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A68300	A sermon preached at Pauls Crosse, the 25. of Nouember. 1621 Vpon occasion of that false and scandalous report (lately printed) touching the supposed apostasie of the right Reuerend Father in God, Iohn King, late Lord Bishop of London. By Henry King, his eldest sonne. Whereunto is annexed the examination, and answere of Thomas Preston, p. taken before my Lords Grace of Canterbury, touching this scandall. Published by authority.	King, Henry, 1592-1669.; Preston, Thomas, 1563-1640.	1621 (1621)	STC 14969.5; ESTC S108024	33,075	94

harme I wish them is that they would leaue off this thred-bare trade of Calumny especially towards the Dead grow better acquainted with speaking and writing the Truth and not conuersing with her at such a distance as now they doe Or if they will needs be Architecti mendaciorum still hammering vntruths I would aduize them to lay probable foundations and chuse such Materials as are more malleable and in the worlds esteeme not so impossible for them to worke vpon as He they haue heere selected For euery wood will not make a Mercury nor is euery good man a fit mould to cast Them a Conuert in Farewell H. K. THE EXAMINATION OF THOMAS PRESTON taken before the Lord Archbishop of Canterbury at Lambeth Decemb. 20. 1621. BEing asked Whether he hath not heard by report and bruite abroad that it hath been said of him that hee was with Doctor King late Lo. Bishop of London a little before his death and that he reconciled the said Bishop to the Church of Rome and therein performed vnto him the office and function of a Priest And being further asked Whether he hath not heard of a Book not long since published which is intituled Protestants Plea and Petition for Priests and Papists and that in the same Booke it is said that the fore-named Bishop did humbly at the feet of a Priest confesse his sinnes receiue Sacramentall absolution at his hands and was reconciled to the Catholike Roman Church And being hereupon charged vpon his conscience and his Priesthood to speake the truth whether hee were the person spoken of by report or designed by the said booke to performe such an office Hee answereth That it is true that hee hath often heard that such a Report was spredde abroad concerning him and many both Protestants and Catholikes haue come vnto him to inquire whether that report and bruit were true or no. And that hee hath heard that in the booke before named some such thing is deliuered and vpon the day of this his examination hee was shewed the booke by the Lord Archbishop of Canterbury wherein hee found those things afore mentioned to bee contained For the declaring of truth in all which he protesteth before God and vpon his conscience as he shall answere at the dreadfull Day of Iudgement that the said Bishop of London did neuer confesse himselfe vnto this Examinate nor euer receiued Sacramentall absolution at his hands nor was euer by him reconciled vnto the Church of Rome neither did renounce before him the Religion professed and established in the Church of England nor did performe any other circumstance tending that way as is in the said booke of the Protestants Plea deliuered Yea he addeth further that as he hath hope to be saued by Christ Jesus he this Examinate to his knowledge was neuer in company where the said Doctor King late Lord Bishop of London was neither did he euer receiue letter from him nor did write letter vnto him neither did he euer to his knowledge see the said Bishop in any place whatsoeuer nor could haue knowne him from another man and therefore affirmeth that this bruit and report is raised concerning this Examinate and the said late Bishop without any true ground and foundation Being asked what hee should thinke to bee the cause wherefore any person should raise this fame or report hee saith that from the beginning hee did conceiue it to be nothing else but that some who did maligne him were willing to disgrace him or vndoe him by bringing him in obloquy with the King or State where he remaines a prisoner Being demanded whether euer hee hath probably or credibly heard that any other Priest did repaire to the said late Bishop did take his Confession gaue him absolution or reconciled him to the Roman Church hee protesteth that he did neuer credibly or probably heare of any such thing Being asked whether he hath heard that Masse hath been said for the said Bishop in any part beyond the seas hee answereth that he hath heard such a report but doth not know any thing of certainty concerning the same Examinatur coram G. Cant. Ego Thomas Prestonus qui supra testor haec omnia esse vera Recognit coram nobis 28. Decemb. 1621. T. Edmondes Geo. Caluert In praesentia mei Gulielmi Bakeri Notarij Publici Faults escaped in some Copies Page 3. lin 20. reade 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 pag. 9. lin 16. pag. 11. lin 8. and pag. 18. lin 18. reade The word that I said vnto you p. 28. lin vlt. in marg reade Rey. p. 29 l. 16. reade our Luminaria p. 43. l. penult reade Abyssum inuocat p. 44. l. 11. reade States p. 45. l. 2. r. Inuentories Ibid. l. 7. Extracted a Quintessence p. 54. l. 4. reade Notion In the Epistle to the Reader Pag. 1. lin 17. reade Sivera dicam Diuision 1 2 3 First Part. Remember Gregor Nazian Epitaph Caesar. Ibid. Isa. 58. 1. Martial The word that I said 1 I said Iohn 18. 6. Cant. 5. 2 The word c. Psal. 12. 6. Prou. 8. 11. Psal. 119. 127. Matth. 13. 19. Iudg. 16. 2 King 19. 13. Iuuenal sat ● Holinshed vita Rub. 1. in fine Dan. 8. 3 4. Uers. 7. Martial Epigr. Ioh. 4. 13. Hieron epist. Iam. 1. 22. Mat. 23. 37. Iohn 10. 4. Chrysost. Hom. in Mat. Esa. 53. 1. Isidor Pelus lib. 4. epist. 21. Aug. Ser. 18. de Uerb Dom. Id. ib. Horat. de arte poet Num. 27. 12. Deut. 9 7. Eccles. 12. 1. Eccles. 11. 9. Iuuenal Amos 7. 12. Esa. 30. 10. Ibid. Lucan Job 3. 3 5. Second part The seruant is not greater then his Lord. 1. Cor. 15. 41. Aug. Gen. 1. * Tomo primero de la conueniencia de las dos Monarquias Catolicas la de la Iglesia Romana y la del Imperio Espanol c. Author el M ro fr. Iuan de la Puente de la orden de Praedicadores Chronista de la Mag d Catolica c. En Madrid en la Imprenta Real 161 n. Lor mandado del Roy. 1. Pet. 2. 18. Rom. 13. 1. 2. Sen. ep 47. Ioh. 15. 14. Sen. ibid. Aug. Hom. 42. in orat Dominic Aug. Phil. 2. 7. Mal. 1. 6. Colos. 4. 1. Psal. 82. 6. Gen. 37. 7. Gloss. Ioh. 13. 16. Aug. Ser. 10. de Verb. Dom. Obad. 1. 4. Mat. 4. 8. Vers 9. Iuuenal 2. Thes. 2. Psal. 82. 6. Math. 21. 5. Frederick 1. waited on Pope Adrians stirrop Ioh. 13. 16. Math. 22. 21. Math. 19. 17. Bzouius Annal. Tom. 13. Extra Verbo Significasti Tit. 14. cap. 4. Platina Act. 7. 58. Third part If they haue persecuted me they will also persecute you Calui Harmon Matth. 10. 24. Gen. 3. Verse 15. Matth. 2. 13. Zach. 13. 6. 1. Sam. 26. 20. Cant. 2. 17. 1. King 22. 31. Zach. 13. 7. Psal. 136. 7. Hugo Card. Psal. 42. 7. Sen. Trag. * Uenâ basilicá Mark 5. Vers. 9. Augustin Math. 10. 28. Tertullian Math. 27. 63. Heb. 10. 33. Bozius de signis Ecclesiae l. 23. c. 3. Lindan Dialog Cochleus Hieron Bolseic in eius vitâ Apoc. 2. Cyprian Minut. Felix 1. Ioh. 1. Aug. Math. 5. 37. Gen. 3. 15. Act. 12. * Thomae Preston Appellatio p. 8. a Personatus ille Schulkenius extra omnis modestiae charitatis Christianae limites tam horrenda crimina VViddringtono imponit illumque tam inuerecundè calumniatur vt eum quantumuis Ecclesiae Catholicae Roma nae se filium esse syncerè prositeatur ipso tamen Luthero Calui no aut alio quouis perditissimo in reprobum sensum dato homuncione deteriorem faciat illumque praeter manifestae haereseos crime quod illi falsissimè obijcit etiā impijs simis Christi Domini Apostolorum omniumque Christi Martyrum persequutoribus Ecclesiae Romanae sedisque Apostolicae hostibus iuratis aequiparare non perhorrescat Id. pag. 6. Juuenal Homer Iliad Iude Ep. vers 9. Act. 23. 9. Act. 5. 41. Tertullian Martial Hieron epist. ad Celantiam Psal. 14. Psal. 14. Hieron Ep. ad Celant Luk. 4. 14. Theophylact. in Ioh. 26. 1. King 22. 24. * B. of Couentry and Lichfield B. of Bath and VVelles B. of Ely August Ciuit. Dei lib. 1. cap. 11. 1. Cor. 16. 31. Esa. 65. 24. Psalm 6. Phil. 1. 23. * Sir Henry Martin his Chancelor M. Matthias Cal licot M. Philip King his Brother Iohn King his second Sonne and myself c. Luk. 22. 15. Doctor Cluet Archdeacon of Middlesex Iohn 8. 56. Deut. 11. 29. Acts 7. Joh. 20. 4. Ioh. 19. 40. * He commanded in his VVill his body to be buried in the Cathedrall Church of S. Paul without any Pompe or solemnities onely with a Tombe-stone with this Inscription Resurgam 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Act. 8. 2. VVhere also was present the Lord Bishop of Ely 2. King 2. Homer Odyss Acts 9. 15. Ad confutandos haereticos mator vis in traditione quàm in Scriptura Canus Loc. lib. 3. cap. 3. Matth. 10. 25. * It was the Motto of his Episcopall Scale Matth. 5. 11 12 Gerson de laude script consider 1

oris either the materiall sword of the executioner or if not so the sword of a two-edged lying tongue hath runne thorow all the ancient Apostles and most of those Haereditarios Discipulos Apostolici seminis frutices later Apostles who in their seuerall ages haue succeeded in the Church Christ himselfe was not free from it was not hee branded with the name of an Impostour after his death and the Disciples were 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 made Theaters of misery in their liues of scorne and infamy in their deathes Thus did the Arrians scandalize the great Athanasius And as executors vnto them the Romish Priests Iesuits with their frontlesse imputations haue striued to darken the glorious truth of our Church and Religion by traducing the Professors and on their ruined credits sought to build vp their owne rotten cause Luther was defamed for lewd life and conuersing with the diuell and that he had hanged himselfe Bucer for denying Christ at his death Oecolampadius for dying suddenly when hee was sixteene dayes sicke in his bed Caluin for dying distracted and desperate an aspersion which my Author saith Bolsecke himselfe recanted in the Synod with teares Beza giuen out for a Conuert and a reuolter from the Protestant Church to theirs All which so grosse and false that some with their owne pens confuted the calumniations cast vpon them and amongst the rest Beza after the report of his death and conuersion published his owne defence and their periurious falshood in a tract called Beza rediuiuus Beza reuiued I haue yet one instance of the selfesame quality as false as that though not so well confuted One indeed too many by that and so deare that I could haue wished He had not so soone been added to this catalogue of wronged Worthies But that wish is vaine and like Him lost and by that losse am I furnished with what most willingly I would haue wanted a sad example Your conceit already lookes thorow me and my meaning is articulated in your apprehensions before vttered in words One he was knowne to all enough to me more neerly as being tyed to him in double bonds of Canon and of Nature Sometimes the Bishop of this See or to vse the phrase of Saint John the Angell of this Church though now taken vp into a better Hierarchy the society of Angels in heauen I had cause to thinke hee now was out of the reach of detraction and too high fixed to be traduced but I see flouds of reproche throwne after him by the Papists as after the woman in the Wildernesse For my owne part I thought once not to haue meddled at all in this subiect knowing that Rerum irrecuperabilium foelieissima est obliuio vnhappy losses are happily forgot much lesse with the slander raised after him supposing it too light vpon the Ballance to poyze or sway any wise mans beliefe Againe I could not iudge it but as very ridiculous or malicious if ridiculous I hoped like a fume it would haue vanished For mendacia diù non fallunt and hauing arriued at nine dayes the age of a wonder died in laughter If malicious I held best not to take notice of it For iniury is no iniury if not apprehended Omnis iniuria in sensu patientis saith one to own a scandall crownes the reuenge of the Authour whereas neglected it quickly findes its owne graue But I see this spurious Brat hath found too many Nurses since it was exposed and like a Snow-ball by rolling is growne greater Longa aetate non infringitur sed augetur and as it hath acquired more age so also with those that wish it so more credit Therefore because impudent auouchings make wise men somtimes doubt and the ignorant stumble and for that I would not with a guilty silence seeme to betray a Truth or confirme their errour who take all for granted which is not contradicted I haue at last aduentured to speake Not that I hold my selfe fit or able for this taske at any time much lesse now but onely for that I hoped what I should say might win more beliefe as hauing been an eare witnesse and which is more Oculatus testis an eye-witnes of all his last passages and could beare record against his Accusers falshood as Saint John did of the truth Quod vidimus quod audiuimus c Yet alas what can I say what proportion will words hold against peremptory assertions I haue nothing to conuince them but a plaine vnglost deniall Petilianus dicit Ego nego They say it is so I know it is not and in a iust case it is Rhetoricke enough Let bad causes shrowd themselues in suspected apologies Trueth needs no clothing but as a principle scornes proofe or demonstration Besides it were difficult to prooue a Negatiue much harder to refute an vntruth by the tracke you may as well descrie the Eagles path or define that which is a twinne of the same litter non ens Neither finde I any such President from that Incarnate Truth Christ Jesus who being accused by clouds of false witnesses answered either nothing at all or very little according to his owne prescript Let your communication bee yea and nay And yet if I would seeke euidence to cast them I would looke no further then their owne Iurors but ex ore ipsorum from themselues fetch circumstance to confute them For I neuer yet knew any Lye so close built but there was some loope-light for the Truth to discouer it This is mendacium fenestratum hath many wide windowes for you to behold it First you know Hee whose conuersion they now vrge had been long an eye-sore to them railed on by many of their Pamphleters Parsons especially and that other vnchristened Jesuite for he hath no name or else shames to put it to his booke who thought it would be credit to his worke if he could bring in the name of Doctor King thogh but in the Rere and Post-script Iudge then how can this Report cohere to detest him liuing to defame him sicke yet claime him dead Were it true there is little policy to trust a reconciled enemy But being so false it is most impious and diabolicall to belie the dead For insidiari calcaneo which Gregory expounds to be Finem vitae is the diuels proper passion Secondly for the Authour of his conuersion they alleage such a one who sure vttered words which no man euer heard and acted feats which none could see For had he been a Substantiue visible or to be vnderstood and no Iugler nor dreame nor aire nor meere metaphysicall noiton we who were scarce euer absent should at one time or other haue descryed him But peraduenture it was a night-piece and not fit to bee perused by euery light Well then apply their owne Ignis fatuus to it and grant them as much as they can suppose and marke if it appeare not farre worse You must