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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A05604	The ansvver of Iohn Bastwick, Doctor of Phisicke, to the exceptions made against his Letany by a learned gentleman which is annexed to the Letany it selfe, as articles superadditionall against the prelats. In the vvhich there is, a full, demonstration and proof of the reall absence of Christ in the sacrament of the Lords Supper, with the vanity and impiety of the consecreation of temples churches and chapples, also the necessity of the perpetuall motion and circulation of worship if men be bound to bow the knees at the name of Iesus. This is to follow the Letany as a second part thereof.; Litany. Part 2	Bastwick, John, 1593-1654.	1637 (1637)	STC 1573; ESTC S104507	58,976	32

pursuiuants themselues often brag of the greatnes of their Masters attendance and in such ample maner as I thinke the Kings Maiestie hath not commonly greater and therefore that cannot be denyed which is dayly practised And for their Seruants insolency I haue frequently both seene it and felt it Now whereas you thinke that it will not be will taken that I call Bishops Preists and Deacons Antichrists little toes and in my LETANY desire deliuerahce from them and withall seeme to accuse them of incontinency all which you thinke will be censured of vnad uisednes at least if not thought scandalous and punishable To this I answer first that by Bishops I vnderstand the Prelats and by Preists their owne creatures a generation vnknowne in the Church of Christ and by Deacons the vnder Preists in this Kingdome Officers of which the Scripture knoweth nothing likewise For the Deacons such as the Churches chose and were allowed by the Apostels they were men of grauity full of Faith and the Holy Ghost men of wisdome and good gouerment and honesty and were the treasures of the faithfull and the Church of God and distributed the liberalityes of the Saints amongst the poore indigent and necessitated brethren Now I know neuer a Deacon in England either guilty of any of those Vertues before specified or that was euer imployed in that Office or was thought fit to be trusted with the treasury of the poore or tooke the least care of them who ordinarily they trample vpon and most reprochfully abuse with the name of rascality So that such Deacons as I pray against are limbes of the Beast and the inferior order of shauelings such as ought to be spewed out of the Church as profitable for nothing but the increase of wickednes And for Bishops such as God appoynted I honour them and will mayntayne their dignity to the last drop of my bloud so far I am from praying against such Neither did I euer speake vnreuerently against the Kings Bishops and those that were apoynted as an Order in the State till they had in their open court renounced his authority and run themselues by that and many other notorious proceedings into a Praemunire and so had made themselues enemyes of his Prerogatiue royall and delinquents against his Maiestie and vnder his Highnesses displeasure as by the Statutes of the Kingdome they are proclamed to be and by the defenders of their proceedings in their Ecclesiasticall Courts who in a booke set forth by their common consent doe conclude all those in a Premunire that challenge their authority Iure diuino as the Pope and clergie of Rome which at this time they doe And for your better satisfaction looke in the Apology for proceedings in Courts Ecclesiasticall a booke made by the Prelats owne creatures and in the first chapter you shall see all the Prelats by their owne witnes in a Premunire and delinquents against his Maiestie in a high degree of contumacy And truely I thinke there was neuer such an affront put vpon regall dignity as on that day I was censured neuer such dishonour put vpon the Scriptures by such as would be thought Ministers of the word and the Bishops and Pastors of Christ neither were the scriptures euer more blasphemously abused thē they were at that time in their open assembly I shall briefly therefore tell you that dayes work of which there is a thousand witnesses as also of their impious words against the most sacred word of God and diuine oracles of holy writ by all which you will see I haue good reasō to call them ANTICHRISTS LITTLE TOES and to pray against them for they are as Disperatly impious equally to be detested of all such as truely feare the Lord and the King for if wee compare them together there will no disparity appeare between them they being euery way as malicious against the word of God and his deare seruants and as diametrally opposing regality as Antichrist himself But that all things may the more clearly be euidenced vnto you let mee tell you that dayes proceedings You must take notice that howsoeuer they had fained some triuiall articles against mee they were all by the generall consent of the Court thought so poore as they openly auerred they would not condemne mee for them so much the rather because those that had sworne to them were proued to be my capital enimyes and also in their depositions to haue sworne point blanck one against an other and like euill witnesses could not agree in swearing therefore they onely cōdemned mee for my booke which I writ in defence of the honor of Christ and his Kingdome and of the Kings most excellent Maiesties prerogatiue Royall and Supremacy against the Pope and Popish Bishops prouoked there vnto by a Papist to which duty I was bound both by the law of God the law of the land my speciall oath all which I alleged at the barre farthermore added that in writing against the Bishop of Rome I intented no such Bishops as acknowledge their autority from Kings and Emperors but onely those Bishops that vsurp autority ouer Kings and Emperors and their fellow brethren and the Church of God iure diuino and so I had prefaced in my book which also I openly read there And to speake the truth I looked for fauour and assistance in this combat from the Prelats neuer suspecting that they would haue been my enimyes for this endeauour especially I hauing also in that place alleged the Acts and Statutes establyshed by the publick consent of the whole Kingdome in which it was ratified that the Prelats haue all their autority and iurisdiction which they now exercise from the King as immediately deriued from him and to affirme the contrary is to be ipso facto an enimy of his crowne and dignity And as the Prelats were an order established by the King and state I was so farre from opposing them that I neuer impeached their dignity in the least thing in all the booke neither would I euer haue medled with them if they had kept that standing but they like the euill Angels out of pride not keeping their first station BVT OPENLY RENOVNCING THE KINGS AVTORITY and affirming that Iesus Christ made them Bishops and that the holy Ghost consecrated them and that they were Princes and had their thrones and that before Kings and all this iure diuino by all which they made mee their enimy they being delinquents against the King And because I had retified whatsoeuer I sayd in my booke by the word of God they as they had before renounced the Kings autority and barbarously reuiled mee for my paines most impiously likewise vilified the holy scripture Saying in their Sessions that they looked for some great matter in my booke finding mee so confident but more diligently reading of it they found nothing but scripture in it which was the refuge of all Schismaticks and Heriticks and that the Scripture could not be knowne