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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A41433	The first apparition of Bishop Goodman's ghost being a new strange sight, or, a late strange vision, making a wofull repetition of his former confession in 1653, upon the extirpation of bishops in 1642 : how occasionally revewed, and seasonably renewed, 1681, for an adhortatory admonition to all bishops, and their courts.	Goodman, Godfrey, 1583-1656.; Sadler, Anthony, b. 1610.	1681 (1681)	Wing G1099D; ESTC R39583	1,272	1

The First Apparition of Bishop Goodman's Ghost BEING A New strange Sight Or A Late strange Vision Making a wofull Repetition of his former Confession in 1653. Upon the Extirpation of Bishops in 1642. Now Occasionally Revewed and seasonably Renewed 1681. For an Adhortatory Admonition to all Bishops and their Courts I Confess that God would never have permitted us to have Suffer'd in such a manner as we have done had we not provoked Him with our Sins And that I may be our own Accuser I think our greatest Offence did consist in these two things First That many of Us did not spend our Church-means in a Church-like manner but converted them to our own private Vses Or otherwise Misimploy'd them Therefore God justly takes them away and permits Sacriledge we our Selves having first Offended in the same kinde For certainly Church-means should have relation as well to the Vses as to the Persons and a Church-man in mispending them commits Sacriledge And whereas many excuse it in regard of their Wives and Children God forbid but regard should be had to Them yet still with moderation I cannot excuse the Excess of Apparel and some other courses of Expence Yet This I must testifie for a Truth that speaking privately with some Bishops they told me and I believed them that they laid not up one Farthing of their Bishopricks and This may appear for many of them died very Poor As Worcester Hereford Peterborough Bristol and not unlike but others will do so Another great fault in the Church was the intollerable Abuse of the Ecclesiastical Iurisdiction therefore God hath made us now Uncapable of Any Iurisdiction So just and wonderful is God in all his Iudgements I confess in mine own particular I did as much desire and labour to reform it as any man could do yet I could never prevail Herein a little to excuse the Church I have it and can produce it at this time under the Kings own Hand and Seal wherein he forbids that any Church-man or Priest in Holy Orders should be a Chauncellour and This was the Occasion of all the Corruption in the Spiritual Courts For the Judges at the Common Law have their Pensions and Allowances but Chauncellours have none at all They live only upon the Fees of the Court and for Them to Dismiss a Cause it was to lose so much blood Now if they be naught in Themselves then they must for their own Advantage and Profit have Instruments and Agents accordingly so the Registers Proctors Apparators they were Pessimum genus hominum While the Spiritual Court was only Govern'd by Church-men and Priests as it ought to be and hath ever been so heretofore they had their Spiritual Benefices and Dignities to live upon and did scorn the Fees of the Court. Besides the Holiness of the Profession kept them from Bribing and Corruption Little do men think how much they suffer by this own Position That Church-men should not Interpose in Civil and Moral Affairs whereas formerly Bishops and Church-men were only trusted with Last Wills and Testaments and granting out Administrations and certainly if there be any Honesty amongst men it must be supposed to be rather in them then in others But there having been such an Abuse it must be acknowledged that God is most Just in all his wayes and what hath befallen us it is according to the Deserts of our Sin The Book in which this Confession is was by that Right Reverend Bishop Dr. Godfrey Goodman late Bishop of Glocester given with his own hand to me ANTHONY SADLER At that time Chaplain to the Right Honourable Letticia Lady Pagett Dowager Printed by H. B. in the Year 1681.