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A75518	An appeale of the orthodox ministers of the Church of England against Richard Mountague, late Bishop of Chichester, now Bishop of Norwich. To the most illustrious, high, and honourable court of Parliament. And to the nobilitie, orthodox clergie, gentry, and communaltie of England. With the proceedings against him in Bow-Church. And an epistle to B. Mountague himselfe. also, a supplication of the ministers of Scotland against the said Mountague. Wherein his dangerous heresies are revealed; and the character of an Arminian or Mountaguists is added.		1641 (1641)	Wing A3566; Thomason E206_11; ESTC R209850	17,891	41

your religious Act in agitation at Oxford against Haeresies and false Doctriue And now in its due place we also present unto your view your owne more particular Charge in your Articles exhibited by your House of Commons against Mountagu at Westminster in Parlament 2. Careli 1626. which also remaines upon your Records as followeth MARCH 1626. Articles exhibited by the Commons in Parlament against RICHARD MOVNTAGV Clerke THat hee the said Richard Mountague in or about the 21th yeare of the raigne of our late Soveraigne King Iames of famous memorie hath caused to be printed and in his name to bee published one booke called An answere to the late Gagger of Protestants and in and about the 22th yeare of the same King hee caused to be printed and published one other booke intituled A Treatise of the Invocation of Saints And likewise in that first yere of his Majesties Raigne that now is he procured to bee printed and in his name to bee published an other booke intituled An appeale to Caesar in everie of which bookes hee hath maintained and affirmed some doctrines contrary or repugnant to the Articles wherevpon it was agreed by the Archbishops and byshops of both Provinces and the Whole Clergie in the convecation holden at London in the yeare of our Lord God 1562. according to the computation of the Church of England fer avoyding diversicy of opinions and for establishing consent touching true Religion All which appeares in the places hereafter mentioned and in diuers other places and passages of the same bookes and by his so doing hath broken the Lawes and Statutes of this Realme in that case provided and very much disturbed both the peace of the Church and Common-wealth 1 Wheras in the 35th Article of the Articles aboue-mentioned it is declared That the second booke of HOmilies doth containe a godly and wholesome doctrine In the 16th Homily of which booke it is determined That the Church of Rome as it is present and hath beene for the space of 900. yeares and odde is so farre voyd from the nature of a true Church that nothing can bee more Hee the said Richard Mountague in severall places of his said booke called Gagg pag. App. p. 136. The Answere to the Gagger and in his other booke called the Appeale doth advisedly maintaine and affirme that the Church of Rome is and euer was a true Church since it was a Church 2 Whereas in the same Homily it is likewise declared that the Church of Rome is not built vpon the foundation of the Prophets and Apostles and in the 28th Article of the said Articles that Transubstantiation overthroweth the nature of a Sacrament And in the 25th of the same Articles That fiue other reputed Sacraments of the Church of Rome are not to bee accompted Sacraments yet contrary and repugnant heerevnto hee the said Richard Mountague doth maintaine and affirme in his booke aforesaid called Gag pag. 50 The Answere to the Gagger That the Church of Rome hath ever remained firme vpon the same foundation of Sacraments and doctrine instituted by God 3 In the 19th of the same Articles it is further determined that the Church of Rome hath erred not onely in their living and manner of Ceremonies but also in matters of faith hee the said Richard Mountague speaking of those points which belong to faith and manners hope and Charitie doth in the same Booke called the Gagger Gagg p. 14. affirme and maintaine That none of these are contreverted inter partes meaning the Protestants and the Papists And notwithstanding That in the 31th Article it is resolved That the Sacrifices of Moses in which as is commonly said That the Priest did offer Christ for the quicke and the dead to hane remission of paine and guilt too are blasphemous fables and dangerous deceipts This being one of the points controverted betweene the Church of England and the Church of Rome The said Richard Mountague in his booke called the Gagger doth affirme and maintaine Gagg p 14. That the controverted points are of a lesse and inferior Allay Of them a may man be ignorant without any danger of his soule at all A man may resolue or oppose this or that way within perill of perishing for ever 4. Whereas in the second Homily entituled against perill of Idolatry contained in the foresaid booke of HOmilies approved by the 37th Article aforementioned it is declared That Images teach no good lesson neither of good nor godlinesse but all errour and wickednesse Hee the said Richard in the booke aforesaid Gag p. 300. called the Answere to the late Gagger doth affirme and maintaine That Images may be vsed for the instruction of the ignorant and exitation of Devotion 5 That in the same Homily it is plainly expressed That the attributing the defence of certaine Countries to Saints is a spoyling God of his honour And that such Saints are but as Dij Tutelares of the Gentile Idolatours TLhe said Richard ountague hath notwithstanding in the Booke afore mentioned entituled Inv. p. 107. A Treatise concerning the Invocation of Saints affirmed and maintained That Saints haue not onely a memorie but a more peculiar charge of their friends And that it may bee admitted that some Saints haue a peculiar patronage 108. Custody protection and power 109. as Angels also haue over certaine persons and Countries by especiall deputation And that it is no impietie so to beleeue Note that hee saith in his Appeale 108. and 109. Shew me that the Saints haue knowledge of vs here And J will not doubt to pray to them So that hence it wil be evident That Mountagu holds it lawfull to pray to Saints 6 Whereas in the 17th of the said Articles it is resolved That God hath constantly decreed by his Councell secret to vs to deliver from curse and damnation Those whom hee hath chosen in Christ out of mankind and to bring them by Christ to everlasting salvation Wherefore they which bee indued with so excellent a benefit of God bee called according to Gods purpose working in due season They by grace obey the calling they bee justified freely walke religiously in good works and at length by Gods mercy attaine to everlasting felicitie Hee the said Richard Mountague in the booke aforesaid called the Appcale App. p. 30. doth maintaine and affirme that men justified may fall away and depart from that state which once they had they may rise againe and become new men possible but not certaine nor necessarie And the better to countenance this his opinion hee hath in the said Booke wilfully added falsified and changed divers words of the 16th of the Articles afore-mentioned And divers other words both in the Booke of HOmilyes as in the Booke of Common Prayer App. p. 29.31 32.35 And all the same places so misrecyted and changed hee doth alledge in his said booke called the Appeale endeauouring thereby to lay a most wicked and malicious scandall upon the Church

Church of England for avoyding of diversitie of opinions and for establishing consent touching true Religion And by your said Delicts you have broken the lawes and Statutes of this Realme in that behalfe provided And you thereby haue very much disturbed the peace of the Church and Common-wealth to the high dishonour of Almighty God Which your Bookes are Confuted by the late right reverend Bishop Carleton and divers other Orthodox and conformable Divines of the Church of England And I Article and object Conjunctim aivisim de quolibet 2 Item That you the said Richard Mountagu in severall places of your said Booke called the Gagger and in your other booke called the Appeale doe and haue advisedly maintained and affirmed That the Church of Rome is and ever was a true Church contrary to the Sixteenth Homilie of the second booke of Homilies and as is declared in the 35. Article of the aforesaid Articles And I object as aforesaid 3 Item That you the said Richard Mountagu doe maintayne and affirme in your aforesaid booke the Answere to the Gagger That the Church of Rome hath ever remained firme upon the same foundation of Sacraments and Doctrine instituted by God Contrary to the Homily last named and as is declared in the 28. Article of the said-said-Articles And I object as aforesaid 4 Item That you the said Richard Mountagu in your booke called the Answere to the Gagger doe and haue maintayned and affirmed That Images may bee vsed for the instruction of the ignorant Contrary to the second Homily intituled against perill of Idolatry which is approved by the 37. Article of the Articles aforesaid And I obiect as aforesaid 5 Item That you the said Richard Mountagu in your Treatise of the Invocation of Saints doe and haue affirmed and maintained that Saints haue not onely a memorie but a more peculiar charge of their friends and that it may bee admitted that some Saints haue a peculiar patronage Custody protection and power as Angels haue also over certaine persons and Conntries by especiall deputation and that it is no impiety so to beleeue Contrary to the doctrine in the Homily aforesaid And I object as aforesaid 6 Item That you the said Richard Mountagu in your said booke called the Appeale doe maintayne and haue maintayned and affirmed that men justified may fall away and depart from that state which once they had and that they may rise againe and possibly become new men but not certaine or necessary And the better to maintaine this your opinion you haue in the same booke wilfully added falsified and changed divers words of the 16. Article of the booke of Articles aforesaid and divers other words both in the booke of Homilies and also in the booke of Common prayer And all the same places are so by you misrecited and changed in your said booke called the Appeale to Caesar and you doe and haue endeauoured thereby to lay a most wicked and malicious Scandall vpon the Church of England as if it did herein differ from the reformed Churches beyond the Seas and you did and doe consent to those pernicious Errors which are commonly called Arminianisme and which the late famous Princes Queene ELIZABETH and King IAMES of most happie and blessed memorie did piously and diligently labour to suppresse And I object as aforesaid 7 Item That you the said Richard Mountagu in all your three seuerall Bookes afore-named doe maintayne and haue maintayned and affirmed divers other vnsound and hereticall Doctrines and opinions as is at large proued in the bookes of Confutation of your said bookes which you haue nor cannot reply vnto And I object as aforesaid 8 Item quod prefati Willielmus Iones Richardus Mountagu Clericus suerunt respectiue sunt provinc vestrae Cantuariens jurisdictionis vestrae subsiditi in hac parte obijcit vt supra 9 Item quod omnia singula premissa sunt vera publica notoria publica manifesta tam infra Civitatem Dioc. London alia loca publica famosa infra Regnum Angliae obijcit vt supra Omnia singula premissa proponit obijcit dictus Willielmus Jones conjunctim divisim non arctan se ad omnia singula premissa probanda nec ad onus superflue probationis de quo protestatur sed quatenus probaverit in premissis catenus obtineat in petitis sub protestatione de addendo premissis eademque magis specifice declarando specificando eademque probando pro loco tempore congruis oportunius semper sibi salvo omni Iuris beneficio in hac parte sibi competen seu competitur eaque protestatione sibi semper salva petit Articulos Capitula sive Interrogatoria sua predicta ad omnem Iuris effectum admitti partemque aduersam eijsdem corum cuilibet secundum Iuris extigentiam respondere compelli protestatur de expensis Et petit Jus Iusticiam vestrum Officium Domine Judex antedict humiliter implorando Per me Willielmum Iones Thus farre the Objections of the Objectour in due forme of Law And judge O judge yee worthie Iudges of the House whether these objections were not in due of Law But the Iudge aforenamed taking the paper of Objections first seemed to read them ouer silently to himselfe and then delivered them to the said Elect Bishop Mountagu who seemed also to read them over silently to himselfe and then with an vntoward looke and trembling hand gaue the paper backe to the Iudge Who called to him one Doctour Samms of the Arches advising with him what to doe in the businesse and hee told him hee would runne into a Praemunire if hee did not proceed Who thereupon gaue the Obiectour Mr. Iones an answer to this effect My friend you haue giuen heere Objections against this my Lord elect of Chichest or but your Objections are not in due forme of Law because they haue not a Doctour of the Arches hand vnto them neither haue you an Advocate to plead your Objections Therefore neverthelesse by vertue of this his Majesties Commission vnder the Great Seale which hee tooke in his hand and turned I will proceed to confirme him And so did Now Iudge O Iudge againe thrice Iudicious Iudges whether any person bee not invited by the former Proclamation to obiect in due forme of Law And whether any Doctours hand or Advocate are thereby required And besides the Court at that time for Confirmation is not any Court for pleading What need therefore had the Obiectour of any Doctours hand or Advocate He himselfe setting his hand vnto it and being there Ore tenus Then when the Iudge had with a strong hand peremptorily proceeded in the Confirmation of the aforesaid elect Byshop Mountagu This new confirmed Pontifex still with a brazen face and whorish forehead made an Apologie for himselfe and his Bookes and said most impudently to this effect That he himselfe had subscribed to the Booke of Articles and the Booke

of Homilies and all other Books of Conformitie to the Church of England and that if any whosoever could publikely or privately confute those his Bookes hee would bee the first man that would cause those his Bookes to bee burnt 〈◊〉 Whereas it is most manifest as before 〈…〉 ●●●inst the Doctrine of those Bookes of Articles and Homifies c. And who knoweth not his owne Bookes are confuted by divers learned and pious men as in the premisses his Bookes condemned by a charge in Parlament and other reformed Churches as in the premisses also Natherlesse this Gamaliel highly applauded with adulation this his confirmed Bishops base Apologie and said You haue well said my Lord and he also said That those Objections were nothing but the blattering of a Tradesman who was too busie to meddle with such high mysteries of Divinitie but indeed it was the disease of the Time now for mechanicall Tradesmen so to doe c. Also the aforesaid Doctour Rives and one Drake the Register and one Fish the Proctour all three employed in the said Confirmation did all joyntly vse other disgracefull scoffing scornefull and geering words gestures and behaviours towards the Objectour and the Objections They also checked and taunted a religous Gentleman who tooke the Objectours part Whereof there were divers not a few we may say a Cloud of witnesses and some of them Minasters our Brethren there present the reverend Rectour of the Church and others So as We doe also complaine to this Honourable House of Doctour Rives Doctour Samms Drake and Fish who all foure wee perceiue to bee Delinquents in the businesse and none so fit as the Objector afore-named to produce witnesses to this Honourable and Noble Senate of the same The third day after this day of Confirmation being Sonday or the Lords day Mountagu came to be Consecrated by the most reverend Archbyshop of Canterbury then residing at Croydon who as it seemes had no knowledge of the Objections concealed by Mountagu and his Adhaerents And the Ceremonies of Consecration were performed Onely this happened as we are informed whiles Mountagu and his fautors were sitting at the feast or dinner of Consecration the newes was brought to the most Reverend Archbishop that the Duke of Buckingham Mountagu's potent Patron was stabb'd to death at Portsmouth and that on Saturday the day after and about the same houre that Mountagu was opposed in his Confirmation which for the time as they say helped to marre Mountagu's myrth and espacially stopped the chirping of a certaine Wren which Bird comming lately out of an vncleane Cage began to straine high his lascivious notes to make musicke against godly Ministers c. Neverthelesse by this time you may see Mountagu in his Pontificalibus Elect Confirmed and Consecrated Byshop of Chichester in despight of all Opposition and as hee is in his Pontificalibus now to bee ranked inter Dominos Spirituales Good Lord Hee who by the doome of God Tit. 3.10 in his Word and all good Orthodox men not thought worthy to liue at leastwise not to enjoy any further Spirituall promotion in our Reformed Church of England nor ever could haue the grace of the Vniversitie to Commence so much as Doctour in Divinitie and in stead of beeing censured by Parlament and degraded from any Ministeriall office Hee wee say to become a Byshop and a Governour in our Church woe must needs bee to that Diocesse especially that hath such a Byshop such a Governour Yea it is well knowne hee spareth not already since his Consecration to say and sweare in his Table-talke hee will plague the Puritans in his Diocesse And they say he hath already silenced some Lecturers and by Puritans his meaning is alwayes according to his garb and writings all honest Orthodox Divines that due oppose and will not adbaere vnto his unsound and unsavorie opinions and Doctrines though they other wise bee never so conformable to the orders and Caeremonies of the Church of England And these his Errours and Haeresies are so notorious and manifest both by his writings as in the premisses and in his Preachings when he gets into the Pulpit that all the water in the Pontifician Sea of Chichester can never wash off these blacke staines from him For can a Leopard change his spots Let vs craue leaue of this honourable House a little to digresse And then We are also not to conceale but reueale unto You that this notable Mountebank is familiarly acquainted with divers knowne Papists who haue resort unto him hee recourse unto them and by name which wee can proue hee hath often priuate conference with one Hugh Holland a professed Papist and sworne slaue to his Lord God the Pope and some say a lay-Iesuite if there bee any such order however a ruffianly Locust and seducer of the Kings Liege-people a vilifier of Parlaments And what this fellow else is our reverend brother the Rector of Fan-church can can if hee be pleased informe this House And so wee leaue this base Associate of B. Mountagu and returne to himselfe But how long therefore how long Lord most holy most wise most just and true Wilt thou suffer the Grapes of the Vintage to bee destroyed the Corne of thy Harvest to bee spoyled by such a Fex such a Wolfe and such like Foxes and Wolves For more uncleane Birds there bee of the same Cage c. as will appeare hereafter in our Catalogue of them Pardon O pardon our digression and fervent deprecation since our zeale in Gods cause hath transported us so farre And now returne wee most honorable House out Appeale unto You and to draw to a Conclusion therof A mongst your many weightie matters and of high Consequence for Church and Common-wealth Wee most humbly supplicate that this new made Byshop Mountagu who though hee now raungeth him selfe amongst the Spirituall Lords and temporall Peeres in the Vpper House of this high Assemblie of Parlament may yet bee taken into consideration that hee may no longer Lord it over Gods people and his Heritage 2. Pet. 5.3 us the poore despised orthodox Ministers of the Gospell in this Church of England And that hee having deserved as wee conceiue rather Fire and faggot than further Preferment may come maturely to bee censured and degraded if the House shall so be pleased at the least by this High and honourable Court and his pernicious Bookes to be at length called-in and burned The which againe wee most humbly implore on our bended knees and That for GOD our Creatours sake for CHRIST our Redeemers sake for the holy Spirit our Comforters sake Vnto which Almightie and All-sufficient Three in One Wee most humbly commend and betake You all of this honourable Court and your serious Consultations for Church and Common-wealth By those that daily and incessantly pray for the Peace of Syon and Consolation of Ierusalem The orthodox Ministers of the Church of England Post-script IF this Honorable House or any other whatsoever shall doubt