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<P>QVESTIONS TO BE DISPUTED IN THE COUNSELL OF THE LORDS SPIRITUALL After their RETVRNE from their VISITATION.</P>
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<L><HI>When Blo&s;&s;omes fall,</HI></L>
<L><HI>Yet Leaves be &s;eene.</HI></L>
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<P><GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="2 letters">i<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter">ted at LONDON, <HI>by Pa&s;quin, Deputy to Margery Mar-prelate.</HI> 1641.</P>
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<HEAD>QVAESTIONS to be di&s;puted in the Coun&s;ell of the <HI>Lords Spirituall,</HI> after their Return from their <HI>&V;i&s;itation.</HI></HEAD>
<P N="1">I. WHether the <HI>Canons (or Prebendaries,</HI> as they are called) comming to &s;it in the Queeres and Churches, for the gaine they have thereby, <HI>doe receive their reward in this world?</HI></P>
<P N="2">II. Whether the &s;inging they make every day, may ra|ther be called labour and toyle of A&s;&s;es, and a travaile of the body, rather then of the Mind?</P>
<P N="3">III. Whether <HI>Re&s;ignations, Permutations, chopping &amp; chang|ing</HI> and &s;uch comming to <HI>Benefices,</HI> as now is daily u&s;ed be Simony?</P>
<P N="4">IV. Whether it be perilous, and not to be &s;uffered by Ci|tizens, that the fat and well fed <HI>Prie&s;ts,</HI> and &s;uch as are full of <HI>idlene&s;&s;e,</HI> and la&s;civious living, &s;hould dwell &s;o neare them without wives of their owne?</P>
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<P N="5">V. Whither it be needfull in any City to have &s;o many thou&s;and of Ma&s;&s;e-mumbling <HI>Prie&s;ts,</HI> of which, few or none, teach or can teach the Go&s;pell, &s;ith <HI>Chri&s;t</HI> com|manded his Apo&s;tles, <HI>as their very duties and office;</HI> Say|ing, <HI>Goe ye preach the Gospell, &amp;c.</HI></P>
<P N="6">VI. Whither &s;uch as doe not in&s;truct the <HI>People, that is to &s;ay,</HI> which doe not the very true Office that belongs to the <HI>Church,</HI> may receive, and enjoy the goodes of the Church, or are to be called <HI>Theeves and Robbers?</HI></P>
<P N="7">VII. Whither there be in all <HI>Europe,</HI> any one Bi&s;hop that doth his Office in &s;uch &s;ort, as was pre&s;cribed by the Apo&s;tles?</P>
<P N="8">VIII. Whither the Bi&s;hops that are carele&s;&s;e of their flock, and fall onely to flaying of their <HI>&s;heepe,</HI> may be called true Pa&s;tors, or Hirelings, <HI>is Chri&s;t calls them?</HI></P>
<P N="9">IX. Whither the grea&s;ing of <HI>Prie&s;ts</HI> hands; be the Bea&s;ts marke, <HI>spoke of in the Apocalyp&s;e?</HI></P>
<P N="10">X. Whither the Doctors, that take no paines with their Doctrine, but are up with the Angels, ought to be called <HI>Speculators,</HI> rather then <HI>Practitioners?</HI></P>
<P N="11">XI. Whither &s;uch as would not have the holy <HI>Scripture</HI> to be read by the <HI>people,</HI> do fret, and rage within them|&s;elves: that &s;uch bookes are abroad?</P>
<P N="12">XII. Whither the 1.3. <HI>Chap. of Matthew</HI> may be applyed to the Popi&s;h Clergy, and Arminia<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter"> <HI>Prie&s;ts</HI> of our time?</P>
<P N="13">XIII. Whither the <HI>Per&s;ecutors</HI> of the <HI>Gospell,</HI> and the truth in our time, may be compared to the <HI>Phari&s;ies,</HI> which &s;ought the death of Chri&s;t, and his Apo&s;tles?</P>
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<P N="14">XVI. Whether the like matter doe not now in the&s;e dayes, &s;tir up the <HI>Popi&s;h affected People again&s;t the truth of the Gospell,</HI> as is recited in the Acts of the Apo&s;tles, concer|ning <HI>Diana</HI> of <HI>Ephe&s;us?</HI></P>
<P N="15">XV. Whether that &s;aying of the Go&s;pell, <HI>Beware of fal&s;e Prophets, Mat.</HI> 7. and that al&s;o of <HI>Peter,</HI> 2 <HI>Peter</HI> 2, <HI>That through Covetou&s;ne&s;&s;e they &s;hall make Marchandize of you, with faigned words,</HI> and many other like places of <HI>Scripture</HI> doe rightly belong to the whole &s;warme of the <HI>Prelates?</HI></P>
<P N="16">XVI. Whether that which Chri&s;t &s;peaketh, <HI>Mat.</HI> 24. <HI>Of many fal&s;e Prophets that &s;hall come,</HI> may be under&s;tood to be of &s;undry of our Clergy?</P>
<P N="17">XVII. Whether the <HI>Prelates,</HI> having bin &s;o often taken with the manner to u&s;e deceit, and to mocke the <HI>people, be therefore any more to be tru&s;ted afterwards, according to the old rule: He that is once a fal&s;e knave at is marved if ever he be an hone&s;t man?</HI></P>
<P N="18">XVIII. Whether that &s;aying of <HI>Daniel</HI> of the abomination of de&s;olation, &s;tanding in the holy place, may be aptly applyed to the <HI>Churches</HI> of our time? In which the <HI>Clergy preferre them&s;elves before the Kingdome of Hea|ven?</HI></P>
<P N="19">XIX. Whether it be expedient for the <HI>Chri&s;tian Common|mor-weale,</HI> to take away from the <HI>Prelates</HI> their Domi|nions, and Dignities, <HI>that thereby it may be &s;eene, whether they will returne to the antient Office of the Church?</HI></P>
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<P N="20">XX. Whether the <HI>Prelates</HI> would not rather that <HI>England:</HI> yea, all <HI>Chri&s;tendome,</HI> &s;hould be de&s;troyed by warres, then that their Tyranny and power &s;hould be de&s;troy|ed, or any whit dimini&s;hed?</P>
<P N="21">XXI. Whether it may be doubted that the Papacy, and the great Bea&s;t, will not &s;hortly have an overthrow, <HI>as the Scripture &s;aith,</HI> &s;ith long time &s;ince <HI>Germany, Denmarke, England and Scotland, have fallen from her, and France and Italy, al&s;o &s;ecretly?</HI></P>
<P N="22">XXII. Whether the <HI>Prelates</HI> di&s;pen&s;ing all things for mo|ney, may not be called <HI>Spirituall penny Fathers;</HI> &amp; ther|fore be &s;u&s;pected of <HI>Covetou&s;ne&s;&s;e?</HI></P>
<P N="23">XXIII. Whether there may be any hope of goodne&s;&s;e con|ceived of their Recovery: &s;ith <HI>Chri&s;t</HI> denyeth, that <HI>Blasphemers,</HI> and &s;uch as with&s;tand the Truth again&s;t their <HI>Con&s;ciences</HI> can be healed?</P>
<P N="24">XXIV. Whither their <HI>Primacy</HI> be lawfully come by, &s;ith it was gotten of <HI>Phocas the Emperour:</HI>who was a <HI>Mur|therer,</HI> and &s;ecretly, and with great Trea&s;on &s;lew the <HI>Em|perour Moritius</HI> his Lord?</P>
<P N="25">XXV. Whither the <HI>Pope,</HI> and <HI>all Bi&s;hops,</HI> be or ought to be called <HI>Chri&s;ts spou&s;e,</HI> &s;ith they keepe athome, &s;o ma|ny Whores and Boyes?</P>
<P N="26">XXVI. Whither it be to believed, that either the <HI>Prelates</HI> wi&s;h heartily the Concord of Nations, being that their <HI>Forgeries</HI> are ever the beginnings of warres, or whither they wi&s;h any good to the <HI>Common-weale,</HI> over which to their power, they have alwayes tyrannized?</P>
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<P N="27">XXVII. Whither any ought in the&s;e dayes to be offended, becau&s;e the Doctrine of the Go&s;pell &s;eemeth to bring <HI>Di&s;&s;en&s;ions,</HI> and <HI>alterations,</HI> &s;ith that <HI>Chri&s;t</HI> faith that the &s;ame is a &s;ingular token, and mo&s;t plain Demon&s;tration of his Word, <HI>which came to &s;end the &s;word, and not peace, and to &s;et the Son again&s;t the Father, and the Daughter a|gain&s;t the Mother?</HI></P>
<P N="28">XXVIII. Whither the <HI>Decre<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter">s of Fathers,</HI> and of the <HI>Councils</HI> ought to be referred and examined, by the pre&s;cript rule of the Go&s;pell, &s;ith <HI>Paul &s;o plainly &s;aid,</HI> that other Foun|dations that was already, ought not to be laid, and yet &s;hould it come to pa&s;&s;e, that many thereupon would build, &s;ome gold, &s;ome &s;tubble, &s;ome wood?</P>
<P N="29">XXIX. Whither &s;uch as in the&s;e dayes do confe&s;&s;e that there are Errours, and in the meane time doe not onely con|temne, but al&s;o condemn &s;uch as doe &s;hew them tho&s;e Errors, be like unto the <HI>Phari&s;ees</HI> that &s;aid to him, that was born blind, and had received his &s;ight of <HI>Chri&s;t,</HI> we know that God &s;pake to <HI>Mo&s;es,</HI> but who this is (mea|ning <HI>Chri&s;t) we know not, nor whence he commeth?</HI></P>
<P N="30">XXX. Whither that &s;aying of the Go&s;pell. <HI>Le&s;t happily the Romanes come and take away our place, Iohn</HI> 11. Doe hit ju&s;t, &s;uch Kings and Princes, as will be born in hand, that if they receive the Go&s;pell, <HI>it will come to pa&s;&s;e, that their people will rebell, and not be obedient?</HI></P>
<P N="31">XXXI, Whither that which <HI>Paul</HI> &s;peaking of the Doctrine of <HI>Divels,</HI> which he in &s;pirit fore&s;aw &s;hould ari&s;e, doth &s;erve right for our <HI>Prelates:</HI> who for their Traditions have tormented men, which is the very nature of <HI>Satan,</HI> who is delighted with <HI>Murther and Bloud;</HI> and whither
<PB REF="5">the Hon: A&s;&s;embly in the <HI>High Court of Parliament,</HI> who pro&s;ecute not their Enemies, are not much to be preferred before them: e&s;pecially, &s;eeing they have &s;uch power and love of the whole <HI>Kingdome,</HI> wherwith they might &s;hew violence and cruelty? But like Pil|lars of our Nation they &s;tand to hold us up, and not to throw us downe? <HI>Laut Deo.</HI></P>
<P N="32">XXXII. Whether it be to be believed, that a true and godly <HI>Reformation</HI> can be found out, whil&s;t they &s;it in Coun|&s;els, and Deliberations: who for many Cau&s;es are the Popes own Darlings, &amp; that they will rather &s;uffer any thing, then either to lo&s;e any jot of their Riches and Commodities: or to have their wickedne&s;&s;e and kna|very di&s;covered?</P>
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