before those nine and thirty Artieles of our Church were established was accomplished So as he did not assume on himselfe that Office but was thereunto called by lawfull Authority And as for the latter of our Decrees before mentioned cited by R.B. whereby it is ordained that those who be consecrated according to the Tenor of King Edwards Booke are thereby adjudged to be lawsully consecrated if it were true as R. B. affirmes it that King Edwards Book of Consecration was dead at the very time of Archbishop Parkers consecration or if he were not consecrated in all particulars according to the Tenor and prescript of that Booke yet it does not follow that his Consecration must be utterly void and invalid as R. B. resolutely affirmes it pretending that the Standing or overthrow of our Protestants whole religion depends thereon for if so it would go very far for overthrow of the antient Church or at least it would receive a deadly wound thereby For notwithstanding the Councell of Sardica ordained Episcopus non prius ordinaretur nisi et ante Lectoris munere et officio Diaconi et Presbyteri fuerit perfunctus et ita per singulos gradus sidignus fuerit ascendat in Culmen Episcopatus potest enim per has promotiones quae habent utiq prolixum tempus probari quâ fide sit quâve modestiâ et gravitate et verecundiâ A bishop may not be ordained unlesse he hath first performed the duty of a Reader and the office of a Deacon and Presoyter and so through each degree if he shall be found worthy let him ascend the height of Episcopacy for by these promotions which verily require long time He may be tryed of what faith modesty gravity and reverence he is yet neverthelesse Eusebius (a) Deacon of Alexandria was immediately made Bishop of Laodicea and (b) Nectarius a neophyte and unbaptized Catechumene was elected Patriarch of Constantinople (b.c) and presently made Bishop in the second generall Counsell held at Constantinople (a c c) And St. Ambrose of a consul was baptized and Consecrated Bishop of Millaine d And Eusebius a Magistrate was baptized and made Archbishop of Cesarea (e) And also Saint Tharasius being a lay-man was consecrated a Bishop And (f) in like sort Petrus Moronaeus of a lay-man was made Pope of Rome And I beleeve nether R. B. nor any well advised Romanist will or dare say their Consecrations were void much lesse can R. B. irritate or make void the Consecration of Arch-bishop Parker if it were true that King Edwards Booke of Consecration was indeed atterly dead at the time of his Consecration because our Decree concerning that Book before ricited does not ordaine that if any Consecration be Celebrated not in all and every Punctilio of that Book that such Consecration is judged deemed and decreed to be utterly void and of none effect No that Article is utterly Silent therein it onely affirmatively sayes that such as are Consecrated according to the tenor of that Booke are deemed and decreed to be rightly lawfully Consecrated so as the Conclusion inferred by R. B. cannot be supported by the premisses try it syllogistically and it will be most manifest Whosoever is Consecrated Bishop according to the rites of King Edwards Booke of Consecration is rightly lawfully Consecrated so sayes our Article But Doctor Parker was not Consecrated according to the tenor of King Edwords Book of Consecration so sayes R. B. in regard it was then dead and not mâ—rerum natura as he alledgeth ergo Doctor Parker was not rightly lawfully Consecrated so is the Conclusion of R B. which is a false syllogisme being in no figure nor mood nor any way consonane to the rules of dialectical argumentation if the little skill I have in that Learning does not misguide me very much For it were necessary for maintenance of this Conclusion of R. B. That Doctor Parker was not rightly and lawfully Consecrated and thereby our whole Râ—ligion overthrowne that our Decree should have bin of this Tenor viz Such as are Consecrated Bishops in an other manner than is prescribed by K. Edwards Booke of Consecration we decree him to be unrightly and unlawfully Consecrated thereon R. B. mighthave had some colour or matter to inferre his Conclusion with this manner of argument Num. 7 Whensoever is consecrated Bishop in any other manner forme or fashion thou is prescribed by King Edwards Booke of Consecration be is not rightly orderly or lawfully comsecrated But Doctor Parker was consecrated in an other mammer forme and fashion than is preseribed by King Edwards Book of consecration Ergo Doctor Parker was not rightly orderly or lawfully consecrated And yet this would not directly maintaine this Pontifician's Conclusion unlesse it went more directly thus Whosoever is consecrated Bishop in other manner than according to King Edwards Booke his Consecration is irruat and voyd But Doctor Parker was consecrated in other manner than is prescribed by King Edwards booke Ergo Doctor Parkers Consecration is irruate and voyd But this matter being already most learnedly handled and most soundly cleered by such Heroes of our Church as I am unworthy to hold the candle unto I have been too long on this point because the thing undertaken by me here is not to consider how well and sufficiently R. B. hath disputed but how truely hee hath spoken in the matters by him brought into question wherin the issue is whether King Edwards Booke of Consecration being put to Death by Queene Maries lawes was never revived to life till the making of our Nine and thirtie Articles in Anno 1562 in the fourth yeare of the raigne of Queene Elizabeth Num. 8 For the better discovery of the truth wherof I thinke it meet here to set downe the substance of the severall Acts of Parliament concerning the matter viz. Statute 2. 3. Edw. 6. cap. 1. The Kings Majestie hath appointed the Archbishop of Canterbury and certaine of the most learned and discreet Bishops and other learned men of this Real me to draw and make one convenient and meet order rite and fashion of common and open Prayer and administration of the Sacraments to be had and used in England and Wales The which with one uniforme agreement is of them concluded in a Booke intituled The Booke of Common Prayer and Administration of the Sacraments and other Rites and Ceremonies after the use of the Church of England wherefore it be ordained and enacted that all Ministers shall be bounden to say and use the Mattens Evensong Celebration of the Lords Supper and all their Common and open Prayer in such Order and Forme as is mentioned in the same Booke and none other nor otherwise Numb. 9 By this Stature there was onely the Forme of Common Prayer Adminisiration of the Sacraments and other Rites and Ceremonies established But the Forme of Consecration of Bishops and Ordination of Priests and Deacons was not thereby settled or
not to all yet to such as thinke it better to have a little light than none at all untill an abler Pen as meaner than mine cannot be should vouchsafe a more polite and exact Vindication of our afflicted Church from this Aversaries false Accusation wherenith it hath stood charged unhappily these eight yeeres which will in my simple opinion be worth the undertaking to the end the Foule mouth of this Romish Adversarie may be as fully stopped in the particulars now in question as other like Underminers of our Churches foundation have beene already concerning all other their vaine plots and devices against our Episcopall Consecration and Sacerdotall Ordination to their utter shame and perpetuall silence which brave worke concerning these parpiculars had ere this time I beleeve shewed it selfe Conspicuous to the world if this Booke of R. B. had in all this time come to the viem before me of any of our brave and able Champions of our Israel In the meane season if this shall as a taste yeeld any relish or product any profit at all it is a blessing farre beyond my deserts and if Errors in it bee remitted or passed over in gentle silence it is a favour of grace heartily Supplicated Howsoever my meaning is good Ultra non And although this worke is concerning Church affaires and consequently lay-hands may bee said arr not Sacred enough to handle it Yet upon perusall it will appeare to bee so dependant on temporall Lawes and Acts municipall as will I trust take off the Censure Mittendi Falcem in Messem alienam And for the accommodation of the vulgar who understand not the Latine tongue such Latine sentences as are produced out of Authors are translated into our vulgar tongue for their ease and satisfaction save onely a few Scriptures for which they may turne to in their English Bibles all which neverthelesse is humbly submitted to the correction of Superiours and to the judgement of those who can judge what it is to take paines without hope of gaines accounting my Reward very great if what I have done shall be in any sort accepted or can doe any Service Hoping you will not blame him who hath thus laboured for your sakes and would if he could doe more to bee Your ready and faithfull friend PEDAELL HARLOWE To R. B. or to such other Pontifician as shall assume to be his Vindicatour THough the Proverbe be Good wine needs no Bush yet where both good wine is within the house and also a faire Bush or brave signe without at the doore it is the more compleat and sutable and so giving full content it increases custome and advances credit to the owner But let the signe be never so brave and fine without if corrupt wine be within that house soone looses custome fals to neglect and becomes contemptible Such Sir is your Booke whose Title is so faire having the Apostolike image in Front as meriteth eo nomine highest Reverence honour and esteeme in all Christendome over The worke of an old Student in Divinity beares with it a double portion of reverence amongst all men for Sagenesse of Age and also among the best sort of Men for Divinities sake And it being dedicated to our most Royall Queene Mary Consort to our most dread Soveraigne Lord King Charles of ever renouned memory it drawes another parcell of honourable regard unto it which brave and fine outside requires the inside to be sutable in the beauty of Truth honesty and goodnesses otherwise howsoever your Favourers may flatter your wit for putting on a fair rich garment on an ugly and foul carcase to make it passe the better with such as will be easily cozened with shadowes your judgement neverthelesse must needes suffer for presuming such brave and rich Furniture to decke an unworthy and base creature withall for a present for such as can discover her Deformitie as soone as they see her If your Booke be such as such indeed it is then those glorious Titles and attributes of Apostolike judgement Divinity and royall Majestie must be taken from it as too much prophaned and Presumptuously taken in vaine Whereas if your Booke were correspondent unto and justifyable by that Title it would be a Volumne of Truths Veritas in tolo et veritas in qualibet parte even the truth the whole truth nothing but truth according to the constant custome of the holy Apostics of Jesus Christ in delivering heavenly Doctrines purely sincerely without fraud or deceit as by St. Paul is protested not onely to the Church of Rome Veritatem dico non mentior testimonium mihi perbibente conscientiâ meâ in Spiritu Sancto But also to the Church of Corinth Deus et pater Domini nostri Iesu Christi scit quod non mentior And likewise to the Church of Galatia Ecce coram Deo non mentior And so also for the Church of Ephes veritatem dico non mentior But contrarily lying Fraud punctually suites and agrees with the judgement and practice of Apostataes and Apostaticall men Builders and upholders of the Church malignant whose doom is Destruction Qui in temporibus novissimis discedent à fide attendentes spiritibus Erroris et Doctrinis Daemoniorum in hypocrisi loquentium mendacium et cauteriatam habentium conscientiam suam So as the judgment of the Apostles is Verities Dialect The judgement of Apostataes is Errors Rhetorick Now unto which of these two judgements Apostalicall or Apostaticall this Adversary of ours R. B. and his Booke doe properly belong let the Sequell determine it Whereby it will evidently appeare I trust that R. B. very well deserves the signe of the Whetstone to be prefixed to the Front of his Booke In perpetuan rei memoriam Your Tell-troth-Friend P. H. A direction for the Quotations HAving with great industry difficulty and paines had a visible knowledge not trusting to second helpes concerning all the Authorities and Quotations cited in this Tract save onely one which I could find neither among the Stationers or Booksellers nor the Libraries at Westminster or Sion Colledge nor private Studies I have for the accommodation of the searching Reader set downe each Quotation so direct and certaine in the marginall notes as the same may be found with ease so as the severall Impressions of each Booke be also here set downe which are as followeth viz. Names of the Authors The times and places of Impression Augustinus Basilia 1542. Archidiaconus Venctiis 1601. Antiquitates Britannicae Hanoviae 1605. Bellarminus Coloniae Agrippinae 1628. Baronius Coloniae Agrippinae 1624. Binius Coloniae Agrippinae 1618. Budaus Parisiis 1541. Biel. In epistola 1620. Dominicus Soto Salmantica 1568. Franciscus de victoria Lugduni 1588. Gregorius de valentia Lutetiae 1609. Godwinus Episc. Londavens Londini anglicè 1615. Historia Ecclesiastica per Basiliae 1611. Eusebium Socratem Zozomenum c. Basiliae 1611. Iohannis Reignolds Londini 1602. Mercellus Venetiis 1582. Optatus Milevitanus
Parisiis 1631. Petrus Paludanus Panormitarms 1527. Ruewardus Tapperus Coloniae 1577. Registrum Cantuariense in libris pergamenis in officina Registrarii principalis Archiepiscopi Cantuariensis in vico vocato Doctors Comous Lon Sleidonnis Argeotorari 1558. A DISCOVERY OF A notable Fraude and Deceit committed by R. B. a Seminarie Priest upon Two of the Articles of the Church of England SECT. I. Num. 1 THis Romish Adversary R. B. raises his Engines for undermining of our Church upon these two severall Articles of ours to wit the Three and twentieth Articles and the sixe and thirtieth Article following It is not lawfull for any man to take upon him the office of publike preaching in the Congregation before he be lawfully called and sent to execute the same and those wee ought to judge lawfully called and sent which be chosen and called to this worke by men who have publike authority given them in the Congregation to call and send Ministors in the Lords Vineyard The booke of Consecration of Archbishops and ordering of Priests and Deacons lately set forth in the time of K. Edward the sixt and confirmed the same time by authority of Parliament doth containe all things necessary to such Consecration and ordering neither had it any thing that of it selfe is superstitious or ungodly and therefore whosoever are consecrated or ordered according to the Rites of that Booke since the second yeare of the aforenamed King Edward unto this time or shall be hereafter consecrated or Ordered according to the same Rites we decree all such to be rightly and lawfully consecrated and ordered Upon these Two Articles are Three such Engines devised by R. B. for overthrow of the Foundation of the visible and outward Entity of our Church of England in point of Consecration and Ordination here delivered in his owne words as are novell and consequently unconfuted The particulars whereof are as followeth R. B. OBIECTION I. Num. 2 This new Protestant Queene Elizabeth her Raigne beginning here in the yeare 1558. and 1559. in her first Parliament never had any knowne publike allowed square Rule forme maner order or fashion whatsoever for any to have publicke authority to call make send or set forth any pretended Minister untill the yeare 1562. when their Religion was foure yeares old and these Articles were made and in them the Booke of King Edward the sixt about ten or eleven yeares old when he set it forth by Parliament was first called from Death wherewith it perished in the first yeare of Queene Mary It hath beene pretended that Mathew Parker was made a Bishop on the seventeenth day of December But alas they had then no forme or Order to doe such a businesse untill foure yeares after this pretended admittance alleaged to have beene the seventeenth of December 1559. Here I have proved demonstratively that they neither have any lawfull Iurisdiction or Ordination among them But to doe a worke of Supererogation in this so much concerning the standing or overthrow of our Frotestants whole Religion quite overthrowne by this one dispute if they have no rightly orderly and lawfully consecrated Bishops Priests or Deacons I thus further demonstrate First then if the Decree of this later Article as they terme it were to be accepted and received for a just and law full Decree yet the first Protestant Bishops Priests and Deacons in Queene Elizabeths time from which all that now be in England or have beene since then cannot be said to be rightly orderly and lawfully consecrated by this very Article it selfe For that supposed Booke of King Edward the sixt being abrogated and taken away by Queene Maries Lawes and not afterwards revived by the Protestant Lawes of Queene Elizabeth untill in those Articles in the yeare of Christ 1562. as their date is Queene Elizabeth beginning her Raigne the 17 of November 1558 all their first pretended Bishops Priests and Deacons must needs be unrightly unorderly and unlawfully made though by that Booke of King Edward because there was no Protestant right order or Law to make or admit any into such places by that Booke not approved or allowed by any Protestant right order or Law all that time P. H. ANSWER Num. 4 This objection more then once repeated is nothing but a litigious and impertinent quarrell for want of matter For posito That Archbishop Parker wanted in his consecration some Punctilioes of outward Order for me or fashion according to the prescript tenor of our Lawes or Rules or that there was not any law or publike Rule of our Common-meale prescribing an outward for me of Consecration then in â—cre yet such want or Fayler did not nor could vitiate destroy or annibilate his Consecration celebrated in a sufficient Church manner in esse and substance good and valide in regard regall Lawes and Ecclesiasticall Canons are but circumstantiall and ad bene â—sse fitting and directing quatenùs ad nos the Ceremony and outward forme thereof which Order and forme if it hap at any time upon just or reasonable occasion not to be pursued the same is not destructive to such Consecration to make it invalide or fruitlesse But of all others this objection becomes not R. B. nor any Romanist First because the (a) Pontificians do exclude all civill and municipall Lawes of Princes and Republikes from Intermedling with those Ecclesiasticall Affaires wherein your Romish rote is like the bold (b) Protest of the Donatists against Insperiall authority in Church businesse Quid Imperatori cum Ecclesia What have Emperours Kings and Princes to dowith Ecclesiasticall affaires whereas seeing Kingsare both (c) Custodes utriusque Tabulae Nutritii Ecclesiae Keepers of both Tables and Nursing Fathers and Nursing Mothers of the Christian Church it belongs unto and is a Duty of Regality to constitute and ordeine lawes concerning Ecclesiasticall Hierarchy and the Regiment of the Church and per potestatem coactivam by power coactive to enforce the due execution of the duties of Religion and to cause punishments to be inflicted on the Delinquents to succour the oppressed and to cherish the good both among Priests and Laikes as well in Church as Common-weale But indeed the immediate Actes of the Episcopall Priestly and ministeriall office as Preaching Administration of Sacraments and the Actuall consecration of Bishops and ordination of Priests Ministers and Deacons belongs properly to the Pastorall charge Numb. 5 Secondly because the Romish Church is guilty of violation both of Canons and it's owne Pontificall being content to derive succession from many incanonicall and irregular Consecrations For contrary to the tenor of the first generall (d) Councell of Nice and their owne Iurists and (e) Doctors determining that Consecration of a Bishop ought to be by Three Bishops at the least the Romish Church hath not onely consecrated some Bishops by (f) one onely Bishop and two mitred Abots but hath permitted Boy (g) Priests Boy Bishops Boy Cardinals and
whereas Sir Humphrey Lynd said that although the Doctours of antient Church did rest in Two Sacraments Baptisme and the Lords-Supper as generally Necessary to salvation yet they called many Rites and Ordinances by the name of Sacraments as The signe of the Crosse Exorcisme holy-Bread given to Catechumeniâ—s Novices in the Faith One Master Iohn Heigham a Papist taking on him to answer that Booke does most unconscio ably turne the word NOVICES into NOVICES and so very untruly pretending that Sir Humphrey Lind had thereby yeelded that the Signe of the Cresse Exorcisme holy-bread holy-water and the like are Novices in the Faith endeavours most absurdly to make Sir Humphrey dispute against himselfe and the Church of England And by that silly devise this Heigham takes occasion to slide from the point without any answer at all to it Hi sunt Fratres in Malo Falshood incorporates it selfe in Fraternity against sacred Truth walking here desolate a while Sed magna est veritas et in die suo pravalebit divine and holy Truth will in her season become Victorious and Tryumphant with Gloria in excelsis hurling blacke and ugly Error and False-kood headlong into the Bottomeles Pit the dark and noysome Cave of that wicked monster Abaddon the Father of Lyes Amen Amen EPILOGVE or APPENDIX Num. 21 NOw this Tract is finished me thinkes I heare two sorts of people among us whisper their Conceits the one are the Preciser sort people of good intents demanding of me why I have in this Tract severall times used the word Priest and Sacerdotall rather than the word Minister and Ministeriall doe's it not savour of Popery Are you not inclined Sir a little to allow and relish the Masse-Priest Sacrifice and Altar For removall of such misconceits if any such arise I say I used the word Priest and Sacerdotall because it is indifferently used with the word Minister sometimes the one sometimes the other not onely in our publike Lyturgie but also in these two Articles now in some sort vindicated against our Romish Antagonist R. B. And in the same sense doe I also intend it And for mine owne part I conceive that Sacrifice Altar and Priest may be all indifferently used as Supper Table Minister even in this present age as well as in the Primitive age and as farre it is now from any just and reall offence unto judgements and consciences rightly informed and disposed as it was to the Fathers of antient Church and unto the Primitive Christians being holy Saints and Martyrs But Popery which came in by Intrusion secretly into the Church betwixt the Primary and later purity hath caused such a distaste to words and phrases of aniquity extremely abused by Romanisme as that these termes Sacrifice Altar Priest are become edious or at least scrupulous especially unto weake judgements and tender consciences which may I suppose be easily rectified and sufficiently satisfied with this one Distinction or Method for many when the Holy Eucharist is spoken of as a Sacrifice as often it is among the Antients and so might be by them and may also by us be called Sacrifice to wit Commemoratory and Sacramentall then may be useed th word Priest and Altar as words relatively sutable and convenient But when the Eucharist is spoken of as the Lords Supper as so it is according to Scripture Phrase then the words Table and Minister is the meetest adjuncts for that subject And thus we may joyne with Antiquity both in language and sence without offence and thereby explode and reject as erronious the doctrine of Sacrifice proper and propitiatory Masse-Priest and reall-Altar Num 22 Affront to Episcopacy The other is Popish Faction whom me thinkes I heare say that although we Papists must confesse that the frauds of our Brother R. B. are now so discovered and laid open as that Hee cannot by any of us be fairely defended or excused And therefore the Consecration of Archbishop Parker and consequently of all the English Bishops since and now being must stand sacred and valide notwithstanding any thing produced pleaded or proved by R. B. to the contrary yet ne-verthelesse let us Romanists cheere up our selves sparing our labours and paines to seeke the overthrow of the Episcopacy of the Church of England For see we not that a great multitude of the Members of their owne Church yea of their Clergie too doe lowdly crie downe Episcopacy not onely quoad personas for exorbitancy by personall misdemeanours and for over large exercise of jurisdiction in their function too too bad as is alleaged but also quoad officium jus Episcopatus against the Right of Episcopacy as Antichristian and intollerable in the Church devised by man and not ordained by Christ And therefore they would have it utterly abolished out of their Church And instead of it they would have their new devised Presbyterie to be Consistorially set up for Government of the Church as that which is indeed de jure divino and consequently Presbyterie ought to be put into Possession of the Church and Episcopacy to be ejected out of it Howbeit others indeed doe allow of the right of Episcopacy onely desiring moderately some Reformation and limitation of the Bounds and exercise of it to the end it may be brought into some convement Temper Wee Romanists doe with great expectation waite upon the successe thereof not doubting but that this Division will doe the English-Protestant-Church more harme and mischiefe than a thousands such as our R. B. can doe with Frauds and lias and will sooner destroy their Church than our Gunpowder plot had it taken effect could have done Marke 3.24 25 26. For Christs Maxime is infallibly true Si regnum aut domus contrasese dissideat non potest stare illud Regnum aut illa domus A Kingdome or house at division within it selfe cannot stand but must fall to ruine and destruction Num. 23 P. H. Now therefore seeing many men have of late vented themselves in this cause let me also come in with my vote tco as an Appendix to this Tract of mine conceiving it to be a fruitlesse worke Episcopacy vindicated by Scripture to quit our English Episcopacy from the Batteries raised up against It by Romesh R. B. a knowne and professed enemy of our Church if it suffer by Brethren at home naturally wounding deepest I therefore adventure to say That me thinks seeing Ordination of our Ministers hath hundreds of years beene and is in this Kingdome immediatly derived from Episcopacy this clamour specially by Ministers against Episcopacy as Antichristian should be spared even for their owne sakes and should be by Ministers more tenderly handled least it be retorted upon them that upon their owne grounds their owne Ordination and Admission into the Church is from Antichristianity and and from a Power before God unlawfull Ejectione firme But howsoever for as much as these Presbyterians have brought an Ejectione firme against Episcopacy pressing to have