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A05604	The ansvver of Iohn Bastwick, Doctor of Phisicke, to the exceptions made against his Letany by a learned gentleman which is annexed to the Letany it selfe, as articles superadditionall against the prelats. In the vvhich there is, a full, demonstration and proof of the reall absence of Christ in the sacrament of the Lords Supper, with the vanity and impiety of the consecreation of temples churches and chapples, also the necessity of the perpetuall motion and circulation of worship if men be bound to bow the knees at the name of Iesus. This is to follow the Letany as a second part thereof.; Litany. Part 2	Bastwick, John, 1593-1654.	1637 (1637)	STC 1573; ESTC S104507	58,976	32

euer ready to whom the subjects in all their pressures by the mighty may haue recourse and from whom releife and whom to appeale to So that they shall not need then allwayes to wayte for publick meetings for the redressing of greuances For this is a part of Kingly art to cure these diseases of state in time and obstare principiis miseriarum populi and the violation of their lawes for if the people be depriued of the benefit of the law and the appeale to the King that great comfort and releife they will in time be made a prey to the cruelty of euery oppressor and their liues become untolerable to them especially when it shall be thought a State policy that he that hath the best faculty of tyrannising and oppressing the King subjects shall bee esteemed the most seruiceable member in a common-wealth the greatest Statist And this is policy from hell the authors of which the Lord himself will confound if they repent not But in the meane time in seeking for releif and ease vnder oppression though it be in the diseases of the common-wealth as it is in the bodies of men the speedier remedy to them is euer the best for the longer they continue the more dangerous they are yet as the patient submits himself to the Physitian for the time of the Cure So much more ought the subject to leaue the Cure to Kings best opportunityes as the onely Physitians of Kingdomes and who as they are called Gods so many times imitate him in long suffering conniuing at and patient enduring the insolent and domineering oppressors and such as trample not onely vpon the people but their owne lawes yea vpon their crownes and dignity and yet seeme in the meane time to be their faithfullest seruants and those that stand most of all for the advancement of their honour and glory as those cursed enimies of God did in the 66 of Isaiah 5. Let the Lord be glorified say they when they persecuted and oppressed his seruants hated them and cast them out So say these sycophants Let the Kings honour be mainteyned when they meane nothing lesse All which things Kings many times know very well and them to be mere hypocrites and to doe all they doe for their owne base ends and therefore in their fittest opportunities purge the Church and State of them And as Kings are Gods in respect of health safety gouernment and wisdome So they are likewise in respect of invocation onely to be sought to and called vpon of their subjects in all times of the calamities of oppression next after God himself we are not to goe in our troubles and oppressions to wizards of State the Kings enimies that bewitch men with presents or rebells or take indirect courses of insurrections and tumultuation this is a remedy worse then the disease and more displeasing to God and dishonorable to the subject and deserues a greater yoake of seruitude but we must continue our humble petitions to the King and tell his Majesty how the matter stands We must be like the importunat widow and allthough we meet with many discouragements as those that came unto Christ did yet we may not surcease and be weary or droue back for Kings are Gods and are exorable full of pity compassion and neuer send away their subjects without comfort that with lowly importunity sollicit them and this is the duty of all good subjects and such as will approue their wayes before God and men in the number of which I shall desire euer to liue and die being though but poore as rich in loyalty as any subject in the Kings three dominions But now to shut vp all Whereas you think many will blame mee for that I vse such coorse expressions towards them and it will fauour of some inward splene and study of reuenge and may also scandall religion for they will say they are all of this Spirit In answer to that I protest in the presence of allmighty God that I am so farre from either rancour and hatred toward them for all the wrong they haue done mee as I neuer thinke of any euill towards them because I referre my cause to God and vengeance to him and cast my self vpon his prouidence in a more speciall maner chiefly at this time when I haue none other to depend vpon I being made odious amongst all men and hatefull to them that neuer saw mee But this I confidently confesse vnto you that I know more of the wicked plots of the Prelats then any Subiect that is a Protestant with in the Kings dominions and you would say there were reason for it if you knew all And before I haue done with them I will make the wickednes not onely of our Prelats but of all the Prelats in the whole world knowne vnto all Christians Princes and to al their Subiects who to speake the truth are all infinitly abused by them not onely for the trampling vnder their feet all the sucular Peeres vnder them and the Nobility and flower of all Kingdomes where they dwell and the subiugating of their Commons but in fine in regard of the danger of hauing their necks brought vnder a greater yoake of bondage then euer it formerly was all which I will make appeare vnto all Christian Princes and vnto all men as clearly as the Sun shines at Noone day The mistery indeed that they are a working is carryed closely so that Kings and Nobles do not see it for they all buzze Nobles and Princes in the eare that those that are enimyes to the Hierarchy they indeed would disthrone Kings and haue no gouernment and they would slight the nobility and dignityes and ouerthrow order and states and then they tell a thousand storyes to them all to incense the King and Nobles against that poore company of men that more honour dignityes and powers in a Kingdome then euer any prelat did as shall be euidently proued in my ANATOMY of the pRELATS which I dedicat vnto all Christian Princes and Common-wealths for it concernes them all but especially all such as make profession of the reformed religion I dare say by that time you and all men shall haue read that booke you will see into the mystery of their iniquity so clearely that you will affirme there are no names bad enough for them or sufficient to expresse the wickednes and treachery of those empostors Our Prelats writ books sometime against the Pope and call him the grand Imposter but the truth is the Papists say that all such Bishops are knaues and that if the Pope be an Impostor they are greater for they are all Pops and thus much I haue often heard them speake and that were it not for the hindering of the Catholick cause and the vniuersall Monarchy they could make them fly without gunpowder but they hoped in time they would leaue to write against the Church of Rome They know one an others kneueries all which I haue made knowne in the

pursuiuants themselues often brag of the greatnes of their Masters attendance and in such ample maner as I thinke the Kings Maiestie hath not commonly greater and therefore that cannot be denyed which is dayly practised And for their Seruants insolency I haue frequently both seene it and felt it Now whereas you thinke that it will not be will taken that I call Bishops Preists and Deacons Antichrists little toes and in my LETANY desire deliuerahce from them and withall seeme to accuse them of incontinency all which you thinke will be censured of vnad uisednes at least if not thought scandalous and punishable To this I answer first that by Bishops I vnderstand the Prelats and by Preists their owne creatures a generation vnknowne in the Church of Christ and by Deacons the vnder Preists in this Kingdome Officers of which the Scripture knoweth nothing likewise For the Deacons such as the Churches chose and were allowed by the Apostels they were men of grauity full of Faith and the Holy Ghost men of wisdome and good gouerment and honesty and were the treasures of the faithfull and the Church of God and distributed the liberalityes of the Saints amongst the poore indigent and necessitated brethren Now I know neuer a Deacon in England either guilty of any of those Vertues before specified or that was euer imployed in that Office or was thought fit to be trusted with the treasury of the poore or tooke the least care of them who ordinarily they trample vpon and most reprochfully abuse with the name of rascality So that such Deacons as I pray against are limbes of the Beast and the inferior order of shauelings such as ought to be spewed out of the Church as profitable for nothing but the increase of wickednes And for Bishops such as God appoynted I honour them and will mayntayne their dignity to the last drop of my bloud so far I am from praying against such Neither did I euer speake vnreuerently against the Kings Bishops and those that were apoynted as an Order in the State till they had in their open court renounced his authority and run themselues by that and many other notorious proceedings into a Praemunire and so had made themselues enemyes of his Prerogatiue royall and delinquents against his Maiestie and vnder his Highnesses displeasure as by the Statutes of the Kingdome they are proclamed to be and by the defenders of their proceedings in their Ecclesiasticall Courts who in a booke set forth by their common consent doe conclude all those in a Premunire that challenge their authority Iure diuino as the Pope and clergie of Rome which at this time they doe And for your better satisfaction looke in the Apology for proceedings in Courts Ecclesiasticall a booke made by the Prelats owne creatures and in the first chapter you shall see all the Prelats by their owne witnes in a Premunire and delinquents against his Maiestie in a high degree of contumacy And truely I thinke there was neuer such an affront put vpon regall dignity as on that day I was censured neuer such dishonour put vpon the Scriptures by such as would be thought Ministers of the word and the Bishops and Pastors of Christ neither were the scriptures euer more blasphemously abused thē they were at that time in their open assembly I shall briefly therefore tell you that dayes work of which there is a thousand witnesses as also of their impious words against the most sacred word of God and diuine oracles of holy writ by all which you will see I haue good reasō to call them ANTICHRISTS LITTLE TOES and to pray against them for they are as Disperatly impious equally to be detested of all such as truely feare the Lord and the King for if wee compare them together there will no disparity appeare between them they being euery way as malicious against the word of God and his deare seruants and as diametrally opposing regality as Antichrist himself But that all things may the more clearly be euidenced vnto you let mee tell you that dayes proceedings You must take notice that howsoeuer they had fained some triuiall articles against mee they were all by the generall consent of the Court thought so poore as they openly auerred they would not condemne mee for them so much the rather because those that had sworne to them were proued to be my capital enimyes and also in their depositions to haue sworne point blanck one against an other and like euill witnesses could not agree in swearing therefore they onely cōdemned mee for my booke which I writ in defence of the honor of Christ and his Kingdome and of the Kings most excellent Maiesties prerogatiue Royall and Supremacy against the Pope and Popish Bishops prouoked there vnto by a Papist to which duty I was bound both by the law of God the law of the land my speciall oath all which I alleged at the barre farthermore added that in writing against the Bishop of Rome I intented no such Bishops as acknowledge their autority from Kings and Emperors but onely those Bishops that vsurp autority ouer Kings and Emperors and their fellow brethren and the Church of God iure diuino and so I had prefaced in my book which also I openly read there And to speake the truth I looked for fauour and assistance in this combat from the Prelats neuer suspecting that they would haue been my enimyes for this endeauour especially I hauing also in that place alleged the Acts and Statutes establyshed by the publick consent of the whole Kingdome in which it was ratified that the Prelats haue all their autority and iurisdiction which they now exercise from the King as immediately deriued from him and to affirme the contrary is to be ipso facto an enimy of his crowne and dignity And as the Prelats were an order established by the King and state I was so farre from opposing them that I neuer impeached their dignity in the least thing in all the booke neither would I euer haue medled with them if they had kept that standing but they like the euill Angels out of pride not keeping their first station BVT OPENLY RENOVNCING THE KINGS AVTORITY and affirming that Iesus Christ made them Bishops and that the holy Ghost consecrated them and that they were Princes and had their thrones and that before Kings and all this iure diuino by all which they made mee their enimy they being delinquents against the King And because I had retified whatsoeuer I sayd in my booke by the word of God they as they had before renounced the Kings autority and barbarously reuiled mee for my paines most impiously likewise vilified the holy scripture Saying in their Sessions that they looked for some great matter in my booke finding mee so confident but more diligently reading of it they found nothing but scripture in it which was the refuge of all Schismaticks and Heriticks and that the Scripture could not be knowne

by publick authority in former calamityes of plague and pestilence the prelats contrary vnto his royall proclamation see out an other or at least left out many things of purpose that rended to the beating downe of Popery and superstition and other things to the dishonour of him and his nighest Allies a horrible affront against regall command and would haue cost any other Subiect as much as he had been worth deseruedly that should thus dispise his Imperiall Maiestics Proclamation and often declarations but the PRELATS may commit any insolency against the King and his people and no body dare say why doe you so it is enough that they seeme to fauour the prerogatiue royall though by their actions they conculcate it which makes vs thinke now that it was their inuention likewise to silence all the lectures in London and in all infected places that in as much as in them lyes they might aduance their damnable superstitions and idolatryes And to what end else should such preaching vp of ALTARS in all places meane such vrging of beautifying of temples such bowing to altars tables at the letters and syllables of Iesus if they had not some great designe of innovation For these things vsed not to be within these few yeares and cannot churches be comely mayntained as they haue formerly been but the whole kingdome must be troubled about them for their sumptuosity and the furnishing of them with fopperies fit for nothing but to prouoke God to anger and who hath expresly said he is not pleased with such things There was a wise Deane not long since who it seemes had been a little before in heauen for he brought news fram thence that Saint Paul was very merry and glad to see their loue towards him and that the King and Nobles were so ready to yeild their helping hands towards his releife in bestowing new cloths vpon him or rather mending his old ones and that Paules it selfe and the very stones did reioyce that the reparations went on soe prosperously and many a fine thing he had to this purpose concerning that holy place for so he termed it But I dare presume in saying that Paul was very glad to see their loue to him in repayring that raw bond building he preached then without his book which Deanes seldome doe before the King I beleeue if Paul were vpon the earth to see what they now doe about that businesse he would giue them as little thanks for that endeauour and for all their paynes as he did at Lystra to the Preists of Iupiter that would haue sacrificed to him and Barnabas No without doubt it would exceedingly trouble and perplex Paul who hated all superstition and such like trumperies as may easily be seene in the seuententh of the Acts where be reprehends the Athenians for their superstition and care about temples and told them that God dwelt not in temples made with hands nor had no need of such deuices and earnestly dehorted them from all such doings and shall we now thinke though a Deane sayes it that Paul would preach an other doctrin contrary to that No no Paul was no temporiser he stood allwayes to his principles and abhorres all such fooleries and impietyes His whole study was how to build vp the true temples and Churches of God in their most holy faith and how to preach and promulgate the Gospell and how to promote the honor of it by his Sufferings and by teaching and instructing the people night and day from house to house His care was not taken vp in making of houses and edifices magnificent or repayring them fit for nothing but superstition and idolatry and the MAYNTENANCE OF IDLE ALBEY LVBBERS concerning which he giueth strict command that except they wrought and laboured with their hands they should not eate Paul indeed had the sollicitude of all the Churches continually lying vpon him and his whole study was to build and reedify them but they were the liuing temples and those indeed he built vp dayly in the knowledge of God and of themselues and with all tooke speciall care for the releife of the poore saints and how to procure aide and comfort vnto them in the times of their necessityes Yea so farr was Paul from putting men to vnnecessary expenses and burthening of them or any way charging of them about building of Churches that he would not be beholding to them for the repayring of his owne body the Temple of the holy Ghost but laboured with his owne hands for his proper maintenance and preached the Gospell to them gratis and that night and day and thought no time enough for that holy duty And shall wee then thinke when Paul was such an aduancer of preaching and such a publisher of the Gospell and so great a hater of superstition and idolatry that hee now is well pleased with the supperfluous repayring of THAT IDOL TEMPLE and the prouiding of a place for such droanes as he thought not worthy to eate Nay I dare maintaine out of Pauls owne doctrine that those infinit summes of money to haue been bestowed vpon the poore indigent brethren would haue been farre more pleasing vnto God for the poore are in the world for the exercise of mens charity and for the common good of kingdomes but of such reparations and buildings there comes neither honor to God nor the King pretend Popelins what they will And all this I say I am ready to make good But to such a passe are times now come that the Pulpits which should be the place of God and his truth are now become stages to make playes on and to vent lyes impiety superstition and idolatry But one of the greatest hypocriticall mockeries of all the rest is their capping and crouching at the name of Iesus and the vrging of all men to doe the same Nay some say they make the PRINCE of WALES to doe it I say in that their damnable hypocrisy is seene for howsoeuer they vrge the obseruation of that ceremony and custome more then they doe the keeping of any command of God and punish the neglect of it with more seuerity then the transgression of the whole law yet there is not one word of warrant for it in all the booke of God the very place they pretend no way fauouring them nor their procedings being the 2. to the Philippians 10 To say nothing of the opinion of all antiquiry that is against them nor how that text by all the torrent of moderne learned men is interpreted contrary to their opinion and by both ancient and neoterick Expositers applyed to the confuting of damnable hereticks and not for the bringing-in of apish tricks in the seruice and worship of God But to come now to the words let vs see whether the Prelats doe that the text inioynts which is the thing they so earnestly vrge The words are these That at the name of Iesus euery knee should bow of things in heauen and things in earth and things vnder

Anatomy of the Prelats which is in the hands of some speciall friends The printing of which I haue reserued till my censure in the starre-chamber because I desire to doe things methodically and vpon mature deliberation and in such sort that all Christendome may haue the greater cause to looke into businesses that so highly concerne their well being You know I haue been a traueller and liued many yeares abroad and in the most florishing vniuersityes of Europe and in many Courts of great Princes and haue been imployed in matters of state and that often and in all these places where I euer liued I carryed my self as a Christian and had the repute of them all for an honest man and haue the publicke testimonyes of all places where I dwelt both for my honesty and learning and my bonds are famous now at Rome it self to my knowledg and in all the Christian world And all men that know any thing know also that I suffer not as an euill doer they stand all in wonderfull expectation what will be the issue of this businesse for it astonisheth thē to see that I should be put in prison for writing a booke against the Pope in defence of Regality and because it had nothing but scripture in it Now in this expectation of theirs I heare the Prelats are plotting new mischiefe against mee and haue desired power and greater assistance from the King for the prosecuting of mee more seuerely yet as if they had not enough before and withall that the Nobility joyne with them for the censuring of mee in the star-chamber for the cutting of my eares and worse but I hoope his Maiestie and the honorable Lords will more seriously looke into the businesse which if they doe I am confident they shall neuer find mee a delinquent but to haue deserued better from King and state then any Prelat in England euer did or can doe But by the way Let mee tell you thus much that whatsoeuer the Prelates pretend of seruice and loue to the King and Nobles they will in the conclusion deale with them as Polyphemus dealt with Vlisses his soldiers when he had got them in Antro first sayes Vlisses I will deuoure these meaning the common soldiers and after I will come to thee And euen so the Prelats when they haue deuoured the commons and them they stile by the name of Puritans they will also deuoure those graet vlisses and Heroes and this is as true as the Sunshines at none day They haue made prety beginnings of that good worke allready if men could see it and they and their creatures haue the breeding of all their children and the tutoring of them at home and abroad and all their whole endeauour is that the Lords and Peeres of the kingdome may be acquaynted with no solid learning and that which concernes either Religion or Gouernment but that they may haue some complementall way of Courtship for entertayment and be fit for pleasure onely and this say the Prelats is enough for Lords so that if any of the Lords creepe into the knowledg either of religion or of states matters it is through their owne ingenuity and industry and sore against the Prelats liking And hence it is that such misery at this day is in this kingdome that there is not one of forty of the Lords that vnderstandeth to the purpose an ordinary Latin author which is but the bark of learning so that by this meanes they are depriued of an excellent way of instruction and all this not through their owne default who otherwise are as witty and ingenious as any men but through their tutors and that indeed is their onely study to keepe Princes and Nobles ignorant and take them vp with pleasure that they may get the gouernment into their owne hands and be thought onely fit to manage state affayres to the infinit dishonour of the Nobility yea Kings themselues who if they would but set themselues a little to their studyes and looke into matters of Religion and state they would find little need of such cattle as Prelats are either in Church or state or if their were they would send them home to preach as Ministers should nay they would command them to follow that calling of preaching and leaue state-affayres to them King Iames in his Apology to Christian Princes sayes that Churchmen medling with state-affayres are the frogs that came out of the bottomlesse pit that corrupt and spoyle all things And truely till the Kings and Princes of the earth shall dismisse that crew from their Courts or send them about their owne callings they can neuer promise vnto themselues their Crownes and dignities any enduring security all which-things I will make so euidently appeare in my Anatomy of the Prelats as there is neuer Boy of eight yeares old but shall see it and I hope by that good work to doe such seruice and so good an office to all Christian Kings and to all Common wealths to the whole Church of God and to the generations of men that loue peace and syncerity as the very memory of mee the miserablest now of creatures shall be gratefull to all posterity to the worlds end But this shall be reserued till the sentence of the star-chamber is passed For I desire to print the whole passage of that Court against mee as I haue done of the high Comission that all the world may see how little I haue deserued such censures as I haue and shall vndergoe and how well I haue merited both from Church and state and when the Censure of the starre-chamber against me shall come out with the Anatomy of the Prelats you all men will then see whether the Prelats are not braue statesmen or no. But that I may notwrong any mā I must intreat your fauour in one thing I know you are an eminent man haue many freinds in the Court I shall therefore desire of You this kindnes that whatsoeuer speeches either the kings Attorney or Sollicitor or any other shall make in my absence against mee that it may be taken in short hand and sent mee forth with that I may translate it into Latin as it commeth with my answer to it and replication so that I may haue Bill and answer and all things ready for the presse at the day of my Censure and that at that day there may likewise be as many as possible can gather speeches that may take their declamations from their mouthes seuerally for I resolue to translate them all into Latine and to coment vpon them what Lords soeuer they be And I doubt not but to make it the famousest story that euer was agitated in any Court of iudicature since Paul appeared before Nero. But it is time now to draw to an end I heare that the Attorney vniuersall with the Kings Sollicitor are now a coming to examine mee and intend speedily to haue my eares I am onely sory I haue no more eares nor liues to lose for the houour of God my King and Religion but what should I greiue that I haue no more liues and eares to lose I know God accepteth of the least things so they be insyncerity offered vnto him to whose gratious perseruation I commend you and thinke this for the present sufficient to haue answered to your exceptions against my Letany and for the auoyding of others misinterpretings of my honest intentions Fare you well Your for euer in Limbo Patrum IOHN BASTVVICK Heare ends the second part of my Letany the other SIX are to Follow