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A85151	A true testimony against the Popes wayes, &c. In a return to that agreement of 42. of those that call themselves ministers of Christ (but are proved to be wrongers of men and of Christ) in the county of Worcester, and some adjacent parts, who subscribe their agreement and catechisme with the names and the places where they are pastors, teachers, and rectors, &c. as they say: or as followeth: Richard Baxter teacher of the church at Kiderminster. John Boraston pastor of Ribsford and Bewdley. Richard Eades pastor of Beckford Glocestershire. ... Joh: Dedicote preacher at Abbotesley.	R. F. (Richard Farnworth), d. 1666.	1656 (1656)	Wing F509; Thomason E870_6; ESTC R202116	86,932	79

c. called the body Spirituall and the English Church c. Were they not endowed with Tythes c or the Popes honors and such Parochiall rights c. As the Pope had begot and were put out of when your fore-fathers and you his of-spring entred into his seat and were they not adorned as well as endowed with the Popes Bringings forth into Parochiall rights c. And your fore-fathers the called Arch-Bishopps and Bishopps and you and such as received orders from them to be Priests Ministers Deacons Rectors Parsons Vicars Curates and Clarks were they not as before is said called the English Church as by the statute of Henry the 8. may appeare and did not the Kings and Nobles endow the said Church both with honours 24 Hen. 8.12.25 Hen. 8. Cha. 20. and possessions the Popes ornaments viz. Tythes Oblations Obventions c. to keep them from corruption and sinister affection which it hath not done as you confesse that are in the miscarriages Neglecters of the work of God and wrongers both of men and of Christ as your Agreement witnesseth Page 3 4 19 c. And the Pope and the See of Rome had the Triall amongst other things of the right of Tythes Oblations and Obventions c. And by that statute The Statute 24 Hen. 8 Cap. 12.26 Hen. 8. Cap. 1. is it not ordained and declared that all spiritual Prelates Pastors Ministers and Curates c. as they are called may Use Minister Execute and Do all Sacraments and Sacramentalls and Divine service unto the subjects of the same and is not there the ground of your sacraments or proofes of calling them so The Pope had the Peterpence pensions c. till the time Hen. the 8. who endowed the Bishops and Priests c. in the Popes pensions peterpence fruits sutes c. See your selves and read 25. Hen. 8. Cap. 21. and not the Scriptures in which there is not one word that speaks of Sacraments and Sacramentals as they are called and is not King Henry the 8. and his Successors declared there the onely Supreame head in earth of the Church of England And by the Statute of the 25. Hen. 8.20 Is it not said that the Annals or first fruits which were paid by the Arch-Bishopps of England unto the Bishop of Rome called the Pope c. should cease and not be paid to him c. And by the Statute of the 26 of Hen. 8. Chap. 3. Is not the first Fruits and profits of every Arch-Bishoprick and Bishoprick Parsonage Vicaridge c. said to be taken given to Hen 8. and his successors and ever and besides a yearly Tenth of all spirituall livings c. as they are called And did not the Bishopps c. receive their places and rewards from him c. See more at large in the 26. Hen. 8. Chap. 3. How they did Proceed to the Election of an Arch-Bishop FOr by the statute of the 25 of Hen. 8. Chap. 20. Is it not said to be Ordained and Established that the King and his successors may grant to the Prior and Covent or the Dean or Chapter of the Cathedral Churches or Monasteries a licence under the great seal as of old time hath been accustomed to proceed to the election of an Arch-Bishop at every Avoidance of any Arch-Bishoprick or Bishoprick within the Realm of England with a Letter Mislive containing the name of the person which they shall elect and chuse c. See more at large concerning the same in the 25. Hen. 8. Chap. 20. aforesaid The Ordination of a Priest or pretended Minister c. BY a Statute made the 13. of Eliz. Chap. 12. Is it not said to be ordained that every person under the degree of a Bishop which doth or shall pretend to be a Priest or Minister of Gods holy Word and Sacrament c. shall in the presence of the Bishops declare his Assent and subscribe to all the articles of religion which concern the confession of the true Christian faith and the doctrine of the Sacraments in a book imprinted entituled Articles And whereupon was it not agreed by the arch-Arch-Bishops and Bishops and the whole Clergy in the Convocation holden at London in the year 1562. And that none should be made Minister or admitted to preach or adminster the Sacraments in England under the age of 24. yeares or unlesse he be approved by the Bishop of the Diocesse being a Deacon at the least c. And all admissions to benefices c. And all licences or tolerations made to the contrary to be meerly void in law as if they never were c. Therefore minde where you are and see if you know A Manifestation of your Down-fall c. or your Foundation shaken and razed c. FOr is it not manifest that the Foundation of your fore-Fathers the late arch-Arch-Bishops and Bishops c. here in England was man c. viz. Kings and Queenes of England with the Priors and Covent of Monasteries and the Deans 3 Elizae Cap. 1.12 and the Chapters of the Cathedralls And that the ministers Pastors Rectors Parsons Preachers Vicars Curates and Clarks c. as they call them were Members and Branches arising from that root and body viz. The arch-Arch-Bishops and Bishops of which the Bishops of Rome called the Pope was head till Henry the eight and King Henry the eight put him out and let him in c. Which Arch-Bishops and Bishops by a Late Ordinance of Parlament were and are taken away and also rendered uselesse And by another Ordinance or act of Parlament is not the Kingly Power and Goverment by which they had been set up taken away c. And is it not therefore manifest by the lawes statutes and ordinances afore said that the called Priests Ministers Rectors Pastors Preachers Vicars Curates and Clarks c. were Members and Branches of the late Arch-Bishopps and Bishopps of this Nation and had their risings and sprung from that root and body and of that root and body were members and branches and that the Arch-Bishopps and Bishopps themselves were made and had their Rise from the Kings and Queens Priors Covents Monasteries Deanes and Chapters arch-Arch-Bishops and Bishops Root and Branch and their power and Authority being disanulled rendered and declared uselesse abolished and taken away as afore said c. Doth it not clearly appeare that all the Priests so called and is it not manifest that they and the ministers in England with the called Rectors Parsons Pastors Preachers Vicars Clarks and Curats being branches and members of that body and root are or ought to be as branches taken away disanulled and abolished and the Root of their root The Kings and Queens of England c. And it being clearly made manifest and proved that their foundation and yours is of man and from man and them and their foundation and the root of their root by man razed taken away made null and rendered uselesse are not they and you

people by casting a mist before the eyes of their understanding seeking to insinuate into them by flatteries and garnishing your flatteries with colourable glosses to cause them to think that your reviving that which hath been used amongst them with out-side Matth. 23.27 28.30 31 c. will now from you receive life to do that which it could not do neither by the Pope or Bishops nor by you their off-springs And with the Light are you seen at your witts end and troubled that you cannot have your wills fulfilled who are the enemies of the Living truth and wrongers both of men and God as you also in your Agreement acknowledge and therefore all your Evasions and Colourable glosses must fall with your Image and Imaginary worships as in your fore-fathers before you and the Ministry that stands out of mans will which you are yet Ignorant of must through the crosse cut down and crucifie and kill that which your Ministry doth not nor your fore-fathers or the Pope or Bishops before you and that Ministry which comes forth from the Light and power of the Spirit of God is for the discovering and killing of the Error Heresie and Miscariages which yours hath and doth leave people in and so as it kills that and the Ignorance Gala. 3.4 5. Eph. 2. Iohn 8.12 1 Iohn 3.8 9. 1. Pet. 1.18 19 22 23 1 Iohn 4.16 17 Iohn 14.20 it quickeneth and raiseth the soul out of death destroying the Ignorance Error Heresie and Miscariages and all the works of the Devill and so bringeth soules out of death and from under the power of darknesse to live in the life of the Eternall truth in the Injoyment of the Fathers love and to Enjoy and walke in the liberty of the Sons of God And saith John We know that the Son of God is come and hath given us an understanding to know him that is true and we are in him that is true even in his Son Jesus Christ and this is true God and life eternall 1 John 5.20 Whose Ministry without your familiar personall Instruction discovereth and killeth sin Error and Miscariages which you live in unkilled and therefore out of his Minstiry who killeth that and quickeneth the other that hath suffered under it raising that and them together with it saving them by grace and causing them as they at Ephesus did to sit with Christ Jesus in the heavenly place Ephe. 2.1 2 4 5 6. For by grace were they saved ver 8th Through faith and not of themselves nor of works lest any should boast Eph 2.8 9. As Paul the Gospel-Minister doth witnesse in his Affirmation who did not as you do in your confusion set up a form of words without Spirit and Life grounded upon the Popes practice or generall Councell held at Trent or at Trull And bid people get these to say and be catechized c. And say them over to the Pope or Arch-bishops Persons Preists Rectors and Curates upon pain of damnation neither doth his words warrant you so to do Therefore are they not your warrant from God for that work Neither did Paul go and write out a few words out of the 20. Chap. of Exodus and the 6. Chap. of Matthew and set the people to get them upon pain of damnation and salvation Which words he had before you and witnessed the life in the spirit and power of Christ for the killing of Ignorannce Sin Error and Miscarriages Eph. 5.13 Eph. 6.10 11 12 13 14. Gal 2.19 20. and to quicken the mortall body Rom. 8.10 11. as well for the purifying of the heart and the soul 1 Pet. 1.22 23. Which you have shewed your Ignorance in and to be out of And therefore Pauls words is not your warrant from God who are out of that righteous life And Paul said they were delivered from the law that being dead wherein they had been held their service stood in the newnes of the Spirit and not in the oldnesse of the Letter Rom. 7.6 But your service stands in the oldnesse of the Letter and the old Law and not in the Gospel and newnesse of spirit Rom. 1.16 16. as your fruits and Agreeement doth manifest Therefore you that serve in your wills and set people to serve in theirs and in the oldnesse of the Letter without the Gospel and power of God to salvation and the newnesse of Spirit Clo. 2.21 22 23. Eph. 2.14 15 16. Rom. 1.26 you are not by Pauls words warranted from God to do it who was himself a minister not of the Letter but of the Spirit as he hath witnessed 2 Co. 3.6 c. Therefore your garnishing your selves with his words and wanting his ministery and spirit to guide in the ministration and worship of God that spirit John 4.23 24. 2 Cor. 3.17 18. you are but as founding Brasse and tinkling Cymbals being in the envy and out of love the of the Father as the false Prophets was therefore let Pauls words rest where they are 1 Cor. 13. H s 16.9 Mic. 3.11 Iude 11. till you depart from your lusts and go make restitution for the Lord is against you and all such who are yet without warrant from God for all your stealing of words to garnish your selves as your fore-fathers did But thus saith the Lord therefore behold I am against them that steal my words from his neighbour I sent them not nor commanded them Therefore they shall not profit the people at all Ier. 23.30 c. And now that you are without warrant from the Scripture being out of the life of truth and reviving your fore-fathers works taking a ground from the sixth-Generall Councell held at Trent or at Trull in the time of the Pope or Bishopps Matth. 7.15 16 17 20 22 22 26 27. ver 2. and are you not also left without warrant from them then where are you now and what ground do you stand on are you not without ground or bottom and on the Sandy foundation ready to be washed away when the floods come c. Whose fall as Christ saith therefrom is like to be great and as may be Read Math. 7.26 27. Let the Priests minde and see If they know From whence they came BEhold and see from whence you came and minde your return was not your Original I head root and foundation the Pope or Arch-bishops and Bishops amongst which was not the Bishop of Rome called the Pope Chiefe Supreame head c. Untill the time or raign of Henry the 8. Late King of England as by the Lawes of this Nation may appeare c. And the Called Arch-Bishopps and such as received Orders from them to be Priests Ministers Deacons and Clarks c. Were they not called the body Spirituall and were and are they not called the English Church c. And after the Pope was put out of Tythes and that which he had begott by Henry the 8 the Arch-Bishopps your fathers Priests Ministers Deacons Rectors Clarks