of Stationers upon paine that every Printer offending therein shall be for ever hereafter disabled to use or exercise the Art of Mysterie of Printing and receive such further punishment as by this Court or the high Commission Court respectively as the severall causes shall require shall be thought fitting That all other Bookes whether of Divinity Phisick Philosophie Poetry or what soever shall be allowed by the Lord Arch-Bishop of Canterbury or Bishop of London for the time being or by their appointment or the Chancellours or Vice-Chancellors of either of the Vniversities of this Realme for the time being Alwayes provided that the Chancellour or Vice-Chancellour of either of the Vniversities shall Licence only such Booke or Bookes that are to be printed within the limits of the Vniversities respectively but not in London or else where not medling either with Bookes of the common Law or matters of State 5. Item That every Merchant of bookes and person and persons whatsoever which doth or hereafter shall buy import or bring any booke or bookes into this Realme from any parts beyond the Seas shall before such time as the same booke or bookes or any of them be delivered forth or out of his or their hand or hands or exposed to sale give and present a true Catalogue in writing of all and every such booke and bookes unto the Lord Arch-bishop of Canterbury or Lord Bishop of London for the time being upon paine to have and suffer such punishment for offending herein as by this Court or by the said high Commission Court respectively as the severall causes shall require shall be thought fitting 6. Item That no Merchant or other person or persons whatsoever which shall import or bring any booke or bookes into the Kingdome from any parts beyond the Seas shall presume to open any Dry. Fat 's Bales Packes Maunds or other Fatdalls of Bookes or wherein Bookes are nor shall any Searcher Wayter or other Officer belonging to the Custome House upon paine of loosing his or their place or places suffer the same to passe or to be delivered out of their hands or custody before such time as the Lord Arch-Bishop of Canterb. or Bishop of London or one of them for the time being have appointed one of their Chaplaines or some other Learned man with the Master and Wardens of the Company of Stationers or one of them and such others as they shall call to their assistance to bee present at the opening thereof and to view the same And if there shall happen to be found any seditious schismaticall or offensive Booke or Books they shall forthwith be brought unto the said Lord Archbishop of Canterbury Lord Bishop of London for the time being or one of them or to the High Commission Office to the end that as well the Offender or Offenders may be punished by the Court of Starre-Chamber or the High Commission Court respectively as the severall causes shall require according to his or their demerit as also that such further course may bee taken concerning the same Booke or Bookes as shall be thought fitting It is further Ordered and Decreed that no Merchant Bookseller or other person or persons whatsoever shall imprint or cause to be imprinted in the parts beyond the Seas or elsewhere nor shall import or bring nor willingly assist or consent to the importation or bringing from beyond the Seas into this Realme any English Bookes or part of bookes or bookes whatsoever which are or shall be or the greater or more part whereof is or shall be English or of the English tongue whether the same Booke or Bookes have beene here formerly printed or not upon paine of the forfeiture of all such English Bookes so imprinted or imported and such further censure and punishment as by this Court or the said High Commission Court respectively as the severall causes shall require shall be thought meet 18. Item That no person or Persons doe hereafter reprint or cause to reprinted any booke or bookes whatsoever THOUGH FORMERLY PRINTED WITH LICENCE without being revived and a new Licence obtained for the reprinting thereof Alwayes provided that the Stationer or Printer be put to no other charge hereby but the bringing and leaving of two printed Copies of the Booke to be printed as is before expressed of written Copies with all such additions as the Author hath made XXIV Item The Court doth hereby declare their firme resolution that if any person or persons that is not allowed Printer shall hereater presume to set up any Presse for printing or shall worke at any such Presse or set or Compose any Letters to be wrought by any such Presse he or they so offending shall from time to time by the Order of this Court be set in the Pillory and Whipt through the Citie of London and suffer such other punishment as this Court shall Order or thinke fit to inflict upon them upon Complaint or proofe of such offence or offences or shall be otherwise punished as the Court of High Commission shall think fit and is agreeable to their Commission XXV Item That for the better discoverie of printing in Corners without Licence The Master and Wardens of the Company of Stationers for the time being or any two Licensed Master Printers which shall be appointed by the Lord Arch-Bishop of Canterbury or Lord Bishop of London for the time being shall have power and Authority to take unto themselves such assistance as they shall thinke needfull and to search what Houses and Shoppes and at what time shall thinke fit especially Printing Houses and to view what is in Printing and to call for the Licence to see whether it be Licensed or no and if not to seize upon so much as is printed together with the severall Offenders and to bring them before the Lord Arch-Bishop of Canterbury or the Lord Bishop of London for the time being that they or either of them may take such further Order therein as shall appertaine to Justice The Archbishop and his Confederates having accroached by coulour of this Decree the sole power of the Presse into their hands which they usurped without any such pretext of Authority long before the passing thereof began after the Popish guife in imitation of the Pope and Popish Inquisitors First to prohibit the re-printing and sale of sundry Orthodox Bookes formerly printed and sold by Authority of which we shall give you sundry notable instances One of the first Books we find prohibited by the Popish Prelates in England in King Henry the 8. his Reigne was the Bible and New Testament in English of Tyndallâ— translation and all other English Bibles and Testaments having any Annotations or Preambles which were ordered to bee out and blotted out of the said Bibles and Testaments in such sort as they could not bee perceived or read under paine of forfeiting 40s for every such Bible with Annotations or preambles as you may read in the Statute of 34. and 35. H. 8.
of France to root out all the Religion in his Realme or if Ierusalem will needs be there it shall not have peace there The enemies c. page 346. Michael is Christs his Angels are true Christians Rome now is that Synagogue pretends Saint Peters chaire Caiaphas sits in it and convents Christ and there is the Dragons Generall the Popes his captaine Kings of his communion all enemies to peace c. In the 13. Sermon page 384. T is now a proverbe in the Popes court t is not for Princes but for Merchants to keep oathes of Popes and their partisons t is true which Zosimus falsly said of Constantine that perjury was ordinary Philip of Macedon Pausanias writes of him that he brake all Leagues all promises all oaths wee beare with him 't was the fashion of his Countrey not Cretians onely as Saint Paul sayes from the Poet but Grecians all were lyars heathen Grecians The Pope c. page 387. That rough handed Esau that thirsts for Iacobs blood that sends his associates to murther Kings sweares them to murther them assoiles men easily from all their oathes of Alleagiance whatsoever let him practice In the 17. Sermon page 420. Iohn saw a woman drunken with the blood of Saints that 's not the Pope his sex saves him from that charge he is a man if you doubt one was a woman Paul is for him cals him the man of sinne In the 20. Sermon page 443. l. 3. The hope of the life to come they hold an old wives tale hell a fable too the worlds end the resurrection and Christs comming unto judgement Inter Naeniai habentur they reckon them meere fallacies Petrarch sayes one of their owne church That blasphemous speeches came from a Popes mouth Quantas nobis opes peperit illa fabula de Christo It was Leo X. he reckoned even the Gospell a legend of lyes Sermon 27. page 449. I thought Papists held Letchery one of the seven deadly sins it seems a veniall one very veniall by the Pope who grants Priests Concubines licenseth the Stewes leases out Curtizans in Fee-farme B. Jewel's phrase Joannes de Cosa Dean of the Catholike chamber wrote a book in praise of the lewdest kind of lust they will shortly say I think as Hierom writes that Vigilautius sayd that continency is heresie then happily all the letchers in the land will turne Catholikes a Religion fit for them the Whore of Babylon will favour Harlots her sonnes it seemes professe it all for they fleere a chaste and honest man call him an Eunuch But Satan Popes and Cardinals are lyars all Gods c. Above twenty more passages of this nature concerning the Pope Papacy Rome are obliterated in this Doctors Sermons which for brevity we pretermit onely we shall conclude with one more containing the good old Doctors hopes to see the Popes and Romes speedy downfall which this Arch-prelat with his confederates could no wayes patiently endure to heare of and that is in his second Sermon on the fifth of November page 234. l. 3. The whole world will one day wonder as he at her drunkennesse so it at her fall Fals are incident to the drunken and Saint John foretels that too in two chapters doubles the word in both Cecidit cecidit shee is fallen shee is fallen say I one day That day I hope is neer and the Popes period at hand My selfe am unlikely by my yeers but I hope my successours shall preach this womans funerall and that many here present shall see this prophesie of Saint Iohn fulfilled cecidit cecidit This drunken woman is neerly fallen shee reels already and that foreleads a fall she hath reeled a long time sundry whole Kingdoms besides many parts of Germany and France relinquisht her a long time since God will hasten the rest Pray we all that and blesse we God for saving us pray he will so still even for his Sonne our Saviours sake unto both which blessed persons with the holy Ghost be all glory c. Amen Now we appeale to any intelligent mans conscience what the obliterating of all these passages against the Pope Popery Rome c. out of these new books by the Arch-bishop and his Chaplaines portend and intimate but a professed confederacy in them to reduce us back to our ancient vassalage to the Pope and Sea of Rome and the re-establishing of the Popes authority his Instruments Agents and Popery among us in the highest degree which the ensuing particulars will more fully demonstrate 3. Passages purged out of new licensed Books against seducing traiterous Papists Popish Priests Jesuits Monks Arminians our toleration of and remisnesse in executing Lawes against them and revolting to Popery DOctor Iones in his written Comentary on the Hebrewes had these casuing passages against Papists Jesuits and their errors expunged page 446. One Papist if he be permitted will quickly make many Papists p. 148. If we happen to be seduced by Papists or other Hereticks page 348. Though the Papists be many and we but few yet we may be of the Church page 161. This was called confirmation whereas the Papists afterwards abused it and made a Sacrament of it exalting it above Baptisme page 90. God hardneth not only permissivè as Bellarm and the rest of the Papists contend page 101. Not to seek salvation by the observation of the Law as the Papists doe page 241. We need not stand a loofe as the Papists would have us page 137. The Papists this day cleave hard to the Pope nothing shall separate them from him page 291. Both the Jesuits and theirs cannot avoyd this place c. page 341. To deny Christ saith Bellarmine is an heresie or an error next doore to heresie yet Pererius the Jesuit denyes that they be in that Paradise wherein Adam was therefore he is neere to in Hereticks c. In Doctor Clerke's Sermons page 52. l. 28. this clause was expunged And as himselfe the great Goliah of hell this little Sonne of David hath cast downe and beheaded so his seed in this Land blood-thirsty Catholikes incarnate devils the word incarnate root them out of Israel and the devils borne which is the Beast of Rome the Horne of salvation knock it off in Zion so shall King Jacob be safe and his Israel be glad Page 231. 233. Doctor Haywood expunged these memorable passages against traiterous blood-thirsty Jesuits and Papists Wherefore are the Jesuits in France and here and every where but to be his slaughter-men to shee l Kings blood their feet are swift to spill it because his throat lusts to swallow it Be wise now therefore O ye Kings and be learned by France O yee Princes of the earth at least let the Lyon learne by the Flower-de-luce to watch not the Iesuit onely whose fingers itch to spill his blood but the Recusant also as very a traitor in his heart as he The Lord convert their persons and confound their plots as many as look at Jacob with an Esau eye We
of the East window wherein the Crucifix was amounted to 40. l. 8. s. 6. d. the mending and repairing of two other Windowes in the North and South side of the Chappel to 72. l. 7. s. 6. d. of two other Windowes 35. l. 11. â— By Mr. Brownes the Ioyners Bill that the Altar Table in the Chappell cost him 1. l. and the Raile about it 15. l. By Mr. Bab the Painters Bill that the Guilding and Painting of his new Organs there of the ledg over the Altar cost him no lesse then 17. l. 15. s. besides all the rest of his Altar Furniture Copes Hangings Organ-pipes so devoted was he to his superstitions that he would spare no Costs to promote them 2ly We shall pursue and trace this Romish Fox from his Chappell and publicke to his Study and private devotions Mr. William Pryn and Mr. William Bendy of Lincolnes-Inne deposed that they being imployed to search the Archbishops study and private Closet at Lambeth found these observable particulars therein First An English Bible of the last translation in Quarto with a rich embroydered Coverlying on his Study Table having a goodly embroydered Crucifixe on the Cover thereof a fit object for his superstitious eyes but very incongruously fixed on this sacred Booke which so frequently in the * Old and new-New-Testament condemnes all Images and Crutifixes Secondly A Popish Book neatly bound up in Turky Leather with guilt leaves intituled Imagines Vitae Passionis Mortis D. N. Jesu Christi printed by Boetius a Bolswert 1623. Cum gratia Privilegio beginning with the Picture of the Annuntiation and concluding with the Assumption of the blessed Virgin containing in all 74. Idolatrous superstitious Pictures of Christ and the Virgin Mary all which were licensed by the Archbishops Chaplaine yea bound up in our English Bible and New Testaments by this Archbishops privity and consent as shall be hereafter attested in its place Betweene the leaves of this Booke there were 12. severall loose Pictures in fine Vellom about the bignesse of playing Cards of the largest size gloriously and curiously guilded and set forth with most exquisite colours some having one others two or three Pictures a peece in them of Christ and the Virgin Mary in severall shapes and formes with glories about their heads and sometimes Crosses on their backs and the Holy Ghost in form of a Dove prettie Babies for young children to play with but most insufferable Puppets for an Old childish superstitious Archbishop seriously to dote on if not to reverence adore and kindle his private devotions by Thirdly two great Folio Roman Missalls or Masse-Bookes of the largest size neatly guilt and bound up the one of them printed Antuerpiae 1630. having two guilded Crucifixes on the outside of the Cover with many Idolatrous Pictures of Christ Crucifixes c. printed within it accurately cut in Copper peeces The other printed Salamanticae 1589. with a Gregorian Kalender Which Kalender of this Roman Missall the Archbishop had much noted with his own hand adding diverse new Saints-days unto each month out of Caluifius his Chronicle to which he likewise referred the times of his own advancement of King Charles his voyage into Spaine and his return from thence Noting almost every page of his Roman Missall with his owne hand and quoting Micrologus to it by way of approbation observing wherein they accorded or varied no Booke in his Study being so diligently noted with his own hand as it A sufficient manifestation of his good affection to and approbation of it A grand Encomium for a Protestant Archbishop Fourthly A Pontificale Romanum in a large Folio Volume Clementis 8. Pontificis Maxims jussu restitutum at que editam Antuerpiae 1627. curiously guilt and bound up in Turky Leather and a Caremoniale Episcoporum Jussu Clementis 8. Pontificis Maximi reformatum in a large Folio neatly bound printed Parisijs 1633. out of which two Bookes and Missalls the Archbishop borrowed all his late Popish superstitious Pictures Ceremonies Innovations imitating their directions to an haires breadth as his principall Canons and directories Fifthly twentie two small Popish Houres of our Lady Breviaries Manualls and Prayer Bookes standing all together in a blinde corner of his study many of them curiously boâ—d and guilt with Crucifixes on their Covers answering the exact number of hâ— 22. pretended Converts to our Religion who for their owne private advantage could easily close with such a Romish Prelate who came so neare unto them â—n all the forementioned and subsequent particulars Sixthly A Bâ—â— of his owne private prayers and devotions all writ with his owne hand many of them extracted out of the Roman Missall Breviary and Howers of our Lady all of â—â—em reduced under Canonicall Howers of Prayer after the Romish Garbe witnesse â—â—ge 1. to 8. thus intituled over head Officium quotidianum and Hora prima â—ra tertia Hora sexta Horanona Vespers Completorium Bed-time Nocte si Vigâ—s pag. 8. to 104. seaven times over a peece for every day of the weeke his pâ—yer for the sicke p. 210. 114. Noted by him to be In missa pro infirmis page 88. His prayer at the laying of the first stone in a Chappell pag. 220. His prayer at the Altar when he Consecrated Priests page 155. Another prayer Dum Altari adsto aâ— the Sacrament and whiles hee fell downe and lay prostrate before it with others oâ— this nature All these compared together are a sufficient demonstration that this Archbishop Studies affections intentions devotions were altogether superstitious Romish Idolatrous fâ—â—ly symbolizing with the Church of Rome but wholly discrepant from out owne aâ—â— all other reformed Churches Thirdly We shall follow him from his study and private Closet unto his publike Gallery wherein among others there were these three superstitious Pictures seized and brought into the Lords House attested by Mr. Pryn and Master Vaughan who found them in his Gallery First a glorious costly Picture in a very large frame of the four Fathers of the Church Saint Ambrose Saint Chrysostome Saint Austin and St. Herom all in their Pontificalibus with the Picture of the Holy Ghost in form of a Love hovering over their heads and from his beake distilling the rayes streames and influences of his graces severally upon them Secondly The Picture of the Crosse and of our Saviour Christ all bloudy newly taken downe from his Crosse with many shaven-Crowne Fryars and Nunnes in their Habits standing and kneeling round about him Thirdly Another Picture of Christ on a Ladder with Priests Munkes and Popish Prelates about him In few words He who had so much Popish Idolatry and Superstition of all sorts in his Chappell Study Gallery as all these forementioned particulars amount unto must doubtlesse have not only some sparkes but flames of Popery and Romish affections intentions in his heart Secondly Having hunted this Popish Vermin from place to place in his owne Kennell and bolted him out thence we shall next
reverence come to the Lords-Table when they are to receive the Holy Communion and not after the most contemptuous and un-holy usage of some if men do rightly consider sit still in their Seats or Pewes to have the blessed Body and Bloud of our Saviour go up and downe to seeke them all the Church over Tit. 9. Of Clerks Sextons Church-wardens and Sidemen 5. Doe you or have any of you medled with setting placing displacing removing the Communion-Table up and downe of your owne heads without the Minister or with him not by order from the Bishop 6. Doe you know of any Parishioner or Forreiner who hath committed or attempted such an Act If you can learne them Present their names Tit. Sect. 10. Distinct and punctuall Answer must be made to every one of these Articles On all which Articles Church-wardens and Sidemen were obliged to present Non-conformists to them by this strict ensuing Oath The Tenour of the Oath to be administred unto and taken by the Church-wardens and Sidemen SWeare you shall that you shall duly consider and diligently enquire of all and every one of these Articles given you in charge and tendered unto you and that all affection favour malice hatred hope of reward gain displeasure of great men malice or other sinister respect set aside you shall faithfully discharge your duty and truly present all and every such person of and in your Parish as hath made any default or committed any offence in or against these ensuing Acticles or that be vehemently suspected or defamed of any such offence or crime wherein you shall deale uprightly truly and fully presenting all the truth and nothing but the truth without partiality having God before your eyes and an earnest Christian zeale to maintain truth order and Religion and to suppresse the contrary So helpe you God and the holy contents of this Booke Matthew Wren Bishop of Norwich in his first Visitation of that Diocesse among other Articles to be enquired of within that Diocesse prescribed these ensuing Articles upon Oath printed by Richard Baiger 1636. concurring in substance with Bishop Mountagues Chap. 3. Sect. 2. Have you ïn your Church or Chappell a Font of stone set in the ancient usuall place whole and cleane and fit to hold water a conuenient and decent Communion-Table with a Carpet of silke or some other decent stuffe continually layd upon the Table at the time of Divine Service and a faire linnen cloth thereon layd at the time of Administring the Communion and is the same Table placed conveniently so as the Minister may best be heard in his Administration and the greatest number may reverently communicate to that end doth it ordinarily stand up at the East end of the Chancell where the Altar in former times stood the ends thereof being placed North and South is it any time used unreverently by leauing or sitting on it throwing hats or any thing else upon it or writing on it or is it abused to any other prophane or common use and are the Ten Commandements set up in your Church or Chappell where the people may see and read them and other chosen sentences also written upon the walls in your said Church or Chappell in places convenient for the same purpose Sect. 12. Are all the Pewes and Seats in the Church so ordered that they which are in them may all conveniently kneele downe in the time of Prayer and have their faces up East-ward toward the holy Table Are there also any kinde of Seats at the East-end of the Chancell above the Communion-table or on either side even with it Sect. 14. Hath any in your Parish defaced or caused to be defaced or purloined any Monumenâ—s that is Crucifixes and old Images or Ornaments in the Church Chap. 4. Sect. 7. Doth every Priest and Deacon in your Parish daily say the Morning and Evening Prayer either privately or openly Doth the Curate say the same daily in the Church or Chappell with the tolling of a Bell before he begins At the end of every Psalme doe they stand and say Glory be to the Father c. Chap. 4. Sect. 8. Doth your Minister and Curate at all times as well in Preaching or Reading the Homilies as in reading the Prayers and Lerany in Administring the holy Sacraments Solemnization of Marriage Burying the Dead Churching of Women and all other Offices of the Church duly observe the Rites prescribed without omission alteration or addition of any thing And doth he in performing all and every of these weare the Surplice duly and NEVER OMIT THE WEARING OF THE SAME nor of his Hood if he be a Graduate Chap. 7. Sect. 4. Have you in your Parish that doe not reverently behave themselves entring into the Church that is by bowing towards the Altar Doe all use due and lowly reverence when the blessed name of the Lord Jesus is mentioned and stand up when the Articles of the Creed are read Sect. 17. Doe all your Parishioners of what sort soever according as the Church expresly them commandeth draw neere and with all Christian humility and reverence come to the Lords-Table when they are to receive the holy Communion and not after the most contemptuous and unholy usage of some if men did rightly consider sit still in their Seats or Pewes to have the blessed Body and bloud of our Saviour go up and down to seeke them all the Church over Chap. 9. Sect. 11. Were there any particular or speciall Injunctions given as you know or have heard by the Vicar Generall or any other Commissioner at the last Metropoliticall Visitation of the most Reverend the Lord Archbishop of Canterbury his Grace and how have the same beene performed or observed by the Minister or any other of the Parish whom they concern Sect. 12. Lastly have you and every of you by your selves read or have caused to be read to you all these Articles have you well examined and inquired into every particular therein intended have you sincerely uprightly and without any partiall affection or concealement presented and made known all and every of the offenders in any of the particulars either as they are taken in truth to be or by common fame reported To these Articles this Bishop annexed divers particular Injunctions prescribing Rayling in of Communion-Tables Altar-wise bowing towards them reading second Service at them that every Combination Lecturer should in his Surplice and Hood begin the second Service at the Communion Table before he went up into the Pulpit into which he should ascend after the reading of the Nicene Creed using no other prayer than that prescribed in the 55. Canon nor Preaching above one houre that hee should not give the blessing out of the Pulpit but should descend againe to the Table and read the Prayer for the universall Church and so dismisse the Congregation with the Peace of God c. That all Communicants should come up by files and receive the Sacrament at the new Rayles kneeling
the strumpet give eare or take heed to such godly admonition and when he is left afterwards alone with the harlot nothing can follow but wickednesse Even so suffer Images to be set in Churches and Temples ye shall in vaine bid them beware of Images as Saint John doth and flee Idolatry as the Scriptures warn us ye shall in vaine preach and teach against Idolatry For a number will notwithstanding fall headlong unto it what by the nature of Images and what by the Inclination of their own corrupt Nature Wherefore as for a man given to lust to sit down by a strumpet is to tempt God So is it likewise to erect an Idoll in this pronesse of mans nature to Idolatry nothing but a tempting Now if any will say that this similitude proveth nothing yet I pray them let the Word of God out of the which the similitude is taken prove something Doth not the Word of God call Idolatry spirituall fornication Doth it not call a gilt or a painted Idoll or Image A strumpet with a painted face Be not the Spirituall wickednesses of an Idols inticing like the flatteries of a wanton Harlot Be not men and women as prone to spirituall fornication I mean Idolatry as to carnall Fornication If this be denyed let all Nations upon the earth which have been Idolaters as by all stories appeareth prove it true Let the Jews and the people of God which were so often and so earnestly warned so dreadfully threatned concerning Images and Idolatry and so extreamly punished therefore and yet fell unto it prove it to be true as in almost all the books of the Old Testament namely the Kings and the Chronicles and the Prophets it appeareth most evidently Let all Ages and times and men of all ages and times of all degrees and conditions Wise-men Learned-men Princes Ideots unlearned and Commonalty prove it to be true If you require Examples for wise men you have the Egyptians and the Indian Gymnosophistes for the wisest men of the world you have Solomon the wisest of all other For learned men the Greeks and namely the Athenians exceeding all other Nations in superstition and Idolatry as in the History of the Acts of the Apostles Saint Paul chargeth them For the Princes and Governours you have the Romans the rulers of the roast as they say you have the same sornamed King Solomon and all the Kings of Israel and Judah after him saving David Ezechias and Josiah and one or two more All these I say and infinite others wise learned Princes and Governours being all Idolaters have you for examples and a proof of mens inclination to Idolatry That I may passe over with silence in the mean time infinite multitudes and millions of Idiots and unlearned the ignorant and grosse people like unto horses and mules in whom is no understanding whose perill and danger to fall on heapes to Idolatry by occasion of Images the Scriptures specially fore-shew and give warning of And indeed how should the unlearned simple and foolish scape the nets and snares of Idols and Images in the which the wisest and best learned have been so entangled trapped and wrapped Wherefore the Argument holdeth this ground sure that men be as inclined of their corrupt nature to spirituall fornication as to carnall which the wisedome of God fore-seeing to the Generall prohibition that none should make to themselves any Image or similitude addeth a cause depending of mans corrupt nature lest saith God thou being deceived with errour honour and worship them And of this ground of mans corrupt inclination as well to spirituall fornication as to carnall it must needs follow that as it is the duty of the godly Magistrate loving honesty and hating whoredome to remove all Strumpets Harlots specially out of places notoriously suspected or resorted unto of naughty persons for the avoiding of carnall fornication so it is the duty of the same godly Magistrate after the example of the godly Kings Ezekias and Josias to drive away all spirituall Harlots I mean Idols and Images especially out of suspected places Churches and Temples dangerous for idolatry to be committed to Images placed there as it were in the appointed place and height of honour and worship as S. Augustine saith where the living God only and no dead stones and stocks is to be worshipped It is I say the office of godly Magistrates likewise to avoid Images and Idols out of Churches and Temples as spirituall Harlots out of suspected places for the avoiding of idolatry which is spirituall fornication And as he were the enemy to all honesty that should bring Strumpets and Harlots out of their secret corners into the publick Market place there freely to dwell and practise their filthy merchandize So is he the enemy of the true worshipping of God that bringeth Idols and Images into the Temple and Church the House of God there openly to be worshipped and to rob the jealous God of his honour who will not give it to any other nor his glory to carved Images who is as much forsaken and the bond of love between man and him as much broken by Idolatry which is spirituall fornication as is the knot and bond of mariage broken by carnall fornication Let all this be taken as a lye if the Word of God enforce it not to be true Cursed be the man saith God in Deuteronomy That maketh a carved or molten Image and placeth it in a secret corner And all the people shall say Amen Thus saith God for at that time no man durst have or worship Images openly but in corners only and the whole World being the great Temple of God he that in any corner thereof robbeth God of his glory and giveth it to stocks and stones is pronounced by Gods Word accursed Now he that will bring these spirituall Harlots out of their lurking corners into publick Churches and Temples that spirituall fornication may there openly of all men and women without shame be committed with them no doubt that person is accursed of God and twice cursed and all good and godly men and women will say Amen and their Amen will take effect also Which is thus seconded in the second part of the Homily of the place and time of prayer p. 130 131. The Jewes in their time provoked justly the vengeance of God for that partly they abused his holy Temple with the detestable idolatry of the Heathen and superstitious vanities of their own inventions contrary to Gods Commandement c. And have not the Christians of late dayes and even in our dayes also in like manner provoked the displeasure and indignation of Almighty God Partly because they have prophaned defiled their Churches with Heathenish and Jewish abuses with Images and Idols with numbers of Altars too too superstitiously and intollerably abused c. Finally Gods vengeance hath been and is daily provoked because much wicked people passe nothing to resort
he is to appeare this day to heare and receive the finall order and judgement of the Court. at which day and place the said Lawrence Snelling being publiquely called for appeared personally in whose presence the Articles in this cause exhibited against him with his answers made thereunto were publiquely read and then Mr. Doctor Ryues his Majesties Advocate pressed and enforced the proofes against the said Master Snelling according as they appeared confessed out of his answers and after that the said Mr. Snelling was heard what he could say in his owne defence and after a mature and deliberat hearing of this cause it appeared to the Court That the said Mr. Snelling was here charged for that he being a Minister in holy orders of Priesthood constituted by the Authority of the Church for these 20. yeares last past and upwards Rector of Paulscray aforesaid for all that time and upwards was within these foure or five yeares last past made acquainted that a certaine Booke intituled The Kings Majesties Declaration for lawfull recreations after Evening Prayers on Sundayes and Holy dayes was come forth and commanded by his Majesty to be read by all Ministers in their respective Parish Churches and presented to Mr. Doctor Wood Chauncellor of Rochester his Ordinary on the 20th of November 1643. for refusing to read and publish the same in his Parish Church of Paulscray That upon the said presentment he was by his said Ordinary personally monished to read the same within three weekes following That on the eleventh of December 1634. aforesaid he the said Laurence Snelling being againe Convented before his said ordinary was primo secundo tertio personally and Judicially monished in Court to read and publish the said Booke in manner aforesaid which he refusing was suspended ob officio beneficio and hath so continued untill this present and doth so still continue unreleased that on the third of Aprill 1635. the said Laurence Snelling being present in Court before his Ordinary was 10. 20. and 30. Judicially admonished to read and publish the said Booke for Lawfull recreations as aforesaid but did againe utterly refuse to publish or read the same was thereupon then excommunicated by his said Ordinary and hath so continued ever since doth so stil continue excommunicated that within the time articulate the said Mr. Snelling hath divers times omitted to read the Lerany and some other parts of Divine service and to weare the Surplice further that he hath not bowed his body nor made any corporall obeysance at the reading or hearing read the Blessed name of our Saviour Iesus All which the premises appearing to be true in Substance and in effect out of the said Mr. Snellings answers the Court proceeded to the giving of their sentence in this Cause and for the present did order that unlesse the said Mr. Snelling shall conforme himselfe to the aforesaid requisitions of his Ordinary and read and publish the said Booke for lawfull recreations c. and do all due obeysance and Reverence at the blessed name of our Saviour Iesus betwixt this and the second Court day of the next Terme he should be ex nunc pro ut extunc c. deprived of his Rectory of Paulscray aforesaid but pay no costs of suit in case he be deprived and to this end and purpose he the said Mr. Snelling being present in Court was Juditially admonished to read and publish the said Booke and to make corporall reverence at the name of our Saviour Jesus sub pena Iuris deprivationis And to the end that he may safely repaire to his Parish Church to practise certifie of his conformity in the premises in case he shall be willing to conform accordingly it was by the Court referred to the foresaid Ordinary Mr. Doctor Wood to absolve the said Master Snelling from the said sentence of Excommunication under which he now stands in case he shall come and desire it of his said Ordinary and take his oath de parendo Iuri stando mandatis Ecclesia c. according to the forme in this case provided For not doing whereof he was accordingly deprived and continued sequestred excommunicated and deprived of his living divers yeares to his intollerable oppression and prejudice When the Archbishop had thus privily by secret Instructions to his Visitors enjoyned the reading of this Book of sports to Ministers and suspended censured molested divers of them for not reading it he then conspiring together with many other popish Prelates to suppresse all painful preaching Orthodox Ministers by colour of it encouraged directed if not enjoyned them and their Archdeacons to insert this clause into their printed Visitation Articles to be inquired of and presented by Church-wardens upon Oath Whether the Kings Declaration for sports had beene read and published among them by the Minister To prove this we shall instance only in the Visitation Articles of Matthew Wren Bishop of Norwich printed at London 1636. and in Richard Mountague his successors Visitation Articles for the same Diocesse printed at Cambridg 1638. both which prescribe this following Interrogatory to be inquired of upon oath the later clause whereof contradictes the former Sect 7. Do any in your Parishprophane any Sunday or holy-day by any unlawfull gaming drinking or Tipling in Taverns Innes or Ale-houses in the time of Common Prayer or Sermon or by Working or doing the worke of their Trades and occupations Do any in your Parish buy or sell or keepe open their Shops or set out any Wares to be sould on Sundayes or holy dayes by themselves their Servants or Apprentises or have they any other wayes Prophaned the said dayes And hath the Kings Declaration concerning the use of lawfull sports and recreations been published among you yea or no If so when was it don in what manner and by whom The like Interrogatories in effect if not in terminis we find in Bishop Pierces Bishop Curles Bishop Skinners the Arch-Deacons of Middlesex with other Visitation Articles which for brevity we pretermit How many hundred Godly Ministers in these other Bishops Diocesse were suspended from their Ministry sequestred driven from their Livings excommunicated Prosecuted in the High Commission and forced to leave the Kingdome upon these Articles for not publishing this Declaration is so experimentaly known to all that We shal pretermit it without any enumeration of their names or cases Only we shal discover what hand and influence the Archbishop had in their severall suspentions persecutions by these ensuing Accounts given up to him by other Bishops of their proceedings herein found in his Study endorsed with his owne hand and witnessed by Mr. Prynne who seized them In Bishop Wrens account to the Archbishop December 17. 1636. which begin thus In the name of God Amen An account touching the Royall Instructions given by the Kings most Excellent Majesty to the most Reverend Father in God VVilliam Laud Archbishop of Cant. his Grace Primat
man and shall live and die in the suffrage of that Reverend Synod and doe confidently a vow that those other opposed opinions cannot stand with the Doctrine of the Church of England But if for the composing of our differences at home which your Lordship knowes to be far different from the Netherlandish there could have beene tendered any such faire propositons of accordance as might be no prejudice to Gods Truth I should have thought it an holy and happy project wherein if it bee not a fault to have wished a safe peace I am innocent In my Lord Bishops of SARVMS Answer Dated Ianuary 30. 1628. This passage was expunged AS for the aspertions of Arminianisme I can testifie that in our joynt imployment at the Synod of Dort you were as farre from it as my selfe And I know that no man can imbrace it in the Doctrine of Pradestination and Grace but he must first desert the Articles agreed upon by the Church of England nor in the Point of Perseverance but he must vary from the common Tenet and received opinion of our best approved Doctors in the English Church I am assured that you neither have deserted the one nor will vary from the other and therefore be no more troubled with other mens groundlesse suspirions then you would be in like case with their idle Dreames Thus I have c. Nathaniell Butter the Stationer perceiving these two letters not only extreamly mutilated but made altogether uselesse and his Book lesse vendible by these Purgations of the Licencer adventured to print these expunged passages in them whereupon he was apprehended and brought before Bishop Laud by a Pursevant committed Prisoner by him to the Fleet without Baile or maineprize contrary to the Petition of Right though he tendred baile his Bookes seized and afterwards Articled against in the High Commission and there almost ruined only for printing those deleted Passages in two of our owne Bishops Letters as was proved by the Testimony of Master Henry Burton and Michaell Sparkes senior committed to the Fleet by the Bishop at the same time by the Warrant of his commitment under the Bishops owne hand the Articles in the High Commission against Butter Artic. 4. 5. and his Answer thereunto produced in Court About the same time Nathaniell Carpenter Chapline to Archbishop Vsher published a Book intitled Achitophel or the Picture of a wicked Polititian printed at Oxford by Lycence wherein were divers passages against Arminianisme averring it to be planted among us by Iesuiticall Polititians to undermine our Religion by degrees and covertly to introduce Popery it selfe which Booke was presently called in and all the Passages against Arminianisme expunged by this Bishops Agents which done it was reprinted at London without them Anno 1629. to the great injury both of the truth and Author as was attested by Mr. Prynne Michaell Spark Senior and evident to all who will compare these two Editions What other passages against the Arminians and their Tenet have beene expunged in other Authors shall be given in evidence elsewhere We shall next produce some memorable Instances what countenance was given to Arminian Bookes and Sermons notwithstanding his Majesties Declarations and Proclamations to the contrary by this Archbishops meanes Doctor Thomas Jackson Chapline in Ordinary to his Majesty even sitting the Parliament soone after the Kings Declaration and Proclamation published A Treatise of divine Essence and Attributes part first printed at London 1628. for John Clerke Licensed by this Prelates Chaplaine dedicated to the Right honourable William Earle of Pembrooke in the very Epistle Dedicatory to this Noble Peere hee professeth himselfe AN ARMINIAN and Patron of their Tenets And Chap. 8. to 20. he professedly maintaines A mutability in Gods eternall Decrees of Election and Reprobation depending upon the actions and wills of men Universall Grace and Redemption with other Arminian Errors This Book though publikely complained of was never called in by the Bishop but the second part thereof printed by Licence An. 1629. and the Author of it advanced to the Presidentship of Corpus Christi Colledge in Oxford by this Bishop yea by him designed to bee Doctor of the Chaire though he missed that preferment to poyson the Vniversity of OXFORD with his Arminian Drugges An. 1630. Doctor Brookes of Trinity Colledge in Cambridge Writ an Arminian Treatise of Predestination with which he acquainted Bishop Laud who encouraged him in the worke recommending it to the perusall of Doctor Lindsey and Doctor Beale two great Arminians promising to peruse it himselfe as appeares by sundry Letters Whereupon Doctor Brookes returned this answer to him concerning it in Answer of this Bishops Letter to him seized in his Study by Mr. Prynne dated from Cambridge Dece 15. 1630. wherin there is this desperate passage worthy Observation MY LORD c. I Dare say That their doctrine of Predestination is the roote of Paritanisme and Puritanisme the roote of all rebellions and disobedient intractablenesse in Parliament c and of all Schisme and Saucinesse in the Country nay in the Church it selfe this hath made many thousands of our people and to great a part of the Gentlemen of the Land Laytons in their hearts Besides where nothing is done the weeds will over-grow the Corne as they doe For last Parliament they left their word Religion and the cause of Religion and began to use the name of Church and our Articles of the Church of England c. and wounded our Church at the very heart with her owne name And by pretence of putting downe Arminianisme and defence of that Church against which indeed they tooke up Armes so that now they that hold the very opinions of Penry and Wâ—gington of Hacket and Coppinger in their beginning and others of whom some were hangd most imprisoned many deprived and some censured in the Starre-Chamber for seditious persons and Enemies to the Church of England they I say that hold the same opinions cry out now the Church of England and will have the Church of England to be theirs I could justifie this and much more but your Lordship knowes these things to be so better then I c. What grosse aspersions he here casts upon the Parliament and Anti-Arminians is so apparent as needs no explanatory or aggravating Commentary On the 27. of Novem. 1630. Doctor Martin this Bishops houshold Chaplaine a professed Arminian licensed a Booke for the Presse intituled An Historicall Narration of the judgment of some must learned and Godly English Bishops holy Martyrs and others concerning Gods Election and the Merits of Christs death set forth by I. A. of Ailward a late Seminary Priest and printed for Samuell Nealand 1631. The whole scope of this Book was to prove the Martyrs and first Reformers of our Church in K. Ed. the 6. and Q. Maries dayes and the beginning of Q. Elizabeths Raigne to be Arminians and Arminianisme the established Doctrine of our Church The first 66 pages of this Booke
in the time of K. Edward and Q. Elizabeth and in the time of Q. Mary for his conscience endured voluntary exile And to place him in the front of the most learned and Godly English Bishops holy Martyrs and others that suffered Martyrdome in the daies of Q. Mary for the truth and Gospell of Christ Jesus in which number he is Registred in the Title Page and placed before Bishop Hooper and Father Latymer in the Book it selfe The occasion of writing this unlicenced obscure Pamphlet was as followeth Iohn Veron being Divinity Lecturer in Paules Cathedrall in the first yeare of Queene Elizabeth handled the Doctrine of Predestination and other incident Points thereto belonging in direct opposition the Popish Pelagian and now Arminian Tenets which Lectures he soone after published in Print and dedicated to Q. Elizabeth in a booke intituled A Fruitfull Treatise of Predestination c. Printed at London for JOHN TYLDALE about the second yeare of Queene Elizabeths Raigne against which Lectures this Champnyes taking some exceptions published this Anonimous Answer by way of a Letter which Veron soone after answered almost verbatim in his authorized Apology dedicated to the Queen whereto Champeneys never replyed After which this Letter was largly answered word for word from the very Title page to the end thereof in a Book Intituled An Apology or Defence of the English Writers and Preachers with Cerberus the Three-Headed Dogge of Hell chargeth with false Doctrine under the name of Predestination written by Robert Crowley Clerke a fugitive for Religion in Queene Maries dayes and an eminent laborious Preacher in those times Vicar of Saint Giles without Criplegate in London Imprinted at London in Pater-Noster-Rowe at the signe of the Starre by Henry Denham Anno 1566. Octob. 14. Seene and allowed according to the order appointed In which booke this Pamphlet which the Bishop and his Agents now obtrude upon us as the received Doctrine of our prime Martyrs and of the Church of England in King Edward the 6th and Queene Elizabeths Reignes was by publique Authority in the name of all the Orthodox Writers and Preachers of England refuted as directly contrary to the received Doctrine of our Martyres Writers Preachers Church and censured as Pelagiau and Popish in both these ancient printed Answers It must needs therefore be an inexpiable insufferable abuse in this Archbishop and his Instruments thus to revive reprint this exploded Erronious Arminian Treatise in the yeare 1631 and obtrude it on us as the received Doctrine of our Martyrs and Church of England in the beginning of Reformation whereas there was nothing lesse on purpose to propagate his Arminian Errors and strengthen that lesuiticall faction After this Mr. Prynne produced Bishop Hoopers Confession and Protestation of his faith made to the whole Parliament An. 1550. in King Edwards dayes His comfortable Exposition upon the Psalmes London 1580. his Articles upon the Creed London 1584. Artic. 3. to 15. 17. 21. 25. 29. 30. 33. 36. 38. to 56 62. 67. 68. 91. to 99. wherein he expresly in terminis refutes those Arminian opinions which this our Author wold wrest out of the words of his Preface to the Commandements contrary to his intention together with divers Passages in Father Latimers Sermons expresly against the Arminian Tenets which explicate his other misapplyed Clauses in the Hystoricall Naration All which Mr. Pryn then shewed to Sir Humfry Lynde to his great satisfaction then desired him to repaire to Bishop Laud in his name to acquaint him with the premises and this desperate Imposture he had obtruded on our Church to his eternall Infamie and thereupon to advise him speedily to call in and burne this dangerous seducing booke or else he would prosecute him to the uttermost for this abuse Sir Humfry accordingly acquainted the Bishop his Chaplin Martin herewith but yet they took no course to suppresse the Booke whereupon Mr Prynne repaired to Lambheth to Archbishop Abbot acquainted him with the execrablenesse of this imposture shewed him the severall old Answers to this new printed Pamphlet with the expresse positions of Bishop Hooper and Bishop Latymer contrary to those imputed to them in this Narration desiring him to call in this dangerous Historicall Narration with all severity and to cause it to be publikely burnt to reprint the old Answers to it and withall to give him leave to prosecute Bishop Laud his Chaplaine Martin with the publisher of this book in the high Commission for this insufferable abuse To which Archb. Abbot gave this answer that this booke did very much trouble him that he had sent to Bishop Laud about it who at first denied that his Chaplain licensed it but afterwards acknowledged it that he gave order to call it in but it was in a privat manner after most of the bookes vâ—nded that he never saw nor knew of these 2. old Answers to it therefore desired Mr. Pryn to leave them with him for a time promising faithfully to restore them and to give him an accompt of this businesse on the Saturday following In the meane time Mr. Prynne because this booke had done much harme in both the Vniversities sent downe some of these Answers of Veron and Crowly with some of Bishop Hoopers books to Oxf. Cambridg to some of his acquaintance there and to the Vniversity Lybrary at Oxford whither many resorted to peruse them to their great satisfaction and the Bishops dishonour by discovering this imposture to them On Saturday being Easter Eve Master Prynne repayred to Archbishop Ahbot for an Answer who told him that he had called in this offencive book seized on som of the copies which were caried into Stationers-hall that Bishop Laud had since been with him that he had shewed him the bookes there left who confessed his Chaplin Martÿn had licenced this Narration in which he had done very ill but he had given him such a ratling for his paines that hee would warrant His Grace hee should never meddle with Arminian Bookes or Opinions more To which Mr. Prynne replyed that indeed he had ratled him to very great purpose for no longer then yesterday in the afternoone his Chapline Martin Preaching the Passion Sermon at Paules Crosse publikly broached maintained Vniversall grace and Redemption with all the Arminian Errors contained in this Book and condemned in the Synol of Dort to the great offence of the Auditors as his owne Chaplains Dr. Buckner Master Austen and Dr. Featley could at large informe him and therefore the Bishop did most grosly abuse his Grace herein who should doe well to proceed against both of them and publikly censure them in the High-Commission or this grosse practise to the end the whole Kingdome might take notice of it and the Arminian party be thereby discouraged That the Bookes they had seized were but few the greatest part of the Impression being vented they were called in so slighty and in so private a manner that few or none took notice thereof and
constant care to uphold and maintaine the Religion prefessed in the Church of England in its purity without Error or Corruption Doth therefore hereby declare His Royall Will and pleasure to be and doth straightly Charge and Command all persons of what degree quality or condition soever to whose hands any of the said Bookes are or shall come that without delay they deliver or send them to the Bishop or Chancellor of the Diocesse whom His Majestie requireth to cause the same to be publikly burnt as such of them as have beene already seized on have beene by His Majesties expresse Commande And to this His Majesties Royall Pleasure he requireth all his loving Subjects to yeeld all doe Conformity and Obedience as they will avoid the censure of high Contempt God save the KING Given at Our Court at White-hall the fourteenth yeare of Our Reigne Vpon this Proclamation some few of these Bookes were seised and publikely burnt in Smithfield the poore Printer Oakes imprisoned divers Monthes almost to his utter undoing though he proved he complained of it to Doctor Haywood who commanded him to proceed but the Stationer was brought Ore tenus to the Star-Chamber and charged with the insertion of the Popish Passages after the Doctor had expunged them which he denied where the Archbishop made a Speech to cleare himselfe and his Chaplaine in which there was not one word of truth after which the Stationer was ordered to be committed to Prison and to find out the Translator which he affirming he could not do if he were imprisoned thereupon his imprisonment was respited and no further examination had of this foule businesse then to cleare the Archbishop and his Chaplaine by this devise in the meane time Mr. Prynnes Crosse Bill which truly related all the carriage of the businesse was suppressed that so the truth of it which he thou could would have manifested by sundry punctuall witnesses had he been permitted might never come to publike knowledge to the Archbishops and his Chaplaines shame who abused his Majesty and the People with false representations of this businesse which was now charged proved and testified against him at the Barre by Mr. Prynne Mistresse Oakes Michaell Sparke Senior and others to his shame The Epistle to a devout Soul written by a Friar then newly translated into English was licenced the selfe same day for the same Stationer that Sales book was being as full of Popery as it vvhich Mr. Prynne likewise charging in his Crosse Bill thereupon some of the Bookes were seized by the Stationers and the rest vented in private But Sales to make the Papists ammends was soone after reprinted here withall the Popery in it and sould publikely without restraint notwithstanding his Majesties Proclamation which was but a meere Pageâ—â—â— and devise of the Archbishops to cleare himselfe and his Chaplaine Having thus given you a summary Catalogue of the Popish Bookes Sermons licenced and published by him his Chaplaines and Agents we shall next present you with a List or Extract of the severall Popish Errors Doctrines Positions Paradoxes authorized and maintained in them most of them so grosse so execrable that they never durst appeare in any of our Impressions from the infancy of Reformation till this Arch-Prelate became their Patriot We shall begin with Auricular Confession and the power of Priests to remit sinnes the summe whereof is this 1. That Priests have not only a Ministeriall but an Authoritative and Juditiall Power to râ—mit sine confessed And that we ought frequently to confesse our sins to our Priests and Confessors at least once every Month especially in Lent We read in the Popes Nuntio compiled by the Venetian Ambassador concerning the Negotiation of Signior Panzanioes p. 12. That an English Doctor told Panzanioes friend that the King did approve of Auricular Confession was willing to introduce it and would use force to make it received were it not for feare of Sedition amongst the people Certainly all who shall read these ensuing authorized passages touching Auricular confession of Sins to Priests Confessors of Priests not only Ministeriall but Iuditiall Power to remit sinnes will undoubtedly beleive that at least our Popish Priests Prelates and this Archbishop in particular had a plotted resolution to introduce Auricular confession and set up an Authoritative Iuditiall power in Priests to receive confessions and remit sinnes confessed in all his Majesties Dominions The Passages to this purpose are these Mountagues Gagge p. 78. 83. 84. It is confessed that all Priests and none but Priests have power to forgive sinnes It is confessed that private confession unto a Priest is of very ancient practise in the Church we urge it and perswade it in extremis ut supra we require it in case of perplexity and likewise before the receiving of the Lords Supper according to which Doctrine and Injunction our Bishops do or should enquire of it in their Visitations touching the use and neglect of this so good an order VVhich he thus seconds in his Appeale p. 299. My words are It is confessed that private confession unto a Priest is of very Ancient practise in the Church of excellent use and benefit being discrectly handled We refuse it to none if men require it if need be to have it we urge and perswade it in extremis Wee require it in case of perplexity for the quieting of men disturbed in their consciences This is my Popery per partes for wariant whereof I bring my witnesse and authority the Injunction direction and practise of the Church and of the Bishops accordingly in the Church that which their Mother holy Church hath commanded in that sort and case to be observed pag. 312. Priests have power not only to pronounce but to give remission of sinnes which seemeth to be the Doctrine of the Communion Book in the Visitation of the sicke where the Priest saith And by his Authority committed unto me I absolve thee from all thy sinnes It is Justifiable it is the Doctrine and practise of the Church of England Pag. 315. 316. Informers it is confessed that all Priests and none but Priests have power to forgive sinnes And is it not so confessed when by publique warrant in ordination that power is given unto all Priests to doe soe in those solemne words of Ordination whose sinnes you forgive they are forgiven c. But with you Puritans this Doctrine and practice of the Church is held to bee Popery And here you inferre that Priests have no more power to do this than Laymen here you cast confession upon both one and other and Laymen may heare it aswell as a Priest and therefore it is probable you will not be very precise for Absolution to conferre it on a Layman as well as on a Priest But such absolution is a part of that Priestly power which could not be given by men or Angels but onely and immediatly by Almighty God himselfe a part of that Paramount power which the
and Cambridge Anno 1638. Tit. 7. Num. 12. If we will follow the course of the Ancient primitive Apostolicall Church we ought not to traduce or be offended at the name thing or use of Altar whereat A MANIFOLD SACRIFICE is offered to God What kind of Sacrifice this is Francis Sales thus declares in his Introduction to a Devout Life P. 191. 194. Vse then all diligence to be present often at this Heavenly Feast that with the Priest and other devout assistants thou maist joyntly offer up the fruit thereof Christ Jesus to God his Father for they selfe and all the necessities of holy Church The death and passion of our Redeemer which are actually and essentially represented in this holy Sacrifice with the Priest and the rest of the faithfull people thou shalt offer unto God the Father for his eternall honour and thine owne salvation Robert Shelford in his five Treatises seconds him in these termes Pag. 2. The Sacrament of the Altar in which the sacrifice of our Lord Christ is remembred and represented unto his Father P. g. 4. There the memory of the everlasting sacrifice is made and presented unto the holy Trinity Pag. 19. Here the great sacrifice of Christs death for our Salvation is in rememberance represented to God the Father c. Doctor Pocklington is very copious in this Theme in his Altare Christianum P. 130 Bishop Mountague saith thus I beleeve no such sacrifice of the Altar as the Church of Rome doth I fancie no such Altars as they imply though I professe a Sacrifice and an Altar And a little after speaking of his Adversaries hee saith thus I have so good opinion of your understanding though weake that you will confesse the blessed Sacrament of the Altar or Communion-table whether you please to be a Sacrifice c. Pag. 135. Abuses of Altars and sacrifices condemned not the things themselves Priests Sacrifices Oblations Altars The Sacrament of the Altar is not abolished P. 122. The Prophet Malachi saith Saint Justin Martyr did prophesie de Sacrificiis Gentium id est de paue Eucharistia poculo Eucharistiae It appeareth that St. Iustin that holy Martyr did call the Eucharist a sacrifice and hath the Prophet for his warrant Saint Ireneus also saith that when Christ tooke the Bread and the Wine Gratias eget he gave thanks and said the bread was his body and confessed the wine to be his bloud et novi Testamenti novam docuit oblationem and taught a new oblation of the New Testament which the Church receiving from the Apostles in universo mundo offert deo doth offer unto God in all the world This saith he is that pure sacrifice offered unto God in every place which the Prophet Malachi spake of before Pag. 124. Saint Chrysost How shall we receive this sacred host How shall we partake the Lords body with a defiled tongue For this sacrifice Domini sacrificium est This sacrifice the Priest standing at the Altar offereth to God for al the world for Bishops for the church c. according to our Collect on Good Friday Pag. 126. When the sacrifice of our Mediatour is offered it cannot be denied but the faithfull are hereby eased This oblation the same Father calls summum verissimum Sacrificium and saith that at the memories of Martyrs Deo offertur sacrificium Christianorum ipsum vero sacrificium corpus est Christi which is not offered to them for themselves are the body of Christ but unto God Pag. 127. It appeareth by that which hath beene said that there were Altars and oblations and sacrifices which the Fathers allowed To conclude this constant Doctrine of the holy Fathers concerning Altars Oblations and Sacrifices is confirmed by the Canons of sundry Councells Pag. 128. Altars Oblations and sacrifices were in Common use amongst the most holy Saints of God that ever lived Pag. 136. If there be no Christian Altar there is no Christian Sacrifice if no Christian Sacrifice there is no Christian Priest if there be no Christian Priest away with the Booke of Ordination of Priests and Deacons We shall close up this with Doctor Peter Heylins words in his Antidotum Lincolniense P. 6. 17. and 26. A Sacrifice it was in figure a sacrifice in fact and so by consequence a sacrifice in the Commemorations or upon the Post-fact A sacrifice there was among the Jewes shewing forth Christs death unto them before his comming in the flesh a sacrifice there must be amongst the Christians to shew forth the Lords Death till he come in Judgement and if a sacrifice must be there must be also Priests to doe and Altars whereupon to do it because without a Priest and Altar there can be no sacrifice yet so that the precedent sacrifice was of a different nature from the subsequent and so are also both the Priest and Altar from those before a bloudy sacrifice then an unbloody now a Priest derived from Aaron then from Melchisedech now an Altar for Mosaicall Sacrifices then for Evangelicall now for visible and externall sacrifices though none for bloudy and externall sacrifices Not an improper Altar and an improper sacrifice as you idlely dream of for sacrifices Priests and Altars being relatives as your selfe confesseth the sacrifice and the Altar being improper must needs inferre that even our Priesthood is improper also No Iesuit can or doth say more then this amounts to 6. That the body and blood of Christ are really and substantially present in the Eucharist and the Bread and Wine transubstantiated into them FRancis Sales in his Introduction to a devout life determines thus P. 194. 219. The death and passion of our Redeemer are actually and essentially represented in this holy sacrince Our blessed Saviour hath instituted the venerable Sacrament of the Eucharist which containeth really and verily his flesh and bloud Christs Epistle to a devout Soule thus seconds him Page 77. 78. Because thou maist be inflamed with a greater reverence love and desire towards this blessed Sacrament I assure thee that without all doubt my body is there Sacramentally delivered unto thee to be received under the forme of Bread Wherefore seeing it is the same body which I carry now glorified in Heaven seeing it is no other nor any like unto it but even the very same and seeing I carry not a body which is dead nor with out bloud it followeth of necessity that together in the same body there must be also conteined my soule my bloud my graces and my vertues To all which since the word is united it must also follow that the whole Trinity is present in this Sacrament as truly and as verily as they are in Heaven though in another kind id est under a Sacramentall forme The same opinion thou must in like sort have of the Chalice the new-testament in my bloud consider therefore that thou hast mee really and perfectly there Page 238. Make also every day to me in the honour of the holy Sacrament of my
be said unto every particular member of hers in the Communion The Body of our Lord Iesus Christ which was given for thee c. if any one of them were absolutely reprobated 1. c. from all eternity unconditionally decreed to bee damned in Hell fire everlastingly The Booke intituled Gods love to mankind and Doctor Jack sons Divine Essence and Attributes part 1. are professedly written to justifie universall Grace and Redemption 23. That the Personall succession of Bishops is a true note of the Church and necessary That Peters Chaire was at Rome and he sate Bishop there and that it is the honour and happinesse of our Church that this Archbishop of Cant. that now is with our other Bishops and Ministers can derive them personall succession and Ordination from the Sea and Popes of Rome Dr. Pocklingtons Sunday no Sabbath P. 2. Ouâ— Diocesan can derive himselfe the successor of an Apostle it is Saint Austins resolution Successio Episcoporum ab ipsa sede Petri is that which among other things by him named keepes us in gremio Ecclesiae and Subjects us to our Bishops Jurisdiction Page 47. Their vanity may appeare that against all Antiquity make fooles beleeve Saint Peter was never at Rome making the succession of Bishops and truth of the Latin Churches as questionable as the Centurists orders Page 48. Reckon up your Priests who succeded one another after Saint Peter in his Chaire if you will bee esteemed Members of the Church Hereby we may by Gods mercy make good the truth of our Church For wee are able lineally to set downe the succession of our Bishops from Saint Peter to Saint Gregory and from him to our first Archbishop Saint Austin our English Apostle as Bishop Goodwin calls him downeward to his Grace NOW that sits in his Chaire Primate of all England and Metropolitan Which hee thus seconds in his Altare Christianum Page 45. Saint Peters Chaire in Rome succession of Bishops in the Church of England c. Page 47. Though saith Saint Austin you slanderously call the Chaire in other Churches Cathedram Pestilentiâ—ae what cause hath the Church of Rome giuen you to say so of it In qua Petrus sedet et in quâ hodie Anastasius sedet The very note whereby Heritickes were knowne from Catholikes was that Catholikes could shew their Churches and the very Chaires in them wherein there was not only a morrall succession in purity of Faith and manners but a locall succession of Bishops continued even from the Apostles times which Heretickes could not shew and therefore were hereby convinced to bee such and so put to shame and confounded Page 48. Hee recons up those that had succeded the Apostles Saint Peter and Saint Paul in the Church of Rome Page 49. Novatian is neither Bishop nor Member of the Church saith Saint Cyprian because hee cannot prove his succession according to Apostolicall Tradition If in all this time there were no materiall Churches then there could be no materiall Chaire wherein their Bishops were enthronized and if no Chaire then no reall Inthronization then no personall succession from the Apostles whereby the right faith was derived from God the Father to his Son nor from the Sonne to his Apostles nor from the Apostles to succeding Bishops Those that deprive us of the benefit of this Apostolicall Tradition pluck one speciall staffe out of our hands whereby we stay our selves from falling from the true Catholicke Church and beat all Heretickes out of our Communion Miserable were we if hee that NOW sitteth Arch Bishop of CANTERBVRY could not derive his succession from Saint Augustine St. Augustine from Saint Gregory Saint Gregory from Saint Peter for hee that remembreth whom he succeeds will doubtlesse endeavour and pray to be heire to their vertues as well as possessor to their places What a comfort is this to his Grace and to all those that receive consecration from him and to all those that they shall ordaine Page 51. Tell us when and from whence you come and what you make your selves to do in the Church that are no Sons of the Church We can with Saint Iraeneus point you to the time of your comming in You Cartwright and your brood came in as most Sabbatarians did under Archbishop Whitgift and your Ames and Brightman with your Laodiceans came in under Archbishop Bancroft and you Vicars and our Cotton with his fugitives came in or rather went out under Archbishop Abbot Page 144. I shall begin with my selfe I had my Ordination from Bishop Dove he had his Consecration from Archbishop Whitgift and the Archbishop his from the undoubted successours of Saint Peter Doctor Heylin his Moderat Answer to Mr. Burton Page 72. Write If you have any other Pedegree as perhaps you have from Wickliffe Hus the Albigâ—enses and the rest which you use to boast of keepe it to your selfe non tali auxilio the Church of England hath not need of so poore a shift Page 68. The next thing that offends you and you clamour as if that they claime a visible and perpetuall succession down from St. Peter to Pope Gregory from him by Austin the Monk first Archbishop of Cant. unto his Grace now being and sic de caeteris That Gregory sent Austin into England to convert the Saxons and made him first Archbishop of the English is generally delivered by all our writers Finally that my Lord the Archbishop that now is is lineally descended in a most faire and constant tenor of succession you shall easily finde if you consult the learned labours of Master Francis Mason de Ministerio Anglicano The Papists would extreamely thank you and think you borne into the World for their speciall comfort could you but tell him how to disprove that lineall succession of our Prelates which is there laid dowe By Mountague his Gagge page 49. The Church hath ever beene visibe In England especially how can this fellow impute invisibility to us who claime and prove a succession 25. That Sunday is no Sabbath nor of divine institution that the strict sanctification of it is Iewish superstitious and Rabbinicall That May-games Wakes Revells Dancing Interludes with other sports and pastimes are not only lawfull but convenient and necessary thereon not to be restrained but incouraged and the Kings Declaration to that purpose most pious and Religious That two houres only of it viz. The time of publik service and sermons are to be kept holy and that the residue may be spent in Recreations or ordinary workes of our calling That the Lords day Sabbath was never heard of in the world till Dr. Bounds daies That the Sabbath is not morrall THis is the subject matter of many whole late printed Books against the morallity and strict observation of the Lords-day Sabbath wee shall instance only in some few beginning with Doctor Pocklington in his Sunday no Sabbath where thus he most scandalously and prophanely writes page 6. What shall wee think then of Knox and Whittingham and their
reduced all things contained in them both to some few heads and a most compendious Index by which as in a glasse your honours may quickly take a view of them all and readily turne to any thing you please to peruse If you should desire that I should referre your Honours to some particular places and passages then I humbly beseech yea to be pleased to cast your eyes upon these which follow wherein you shall find notable things expunged and things not altogether unworthy of your pious paines and consideration viz. In the greater of these two Manuscripts these page 5. 11. 25. 27. 28. 65. 91. 93. 99. 102. 105. 109. 115. 125. 134. 137. 138. c. that the fulfilling of the Law is impossible pag. 43. Quest 1. and 57. Quest 1. and 58. Quest 2. and 59. Object and 128. that Election is not from a fore-sight of works pag. 75. 81. 83. In the lesser of these two Manuscripts these pag. 1. a. and 2. a. c. and 4. c. and 5. ll and 6. d. and 8. a. c. and 10. b. and 12. a. and 14. a. and 16. b. and 18. b. c. and 25. b. c. and 29. f. and 39. c. and 41. g. and 42. c. and 48. d. and 58. b. the things which were wholy expunged by the Licenser may be reduced to these few heads namely First things charged upon the Papists in the greater book pag. 5. and 71. twice and 109. 110. in the lesser book pag. 4. c. and 25. b. c. and 40. b. Secondly poynts and passages tending to the overthrow of some Popish Tenents in the greater book pag. 1. 2. 19. five and 20. 27. In the lesser book pag. 1. f. and 2. b. and 5. m. and 6. b. and 10. a. and 12. c. and 14. b. and 15. c. and 17. h. and 18. a. and 36. b. and 40. d. and 52. d. e. Thirdly passages tending to the blemishing of seme Popish writers and the disgrace of Popery and the unwarrantable practice of Popish people and people Popishly affected in the lesser book page 1. a. and 2. a. b. c. and 5. h. i. l. and 6. a. and 8. a. and 9. e. and 17. g. and 44. a. Fourthly poyms mainly and Interminis controverted between us and the Papists in the great book page 11. 15. 17. 19. 23. 25. 26. 43. his 57. 58. 59. 62. 63. his 65. 67. 73. 75. 77. 81. 83. 85. 87. 89. 91. 93. 101. 121. 123. 124. 127. 131. Fifthly poynts and passages tending to the overthrow of Pelagainisme and Arminianisme or the Remonstrants tenents in the greater book page 31. 33. 35. 37. 43. 53. 54. 62. 79. 97. 125. 130. 132. 138. 139. 140. in the lesser book page 1. d. and 4. a. b. d. e. and 9. g. and 18. e. f. and 19. g. and 25. a. and 28. c. and 29. d. and 40. a. e. and 51. a. Sixthly things not at all in controversie viz. in the greater book page 7. 9 39. 41. 44. 45. 46. 47. 48. 49. 50. 51. 99. 105. 115. 123. 134. 135. in the lesser book page 5. k. and 6. e. and 8. e. and 9. d. and 10. d. e. and 11. f. g. and 17. c. and 21. a. and 30. b. and 48. b. c. and 53. g. h. and 57. c. Seventhly passages tending to reprove the vices and evill customes of some great ones in the greater book page 50. 51. and in the lesser page 4. f. and 42. e. and 43. f. Eighthly passages and poynts obliterated tending highly to the honour and glory of God in the lesser book page 7. i. and 8. b. and 19. h. and 28. c. and of Christ page 57. a. and Diety of the holy Ghost page 58. d. Ninthly the very sentences of Scripture expunged in the lesser book page 7. b. and 21. b. c. and 23. a. and 27. f. and 58. d. Thus I have made bold to make this godly and grave Senate acquainted with the intolerable wrong which my weak labours have suffered by these obliterations and of the disgrace and discredit which bath reflected upon my selfe also thereby for those who are ignorant of the abuses done by the Licenser must needs impute all the absurdities and non sense and lame and imperfect passages either to the ignorance or negligence of the Author this work being my first and I my selfe but little knowne in the world when I put it forth And therefore I humbly sue to this honourable Assembly that you would be pleased to license for the Presse these notes contained in these two Manuscripts which were expunged by the Licenser that thereby I may have power to re-print and perfect my now most imperfect books And your humble Petitioner shall be alwayes bound to pray to the Lord of glory and fountaine of all grace for a blessing upon your proceedings persons estates lives soules and all than concernes you Rich. Ward Many such like purgations in other new books might be produced but we will insist on these alone reducing the severall passages purged out of them under distinct heads which will infallibly evidence and most perspicuously demonstrate his Jesuiticall intentions to usher the whole body of popery into our Church by degrees without the least publike opposition We shall begin with 1. Purgations of sundry notable passages against Popery it selfe in generall which must not passe the Presse upon any termes but have a speciall deleatur drawne over them In Doctor Clarkes Sermons page 431. Sermon 19. l. 10. in the printed copy Dr. Haywood the Licenser the Arch-bishops own Chaplaine purged out this clause against popery God there expounds himselfe least some Papists say 't is but my glosse POPERY IS IDOLATRY by God's owne censure there that prayes unto Images It seems this practice and popery must not now be called Idolatry as our Homilies against the perill of Idolatry and all our writers formerly use to stile it for that would scandalize the papists and make people to abhorre popery so as never to embrace it Ibidem Sermon 20. page 443. l. 6. Popery a patchery and meer medley of moldy heresies are deleted by the Licenser It must have the honourable title of the old Religion still these two down-right Epithites will overmuch disgrace it Ibidem Sermon 20. page 451. 452. this passage is expunged as scandalous to the Roman Religion When he the Pope or Priest preacheth it is lightly of legendary lyes all Romes Religion is almost lyes If I shall say the Clergy-men lye not I shall lye too not lightly in his Doctrine though the Romanists doe that write and preach lyes Master Richard Ward in his Comentary upon Matthew had these passages obliterated among sundry others We may justly feare that our Church shall have her period when the Word shall depart from us to some other Nation that hath not enjoyed it by a relapse into Popery as we did in Queen Maries time or that we shall be overwhelmed by Atheisme and as Rome doth now onely retaine a false shew of a Church being drowned either with
the word of Christ one example we have in this verse Bellarmine saith c. page 57. Ob. 3. Christ saith unto me is given all power therefore Antichrists imp Pererius saith the Pope hath power over Infidels And a little after Answ 2. all power is given to Christ therefore to the Pope is a blasphemous and Antichristian consequence displaying the Pope to his colours to be the Where in making himselfe or suffering himselfe to be made equall with Christ is obliterated Would not any Protestant admire such passages as these should be expurged to gratifie the Pope The Articles of Religion agreed upon by the Arch-bishops and Bishops and the rest of the Clergy of Ireland in Convocation holden at Dublin in the yeere of our Lord 1615. for the avoyding of diversities of opinions and the establishing of consent touching true Religion reprinted at London 1629. Artic. 78. 80. determined thus against the Pope THE power which the Bishop of Rome now challengeth to be the supreame head of the Universall Church of Christ and to be above all Emperours Kings and Princes is an usurped power contrary to the Scriptures and Word of God and contrary to the example of the Primitive Church and therefore is for just causes taken away and abolished within the Kings Majesties Realmes and Dominions The Bishop of Rome is so farre from being the Supreame Head of the Universall Church of Christ that his works and doctrine doe plainly discover him to be that Man of sin foretold in the holy Scriptures whom the Lord skall consume with the spirit of his mouth and abolish with the brightnesse of his comming These Articles were so displeasing to the Arch-bishop together with some others against Arminians that in the yeere 1634. this whole book of Articles was revoked suppressed by Parliament in Ireland through his procurement then which strange act there could not be a more apparent undermining of the Protestant Religion In the yeer 1634. there were at the speciall request of the Queen of Bohemia Letters Patents granted to Master Rulie a Palatinate Minister for a collection throughout 〈…〉 of the poore Ministers of the Palatinate in which Patent there was this notable â— clause inserted relating to their Religion and sufferings Whose cases are the more to be deplored for that this extremity is fallen 〈◊〉 them for their 〈…〉 constancy to the true Religion which we together with them doe professe and 〈◊〉 we are all bound in conscience to maintaine to the utmost of our powers whereas these relations and godly persons being involved amongst many others their couâ—trymen in 〈◊〉 common calamity might have enjoyed their estates and fortunes if with other back-sliders in the times of tryall they would have submitted themselves to the ANTICHRISTIAN YOKE and have renounced or dissembled the profession of the true Religion The very same formall words were used in former Patents of collections for them in King James his Reign and in the Patent dated the 29. of Jan. in the third yeere of King Charles his Reign by which this Patent was drawn The Arch-bishop perusing this Patent brought to him by Master Rulie after it had passed the Seale grew extreamly cholerick at it rated Master Ruly who pleaded ignorance of the customes of England and that the Patent was drawne by the Kings Atturney according to former presidents without any directions from himselfe who was a meer stranger chid him very sharply threatned to suppresse the whole collection detained the Patent under seale and carrying it the next day to the Court complained of it to the King checked the Lord Keeper and Secretary Cooke for letting such a clause passe in the Patent who justified themselves by former presidents by which they were guided and by his violence wholly cancelled the Patent after it was sealed then caused a new Patent to be drawne wherein this former clause was omitted the King telling the Lord Keeper that the Arch-bishop would have it altered and therefore it must be done which thereupon was done occordingly Now the cause of all this stirre and anger of his Grace-ship against this clause was onely because it stiled those of the Palatinate professors of the true Religion c. and tacitely censured the Pope as Antichrist in this latter clause Where as these religious and godly persons might have enjoyed their estates and fortunes if with other back-sliders in the times of tryall they would have submitted themselves to the Antichristian Yoke and renounced or dissembled the profession of the true Religion As was punctually attested upon oath by Master Wakerly and Master Hartlib Of which more fully hereafter Now that all the forementioned purgations of passages against the Pope and his being Antichrist proceeded originally from the Archbi himselfe without any other motive but his own inherent affection to his Holinesse and the Roman party we shall most apparently evidence to all the world by a Letter of his to Dr. Hall the Bishop of Exeter signed with his owne hand and Bishop Hal's answer thereunto the Originals of which Letters Master Prynne seized in his Study at Lambeth and attested at the Lords Barre where they were both acknowledged and read in these ensuing tearmes My very good Lord I Have received your Lordships Letters of Decemb. 6. 23. and with them the copy of your Book and in them a paper of short propositions which you think and so doe I is fitter for the attestation of divers hands then the book it selfe These propsitions shall be well weighed against the time of Convocation which I conceive will be a fit time to take other Bishops attestation without further noyse or trouble For your book I first thanke you very heartily for your paines and next more then heartily were it possible for your noble and free submission of it not onely to many eyes and judgements but also in the maine to be ordered and after that prest or supprest as it shall be thought fit here Which care or conscience would men use which set out books we should not have so much froth and vanity in the world as now 't is full of But whereas you writ First that the Booke grew into greater length under your pen them you expected I cannot be sorry for that since that which you have added concerning Parker Anti-Tilenus and Vedelius seems to me very necessary Secondly that you are pleased to subject the work to me and to interpret it that you meant not personally to me because I could not have time for other great occasions to revise it but by way of desputation These are to let you know that were my occasions greater then they are I would not suffer a book of that Argument and in these times to passe without my owne particular View And therefore my Lord these may tell you that both my Chaplaines have read over your book and that since them I have read it over my selfe very carefully every line of it and I have now put it into
and most Honourable my singular good Lord the Lord Arch-bishop of Canterbury his Grace Primate of all England and Metropolitane Chancelour of Oxford and one of the Lords of his Mijesties most honourable Privy Counsell present these And after the receit thereof thus indorsed with the Arch-bishops owne hand Rec. Jan. 22. 1639. L. B. Exon. concerning some amendments in his book for Episcopacy In this Letter of the Arch-bishops and the answer to it besides the grand designe of asserting Episcopacy of divine Right and Institution we may observe these considerable particulars First that he blames Bishop Hall for being a little too favourable to the forraigne Protestant Churches and their authors Secondly for passing by the Sabatarians or strict observers of the Lords day without any touch at all which he desires him to rectifie and help by some touches of shapnesse against them this is his charity to the Protestants and Sabatarians or Puritans of you please they were too candidly handled and therefore must be more harshly dealt withall but now on the other hand mark his extraordinary affection to and care of the Popes honour and reputation He doth in the third place tax the Bishop for bestowing the title of ANTICHRIST on him three or four times in his Book positively determinately This was such a transcendent crime that he must needs acquaint the King himselfe with it of his owne native disposition without any other Monitor and procures a speciall royall command to him from his Majesty to expunge those scandalous and dishonourable clauses against his Holinesse out of his Treatise Fourthly in the reason which he renders for acquainting his Majesty herewith and desiring him to make this change there are these considerable things to be taken notice of First that King James himselfe did in his printed Works at large prove and declare the Pope to be Antichrist by very strong proofes Secondly that when the Spanish match was in agitation and the Popes Dispensation required for the facilitating of it being one of the first Articles in the Marriage Treaty he was challenged by the Pope and his agents for it but not before Thirdly that King James hereupon to satisfie the Pope and gaine his favour was put to a hard shift and enforced to coyne a new distinction which he never thought of till then to excuse the matter That he writ thou not concludingly but by way of Argument onely c. Fourthly that he made this answer and distinction when King Charles went into Spaine and acquainted him with it by word of mouth that he thereby might satisfie the Pope and his party Fifthly that this whole passage was knowne to him and he privy to this secret not knowne formerly to others therefore he was certainly one of the Cabinet-counsell who was privy to the Kings going into Spaine and to the private instructions given him by King James before his departure hence yea very likely one who suggested this distinction to King James to please the Pope and promote the Match and therefore HE COULD NOT BUT SPEAKE WITH THE KING ABOUT IT who hereupon commanded this Bishop to qualifie his expressions in these particulars and so not differ from the knowne judgement of his pious and learned Father from whose orthodox judgement notwithstanding the Arminians might freely dissent both with his Majesties and this Arch-prelats approbation Whereupon we find that these passages were qualified according to his desire although Bishop Andrewes positive opinon in sundry passages was that the Pope was Antichrist All which considered we may infallibly conclude from his owne pen that all the forementioned purgations of passages against the Papacy Pope and his being Antichrist were made by this Arch-bishops owne speciall direction without any other suggestion but his owne Romish Genius and good affection to the Pope to induce a more easie reconciliation with him and this in direct opposition First to the severall Statutes of 16 R. 2. c. 5. 25 H. 8. c. 19. 20. 21. 28 H. 8. c. 10. 37 H. 8. c. 17. which tacitely define the Pope to be the Antichrist who did obfuscate and wrest Gods word Testament a long season from the spirituall and true meaning thereof to his worldly and carnall affections as pompe glory avarice ambition and tyranny covering and shadowing the same with his humane and politick devices traditions and inventions set forth to promote and stablish his onely dominion both upon the soules and also the bodies and goods of all Christian people excluding Christ out of his Kingdome and rule of mans soule as much as he may and all other temporall Kings and Princes out of their Dominions which they ought to have by Gods law upon the bodies and goods of their subjects whereby he did not onely rob the Kings Majesty being onely the supreame head of this his Realme of England immediately under God of his honour right and pre-eminence due unto him by the law of God but spoyled this his Realme yeerly of innumerable treasure and with the losse of the same deeemed the Kings loving and obedient Subjects perswading to them by his lawes buls and other his deceivable meanes such dreames vanities and fantisies as by the same many of them were seduced and conveyed unto superstitious and erronious openions Secondly to the book of Homilies in the second part of the Sermon for Whit-Sunday page 316. and the 6. Sermon against wilfull Rebellion page 316. which determines the Pope to be Antichrist in these tearmes Wheresoever you find the spirit of envy hatred contention robbery murther extortion witchcraft neeromancy c. assure your selves that there is the spirit of the devil and not of God albeit they pretend outwardly to the world never so much holinesse c. such were all the Popes and Prelates of Rome for the most part as doth well appeare by the story of their lives and therefore they are worthily accounted among the number of the false Prophets and false Christs which deluded the world a long while The Lord of heaven and earch defend us from their tyranny and pride that they never enter into his Vine-yard againe c. and he of his great mercy so work in all mens hearts by the mighty power of the holy Ghost that the comfortable Gospel of his Sonne Christ may be truly preached truly received and truly followed in all places to the beating downe of sinne death the Pope the devil and ALL THE KINGDOME OF ANTICHRIST c. The Bishop of Rome understanding the bruit blindnesse ignorance of Gods Word and superstition of English men ond how much they were inclined to worship the BABYLONISH BEAST OF ROME Thirdly to the 80. Article of the Church of Ireland defining the Bishop of Rome to be THE MAN OF SINNE foretold in the holy Scripture Fourthly to the Book of Common-prayer appointed for the fifth of Novemb. stiling the Pope Papists and Jesuits A Babylonish and Antichristian sect and to the Kings Letters Patents forementioned defining
several ANSVVERS To the Proofs and Evidence produced to make good the first Branch of his CHARGE with the Commons Replyes and Rejoynders thereunto VVE have now presented you with the intire evidence of the Commons given in against the Archbishop at the Lords Tribunal in proof of the first main Branch of his impeachment to wit his traiterous endeavours to subvert the true Religion established among us to introduce and set up Popery and reconcile us unto Rome without any diminution to which I have here and there made some small Additions not by way of evidence or charge but only of illustration or amplification of some things given in evidence in the general briefly pointed at and so passed over not read at large at the bar for want of time We shall next as faithfully as exactly as our imperfect notes and frail memory will assist relate his several Answers and Replies given to the particular proofs produced against him both as he delivered them in person after each dayes evidence at the Lords bar and as he afterwards repeated them in his general defence with some Additions in the Lords and Commons House wherein if I have involuntarily mistaken or misreported his words or answers in any particular as I presume I have not done his surviving friends must only blame either him or themselves not me who used all the means I could to his Secretary Mr. Dell his Councel and others whom he trusted with his Papers to procure his own Original written Notes Answers and Replies or true Copies of them that so I might have printed them verbatim to avoid all calumnies and mistakes yet could neither by my own intreaties nor warrants from Authority procure them or any Copies thereof Mr. Dell returning me this answer that he believed the Archbishop himself had burnt all his Notes and Answers in his life time to prevent their publication after his death To avoid prolixity obscurity that every Reader may more clearly discern the insufficiency falshood Sophistry of his Answers and the pregnancy of the Commons proofs and evidence to make good their impeachment against him in each particular I shall forbear to relate his Answers and the Commons Replies thereto intirely together in two distinct continued Relations as they were delivered at the bar but subjoyn the Commons distinct Replies to his severall Answers to each particular proof and part of their evidence as they lie in order that so reddendo singula singulis the pertinency of their evidence and reality of his guiltinesse may more perspicuously shine forth to all the world I aiming only at verity not victory in this Relation The Archbishop began his Answer to the first Branch of the Commons charge concerning his traiterous endeavours to subvert the true Religion of God by Law established among us and set up Popish Superstition and Idolatry in its stead with a general detestation both of the charge and fact for which presumptuous and unseemly expression he was justly taxed by the Commons councel as being a defiance given to them and their proceedings prosessing it the greatest unhappinesse that ever besel him to be thus deeply and criminally charged by the Honourable House of Commons the representative body of the whole commonalty of England before the highest Tribunal in the Realm as being guilty of such a crime as this in his last dying dayes when he had one foot already in the grave which his own conscience pronounced him to have been guiltlesse of all the dayes of his life Yet protesting it to be an unspeakable comfort to him in this his infelicity that he was arraigned for it before so just so Honourable an Assembly of Peers many of them being privy to the sincerity of his actions and advices to his Majestie to vindicate his integrity to all the world and wash off all those black spots of calumny of obloquy wherewith he had for many years by-past been most unjustly aspersed by Sectaries on the one hand by Iesuits and Papists on the other to ruin him both in his reputation fortune and his Majesties most gracious opinion And so presuming he had sufficiently cleared himself in the general from this heavy charge in their Lordships and others opinions by his first dayes speech the new Canons and Oath prescribed in them and by his Book against Fisher the Iesuite he would without any further Prologue or Apology discend to Answer the particular evidences proofs produced against him by the Commons in their respective order with as much brevity perspicuity as the suddainnesse of his preparations the frailty of his memory the burthen of 70 yeers with other natural infirmities then lying heavy upon him would permit And to give him his due he made as full as gallant as pithy a defence of so bad a cause and spake as much for himself as was possible for the wit of man to invent and that with so much Art Sophistry Vivacity Oratory Audacity and confidence without the least blush or acknowledgement of guilt in any thing annimated by his seated Panders lying by him as argued him rather obstinate then innocent impudent then penitent a far better Orator Sophister then Protestant or Christian yea a truer Son of the Church of Rome then of the Church of England in many particulars as you will anon discern He began his defence where the Commons did their charge and they their Reply where he began his Answer to wit at his publike Chappel at Lambeth House The first thing the Commons have in their evidence charged against me is the setting up and repairing of Popish Images and Pictures in the glasse windows of my Chappel at Lambeth and amongst others the Picture of Christ hanging on the Crosse between the two Theeves in the East window of God the Father in Form of a little old Man with a Glory striking Myriam with a leprosie of the Holy Ghost descending in Form of a Dove and of Christs Nativity last Supper Resurrection Ascention and others the Patern whereof Master Pryn attested I took out of the very Masse Book wherein he shewed their Portratures To which I answer First that I did not set these Images up but found them there before Secondly That I did only repair the windows which were so broken and the Chappel which lay so nastily before that I was ashamed to behold and could not resort unto it but with some disdain which caused me to repair it to my great cost Thirdly that I made up the History of these old broken Pictures not by any patern in the Masse Book but only by help of the fragments and remainders of them which I compared with the story Fourthly though the very resemblances of them be in the Masse Book yet I protest I never knew they were there till Master Pryn shewed them in it at this bar And it is but a meer fallacy the Pictures which I repaired are in the Masse Book Ergo I took the patern of them out of it Fifthly Master
bound up in Bibles why then did he give order that they should bee only sold in private not in publique If unlawfull Popish Idolatrous or superstitious contrary to the Scripture our owne Statutes Homilies Jnjunctions VVriters as we have proved them then they ought not by his direction to sell or binde them up in Bibles no more privately these publikely And whereas he Objects that the Latine Bible produced wherein some of these pictures were bound was printed at Amsterdam wee grant it But the Pictures in it were printed and bound up with it here in London not at Amsterdam and these Pictures by the Archbishops owne direction were bound and sold with many English Bibles in which act he so much gloried instead of being ashamed of it that he would have these Bibles thus bound up with Pictures called the Arch-Bishops Bibles by way of distinction As for the English Bibles printed with Pictures in Queene Elizabeths dayes they had no other Pictures in them but onely of the Arke Temple and such like not any Pictures of Christ the Virgin Mary or any persons of the Trinity All which considered this part of his charge stickes still upon him in each particular notwithstanding all his evasions Seventhly They Object against me the Consecration of Churches and Chappell 's as a Popish Innovation tending to introduce Popery among us and have instanced in my consecrating of Creed-Church St. Giles Church in the fields and the Church-yard there for consecrating whereof the Parish paid me 15. l. The Church of Stanmore Magna my Chappell at Aberguilly the forme and furniture whereof were excepted against as Popish the Chappell of Hamer-Smith where they alleadge I consecrated the first stone when it was layd the Chappell of Roe-Hampton and that I would have consecrated other Chapells Cambridge To this I answer first in generall that the Consecration of Churches is very ancient and warranted by Scripture and Ecclesiasticall stories In the Old Testament wee read that the Tabernacle with all the Vessells Ornaments thereto belonging were solemnly consecrated by Moses That afterward when the Temple was built it was solemnly dedicated and consecrated to God by King Solomon and all his Princes and people After this when the Temple had bin shut up and defiled the Priests and Levites by Hezekiah his command sanctified and cleansed both it and the Vessells thereof So King Josias purged the House of the Lord. After which when the Temple was re-edified the Children of Jsrael the Priests and the Levites kept the dedication of the House of God with joy and offered in the Dedication of the House of God an hundred bullockes which Feast of Dedication was observed by the Jewes even in our Saviours time as wee read in the New Testament Iohn 10. 22. In the reigne of Constantine the great when Christian Churches began to be built or re-edified wee no sooner read of their building but of their solemne consecration and Dedication as of the consecration of the Church of Tyre with sundry others mentioned by Eusebius in his Ecclesiasticall History l. 10. c. 3. Devita Constantini l. 4. c. 40. After which wee finde this practise continued in the Christian Church in all ages as Ecclesiasticall Histories the Consecration Sermons of sundry Fathers the Canons of ancient Councels and the Canonists in their titles De Consecratione Ecclesiarum prove at large Wherefore this can be no Popery ner Innovation Yea if Churches were not consecrated then I say they could not bee termed Holy for it is the Consecration makes them holy And if places be not holy then persons also cannot be holy when they are consecrated and entred into holy Orders As for Bishop Pilkinton and Archbishop Parker they speake not simply against consecrations in generall for they were consecrated Bishops and the book of Ordination is confirmed by Parliament nor yet against consecrating of Churches in generall but against the Popish consecrations of them used by some moderne Romish Prelates For my form of consecrating them it was not taken out of the Roman Pontificall but that which was used by Bishop Andrewes from whom I had it This forme I followed at Creed Church and the rest Secondly To the particular consecration of Churches Objected I answer First to that concerning Katherin Creed-Church It was testified that I came thither in a Pompous manner I deny it it was only in a grave and seemly manner It is Objected that as soone as I came within the Church doore I fell downe upon my knees True it was no more then my duty being an Oratory Moses and Aaron fell down on their faces at the doore of the Tabernacle Hezekiah and the people bowed and worshiped as I have proved at large in my Speech in Star-chamber And O come let us worship and fall downe and kneell before the Lord our Maker is the common Introitus in our owne and other Lyturgies It is objected I pronounced the place and ground holy I did so and it is an ordinary and legall Speech there being a relative though not an inherent holinesse in Churches Dedicated to Gods service Hence wee read in Iustinian Codicis l. 1. tit 5. this Title DESACROS ANCTIS ECCLESIIS as they are there often stiled Therefore Churches are holy and their consecration makes them so Wheras it was said I threw up dust into the ayre This I deny and where it was alleadged that this was in imitation of the Roman Pontificall that is a mistake for the Pontificall prescribes Cinis a hes not dust to be cast abroad and Greek Letters to be made therein with many other vanities For my forme of consecration Bishop Andrewes made it from whom I desired a Coppy and had it which I observed It was objected that the form of prayer I used is in the Masse Booke and Roman Pontificall It may bee so many other very good prayers are in it yet they be good It was further alleaged that I objected Doctor Denisons Sermon to him at his censure in the High Commission I Objected only his extravagances and that was no hurt For St. Giles Church it is true I consecrated first the Church and then the Church-yard which is the usuall manner as for the fees amounting to 15. l. I returned them againe and bestowed them on the poore of the Parish But it hath bin Objected that these were no new Churches but Churches only new repaired therfore not to be re-consecrated I answer that there was some new ground taken in at Saint Giles and admit there were still the same longitude and latitude yet the walls and structure being for the most part new the Churches in this respect were new and to be new consecrated Thirdly to the consecration of the Objected Chappell 's I confesse their consecrations and though there be no expresse forme for consecrating of Chappell 's in the Pontificall nor mention in Ecclesiasticall story of Chappels consecrations yet seeing they are
within the Church least they should be polluted with the feet of those who passed by 8ly That none should touch the consecrated Altars Vessells Vestments or be enabled to keep them but consecrated persons 9ly That if the Altar of any Church were renewed or the walls new built or defiled with murther blood-shed or the meeting or burying of Hereticks therein that then it should be re-consecrated otherwise not 10. That no man whatsover should presume to build any Church before the Bishop of the City first came to the place fixed a Crosse thereon and the Patron informed him what stipend he would alow for the finding of Tapers Gardians to keep it Priests to Officiat in it agree to have it consecrated and to sprinkle the floore and Court thereof with holy water Of latter times many Ethnicall superstitious Exercismes Conjurations Vnctions Ceremonies Notions and frantick inventions have bin added by Popes and Prelates to these consecrations recorded at large in the Roman Caeremonialls Pontificalls Thomas Beacons Reliques of Rome Mr. Calfehill and others whereby it will appeare to be most Popish superstitious in the highest degree whatever is pretended to the contrary Whereupon it was exploded condemned by our Church State Bishops and other writers in the beginning of Reformation as Popish Jewish Superstitious and by forraigne Protestant writers See Aretij Problemata Locus 121 De Encaenijs as we have formerly proved Therefore it must needs be a Popish designe in this Archbishop to revive it now For his Argument that Churches cannot be called Holy unlesse consecrated by a Bishop it being his consecration that makes them so We answer 1. That Bishop Pilkinton and others define this very Doctrine of his to be Popery as we haye proved so doth Aretius too Secondly That the most Holy Place was so stiled though never consecrated 1 King 8. 6. 10. So Jerusalem is called very frequently the Holy City Matth 4. 5. c. 27. 53. though never consecrated And God told Moses the place whereon thou standest is holy ground Exodus 3. 5. though never consecrated by a Bishop Thirdly Our owne Homilies informe us That the Church is counted and talled Holy not of it selfe nor yet for its consecration by a Bishop but because Gods people resorting thither are holy and exercise themselves in holy and heavenly things Fourthly The hearing and preaching of Gods Word Prayer and receiving the Sacraments therin are sufficient of themselves to sanctifie and make it holy without any other consecration See 1 Tim. 45. Centur Mag 3. and 4. c. 6. Aretij Problemaia Locus 126. who resolves further against this superstition Vana est etiamilla superstitio quod dicunt Nisi dedicatur Templum non posse ibi preces haberi non exandiri orantes non rectè praedicari verbum Dei nec Sacramenta administrari quae sententia MANIFESTE JVDAISMUM RESIPIT Christus tamen praemonstravit Horam nunc esse ut veri adoratores nec in monteistonec Jerosolymis sed ubique lieorum Deum adorent in spiritu veritate Athanasius sane non erubuit preces habere populum ad audiendum verbum Dei convocare in Templum Alexandrinum majus quamvis nondum esset Dedicatione consecratum nondum enim jusserat Imperator Id nostri hodie magnum nefas ducunt Fifthly sanctification in its owne nature is nothing else but a sequestring of any thing from a common or ordinary use to a religious and sacred purpose And this may be done without a Bishops exorcisme or conjuration in which respect the first borne first fruits and oblations among the Jewes were termed Holy though never solemnly consecrated because appropriated and devoted unto God For his other Argument that if places bee not holy persons cannot be so and our Church allowes of the consecration of persons Ergo of places It is both a fallhood and absurdity For first it is God and his Spirit only that make persons holy not Prelates who never sanctifie places as they do persons Secondly Our Church allowes only of the Ordination not consecration of Bishops and Ministers confirmed by Statute many of whom ordained such are so far from being holy that they are most polluted and unclean but not of consecrating Churches utterly exploded by the Common Prayer Booke and book of Ordination comprising all the authorized Rites and Ceremonies of our Church whereof consecration of Churches is none And thus much in answer to his defence in generall for consecration of Churches Secondly For the particulars Objected our witnesses depose that his comming to Creed Church was pompous not decent that he fell downe on his knees to pronounce the place and ground holy in the name of the Father Sonne and Holy Ghost not to adore and pray to God which the Examples of Moses Aaron and Hezekiah warrant not who never fell down at the Tabernacle door not bowed the head and worshipped to consecrate either the Tabernacle Temple or Altar And whereas he objects that his pronouncing of the place holy as soon he entred into it was legall c. we answer 1. That himselfe avers that no Church or place is legally holy before it be consecrated and when he pronounced it holy upon his entrance to it hee had not consecrated it therfore by his own doctrine it was not legally holy when he pronounced it so Secondly If our Churches be legally holy by their consecration then the consecration of our Popish Prelates in times of Popery with superstitious Popish Ceremonies conjurations Exorcismes enoylings processions sprinklings with holy water made them so since most of them were onely consecrated in though none re-consecrated since the times of Popery And if such Popish consecrations make them legally and really holy then they are of as great efficacy at his owne or Bishop Andrewes his forme and no difference at all between them Thirdly For Iustinian he makes no mention at all in that Title of consecration of Churches and stiles them holy Churches only in respect of the holy duties publikely performed in them For his throwing up of dust two witnesses expresly depose it which must overballance his own bare negation and there is so little difference between dust and ashes that they are usually coupled together as Synonimaes in Scripture and Authors That he took his forme from Bishop Andrewes is only averred by himselfe nor proved by any witnesses but that it agrees with that in the Pontificall which we found in his Study even in terminis is most cleare and therefore we cannot but presume he derived it from thence However if Bishop Andrewes imitated the Pontificall and he Bishop Andrewes the charge is still alike both of them imitating and complying with the Pope herein He grants his prayer taken out of the Pontificall therefore no doubt the rest especially his frequent bowings and Jackanapes trickes at the Altar which he cunningly pretermits and answers not For Dr. Ienison he objected only his preaching against Images to him at his censure