CERTAINE
ARGVMENTS
and
Motives
,
of
special
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
;
&
instead
thereof
to
set
up
the
government
of
the
Lord
Iesus
Christ
,
and
his
holy
Ordinances
,
in
their
purity
and
power
.
THe
Archbishops
&
Lord
Bishops
of
England
are
the
maine
hinderers
of
the
free
passage
of
the
Gospel
,
&
of
the
growth
of
godlines
in
that
famous
&
flourishing
Realme
.
1
They
stop
the
mouthes
of
the
faithfullest
&
fruitfullest
Ministers
in
the
land
;
some
one
of
which
hath
(
by
his
labours
in
the
Church
)
done
God
more
good
service
,
&
gained
more
soules
to
Christ
by
his
Ministery
,
then
al
the
Bishops
have
done
,
that
either
now
are
,
or
ever
have
beene
in
the
kingdome
,
since
the
Gospel
beganne
last
to
be
preached
&
published
amongst
us
.
What
a
woful
havock
did
they
make
in
our
Church
,
in
the
beginning
of
King
Iames
his
raigne
;
when
they
turned
out
at
a
clap
foure
hundred
of
the
ablest
&
most
conscionable
Ministers
in
the
land
,
for
not
yeelding
to
such
things
as
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Vaghan
some
of
themselves
then
openly
confessed
to
bee
trifles
&
nifles
,
gewgawes
&
gamboles
,
fitter
for
children
then
for
men
of
discretion
?
Howsoever
the
King
caried
the
name
of
it
,
yet
these
wicked
Prelats
put
him
upon
it
,
and
did
egregiously
abuse
both
him
and
his
authority
to
countenance
their
owne
cruelty
.
His
commaundement
&
commission
was
,
that
they
should
first
convince
mens
consciences
,
before
they
proceeded
against
them
.
But
they
fall
pell-mell
upon
them
,
and
turned
them
out
,
leaving
them
to
the
wide
world
,
to
seeke
for
satisfaction
where
they
could
finde
it
;
they
knowing
that
they
were
able
to
give
them
none
.
How
have
they
gone
on
ever
since
,
though
not
altogether
so
boisterously
,
and
with
so
much
violence
,
yet
weeding
out
by
degrees
,
one
after
another
,
the
most
painefull
and
profitable
workmen
in
the
Lords
harvest
,
&
such
as
did
him
the
best
&
the
faithfullest
service
in
this
vineyard
of
his
?
And
to
what
exigents
and
extremities
are
both
the
Ministers
&
members
of
our
churches
at
this
day
exposed
;
who
,
as
it
is
wel
knowne
,
do
dailie
in
troupes
and
great
multitudes
,
not
without
much
griefe
,
quitt
the
kingdome
,
to
shelter
themselves
in
forraine
countries
from
the
unjust
usurpation
,
and
merciles
and
matchles
tyranny
of
these
Antichristian
Prelats
,
the
tenderest
of
whose
mercies
are
cruell
?
Prov.
12.10
.
2
They
beeing
,
either
all
,
or
the
most
of
them
,
corrupt
and
unsound
in
their
iudgments
,
do
favour
none
of
their
clergy
,
as
they
call
them
,
but
such
as
go
on
in
a
plaine
and
direct
way
to
Popery
,
or
looke
terribly
a-squint
towards
Arminianisme
,
&
Pelagianisme
;
either
of
which
whosoever
opposeth
(
especially
if
hee
do
it
professedly
and
in
good
earnest
)
they
will
bee
sure
to
crush
him
,
if
they
can
,
though
he
bee
never
so
conformable
,
according
to
their
owne
hellish
Canons
,
and
though
he
bee
so
painefull
in
the
worke
of
his
Ministery
,
&
so
vnblamable
in
the
course
of
his
life
,
that
they
have
nothing
to
lay
to
his
charge
.
How
then
is
it
possible
that
the
Gospel
should
thrive
and
prosper
amongst
us
,
and
how
can
it
bee
expected
that
it
should
run
and
bee
glorified
,
when
these
Tyrants
,
who
sitt
at
the
sterne
,
&
affect
the
Title
of
Fathers
of
the
Church
,
countenance
none
but
men
of
corrupt
mindes
,
like
themselves
,
and
cry
downe
,
with
might
and
maine
,
all
such
as
do
but
looke
towards
syncerity
?
In
their
devillish
Canons
(
of
which
Hell
it selfe
would
bee
ashamed
if
there
were
any
shame
there
)
they
anathematize
,
and
curse
with
Bell
,
Booke
,
and
Candle
,
all
such
as
mislike
and
professe
against
their
Romish
Hierarchy
;
they
pronounce
them
excommunicate
ipso
facto
.
O
monstrous
wretches
,
that
dare
give
such
uniust
sentence
,
and
thunder
out
such
a
direfull
and
dreadfull
censure
against
those
faithfull
servants
of
Christ
,
which
beare
witnes
to
the
truth
of
his
,
which
wil
stand
,
when
all
they
that
oppose
it
shal
melt
away
like
snow
before
the
sunne
:
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Bancroft
.
Some
of
them
have
growne
to
such
a
height
of
impudency
and
impiety
,
that
they
have
not
stuck
to
say
,
that
if
S.
Paul
himselfe
were
a
Preacher
in
the
land
,
or
any
other
man
as
richly
stored
and
furnihed
with
the
graces
of
Gods
Spirit
,
for
that
great
worke
of
the
Ministery
,
as
S.
Paul
was
,
unlesse
hee
would
conforme
himselfe
to
the
orders
of
the
Church
now
established
,
they
would
suspend
,
and
deprive
,
and
degrade
him
,
and
cast
him
out
of
their
Synagogue
;
so
little
regard
have
they
of
any
mans
abilities
and
indowments
!
It
is
wonder
that
they
do
not
expunge
out
of
the
Canon
of
holy
Scripture
sundry
of
S.
Paules
epistles
,
which
make
so
directly
against
them
and
their
government
.
Most
certaine
it
is
that
if
that
blessed
Apostle
were
now
,
upon
any
complaint
made
against
him
,
to
give
an
account
of
his
life
and
doctrine
before
them
,
he
should
finde
lesse
favour
at
their
hands
,
then
hee
did
at
the
hands
of
Felix
,
Act.
23.35
.
they
would
not
stay
till
his
accusers
came
,
but
they
would
force
him
by
their
cursed
oth
ex
officio
(
which
was
hatched
in
hell
)
to
accuse
himselfe
,
or
else
to
prison
hee
must
,
there
to
ly
long
enough
,
without
baile
or
maineprise
.
What
pity
is
it
that
such
ungracious
wretches
should
bee
put
into
any
place
of
eminency
,
which
know
no
better
how
to
use
it
?
When
the
righteous
are
in
authority
,
the
people
reioyce
,
but
when
the
wicked
beareth
rule
,
the
people
sigh
,
Prov.
29
:
2.
3
Their
poysoning
of
the
fountaines
,
and
those
violent
courses
which
they
take
against
Ministers
,
discourage
Parents
from
sending
their
children
to
the
Vniversities
.
How
well
would
our
Naioths
and
our
Bethels
,
our
schooles
of
the
Prophets
,
be
furnished
with
yong
Students
,
which
would
bee
ready
upon
all
occasions
to
bee
called
forth
to
serve
God
both
in
the
Church
and
in
the
common
wealth
,
if
these
wretched
miscreants
did
not
nip
in
the
bud
,
and
crush
in
the
shel
,
&
strangle
in
the
birth
the
very
beginnings
of
grace
in
those
young
plants
,
which
would
otherwise
increase
with
the
increasings
of
God
,
and
would
grow
vp
like
Cedars
in
Lebanon
?
There
is
an
evil
eye
cast
vpon
them
,
if
once
they
do
but
beginne
to
walke
in
the
waies
of
God
,
and
run
not
with
others
to
the
same
excesse
of
riot
.
And
of
what
straine
or
garbe
so
ever
they
bee
,
there
is
a
very
strict
order
taken
,
that
vnlesse
they
will
both
subscribe
,
and
take
a
most
shamefull
Oth
,
they
shal
take
no
degree
in
schooles
,
to
testify
their
progresse
and
proceeding
in
humane
learning
.
Nor
is
there
any
preferment
to
bee
had
,
or
to
bee
held
,
except
men
will
yeeld
to
the
corruptions
of
the
times
;
which
are
now
growne
so
great
,
that
they
are
not
to
bee
endured
.
Which
maketh
Parents
many
times
to
put
the
best
and
most
towardly
of
their
children
upon
other
imployments
;
and
if
they
send
any
to
the
Vniversities
;
they
bee
such
,
for
the
most
part
,
as
are
good
for
litle
but
to
serve
the
times
.
Wherein
these
Adversaries
of
the
grace
of
God
bring
such
a
damage
and
detriment
to
our
King
and
State
,
as
they
will
never
bee
able
to
recompense
,
as
that
good
Queene
Hester
speaketh
in
another
case
concerning
their
brother
Haman
,
Hest.
7.4
.
4
They
disharten
young
Schollers
from
applying
themselves
to
the
study
of
Divinity
,
by
their
denying
admittance
and
enterance
into
the
Ministery
to
all
men
,
though
never
so
singularly
and
extraordinarily
qualified
,
except
their
consciences
bee
made
of
cheveril
,
and
will
(
like
Kids
leather
)
stretch
every
way
;
and
vnlesse
they
will
by
their
practise
of
conformity
iustify
a
great
number
of
things
,
which
they
know
to
bee
grossely
and
palpably
evill
.
And
when
men
are
in
possession
of
Pastorall
charges
,
they
are
put
to
so
much
drudgery
in
the
execution
of
their
Ministeriall
fuction
,
that
they
were
better
to
rub
horse
heeles
,
then
,
as
the
case
now
stands
,
to
bee
Ministers
in
the
church
of
England
,
and
to
live
in
such
base
servitude
and
slavery
vnder
those
Antichristian
&
accursed
Prelats
.
No
attire
must
serve
their
turne
,
when
they
come
to
discharge
their
duty
in
the
Lords
Sanctuary
,
but
the
habit
of
the
whore
of
Rome
,
and
the
very
massing
garment
it selfe
of
that
filthy
trumpet
.
They
must
crosse
,
and
crouch
,
and
cringe
at
the
command
of
those
their
Lords
and
Masters
.
They
must
admitt
to
the
Sacrament
of
the
Lords
supper
whomsoever
these
Catercaps
allow
of
,
though
never
so
unworthy
;
and
they
must
reject
and
repell
from
that
holy
Communion
and
company
all
such
as
wil
not
kneele
in
the
act
of
receiving
,
though
they
know
right
well
that
they
do
refuse
it
onely
out
of
the
tendernes
of
their
consciences
,
because
they
dare
not
synne
against
their
God
in
so
doing
;
and
albeit
they
are
perswaded
in
their
very
soules
,
that
they
bee
in
all
other
respects
the
fittest
Persons
in
their
Congregations
to
come
to
the
Lords
Table
.
They
must
at
their
beck
cast
out
of
the
church
,
by
the
fearfull
sentence
of
Excommunication
,
many
times
the
best
Christians
in
their
Parishes
for
very
triviall
businesses
:
as
for
not
appearing
in
one
of
their
Courts
,
when
haply
they
had
no
warning
;
or
for
non-payment
of
a
fee
of
foure
pence
to
a
paltry
Apparitour
.
They
must
reade
in
their
churches
,
as
Canonicall
Scripture
,
those
Apocrypha-bookes
,
which
are
full
of
fables
&
fictions
,
of
lies
and
of
leasings
.
They
must
baptise
,
if
they
bee
required
,
in
a
house
meerely
private
,
which
nourisheth
a
superstitious
opinion
of
the
necessity
of
Baptisme
;
and
they
must
use
conditional
Baptisme
in
the
publike
Congregation
,
after
the
childe
hath
beene
privately
baptised
.
They
must
housle
the
sick
,
mary
with
the
Ring
,
Church
women
,
and
do
a
thousand
such
things
,
any
one
of
which
a
man
that
maketh
conscience
of
his
waies
dare
not
adventure
upon
for
a
world
.
And
yet
all
these
things
must
a
poore
Minister
do
,
if
hee
will
hold
his
place
,
and
enjoy
his
Ministery
.
Which
maketh
many
of
our
best
and
finest
wits
to
betake
themselves
to
the
study
of
the
law
,
or
physicke
,
and
to
abandon
&
put
out
of
their
minds
all
thoughts
of
entering
into
the
Ministery
;
which
,
as
things
are
now
caried
,
they
hold
to
bee
a
calling
not
fitt
for
an
honest
man
.
What
a
heavy
and
dolefull
account
shall
these
Vermine
one
day
give
to
our
God
for
devouring
his
pleasant
plants
?
And
what
shall
become
of
these
Foxes
,
which
thus
destroy
the
Lords
vines
?
Cant.
2.15
.
5
They
have
had
an
intention
a
long
while
,
if
not
wholly
to
put
downe
,
yet
at
least
to
diminish
and
lessen
preaching
.
Which
though
they
durst
not
assaile
with
open
violence
,
for
feare
of
the
people
,
amongst
whom
it
would
have
made
them
more
odious
then
they
are
already
;
yet
have
they
these
many
yeeres
beene
secretly
undermining
it
.
About
the
beginning
of
King
Iames
his
raigne
,
or
the
later
end
of
Queene
Elisabeths
of
blessed
memory
,
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.
the
Prelate
of
London
called
before
him
all
the
Ministers
of
the
City
,
and
gave
them
expresse
charge
that
they
should
preach
but
once
upon
the
Lords
day
:
and
if
any
of
them
would
do
any
thing
in
the
afternoone
(
which
hee
neither
required
,
nor
did
greatly
approve
of
)
hee
told
them
,
that
hee
would
have
them
Catechise
.
No
Catechisme
hee
permitted
them
to
use
,
but
the
ordinary
,
What
is
your
name
,
&c.
for
so
hee
expressed
himselfe
.
And
if
any
amongst
them
would
needes
explane
and
open
the
same
,
hee
told
them
,
that
the
lesse
paines
they
tooke
for
that
which
they
delivered
,
it
were
the
better
:
for
,
saith
hee
,
it
is
not
needfull
that
the
people
should
know
too
much
.
O
horrible
treachery
and
cruelty
against
the
pretious
soules
of
Gods
people
!
Who
would
ever
have
looked
for
such
words
out
of
the
mouth
of
a
very
rakeshame
in
times
of
so
great
light
?
Since
that
,
they
have
had
a
project
to
suppresse
Lecturers
;
which
in
some
countries
they
did
desperately
set
upon
,
and
proceede
in
with
a
rage
that
reached
to
heaven
.
In
other
places
they
have
likewise
attempted
it
,
but
somewhat
moreley
surely
and
insensibly
.
And
doubtles
they
had
prevailed
in
this
plott
had
not
the
Lord
himselfe
extraordinarily
stirred
up
the
hart
of
a
noble
man
,
who
heard
of
it
,
to
go
to
our
gracious
King
,
and
to
acquaint
him
with
the
vilenes
and
odiousnes
of
the
designe
of
theirs
;
and
by
that
meanes
they
were
disappointed
of
their
purpose
,
when
they
made
no
question
but
they
should
have
gott
it
ratified
by
his
Maiesties
royall
authority
.
If
they
had
prevailed
in
that
,
it
is
to
bee
thought
that
their
next
attempt
would
have
beene
,
to
have
taken
the
Bible
out
of
mens
handes
,
and
so
to
have
brought
the
people
of
this
land
back
againe
to
that
Cymmerian
and
Egyptian
darknes
,
in
which
our
forefathers
for
many
yeeres
together
did
heretofore
ly
buried
.
[
*
](A21016-e960-b)
*
B.
Ravis
.
One
of
that
cursed
crew
lieth
entombed
in
Paules
church
,
with
one
booke
at
his
head
,
and
another
at
his
feete
.
That
at
his
feete
is
thought
to
bee
the
Bible
,
which
these
godles
Prelats
tread
under
foote
.
That
at
his
head
is
supposed
to
bee
the
booke
of
common
praier
,
which
hee
caried
with
him
as
a
Crowne
to
the
place
whither
hee
is
gone
.
But
whither
these
monsters
(
which
are
neither
Ministers
,
nor
members
of
any
of
our
Congregations
)
I
professe
I
know
not
;
unlesse
it
bee
to
the
place
whither
their
fellow
traitour
Iudas
is
gone
before
,
Act.
2.25
.
there
to
remaine
among
such
as
the
Apostle
speaketh
of
,
Phil.
3.19
.
For
it
can
not
bee
imagined
that
there
should
bee
any
place
in
heaven
for
these
wretches
:
but
as
they
hate
Gods
people
here
upon
earth
with
a
perfect
hatred
so
it
is
to
bee
thought
that
the
Lord
will
set
a
great
gulfe
,
and
make
an
eternall
separation
between
them
,
&
the
vessels
of
his
mercy
,
Luke
16.26
.
2.
Thess.
1.7.8.9.10
.
6
They
have
suppressed
that
famous
&
worthy
worke
of
buying
in
,
and
restoring
to
the
church
Impropriations
;
which
was
a
most
charitable
,
and
usefull
&
hopefull
busines
,
and
likely
to
have
brought
more
advantage
to
the
Ministery
of
England
,
then
any
one
thing
of
that
nature
,
which
hath
beene
undertaken
in
any
mans
memory
.
Divers
were
brought
in
,
&
brought
back
againe
to
the
Church
,
by
those
men
which
were
trusted
with
that
busines
;
who
caried
themselves
very
faithfully
in
it
;
&
many
great
summes
lay
ready
,
which
would
have
beene
frankly
and
freely
given
for
the
buying
in
of
moe
,
if
that
worke
had
gone
on
as
it
began
:
whereby
much
glory
would
have
redounded
to
God
,
as
much
comfort
to
thousands
of
poore
soules
,
which
now
are
like
to
want
it
.
In
many
places
where
the
maintenance
of
the
Minister
was
short
and
scant
,
the
feoffees
did
,
out
of
those
Impropriations
which
they
had
in
their
hands
,
make
a
supply
and
addition
,
to
make
the
living
competent
for
an
able
and
an
honest
man
.
In
other
places
,
where
there
was
most
want
of
preaching
,
they
set
up
Lectures
,
and
put
in
men
of
good
abilities
,
and
such
as
would
teach
the
people
to
bee
obedient
to
God
,
and
loyall
to
their
Soveraigne
.
And
where
there
were
Lectures
before
,
which
had
not
a
competency
of
meanes
allotted
to
them
,
they
increased
their
allowance
,
that
so
he
Ministers
might
go
on
the
more
confortably
in
the
worke
of
their
Minstery
.
But
this
made
our
Bishops
sick
of
the
splene
.
They
cried
out
that
this
would
bee
the
ruine
of
the
Church
of
England
.
The
truth
is
they
feared
,
but
without
cause
,
that
this
would
in
time
have
clipped
their
wings
,
&
have
abridged
their
authority
,
whereof
they
are
much
more
jelous
then
of
Gods
glory
;
and
that
caused
them
to
set
the
matter
so
much
to
hart
.
It
is
true
that
the
fatall
blow
was
given
to
that
worke
in
another
Court
:
but
these
ungratious
Prelats
kindled
the
coles
,
and
blew
that
fire
,
which
hath
consumed
and
brought
it
to
nothing
.
Wherein
they
have
shewed
themselves
to
bee
like
to
their
father
the
Devill
,
who
,
as
a
roaring
Lion
,
walketh
about
seeking
whom
hee
may
devoure
,
1.
Pet.
5.8
.
They
have
put
downe
the
meetings
of
the
men
of
several
shires
&
counties
,
now
dwellers
in
London
,
which
were
wont
to
assemble
together
once
a
yeere
,
&
did
a
great
deale
of
good
to
those
countries
where
they
were
borne
.
There
they
set
up
,
and
do
to
this
day
maintaine
at
their
owne
charge
,
Lectures
in
Market
townes
,
and
other
places
of
greatest
resort
,
where
they
supposed
they
might
do
most
good
,
and
where
there
was
greatest
want
of
preaching
;
which
was
a
great
ease
and
comfort
to
the
Christians
in
those
parts
:
and
more
they
would
have
done
every
yeere
for
the
good
of
those
places
,
if
these
meetings
of
theirs
had
not
beene
thus
unseasonably
interrupted
and
broken
off
by
these
men
which
beare
ill
will
to
Sion
.
But
the
name
of
a
Lecture
is
ynough
to
crush
&
quash
any
such
pious
&
good
worke
.
I
know
well
that
the
places
,
where
they
used
to
meete
,
were
denied
them
by
another
authority
:
but
the
Prelats
were
the
plotters
and
contrivers
of
this
mischiefe
,
out
of
that
inveterate
malice
and
hatred
which
they
beare
against
preaching
.
Wherein
they
resemble
their
Predecessours
,
the
Scribes
and
Pharises
,
which
shut
up
the
kingdome
of
heaven
against
men
,
&
will
neither
go
in
themselves
,
nor
suffer
them
that
are
entering
to
go
in
,
Mat.
23.13
.
8
They
urge
and
presse
upon
Ministers
a
Subscription
not
onely
against
reason
,
but
directly
against
Law
.
The
statute
of
the
13.
Elizabeth
requireth
of
Ministers
no
subscription
but
to
the
Articles
of
religion
,
and
that
also
no
further
then
they
concerne
faith
and
Sacraments
onely
.
But
these
troublers
of
Israel
,
and
disturbers
of
the
peace
of
our
church
,
wil
have
them
subscribe
not
onely
to
that
whole
booke
,
but
to
foure
other
bookes
also
,
namely
the
booke
of
common
prayer
,
the
booke
of
Ordination
,
and
two
bookes
Homilies
;
in
some
one
of
which
said
bookes
it
is
well
knowne
that
there
bee
many
hundreds
of
foule
and
grosse
corruptions
.
And
if
a
man
have
subscribed
in
his
younger
yeeres
,
when
hee
knew
no
better
,
and
was
unable
,
and
it
may
bee
unwilling
also
to
examine
,
and
try
things
by
the
true
touchstone
,
and
to
weigh
them
in
the
ballance
of
the
Sanctuary
;
if
afterwards
hee
renounce
,
or
do
but
revolt
from
his
subscription
,
and
shall
refuse
to
justify
by
his
practise
that
to
which
ignorantly
and
unadvisedly
hee
did
formerly
subscribe
with
his
hand
;
though
hee
have
done
God
faithfull
service
in
his
Church
for
the
space
of
many
yeeres
,
and
have
taken
more
then
ordinary
paines
in
his
ministery
,
they
turne
him
out
with
a
great
deale
of
wrath
and
indignation
,
and
expose
him
,
his
wife
&
children
,
to
misery
&
beggery
.
And
if
in
these
cases
men
bee
content
to
leave
their
native
soyle
,
&
shall
seeke
to
secure
and
safegard
themselves
in
other
nations
from
the
fury
of
these
Tigers
,
yet
thither
will
their
malice
follow
them
,
and
their
armes
are
now
growne
so
long
,
that
even
there
also
they
can
reach
them
.
But
there
will
a
time
come
,
when
these
wretches
shall
know
to
their
cost
,
and
by
miserable
and
wofull
experience
,
when
it
will
bee
to
late
,
that
it
is
the
Lord
Iesus
himselfe
whom
they
persecute
,
and
that
they
kick
against
pricks
,
Act.
9.5
.
And
hee
that
hath
those
starrs
in
his
right
hand
,
Revel.
1.16
.
and
accounteth
of
them
as
his
Iewels
,
will
one
day
render
into
the
bosome
of
their
Persecutours
,
and
that
with
more
then
ordinary
severity
,
all
the
wrongs
which
they
have
done
to
those
poore
servants
of
his
,
&
will
then
bee
throughly
avenged
of
all
his
and
their
malicious
and
despitefull
enemies
.
9
They
thrust
Christ
out
of
his
chaire
of
Estate
,
and
will
not
suffer
him
to
rule
&
raigne
amongst
us
,
according
to
his
owne
holy
will
revealed
in
his
word
,
by
Pastours
,
Teachers
,
and
Elders
;
which
hee
hath
ordained
and
appointed
for
the
governing
of
his
Churches
,
and
for
the
perfecting
of
the
Saints
,
&c.
till
wee
all
come
in
the
unity
of
the
faith
,
and
of
the
knowledge
of
the
soone
of
God
,
unto
a
perfect
man
,
unto
the
measure
of
the
stature
of
the
fulnes
of
Christ
,
Rom.
12.7.8
.
and
1.
Tim.
5.17
.
Ephes.
4.12.13
.
Wherein
they
plainely
professe
,
and
proclaime
openly
to
the
whole
world
,
that
they
are
fighters
against
God
himselfe
,
and
maine
opposers
of
his
grace
and
goodnes
.
How
would
the
Gospel
flourish
in
our
land
,
&
what
glorious
successe
and
intertainement
would
it
finde
in
the
harts
of
men
,
if
the
Lord
Iesus
might
once
bee
permitted
to
rule
in
our
Congregations
,
by
his
owne
Officers
&
ordinances
;
and
if
that
holy
governement
of
his
might
bee
set
up
amongst
us
in
perfect
beauty
?
What
a
goodly
sight
would
it
bee
to
see
every
Congregation
of
Christians
in
this
kingdome
to
bee
a
complete
&
entire
spirituall
body
within
it selfe
,
without
having
any
dependance
upon
these
Romish
Prelats
,
and
their
Popish
Canons
?
It
is
that
which
the
great
God
of
heaven
looketh
for
at
the
hands
of
our
State
,
to
which
hee
hath
vouchsafed
so
many
and
so
great
mercies
.
The
Lord
Iesus
Christ
,
who
is
a
great
King
,
and
the
Lord
and
Lawgiver
of
his
Church
,
hath
fitted
&
furnished
men
extraordinarily
for
this
great
worke
&
service
.
And
the
harts
of
all
the
people
of
the
land
,
which
are
any
whitt
well
affected
,
tooke
that
way
;
as
appeareth
by
their
continuall
labouring
for
it
ever
since
the
beginning
of
the
raigne
of
Queene
Elizabeth
of
pious
and
happy
memory
.
Onely
these
wicked
Bishops
oppose
it
,
which
never
did
good
nor
ever
will
do
.
They
can
not
endure
the
name
of
Discipline
,
but
have
alwaies
set
themselves
with
tooth
and
naile
,
and
with
might
and
maine
,
against
the
kingdome
of
our
blessed
Saviour
,
and
his
sacred
soveraignety
.
But
let
them
looke
to
it
,
and
remember
what
is
like
to
bee
their
doome
,
if
they
mend
not
their
maners
:
Those
mine
enemies
which
would
not
that
I
should
raigne
over
them
,
bring
hither
,
and
slay
them
before
mee
,
Luke
19.27
.
10
They
hinder
,
as
much
as
in
them
lieth
,
the
publishing
of
all
bookes
,
though
never
so
modestly
written
,
in
the
defence
of
Christs
holy
cause
,
and
that
unalterable
government
,
which
hee
in
his
last
will
and
Testament
hath
prescribed
to
his
Churches
.
And
if
by
their
scoutes
,
which
they
have
in
every
corner
,
they
can
discover
&
finde
out
the
Printer
of
any
such
Treatises
,
they
deale
very
rigorously
and
roughly
with
him
.
Himselfe
they
commit
close
enough
to
Prison
,
and
there
they
let
him
ly
as
long
as
they
please
,
even
till
they
have
ruined
him
,
his
wife
,
and
children
;
they
seize
upon
his
Presse
and
letters
,
and
sell
them
away
before
his
face
for
a
song
;
they
rifle
and
ransack
his
house
,
and
cary
away
,
by
those
helhounds
their
Pursivants
,
as
much
of
his
goods
as
they
list
,
without
ever
making
any
restitution
of
that
which
they
do
so
wrongfully
&
and
feloniously
take
from
him
;
when
as
in
the
meane
while
they
suffer
the
Printers
of
popish
Pamphlets
to
go
on
in
their
way
with
out
interruption
.
Nay
when
such
notorious
Offenders
are
brought
to
them
,
and
put
into
their
hands
,
they
send
them
away
,
if
not
with
a
reward
,
yet
certainely
without
any
check
or
punishment
;
so
well
do
many
of
these
lazy
lubbers
and
idle
drones
like
of
those
Romish
varlets
and
their
Religion
.
Yea
,
whereas
printing
by
the
blessing
of
God
hath
beene
a
speciall
meanes
of
spreading
and
divulging
the
Gospel
in
the
Christian
world
in
these
later
times
;
it
is
verily
beleeved
by
many
,
that
these
wretches
have
a
purpose
,
if
they
can
handsomely
and
cleanly
accomplish
it
,
wholly
to
suppresse
that
rare
mystery
,
and
most
noble
and
famous
Art
.
Divers
Printers
complaine
(
and
I
suppose
not
without
cause
)
that
they
can
get
nothing
licensed
,
They
,
who
are
authorised
and
appointed
for
that
purpose
,
do
not
simply
and
absolutely
deny
to
do
it
;
but
they
delay
them
extraordinarily
,
and
beyond
all
measure
.
When
they
have
attended
them
,
and
called
upon
them
,
moneth
after
moneth
,
and
one
yeere
after
another
,
their
answere
in
conclusion
is
,
that
they
are
not
at
leisure
to
reade
over
their
treatises
.
Nay
,
it
is
reported
by
some
,
but
how
true
that
is
time
will
shew
,
that
they
shall
not
bee
suffered
to
print
their
old
copies
,
which
they
have
formerly
printed
with
priviledge
,
till
the
Licenser
do
certify
a-new
,
under
his
hand
,
that
hee
hath
carefully
read
over
every
passage
both
in
the
body
of
those
bookes
,
and
in
the
Epistles
prefixed
before
them
,
and
that
there
is
nothing
in
them
repugnant
to
those
tenents
,
which
these
grand
Clergy-masters
do
now
hold
.
Which
if
it
bee
true
,
it
is
high
time
both
for
Printers
and
Bookesellers
to
go
and
learne
some
new
Trade
;
for
they
will
not
bee
able
to
live
of
the
old
.
By
this
meanes
these
vipers
do
closely
eate
out
the
bowels
of
our
church
,
and
they
run
a
course
directly
and
pointblanck
contrary
to
that
of
the
holy
Apostle
,
2.
Thess.
3.1
.
whose
desire
was
,
that
the
word
of
God
might
have
free
passage
&
bee
glorified
.
It
were
to
bee
wished
therefore
that
our
King
and
State
would
turne
out
these
Abby-lubbers
,
&
pluck
those
fat
morsels
out
of
their
mouthes
,
and
cause
them
to
get
their
living
by
the
sweate
of
their
browes
,
as
other
poore
Ministers
do
,
which
labour
in
the
word
and
doctrine
.
And
it
will
manifestly
appeare
to
bee
a
worke
most
fitt
&
necessary
to
be
done
,
if
these
things
following
bee
well
weighed
,
and
rightly
and
duely
considered
of
.
1
Their
places
and
callings
are
abominable
,
&
accursed
,
and
Antichristian
.
Gods
Bishops
,
out
of
all
question
,
they
are
not
.
Hee
knoweth
no
Lord
Bishops
,
nor
will
hee
ever
acknowledge
and
owne
them
for
his
.
Mans
Bishops
they
themselves
confidently
affirme
they
are
not
;
though
the
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*
B.
Whitgift
.
discreetest
and
moderatest
of
theirs
Predecessours
have
heretofore
ingenuously
confessed
,
that
their
callings
are
of
humane
institution
,
and
that
it
in
the
power
of
the
Magistrate
to
turne
them
all
out
at
his
will
and
pleasure
;
&
that
hee
may
do
it
without
sinne
against
God
:
But
this
our
Prelats
now-a-daies
disclaime
,
and
will
not
indure
to
heare
of
it
.
Beeing
then
neither
Gods
Bishops
,
nor
mans
,
they
must
of
necessity
bee
ordained
and
set
up
by
the
Devill
,
whose
eldest
sonne
is
the
Pope
of
Rome
,
and
these
pety
Popes
,
our
Bishops
,
are
all
younger
brethren
to
him
;
there
going
but
a
paire
of
sheetes
betweene
them
.
Their
Lordly
authority
hath
certainely
no
foundation
nor
footing
in
the
Scripture
,
but
is
directly
contrary
to
the
institution
of
Christ
,
&
his
blessed
will
and
Testament
;
and
it
hath
beene
the
ground
of
that
Antichristian
Hierarchy
of
the
man
of
sinne
,
whom
God
will
consume
with
the
spirit
of
his
mouth
,
2.
Thess.
2.8
.
Their
civill
power
deserveth
rather
to
bee
exploded
then
refuted
.
Christ
expressely
forbiddeth
his
disciples
such
Lordly
dominion
,
Luke
22.25
.
Hee
himselfe
refused
to
bee
made
a
King
,
Iohn
6.15
.
professing
that
his
kingdome
was
not
of
this
world
,
Iohn
18.36
.
Hee
refused
to
part
an
heritage
betwixt
brethren
,
Luke
12.14
.
Hee
would
not
give
sentence
against
the
woman
taken
in
adultery
,
Iohn
8.11
.
What
intolerable
presumption
is
it
then
for
our
Prelats
to
exercise
such
authority
,
as
our
blessed
Saviour
neither
practised
himselfe
,
nor
permitted
to
his
disciples
.
Nor
is
the
ecclesiasticall
Iurisdiction
,
which
they
usurpe
over
the
Ministers
of
the
Gospel
,
any
whitt
better
,
but
is
Antichristian
and
naught
,
as
well
as
the
other
.
Christ
Iesus
tooke
upon
him
the
forme
of
a
servant
,
Phil
,
2.7
.
Hee
came
not
to
bee
ministred
unto
,
but
to
minister
,
Math.
20.28
.
(
and
the
servant
is
not
above
his
Lord
,
Math.
10.24
.
)
Hee
forbiddeth
his
disciples
all
such
dominion
&
soveraignty
,
Math.
20.25
.
Marke
10.43
.
His
Apostles
receive
equall
power
and
authority
from
him
,
Math.
18.18
.
Iohn
20.23
.
They
clayme
no
superiority
or
primacy
one
above
another
,
but
stile
themselves
servants
,
2.
Cor.
4.5
.
Ministers
&
dispensers
.
1.
Cor.
4.1
.
and
Ambassadours
,
2.
Cor.
5.20
.
They
send
Peter
and
Iohn
as
their
messengers
to
Samaria
,
Acts
8.14
.
which
argueth
equality
.
Peter
disclaiming
all
such
superiority
equalleth
himselfe
with
the
Ministers
and
Elders
of
the
Church
,
calling
himselfe
their
fellow
elder
,
1.
Pet.
5.1
.
and
forbiddeth
Ministers
to
usurpe
any
Lordship
over
Gods
heritage
,
ver.
3.
S.
Iohn
rebuketh
Diotrephes
for
affecting
preheminence
,
Epist.
3.9
.
Nor
did
ever
any
man
take
upon
him
to
bee
a
Pastour
of
Pastours
,
but
that
man
of
sinne
,
and
Lord
Bishops
,
which
are
his
genuine
ofspring
,
&
are
lineally
descended
from
him
.
As
therefore
their
offices
and
functions
were
hatched
in
hell
,
so
it
would
bee
a
very
happy
thing
for
this
state
of
ours
,
if
it
would
please
God
and
our
King
,
that
they
might
bee
returned
and
sent
back
againe
thither
;
that
our
church
,
which
these
many
yeeres
hath
borne
them
as
a
heavy
burden
,
may
bee
no
longer
cumbred
with
them
.
2
No
man
living
upon
the
face
of
the
earth
may
presume
to
prescribe
a
paterne
according
to
which
the
Churches
of
Christ
should
bee
formed
;
nor
may
any
creature
in
heaven
or
earth
,
without
a
commission
from
the
sonne
of
God
,
appoint
lawes
for
the
guilding
and
governing
of
his
house
:
that
beeing
a
glory
which
the
Lord
Iesus
Christ
hath
reserved
in
his
owne
hands
,
and
wil
communicate
neither
with
man
nor
Angel
;
it
belonging
as
properly
to
him
to
rule
his
church
according
to
the
good
pleasure
of
his
owne
will
,
as
it
belongeth
to
him
to
save
it
by
the
merit
of
his
sufferings
.
Hee
by
the
appointment
of
his
father
is
the
onely
head
,
King
,
Lord
,
Lawgiver
,
&
supreme
Governour
of
his
Church
,
which
hee
hath
washed
and
made
white
with
his
blond
,
Ephes.
1.22
.
Iames.
4.12
.
Revel.
7.14
.
Hee
hath
not
left
his
Church
,
which
is
his
body
,
maimed
or
imperfect
,
destitute
of
lawes
and
Offices
needfull
for
the
governing
of
the
same
,
but
hath
appointed
a
Ministery
for
it
,
with
a
calling
thereunto
,
and
with
lawes
limiting
their
function
and
governments
,
leaving
nothing
therein
to
the
will
of
man
,
Col.
2.18
.
This
government
,
with
ail
the
offices
&
functions
thereto
appertaining
,
are
set
downe
in
the
written
word
of
God
(
the
onely
rule
both
of
doctrine
&
discipline
in
the
church
)
which
is
able
to
make
the
man
of
God
perfect
to
every
good
worke
.
2.
Tim.
3.17
.
The
offices
appointed
by
Christ
for
the
ruling
of
his
churches
are
those
of
Pastours
,
Teachers
,
and
Elders
;
whose
severall
gifts
,
properties
,
and
qualifications
are
distinctly
and
at
large
set
downe
in
the
Scripture
.
These
offices
and
ministeries
,
and
the
lawes
concerning
the
same
,
are
sufficient
for
the
ruling
of
Christ
his
Church
here
on
earth
;
and
that
forme
and
frame
of
government
,
prescribed
and
left
by
our
Saviour
for
the
ordering
of
his
house
,
is
every
way
complete
of
it selfe
,
and
needeth
no
helpe
of
man
to
make
it
perfect
.
Else
Christ
can
not
bee
honoured
as
a
perfect
governour
of
his
Church
;
and
otherwise
both
the
Scripture
and
Christs
body
are
imperfect
.
And
if
these
bee
not
perfect
,
then
may
man
erect
new
offices
,
and
adde
new
Ministeries
,
and
hee
may
also
take
away
,
and
alter
any
of
these
at
his
owne
pleasure
.
Then
also
is
the
Church
of
the
new
Testament
inferiour
to
that
of
the
old
,
which
received
all
the
lawes
&
ordinances
from
God
himselfe
.
But
to
affirme
all
or
any
one
of
these
it
is
impious
and
absurd
.
And
as
this
government
appointed
by
Christ
is
sufficient
and
most
perfect
,
so
is
it
perpetuall
,
and
may
not
bee
altered
by
men
or
Angeles
.
Timothie
is
commaunded
to
keepe
this
platforme
,
and
all
the
ordinances
concerning
it
,
to
the
glorious
comming
of
the
Lord
Iesus
,
1.
Tim.
5.21
.
and
6.13.14
.
All
the
offices
of
this
church
mentioned
Rom.
12.6.7.8
.
are
called
members
of
the
body
of
the
church
,
ver.
5.
and
1.
Cor.
12.27.28
:
which
is
the
body
of
Christ
,
Eph.
1.22.23
.
If
therefore
the
church
of
Christ
,
which
is
his
body
,
must
continue
perfect
till
his
comming
,
these
offices
and
ministeries
must
also
continue
;
for
if
any
one
of
them
bee
taken
away
,
his
body
is
maimed
and
mangled
.
And
if
Christ
shall
continue
to
bee
governour
of
his
churches
,
hee
must
continue
to
rule
and
governe
in
them
by
his
owne
Officers
,
and
by
those
lawes
and
ordinances
which
hee
himselfe
hath
prescribed
in
his
word
;
otherwise
hee
is
not
the
governour
of
them
.
If
his
Officers
bee
refused
,
hee
is
rejected
;
and
if
the
order
of
government
appointed
by
him
bee
thrust
out
,
&
another
substituted
in
the
roome
of
it
,
then
is
hee
,
upon
the
point
,
deposed
from
his
regency
,
&
the
scepter
is
taken
out
of
his
hands
.
3
If
this
holy
government
instituted
and
ordained
by
the
sonne
of
God
himselfe
might
bee
erected
and
set
up
in
our
churches
,
there
would
bee
such
a
confluence
&
concurrence
of
all
good
things
,
contributing
joyntly
to
the
happines
of
this
kingdome
,
as
our
eyes
have
never
yet
seene
.
Gods
blessing
doth
ever
accompany
his
owne
ordinance
.
But
if
that
bee
either
sleighted
or
neglected
;
though
men
take
the
wisest
and
the
most
politike
courses
,
that
their
silly
and
shallow
braines
can
devise
,
for
the
attaining
of
the
same
ends
which
God
aimeth
at
the
Lord
bloweth
upon
them
,
and
blasteth
them
,
&
bringeth
them
all
to
nothing
,
that
they
do
no
good
;
as
might
easily
bee
exemplified
in
many
other
particulars
,
as
well
as
in
this
of
Church
government
,
if
neede
required
.
For
hee
destroyeth
the
wisdome
of
the
wise
,
&
bringeth
to
nothing
the
understanding
of
the
prudent
,
1.
Cor.
1.19
.
the
foolishnes
of
God
beeing
wiser
then
men
,
and
the
weakenes
of
God
stronger
then
men
,
ver.
25.
But
to
keepe
to
the
point
in
hand
.
This
government
of
the
church
by
Archbishops
and
Lord
Bishops
was
first
brought
in
,
and
hath
beene
very
unhappily
continued
in
our
land
under
a
pretence
of
preserving
the
peace
&
unity
of
the
Church
,
&
for
the
preventing
of
schismes
and
divisions
in
the
same
.
But
the
wofull
experience
of
many
yeeres
sheweth
,
that
these
strange
Lords
,
who
by
their
places
should
bee
fathers
and
fosterers
of
the
church
,
have
beene
,
and
are
to
this
day
,
cruell
and
cursed
Stepfathers
to
it
,
and
in
stead
of
preventing
distractions
and
dissensions
among
us
,
they
have
beene
from
time
to
time
the
sole
cause
and
originall
of
all
those
most
lamentable
divisions
,
and
of
those
heavy
pressures
,
which
our
poore
churches
have
groned
under
,
ever
since
the
Gospel
came
into
this
kingdome
.
What
errour
and
heresies
have
they
of
late
brought
in
&
countenanced
by
their
authority
,
to
the
harts
griefe
of
many
of
the
best
affected
people
of
the
land
?
How
do
Arminianisme
and
Bellarminianisme
prevaile
by
reason
of
that
favour
which
these
linsey-woolsey
luke-warme
Laodiceans
shew
to
those
which
set
their
faces
that
way
?
What
a
rent
have
they
lately
made
in
our
church
by
their
strict
pressing
of
people
to
come
to
their
owne
Congregations
when
there
is
no
preaching
,
and
by
their
urging
of
crouching
and
cringing
at
the
name
of
Iesus
,
&
before
their
Altars
,
and
other
such
like
trumpery
?
What
a
number
of
our
best
and
most
judicious
Christians
do
they
daily
drive
out
of
the
land
by
their
harsh
,
and
base
,
and
uncivill
usage
of
them
?
Sith
therefore
the
Gospel
is
so
much
opposed
,
and
oppugned
,
&
troden
downe
by
these
Antichristian
Prelats
,
what
a
blessed
and
worthy
worke
would
it
bee
,
and
how
acceptable
a
service
to
God
,
if
it
would
please
our
most
gratious
King
to
depose
&
thrust
our
these
proud
usurpers
,
who
have
too
too
long
domineered
and
tyrannised
over
Gods
heritage
,
and
to
set
the
Lord
Iesus
Christ
upon
his
Throne
and
to
take
order
that
hee
may
rule
his
churches
according
to
his
owne
will
revealed
in
his
word
?
Which
glorious
and
happy
enterprise
,
if
his
Maiestie
would
seriously
set
upon
,
and
go
through
with
,
I
dare
be
bold
to
say
,
that
the
Lord
would
make
good
to
him
,
and
this
state
,
as
much
as
hee
once
promised
and
did
accordingly
performe
to
the
people
of
the
Iewes
,
upon
their
onset
and
first
beginning
to
sett
forward
the
building
of
his
Temple
,
Hag.
2.18.19
.
Hee
would
from
that
very
day
remove
all
those
heavy
judgments
which
have
these
many
yeeres
waited
upon
that
cursed
government
of
Bishops
,
and
in
stead
of
them
hee
would
shower
downe
such
abundance
and
variety
of
his
choysest
mercies
and
blessings
upon
our
King
and
his
kingdomes
,
as
would
make
all
the
world
to
wonder
,
and
to
stand
amazed
at
it
.
Oh
,
that
his
Maiestie
would
but
try
what
the
Lord
would
do
in
that
case
!
England
would
then
bee
as
Ierusalem
sometime
was
,
the
praise
of
the
world
,
the
perfection
of
beauty
,
and
the
ioy
of
the
whole
earth
.
Then
would
the
Lord
dwel
amongst
us
,
and
bee
a
father
unto
us
,
and
hee
would
rejoyce
over
us
and
delight
in
us
to
do
us
good
.
Then
would
our
exiles
returne
,
&
the
poore
despised
,
and
dispersed
,
and
distressed
servants
of
God
would
sing
for
joy
of
hart
,
and
the
voice
of
weeping
would
bee
no
more
heard
amongst
us
,
nor
the
voice
of
crying
,
for
these
Wolves
,
and
Leopards
,
&
Lions
beeing
throwne
out
of
those
places
wherein
they
do
daily
such
a
world
of
mischiefe
,
there
would
bee
none
to
hurt
or
destroy
in
Gods
holy
Mountaine
:
our
land
would
then
bee
full
of
the
knowledge
of
the
Lord
,
as
the
waters
cover
the
sea
.
4
Whereas
his
Maiestie
hath
at
this
time
much
use
and
many
imployments
for
mony
;
if
hee
would
bee
pleased
to
turne
these
brute
creatures
a-grazing
,
and
seize
upon
their
Bishopricks
,
and
take
into
his
hands
the
Cathedrall
Churches
(
as
King
Henry
the
eighth
sometimes
did
the
Abbies
,
and
those
irreligious
houses
)
hee
might
,
to
his
owne
harts
content
,
bee
plentifully
supplied
at
the
present
for
all
his
occasions
,
and
have
a
large
yeerly
Revenue
comming
in
,
sufficient
to
maintaine
an
Army
in
the
field
to
suppresse
&
subdue
all
the
enemies
of
his
Crownes
and
Kingdomes
,
and
to
helpe
downe
with
that
man
of
synne
,
who
is
drunke
with
the
bloud
of
Gods
Saints
.
And
why
will
our
renowned
Soveraigne
suffer
such
a
happy
and
golden
opportunity
to
slip
out
of
his
hands
?
It
is
thought
by
some
,
that
if
King
Iames
had
lived
,
hee
would
have
done
it
,
and
would
have
tasted
their
flesh
.
And
why
should
not
our
noble
and
religious
King
(
who
in
other
things
is
an
imitatour
of
his
fathers
vertues
)
effect
that
which
his
father
so
much
affected
,
&
had
a
good
minde
to
do
,
if
time
had
served
for
it
?
What
should
hinder
him
?
I
confesse
freely
,
I
know
not
.
These
Lordly
Prelats
never
did
any
good
in
the
Church
of
God
;
nor
do
they
any
at
this
time
;
nor
will
they
ever
hereafter
do
any
,
but
a
great
deale
of
mischiefe
.
Idle
they
are
above
measure
,
and
many
of
them
grossely
and
palpably
ignorant
:
and
they
are
growne
to
such
an
extreme
height
of
pride
,
and
ambition
,
and
tyranny
,
that
it
is
a
great
wonder
how
the
State
can
thus
long
beare
them
.
Most
odious
they
are
both
to
God
and
man
;
and
the
very
name
of
a
Bishop
beginneth
now
to
stinke
in
the
nosethrils
of
all
the
people
of
the
Land
,
that
savour
the
things
of
God
,
or
have
any
relish
of
Religion
,
though
they
looke
not
towards
syncerity
,
nor
beare
any
love
to
it
:
And
for
their
Collegiate
Churches
,
what
bee
they
,
for
the
most
part
,
but
dennes
of
theeves
,
and
cages
of
uncleane
Birds
?
There
is
a
great
deale
of
superstitious
and
false
worship
nourished
and
maintained
in
them
,
to
the
dishonour
of
Almightie
God
,
to
the
scandall
of
that
holy
Religion
which
is
professed
amongst
us
,
and
to
the
reioycing
&
encouraging
of
Papists
,
who
laugh
in
their
sleeves
,
and
are
in
good
hope
to
have
their
Ronish
religion
one
day
sett
up
againe
in
this
Kingdome
,
seeing
wee
retaine
such
monuments
of
their
Idolatry
and
superstition
still
in
the
midst
of
us
,
and
do
re-edify
&
repaire
them
with
such
zeale
,
as
if
therein
wee
did
God
good
service
.
What
pitty
is
it
that
such
an
infinite
masse
of
mony
,
as
is
raised
yeerely
out
of
these
Bishopricks
,
and
the
livings
belonging
to
those
Cloysters
,
should
bee
so
vainely
,
and
basely
,
and
irreligiously
consumed
and
devoured
by
such
useles
,
and
worthies
persons
,
as
are
good
for
nothing
but
to
cleave
wood
with
their
heads
,
when
as
in
the
meane
while
our
deare
and
dread
Soveraigne
wanteth
it
for
better
purposes
?
What
an
advantage
would
it
bee
to
our
King
,
and
what
an
advancement
of
the
revenue
of
the
Crowne
,
if
the
increase
and
profit
which
ariseth
&
issueth
out
of
these
large
and
ample
possessions
(
which
is
now
meerely
and
wholly
to
no
purpose
wasted
)
might
bee
brought
into
his
Maiesties
Treasury
,
there
to
bee
preserved
to
his
use
and
to
bee
alwaies
in
a
readines
to
bee
disposed
of
by
him
according
to
his
godly
wisdome
,
to
the
glory
of
God
,
and
in
the
service
of
the
State
;
and
might
bee
there
carefully
stored
up
,
as
a
meanes
of
supply
,
and
as
a
stock
of
provision
,
for
the
accommodating
of
his
Maiesty
,
when
,
and
as
often
as
hee
shall
have
use
of
it
,
and
for
the
fitting
and
furnishing
of
those
many
necessary
and
just
occasions
which
hee
hath
to
imploy
and
expend
the
same
upon
?
5
It
would
bee
a
marvellous
ease
for
this
Kingdome
,
if
by
the
mercifull
goodnes
of
our
God
it
might
once
bee
freed
from
these
Antichristian
Prelats
,
&
their
Courts
,
which
robbe
his
Maiesties
subjects
of
an
exceeding
great
summe
of
mony
every
yeere
.
One
would
not
imagine
how
much
they
extort
from
Ministers
,
Churchwardens
,
and
the
rest
of
the
people
of
the
land
,
for
fees
,
and
by
meanes
of
those
unjust
vexations
which
they
put
them
continually
unto
.
Many
men
are
perswaded
that
they
,
and
their
Chauncellours
,
Commissaries
,
Officials
,
Doctours
,
roctours
,
Registers
,
Pursivants
,
Apparitours
,
and
others
of
that
cursed
crew
,
do
rake
and
scrape
from
the
Subject
more
then
would
suffice
to
pay
to
our
King
two
or
three
Subsidies
every
yeere
.
And
what
becommeth
of
all
this
?
It
maintaineth
a
company
of
idle
Belly-gods
,
and
a
number
of
ungodly
and
ungratious
persons
,
which
are
unprofitable
burdens
of
the
earth
,
and
are
onely
whips
in
Gods
hand
to
scourge
and
chastise
his
people
withall
:
whose
service
when
the
Lord
hath
used
a
while
for
that
purpose
,
hee
wil
then
most
certainely
throw
his
Rods
into
the
fire
,
Esay
.
10.5.12
:
And
if
in
the
meane
season
our
most
wise
and
judicious
King
would
bee
pleased
to
sqeaze
them
,
and
to
take
from
them
that
thick
clay
wherewith
they
are
overladen
;
hee
should
do
a
worke
acceptable
to
God
,
and
such
as
wherein
his
soule
might
take
a
great
deale
of
comfort
here
,
and
which
would
much
further
his
reckoning
in
the
day
of
the
Lord
Iesus
,
when
hee
shall
come
with
power
&
great
glory
to
judge
both
the
quick
&
the
dead
.
6
His
Majestie
shall
do
a
worke
of
singular
charity
and
mercy
to
the
soules
of
these
Bloud-suckers
,
if
hee
will
bee
pleased
,
in
compassion
and
commiseration
of
their
deplored
and
desperate
condition
,
to
pluck
them
out
of
those
pestilentiall
places
,
which
they
do
unjustly
usurpe
,
and
most
tyrannously
abuse
,
to
the
provocation
of
the
wrath
&
displeasure
of
the
great
God
of
heaven
,
&
to
the
opening
of
the
mouthes
of
the
enemies
of
the
Gospel
;
who
by
the
exorbitancies
and
insolencies
of
these
proud
men
take
occasion
to
blaspheme
and
speake
evill
of
that
sacred
truth
which
wee
professe
,
and
to
traduce
and
maligne
our
government
,
to
the
dishonour
of
our
nation
,
and
the
disgrace
of
our
King
and
countrie
,
both
at
home
and
in
foraine
parts
.
Most
certaine
it
is
,
that
if
they
bee
let
alone
in
their
course
,
they
go
on
desperately
in
a
way
that
leadeth
to
death
,
the
issue
whereof
will
bee
hell
,
and
eternall
woe
and
misery
in
another
world
:
whereas
if
their
prefermets
,
with
which
they
are
even
fatted
and
glutted
above
measure
,
might
bee
taken
from
them
,
and
they
put
upon
the
worke
of
the
Ministery
,
which
they
were
bredde
and
brought
up
to
,
it
might
please
God
that
that
might
bee
a
meanes
to
pluck
them
out
of
the
fire
,
and
to
save
the
soules
of
some
of
them
,
if
amongst
that
cursed
company
there
be
any
that
belong
to
the
election
of
grace
;
whereof
I
confesse
there
is
a
great
deale
of
question
to
bee
made
.
For
the
most
of
them
do
maliciously
and
despitefully
oppose
the
truth
,
and
do
with
a
high
hand
set
themselves
against
the
good
waies
of
God
,
&
do
most
furiously
and
fiercely
persecute
all
those
poore
Christians
that
set
their
faces
towards
Sion
,
and
indevour
to
walke
with
their
God
in
the
truth
&
uprightnes
of
their
harts
,
&
will
not
bee
drawne
for
feare
or
favour
to
conforme
themselves
to
those
shamefull
corruptions
in
doctrine
and
discipline
,
which
they
multiply
daily
,
&
presse
hotely
upon
men
,
without
either
feare
or
witt
,
to
the
ruine
of
our
Church
,
and
the
supplanting
and
undermining
of
our
most
holy
&
heavenly
Religion
,
the
bringing
in
of
which
not
many
yeeres
since
cost
a
great
deale
of
bloud
.
And
as
for
those
few
of
them
in
whom
there
is
any
sparke
of
goodnes
,
the
eye
of
whose
understanding
is
not
yet
quite
put
out
,
that
which
they
in
the
course
of
their
government
do
against
the
truth
,
and
servants
,
and
cause
of
God
,
they
do
it
against
the
perswasion
of
their
owne
harts
,
and
against
the
checks
of
their
consciences
,
which
pursue
them
so
close
,
and
do
so
terrify
&
affright
them
,
that
without
all
boubt
they
can
have
little
or
no
peace
at
all
,
having
such
an
adversary
within
them
,
as
will
never
suffer
them
to
bee
quiet
,
but
is
still
accusing
&
tormenting
them
whether
they
sleepe
or
wake
.
Which
made
[
*
](A21016-e2890-b)
*
Sr.
Francis
Hastings
.
one
say
wittily
long
agoe
,
that
of
our
Bishops
the
best
were
the
worst
;
because
that
which
they
did
,
they
did
cleane
against
the
haire
,
and
knew
right
well
that
they
sinned
against
God
in
the
doing
of
it
;
which
is
a
fearfull
aggravation
of
their
iniquity
.
Hee
that
was
[
†
](A21016-e2910-b)
†
B.
Vaghan
.
Bishop
of
London
when
that
lamentable
havock
and
spoyle
was
made
amongst
our
Ministers
about
the
beginning
of
King
Iames
his
raigne
,
after
that
hee
had
in
the
Consistory
suspended
and
deprived
some
of
the
Ministers
of
London
,
was
the
whole
night
following
in
such
a
heate
and
sweate
(
it
beeing
then
a
cold
season
of
the
yeare
,
about
the
beginning
of
February
)
that
although
there
was
a
good
fire
in
his
chamber
,
&
they
which
attended
him
plyed
him
with
hote
clothes
,
as
fast
as
they
could
possibly
warme
them
at
the
fire
,
&
bring
them
to
him
lying
then
in
his
bed
,
yet
could
they
not
all
that
night
,
with
all
that
they
could
do
,
coole
him
,
and
dry
up
his
sweate
;
as
some
yet
alive
can
testify
,
who
then
waited
upon
him
in
his
chamber
:
Hee
was
so
perplexed
and
terrified
with
the
thoughts
of
that
which
hee
had
done
,
that
hee
could
take
no
rest
;
nor
did
hee
ever
claw
it
off
,
but
died
very
quickly
after
it
.
Within
a
few
daies
after
(
for
hee
lived
not
many
)
hee
said
openly
at
his
table
,
that
the
Persecutions
of
those
times
were
worse
then
those
in
Queene
Maries
daies
.
[
*
](A21016-e2960-b)
*
B.
Morton
.
One
who
sate
at
the
table
with
him
,
then
a
Deane
now
a
Bishop
,
hearing
him
say
so
,
spake
to
him
in
latine
,
&
prayed
him
to
forbeare
such
speeches
,
telling
him
that
if
they
came
to
the
Kings
eare
,
they
would
bee
ill
taken
.
For
answere
whereunto
hee
said
againe
in
english
,
with
a
great
deale
of
vehemency
and
earnestnes
,
that
the
present
Persecutions
were
greater
and
farre
more
grievous
then
those
in
Queene
Maries
dates
were
;
&
hee
gave
his
reasons
for
it
.
For
then
,
saith
hee
,
men
were
quickly
dispatched
out
of
the
way
,
whereas
now
they
are
forced
to
live
in
misery
;
and
a
languishing
life
every
man
knoweth
to
bee
a
lingering
death
.
Then
men
were
permitted
to
speake
freely
for
themselves
;
whereas
now
at
the
first
dash
,
saith
hee
,
the
Oth
is
tendered
to
them
,
which
if
they
refuse
,
to
prison
they
go
without
any
mercy
or
pity
;
no
baile
will
serve
the
turne
.
What
would
this
man
have
said
if
hee
had
lived
to
see
these
times
?
A
strange
kinde
of
creatures
these
Bishops
bee
:
they
are
neither
fish
nor
flesh
,
nor
yet
good
red
herring
,
as
the
old
Proverb
is
.
A
man
cannot
tell
what
to
make
of
them
.
Papists
they
would
not
bee
thought
to
bee
,
&
yet
many
of
them
are
little
better
.
Good
Protestants
surely
very
few
of
them
bee
.
Those
amongst
them
,
which
bee
not
downe-right
Papists
,
looke
shrewdly
that
way
,
&
maintaine
many
of
their
grosse
and
absurd
opinions
,
and
make
no
bones
to
affirme
openly
,
that
there
is
not
such
a
distance
betweene
them
and
us
,
but
that
wee
may
meete
them
in
the
midway
;
nor
such
a
discrepance
&
difference
betwixt
their
religion
and
ours
,
but
that
they
may
bee
easily
reconciled
,
if
men
were
peaceably
minded
.
And
accordingly
[
*
](A21016-e3020-b)
*
B.
Mountague
some
of
them
have
mediated
most
shamefully
both
in
Pulpit
and
in
Print
for
a
Pacification
.
&
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
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
.