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 beeâ—…e to aliâ—…nate subjects affectiens from their Kings by putting them upon unjust Taxes 〈◊〉 Projects Monopolies oppressions Inâ—…ations by giving them evill counsell by â—…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 〈◊〉 uâ—…on Kings c. and on the contrary to estrange the Kiâ—…gs hearts â—…om their Subjects by false Calumnies by sedicious Court-Sermons and by infusing jealousies and discontâ—…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 Kingdoâ—…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 iâ—… though they have oft many deadly personall and particular fendes one with another nor yet against the Pope or Devells Kingdoâ—…s for then their oâ—…ne kingdome a branch and meâ—…ber of the Pâ—…pes and divells as many of our godly Mâ—…rtyrs and Writers have resoâ—…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 oâ—… their pates to testify their royalty and Lordly doâ—…inion over Kings and others as they vaunted in D. Baâ—…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 châ—…ires for these great two legged Foxes Lordly tayles to sit in 〈◊〉 a lesser meaner Chayre did then câ—…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 Pergaâ—…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 painâ—…full zealous Ministers fâ—…om heaven to wit from their Pulpits and â—…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 wâ—…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 Pâ—…aroah and the divell to devoure silence suppresse persâ—…cute and destroy thâ—…m as sâ—…one as they are borne or â—…ginne but once publiquely to appeare in the world as experience too well â—…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 redâ—… Furious Dragons are they and such open wide Sepulchers are their devoâ—…ring throates to swallow 〈◊〉 all things that any way make against them 34. This Dragon and his Angells make ware in heaven fiâ—…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 Sumâ—…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 poâ—…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 hâ—…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 coâ—…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
Register refused to accept or receive his Answer though tendred to him in writing saying it was too long and hee durst not take it Hereupon hee contracted it into lesse then a sheet of paper and tendred it to him as his answer He refused it the second time and though he thus tendred his answer yet an Attactment issued out against him for not answering The conclusion was hee must put in onely such an answer as the Register should prescribe without any justification or defence or mention of the reasons why hee refused to read the Booke telling him that he might and should put in his reasons in court by way of defence Whereupon he gave in a short answer without any defence at all in a manner which comming to bee repeated before one of the Commissioners the Register and hee dashed out of his very answer against all Law and Iustice what they pleased which M. Snelling perceiuing professed hee would not acknowledged for his answer none of his but their owne making vet notwithstanding this answer must stand as his This Hilary tearme hee tenders his defence the Register and Court at Informations refused to accept thereof telling him 〈◊〉 came too lâ—…te though before the cause informed against At Lambeth he tendred his defence in Court the Archbishop referre the consideration of it to Sir Nathaniell Brent and D. Guyn whether it were fit to bee received only he told them he would have no dispute of the point which is all one as if his Grace had said I will have no defence at all This the event hath manifested For hee tendering his defence to these Referres they refuse to receive or allow thereof telling him that the King the Archbishop have decreed that the Booke shall and must be read and therefore hee must submit and read it and they can allow of no Defence against it That the Archbishop hath decreed it shall be read I believe it without an Oath but that his Majestie hath made any such Decâ—…ee they must give me and all others leave to demurre to it till they shall be able to produce such a Decree as this under his Majesties great seale which will be ad Grecas Calendas loe here the desperate impiety and injustice of our Prelates parallell to that of Ananias when hee commanded Paul to be smitten on the face as â—…ee began to make his Defence For first they will make and prejudge the not reading of this forged declaration an heinous offâ—…ce though there be no law canon or precept at all for the reading of it nor any clause at all that it should be read much lesse by the Minister nor any power given them so much as to question much lesse to suspend excommunicate fine or cenfure any who refuse to read iâ—… When as the great question is whether it be an offence at all but this must not be disputed What now is this but to prejudicate and not judge mens causes 2. No answer must bee given or received but what themselves shall make and allow and alter at their pleasures Is not this pretty iustice Who then shall bee innocent 3. When the answer is in no defence must be made or accepted If so then the most innocent man in the world may bee condemned What no defence made Christ himselfe had liberty to make his defence before Pilate an Heathen Iudge Paul the like liberty before Felix Festus and Agrippa â—…eere Pagan Infidell Magistrates Yea the veryest Traytors and Rebels in the world have liberty in all Courts of justice to make their defence and pleade the best they can for themselves yet this godly grave Minister cmming for such a grand crime as this before our Lordly Prelates must make no defence at all O divell o Iewish High Priests blush at this impudency impiety and injustice of these your sonnes and successors A drunkard an Adulterer a Symoniacke any incarnate divell may put in what answer and defence he please before them but this grave Minister every way unspotted in his life and doctrine must not doe it because they haue decreed before hand to condemne him Is not this right high Priests justicâ—… 7. This Iewish high Priest â—…te to judge Paul after the law and commanded him to be smitten contrary to the Law Acts 2â—… 3. So our Lordly Prelates in their Consistories Visitations and Commissions sit to judge Ministers and others his Majesties Subjects according to the Law and yet imprison fine excommunicate suspend deprive degrade teare fleece and judge them for the most part contrary both to the Lawes of God the Realme and their owne Canons as thousends of Presidents evidence of late 8. The Iewish high Preist by Tertullus his Orator accused St. Paule before Felix the Governour for a Pâ—…stilent fellow a mover of sedition among all the Iewes throughout the world and a ring-leader of the Sect of the Nazarens Acts 24. 1. Ioâ—… The selfe same accusation haue the Lord Prelates laid to our Ministers charge in former ages and to our zealous godly Ministers and Preachers now adayes accufing them to the King and his Counsell and persecuting yea suspending imprisoning them every where as pestilent factious sedicious persons and ringleaders of Sects and Schisme as many late examples and some now in agitation evidence 9. The Iewish his Preists informed Festus the Governour against Paule and desired favour against him that he would send for him to Ierusalem that there they might judge him themselves according to their owne law or else murther him by the way Acts. 25. 23. c. 24. 6. Our Lordly Prelates Especially his Archgrace of Canterbury and other our Cant Bishops doe the like informing the King or temporall Majestrates against godly Ministers and people and desiring not Iustice but favour against them that they would sent for them into their owne Courts or High-Commissions or not suffer them to appeale or be released thence by Prohibitions oâ—… other meanes that so they might judge them after their owne law and wills and be both enemies parties delinquents and Iudges in their owne cause contrary to all reason Iustice equity and law both of God and man of which we have manylate memorable Instances and one thing verie observable that they have caused his clause derogatory to his Majesties royall Iustice and supremacy to make themselves absolute supreme Kings and Iudges that there shal be no Appeale or Provocation allowed or admitted from the high Commissionâ—…rs to be inserted into their last Commission A strange clause to tie up his Majesties hands and soveraigne Iustice from being able to releive his oppressed or injured subjects be their causes never so good their Iudges their censures never so parciall maliâ—…ious exorbitant or vnjust 10. Saul by authority received from the Iewish chiefe Preists shut up many of the Saints in Prison and persecuted them even unto strange Citâ—…es Acts. 26. 10. 11. 12. Our Lordly Prelates Pursevants Catchpoles creatures and vermine by like
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
promote your Cardinals to the higest seat of dignities without any let in all the world in stopping the mouth of our adversarie Iesus Christ and alleaging againe that he preferred his kins folks being but of poore and base degree vnto the Apostleship but doe not you so but rather call as ye doe those that live in arrogancie in haughtinesse of mind and filthie lecherie unto the state of wealthie riches and pride and those rewards and promotions which the followers of Christ forsook do ye distribute unto your friends Therefore as ye shall have better vnderstanding prepare ye vices clocked under the similitude of vertues Alleage for yourselues the glosses of the holie Scripture and wrest them directly for to serue for your purpose And if any man preach or teach otherwise then ye will oppresse ye them violently With the sentence of excommunication and by your censures heaped one upon another by the consent of your brethren let him be condemned as an heretike and let him be kept in most strait prison and there tormented till he die for a terrible example to all such as confesse Christ. And setting all favour apart cast him out of your temple lest peradventure the ingrafted word may save 〈◊〉 soules which word I abhorre as I do the soules of o her saithfull men And do your indeuour that ye 〈◊〉 deserue to haue the place which we have prepared for you under the most wicked dwâ—…lling on of our dwelling place Farre ye well with such felicitie as we desire and intend finally to reward and recompence you with Given at the center of the earth in that darke place where all the rablement of divels were present specially for this purpose caâ—…led unto our most dolorous Consistorie under the the Character of our terrible seale for the confirmation of the premisses Ex Registro Herefordensi ad verbum This letter of Lucifâ—…r to your Lordly Predecâ—…ssors then will I trust excuse my Epistle and Parallels here dedicated to your Lordships now both from the unjust imputation of calumnie slaunder or reviling And so leaving your Lordships to Veâ—…we and reueiw your selves in this new Looking-Glasse made purposely for your sweet holy faces I take my leave of you as I trust you will now doe of all your Lordlinesse worldlinesse pride and other vices here discovered till you have exactely trimed yourselves thereby to make yourselves more amiablc both to God and man then now you are A notable Jesuiticall Policy of some Lordly Prelates worthy consideration SOme great domineering Lord Prelates to advance their own power and draw all men to their party have of late endevoured to ingrosse into their hands the disposall of most Ecclesiasticall dignities as Bishopricks Deanneres Prebendaries Headships in the Vniversities presentations to most great Benefices and the like and of many temporall preferments together with the Custody of his Majesties Treasury By this policy First they keepe all men from preferment how deserving learned and pioussoever but those of their owne faction and creatures Secondly they make their owne party very great and strong in all Courts of Iustice and places of the Realm so as none dare oppose them in the least measure no not in cases which highly concerne both GOD the King Religion and the whole Realme Thirdly they are more feared and crowched to then the King himselfe or all his Nobles Fourthly they would win all men to their own opinions humours and superstitions out of hopes of preferment which else they have no way to attaine Fiftly they have many Clergie men so wholly at their command that they will write preach practice defend any errours false Doctrines Innovations Superstitions or popish Ceremonies their Lordships shall command or desire them to obtaine their favours and advancement Sixtly by this meanes they gaine scouts and spies in every corner of the Kingdome in Court City Countrey and in most Noble-mens and Gentlemens families whose Chaplaines are now for the most part nought else but these great Prelates agents and Intelligencers so that nothing can be done or spoken against them or intended for their prejudice but they have present information of it Seventhly by this policy they keep all men under their girdles crush all that dare oppose them stop the current of Iustice bolster out all their popish agents and opposing officers setup Popery againe without much noyse or opposition oppresse his Majesties good Subjects extirpate piety and Religion rob his Majesty his Nobles and officers of ther Authority Privilidges and power to preferre well-deserving men and so by consequence deprive them of much honour service respect observance and thankfulnes for benefits to be received advance their owne Episcopall power jurisdiction Cours beyond all moderation and bounds and in a manner do and say what they list without opposition or controule This Iesuiticall stratagem of theirs prescribed by Conc ' in his Politiques as one of the chiefe meanes to undermine Religion and all protestant States and Churches is worthy his Majesties and his Nobles most serious consideration and prevention in due time for feare it inslave them and the whole Kingdome to the Pope and Prelates before they are aware of it Great Reverend Lord Prelates are like to that we call a Sir Reverence the more they stirre and are stirred the worse the more they stinke They are like Davids mountaines Ps. 144. 5. If men doe but touch them and their vices they will smoke yea storme and rage like the troubled Sea when it cannot rest whose waterscast up mire and dirt Isay. 56. 20. Hence they labour to suppresse sease and call in all good Bookes yea the Palsgraves New-printed Declaration in affront to his Highnesse and his Churches because it censures some of their idle Ceremonies and Arminian Doctrines though tacitly and moderately by way of Apologie our Saviour himselfe gives us the true reason Why Iohn 3. 20. For every one that doth evill hateth the light neither commeth to the light lest his deeds should be discovered and reprooved as their Lord ships now are pretty well if not to their amendment yet doubtlesse to their shame Gentle Reader ere thou read this Treatise be pleased with thy penne to correct these Presse-errors Page 2. line 2. read Parallels p. 3. l. 17. for fable r unstable l. 6. p 4. 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them as enemies to Caesar as factious sedicious pestilent fellowes and tell them Yf they let them goe they are not Caesar the Kings or Churches friends Yea when any time of grace release or Pardon comes they can and doe perswade Kings and temporall Magistrates to pordon and release Barrabas theeues murtherers whores bawdes Preists Iesuites Adulterers drunkards and all other notorious malefactors but yet Iesus his innocent Saints and servants must have no grace at all no mercy enlargment grace or justice but be imprisoned ruined molested destroyed and by this meanes at last they most vnjustly Crucify vex and ruine these pure innocent Saints of Christ as they did Christ himselse Aâ—… whizh our Booke of Martyrs and dayly experience witnesse to the full in each particular yea many of our present Prelates doe as much as in them lieth to crucfiy Christ himselfe and that in a farre more barbarous manner then ever the Iewes did For First they crucified and set him only unto many Crosses 2. The Iewes crucified him but once they oft times one after another 3. They kept him no longer on the Crosse then till he was dead upon it then gaue Ioseph of Aramathea leave to take him downe beseeching Pilate that he might not hange thereon till the next day Iohn 19. Our Lord Prelates keepe him allwayes hanging before their eyes on the Crosse and never take him downe as if he had still continued on his Crosse till now and never been taken off buried raysed againe from the dead and carried into heauen And why so I pray First to shew their cruell and bloudy disposition it being their daily practise to crucify Christ in his Image and Saints which makes them so much in love with the sight of the Crucifix 2. To maâ—…st themselues to be the high Preist vndoubted Successors who crucified Christ. 3. To testify that they delight so much in the picture of Christs death as they haue no care nor thought at all to imitate him in his paynefull preaching life 4. To manifest to all men that if Christ were now a live in the flesh they would as certainely crucify him againe as the high Preists did 5. To tax the Sacraâ—…nt of the Lords Supper Scriptures of much imperâ—…ction as if they were not sufficient to shewe forth Christ death till he came without this additament of a Crucifix to their Dull Lordships who seldome receive the one or seriously meditate of preach the other 6. To manifest that they desire not to have Christ to liue ruleas a King or supreame living Lord in his owne Church which he canot do as long as he hangs as a dead manon his Crosse that so they themselues may Lord it and rule Christs Church at their owne pleasures according to their owne Canons Lusts and pleasures not his word as the Iewish high Preists did 7. To testify that their Lordships thinke there is litle neede to preach Christ crucified that a dumbe blinde painted Crucifix is a farre better preacher of Christ and his death then their Lordships And if so what neede of Bishops or Preachers when we may haue store of Crucifixes at a farre cheaper rate 18. Finally soâ—…e of the Iewes high Preists were rebells and traytors to their Soueraignes as Abiâ—…thar was to Solomon who there upon depriued him of his office but spared his life though he deserued death 1. Kings 1. 7. c. 2. 26. 27. So many hundred LOrd Prelates in forraigne partes and aboue 60. of our owne here at some Especially the Arch-Bishop of Canterbery Yorke haue bene notorious Arch-Traytors Conspirators Rebells too against their Soueraignes Especially those Emperors and Kings who haue most fauored magnified and advanced their secular greatenesse pompe and power A just Iudgment of God upon them for aduancing these Prelates be Lords and temporall Princes against Christs owne precept Math. 20. 25. and I pray God all of them be now faithfull to their Kings and Soveraignes which I have cause to feare In all these regards then you see how the Iewish high Preists and Lordly Prelates are direct Parallels and so in verity their vndoubted Successors one mayne argument and pretence to support their Lordly Hierarchie over their Brethren being deduced from the high Preists example The disparity or Antithesis betweene Christs and Lord Prelates IF any now in these Prelates behalfe replie that they are of our Sauiour Christs owne institution his true Disciples Sonnes and followers not the divells as the First Paralell manifests them To disprove this Cavill let them a little consider the Antipathie or disparity betweene our Saviour Christ and them in these ensuing particulars First our Saviour Christ was so poore that hee had not so much as an house or kedde of his own whereon to rest his head Math. 8. 20. Our Lord Prelates though in regard of their birthes for the most part very like our Saviour borne in a stable or some poore Obscure Cottage yet when once they become Lord Bishops they have many Manfions Palaces and stately princely habitations wherein they wallow take their pleasure as if they were borne Prelates or Princes and yet not content therewith they still complaine their are poore Prelates craving and hunting after farre more farre greater Possessions though not borne heires to one farthing by the grace nor demeriting halfe so much for their paines or preaching at the poorest ten-pound Curate in their Diocesse Secondly Our Saviour Christ had but one poore threed-bare-Coate without a seame woven from toe to toe for which the Soldiers cast lots Math. 27. 35. Iohn 19. 23. 24. 〈◊〉 Iohn Baptist the greatest Prophet that euer was borne of a Woman hath his 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 of Camels haire not silke or satin and a leatherne not a brave great silken girdle about his loynes Math. 3. 4. Oâ—…r Lordly Prelates have many silken sattin scarlet Gâ—…nes câ—…ssockes robes coapes rochets hoodes patched up with â—…any seaâ—…es and piebalde colours with many new inuented Pontificall vestments disguise and quadrangular caâ—…s and â—…rinkets peculiar to their Holinesses which poâ—…re Câ—…rist never wore saw knew or dream'te of and would have certainly disdained to looke on much more to weare being as unseemely for as displeasing to him as the purple scarlet â—…obe and Crowne of Thornes that the Soldiers violently put upon him in derifiâ—… when they mocked and Crucified him Thirdly Our Saviour Christ had but course farre and hard diet for himselfe and his Apostles and Guests to wit a few barly loâ—…ves and some small fishes â—…or the most part served in on the bare ground it being his chiefest meate drinke to doe his Fathers will and to finish his worke Iohn 4. 31. 34 c. 6. 5. to 15. Math. 14. 17. to 22. c. 15. 34. to 38. c. 16. 9. 10. Iohn 21. 9. 10. 13 Yea great Iohn Baptists ordiâ—…y food was nought else but Locusts and wild hony Mith. 3. 4. Our Lordly Prelates have all variety of costly 〈◊〉 cates iunkets