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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A30402	Reflections on a book entituled (The rights, powers, and privileges of an English convocation, stated and vindicated) by Gilbert, Bishop of Sarum.	Burnet, Gilbert, 1643-1715.	1700 (1700)	Wing B5848; ESTC R14762	22,012	34

imposed upon them Which occasioned such stretches to be made not only against Bonner and Gardiner but Tonstall Heath and Day So there is no probability in imagining that any thing of that kind could then have passed in Convocation But in Queen Elizabeth's time the Popish Clergy were all turned out the Act of Uniformity was made and a new Sett of Reformed Bishops and Divines was brought in and yet it was Five years after her Accession to the Crown before that Convocation met So this Author had not the Advantages with which he thought he was furnished to divert his Reader by exposing me on this account This was a matter of such consequence that I thought it necessary to give a truer View of it than this Writer had done I hope in this enough is said to oblige both himself to be more cautious and modest for the future and his Readers not to receive all he says too Implicitly I have found him as much out in several other of his Allegations against me but if I should mention only a few of these and not go through with them all it would look as if I had justified my self as far as I could and had yielded up all the rest Therefore since I cannot go through with all I resolve to let all alone till I see the utmost that he can bring out against me and then I will make the best use of it I can either to Vindicate my self or to confess Mistakes as soon as I am convinced of them how little soever of Decency or of Christianity there may be in the manner of offering it to me I wish this Author would reflect with some measure of Impartial seriousness as in the Presence of that God by whom he must be judged for this as well as all the other parts of his Life on the Temper he was in on the End he pursued and on the Spirit that acted him while he writ his Book Sudden Emotions are capable of Excuses but such a continued course of Spite and Malice seems scarce capable of any I pray God give him a just sense of it And so I have done with his ill-natur'd Book with as little loss of time as was possible I could not meddle with it before I came hither where my Papers and References lie and I have been but Four days at home when I end this so much haste have I made to get rid of an unpleasant Imployment but it seemed necessary and there I leave it I pray God pour out another Spirit upon his Church and teach us all in this our day to know the things that belong to our peace For how secure soever we may be in our present Quiet the Evil day is perhaps not so far from us as some may imagine The more we are divided among our selves the less able will we be to bear what we must then look for But without any other Enemy if we bite and devour one another we shall be consumed one of another The black View that we may justly have from the Impieties and other Abominations that abound among us seem to call upon us to put on other Tempers and act by other Principles and with another Spirit and to seek for the things that make for peace and things wherewith one may edify another Salisbury the 25th of May 1700. FINIS BOOKS Printed for R. Chiswell BIshop Patrick's Commentary on Genesis Exodus Leviticus Numbers and Deuteronomy in Five Volumes 4 o. Wharton's Serm in Lambeth-Chapel 2 Vol. 8 o With his Life The 2d Edit 1700. Dr. Conant's Sermons in Two Vol. 8 o. Published by Bishop Williams Dr. Wake of Preparation for Death The 6th Edition 1699. Dr. Fryer's 9 Years Travel 's into India and Persia with Copper-Plates Fol. 1698. Bishop Williams Of the Lawfulness of Worshipping God by the Common-Prayer With several other Discourses Mr Tulley's Disc of the Government of the Thoughts The 3d Edit 12 o. 1699. The Life of Henry Chichele Archbishop of Canterbury in which there is a particular Relation of many Remarkable Passages in the Reigns of Henry V. and VI. Kings of England Written in Latin by Arthur Duck L. L. D. Chancellor of the Diocess of London and Advocate of the Court of Honour Now made English and a Table of Contents annexed 8 o. 1699. The Judgment of the Ancient Jewish Church against the Unitarians in the Controversy upon the Holy Trinity and the Divinity of our Blessed Saviour With a Table of Matters and a Table of Texts of Scriptures occasionally explained by Peter Alix D. D. Short Memorials of Thomas Lord Fairfax Written by himself Published 1699. The Life of John Whitgift Archbishop of Canterbury in the times of Queen Elizabeth and King James I. Written by Sir Geo Paul Comptroler of his Grace's Houshold To which is annexed a Treatise intituled Conspiracy for pretended Reformation Written in the Year 1591. By Richard Cosin L L. D. Dean of the Arches and Official Principal to Arch-Bishop Whitgift 8 o 1699. An Exposition of the 39 Articles of the Church of England by Dr. Burnet Bishop of Sarum Fol 1700. His Sermon to the Societies for Reformation of Manners Mar. 25. 1700. A Practical Discourse of Religious Assemblles By Dr. William Sherlock Dean of St. Pauls The 3d Edition 1700. A Treatise concerning the Causes of the present Corruption of Christians and the Remedies thereof 1700. Archbishop Tillotson's Eighth Volume being several Discourses of Repentance viz. The Necessity of Repentance and Faith Of confessing and forsaking Sin in order to Pardon Of Confession and Sorrow for Sin The Unprofitableness of Sin in this Life an Argument for Repentance The Shamefulness of Sin an Argument for Repentance The final Issue of Sin an Argument for Repentance The present and future Advantage of an Holy and Vi●tuous Life The Nature and Necessity of holy Resolution The Nature and Necessity of Restitution The Usefulness of Consideration in order to Repentance The Danger of Impenitence where the Gospel is preach●d In the Press The Fourth and Last Part of Mr. RUSHWORTH'S Historical Collections Containing the Principal Matters which happen'd from the beginning of the Year 1645 where the Third Part ended to the Death of King Charles the First 1648. Impartially Related Setting forth only Matter of Fact in Order of Time without Observation or Reflection ●●●●ed for the Press in his Life-time To which will be added Exact Alphabetical Tables

short stay I was 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 make there so he gave me ever after that free access to it But since the first Volume was so well received I made no more use of it with relation to the matters belonging to that time unless when I was seeking Materials for the second Volume I found them in my way Thus I was obstructed in my search by some Men of the same temper I had almost said of the same House with those who have since that time reproached me for that which was not my fault but theirs For they who had shut the Library against me concluded that I must have laid aside all thoughts of that Work since without help from thence it was not possible to be well furnished and indeed I had not the fourth part of the time that was necessary to examine every thing in it that related to my subject It cannot be imagined that twenty years being now past since I finished that History I can carry in my mind all the Grounds I went on nor can the Station and Service I am now in leave it possible for me to go and follow this Writer in every thing that he is pleased to quarrel with me for When he has poured out all he has laid together I will then be better able to judge whether it will deserve that I should be at any pains my self or imploy any other to search after him for he has given me great cause to conclude that his exactness is no way to be depended upon I will single out only one particular because as it is of the greatest Moment so I seem in my late Book on the Thirty nine Articles to retract what I had admitted in the second Volume of my History That in Edward the Sixth's time the Articles of Religion were past in Convocation but own now that they were Published by the Regal Authority without mentioning a Synodal consent Upon this he gives a long Extract of a Journal of that Convocation that mentions a Regular P. 377. Progress of the Convocation with Relation to the Catechism and Articles both which he acknowledges P. 196. here and elsewhere that they went together P. 197. He likewise urges the Martyr Philpot's authority who when D. Weston urged in the Convocation 1 Marioe that a Catechism was put forth without their consent answered That the House had granted an Authority to make Ecclesiastical Laws to certain persons to be appointed by the King's Majesty and that what was set forth by them might well be said to be done in the Synod of London altho the House had no notice thereof before the Promulgation Upon this the Writer says that we have lost the Time and Circumstances of appointing this Committee Howsoever he thinks the whole thing is plain and so leaves it with one of his usual strains of Detraction Yet he did well to set this and the Journal at a considerable distance from one another for if there is any credit due to that Journal as indeed there is none for it is a plain Forgery this discourse of Philpot's was idle and needless Here I will give a tast of this Writer's way of delivering matters without adding any sharp or aggravating words to it but from thence his Readers will see what Judgment is to be made of his Collections In Fox from whom he vouches this at the beginning of Philpot's Speech he leaves out those words That the Catechism beareth the Title of the last Synod of London before this altho' many of them which then were present were never made Privy thereof in seting it forth This Confession of his ought not to have been suppressed This matter was handled more particularly 〈◊〉 3 Vo. when Cranmer was before the Convocation at P. 80. Oxford where Weston objected to him in these words Also you have set forth a Catechism in the name of the Synod of London and yet there be fifty which witnessing that they were of the Number of the Convocation never heard one word of this Catechism To which Cranmer answered I was ignorant of the setting to of that Title and as soon as I had knowledg thereof I did not like it Therefore when I complained thereof to the Council it was answered me by them That the Book was so intitled because it was set forth in the time of the Convocation And in the Interrogatories that were exhibited to him in order to his final censure the Seventh ends That he did Compile and Fox p. 657. caused to be set abroad divers Books The last part of his answer set down to this is thus As for the Catechism the Book of Articles with the other Book against Winchester he grants the same to be his doings This I think decides the Point so that it will admit of no more debate This Author does not know when the Commission was to the 32 granted If he had looked into King Edward's Journal he would have seen it was on the 10th of February very near the end of the Year 1552. And if either the Words of that Journal or rather of the Statute pursuant to which that Commission was issued out are considered it will appear that their Power did not extend to Matters of Faith and Worship but was restrained to the Courts and to Proceedings in them So that it is plain that Philpot alledged this being pressed with an Objection to which he had no other Answer ready He knew there was such a Commission and so he fancied that they had prepared these Books Cranmer's Sincerity appears in this as well as in all the other parts of his Life and indeed the Title with which the Articles were printed had a Visible ambiguity in it In Latin it is Articuli de quibus in Synodo Londinensi Anno Dom. 1552. Ad tollendam Opinionum dissensionem consensum veroe Religionis sirmandum inter Episcopos alias Eruditos viros convenerat In English Articles agreed upon by the Bishops and other Godly and Learned Men in the last Convocation at London in the Year of our Lord 1552. To root out the Discord of Opinion and establish the Agreement of true Religion Different from this is the Title given to what did indeed pass in Convocation Ten years after Articles agreed upon by the Archbishops and Bishops of both Provinces and the whole Clergy in the Convocation holden at London in the Year of our Lord 1562. It is trifling and unbecoming this Author who writes more to purpose when his Cause will bear it to prove that because Divines in a Convocation are in Respect called Learned Men that therefore a Title importing an Agreement between the Bishops and other Learned Men can be understood as the Title of an Act pass'd in Convocation The Popish Bishops with the rest of that Party of the Inferior Clergy continued all that Reign opposing every thing as long as they might safely do it but complying with every thing when it was once