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heaven_n	earth_n	see_v	world_n	12,890	5	4.5277	4	true

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A96350	The first centvry of scandalous, malignant priests, made and admitted into benefices by the prelates, in whose hands the ordination of ministers and government of the church hath been. Or, A narration of the causes for which the Parliament hath ordered the sequestration of the benefices of severall ministers complained of before them, for vitiousnesse of life, errors in doctrine, contrary to the articles of our religion, and for practising and pressing superstitious innovations against law, and for malignancy against the Parliament. It is ordered this seventeenth day of November, 1643. by the Committee of the House of Commons in Parliament concerning printing, that this booke intituled, [The first century of scandalous, malignant priests, &c.] be printed by George Miller.	White, John, 1590-1645.; England and Wales. Parliament. aut	1643 (1643)	Wing W1777; Thomason E76_21; ESTC R19192	42,473	60

admiration and acknowledge with love and thankefulnesse the transcendent mercie of the Lord to his poore people among us that whereas he hath infinite just cause to destroy these Priests and people together cloath them with desolation and doe unto them after their waies and judge them according to their desert h Ezek. 7.27 He is graciously pleased to stirre up a spirit of zeale and judgement in the Parliament to deliver the people from the mouthes of these Shepheards that feed not the flocke but kill them that are fed eate the fat and cloath themselves with the wool l Ez k. 34.3 10. and to set true shepheards over them to seeke that which was lost and bring againe that which was driven away to bind them that were broken and strengthen them that were sick and to feed them all with knowledge and understanding and to feed with judgment the wicked shepheards that before with force and cruelty ruled over them k Eze. 34.15 16. Fiftly Behold with comfort and assured expectation of good from Heaven that as the Lord hath manifested his gracious purpose to reforme his Church in this Land and set up the Kingdome of Christ among us in the purity of Doctrine and Discipline and hath for that purpose called this Parliament fixed it set it upon that worke and maintained it therein and in all these hath manifested his immediate hand and finger in stupendious works of Divine providence opening obstructions working that himselfe which his servants could not making the very enemies of Reformation meanes to further it discovering and preventing the horrid hellish treacherous plots of his and our enemies turning the counsells of Achitophell into folly discovering the rotten hearts of them that said they were for the Cause of God but are found lyers and holding up the hearts of his faithfull ones in the middest of and against all discouragements So the Lord is pleased to carry on his great worke of Reformation in the very face and in aispight of all oppositions and dangers that it gaines ground and creepes on every day These Priests of Baal sonnes of Beliall that know not the Lord whose sinne is very great before God in making multitudes abhorre the Offerings of the Lord a 1 Sam. 2.12 17. are taken away and removed as filthy rubbish from the house of God The Antinomians that destroy the Law as neither directory nor obligatory of a Christian to duty and teach that God sees not is not angry with will not correct requires not sorrow for nor repentance of the grossest sinnes that are committed by such as beleeve they be in Christ and that the elect are actually justified as soone as borne though they have not faith in forty yeares after and many such absurdities and barbarismes in Divinity are questioned and in a good way to be suppressed and the Doctrine of our Church in a great part cleared from all aspersions and misconstructions This is the Lords doing and it is marvellous in our eyes And certainely these works of God are so many earnest-pence unto us as the first fruits to the harvest that God will in his own way and time perfect his said worke of a through Reformation and bring forth and lay the head and top-stone thereof that we and our postority shall rejoyce and cry grace grace unto it b Zech. 4.7 Sixthly Whereas in severall Proclamations Declarations and Pamphlets set forth in his Majesties name and otherwise sent us from Oxford the Parliament hath been exceedingly reproached and condemned as in truth they have been for all the good they have done for the Kingdome for Sequestring the Livings of Reverend Divines as they stile them thou mayest by a serious perusall of this Booke cleerely see what Divines the Authours and publishers of the said Pamphlets doe so reverence and esteeme And from thence observe of what spirit these men are that side with honour pleade for and receive unto them such Priests of Baal of Bacchus of Priapus Doth not their affection unto and high esteeme of such uncleane beasts abundantly evince that they serve and prostitute themselves unto the same dung-hill Idols and filthy lusts and that they are all of the same Father And note further that these Libellers not only speake evill of Dignities but also of those things that they know not c Jude 8.10 they Censure the Supreame Court of Judicature themselves being Delinquents deferving the severest judgement and that without hearing them or informing themselves of what they have done notwithstanding all their acts and proceedings lie fairely of record in their Journall bookes obvious to every man that desires to understand the same And that the Parliament may appeare just in their doings and the mouth of iniquity may be stopped this Narrative of the crimes * The grossest faults stand proved by many witnesses seldome lesse then six and misdemeanours of those sons of the earth are here published that all the world may see that the tongues of these that speake evill of the Parliament are set on fire of Hell and lift up against Heaven and that they hide themselves under falsehood and make lies their refuge And let not the Learning of some few of these men for which if they had any grace to use it well they were considerable move thee to thinke they be hardly dealt with for learning in a man unsanctified is but a pearle in a Swines snout Arrins Pelagius Arminius all of them learned but thereby the more serviceable to doe mischiefe in the Church like Curio who was facundus only ad reipublicae perniciem Learning and knowledge we honour in any but vitiousnesse and lewdnesse we condemne in all had some of these men sanctity of life as well as light of knowledge they had been honourable to Religion and usefull to soules but their abhorred lusts casting out of them the guidance of light it is but justice to cast them off from being guides to others I say Justice to them and withall mercy to the poore people who at once are ridde of a plague and enjoy a blessing are freed from such who poisoned their soules and supplied by such as take care to feed and save their soules a None succeed these sequest red Priests but such as are examined and approved by the Assembly of Divines I know well that all we say or doe in this particular will be reproached by some but good services must not therefore be deserted because reproached When the fat Abbies were taken downe in Henry the eights time the Friers cried out that holy Church was destroyed yet when the draughts and ponds were searched so many bones and skulls were found which assured men of practises distant enough from holinesse For my part I shall not cease to endeavour and pray for a perfect reformation of the Church which is the garden wherein God delighteth to walke and therefore must be purged of all stinking and noysome weeds And doe thou whosoever