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A27512	A short view of the prelatical church of England laid open in ten sections by way of quere and petition to the High and Honourable Court of Parliament, the several heads whereof are set down in the next two pages / written a little before the fall of that hierarchie, about the year 1641, by Iohn Barnard, sometime minister of Batcomb in Somerset-shire ; whereunto is added The anatomy of The common-prayer.	Bernard, Richard, 1568-1641.; Bernard, John.	1661 (1661)	Wing B2034; ESTC R17815	85,593	122

1. His Vicar General 2. His Guardians of Spiritualities 3. The Dean of the Arches with all the number depending upon them 4. His many Courts The Court of Faculties The Court of Audience The Prerogative Court The Delegates The Consistory in Pauls The High Commission Court With the swarms of attendance on these Courts Advocates Registers ●octors Proctors Pursivants Messengers and Apparitors With all other belonging to them all which come to many hundreds Quaere Whether all or any of these be of d vine institution Whether the words of Christ forbidding to be called gracious Lords extend not to these Mat. 20.2 26. ●uke 2.25.26 Mark 10.42 43 44 45. Whether any Spiritual function ordained by Jesus Christ standeth in need of so great a Prelate and so great a dependance to discharge the Spiritual duties thereof Whether this greatnesse hath been any time the support of goodnesse and of good men in their places or rather hath not from this greatnesse risen great troubles at at this day and much persecution almost ever since the beginning of Reformation The humble Petition That the immeasurable greatnesse of these gracious Lords might be taken away and the number of those their Dependants lessened That they might be made to shew themselves Arch-preachers of Christs Gospel and to attend upon some particular Flock to feed them That they might not be of Princes counsel for commonly God leaveth such to become ill Statesmen because they do contrary to Christs bidding It shall not be so with you Mat 20.26 Luke 21.25 Mark 10.42 and for that they neglect the sacred calling of the Ministery which is to be of Christs heavenly counsel to give attendance unto temporal affairs and to be of earthly Kings counsel II. There be twenty four Bishops Diocesan Lord Bishops They are seated in several places throughout the Kingdom Of these three are under York Carleile Durham and Chester All the rest are under Canterbury Dependants on these Their traine of Domestick Servants Their Chaplaines Their Officers concerning their temporalities Their 24. Courts And hereto belong 26 Chancellours with waiters on them 24 Registers with their men 24 Gentlemen Apparatouss 48 Proctours if but two to a Court. 120 Apparitours at least more then a good many QVAERE Whether these Diocesan Bishops be jure divino Read Tim. and Titus unbishoped and have warrant from Scripture Whether St. Peters speech reacheth not to them that they should not Lord it over Gods heritage by over-ruling it 1 Pet. 5.3 Whether we cannot be as well without them as all other reformed Churches or whether we will condemne those Churches for casting them out or not receiving them in Whether this be not a mockery to say no Bishop no King seeing they also say no Ceremony no Bishop therefore no Ceremony no King what a weake standing bring they a King unto But a King is Gods ordinance nor so they And in Denmark hath been a King and no Bishops this hundred years Whether Bishops wanting in Diocesses upon vacancy some ten some twenty years as some have been may not be so for more years so forever And if they may be wanting in a Diocesse why not in a Province and so why not every where Whether may not our King as lawfully cast them out of his Dominion as did the King of Denmarke his Grandfather out of his Kingdome Whether by their authority have they advanced true Religion or upheld meer formes of it as shews habits gestures and Ceremonial observances rather then the power of godliness What wickednesse and vanity is suppressed by him nay what errour what vice Idolatry and prophanesse groweth not under them What one made better by them in the wayes of God What one brought to a pious reformation by their Citations Excommunications and imposed Penancies The humble Petition That they may be seated in Pastorall charges every one over a Particular flock as all the first Bishops were there to preach and teach the people and so their many dependants might be taken away That their Chancellours be removed from them and their overswa●ing wasterfulnesse in their Courts be taken down and cut off That they their Officers and their Courts be brought under some such authority as may rule over them question them and duely censure them when there is just cause and not suffer them to be like Kings free without command or any power of censure at all over them is it fit they should judge all and be free from the judgement of any III. There be threescore Archdeacons under these Bishops Dependents on these They have threescore Courts to which do belong Commissaries Officials Surrogates 60. Registers with their Servants 120 Proctors if but two to every Court 200. Apparitors at least The whole number appartaining to Archbishops Bishops Archdeacons with the many Peculiars are judged to be no fewer then ten thousand persons which need yearely 200000 pounds to maintain them all the greater and inferiour ones reckoning but 20. pound a man when many have an hundred a year some 200. l. others more Quaere Whether these swarmes of wasps be of necessary use in the Spiritual Kingdome of Christ Whether their Courts be reformative or deformative Whether there is any likelihood that their grosse abuses of Gods ordinances in sending out Excommunications and their commuting of Penances c. can be blessed of God to bring an holy reformation Whether it can be probably imagined that those Courts can reform others which in themselves are so corrupt and mercenarie and do imploy such base and lewd companions in a spiritual businesses as be the Apparitours whom either they cannot or will not reforme Whether their Courts being taken away as in all other reformed Churches their want should be bewailed and their setting up again be desired Whether the masse of money which is spent by these so many thousands might not well be spared and far better employed The humble Petition That these Courts be not longer permitted to take in so many thousand Presentments every half yeare only to make such gain of the people as they do for they reform no mens persons but plague their purses That some other way might be considered of agreeable to Gods word and the godly practise of other Churches for suppression of vice and the maintenance of vertue in every Parish That their lewd Apparitours so many and so base be not longer suffered That in their Courts their proceedings may be open to the hearing of all and that they lap not up businesses in secret as their manner is to shut their Consistorie door where they do as they please with Delinquents That they delay not men in their Courts forcing and vexing poor men to come very often some have come eight some 10. some 16. times before they can be dismissed a grievous vexation to needy labouring men SECT III. Of the means to support their Prelatical greatness THese have their Lordly Palaces and great houses They have their Ecclesiastical dignities and

motive of their kneeling the Conclusion then must needs hold that it is Idolatry disjunct or improper at least as we argue against the Papists But if the minds of thousands of ignorant receivers in the Country were known it is to be feared they fall foul on conjunct or proper Idolatry making the Bread Octjectum determinativum in plain the Bread the Object of their Worship with which sin the Papists charge all the Protestant kneelers for if Christ were not there bodily say the Jesuits we would rather be racked with horses than kneel So said Spalato after his revolt to Rome and we confess ingenuously if the Papists should retort this argument upon us it would put the learned'st Conformers to a non-plus to evade it Here were place to have a fling at the Cross but we referre the desirous Reader to Zions Plea P. 95. to ● 106. wherein there is a succinct and learned Treatise against the Cross proving it by many strong Arguments to be the mark of the Beast All these and much more are the houshold-stuff of the Service-book against which we will produce one argument more in the closure of this point namely God will not hear the prayers of the Service-Book Ergo they are not to be offered The Antecedent shall be proved from that place of Saint Johns Gospel Ioh. 9.31 God heareth not sinners if any man be a worshipper of him and doer of his will him he heareth out of the latter part we reason thus negatively a contrario those prayers which are not a doing of the will of God God heareth not This Proposicion is confirmed from other places the Intercessions of the Saints saith the Apostle must be according to the will of God Rom. 8.27 Esa 1.12 and if they be not the Lord will say Who requireth them Now to the latter Proposition But the Prayers of the Service-book are not the doing of the will nor according to the will of God witness all the former Reasons given against it therefore God will not hear them CHAP. VIII Three Motives HAving thus clearly evinced by so many Reasons as a cloud of witnesses the unlawfulness of the Lyturgie for the expunging whereof we shall adde some more Motives in the closure Let us now humbly crave your Honours favour that according to the justness of our desires and the truth of the Reasons alledged you would be pleased for the love that you bear and owe to the Lord Jesus to the purity of his worship to the thriving of our bodies souls and estate to the turning away of Gods judgements mediate and immediate to your gaining of honour above all your Predecessors to the chearing of the hearts of Gods People the daunting of the enemies and the making our Jerusalem the praise of the world Matt. 15.13 by all these and many more we again and again intreat you to pluck up that Plant of the Service-book which God never set O how the Prelatical Priests grumble when they hear of this place and as the wicked Manichees abused this place in applying it against the Law of God so we have had woful experience how the Hierarchical Crue endeavour with tooth and nail therein worse than the Manichees to supplant Gods Law of whom we might justly say with the Prophet they have almost undone thy Law the Worship of God is a prime and precious piece the ultimate end as a Divine saith of all sacred performances Alsteed though the edification of man be the end subordinate pure it is and should be like God himself yea it is called the fear of God Psal 15.10 in regard of that reverend awe that should be upon men when they are in divine duties when Jacob awaked from the Vision it is said he was afraid and said How dreadful is this place Isa 29.13 this is none other but the house of God and the gate of Heaven by which is meant Gen. 28.15 the house of God where the Saints are assembled whose fear should be as Jacobs not a slavish fear nor an Idolatrous fear but a filial fear not daring to present to their Father in worship what he hath not planted commanded Bernard descants very sweetly upon this terribilis plane locus dignus omni reverentia c. 6 Serm. Psal 57. a terrible place indeed saith the Father not meaning the stone wals but the presence of God in the Assembly where the faithful inhabit the Angels frequent and God himself dwelleth How curious was Moses the man of God in the matter and manner of Gods worship Exod. 10 26. that he would neither have horn nor hoof over or under the Commandement that was the ground of his punctuality from which he would not go one hairs breadth and wherein we intreat your Honours to follow him to the full Caleb is said to follow God We will go and sacrifice unto the Lord our God as he shall say unto us Can it be so said of the Service-book No sure it is no sacrifice of a sweet smell Let any man that feareth God tell us ingenuously Rev 8.3 4. if he believeth that Christ the Golden Censer standing at the golden Altar will receive the Lyturgie prayers and persume them with the odours of his merits present them to the Father surely we have no ground for it Rom. 7.2 7. because as aforesaid they are not according to the will of his Father Yea Christ seems to threaten out of his own mouth the contrary in Psal 16. which is meant Christ he speaking of and threatning their Idolatrous service he tells them plainly he will not pour out their oblations that is he will not be a Mediator to their services and surely this is no acceptable service it is no beaten oyl for the Lamp though Mr. Wommock pleased to stile it so it is not sure that pure oyl Zach. 4.3 4. out of the two olives into the golden Lamp that lightens the Sanctuary but it is rather Train Oyl and scarce so good that fouls the house darkneth the light and for its messages to heaven which he mentioneth in his Epistle we have made a good Plea as we conceive for the contrary let him disprove it if he can For the whole Book though it concern them with whom he dealeth in it yet because it glisters as if there were metal in it we may lay it a little to the test The Epistle hath two heads in the former he maintaineth set Prayer in general in the latter he endeavoureth to justifie the set Prayers of the Liturgy in particular In both these the expressions be smooth and the Palliations stretched to the furthest but it may be said without offence of both 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 too neat but nothing useful The head of set Prayer we have not touched yet till we come to answer some Objections but we cannot but wonder at Mr. Epist p. 7 Wommocks incogitancy to father a set Form