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A42548	The history of the Church of Great Britain from the birth of Our Saviour, untill the year of Our Lord, 1667 : with an exact succession of the bishops, and the memorable acts of many of them : together with an addition of all the English cardinals, and the several orders of English monks, friars, and nuns, in former ages.	Gearing, William.; Geaves, William.; Geaves, George.	1674 (1674)	Wing G435B; ESTC R40443	404,773	476

day of Humiliation to be kept he caused a large contribution to be gathered for them throughout the Nation and sent his Agents abroad to mediate for them Alderman Viner and Pack were made Treasurers for this Money which amounted to a very large fum but how much came to the hands of those for whom it was pretended to be collected I know not The French King accommodated the business the Duke of Savoy refusing to admit Cromwel's mediation Upon the tendring of certain Proposals to the Protector by Manasseh Ben-Israel a Jewish Merchant in the behalf of his Hebrew Nation for their free admission to Trade and exercise of their Religion in England a Conference was held about it several dayes at White-hall by the Members of the Council and certain Divines of the greatest note among them and many Arguments being urged pro and con those against their admission so far prevailed that the Proposals took no effect Mr. Prynne wrote a Book at the same time against their admission Then was an Ordinance made by the Protector with the advice of his Council for the Relief of Ministers put into sequestred Livings against Molestations and Suits by Parsons sequestred and ejected On September the seventeeth 1656. a Parliament assembled at Westminster and chose for their Speaker Sir Thomas Widdrington Now The Humble Petition and Advice was framed which was a Module of Government with which they several times waited on the Protector at White-hall to desire him to take the chief Government of the Nations upon him with the Title of King of which the power he already had the name only he wanted He finding his Officers averse to it at last returned answer That he could not take the Government upon him with that Title Now was James Nailor the great Ring-leader of the Sect called Quakers brought to his Trial who having spread his Doctrine and gained many Proselites to it in divers parts of the Nation was more especially taken notice of at Exeter Wells and Bristol and from Bristol was brought up to London attended by several Men and Women of his Opinion who all the way they came strewed Gloves and Handkerchiefs in his way and sang Hosannah's to him and blasphemously are said to have used the same kind of expressions toward him as anciently the people of the Jews did to our Saviour when he rode in triumph to Jerusalem Nailor being convented before the Parliament was charged of Blasphemy for assuming to himself Divine honours and such Attributes as were due to Christ only He was sentenced by the House to be first at London publickly whipt pillored and stigmatized and bored through the Tongue with a red hot Iron as a Blasphemer then to be conveyed to Bristol there to be also whipt lastly to be brought back to London to remain in Bridewel during pleasure which Sentence was inflicted upon him At this time the viperous brood of Sects and Heresies swarmed through all parts of the Nation Then the Ranters began to multiply and the Socinians who denied the Divinity of Christ and one Biddle was infamous for these Opinions and Erbury formerly a Minister in Cardiff in Wales degenerated unto Ranting The Compiler of this Treatise once heard this Erbury speak in a publick Congregation near Bath in Sommerset-shire of a threefold Dispensation of God to his Church and People There hath been said he a twofold discovery of God to his People or a two-fold Dispensation namely the Dispensation of the Law and the Gospel and God discovered himself to his People in both Dispensations diversly Vnder the Law God discovered himself to his people in a way of fear therefore God was called the great and fearful God and the delivery of the Law to Moses was in a fearful manner Now when the Apostle speaks of the Ministry of the Gospel he saith You have not received the spirit of bondage again to fear but the Spirit of Adoption c. that is said he now when the Gospel came men knew God to be a Father and they in the Spirit of Adoption cried Abba Father He added That under the Law God was known as a Lord and Master to keep his People in work and as they had their work so they had their wages and if they did not work they had terrors upon their spirits to affright them But under the Gospel God was discovered to be a Father full of Light and Love so that now we converse with God in a loving manner and serve him as a Son serveth his Father He proceeded to tell us That there is a third Dispensation yet to come in the last dayes wherein God will discover himself in a more fearful way and yet in a way more full of light and love than in former times He added That then there will be a fuller discovery of God than hath been both under the Law and Gospel and the ignorance of this he said hath been the cause of all the confusions and contentions among the People of God He said That the Apostles waited for this Dispensation another state more glorious than any they had yet attained unto This glorious Dispensation he told us St. Paul calls The Glory to be revealed in us the glorious liberty of the Sons of God and that St. Peter calls it The new Heaven and new Earth and St. John The new Jerusalem He said That the Mystery of the Gospel which was preached by the Apostles was hid from men they knew not the mystery of it but the time will come that this mystery of the Gospel will come forth in a fuller discovery than hath been heretofore made known But I shall trouble the Reader no further with him On April the nineteenth 1657. at a certain House in Shoreditch were apprehended a discontented party formerly in the Army that went under the name of Fifth Monarchy-men such as taking upon them to be the Champions of Christ's Monarchy on Earth renounced all Monarchy besides the chief of whom were Thomas Venner a Wine-Cooper Predicant Ashton Hopkins Gowler and Gray their Scribes They had appointed to have rendezvouz that night at Mile-end-Green and thence to have marched into some other Counties to joyn with others of their party that were ready to shew themselves upon the first opportunity There was taken with them a great quantity of Arms and certain printed Papers that were to be dispersed and a Standard with a Lion couchant Gules in a Field Argent having this Motto Who shall rouze him up There was also taken Major General Harison Captain Lawson late Vice-Admiral Colonel Rich Carew and Courtney and Major Danvers whereof the first was committed to the Serjeant at Armes and the rest were sent to remote Castles and Prisons General Monk had order to seize Major General Overton and the Majors Bramston and Holmes and cashier them after Fines and good Security for their behaviour Overton was sent up to the Tower and his Regiment conferred on Colonel Morgan Colonel Okey's Regiment was

THE HISTORY OF THE CHURCH OF Great Britain FROM THE Birth of our SAVIOUR untill the Year of our LORD 1667. With an exact Succession of the Bishops and the memorable Acts of many of them TOGETHER With an Addition of all the English Cardinals and the several Orders of English Monks Friars and Nuns in former Ages Historia vitae nostrae Magistra Bodin LONDON Printed for Philip Chetwin and to be Sold by most Book-sellers 1674. Honoratissimis D no. HENRICO TVLSE Aequiti Aurato Senatori Vicecomiti Londonensi JACOBI READING PETRO RICH. RICHARDO HOW JOHANNI SHORTER In Agro Surriensi Armigeris Viris summi Candoris Pietatis ac Literarum fautoribus hunc Librum in perpetuum observantiae Testimonium D. D. D. G. G. TO THE READER THere is no greater Priviledge bestowed by the Lord upon one Nation above others than in the free use of the Sacred Scriptures and Ordinances Israel had much advantage above the Gentiles chiefly or principally because unto them were committed the Oracles of God the word of grace the Covenant of life and peace Rom. 3.2 S. Paul els-where reckoning up the Priviledges of Israel mentioneth this in several expressions as prime Priviledge The Covenants the giving of the Law and the Promises Rom. 9 4. all which are comprehended under the Oracles and word of God So saith the Psalmist Psal 147.19 20. He sheweth his word unto Jacob his statutes and his judgements unto Israel he hath not dealt so with any nation and as for his judgements they have not known them He make's no mention of the Tabernacle or Temple the Ark of the Covenant the altar of burnt-offering the golden altar of incense the Ordinance of Circumcision c. though in these they were priviledged above other Nations but he singleth out this as a prime priviledge that he shewed them his word his statutes and judgements How deeply then is this nation of ours even England indebted to God to whom the Lord hath committed his holy Oracles how much are we bound to him for this unspeakable gift And herein the singular goodness of God to this nation is much to be observed not enely in visiting it with the Gospel for these last hundred years and more but also in giving it the light of the Gospel very early even in the Apostles dayes Divers Writers of good credit do testifie that even in those dayes the Britan's in our Isle did consent to Christian Religion and pulickly professed it in their Churches as well as other parts of the World The Authors of the Theatre of Great Britain Theatr. Magn. Brit. speaking of the Antiquity of the Christian Faith in Britain testifie in this manner As we have searched the first foundation of our Faith so neither want we Testimonies concerning the continuance of the same in this Land until following Posterities although the injury of Time and War have consumed many Records for the Britan's that were daily strengthened in their received Faith by the Doctrine of many Learned and godly Men left not their first-First-love with the Church of Ephesus but rather took hold of the Skirts as the Prophet speaketh Zech. 8.23 until the Tortures of Martyrdom cut them off by death And those Fathers even from the Disciples themselves held a Succession in Doctrine notwithstanding some Repugnancy was made by the Pagans and Preached the Gospel with good success even till the same at length went forth with a bolder countenance by the favourable Edicts of Adrian Antoninus Pius and Marcus Aurelius Euseb Eccl. Hist l. 4. c. 9. Emperours of Rome as Eusebius hath Noted and in Britain was established by King Lucius so called as some Learned Men have observed because a Prince of great lustre and glory the Light of the Gospel breaking forth in this our Isle in such a perspicuous manner by his Conversion that all Christian Churches took notice thereof Of whom a great Antiquary thus speaketh Lucius in Christum credit Vsserius de Brit. Eccles Primord p. 56. Christoque dicatas Ecclesias dotat distinctas ordinat urbes Geoffery of Monmouth tells us that King Lucius being Baptized together with his Subjects destroyed the Temples of Idols and Dedicated them to the onely living God enlargeing and augmenting them Bishop Godwin saith Godwin de de convers Britan. we have great cause with all thankfulness to Celebrate the Memory of that Excellent Prince King Lucius by whom God did not onely bless this Land with so clear knowledge of the truth but in such sort did it as thereby He hath purchased unto the same the Title of Primogenita Ecclesiae the most Antient and first begotten of all the Churches in the world for that although Christ was Preached els-where privately in many other Nations long before the time of King Lucius yet of all Nations Britain was the first that with publick approbation of Prince and State received the Profession of Christian Religion Of the Teachers of those times John Bale hath these verses Sic ut erat Celebris c. As were the Britan's famous for their Zeal To Gentile Gods whilst such they did adore So when the Heavens to Earth did Truth reveal Blest was that Land with Truth and Learnings store Whence British Plains and Cambreas desart-ground And Cornwal's Crags with glorious Saints abound The common consent of our Protestant Writers is that in this time I now speak of and from the beginning of Christianity here Britain never wanted Preachers of the true Faith And when the persecuting Emperour 's Reigned and persecution raged not onely in the Eastern parts but in Italy France and other Countreys in the Continent near unto us this our Island as another world was almost quite free thereof both before and after until the nineteenth year of Dioclesian in which there was a general persecution of Christians Gild. lib. de excid Conqu Britan. as Gildas and others after him do witness in that it ever had Kings not so depending on the persecuting Emperours and so far from the Name and Nature of persecutors that they ever were friends and favourers of Christians And for this cause many that were persecuted for Christianity in other Countries fled hither for refuge where for themselves they might more quietly enjoy the Liberty of their Conscience and Religion and for others desirous to be instructed in the Truth thereof and not kept back with such terrours of persecution as in other Countries they might with more confidence and boldness and with great hope of fruit and encrease Preach and Teach it unto them This was a preparative to a more general Conversion of this Nation to Christianity which followed afterwards This Island was also the more quiet in respect of the situation remote distance and separation from the rest of the chief commanding places of the Roman Empire The Name England some derived from the manner of the situation of this Island in the West and North for that Eng in the Antient Teutonick Tongue