THE DIVISIONS Of the Church of ENGLAND CREPT IN AT XV. SEVERAL DOORS BY DIVERS, Each having Members very earnest in the seeking to have such a Church and Discipline here established, as is agreeable with their Religion.  


For Bishops  
1 Papists.  
2. Arians.  
3. Arminians.  
4. Canonists.    


Against Bishops.  
5. Athests.  
6. Adamites.  
7. Familists.  
8. Anabaptists.  
9 Luthetans.  
10. Separatists.  
11. Brownists.  
12. Puritans.   

Betwixt both.  
Novelists.  
Time-servers.    
Each in their true colours without any dissimulation in the world.  
LONDON Printed and are to be sold by R. Smithers. Anno Domini. 1642.   

The Divisions of the Church of England.  
FIrst, Atheists among us, are such people who would have no church-government here at all, but live in an independent way, as themselves please, without control, having no Church-discipline, nor regarding, nor caring for Godly people, their company, nor their prayers.  
2. Roman Catholics among us, are a people who would have a church consisting of Cardinals, Archbishops, Bishops, deacons', jesuits, Friars, etc. independent to the crown or civil Magistrate, and all the Discipline of the church to be wholly ordered by the Clergy, and used in what manner, where, where, and as they please, no man having authority to question them why they do thus: or thus. The service book and the Mass-book they would have in latin exactly performed, confession to the Priest, and absolution from him, and no prayers to be used, but what they allow.  
3. The Aliens among us are a people who would have an high priest to be above the rest, and all the rest of the Clergy to be Prelates or Priests at the least, and no office or duty to be performed by them without Rochet, surplice, cap, tippet, or the like, according to their degree, and the service to be exactly performed with Organs, and other music, & singing as is appointed by the high Priests, that is the Bishops, etc.  
4 The Arminians among us, are a people, who would have the church governed by Archbishops, Bishops, etc. to whom should be given such authority and respect, that whatsoever they in their Court do establish out to be confirmed by the King, and his Counsel, to whom they would have such respect given, that they should not be thwarted in any design. These would have the Discipline of the church to consist in the Prelates Courts, and what is there done by them, their Doctors, proctor's, &c. to pass unresistably in the church, or to any member thereof, the first and latter service they would have exactly performed, one at the desk, the other at the Altar, with their cushions, basons, wax candles, and the rest of that rabblement, set in places as appointed before them.  
5. Adamites are a people, who would have an independent society, which neither Magistrate nor church should command, nor meddle with, but live as they list, and labour to increase and multiply in the world, fearing neither government, nor discipline, and in their societies, they are so overcome with lust, that they cannot pray.  
6. Famalists among us, are a people who would have an independent church, neither would they have any Bishops, Elders, presbetors, nor Government in the church, and would have all things common, not only goods, & cattles, but wife and children, And that no punishment should be inflicted upon any offender, but only to pray for them, and so leave them to the mercy of God.  
7. Anabaptists amongst us, are a people who would have an independent church, neither would they have any government of the Clergy at all in the church, for fear of an Antichristian church, neither would they have any baptised, but such who are of age, and judgement, to know what it is to be baptised. These would have churches, meetings, & members of their own election, and take in, and cast out whom they please, and their prayers are more that God would grant thema church after their desire, then for grace and faith.  
8. Novelists amongst us, are a people who affects change of government, and discipline, to day they follow the Bishops to hear them preach at Court, than they applaud the government, another day they follow the religius divines in London, than they cry down the Bishopr, for an Antichristian government, another time they begin to pause upon it, & consider of the pleasantness of the formality, of the Church of Rome, and yet are never constant in any thing, one while they are all for the hearing of the service in Cathedralt, and by & by they care not for the service, and only follow Sermons.  
9 Time servers are those who are always of the strongest side, as near as they can, when most would have Bishops, so would they, when the Bishops are likely to go down then they would have none, they commend no Discipline but that which they see they are like to have, in Cathedrals they commend all their ceremonies, but where the Service is not read, or in company that so affect it they command, and applaud prayer by the spirit. 10. Canonists are those amongst us, that would have the government of Bishops still to abide, because they stand by Canon Law upon the same grounds, they labour for Canon-discipline, and the canonical hours and form of prayer, and all other canonical Rites and ceremonies.  
11. Lutherans are those amongst us, who would have no Bishops, but a Church-government under the king, consisting of the Clergy and Laity together: and whatsoever in the discipline ordinances of the church is of man, and correspondent to the church of Rome to be altered and changed to the nearest conformity to the primitive church.  
12. Separatists are a people among us, who would have the Bishops cast out, & the government of the Church committed to Elders Ecclesiastical, and Layicke, and moreover an independent church-government granted besides, for the free use of liberty of conscience without correction, or control in divine ordinances, and Ecclesiastical discipline, only popery and popish Innovations excepted.  
13. Brown●sts are a people among us, who would have the Bishops cast out, and their discipline, and the book of Common-prayer no more used, but the Government of Elders established to govern the church, and such Discipline confirmed by the Parliament, as shall be by the Church presented, when the evil Members are cast out, and no prayers to be used but extemporary prayers, and that whosoever have received the gift of preaching, may freely preach, of what calling or condition soever he be, in case he be a godly man, & by the church approved.  
14 Puritans among us are a people, who would have the Bishops removed, and the church no more to be ruled by them: but by a Presbyterial Government, as it is in Scotland, and the very same Government discipline, & ordinances which they have, they would have here, approving of it in their judgements and conceive it to be the happiest Government in the world; especially if we enjoy it, because the Church in Scotland, and ours in England, is all in one and the same Island, and under one and the same King.  
15 The Author, and those of his mind, pray to God for a Reformation, and that God would be with the great Assembly in the settling thereof, waiting God's time, and their accomplishment thereof: not doubting, but that God will be with them, to work such a reformation, as shall make the church of England glorious, and what that high Court shall establish, we doubt not, but that their Declaration will be sufficient to give satisfaction to all true hearted Protestants, and all who wish well to the King, Church, and Kingdom of England.  
16 All true hearted Protestants desire and pray, that God would be pleased, to be with that great Assembly, and to guide them, that they may establish such things, and only such as may be pleasing to Almighty God, for the honour of the King, the comfort to the Church, and the good of the whole Kingdom, and that for Christ his sake, Amen.   
FINIS.