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A35853 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 ... Dey, Richard. 1641 (1641) Wing D1288; ESTC R13739 26,703 36

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unto God in his behalfe pag. 135. see 132. Consid 1. Whether all men are camels and oaks beasts and blocks that will not bow and make adoration not to Christ but to the Ministers prayer XXII That here in England this worse conclusion of the Doctors to desire to sit at the Communion is more to be feared from the opposers of our Lyturgie who brag of their cousinship and coheireship with Christ then from us who are ready to live and die in defence of the same pag. 149. Consid. 1. Whether this Orthodox Prelate doe quake for feare lest people sit at the Communion and yet confesse himselfe that the Apostles used a table gesture Holy tab. p. 132. 2. Whether the Bishops hold their Miters in tenure of a service-Service-booke that they will live and die in defence of the same XXIII That it was well done by the reformed Church in Poland first by monitions in the yeere 1573 and then by Sanctions in the yeere 1583. ne in usu sit that the usuall receiving of the Communion in those parts should not be by sitting round about the table pag. 133.136 Consid 1. Whether Bishop Williams was then a privy Councellor of Poland to know all their circumstances whether they did well or ill 2. Whether he have ground in Scripture to prove that they did well that did either directly against the institution or against their owne consciences inforcing weake consciences in a thing at the most but indifferent 3. Whether they did well to goe beyond Rome it selfe which as this Bishop confesseth did not absolutely condemne this Ceremony of sitting Holy table p. 133. XXIV That it hath beene alwayes as the practice so the doctrine of this Kingdome that both in every part and in the whole Lawes doe not make Kings but Kings Lawes which they alter and change from time to time as they see occasion pag 31. XXV That the Kings of England have a power from God himselfe not only to make laws but to alter and change laws from time to time for the good of themselves and their subjects ho tab. p. 41. Consid. 1. Whether it be not manifest in the holy table that he speakes this of the Kings power to make and change lawes absolutely without expressing in or with the Parliament 2. Whether hee thinkes it needfull for Bils propounded by the King to passe the upper and lower House or that the Regall power absolute is as sufficient of it selfe to make and change Lawes or that the priviledges of the Houses being necessarily requisite to passing Bils be any encroachment upon the Regall power Jure Divino or any wrong unto the supreme Majesty 3. Whom doth hee thinke must be judge what is good for them and their Subjects 4. Whether hee thinke the honourable House of Commons may not justly take these things into serious consideration though another man dare not meddle with so stout a Prelate XXVI That the power in matters Ecclesiasticall is such a Fee-simple as was vested in none but God himselfe before it came by his and his onely donation to be vested in the King and being vested in the King it cannot by any power whatsoever no not by his owne be devested from him ho tab. p. 24. Consid. 1. Whether doth he thinke that the Parliament hath no power at all in matters Ecclesiasticall but that the same power was in the King absolutely before the Parliament made the Statute of primo Elizab. as it was after as his former words seeme to affirme if it was what needed that or any Act to be passed but an arbitrary government if not in all things yet at least in all matters Ecclesiasticall which is the onely desire of the Prelates whereby they by flatteries and insinuations may doe what they list 2. Whether doth not this deny the King himselfe to have power to invest his sonne and heire in part or in whole of his power if he please as some Kings have done and as David did 3. Whether doth not this tenet deny the Kings power to be devested from him to his officers for execution of his Lawes seeing it tyes all so upon his owne person that it seemes to deny him power to unburthen himselfe 4. Whether doth not this deny the King to have power to make Acts of Parliament in matters Ecclesiasticall because in such Acts the King obliges himselfe to that Law or whether doth not this tenet nullifie all such Lawes ipso facto if the Kings power cannot by himselfe be devested from him XXVII That the Kings Declaration is therefore in the letter called a kind of Law because it was neither act of Parliament nor a meere Act of Councell but an Act of the King sitting in Councell which if not in all things else without all question in all matters Ecclesiasticall is a kinde of Law Holy tab. p. 188. Consid. 1. Whether the Prelates could not wish there were no other kinde of Law neither Acts of Parliaments nor Acts of Councell but meere Declarations and those onely by their owne directions as in all things else so especially in all matters Ecclesiasticall 2. Whether the Prelates have not laboured to reduce all kindes of Law to an arbitrary government XXVIII That the Kings Majestie may command a greater matter of this nature then that the holy Table should be placed where the Altar stood and be railed about for the great decencie and that although the Statute of primo Eliz. had never beene in rerum natura pag. 32. Consid. 1. Whether the Prelates have not alwayes perswaded that the greatest affaires of Church and State might be mannaged and performed not onely by meere commands without but contrary to Acts of Parliament 2. Whether Bishop Williams doe not prove elsewhere that railes and Altar-wise placing are directly contrary to Lawes and Acts of Parliament 3. Whether a subject is not guilty of laesae Majestatis that by flattery betrayes the Kings judgement into the manifest breach of the Lawes established XXIX That the Act of primo Eliz. concerning Ecclesiasticall jurisdiction was not a Statute introductory of a new Law but declaratorie of the old Parliaments are not called to confirme but to affirme and declare the Lawes of God Weake and doubtfull titles are to be confirmed such cleare and indubitate rights as his Majestie hath to the Ecclesiasticall jurisdiction are onely averred and declared by Acts of Parliament And all Declarations of this kind are as the stuffe they are made of to last for ever pag. 25. Consid. 1. Whether every part or parcell of Ecclesiasticall jurisdiction be perpetuall because the whole is such so that Parliaments cannot change them 2. Whether the High Commission is therefore to last for ever contrary to the same authoritie that stablished it first 3. Whether this tenet doe not deny the power and priviledge of Parliaments if all Ecclesiasticall Lawes so once declared are to last for ever to please the Prelates so that the Parliament cannot repeale the Statutes
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 gre●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