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A10190	Lord bishops, none of the Lords bishops. Or A short discourse, wherin is proved that prelaticall jurisdiction, is not of divine institution, but forbidden by Christ himselfe, as heathenish, and branded by his apostles for antichristian wherin also sundry notable passages of the Arch-Prelate of Canterbury in his late booke, intituled, A relation of a conference, &c. are by the way met withall.	Prynne, William, 1600-1669.	1640 (1640)	STC 20467; ESTC S115311	76,101	90

none effect and they * perish with the using are good for nothing being after the Commandements and D●ctrines of men they have but a meere shew of wisdome in will-worship and humility and hypocrisie in not sparing the body and onely serve to satisfie the flesh Arguments Sufficient to any one that feares God and hopes to be saved by Iesus Christ to * Beware of being Spoyled and made a prey as the word signifieth of being ‡ heguiled of their reward by such a bondage and Slavery Thus the Apostle so damning all manner of Rites and Ceremonies imposed on the Conscience in the worship of God so as he shews it to be a very Apostacy from Christ of such as hold not the Head with what face can our Lord Prelates the great Masters of all manner of Superstitious and Idolatrous both Iewish and Heathenish Romish and Antichristian Ceremonies beare themselves to be the Successors of the Apostles while not onely they erect such Superstitions but with all rigour impose them upon mens Consciences as a most insupportable burthen and intolerable bondage and with all severity and cruelty inflict terrible punishments upon those that refuse to performe the Tasks of such Egyptian Taskmasters Or how dare they affirme that they have such their Iurisdiction from Christ while in so doing usurping such a Power over mens Consciences they thrust Iesus Christ out of his Throne But we shall have occasion to speake more of this hereafter Thus we see in the meane time what kind of Vice-Roys of Christ and Successors of his Apostles the Prelates prove themselves to be in Lording over the Consciences of Gods people by their Superstitious Ceremonies and Romish Rites But perhaps they will object the Apostles determination Act. 15. concerning the Gentiles newly converted to Christianity that they should abstaine from eating of blood and things strangled which was a Mosaicall Rite To which I answere First that the Apostles in the § same place do shew that that burthen of Legall Ceremonies was removed by the death of Christ and buried in his Grave Secondly they did this in regard of the Iews which dwelt among those Christians for the time being for peace-sake untill the † Christian Iews were better confirmed in the faith and knowledge of Christ Thirdly they did it by the speciall direction of the ‡ Holy Ghost for the reason alledged So as that example being extraordinary and for the time of the Infancie of the Gospell it is no rule for us to follow now after so long a shining forth of the Gospell And I might adde this moreover that the Apostles did not this alone but with the whole Congregation the Presbyters or Elders and Brethren being ●oyned with them Whereas our Prelates though they confesse that a * Generall Councel hath no immediate Institution from Christ to determine Controversies but that it was prudently taken up in the Church from the Apostles example Act. 15. yet for all their prudence in taking up that which belongs not unto them they shew themselves very unfaithfull while they follow not the example of the Apostles in determining alone and not with the whole Congregation and therefore Christians have the lesse reason to captivate their faith to Prelaticall Decrees either in a Generall Councel where the Pope of Rome and of Canterbury are the rulers of the rost or in a Convocation where the Pope of Canterbury is Prime Primate Metropolitan and All who without the Holy Ghost which is never given to any such Antichristian Assemblies whatever they decree in point of faith or otherwise be it never so erronious yet they enjoyne obedience thereunto by all men as our ‡ Prelate affirmeth But he will not be so easily beaten off from his Ceremonies For in his § Epistle Dedicatory he tells the King That Ceremonies are ne●essary for the setting out of Gods worship His Great Witnesse to the world that our heare stands right in that Service of God to wit the inward worship Take this away or b●ing it into contempt and what light is there left to shine before men that they may see our Devotion and glorifie our Father which is in heaven And to deale clearely with your Majesty these thoughts are they and no other which have made me labour so much as I have done for Decency and an Orderly Settlement of the externall worship of God in the Church which cannot be without some Ceremonies c. For Ceremonies are the hedge that feare the Substance of Religion c. And a great weaknesse it is not to see the strength which Ceremonies adde even to Religion itselfe c. So and much more the Prelate● Whence it appeareth that had he not Ceremonies to garnish his worship of God as he calls it the world could not see how right his heart stands nor yet see his good works because instead of good works perverting Christs word he puts his Devotion and his Devotion stands in his Ceremonies which he saith must not be too few for then they leave his Service naked and therfore to avoyd that he must have both a Surplice and Hood and Cope to cover that nakednesse So as all his light is in his Externall worship shining forth in his brave Garbe of Ceremonies as that of the Pharises in their broad Philacteries So as without this men in truth could not so easily see the pride vanity Superstition and hyprcrisie which lurketh in the Prelates ●●re and bewrayeth it selfe in his many inventions of Superstitious Ceremonies the very Ideas and Idols of his profane heart And Antiquity was the Mystery of Iniquity if that will doe them any pleasure This we generally touched before in the Third Chapter But for the Second That the Prelacie is this Mystery of Iniquity let us a little examine what is meant by this Mystery of Iniquity This Mystery of Iniquity is opposed to the Mystery of Godlinesse of which the Apostle speaks 1 Tim. 3. 16. Iniquity is opposit to Godlinesse but both Godlinesse and Iniquity are called a Mystery Yet in a different respect The Mystery of Godlinesse is so called because of its deepnesse and difficulty to be understood but by Gods * Spirit reuealing the same but the Mystery of Iniquity is so called because Iniquity is vailed under a pretence and shew of Godlinesse by which ‡ many are deceived § whose names are not written in the booke of life As Christ saith Many shall come in my Name saying I am Christ and shall deceive many And thus doe all Prelates come in Christs Name while they pretend Christs Authority and usurpe Christs throne over his People And the great Antichrist is so called because though he be against Christ yet he saith he is for Christ as being Christs Vicar even as Antichristus in the Greeke is a compound word the Preposition Anti signifying both for or instead and against And so is Antichrist in pretence for Christ but in practise

LORD BISHOPS NONE OF THE LORDS BISHOPS OR A SHORT DISCOVRSE WHERIN IS PROVED THAT PRELATICALL JURISDICTION IS NOT OF DIVINE Institution but forbidden by Christ himselfe as Heathenish and branded by his Apostles for Antichristian wherin also sundry notable passages of the Arch-Prelate of Canterbury in his late Booke Intituled A Relation of a Conference c. are by the way met withall MATH 20. 25 26. Iesus said to his Disciples ye know that the Princes of the Gentiles exercise dominion over them and they that are great exercise Authority upon them But it shall not be so among you But whosoever wil be Great among you let him be your Servant 1 Joh. 2. 18 19. Even as there are many Antichrists They went out from us but they were not of us BERN. Praelati Pilati non Pastores sed Impostores Printed in the Moneth of November 1640. TO THE HIGH AND HONOVRABLE COURT OF PARLIAMENT THE NOBILITIE AND GENTRIE NOVV Assembled in both the Houses Grace Mercy and Peace be multiplyed MOST Noble Senare and right worthy Pattiots who both feare your GOD and honour your King He who truly honours you and dayly prayes for a blessed successe of this your Meeting humbly presents you here with a Cause which well weighed in your maturest judgements may prove one of those greatest Parliament Businesses which your most pious and prudent thoughts and Consultations are taken up withall When you have perused this short Discourse concerning Prelaticall Authority whence it is and if it shall appeare by cleare evidence of Scripture justly compared with their Prelaticall properties and practises that they are the Seed of Antichrist the Mystery of Iniquity a more then Heathenish Tyranny over Soules bodies and estates a meere enmity but under the veile of Hypoerisie against Christ against his Word against his Ministers against his People and the Salvation of their Soulee yea against the peace and prosperity of Civil States by their Factious and Seditious practises and the like Your Wisdome your Piety your Zeale for GOD your Love to Christ your Loyalty to your King your tender compassion towards your poore Country your Christian care of your own Soules and of your Posterities will all of them call and cry for a serious Consultation and a speedy resolution what is to be done herein as you shall apprehend the Prosperity or Calamity of this whole Church and State and the happy or miserable issues of Parlliaments to depend upon it A word to the wise What I would further say I will turne into continuall Supplication to the Great President of Councels JESUS CHRIST that he will send his Spirit of Wisdome and Vnderstanding the Spirit of Councel and Might the Spirit of Knowledge and the Feare of the Lord that Antichrists throne being quite cast out and Christs alone set up the King may be established in perpetuall Peace and Prosperity to himselfe and Royall Posterity 'till the coming of Him who shall put an end to Times and Kingdomes and with whom all that truly serve him here shall raigne for evermore Your Honours and Worships faithfull Orator till death LORD BISHOPS NONE OF THE LORDS BISHOPS CHAPTER 1. Of the State of the Question Whether Bishops be de jure divino of divine Authority OF Bishops or Episkopoi Episcopi so called so commended in Scripture we doubt not but they are de jure divino But what are those Bishops Not Diocesan Lord Bishops so commonly called For of such we no where read of in Scripture as we shall fully prove anon But those whom the Scripture calleth Episcopos are Presbyters or Ministers of the Word lawfully Called and set over their severall Congregations respectively Such onely are Bishops jure divino But as for such as are Katagrestikoes abusively styled Bishops to wit Diocesan or Lord Bishops there is not so much as any one footstep of them in the Scripture And therfore as these have not the true Nature and Calling of a Scripture-Bishop So neither ought they to usurpe the Name and Title of Bishop But as they are of humane invention and institution onely yea of humane presumption as old Father Hierome saith and not of divine Institution So let them be known by such Titles onely as man hath given them as namely Prelates c. Prelati or Prelates are so called because they are preferred or rather preferre them selves before and above others that are GODS Ministers And thus they participate of the Prelacie of the Great Antichrist who is that * supereiromenos as the Apostle styles him he that exalts himselfe above all that is called God He is also called in the same place o a'ntikeímenos that Adversary called by Iohn o Antíkristos that Antichrist to wit that Adversary against Christ And agreeable hereunto is that other Title of Prelates namely Antistes in the Latine which they interpret a witnesse but it may rather be derived from the Greek Anti is not a Latine Preposition but Greeke and signifies against So as Antistes is one that stands against and it may answere to Antistasiastès one of the adverse Faction or on the contrary side as all Prelates are Antistasiastai adversaries against Christ or Antichrists which you will as will further appeare But we will content our selves with the Title of Prelate in this our whole insuing discourse as being none of the Scripture-Bishops Now concerning Prelates the learned Papists themselves are not cannot be resolved that they are jure divino of divine institution immediately but onely at the most mediately deriving their Prelacie from the Pope as all his Canonized Saints doe their Saint-ship saying that the Pope hath his Supremacie jure divino both as Christs Vicar and Peters Successor but all Prelates derive their Prelacie from no further a Fountaine then the Pope as from the well-head or the Head of the Hierarchicall body which gives them their lively motion as the Head to the naturall members This very point of Prelaticall Jurisdiction was canvased and controverted in the Councel of Trent and held by some learned there to be but jure Pontificio by Pontifician Authority resident in the Pope whom therefore they call Patrem Patrum the Father of Fathers as being the Father of the whole Paternity of Prelates And our Prelates of England may remember that till Hen. 8. cast the Pope out of England the Prelates held all their Jurisdiction from the Pope and their Authority was but translated from the Pope to the King So as passing from one man to another it was meerly humane still And the great Primate the now Champion of the Church of England as he beares himselfe in his ●a●e Book his Relation of the Conference confesseth thus much That among these to wit ‡ Bishops in their severall Dioces as there he names them there was effectuall subjection respectively grounded upon Canon and Positive Law in their severall Quarters Where by effectuall subjection he meanes subjection of the Prelates in every Province to the

and this at the end of the Chancel their highest part of the Church Secondly do they not alter Christs institution by adding to the Sacraments of their own superstitious inventions Doe they not adde an empty and 〈◊〉 signe of the Crosse to Baptisme the o mission whereof is no lesse heinous then of Baptisme it selfe And have they not added a long Forme of Liturgie to the administration of both the Sacraments Have they not altered the Table for the Lords Supper into an Altar for a sacrifice which is also as great a derogation from the sufficiencie of Christs onely sacrifice on the Crosse as it is an alteration yea and an annihilation of this Sacrament which is to be administred as a supper on a Table not as a sacrifice on an Altar And this they doe also in imposing a necessity of kne●eling at the receiving of the Sacrament whereby they overthrow the nature of a Supper To omit their necessity of private Baptisme and of carrying their Host to a man on his death bed would they not also of ‡ late yeares have brought againe into the Church of England the other 5 Sacraments of the Romish Church that so the Church of England and of Rome might in nothing be unlike in their practise as they are not in profession as our said Prelate saith Thus are our Prelates herein Successors of the Apostles Secondly for the Apostles practise in point of Discipline And this is either in Ordination of Ministers or Reformation and correction of manners or imposition of Ceremonies For the first Ordination of Ministers we read of Timothies ordination no lesse by the imposition of the hands of the Presbytery then of Paul himselfe Titus indeed was appointed by Paul to ordaine Elders in every City in Creet as was noted before but if he did this alone without the Presbytery 2 necessity must needs be supposed which is neither Rule nor Law in ordinary Cases And by the way whether Titus and Tim●thy were Diocesan Bishops as the Prelates pretend we shall see in a more fit place And for Ordination this we are sure of that whoever have the charge of it Prelates have nothing at all to doe with it because as is already proved they are no lawfull Ministers of Christ much lesse Successors of the Apostles Againe whom did the Apostles and Presbytery ordaine Ministers of the word but such as were every way qualified with gifts and graces for preaching and the like as we see prescribed in 1 Tim. 3. Tit. 1 They were not like to Ierobeams Priests nor any of those whom the Prelates doe make Priests which are * dumb dogs as the Prophet calls them blind watchmen that love to s●●ep to take their ease greedy dogs that are never satisfied with heaping up Living upon Living they fill themselves with strong drinke and are good Fellows not good Ministers Yea such as are truly qualified either Prelates doe not ordaine them or they doe afterwards seeing how they prove painfull in their Ministry put them to silence or suspend and persecute them as before is noted And againe Thirdly The Apostles and Presbyters in their time Ordayned none for money for offering whereof ‡ Simon Magus was accursed but our Prelates Ordaine tag and rag for money so as the ordinary Fees come to 3 4 5 or 6 pounds So as in point of Ordination how doe our Prelates prove themselves to be Successors of the Apostles And lastly the Apostles and their lawfull successors Ordained none but lawfull Ministers of the Gospell but our Prelates do ordaine a new Order of Priests bringing in and setting up a new Priesthood which is Antichristian not having any foundation in the Sccripture Prelates therefore in Ordrnation are no Successors of the Apostles Secondly for matter of Censure or for Reformation and correction of Manners as for instance in the Censure of Excommunication the Apostles though as Apostles they might doe of themselves yet as Ministers they did it not but with the whole Congregation or else the Congregation with the Presbyters as we see 1 Cor. 5 3. 4. 5. Insomuch as even Prelates themselves after they first had taken footing as being the time of their Innocency as I may say observed this Order So as Cyprian who lived about 250. yeares after Christs nativity would doe nothing in this kind without the consent both of the Presbytery and people This lasted during the 10. Persecutions but Peace and Prosperity Succeding it degenerated into that height of Tyranny by degrees● to which we see it arrived at this day Secondly Excommunication was for weighty Causes as in the same place and 1 Tim. 1. 20. The Apostles had no Prelates Courts or Consistories where they did Privately by themselves or by a dumb Priest Excommunicatt for every trifle and especially for the least breach of a Canon and the like as we noted before but the Consistory was the whole Congregation solemnly assembled where no Censure was imposed but for great offences and those breaches of Gods Laws and of Christs Ordinance Nor were those Censures remitted but in and by the whole Congregation after publick satisfaction given by the offender to the offended Whereas our Prelates in all doe quite contrary absolving also great offenders for a fee without any signes of Repentance much lesse fruits of Reformation and satisfaction made to the Congregation offended Whereas the Apostles absolved none before the Congregation was first satisfied by and so pacified towards the offender as 2 Tim. 2. 10. Do our Prelates thus No such thing Therfore no Successor of the Apostles Thirdly for Imposition of Ceremonies in the worship of God the Apostles were so farre from laying any such yoake upon Christians necks or any such snares for their feet as they did utterly condemne all humane Rites and Ordinances whatsoever in Gods service laying also a speciall charge upon Christians not to put their necks under such yoakes unlesse thereby they would renounce Iesus Christ for their onely King and Lord over their Consciences and Soules in all matters of faith and the worship of God In one Chapter colloss. 2. the Apostle beats them all down whether they be old Iewish Ordinances now abolished under the Gospell or of mans devising and imposing First for Iewish Ceremonies he saith they are * Shadows which now upon the death of Christ are all vanished and abolished Secondly all other Rites and Ceremonies which are of mans devising he calls them ‡ Philosophy and vaine deceit traditions of men rudiments of the world not after Christ a ‡ voluntary humility as worshiping of Angels and so Idolatry an intrusion into things not seen in Scripture of a fleshly mind vainly puft up which seperate from the § head Christ they † evacuate Christs death wherein he did ‡ blot out the handwriting of all such Ordinan●es nayling it to his Crosse c. So as now to be subject to such is to renounce Christs death and make it of