The churches purity, or, The difference betweene the churches frame in darke times and her settlement in the purest times

5. Queries.

I. Whether the Lordly government of the Bishops in the Church of England, and their beeing, as they now stand, doe not differ from the Gospell of Iesus Christ. Luke 22.25, 26. 1. Pet. 5.1, 2, 3. Matt. 20.25, 26. Marke 9.32. 2. Tim. 4.1. Tit. 1.5, 6, 7. 1. Tim. 3.1, 2 3.2. Tim. 2.24,

II. Whether Excommunication be used in the Church of England upon such persons, and according to the true manner of the discipline of the Gospel of Iesus Christ. 1. Cor. 16.22. 1. Cor. 5.5.

III. Whether the service in the Church of England bee according to the Gospell of Iesus Christ. 1. Cor. 14.6. Acts 13.15, 16. 1. Cor. 14.26. Acts 1.13. Mat. 5.

IV. Whether those unpreaching and ill-living Mini∣sters, which are placed to serve many Churches, be accor∣ding to the Gospell of Iesus Christ. Mat: 5.15. Luke 10.2. Mat. 10.27. Luke 12.42. Mat. 28.9. Acts 10.28. Iohn 10.13. Rom. 10.14. 1. Cor. 9.14. Phil. 2.21. 1 Pet. 5.2.

V. Whether those superstitious Ceremonies of Cros∣sing in Baptisme, bowings, and cringings in the Chur∣ches of England, and other such like Ceremonies, be ac∣cording to the Doctrine of the Gospel of Iesus Christ,

Mat. 15.3. Marke 7.8. Acts 15.10. Coloss. 12.8. Tit. 1.13, 4. 1 Pet. 4.11. But because I am verily perswaded that there is no man of any discretion or judgement, but will confesse each particular in the first argument to be true; I am therefore briefe in it, and passe to prove the second.