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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A41434	The two great mysteries of Christian religion the ineffable Trinity, [the] vvonderful incarnation, explicated to the satisfaction of mans own naturall reason, and according to the grounds of philosophy / by G. G. G.	Goodman, Godfrey, 1583-1656.	1653 (1653)	Wing G1103; ESTC R4826	120,015	119

Christmas day to give a Testimony to Religion that it might flourish in persecution as the Thorn did blossom in the coldest time of Winter though the Sun in so great a distance might seem to want heat to bring forth the sap so Religion should stand or rather rise up though Religious houses were pull'd down I never heard nor read that any Ancient Author did mention this Thorn which certainly they had not omitted if there had been any such thing and by the growth of the Thorn truly I did judge the age thereof to be much about the time of the dissolution of that Abbey I do accuse no man but if I may judge of the inward faith by the outward tokens and signes then I must needs say that it is high time the Church being now undermined to set up props and to raise up Buttresses for the support of Christian Religion and I bethought my self to whose office this did properly belong Christ being the head-corner-stone laid the foundation of his Church the Apostles did finish the building they were very carefull in the choyce of their successors the first thing they did after the Ascension of Christ was the Election and choyce of Saint Matthias and generally they had the Authority Posuit vos regere Ecclesiam Dei So then I did conceive that the generall care of the Church did belong unto them and where things were not setled and that there was no superiour amongst them that then it did belong to every one of them in particular but especially to the Eldest for so in the state of Nature the primogenitus had ever the care of Gods service and in the Law Aaron was the eldest brother to Moses and the High-priest hood was setled on him and his Sons and here I bethought my self that having been these ten yeers the ancientest Bishop in the Province I was bound in conscience to do my uttermost indeavour to strengthen and support Religion or at least to enter a Protestation and to make a Publick confession of mine own Faith that such as would might follow my example this I took as part of my duty and office to which I was bound and obliged in conscience and to have neglected this I thought I should have greatly sinned then I did think my self bound to do the uttermost of my endeavours and when I considered that the custom of the Church in such like cases hath ever been to implore Brachium seculare to whom should I address my self but to your Lordship and humbly crave your assistance and furtherance herein and whereas formerly there was a course of Law for the punishment of open and scandalous blasphemers and that there were severall writs de Excommunicato capiendi de haretico comburendo c. There being now no Ecclesiasticall jurisdiction that your Lordship would be pleased to be a means to the Honourable and Reverend Judges to supply those wants and to settle a course whereby there may be a legall proceeding against these publick and scandalous blasphemers according to the true intent of the Law Thus both in composing this Treatise and for the Dedication thereof to your Lordship I have done no more then what I thought my self bound in conscience to perform and the rather to express my joy in some things which have lately hapned for living here in the Church-yard of Saint Margarets in Westminster which was the Church proper to the Parliament for here they kept their thanksgivings their humiliations and all other their solemnities when as in their time the Font was pulled down and so continued demolished and in ruines it is now set up again in a most decent and comely manner and I hope it will be an example for other Churches to follow so likewise they had a very solemn perambulation in Rogation week according to the old manner which had been omitted during the sitting of Parliament and Holydayes begin to be kept thus with joy and alacrity not without hopes of good times to suceed I thought fit to publish this Treatise as containing the grounds of Christian Religion for these are the two great and principall Mysteries which all others presuppose and herein if we should waver in the least kinde then Christian Religion would faile and come to nothing and by the publishing of these it will appear what satisfaction I gave in all the rest of the mysteries for these are the hardest and most difficult and as I have performed in these so let men judge of the rest and if God shall inable me and that I may have any competency of meanes to subsist together with the use of a library I shall then proceed in the rest God willing Thus much in generall though I am a stranger utterly unknown and never deserving the least favour from your Lordship yet I make bold to become a Petitioner When I undertook to write the History of the Church of England especially in the time of Henry the eight wherein there was the greatest Alteration and Change knowing that the Lord Cromwell your Lordships great Unckle was then in great favour for I have seen the Archbishops and the Lord Chancellor Audley their Letters unto him to desire his help in furthering their suits to the King and that he was then the only man imployed especially in spirituall causes for he did exercise the whole Ecclesiasticall jurisdiction under the King and by virtue thereof he took place of the Arch bishop of Canterbury which never any subject did and sat on the Bishops side in Parliament I thought it very necessary and fit to hearken after his writings and by the meanes of Sir Robert Cotton the great Antiquary now with God I had the perusall of his study where I read all his Letters Notes and Papers and where I found that it was the Lord Cromwell who made that Order in the Church that every one should learn in the English Tongue the Apostles Creed which may be some example and encouragement to your Lordship to defend these mysteries of our Faith and Religion which hath hitherto been my whole suit Amongst other Letters to the then Lord Cromwell I found one from John Fisher Bishop of Rochester a man famous for his devotion learning and courage when he was in far greater distress then ever I was I thank God for it the effect of the Letter was To desire his help for his relief the Letter is yet extant and may be produced What effect it took I cannot say but I do not finde that it was ever seconded with any other Letter which is usual in cases of distress nor did the Bishop complain at the time of his execution when he was beheaded and therefore I conceive he found some relief This hath encouraged me to become a Suitor to Your Lordship I shall not here acquaint you with any particulars for this were to be over-troublesome but I call God to witness that I know no man nor have I heard of any man that hath