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A36970	Ecclesia Anglicana, or, Dartons cleare & Protestant manifesto as an evangelicall key sent to the governour of Oxford for the opening of the church dores there, that are shut up without prayers or preaching.	Darton, Nicholas, 1603-1649?	1649 (1649)	Wing D272; ESTC R10084	10,836	15

ECCLESIA ANGLICANA OR DARTONS Cleare Protestant Manifesto AS AN Evangelicall Key sent to the Governour of OXFORD for the opening of the Church Dores there that are shut up without Prayers or Preaching Open me the Gates of righteousnesse that I may goe into them and give thanks unto the Lord. Psal 118. 19. Liftup your heads O yee gates and be yee lifted up yee everlasting dores and the King of glory shall come in Psal 24. 7. It is written my house shall be called the house of prayer but yee have made it a Den of theeves Mat. 21. 13. Printed in the Yeare 〈◊〉 ECCLESIA ANGLICANA Or Dartons Cleare Protestant Manifesto SIR ANtipater King of Macedon being presented with a Treatise of happinesse and that most sublime and for his contemplation answered the Philosopher the composer of so sweet a pandect notwithstanding the superexcellency and rarity of such a transcendentall Systeme Ego non sumotiousus I am not at leasure c. And truly Sir I read of Felix as bad or worse and therefore merited the most hideous and dismall character of a most extreame unhappy man that he did most incomparably dishonour the glory of that his place and function when after that S. Paul had made his heart to tremble with his Gospell-Logfek yet to doe the Jews a pleasure would needs leave him bound Act. 24. 27. Application Sr I shal make none at present Act. 24. 27. For if the innumerabilitie of your warlike actions and your exceedingly preoccupated time and leasure be so extraordinarily preingaged with necessitated militaries as that they cannot Necessitated Militaries seasonably admit of a little view upon so small a tender I shall sorrowingly doome these my paper overtures which indeed ate but a naked prologue or an innocent and a conscientious Apologie for the sincere preaching of the pure word of happinesse to be a very Apocrypha with your more Vera predicatio ve●b● verè venetanda Bern. then serioas negotiations and my selfe a nothing However Sir leave not Paul bound Oh let not your unusuall power to that scare Christs holy ambassadours into an unwilling slothfulnesse and like wether beaten Marriners enforce them to run aground the now wrack't and torne Constantine of all their indefatigable studies upon the barren sands of most hatefull and contemptible silence when rather with a promised sun-shine most radlantly beaming forth from You have accounted many to be dumb doggss heretofore and will you not suffer them in promised times of libertie to bark now your new enlightned Zodiack libertie of conscience in Gods service being a kinde of an Elisium here in your judgement they should launch out into religions deep for the discoveries of Gods wonders there Truly Sr the Temple dores of the perishing Law were alwaies open upon Gods holy Sabboths and shall the Gospelo gates in these illuminated daies of yours be secured and shur up with a seeming Evangelicall Percullis and the preaching sword Certainly Sr Peters faith Sir is far more considerable and of a greater unproportionable value and consequence then Aarons holiest of holies the dispensation of the Gospell then the promulgation of the Law Now Sir if that the Temple of the Jews which indeed was but a meere type and shadow Templum apertum Evāgelium oper●ū absit S. Peters church dores shut up in Oxfard and S. Thomas without a preachrr as I conceive of our Gospelline Protestant Church and which is as we usually say in the West namely at her sun-set and gon I say if that this Temple was free and open for and to all religions sacrificers shall S. Peters Church in the East and S. Thomas in the West be irreligiously barracaded and lock-up from Christs painefull GosPellers Oh remember Sir that most holy expression of the most holy spirit in this very case provided to wit The Ministration 2. Cor. 3. 7. 8. of the Gospell must exceed in glory now sith the ministration of the Law was most glorious then And againe Sir t is most infallibly true and beyond all contradiction that should some most holy and most piously minded men who in my conscience rather then they wil turne Apostates and for sweare themselues will indure were it possible Reliquerunt domicilia hereditamenta omnia sibimetipsis tantum modo conservaverunt conscientias a thousand deaths for their conscience sake I say should such most orthodoxe and most profound Divines be coercivelie tongue-tyed and unchristianly constrained in this age of pretended liberty to lye irreligiously kenneld up amongst the most abhominable litters of our unpreaching dumb dogs and S. Pauls most holy obedientialls and S. Peters most holy supreame subjection two speciall garlands of the Gospel's peace would consumption themselves into a meere Anatomy and that rare gift and grace of God so much spoken of Obedientia through the whole * scriptu●es and beyond all the sacrifices of our actings and pretentions would dwindle away and bee cleane forgotten Many Sir I confesse of our owne cloth and calling and more too than a good number doe preach t is true and that out of season as well as in but what doe they preach Is it Christ and him crucified Is it the Gospels golden rule qua mensura quo judicio Mat. 7. 2. With what judgement you judge you shall be judged and with what measure you mete it shall be measured to you againe Doe they preach that Or Patria amissa laribusque vagari mendicum tinnida voce rogare cibos c. Cum ●a iter are suis conjuge moestâ cumque piâ ma●e cumque ●arente sene B Prideaux D. helden D. Ha●mond D. Heywood rare men with hundreds more outted for I know not what doe they presse this home unto the erroneous conscience and apply this oh this sacred cataplasme unto the poore and weak and extreamly wounded soule Oh Sir they dare not so much as once harp upon that dissonant that eare-tingling and con●ounding string to them seeing with Ahab they have taken possession and Naboth is dead and gone I meane their unperjur'd and incomparably learned Betters either dead or as bad or worse that is to say in plaine English Dispossest and out of dores a begging No no Sir their preaching I meane the aspiring labours of some of our Diotrepheses and as you clearely ken already is to preach themselves into power and government into an authoritie I dare be bold were but Ecclesiasticall Iurisdiction their desired freehold that hath an intended capacitie not only to correct the scepter were it in Cesars hand but to cramp the souldier too in his greatest victories though of late yeares t is confest the huge and unlimited bug-beare as they said of prelaricall jurisdiction was the only tyrant that they seemingly covenanted against whereas a little before with their most learned and then authorized several Diocesans they swore directly I would entreat such liberall swearers to read Z ch 5. 3.

to my God for them shall be that they may conscientiously lay to heart their former oaths and undertakings as once Aaron did his after that to please the people he had polluted himself with his moulten Calf Ex. 32 But alas and thrice alas why doe I trouble you you you sir with these solicismes meere impertinencies T is the church dore at S. Peters in the East that I so vehemently knock at S. Peters church in Oxford Porta patens esto nulli clauderis honesto that I woutd have open to all believers both in the Vniversity Citie and Countrie Oh sir shall not Gods house be frequented by his Saiuts and upon Gods own daie shall not Gods holy word and sacraments there have free passage as in other places If I be not the man oh let your providence get another to officiat there for my part I can live God be blessed for it and have more meanes than that prisoners pittance in any part of all the christian world Alas t is not lucre but my love to them I doe this there is very little to be had for maintenance your judgement can censure it not halfe enough to maintaine a preacher Take notice thereof sir I look on them as Christ did on the multitcde Oves sine Pastore Even sheep without a sheepheard Mark 6. 34. But you will say peradventure that the Colledge should take care for that and that it is extra spharam and our of your orbe to progresse in such a motion Truly sir t is confest and granted that others should carry on this overture and make it their hoc agere to see Gods house provided for But what Exod. 29 4. A●on did need washing of that What and if Aaron and his sonnes being set apart for the Priests office be uncleane and unholy must not Moses by his authoritie wash them at the dore of the Tabernacle sir t is the glory of Magistracie to advance pietie to its purest lustre but in case the magistrate those concerned now should not minde this holy work but minde themselves and forget their God nay should they rather retard so great a blessing from the people than any way give a countenance or an approbation to the same oh then sir what an honour would it be to the sword should it unlock those dores and welcome in the king of glory that hath beene shut out a great while Sweet sir let it then be farre from your power and jurisdiction to imprison Gods holy word sacraments or to cause the candlestick to be broken dash'd to peeces Suffer Gods Dies Dominicus Dei nundinum owne people to enjoy their own parish Churches They have a right and a proprietie to those holy places more then common or ordinary Their Churches upon Gods most holy Sabboths are Gods peculiar Market houses where the servants of the ever living God may buy Wine and Milk without mony and without price Yea they are Gods most royall exchange where we get gold for drosle and pearles would wee but leave our puddles Should you exclude them thence where would you have them goe Conventicles they will have none as long as Gods house is standing Tavernes and Tap houses are to bee shunn'd upon Gods holy rest Where then Would you have them to be idle to be unprofitable servants in Gods harvest Oh sir believe it and take it for a certaine truth that spirituall sloth upon Gods day and the more when they are debard from Gods house is an abhomination in their eyes Their poore soules would faine sing their Te Deums to their God sith Atheisme is so rife in England and would faine warble forth Maries Magnificat by reason that the Di●tie is so lessened by Heretiques and Nullfidians To be briefe then suffer ihe people of God to enjoy their Christian charity wll inforce a man to these things religion the very Turke will doe it to those that are his Tributaries Suffer them to use their libertie of conscience as you desire to use yours for the Parliament hath alwaies promised it They are willing to repaire Gods house willing to maintaine their Minister desirous of the word and sacraments and willing to embrace the truth Oh therefore let not your inhibition be a Remora to retard their pietie let them not be driven to seek to and fro for the food of their poore soules when Gods glory is the White they shoote at For my own justification sir that which I have divulgd before God and Angels and Men I have had warrant for from the word of truth Hath any one taxt me of sedition or blasphemy or heresie I desire to appeare face to face Doe I meddle ●et me know my accusers that I may entreat God to forgive them by name with state matters Alas my way as thousands in this kingdome will freely attest unto you t is the waie of peace Sir I pray for peace and I preach for peace and I long for peace I studie for peace and I am confident notwithstanding the worlds opposals I enjoy the God of peace Againe sir pray tell me am I a ring-leader of any sect in the Vniversitie Are not the soules and consciences of diverse pious and holy christians both Schollers and Citizens troubled that they cannot enjoy him in the Gospell whom they desire should preach to them Christ Jesus Infallibly sir as the blood of the martyrs is the seed of the Church so the repressing and restrainment of our Protestancy makes thousands the more to hunger aad to seeke for it with most sharp affections Sir wee abhominate Popery we act not the part of Jesuits mutinies and disturbances we detest even as the hell it self Our congregatiōs I doe intend God Willing to print all my Oxford Sermons that the kingdome may read my innocency loath divisions for we ayme at the kingdomes quiet and there are no disaffected strivings that come within our labours Farther did you ever heare that our holy meetings were stigmamatizd with factious sermons You will say I draw the people and I pray God I may still to God ward The mystery of godlinesse is explained to mens tender consciences else wee speak not mystically as you perchance may cēsure God forbid then sir that jealousies should put out the Gospels candle or that needlesse feares should remove her candlestick To conclude sir are we guiltie of state-Invectives Alas sir he is neither ch●istian nor divine that with the holy Archangel cannot refraine from railing accusations be it against the very Devill of hell Truely sir be pleased to know then our course is to beat down sinne that hath so ruind the three kingdomes and to cry up love that is so much wanting in all three and had our Church and State incendiaries or our most furious kindle-coales that preacht Curse yee Meroz but sincerely layd to heart the price of bloud and what a fearefull account they are to make for shedding innocent blood themselves when they should have preacht blessed be the peace Makers Mat. 5. 9. had they cryd up that a kingdome divided cannot stand Mark 3. 24. when that their doctrines were continually fight fight and destroy till that your enimies lick up the dust and I am confident sir our swords long agoe had beene turned into mattocks and our speares to pruning hooks yea we had sate every one under our own Vines and under our own Fig-trees and had eaten the fruits of our own labours at our own tables with peace and happinnesse But I pray God forgive the Clergie that have egg'd men unto blood I pray God it may not be laid to their charge when their soules shall come to answer for it before Gods great Tribunall at the last day And in the interim I desire them as brethren and in the bowels of Christ Jesus to study the sweetnesse of peace in the bond of love to study to love their enimies and to blesse their enimies and to doe good to their enimies to pray for their enimies Mat. 5. 44. to study againe if it be possible to live peaceably with all men and not to study revenge Rom. 12. 11. 19. then the God of peace and love will dwell with them 2. Cor. 13. 11. In fine worthy sir judge of me as God shall give you light ' You I one day shall come before the most righteous judge that will judge us both My crime at present it seemes in your eyes is for standing to my first principles that I have serv'd God in Oxford as we all did before the warres Truly sir for this imputative offence I appeale to my God for judgement crying earnestly unto him with a Te Deum laudamus Te Dominum confitemur