News from Ipswich. Discovering certain late detestable practices of some domineering Lordly Prelates, to undermine the established doctrine and discipline of our Church, extirpate all Orthodox sincere Preachers and preaching of God's Word, usher in Popery, Superstition and Idolatry; with their late notorious purgations of the new Fast-booke, contrary to his Majesty's Proclamation, and their intolerable affront therein offered to the most Illustrious Lady Elizabeth, the King only Sister, and her Children, (even whiles they are now royally entertained at Court) in blotting them out of the Collect; and to his Majesty, his Queen and their Royal Progeny, in blotting them out of the number of Gods Elect.  JER. 23. 1. 
We be unto the Pastors that destroy and scatter the Sheep of my Pasture, saith the Lord.  ACTS 20. 28, S9. 
Take heed therefore unto yourselves, and to all the Flock over the which the holy Ghost hath made you Bishops, to feed the Church of God, which he hath purchased with his own blood. For I know this, that after my departing shall grievous Wolves enter in among you, not sparing the Flock.  
Printed at Ipswich, An. 1636.   

CHristian Reader this is the deplorable News of our present age, that our Presses formerly open only to Truth and Piety, are closed up against them both of late, and patent for the most part, to nought but error, superstition, and profanes. Witness those 
a Shelfords 5. Treatises, Rheeve Communion book Catechisine expounded, Chounaeus Collect, A Coal from the Altar, The female glory, Studley Dr. Laurence, and Brownes Sermons, with others. Apparatus ad hist. Ecclesiast.  many profane erroneous, impious books, printed within these 3. years by authority, (pointblank against the established doctrine of the Church of England, and his Majesty's pious 
b Before the 39 Articles and concerning the Parliaments dissolution, p. 20, 21, 22, 42.  Declarations) in defence of Arminianism, Popery, and Popish ceremonies; and which is yet more impious and detestable, against 
c The Treatise, History Doctrine, and Discourse of the Sabbath; A sovereign Antidote. Dr. Primrose, Rheeve Shelford, & Powel, in the life of King Iue.  the very morality of the Sabbath, and 4. Commandment: the divine institution tule and entire religious sanctification of the Lordsday SABBATH and the necessity of frequent preaching, (exceedingly pressed in our 
d Preface to them, Of the right use of the Church  Homilies, and book of 
e Exhortation to those that are to be made Ministers.  Ordination) which some of our unpreaching, domineering secular Prelates (out of their Arch-piety towards God, 
f Bp Latimers' 2, 4. 5. 6. Sermons before King Edward, and his sermon of the Plough.  and Arch-charity to the people's souls which they seek to murder,) now so far detest, that they not only give over preaching themselves, as no part of their function; & suppress most weekday Lectures in diverse Countries; but have likewise lately shut up the mouths of sundry of our most godly, powerful, painful Preachers, (who have won more souls to God in a year, than all the Lord Bishops in England or the world have done in diversages) out of mere malice to religion, and the people's salvation; contrary to the very Laws of God and the Realm; and strictly prohibited; under pain of suspension, in sundry Diocese, all afternoon Sermons on the Lords own Day; tha● so the profane vulgar might have more time to dance play, revel, drink, and profane Gods Sabbaths', even in these days of plague and pestilence, 
g Neh. 13. 17, 18 Levit. 26. 46. to 55. jer. 17. 17. Ezech. 20 13. to 22. the Fastbooke 1. jacobi & Caroli, and the examples of of God's judgements upon Sabbath breakers.  to draw down more plagues & judgements on us, for this sin of Sabbath-breaking, when as not only the 
h Sessio 14  Synod of Dort, but 
i Apud Bochel. Decreta Eccles. Gal l. 1. Tit. 3. c. 10. 11, 13, 16, 17, 18, 37, 52. & l. 4. Tit. 7. c. 26.  sundry Popish Synods and Bishops have been so religious, as to prescribe TWO SERMONS every Lordsday at least, in every parish Church, to keep the people from such profanations of this sacred Day. Alas what could 
k Matth 12. 24.  Belzebub the Prince of Devils, had he been an Archbishop or Lordly Prelate here in England (as there were many Devil's Bishops, at least, Bishops Devils, in 
l Sermo 33 in Cant, & in Concil. Rhemensi.  Bernard's age, and most fear there are too many now,) have done more against the strict entire sanctification of the Christian Sabbath day, to 
m Hom. 3. against rebellion p. 293 and of the time & place of prayer.  make it the Devil's day in stead of the Lords day and to advance his own kingdom and service on it; or against the frequent powerful Preachers, and preaching of God's Word, and salvation of the people's souls, than some Luciferian Lord Bishops have lately done? whose impiety in this kind transcends all precedents whatsoever in former ages. And yet these profane, atheistical graceless persecutors of all holiness, piety, sincerity, godly Ministers, and preaching of God's Word (yea in these pestilential times, as means to spread the plague, though the 
n 2 Chron. 6. 28, 29, 30. c. 7, 13 14. Num. 25. 6. to 10 joel 1 & 2 Zeph 2. 1. 2, 3.  Scripture, and 
o See the Fast book 1 jacobi. & Caroli.  all former ages have prescribed fasting, preaching, and praying, as the chief antidotes and cure against it) will needs be Lord Bishops' 
p Bp. bancroft's Sermon, & Bp. Whites. Treatise of the Sabba●h day, Epist. Ded.  lure divino by the holy Ghosts own institution, (who never yet instituted any 
q Act. 20. 28. 1. Tim. 3 2 c 4. 11. to 17. 2 Tim. 4. 1. to 4. 'tis 1. 9 c. 2. 1. ●0 13. c. 3. 1. to 12 1 Pet. 5 1. 2, 3.  unpreaching, rarepreaching Prelates or persecutors and suppressors of preaching) and shame not to style themselves, the 
r Bp. White Epist. Ded. to his Treatise of the Sabbath: & Rheeu ● Epist. Ded. before his Exposition of his Catechism in the Communion book, & p. 2.  godly holy Fathers of our Church, and Pillars of our faith, when as their fruits and actions manifest them to be nought else but the very Step fathers and Caterpillars, the very pests and plagues of both. Take out one fresh instance for an example: these desperate Archagents for the Devil, and Pope of Rome, and Master-underminers of our religion, as they were the only instruments of delaying the present general fast in the beginning of the pestilence, 
s Zeph. 2. 1, 2 3. Num. 16. 46  when it was most acceptable and requisite; So, to show their inveterate malice against preaching (
t Bp Latimers' 4. & 6. Sermons before King Edw which I would our Prelates would now peruse and his Sermon of the Plough  the thing that the Devil wrestleth most against all whose study hath been to decay the office of preaching, which should not be diminished) they (contrary to his Majesty's pious intention, who hath so 
u Declaration before the 39 Articles, and of the dissolution of the Parliament. p. 21. 42.  oft protested against all innovations) have cunningly caused all Sermons (the very life and soul of a fast, as being the only means to humble men for their sins: & bring them to repentance,) 
x Zeph. 2. 1, 2. 3 Isay 58. 1 to 8. jer. 23. 29. c. 36. 6. to 11. Acts. 16. 18. Heb. 4. 12, 13, 2 Tim. 2. 25. 26.  to be prohibited on the fastday, both in London and the Suburbs, and in all other infected places, during the time of the infection in them; in parishes not infected, (as if preaching only of all God's ordinances were pestilential, & that on the fastday, not on others;) contrary to the precedents of all former ages, & the 
y Order 6. for the Fast.  Orders sor the general fasts in the two last great plagues which prescribed two Sermons, of one hour long apiece, forenoon and afternoon every fast day, and that as well in parishes infected as others: even in the Summer season, when the infection was more contagious and raging than now. By which device they have not only made this fast distasteful to all 
* Who style it a dumb fast and a mockfast.  sorts of men in infected places, who have little heart unto it, robbed the poor of much charitable relief, and deprived the people of the spiritual food & Physic of their souls, when they need and desire it most, to their intolerable grief & discontent, but quite suppressed all settled Wednesday Lectures in London and other infected Towns, as long as the infection shall continue in any one parish, though it should last these 7 years (the thing they principally aimed at:) forced many Ministers & people to fly out of infected places into the Country, to keep their fasts where there is preaching; brought in a 
z Amos 8 11,12.  famine of God's Word, the greatest plague of all others, to the increasing & further spreading of the present pestilence, & drawing down of God's wrath upon us to 
a 1 Thes. 2 15,16 Isay 30 9 to 17 2 Chron. 34. 16.  the utter most, by inhibiting Ministers in the time of greatest need, to preach unto the people that they may be saved. O heavens stand amazed at this unparallelled practice of impious popish Prelates: But is this all? No verily. For whereas his Majesty 
b See the Proclamation  commanded that the book of Common prayer for the fast, formerly set forth by his authority upon the like occasion should be reprinted, these Romish Inquisitors have miserably gelded it, after it was new printed, in sundry particulars. First, they have purged out the prayer for seasonable weather; one cause of the shipwrecks, & tempestuous unseasonable weather ever since its publication. Secondly, they have dashed 
c The Collect for the Queen, &c  the Lady Elizabeth and her children, in the old Collect, quite out of the new; as they have expunged both them, with our gracious King Queen, and their children out of the catalogue of Gods elect, by blotting out this clause (who art the father of thine elect and of their seed) out of the Collect for them in this and all new Common prayer books, as if they were all reprobates, & none of the number of Gods elect, either to a temporal or an eternal crown. O intolerable impiety; affront, and horrid Treason. Thirdly, they have left out this Collect: It had been best for us etc. in the new book, (though the most effectual prayer of all) because it magnifies continual, often preaching of God's Word, and the Scriptures, and calls our powerful Preachers, Gods servants. A sig●e these Prelates have conspired together like so many execrable Traitors, to extirpate our frequent powerful Preachers and continual preaching of God's Word (as they have d●ne in many places of late) though prescribed by 
d 2 Tim 4. 1 to 5 Lu. 19 47. c 21 37 john 18. ●o. Act. 2. 46. 47, c 5. 42.  God himself &c 
e Of the right use of the Church  our Homili is Fourthly, they have dashed this remarkable clause out of the first Collect. Thou hast delivered us from superstition and idolatry (two grand causes both of many 
f Num. 25 1, to 10. c. 31. 16. josh. 22. 17. 2 Chro. 21 13. 14. Psa. 106. 28. 29 Ezec. 5. 11 12. 17. c. 6. 11. 12 c. 12 16 c. 14. ●, 19, 21. Amos. 4. 4, 10.  former, and our present plagues no doubt) wherein we were utterly drowned, & hast brought us into the most clear and comfortable light of thy blessed Word; by which we are taught how to serve and honour thee, and how to live orderly with our neighbours in truth and verity: the rest of the Collect remaining as before. Now what can be the cause of this strange purgation, but a resolved professed conspiracy of these Romish Prelates, even now again utterly to drown us in 
* Witness their a●tering of the Gunpowder treason book, their pleading for the Pope and church of Rome, and setting up Altars, lmages, Crucifixes, and bowing to them in all Cathedrals, and elsewhere, and in their own Chapels.  popish superstition and idolatry (which have now drowned us in God's judgements, by their stupendious late increase among us) and to remove us out of the most clear and comfortable light of God's Word, by the which we are taught how to serve and honour him (the true cause why they now suppress Lectures, preaching, and suspend our powerfullest Preachers every where,) that so we may walk on in romish hellish darkness, serving and honouring the Pope and Devil in stead of God, and live in all disorder, without truth or verity. Fiftly, in the 6. order for the fast, they have pared away this passage. To avoid the inconvenience that may grow by the abuse of fasting; Some esteeming it a meritorious work, others a good work, and of itself acceptable to God without due regard of the end; Only to gratify the Papists whose 
g Bellarmine de Bonis Operibus. l 2 c. 11. Bonavent. Diet. sa c. 15.  doctrine this is, and to place some merit in this present fast:) adding this clause to it; in places where Sermons are allowed by the Proclamation; of purpose to put down Wednesday Lectures, and preaching in London and other places where any parish is infected. If these Prelates than be thus desperately wicked and popish, as to take advantage of God's judgements to suppress the preaching and Preachers of his Word when it is most necessary and useful, and to countenance, justify, and set up Popery, superstition, idolatry, error and disorder (the chief causes of our plagues) even in these days of pestilence, & that in the very Fastbooke to abuse and 
h job 13 9 Gal. 6. 7.  mock God to his face, to dishonour his Majesty, and grieve his people's souls; how transcendently impious & popish will they prove, when God shall stay this plague, if they be not now deservedly punished for these their notorious impieties? And is it not high time then for his Majesty to hang up such Archtraytors to our faith, Church, religion, & such truebred sons to the Roman Antichrist, (from whom 
i Sunday no Sabbath, p. 2. & 44.  Dr. Pocklington boasts they are lineally descended) & to execute judgement on them for these strange purgations, & other their Romish Innovations, whereat the whole Kingdom cry shame; which breed a general fear of a sudden alteration of our religion? Certainly till his Majesty shall see these purgations rectified, superstition & idolatry removed, God's Sabbaths duly sanctified, the suppressed Preachers & 
* The honour and safety of the Kingdom. 2 Chron. 17. 7, 8, 9, 10.  preaching of God's word restored, and hang up some of these Romish Prelates & Inquisitors before the Lord, as the 
k 2 Sam 21. Num. 25. 4.  Gibeonites once did the 7. sons of Saul, we can never hope to abate any of God's plagues, or draw down any of his blessings on us by 
l Isay 58. 3, 4, 5, etc.  such a fast, and Fastbook as this, but augment his plague's and judgements more and more, which have strangely increased since this fast begun, contrary to all human reason and probability, whereas it much decreased before; the total number dying of the plague the week before the fast, being but 458. & 58 parishes infected, and the very first week of the fast 838 (triple the number the 2. last greatest plagues) & 67 parishes infected, 
m And that the very next week after an Order there published, that every Scholar should bow to the Altar and at the name of jesus, under pain of expulsion out of the University after two admonitions, an idolatrous and superstitious Order.  Cambridge, Norwich, Hampton, Bath, & other eminent places clear before, being likewise visited since this fast begun; a clear evidence, that God is much offended with these purgations & the restraint of preaching on the fastday, against which some Prelates are so mad, that they have silenced & persecuted diverse Ministers since the fast proclaimed, there being now so many suspended in our Norwich Diocese, only for not yielding to popish innovations, that in sundry Churches they have neither prayers, preaching, nor fasting: which hath brought the plague among them, and made the people at their wits ends, many Ministers & people there having left the Kingdom, and thousands more being ready to depart the Land, there being never such a persecution or havoc made among God's Ministers since Q Mary's days, as a lecherous proud insolent Prelate hath there lately made against all Laws of God and man, to the astonishment of the whole Realm. What then can we expect but plagues upon plagues, till such desperate persecurors be cut off, & God's Word and Ministers restored unto their former liberty, by our most gracious Sovereign, persecution of God's Ministers and people being one chief 
n Ezech. 28 23, 24, c. 38. 28, 22. Ezech. 14. 12. Eusebius Eccles. Hist. ●. 9 cap 8. cent. Mag. 3. c. 3. p. 31 32. Cent. 4 c. 3. p. 156. Henry Holland his Spiritual preservatives against the Plague.  cause of plagues; Wherefore O England, England, if ever thou wilt be free from pests and judgements, take notice of these thy Antichristian Prelates desperate practices innovations, & popish designs, to bewail oppose, redress them with all thy force and power: O all ye English Nobleses, Courtiers and others, who have any love or spark of religion, piety, zeal, any tenderness of his Majesty's honour, or care for the peoples, the Church or Kingdom's safety yet remaining with in your generous breasts, put to your helping hands & prayers to rescue our religion and faithful Ministers now suspended, from the jaws of these devouring 
o Act. 20 29.  wolves, and tyrannising Lordly Prelates (raised from the dunghill) who make havoc of them both. O our most pious King Charles as thou hast in two several 
p Before the 39 Articles: and of the dissolution of the Parliament, page 21. 42.  Declarations, protested before God to all thy loving Subjects, that thou wilt never give way to the licensing or authorising of any thing, whereby ANY INNOVATION IN THE LEAST DEGREE may creep into our Church; nor ever connive at ANY BACKSLIDING TO POPERY; and that it is thy hearts desire to be found worthy of that title which thou esteemest the most glorious in all thy Crown, Defender of the faith; to now behold these desperate innovations, purgations, and Romish practices of thy Prelates, in open affront of these thy Declarations; & now or never show thyself (as we all hope, believe, and pray thou wilt) a Prince more worthy of this glorious Title, than any of thy royal progenitors, by rooting all Popery, superstition, idolatry, errors, innovations, out of this Church and & Kingdom, by restoring the preaching, the Preachers of God's word and purity of his worship, and 
q Rom. 13 4.  taking vengeance on these perfidious Prelates, who have thus gelded thy fastbook, (and intent to make an Index expurgatorius upon all other ancient English Writers ere they be reprinted, a thing considerable,) thus openly abused thy only sister, and her children, now present with thee; oppressed and grieved thy faithful subjects, dishonoured thy God, betrayed thy religion, increased the plague among thy people, & as much as in them lieth, robbed thee both of thy Gods and people's loves, & pulled thy Crown off thy Royal head, to set it on their own traitorous ambitious pates, by exercising all ecclesiastical power, yea Papal jurisdiction over thy subjects in their own names and rights alone; and by trampling all thy laws and Subjects liberties like Cobwebs, thy subjects like Dogs and dirt, under their tyrannical Papal feet. If thou thus 
r Psal. 106. 30.  execute judgement on them and ease thy people from their intolerable tyranny, no doubt this plague shall be ceased, and this fast be pleasing to the Lord; else he will not accept it, but proceed to plague us more and more. O blessed Sovereign, that thou didst but hear the several cries and outcries of thy people against these persecuting Prelates in many places, especially in our Norwich Diocese, where little Pope 
* It signifies both a little King, a Wren, and likewise a Serpent, called a Basilisk, socalled because like a tyrant he killeth men with his very scent.  Regulus hath played such Rex, that he hath suspended above 60. of our sincerest painefullest conformable Ministers, both from their Office and Benefice, so as many of our Churches (as the like was never since King john's days) are quite shut up, and Lord have mercy upon us may be written on their doors: the people cry for the bread of their souls, and their Ministers are prohibited to give it them; This not only wounds but breaks their hearts, and makes them amazed. O therefore gracious Sovereign help now, and hear the petitions, cries, and tears of thy poor people, and hang up these Popelings for these and other their innumerable oppressions, extortions, innovations and harms, who suspend, imprison, and ruin others for mere toys and trifles, yea for defending your royal Prerogative against their Papal usurpations.  
This is all the news I shall now impart in this Coranto, the next week God-willing, you shall hear of Mr. Dade his excommunicating of Ferdinando adam's, a Churchwarden in our Town, for not blotting out this sentence of Scripture written on Mr. Wards Church wall over his bawdy thievish Court. 
* Matth. 21. 13.  It is written my house shall be called an house of prayer, but ye have made it a den of thiefs; which excommunication is of record in S●archamber; of our Bishops commanding. 
* 1 Cor 9 16.  Woe is me if I preach not the Gospel out of Mr. Scots Church; and of the strange proceedings at Colchester against Mr. Samuel Burrowes for inditing Parson Necoman for railing in the Communion Table Altarwiso, and causing the Communicants to come up to the rail to receive, in a new unaccustomed manner, contrary to the Statute of 1. Eliz. c. 2. and his Majesty's Declarations, this last Michaelmas Sessions: which Indictment the Grand-Iury hath found, but his Majesty yet can get no judgement. In the mean time, I shall conclude my News with the words of Patrick Adamson Archbishop of St. Andrtwes, in his 
* Patricij Adamsoni Palinodia p 55.  Public Recantation in the Synod of Fife, April 8, 1591. That the office of a Diocesian Bishop hath no authority at all to support it in this Word of God; that it is only founded on the politic divise of men; that the primacy of the Pope or Antichrist sprung from it that it is worthily condemned and that it hath been for 500 years and more the chief original and instrument of suppressing the preaching of God's Word in all Kingdoms, as all Ecclesiastical Historians testify: I therefore shall close up all with the Collect on S. Mathias day; Almighty God, which in the place of the traitor 
* Acts 1. 20,  Bishop judas, didst choose thy faithful servant Mathias, to be of the number of the 12, Apostles: Grant that thy Church, being always preserved from false Apostles, may be ordered and guided by faithful and true Pastors, through jesus Christ our Lord. And with the Collect on St. Peter's day; Almighty God, which by thy Son jesus Christ hath given to thy Apostle St. Peter many excellent gifts, and commandedst him earnestly to feed thy Flock: make (we beseech thee) all Bishops and Pastors 
* With few Bishops now do.  diligently to preach thy holy Word, and the people obediently to follow the same, that they may receive the Crown of everlasting glory, through jesus Christ our Lord,  
Amen.  
From Ipswich November 12. 1636. Thine in the Lord, Matthew White.