A collection of tracts and papers lately written for the service of the church and kingdom of England : Most of them presented to the lower house of convocation, in the first year of their session, after a long regal suspension by the procurement of some of their reverend fathers, the bishops. With a general preface concerning the undeniable truth and importance of them for that purpose; thhe unchristian, wicked, seaudalous, and foolish means, which have been used to suppress them, and other matters of moment, fit to be consider'd by the commons of England before their representative come up to Parliament. By Mr. Edward Stephens, late of cherinton, in the county of Gloucester, sometime barister of law of the honourable society of the middle temple, and sine ingag'd by a very special divine providence in the most sacred employment.