A brief apologie for the pious and painfull ministers of the Church of England Wherein is shewed, that the attempts and endeavours of those who have sought by their perswasive petitions and perverse pamphlets, to have their present maintenance taken from them, and nothing substiuted in stead thereof, are injurious not onely to the ministers themselves, but to the people of the land, to the state, to the Church of God, yea to God himselfe. By a friend to purity and unity, and the true peace and welfare of the Church and nation