THE
CHVRCH-WARDENS
AND
SIDE-MEN
OF
ENGLAND
can
not
execute
their
places
(
according
to
that
Oath
which
they
take
at
their
admittance
into
their
office
)
without
sinning
against
God
,
and
that
in
a
very
high
nature
.
THey
must
make
their
presentments
to
the
Bishops
Courts
:
in
doing
whereof
they
vphold
,
as
much
as
in
them
lyeth
,
that
cursed
Hierarchy
,
which
is
a
maine
limane
of
that
man
of
sinne
devoted
to
destruction
,
which
every
man
in
his
place
should
helpe
to
ruinate
with
all
his
might
,
Revel
.
18.2.6
.
Now
to
haue
any
hand
in
the
supporting
of
those
lordly
Prelats
,
which
rob
Christ
of
his
Kingly
authority
,
and
in
stead
of
his
regall
Scepter
put
a
reede
into
his
hand
;
and
to
be
the
meanes
of
keeping
out
of
our
Church
Christs
owne
officers
and
ordinances
,
and
of
the
cotinuing
of
such
Offices
,
and
officers
,
and
ordinances
amongst
vs
,
as
Christ
,
the
sole
King
and
Lawgiver
of
his
Church
never
appointed
nor
approued
for
the
ruling
and
gouerning
of
his
Churches
,
is
a
flatt
breach
of
the
second
commandement
,
and
a
manifest
complying
with
those
rebels
,
Luk
.
19.14
.
2
They
must
of
necessitie
be
guiltie
of
horrible
perjury
,
vnlesse
they
present
the
whole
Congregation
,
and
every
particular
person
in
it
;
they
being
all
and
euery
one
of
them
delinquents
against
one
Article
or
an
other
.
Now
such
a
generall
presentment
,
without
naming
particulars
,
the
Articles
allow
not
,
nor
will
it
be
admitted
in
their
Courts
.
And
the
vsuall
manner
,
as
we
know
,
in
those
presentments
,
is
,
to
single
out
some
few
,
and
to
conniue
at
the
rest
.
Wherein
how
these
sworne
men
can
dispense
with
that
oath
which
they
haue
taken
,
for
my
part
(
I
professe
ingenuously
)
I
can
not
see
,
If
that
be
not
a
taking
of
Gods
name
in
vaine
,
and
a
most
fearefull
abusing
of
it
,
I
know
not
what
is
.
Thus
they
transgresse
the
third
commandement
in
a
high
degree
.
3
They
must
present
their
faithfull
Minister
for
the
bare
omission
of
such
things
as
are
diametrally
and
directly
contrary
to
the
word
of
God
,
some
of
which
are
forbidden
in
the
letter
of
the
Morall
Law
,
as
namely
the
Crosse
,
and
Surplice
:
which
,
by
the
doctrine
of
our
Church
,
being
significant
Ceremonies
,
appointed
to
teach
by
mysticall
signification
,
are
either
parts
or
meanes
of
Gods
worship
,
which
no
man
may
presume
to
devise
,
but
they
must
bee
of
divine
Institution
,
or
else
they
are
naught
,
Exod
.
20.4
.
Thou
shalt
not
make
to
thy selfe
,
&c.
And
thus
they
breake
the
fift
commandement
,
by
being
instruments
of
the
causeles
trouble
and
disgrace
of
their
painefull
Pastour
,
whom
they
are
bound
to
honor
,
1
Tim
.
5
,
17
and
1
Thess.
●
.
13
.
4
They
expose
by
their
presentments
both
Minister
and
people
to
the
will
and
pleasure
of
an
vngodly
Channcellor
and
Commissary
,
whose
mercyes
they
know
to
be
cruelty
.
Those
merciles
Prelats
(
being
mighty
hunters
)
having
got
into
their
clutches
their
poore
brethren
,
pursue
them
with
all
eagernes
,
and
doe
what
they
can
to
draw
out
,
or
at
least
to
dry
vp
their
blood
.
And
thus
these
officers
in
our
congregations
are
guiltie
of
the
breach
of
the
sixth
commandement
.
5
They
rob
the
Subjects
of
a
great
part
of
their
wealth
,
and
bring
in
a
masse
of
money
to
those
idle
bellies
,
which
are
all
naught
from
the
Pope
to
the
Apparitor
.
It
is
true
the
Prelats
purse
the
money
;
but
our
Church
Officers
by
these
their
presentments
,
make
themselues
accessary
to
that
horrible
and
intolerable
theft
committed
in
the
sight
of
the
Sun
at
noone
day
,
directly
against
the
eight
commandement
.
6
They
must
present
as
faults
many
things
which
they
know
to
be
none
,
as
namely
,
the
Ministers
not
wearing
the
Surplesse
according
to
the
Canon
,
his
not
vsing
the
Crosse
in
Baptisme
,
and
his
omitting
of
any
part
of
the
books
of
Common
prayer
;
the
peoples
not
kneeling
in
the
act
of
eating
and
drinking
at
the
Lords
table
,
and
at
the
reading
of
the
ten
commandements
,
&
not
crouching
and
cringing
at
the
name
of
Iesus
.
And
by
presenting
these
omissions
as
offences
,
they
professe
plainly
,
that
they
hold
the
doing
of
the
said
things
to
be
the
duties
both
of
their
Minister
and
of
the
people
;
wheras
they
know
,
or
at
least
wise
,
if
they
were
willing
to
be
informed
,
they
might
easily
know
,
that
they
can
not
be
done
without
sinne
against
God
.
Thus
they
call
evill
good
,
and
good
evill
,
darkenes
light
,
and
light
darkenes
,
bitter
sweete
,
and
sweete
bitter
,
and
so
make
themselues
liable
to
that
fearesuit
woe
,
Isa
.
5
,
20.
Thus
also
they
make
themselues
trespassers
against
the
ninth
commandement
,
in
bearing
false
withes
against
their
neighbour
,
and
against
the
truth
it selfe
.
7
They
must
present
their
christian
brother
,
for
not
doing
sundry
things
whereof
they
know
hee
maketh
scruple
,
and
which
they
are
wel
assured
he
can
not
yeeld
to
with
the
peace
of
a
good
conscience
;
as
,
in
particular
,
for
not
kneeling
at
the
Sacrament
:
which
many
good
christians
,
vpon
very
good
grounds
,
take
to
be
a
thing
either
simply
vnlawfull
,
or
at
least
of
such
evill
report
,
that
a
man
fearing
God
should
not
easily
bee
brought
to
vse
it
,
Phil
.
4
8.
wherein
these
officers
doe
walke
very
vncharitably
.
For
by
this
their
presenting
their
poore
brethren
they
cause
them
many
times
to
vse
that
gesture
contrary
to
their
scruple
,
and
so
they
destroy
those
for
whom
Christ
dyed
,
Rom.
14.15
.
And
thus
they
make
themselues
guilty
of
soule
murther
,
which
is
a
foule
and
a
crying
sinne
,
and
the
most
fearefull
murther
that
can
be
.
8
They
must
present
poore
people
,
which
without
their
daily
labour
in
their
callings
scarse
haue
bread
to
put
into
their
mouthes
,
and
are
vtterly
vnable
otherwise
to
relieve
their
families
,
for
opening
their
shops
vpon
an
holy
day
,
as
they
terme
it
,
and
not
for
comming
to
Church
every
one
of
those
idle
dayes
;
whereas
the
Lord
saith
expresly
,
sixe
dayes
shall
they
labour
,
Exod
.
20
9.
And
thus
they
cause
men
to
be
evill
intreated
for-well
doing
,
and
expose
them
to
a
great
deals
of
trouble
,
and
to
punishment
for
doing
their
duty
.
Wherein
they
are
very
injurious
to
the
Commonweale
,
by
increasing
the
number
of
the
poore
,
and
making
poorer
such
as
by
Gods
blessing
vpon
their
labour
and
indeavours
might
bee
able
to
liue
comfortably
themselues
,
and
be
helpefull
to
others
:
which
,
to
speake
plainely
,
is
no
better
then
to
rob
the
spitle
.
9
They
must
present
their
neerest
and
dearest
freind
,
if
he
let
but
a
word
fall
against
the
governement
of
the
Church
by
Archbishops
and
Bishops
,
and
the
rest
of
that
Romish
rabble
:
which
Lordly
Prelats
every
one
that
hath
but
halfe
an
eye
may
plainely
see
,
and
must
needes
confesse
to
be
the
shame
and
bane
of
our
Church
and
Commonwealth
;
and
being
plants
,
which
our
heavenly
Father
never
planted
,
they
must
be
rooted
vp
,
Mat
.
15.13
.
Wherein
every
man
is
bound
to
helpe
the
Lord
against
those
mightie
ones
,
vnlesse
he
will
incurre
that
bitter
curse
thundred
out
by
the
Angell
of
the
Lord
against
the
inhabitants
of
Meroz
,
Iudg
,
5.23
.
10
They
must
present
their
Minister
,
if
hee
reade
not
in
the
congregation
the
Canons
once
euery
yeare
:
if
he
admit
any
strangers
to
the
Communion
;
if
hee
suffer
the
Father
to
be
at
the
Font
at
the
time
of
the
Baptising
of
his
childe
,
which
the
article
calleth
being
God
father
to
his
owne
childe
;
and
for
a
number
of
such
like
fopperies
.
Why
doe
these
strange
lords
require
to
haue
such
strange
and
vncouth
things
presented
to
their
Courts
?
will
they
needes
set
their
threshold
by
Gods
threshould
,
and
their
post
by
his
postes
,
Ezek
.
43.8
.
And
must
the
Messenger
of
the
Lord
of
Hostes
be
the
Herauld
to
proclaime
and
publish
to
the
people
their
godles
and
gracelesse
Constitutions
?
And
if
no
strangers
may
be
admitted
to
the
communion
,
what
shall
become
of
such
as
are
by
sutes
in
law
,
and
other
occasions
,
kept
many
moneths
together
from
their
owne
Parishes
?
And
in
what
a
case
are
they
,
whose
Parish-churches
are
some
yeares
either
repairing
or
new
building
?
Is
there
a
necessitie
that
they
shall
all
that
while
bee
kept
from
the
Lords
table
?
And
who
is
so
fitt
to
make
professiou
of
that
faith
into
which
the
child
is
to
bee
Baptised
,
and
to
vndertake
for
the
bringing
of
the
childe
vp
in
the
faith
and
feare
of
the
Lord
,
as
the
owne
father
?
But
the
particularities
of
this
kinde
are
so
many
and
so
grosse
,
that
if
they
should
be
severally
examined
,
there
would
be
no
end
.
And
therefore
it
behooveth
every
man
,
as
he
will
answere
it
to
the
Lord
Iesus
Christ
,
at
that
great
and
dreadfull
day
of
his
appearing
,
to
shunne
those
Antichristian
offices
,
and
to
keepe
himselfe
free
from
that
abominable
and
execrable
oath
,
by
which
men
binde
themselues
to
do
the
works
of
the
Devill
,
who
is
the
Accuser
of
the
brethren
.
2.
Tim
.
2.7
.
Consider
what
I
say
,
and
the
Lord
give
thee
vnderstanding
in
all
things
.
THAT
THE
PRELATES
GIVE
A
morall
operation
to
their
rites
and
ceremonies
,
and
the
Papists
doe
no
more
,
see
for
this
these
argum
.
following
,
extracted
out
of
Dr.
Ames
his
fresh
suite
against
human
ceremonies
.
WHat
ever
is
a
meane
any
manner
of
way
ordained
,
to
bring
in
divine
worship
,
and
to
cary
the
mynd
and
heart
to
God
in
that
:
is
fo
morally
efficacious
,
as
the
Papists
require
,
and
so
as
our
Divines
condemne
it
,
Nay
if
it
be
by
teaching
,
and
stering
towards
these
supernaturall
works
,
as
Gods
spirituall
worship
:
It
s
that
which
the
Lord
condemnes
in
images
,
which
tell
lyes
,
it
is
that
which
the
Lord
threatens
Isa
.
29.13
.
that
his
feare
is
taught
,
according
to
mens
commaunds
.
And
this
kynd
of
efficacy
our
Cerem
.
have
by
their
institution
as
they
are
appointed
,
and
enjoined
to
be
used
.
The
preface
to
the
book
of
common
Prayer
,
discovering
the
intendement
of
the
imposers
,
hath
these
words
:
Such
are
retained
,
which
are
apt
to
stirr
up
the
dull
mynd
of
man
to
the
remembrance
of
his
duty
to
God
,
by
some
notable
and
speciall
signification
,
whereby
he
might
be
edifyed
.
2.
These
Cerem
.
which
are
of
the
same
kynd
,
and
homogeneal
with
the
significative
part
of
the
actions
in
the
Sacrament
,
they
may
be
said
,
to
have
a
reall
and
true
efficacy
of
teaching
,
and
so
be
a
work
of
proper
worship
:
because
that
part
of
the
Sacrament
,
which
is
placed
in
signification
,
is
so
:
but
these
ceremonies
are
homogencall
,
and
of
like
nature
,
with
that
part
of
the
Sacrament
,
doth
baptisme
consecrate
the
child
to
God
and
so
doth
the
crosse
:
doth
baptisme
signifye
the
covenant
,
betweene
Christ
&
child
?
so
doth
the
cross
:
it
is
openly
sayd
,
to
betoken
the
engagement
,
that
is
betwixt
Christ
and
the
child
,
that
he
shall
be
Christs
servant
,
and
souldier
to
followe
his
colours
,
and
to
fight
under
his
banner
unto
his
dying
day
:
though
this
image
have
no
tongue
of
its
owne
,
yet
it
speaks
by
the
mouth
of
the
Prelats
appointing
,
&
their
substitutes
the
ministers
acting
this
image
.
3.
Consider
that
which
is
made
end
of
out
Cerem
.
that
our
Cerem
.
are
able
,
or
at
least
are
conceaved
to
be
able
to
attaine
,
for
every
rationall
meanes
can
reach
the
end
,
now
this
is
the
end
of
the
crosse
his
institution
,
the
white
at
which
it
shoots
,
and
the
minister
makes
it
spell
this
lesson
,
even
our
dedication
unto
Christ
.
and
our
continuall
perseverance
in
his
service
,
so
that
as
the
end
is
,
so
the
meanes
are
,
the
end
is
properly
holy
,
and
religious
,
ergo
,
the
meanes
appointed
thereunto
(
such
this
is
)
must
be
holy
,
religious
,
and
efficacious
therunto
,
in
the
intendement
of
the
institutor
.
4.
Those
which
are
of
the
same
ranke
,
and
sett
in
the
same
roome
,
with
Gods
owne
Cere
.
they
must
be
conceaved
to
have
holines
,
and
efficacy
in
them
,
for
so
Gods
ordinances
have
.
But
these
significant
Cerem
.
thus
instituted
,
are
of
the
like
nature
with
some
of
Gods
owne
spirituall
rites
,
As
the
Phylacteries
Numb
.
15.39
.
were
appointed
by
God
,
for
this
end
,
to
be
remembrances
,
and
admonishers
of
the
law
to
those
that
used
them
.
the
same
place
our
Cerem
,
supply
,
and
are
ordained
for
the
same
purpose
.
If
it
be
here
sayd
that
God
himself
appointed
his
and
therefore
they
are
holy
and
religious
,
but
ours
being
instituted
by
man
have
no
more
then
man
can
give
them
,
I
answ
:
God
appoints
his
,
and
therefore
they
are
truely
holy
,
and
religious
,
and
ought
to
be
embraced
:
Mens
inventious
being
sett
in
the
same
ranke
,
are
holy
,
and
religious
,
but
falsely
and
superstitiously
such
and
therfore
are
to
be
abandoned
.
1.
If
Gods
owne
Ceremonies
were
therfore
to
be
removed
because
unprofitable
,
then
much
more
ours
.
Heb
.
7.18
.
2.
If
we
must
answere
for
idle
words
,
then
much
more
for
idle
ceremonies
.
3.
That
wherin
neither
the
governour
,
attaines
his
end
in
commaunding
,
nor
the
governed
his
in
obaying
,
to
commaund
that
,
is
unlawfull
:
but
he
that
commaunds
unprofitable
Ceremo
.
he
attaines
not
his
end
in
commaunding
,
nor
the
governed
his
end
in
obeying
:
Ergo
.
4.
2.
Coll
.
18.
Those
things
which
perish
in
the
using
,
with
those
we
must
not
be
burdened
:
but
unprofitable
Ceremo
,
perish
in
the
using
:
ergo
,
with
those
we
must
not
be
burdened
.
5.
Things
indifferent
,
when
they
are
used
not
in
subordination
to
help
forward
morall
duties
,
then
their
use
is
unlawfull
,
but
when
they
are
unprofitable
,
then
they
are
not
in
subordination
to
help
forward
the
morall
.
Ergo
.
6.
That
which
crosseth
the
place
and
office
of
the
governour
,
that
he
must
not
doe
or
maintaine
.
but
to
enjoine
a
thing
unprofitable
is
against
his
office
and
place
.
for
his
office
is
to
rule
for
our
good
,
Rom.
13.4
.
but
unprofitable
things
are
not
so
.
Ergo
.
7.
That
which
the
Magistrate
can
commaund
or
maintaine
in
the
Church
,
he
must
doe
by
virtue
of
some
precept
:
That
which
is
done
by
virtute
of
a
precept
,
will
be
avayleable
to
bring
about
that
end
,
whereof
there
is
a
precept
,
but
unprofitable
things
cannot
attaine
that
end
:
Ergo
cannot
be
done
by
virtue
of
a
precept
:
ergo
,
are
not
under
the
commaund
of
a
magistrate
.