1< Al:tU Halv· VI'Cll.lbt j tfu,t. ·l The Honour ofthe MariedCiergie. LJII,J. WiJere bb !boo wrings him: it i~ the gall of R.om1lh hearts that we profper, and are A nn theirs; Where they have prefum<:d upon credulity, they have nor 11uck to fay we are not rn< n likeothers, but more lrequemly and boldly, that we are no Chri~ flian men 1 and here moft peremptorily, th2t weare no Clergie-men: Thertisno Church,noChriftianity,no Ckrg1e not theirs; Neither canwe be in Orders,whiiC> we areout ofBabylon. The nn n dreamesof theN1gs-head in Cheapiide,where his lyin~ OracleTradition hachnorfhamedro reporrJ Jewtl, St~wdt, Horne, ScorJ, Grind4U, and others in the heginningof QEil z•b<tht time (being difappoincedof theCatholikeBifhopof L. ,J,1fe)to have laid hand' mutually oneach other;and that from hencehave flowedour pretended Orders. Thi,oudhameles* S.croho{co heard offome good old folkes, and they had ir ofone Ne•le, l;'r feffor Ebmn m Oxford; KeUifo" tooke it of S~erohofc()1 and c. E. of him. Concordat CHill Otigin.ti; Didoltt.J tft mend•x & pater tj•r. And is not this a wonhy engme to batter downe the wals ofa whole Church, to blow up all our ordination? Is it potfible that any Chriftian lace lhouldbe fa graceleffe, as to beare out fuch an apparam and ridrculoosf,Jfbood, againft fo m•ny thouf1nds ofwirnefTes, againft the evidence ofamhenricall Etecotd>, againrt nafon and fenfe it felfe? r ,,r can they hope toperfwade any Jiving man ' that tbefe having at that timea lawful Archbifhopoftheir own religion,legallyd!abl;(hed in the Merropoliti.:all chaire, by an acknowledf(ed authority, the fway of the timrs openly favouring them, when all Churches, all Chappel, gladlvopened to rbem, that they would befo mad asto ~oe and ordaine rhemfelves in a Taveme? He that would beleeve this, may be perfwa_ded tbatthdr adored blockscan weepe, and fpeake, and C move, rbat their Cake isGod; Never, troth could be cleared, if m Hhis: No Jeile then the \V bole Kin~dome knew, that Q Ma,dyedin the year,., sS. November '7· and her Cardinall (then·Archb. ofCanterbury) accom~anied hcrloule in death the fame day. Th~ C. me day was Q l'.liro4betht lnzllum Kegni; her Csrot14tion, J•n.., 15. following. That leafure;<Aough 111ight 1bc ta~~n m thek great Jffiirt-s,theSee of Canterbury continued void abov,e ayeare. A• L1tl, in thefe.cond yeare of Q Eliz•· heth, 1559• Decemher 1 7. was M•tl- P~r~r lf!!ailv confecrated.Ar< hh. of Cancerbury, by fr oreBifbops, w;u;,,. B•rlow formerly Bifhop ofBarhe, rhen elell: ofChicbefter, ] oh" StotJ before of Chichefter , nowelell: ofH•·reford, M'k' Covmi•k Bi!bopof E«ter, Job• H<guk.Jnl Suffragan ofBedford. M•thei7 P•rlw rhos irrefi'ag~bly ferled in rhe Archiepifcopall See. with rhree other B:fhops in rhe fame Month 0 ofOecember,folemnly confecrated Edmm.JGrmdaU, mrl Edroin SaMat; The publike Records are evident and p:trricnlar, relarinp; rhe rime,SUllday morning afcer Pray.. ers; The place, Lambeth-Charpell; The manner, Impollrion of hanci•; Theconfe· crarors, Mattber:P Cant. W1Ut<m Chid>efl•r; John Hertford, Juhnl!<dford; The l'rea· cher at the Confecration, Alexander Nowel aherwards the worrhv DeaneofPa11/1; The Texr, Tak$h<edt•JO•rflvu,andto•Utloiflocft, &c; The Communion, laflly adminiftred by the Archb:fhop. For Bifhcp J e,.el, he was confecrared themonth following,in rho fame form<, by M at he,. C•nt. Edmond London, Ktehard EIJ, John Bedford. La!Uy, for Bifhop Horne, hewas confecrared awholeyeare after thi•, by M4thm C411l. Thom111 S.Davidr, Edm•ndLon,Wn,Thoi1JI1f Covent? and Lichjield; Thecircum· E /lances, Time, Place, Forme, Preacher, Texr, feverally recCJrded. The particulars whereof! refe•re to the faithful! and cleare relation ofM•Iter F,.ocil M•fo•; whofe learned and full difcoorfe ofthis fobjell:, mi~hr hwe fJ risfied all eyes, and flopped all mouths. What increciible impodency is this then , for thofe which pretend nor Chrillianity only,butthe ConfccrationofCod,wilfully ro raife fu<h fbamefullflanders from the pit ofhell, to thedifgroceotTroth, to thedifparagemanrofourholy ~~ . Let me therefore challenge my Derell:or in this·to important apoint, wherem hiszeale bath ro far our-run hiswir, and with him all the llrats ofth" pr.,od Harlot, that noChurch under heaven can fbew amore cle_ere, eeven, unconrrola~le '· u~· 1troubledlineofthejuftfucccffion efher facred Orders, then rhisofours; 1fh!! 1 Rome
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