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A68614	The unbishoping of Timothy and Titus. Or A briefe elaborate discourse, prooving Timothy to be no bishop (much lesse any sole, or diocæsan bishop) of Ephesus, nor Titus of Crete and that the power of ordination, or imposition of hands, belongs jure divino to presbyters, as well as to bishops, and not to bishops onely. Wherein all objections and pretences to the contrary are fully answered; and the pretended superiority of bishops over other ministers and presbyters jure divino, (now much contended for) utterly subverted in a most perspicuous maner. By a wellwisher to Gods truth and people.	Prynne, William, 1600-1669.	1636 (1636)	STC 20476.5; ESTC S114342	135,615	241

Marcte Sebotho Bishop of Augusta Everhardus Bishop of Reformes Vlricus Bishop of Saltsburg Conradus Bishop of Hildesheim Conradus Bishop of Halberstat Ludolphus Bishop of the same See Gunterus Bishop of Magdeburge Iosia Odolpleus Archbishop of Vpsal 〈…〉 in S 〈…〉 hland with sundry other Patriarkes Archbishops and Bishops many of them by reason of age or sicknesse others out of discontent others out of a desire of peace quietnesse and case from unnecessary cares and troubles others of them meerly out of conscience of the unlawfulnesse danger hurt and sinnes accompanying the very office of Bishops as then it is and yet is used have voluntarily renounced revived relinquished their Patriarkships Archbishoprikes and Bishoprikes and betooke themselves to a more retired religious quiet private godly life wherein they might serve God better and showe those manifold occasions of evill and temptations unto which their Episcopall function would expresse them both a hazard of their Soules If these many forraigne examples will no wayes moove your Lordships as seeming over strange we have many pregnant Domestique presidents of like nature which may perswade you to make good your promise and induce you to an imitation of them For I find that Robert Gemetiensis S. Edmund Boniface and Robert Kalwarby Archbishops of Canterbury Richard Beaueyes and William de sancta Maria Bishops of London Iohn Bokingham and Philip Ripingdon Bishops of Lincolne Richard Peche and Roger de Weseham Bishops of Coventre and Lichfeild Herman Bishop of Sherborne Shaxton Bishop of Sabisbury William Warmest Iohn Voysy and Miles Coverdale who being deprived in Queene Maries time cared not to returne to his Bishoprike in Queene Elizabeths setling himselfe in London and there leading a private life as an ordinary Minister Bishops of Exeter Iohn Carpenter and Master Hugh Latimer Bishops of Worcester the later of whom skipped for joy when hee had cast off his Rochet for that hee was eased of so heavy a burthen and blessed God that he had given him grace to make himselfe a Quondam Bishop Ralfe de Maydestan Bishop of Hereford Putta Quickhelmus and Haymo Bishops of Rochester the first of them becoming a Schoolemaster spent the residue of his dayes in that kinde of life and could never abide to heare of returning to his Bishoprike Dubricius Bishop of Carleon Sulghein Bishop of S. Davids Iohn Hunden Bishop of Landaffe Caducanus Bishop of Bangor Elguensis Bishop of S. Assaph Colman S. Cuthbert Egelrit and Nicholas de Farnham Bishops of Lindesfarne and Durham the later of whom first of all twise refused and then at last resigned his Bishoprike out of conscience Paulinus de Leedes who peremptorily refused out of conscience to accept the Bishoprike of Carlile though thereunto elected and earnestly intreated by King Henry the second to accept the place who offer● him 300. Markes yearly revenue for the increase of his living there as did Sylvester de Everdon for a time to Walter Malclerke Bishop of Carlile Cedda Coena aliàs Albert Athelwold Thurstan William Wickwane Archbishops of Yorke who all voluntarily most out of conscience some out of choller others for their ease some for their age others for other causes best knowen to themselves resigned both these their Archbishops and Bishoprikes being so many domesticke presidents to your Lordships who have long since given over the maine part of your Episcopall function preaching now to doe the like according to your joint and severall Promises in case you cannot proove your Archiepiscopall and Episcopall lurisdictions lure divino and give a satisfactory Answer to these few papers which I presume you can never doe since not onely Hieron Ambrose Chrysostom Augustine Sedulius Remigius Primasius Theodoret Haymo Beda Rabanus Maurus Theophilact Isidor Hispalensis Alcuminus Oecumenius Gratian the Councells of Carthag● 4. Con● 22. to 26. of Aquisgran c. 8. 10. 11. Iuo Camotensis Peter Lombard Bruno and other ancient but even Anselme Archbishop of Canterbury Richard Archbishop of Ardmagh all the Archbishops Bishops and Cleargy of England in 37. H. 8. in their Institution of a Christen man chapter of Orders subscribed with all their names Stokesly Bishop of London Tonstall Bishop of Durham Reginald Peacocke Bishop of Chichester Bishop Hooper Bishop Latimer Bishop Iewel Bishop Alley but even Arch-bishop Whitgift himselfe and Bishop Bridges to omit Wickliffe Swinderby Walter Brute S. Iohn Oldcastle Master Iohn Lambert Master Iohn Bradford and other our Martyrs Master Thomas Beacon Master Iohn Fox Master Alexander Novell Doctor Whitaker Doctor Humfry Doctor Willet Doctor Agray Doctor Taylor Doctor Ames Doctor Raynolds Doctor Fulke and others in their authorized writings printed here in England cum privilegio and publike allowance with the forecited statutes of our Realme and all the Bishops Patents in the Raigne of King Edward the 6. in expresse termes conclude your Archiepiscopall and Episcopall Iurisdiction to over other Ministers to be a meere humaine invention long after the Apostles time to prevent or rather as the event hath ever since prooved to engender foment occasion all schismes factions errors and disorders in the Church when as Christ himselfe and his Apostles since ordained a Parity an equality both among his Apostles and Ministers and ever instituted many Bishops elders over every particular Church but never any one Bishop or Minister over many as the best meanes to preserve unity and roote out sinnes occasioned onely by the pride ambitious couvetousnesse power and Tyranny of domineering Prelates Thus craving pardon for my boldnesse in pressing your Lordships like two honest plaine dealing men to make good your words that so we may once againe become fellow-brethren and walke hand in hand together like equals without that infinite Lordly distance which is now between us I take my leave and rest Your Lordships faithfull Monitor A. B. C. A briefe Exhortation to the Archbishops and Bishops of England in respect of the present Pestilence MY LORDS for so you stile your selves and will be intiteled by all men notwithstanding the Lords owne inhibition to the contrary the Prophet Isay c. 26. 9. hath informed me that when Gods Judgements are on the earth the inhabitants of the world will learne righteousnes and who knowes whither your Lordships as properly inhabitants if not servants and louers to of the world as any of what ever profession though you should not be so may not now in this time of Pestilence when Gods Iudgements are everywhere so rife among us learne righteousnesse as well as others if you thinke not your selves to wise to learne to old to be instructed if any man will but take the paines to teach you Hearken therefore I beseech you as you tender either the preservation of your lives in this time of mortality or the salvation of your soules in the great day of Iudgement or the lives and soules of his Majesties Subjects committed to your pastorall charge to a short

his but theirs and hee if hee should chance to chalenge and resume them as his owne might not henceforth owne or claime them to be his they have litle reason now to attempt and his Majesty farre lesse to suffer and so having neither God nor the King divine nor humaine Right to support them they must as the proverbe is between two stooles the arse goes to the ground now at last in the middest of their usurped greatnes fall flat upon the ground and this their fall q proove very great because they now of late are growen so not being content with the office of a Bishop but they must be also Kings temporall Lords and cheife state officers against Christs expresse commaund and Gods owne Law to sway both Church and state at pleasure so they may ingrosse into their sacred hands the sole rule and government of the world having great possessions and being great Lords also as they are Prelates and yet doing nothing therefore at all in point of preaching fecding and instructing the people committed to their spirituall charge but onely playing the part of a Bishop as a Christmas game-player doth of a King and as a Poppet which springeth up and downe and cryeth Peepe Peepe and goeth his way as Doctor Barnes writes wittily of the Bishops of his age Which swelling greatnesse 〈◊〉 ambition of theirs as it will make their downefall the greater so the speedier being a sure prognosticke of their approaching ruine as the greatnesse of any unnaturall swelling in the body is of its present ensuing rupture u Pride ever going before destruction and a lofty spirit before a fall and they usually dogging them at the heeles because God himselfe resisteth the proud but then most of all when they are at the highest according to that of the Psalmist Thou puttest away all the wicked of the earth like drosse which assoone as ever it hath gotten up to the top of the pot and elevated it selfe above the 〈◊〉 mettle is then scummed off and cast away Towards which their desired speedy downfall if these my unworthy labours shall through Gods blessing on and thy prayers for them contribute any assistance for the ease releife or comfort of Gods poore people who are every where most wrongfully without yea against all Law and reason oppressed and cast out of their benefices freeholds possessions imprisoned fined excommunicated silenced suspended vilified crushed and troden under feet by their intolerable tyrannie might and unbounded extravagant power I shall neither repent me of the penning nor thou thy selfe of the reading of it wherefore here humbly prostrating it to thy impartiall Censure and commending it to the blessing of that omnipotent God who to shew the infinitenes of his wisedome and power doth oft times choose the foolish things of the world to confound the wise the weake things of the world to confound the things that are mighty and base things of the world and things that are despised yea and things that are not to bring to nought things that are that no flesh should glory in his presence I shall take my leave of thee till some further occasion Farewell and pray for me To the Right Reverend Fathers in God William Lord Archbishop of Canterbury And Richard Lord Archbishop of Yorkes Primates and Metropolitanes of all England MY Lords I have sundry times heard both of you joyntly and severally protesting even in open Court not onely in the High-Commission but in Dr. Laytons and two other cases since Starchamber too whether seriously or vauntingly onely let the event determine That if you could not proove your Episcopall Iurisdiction and function which you now claime and exercise over other Ministers and your selves as you are Bishops to be superior in power dignity and degree to other Ministers Iure Divino a doctrine which Patricke Adamson Archbishop of S. Andrewes in Scotland publikely recanted in the Synod of Fiffe Anno 1591. as directly repugnant to and having no foundation at all in the word of God you would forthwith cast away your Rochets of your backes lay downe your Bishoprickes at his Majesties feet and not continue Bishops on ehower longer What your Lordships have so oft averred and publikely promised before many witnesses I hope bonâ fide because judicially in full Court upon goodadvise not rashly on some sodaine fitt of choler I shall make bold to challenge you to make good without more delay either by giving a solid satisfactorie speedy answere to this short Treatise consisting onely of 2. Questions which you may devide between you and so speedily reply to if your great secular occasions not your praying and frequent preaching which are onely truly Epicopall though you deeme them overmeane imployment for Arch-bishops interrupt you not which manifests all that Jus Divinum which hitherto both or either your Lordships have pretended for your Episcopalities to be but a meere absurd ridiculous faction having not the least shadow of Scripture to support it or in case you either cannot or faile to give such an Answer to it in convenient time by pulling off your Rochets and resingning up your Archbishoprikes which without all question are but a meere humaine and no divine Institution as I have evidenced into his Majesties hands from whom you dare not deny you onely and wholly received them with all your Episcopall Jurisdiction and Authority thereunto annexed whereby you difference your selves from or advance your selves above your Fellow-Ministers as their supreme Lords unlesse you will split your selves against the hard rocke of a Praemunire and the Statutes of 26. H. 8. c. 1. 31. H. 8. c. 9. 10. 37. H. c. 17. 1. Ed. 6. c. 2. 1. Eliz. c. 1. 5. Eliz. c. 1. 8. Eliz. c. 1. which Acts as they will informe your Lordships notwithstanding all your former vaunts and brags of divine right That the Archbishops Bishops Arch-deacons and other Ecclesiasticall persons of this Realme HAVE NO MANER OF IVRISDICTION ECCLESIASTICALL BVT BY VNDER AND FROM THE KINGS ROYALL MAJESTY to whom by holy Scripture ALL AVTHORITY AND POWER IS WHOLY GIVEN to heare and determine all maner causes Ecclesiasticall and to correct vice and sinne whatsoever and to all such persons as his Majesty shall appoint thereunto That all authority and Iurisdiction spirituall and temporall is derived and deducted from the Kings Majesty as supreme head of the Church and Realme of England and so justly acknowledged by the Cleargy thereof That all Courts Ecclesiasticall within the Realme were then and now ought to be though they are not kept by no other power or authority either forraigne or within the Realme but by the authority of his most excellent Majesty onely and that by vertue of some speciall commission or letters Patents under his Majesties great Seale and in his name and right alone That all power of Visitation of the Ecclesiasticall State and Persons much more then of our Vniversities

lecture no wayes overburthen some to your memories which I shall here read unto you for your good if you please either so to interpret it or come with a sincere conscience for to heare it It may be that in regard of your sacred Episcopall Order you conceit your selves altogether plague-free and as wholly exempt from divine as you now strive to be from temporall Iurisdiction which makes you neither to dread the plague which hath seised upon sundry Kings and laid them in the dust nor as yet any way to endeavour by fasting and prayer to prevent either it or that famine likely to accompanie it But to instruct you how you are still but men and so exposed to all those mortall sicknesses which continually assault the crazy fortresses of our earthly Tabernacles Non obstante your Rochets Miters Crosiers and all other your Episcopall harnesse give me leave in a word or two to acquaint you That Pelagius the second though a Pope and Bishop of Rome notwithstanding his Pontificall Robes Exorcismes Pompe and Charmes was both seised upon and devoured of this impartiall disease Anno Dom. 591. as Platina Onuphrius Anastatius Stella Fasciculus Temporum Balaeus Luitprandius Vitelius and others testify in his life which Plague as Petrus Blesensis Archideacon of Bath records was sent by God as a just Judgement upon the Romans and Italians for giving themselves to drinking feasting DAVNCING sports and Pastimes even on Easter day and other following Holy-dayes after their participation of the blessed Sacrament of Christs body and blood many of them being cons●med and dying of the plague in the very midst of their sports mirth ales ord pos●●mes and on this Pope himselfe for not restraining them from this prophanes A president which should make your Lordships feare and tremble this present Plague beginning here on Easterweeke last as that Plague then did no doubt for the selfesame prophanation of Gods owne day and Sacraments with those abuses sports sinnes pastimes for which they then were plagued which your Lordships have not onely not restrained but countenanced patronized and propagated all you could this Pope going not so farre Cantinus Bishop of Avernium Cato his Successor in the same See Rupertus Bishop of Triers Hermannus Bishop of Verd●num Rainold Bishop of Colen Conrade Bishop of Augusta Walricus Bishop of Spiers Ruggerus Bishop of Herbipolis and Sigsridus of the same Eberhardus Bishop of Ratisbon Gerion Bishop of Halberstat all died of the plague In the great Plague that happened in the Emperor Frederike Barbarossa his armie in Italy many Germane Prelates and some German Princes which came with him died of the Pestilence neither their consecration nor their function being any antidote against this disease In the great Councell of Basil Anno 1431. to name no more forraigne examples Lodovicus Patriarke of Aquilcia the Bishops of Ebron Lubecke Constance and others died of the Plague Aencas Silvius himselfe afterwards Pope being there stricken with this disease where of bee lay three dayes together at the point of death all men despairing of his life but yet by Gods helpe escaped If any of your Lordships should thinke these forraigne Presidents proove not that any English Prelates are obnoxious to the selfe-same disease to rectify this mistake I shall present you with some domesticke examples worthy your most serious consideration Ann. Dom. 664 on the 26. day of October Ceadda the second Bishop of London with all the Monkes of his new erected Monasterie at Lestinghen were taken away with the Plague The very next yeare following Anno 665. Tuda the fourth Bishop of Durham died of the Pestilence Anno 1258. Fulco Basset the 45. Bishop of London was smitten to death with the same fatall disease Michael Northbrooke his Successor the 57. Bishop of London Anno 1361. perished of the Plague and the same yeare Reginald Brian Bishop of S. Davids being translated to Ely deceased of the Plague before his translation could be perfected And to cite no more in so plaine a case Anno 1500. Thomas Langhton Bishop of Winchester then Archbishop of Canterbury elect but not enstalled and Thomas Rotheram Archbishop of Yorke were both in the selfe same yeare swept away together with this pestilentiall disease These severall Presidents to omit all others may be a good Memento and Monition to your Lordships being Bishops and Archbishops to put you in minde both of your mortality in generall which most feare you seldome seriously consider off being so over-much taken up with secular imployments not compatible with your spirituall functions that you though Bishops are subject to this disease this stroke of God as well as others as these your Predecessors therfore should now at length after so many weekes delay endeavour to appease Gods wrath and cease this plague begun among us which every day spreads it selfe more and more by publike fasting prayer preaching and humiliation the remedy not onely prescribed in Scripture by God himselfe but likewise by the whole Church and State of England in the two last great plagues both in 1. Iacobi and in the first yeare of our present Soveraignes raigne as the severall Bookes of common prayer and order of fasting then published by these noble Princes speciall commaund yet testifie on record both of these bookes joyntly confessing and bewayling that among other sinnes occasioning these two dreadfull man-eating Pests this was not the least That the SABBATH DAY was not kept holy but prophaned and therfore no wonder that these plagues breake in upon us And may not your Lordships and the whole Kingdome justly feare that this very Sinne of Sabbath-breaking and prophaning Gods owne sacred day by sports WAKES MAYGAMES DAVNCING drunkennesse chambering wantonnesse idlenesse travelling unnecessary labor and the like which drew on these two former plagues upon us hath been one maine cause of this present Pest which beginnes thus freshly to destroy us It being most apparant to our shame and I feare to all our smart that the Lords-day Sabbath for so our owne Homilies ten times stiled it before the Troubles of Frankfort Anno 15●4 when Doctor Pocklington or Doctor Boundes Booke Anno 1595. when Doctor Heylynfables that the Lords day was first anabaptized a Sabbath day and Christned with this name by some Jewish Godfather to overthrowe the Liturgie and discipline of the Church of England who yet gave it this Title long before these ignorant Doctors dreame both in her Homilies and approoved writers workes hath of late beene more generally publikely audaciously prophaned in most places of the Realme by the fore named Pastimes abuses and disorders then beforethose two sweeping plagues not onely in point of practise which is ill but even in point of Doctrine which is worse many late authorized Histories Treatises and Discourses of the Sabbath not fearing publikely to maintaine the Lawfullnesse of dauncing morrises maygames dedication