
kingdome
must
begin
in
the
church
of
god
and
not
among
the
heathen
,
as
it
was
expresly
fore tolde
by
the
apostle
Paule
.
But
wee
are
not
to
think
that
Sathan
,
by
whome
these
offices
of
Archbishops
and
L.
Bishops
,
were
firste
invented
,
doeth
at
all
tymes
and
places
vse
them
to
the
one
and
selfe
same
purpose
,
hee
knoweth
full
well
,
that
hee
cannot
alwayes
effecte
what
he
would
do
with
them
,
and
therefore
hee
is
content
,
vntill
conveniencye
bee
offered
,
to
bestowe
them
as
he
may
.
But
alwayes
this
is
a
ground
,
hee
hath
some
seruice
for
them
in
all
ages
.
At
the
firste
planting
of
them
,
and
long
after
that
,
hee
did
not
vohold
open
Idolatry
,
and
manifest
apostacy
from
Christ
by
their
meanes
,
hee
coulde
not
doe
it
,
the
times
woulde
not
suffer
him
,
who
thoughe
otherwayes
very
corrupt
,
were
yet
far
from
that
vile
dishonour
of
God
.
Example
heereof
you
may
see
in
Pope
Gregory
the
first
of
that
name
,
And
they
are
greatlye
deceaued
who
thinke
the
members
of
the
Antichristian
kingdome
to
serue
the
Diuell
in
no
steade
,
when
they
are
not
joyned
with
their
head
,
and
when
he
maintayneth
not
open
warres
against
Christ
Iesus
by
their
meanes
:
It
is
far
otherwise
.
For
hee
knoweth
even
vnder
the
profession
of
the
gospell
,
howe
to
employ
them
to
his
singular
advantage
,
as
well
as
in
the
kingdome
of
the
Pope
,
and
euen
to
the
same
purposes
verye
often
.
For
we
know
that
the
sway
which
he
beareth
in
Babilon
it selfe
,
by
Archb.
and
Ll.
Bb.
consists
not
onely
in
maintayning
the
open
impicties
,
I
dolatry
&
errors
which
are
there
held
,
but
a
great
part
of
his
working
power
in
them
,
sheweth
it selfe
,
in
suppressing
the
truth
,
and
in
the
tyrannous
vpholding
of
those
poore
soules
in
miserable
darcknesse
,
who
would
gladly
bee
at
the
light
,
were
it
not
that
they
are
kept
in
bondage
and
slauery
,
by
meanes
of
his
foresaide
instruments
.
The
lyke
vse
hath
he
for
Archb.
and
Ll.
Bb.
in
England
at
this
daye
.
Where
hee
defendeth
errors
,
maintaineth
ignorance
,
hindereth
the
truth
,
and
oppresseth
the
church
,
yea
&
persecuteth
the
Saintes
of
God
to
the
losse
of
their
goods
,
and
their
libertie
,
and
euen
vnto
the
blood
by
their
power
.
And
if
he
cannot
as
yet
tread
down
the
ciuil
magistrate
and
erect
open
Idolatry
by
them
,
it
is
because
his
time
is
not
yet
come
.
For
as
I
said
,
hir
Maiesty
and
our
state
can
brook
no
such
thing
.
And
I
doe
thinke
that
the
men
who
exercise
these
Antichristian
offices
amongst
vs
,
would
be
hardly
gotten
to
afforde
him
their
help
in
these
cases
.
But
when
her
Maiesty
(
whose
lyfe
the
Lorde
continue
vnto
his
glory
,
the
good
of
his
church
,
&
hir
owne
comfort
)
is
gone
the
way
of
all
the
world
,
&
when
our
estate
is
some-thing
more
infected
with
popery
then
as
yet
it
is
,
and
so
the
favorers
of
that
Idolatry
are
crept
into
the
seates
of
Archb.
and
Bb.
see
whether
these
members
will
not
desire
to
bee
joyned
with
their
head
?
It
cannot
bee
otherwise
.
For
the
Diuell
by
whom
they
were
first
instituted
hath
this
purpose
in
retayning
them
in
the
true
church
:
that
by
their
meanes
when
he
findeth
his
opportunity
he
may
,
either
bring
the
church
,
ouer
whom
they
rule
,
from
the
obedience
of
Christ
Iesus
,
vnto
the
bondage
and
slauery
of
Antichriste
,
or
els
murther
those
that
will
not
yeeld
vnto
that
Idoll
.
Now
that
they
are
the
members
of
that
body
&
not
of
the
kingdome
of
Christ
besides
all
that
hath
bene
spoken
,
this
reason
may
serue
in
stead
of
many
.
Namely
,
that
Sathan
never
thinketh
himselfe
to
haue
fully
erected
Popery
,
vntill
such
time
as
hee
hath
established
the
Hierarchye
of
Lorde
Bishops
.
For
whereas
popery
consists
of
2.
especially
pointes
,
viz.
the
false
religion
,
and
the
false
government
of
that
sinagogue
,
neither
of
those
partes
can
be
away
where
that
kingdome
is
compleat
&
absolute
.
Entertaine
the
false
religion
of
the
pope
,
&
deny
the
receauing
of
the
hierarchie
,
ye
do
not
fullye
yeeld
vnto
popery
,
&
submit
your selues
fully
vnto
the
Antichristian
kingdom
.
On
the
other
side
,
receaue
the
religion
of
Christ
,
together
with
the
government
by
pastors
,
doctors
,
elders
,
&
deacons
,
which
he
hath
appointed
in
his
word
,
and
you
do
fullye
entertaine
whatsoever
belongeth
vnto
the
kingdome
of
the
gospell
,
though
you
neuer
know
what
the
hierarchy
of
Bb.
doth
mean
:
which
could
not
bee
true
,
if
the
hierarchye
belonged
vnto
that
kingdome
of
Christ
.
Seing
then
that
the
kingdome
of
Christ
,
and
true
religion
may
be
absolute
&
perfecte
,
though
the
offices
of
Ll.
Archb.
and
Bb.
bee
not
joined
therevnto
:
and
seeing
that
where
these
are
not
retayned
,
some
part
of
Popery
is
wanting
:
it
followeth
that
L.
Archb.
and
Bb.
doe
appertaine
vnto
the
regiment
of
the
beast
and
his
Idolatrie
,
&
not
vnto
the
religion
and
kingdome
of
Christ
.
The
consequence
whereof
is
,
that
they
who
labour
and
striue
for
the
maintenance
of
those
coruptions
in
our
church
,
labour
and
striue
for
the
vpholding
of
a
part
of
the
kingdome
of
Antichrist
the
pope
.
The
continuance
of
whose
members
amongest
vs
,
serueth
to
no
other
purpose
,
then
to
keepe
possession
,
vntill
the
head
hath
gotten
him
sufficient
force
,
to
invade
both
the
true
churche
of
God
,
and
the
throne
of
the
civill
Magistrate
in
our
kingdome
.
And
surely
if
this
Hierarchy
,
vnder
whose
winges
Popery
hath
growne
so
fast
within
these
20
yeares
,
doth
stande
anye
long
time
in
England
,
I
looke
for
no
other
effect
to
come
from
it
but
these
two
.
First
a
toleration
for
men
to
professe
popish
Idolatry
.
Where
it
is
saide
,
that
the
offices
of
Archb.
and
Bb.
cannot
stand
in
the
church
,
without
the
infringing
of
the
liberties
thereof
,
and
that
they
are
members
of
the
body
of
Antichrist
,
I
know
it
wil
be
objected
,
that
many
good
men
(
even
since
the
last
reuealing
of
the
gospel
)
supplied
these
places
:
as
M.
Cranmer
,
M.
Hooper
,
M.
Latimer
,
M.
Ridley
,
M.
Bale
,
&c.
whom
if
we
should
account
either
to
be
vsurpers
ouer
their
fellow
brethren
,
and
the
rest
of
the
church
of
God
in
their
time
,
or
to
haue
continued
in
Antichristian
callings
,
the
matter
will
bee
thought
strange
,
and
hardly
taken
.
Whervnto
the
answere
is
this
.
That
for
their
callings
,
it
cannot
be
denied
but
they
were
the
offices
of
the
Antichristian
kingdome
.
And
for
the
men
themselues
,
they
coulde
not
possiblye
anye
wayes
continue
in
them
without
the
breach
of
Gods
ordinance
,
and
the
impeaching
of
the
libetties
of
the
Churche
in
some
measure
.
For
in
some
sort
they
did
rather
beare
rule
than
serue
in
the
ministery
of
the
gospell
.
And
yet
notwithstanding
all
these
imperfections
,
we
think
these
men
to
haue
bene
such
,
as
for
whome
we
are
to
giue
the
Lord
harty
thankes
(
not
that
they
were
Ll.
Bishops
,
but
that
they
faithfully
labored
in
the
ministery
of
the
gospell
,
and
sealed
the
same
with
their
blood
.
In
respect
whereof
also
wee
accounte
their
memory
to
be
blessed
and
reverend
amongst
posterities
.
But
what
is
all
this
vnto
the
Bishops
of
England
at
this
day
?
Are
they
Latimers
?
Are
they
Cranmers
,
Ridleyes
,
Hoopers
?
Though
for
some
causes
I
could
wish
they
were
,
yet
I
thank
God
from
my
hart
that
they
are
not
.
For
then
their
Hierarchy
would
not
so
soone
fal
to
the
ground
,
as
now
I
hope
it
will
.
But
alas
it
may
grieue
anye
christian
hart
,
to
consider
the
differences
that
are
between
these
vpstart
corrupt
tyrantes
,
that
nowe
raigne
ouer
our
church
,
&
those
ancient
sincere
fathers
.
Compare
them
together
,
but
onelye
in
one
pointe
,
and
you
shall
see
how
lamentablie
they
differ
.
Those
reverend
men
of
God
,
M.
Cranmer
,
M.
Latimer
,
M.
Hooper
,
&c.
hauing
by
great
striuing
recovered
our
church
(
though
a
dead
church
)
out
of
the
handes
of
tyrannous
murtherers
,
laboured
by
all
meanes
possible
to
put
life
into
it
by
the
preching
of
the
word
,
that
being
aliue
,
&
made
strong
they
might
also
restore
it
vnto
liberty
.
Our
Bb.
on
the
other
side
what
do
they
?
Surely
rather
then
the
church
vnder
their
jurisdictions
should
recover
hir
liberty
,
[
*
](A09299-e12190-b)
*
They
haue
stopped
the
mouthes
of
so
many
faithfull
teachers
within
these
6.
yeares
that
the
proofe
of
this
point
is
needlesse
.
Iohn
6.63
.
they
will
violently
thruste
al
such
teachers
from
their
flocks
,
and
place
Idoles
in
their
stead
.
And
what
is
this
els
,
but
to
murther
the
church
,
rather
than
it
shoulde
not
bee
in
bondage
vnto
them
.
For
they
that
bereaue
the
church
of
the
word
preached
,
take
away
the
very
life
therof
.
The
words
that
I
haue
spoken
(
saieth
our
Sauiour
)
are
spirite
and
life
.
And
I
appeale
in
this
place
vnto
the
consciences
of
our
Prelates
:
whether
if
all
the
prechers
in
England
sought
the
ouerthrow
of
their
hierarchie
,
they
would
not
thrust
them
al
out
of
their
places
,
rather
then
the
church
should
be
deliuered
from
their
antichristian
jurisdiction
.
It
is
plain
they
would
.
To
returne
vnto
your
Hh.
again
:
you
see
by
this
tyme
,
how
detestable
the
offices
of
L.
Archb.
and
Bb.
are
in
the
presence
of
the
Lord
God
:
&
you
see
that
he
accounteth
a
church
government
exercised
by
them
to
be
accursed
before
his
Maiesty
,
because
they
are
the
members
of
Antichrists
body
,
because
they
beare
rule
lyke
Lords
,
&
serue
not
as
ministers
in
the
church
.
Now
,
do
you
think
him
&
his
word
to
be
enemies
vnto
our
state
,
because
they
ar
of
this
judgement
?
I
hope
you
do
not
.
How
commeth
it
then
to
passe
,
that
you
allow
not
vs
to
subscribe
vnto
that
truth
which
the
Lord
doth
maintaine
?
Is
it
because
our
assertions
ar
dangerous
vnto
the
state
?
that
cannot
be
,
vnles
you
account
the
Lord
an
enemy
therevnto
:
for
wee
affirme
nothing
,
but
that
which
he
hath
given
vs
commission
to
vtter
.
Or
is
it
because
wee
behaue
our selues
seditiously
in
our
message
?
that
cannot
be
proued
.
For
the
men
who
are
most
seuerely
punished
for
favoring
this
cause
,
haue
&
do
cary
themselues
as
peaceably
,
&
dutifully
towardes
her
Matie
and
the
state
,
as
any
of
their
quality
within
the
whole
kingdom
whosoever
.
Ad
mit
it
were
otherwise
:
is
it
reason
that
you
shoulde
reiect
the
cause
of
God
,
for
the
faults
of
men
?
Will
you
deale
vnjustly
with
the
Lord
,
because
we
deale
vndutifully
with
the
state
?
If
we
be
found
any
wise
guilty
punish
our
misdemenor
,
but
grant
the
cause
.
If
you
yeeld
not
therevnto
,
what
do
you
els
in
laying
handes
vpon
vs
,
but
manifest
your
hatred
vnto
gods
truth
&
his
people
,
&
the
loue
you
beare
vnto
the
antichristian
hierarchy
.
Either
then
my
Ll.
you
must
needs
publish
your
enimity
vnto
the
Lord
&
his
kingdome
,
or
you
can
no
longer
countenance
these
murthering
Antichristian
prelates
,
and
their
bloody
train
.
The
case
of
England
is
now
become
lamentable
,
when
the
state
thereof
vnder
the
Gospell
,
is
said
any
wise
to
consist
in
these
pestilent
corruptions
,
which
euer
since
they
firste
sprang
vp
in
the
church
of
God
,
haue
bene
vnto
this
day
,
gainsaied
by
the
most
sincere
professors
therein
.
The
government
of
the
church
by
bishops
,
[
a)
](A09299-e12280-b)
a)
Greg.
in
Evam
.
cent
.
mag.
6.
ca.
7.
col.
392.
invaieth
against
the
priests
of
his
time
,
who
for
brybes
did
ordain
bishops
:
and
he
advyseth
[
b)
](A09299-e12310-b)
b)
Epist.
57.
lib
11.
looke
cent
.
ibid.
col.
406.
Ianuarius
to
chuse
B.
where
priests
were
wanting
.
Again
,
[
c)
](A09299-e12320-b)
c)
Mag.
cent
7.
cap.
7.
col.
223.
Bal
scrip
.
Bryt
.
cen.
2.
cap.
74.
Lawrence
archb.
of
Cant.
anno
615.
together
with
his
fellow
bishops
,
that
is
,
the
priests
of
Brytain
(
saieth
Beda
)
wrote
vnto
the
Scots
.
Now
that
we
know
the
original
of
these
corruptions
:
let
vs
briefly
see
how
from
time
to
time
,
they
haue
bene
gainsaid
in
the
church
.
First
of
al
the
ancient
Brytones
or
Welshmen
vnto
the
yeare
730.
did
[
a)
](A09299-e12350-b)
a)
Bale
can.
1.
cap.
74
ex
Beda
altogether
detest
whatsoever
Romish
invention
Augustine
the
monk
planted
among
the
Saxons
and
therefore
they
allowed
not
this
government
of
bishops
.
[
b)
](A09299-e12370-b)
b)
Anno
742.
Mag.
cent.
8.
cap.
7.
col.
452.
in
France
vnder
Carolomannus
,
ordained
that
every
citie
shold
haue
hir
B.
And
Carolomannus
himself
found
fault
[
c)
](A09299-e12380-b)
c)
Anno
752.
Mag.
cent.
8.
cap.
7.
col
.
510
with
the
pope
,
because
he
sought
after
worldly
dominion
.
Not
long
after
his
time
[
d)
](A09299-e12390-b)
d)
Anno
820
Mag.
cent.
9.
cap
,
7.
col.
3
;
8.
Bal.
cent.
2.
cap
15.
Claudius
Taurinensis
an
Italian
B.
wrote
againste
the
primacy
of
the
pope
,
&
rebuked
him
for
neglecting
his
owne
function
.
In
the
synod
of
[
e)
](A09299-e12420-b)
e)
Anno
881.
Catal
test
.
Illir
Macer
the
civil
&
ecclesiastical
callings
are
so
distinguished
,
that
one
person
cannot
bee
capable
of
both
.
[
f)
](A09299-e12430-b)
f)
Anno
1070.
Illir
ibid
pag.
247.
Valtram
B.
of
Noremberg
,
wrote
against
the
civil
jurisdiction
of
the
ministery
:
so
did
Sigelbert
the
monk
.
Anselme
archb.
[
g)
](A09299-e12460-b)
g)
Anno
1096
vpon
Math.
26
Mag.
cent.
11.
cap.
4
col.
197.
of
Cant.
taught
that
a
B.
ought
no
more
to
intermedle
with
the
civil
sword
,
than
the
king
with
the
ecclesiastical
.
And
he
decreed
in
a
[
h)
](A09299-e12470-b)
h)
Anno
1106.
book
of
mart
.
pag.
196.
synod
held
at
London
,
that
no
spiritual
person
should
sit
in
any
secular
office
.
Wherevpon
[
(i
](A09299-e12480-b)
(i
Note
.
M.
Foxe
demaundeth
how
Stephen
Gardiner
could
be
L.
Chancelor
of
England
,
&
so
we
vpon
the
lyke
ground
,
wold
know
how
the
archb.
of
Cant
can
be
president
of
the
counsel
?
To
omit
Otho
Frisingensis
who
[
k)
](A09299-e12490-b)
k)
Anno
1150.
Illir
.
cata
.
pag.
430
was
of
Anselmus
minde
,
we
wil
come
to
the
Waldenses
.
Their
doctrine
was
,
that
the
[
l)
](A09299-e12500-b)
l)
book
of
mart
pag.
233.235
.
pope
ought
not
to
deale
in
civil
causes
,
and
that
al
ministers
were
of
aequal
authoritie
.
I
am
enforced
to
be
short
,
and
onely
to
name
(
not
al
)
but
the
chief
of
the
ages
following
that
oppugned
the
corruptions
of
our
B.
[
a)
](A09299-e12560-b)
a)
About
the
year
1324.
book
of
mart
.
pag.
377.
William
Ockam
and
Marsis●
,
Patauinus
,
the
greatest
lerned
men
of
their
time
,
wrote
against
the
civil
iurisdiction
of
the
pope
.
In
whose
time
Philip
the
french
king
held
a
parliament
,
wherin
[
b)
](A09299-e12570-b)
b)
Anno
1329.
The
L
Peter
de
Cugni
.
read
the
disp.
in
the
book
of
mart
.
358.
one
of
his
counsellers
proved
out
of
the
worde
against
the
Bishops
,
that
they
ought
not
to
deale
in
civil
causes
.
Iohn
Hus
was
burned
at
the
counsel
of
Constance
,
becaus
among
other
points
he
defended
al
[
c)
](A09299-e12580-b)
c)
Anno
1415.
book
of
mart
.
pag.
579.
ministers
to
be
of
aequal
authority
And
Iohn
Claydon
was
burned
at
London
the
sometime
,
because
hee
defended
a
book
,
wherein
Archb.
were
proved
to
be
the
seates
of
antichrist
.
At
the
counsel
of
Basil
the
[
d)
](A09299-e12590-b)
d)
Anno
1432.
book
of
mart
.
pag.
669.634
.
Ambassadours
of
the
Bohem.
proved
al
civil
rule
to
be
forbidden
the
clearpy
by
the
worde
.
M.
●uthers
judgement
who
was
borne
not
many
yeares
after
this
counsel
is
sufficiently
knowne
.
Our
owne
martyrs
as
M.
Tindall
,
M.
Barnes
,
M
Hooper
,
haue
so
disliked
this
government
of
Bb.
as
no
men
more
.
This
doctrine
of
theirs
being
according
vnto
the
worde
,
they
sealed
with
their
blood
,
and
is
now
acknowledged
the
doctrine
of
our
church
.
The
conclusion
of
al
is
this
:
that
vnles
our
state-men
wil
reiect
god
and
his
word
,
and
allow
the
spilling
of
the
blood
of
his
holy
saints
and
martyres
:
they
cannot
pretend
vnto
bee
enemies
vnto
the
state
,
for
seeking
the
ouerthrow
of
the
government
of
L.
Arch
and
Bb.
withal
the
corruptions
annexed
therevnto
.
The
second
;
art
of
this
book
remaineth
behinde
,
which
shal
be
publish'd
as
soone
as
the
Lord
wil
graunt
me
opportunitye
.
I
haue
beene
〈◊〉
forced
for
some
causes
to
end
this
more
abruptly
than
I
would
haue
wished
.
If
thou
fauorest
the
cause
(
reader
)
thou
wilt
beare
with
,
〈◊〉
falt
,
if
thou
art
an
aduersary
therevnto
,
thou
will
think
too
much
already
spoken
,
and
so
by
abrupt
silence
,
(
compared
with
that
which
I
haue
spoken
,
)
to
be
no
fault
at
all
.