moderate degrees draw in as much Romish heat if not more than the former as appeareth plainly by the subsequents and so deceived many thousand readers and also would me if I had but only once look'd over Lincolne SECT. IV. Of Heylins Antidotum Lincolniense TO this Holy Table Doctor Heylin tooke no care to provide holy coverings and furnitures nor bossed Bookes guilt Candlestickes Virgin wax-tapers Embroydred hangings carved Rayles pretious Plate no nor so much as a massie Crucifix to pray unto for helpe against this Prelate but seeing his credit lie at stake his Coale extinguished his Altar sore wounded his Learning though weake lie a bleeding and his Religion poysoned hee thinkes it no time to sit playing at Tables with an idle Bishop but presently provides a salve for all these sores which hee called Antidotum Lincolniense but as his Divinitie was gone to travell in strange countreys and was but newly come home weary weake and feeble when he kindled his Coal to warme it so his physique lay asleepe in a warme night-cap and could not suddenly be awaked when he composed his Antidote so that it would neither cure his credit salve his Altars sores selve to expell the poyson of his opinion nor preserve his repute of learning although he graced it with his name in publique thereby bewraying himselfe to be the author of the Coal SECT. V. Of the Author of the Letter and Holy Table c. THat the Bishop of Lincolne was the Author of the Letter to the Vicar of Grantham and Divines of that Lecture though his Secretaries pen might set downe the words is manifest by the premisses in the first Section and that hee was likewise the Author of the Holy Table in defence of the Letter against the Coal from the Altar is not onely probable but plainly manifest and undenyable for although in the Title page and in the license he call him a Lincolneshire Minister and pag. 5. a neighbouring Minister employed in some of the maine passages and pag. 11. one of the Lecturers of Grantham saying Wee met accordingly and perused these Letters c. And pag. 21 and 114. one of the Lecturers that approved of the Letter yet all this proves him not a Lecturer both because he might purposely personate another man whom he was not and also because that by the same reason wee may as well thinke him to be a Countrey Joyner for hee saith Holy Table pag. 45. I that am but a poore Countrey Ioyner can set you up a Table c. and yet hee could not be a Lecturer and Joyner both besides the Lordly stile the Bishoply phrase the Prelaticall disdaine of the Doctor the Chaplin although the Kings his mocking him with a Bishopricke his slight of a Vicaridge his disdaine of the Vicar of that Lecture doe speake him no Lecturer at Grantham his leasure to reade Histories besides English French Italian and Spanish unlikely in a Lecturer his dexteritie in the civill Common and Canon lawes the Lord Keepers office Acts of Parliament Acts of Councell Prerogative Royall Episcopall policy and experience and many such reasons bewray him to be no Lecturer his skill in the tongues not usuall in a Lecturer his Promptitude and readinesse in the Popish Canons Decrees and Decretals his skill in so many severall Masse-bookes and frequent quotation of Masse-mongers his notorious ignorance in understanding and applying the Scriptures as appeares pag. 78. upon Acts 6.2 and his rare quotation of Scriptures the whole Booke I thinke scarce affording five severall Texts among many hundreds of Jesuits Masse-bookes and other Authors frequently quoted in all which regards I appeale to any rationall man whether this can be a Lecturer but above all this wee have himselfe confessing and one confession of the party accused or suspected the Law takes hold of not regarding a hundred denialls for saith hee Holy Table pag. 206. I dare not determine being as you say none of the ablest Canonists in the Church of England here he takes the words as spoken of himselfe which in the Coal from the Altar pag. 50. and quoted Holy Table pag. 54. It is manifest that Heylin speakes it and Lincolne takes it as spoken of the writer of the Letter so that it cannot be denyed but that one man was writer of both and that hee was the Bishop appeares plainly Holy Table pag. 58. saying This Pamphleter whose whole Booke is but a Libell against a Bishop c. Now it is evident that Heylin writ the Coal in answer to the Letter and the Writer thereof therefore the Writer of both Letter and Booke was the Bishop And if this plaine confessing can be shifted off with jugling barbara celarent pag. 64. adieu Grammar and Logicke Mood and Figure and Mood and Tense too and vous avez Doctor Holdsworth who they say corrected it at the Presse and Master Bourn who had the Manuscript and also vous avez the Bishop of Lincolne himselfe who licensed and approved it for Orthodoxal and consonant and subscribed his Name A Preamble to the Tenets BEcause the Prelates are so subtile and politique and so selfe-conceited and to use Lincolnes owne words doe make their owne workes above all humane and equall to the Lawes divine Holy Table pag. 4. and such is the partiality of them that they make their owne case make their owne evidence make their owne law and make their owne authorities and all out of their owne conceits and endeavour what they can to give a faire cause a foule face Holy Tab. pag. 5. so that when wee have that great advantage which Tully speakes of Confitentem reum the guiltie confessing wee can scarce be sure to tie a knot upon a Bishop for he is a slipperie youth as Plaut. in pseudolo Quid cum manifesto tenetur Anguilla est elabitur Holy Table pag. 40. When you thinke sure an Eele is tyed Hee 'l slip the string and not abide So that a man cannot imagine what evidence to provide to give satisfaction to so hautie a companion who Iura negat sibi nata nihil non arrogat armis pag. 5. His native lawes he will deny The Prelats power to deify And because it is possible a Prelate may propose unto himselfe some peevish wrangling waspish humour of his owne in stead of a Canon Holy Table pag. 65. and therefore no Ecclesiasticall Judge whatsoever is to guide himselfe by his owne sense pag. 65. although this Prelate would have his courteous Readers the poore countrey people to swallow many a Gudgeon without so much as champing or chewing on it Holy Table pag. 146. I have therefore proposed before his Tenets to avoyd cavillations and Prelaticall evasions three rules and one compasse which if they were mine owne being reasonable it were as great reason this Prelates Opinions and Tenets should be ruled and squared by them as that Heylin and others should be regulated by and compassed within his rules and compasse But because I would deale with all
themselves doe make 4. Whether doe not Parliaments rather affirme and declare the full consent of the King subjects in such points wherein they doubt what the Law of God is 5. Whether some particulars in Ecclesiasticall jurisdiction which before were doubtfull whether they ought to be by Gods Law obeyed or no may not be confirmed by the full consent of the parties whom they most concerne in Acts of Parliament XXX That whatsoever by the Laws of God the Prince or the Church is once constituted is no longer to be mooted upon but absolutely obeyed by all inferiours And what God the King and Church have directed is not to be put to deliberation but execution Holy Table pag. 66.67 Consid. 1. Whether all the Prelates Canons are constituted by God the Prince or the Church 2. Whether it will suffice that it be constituted by God and the Prince or else by the Church alone without them 3. Whether by the name of Church here be not meant the worst members of the Church the Prelates in Convocation 4. Whether no deliberation is allowed to know whether God hath constituted it or no XXXI That all commands of the King that are not upon the first inference and illation without any prosyllogismes contrary to a cleare passage in the Word of God or to an evident sun-beame of the Law of nature are precisely to be obeyed pag. 68. Consid. 1. Whether a command contrary to the word of God upon the second inference may not be as unlawfull as upon the first 2. VVhether a command which is truely contrary to an obscure passage in the word of God may not be as unlawfull in it selfe as to a cleare XXXII That it is not enough to finde a remote and possible inconvenience that may ensue therefrom which is the ordinary objection against the Booke * of Recreations pag. 68. Consid. 1. Whether Bishop Williams doe not here allow the Booke of Recreations because he admits not the ordinary objection against it XXXIII That every good subject is bound in conscience to believe and rest assured that his Prince environed with such a Counsell will be more able to discover and as ready to prevent any ill sequele that may come of it as himselfe possibly can be Holy Table pag. 68. Consid. 1. Whether is a good subject bound to believe and rest assured that the Councell are such as they should be though they be not and so be bound in conscience to believe a falshood 2. VVhether is a good subject bound in conscience to believe and rest assured upon other mens goodnesse for the safetie of his owne conscience 3. VVhether the Papists doe not so thinke of the Pope and his conclave of Cardinals be they good or bad XXXIV That the Table without some new Canon is not to stand Altarwise and you at the North end thereof but tablewise and you must officiate on the North side of the same by the Lyturgie Holy Table pag. 20. Consid. 1. Whether this doe not imply that by a new Canon it may stand Altar-wise though by the Lyturgie authorised by Parliament it may not 2. VVhether this doe not preferre a Canon before a Statute and the Convocation before the Parliament 3. VVhether this did not give the first hint for the new Canons and lay the first foundation for the late Convocation to make the Canon XXXV That whether the Altars may soone be mounted up by steps that the Minister may be seene and heard of the Congregation I cannot tell you without new directions For the orders made 1561. require plainly that if in any Chancell the steps be transposed they be not erected againe and these were high Commissioners grounded upon the Act of Parliament who set forth these orders Which how farre they binde I dare not determine being as you say none of the ablest Canonists in the Church of England Holy Table pag. 206. Consid. 1. VVhether this doe not intimate that by new directions the Bishops may crosse the orders authorised by Parliament 2. VVhether he doubt how farre orders grounded on Parliament may binde and yet affirme in the next Tenet that the Convocation maketh strong and binding Canons 3. VVhether it be not undenyably manifest here that the writer of the Letter to the Vicar and the writer of the Holy Table are both one man because those words of the ablest Canonists in the Church of England which here he takes to himselfe Doctor Heylin spake onely of the writer of the Letter and so it is plane they are both one man and Holy Table pag. 58. he saith this Pamphleters whole Booke is but a libell against a Bishop but that Booke as Coal from the Altar was written onely against the writer of the Letter therefore both the writer of the Letter and of the Holy Table were both one to wit the Bishop of Lincolne for both in the Title page and in the license it is said to be written by a Minister of Lincolneshire XXXVI That the reverent house of Convocation is not convened or licensed by the King to make permissions that men may doe what they list but to make when they are confirmed by the King strong and binding Canons to be obeyed by the Subjects and to be pursued by all the Ordinaries of the Kingome Holy tab. pag. 205. Consid. 1. Whether it was not a brave world for Prelates to make what Lawes they pleased if they could but get the Kings consent 2. Whether hee doe not aggravate the strength of Canon and arbitrary commands but extenuate the power of Parliaments XXXVII That the Bishop or Ordinary if he command according to the Lawes and Canons confirmed for otherwise he is in his eccentricks and moves not as hee should doe why then in such a case as wee had even now that is a case of diversity doubt and ambiguity hee is punctualy to be obeyed by those of his jurisdiction be they of the Clergie or of the Laitie holy Table pag. 68.69 Consid. 1. Whether the Bishop expecting obedience if hee command according to the Lawes and Canons in cases of doubt and diversity being learned and knowing his grounds may not better shew his grounds and evidence of the lawfulnesse to satisfie the weake consciences then to force obedience against their consciences without any ground XXXVIII That in matters of doubting and ambiguity the inferiour shall be approved of God for his dutie and obedience and never charged as guilty of error for any future inconvenience holy tab. pag. 69. Consid. 1. Whether there be any ground in Scripture to warrant the committing of wilfull and presumptuous sinnes 2. Whether any Scripture teach that men shall be approved of God for sinning against God to please a Bishop and not rather severely punished 3. Whether this doth not bewray Bishops that they seeke more their owne pride and vain-glory then the glory and service of God 4. Whether this doctrine be not divellish and Popoish and cleane contrary to S. Paul who saith
TVVO LOOKS OVER LINCOLNE OR A view of his Holy Table name and thing discovering his erronious and Popish Tenets and Positions And under pretence of defending the cause of Religion shamefully betraying the truth and sincerity thereof A Petition exhibited in all humility to the judgement of the most worthy Defenders of the Truth the Honorable House of COMMONS in PARLIAMENT against the said Booke and especially 51. Tenets therein By R. DEY Minister of the Gospell Holy Scripture containeth all things necessary to salvation so that whatsoever is not read therein nor may be proved thereby is not to be required of any man that it should be believed as an Article of the faith or be thought requisite or necessary to salvation Artic. 6. of the Convocation at London 1562. Acts 24. Verse 14. So worship I the God of my Fathers believing all things which are written in the Law and the Prophets Acts 26.22 Having obtained helpe of God I continue unto this day witnessing both to small and great saying none other things then those which the Prophets and Moses did say should come LONDON Printed in the yeere of Hope 1641. TO THE HONOVRABLE The Knights Citizens and Burgesses of the Commons House in PARLIAMENT now assembled The humble Petition of RICH. DEY Minister shewing that WHereas there hath beene printed and published a Booke entitled The Holy Table Name and Thing c. containing certaine Positions and Tenets of doctrine discipline the worship of God and the Kings power and rights in matters Ecclesiasticall and many of them proved onely by Popish Writers Jesuits and forged Authours and some of them barely asserted which Booke was most probably written but most certainly approved allowed and licensed to be printed and published as most Orthodox in Doctrine and Consonant in Discipline to the Church of England and to set forth the Kings power and rights in matters Ecclesiasticall truly and judiciously by Iohn Williams Bishop of Lincolne That your Honours will be pleased to take the said Book and especially certaine Tenets and Articles thereof hereunto annexed into your grave considerations and that the said Bishop may be put to answer unto the said Booke and Tenets according to the Word of God and the Lawes of this Kingdome the onely rule and prescript of our Religion and the Kings right whether divine or humane And your Petitioner as in duty bound shall ever pray c. The Preface for the Readers intelligence SECTION I. Of the Letter of the Vicar of Grantham WHen as the Prelats were busied and mightily turmoyled in their braines to introduce daily some Innovation or other to set up Popery and to endeavour a reconciliation to Rome it hapned that about the yeere 1627. as appeares Holy Table p. 7. that the Vicar of Grantham in the Dioces of Lincolne being set on by some in authority hol tab. p. 9. perhaps by some of Lauils agents or else by Dr. Heylin one of his Majesties Chaplins began to remove the Communion Table and to place it altarwise whereupon Mr. Wheatley an Alderman and some other townesmen opposed him as having no law nor warrant so to do and the contention thus begun growing hot amongst them it came at last before the Bishop who somewhat pacified the matter beween the Vicar and tovvnesmen and calling the Vicar aside was over-heard to importune him to declare who were his instigators to those innovations which as was conceived he did and the Bishop causing the Vicar with his neighbors to sup there that night said I have supt already upon that you tell mee And if all the bookes I have be able to doe it I will find some satisfaction for my selfe and you in all these particulars before I goe this night to bed And I will provide a letter as written to you M. Alderman to shew to your Brethren and some notes to be delivered to the Divines of the lecture at Grantham And both these if the fault be not in my servant shall be ready by seven a clock in the morning h. tab. p. 9. The Bishop and his Secretary sitting up most of that night in his study and his Secretary fetching up the Booke of Martyrs and borrowing from the Parish Church B Iewels Works And in the morning as the Bishop promised over night between 7 and 8. of the clock was delivered to the Alderman a letter sealed up The forme whereof you may see ho tab. p. 10. And at the same time there was delivered also by the Secretary a sheet of paper closed up to be conveyed to the Divines of the Lecture of Grantham upon their next meeting-day with direction from his Secretary that if they approved of them to impart them to the Vicar to give him satisfaction which they did Now the true copy of these notes or letter though neither subscribed nor superscribed yet as appeares by the premisses and the contents thereof indited and framed by the Bishop though penned by the Secretary is expressed in Holy Table pag. 12. SECT. II. Of the Coal from the Altar IN answer to this Letter which belike the Vicar imparted perhaps in excuse of his desisting his former Innovations and resting now satisfied with this to him who probably was his first inciter to those proceedings Dr. Heylin an intimate friend of his whom the Vicar miserably mistooke for a judicious Divine there was published a vaporous and smoakie piece of worke called A Coal from the Altar which though it was kindled from some Smithfield-faggots in Q. Marys dayes and tended to the same purpose if it had found fuell enough to have kept it alive yet consisting of ignorance misquotations and bad wrestings of good Authours more than of any pure ignean Element it flamed not as the Colliers intended it SECT. III. Of the Holy Table Name and Thing THis Coal was luckily though unlikely quenched not by holy water but with holy wood a new kind of miracle for the holy Table Name and Thing falling flat and heavie upon it smothered it in it's owne smoake or rather the Bishop of Lincolnes Crosier that Episcopall instrument made of an Altar-raile did so bastinado and batterfang Dr. Heylins coal that it broke the Coal to cinders metamorphosed the holy Altar into an holy Table name and thing in appearance yet an holy Altar still in reverence adoration place and situation and which is yet more miraculous did not quench the Romish fire of the coal but rather by a politique dexterity transubstantiate or rather pseudangelically transforme the fire of the coal into a more modificated fire though no lesse penetrating and more spreading for the Coal comming in blustring and sparkling like an old fashioned Divel with a Romish Altar in the front for all his heat was likely to meet with some greâ—n wood which would not admit the fire at first view but the holy Table comming like a disguised spirit though alike Babylonian under pretence of the holy wood and sweet fuel would dry the green logs and by
unto God in his behalfe pag. 135. see 132. Consid 1. Whether all men are camels and oaks beasts and blocks that will not bow and make adoration not to Christ but to the Ministers prayer XXII That here in England this worse conclusion of the Doctors to desire to sit at the Communion is more to be feared from the opposers of our Lyturgie who brag of their cousinship and coheireship with Christ then from us who are ready to live and die in defence of the same pag. 149. Consid. 1. Whether this Orthodox Prelate doe quake for feare lest people sit at the Communion and yet confesse himselfe that the Apostles used a table gesture Holy tab. p. 132. 2. Whether the Bishops hold their Miters in tenure of a service-Service-booke that they will live and die in defence of the same XXIII That it was well done by the reformed Church in Poland first by monitions in the yeere 1573 and then by Sanctions in the yeere 1583. ne in usu sit that the usuall receiving of the Communion in those parts should not be by sitting round about the table pag. 133.136 Consid 1. Whether Bishop Williams was then a privy Councellor of Poland to know all their circumstances whether they did well or ill 2. Whether he have ground in Scripture to prove that they did well that did either directly against the institution or against their owne consciences inforcing weake consciences in a thing at the most but indifferent 3. Whether they did well to goe beyond Rome it selfe which as this Bishop confesseth did not absolutely condemne this Ceremony of sitting Holy table p. 133. XXIV That it hath beene alwayes as the practice so the doctrine of this Kingdome that both in every part and in the whole Lawes doe not make Kings but Kings Lawes which they alter and change from time to time as they see occasion pag 31. XXV That the Kings of England have a power from God himselfe not only to make laws but to alter and change laws from time to time for the good of themselves and their subjects ho tab. p. 41. Consid. 1. Whether it be not manifest in the holy table that he speakes this of the Kings power to make and change lawes absolutely without expressing in or with the Parliament 2. Whether hee thinkes it needfull for Bils propounded by the King to passe the upper and lower House or that the Regall power absolute is as sufficient of it selfe to make and change Lawes or that the priviledges of the Houses being necessarily requisite to passing Bils be any encroachment upon the Regall power Jure Divino or any wrong unto the supreme Majesty 3. Whom doth hee thinke must be judge what is good for them and their Subjects 4. Whether hee thinke the honourable House of Commons may not justly take these things into serious consideration though another man dare not meddle with so stout a Prelate XXVI That the power in matters Ecclesiasticall is such a Fee-simple as was vested in none but God himselfe before it came by his and his onely donation to be vested in the King and being vested in the King it cannot by any power whatsoever no not by his owne be devested from him ho tab. p. 24. Consid. 1. Whether doth he thinke that the Parliament hath no power at all in matters Ecclesiasticall but that the same power was in the King absolutely before the Parliament made the Statute of primo Elizab. as it was after as his former words seeme to affirme if it was what needed that or any Act to be passed but an arbitrary government if not in all things yet at least in all matters Ecclesiasticall which is the onely desire of the Prelates whereby they by flatteries and insinuations may doe what they list 2. Whether doth not this deny the King himselfe to have power to invest his sonne and heire in part or in whole of his power if he please as some Kings have done and as David did 3. Whether doth not this tenet deny the Kings power to be devested from him to his officers for execution of his Lawes seeing it tyes all so upon his owne person that it seemes to deny him power to unburthen himselfe 4. Whether doth not this deny the King to have power to make Acts of Parliament in matters Ecclesiasticall because in such Acts the King obliges himselfe to that Law or whether doth not this tenet nullifie all such Lawes ipso facto if the Kings power cannot by himselfe be devested from him XXVII That the Kings Declaration is therefore in the letter called a kind of Law because it was neither act of Parliament nor a meere Act of Councell but an Act of the King sitting in Councell which if not in all things else without all question in all matters Ecclesiasticall is a kinde of Law Holy tab. p. 188. Consid. 1. Whether the Prelates could not wish there were no other kinde of Law neither Acts of Parliaments nor Acts of Councell but meere Declarations and those onely by their owne directions as in all things else so especially in all matters Ecclesiasticall 2. Whether the Prelates have not laboured to reduce all kindes of Law to an arbitrary government XXVIII That the Kings Majestie may command a greater matter of this nature then that the holy Table should be placed where the Altar stood and be railed about for the great decencie and that although the Statute of primo Eliz. had never beene in rerum natura pag. 32. Consid. 1. Whether the Prelates have not alwayes perswaded that the greatest affaires of Church and State might be mannaged and performed not onely by meere commands without but contrary to Acts of Parliament 2. Whether Bishop Williams doe not prove elsewhere that railes and Altar-wise placing are directly contrary to Lawes and Acts of Parliament 3. Whether a subject is not guilty of laesae Majestatis that by flattery betrayes the Kings judgement into the manifest breach of the Lawes established XXIX That the Act of primo Eliz. concerning Ecclesiasticall jurisdiction was not a Statute introductory of a new Law but declaratorie of the old Parliaments are not called to confirme but to affirme and declare the Lawes of God Weake and doubtfull titles are to be confirmed such cleare and indubitate rights as his Majestie hath to the Ecclesiasticall jurisdiction are onely averred and declared by Acts of Parliament And all Declarations of this kind are as the stuffe they are made of to last for ever pag. 25. Consid. 1. Whether every part or parcell of Ecclesiasticall jurisdiction be perpetuall because the whole is such so that Parliaments cannot change them 2. Whether the High Commission is therefore to last for ever contrary to the same authoritie that stablished it first 3. Whether this tenet doe not deny the power and priviledge of Parliaments if all Ecclesiasticall Lawes so once declared are to last for ever to please the Prelates so that the Parliament cannot repeale the Statutes
holy Table pag. 79. Consid. 1. Whether the Antients were not as farre from making a Bishop a stickler in Parliaments 2. Whether besides the bare name of Priests they have not likewise the name office and power of Deacons and so have all the power that Bishop Williams for want of good memory denies to the Priests and gives to the Deacons 3. Whether the Priests make Deacons and Deacons make Priests and whether this be not a brave riddle indeed like Mater me genuit quae eadem mox gignitur ex me XLIX That in old time as one observes they were not borne but made Christians made by long and wearisome steps and degrees and forced to creepe on with time and leasure to the bosome of the Church pag. 117. Consid. 1. Whether this old time was so old as the Apostles time when there were converted and baptized three thousand on a day rather for their faith than for their long steps and time 2. Whether Christians are made by long steps and wearisome rather then by their new birth and faith 3. Whether unbelievers may not by time and leasure come to the bosome of the Church and true believers be kept out for a long time 4. Whether this doe not savour of Anabaptisme L. That the children of this Church be those in the writers stile that will give eare to the voye and Canons of this Church the children of this Commonwealth are such as obey the wholsome Lawes and reiglement of this State and Kingdome But base sycophants that sleight the Canons of their Bishops and undertake to refute the reiglement of their Princes though they hope by flattery to prey upon either are as the writer thinkes no true children of the one or the other Holy tab. pag. 191. Consid. 1. Whether an eare to the Canons of Bishops rather then an heart to believe the Gospel doth make true Children of this Chruch 2. Whether all are base sycophants and no true children of the Church that sleight the Canons of their Bishops 3. Whether doe any hope by flattery to prey upon Church or Common-wealth more then Bishops LI. That the irregular forwardnesse of the people in taking downe Altars in King Edward the sixth dayes the writer of the Letter doth no more approve of then I the writer of the Holy Table doe of your stickling in this sort for table-altars upon pretence of the piety of the times and runing before the declaration of your Prince and the chiefe Governours of the Church Holy Table p. 188. Consid 1. Whether doth the writer of the Letter disapprove of peoples forwardnesse to take downe Altars in King Edwards time or the writer of the holy table approve of the Arminians stickling for table altars for one it must needs imply 2. Whether did Bishop Williams expect or advise a declaration of the King and chiefe Governours of the Church for such purposes 3. Whether did not Bish. Williams in three severall places viz. tenet 34.35 and in this 51. lay a foundation for the new Canons of the last convocation Generall Notes 1. How well hee defended the cause of Religion Now let any indifferent man judge that doth well weigh these tenets and the authors whence he proves them whether hee defend the cause of Religion as he by the title pretends when as in all things for matter of Idolatrous worship and bowing for innovations for Prelats power over other Ministers for making new Canons and Declarations for forcing obedience to them for subtile policies to introduce common and frequent new appellations by metaphoricall excuses for teaching them to load all their innovating trumperies upon the Kings power and prerogative it is manifest that hee yeelds more than the others did demand hee tells them that which they did not understand he teaches them the way to effectuate their designes hee layes the plot for their further proceedings For instance among many things Heylin desires the table may stand Eastward the Papists say if the building permit but Lincolne sayes yea though it will not hee allowes not Bellarmines exception h. table p. 230. or tenet 9. The Vicar would call it an altar to his parishioners in his ordinary talke the Bishop denyes not but that the name hath beene long metaphorically in the Church and so he 'l not blame the Vicar to call it not only frequent in his talke but even in the Pulpit holy table p. 75. or tenet 7. Heylin cannot ascend to discourse of the altar without bowing Lincolne sayes let him bow as often as he pleaseth so he do it to this blessed name c. Nay more let the very women that refuse to bow be as Donatists thrust out of the Calendar of this Churches children c. Nay more yet their bowing shal not serve the turn except they make a lowly courtesie Nay more than all this I hope hee 'l have cringing enough at last such a lowly courtesie as hath beene accustomed holy table p. 99.100 and tenet 16. the Vicar would bow to the name of Jesus hol table pag. 13. Lincolne will not only practice bowing himselfe but also intaile it upon our posteritie tenet 13. holy table p. 101. The Vicar and Heylin would faine use the appellation of second service yea that you may saith Lincolne and justifie it too by regall authority out of the booke of Fast. 1. of the King holy table pag. 15. ten 11. Heylin believes that by vertue of the Statute 1. Elizab. c. 2. the Kings Majestie may command the table to stand altarwise or any way to please the Doctor and to be railed about too holy table p. 23. but Lincolne is a little bolder than Heylin who durst but onely wrest Lawes not overthrow fundamentalls alas man saith hee you come short you write nothing like a Prelaticall Divine you deserve but a simple fee you are but a bungler and slubber it up like a base Coal you animal I tell thee the Kings power in matters Ecclesiasticall cannot by any power whatsoever no not by his owne be devested from him you speake most derogatorily to his Majesties right and prerogative that that Statute of 1. Elizab. was a confirmative of the old Law it was but declarative and all such declarations for the good of the Prelates and upholding the miters are to last for ever they are no Ionahs gourds to serve a turne or two and so expire for then Bishops were undone and therefore Master Coal I shall yeeld that the Kings Majesty may command a greater matter than that the table should stand where the Altar stood and be railed about what though the Statute confirming the Service-booke be flat against it hee may doe this and more though the Statute of primo Eliz. had never beene made For Stephen Gardiner an honest Prelate who burned up the puritanes whom wee Bishops may follow and belieye saith that by their calling King Henry the eighth the head of the Church a title of Christ Col. 1. their will was to
forth by Cardinal Sirlet And here pax omnibus is reiterated at least nine or ten times and S. Marke if wee may believe Lincolne enjoynes them to pray pro Rege Papa Episcopo for the King the Pope and the Bishop and againe he mentions beatissimum pontificem N. reverendissimum episcopuÌ„ the most blessed Pope the most reverend Bishop and prayes for all Bishops Priests Deacons sub-Deacons Readers Singing-men and Laymen and he calls the Altar Sanctum coeleste rationale altare the holy heavenly and reasonable altar and enjoynes to pray for the City saying prolege civitatem istam propter martyrem Euangelistam Mareum Protect this City for thy Martyr Euangelist S. Mark his sake and these are Saint Marke his owne words we never question what Lincolne sayes and againe the Deacon reads the Diptychs or holy Tables containing a catalogue of the dead and the Priest bowing prayes for them saying Horum omnium animabus dona requiem dominator Domine Deus noster give rest O Lord God our governour to the soules of all these and againe animabus patrum fratrum nostrorum dona requiem memor maiorum nostrorum patriarcharum Prophetarum Apostolorum martyrum Confessorum Episcoporion sancti iusti c. sancti patris nostri Marci Apostoli Euangelistae and give rest to the soules of our fathers and brethren remembring our forefathers the Patriarchs Prophets Apostles Martyrs Confessors Bishops Saints just men c. and our holy father Saint Marke the Apostle and Euangelist c. Now all these must needs be Saint Markes words for Lincolnes ipse dixit whose words are all demonstrations and therefore never distrust him but take at it all adventures His fourth Masse is Saint Ambrose Lyturgie pag. 275. which he saith and you may believe him all the world not an old horse excepted knowes to be very ancient t is wonder he derives not its pedigree like Episcopacy from Adam but he saith enough and we must take his word witâ—out any more adoe His fifth Masse is Saint Basils Lyturgie which as the former was of great antiquitie so this is of as great authority and must needes be some Gospel-like piece for he musters it up to defend his cause no lesse than sixe or seven times as holy tab. p. 178 193.196.211.214.234 wherein it appeares how exactly he conned these mass-masse-bookes and had them ad unguem ready even to words and syllables The sixth Masse hee makes use of is Saint Chrysostomes Lyturgie as he calls it though all the world know that hee was more frequent in the Pulpit than in the reading pew and more laborious in sermons then Masse-bookes as his sweete Sermons yet extant taken by ready writers from his owne mouth in the pulpit Socrates Eccles. hist. lib. 6. cap. 5. doe declare him a gold-mouthed preacher yet Lincolne quotes this Lyturgie as if it were Chrysostomes indeed though it make mention of Chrysostome himselfe no lesse than eight times as in p. 99.100.174.178.193.196.214.234 His seventh Masse or Lyturgie is that of the Patriarch Severus set forth in siriack and latine by Guido Fabritius this he brings in ho tab. pag. 196. His eighth Lyturgie is the Aethiopian which he rouzes up from a dead sleepe to help him twice h. tab. p. 178.196 His ninâ—h is the Mozarabick Liturgie likewise twice brought in to wit p. 37. and 232. so that these nine masses or Lyturgies like nine worthies or invincible Champions he musters up no lesse than thirtie times stuffing the margine with such like Authors thereby bringing an English reader into a good opinion of Masses and Lyturgies and drawing him to thinke that if these Apostles Fathers were not their Authors such a learned bishop would be ashamed to cite them in their names but he doth more than that for when these doe not serve his turne he makes use of Pope Pius quintus new missall as p. 35. and if this faile the maine authority bee relies upon is the Romane Pontificall h. tab. p. 220. and p. 197. so that he will never want authors to his purpose so long as any Friers and Monks of Italy France and Spaine who have nought else to doe can but forge any pamphlet on the Fathers Note 4. How he respecteth popish Writers and how the Protestants And as his principall grounds lye upon Popish Authority and his chiefe strength consists in Jesuites and Schoolmen and Masse-bookes so he cannot but respect those to whom he is so much ingaged and therfore it is no wonder to heare him call Lindwood our learned glâ—sâ—â—t holy Table page 178. and Austin the blacke Monke of Canterburie the Apostle of the Saxons page 223. Gratian the Father of all the Canonists page 65. other Papists learned Pontifician writers page 218. Rome and Constantinople the two great Mother Churches of the world page 224. Nay that impe of Satans subtilty Julian the Apostate he termes a witty Prince page 157. And those that follow the popish Schoole men judicious Divines pag. 74. but contrariwise those that embrace the onely Word of God hee calls professed Puritanes pag. 74 and nothing but puritane pag. 191. and downe-right puritanes p. 189. and sectarie or puritane pag. 138. and Knave puritane pag. 139. and puritanes in France pag. 77. and these are his generall termes and hee uses particular persons no better Calvin is but a polypragmon or busie-body pag. 144. and pragmatically zealous pag. 145. an active man 147. And Beza hopes or else his heart would burst pag. 78. Aynsworth and Broughton are derided pag. 128. Master Cotton is but a foolish Vicar of Boston pag. 70. and Master Moulin is never termed otherwise than Mounsieur Moulin pag. 196. which though it be his native title in his owne Countrey yet in English it sounds with as much grace as if we should call the Bishop of Lincolne Shon ap Willom which if hee should never be otherwise called would not be much for his credit and as these persons so assemblies hee preferres the Prelaticall Convocation before the Parliament at least twice pag. 24. and 35. which agrees with what hee sayes of their authorities tenet 35. and 36. compared and layes the foundation for the late Convocation in three severall places as appeares tenet 34. of a new Canon and 35. of new directions and 51. of declaration of the Prince and chiefe goverenours of the Church so that it is hereby evident what manner of man hee is the consideration whereof moved me though before I respected no Clergie-man in England more than hee and though neither he nor any of his ever did mee in particular any wrong to exasperate mee against him and though I might rather have petitioned in respect of personall injuries and sufferings for a good cause against one of Canterburies Chaplaines who heavily afflicted mee in the Universitie the cause whereof he could not declare unlesse it were for not cringing to the altar or against Londons Officers who have injuriously wronged mee of my living unto which I was entituled by ordination yet disgesting mine owne injuries I have rather become an humble supplicant to the Honourable Court of Parliament in behalfe of the truth and doctrine of Christ beseeching them to defend both it and mee and if any man make a doubt of what hath beene said let him seriously as I have done twice cast a third looke over Lincolne The Nicene Creed or Faith was found to be a true Faith by the Truth it selfe and plaine testimonies of holy Scripture Constant. mag. Epist. ad Eccles. Alexand. Socrat. hist. lib. 1. cap. 6. FINIS Errata GEntle Reader to avoyd titubations correct these errors with a pen before you reade the Booke in some bookes for fol. 8. is set downe 4. for fo. 9. there is 5. for fo. 12. there is 8. for fo. 13. there is 9. and for fol. 15. there is none at all In tenet 22. for p. 139. there is 149. In tenet 23. for 136. see 133. there is 133 136. In the 19. tenet Consid. 3. for second thoughts there is counter-thoughts if any other faults appeare I desire thy Christian charity * Lincolns Legacie * {non-Roman} {non-Roman} {non-Roman} {non-Roman} {non-Roman} * Lincolnes â—â—â—reations