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A10198
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XVI. New quæres proposed to our Lord Prælates.
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Prynne, William, 1600-1669.
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1637
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silence suspend and pursevant them into the high Commission and there fine and imprison them for Convinticleers And if they should preach notwithstanding their Lordships inhibitions as they did notwithstanding the chiefe Priests commaund to doe it whether their Lordships would not therevpon be filed with indignation and put them in the Common-prison and there keepe them fast and beat them too as their predecessors the High Priests did Acts 5. 17. 18. 40. 41. since they thus serve our Godly faithfull Ministers for the same causes IX Whether if our Saviour Christ himself were now on earth and should be convented before our High Priests as hee was once before the Iewes High Priest and they should offer to put him to an Ex officio oath and examine him concerning his Disciples and Doctrine and Christ should refuse to take such an oath and answer them as hee did the High Priest I spake openly to the world I ever taught in the Synagogue and in the Temple whether the Iewes and people alwayes resort and in secreet have I sayd nothing Why askest thou mee Aske them that heare me what I sayd unto them Behold they know what I sayd refusing to bring in a coppie of his Sermons or to accuse himself would not their Lordships Pursevants Officers upon such an answer as this stricke Iesus with the palme of their hands as the High Priests Officer did Saying Answerest thou the High Priest our Lord Arch-Bishop and Bishops so Iohn 18. 19. 20. 21. 22. And would not their Lordships for such an answer which satisfied the High Priest commit our Saviour forthwith to prison to the Clinke the Gate-house Fleete New-prison Kings Bench or Counter as they committed Mr. Bambridg and M r. Johnson of old and many of Christs Ministers since for the same answer X. Whether if S t. Paul were now alive and should preach so diligently in England as he did amongst the Iewes our High Priests the Prelates would not lay the selfsame accusation against him before the Kings Majestie as Ananias the Iewes High Priest did by Tertullus his Orator before Felix and informe his Majestie that they had found this man a pestilent fellow and a moover of sedition among all the Iewes now English men throughout the world or Kingdome and a Ringleader of the sect of the Nazarens the Puritanes as they terme them Acts 24. 5. since they lay the selfsame accusations to the chardge of most Godly Ministers as many late instances evidence XI Whether if Christ himself should preach dayly in some of our Prelates Diocoese as he did in the Temple Jewish Synagogues and S t. Paul preach night and day morning and evening in our Churches as he did at Ephesus against our Prelates inhibitions and the people flocke from all parts and Parishes to heare them as they did to them our Prelates would not forthwith suspend them from preaching and clapp them by the heeles and likewise present and punish all their hearers for goeing out of their owne Parishes where they had no sermons to heare them since they thus use our painefullest Preachers and hearers who imitate their examples contrary to the very doctrine of our Homilies of the right of the Church p. 3. 4. which themselves have subscribed too but refuse to practise XII Whether if our Saviour should now descend in person from heaven and give his precept to our Lord Prelates which once he gave to his Apostles Luke 22. 25. 26. Mat. 20. 25. 26. 27. yee 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 will be great among you let him be your Minister and whosoever will be chiefe among you let him be your servant c. they would presently convent and arraigne him for it as an open oppugner of their Lordly Iurisdiction and temporall Offices and power and censure him as severely as ever they did D r. Bastwick or any other that hath writt against their pretended Divine right to their Lordly Hierarchie XIII Whether these severall actions and writs at Common Law mentioned in the Register will not lye against the Prelates Namely The write intituled Ad Iura Regia for violating the Kings Lawes and prerogative Royall by their owne extravagant Lawes Articles Decretalls and Canons to reduce them to the Kings Lawes in Ad quod damnum to inquire what great dammages they have done to his Majesties Subjects soules bodies estats and to informe his Majestie what Nusances they are An Apostata capiendo to imprison them for their Apostatie from the doctrines and faith of the Church of England to the faith and Ceremonies of the Church of Rome and casting off their spirituall cares and functions to follow temporall affaires and manage offices like so many temporall Lords An assisa de nocumento for the great musances they have lately done to our Religion Church State Ministers and people A writt of Association to ranke Ministers and temporall Lords in aeligquipage with them over whom they now so much Lord it like Lords paramount over all other people An Attachment on a prohibition That Lay-men shall not be cited before them to take any oath or make any recognition unlesse in matters of Testament and Marriage usuall in former ages and necessary now An Attachment against them for refusing to admit prohibitions in cases whereby Law they lie and stopping the current of this write An Audita Quarela to heare the Ministers and peoples severall complaints against them An Acquiet ando de Servitijs to free the Ministers and people from their late imposed Ceremonies services vassaladge A Cautione admittenda to make people more warie of them and to procure absolutions for their vniust Censures A Cercierari to remoove them from their temporall offices and imployments and have spirituall and temporall causes out of their unlawfull Consistories and visitations kept in their owne name without Patent or Commission from his Majestie into the Kings owne temporall Courts A Cessavit de cantaria Servitijs per biennium for not preaching in their Diocoese to their people by two yeares space and more the case of divers of them De Clerico admittendo to inforce them to admite our suspended silenced Ministers to preach againe freely as in former times De Clerico infra sacros ordines constituto non eligendo in officium to hinder them from being chosen and being thrust into temporall offices and affaires incompitable with their functions De Cognitionibus admittendis to hinder them from medling with all causes and affaires of which they have no cognisance A writt of Collution and deceipt for their hypocrisie and jugling both with God his Majestie and his Subjects and for seeming holy pious just religious yea Fathers and Pillars of our Church our faith and being nothing lesse An Action of the case for vexing excommunicating suspending and silencing Ministers and others against