A second admonition to the parliament

I have spoken of it before / and seeing ministers must be equal / and the order must be / that some must be governed by all / and not all by some in the church government / then y• same argument is of force against Archdeacons / and all such high prelates / which is against Lord bishops / Lord bishops (I say) for the name bishop is not the name of a Lord / but of a painful §20minister / and pastor / or teacher: and yet in deed¹ in England every bishop is a Lord. I know the common people would marvel / yea / and jolly wise men too / if they heard their pastor say / I am your bishop / a bishop on God his name / when were you made Lord / and so take him to be proud / for no man is a bishop here / but he is also a Lord / which thing I say / because I do not mean that the scripture alloweth not a bishop / but not a Lord bishop. A bishop or overseer §30/ or pastor / and teacher in every congregation the scripture doth allow / and him or them to be the principal of the consistory of their congregation it doth allow / but this high Prelacy it alloweth not / but forbiddeth it utterly. Now then / seeing they have no lawful calling / how can they deal in any causes lawfully? but yet they do deal / though not lawfully before God / ⟨p. 56⟩and that in infinite causes. And the proctors and doctors of that law / say the study of the law is infinite / because the causes are infinite / one I trow en gendering another / and so surely are the delays and fees of those courts infinite. They have to examine all transgressions against the book of common prayer / the injunctions / the advertisements / the canons / the metropolitical articles / the bishops articles of the diocese / all the §10spiritual causes (as they call them) of the whole diocese / or every Archdeacon of his circuit / and the Archbishop of his province / and the Arches of the whole realm / and for certain causes the prerogative court of my Lord his grace of Canterbury / is over the realm also. Also of spiritual / yea and many carnal causes also / and that so handled / that it would grieve a chaste ear / to hear the bawdy pleading of many proctors and doctors in those courts / and the sumners / yea /