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A09291	Th'appellation of Iohn Penri, vnto the highe court of Parliament from the bad and iniurious dealing of th'Archb. of Canterb. & other his colleagues of the high commission: wherin the complainant, humbly submitting himselfe and his cause vnto the determination of this honorable assembly: craueth nothing els, but either release from trouble and persecution, or just tryall.; Appellation of John Penri, unto the highe court of Parliament.	Penry, John, 1559-1593.	1589 (1589)	STC 19602; ESTC S101168	33,056	58

charge for maintaining the trueth in asmuch as the Bishopps them selues in their allowed translation of the great Bible vppon the fore aleaged place of Act. 17. haue giuen this note namely That the common and vsuall weapons which the wicked vse against the members of Christ are treason and sedition Their wicked slander against al that seeke the reformation of our church and particularly against me haue verified the truth of this doctrine for assoone as any shewe their dislike of these corruptions with a desire to see Christ bearing sway in the church of England by his owne lawes they presently exclaime that these are the men which subuert the state of the Realm and that gainsay the decrees of her maiestie affirming that there is an other Soueraigne whose alone lawes must be harkened vnto and whose alone offices are to be allowed of in the gouernment of the church and that is Christ Iesus th'eternall sonne of the liuing God in deed if to defend the prerogatiue which he ought to haue in appointing th'officers gouernors of his church be sedition and treason I doe confesse in deed that after the way which they cal sedition and treason so serue I the God of my fathers But this is non other treason then that where vnto our Sauiour Christ and his apostles before me haue giuen their hands and consented and none other treason then that wherevpon all Kings and Queenes do firmly lay the foundation of their royall crownes and Scepters And therefore ye of the parliament ought to be so farr from being mooued with these shamefull reportes nowe raised by our Bishops against Christ Iesus against his trueth and his members as ye should not permitt such profane mouthes that presume in this sort to whette their tongues against heauen and him that sitteth therein to escape vnpunnished The forgers of these palpable vntruethes confesse themselues that Treason and Sedition are th'ordinarie weapons of the wicked against the members of Christe which in deede hath bene th'armour wherewith the diuell in all ages hath furnished his champions against the truth And I cannot blame our Bishops for being skilfull in this accusation seeing so many of their predecessors haue in the like cause troaden the like path before them Amos no sooner began to vtter the trueth in Bethel but Amasiah the high priest there presently smelled out his dangerous attempts And therefore like a good subiect in the singular good will he bare vnto his Soueraigne Lord Ieroboam the sonne of Ioash king of Israel he waded farther into the matter and at length found Amos his treason and sedition to be so intollerable as the Land was no longer able to beare it Especially seeing th'enterprises of the prophet were taken in hand even in the middest of the kingdome to stir vp the subiects to innouation in regard whereof the high priest sawe him selfe bound in conscience to send Ieroboam this message Amos hath conspired against thee in the middest of the house of Israel the land is not able to beare his words for he hath openly spoken that which the Lord hath put into his mouth The like treachery in the place before set down did the priests and the prophets finde in Jeremiah yea and such is the care which the lims of Sathan haue of the ciuil maiestrate that rather then kings and princes should be honored with the maintenance of a perfect building of Gods church they can presently finde no lesse then sedition and treason in their purposes that indeuoure to further that worke When Jerusalem began to be reedified in the daies of Artaxerxes the men beyond the riuer knew well enough that the building of Gods church and th'establishing of his true seruice amongst men is straight way a wicked and a rebellious enterprise For which cause they sent word vnto the king that if Jerusalem a city rebellious and wicked should be once built the kings tribute thereby should be diminished and because they had bin brought vp in the kings court and that it was not meet for them to see the kings dishonor they sent him word that if hee would search the booke of the Chronicles of his father he shoulde finde the true Churche of God to haue bene alwaies rebellious noisome vnto kings and princes and to haue mooued seditions of olde for which cause also it had bene destroyed And further they certified him that if he would suffer the church to be reedified by that meanes the portion beyond the riuer should not be his Nor long after this time Nehemias with the Elders of the Iewes strengthened their hands to finish the building of Ierusalem What saith Sanballat and Tobiah a seruant what a thing is this you doe will you rebell against the King As if the building of Gods church could not chuse but be a rebellious interprise You see by these examples right honorable that it is the lotte of Gods seruants to be accounted seditious men and traitors vnto princes and states whensoeuer they doe but set their faces towards the building of the Lords house and you see apparantly by these testimonies that it is no newe found slaunder which the high commissioners haue forged against me but an auncient quarrell of the Diuell in all ages and times against Gods trueth Which may be the better manifested if you doe consider if either they can alleadge no reason of their accusation or the same if they do shewe any is because I afforad my bounden seruice vnto the trueth For th●se are infallible markes whereby awicked enemy of the trueth and a slaunderer of the members of Christ may be knowne namely that either he can yeald no reason of his slaunder because he thinketh it sufficient for him in that cause to inuent an vntrueth without any proofe or his reason shalbe because the seruants of God doe faithfully employ them selues in the seruice of their maister Rheum and Geshem accused Ierusalem of rebelliō so did Sanballat accuse Nehemias and the Elders of the Iewes But how prooued they their accusations They neede not to labour that way because they slaundered the church of God and the true members thereof against whome for the mo●t part a slaunder without proofe wil be in steed of a thousand witnesses Ieremiah was accounted worthie to die by the prists and prophets in his time and what was their reason Why say they he hath prophesied in the name of the Lord saying This City shalbe made desolate without an inhabitant Lo heer my Ll. the infalliable markes of the slaunders and enemies of Gods children and where you finde these marks giue judgment accordingly Nowe may it please your honors to demaund of the high commission why they account me to be a disturber of the peace of our church and a seditious person Either they wil think them selues not bound to giue any reason of their accusation because against those that seeke the wealth of Ierusalem any vntrueth wilbe admitted or their

nor just trial at their hands I can hope for nether of these from them For they haue wholly vowed them selues with all their might and maine to slaunder assaile resist and hinder the cause of Gods honor the saluation of his church in the defence whereof farbeit but I should spend my bloud as by the grace of God I will when I am thereunto necessarily called wherefore except ether mine aduersaries which I hartily wish would leaue the smothering of the trueth and the vnjust defence of their intollerable corruptions or that I should surcease which I trust shal neuer come to passe mine indeuours to haue the Gospel planted in my country and the house of God cleansed from pollution I can look for nothing else but al extremities at their hands Heereby also it is manifest that these men wil be so far from graunting me either any release from their tirannous Persecution or yet equity of judgment as they cannot possibly yeeld either of the twoe without the dangerous inpairing of their own state My course by the assistance of God I meane not to alter The cause of my poore country I mean to respect as long as I liue and neuer meane to giue ouer the discouering of those wicked men who in this cleare light of the Gospel detaine the trueth in vnrighteousnes If I may haue rather if Christ Iesus may haue justice against them I haue lately prooued vnto you that not one of these men I meane Lord bishops and whosoeuer depend vppon them ought to be maintained within these domminions Nowe seeing both the obtaining and also the solliciting of this suite must needs be joyned with the impairing of the Archbishop of Canterburies estate the rest in commission with him who sitt in these vnlawful chaires of Lord bishops or any wise depend vppon them how can they without their owne irrecouerable losse administer justice or graunt quietnes vnto me Doe they meane to yeeld vnto the knowne trueth and to giue ouer their places Why then am I molested by them Doe they meane to be stil the men which hytherto they haue bene that is enemies vnto Christs holy discipline and gouernement Then cannot they possibly affoard me any vpright triall For if they should the church of God would be soone disburdened of them And in wisedom they cannot let me go on quietly in my course for the more the trueth is opened the neerer are they to their fall My cause being thus what may be saide of the parliament if I be not releeued by your meanes in my most equal most reasonable and most christian suite Yea but seeing mine aduersaries are so mighty as they are knowne to be and this suite so vnl●kely to preuaile against them in our dayes were it not better forme to let them runn on in their wickednes then thus to striue to mine owne hinderance and extreame peril in a gainlesse enterprise And what calling haue I to deale in this cause That is it I knowe that the Diuel would haue euen to be lett alone and permitted quietly to cary all before him at his owne pleasure without any controlement As though the stones of the street had not a sufficient calling to gainsay the wickednesse of men when the seruants of God are tongtied And either it must be said that sinne at some age and time hath a commission to goe vncontroled or that the meanest in Gods church may speake in the behalfe of Gods honor when other men are silent at the treading thereof vnder foote The general desolution then and the oppression of Gods church in my country joyned with the deepe silence of all other men doe make it lawful and warrantable for me to seeke the ouerthrowe of Sathans kingdome not withstanding that I acknowledg my selfe euery way vnfit for so greate aworke And if it should please the Lord to stir vp any of place and guifts to deale in the cause I would soone set my hand vppon my mouth and be silent But I hope that the Archbishop and his bretheren are not growne to that passe as they will take the liberty to continue in vnlawful callings and to molest those that gainsay the badd course because they see not what calling any one man can haue to finde fault with their proceedings And I hope that you of the parliament considering the equity of my suit wil vonchsafe me the hearing in so reasonable a petition Consider the matter which way you wil and you shal find mine Appellation on all parts to be just but especially in regard of the proceedings of mine aduersaries The consideration whereof is not to be ouerpassed by the parliament if any portion of the equitie and justice sometimes florishing in that assembly benowd therein remaining Their vnlawful proceedings appeare first in that they assume vnto them selues the hearing of those causes wherein by vertue of their cōmission they haue no warrant to deale whereat the parliament cannot winke vnlesse they would suffer an Anarchie to take roote in our state This they doe in a double sort For first as before hath bene set downe they lay treason to my charge and therefore send for me by their pursiuants What hath the high commission to doe with men suspected of treason Is the place at Lambeth now become the palor where traitors should be araigned The Archbishop of Canterbury the bishops of London Winchester Doctor Cosin c. nowe become judges in those causes Whether they incurr not the danger of lawe by entering into such matters as are not within the compasse of their commission you of this honorable assembly are best able to judge The trueth is that the Archbishop his associates when I was examined before them in the 29. yeare of her maiesties raigne enforced me to cleare my selfe vppon mine oath of the treason which they gaue out to be contained in the 40. page of my booke at that time written vnto the parliament Tollerate this course and what parloure or chamber may there be so priuate wherein the Archbishop and his assistants wil not arraigne their seditious traitors as they faulsay account them Secondly they presume to determine of those suites the hearing whereof are referred vnto the higher courts and ought not to be vsurped vppon by inferiors vntil the higher councels haue declared that they will not determine of them In this point I had triall of their dealing the last parliament At which time they presumed contrary vnto right and lawful custome and to the infringing of the auncient liberties of this noble house to arrogate vnto them selues the determining and finall ending of that suite wherein I moued the parliament and not the high comission And they wrongfully imprisoned me in the time of the parliament for becomming a suiter even in the cause of God vnto that assembly whereas by the priuiledges of this high counsel I was not to be molested by any during your session but only by your honors vnto whom I became a peticioner