of 50000 Protestants inhumanly slain in the same Country by the Authority and approbation of the same Party who were drunk with the Blood of the Saints Yet notwithstanding these were wicked and monstrous Popish Cruelties they were not immediately and absolutely destructive of poor persecuted Christians Because 1. When Armies were raised against them they had some time to fight or flee 2. That when they were caught and brought to a seeming Legal Tryal and the Inquisition they had some time to plead or at least to pray and make peace with God 3. And that the Execution of these Cruelties was only upon some particular persons in some one Province City or Village But that the Hellish Gunpowder Treason contrived chiefly by the devilish subtilty of the Jesuits and their Complices would have been if successful a far more private and sudden and a more universal and compendious Villany than all those because not only the King but both Houses of Parliament were design'd to be blown up and murthered in a moment and the whole Kingdom as 't were assassinated not in dead Effigy only as Malefactors are hang'd in some Countries but really in its Living Representatives the whole Parliament But referring his Reader to the Book it self and the publick Acts of Parliament concerning it for a more full Discovery of that matchless Treason he passes on to give them some Reasons for reprinting the following Book Which are 1. That many Pious and Learned persons since the happy discovery of the late damnable and Hellish Conspiracy of 1678. as the Two Houses of Parliament says he truly call it at a Conference of both Houses Novemb. 1st of the same Year being desirous to look back and examine the Particulars of the Gunpowder Plot which was form'd in the same Popish Forge and by the same Jesuitical Artificers though they much sought yet could not find this Book which having been printed above 70 Years before was grown very scarce for which reason 't was thought convenient in that tottering condition of publick Affairs occasioned at that time by Traytors of the same Stamp to reprint it 2. Because the Discovery of the Gunpowder Treason was such a Mercy as was both wonderful as being wholly owing to Providence and likewise publick and national and in that tho hatch'd in Hell and carried on in darkness and with all the secrecy which policy could invent yet it was discovered by the all-seeing eye of Providence whose penetration no clouds can interrupt and whose Designs no Policy can baffle and therefore as a miraculous and general Mercy was worthy to be kept in perpetual remembrance by our whole Nation as was practised in memory of all publick deliverances by the Churches of old both Jewish and Christian and that by God's own command or approbation as appears by the Celebration of the (a) Ex. 12.24 26 27. Passover to commemorate the deliverance from the Egyptian Slavery of the Feast of (b) Esth 9.18 Purim for the delivery of the Jews from the cruel designs of Ambitious Haman and the Institution of the Blessed Sacrament by our (c) 1 Cor. 11.24 25. Lord himself in commemoration of his delivering mankind from more than Egyptian Bondage viz. the slavery and punishment of Sin All our Gracious God requires or expects from us in such occasions being a grateful memory and acknowledgment of his Mercies to which this Book as containing an Authentick History of the great mischief intended and by Popish Adversaries prepared for this Nation and of the miraculous and inexpressible Interposition of Gods mercy in preventing it might much contribute 3. Another Reason why this Book was Reprinted says our Author was that all Persons both Roman-Catholicks Foreigners and others what have Authentick Evidence to refute the lies wherewith the Disciples of that baffled Plot would impose upon them by persuading them that it was no Popish Plot but only a trick of Cecils Upon which occasion in order to a brief Refutation of them even in this very Preface he cites the most remarkable words to this purpose of a late Scribler of theirs though otherwise a Man of some parts and Quality in a Book of his call'd Calendarium Catholicum or Vniversal Almanack Printed 1662 by which Title he means only a Popish or Roman Catholick Almanack being Calculated only for Romes Meridian and being not Catholick in any other sense the words our Author cites are in pag. 2. Ad Annum 57. The first words cited are That it was A HORRID PLOT but yet that it was suspected to be politickly contrived by CECIL The next Citation is towards the end of the said Almanack in Explication of Holy-days set apart by Act of Parliament upon occasion of the solemnising the 5th of November in these words viz. That the Gunpowder Treason was more than suspected to be the Contrivance of Cecil the Great Politician to render Catholicks Odious In both places proceeds our R. Author He confesses That some Roman Catholicks were in that â—lot but yet extenuates the matter by adding that though some Roman Catholicks were in that Plot yet there were but few detected and those but desperado's too So that this Popish Author would have it believed that it was no Popish but only Cecils contrivance who was a Protestant and that those pretended Popish Desperado's who were detected in it were drawn into that Conspiracy by that cunning Politician to make the Catholicks Odious Which though it be so Groundless and Impudent an Assertion and containing such evident untruths in matter of Fact against the sense of a whole Nation and the publick Acts and Declarations of King Lords and Commons in a full Parliament that 't is impossible any Man not resolved to believe a lie or to impose upon others should publish any thing like them yet our R. Author wonders not that they who are impious and impudent enough to design and attempt to act such prodigious Treasons against their King and Country should have as much Impudence to deny them when for want of success their Unchristian tho' miscall'd Catholick Cause is like to suffer by an Ingenious Confession And whereas that Popish Writer affirms That there were only a few Papists detected in that Popish Powder Plot Our R. Prefacer desires his Readers impartially and fairly to consider 1. That it appears by the following Book that their Number was not so few as pretended 2. And that since that wicked Plot was contrived and managed with the greatest sworn secrecy made Hellishly sacred and firm by solemn Oaths and an abuse of the Holy Sacrament never intended for such unholy and horrid purposes that it is a greater wonder there were so many than that there were so few of them detected 3. That admit but a few of them were detected in England and punish'd yet that it was well known by the Jesuits and their Confederates beyond the Seas long before its discovery here our Prefacer affirms may manifestly be made appear out of Delrio and
THE Genuine Remains OF That Learned Prelate Dr. Thomas Barlow LATE Lord Bishop of Lincoln Containing divers Discourses Theological Philosophical Historical c. In LETTERS to several Persons of Honour and Quality To which is added the Resolution of many Abstruse Points As also Directions to a Young Divine for his Study of Divinity and choice of Books c. With great variety of other Subjects Publish'd from his Lordship's Original Papers LONDON Printed for Iohn Dunton at the Raven in the Poultery 1693. The Epistle to the READER THE Reader may be pleas'd to take notice that the Work of Bp. Barlow which leads the Van in the following Collection namely Directions to a Young Divine for his Study of Divinity c. is what his Lordship employ'd his great studious thoughts in preparing and polishing during several distant times of his Life He gave me a Copy of his Manuscript on that Subject not long after the Year 1650. and he gave the Minister of Buckden a Copy of the following Work of that Subject containing many additions and alterations and writ with the hand of one of his Lordships Amanuenses after he was Bishop of Lincoln and wherein many Books Printed after the Year 1673 are cited and the which Copy begins in p. 1. and ends in the last line of p. 71. And what followeth on the same subject from thence to the end of p. 121. I saw written under the Bishop's own hand and which he wrote to gratifie the request of a particular Friend who had highly oblig'd him and who was more than ordinarily Curious in his Study of Theological Matters And as to the following Works of the Bishop in this Volume that are writ by way of Letter to several Persons I saw them written under his own hand and many of them were written to my self the which containing various matters relating to Ecclesiastical Law and History and points of Divinity so instructful both to Divines Lawyers and Historians and wherein he had shewn such a compleat Mastery of all that knowledge in himself that he had recommended the pursuit of to young Divines I thought the publication thereof could not be omitted without injury to the World and bereaving the memory of so Learned a Prelate of such lasting Monuments of Praise as these his Works have erected for it Nor are any Learned Works more grateful to Critical Readers than such as are Comprised in the way of Epistles and as hath appear'd by the reception the World hath given to the Praestantium ac eruditorum virorum Epistolae Ecclesiasticae Theologicae Printed 1684. and among which are about 69 of such Letters of Grotius The truth is that as the first Painted draughts or dead-colour'd Paintings of Mens Pictures by Great Masters seem to have more of likeness than those in the following sittings when their Pencils are apply'd to the most curious polishing touches so doth the first draught of the thoughts of an Author and such as at once finished up are to pass from him in a Letter strike the Eye more with the appearance of the likeness of his Soul and genius than do the following productions of his Mind in which Art is exerting it self with variety of labour and with its colours and shadowings doth often rather hide than illustrate nature Moreover the entertainment of the Reader in the following Volume is carefully provided for by the abridgement of some of the Bishop's Discourses and Determinations of Questions the which if Publish'd at length would not have possibly been so agreeable For as short Voyages are most pleasing so are those passages of Mens minds from one subject to another and when they are not over-long detain'd by old from new matter We know there was lately a Conjuncture of time when tho' several Subjects were dish'd up from the Press yet men chose to feed only on that which was about Popery and had no gusto for any other matter yet now being cloy'd with that the Reader will find here such variety of matter to feast his mind with that may keep his appetite from being pall'd with any one subject whatsoever But as I account that there was no subject the Bishop ever writ of but what fared the better by him and was rendred by his opening it more acceptable to Mens understandings so I judge that there is one great excellency of his Lordships managing of Controversie very Conspicuous in his Discourses in this Volume wherein his example may be usefully directive not only to Young Divines but to Writers of most mature years and judgments and that is his great Talent of stating of Questions with exquisite Care and Skill I ever thought a Question so stated to be half decided And as in Amsterdam the laying of the foundation of any House requires as much Labour and Cost as the whole Superstructure so doth the just founding of any Question by the stating of it take up as much time from an Author as the Conclusions he builds upon it I have happen'd to provide for the Readers being entertain'd with the greater variety in this Volume by my having been in a manner eâ—forc'd tho' briefly to insert therein somewhat of my writing to the Bishop of two or three Subjects with an intent by such a Foile to set off the lustre of the Bishops thoughts on the same subject and particularly in p. 273 and from thence toward the end of p. 278. and of the which I shall have occasion to say more when I take leave of the Reader and in p. 316 320. and from thence to the end of p. 326. After the Bishops Survey of the Numbers of the Papists and of those of other Persuasions in Religion taken in the year 1676. and which hath not before appear'd in Print I thought fit in pag. 320. to corroborate Dr. Glanvile's assertion of the inconsiderableness of the number of the Papists by Calculation and I have in the following Pages mention'd other Political Calculations that I adventured upon the which I submit to the Censure of the Critical Few who mind things of that Nature The great difficulty of making such Calculations exactly well hath deterr'd many from attempting it and indeed the performance of it as well as it should be is the height of humane Wisdom in the Political Conduct of the World But if what I have publish'd here and elsewhere of that kind may occasionally excite others of greater abilities to advance that kind of Knowledge to do so I have my end And here on a Passant review of what in p. 324 325 326. I wrote to the Bp. concerning the L. Falkland who was Secretary to K. Charles I. I have no occasion to fear the attacques of any Critical Person as if I had been a Super-laudator in the Case of his Lordship and on which account Mr. Marvel doth justly animadvert on Dr. Parker as being extravagant and excessive in praising Arch-bishop Bramhal and for saying that he was fit to Command the Roman
(c) Stat. 1. Mar. Sess 2. cap. 2. and again established (d) Vid Stat. 1. Eliz. cap. 2. by Queen Elizabeth with some alterations 1558. 4. Our Book of Ordination all these confirm'd by Parliament and Convocation and so by the Supream Power Ecclesiastical and Civil and so whatever is contained in those four Books which concerns either Doctrine or Discipline is Authentick and Obligatory to the whoâ—e Church and Nation and all persons whether Clergy or Laity This our Common Lawyers will admit and no more because as they would have it to diminish the Ecclesiastical and encrease their own Civil Power No more are confirm'd by Act of Parliament but we say and can prove (e) Vid. Mâ—c de Excommnicatione Câ—â—cellario missum 166. that there are other Books which are and de Jure should be as Authentique and Obligatory as the former four As 1. Our Ecclesiastical Canons made in Convocation 1. Jacobi 1603. 2. The Provincial Constitutions Quas Collegit Guil. Linwood erat primo (f) M. Parker Antiquit. Britan. in Guil. Câ—ichly p. 285. Officialis Curiae de Arcubus dein custos privatiâ— sigilli ac demumâ— Menevensis Episcopus Glossis Illustrare (g) â—a Linwood in Praesat Incepit 1423. perfecit (h) Vid. Glossam ad constitat Finaliter Verbo Râ—moto pa. 161. Col. 3. Edit Par. 1505. de Haereticis Lib. 5. Glossas illas circa Annum 1429. Constitutiones has cum erant in Synodis Provinciae Cantuariensis conditae Provinciam illiam solum obligasse Constitutiones Legatinae Othonis Othoboni erant Legati Pontificis in Anglia sub Hen. 3. cum Glosses Joh. de Aton Canonici Lincolniensis Notand 1. quod Guil. (i) In Gâ—â—◠〈◊〉 Verbo 〈…〉 â—xdâ—cto Linwood citat hunc Joh. de Aton Lâ—nwoodo erat antiquior 2. Constitutiones hâ—s Angl. Vniversam obligasse conditae enim erant in Conciliis (k) Vid. M. 〈◊〉 ad 〈◊〉 1237. in 〈◊〉 3. p. 446 447. ubi aderant utriusque Provinciae Episcopi Pontificio Legato Praeside Now all these Canons and Constitutions Provincial and Legantine and indeed the whole Canon Law is still in use in all our Ecclesiastical Courts and Obligatory so far as they are not inconsistent with 1. The Law of God 2. The Law of the Land or the Prerogative Royal as may appear by many statutes k not yet abrogated (l) Vid. Sâ—â— 2â— Hiâ— 8. â—â—p 19. â—â—â—ne which is â—â—nfirm'd 1 Eliz. cap. 1. Vid. Eâ—iâ—â— 2â— 35. Hâ—â— cap. 8. cap. 16. That the Doctrine and Discipline of our Church are Authentiquely contain'd in the foresaid Books Canons and Constitutions being certain and confess'd The next query will be how and by what means a young Divine may come to know the true sense and meaning of those Writings c. In answer to which Query with submission to better Judgments I say there can be no better means to know the true meaning of Articles Canons and Constitutions c. than by a diligent and intelligent reading the Works of those excellent Persons who ab origine contriv'd those authentique Writings ejusdem enim est exponere cujus est componere or since successively have defended them against all the Adversaries of our Church and Pope Presbyter and Phanatick and that with success and Victory I mean such as Cranmer Bucer (l) Buceri Scripta Anglicana praecipuè Basil 1577. Vâ—t Argentorati He was Reg Professor at Cambr. Pet. Martyr (m) He was Prâ—fessor of Theol. at Oxon Jewel Raynolds Whit-gift Bancroft Hooker Joh. White Davenant Abbot Crakanthorp Field Laud Chillingworth As for our late Writers or Scriblers rather to spend time in reading them is to mis-imploy and lose it and to speak freely many Apocryphal Pamphlets let him who likes them call them Books have been of late years Writ and Licensed which datâ operá ex professo endeavour to confute the establish'd and known Doctrine of our Church and all Reform'd Churches in Europe and maintain Positions which are evidently Socinian Popish or Pelagian whence we have too much ground to wonder why any Son of the Church of England for so these Scriblers call themselves dare Write or License such Apoc. Books which they are bound by Law and Conscience to condemn And as a Divine should and ought to know the Doctrine and Discipline of our Church that so he may be able to teach and vindicate it from the Cavils and Oppositions of our Adversaries so he ought to know what are the erroneous opinions of the Enemies of our Church especially the Papists for no man can confute what he does not know To Write against Rome and confute her for her Doctrines she does not hold is a calumny not a just confutation All that Lombard or Bellarmine or Vasquez or Cajetan hold is not presently to be laid to the charge of the Roman Church but such things as she by publick Authority owns in her Authentick Constitutions c. Popish errors then are either Fidei aut facti in credendis aut agendis such as concern their Doctrine and Discipline 1. For their Credenda and Errors in Doctrine they have declared authentickly 1. In their Trent (n) And so in all those Councils they call Oecumenical and approve tho we do not as the Nicene Council and about thirteen more which came after it whatever Errors be in any of these they do and must own for seeing they do approve those Councils they must approve their Positions and Decrees We have a Catalogue of what Councils the Church of Rome acknowledges prefix'd to the Corpus Juris Canonici Paris 1618. Fol. and to the last Edition of that Law Lugduni 1661. Quarto Council the best Edition at Antwerp 1633. Octavo of which before pag. 18. 3. 2. In the Chatechismus Tridentinus ex decreto Concil Trident. jussu Pii Papae 5. There are very many Editions but the best is that at Paris 1635. Octavo 3. In their Popes Bulls 1. Eccloge Bullarum Pii Quarti 5 ti Gregorii 13. Lugduni 1582. Octavo Item 2. Literae Apostolicae c. de officio Inquisitionis cum superiorum Approbatione Romae 1579. Fol. Extant hae Literae cum altarum Auctario in calce Directorii Inquisitionis per Nicol. Eimericum Ven. 1607. 3. Nova computatio Privilegiorum Apostolicorum Regularium mendicantium c. per Emman Rocherum Turnoni 1609. Fol. In which collection we have the Bulls of about 44 Popes 4. Bullarium Romanum Novissimum a Leone magno ad Vrbanum 8. Tom. 4. Fol. Romae 1638. Edidit Mar. Cherubinus extat editio hujus Bullarii alia posterior additis Vrbani Innocentii Constitutionibus auctior Lugduni sumptibus Phil. Borde c. This last Edition is best 1. Because it contains more Bulls 2. Because I find many things in this last Edition of Lyons which being damn'd by the Inquisitors are to be expung'd (o) 〈…〉 19. 〈…〉 â—â—gâ—um 〈…〉 〈…〉 Inâ—◠〈…〉 â—â—um Ib.
Jesuit or no I cannot resolve you as to that Question Yet this is evident that his whole Book is a Defence of the Jesuits against the Jansenists and others who have writ against the Jesuits Morals and shews that the Jesuits are not to be tax'd for those Opinions as tho they were the first Authors of them when many Catholick Authors as he calls them Schoolmen and Casuists of great note held the same Opinions long before the Jesuits had a Being 2. When you ask of what Authority he is or a Quotation out of him you must know 1. That his Book was condemn'd at Paris by the Sorbon and the Form of their condemnation you have at the end of the Pragmaetique (a) Sanctio Pragmatica Caroli 7. Edita Paris 1666. pag. 1048. 1049. Sanction of Charles the VI. King of France 2. This Censure of the Sorbon is damn'd by no less man than Pope Alexander the VII in his (b) Vide Indicem Librorum Prohibitorum Alexandri 7. jussu Editum Romae 1667. pag. 294. where you have that Bull. Bull dated at Rome 7 Cal. Julii Anno 1665. So that it seems Gyumenius was of no small esteem at Rome when the Pope does è Cathedra damn that Censure of the Sorbon which damn'd Guymenius his Book For the Words of the Bull are Nos motu proprio ex certa scientia nostra deque Apostolicae potestatis plenitudine prefatam Censuram damnamus c. So that it has no little Authority as it seems to Buckden Feb. 21. 1684. Your Affectionate Friend and Servant Tho. Lincoln A Letter about the Papists founding Doninion in Grace Sir I Received yours which was very welcome to me because yours I have this week been in a hurry of business it being Ordination week so till now I had no time with my Love and Service to return my thanks for your kind Letter and the Intelligence communicated in it My humble Service to the Earl of Anglesey who was pleas'd to send me a Copy of the Popes Letter to the French King to incourage and commend him for his impious and Barbarous Persecution of his poor Protestant Subjects I do believe it is true what was by the Earl Subscribed to the Popes Letter Testor hunc Papam esse praedecessoribus similem though some cry him up for his moderation For your Query whether the Papists affirm any where Quod Dominium fundatur in gratia I have here inclosed what I think is evidently true They do believe and in their Authentick Writings profess that Hereticks for denying some Articles of the Popish Faith forfeit all (a) This does evidently appear to omit all other proofs by the Lateran Council under Innocent III. Can. 3. and especially Cap. Ad abolendum 9. Cap. Excommunicamus 13. Extra de Hereticis Dominion and Right to any thing they possess and their life too And if this were not sufficient poor Hereticks in their sense of which number I am one and by God's assistance ever shall be do forfeit not only right to Temporal things here but to Heaven hereafter for they pronounce them eternally damn'd This is evident not only in the Writings of private persons but in their publick and most Authentick Records you know that erroneous and most impious Constitution of Pope Boniface the VIII received into the (b. Cap. Vnum Sanctum 1. De Majorit obedientia Extrab Commun Body of their Law Subesse Romano Pontifici omni humanae creaturae esse omninò de necessitate salutis And this is expresly confirmed by Pope Martin and the Council of Constance where they damn the contrary Opinion as an Error in Wickliff who said (c) Articulus 41. Inter Articulos Wicklefi in Concil Constant damnatos Non est de necessitate salutis credere Romanam Ecclesiam esse omnium supremam And to say no more Leo X. and his Lateran (d) Sess 11. Apud Binnium Tom. 9.155 Council approve and innovate that Constitution of Pope Boniface the III. I am Sir Buckden Dec. 24. 1685. Your Affectionate Friend and Servant T. L. The Substance of a Preface made by the Right Reverend Dr. Barlow Late Bishop of Lincoln to a Discourse concerning the Gunpowder-Treason and the Manner of its Discovery together with the Speech of King James the I. upon that occasion and a Relation of the Proceedings against those Conspirators containing their Examinations Tryals and Condemnations Reprinted 1679. To which are added by way of Appendix several Papers or Letters of Sir Everard Digby one of the Chief Criminals relating to the said Plot. OUR Reverend Author begins by telling us that the said Book was no new but an old approved Book Reprinted by the Counsel and Authority of some Pious and Learned men that 't is no lying Legend or Romance nor any unlicenc'd seditious Pamphlet but an Authentick History of an Impious and Monstrous Roman Catholick Conspiracy or of a Popish containing the Examination Tryal Evident Conviction and just Condemnation of those Popish-powder-Traytors Then proceeding to open the hainousness of the Attempt he tells us that it was a Villany so black and horrid and not only unchristian but so inhuman and barbarous as never had any Parallel in any Age or Nation Jewish Pagan or Turkish nor indeed adds he could have before the Invention of Gunpowder and the cursed Institution of the Order of Jesuits by the Fanatical maim'd Suoldier Ignatius Loyola the World being before both without such pernicious Instruments so set for such a mischief as Gunpowder and without any Order of men so impious as the Jesuits to approve or design and much less to attempt to execute a Villany so manifestly contrary to the Light of Reason and all Humanity as well as to Scripture and Revelation For tho he confesses it true that the Pope and his Party in these last 600 Years have murthered many thousand better Christians than themselves under the mistaken notion of Hereticks by Armies raised purposely and encouraged to such bloody and unchristian Executions as also by their more barbarous and inhumane Inquisitions and premeditated Assassinations as sufficiently appears by their own Authors For that an eminent Writer among which viz Math. Paris in Hen. III. ad annum 1234. pag. 395. tells us of an infinite number of Hereticks viz. Waldenses murthered that our own Arch-bishop Vsher proves out of their Authors that in the space of 36 Years in France only 104747 of the same Waldenses were cruelly slain upon the same account that Dr. Crackanthorp in his Book against the Arch-bishop of Spalata cap. 18. § 19. c. proves no less evidently by their own Historians that about 142990 of the same poor harmless people were in 60 years time murthered by the same bloody Party and in the same Countrey And tho to pass by a Cloud of other Witnesses a prudent and sober Roman Catholick viz. Father Paul of Venice Hist Council Trent 119 120 tells us first of 4000 Waldenses and then
suffer no Hierarchical Ministers to come or pray with him but desir'd and had only Presbyterians about him Mr. Reynel signifying this to Mr. Roswel desires him to enquire the truth of this and signifie it to him whereupon he consults Mr. Pullen of Magdalen Hall who was my Lord's Houshold Chaplain with him in all his Sickness and at his Death and he assured him that the said Bishop as he liv'd so he died a true Son of the Church of England that no Presbyterian came near him in all his Sickness that besides his own Prayers private to himself there were in his Family no Prayers save those of the Church nor any but his own Chaplain to read them Besides Mr. Pullen gave him a part of the Bishop's last Will wherein within less than a Month before he died he gives an account of his thoughts in opposition to Papists and Puritans and this Sermon being the last which the Bishop writ with his own hand at the importunity of Mr. Roswel Dr. Sanderson permitted it to be printed to vindicate his Father's Honour and Judgment and to confute that lying Report and so that lie occasion'd the publishing this Truth Aâ—iquisque Malo fuit usus in illo Ita est Tho. Barlow Collegii Reginalis Praeses BUT partly because it may sufficiently confound the before mentioned Calumny against Bishop Sanderson and partly because his Religionary Professions in his last Will and Testaments contains somewhat like Prophetical matter in his mentioning his belief of the happy future state of our Church in a Conditional manner it is thought fit to print that part of his Will that concerneth the same as the same was lately faithfully transcribed out of his Will now remaining in the Registry of the Prerogative Court in London viz. AND here I do profess that as I have lived so I do desire and by the grace of God resolve to die in the Communion of the Catholick Church of Christ and a true Son of the Church of England which as it standeth by Law established to be both in Doctrine and Worship agreeable to the word of God is in the most Material points of both conformable to the Faith and Practice of the Godly Churches of Christ in the Primitive and purer times I do firmly believe this led so to do not so much from the force of Custom and Education to which the greatest part of Mankind owe their particular different perswasions in point of Religion as upon the clear evidence of truth and Reason after a serious and impartial examination of the grounds as well of Popery as Puritanism according to that measure of understanding and those opportunities which God hath afforded me And herein I am abundantly satisfied that the Schism which the Papists on the one hand and the superstition which the Puritans on the other hand lay to our charge are very justly chargeable upon themselves respectively Wherefore I humbly beseech Almighty God the Father of Mercies to preserve this Church by his Power and Providence in Truth Peace and Godliness evermore unto the Worlds end Which doubtless he will do if the wickedness and security of a sinful People and particularly those Sins that are so rife and seem daily to increase among us of Vnthankfulness Riot and Sacriledge do not tempt his Patience to the contrary And I also humbly further beseech him that it would please him to give unto our Gracious Soveraign the Reverend Bishops and the Parliament timely to consider the great dangers that visibly threaten this Church in point of Religion by the late great increase of Popery and in point of Revenue by Sacrilegious Enclosures and to provide such wholsome and effectual Remedies as may prevent the same before it be too late The Substance of a Letter written by the same late Pious and Learned Prelate Bishop Barlow to the Clergy of his Diâ—cess upon occasion of an Order of the Quarter Sessions for the County of Bedford held at Ampthill in the said County in the 36th Year of the Reign of the late King Charles the Second Annoque Dom. 1684. For the prosecution of the Laws against Dissenters ALL the Compliance our moderate Spirited Prelate could be brought to in reference to that sharp Order was only in this Letter to represent to his Clergy That since it is an evident Truth that all Subjects both by the indispensable Law of Nature and Scripture are obliged to obey the power establish'd over them by God and that most particularly in things more immediately relating to the great and important Concerns of God's Glory and the Salvation of their own Souls and that by the Prudent and Pious Care of our Government a Godly Form and Liturgy of God's Publick Worship had been provided and establish'd both by our Ecclesiastical and Civil Laws which accordingly require all people to resort to their respective Parish Churches and to communicate there with the Congregation in Prayers Receiving the Sacrament and hearing the word And since the said Liturgy had not only been for many years received by our Church with little or no opposition till the late unfortunate times of Rebellion and Confusion but had been likewise approved and commended by the most Learned and Pious Divines in Foreign Protestant Churches and so religiously priz'd and esteem'd by the Renowned Protestant Martyrs in Queen Mary's days that one of their greatest Complaints was that they were deprived of the Benefit of that Liturgy-Book and that since the rejection of it and the disobeying the Laws that injoyn it makes our Dissenters evidently Schismatical in their separation from our Church-Communion as shall says he if God please be in convenient time made further to appear and that for those Reasons it was not only convenient but necessary that our good Laws should be executed both for the preservation of the publick Peace and Vnity and the Benefit even of the Dissenters themselves for that afflictio dat intellectum and it was probable their Sufferings by the execution of our just Laws and the blâ—ssing of God upon them might bring them to a sense of their duty and a desire to perform it Therefore for the attaining of those good ends he requires all his said Clergy of his Diocess within the abovesaid County to publish the above mentioned Order the next Sunday after it should be tendred them and diligently to advance the design of it according to the several particular Directions in the said Order prescribed and both by Preaching and Catechising to take away all excuses for their ignorance to instruct their People in their Duty to God and their King with his Prayer for a Blessing upon their Endeavours in which he concludes this Letter signing himself Their Affectionate Friend Brother and Diocesan Thomas Lincoln FINIS Books newly published printed for John Dunton at the Raven in the Poultrey THe History of the Famous Edist of Nantes containing an account of all the Persecutions which in France have befallen those Protestants who
Conscientia c. He was a Non-conformist and so cautè legendus but he was a Man Rational and his Reasons are commonly consequent 2. His Resolutions short and perspicuous 3. The Texts he urges pertinent so that when he 's out which is not usual you lose not much and when he 's right you have it in a little time 4. Fridericus Baldwinus a Lutheran he was and cautè legendus as to that Point de Casibus Conscientiae Witterburg 1628. 5. Casp Erasmi Brochmanni Systema Vniversae Theologiae in quo singuli Religionis Christianae Articuli Controversiae priscae recentes Polemicae expediuntur praecipui Conscientiae Casus è Verbo Dei practicè deciduntur Vol. 3. in Quarto Lipsiae 1638. There be former and worse Editions 1. For Popish Casuists they are many and some (a) Antonius Divina consists of twelve parts and six or seven Vol. in Fol. of them voluminous amongst them such as these are of great Note and Authority 1. Manuale Confessariorum c. per Martinum Azpilivetum Navarrum Paris 1620. Octavo 2. Fran. Toleti Cardin. de instructione Sacerdotis c. Lib. 8. Rothomagi 1630. Octavo 3. Vincenti Filliucii Questiones Morales Colon. Agr. 1629. Fol. as full and learned as any among the Jesuites of which sort of Casuists we do not mince the matter nor as some do with soft and ambiguous words mollify their horrid opinions I shall name one or two who speak plain Popery and confidently profess and indeavour to prove their most desperate opinions as for instance 1. Antonii de Escobar Theologia Moralis Lugd. 1646. Octavo This is a good Edition but there are two better ones at Lyons and another at Brussels 1651. 2. Thoma Tamburini Societat Jesu explicatio Decalogi Lugd. 1659. Folio 3. And that we may know what his erroneous opinions be and where to be found we have a Catalogue of no less than one hundred and three pernicious Errors found in his works in a Book printed in the same place and same year that Temburinus his cases of Conscience were published the Book has this Title Extrahit de plusieurs erreurs maximes pernicieuses contenues dans une volume du Pere Tambourin Jesuite c. Imprime à Lyon en la presente Anne 1659. Quarto 4. He who has a mind to see more of the Jesuites Casuistical Divinity may consult the Theologia moralis Pauli Laymann Jesuitae Lugd. 1654 and Francisci Bordoni propugnaculum opinionis probabilis in concursu probationis operum Bordoni Tom. 6. Lugd. 1668. Fol. 5. And lastly Vid. Amadai Guimonii opusculum singularia universae ferè Theologiae moralis complectens adversus Quorundam expostulationes contra nonnullas Jesuitarum opiniones Morales Lugd. 1664. 4â— He endeavours to justify all the Jesuites extravagant and wild opinions laid to their charge by the Jansenists in their (a) Vid. Lâ—d Moâ—â—aâ—ii Lâ—â—â—ras Pâ—â—â—iâ—câ—â—â—â— de Mâ—â—â—â— Pâ—â—â—â—â— Jâ—sâ—â—â—â—â—â— Discâ—plâ—â—â— Câ—â—â—â— 1â—05 in 〈◊〉 Provincial Letters and the Jesuites Morals (b) The Jeâ—uâ—e 〈◊〉 â—als collected out of their own Books by a Dr. of Sorâ—on Lâ—â—d 1670. Fol. and the mystery (c) In 4 or 5. Vol. in 8â— Notand that there is Dâ—cretum conditum in Congregatione Generali Romanae Vniâ—â—â—salis Iâ—quisitionis c. Dâ—tum Rome 1641. in quo â—â—â—ia edita edenda â—a 〈◊〉 â— c â—tâ—a quam pro Jansenio proâ—iâ—â—â—tuâ— ne quis legat retineat â— and yet ever siâ—ce they write read and retain such Books amongst them of Jesuitism and to do this he shews that many eminent Authors and Writers of the Roman Church before and besides the Jesuites maintain'd with approbation the same opinions so that this work of Guimenius is a Common Place Book and Repertory for us Hereticks wherein we may find all the most impious and wild opinions of the Church of Rome particularly cited by Guimenius and eight or ten or more eminent and approved Writers of that Church who publickly held and defended them 22. Besides Popish Casuists they have many Writers whom they call Summistae who have put almost all heads of Divinity in an Alphabetical Order and then explain each by way of position case or question There be a World of such Writings the old ones before Luther when they Writ most secure speak plain Popery the latter are more cautious and cunning yet suffficiently erroneous I shall name two only 1. Summa Vniversae Theologiae Raynerii de Pisis Ven. 1585. Quarto 2. Summa Ecclesiasticae Disciplinae totius juris Canonici aucta recognita Lugd. 1598. Authore Pet. Crespelio He is the most significant amongst them He does under every Head cite passages out of Fathers Councils Historians Schoolmen c. And any thing which he thinks makes for the Catholick Cause what such Writers say their Books being in an Alphabetical Order is soon found and therefore if in reading them little truth is got little time is also lost in seeking it of these sort of Writers are Antonius Archi-Episcopus Florentinus Card. Cajetan Turre-Cremata in his Summa Ecclesiae a Book by reason of the Cardinals Authority and Learning considerable as also which occurs in the end of his Summa for his Apparatus super Decreto (a) Extat hoc Decretum Gr. Lat. apud Binium Concil Tom. 8 p. 851. Edit Paris 1636. Vorionis Graecorum in Concilio Florentino ab Eugenio Papa 4. Promulgato Augustinus de Ancona and a Rabble of such Romish Janizaries the Popes Pretorian Band Capitolii custodes Pontificiae omnipotentiae Jurati vindices 23. Seeing every Divine of the Church of England is bo nd to subscribe and defend the Doctrine and Discipline of our Church against all Adversaries and none can do that till he know what the Doctrine and Discipline is and where 't is authentickly to be found and seeing the Works of Jewel Raynolds Hooker Laud and Whitaker c. tho they are the Works of Learned and Great yet Private men nor is any Son of the Church of England bound to subscribe to all they say It must therefore be consider'd what Books as to our Doctrine and Discipline are Authentick and own'd by our Church as such and of this kind we have only four That is 1. Our Articles 39. First compos'd and agreed on in Synodo London 1552. i. e. 6. Edwardi 6 ti and Printed in Lat. 1553. They were 42. they were after 1562. Eliz. 5. revised in the Convocation at London reduced to 39. and publish'd in Latin 1563. A Copy of which is in Bodley's Library amongst Selden's Books with the Original Subscriptions of the Clergy annexed to it 2. Our Book of Homilies compos'd five years before the Articles Anno. 1. Edward 6 ti 1547. 3. Our Liturgy which was first published 1549. then revised by Cranmer and Bucer and published 1552. That is 6 to Edvardi 6 ti and (b) Vid. Stat. 5. 6to Ed. 6ti cap. 1. left established at his Death abolish'd by Mary
Your very humble Servant Septemb. 1651. An Account by way of Abstract of Mr. John Goodwin's Book call'd The Pagans Debt and Dowry c. Printed at London in the year 1651. returned by way of answer to the foregoing Letter of Dr. Barlow MR. Goodwin there in p. 4. acknowledgeth that Dr. Barlow hath pleaded the cause of what he asserted with as much ingenuity and strength as any man whatsoever could have done But in pag 6. he mentions that he will answer some of the more material parts of Dr. Barlow 's Discourse tho' not in the same order to which he might be directed by his Papers but only as they came to his remembrance he not having leisure for a second Review But 't is pitty that he had not endeavour'd for the Worlds satisfaction to have answered Paragraph by Paragraph as is usually done by the answerers of Discourses writ with such accurateness of method as Dr. Barlow's is However some of the more material replies of Mr. John Goodwin shall be here set down and left to the Worlds consideration He saith in pag. 10. and seque 4. That the Scriptures in several plâ—ces plainly insinuate a capacity in the Heathen yea in all men by the light of Nature to attain or make out this Evangelical conclusion that some mediation some attonement or other hath been made and accepted by God for the sins of Men. But I demand saith the Aposâ—le Paul Rom. 10.18 Have they not heard Yes verily their sound went forth into all the Earth and their words unto the end of the World He had said in the verse immediately foregoing that Faith comes by hearing in this verse he shews in an answer which he gives to a demand or question put by him what hearing it is by which Faith comes or at least what hearing is sufficient to believe upon or produce Faith This hearing he saith is the hearing of that sound and of those words which the Heavens and the day and the night speak and that are gone forth into the end of the World as appears by the Place in Psal 19. from whence these words are added If you ask me but what is the sound or what are the words which the Heavens and the Day and the Night i. e. The constant course of the Providence of God in the Government of the World speak in the Ears of all Nations and of all People that Faith shall come by the hearing of them I answer They are the words of Eternal Life too as well as those which as â—eter acknowledgeth our Saviour himself had to speak yea and did speak upon all occasions only they are not so plainly spoken as he was wont to speak their Parable is somewhat more dark and harder to be understood but the sense and import of what the Heavens moving still in their Natural courses and the gracious Providence of God jointly speak in the Ears of all Flesh is that God is taken off from the fierceness of hâ—â— displeasure against sin and that he holds forth his White Flag and offers terms and conditions of Peace unto the World and that upon their coming in to him by Repentance they shall be received into Grace and Favour And what is this but the very tenour sum and substance of the Gospel which yet is more plain from that of the same Apostle Acts 14. to the Men of Lystra who saith he speaking of God in times past suffered all the Gentiles to walk in their own ways nevertheless he left not himself without witness in that he did good and gave us Rain from Heaven and fruitful seasons filling our hearts with food and gladness In respect of what was it that God left not himself without witness amongst the Gentiles even then when he suffered them to walk in their own ways viz. without admonishing and directing them how to walk and what to do after any such manner as now he doth by the Letter of the Gospel sent amongst them what did the witnesses the Apostle here speaks of witness concerning God or on his behalf doubtless he doth not speak here of his Godhead nor of his Power nor of his Wisdom as if his meaning were that God left not himself without witness of these tho' it be true that he did not leave himself without witness i. e. means of convincing men of these also but the works of Creation as distinguished from the works of Providence whereof he here speaks are sufficient witnesses of these according to the Tenour of Rom. 1.20 and besides there are natural impressions of these in the Spirits and Consciences of Men which are witness on Gods behalf thus far but doubtless that in God or concerning God which as the Apostle here saith God intended should be testified or witnessed on his behalf unto men was somewhat more secret more out of the way as it were of mens common thoughts or apprehensions and particularly it was that gracious and good affection which he bears unto the World through Jesus Christ his inclination unto peace with men upon their Repentance which is the substance of the Gospel This appears first By the nature or quality of the Witnesses here spoken of which were God's giving men Rain from Heaven and fruitful seasons his filling their hearts with food and gladness such witnesses as these are only proper to testifie Grace and Love and desire of the good of those to whom they are given in him that givâ—th them They plainly shew that he that shews them is not extreme with hath not extremity against those that do amiss and consequently that he is by one means or other taken off from the rigour of his Justice and severity of his wrath against sinners And 2. It appears from hence because Paul who was not only a diligent and faithful Preacher of the Gospel where ever he came but was in special manner design'd to be an Apostle to the Gentiles Preached no other Doctrine than this at Lystra a City of the Gentiles Upon that great opportunity that was now offered him we cannot think that he should Preach a Philosophical or Metaphysical Sermon concerning the Essence or Natural proporties of God only but which was Evangelical and savouring of the Gospel now the Holy Ghost recording either the whole or at least the sum and substance of what he Preached in this place reporteth nothing Evangelical as spoken by him except this be acknowledged for such so that clear it is from the Scriptures that all the World even those that are most straitned and scanted in this kind those that have not the Letter of the Gospel have yet sufficient means of believing granted unto them of believing I mean 1. That God is 2. That he is a Rewarder of those that diligently seek him which is all the Faith or Belief the Apostle makes simply and absolutely necessary to bring a man unto God i. e. into grace and favour with him Heb. 11. There are several other Scriptures that speak home
certis redditibus percipiendis quaedam assignantur ad suam exhibitionem sustentationem pro certis laboribus oneribus subeundis ad ipsorum vitam c. And I have been told by a good Civilian that such Sine-Cures have been made and given to some Priest in the time of Popery to maintain him at Rome and in his Journey thither that he might buy and learn there the Arts of that cunning Court solicit business and be serviceable to his Country and Friends at home Lastly But if it be demanded concerning the Original of appropriating Parochial Tithes and making Rectories of Sine-Cures I say 1. We never hear of Tithes for many Ages in the Primitive Church In the (g) Extat gr lat in 8vo per Justellum Paris 1610. in Bibliotheca Juris Canonici Veteris per Justellum Par. 1661. Codex Canonum Ecclesiae Universae the most Authentick Book in the World next the Bible which contains the Canons received by the Vniversal Church till the year 451. there is not one word of Tithes The Clergy were then liberally maintain'd by the free oblations 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 they call'd them of the people The Peoples Charity and kindness to the Clergy was great then and so were their oblations for their maintenance But the case is much alter'd and the people so far from giving freely that they will seldom pay what is by law due sure the people then were much better Christians or we of the Clergy now worse 2. But I find not Tithes and the payment of them established here in England till the end (h) By King Offa's Charter Anno. 786. See Selden of Tithes cap. 8. § 2. p. 198. of the eighth or the middle of the ninth (i) Selden Ibidem § 4. pag. 204. pag. 209. Century and the division of England into Parishes not before Honorius Arch-bishop of Canterbury and the year 636. so that the division of Parishes being so late and Tithes not establish'd till the end of the eighth or middle of the ninth Century 't is certain that the appropriation of Tithes could not be before Tithes and Parishes were established but how soon after they came to be alienated and made Sine-Cures I know not nor have I time to search One thing material in this business of Sine-Cures is that heretofore Donatives and Sine-Cures might be in Lay-mens hands Since our late Act of Vniformity 14. Car. 2. none but a Priest is made capable of them a Lay-man by that Act is made incapable see the § Be it further enacted Next after the Declaration against the Covenant c. I am Sir Your affectionate Friend and Servant T. L. My honour'd Friend IN a former Letter you asked a Question about Pensions paid to others out of Ecclesiastical Livings about the payment of them at home and abroad The Question may be 1. De facto what has been done in this case 2. De Jure what justly might be done Now de Facto 't is evident that Pensions have been paid out of Ecclesâ—astical Livings 1. To the Pope as Annatae Primitiae Anni primi fructus or first fruits And I find the Canonists call them in the Neuter Gender (a) Duaâ—â—nus de Beneficiis lib. 6. cap. 4. p. 83. Annuum so that Annuum solvere signifies the same as Annatas primitias aut unius Anni fructus solvere When these Annats (b) Sanctio Pragmaticae cum Glâ—ssis Paris 1613. p. 1009. in Editione ultimâ Paris 1666. p. 468. began how they were (c) Vid dictam Sanctionem Edit 1613. p. 630 631 c. fuse Editionis 1666. p. 465 c. paid and condemn'd at home and abroad the Authors in the Margent tell us especially the Sanctio Pragnatica Caroli 7. Galliarum Regis and the large Glosses upon it in the places cited And to omit others (d) Lib. 6. cap. 3 4. sequentibus Duarenus de Beneficiis has fully handled the business of Annats And you know Cowels Interpreter Verbo Annats and Spelman's Glossary Verbo Annatae give an account of them So does my Lord (e) Institut part 4. p. 120. Cook too In whom we may clearly see that the Story Spelman has out of Platina that Annats were first brought in by Boniface 9. Anno 1400. is untrue for Annats demanded here in England and denied by Ed. 3. in the second year of his reign which was Anno Christi 1327. and so 73 years before But though the Council of (f) Concil Basiliense An. 1431. Sessio 21. Basil damn'd the payment of Annats yet they were paid here till Hen. VIII (g) Statut. 26. Hen. 8. cap. 3. H. 1. Eliz. cap. 4. annex'd them for ever to the Crown Miseris malorum altior sensus I speak this more feelingly because I am to pay the King above 800 l. for these scurvy Popish Annats 2. Besides Decimae or Tenths were paid to the Pope and now to our Kings and are likely to be so for ever for our Statutes call it (h) Statut. An. 2. 3. cap. 35. and in the end of the Sanctio Pragmatica Edite Paris 1613. pag. 1009. we are told that the K. of France has the Tenths which the Pope had before a perpetual Disme and for ever 26. Hen. VIII chap. 3. 3. Besides these there were many other payments out of Ecclesiastical Livings which they call'd Corrodia (i) Othoboni Constitutio Voâ—entes Verbo Liberationes Liberationes so they were commonly call'd at least here in England Now for these Corrodia Liberationes or Pensiones for by all these names they are call'd we may have the whole nature of them explain'd as what they were who might impose them on whom for how long c. in many Authors Forraign and Domestick of our own and other Nations I shall only name a few and in reading them you will find a hundred more cited who writ on the same subject 1. In the Canon-Law which you know better then I Decret Greg. lib. 3. Tit. 39. De Censibus Exact Procurat there are many chap. about this business As cap. Scientes 3. and cap. 7 8 10 11 13 15 c. 2. Panormitan on those Chapters and Cardinal Turrecremata ad Can. Quaesitum est 4. Caus 1. Quaest 3. 3. Linwood Provincial lib. 2. De Rebus Ecclesiae non alienandis cap. ut secundum 2. 4. Othoboni Constitutio Quia plerumqu De his qui pactionem faciunt cum praesentato mihi pag. 105. cum Glossis Johan De Aton Canonici Lincolinensis ejusdem Othoboni Constitutio Volentes Quod nulli Religiosi vendant vel assignent aliis Liberationes seu Corrodia Ita enim habet summarium dictae constitutioni praefixum pag. 126. Col. 3. 5. Cowels Interpreter Verbo Corrodium Spelman's Glossary verbo corrodium 6. Duarenus de Beneficiis lib. 6. cap. 3 4 c. 7. And to omit others Covarruvius Institutionum Moralium Tom. 2. lib. 8. cap. 5 6 7 c. fully
his opinion has neither proof nor probability become his Proselytes 2. If you would know my opinion though it signifie little whether the Pope or Turk be the greater Antichrist 1. 'T is granted that they are both Anti-christs For even in St. Johns time there (a) 1. John 2.18 were and ever since there have been many Antichrists impious Hereticks he means and deserters (b) Ibidiem verse 19. of the truth of the Gospel but amongst those many Antichrists there was 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 one great Antichrist who was to come as St. John there says and of all the rest the Turk and Pope have the fairest Pleas to be that Antichrist 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 But the Pope is certainly to be prefer'd and he shall have my vote for that great place of being the great Antichrist because he has some proprieties and Characteristical marks of that Beast which the Turk neither has nor can pretend too I shall only name one or two 1. The Seat of Antichrist was to be the (c) Rev. 17.18 great City which reigned over the Kings of the Earth Which unquestionably is Rome where the Pope has and does sit And even the Jesuits confess this as also other Popish writers Now the Turks Seat neither is nor ever was at Rome 2. Another mark of the great Antichrist is That he exalts (d) 2 Thess 2.3 4. himself above all that is called God c. above all Kings and Emperors who in Scripture are called Gods This the Pope does who takes upon him and his own Canonists and Council say he may do it to depose Kings and give away Kingdoms A most prodigious instance of this Papal pride we have in Pope Alexander the VI. whom you have mention'd who gave (e) Vide Constitut 2. Alexandrio 6. in Bullario Romano Tom. 1. pag. 347. Editionis Romae 1638. to Ferdinand King of Arragon and his Heirs for ever all the West Indies that is almost half the known World at one clap as appears by his Bull Published at Rome before mentioned in the Margent But the Turk has never claim'd such an Universal Monarchy over the whole World and therefore has not so good a Plea as the Pope has to be Antichrist 3. It is a mark of Antichrist or the Whore of Babylon as St. John calls her that she (a) Rev. 17.6 was drunk with the Blood of the Saints Which agrees not to the Turk who suffers Christians to live if they do not Rebel and pay their Taxes and does not take away their lives because they are not of his Religion But the Pope where ever he has power suffers none to live who will not submit to him and imbrace his Romish and Idolatrous way of Worship The many thousands nay many hundred thousands who barely on this account have in these last 600. Years been Murder'd by the Pope and his party either by open War Inquisitions or otherways are signal evidences of this truth and amongst others the French Massacre Anno. 1572. and our late Irish Massacre are sad and signal Instances I am Sir Your affectionate Friend and Servant T. L. Bugden Sept. 9. 1682. The Bishops thoughts being desired about two things namely 1. when the Famous Prophetical passage in Hooker might have its Accomplishment and 2. about the Modus of the deposing of a King in Poland the Circumstances of which it was probable the Bishop was well inform'd in by his frequent Conversation with some Polonian Noble Men and Students at Oxford he return'd his Answer to the two Enquiries THE passage enquired about in Hooker was as followeth viz. By these or the like suggestions received with all joy and with all sedulity practised in Certain parts of the Christian World They have brought to pass that as David doth say of Man so it is in hazard to be verified concerning the whole Religion and Service of God The time thereof may peradventure fall out to be Threescore and ten Years or if strength do serve unto Fourscore What follows is like to be small joy to them whatsoever they be that behold it Thus have the best things been overthrown not so much by puissance and might of Adversaries as through defect of Council in them that should have upheld and defended the same The Answer of the Bishop was as followeth viz. SIR I Received yours and though I have hardly time to return my thanks and tell you so yet in obedience to your commands I shall crave leave to tell you 1. That the passage you name in Mr. Hooker occurs in his fifth Book and in the end of the 79. Paragraph pag. 432. of the (a) The year when it was Printed is not mention'd only that it was Printed at London Old Edition And in the (b) Anno. 1062. last Edition of Hookers Policy by Doctor Gauden Bishop of Exeter the place occurs in the same Book and Paragraph pag. 329. 330. Note that Mr. Hooker had a Wife and if any be bad one of the worst in England and yet Bishop Gauden in his (c) Pag. 12. â—incâ ultimâ Life before Hookers Policy tells us that Mr. Hooker was never Married Now for Mr. Hookers Prophetical passage the time of it is not yet come For though we talked much of it and said it was fulfill'd when the Long Parliament pull'd down the Church and sold Church-lands for of such Sacriledge Hooker speaks yet it may be fulfill'd hereafter and Hookers Prediction true For Hooker did first Print his first Book in the (d) See Hookers Life by Isaack Walton pag. 117. Year 1597. The first four of his Policy being before Printed (e) Ibid. pag 116. Anno 1594. Now if you add to that Number 80. which is the utmost time Hooker mentions then the time of the fulfilling his prediction must be in the (f) Ann. 1597. Add 80. In all 1677. Year 1677. and so it is possible you and I may live to see the Issue of it And so much for the Point of Prophecies concerning which and our Country Men our old Historian Gul. Neubrigensis so they Print his Name but it should be Neuburgensis tells us Gens Anglorum Prophetiis semper dedita For your other Query about Poland The Historian I recommended to you because he was commended to me by My Lord Goreski and several other Polish Gentlemen was Mart. Cromerus who has other Works but those they commend as giving the best account of the State of Poland are 1. His Chronicon de Origine rebus gestis Poloniae Basil 1582. 2. His Polonia seu de situ populis moribus c. Poloniae Basil 2582. Now the Story I told you is what those Polonian Noble Persons tell me for I have not Read much in Cromerus That Poland is an Elective Kingdom 2. That there are pacta conventa and Fundamental Capitulations between him and the People which contain Jura Regni Populi the power of the King and the Priviledges and
it before the Year 1564. as might be manifestly proved were that my buisiness by Buckden March 24. 1685. Your Affectionate Friend and Servant T. L. A Letter of a New Popish Book then Publish'd c. Sir I Have received that new Popish Book you so kindly sent me The Book is much magnified by the Popish Emissaries and put into the hands of many to seduce them from our Religion particularly it was given to a Gentlewoman in Glocestershire Two Ministers who were by her Friends imploy'd to undeceive that Gentlewoman desired me to give them some Motives to disswade her from Popery I did in two Sheets of Paper give them such Motives to which as yet no answer is return'd But the Gentlewoman gave them a Paper Penn'd by her Priest containing Motives for which she turn'd a Papist The Gentlemen brought them to me I answer'd them at large in eight Sheets of Paper and they procur'd of her a Copy of the Book you sent me and last week allow'd me time to Read and return it to them privately So that I have Read the Book which is Popularly Penn'd with great confidence affirming but proving nothing with any good consequence the Author has some Rhetorick but no good Logick He makes Universal Tradition of the Church the prime and grand Foundation of all our Christian Faith and Religion and I have desired the Gentlemen who procured me the sight and reading of the Book to make this offer to the Gentlewoman and her Priest That if they can prove any one point of Popery by the Vniversal Tradition of the Church we will be their Proselytes Nay secondly If they can prove any one point of Popery by the constant and successively continued Tradition of their own Roman Church from the Apostles time to this day I will be their Proselyte That which troubles me is this our Adversaries are with diligence and cunning Sowing Tares and I fear we sleep Math. 13.25 while they are sowing them I am Sir Your Affectionate Friend and Servant T. L. Jan. 3. 1684. A Letter to Sir P. P. wherein he apologizeth for his not going to Lincolne and wherein he proves that Henry the Eighth's Marrying his Brothers Wife was only against the Judicial Law and animadverts on Calvin's making the Penal Laws about Religion given to the Jews to bind under the Gospel Sir I Received yours and this comes with my humble service to tell you that I know not what to say non ingratus beneficiis sed oppressus Your care and kindness for me in this my business has been so great and extraordinary that if I be freed from the trouble and disgrace of the threatned Visitation I must impute it next to the gracious and powerful Providence of my good God to the undeserved charity and kindness of the excellent Marquess of Hallifax and your prudence and diligence in managing that affair The truth is I am exceeding sensible amongst many more of the great Obligation you have laid upon me in this business which I can never requite beneficia tua indignè aestimat qui de reddendo cogitat nor ever shall ingratefully forget For going to Lincoln the good Counsel of that * The Marquess of Hallifax Excellent person so soon as God shall be graciously pleased to give me ability I will not fail to do it But at present my Age and Infirmities are such as disable me for such a Journey I have not been out of my house this 13 or 14 months nor able to take any Journey I have writ to my Lord Privy Seal the Reasons of my not going to Lincoln 1. I have no House there 2. Buckden as you told him is in the Center of my Diocess and stands far more conveniently for all business 3. Bishop Sanderson lived and dy'd at Buckden and Bishop Lany lived there too till he was translated to Ely nor were they ever accused or complained on for it 4. That Lincoln might not think I was unkind and neglected them I sent them 100 l. of which 50 l. to the Church and the other 50 l. to the City and since that I gave the City 20 l. towards their Expence in renewing their Charter which none of my Predecessors have done and yet I only must be accus'd and uncharitably condemn'd by my Enemies Causa indictâ inauditâ Ah! my dear Friend it is not my absence from Lincoln or any of those little things they I mean the Popish Party object against me which troubles them but that which indeed sets them on to calumniate me is they know I am an Enemy to Rome and their miscalled Catholick Religion and God willing while I live shall be so hinc illae Lachrymae I have been Loyal to my good King and dutiful to my holy Mother the Church of England and pardon my confidence I have done them more faithful and better service than any of mine Enemies have or can And notwithstanding any discouragements I shall God inabling me continue to do so I am not afraid to anger my Popish Enemies or of any mischief they can do me I serve a most gracious and omnipotent God who can and I hope will deliver me from their Cruelties and if not they shall know that I will never worship the abominable Idols they have set up I have something which in convenient time I shall publish which will anger them more than any thing I have yet done For what you mention of Henry 8. that his Marrying his Brothers Wife was only against the Judicial Law of the Jews is evidently true such a Marriage is not against the Law of Nature For 1. Cain and Abel could not possibly marry any save their Sisters yet God who never commands any thing against the Law of Nature commanded them to increase and multiply who could not lawfully multiply but by lawful Marriage 2. Sarah was Abraham's Sister Gen. 20. v. 12. and God himself saith that she was his Wife Gen. 20.3 but had it been against the Law of Nature to marry a Sister she might have been his Concubine but not his Legal Wife For 't is both Law and Reason Contractus contra Naturam initus est nullus 3. In the Levitical Law God who never does command any thing against the Law of Nature commands a Brother to take his Brothers Wife to marry her to raise up seed to his Brother But the thing is evident and needs no further proof For what you desire concerning Calvin's Opinion on Deut. 13.6 9. and Zech. 13.3 His Opinion is on Zech. 13.3 That these penal severe Laws do bind us under the Gospel his words there are these Sequitur ergo non modo legem illam fuisse Judaeis positam quemadmodum nugantur fanatici homines so I am a Fanatique in honest Calvin's Opinion sed extenditur ad nos etiam eadem Lex c. yet 't is evident those Laws were never given to th Gentiles Rom. 9.4 Eph. 2.12 and therefore neither did nor could bind
and therefore not in the Year 1579. as Marca saith For that Excellent and most Faithful Historian tells us That at (a) Thuanus Hist Tom. 4. lib. 94. pag. 361. Magno caloris aestu contentio de Tridentina Synodo promulganda toties agitata denuorenovata est that time Anno 1588 The business of promulging and receiving of the Trent Council in France was earnestly press'd and tho it had been long desired yet the receiving of it had been always (b) Novis difficultatibus subortis promulgatio Synodi tam diu expetita retardaretur Ibidem hinder'd And how stoutly the promulgation of it was then opposed the same Thuanus there tels you But that the French do not now receive the Trent Council not in rebus fidei may farther appear 6. The whole Clergy of France declare 1. That (c) In their Assembly March 19. 1682. a Council is above the Pope 2. That he has no power in Temporals in any Princes Dominions 3. That he has no power to depose Princes 4. Nor to absolve Subjects from their Oaths of Allegiance 5. That he is not Infallible And tho the Pope declare by his Bull that all those are (d) Bulla data Romae 11 April 1682. Improbamus rescindimus cassamus c. null yet the French King ratifies (e) In an Edict registred in Parliament 23 Marcb 1682. and confirms them all Now these Five Propositions contradict many things in the Trent Council which are de fide at Rome 7. There is a (f) The Acts of the General Assembly of the French Clergy in the Year 1685 c. That 's the Title of the Book Book lately made by the General Assembly of the French Clergy and presented to the King July 14 1685. In which Book they cite in the Margent their new Trent (g) This Trent Creed in most of the Editions of the Trent Council is at the end of the Council but in the Edition at Antuerp 1633. which is the best it is in the Body of the Council Sess 24. pag. 450 451. Creed that is some part of it For the last of it they cite is pag. 38. of that Book and leave out the last part of that Creed which is contained in these Words Caetera item omnia à sacris Canonibus oecumenicis Conciliis ac praecipue à sacrosancta Tridentina Synodo tradita definita declarata indubitanter recipio ac profiteor simulque contraria omnia Haereses quascunque ab Ecclesia damnatas rejectas anathematizatas ego pariter damno reiicio anathematizo Hanc veram CATAOLICAM FIDEM extra quam nemo salvus esse potest quam in presenti sponte profiteor veraciter teneo eandem integram usque ad extremum vitae spiritum constantissime retinere confiteri atque abillis quorum cura ad me in munere meo spectabit teneri doceri praedicari quantum in me est curaturum Ego idem N. spondeo voveo juro c. These be the Words which the French Clergy leave out in their Book above mention'd And great reason they had so to do for if they admitted this part of the Trent Creed then goodnight to all the Liberties of their Gallican Church For 1. By this part of the Trent Creed they are bound to believe and profess OMNIA à concilio Tridentino traditâ definita declarata c. 'T is not only matters of Doctrine and definitions of Faith but OMNIA definita tradita And 't is most certain that the Council intended both matters of Discipline and Doctrine 2. In the foresaid words of their Trent Creed a firm belief is required to be given OMNIBUS in Conciliis Oecumenicis traditis And then all their Liberties of the Gallican Church are gone For their Sanctio pragmatica which is the authentick comprehension of them is damn'd and abrogated by Leo (a) In Bulla data Romae 14 Cal. Jan. Anno 1526. X. approbante Concilio In their General Lateran Council 3. By the words of this Creed they are to receive OMNIA in sacris canonibus tradita and then fare-well to all their Gallican Churches Liberties For their Sanctio pragmatica is expresly (b) Extravagant communes lib. 1. Titulo 9. De Trig. pace cap. 1. damn'd and abrogated in their Canon-law by a Bull of Pope Sixtus quartus 4. Again the Words above mention'd which the French Clergy left out of their Book are a part Fidei Catholicae extra quam non est salus And therefore if the French do not receive as questionless they do not this part of the Trent Creed then 't is evident they do not receive what P. de Marca would have us believe Definitiones fidei Concilii Tridentini Obj. But Sir P. Pett mentions Cabassatius in his Letter that the Trent Council was received in France Anno 16â—5 Sol. I confess he says that it was receiv'd that year in Generali conventâ—s Gallicani Cleri (c) Notitia Conciliorum per Joh. Cabassutium Lugduni Anno 1672. pag. 720. sub Ludovico 13. But 1. Father Paul of Venice a far more credible Author says it was not received Anno 1616. and so it could not be received Anno 1615. 2. He says it was received that year a Clero Gallicano sub Ludovico 13. But he does not say that the King received it only the Clergy received it And Pet. de Marca in the places above quoted expresly says That the Clergy very frequently petition'd their Kings to receive that Council but their Kings as Marca grants would never give their consent without which consent it could (d) Decreta conciliorum legis Vim in Gallia non habent nisi recepta a clero regia authoritate munita Marca de concord Sacerd. Imperii lib. 2. cap. 17. §. 7. pag. 133. not be received in France That God Almighty would be graciously pleased to bless your Lordship your Noble Family and Friends is and shall be the Prayer of My Lord Your Lordships most Obliged Thankful and Faithful Servant Thomas Lincoln Another Letter to the same Person of the same Subject Right Honourable and my very good Lord SInce my last Letter I have remembr'd and found a passage in an excellent French Historian which will be of signal use to make it appear that the Trent Council was never received in France The Historians Name is Barthol Gramondus The Title of his Book this Historiarum Galliae ab Excessu Hen. 4. libri 18. Authore G.B. Gramondo in sacro Regis Consistorio Senatore in Parliamento Tolosano Praeside Tolosae 1643. In this Book Gramondus tells us that in the (a) pag. 57. Year 1615. the year in which Cressie out of Cabassutius says the Clergy received the Trent Council There was a Convention of the three Estates In which the receiving and Promulgation of the Trent Council was (b) Proposita a clero Concilii Tridentini promulgatio molliendae invidiae adjecta est haec
enquiry about it among some of the King's Ministers and among some of the persons employ'd in taking it found it was taken well as to the number of the Papists but short as to the number of the Non-conformists and as to its being taken thus to the Number of the Papists the Reader may be referred to Dr. Glanvil the Author of the Book call'd The Zealous and Impartial Protestant Shewing some great but less heeded Dangers of Popery Printed in London in the Year 1681. and wherein p. 46 he saith I shall consider one great Instance which is mens multiplying the numbers of Papists beyond all bounds of truth c. People are apt to talk of the numbers and strengh of Papists and no doubt design them not any service by it c. whereas did they know how inconsiderable their real numbers are they must certainly sit down and be quiet They would then understand that their business is unpracticable Private Persons would be discouraged and if there should succeed a Prince of their Religion in all probability he also would despond and never think of attempting a thing humanely speaking so impossible a thing the endeavouring which would certainly tear all in pieces Religion Government and all And what the late Designs have done towards it we all sadly see Therefore that they may see their Designs are Madness and that they ought to despair of ever succeeding by their strength we should let them know that they have abused themselves and others have abused them by false Musters In the year 1676 7. Orders came from the Arch-bishop to the several Bishops and from them to the respective Ministers and Church-Wardens in the Province of Canterbury to enquire carefully and to return an account of the distinct numbers of Conformists Protestant Nonconformists and Papists in their several Parishes viz. of all such Men and Women that were of age to communicate I have by me the return from the whole Province which contains all England and Wales excepting only what belongs to four of the 25 Bishopricks The number of Papists there return'd was but eleven thousand eight hundred and seventy Men and Women old and young Now though in this account Conformists and other Non-conformists were not so distinctly could not so justly be reckon'd yet for the Papists they being so few in each Parish and so notoriously distinguish'd as generally they are the Ministers and Church-Wardens could easily give account of them and there is no reason to suspect their Partiality We hear I know that in London alone and in some particular Parishes of that and the neighbour City there are vastly great numbers But within the Walls they are known to be very few comparatively scarce any such In the Suburbs they are said to be numerous still the great numbers are in places remote or where inquiry cannot be well made In St. Martins alone I have hear'd of twenty or thirty thousand but the Account was taken there and as exact a one as could be And I am assured by some that should know and had no reason to misinform me that the number return'd upon the most careful scrutiny was about six hundred Of Lodgers there might be more but they are supposed to be accounted elsewhere in the several Parishes to which they belong I have found the like fallings short of the reputed number in divers other noted places In one City talk'd of for Papists as if half the Inhabitants were such I am assured there are not twenty Men and Women In another large and populous one a Person of Quality living in it told me there were at least six hundred but when the enquiry was made by the Ministers and Church-Wardens of each Parish that number was not found to be sixty And 't is very probable such a disproportion would be met between the reputed and real number in all other places if scrutiny were made In all the West and most populous parts of England they are very inconsiderable I hear frequently from Inhabitants of those places that in Bristol the second or third City of England there is but one and in the City of Glocester one more or two at most In the other great Towns and Cities Westward scarce any and those that are in the Counties at large are extremely few thinly scattered here one and at the distance of many Miles it may be another some few decay'd Gentry and here and there an inconsiderable Countrey-man or Trades-man very few of Note or Riches of either sort And if an exact account were taken of their Number and Conditions from London to the Mount in Cornwell Westward the inconsiderableness of both would exceedingly surprize us And I am very confident that of all sorts of men differing from the Church of England in that Kingdom the Papists are the fewest and those that are are so scatter'd and live so distantly from each other that 't is really very little they are capable of doing in opposition to the rest of the Nation and the less because of the great jealousy and hatred that all universally have conceived of and against them We hear of vast numbers in the North and there are more no doubt in those parts than in the Western but I believe they are much fewer than we hear and no way able by their numbers to make any kind of ballance for the exceeding disproportion in the West The truth is people are mightily given and generally so to multiply the number of Papists and they do it in common Talk at least ten fold Designs have been and I doubt are still carrying on which this Pretence serves A chief thing to be done in order to publick Mischief is to affright the people with the number and strength of Papists And I believe if there were but ten of that sort in the Nation it would be the same thing Thus far Dr. Glanvil But the Doctor 's Notion of the inconsiderableness of the Papists power to overthrow our Religion and Laws by force of Arms may thus for the satisfaction of the Reader be corroborated by Calculation There being every where as many under the Age of 16 as above it it makes the total of the Papists in the Province of Canterbury about 23000 The Province of York bears a sixth part of the Taxes and hath in it a sixth part of the people that the Province of Canterbury hath A sixth part of 23000 is 3500 which added to 23000 the Papists in England will be 27000. Half of these is under the Age of sixteen which may be supposed to be 14000. A 7th part of these which is 4000 are aged and above 60. So then taking out of their number 18000 there remains 9000 a third part of their number who are between 16 and 60 and of which one half are Women There remains therefore of Papists in England fit to bear Arms 4500 quod erat demonstrandum It is observ'd that in Glamorganshire Radnor Brecknock there is but one Popish Family
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