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2 The blessing of God assisting vs walking in our way with the re∣formed* 1.1 Churches hath from Luthers time made prosperous our way by him, and other glorious instruments, and in few yeares spread the truth to many nations, &c.
He that would not in the words before going work vpon the* 1.2 labours of other men, will now make boast of them: but in stead of proving his likelyhoods by this dealing, he is iustly to be re∣proved of two falshoods.
The one is, that he wil bear the world in hand that his way, & the way of the reformed Churches are one, whereas the wayes of the Church of England wherein we forsake her, do directly and ex diametro, crosse and thwart the wayes of the reformed Churches: as appeares in these three mayne heads.
- 1. The reformed Churches are gathered of a free people ioyned together by voluntary profession without compulsion of humane lawes. On the contrary the Church of England consists of a peo∣ple forced together violently by the lawes of men into their Pro∣vinciall, Diocesan and Parishionall Churches (as their houses stād) be they never so vnwilling or unfit.
- 2. The reformed Churches do renounce the Ministery of the Church of Engl: as she doth theirs: not admitting of any by ver∣tue of it to charge of soules: (as they speak) where on the cōtrary all the masse-preists made in Queen Maryes dayes, which would say their book-service in English, were cōtinued Ministers by the same ordination which they received from the Popish Prelates.
- 3. The government by Archbishops, Lord Bishops, and their substitutes in the Church of England is abhor••ed and disclaymed in the reformed Churches as Antichristian: as is on the contrary the Presbyterian government (in use there) by the Church of En∣gland refused, as Anabaptisticall, and seditious.
Now if Mr B. can at once walk in so many & so contrary wayes, he had need have as many feet as the Polypus hath.
Secondly, understanding by his Churches way such doctrines & ordinances as wherein we oppose it it is an empty boast to af∣firm that the same is spread into other nations. Which are the na∣tions, or what may be their names, which eyther do reteyn or have