Title: The Petition For The Prelates Briefly Examined. VVherein you have these pleas for Praelacy, discussed, and answered. 1. The pretended Antiquitie of Prelacy. 2. The qualitie of some men who have been Prelates, as Martyrs, and Champions for the Truth. 3. The pretended peaceable and prosperous times we have had, un- der Prelaticall Government. 4. The offence that many are said, will take, at the abolishing of it. 5. The pretended universall practise of the Christian World. 6. The pretended sutablenesse of it to the policy of this State. 7. The pretended disagreeing of such, who desire another Govern- ment. 8. The probabilitie it hath from the institution by the Apostles, wherein by way of Answer, there are divers Arguments more then probable, to shew the unlawfullnesse of Praelacy. 9. The continuance of it for many Ages without any alteration