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A05611	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	58,802	32

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 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

his face he lyes to teach an other way to heauen then by the Scripture which Christ the Sonne of God sendeth vs to and all the Prophets and Apostles as to the instructers of the simple and able to make the man of God wise to saluation and perfectly furnished to euery good worke and the which the Holy Ghost compares to a guide and a Lanthorne for direction and a light to conduct vs in this our pilgrimage and peregrination through the errors of the world and to keep our feet in the paths of truth and with the Prelats this great and glorious light this Scripture must be so obscure as it must be inferior to all things that haue a power in themselues to declare demonstrate their owne nature as fire to be fire gold to be gold light to be light But the Scripture onely that can not be knowne but by the helpe of others to be the word of God it cannot be the word of God without the Fathers and their interpretation of them for the Scriptures themselues they are the onely refuge of Schismaticks the cause of all errors and that that commeth confirmed and proued onely from Scripture is euer to be suspected with the Prelats O BLASPHEMY yea the booke that hath nothing but Scripture must be adiudged to the fire and the author of it giuen ouer to the Deuill sined a thousand pounds and censured to pay the costs of sute and be debarred of his practice the onely support left for the releife of his distressed family to the vtter vndoing of him his poore wise and children and all this forsooth because there was nothing but Scripture in it O HORRIBLE impiety The truth is howsoeuer they seemed to condemne it because it had nothing but scripture that was not the occasion but the very cause was because I writ against the Pope Father Antichrist such correspondency there is now betwene the Pope and the Prelats that one cannot write against him but the Prelats say by and by that they are meant by it The Grols You know that among the Papists if any of them hold but any one tenent of the Protestents as that there is no Purgatory beside the bloud of Iesus Christ or that there are no sinnes in their owne nature veniall or that the Scripture is sufficient of it selfe with out traditions and ought to be the sole rule of life and doctrine and the onely Iudge of controuersies or that the Pope is not Christs Vicar nor Peters successor or that Christ is not corporally present in the Sacrament of the altar as they call it for any of these assertions or any other of our tenents he is forthwith condemned for an heritick and burnt at a Stake as dayly experience teacheth vs. Nay it is a common thing amongst vs here in England let any man hold but any one tenent of any sect whatsoeuer be it as they terme them Brownists Anabaptists Antinomians though in all other things he agree with the Church as they call it yet he is forthwith adiudged condemned for such an one Yea let a man refuse but to eate bloud or Swins flesh though in all other things a good Christian by and by they condemne him for a Iew I say then if for any one tenent among the Papists a man may be condemned for an heretick and suffer for it and if by the Prelats likewise for any one opinion differing from them that same sect holdeth one may be iudged and condemned to extremest misery as a Brownest Anabaptist c. I say then by farre more excellent reason one may conclude that those that hold so many damnable Popish opinions and tenents as the Prelats doe and defend them in their open Courts that they are Papists and so they are indeed and to be detested For they mayntayne and set vp Popery and Papall Iurisdiction challenging their owne autority to be iure deuino and the Pope doth no more They likewise trample vpon the scriptures as a thing of nothing accusing them of obscurity and imperfection and will not admit the Scripture to be Iudge of Controuersies The Pope does no more And withall hold the Synagogue of Rome to be a true Church and not so much as to haue had the suspition of error in any fundamentall points of religion and all this I say in their open Court and the Pope doth no more to the making of the King and his Subiects all Schismaticks and hereticks to the infinit dishonour of God and the King and to the eternall disgrace of King Iames of famous memory a Prince for knowledge and wisdome the gratest that euer was saue Salomon and for learning renowned through the extremest parts of the whole vniuerse of whom I dare say thus much as a Scholer becanse I know something in that art for which I should excessiuely haue honoured him had he been but a priuat man much more a King and withall my Soueraygne whose dignyty I will neuer see trampled ypon though I suffer for my loyalty the whole fury of the Prelats and their Confederats I say therefore I dare say thus much of that renowned King that for learning Scholarship all the Prelats in England shouelled into one heape or plastered together into one lump are not worthy to be named the same yeare that his excrements are mentioned and yet notwithstanding these vnworthy fellowes do not cease in their open Courts and in euery stinking pamphlet set forth by their autority to abuse this famous King WHO IN HIS APOLOGY TO ALL CHRISTIAN PRINCES which is well knowne to the learned as defender of the faith maintaynes the doctrine of the reformed Churches in his Kingdomes and dominions to be the onely true doctrine the Popish to be erronious and abominable and with inuencible arguments and that many he proues the Pope to be Antichrist and exhorts all Christian Kings and Princes his brethren to cast off his yoake demonstrateth likewise yea euidently euinceth that Rome is the whore of Babilon and in many of his learned writings he continually like himself a defender of the faith opposeth all the Romish impious tenents And all that I now say is well knowne to all men of vnderstanding Now I pray take notice of the PRELAT OF CANTFRBVRYS ARROGANCY and of all his fellowes The King as defender of the farth teaching vs both by his life and doctrine maintaines and proues THE POPE TO BE ANTICHRIST AND THF CHVRCH OF ROMF TO BE THE WHORE OF BABILON and earnestly exhorts all Christian Princes to come out of her And the Prelats in their Court affirme that the Church of Rome is a true Church and neuer had so much as a suspition of error in fundamentall poynts of religion and in putrid pamphlets set forth by their autority they confirme the same and that the Pope is not Antichrist Is not this damnable impiety against God and the King preiudiciall to the saluation of thousands the maintenance of the Papists