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A10189	A looking-glasse for all lordly prelates Wherein they may cleerely behold the true divine originall and laudable pedigree, whence they are descended; together with their holy lives and actions laid open in a double parallel, the first, betweene the Divell; the second, betweene the Iewish high-priests, and lordly prelates; and by their double dissimilitude from Christ, and his Apostles.	Prynne, William, 1600-1669.	1636 (1636)	STC 20466; ESTC S121078	71,933	128

Lordly Prelates aunciently yea lately done or endeavoured at least to doe the like in Germany France that I say not in England too Their chiefe practise 〈◊〉 allwayes bee●…e to ali●…nate subjects affectiens from their Kings by putting them upon unjust Taxes 〈◊〉 Projects Monopolies oppressions In●…ations by giving them evill counsell by ●…opping the course of lawes of common Right and Iustice of the preaching power and progresse of the Cospell by advancing Idolatry popery 〈◊〉 with their owne intollerable 〈◊〉 and Lordly iurisdiction by fathering all their unjust 〈◊〉 u●…on Kings c. and on the contrary to estrange the Ki●…gs hearts ●…om their Subjects by false Calumnies by sedicious Court-Sermons and by infusing jealousies and discont●…nts into their heads and hearts against their best and loyallest Subjects without a cause A divellish practise never more used then in these our dayes 29. Satan will not bee devided against Satan for feare his Kingdo●…e should not stand Math. 12. 10. So these Lordly Prelates wil never be devided one against another in point of their Antichristian Iurisdiction Pompe and Hierarchie which they all concurre i●… though they have oft many deadly personall and particular fendes one with another nor yet against the Pope or Devells Kingdo●…s for then their o●…ne kingdome a branch and me●…ber of the P●…pes and divells as many of our godly M●…rtyrs and Writers have reso●…ved should soone fall to ruine 30. The divell that Red-Dragon had seven crownes upon his head Revel 12. 3. to shew his royall power So have the Popes and other Prelates Crownes and Miters o●… their pates to testify their royalty and Lordly do●…inion over Kings and others as they vaunted in D. Ba●…twicks Censure 31. The Divell had a seate and Throne in the Church of Pergamus wherein hee sate in state Revel 2. 13. So have the Prelates in their Cathedralls and Chappell 's as they then also boasted yea their great Cathedralls are but ch●…ires for these great two legged Foxes Lordly tayles to sit in 〈◊〉 a lesser meaner Chayre did then c●…ntent the divell who now sits in greater state and is farre better served and attended in our Cathedrals then ever hee was in the Church of Perga●…us 32. The divell that Red-Drogon with his tayle drew the third part of the Starres from heaven and cast them to the earth Revel 12. 4. So have Lordly Prelates the tayle of that fell Dragon anciently and of late times swept downe the third part or more of our starres to wit of all our faithfull powerful pain●…full zealous Ministers f●…om heaven to wit from their Pulpits and ●…hurches and by their suspensions excommunications imprisonments deprivations suppressing of Lectures persecutions c. have cast them to the ground nay trampled them under their dragon-like pawes depriving them of their office and Benefices thereby robbing God and Christ of the glory the poore peoples soules of the fruit and comfort of their Ministry to their greatest griefe 33. This greate Red Dragon the divell stoode before the Woman the Church which was reddy to be delivered of a man-childe for to devoure her Childe her spirituall regenerate Children as soone as it was borne Rev. 12. 4 5. Thus those Lordly Prelates doe No sooner can the Church be reddy to be delivered of a man-childe of a godly faithfull Pastor new Minister or zealous Christian but these great redd scarlet Dragons w●…o can suffer dumbe Dogges deboist licentious dissolute drunken scandalous Ministers and supersticious Popelings to sit still and doe what they list without danger or countroll are at hand like P●…aroah and the divell to devoure silence suppresse pers●…cute and destroy th●…m as s●…one as they are borne or ●…ginne but once publiquely to appeare in the world as experience too well ●…ifieth in most places where a godly Minister or Christian can no sooner shew his head or beginne to doe God faithfull service but they presently lay trappes and snares to hamper or send Apparitors Pursevants with such other Hellish Furies to seize upon them that so their Lordships may swallow them all up at a bit Yea if any good Booke shall beginne to peepe out against their tyranny Prelacy and Innovations Howses Shipps Studdies Trunks and Cabinets must be broken up and ransacked for them Such ravenous red●… Furious Dragons are they and such open wide Sepulchers are their devo●…ring throates to swallow 〈◊〉 all things that any way make against them 34. This Dragon and his Angells make ware in heaven fi●…hting with Michaell to wit our Saviour Christ and his Angells Rev. 12. 7. Soe the Lordly Prelates and their Angells To wit their Deanes Arch-deacons Officialls Chauncellors Commissaries Surragates Advocates Proctors Registers Pursevanst Sum●…ers Apparitors Howshold Chaplaynes too for the most part have in al ages to this very moment made warre in heaven Gods Church militant with Christ and his Angells To wit his faithfull po●…erfull godly Ministers Preachers Saints and Servants as all Histories ages witnesse And now this Battaile seemes to be at the hottest here amongst us More godly Ministers h●…ving been silenced suspended deprived driven from their Ministry chased out of the Realme within these 5. yeares though conformable to the established doctrine and discipline of our Church then in many ages before 35. When the divell co●…es downe among the inhabitants of the earth and of the Sea then woe be to them Rev. 12. 12. Soe woe be to the kingdomes Churches and people where Lord Prelates come and beare most sway amongst them witnesse our Booke of Martyrs and Chronicles of England to these Diocesse wherein they domineere Witnesse Norwich Diocesse and others at this present 36. When this Dragon and the Divell was cast out to the earth he persecuted the Woman the true Church of God Rev. 12. 13. So have these Lord Prelates in all ages as the Bookes of Martyres record at large since they were cast out of heaven Christs true spirituall Church for their Lordly pride 37. When the Dragon saw the Woman had such swift winges given her that Shee escaped his hands and fledd into the wildernesse out of his reach and danger where Shee was nourished for a time then he cast out of his mouth a floud of water after her to devoure drowne her Rev. 12. 14 15 16. So these Lord Prelates when any godly Ministers or Christians have escaped their Lordships their Apparitors Pursevants or other Cathpoles hands by flight or otherwise power out of their mouthes a floud of Execrations Excommunications Intimations Suspensions Maledictions reproaches obloquies and outragious Censures against them to devoure and over whelme them Yea Excommunications with agravations that no man shall buy sell trade eate drinke or have any conversation with them An Hellish Antichristian tyranny lately practised and revived against all lawes and Statutes of the Realme against 4. men in Norwich Only for not bowing at the name of Iesus and against Mr. Samuell Burrowes of Colchester for Indicting Parson Newman for enforcing the

they will have nothing or very little at all to doe with Christ whose sacred presence Either by the powerfull preaching of his word the Purity of his Ordinances the reprehēsion of their sines the approach or meditation of the day of death or Iudgment or by the growth or progresse of his true spirituall Kingdome under their noses is so irksome to them that it ●…ments them before the time make them frett fume rage vex chafe and play about them like madd men as appeares by the Booke of Martirs yea by present experience with out further evidence And if at any time after they are made Bishops they leave their former habitations and repaire to their Diocesse or bee translated from one See to another they commonly take with them seaven other spirits as bad ar more wicked themselves to wit Archdeacons Chauncellors Registers Appariters howshold Chaplaines Secretaries and private Informers against good men who reside either neere or with them in their Diocesse which are so vexed pilled polled spoyled corrupted by these Horseleaches and Caterpillars that the last estate of them when they leave them is commonly farre worse then the first when they repaired thither yea their Bishopricks too are usually so pared by the sale of woods renewing of leases granting of offices Reversions and such other usuall devices of these Ghostly Fathers before their deathes and translations that they leave them commonly in farre worse estate then they found them So like are they to the divell to make all things worse and worsethey meddle with The reason I take it of our usuall English Proverbe when any Milke or Broth on the fire is burnt and thereby marred that the Bishop hath been in the Pot Because they commonly marre all things where they come as the divell doth Seaventhly The divell takes men captive at his will and few that are taken by him recover themselves but with great difficulty out of his snares 2 Tim. 2. 26. So domineering tyrannizing Prelates imprison pursivant and take men captive at their pleasures against all Iustice equity piety pitty Lawes of God and man against Magna Charta the Petition of Right and all other Acts of Parliament for the Subiects liberties Take but one fresh instance for an example insteed of hundreds more on the 26. of this instant Ianuary one Knight a Glasse-man in London for repeating a Sermon in Norfolke was conuented before the Archbishop and other High-Commiffioners at Lambeth and tend●…ed an Ex Officio oath not warranted by any Law of God or man and in direct termes for ever exploded and not warrantable by the Lawes and Statutes of this Realme in the late Petition of Right 3. Caroll hee thereupon answered that he was not fully satisfied in conscience of the lawfulnesse of that oath and therefore humbly desired his Grace that he might be satisfied first in point of conscience errehe tooke it The Archbishop hereunto replied like a learned Prelate You shall bee satisfied I warrant you take him laylor to ●…he Fleet where he now is Alas is this the learned satisfaction the argumentation and sole Logicke of our Prelates to quiet mens consciences and remove their doubts Take him laylor away with him Purfevant to the Fleet and that against the expresse Petition of Right which enacts that no man hereafter shall be compelled to take SVCH AN OATH or be confined or molested or disquieted concerning the same or for refusall thereof Was ever such language heard out of our Saviours or his Apostles mouthes Take him Iaylor to Prison with him c. or did they ever give such satisfaction to mens conscience as this No verily This onely is the divels language law and spirituall satisfaction Who takes men captive at his will as these Lord Prelates now daily doe by his example And as those who are taken captive by the divell can hardly recover themselves out of his snares againe So those who are thus uniustly imprisoned and apprehended by them can hardly recover themselues out of their snares Such tenacious divells are they Eightly The Divell goeth about like a roaring Lion seeking whom he may devoure 1 Pet. 5. 9. Iob. 1. 7. c. 2. 2. So doe Lordly Prelates their Officialls Commissioners Pursevants and Apparitors especially when they ride about to visit pill and poll their diocesse only this is the difference that the Divell goeth and they ride and coach it about in state Ninthly The divell layes snares and trappes to entangle and catch men 2 Tim. 2. 26. Rev. 2. 23. So doe Lord Bishops lay baites snares and spies in every corner especially to intrap and catch betray or informe against godly Ministers Professors of Religion with all other sorts of men of whom they may gaine mony or advantage to themselves or Officers 10. The divell is and hath been a murtherer of mens soules and bodies from the beginning till this present Iohn 8. 44. Such have Lord Prelates beene in all ages from their very beginning to this instant as a●… histories our Bookes of Martyrs and present experience manifests 11. The divell is a lyar yea the Father of lyes and there is no truth in him yea when he speaketh a lye he speaketh of his owne Iohn 8. 44. Such are all Lorly Prelates in raysing up a false enormous schandals tales reports accusations and forged calumnies of all good Ministers and people in broaching false Doctrines Errors Heresies and forging many fabulous stories false glosses miracles tales and spurious Antiquities to support their tottering Hierarchies and vsurped Episcopall Iurisdictions in being trecherous yea perfideous in all their wordes and actions both towards God and men Especially to their Princes and those who have most relied on them as all the Italian German and English Stories Writers of the lives of Popes and Prelates and Mr. Tindals practise of Popish Prelates testify at large and present experience much complaines of there being no such grosse Hypocrites Machiavils Equivocators perfideous faithlesse persons breathing as some Prelates shewe themselves and that aswell in Divine as temporall affaires and transactions 12. The divell is an accufer a false Ruducing calumniator of the Brethren true Saints of God Reb. 12. 10. whence false accusers are stiled divells in the Originall Greeke 2. Tim. 3. 3. Such have malicious Lordly Prelates been in all ages and never more then now accusing all godly faithfull Christians Preachers and Ministers of the Golpell whom they and the Papists now terme Puritains to Kinges and greate Officers of State of seditions rebellion disobedience disloyalty treason schisme inconformity conspiracy vnlawfull conventicles and assemblies false dangerous Doctrines puritanisme and the like only for their godly holy just and blame lesse liues their powerfull Zealous freq●…ent preaching praying the discovering of or declayming against their idlenesses lordlynesses luxury persecutions tyranny covetousenes secularity Superstitio is Popish Doctrines Innovations and intollerable enchroachments both Superstitio●…s his Majesties Ecclesiasticall Prerogatives and the Peoples liberties