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Tvvo looks over Lincolne, or, A view of his Holy table, name and thing, discovering his erronious and popish tenets and positions and under pretence of defending the cause of religion, shamefully betraying the truth and sincerity thereof : a petition exhbited in all humility to the judgement of the most worthy defenders of the truth the honorable House of Commons in Parliament against the said booke and especially 51 tenets therein / by R. Dey ...
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Dey, Richard.
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TVVO LOOKS OVER LINCOLNE OR A view of his Holy Table name and thing discovering his erronious and Popish Tenets and Positions And under pretence of defending the cause of Religion shamefully betraying the truth and sincerity thereof A Petition exhibited in all humility to the judgement of the most worthy Defenders of the Truth the Honorable House of COMMONS in PARLIAMENT against the said Booke and especially 51. Tenets therein By R. DEY Minister of the Gospell Holy Scripture containeth all things necessary to salvation so that whatsoever is not read therein nor may be proved thereby is not to be required of any man that it should be believed as an Article of the faith or be thought requisite or necessary to salvation Artic. 6. of the Convocation at London 1562. Acts 24. Verse 14. So worship I the God of my Fathers believing all things which are written in the Law and the Prophets Acts 26.22 Having obtained helpe of God I continue unto this day witnessing both to small and great saying none other things then those which the Prophets and Moses did say should come LONDON Printed in the yeere of Hope 1641. TO THE HONOVRABLE The Knights Citizens and Burgesses of the Commons House in PARLIAMENT now assembled The humble Petition of RICH. DEY Minister shewing that WHereas there hath beene printed and published a Booke entitled The Holy Table Name and Thing c. containing certaine Positions and Tenets of doctrine discipline the worship of God and the Kings power and rights in matters Ecclesiasticall and many of them proved onely by Popish Writers Jesuits and forged Authours and some of them barely asserted which Booke was most probably written but most certainly approved allowed and licensed to be printed and published as most Orthodox in Doctrine and Consonant in Discipline to the Church of England and to set forth the Kings power and rights in matters Ecclesiasticall truly and judiciously by Iohn Williams Bishop of Lincolne That your Honours will be pleased to take the said Book and especially certaine Tenets and Articles thereof hereunto annexed into your grave considerations and that the said Bishop may be put to answer unto the said Booke and Tenets according to the Word of God and the Lawes of this Kingdome the onely rule and prescript of our Religion and the Kings right whether divine or humane And your Petitioner as in duty bound shall ever pray c. The Preface for the Readers intelligence SECTION I. Of the Letter of the Vicar of Grantham WHen as the Prelats were busied and mightily turmoyled in their braines to introduce daily some Innovation or other to set up Popery and to endeavour a reconciliation to Rome it hapned that about the yeere 1627. as appeares Holy Table p. 7. that the Vicar of Grantham in the Dioces of Lincolne being set on by some in authority hol tab. p. 9. perhaps by some of Lauils agents or else by Dr. Heylin one of his Majesties Chaplins began to remove the Communion Table and to place it altarwise whereupon Mr. Wheatley an Alderman and some other townesmen opposed him as having no law nor warrant so to do and the contention thus begun growing hot amongst them it came at last before the Bishop who somewhat pacified the matter beween the Vicar and tovvnesmen and calling the Vicar aside was over-heard to importune him to declare who were his instigators to those innovations which as was conceived he did and the Bishop causing the Vicar with his neighbors to sup there that night said I have supt already upon that you tell mee And if all the bookes I have be able to doe it I will find some satisfaction for my selfe and you in all these particulars before I goe this night to bed And I will provide a letter as written to you M. Alderman to shew to your Brethren and some notes to be delivered to the Divines of the lecture at Grantham And both these if the fault be not in my servant shall be ready by seven a clock in the morning h. tab. p. 9. The Bishop and his Secretary sitting up most of that night in his study and his Secretary fetching up the Booke of Martyrs and borrowing from the Parish Church B Iewels Works And in the morning as the Bishop promised over night between 7 and 8. of the clock was delivered to the Alderman a letter sealed up The forme whereof you may see ho tab. p. 10. And at the same time there was delivered also by the Secretary a sheet of paper closed up to be conveyed to the Divines of the Lecture of Grantham upon their next meeting-day with direction from his Secretary that if they approved of them to impart them to the Vicar to give him satisfaction which they did Now the true copy of these notes or letter though neither subscribed nor superscribed yet as appeares by the premisses and the contents thereof indited and framed by the Bishop though penned by the Secretary is expressed in Holy Table pag. 12. SECT. II. Of the Coal from the Altar IN answer to this Letter which belike the Vicar imparted perhaps in excuse of his desisting his former Innovations and resting now satisfied with this to him who probably was his first inciter to those proceedings Dr. Heylin an intimate friend of his whom the Vicar miserably mistooke for a judicious Divine there was published a vaporous and smoakie piece of worke called A Coal from the Altar which though it was kindled from some Smithfield-faggots in Q. Marys dayes and tended to the same purpose if it had found fuell enough to have kept it alive yet consisting of ignorance misquotations and bad wrestings of good Authours more than of any pure ignean Element it flamed not as the Colliers intended it SECT. III. Of the Holy Table Name and Thing THis Coal was luckily though unlikely quenched not by holy water but with holy wood a new kind of miracle for the holy Table Name and Thing falling flat and heavie upon it smothered it in it's owne smoake or rather the Bishop of Lincolnes Crosier that Episcopall instrument made of an Altar-raile did so bastinado and batterfang Dr. Heylins coal that it broke the Coal to cinders metamorphosed the holy Altar into an holy Table name and thing in appearance yet an holy Altar still in reverence adoration place and situation and which is yet more miraculous did not quench the Romish fire of the coal but rather by a politique dexterity transubstantiate or rather pseudangelically transforme the fire of the coal into a more modificated fire though no lesse penetrating and more spreading for the Coal comming in blustring and sparkling like an old fashioned Divel with a Romish Altar in the front for all his heat was likely to meet with some greâ—n wood which would not admit the fire at first view but the holy Table comming like a disguised spirit though alike Babylonian under pretence of the holy wood and sweet fuel would dry the green logs and by
moderate degrees draw in as much Romish heat if not more than the former as appeareth plainly by the subsequents and so deceived many thousand readers and also would me if I had but only once look'd over Lincolne SECT. IV. Of Heylins Antidotum Lincolniense TO this Holy Table Doctor Heylin tooke no care to provide holy coverings and furnitures nor bossed Bookes guilt Candlestickes Virgin wax-tapers Embroydred hangings carved Rayles pretious Plate no nor so much as a massie Crucifix to pray unto for helpe against this Prelate but seeing his credit lie at stake his Coale extinguished his Altar sore wounded his Learning though weake lie a bleeding and his Religion poysoned hee thinkes it no time to sit playing at Tables with an idle Bishop but presently provides a salve for all these sores which hee called Antidotum Lincolniense but as his Divinitie was gone to travell in strange countreys and was but newly come home weary weake and feeble when he kindled his Coal to warme it so his physique lay asleepe in a warme night-cap and could not suddenly be awaked when he composed his Antidote so that it would neither cure his credit salve his Altars sores selve to expell the poyson of his opinion nor preserve his repute of learning although he graced it with his name in publique thereby bewraying himselfe to be the author of the Coal SECT. V. Of the Author of the Letter and Holy Table c. THat the Bishop of Lincolne was the Author of the Letter to the Vicar of Grantham and Divines of that Lecture though his Secretaries pen might set downe the words is manifest by the premisses in the first Section and that hee was likewise the Author of the Holy Table in defence of the Letter against the Coal from the Altar is not onely probable but plainly manifest and undenyable for although in the Title page and in the license he call him a Lincolneshire Minister and pag. 5. a neighbouring Minister employed in some of the maine passages and pag. 11. one of the Lecturers of Grantham saying Wee met accordingly and perused these Letters c. And pag. 21 and 114. one of the Lecturers that approved of the Letter yet all this proves him not a Lecturer both because he might purposely personate another man whom he was not and also because that by the same reason wee may as well thinke him to be a Countrey Joyner for hee saith Holy Table pag. 45. I that am but a poore Countrey Ioyner can set you up a Table c. and yet hee could not be a Lecturer and Joyner both besides the Lordly stile the Bishoply phrase the Prelaticall disdaine of the Doctor the Chaplin although the Kings his mocking him with a Bishopricke his slight of a Vicaridge his disdaine of the Vicar of that Lecture doe speake him no Lecturer at Grantham his leasure to reade Histories besides English French Italian and Spanish unlikely in a Lecturer his dexteritie in the civill Common and Canon lawes the Lord Keepers office Acts of Parliament Acts of Councell Prerogative Royall Episcopall policy and experience and many such reasons bewray him to be no Lecturer his skill in the tongues not usuall in a Lecturer his Promptitude and readinesse in the Popish Canons Decrees and Decretals his skill in so many severall Masse-bookes and frequent quotation of Masse-mongers his notorious ignorance in understanding and applying the Scriptures as appeares pag. 78. upon Acts 6.2 and his rare quotation of Scriptures the whole Booke I thinke scarce affording five severall Texts among many hundreds of Jesuits mass-Masse-bookes and other Authors frequently quoted in all which regards I appeale to any rationall man whether this can be a Lecturer but above all this wee have himselfe confessing and one confession of the party accused or suspected the Law takes hold of not regarding a hundred denialls for saith hee Holy Table pag. 206. I dare not determine being as you say none of the ablest Canonists in the Church of England here he takes the words as spoken of himselfe which in the Coal from the Altar pag. 50. and quoted Holy Table pag. 54. It is manifest that Heylin speakes it and Lincolne takes it as spoken of the writer of the Letter so that it cannot be denyed but that one man was writer of both and that hee was the Bishop appeares plainly Holy Table pag. 58. saying This Pamphleter whose whole Booke is but a Libell against a Bishop c. Now it is evident that Heylin writ the Coal in answer to the Letter and the Writer thereof therefore the Writer of both Letter and Booke was the Bishop And if this plaine confessing can be shifted off with jugling barbara celarent pag. 64. adieu Grammar and Logicke Mood and Figure and Mood and Tense too and vous avez Doctor Holdsworth who they say corrected it at the Presse and Master Bourn who had the Manuscript and also vous avez the Bishop of Lincolne himselfe who licensed and approved it for Orthodoxal and consonant and subscribed his Name A Preamble to the Tenets BEcause the Prelates are so subtile and politique and so selfe-conceited and to use Lincolnes owne words doe make their owne workes above all humane and equall to the Lawes divine Holy Table pag. 4. and such is the partiality of them that they make their owne case make their owne evidence make their owne law and make their owne authorities and all out of their owne conceits and endeavour what they can to give a faire cause a foule face Holy Tab. pag. 5. so that when wee have that great advantage which Tully speakes of Confitentem reum the guiltie confessing wee can scarce be sure to tie a knot upon a Bishop for he is a slipperie youth as Plaut. in pseudolo Quid cum manifesto tenetur Anguilla est elabitur Holy Table pag. 40. When you thinke sure an Eele is tyed Hee 'l slip the string and not abide So that a man cannot imagine what evidence to provide to give satisfaction to so hautie a companion who Iura negat sibi nata nihil non arrogat armis pag. 5. His native lawes he will deny The Prelats power to deify And because it is possible a Prelate may propose unto himselfe some peevish wrangling waspish humour of his owne in stead of a Canon Holy Table pag. 65. and therefore no Ecclesiasticall Judge whatsoever is to guide himselfe by his owne sense pag. 65. although this Prelate would have his courteous Readers the poore countrey people to swallow many a Gudgeon without so much as champing or chewing on it Holy Table pag. 146. I have therefore proposed before his Tenets to avoyd cavillations and Prelaticall evasions three rules and one compasse which if they were mine owne being reasonable it were as great reason this Prelates Opinions and Tenets should be ruled and squared by them as that Heylin and others should be regulated by and compassed within his rules and compasse But because I would deale with all