Selected quad for the lemma: act_n

Word A	Word B	Word C	Word D	Occurrence	Frequency Band	MI	MI Band	Prominent
act_n	king_n	law_n	prerogative_n	3,673	5	10.4433	5	false

Text snippets containing the quad

ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A27541	Ludlow no lyar, or, A detection of Dr. Hollingworth's disingenuity in his Second defence of King Charles I and a further vindication of the Parliament of the 3d of Novemb. 1640 : with exact copies of the Pope's letter to King Charles the first, and of his answer to the Pope : in a letter from General Ludlow, to Dr. Hollingworth : together with a reply to the false and malicious assertions in the Doctor's lewd pamphlet, entituled, His defence of the King's holy and divine book, against the rude and undutiful assaults of the late Dr. Walker of Essex.	Ludlow, Edmund, fl. 1691-1692.; Bethel, Slingsby, 1617-1697.; Charles I, King of England, 1600-1649. Reply to the pope's letter [of 20 April 1623]; Gregory XV, Pope, 1554-1623.	1692 (1692)	Wing B2068; ESTC R12493	70,085	85

mind that he met with hard Fate and such as had you been one of his Iudges with your present sense of things you should not have consented to So that it seems you cannot be confident but you might have been as wicked as Laud himself And by the discovery which you indiscreetly make of your self a little after of which more presently I have reason to suspect that you would have made the worst Bishop of the two and then I am sure you had been a very wicked Bishop indeed You say Let me tell you Sir Dr. Leighton was a great Transgressor and deserved a severe Punishment Must it be Persecution to call such a foul-mouth'd Person to an Account and to punish him But you of all Men Dr. Brazen-face ought to be very tender to justifying the severe punishment of a foul Mouth lest a Jury of your Neighbours should you be called to an account if for nothing more than your malicious slandering of that Reverend Divine Dr. Walker should find you to be a foul-mouth'd Person for in such a case according to your present sense of things I am something of the mind you would esteem it hard Fate to have your Ears cut your Nose slit to be branded in the Face stand in the Pillory pay ten thousand Pounds Fine and be perpetually imprison'd You proceed next pag. 15. saying I have look'd into the Case of Pryn Burton and Bastwick I do upon a full consideration of the whole wish from my Heart their Punishment had been some other way I do not think that the way of punishing these Persons was at all Politick or Prudent because not for the Interest as things then stood either of the King or the Church And if Bishop Laud had kept in his Study at that time and not appeared at all either to hear the Trial or assist in the Sentence it had been better for him and those Designs of Vniformity he had so much set his Heart upon Whoever weighs this last Paragraph must agree in what I but now hinted that you even you Doctor would have been a worse Bishop than Laud. You well approve the punishing of these three Persons but the way was not Politick or Prudent because not for the Interest as things then stood of King or Church Let you subtil Doctor alone for Mischief though you have a very unhappy Talent at writing in Defence thereof you would have done it as effectually but in a more cunning manner you would have been found as Arch and Crafty but a more close Youth like the Persecutors in Ancient Times whose Practices are most ingenuously express'd by Mr. Marvel in these words In Persecution the Clergy as yet wisely interposed the Magistrate betwixt themselves and the People not caring so their End were attained how odious they render'd him And you may observe that for the most part hitherto they stood crouching and shot either over the Emperor's Back or under his Belly But in process of Time they became bolder and open-fac'd and persecuted before the Sun at Mid-day Bishops grew worse but Bishopricks every day better and better You Politick Doctor in your great Wisdom would have taken a more prudent course than Bishop Laud you would in your Study have laid such a Scheme as this A Iefferies or a Wright should have been made Lord Chief Iustice a Graham and a Burton should have pack'd a Iury of London Tories to give such a Verdict as they should have directed Hereby these Gentlemen should have been Whip'd Pilloried Stigmatized and what else Bishop Hollingworth pleas'd and all by the Hands of the Laity and that according to Law the Bishop good Man neither assisting at Trial nor Sentence but close at his Book as innocent as a wild Boar and as harmless as a Tyger Well it had been better for Laud and those Designs of Vniformity which he had so much set his Heart upon And pray tell me Sir in all Love what Uniformity was this which thus run in Laud's Head and which you seem so much to approve It must certainly be the honest Design of coming to a due Temper to a uniting of Protestants No no nothing like it Mr. Whitlock was a good Man and you say pag. 14. That you do not in the least question the Truth of what he writes Take then his Account of this Monster rather than Martyr and you will see which way his Head turn'd Whitl Mem. pag. 97. In Arch-Bishop Laud's Diary under his Hand produced in Evidence against him at his Trial are Passages of his being offered to be made a Cardinal which he said that he could not suffer till Rome were other than it is He wickedly and traiterously design'd that upon the Pope's yielding in some few Points as the Common Prayers to be continued in English and such other Tri●les he would deliver over the possession of these most noble Isles to the Prince of the Apostles Whitl pag. 92. It was proved against him that he should say The Pope was not Antichrist but the Head of the Church and that the Protestant Religion and Romish Religion were all one and if the one was false so was the other He chid Dr. Hall as in Whitlock p. 91. for giving the Holy Father the Epithets of Antichristian c. He held the Pope to be Metropolitan Bishop of the World He furnished the King's Chappel they are Mr. Whitlock's own words p. 85. ' that Seminary Priests would come thither for their Devotion and Adoration and some of them were instanc'd this was at his Trial still who said they knew no difference between their Churches and this Chappel and some other of our Churches as they were ordered To this I shall subjoin a few Words out of Rushworth's Third Collection Vol. 2. pag. 818. Arch-Bishop Laud endeavoured to advance the Power of the Council-Table the Canons of the Church and the King's Prerogative above the Laws of the Land and said that as long as he sat at the Council-Board they should know that an Order of that Board should be of equal Force with an Act of Parliament And at another time said That he would crush them to pieces that would not yield to the King's Power He stiled the Parliament Puritans and commended the Papists for harmless and peaceable Subjects He said That there must be a Blow given to the Church such as had not been given before it could be brought to Conformity Was not this a rare Head of the Church of England Why may not a Man for once and not practise it borrow your Words dear Doctor pag. 53. and say I cannot think Laud would have talked thus unless he had been acted by seven Devils worse thau himself and then I am sure they must be Devils indeed But no more of Laud in this place I return to you Mr. Chaplain at Aldgate Though you do not commend the doing of the Business of Pryn Burton and Bastwick in Laud's imprudent way and that for a weighty

a Secret Whether I then had or not you bring one into my Remembrance by your enquiry whether the King had been to blame if he had chop'd off some of the Scotch Commissioners Heads and you shall have it I have heard and do believe that the King having against all Justice imprisoned the Earl of Lowdon one of the Commissioners from the Scotch Parliament in the Tower he about three of the Clock in the Afternoon sent his own Letter to Sir William Balfour Lieutenant of the Tower commanding him to see my Lord of Lowdon 's Head struck off within the Tower before nine the next Morning Upon the Receipt of this Command the Lieutenant of the Tower that his Lordship might prepare for Death gave him notice of it He being surprized as well he might prevailed with Sir William to find out the Marquess of Hamilton then in great favour with the King and Master of the Horse and to tell him that he esteemed him to be engaged in Honour to interpose in this matter The Letter being thereupon carried and shewn to the Marquess it struck him with Astonishment and with no small difficulty he made his way to the King being then in Bed and humbly enquired whether his Majesty had given such a Command for beheading the Earl of Lowdon the King answered Yes and I will be obeyed therein he shall die The Marquess finding him inexorable told his Majesty that he would kiss his Hand and instantly take his Horse and be gone for he would not stay to see his Majesty massacred as most certainly he would for before the next Night the whole City would come upon him Hereby the King was wrought upon to hold his Hand and countermand the fatal Warrant This is so incredible a piece of Tyranny that I cannot expect you should believe it upon my bare Assertion I shall therefore shew you that it seems to be pointed at in Bishop Burne●'s Memoirs Page 161. in these words There were some ill Instruments about the King Bishops no doubt on'● who advised him to proceed capitally against Lowdon which is believed went very far But the Marquess of Hamilton opposed this vigorous●y assuring the King that if that were done Scotland was for ever lost Now if Curiosity shall lead you to enquire further into this matter you may do well to learn what is meant by the obscure Expression which is believed went very far and if that do not open the whole business to you you will not fail of Satisfaction if you can by any Friend make way to the Original Papers from which my Lord Bishop of Salisbury took his Memoirs and which now are in the Hands of his Grace my Lord Duke of Hamilton A word or two more about Scotland and we will cast an Eye on your Impeachment against our own Nation you very often term the Actions of that Kingdom factious seditious rebellious traiterous Now let me shew you how the Scotch Parliament defined Treason We entreat our Adversaries say they to shew us in good earnest and not by way of Railing in what sense we have incurred the Censure of Rebellion and Treason We cannot be moved to think but the Mitre of a usurping Prelate by the Authority of a National Council may be thrown to the ground without the Violation or smallest Touch of the Crown or Scepter of Imperial Majesty To dethrone a Prelate and to overturn Prelacy we judg it no Treason against the King Traitors to God and their Country must be Traitors to the King and such as are faithful to God and their Country must be the King 's best Subjects The Right of his Majesty's Crown and the Acts of Parliament command all the Subjects to rise with the King and to assist him when he riseth for God and the Country but no Law nor Act of Parliament forbiddeth to stand for God and the Country in the case of publick Invasion Take now from Bp. Burnet's Memoirs a true Account of these Scotch Troubles which have now been so troublesome to you and me and I 'll return to Old England The Lord 's of the Council saith he Page 31 not 782. laid the greatest blame upon Bishops which appears from the Earl of Traquaire's Letter to the Marquess of Hamilton date 27. Aug. 1631. viz. At the meeting of the Council 23 d Instant we found so much appearance of Trouble and Stir like to be amongst People of all Qualities and Degrees upon the urging of this New-Service-Book that we durst no longer forbear to acquaint his Majesty therewith Some of the leading Men of the Clergy are so violent and many times without ground or true judgment that their want of right Understanding how to compass business of this nature and weight doth often breed as many Difficulties and their rash and foolish Expressions and Attempts have bred such a Fear and Jealousy in the Hearts of many that if his Majesty were rightly informed thereof he would blame them and justly think that from them arises the ground of many Mistakes amongst us This Business in good Faith is by the Folly and Misgovernment of some of our Clergy come to that height that the like has not been seen in this Kingdom of a long time No more of Scotland Let 's see what 's next You declare your Resolution to apply your self to the Defence of what you had formerly said in behalf of King Charles and proceed thus Page 26. You say That those Gracious Acts which I mention were bought of him and what then What hath been more usual ever since Parliaments had a being in England Pray look into the Statute-Book and tell me what Gracious Favours can you find bestowed by the several Kings of this Realm upon their People that those People have not made their acknowledgments for them by presenting their Soveraigns with great Sums of Money What ridiculous Stuff is this Gracious Acts Gracious Favours c. It hath been heretofore well observed that some who call themselves Church-men have left their Station to become ignorant and unhappy States-men who have made the Church and the Tenets thereof an Instrument of Bondage to the Subject These Men tell us that Parliaments are not assembled to ease the Grievances of the Subject but to fill the Coffers of the Prince These Men teach Princes that all the Rights and Liberties of the Subject and the maintenance of them are Doals of Grace and Gifts of meer Favour proceeding from the Prince and not the true Birth-right of the Subject which they may truly challenge which are to be continued or changed as Princes shall think fit But pray let us see what these Gracious Acts these Gracious Favours were which we bought as in your Opinion we ought They were Acts to declare the levying Money by way of forced Loan Ship-Money Coat and Conduct-Money to be illegal and against the undoubted Liberty of the Subject to suppress the most accursed and tyrannical Courts called the Star-Chamber and High-Commission

Ludlow no Lyar Or a Detection of Dr. HOLLINGWORTH'S Disingenuity IN HIS Second DEFENCE OF King Charles I. AND A further Vindication of the Parliament of the 3 d of Novemb. 1640. With Exact Copies of the Pope's Letter to K. Charles the First and of his Answer to the Pope In a Letter from General Ludlow to Dr Hollingworth TOGETHER With a Reply to the false and malicious Assertions in the Doctor 's lewd P●mphlet Entituled His Defence of the King 's Holy Divine BOOK against the rude and undutiful Assaults of the late Dr. Walker of Essex AMSTERDAM Printed 1692. To Mr. Luke Milbourn Minister of Great-Yarmouth and Assistant to Dr. Hollingworth in his mighty Undertakings SIR I Must Confess that when the Act of Parliament Injoyned the Clergy to take an Oath of Fidelity to our unquestionably Lawful Soveraigns Their Sacred Majesties King WILLIAM and Queen MARY my self and your other Fellow-bowlers upon Yarmouth-Green were under a Jealousie that you would by refusal of that Oath have spoiled the old Proverb and parted the honest Man from the good Bowler but seeing that the Biass of your Interest wrought your Conscience to Compliance in that point it hath been an amazement to your Friends that you having left us near a Year since with promise to come back within a very few weeks any such Rub could come in your way as to stop your return to us and that we never received any Letter from you nor knew how to direct to you till now that yours which I received this day Sennight tells us that you have constantly Lodg'd at Dr. Hollingworth's and had been engaged with him in a business of a Close and Comfortable Importance of which we should be farther informed by the return of our next Carrier Now we all remembred that Comfortable Importance according to your Admired Dr. Parker's refined way of expressing it meant a Mistress but when we do daily see here your vertuous and well-deserving Wife and hopeful Children we were utterly at a loss how to understand you till the Carrier brought us this last Tuesday the Two Books Entituled Dr. Hollingworth's Defence of King Charles the First against Ludlow and of his Holy and Divine Book against Dr. Walker 's rude and undutiful Assaults to the Compileing whereof you say you had not a little Contributed In truth Sr till now at some times I suspected that you had repented as other frail Clergy-men have done before you of the onely good Deed you ever did I mean your having Sworn to their Majesties and had unsworn your Oath and were Caballing with your endear'd Friends the Iacobites At other times it ran in my head that you and the Dr. having been long in most inward Conversation with them you had redintigrated your selves and insinuated into those your old Associates the present Plotters with purpose to search out and discover their horrid design against the invaluable Lives of Their Majesties against our Church and Nation but your Books have put me out of doubt in the Point and as you requested I have given them a reading and had now presented you with some Transient Remarks upon them both but to my great Content I find that Ludlow by a Letter to the Dr. a Copy whereof was sent to a Friend here hath in great part prevented me however I shall make some general Observations upon both these famous Tracts and then speak more particularly to that which rudely traduces the Memory of the most pious Dr. Wa●ker The Arrogance which runs through both these Books is insupportable the Author boasting proudly of himself vilifying and censuring others to such a degree that nothing is more like it than the Mountebanks who after a deal of Scaffold Pageantry to draw Audience entertain them by decrying all others with a Panegyrick of their own Balsam All his Arguing is frivolous and trivial and tho he knows or should know that the Rhetorick of Barking never moved any man he writes as tho he had ingross'd all the Ammunition of Railing he appears as serious as a mad-man and answers demonstration with the Lye 't is surely the highest indecorum for a Divine to write in such a stile as this and methinks if our Author had any spark of vertue unextinguished he should upon considering these things retire to his Closet and there lament and pine away for his desperate folly for the eternal shame to which he has hereby condemned his own Memory His Friends should give him good Counsel before his understanding be quite unsettled or if there be none nere the Neighbours should be called in and a Parson sent for to perswade him in time and not let it run on thus till he is fit for no place but Bedlam nothing will serve him but he must be a Mad-man in Print and write in Defence of a King and that at such a rate that if he were alive he would be out of love with himself he hath like those frightful Looking-Glasses made for sport represented his Idolized Saint in such bloated Lineaments as I am confident if he could see his face in it he would break the Glass But to pretermit his defence against Ludlow I descend to make a few brief Animadversions upon his Treatise against Dr. Walker wherein I discern all along the footsteps of a most inveterate and implacable Malice However I am obliged to handle it with the more tenderness in respect to the venerable Licence the Title-page shews in these words Imprimatur Carol. Alston R P. D. Hen. Episc. Lond. à Sacris In the discharge of my Undertaking I shall in the first place take leave to recount the heads of some of those proofs offer'd by Dr. Walker to demonstrate that Dr. Gauden and not King Charles was the Author of the Idolized Book called Eicon Basilice This good Man in his Introduction saith that Dr. Hollingworth did put him upon that unwelcome labour by falsely accusing him of telling a false story without consulting him by word or letter before he did it and that he was constrained by unavoidable necessity unless that Doctor expected that as a Felo de se he should by silence give consent to his unjust Calumnies to vindicate himself And he declares his resolution to keep that modest temper which becomes one who designs no personal Quarrel nor writes for Victory but Truth The search and discovery of which needs no Tricks no little Arts no big Words but is best attained by sedate proceedings and plain and open dealing And he solemnly Appeals to the Searcher of Hearts Avenger of Falshood and Revealer of Secrets that he will write nothing of the Truth of which he is not throughly perswaded 1. He Asserts page 4 th that Dr. Gauden some time before the Book was finished acquainted him with his design and shewed him the heads of diverse Chapters and some of the discourses written of hem and asked his Opinion concerning it who told him he supposed it would be much for the

Lord of Hosts The Fast of the fourth Month and the Fast of the Fifth and the Fast of the Seventh and the Fast of the Tenth shall be to the House of Judah Ioy and Gladness and chearful Feasts therefore LOVE THE TRVTH AND PEACE And I must say that I am strengthen'd in this Belief when I remember that about that Time and indeed upon the very Day when this Sermon was preached viz. Ian. 30. 1680. some of the Clergy I know their Names but will spare them did in their Pulpits deliver up our Laws and Liberties to the King's Will and according to their Doctrine we were to hold all at his Pleasure and in the three or four succeeding Years upon that and such-like Occasions these Beautefeux did raise Despotick Power to that dangerous height that England became too hot for Dr. Burnet as well as for many other good Men and he and I might with equal safety have returned together But to put it beyond doubt what my Lord Bishop of Salisbury's meaning was in that Expression It were better if we could have Job 's Wish c. which you insinuate that I wrest I shall lay before you some Expressions in that Sermon you may read pag. 4. these words Upon their loving Truth and Peace those black and mournful Days should be converted to Days of Gladness Pag. 5. It might have been expected that our 29 th of May should have worn out the remembrance of the 30 th of Ianuary and now at the end of two and thirty Years it may be reasonably ask'd should we still continue to fast and mourn Pag. 28. If we come to love the Truth and Peace to live in Love and Peace one with another then our Days of Fasting shall be turned into solemn and chearful Feasts Then should our 29 th of May swallow up the remembrance of the 30 th of Ianuary Or perhaps as the Prophet foretold such happy Deliverances should come to the Jews as should make even that out of Egypt to be forgotten so we might hope for such days as should outshine and darken the very 29 th of May If we come to love Truth and Peace then shall even this Fast of the 10 th Month according to the Jewish Account which according to Arch-Bishop Vsher is exactly our 30 th of Ianuary be to us Joy and Gladness I can now scarce with-hold my self from saying That 't is most evident the Doctor at Aldgate doth appear to be the Person who would wrest Bishop Burnet 's well-intended Words to his own malicious Design A Design to keep up Animosity Wrath and Feuds in the Kingdom a Person who shews himself estranged from Truth and Peace in contending to perpetuate the observation of this Day And seeing we have happily lived to behold the wonderful Deliverances which my Lord Bishop of Salisbury did not only hope for but seem to foretel Seeing we have our glorious 5 th of November rendered famous to all succeeding Ages by our late repeated happy and miraculous Deliverance from Popery and its inseparable Companion Tyranny Seeing we behold our thrice happy 30th of April and 4th of November the Birth-Days of those matchless Princes our most deservedly admired and beloved Soveraigns King William and Queen Mary out-shining and darkening even the 29th of May I would hope that I may live to see the time when his Lordship will make a Motion in Parliament for the annulling the Law which enjoins the Observation of the 30th of Ianuary and that I am sure would be highly acceptable to the sincere Lovers of Truth and Peace But I already see an Objection against it You Doctor say Pag. 2. An Act of State has appointed this Day to be FOREVER observed to bewail the Sin of the Murder of the King However I am sure my Lord Bishop of Salisbury doth well remember that in Times by-past other Days have been appointed to be observed by Acts of State upon such like Occasions and one in particular to declaim against Gowry's detestable Conspiracy which is now forgot His Lordship also knows that in Numb 21. when for the Peoples speaking against God and Moses the Lord sent Fiery Serpents which destroyed many of them Upon their Confession of their Sin Moses at their Entreaty prayed for them and as it is in the 8th and 9th Verses The Lord said unto Moses Make thee a fiery Serpent and set it upon a Pole and it shall come to pass that every one that is bitten when he looketh upon it shall live And Moses made a Serpent of Brass and put it upon a Pole and it came to pass that if a Serpent had bitten any Man when he beheld the Serpent of Brass he lived You see Sir this was God's own Institution and that I hope was at least as good as your Act of State Let us see now what became of this brazen Serpent 2 Kings 18. The good King Hezekiah and there were very few good ones in those days who did that which was right in the Sight of the Lord broke in pieces the brazen Serpent that Moses had made for unto those days the Children of Israel did burn Incense to it and he called it Nehushtan And that God highly approved this Act of this glorious Reformer is evident from the very next Verse which records that after him was none like him among all the Kings of Judah nor any that were before him And now Sir to dismiss this Black-Day allow me to observe that there is not one Syllable in either of my Letters reflecting on the Act of State which ordained the Observation of the 30 th of Ianuary but I term it a Madding-Day because our Parasitical Court-Priests would not keep the Peace but on that Day did set the Nation on Madding by infusing Principles of Slavery into her Free-born People Page 7. You pick a Quarrel with me about my Epistle Dedicatory and upbraid me for courting the Populace and Dedicating to Old-England in Aldgate Parish and say Sure the King and Queen or else the Lords of the Council might have been made the Patrons of a Work that pretends to what Ludlow 's doth But whatever you think of your self or the World of you methinks 't was something sawcy even in you to prefix their Majesties Sacred Names to so silly a Book as was your first Defence and 't is as arrogant to entitle the Most Reverend and Right Reverend the Arch-bishops and Bishops the Nobility Gentry c. to this Second and to begin as if seated on the Throne MY LORDS and GENTLEMEN And it seems most impudent to tell them that upon the Reputation or Dishonour of King Charles the First and the Principles which maintain the one or those that propagate the other as much as if you had said upon my Scriblings depend the Being and Well-being of our present Church and State and consequently the Life and Preservation of our present King and Queen But whatever you may do 't is not for the mean

how the Mutinies and Disturbances in Scotland sprung from thence which truly I am very sorry for 'T is well we are agreed in this point that from the imposing this Liturgy the Scotish Troubles did arise so that hitherto there 's no Ungodliness in my Story But you proceed I am sure it had been better for them and the Christian Religion profess'd amongst them if they had submitted to the Vsage of that Book and continued it ever since This in truth Sir is ungodly and malicious all over you are sure it had been better for the Christian Religion c. Why not Protestant Religion CHRISTIAN RELIGION is indeed in its true and genuine Sense so good an Expression that a better cannot be found for the only true Religion but these Laudean Church-men the Papists in disguise must be narrowly watch'd for 't is notoriously known that they hold the Roman-Church to be a true Church though we know 't is idolatrous We must hold them to the Shiboleth PROTESTANT when they pretend to tell us what is best for the Christian Religion Laud himself spoke at the rate which you crafty Turn-Goat here do his Letters expressed his fear of delay in bringing in the Common-Prayer-Book for the great good not of the Church of Scotland but of the Church My Lord Bishop of Salisbury may surely be allowed to be a more competent Judg in this matter than you He saith Pag. 30. of his Memoires The Liturgy had some Alterations from the English which made it more invidious and less satisfactory The imposing it really varied from their former Practices and Constitutions Pag. 33. The Lords petitioned complaining against the Liturgy and Book of Canons offering under the highest Penalties to prove they contained things both contrary to Religion and the Laws of the Land Pag. 36. The Earls of Traquaire and Roxburgh by Letter to the King advised him to secure the People of that which they so much apprehended the fear of Innovation of Religion saying that they found few or none well satisfied Pag. 33. The Earl of Trequaire went to Court and gave account that all the Troubles were occasioned by the introducing the Liturgy with which scarce a Member of Council except Bishops was well satisfied neither were all these cordially for it for the Arch-bishop of St. Andrews from the beginning had withstood these Designs and the Arch-bishop of Glasgow was worse pleased See now what the Scotish Nation offered against this Liturgy which you Doctor are sure it had been better for them and the Christian Religion if they had received and used it Their Commissioners in their Charge against Laud exhibited in our Parliament in 1641 say Pag. 11 c. This Book inverteth the Order of the Communion in the Book of England of the divers secret Reasons of this change we mention one only In joining the Spiritual Praise and Thanksgiving which is in the Book of England pertinently after the Communion with the Prayer of Consecration before the Communion and that under the Name of Memorial or Oblation for no other end but that the Memorial and Sacrifice of Praise mentioned in it may be understood according to the Popish Meaning Bellar. de Missâ lib. 2. cap. 21. Not of the Spiritual Sacrifice but of the Oblation of the Body of the Lord. The corporal Presence of Christ's Body is also to be found here for the words of the Mass-Book serving to this purpose which are not to be found in the Book of England are taken in here Almighty God is incall'd that of his Almighty Goodness he may vouchsafe so to bless and sanctify with his Word and Spirit these Gifts of Bread and Wine that they be unto us the Body and Blood of Christ. On the other part the Expressions of the Book of England at the delivery of the Elements Of feeding on Christ by Faith and of eating and drinking in remembrance that Christ died for thee are utterly deleted Now one would think that if such a whissling Doctor as you are were not past all shame as you affirm me to be it would make you blush but we may sooner expect to see you burst that you who appeared but now very tender of passing a Judgment upon the Actions of the accused Star-Chamber should be found so pragmatical so arrogant as to censure King Charles the First who damn'd this very Book by Act of Parliament and the Kingdom and Church of Scotland in this Point and declare That you are sure it had been better for them and the Christian Religion if they had submitted to the Vsage of this Babylonish Book and continued it ever since But you are so inflexible that there 's little hope of reconciling you to that Nation I had almost said to the King and Queen unless this well-approved Liturgy be sent down once more and entertained there For then you say pag. 18. the Worship of God would be performed with Order and Decency and in a way suitable to his Divine Nature and Perfections And consequently could not have been nauseous to the soberly wise and seriously devout part of that Kingdom as now it is by reason of those rude and undigested Addresses those ex-tempore and unpremeditated Expostulations with God those bold and saucy Applications that for want of a good Book or a well-framed Form of Prayer of their own before-hand and committed to memory are so commonly made use of in their Pulpits too many of the accounts of which we have lately since the great Turn in Scotland received from very good Hands and undeniable Testimonies This is I am sure a nauseating if not an ungodly and prophane way of Talking You poor weak Man as you are run away with a gross Mistake that because there were Bishops in Scotland till the great Turn as you term the legal Settlement of that Church by their present Majesties they had also a Common-Prayer Book but believe me or let it alone as you please they had no such thing it was detested even by many of their Episcopal Clergy I shall not pretend to remark upon your most unbecoming and malicious Representation of the praying of the present Ministers of that Kingdom but 't is well known that their Divines are of good Ability and every way well qualified for the discharge of the Ministerial Function And whereas you pretend to recommend a well-framed Form of Prayer of their own before-hand and committed to Memory for the prevention of rude and undigested Addresses bold and saucy Applications I would fain know of you what Canon allows a Minister of the Church of England to frame his own Prayer and to mutter out a good part of it so as no body can tell what he says And then to rise constantly in his Voice when he comes to the Ox and the Ass But to talk seriously of this most serious Matter pray see what the Devout and Learned Bishop of Salisbury says of such Doctors as your self in his Sermon Ian. 30. 1680.

hard Trot and fretted her alas The Independent Amble easier was I taught her that and out of that to fall To the 〈◊〉 of Prelatical Now with a Snaffle or a twined Thread To any Government she 'l turn her head I have so broke her She will never slaet And that 's the meaning of my Broken heart Cambridge I left with grief and great disgrace To seek my Fortune in some other place And that I might the better save my stake I took an Order and did Orders take Amongst Conformists I my self did list A Son o' th Church as good as ever pist But tho I bow'd and cring'd and crost and all I only got a Vicaridge very small Oh! I am almost mad 't would make one so To see which way Preferment's-game doth go I ever thought I had her in the Wind And yet I 'm cast above three years behind Three times already I have turn'd my Coat Three times already I have chang'd my Note I 'le make it Four and four and Twenty more And turn the Compass round e're I 'le give o're Ambition my great Goddess and my Muse Inspire thy Prophets all such Arts to use As may exalt betwixt this and my Grave A Mitre or a Halter I must have Tell me Ambition prithee tell me why So many Dunces Doctors and not I A Scarlet Gown I must and will obtain I cannot else Commence a Priest in Grain If this Poets Ecclesiastical Pencil has not drawn you to the Life you shall see that Lay Prose comes pritty nea● you Mr. Marvel whom I choose always to ply you with above all other Authors describes you thus He was sent to Cambridge to be bred up to the Ministry There in a short time he entered himself into the Company of some young Students who were used to Fast and Pray weekly together he pick'd Acquaintance with the Brotherhood and train'd himself up in attending upon their Sermons and Prayers till he had gained such Proficience that he too began to Exercise in the Meetings and by Preaching Mr. Baxter's Sermons he got the Reputation of one of the Preciousest young Men in the Vniversity But when thus after se●●ral years Approbation he was even ready to have taken the Charge not of an Admiring Drove or Herd as he now calls them but of a F●ock upon him by great misfortune to him the King came in nevertheless he broke not off yet from his former habitudes he persisted as far as in him was that is by Praying Caballing and 〈◊〉 to obstruct the Restoring of the Episcopal Government Revenues and Authority insomuch that being discountenanced he went away from the University without his Degree scrupling forsooth the Subscription then required From thence he came to London where he spent a considerable time in creeping into all Corners and Companies horoscoping up and down concerning the duration of the Government not considering any thing as best but as most lasting and profitable and after having many times cast a Figure he at last satisfyed himself that the Episcopal Government would endure as long as he lived and from thence forward cast about how to be admitted into the Church of England and find the High-way to her Preferments In order to this he daily inlarged not only his Conversation but his Conscience and was made free of some of the Town-Vices imagining like Muleasses King of Tu●●s that by hiding himself among the Onions he should escape being traced by his perfumes Ignorant and mistaken Man that thought it necessary to part with any Vertue to get a Living or that the Church of England did not require and encourage more sobriety than he could ever be guilty of But neither was this yet in his opinion sufficient and therefore he resolved to try a shorter Path which some few men have trode not unsuccessfully that is to Print a Book if that would not do a Second if not that a Third and so forward to give Experience of a keen stile and a ductile Judgment After this he was ready to leap over the Moone No scruple of Conscience could stand in his way and no Preferment seemed too high for his Ambition In the next place D●ctor you spit your Venome and that even against their Majesties page 51 you say Since the late Persecution in Scotland by that Party of Men the Presbyterians it is a greater scandal to be called a Presbyterian than it was before I here observe with what Reverence and Duty you speak of your Superiours and their Actions when they are not so happy as to please you this last thing is uttered most scandalously and with a leering reflection upon the Government and t is a dangerous thing I perceive for their Majesties to lose your favour When you talke page 15. of the Accursed Court of Star-Chamber you do it with great Modesty and Manners saying If it be lawful for a private Person as I am to pass a Iudgment upon the publick Actions of a then Legal Court But here the King and Queen seeming to be fallen into disgrace with you you assume the impudence to call their establishing Presbytery by Act of Parliament A Persecution So that what the Scots said in the year 1640 they may well repeat at this day All means said they are used to disgrace this Kirk Books Pasquils honouring of our Cursed Bishops advancing of our deposed Ministers c. 'T was it should seem scandalous in some measure to be a persecuted Presbyterian in the two By-past Reigns but in your Opinion Doctor 't is so in a much higher degree to be a Presbyterian now that Presbytery has the Royal Favour and is settled by Act of Parliament and yet you Sr did heretofore esteem it no longer scandalous to be of the Church of England than till she obtain'd a legal Establishment and I can tell you the exact day when it became a scandal to you to be called a Presbyterian 't was Bartholomew day 1662. the day when the Act of Vniformity took place and would a man take the liberty which you do I should say when the Bishops Persecution was revived in England Well 'T is a Scandal to be a Presbyterian and it will puzzle a man to find out what you are for you seem to esteem it a Persecution that you may not compell all men to be of the Church of England and yet you say p. 52. It is true Sr. I have always been kind to Dissenters and when the great Storm in plain English Persecution Eight and Nine years ago fell upon the Dissenters I preserved my own Parish from Charge and Trouble to the great endangering of my self Alas good Man did you so and yet do they abuse you pray was all this kindness for naught did not you interlope with Dr. Pinf●●● I have been told that you ought to have said that what you did in that day was to the great enriching of your self and that you had your Why 's and your Wherefore's for your