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A35853	Tvvo looks over Lincolne, or, A view of his Holy table, name and thing, discovering his erronious and popish tenets and positions and under pretence of defending the cause of religion, shamefully betraying the truth and sincerity thereof : a petition exhbited in all humility to the judgement of the most worthy defenders of the truth the honorable House of Commons in Parliament against the said booke and especially 51 tenets therein / by R. Dey ...	Dey, Richard.	1641 (1641)	Wing D1288; ESTC R13739	26,703	36

reason and integritie the three Rules shall be none but his owne which in reason hee cannot for shame deny And the compasse shall be his owne Metropolitanes which by all Prelaticall Lawes and his owne Oath at his consecration he is bound to keepe within and to obey The Rules are these I. That which is in writing before our eyes is no more by a Disputant indeed to be wrigled and wrested but to be taken as it is set downe holy tab. pag. 2 II. That words should be taken sensu currenti for use and custome is the best Expositor both of lawes and words If of all lawes and words then most of all of the words of the lawes holy tab. pag. 54. III. That wee must take heed of quillets and distinctions that may bring us backe againe to the old errour reformed in the Church holy tab. pag. 102. The Compasse is this That the Church of England grounded her positive Articles upon the Scripture and her negative doe refute there where the thing affirmed by the Papists is not affirmed by Scripture nor directly to be concluded out of it and here not the Church of England onely but all Protestants agree most truly and most strongly in this that the Scripture is sufficient to salvation and containes in it all things necessary to it The Fathers are plaine the Schoole-men not strangers in it and have not we reason then to account it as it is the foundation of our faith 〈◊〉 Relation of a Conference pag. 52. Sect. 15. numb. 1. Note that the Writer of the Letter to the Vicar of Grantham and the Writer of the Holy Table in defence of the Letter are both one Person and that one the Bishop of Lincoln as it appears in the Preface Lincolnes Tenets I. That the Writer of the Letter doth both approve in the Vicar and imitate in his owne practice the formes and ceremonies of Chappels and Cathedrals holy tab. pag. 182. II. That the Writer conceiveth the Communion Table to stand Altar wise ● in the place where the Altar stood to be the most decent situation when it is not used and for use too where the Quire is mounted up by steps and open so as he that officiates may be seene and heard of all the Congregation holy tab. p. 14.98 III. That it was well done that the Vicar of Grantham did president himselfe with the formes in is Majesties Chappell and the Quiers of Cathedrall Churches These things I the Writer of the Letter doe my selfe allow and practise holy tab. pag. 13. IV. That the Writer of the Letter saith clearely hee likes that fashion of Altar-wise situation of the holy Table hee allowes it and so useth it himselfe ho tab. pag. 98.20 Lincolnes owne Rule That every word hath that operation in construction of Law that we may draw our arguments from the words as from so many topick places Holy Table pag. 75. Considerations upon the Tenets worthy to be regarded Vpon the foure first Tenets I. Whether it was not his owne authority over the Vicar who presumed to alter the Table without his leave and his owne cause and credit against Heylin who provoked him in print that the Bishop maintained rather than the Cause of Christ or his Church or true Religion whereas hee not onely shewes himselfe as bad as they both in judgement and practice but also yeelds basely more than they durst require And so rather betrayes than defends the cause V. That the Vicar of Grantham observed as hee said that the Table in his Lorships the Bishop of Lincolnes private Chappell to be so Altarwise placed and furnished with Plate and Ornaments above any hee ever had seene in this Kingdome the Chappell Royall onely excepted holy table pag. 12. Consid. 1. Whether other Bishops can justly be taxed with Innovations and be spared whereas it appeares that be exceeded them all VI That to call the Table Altar in a metaphoricall and improper sense you know the Letter doth every where allow holy table pag. 141. Consid. 1. W●●ther Heylin could desire any more but to call it so commonly though metaphorically whereby the people not able to distinguish it by custome would take it properly VII That the Writer would not have blamed the Vicar if he had in a quotation from the Fathers or a discourse in the Pulpit named it an Altar in a borrowed sense holy tab. pag. 75. Consid. 1. Whether Bishop Williams dislike any thing in the Doctor and Vicar but onely their want of skill to excuse their words by saying they meant it metaphorically whereas hee allowes them more then they durst desire the Pulpit where the people expect them to speake truly plainly and properly 2. Whether hee defended the true doctrine who affords them the pulpit or rather his owne authority VIII That throughout all the Dioces I the Writer of the Booke live in which is Lincolne being no small part of the kingdome there is whether the Epistoler like it or no Railes and Barricadoes c. pag. 136. Consid. 1. Whether the Bishop did either dislike or seeke to reforme it whereas his owne practice and example went beyond all others IX That the Coal i. Doctor Heylin doth faine a Tenet to be maintained which is opposed in all the Letter that the Communion Tables should not stand or be placed towards the East wheras the writer of the letter is but too much for it not allowing the ordinary exceptions of Bellarmine Suarez or Walafridus Strabo before them that it might be otherwise when the conveniencie of the building doth require it ho tab. pab 230. Consid. 1. Whether hee be not more superstitious then Heylin whereas hee confesseth himselfe to exceed the archpapists themselves X. That the writer of the letter had hee any ground given him by his Majesties Lawes to turne him about seemes unto mee the writer of the Holy table fully as forward and farre more able to defend old Ceremonies then you Doctor Heylin are holy table pag. 46. Consid. 1. Whether doth hee not confesse his heart to be as bad as Heylins and to desire to exceed him if hee durst for the Lawes XI That the writer of the letter doth cite and approve the Appellation of second Service ho tab. pag. 3. Consid. 1. Whether That Appellation of second Service be Orthodox and Consonant to the Church of England or rather to the Masse-booke XII That the writer of the letter doth commend allow and practise bowing at the Name of Iesus Holy table pag. 2.13.00 XIII That an accustomed lowly reverence to this blessed Name wee received from all antiquitie as appeares by the Canons and Injunctions and good reason wee should entaile it on our Posteritie Holy tab. pag. 101. Consid. 1. Whether that bowing be Orthodox and grounded upon Scripture whereas Doctor Fulke an Orthodox Writer affirmes that it is neither commanded nor prophesied in Phil. 2.10 and what Scriptures doe prove it 2. Whether that Antiquity be any elder than the Papacy 3. Whether by

expresse clearely the power pertaining to a prince by that sounding and emphaticall compellation holy table cap. 2. pag. 22. to 26. and 32. Heylin and other Prelaticall persons hold that the setting of the table altarwise being exacted by the Ordinary requires more of mens obedience then curiositie and that they are not to demurre upon commands till they be satisfied in the Grounds and Reasons holy table pag. 61. For they take it as granted that the people should thinke themselves excusable if they obey upon command but Heylin comes short and wants skill for Lincolne affirmes that the inferiours shall not onely be excusable but more yet even approved of God for their duty and obedience and never charged as guiltie of error for any future inconvenience holy table pag. 69. and this were brave for the Prelates if Lincolne could but shew Gods charter for it from his owne mouth if not we must take the Bishops honest word And lastly Heylin having now got an altar must needs have a sacrifice and though hee can finde never a one proper for his purpose yet rather than faile any improper parcell of matters which though they be as weake with the learned as Claudius Gillius or lame Giles p. 172. yet will serve to plunder the poore ignorant people who take all things as properly which are spoken commonly and for this Lincolne helps him out and fits him supererogatorily I doe grant freely saith he that in the Scripture and the ancient Fathers wee doe meet with not onely these few which you reckon up but a great many more duties and vertues that are usually termed sacrifices holy tab. 107. I will likewise allow you which you forgot to call for that all these improperly called sacrifices are not onely stirred up with the meditation but many times sowne and first engendered by the secret operation of this blessed sacrament Nay yet further in contemplation of all these speciall graces of the spirit wrought in our soules by meanes of the Eucharist you shall not reasoonably expect any outward expression of reverence and submission to the founder of the feast which I will not approve of and bring the ancient Fathers along with me to doe as much p. 108. and so having furnished Heylin with many sacrifices and more altars some halfe a score at least he concludes Now consider with your selfe whether it were fitter to make use of these altars for your unproper sacrifices and have all these Greeke and Latin Fathers to applaud you for the same rather than to rely upon some miracle of a good worke in hand or some poore dreame of the piety of the times ho tab. p. 107.108.112 And now by these few instances among many others which might be alledged it will appeare to any rationall man what manner of Champions for the truth the Prelates are indeed so that I may well conclude with his owne greeke proverbe holy tab. p. 227. that as the Fox hath many tricks but the Hedge-hogge {non-Roman} {non-Roman} {non-Roman} {non-Roman} {non-Roman} though but one yet a great one to winde up himselfe towards a combat so that his adversary shall have nothing but prickles to fight against so Heylin Shelford and his old Chaplaine Pocklington had many tricks like Foxes to nibble at Popery but Lincolne like an Urchin for so hee compares Bishop Iewel had but one tricke but that was a great one yet not to set his adversary the sharp to fight against but to yeeld up into his hands Totum quaesitum all the whole controversie and more than all too so that it was not Religion or the true worship of God that he defended Note 2. What cause hee did defend But though he would not speake a word for the Truth and true Religion though he be content to intaile Jesuiticall bowing and holy-table-cringing upon his posterity though he will uncalendar his children from the Church that wil not bow though hee yeeld unto the Doctor that the King may doe any thing with or without a Parliament that the inferiours are to obey all things and yet be approved of God that the table may be changed to an altar in altar-wise situation so it be not fixed to the wall and an altar in appellation so it be metaphorically excused and an altar in adoration so they pretend to honour him and him only in his holy sacrament and at this altar a commemoration of the dead in time of high masse to which himselfe will say Amen though he yeeld all this and much more which the Papists never enjoyned which Heylin forgot to call for and I forgot to reckon up yet there is one thing so stickes in his stomacke that he will never yeeld no not an inch not an haires-breadth come what will and that is That Mounsieur the halfe-Vicar should have a power to remove of his owne head the Communion table to call that an altar without his leave which the rubricke of the service-booke calls not so and to be enabled to this by the Canons and to be a Iudge of the conveniencie of the standing thereof yea a more competent Iudge than the Bishop and his surrogates and not to permit the Church-officers to doe what they are injoyned by the Prelate this is such a piece of policie as if it were but countenanced would quickely make an end of all discipline in England Here is not onely I. C. Iohn Cotton but T. C. Thomas Cartwright up and downe and new England planted in the midst of old holy table p. 70. this is Iesuiticall in the highest degree for to impaire the power of Bishops is no little sin which is strange for no man defends Bishops more then the Jesuits and therefore saith he there were some Priests in France and Germany who presumed to erect altars in the absence of their Bishops about the time of Theodosius the younger but Leo the great tels them plainly they had no more power to erect than to consecrate an altar and not many yeeres after about Justinians time Hormisdas made an absolute decree to inhibit Priests to erect any altars under paine of deprivation p. 72. which saith he I presse onely historically to let you see what severity they would have used eleven hundred yeeres agoe to chastice his insolencie if such a rumour had beene raised as this Vicars behaviour raised in the neighbourhood and therefore saith he I presse this for doctrine that a single Priest hath no key of any externall jurisdiction given him by God or man for the consistory of outward jurisdiction is not to be opened by a key alone but by a key and a staffe for Bishops will needs be bang beggers and this ancient doctrine of the Pope is opposed by none but professed Puritanes p. 73. they say indeed that the Bishops power was the poysonous egge out of which Antichrist was hatched p. 74. But though hee cannot confute this yet before he will yeeld an inch of this authority he would hazard a hundred miters