Sanctions Then it was first That Burton in a seditious Sermon compared that excellent Prince to Julian and his Chapel to Julian's Altar And tells the same storie of Maris Bishop of Chalcedon who called Julian Atheist and Apostate to his face as our Author hath done in print That Male-content having been admitted to the Kings Chappel for a while and defeated of a Bishoprick to which he aspired turned Apostate and defamed the whole Order as Antichristian He had served that excellent Prince in his Closer and missing of the Preferment in the Court for his turbulency being banished thence he began to court the People and sought it in the Camp not being ashamed to profess himself an old out-cast Courtier worn our of favour and Friends there which was the reason that he became a Professed enemy both to King and Court Then it was that he made his Pulpit a Drum to beat up for Sedition and War Prynne Bastwick Leyton and many others took the Alarm and dipping their Pens in Gall made way for the Sword that glutted it self with so much bloud He presumes to dedicate his Seditious Harangues as so many Fire-brands to the Houses of Parliament where finding too much combustible matter he made such a flame as warmed him a little but made a general conflagration through the three Kingdoms Had it not been much better that two or three such Boutefeus had suffered according to their deserts than that the whole Nation should fall a Sacrifice to those Idols of a Seditious party There wanted not then good Laws against such disturbers of the publick peace The Statute of Westm the first provided That no man should publish or tell any false News whereby discord or occasion of discord or slander may grow between the King and his People or Nobles And a Statute was made the second of Richard 2. ch 5 for punishing counterfeiters of false news and lyes of Prelates Earls Dukes c. of things which by them were never spoken to the slander of the Prelates c. And the punishment was left to the discretion of the King and Council And old Bracton records this ancient usage Si quis Machinatus fuerit vel aliquid fecerit c. If any one shall contrive or do any thing against the life of the King or to make Sedition in his Army or shall give consent or counsel thereto although they effect not the mischief which they designed he shall be guilty of Treason And accordingly one John Bonnet a Wool-man was drawn and hanged for scattering seditious Libels in London In the 4th year of Hen. 5. as Stow relates Sir William Stanly a person of great valour was condemned and executed as a Traitor for saying less than our Author doth That if he thought Perkin Warbeck to be the undoubted Son of Edward the 4th he would never bear Arms against him And in the 9th year of H. 7. Bagnal Scot Heath and Kennington who had taken Sanctuary in St. Martins le grand were taken out and three of them executed for forging Seditious Bills to the slander of the King and Council The like proceedings were made against Barrow Greenwood Penry Vdal and many others who were condemned and some of them executed for the like Seditious Writings against Queen Eliz. and her Government concerning which I shall present to our Authors Her Majesties Proclamation By the QUEEN A Proclamation against certain Seditious and Schismatical Books and Libels c. THE Queens most Excellent Majesty considering how within these few years past and now of late certain seditious evil-disposed persons towards her Majesty and the Government established for causes Ecclesiastical within her Majesties Dominions have devised written printed or caused to be seditiously and secretly published dispersed sundry schismatical and seditious Books diffamatory Libels and other phanatical Writings amongst her Majesties Subjects containing in them Doctrine very erroneous and other matters notoriously untrue and slanderous to the State and against the godly reformation of Religion and Government Ecclesiastical established by Law and so quietly of long time continued and also against the persons of Bishops and others placed in authority Ecclesiastical under her Highness by her authority in railing sort and beyond the bounds of all good humanity All which Books Libels and Writings tend by their scope to perswade and bring in a monstrous and apparent dangerous Innovation within her Dominions and Countries of all manner of Ecclesiastical Government now in use and to the abridging or rather to the overthrow of her Highness lawful Prerogative allowed by Gods Law and established by the Laws of the Realm and consequently to reverse dissolve and set at liberty the present Government of the Church and to make a dangerous change of the form of Doctrine and use of Divine Service of God and the Ministration of the Sacraments now also in use with a rash and malicious purpose also to dissolve the Estate of the Prelacy being one of the three ancient Estates of this Realm under her Highness whereof her Majesty mindeth to have such a reverend regard as to their places in the Church and Commonwealth appertaineth All which said lewd and seditious practices do directly tend to the manifest wilful breach of great number of good Laws and Statutes of this Realm inconveniencies nothing regarded by such Innovations In consideration whereof her Highness graciously minding to provide some good and speedy Remedy to withstand such notable dangerous and ungodly Attempts and for that purpose to have such enormous Malefactors discovered and condignly punished doth signifie this her Highness misliking and indignation of such dangerous and wicked Enterprizes and for that purpose doth hereby will and also straightly charge and command that all persons whatsoever within any her Majesties Realms and Dominions who have or hereafter shall have any of the said seditious Books Pamphlets Libels or Writings or any of like nature already published or hereafter to be published in his or their custody containing such matters as above are mentioned against the present Order and Government of the Church of England or the lawful Ministers thereof or against the Rites and Ceremonies used in the Church and allowed by the Laws of the Realm That they and every of them do presently after with convenient speed bring in and deliver up the same unto the Ordinary of the Diocess or of the place where they inhabit to the intent they may be utterly defaced by the said Ordinary or otherwise used by them And that from henceforth no person or persons whatsoever be so hardy as to write contrive print or cause to be published or distributed or to keep any of the same or any other Books Libels or Writings of like nature and quality contrary to the true meaning and intent of this her Majesties Proclamation And likewise that no man hereafter give any instruction direction favour or assistance to the contriving writing printing publishing or dispersing of the same or such like
the Professors of the true Religion again as if they had once done it already to Slaughters Fire Faggots Tortures Inquisitions and Massacres When the Bishops and Loyal partie were they who suffer'd these or as great tortures as these for their Religion and Loyaltie from the irreligious and Rebelpartie But to undeceive the multitude let them consider by what arts a new War is contrived As 1. By slandering all such as oppose the Association and popular torrent of Sedition and Rebellion as p. 27. of Preface that the number of Addressers may be reduced to the Duke's Pensioners and Creatures That the Addresses have been obtained by application and the design was to make voices for the discontinuance of Parliaments and for a Popish Successor That such as write for the established Government and Religion are a hired sort of Scaramouchy Zanies Merry Andrews and Jack Puddings P. 12. and impeacheth a Secretary of State as a Traytor not considering that one such as John Milton is the chief Engineer and encourager of all Rebellion and Treason 2. By divulging abroad p. 22. That the Nation begins to grow impatient by the delays of publick justice against the Popish Plot though it be well known at whose door that lies That the dissolution of Parliaments gives us cause to fear that the King hath no more business for Parliaments ibid. and p. 17. 3. By animating the multitude to perplex his Majesty with new Addresses telling them p. 30. of Preface So strong is the tye of duty upon him from his Office to prevent publick Calamities as no respect whatsoever no not of the Right Line can discharge nor will he himself ever think if DVLY ADDRESSED that it can And p. 34. At this time if ever the APPLICATIONS of an Active Prudence are required from all honest men And he himself hath given them a Precedent in that Application which he intended it seems for the Seditious rabble We will not entail a War upon the Nation no not for the sake and interest of the Glorious Family of the STUARTS 4. By acquainting the Malecontents that their number is four fifths of the Nation who are such as love and adhere to our Government and Religion though they are rendred suspected of destroying again the English Monarch and the Protestant Religion p. 10. of Postscript And therefore he doth but profane the Name of God p. 95. when he says God be thanked they the Dissenters who are imagined very numerous neither make our Grand-Jury-men nor the Common-halls of the City for choosing the Lord Mayors or Sheriffs 5. By Reprinting such Books as were written in defence of the late War and improving the Arguments for that Rebellion 6. By his pleading for Comprehension and Indulgence which p. 98. he says about ten years since was designed to slight the Churches Works and demolish her by a general Indulgence and Toleration and now they intend to destroy her Garison those that can and will defend her against Popery 7. By publishing it as an undoubted truth and evident in it self That the Succession to the Crown is the people Rights p. 201. 8. By making large Apologies in behalf of those men of whom he speaks p. 96. What animations did their people receive to defie the Church and her Authoritie when their Preachers despised Fines and Imprisonment to their seeming out of pure zeal against her Order And yet he adds It is well know several of them were in Pension and no men have been better received by the Duke than J. J. J. O. E. B. and W. P. c. Ringleaders of the Separation And again p. 98. Consider how the Church of England is used which is truly the Bulwark of the Protestant Religion And it is a pitiful evasion to say that these Fanaticks are acted by the Papists or if it were true they were much more intolerable for that reason and therefore I do with all my heart agree to your Method for rooting out the Popish Plot prescribed p. 99. By suppressing that contumacie that is grown so rife in the Dissenters against the Church of England by putting the revilers of her Establishment and Order under the severest penalties But then Caveat Author To conclude we are certainly as Mr. Hunt calls us a foolish people and unwise a stupid and perverse Generation if we shall reject that gracious and gentle Government whereby God hath hitherto led and preserved us a flock by the hands of Moses and Aaron and exchange for a Saturn or a Moloch that will devour their own Children and make them pass through the fire at their pleasure But From all such Men-monsters from all Sedition Perjurie Conspiracie and Rebellion from all false Doctrine Heresie and Schism from hardness of Heart and contempt of thy Word and Commandments Good Lord deliver us THE Life of Julian INLARGED His Birth and Parentage JVLIAN was Born at Bizantium now called Constantinople His Fathers Name was Constantius Brother to Constantine the Great His Mothers Name was Basilina of a very ancient and Noble Family among the Romans Now although the Empire was intirely devolved on Constantius the Second Son of Constantine his two Brothers Constantine and Constans being dead yet for securing the Empire to himself having a jealous Spirit he contrived the death of his nearest Kindred viz. Constantius Father of our Julian Anniballianus and Dalmatius Caesar which our Author would impute to the outrages of the Souldiery forgetting what he tells his Reader p. 29. That the slaughter of his Kindred was one of those three things whereof Constantius repented him at his death For which he rightly quoteth Naz. Orat. in laudem Athanasii p. 389. How Julian and Gallus his Elder Brother escaped that Massacre our Author leaves uncertain for having said that Gallus being very sick the Souldiers concluded that the disease would kill him and save them the labour and that they thought not Julian dangerous being but five years old yet he would have it attributed to Constantius the Emperor who for ought we read gave no Commission to spare them and had they then dyed would doubtless have found cause to repent of their deaths as well as of the rest of his Kindred That Constantius shewed kindness to his two Cousins after the Death of their Father and Vnkles was no more than Nature and especially the Religion he professed required of him nor could all his kindness to the Children expiate his Cruelty to their Father But that he should cause Gallus to be slain who is noted p. 3. to have been sincerely pious and that after he had given him his * Constantina Sister in Marriage and declared him Caesar and found him a Man of Personal valour and good Conduct and Success I may say of it as our Author doth it was a rash act and yet if it be true that he designed to Invade the Empire not content with the Title and Authority of Caesar it was more excusable than the Death of his other
his Charge There remains nothing to the perfecting our Establishment but the casting out those Jonahs which lie asleep in the bottom of the Ship I mean our sins which have caused the wrath of God to kindle those fires in the midst of us which may justly make us as desolate as Sodom or Gomorrha That with penitent Tears fervent and unanimous Prayers seasonable and serious reformation of our Lives we would deprecate Gods displeasure and that yet he would make us of one heart and mind in considering and doing the things that belong to our peace before they are hid from our eyes That in these things I may do some acceptable service to the Church of Christ on Earth and with it have my Reward in Heaven is the hearty Prayers and great Ambition of Your Graces most humble and most dutiful Servant Tho. Long. L. Cook 's third part of Institutes p. 36. PEruse over all Books Records and Histories and you shall find a Principle in Law a Rule in Reason and a Tryal in Experience That Treason doth ever produce fatal and final destruction to the Offender and never attains to the desired end two incidents inseparable thereunto And therefore let all men abandon it as the poysonous Bait of the Devil and follow the Precept in Holy Scripture Serve God and honour the King and have no company with the Seditious Mr. Hunt's Preface to the Argument for Bishops OUr Adversaries were treated too kindly and deserve sharper reflections than are made upon them for their false and perverse Reasonings and ought to lose that Reputation which they abuse to the hurt of the Government Nor is it for the honour of our Faculty that never fails to supply the worst Cause with Advocates ERRATA PAge 17. line 4. r. Or. In the Preface for Cyril r. Gregory in four places p. 46. l. 1. r. contradictious Zeal p. 49. r. Justitia p. 50. r. templa p. 90. r. Constantium p. 91. r. 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 p. 96. dele And Basil p. 107. r. Annum ibid. for Curtis r. Curtius p. 124. after patience add of p. 129. r. confirmed p. 152. r. though p. 185. r. atrocia p. 189. r. paries p. 205. r. Sumus p. 224. r. 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 p. 226. r. foretold p. 233. r. Reges ibid. r. Depravari p. 242. l. 25. r. Or. ibid. r. suppose p. 262. dele after the fifth line four lines which are doubled TO THE READER AS often as I consider the numerous Pamphlets which the Scribblers of this Age have brought forth it calls to my mind what I have read of a sort of Indian Rats which are said to be pregnant whilst they are in the belly of their Dams Every Libel propagates such a numberless Issue that as one observed of the increase of Faction the first Separation might say to its Off-spring Arise Separation and go to thy Separation for thy Separation's Separation hath a Separation But of all the Libels that have been lately written none are more fruitful as it is mostly with Venomous Creatures than those which have been written against the Established Government There was a Swarm of such in the Late Vnhappie Times and some of the Authors as well as that sort of Writings are yet alive or revived to create new Disturbances And as Horace observes Aetas parentum pejor avis Tulit progeniem vitiosiorem Every Pamphlet hath more of venome than that from whence it had its birth Prynne Burton and Bastwick were the Great Grandsires of this monstrous Progenie The Covenanters Nye Marshal and the Smectymnuans were their genuine Off-spring To these succeed notwithstanding the peremptory Vote for Exclusion John Goodwin Owen Harington and Baxter all right Commonwealths-men with Milton and May and many others whose Writings have by men of like Principles been reviewed reprinted and recommended to the present Age. I shall onely instance in the Treatise now under consideration which hath contracted and improved the Antimonarchical principles which lay scattered in the Authors last mentioned and in the Character of the Popish Successor Plato Redivivus and other seditious Pamphlets but especially from Mr. Hunt's Postscript for certainly our Author's teeth were set on edge by Mr. Hunt's sowre Grapes and he makes it his business to blow up the Coals which he had kinled The great Notion on which all his Discourse is builded is from Mr. Hunt p. 46 47. And facile est inventis addere Let no man says Mr. Hunt betray his Countrie and Religion by pretending the example of the patience and sufferings of the Primitive Christians for our Rule The Reformed Religion hath acquired a Civil right and the protection of Laws If we ought not to lose our Lives Liberties and Estates but where forfeited by Law we ought much rather not to lose them for the profession of the best Religion which by Law is made the Publick National Religion c. This gave occasion to the greatest part of his Book which is a loud and notorious Calumny against the Primitive Christians viz. their patient submission to their unjust and cruel Persecutors From Mr. Hunt he took his instance of Mary Queen of Scots of whom he speaks p. 48. and says Scarce a Child but hath heard what was done said and maintained by the Clergie of England in the case of Mary Queen of Scots a Popish Successor in the earliest time of our Reformation Vpon this our Author paraphraseth at large from p. 12. to the 18th of his Preface His deriding of the Succession in the right Line is taken from Mr. Hunt p. 47. If any be so vain as to say that a lawful course of Succession is established among us by Divine Right he is a man fitted to believe Transubstantiation and the Infallibility of the Pope And our Authors Comments on this fill many pages Concerning Arbitrary Power compare Mr. Hunt p. 42. and 52. with the 78. of our Author 's and p. 241. Mr. Hunt minded him of the Doctrine of Sibthorpe and Manwaring of which in p. 77. P. 47. Mr. Hunt's Comparison between Popery and Paganism gave him a Text for another part of his book and from a hint in p. 49. That we must not suspend all the legal security we have for our preservation upon the life of our present King there are a hundred hints for that one to prepare people for actual Resistance and Rebellion Thus the Leprosie of Naaman cleaves to this covetous Gehazi and spreads it self through the whole book so as it becomes a continued Scab And I pray God it may creep no farther But for this one thing our Author is very culpable that having got these and many other Materials for his Babel he never mentions his Founder Onely p. 88. he says A worthy person hath lately observed That one single Arm unresisted may go a great way in murdering a Nation But works of darkness hate the light and therefore he thought fit to conceal both their names The Author of the Life
care of those who are put on an inevitable necessity of defending themselves c. How far a man that is assaulted and put on an inevitable necessity of defending himself against the injuries of private men is one thing and what he may do against his Prince of whom you seem to discourse is another In this case we may apply that in Rev. 13.10 He that killeth with the sword shall be killed with the sword This is the patience and faith of the Saints P. 11. This Doctrine of Passive Obedience you say quite alters the Oath of Allegiance which requires you to be obedient to all the Kings Majesties Laws Precepts and Process proceeding from the same I do not find those words in that Oath as set forth by King James but I find what you overlook viz. I will bear Faith and true Allegiance to his Majestie his Heirs and Successors and him and them will defend to the utmost of my power against all Conspiracies and Attempts whatsoever And thus I find more particularly in a Declaration which I believe our Author hath subscribed thus amplified I do declare that it is not lawful upon any pretence whatsoever to take Arms against the King And that I do abhor that traiterous Position of taking Arms by his Authority against his Person or against those that are commissionated by him P. 11. After a large Preface little to your purpose telling us That the Church of England reserves her Faith entire for the Canonical books of Scripture which I hope you also do and that she divides her Reverence between the Fathers and the first Reformers of this Church who partly were Martyrs that died for the Protestant Religion and partly Confessors that afterward setled it And now to the business How much the Fathers would have been for a Bill of Exclusion you say we have seen already No not one word of it from the beginning nor I believe any mention of it from one Argument tending to it to the end of the Book from any of the Fathers as will shortly appear But what say our Martyrs Confessors and Reformers First he tells us what some men would have perswaded King Edward to do if they could have had their wills confirmed by Act of Parliament They shewed what they would have done if they could saith our Author They never spake such bad English as our Author doth in his Taunton-Dean Proverb Chud eat more Cheese an chad it which being interpreted is We would rebel if we had power The Duke of Northumberland indeed did cause the Lady Jane Gray's Title to be proclaimed but here the Bishops must be the men that were chiefly engaged in that designe of Exclusion whereas I read not that any of them were ever consulted with nor ever declared any thing to that purpose but in their joynt and most solemn Writings enjoyn the clean contrary as shall now appear P. 12. The Bishops in Queen Elizabeth 's time to whom under God and that Queen we owe the settlement of our Church concurred to the making of that Statute which makes it High-Treason in her Reign and forfeiture of Goods and Chattels ever after in any wise to hold or affirm That an Act of Parliament is not of sufficient force and validity to limit and bind the Crown of this Realm and the descent limitation inheritance and government thereof 13 Eliz. chap. 1. But our Author never considered the grounds and reasons of that Act Ex malis moribus bonae Leges it was the iniquity of those times and the traiterous practices of the Queen of Scots which gave occasion to that Statute for there were many Pamphlets written by Saunders and the Author of Doleman which deni'd the Title of Queen Elizabeth and proclaim'd her an Usurper and the Queen of Scots made actual claim to the Crown of England she assumed the Arms of England and other Regalia and by her Confederates endeavoured to raise a Rebellion and conspired against the life of the Queen for which causes she was condemned as may appear by her Sentence which was passed upon her viz. That divers things were compassed and imagined within this Kingdom of England with the privity of the said Queen who pretended a Title to the Crown of this Kingdom and which tended to the hurt death and destruction of the Royal Person of our Soveraign Queen Cambdens Eliz. p. 464. Leiden 1625. Such practices gave occasion to that Statute to prevent the Mischiefs that might befal Queen Elizabeth and the Nation And that Statute consists of many heads As first Whoever should compass imagine devise or intend the death or destruction or any bodily harm tending to death destruction or wounding of the Royal person of the Queen or deprive or depose her of or from the Stile Honour or Kingly name of the Imperial Crown of this Realm c. or leavy War against her Majesty within this Kingdom or without or move any Strangers to invade this Kingdom or Ireland c. or shall maliciously publish and declare by any printing writing word or sayings that our Soveraign Lady during her life is not or ought not to be Queen of this Realm c. or that any other person or persons ought of right to be King or Queen of the same or that our said Queen is a Heretick or Schismatick Tyrant Infidel or an Vsurper of the said Crown c. these shall he guilty of High-Treason Also if any after thirty days from the Session of this Parliament and in the life of our said Queen shall claim pretend declare or publish themselves or any other besides our said Queen to have Right or Title to have and enjoy the Crown of England or shall usurp the same or the Royal Stile Title or Dignity of the Crown or shall affirm that our said Queen hath not right to hold and enjoy the same such shall be utterly disabled during their natural lives onely to have or enjoy the Crown or Realm of England in Succession Inheritance or otherwise Then follows the Case of Succession That if any person shall hold or affirm that the Common Laws of this Realm not altered by Parliament ought not to direct the Right of this Crown or that our said Queen by the Authority of Parliament is not able to make Laws and Statutes of sufficient force c. as above Yet was not the Queen of Scots condemned upon the Statute of the 13 of Eliz. but on that made in the 27 of her Reign wherein it was provided That twenty four persons at least part being of the Privy Council and the rest Peers of the Realm should by the Queens Commission examine such as should make any open Rebellion or Invasion of this Realm or attempt to hurt the Queens person by or for any pretended Title to the Crown In which Commission I find no Bishop save the Archbishop who at first refused to act nor when the whole Parliament petitioned for the Execution do we find that the
convened about that time Throgmorton the two Pagets Englefield Babington Salisbury c. were proscribed So that the Nation being continually alarmed with the news of Invasions Insurrections and Conspiracies during the life of that unfortunate Queen who can blame the Parliament for solliciting the execution of a Just Sentence Of all men living our Author ought not to object it much less to charge the Bishops with that if they had been guilty for which they are ready now to pronounce them Papists as not consenting to the Exclusion of a Popish Successor But secondly what the Judgment of those Reformers was concerning the Doctrine of Resisting lawful Princes on any pretence I shall now demonstrate P. 103 104. of his Book our Author is pleased to recommend the Homilies of our Church to every bodies reading as one of the best Books that he knows in the world next to the Bible as Mr. Hunt had done before him I shall therefore intreat him to judge of the Opinion of our Reformers and Confessors in point of Obedience out of the publick Doctrines set forth by them in that excellent Book In the first Homily against Disobedience and wilful Rebellion they say p 277. If Servants ought to obey their Masters not onely being gentle but such as be froward much more ought Subjects to be obedient not onely to their good and courteous but also to their sharp and rigorous Princes 1 Pet. 2.18 And p. 278. It cometh not of Chance or Fortune nor of the Ambition of Mortal men climbing up of their own accord to Dominion that there be Kings Queens Princes and other Governours over men being their Subjects but all Kings Queens and other Governours are specially appointed by the Ordinance of God P. 279. A Rebel is worse than the worst Prince and Rebellion worse than the worst Government of the worst Prince that hitherto hath been Whatsoever the Prince be or his Government it is evident that for the most part those Princes whom some Subjects do think to be very godly and under whose Government they rejoyce to live some other Subjects do take the same to be evil and ungodly and do wish for a Change If therefore all Subjects that mislike of their Prince should revel no Realm should ever be without Rebellion P. 280. But what if a Prince be evil indeed and undiscreet and it is evident to all mens eyes that he is so I ask again What if it be long of the wickedness of his Subjects that he is so shall the Subjects by their wickedness both provoke God for their deserved punishment to give them an evil and indiscreet Prince and also rebel against him and withal against God who for the punishment of their sins did give them such a Prince Will you hear the Scripture in this point God maketh a wicked man to raign for the sins of the people Again God giveth a Prince in his anger meaning an evil one and taketh away a Prince in his displeasure meaning when he taketh away a good Prince for the sins of the people as in our memory he took away our good Josias King Edward for our wickedness Again God maketh a wise and good King to raign over that people whom he loveth and who love him And again If the people obey God both they and their King shall prosper And for Subjects to deserve through their sins to have an evil Prince and then to rebel against him were double and treble evil by provoking God more to plague them let us either deserve to have a good Prince or let us patiently suffer and obey such as we deserve and whether the Prince be good or evil let us according to the Scriptures pray for him for his continuance and increase in goodness if he be good and for his amendment if he be evil The Bishops that were their Predecessors and our first Reformers in the days of King Henry the Eighth and King Edward the Sixth were of the same judgment as appears in a Book called The Institution of a Christian man whereof Cranmer Ridly and other Martyrs were the Compilers On the Fifth Commandment they say Subjects be bound not to withdraw their Fealty Truth Love and Obedience towards their Prince FOR ANY CAVSE WHATSOEVER ne for any Cause may they conspire against his Person ne do any thing towards the hindrance or hurt thereof nor of his Estate And by this Commandment they be bound to obey all the Laws Proclamations Precepts and Commandments made by their Princes except they be contrary to the Commandments of God With much more to that purpose And on the Sixth Commandment No Subjects may draw their Swords against their Princes FOR ANY CAVSE WHATSOEVER IT BE. And though Princes which be the Supreme Heads of their Realms do otherwise than they ought yet God hath assigned no Judges over them in this world The contrary to this is a Popish Doctrine who think it cause enough to depose a King because he is a Protestant and it is a Lesson which some sorts of Protestants have learnt from them to depose any that is a Papist A Doctrine which all the Reformed Churches have hitherto condemned and yet this is the Sophistry which our Author hath detected to his own shame and the honour of those Worthies whom he hath reproached and if our Author's Politicks should be embraced Kings would be of all men most miserable for if they be Protestants the Papists may depose them and if they be Papists Protestants may resist them which is tantamount P. 19. Is a discourse against the Oath of Allegiance which he forms in an Objection and Answer The Objection is this You are pre-engaged and cannot consent to a Bill of Exclusion if you do you are forsworn having long since sworn Allegiance to the King his lawful Heirs and Successors His Answer Now though the Lawyers tell us an hundred times no man can have an Heir as long as he liveth yet this will not overcome that deceitful prejudice which is occasioned by our common speech Reply Yet our Author presently adds That a man and his Heirs may live at once in the some house and eat and drink together every day I pretend not to the knowledge of Law-terms yet I am confident those Lawyers which penned that Oath did not put it in in vain nor would they make it Treason to conspire the death of the Heir of the Crown of England if there could be no such person in being One clause of that Oath is this I will bear Faith and true Allegiance to his Majestie his Heirs and Successors and him and them will defend to the utmost of my power against all Conspiracies and Attempts whatsoever which shall be made against his or their persons their Crown or Dignity by reason or colour of any such Sentence or Declaration or otherwise and will do my best endeavour to disclose and make known to his Majestie his Heirs and Successors all Treasons and treacherous Conspiracies which I
call the King to an account the Estate is Democratical if the Peers it is Aristocratical but if indeed it be Monarchical neither nor both can judge their Prince In the first Homily against Rebellion p. 1. our Church says that in reading of the Holy Scriptures we shall find in very many places as well of the Old Testament as the New That Kings and Princes as well the evil as the good do reign by Gods Ordinance and that Subjects are bound to obey them The Augustan Confession Article 16. Christians must necessarily obey the present Magistrates and Laws except when they command to sin French Confession Article 11. We ought to obey Laws and Statures pay Tribute and bear other burdens of Subjection and undergo the Yoke with a good will although the Magistrates should be Infidels so that Gods soveraign Authoritie remains inviolate The Belgick Confession All men of what dignitie qualitie or state soever they be must subject themselves unto the lawful Magistrates pay them Imposts and Tributes and please and obey them in all things not repugnant to the Word of God Also pray for them that God would be pleased to direct them in all their actions that we may lead a quiet and peaceable life under them in all pietie and honestie The Helvetick Confession Let all Subjects honour and reverence the Magistrate as the Minister of God Let them love and assist him and pray for him as their Father let them obey him in all his just and equitable Commands and pay all Imposts Tributes and other Dues faithfully and willingly And in case of War let them also lay down their lives and spill their bloud for the good of the Publick and of the Magistrate willingly vailiantly and cheerfully For he that opposeth himself to the Magistrate provoketh the heavie wrath of God upon himself The Bohemian Confession Let every one yield subjection in all things not contrarie to God to the Higher Powers and their Officers whether good or bad The Saxonick Confession The more a Christian is sincere in Faith the more he ought to subject himself to the publick Laws But I shall end where I began with the Doctrine of our Martyrs and Confessors who sealed with their bloud the Truths that they published with their Pens for whom in vain do we build and garnish Monuments of Fame to their memories while we are Apostates from their Doctrine and Practice The first Reformers of our Religion in the Institution of a Christian man on the Fifth Commandment say That Subjects be bound not to withdraw their Fealtie Truth Love and Obedience from their prince FOR ANY CAVSE WHATSOEVER IT BE ne for any cause may they conspire against his person ne do any thing towards the hinderance or hurt thereof or of his estate And by his Commandment they are bound to obey all the Laws Proclamations Precepts and Commandments made by their Princes and Governours except they be against the Commandment of God And likewise they be bound to obey all such as are in Authoritie under their Prince as far as he will have them obeyed They must also give unto their Prince aid help and assistance whensoever he shall require the same either for suretie preservation or maintenance of his Person and Estate or of the Realm or of the defence of any of the same against all persons And there be many examples in Scripture of the vengeance of God that hath fallen upon RVLERS and such as have been disobedient to their Princes But one principal example to be noted is of the Rebellion of Core Dathan and Abiram made against their Governours Moses and Aaron For punishment of which Rebels God not onely caused the Earth to open and to swallow them down and a great number of other people with them with their houses and all their substance but caused also a fire to descend from Heaven and to burn up two hundred and fiftie Captains which conspired with them in the Rebellion And again on the Sixth Commandment No Subjects may draw their Sword against their Prince for what cause soever it be nor against any others saving for lawful defence without their Princes license And it is their dutie to draw their Swords for the defence of their Prince and Realm whensoever the Prince shall command And although Princes which be the chief and supreme Heads of Realms do otherwise than they ought yet God hath assigned no Judges over them in this world but will have the judgment of them reserved to himself Sir John Cheek who was Tutor to King Edword the Sixth and a person of great Learning and Integrity in his Book called The true Subject to the Rebel speaks to this purpose If you were offered persecution for Religion you ought to fly for it and yet you intend to fight If you would stand in the truth you ought to suffer like Martyrs and you would slay like Tyrants Thus for Religion you keep no Religion and neither will follow the Council of Christ nor the Constancy of Martyrs And then asking the people why they should not like that Religion which Gods word established the Primitive Church authorized and the whole consent of the Parliament confirmed and his Majesty had set forth he says Dare you Commons take upon you more Learning than the Chosen Bishops and Clerks of this Realm have I suppose that the Author of Julians Life might transcribe that Act of Queen Mary above-mentioned out of Mr. Prynnes second part of the Loyalty of pious Christians c. where we have it printed at large p. 65. from whence he might very honestly have told us Mr. Prynnes Judgment of such Prayers as were made against the Queen who p. 64. says That Queen Maries zealous Protestant Bishops Ministers and Subjects likewise made constant prayers for her But some over-zealous Anabaptistical Fanaticks using some unchristian expressions in their prayers against her That God would cut her off and shorten her daies occasioned this special Act against such prayers And having repeated the Act he adds p. 66. These prayers were much against and direstly contrary to the Judgment of Archbishop Cranmer Bishop Farrer Bishop Hooper Rowland Taylor John Philpot John Bradford Edward Crome John Rogers Laurence Sanders Edward Laurence Miles Coverdale Bishop of Exon and others of our Godly Protestant Bishops and Ministers who soon after suffered as Martyrs They in their Letter May 8. 1554. professing that as Obedient Subjects we shall behave our selves towards Queen Mary and all that be in authority and not cease to pray to God for them that he would govern them all generally and particularly with the Spirit of Wisdom and Grace and so we heartily desire and humbly pray all men to do in no point consenting to any kind of Rebellion or Sedition against our Soveraign Lady the Queens Highness but where they cannot obey but they must disobey God there to submit themselves with all patience and humility to suffer as well what the will and pleasure
Obedience when the Laws do allow us to make resistance in defence of our Religion our Liberties and Lives Item For insufficiencie not being able to pray ex tempore or to preach without book Witness Dr. Pocock Bishop Sanderson c. Item For administring the Sacrament to all that desired it and for using the Lords Prayer as a Charm Such were the Articles by which a great part of that Clergie was destroyed of whom the world was not worthy With such our Gentleman is still in travel but I hope his labour will be in vain Read some of those Sermons and Treatises which of late years have been published by such as you call young Coxcombs Consider the strains of Piety and Moderation of Reason and Judgement of Industrie and acquired Knowledge and I am confident you will find so little hopes to be believed by others that you will see reason enough not to believe your self Let him talk of the persecution of Julian and other Pagans this which our Author promotes exceeds them all Others did but Occidere Episcopos this man seeks Occidere Episcopatum and under a pretence of pleading and praying for them he contrives how to prey upon them What else meaneth that insinuation which he quotes from Grotius to gain it some Authoritie having bankrupted his own Verso in morem abusu intermitti res ipsas non est infrequens p. 13. of Preface which he applieth to the Episcopal Office Nomen eminentia Episcopalis eorum culpa quibus obtigerat omnem sui perdiderat reverentiam in odium venerat plebis I greatly wondered to hear that Prayer of his against Sacriledge p. 103. He that designs contrives or consents to spoil the Church of any of her Endowments may a secret Curse waste his substance let his Children be Vagabonds and beg their bread in desolate places But when I call to mind Mr. Humphries project for increasing the number of our Bishops whom he would have to be chosen by the several Factions Presbyterian Independent c. and these whether Lay-men or Clergie-men to preside over those Parties it remembred me of a passage of Mr. Hunt's p. 90. of his Postscript where he demands thus Will it be any prejudice that the number of her Bishops be increased and that Suffragans be appointed and approved by the present Bishops c. So that when other Trades fail Mr. Hunt as well as Mr. Humphries may have some hopes of being made Suffragans at least For the Order of Episcopacie may be laid by as he intimates and then some Lay-superintendents may succeed and enjoy their Honours and Revenues Therefore to his Curse I shall add my Prayer for a blessing on Levi Deut. 33.11 Bless Lord his substance and accept the work of his hands smite through the Loins of them that rise up against him and of them that hate him that they rise not again The second Head contains a justification of the late unnatural War p. 6. It is difficult he saith to tell how that late unhappie War began or how it came to issue so tragically in the death of the late King And being to speak in so difficult a case he enters his caution p. 50. I would not be perversly understood by any man as if I went about to justifie our late Wars But it will appear to be Protestatio contra factum P. 102. He says That War would have been impossible if the Churchmen had not maintained the Doctrine that Monarchie was Jure Divino in such a sence that made the King Absolute This was a fiction of Mr. Baxters and through the Loins of the Clergie they strike at the King as if that glorious Prince intended Tyranny But that good Prince was far from any design of ruling by an Arbitrarie power he had no Army nor Mony to raise one but by the contrivance of some men his Father was engaged in an expensive War for the recoverie of the Palatinate which exhausted all the Exchequer and reduced the Royal Family to great necessities and then they failed in their promised Supplies and left him to a precarious way of subsisting and to stretch his Prerogative for the preservation of himself and Family He would have parted with the half of his Power and Prerogative as he often offered to have preserved or restored peace to his Subjects But when he spake to them of Peace they made themselves ready for Battle But were there not some other Doctrines preached in those days which contributed more to the beginning of that War than that of the Divinity of Kings What think you of the Doctrine of the lawfulness of Resistance then preached and printed under the same Arguments as now it is by Mr. Marshal Burton c. What think you of that Doctrine which according to the Jesuits taught That the rise and Original of Government is in the People and that as they gave so they might recall it as they saw cause You know who layeth down the same Principle in a certain Preface That Government is the perfect creature of men in Societie made by pact and consent and not othorwise most certainly not otherwise and therefore most certainly ordainable by the whole Communitie for the safety and preservation of the whole P. 38. of Preface To what tended this other Doctrine That the Authoritie of the King was in the two Houses when they had frighted away his Person That the King was Singulis major but Vniversis minor That Episcopacy was an Antichristian Order and to be stub'd up root and branch That the King Court and Bishops were designing to bring in Popery That our Liturgy was but the mass-Mass-book translated These Doctrines with such Remonstrances Votes and Ordinances began that unhappy War The Associations made in City and Country seizing the Forts and Magazines and Royal Navy and answering all his Messages of Peace with reproaches of his Male-administrations This is that which you call the English Loyalty When they sent out Armies to fight him when they had him Prisoner and voted no more Addresses they were if you will believe them or Mr. Hunt his Majesties most Humble and Loyal Subjects still Such as these I could as easily prove to be the Doctrines of those times as that they are the Opinions and Practices of too many in these our days though most absurd and dangerous as they are now published by too many besides our two Authors P. 20. Pref. There is little reason to charge the guilt of the unexpiable Murther of our late Excellent King upon Presbyterie which was not thought of here in England till the War was begun And p. 21. Sure this Gentleman hath read very little or dissembleth very much Mr. Cambden in the Life of Queen Elizabeth is full of the Projects and Practices of such as planted the Geneva-Discipline here in England what troubles they occasioned to the Government both in Church and State and what deserved punishments some of them received as Penry and Vdal
with a stout mind for this is the property of good men to do their duty and to be of a good hope and to accommodate themselves to what ever fatal necessity shall impose p. 218. And as men of true valour and magnanimity are seldom cruel he expressed a natural clemency in all his actions those against the Christians towards his later end only excepted which yet I cannot perceive to be executed but upon some great provocations by the rash and ungovernable among the vulgar sort of Christians Of which the Historians of that time given many instances But all these vertues were sullyed with that one vile act of his in becoming an Apostate from the best Religion after that he had professed it for Twenty years together and attained a competent knowledge therein His Vices AS his Vertues were great so were his Vices and that which was most predominant was his levity and unsetledness of mind For having been false to his Redeemer he was never true to any of his false Gods He was so displeased with Mars the God of War that he solemnly vowed never to sacrifice to him more He was talkative to excess and boasted of his own Atchievements Popularity and vain-glory being that which he especially aimed at Marcellinus who was a Heathen a great friend and observer of his actions says l. 25. c. 6. That he was rather Superstitious than a devout observer of any Religion He offered costly Sacrifice rather to honour himself than his Gods and though given to Divinations yet contemned such as boded ill So resolute and self-willed he was in the business of Persia that against all good advice and ill presages he cast himself away He shewed himself unmerciful in this one Edict that he forbad the Professors in Rhetorick and Grammar to teach Christians lest they should wound the Heathen by their own darts Among his Edicts those are especially noted which he set forth against the Christians As first his forbidding the Children of Christians to be brought up in the knowledge of Philosophy lest as is noted by Socrates they might be better enabled to confute the Heathen Sophisters 2. His forbidding Christians to bear any Office in his Guards or Government in his Provinces 3. His Edicts for seizing the Christian Churches and imposing Mulcts on such as would not Sacrifice to his Pagan Gods As for Sanguinary Laws our Author observes that he enacted none Greg. Nazianzen who knew Julian hath sufficiently recorded his Vices in his Stelliteuticks from whence our Author hath taken his History But as I would not believe all as truth which some deliver in Panegyricks of their Heroes so neither all that is said in such Orations against Professed Enemies Of his Works ALthough we might wish that Julian had never known Letters because of those virulent Satyrs which he wrote against Christianity yet the Poison wherewith his Writings do abound having excellent Remedies prepared against the venome of them by the Learned Fathers of that Age such as Greg. Naz. and St. Cyril there being also some remarkable passages concerning History and Christianity interspersed they may be read with some benefit by Learned Men. He says of himself in an Epistle to Ecdicius Praefect of Egypt in which he desired him to send the Books of George an Arian Bishop of Alexandria Some delight in Horses others in Birds others in wild Beasts but I from my Childhood have been a great lover of Books His proficiency in variety of Learning will appear by what is now extant although it is supposed that he wrote many things before he was Caesar that are now lost as several Orations sent to Iamblicus the loss whereof he bewayls in an Epistle to him yet extant My opinion is that Julians Vices were real and deep rooted that he had but the umbrage and appearance of Vertue which he therefore retained that he might make them serve his Pride Popularity and vain-glory After he came to be Caesar he redeemed what time he could for his study dividing the night into three parts one for sleep another for his Books and the third for his Military Affairs and usually he would pen one of his Orations in that part of the night Suidas gives this account of his Writings First his Book call'd the Caesars containing a short and sharp account of them all from Augustus to his own time Secondly his Saturnalia and discourse of Three figures Thirdly his Misopogon written against the Antiochians and another Tract shewing the original of Evils another against Heroclitus shewing how to live Cynically and many Epistles of several sorts of which 63 are now extant He wrote his Misopogon to revenge himself upon the Antiochians who had abused him in words calling him Monkie Goats-beard and Butcher for killing so many Bulls for Sacrifices and that which most provoked him was the Impress upon some Coyn viz. A Bull lying upon his Back upon the Altar which the Antiochians interpreted to signifie that the World was turned up-side-down by Julian For these reasons he upbraids them with their Intemperance and their fondness of Plays and Theatres Secondly for their Religion which he calls Impiety though they worshipped God and Christ instead of Jupiter and Apollo Thirdly the iniquity of their Magistrates who countenanced the avarice of the Rich to the impoverishing of the People For these things he blames them speaking as of himself And when he comes to apologize for himself he confesses that his life was void of all Pleasure that he was too religious and severe in Judicature for which he prays their pardon imputing these faults to his Master by whom he was taught from his youth to live temperately religiously and justly and that he had spent his youth amongst the Gauls a rough and warlike people ignorant of delicacies The sum of this accusation we have in this Syllagism He that lives contrary to the manners of other men is deservedly accused by them Julian liveth contrary to the manners of the Antiochians in contemning Pleasures and restraining Impiety and Injustice which they allow and defend Therefore he 's justly accused by them To which if we add one Syllogism more you have the sum of that whole Book viz. He that bestows benefits upon ungrateful men is a Fool. Julian hath bestowed benefits on ungrateful men in commending cherishing and increasing the Antiochians Therefore he is a Fool. Concerning his account of the Caesars Socrates in his Ecclesiastical History lib. 3. c. 1. says That he blamed every one of them not sparing Marcus the Philosopher And Zonaras in his third Tome observes his ingratitude to Constantius blaming him for his prodigalitie feigning that Mercury asking him what was the propertie of a good King he should answer To have and to consume much The Books now extant are these 1. His Orations in praise of Constantius the Emperour and of Eusebia his wife 2. In praise of the Sun and of the Mother of the Gods Against unlearned Dogs To Heraclius concerning the Sect of the Cynicks and a Consolatory Oration at the departure of Salust His Caesars his Misopogon and sixty three Epistles besides that to Themistius and the Athenians But the most pestilent of all his Works were those which he wrote against the Christian Religion which are mentioned and answered by St. Cyril Bishop of Alexandria in Ten Books consisting of 362 Pages in the sixth Tome of his Works set forth in Greek and Latine by Johannes Aubertus printed at Paris 1638. to which for his full satisfaction I refer the Reader THE CONCLUSION IT appears by what hath been said That Julian was a perfidious and detestable Apostate A malicious and subtile Persecutor who designed much more against the Christians than God permitted him to practise But as there is an open and declared Apostacie and Opposition of the Truth by professed Enemies so is there a secret and real revolt from the Truth and persecution of its Disciples by some that profess themselves Friends to the same And in our own Age we have known some not only of the Roman but other Perswasions who may be parallel'd with and in some circumstances exceed Julian For Julian being a Great Prince had the unhappiness of being bred in forein Countries among subtile Pagans who tempted him to their impieties in his youth There are some who have had their whole Education among learned and sincere Professors of the Christian Faith and yet revolt from it Julian for Six years together faithfully served the Emperour in his Wars to the great hazard of his Life Others even in times of peace study to involve their Prince in unnatural Wars to the endangering of his and their own Lives Julian had a power to have executed his malicious designs but was restrained Others live under a just power and enjoy Protection and Peace yet their perverse Wills admit of no restraint Julian employed his Wit in writing against his Christian Subjects Others employ theirs in writing against their Christian Governours He wrote Panegyricks of a Constantius who had contrived his death Others write Satyrs and Libels against their Princes to whom they owe their Lives In a word the greatest aggravation of Julian's Apostacie was that he had been a Lecturer of the Holy Scriptures the truths of which he renounced and wrote against them And there are some who have been long in the Order of Priesthood that have so far revolted from their Profession as to write point-blank against the plain and most necessary practical duties of the Holy Scriptures And whether Julian or such as these be the greater Apostates I leave to the Judgement of the Impartial Reader FINIS
take away their good names which like precious Oyntment I hope will send forth the better savour for being thus Chafed Alas we are not so very Dolts but that we know such little Arts to be the daily practice of every Sycophant and Tale-bearer who being minded to disgrace a person useth the same method as Mr. Hunt doth toward the Clergie first to invent then to spread abroad and aggravate their supposed faults or personal infirmities as pretended Friends For thus they insinuate Do you know such a person and do you hear nothing concerning him There is a strong Report that he hath done such and such evil things as will ruine him and all his Family I am heartily sorrie to hear such things of him but they cannot be hid or denied I am much troubled to hear of such gross miscarriages He was in a very good Way and had many advantages of benefitting himself and others but he hath abused them and outlived them all and his high Place and Calling doth but discover his nakedness the more and will precipitate his ruine It could hardly enter into my belief that a person that knows and professeth better things could ever have been guiltie of such Crimes And perhaps you will be as incredulous as I was but they are too true I perceive it is not all gold that glisters How a man may be deceived by an outward form and fucus of Honestie and Religion I thank God I am undeceived my self and hope others will be so too He is a very Wolf in Sheeps clothing a Persecutor of the Righteous who seemed a Preacher of Righteousness c. Have no fellowship or communion with him he is in the very gall of bitterness and the bond of iniquity If such Insinuations are vile and odious in a vulgar mouth against a single person how much more vile are they in the printed Harangues of a man of understanding against the whole Order of the Clergie with a malicious designe first to disgrace and then to destroy them Either this Gentleman is well acquainted with the Vniversities and the generality of those that from thence are admitted to the Priesthood or not If he be not he is inexcusable for printing such Scandals against them if he be he cannot but know that there was never better Discipline in the Vniversity never greater Circumspection used concerning such as are admitted to Holy Orders than now there is and that if ever Clerus Anglicanus est stupor Mundi it was true that the English Clergie were the admiration of the world it is so now And therefore the Author of these oblique Reflections strikes at all the Heads of the Vniversities and at all the Bishops in their several Diocesses as if they were the Causers and Promoters of all these Disorders I do therefore appeal first to his own Conscience whether the far greater number both in the Vniversitie and in the Clergie be not men of Learning Integrity Piety and Loyalty and then he should in justice have given them such a character as the major part doth deserve Denominatio sumitur à majore And then I appeal to the testimony of more equal and indifferent men And such a one I take Dr. Burnet to be who for his late Writings had the Thanks of the Nation in a Parliament-way and he deserved it if he had written nothing else but the Testimony which he gives of the present Clergie God hath not so left this Age and Church but there is in it a great number in both the Holy Functions who are perhaps as eminent in the exemplariness of their lives and as diligent in their labours as hath been in any one Church in any Age since Miracles ceased The humility and strictness of life in many of our Prelates and some that were highly born and yet have far outgone some others from whom more might have been expected raiseth them far above censure though perhaps not above envie And when such think not the daily instructing their Neighbours a thing below them but do it with as constant a care as if they were to earn their Bread by it when they are so affable to the meanest Clergie-men that come to them when they are nicely scrupulous about those whom they admit into Holy Orders and so large in their Charities that one would think they were furnished with some unseen ways these things must needs raise great esteem for such Bishops and seem to give some hopes of better times Of all this I may be allowed to speak the more freely since I am led to it by none of those Bribes either of Gratitude or Fear or Hope which are wont to corrupt men to say what they do not think But I were much to blame if in a Work that may perhaps live some time in the world I should onely find fault with what is amiss and not also acknowledge what is so very commendable and praise-worthy And when I look into the inferiour Clergie there are chiefly about this great City of London so many so eminent both for the strictness of their Lives the constancie of their Labours and plain way of Preaching which is now perhaps brought to as great a perfection as ever was since men spoke as they received it immediately from the Holy Ghost the great gentleness of their Deportment to such as differ from them their mutual love and charity and in a word for all the qualities that can adorn Ministers or Christians that if such a number of such men cannot prevail with this debauched Age this one thing to me looks more dismally than all the other affrighting symptoms of our condition That God having sent so many faithful Teachers their labours are still so ineffectual If any man think the Doctor speaks partially let him hear Mr. Hunt's own Testimonie p. 48. of the Postscript Our Age is blessed with a Clergie renownedly learned and prudent And p. 105. he commends our Church for the purity of her Doctrine prudence of her Discipline and her commendable decent and intelligible Devotion This Testimony is true and therefore they who contradict it cannot be too sharply rebuked But what reason can be conceived for these contradictory proceedings This Gentleman I conceive might fancie himself to be Chairman of the Committee for Trial of Ministers and hath taken his Measures for proceeding in that case from the practice of his Predecessors who formed Articles of the like nature against the Clergie of that Age. Imprimis For adhering to the King against his Parliament Item For preaching a necessitie of obedience to the King as Supream and thereby endeavouring to introduce an Arbitrary Power Item For disobeying the Votes and Ordinances of Parliament for demolishing of Superstition and keeping out of Popery Item For defending Episcopacie and Liturgie for not keeping the daies of Fasting and Humiliation appointed to crave a blessing on the Parliaments Forces and the days of Thanksgiving for defeating the Kings designs Item For preaching up Passive