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A05383 The holy pilgrime, leading the way to heaven. Or, a diuine direction in the way of life, containing a familiar exposition of such secrets in diuinity, as may direct the simple in the way of their Christian pilgrimage In two books. The first declaring what man is in the mistery of himselfe. The second, what man is in the happines of Christ. Written by C.L.; Holy pilgrime, leading the way to new Jerusalem Lever, Christopher, fl. 1627. 1618 (1618) STC 15538; ESTC S102377 58,859 294

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vvisdome and temperance and that they are perswaders of his Majest to bloudshed and are the upholdes of idola●rie superstition prophanesse ●hat he scandalously defame●h the vvitnesses produced against him and that he hath causleslie and boldlie inveighed against the oath ex officio and other the ancient formes of proceedings of the High Commission Court To all these the Defendent ansvvereth as they lie And first vvhereas the Defendent chargeth them vvith crueltie injustice vvant of vvisdome temperance● he conceiveth he hath very good reason for that his charge both in respect of himself and others and in regard both of the soules and bodies estates of men all which they captive enslave or dissipate scatter at pleasure and in as much as in them lyes seeke the ruine of To say nothing of their daylie practises who condemne men without either exhibiting articles producing of witnesses or any legall proceedings against them as if a man should be hanged without evidence given or indictment framed which is the hight of injustice the Defendēt saith that their very proceedings against himselfe sufficiently shew their crueltie injustice want of wisdome and temperance their very speeches apparently prove all these things Neither is there such a president of wrong and cruelty in the whole world that any man of what ranke order or degree soever he be that shall write a Booke in Defence of that religion that is established by publick Autority for the honour of the King in Defence of his prerogative against a common enimy that for this indeavour of his should be ruined he his wife children cast into prison deprived first of all possibility of livelyhood rayled upon reviled publickly and after all this given to the Devill and that onely for writing a Booke which had nothing in it but Scripture and in the which the Defendent thought they meant him and that they should still prosecute him seek his eares and the defacing of him which they threaten Such a President of wrong crueltie the Defendent sayth cannot be produced in toto Macrocosm● therefore the Defendent in respect of his owne particular justlie chargeth them with crueltie injustice and intemperance And in respect of all other honest men that come under their jurisdiction the same may be sayd and proved by thousands whether one respect their soules bodyes or goods for they use cruelty in regard of all sparing neither age or sex poore or rich youg or old bond or free but upon every triviall occasion or for the meanest neglect of any one of their idlest and impious Ceremonies or for any misprision it is enough to have them hoisted into the High Commission Court brought from the remotest parts of the Kingdome to the utter undoing of them their familyes when as the greatest breach of any of the Commandements of the first table is not once thought of And in the bringing of them into troubles they deale with those poore men as they doe with Beares Bulls at Paris Garden they first by violence and their Officers to their mightie expenses hale them into their Courts and then with bands of two or three hundred pounds they tie them to their stakes bait them three or foure yeares together with all maner of contumelyes reproaches vexations expenses calamities torments till they have wearied them to death and made their lives tedious unto them after all this they fling him into one jayle or other destitute of friends monies And as if this were not enough e●en as the persecutors of the Martyrs in the primitive times as histories relate dealt with the Saints when they brought them to the slaughter they were wont to cloth them with the skinnes and hides of wilde Beasts that so they might make them the more formidable and the better animate their dogs and curres against them to teare them in peeces In like maner doe the Prelats their complices in these our times deale with poore honest Christians and the true and faithfull servants of the Lord and the Kings most loyall Subiects they make them monstrous ugly and deformed unto all men King Nobles by their relations and informations they cloth them with saying of them That they are maligners and enimies of government troublers of Church and State Seducers of the Kings Subjects making them disloyall unto their Prince stirrers up of sedition faction and a thousand such crimes setting all the people against them in their open Courts have their orators to blanch over their defamatory false accu●ations charging them with foule crimes the thought of which never came into their heads as this present information may witnes Yea in the very Court-Sermons they incense the King Nobles dayly against those they brand with the name of Puritans and Sectaries which all this honorable Assembly can witnes and the Defendent hath heard many Court-Sermons with his owne eares in the time of his liberty but never heard one where the Puritans as they terme them were not brought up in the Pulpit most shamefully unchristianly traduced as those that opposed the Kings proceedings and such as maligne his government and trouble the peace of Church and State and humbly besought his Majest that some severe course might bee sought taken against them These such like sprincklings of their brotherly Rhetorick the defendent himselfe hath often heard neither can this honorable Court be ignorant of the truth of this And what is all this but great cruelty injustice to abuse thus their brethren by malicious and false accusations to the incensing of their Gracious King and Soveraigne against them when they are most innocent harmlesse desiring nothing more then the life safety prosperity happines of his Majesty and of his royall progeny his florishing raigne and would lose ten thousand lives if they had them for the honour of his crowne dignity for they desire nothing more then to bee found loyall neither do they seeke any thing more then the peac● and wellfare of the Church the good of this commonwealth● And therefore if there be any this is cruelty and injustice in a high degree to deale thus mercilesly with their too too much allready afflictid brethren of whom they are ever making sinister relations to King Councell and State to the depriving of them many times of their libert● livelyhoods and states to the making of them theirs ever miserable and all this also they doe in their Courts every day defaming them as enimies of government and enimies of the Church and casting them into prison with great Fines on their backs And this is the cruelty they dayly use in respect of their bodies lives and estates But yet their cruelty is greater in respect of their soules for they have through the Kingdome of England and VVales taken away allmost all their glorious paynfull Ministers and ●hose that with most diligence taught the people and
there at the Barr as a Delinquent for mayntayning the Religion established by publick Autority the honour of the King and the glory of his Majestie and that one Chouny a Sussex man a laick as vvell as himselfe should vvrite a Booke and set it forth by publicke autoritie mayntayning the Church of Rome to be a true Church and never to have had so much in her as the suspition of error in fundamentall poynts and that this booke should be dedicated to the Prelate of Canterbury patrionized by him vvhich Book● the Def●ndent both read and exhibited in Court by vvhich notwithstandig the King himselfe and all his Subiects were made Schismaticks and hereticks to the infinit dishonour of God our Gratio●s King and King Iames of blessed memorie and our most holie profession and religion This as the defendent told the Lord of Dorset struck an amazement in him especially vvhen the author of it must be favoured and co●ntenanced by Canterburie and for the defending of the honour and dignitie of our Church and the honour of the King the Defendent should stand as an evill doer Novv vvhen the defendent vvas come thus farre and vvas then approaching more closely unto them all intending more fullie in the pleading of his cause to have set forth their unjust dealing they tolde him that he rayled and imperiouslie commanded him to hold his peace vvhich vvas the reason of his Apologeticus ad Praesules Anglicanos vvhere he tooke libertie to vvrite that and publish it to the vievv of all the vvorld vvhich he vvould have then spoke But after that they had silenced him they then fell a thundering against him everie one as he pleased all of them joyning in this one onely excepted that they censured him onely for his Booke and in their censure they unanimously agreed that the Defendent should pay the costs of suite a thousand pounds unto the King for a fine be debarred of his practice that his booke should be burnt and that the Defendent should lye in prison till recantation and in the meane time be delivered unto Satan And thus did the Sublime Court deale with the Defendent for doing his duty But here the Defendent craveth favour againe of the honorable Court that he may briefly letting the puny Iudges and their nonsen●e dye in silence say something of the Prelats haranges because they onely were the men that found themselves aggreeved a● his writing to say the trueth all the other are Officiers under them and are the Prelats hangbyes he meanes the Doctors to doe what they would have thē as hourely experience teache●h all men And so much the more earnestly he desireth this liberty because it will make much for the demōstration of the justice of his accusation against the Prelats both in respect of the dishonor they have don unto God by it the dishonour of the King their Master King Iames of precious memory and the wrong done to himself in particular Now the first that entred this combat was Francis White Bishop of Ely who in the first place most blasphemously and with many contumelyes reproached the holy Scriptures making nothing of their divine Autority as all the standers by can witnes for he reviling the Defendent sayd That he had nothing in his booke but Scripture which was as he tearmed it the refuge of all Hereticks and Schismaticks openly averring withall That the Scrip●ures could not be knowne to be the Word of God but by the Fathers and Saint Augustin would not have beleeved the Scriptures to be the Word of God had not the Church told him so Further he sayd That the Scripture could not be knowne distinguished from ●he Apocrypha but by the Fa●hers nor the meaning of the Scripture found out but by the Fathers that all the Fa●hers from all Antiquity which is most false as the defendent in a speciall booke hath sufficiently shewed made and proved a vast difference between Bishops and Presbyters and that there was ever a greater excellency and Autority in the Bishop then in Presbyters And this with an unan●mous cōsent they all agreed in till a base fellow Calvin for so he tearmed that ever to be honoured Divine rose up in an obscure corner of the World vi●lated and overtrew all order Autority in the Church and would allso have demolished the Autority of the Magistrates And then turning his speech to the Defendent unhumanly he called him Base fellow Brasen faced Fellow Base Dunce and sayd in the face of the Court That if he could not mayntayne his Episcopall Autority to be Iure Divino he would fling away his Rotchet And so concluding with those that had gone before him in his censure he sat downe in a very great fu●y and passion Af●er him came forth the Bishop of Yorke and in that numerous Assembly proclaymes That Iesus Christ made him a Bishop and the holy Ghost consecrated him and that he had not his Autority from the King for Bishops were before Kings and that Bishops held the Crownes of Kings upon their heads and so peremptorily averring that the Defendent ought to be knockt downe with club-Law for his ignorance assenting with the rest in their Censure he fell a sleep In the third place the Bishop of London advanced forwards speaking very loud and temerarious words against the Holy Scriptures saying That he had thought to have found some great Matters in the Defendents booke seeing him so confident and so peremptory but diligently reading of it he met with nothing in it but Scripture which as he sayd was the refuge of all Schismeticks Hereticks so according with his predecessors in their opinion and censure he concluded his part of speech But last of all came forth the Prelat of Canterbury who with a frontlesse boldnes avouched his Episcopall Autority preeminency over his bre●hren to be onely from God very much blaming Calvin for his fa●tious Spirit saying That their Ecclesiasticall Autority the power they exercised was from Christ Iesus and produced Timothy and Titus to prove● the same assertion and that Bishops were before Christian Kings and they held the Crownes of Kings upon their heads For no Bishop no King those that would have no Bishops sought to overthrow all Government in his censure he jumped in all things with the rest saving in the Fine which as he sayd hee thought too little and therefore ought of meere conscience as he told the other Iudges hee fined the Defendent a Thousand pounds more But he had one thing more to speake as he sayd concerning the Ch●rch of Rome and about that he resolved publickly there to declare himself in regard the Defendent had cast Chounyes book unto him in open Court and of the Synagogue of Rome he spake verie honorably affirming That shee was a true Church and that shee did not erre in fundamentall poynts and all this hee spake in that publick Sessions All which the Defendent hath