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A00594	Cygnea cantio: or, Learned decisions, and most prudent and pious directions for students in divinitie; delivered by our late soveraigne of happie memorie, King Iames, at White Hall a few weekes before his death.	Featley, Daniel, 1582-1645.	1629 (1629)	STC 10731; ESTC S120658	15,410	50

Timothy as also the Apostles charge to Timothie 1. 5. 19. Receive not an accusation against an Elder but before two or three witnesses And to Titus the 1. and 5. For this cause left I thee in Creet to ordaine Elders in everie Church Out of which passages of Scripture his Majestie so cleerly and evidently evicted a superioritie in Bishops over Presbyters jure divino that as hee reformed master Crompton in his opinion so he much more confirmed and setled my judgement in that tenet which I held before and delivered in two severall Consecration Sermons preached in his Graces Chappel at Lambeth viz. That the distinction of Bishops and Presbyters is de jure divino or Apostolico not de Ecclesiastico onely and that according to the Canon of the great Councell of Calcedon 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 to bring downe a Bishop to the low ranke of Presbyters of Priests is sacriledge The first I finde that ever went about to breake downe the partition wall betweene Bishops and Presbyters was Aerius a man like his name light and easie to be caried away with the winde of ambition For as Epiphanius writeth Heres 75. this Aerius standing for a Bishopricke and being put by it by Eustathius invented this heresie ut se consolaretur to comfort his heart upon the repulse So when he could not raise up himselfe to the higher rank of Bishops he sought to pull downe Bishops to his lower rank of Presbyters VVhat saith hee doth a Bishop differ from a Priest nothing at all 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 But for this sawcy malipartnesse he felt the smart of the Crosiers staffe and for ranking Bishops among Presbyters or Elders was himselfe ranked amongst hereticks After this point touching different degrees in the Clergie was discussed the two other suppressed sections in M. Cromptons booke were reade the former touching the unlawfulnesse of anie contract of matrimonie betweene parties of a different Religion The latter touching the mariage of the innocent partie after divorce for adulterie In both which Sections such offensive matter was found that his Majestie was pleased to say that master Crompton was beholding to mee for suppressing them Thus it appeareth my defence for striking out of those sections in master Cromptons booke was verie easie the harder province was to excuse such sections which I strucke not out for his Majestie distasted many tenets of master Crompton but especially insisted upon foure First Touching the signe of the Crosse. Secondly Touching womens baptizing in case of necessity Thirdly Touching some kinde of ignorance supposed to bee in Christ according to his humanity Fourthly Touching S. Augustines opinion of Children dying without baptisme 1. TOuching the signe of the Crosse his Majestie verie much disliked that which M. Crompton averreth pag. 81. That the signe of the Crosse was not received in the Church till one hundred and sixtie yeares after Christ and that the author thereof was Valentinus the hereticke who comming to Rome stayed there twelve yeares and brought up the use of the Crosse as Irenaeus reporteth This observation said his Majestie is most false the signe of the Crosse is more ancient Valentinus brought it not first into the Church neither doth Irenaeus report any such thing Since his Majesties speech with us I have examined the place alledged by M. Crompton out of Irenaeus and I finde that Irenaeus affirmeth no such thing as is fathered upon him Valentinus the heretick was not the first inventer or author of the signe of the Crosse but our arch Cartewritist or raith Catherist Parker was the first inventer of this slanderous untruth it seemeth M. Crompton plowed with Parkers lame heifer which drew his plough-share awry This Parker in his booke which he arrogantly and affectedly intituleth Scholasticall discourse against symbolizing with Antichrist in ceremonies especially in the signe of the Crosse pag. 75. saith we use Valentinus his Crosse I call it his because he was the first that used this figure the verie first that made account of it and a few lines after Valentinus the hereticke being the first deviser of it and he quoteth for proofe of this his bold assertion Ireneus in his first booke against heresies But how grossely herein he abuseth Irenaeus will appeare by setting down Irenaeus his owne words which are these Adhuc etiam de Horo suo quem pluribus nominibus vocant duas operationes habere eum ostendunt confirmativam seperativam secundùm id quidem quod confirmat stabilit Crucemesse secundùm id verò quod dividit distinguit Horum esse Further he relateth of his fantasticall Aeon that hee hath divers names according to divers vertues and operations and giveth instance in two the vertue of establishing according to which he calleth him Crosse and a vertue of severing according to which hee is called Bound or Tearme Irenaeus here speakes not of Christs Crosse but of the fantasticke Aeons Crosse nor of the signe of the Crosse but of the name of the Crosse Neither saith he so much as that Valentinus was the deviser either of the name or of the signe but onely that one of his Aeons had two names the one 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Terme or Bound the other 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 or Crosse And if wee may not make the signe of the Crosse because one of Valentinus his fained Aeons was called Crosse by the same reason wee may not make any bound in our fields nor definition of anything because the same Aeon was called by the heretickes 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 that is bound or definition And by M. Parkers Logique one of his Majesties Pursivants must abjute his owne name and bee no more called Crosse lest hee symbolize with Valentinus or offend his god Aeon 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 seculum crux yet this is one of the least absurdities in that booke of Parker No Scholler ever spilt so much wit and learning as this braine-sicke Amsterdamian doth in his Treatise of the Crosse wherein he layeth all his wit and learning upon it to prove that the making of the sign of the Crosse is the breach of all the ten Commandements He is not content to write of the Superstition and Idolatry of the Crosse onely which are notes we have often heard sung by the Martines brood but hee spendeth 18. whole Sections in discoursing of the hypocrisie of the Crosse and a whole large booke of the Injustice of the Crosse chap. 5. and of the Murder of the Crosse chap. 6. and of the Adultery of the Crosse chap. 7. and of the Wrong of the Crosse chap. 8. and of the Slander of the Crosse chap. 9. and lastly pour faire un bon bouche of the concupiscence of the Crosse chap. 10. For proofe of these his prodigious conclusions he so detorteth Scriptures and depraveth ancient and moderne Writers that what was said by the wittie Epigrammatist of Gretzers booke De adorandâ cruce may bee applied to this booke of Parkers De

holocaust that hath beene offered in this kinde in our memorie for ought I know VVhereupon the wits of the Citie which usually will be working upon such occasions have made a conceited Pageant And although even innocent mirth may bee subject to censure when the occasion rather presents matter of pensive or at least serious thoughts yet because the Embleme and Motto devised upon this occasion discovereth the affections of many that were there present I hold it not altogether unfit here to set them downe Saint Pauls Crosse is drawne at large and a number of men partly running away that they might not see such a spectacle partly weeping and wiping their eies to see a booke so full as they conceived of heavenly zeale and holy fire sacrificed in earthly and unhallowed flames their Motto was Ardebant sancti sceleratis ignibus ignes Et mista est flammae flamma profana piae In the middest of the area there is described a huge pile of bookes burning and on the one side the Author casting his bookes into the fire with this Motto Sancte nec invideo sine me liber ibis in ignē And on the other side a Popish shaveling Priest answering him with this motto in the next verse Hei mihi quod domino non licetire tuo Before the burning of the Bookes the Preacher at the Crosse declared divers erroneous assertions therein condemned as he said by Authoritie Among which that assertion in the fore-front Inter damnatos touching the deniall of the Sacrament to the sicke requiring it on their death-bed collected by consequences from some passages of that booke seemed to me most blame worthie For what law of God or man depriveth the sicke in their greatest extremitie of paines of body and troubles of minde of that unspeakeable comfort which the participating of the blessed Sacrament affordeth to all that worthily receive it What devout Christian would not desire with Simeon to take his Saviour into his hands before his departure that he might the more cheerfully sing his Nunc dimittis Is the Church so charitable to send the other Sacrament home to sicke infants and will any denie this Sacrament to men of ripe yeares hungring for this bread of life what though this Sacrament be not of like necessitie as the other is yet is it of as great vertue and greater comfort by present apprehension wherof men stand in great need amidst the temptations of Satan and terrors of conscience and feare of death and the strict account to bee given after death Who knoweth not that the Primitive Church tooke speciall care that all those who were taking their last journey to another world should be provided of this celestiall Viand which they call Viaticum morientium nay 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 yet such is the nature of misguided zeale that under colour of weeding out superstition it will pluck up by the rootes many plants of Paradise and acts of true Religion But because M. Elton himselfe hath now made his account before the supreame Iudge of all I will amplifie no longer upon this or any other error rehearsed out of those bookes published after his death nor enter anie action of unkindenesse against any concerning that businesse but burie all in his grave because though some of them perhaps intended much evil against me yet God through his Majesties grace and goodnesse hath turned it to good Plinie writeth of a marble Image of Diana set up in Chios the face whereof was so drawne by Art that the Goddess seemed to look sad upon her worshippers as they entred into her Temple but smiled upon them as they came out This Statua presenteth to mee a copie of his Majesties countenance in this busines which was sad and dreadfull at my comming to him but cheerfull and comfortable at my departing It is well knowne what a bitter storme fell at my first appearance before his Majestie which yet the day following through Gods mercie in whose hands the hearts of Kings are turned a golden shower which fell literally upon M. Crompton and allegorically upon me Seldome or never heard I especially on the sudden such apt solutions of knottie and intangled questions so pithie and sinewie Arguments such usefull observations such divine instructions from anie Chrysostome in our Church as I heard that day from his Majesties mouth Had not feare and sorrow for his Majesties displeasure much crazed my memorie and deaded my spirits at the present I should have caried away more and have given a better account of his Majesties learned resolutions and pious admonitions given to me and M. Crompton that day Now I can but present bracteolas sermonis purè aurei stricturas ingenii vere ignei THe first thing to my remembrance questioned touching M. Cromptons booke was a clause in my written defence that I was rather induced to licence the booke out of a respect to my Lord D. his Grace to whom the book is dedicated by his Chaplaine What a reason is this said his Majestie Is it an honour to my Lord D. to bee a patron of errors Is it any honour to me that the Arians in Polonia have dedicated one of their books to me containing damnable heresies I account it rather a dishonour and cannot with patience looke upon their dedication to mee For answer hereunto I humblie beseeched his Majestie that hee would bee pleased to heare that clause in my answer entirely read unto him VVhereupon my Lord of Durham reached me the paper wherein I read as followeth That although I found many errors in M. Crompton his booke for which I might have wholly rejected the booke yet I chose rather to purge those errors and mend those faults in the booke and therein used the helpe and advise of M. Cooke who lately set forth a Treatise of the same argument intituled S. Austines Religion to the end I might gratifie M. Crompton out of a respect to the Duke to whom the Booke was dedicated The next thing examined by his Majestie was the reason of the suppressing three of the Authors Sections whereof he complaineth in Print in the conclusion of his booke My answer to this charge was That I crossed out those Sections because they crossed the doctrine and discipline established in this Kingdome and savoured of that humour which never yet bred good blood in the Church And for proofe of my exceptions against those sections I produced the originall copie written with M. Cromptons owne hand which tendering to his Majestie he commanded M. Crompton to reade the first Section suppressed touching a paritie amongst the Clergie Vpon the hearing whereof his Majestie much distasting M. Crompton his assertions tooke occasion fully to enucliate that question touching the distinction of Bishops and Presbyters jure divino Beside the judgement of the primitive Church and consent of all ancient writers his Majestie much pressed the subscription of the Epistle to Titus and of the second Epistle to