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The glory of Chelsey Colledge revived by John Darley.
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Darley, John, 1622?-1699.
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pag. 16 17 18. Who i. e. Mr Baxter in his Holy Common-wealth or his Political Aphorisms expresseth his mind thus in his additions to his Preface Consider how suitable Popery is with a carnal Inclination Secondly what plausible reasons Papists have to delude poor souls with from their pretended Universality Antiquity c. Thirdly how few of the vulgar are able to defend their faith or to answer to the two great Sophistical Questions of the Papists viz. Where hath your Church been visible in all Ages Only Dr Featley not only in his Disputation with Fisher but in his Manuscript dedicated to the Lord Craven not yet printed and in his Grand Sacriledge particularly concerning the taking away the Cup from the Laity has fully as much as they demanded answered that other point For the Nameless Romanist thus contrives and moulds his subtilties not as Cases of Conscience to be resolved by some learned Divine but as it were laying as Dr Featley resenteth a snare to intangle the Answerers therein Let saith he those points be propounded one after another and receive their positive answer under their hands to the first before they know the second and so in order to the rest when that is done you shall hear further from me What is this saies Dr Featley but in effect to say draw the Protestant Respondents by degrees and by little and little into the snares which I have laid for them and when they are intangled in them I will come and take them and intangle them with their own subscriptions Which Tract of Dr Featley's yea the very 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 of it is in the Right Honourable the Lord Craven's hands who is extreamly desired that he would be pleased to communicate it for the Churches good if he have it by him or else I have a transcript which I shall crave his leave to put forth And how prove you the Scripture to be the Word of God Though not only the Papists themselves but especially our Divines as Whitakers against Stapleton and in a large Tract besides yea Arminius himself Vrsinus and all our Catechetical Divines especially the Confession of our English Churches faith against the Popish Traditions and Papal Decretals have abundantly proved the sufficiency perfection and divinity of the Scriptures unto salvation 2 Tim. 3. 16. that they be the word of God only and not of man as spoken and delivered by holy men of God as they were moved by the Holy Ghost 1 Pet. 1. 21. And therefore we may say What is the Chaff to the word of God what are Traditions Legends of Saints to the word of God Jer. 23. 28. Alphonsus de Villega his more refined Legends of the Saints Fourthly how will it take with the people to be told that their forefathers all dyed in the Roman faith which Reverend Mr Hocker that wrote the Ecclesiastical Policy in five books wil abundantly resolve them in And fifthly above all what a multitude of Jesuits and Friers and Priests they can prepare for the work and pour out upon us at their pleasure from Flanders France and Rome and other places and how those sorts of men are purposely trained up for this deceivable and illusive work and have their common Arguments at their fingers end which though they are thred-bare and transparent fallacies to the wise yet to the vulgar and to our unstudied Gentry they are as good as if they had never been confuted or as the best I appeal unto that gloriosum Certamen between King Charles the first and the Marquess of Worcester at Ragland Castle who I say the Marquess wanted not his College of Priests and Popish Jesuits with what hazzard did the Kings Majesty encounter and escape the most subtile Circumventings of that night in single Combats having only for his second Dr Bayley a single Chaplain Sixthly what a world of wealth and secular helps is at their becks in France Flanders Italy Spaine and Germany They have Millions of gold and Navies and Armies ready to promote their work which other Sects have none of So as that the Jesuitical Collegiated Hives for them in all Countries in Italy France Spaine Germany as one of credible Intelligence has mustred only the Jesuits and reported them smal and great Tyrones Veterani Pupils Tutors Pensioners Governors maintained in their Armies and pay are ten times more then all the Students in both Universities and in all the Inns of Court in London too viz. 2000000. Which Computation is taken out of the Muster-book of Harley's Defence Des Jesuits And therefore no marvel that these hives every where so swarm and such multitudes of them are sent to seek their hiving quarters in our England For they account Scotland as yet too poor for them or too cold and barren to thrive in as not having those flores inscripti nomina Regum for them to suck their hony out of Seventhly what worldly motives have their Priests and Friers to promote their zeal Their Superiors have such variety of Preferments and ample Treasures to reward them with and their single life alloweth them so much vacancy from domestick Avocations and withall they so much glory in a zeal in compassing sea and land to make Proselytes that it is an incredible advantage that they get by their Industry the Envious man by them sowing his tares whilst others sleep and are not half so industrious to resist them Eighthly What abundance have they lately wone in England Notwithstanding they have wanted publick liberty and have only taken secret opportunities to seduce persons many of the Nobility Gentry yea and of the Clergy as well as of the Common people and zealous Professors of Religion lately as well as of the profane have been seduced by them and by them Princes in other Countries have been won and the Protestant Religion cunningly worm'd out And what a lamentable increase they had made in England before our Wars by that Countenance and favour which through the Queen was procured them though incomparably short of this absolute Liberty is sufficiently known Ninthly It is not the least of our danger that the most of our Ministers are unable to deal with a Cunning Jesuite or Priest And this is not to be wondred at considering how many of them are young men put in of late in the Necessity of the Churches which the world knows who have caused and there must be time before young men can grow to maturity and an unfurnished Nation can be provided with able experienced men And the Cessation of Popish assaults of late hath disused Ministers from these Disputations The Reformation had seemed to have brought down Popery so low that we grew secure and thought there was no danger of it and the Papists of late have forborn much to meddle with us barefac'd and have played their game under the vizor of their Sects And withall young Ministers have been so taken up with the greater work of winning Souls from common profaneness that
Chaos of Libertinisme Licentiousness c. But yet if Chelsey College find favour I hope that Rome's word of hope for all their insulting may never be found to be verified upon us I will set and men shall see it the Egyptians against the Egyptians that is say they the Protestants against the Protestants the Lutherans against the Calvinists as Bishop Morton reports it and Breerly has seemed to have done it as Bishop Morton I say in his Catholick Appeale to Breerly the Priest in his Protestants Plea But if we may not be so happy to see such a sure established Preservation of holy Truth and Peace Zach. 8. 16 19. as our Palladium or holy Arke which will keep us safe unto Salvation so long as we keep it it will be requisite yet that order be taken that none may be allowed to enter into the lists to maintain the Combat with Heretical seducers but those who upon egregious experiment are approved Champions For certainly there cannot be a greater advantage to prevalency of Error then a weak oppugnation I remember St Austine professes in his Manicheism this was it that heartned him that he met with feeble Opponents and such as his nimble wit was able easily to overturn When therefore any overbold Champion shall step forth and cast down his Gauntlet in defiance of Truth it is fit that he be incountred with an Assailant that hath brawn in his Arms and marrow in his bones and holy spirit in his head and heart not with some weak and wearyish Combatant whose heart may be as his hand is feeble and so may rather betray the better Cause with an imprudent and impotent managing Now this strong plea for Chelsey College thus far having so much Sanctuary-weight in it and witness for it I need not adde any graine more to it for it will hold certainly currant in the ballance of sanctified Judgment so that it will be vanity to draw a line after Protogenes But yet further for the establishing your Judgments and the attracting of your Affections in the third place for A threefold cord is not easily broken and Vnder the mouth of three witnesses shall every word be established 2 Cor. 13. 1. let me produce the venerable Relation and Judgement of one who may be well called a Chrysostome and so be joyned with a Bishop that is Dr Thomas Fuller out of his Church-History This College was intended saith he for a spiritual Garison of Stationary Church-Champions with a Magazine of books to that purpose as a well-furnished Armory where learned Divines should study and write in maintenance of all Controversies against the Papists the grand Wolves and also against the subserving Heresies of the little Foxes Indeed the Romanists in this may rise up and condemn those of the Protestant Profession for as Solomon used not his Military men for any servile work in building the Temple whereof the text assigneth the reason For they were men of war so the Romish Church does not burden their Professors with Preaching or any Parochial incumbrances but reserves them only for Polemical exercises and studies whereas in England the same man Reads Preaches Catechises Disputes delivers Sacraments c. so that were it not for God's marvellous blessings on our studies and the infinite odds of truth on our side it were in humane probability impossible that we should hold up the bucklers against them And further this College was further intended to be Acted with 20 choicer School-divines and to have amongst them two able and prudent Historians to be maintained in this College faithfully and learnedly to record and publish all memorable passages in Church and Commonwealth And further this College or Corporation was to consist of such a competent and steady number of Divines as I said before at least 20. And let us hear Dr Fuller's going on still to furnish us with the first List of first Heroes who engaged themselves to be on the Frontiers our Scipioes Fulminae belli 1. Matthew Sutcliffe Deane of Exceter Provost and Promoter of this College a man worthy to be Captain because a Champion whose skill as well as zeal whose Art as well as heart adorned him with Prudence as well as spirit 2. John Overall Deane of Pauls 3. Thomas Morton Deane of Winchester 4. Richard Field Deane of Gloucester 5. Robert Abbott 6. John Spencer 7. Miles Smith 8. William Covett 9. John Howson 10. John Layfield 11. Benjamin Carrier 12. Martin Fotherby 13. John Boys 14. Richard Brett 15. Peter Lilly 16. Francis Burley Doctors of Divinity 17. William Hellier Archdeacon of Barnstable 18. John White Fellow of Manchester College 19. William Cambden Clarenceaux 20. John Haywood Doctor of Law Historians Loe here saith Dr Fuller none who were actual Bishops were capable of places in this College and when some of these were advanced to Bishopricks as Deane Morton and Doctor Abbott and others translated to heaven King James by his new Letters patents 1622. November 2 substituted others in their places And yet since such Rapine and Sacrilegious sale of Bishops Revenues has of late been made so as that they are rather Titular then Real Bishops this College if Bishops in true Christian high magnanimity will submit their necks to this yoak of Christ and what can be more honourable may best fit and be ordained for such a Patriarchy of Bishops as a Jericho till their beards be grown and their garments be repaired For Jericho was not only the City of Palm-trees but the City and the great School yea the College of and for Prophets whereof the two great Prophets that were in their time called the Chariots and horse men of Israel were the heads having younger Prophets under them 2 Kings 4. 38. O that by their superintending in this School they might shew against Baal's Prophets the spirit of Eliah and Elisha doubled upon them In which College of Iericho Elisha succeeded Eliah as Father of the sonnes of the Prophets healing both their City fountain and their College common Pot of infected pottage and multiplying the loaves of barley So these Prophets are fittest to heal the Pot of Protestants which is so poisoned with the Coloquintida of the Popish wild gourds of Traditions Falshoods and corrupting of Scriptures that there may be no more evil in them 2 Kings 4. 41. Now to these for the building of their College and their Mansion as Dr Fuller saith K. James gave all the Timber requisite thereunto which was to be fetched out of Windsor Forrest And that long range which alone is extant scarce finished at this day yet thus the College made not of free-stone but of free timber cost O the dearness of College and Church work full three thousand pounds But alas what is this piece not an eighth part to a double Quadrant besides wings on each side as it was intended If the Ancient Fathers which remembred the magnificence of Solomon's wept at the meanness of the second Temple such must needs