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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-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-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-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-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

you and their off spring from that succession now do when they was carnally minded c. as you are And Tythes by a decretall epistle of Pope Innocent the 3. dated at Lateran directed to the Arch-Bishop of Canterbury c. in or about the yeare 1200. It is said by Cook that then Tythes became lex terrae and the subject became bound to pay them c. Cook saiths that of Antient time before a new Constitution made by the Pope the patron of one Church might grant his Tythes to another parish and saith Cook second part Institutes thus began portion of Tythes that the parson of one parish hath in another vide Concilium Leteran Anno Domini 12 15.17 of Jo. regis So that Tythes it seems were free for any man to give c. till the time of Pope Innocent and were they not then divided into portions to the Priests and Rectors c. from Pope Innocent the 3 For since saith Cook that which is called parochiall right of Tythes were established c. And Pope Innocent by his Bull discharged those of the order of Praemonstratenses of the payment of Tythes of such lands as were of their own manurance or other Improvement and Pope Adrian the 4. said all Orders should pay tythes c. And so it appeares Tythes sprang up the second time by one Pope and so from one to another and did not they spring from the Popes to the Bishops Rectors and those parish Priests Consider well of it and see if you know your succession And had not the Popes the ordering and rule amongst Tythes and other things till the time of King Henry 2 Hen. 4.28 Hen. 8. Chap. 16 for saith Cook by the statute of Henry 4. not only Cisterciences but all other religious and seculars which put any of the Popes bulls in execution for discharge of Tythes of their lands in the hands of their farmers should be in danger of a praemunire as saith Cook second part Institures And by the statute of the 28. of Henry the 8. Chap. 16. saith Cook there it is Enacted that all Bulls Brieffes Faculties Dispensations of what names natures or qualities whatsoever they be of had or obtained from the Pope or Bishop of Rome or any of his predecessors or by authority of the See of Rome c. should from thence forth by that Act be clearly void and never after that to be used admitted or pleaded in any places or Courts of this Realm as they had been c. or any other the Kings Dominions upon pain contained in the statute of praemunire c. See Cookes second part Institute Fol. 641. and 652. c. And doth it not appeare hereby that the Pope c. that had begot Tythes by his constitution to be distributed into parishes by his decretall epistle and councell c. were himself thrust out of those Parochiall rights of tythes as he called them which he had begot and by his constitution and councell brought forth c. And as the Pope was thrust out of Tythes c. in England did not the Bishops Priests Pastors Teachers Rectors c. their off-spring from that root enter in their stead and was not they let into the same And being grafted or let in did not they take the Popes places and rewards at the hands of him that disinherited them viz the Popes c. Consider and see where you are And was not the Bishops Priest Pastors Teachers and Rectors c. adorned or endowed by Hen. the 8 c. with honours and possessions or with the Popes ornaments viz. Tythes oblations obventions c. And was they not said to be given to God and holy Church c. and to keep them from corruption and sinister affection c. 24. of Henry the 8.12 Cap. And seeing that Tythes c. by the lawes and statutes of this Nation were said to be given to God and holy Church c. And being that both by God the holy Church Tythes are denied as the Scripture under the Gospel dispensation doth witnesse And seeing that the called Church of England the body spirituall as they call it and by them called the spirituality who receive Tythes are now found to be unholy and not being free from corruption but pleads for sin and so for corrption for tearm of life c. and sinister affection and stands in need of the worlds honours and possessions to keep them which rather corupts them the more and cannot nor doth not keep them from corruption and sinister affection for which end they viz. Tythes c. are said to be given as by the statute of Henry the 8. it appeareth therefore by the lawes and statutes of England it is cleare to me that the called Priests Ministers Preachers Rectors c. which names you bear who are unholy and corrupt c. have no right to Tythes c. for by the lawes of the Nation they are said to be given to holy Church c. and you are unholy that are in miscarriages and neglecters of the great work of God as you say and are mongers both of men and of Christ growing worse and running yet further from God therefore you are unholy and corrupt and are not running for God that runnes further from him as you say and so are cut out of Tythes his ministry by your own rule and confessions c. And now stop your mouthes and do not cry up your selves to be ministers of Christ and neither pleade for old Levi his right that neglects his work Nor for any of the Saints priviledges Nor for Tythes from the law of the land till you come out of Miscarriages and give over wronging Christ and men and become holy free from corruption and sinister affection 2 Tim. 3.11 12. Heb. 11.36 37 38. c. And as you come off from the old rotten root and out of the old nature and be born again c. when you are made Christs Ministers you will deny your Tythes and maisteries and be content with what he sees meet for you and instead of persecuting be persecuted and suffer of the world and that generation which you are yet in union with as the Ministers of Christ do now and aforetime did Whose approbation c. was not of the men of the world but of God 2 Cor. 6.1 2 3 4 5 6. 2. Cor. 11.23 24 25. c. And as you are neglecters of the work of God page 3. and your selves in the Miscarriages unpardoned page 4. your hearers can scarce speake a word of sence about the matters of salvation 1. Thes 1.1 1 Thes 1.1 and you are wrongers both of them and of Christ page 19. So you say there are many untaught Children and families page 29. Therefore you make it manifest that you are unholy and corrupt and that you are not the holy Church who are unholy and profain teachers and people and therefore have no right to that which is