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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A80839	Berith Anti-Baal, or Zach. Croftons appearance before the prelate-justice of peace, vainly pretending to binde the covenant and covenanters to their good behaviour. By way of rejoynder to, and animadversion on Doctor John Gauden's reply or vindication of his analysis, from the (by him reputed) pitiful cavils and objections; but really proved powerful and convincing exceptions of Mr. Zach. Croftons Analepsis. / By the author of the Analepsis, and (not by the Dr observed) Analepsis anelephthe, to the continuing of St. Peter's bonds, and fastning his fetters against papal and prelatical power.	Crofton, Zachary, 1625 or 6-1672.	1661 (1661)	Wing C6988; Thomason E1085_6; ESTC R208062	67,248	104

when little Mr. Croftons Analepsis was laid at your feet to be taken up or kicked away but enough of this it is more fit for your Anonymous Anatomist then for a man of modesty who shall keep himself distinct as you have differenced him and shall therefore desire to weigh what your Worship hath against his Analepsis Mr. Crofton is in this elaborate tract dealt with a part but the little man is so light that he is tossed up and down the Wilderness that seeking he cannot without tyring find himself in these indeed tedious and intangled as your self calls them animad versions he did according to his little reason unravel your last snarled skain and resolved it into a regular method which methinks Sir might have kept your fluency within some bounds and have curbed your wild excursions he shewed you the Rocks against which your resolution dashed and digested your discourse into argumentation as well as he could and dare say you appeared better to the Reader in Mr. Croftons Analepsis then in your own Analysis why kept you not to this I promise you if this be Rhetorick I shall not love it till it keep to rule be plain pure perspicuous and methodical without which it is but natural fluency of words and volubility of tongue and not fordid tedious obscure flat wild rabid raging empty and barely wordy without sentence confused and immethodical as is yours unto the very heigth of exorbitancy take notice of it if I be as God forbid I should be Arch-Bishop of Canterbury and an appeal be made to the Archp. against your writings I will adjudge you instead of your Marginal digitations to your Reader to place over every Paragraph the figure by which you frame your sentence and mood by which you form your argument for now you have vindicated your Analysis I must send to you to pray an Analysis of your vindication my reason it is too little to make it I must be fain to guess your meaning by your mumping The Doctors great design in his Analysis professed to reconcile the Covenant and Episcopacy but how unhappily he lost it and miscarried in it was modestly declared by little Mr. Crofton whom I apprehend this great Doctor scorns to admit as a Dictator so as to take notice of or amend his errors on which his conscience cannot but tell him all his Casuistical endeavou●s have been and must needs be shipwrackt without all possibility of satisfaction to conscience how ever it may catch the fancy of his prelatical proselytes who are pleased with a sound against the Covenant and consider not the certainty of it and are ready jurare in verba Episcopi be they never so groundless the say so of a grave Prelate is a sufficient reason of their faith The inadvertency of his expressions both for their fury and falshood against Presbytery the Parliament and all those whose consciences cannot correspond with his propounded Prelacy as well as against his particular Antagonists is so far from being abated that it is more vigorously acted and made so accumulative that his book runs over with foams of rage filling as I said before more the twenty sheets of paper with such furious and foolish objurgatio●s ridiculous reflexions and scurrilous chiding that he that enters this book and passeth but the Threshold must needs say this man is in no temper to resolve a doubt or satisfie a conscience he is in the heat of a scolding passion and so lay it aside as unfit to be read really had angry Mr. Crofton been his Chaplain he must have become an index expurgatorius to his book and presumed to dictate more sobriety and meekness before it had seen the world for that the wrath of man cannot work the righteousness of God men cannot but judge this book an hot contest and violent plea for his prelatical honour and revenues in which beginning to be warm he groweth as hot as a Toast and fearing to lose them falls into a fretting chafe against the Covenant and Covenanters which promise them little security and therefore runs his rage against sacriledge and buying Bishops Lands from which it is well known Mr. Crofton is free nor indeed doth he charge him rather then for his Episcopal office in Christs Church the conscience of which would have made him sensible a Bishop must be no brawler but patient In this angry mood we cannot expect him to be very clear o● certain in the ratio formalis objecti the object of the obligation scrupled and disputed the want of which hath been noted to him by the different acceptation of the term Bishop and Episcopacy the which Mr. Crofton did not onely explain but propose unto him a doublesence thereof affirming the one to be Scriptural primitive and Catholique the other to be Papal Novel and tyrannical and on the variety of his words prayed a positive determination which of them he owned and would reconcile to the Covenant but his greatness would not condescend to make a choice of either according to Mr. Croftons proposal but that we may know he scornfully takes notice that Mr. Crofton had observed his uncertain proposal of the object in ambiguous words he affords us a parenthesis in the threshold of his book which runs thus The way of Episcopal order and authority that is lest Mr. Crofton should again mistake my meaning the presidency of one chief Prebyter or Bishop among many and above all lesser Bishops or Presbyters in his Diocess according to the ancient custome and laws E●clesiastical and civil I thank you Sir for this grave cast of your eye did Mr. Crofton mistake you without cause or clamour it to your damage or did he not take the paines to pick up your words and put them together and tell you that some of them speld one thing and some another distinct from that and modestly desire which you would own and stand by Sir the spirit and men of your Diocess are said to be near a kin to the Welchmen and they must have leave to tell their tale twice and for ought I see you must tell yours thrice for I am as likely to mistake you as I was before such an Heraclitus 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 you are in your Aenigmatical extrication of your own made intricacies and rhetorical labyrinths Before I presume to determine your meaning I must enquire what you mean by Presidency whether you intend not to extend it beyond the gradus of a Moderator unto the power and efficacy of a President of a Colledge at the least what you mean by above all less and subordinate Bishops whether Officio honore Cathedrae or Ordinis authoritate which your Episcopal order authority doth suggest though the title Bishop given by you to Presbyters doth seem to mitigate it What do you mean by antient custom only that which hath long use and can plead prescription and which may have run long and yet leave us a space in which we may

reason I must be content to take you as I find you and follow you as well as I can in your own confusion And Sir I find the fabrick of your discourse founded on some seeming principles which you account undoubted and eternal then raysed by some Hypotheses or conjectural fancies framed in your own brain and so your strength is at length directed against that opposition to your prelatical structure you undertook to clear by your Analysis this is the onely order into which Mr Crofton can reduce you and according to which he shall now consider you First Sir your foundation is first offered to view in pa. 8 and must be considered and you poynt to it by moral and immutable grounds in the Margin and in the Text tell us your Analysis was fixed on these undoubted and eternal principles of Justice and true Religion 1. No man can lawfully covenant swear vow or engage himself contrary to that duty he ows to God the King the Church the Laws and good of his Country or contrary to that particular Justice and charity which he oweth to himself or other men 2. If any man be surprised or hampered in such Covenanting words or vowing formes he must find out such a sence of his words as may consist with true Religion Justice and known Laws c. 3. If this cannot fairely be done he must presently retract his Covenant c. Sir before I can digest your Notions and fundamental axioms as undoubted and eternal moral and immutable I must demand proof for part of the first and then the next fall in and follow think you Sir a man may in no case swear to endeavour in his place or calling to remove what is established by Law if so you must prove it I do not believe you for the laws which were good may become hurtful will not you Bishops swear and pursue it to have the statute 17. Caroli repealed if you say no I shall not believe you nor will you be easily made to believe it is unlawful and yet I dare boldly affirm it is contrary to your duty Again is every Oath unlawful which is against the particular charity and Justice a man oweth to himself I cannot believe it a Marchant may find it to be much for his gain that he Trade to a place which is to be excluded by League between two Nations he is required to swear may he stand off and say Charity begins at home my particular charity doth carry me to Trade thither to my own enriching I may not lawfully swear against it Preach this Doctrine and the people will love you better then your Prince my own particular justice doth bind to exact the utmost mite of the Covenants forfeiture or damages which I recover against a man may I not lawfully mitigate it and on sence of the mans poverty and my own credit as not revengeful and cruel may I not swear I will not take one mite or but one half you are Sir no Chapman for me that will not give me leave to cut a thong out of my own hide As to your second if a man have so sworn and be surprised or hampered by Covenanting words he must seek to find a just sence if you mean of the words according to their natural signification and others vulgar acceptation as well as the matter he would performe I shall not much quarrel with you onely tell you the fencing of an Oath when sworn is a Tickle slippery stone to place in a foundation it is a snare to devoure holy things and after vows to make enquiry But Sir for your third not finding such a sence he must fly off and retract his Oath I can in no cause consent until you have cleared it that the Oath of the Gibeonites was not against the duty they owed to God their Laws and Country their own charity and justice or that Jeptha's vow was not against his own particular charity and justice you have some whimsies concerning these we shall weigh them in their proper places I am sure these were both surprised and whatever you fancie the one did I am sure the other did not go about to sence it as they might much more clearly and rationally then you do the Coven●nt If Sir these be your political axioms I am sure the Heathen would soon tell you You are like to bring an old house on the head of humane Societie and lay them open to all kind of persidie what now must we expect the fabrick and superstructure to be raised and fixed on so false and slippery a foundation is like to prove a falsis nil nifi falsa sequuntur such as is the Thesis such must be Hypothesis the following matterials be of the same nature and bear a Symerie to the ground-work And Sir when I gather up your rafters promiscuously scattered to the raising of your Hierarchical Anti-covenant structure I find them to be a hydra of ecclesiastical heresie and political error by which your Prelacie seems to work like the man of sin from whom it was derived the papacie of which it cannot be denied to be a species though alterius mundi with all deceiveableness unto all unrighteousness the which you must give me leave to pile up and lay together that your self and such on whom you pretend influence may discern them Yet Sir I have more charity then to count you an Heretick I judge them to be the exuberancie of your inconsiderate loquacity the excrescencie of an unregarded tongue darkening knowledge by words without wisdom for in a multitude of words there cannot want much sin However by a bold and base petitio principii you build upon them I hope when you see them naked you will retract them and run away from your own structure lest it tumble on your own head to your ruine as well as shame Concerning Episcopacy the Object and Ratio formalis of the debate I have observed your unwillingness to be mistaken and therefore have done my diligence to understand you and do think I have taken you right and as your present state doth declare to all the world and whilst I say the Solemn League and Covenant doth bind in the plain literal and obvious sence to the extirpation thereof you do determine it cannot so do rationally justly honestly piously morally religiously with an heap of such words but if it so binde us it is void but instead of those clear constant and pregnant beams of right reason and true Religion which you promised in your Analysis and I demanded in my Analepsis you us present with the foggie fancies of your own brain and run away with them ●y your fluid and gliding tongue or discourse as if granted as your moral and immutable principles indispensably and undeniably true whilst every knowing man will tell you nothing but a flood of vanity can drive you to imagine them so to be Particularly you conclude as without contradiction these Ten things which in their