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A67176 Corda Angliæ, or, The generall expressions of the land moving XXV. particulars to the honourable assembly in the high court of Parliament : that the church of England may become a glorious church of God. Walker, Henry, Ironmonger. 1641 (1641) Wing W372; ESTC R1805 8,973 24

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CORDA ANGLIAE OR THE GENERALL EXPRESSIONS OF THE LAND Moving XXV Particulars to the Honourable Assembly in the High Court of Parliament THAT THE CHVRCH of England may become a glorious Church of GOD Printed in the yeare 1641. To the High and Honourable Assembly in the upper and lower House of Parliament Most noble Senatours WHereas many petitions are daily presented before your Honours some in the behalf of their friends others also for themselves and all for succour and releefe their causes are heard in your honourable Assembly treated on and according to the truth of the cause so is it releeved Amongst the rest may it please your high and honourable Court to deeme a favourable eye on my petition also put up not in the behalfe of my owne particular nor of one or two friends alone but in the behalfe of the whole Church and whatsoever in it your honourable Assembly conceives not fit to grant let it be abortive Vouchsafe it most noble Senators but an eye in her behalfe and as your Honours finde that she hath beene abused so releeve her But because from the highest Cedars to the lowest Lilie in the Church of Christ all are confident in your proceedings rejoycing in your high and honourable Assembly before whom I tender my cause and with the whole Church depend on God and you for a tryall till when we pray for heavenly wisedome to direct you and now and then and ever the grace peace love and comfort of the Trinitie to abide with you Your poore petitioner in the behalfe of a distressed Church Hen Walker Corda Angliae OR The generall expressions of the Land moving 25. particulars to the Honourable Assembly in the High Court of Parliament c. I. THat the glory of the LORD may shine forth and be expressed in that fulnesse which he is pleased to discover among us that the talent of the Lord in our Churches may everywhere be expressed according to that measure of ability which the Lord vouchsafeth us Saint Austin against Permenias li 2. c. 8. Cyril of right faith S. Austin of free will lib. 3. S. Ambrose on Rom. 1. Erasmus Preacher Ier. 4.2 Mica 2.9 Luke 17.18 Rom. 3.7 2 Cor. 1.20 Eph. 1.6 Iam. 4.1 II. That the Kings Majesty may have a cleare quiet peaceable and happy government over a glorious Church and a flourishing Kingdome And that such good order be taken herein that all conspirators and treacherous persons whatsoever whether open or secret forraigne or domesticke against his Royall Majesty or against our noble Queene Prince or any the Progeny of that Royall stemme or against the Church or State c. that such evill persons so affected be in no wise suffered and passed by but be utterly rooted out and expelled And that his Majesty may have all the honour and humble obedience from his Subjects as is meet to so excellent and worthy a King Saint Ambrose of con of Aquilies Tertullian to Scab St. Austins Epistle to Donatus 116. ep. Counc. of Trent pag. 394. S. Austin de Civ. Dei lib. 5. cap. 24. 2 Sam. 16.16 1 King 1. 2 King 12. 1 Chro. 26.30 Ezra 10. Psal. 2.6 149.2 Matth. 5.35 1 Pet. 2.13 Rev. 6. 2 Tim. 2.2 thus as it is Sozom. lib. 2. c. 2 as Salomon and as Constantine were settled in peace and glory in Church and State so did they enjoy happy governments in both III. That the government of the Church be no more wholly left to Bishops impious government to bring such scandall as it hath done to Religion but that there may be lay Elders according to the Primitive Churches or some other government under the Kings Majesty as the Honourable Assembly shall thinke meet to assist the Clergy in Ecclesiasticall matters that so the Clergy bee not taken off from their Pulpits as they have been to the great misery of many Congregations under them And that all Pastors may therefore hereafter perform their office of preaching as they ought to doe to the peoples edification and comfort feeding the flock of Christ Cyril to Theodosius Epist 17. Tom. 5. Socrates lib. 1. cap. 9. of Constantine B. Iewels Epistle on the Councel of Trent Polid● on Richard 2. Councell of London under Hen. 1. Exod. 24.1 Matt. 21.23 Acts 4.5 1 Tim. 5.17 1 Pet. 5.1 1 Tim. 6.1 1 Tim. 4.14 Iohn 3. verse last IV. That the Bishops bee henceforth preaching Ministers and not any more lifted up to such lordly hierarchy as they have beene heretofore that they may bee wholly taken off from temporall matters and reduced onely to the ministery of the Word the Sacraments and Prayer and such like offices of the ministeriall function as are warrantable and according to the word of God Authen titul. 133. Counc. of Trent lib. 2. pag. 249. Hil on Mat. 25. Canon Gregory lib. 4 Epist. 38. Eusebius of preparation lib. 7. Corn Bittonto in the chap. of Trident. Councell of Trent lib. 8. pag. 735. 2 Pet. 3.6 Matth. 10.24 Matth. 17.18 1 Pet. 5.3 Matth. 11.1 Marke 3.8 14. Acts 10.42 Rom. 15.20 Gal. 1.16 V. That every Congregation in the kingdome of England may bee furnished with an Orthodox preaching Minister that may preach constantly and truly the Doctrine of the Lord Iesus Christ and that moreover no Minister have the charge of more then one Parish under him and that no Congregation may bee compelled to entertaine an unable or ungodly Minister against their wills and that no Pastor being set over any Congregation bee suffered to live idlely but may be compelled to expresse his paines in the ministery constantly as a faithfull Pastor of Iesus Christ Can. Apost. ch. 5. Sim on the Church pag. 264. Hist. Magd. cent 3. ch. 10. Comen Func in Chron. lib. 6. Ierom catal scrip eccl Theod. lib. 4. c● 22. Councell Trent pag. 250. Psal. 5.16 Pro. 27.1 Pro. 24.18 Isay 42.10 Ezekiel 13.18 Hosea 4.6 Mal. 2.7 Mach. 5.15 Luke 10.2 Acts 20.28 1 Pet. 5.2 S. Hierom saith in his 84. Epistle to Eustochius that there are some proud Priests who are made Deacons and Ministers for no other end but that they may have liberty to shew themselves pleasant before women and such mens care is all upon their apparell that it may be trim and sweet that their shooes sit spruce to their feet that the haires of their head be finely wrinckled and curled and that their fingers may glister with gold rings Such men saith the Father when you see them you may rather judge them bridegroomes or wooers then Priests or men of the Clergy VI That no Minister whatsoever may bee suffered to teach or preach any doctrine grounded onely upon the bare opinions of men except he can also prove it so to be apparently evident by the word of God And that neither the Minister nor people may be oppressed with the observance of such traditions of men which are repugnant to the word of God Socrat. eccl hist. lib. 2. cap. 38. Ioseph ant. lib.