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A05611	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	58,802	32

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 to be Scripture but by the Fathers nor distinguished from the Apocriphd but by the Fathers nor the meaning of the scripture could not be knowne but by the Fathers and because the Fathers as they sayd were in their interpretation diuerse from mee which notwithstanding is not so therefore they condemned me But I pray are not all these blasphemous popish and damnable assertions could worse haue been forged in the very conclaue of hell Is not this I pray you to tell the Spirit of God to

great comfort and releife they will in time be made a prey to the cruelty of euery oppressor and their liues become untolerable to them especially when it shall be thought a State policy that he that hath the best faculty of tyrannising and oppressing the King subjects shall bee esteemed the most seruiceable member in a common-wealth the greatest Statist And this is policy from hell the authors of which the Lord himself will confound if they repent not But in the meane time in seeking for releif and ease vnder oppression though it be in the diseases of the common-wealth as it is in the bodies of men the speedier remedy to them is euer the best for the longer they continue the more dangerous they are yet as the patient submits himself to the Physitian for the time of the Cure So much more ought the subject to leaue the Cure to Kings best opportunityes as the onely Physitians of Kingdomes and who as they are called Gods so many times imitate him in long suffering conniuing at and patient enduring the insolent and domineering oppressors and such as trample not onely vpon the people but their owne lawes yea vpon their crownes and dignity and yet seeme in the meane time to be their faithfullest seruants and those that stand most of all for the advancement of their honour and glory as those cursed enimies of God did in the 66 of Isaiah 5. Let the Lord be glorified say they when they persecuted and oppressed his seruants hated them and cast them out So say these sycophants Let the Kings honour be mainteyned when they meane nothing lesse All which things Kings many times know very well and them to be mere hypocrites and to doe all they doe for their owne base ends and therefore in their fittest opportunities purge the Church and State of them And as Kings are Gods in respect of health safety gouernment and wisdome So they are likewise in respect of invocation onely to be sought to and called vpon of their subjects in all times of the calamities of oppression next after God himself we are not to goe in our troubles and oppressions to wizards of State the Kings enimies that bewitch men with presents or rebells or take indirect courses of insurrections and tumultuation this is a remedy worse then the disease and more displeasing to God and dishonorable to the subject and deserues a greater yoake of seruitude but we must continue our humble petitions to the King and tell his Majesty how the matter stands We must be like the importunat widow and allthough we meet with many discouragements as those that came unto Christ did yet we may not surcease and be weary or droue back for Kings are Gods and are exorable full of pity compassion and neuer send away their subjects without comfort that with lowly importunity sollicit them and this is the duty of all good subjects and such as will approue their wayes before God and men in the number of which I shall desire euer to liue and die being though but poore as rich in loyalty as any subject in the Kings three dominions But now to shut vp all Whereas you think many will blame mee for that I vse such coorse expressions towards them and it will fauour of some inward splene and study of reuenge and may also scandall religion for they will say they are all of this Spirit In answer to that I protest in the presence of allmighty God that I am so farre from either rancour and hatred toward them for all the wrong they haue done mee as I neuer thinke of any euill towards them because I referre my cause to God and vengeance to him and cast my self vpon his prouidence in a more speciall maner chiefly at this time when I haue none other to depend vpon I being made odious amongst all men and hatefull to them that neuer saw mee But this I confidently confesse vnto you that I know more of the wicked plots of the Prelats then any Subiect that is a Protestant with in the Kings dominions and you would say there were reason for it if you knew all And before I haue done with them I will make the wickednes not onely of our Prelats but of all the Prelats in the whole world knowne vnto all Christians Princes and to al their Subiects who to speake the truth are all infinitly abused by them not onely for the trampling vnder their feet all the sucular Peeres vnder them and the Nobility and flower of all Kingdomes where they dwell and the subiugating of their Commons but in fine in regard of the danger of hauing their necks brought vnder a greater yoake of bondage then euer it formerly was all which I will make appeare vnto all Christian Princes and vnto all men as clearly as the Sun shines at Noone day The mistery indeed that they are a working is carryed closely so that Kings and Nobles do not see it for they all buzze Nobles and Princes in the eare that those that are enimyes to the Hierarchy they indeed would disthrone Kings and haue no gouernment and they would slight the nobility and dignityes and ouerthrow order and states and then they tell a thousand storyes to them all to incense the King and Nobles against that poore company of men that more honour dignityes and powers in a Kingdome then euer any prelat did as shall be euidently proued in my ANATOMY of the pRELATS which I dedicat vnto all Christian Princes and Common-wealths for it concernes them all but especially all such as make profession of the reformed religion I dare say by that time you and all men shall haue read that booke you will see into the mystery of their iniquity so clearely that you will affirme there are no names bad enough for them or sufficient to expresse the wickednes and treachery of those empostors Our Prelats writ books sometime against the Pope and call him the grand Imposter but the truth is the Papists say that all such Bishops are knaues and that if the Pope be an Impostor they are greater for they are all Pops and thus much I haue often heard them speake and that were it not for the hindering of the Catholick cause and the vniuersall Monarchy they could make them fly without gunpowder but they hoped in time they would leaue to write against the Church of Rome They know one an others kneueries all which I haue made knowne in the Anatomy of the Prelats which is in the hands of some speciall friends The printing of which I haue reserued till my censure in the starre-chamber because I desire to doe things methodically and vpon mature deliberation and in such sort that all Christendome may haue the greater cause to looke into businesses that so highly concerne their well being You know I haue been a traueller and liued many yeares abroad and in the most florishing vniuersityes of Europe and in many Courts of great Princes and haue