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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A67227	The prelates pride, or, The manifestation, that the bishops lordly government from the originall institution, is not de iure divino, by divine right, but meerely humane and contrary both to the holy word of God, the practice of the Apostles, and of the primitive churches in the purest times whereunto is added the Bishop of Lincolnes prophecie concerning the prelates.	Walker, Henry, fl. 1641-1660.	1641 (1641)	Wing W378; ESTC R3875	12,380	30

possessed and not the Bishops for many hundred Yeares after Let us view the dayes of Innocentius the 1. And we shall finde that at his first beginning about the yeare of our Lord 400. About the raign of Theodosius the Emperour who fighting with Eugenius the tyrant was so miraculously delivered who having recourse to God by prayer his cause being holyer in the battell by a tempest of wind GOD hearing his so often recourse to him by prayer in the battell the Lord sent a wind which blew so vehemently that the darts were turned back by the violence of the wind in the faces of the Tyrants Army of whom the Poet Claudian writes Sure God doth love thee well from heaven to send his tempest for thine end For from the Ayre By blasts couragiously its force doth lend thou prayest God heares fierce winds to thee repaire The power which the Bishop of Rome now possesseth did appertaine to the Emperour yet neverthelesse in this Bishops time at the Emperors death were playes and enterludes practised many vain things invented this man also brought ambition to the Chaire of Rome who swelling in pride usurped jurisdiction over other Churches but the greater he grew in Lordly predominancy the more ignorantly were those ensuing Emperors led to their owne misery and the Saints of God cruelly persecuted Pope Bonifacius comming into the Chaire of Rome about the space of a yeare after Innocentius prevailed with the Emperour Phocas in whose dayes Antichrist sprang and flourished in greater abundance these were the dayes for which a proverb was used long time after saying the time of Phocas was the calamity of the Romane Emperour but where was the great Bishop to helpe him afterwards when his Head Feete and secret Members were cut off and burnt Oh the misery that Princes Churches and Kingdomes have bin brought to by the usurping tyranizing Prelates who glory in their usurped Dominions The Bishops of Rome are then successors you see to Innocentius who for the great See have no warrant from God and stand upon no better grounds then on a temporall and personall act meerely humane And what hath beene the practice of other Prelates since this usurpation of the See of Rome what doe all other Lordly Bishops but by degrees even as they are able tread the same steps are they not a nest of ambitious Prelates hunting for the supremacie fore-told of Antichrist 1 Ioh. 2. 22. 4. 3. 2 Thes. 2. 3. but oh how hath this supremacie ever bin detested of the ancient primitive Churches who with Gregorie have beene compelled to cry out as well as wee Oh times oh manners behold in all the parts of Europe all things cry under them Townes are destroyed Castles are overthrowne Provinces are spoyled because the Priests who should lye in ashes upon the ground weeping they are seeking unto themselves names of vanity and they doe glory in prophane stiles Truly saith Claudius Thurinensis hee is not to be counted an apostolicall bishop who sitteth in a chaire of glory but hee who fulfilleth an Apostolicke office Oh it is a miserable thing to heare of those inormities and abuses commanded and committed by the Prelates from time to time as the number of their holidayes and all lusts of uncleannesse according to the sayings of Whores and naughty women who have bragged that they have gained more in one such day then in 50. other dayes and also their idlenesse and vncomely behaviour proceeding from them who have so defiled other mens houses that the stinke of their uncleanesse is known to the whole world Oh then seeing so many Nations have from time to time received such corruption from the Prelates Oh then where should reformation begin but even at the Sanctuary Ezekiel 9. We may say of England as a Bishop once said of Rome that England was blest if Bishops were not rulers of her state Or if her Bishops scorn'd not their faith to violate Eugenius the 1. being Bishop of Rome found out yet more for the Chaire of Bishops sees then before he was the first that made an ordinance that Bishops should have prison houses nay what glory would the prelates in all ages let passe if they could obtaine it Let all men but consider how not onely the Bishop of Rome the Metropolitan Prelate hath from time to time advanced his Chaire but even those lesser Prelates but too great pastors too great said I indeed the proverbe is too good is starke naught I pray God that their too greatnesse make not them starke naught for I am sure it makes most if not all worse then they were before a good Minister may make a bad Lord Bishop but I could never heare of a bad Minister that was made good by such advancement yet they have also to their endeavour laboured to advance their Sees as time and opportunity would permit them Bonifacius a man borne in England not farre from Exeter he was familiarly acquainted with five Popes and by them he was advanced to many honours as to be the Popes Legate in England Germany and France and afterwards Archbishop of Mentz and all his travells was to bring those Nations to subjection under the Bishop of Rome who by his treachery to the King of France then raigning called Childericus caused him to be disthroned and thrust out and another to be set in his place but in the end he was justly rewarded and slaine by the Pagans for his labour But when Rhotardus Bishop of Soisan was commanded by Hadrian the Bishop of Rome to excommunicate the King of France his soveraigne Lord hee denyed and refusing so to doe returned an answer advising him to bee circumspect and not rash in pronouncing sentence of excommunication This Bishop was a very proud man and very serious in inquiry concerning titles of land and other temporall affaires of the Kingdome but the Nobles of that Country reproved him for it and told him that it was a strange and vnaccustomed thing that a Bishop should take-upon him to be judge in a Controversie of civill affaires or about titles and rights of Kingdomes because as they told him he could not be both a Bishop and a Iudge I can not heere over-passe that defence of Marsilinus Patavinus concerning Bishops He saith 1 That one Bishop hath not authority over another much lesse over Kings and Emperours 2 That the word of God ought onely to be Iudge in all causes as well Ecclesiasticall as Temporall matters 3 That the Bishops should be subject to the Magistrates 4 That the head of the Church is Christ and that he never appointed any Bishop to be Vickar over the vniversall Church 5 That Bishops ought to be chosen by their owne Church and Clergie 6 That the Clergy after Romes institution are a denne of Theeves 7 That the Doctrine of the Pope is not to be followed because it leades to eternall