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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A89543	An ansvver to a lawless pamphlet entituled, The petition and articles exhibited in Parliament against Doctor Haywood, late chaplain to the Bishop of Canterbury. By R.M.	R. M.	1641 (1641)	Wing M69; Thomason E172_27; ESTC R13527	9,694	23

the Translator had first made it according to the Latin Invocate the Saints of Heaven the Doctor had strooke out the word Invocate and put over head Call to mind the Saints c. And Barrows had again strooke out the word Mind and left it Call to the Saints c. which was done questionlesse after the book was licensed and done of purpose For what reason else had Barrows to run away or how should the same vvords call to mind and the same manner of dashing out be found in severall places in the written coppie as it is But the D. takes God to witnesse he never allowed any exhortation to invocate the Saints in that book nor in any other Nor any superstitious passage else contrary to our Religion wittingly Invocation of Saints is a point the Doctor hath often preached against publikely disputed against and subscribed against Nor did he ever in his life favour that Romish Error or abet any that did At the hearing of the businesse before the Committee c. The D. denies not but that this whole sentence taken together may beare an unsavory sense but it may also as properly beare an Orthodox sense And the Doctor might very well understand it in the better sense vvhen he read it and not consider the worse and according to the Latine it must be so understood Recordare sanctos quibus specialiter devotus ei ut te in coelesti itinere promoveant Cal to mind the Saints to whom thou hast a special devotion to help thee in the way to Heaven call to minde that needs little defence for it is in regard of imitating their ventues to whom thou hast a speciall devotion that needs not much There is devotion in calling the Saints to mind and a special devotion in calling some speciall vertues of some Saints to mind And this calling to mind the vertues and good life of the Saints doth helpe in the way to Heaven But the Doctor rather believes it might besome mistake for hee had in divers places before turned invocate into call to minde and might doe it here hastily reading it and thinking the place sufficiently purged without deliberating upon what followed And yet I Pray who knows whether those words to whom thou hast a speciall devotion were not the hand-writing of Barrows after the Book was Licensed It was proved that a Parishioner of his being seduced c. There is nothing here to be blamed but the Doctors memory confounded with a multitude of other businesse T is notoriously false that the Doctor was sollicited three or foure severall times For hee never saw the Womans husband that reports this but twice till he saw him at the Committee The first time he met the Doctor going upon earnest businesse to Westminster and the Doctor tooke his name and the place where he dwelt promising to come Yet appointing no certain time through multitude of other businesse forgot it The man comming againe about a fortnight after and perceiving his face and his errand forgotten by the Doctor went away in a chafe and came no more But it is well known and ready to be proved that the Doctor hath conferred with divers Recusants and converted more families then one and brought them to Church Although he hath great reason to take heed how hee talks with women for that other womans sake mentioned presently after For whereas t is delivered that the Doctor should say Salvation might bee had in the Church of Rome It was no saying of his but a question put forth by the woman asking the Doctor whether he could deny it To whom the Doctor replyed as diverse will witnesse That what ever might be thought of Papists beyond Sea or of those in former times who knew no other Religion yet for such as shee was who lived in wilfull disobedience to the Church wherein shee was baptized and refused to be better informed out of Gods word graciously offered her there was no hope of salvation But above all things the Doctor wonders any should except against his manner of taking the Protestation What could be more solemne T was taken on Whitsunday last in the afternoon immediatly after Sermon before so great a congregation as usually no Sunday in the yeere hath more It was told the Parishioners in the morning publikely that they should take it The afternoons Preacher so soon as ever the Psalm after Sermon was ended first read it in the Pulpit then took it so did the curate Warning being then given to strangers and women to depart and the Parish gathering about the Doctors Pew the Doctor himselfe first took the Protestation audibly in his own person and give it to others to doe the like When this was done there was a place assigned that as many as had taken it should come subscribe their names in a book namely at the Vestry on Tuesday following where the Doctor and the Church-wardens subscribed their names and others of the Parish as many as would did the like both then and on the next Sunday following All which considered it may bee wondred why any should yet doubt of the Doctors soundnesse in Religion notwithstanding these mens objections For lest their malice should not sufficiently appeare in alleaging things colourably true they have not spared to print things manifestly false such as these That he hath inveighed against the Petitioners in his Sermons a thing that all his hearers except the Petitioners will be ready to sweare the contrary That hee forceth all Communicants to come to the Rails whereas the Doctor knoweth not of any yet that hath ever refused to come till Sunday last being the 27 of June 1641. That he inveigheth against those which goe from their Parish Church whereas hee never yet reproved or caused to be presented one of his Parishioners for so doing That his voice is so weake halfe the Church cannot heare him which none but deafe people will say Nor is it much more to the purpose to alleage his keeping the Lords Table within the Screen and the Rayls a thing that no authority hath yet enjoyned the contrary As for the Honorable Houses of Parliament for both which the Doctor daily prays they need not be pointed out by these men what they have to doe They see I doubt not how much their justice is prejudiced by scattering such Libels exposing men to obloquie before they are proved guilty Let mee therefore desire these Petitioners not to snatch the power of judicature out of their hands and to condemne and proscribe before sentence Nor to follow with such implacable bitternesse a harmlesse Minister of God who prayes heartily that God would give them a better minde And endevours nothing more then theirs and all his Parishes proficiencie in godlinesse desiring them for a farewell to think upon that sentence of S. Paul 1 Thess 5.12 13. Wee beseech you brethren to know them that are ever you in the Lord and admonish you And to esteem them very highly in love for their work sake and be at peace among your selves FINIS

of them using to come to Church And of those they could not make up 100. taking so great advantage of the Doctors long absence and soliciting al persons against him whereas the parish consisteth of above 5000. Communicants numbers whereof are Noblemen Knights Gentlemen and worshipfull Citizens as greatly interested in the affairs of the Church as much ingaged in conscience to complain if they thought the parish not well served as any of the Petitioners if not more The Petition it selfe To the Honourable Knights Citizens and Burgesses c. T Is worth observing in this Petition first that they touch not the Doctor any way for his life nor his frequency in preaching or residing amongst them none of all which they would have spared if they had found any colour to accuse Secondly where they charge him with popish doctrine in his sermons t is wel known he hath preached in the Parish Church of St. Giles within this five yeers since hee was first Parson neer upon 200. Sermons neither fails hee any week being in health and not otherwise cald away among all which Sermons they except but against three two of them preached about two yeers since the third more then a twelve-month ago And it can hardly bethought if at any other time he had preached what these men could have excepted against they would have failed to have inserted it But for the Sermons to satisfie the world the Doctor hath thē word for word as they were delivered writtē and heere willing to promise for him sith they are thus publikely traduced they shall God willing as soon as may be bee publikely set forth for every mans reading and he takes God to witnesse that hee will not alter nor adde nor diminish a word from the coppie by which he preached them The particulars of the Sermons In the meane time the better to cleer these accusations hee hath given me certain passages of the Sermons complained of to set downe verbatim as they were spoken and definitively uttered as his own opinion which many that heard them will witnesse to be so And let any man judge by those passages whither it be possible for the Doctor so far to contradict himselfe in one and the same Sermon as to say what these Petitioners would make him Out of the Sermon preached April 21. 1639 upon Whose soever sinns ye remit they are remitted Yea What hath man then the authority of imprisoning or releasing the conscience Hath Christ put off his power given it to his Apostles Hath the Father committed all judgement to him that he may commit it to them and set them as it were in Gods Throne to pronounce sentence of life or death upon sinners as they list No not so A power though Christ hath granted yet it is not an absolute power and independent but ministeriall onely and subservient He hath not given over what is proper to himselfe but onely honoured men to serve under himselfe c. Out of the Sermon preached Iune 7. 1640. upon Which now of these three thinkest thou was neighbour to him which fell among theeves c. Thus miserably wounded he lies in the way to eternall Perdition Adam and all mankind with him Halfe dead because though his body be alive his soule is dead in sin and as it were corrupted Though he have some little motion to good yet hee is utterly unable to fulfill it c. Out of the Sermon preached Ianuary 20. 638 upon Jesus said unto her woman what have I to doe with thee For what concernes the Holy mother of our Lord I must speake freely I cannot see how it can any way advance the honour of our religion to cast dirt on her honour or to wrest all places in the Gospell to the worst sense that may bee made onely to shew her guilty of sin and not much holier then other women Sure I am wee may be far from adoring her far from invocating her and cloathing her with Gods honour and yet confesse her spotlesse and blamelesse from any fowle sinfull touch as preserved by that holy Spirit that chose her for his Mansion By sinfull touch I meane not Originall guilt nor lighter slips but grose actuall crimes and therein have St. Austin and many ancients to second me c. Out of the Sermon first mentioned preached Aprill 21. 1659. upon VVhosesoever sinns ye remit c. And yet not as if no sinner could be forgiven but what the priest forgives Let me not be so mistaken God is mercifull at all howers and hath not bound up his grace in such fetters But because in great and weighty ones that wound the conscience deeply there he would have our soules humbled not onely before him but before his Ministers Where this may possibly be done and without perill this would be done where not we goe not to limit Gods infinite goodnesse he hath other wayes of remitting then we imagine c. Let any one judge by these passages which vvere uttered definitively and not as an others opinion whether the Doctor could so contradict himselfe as in the same sermons to teach what these Petitioners charge him vvith And let it vvithall be noted that his Auditory at all the foresaid Sermons vvas very large full and Judicious not one of which ever told the Doctor of any offence taken at the said Sermons or at any other preached by him Neither vvere these Petitioners by the Doctor or any of his friends heard to find fault vvith these Sermons till some yeere or tvvo after they vvere preached viz. in December last after this present Parliament had long sitten Particular erroneous Doctrines contained in a Book intituled An Introduction to a Devout Life It seems these Petitioners wanted matter to furnish up their charge against the Doctor that they have brought in this Book called in by authority and burnt five yeers agoe And by whose meanes vvas it called in but by the Doctors own complaint first finding divers popish passages touching invocation of Saints re-inserted after he had dashed them out The Book is well known by all that know the latin original to be a very pious work excellent well worth the translating and publishing in any language abating onely some usuall superstitious passages touching invocation of Saints amongst those kind of people c. for it was made by a papist it had been divers times before translated into English though the Doctor then knew not so much But knowing it in many things a godly treatise and a booke that might doe much good if well purged hee bestowed his paines the more willingly on it and never misdoubting the honesty of the translator that brought it to be licenc'd one Christopher Barrows as hee called himselfe who came recommended to the Doctor by letter from a speciall friend after the Doctor had kept the booke with him some halfe a yeere and strooke out all passages contrary to our Religion hee gave it licence in November 1636.