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A05604	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	58,976	32

THE LETANY OF JOHN BASTVVICK Doctor of Phisicke Being now full of Devotion as well in respect of the common calamities of plague and pestilence as also of his owne particular miserie lying at this instant in Limbo Patrum Set downe in two Letters to Mr. Aquila Wykes keeper of the Gatehouse his good Angell IN WHICH There is an universall challenge to the vvhole World to prove the parity of Ministers to be jure divino ALSO A full demonstration that the Bishops are neither Christs nor the Apostles Successors but enemies of Christ and his Kingdome and of the Kings most excellent Majesties prerogative Royall All which hee undertaketh to make good before King and Counsell with the hazard of otherwise being made a prey to their insatiable indignation A Booke very usefull and profitable for all good Christians to read for the stirring up of devotion in them likewise PROVERB Chap. 25. vers 2. It is the glory of God to conceale a thing but the honour of the King is to search out a matter PRINTED By the speciall procurement and for the especiall use of our English Prelat● in the yeare of Remembrance Anno 1637. THE SECOND PART OF THE LATENY OF IOHN BASTWICK Doctor of Phisick WORTHY SIR I Was sometime in a demurre whether I should answer any thing or no vnto the exceptions you made against my LETANY and had I not indeed heard from many that others also from your speeches conceiued something in it might well haue been omited who by that meanes began to haue a preiudicat opinion of my honest endeauours I should neuer haue vouchsafed to haue giuen a reason of my proceedings in that behalfe till I had been called in question But in regard of that I thought fit in the meane time in a few words to signifie vnto you that whatsoeuer you seeme to blame as either fauouring of rashnes or not so graue was of purpose put in by me and proceeded from no disguised distemper or vnadvisednes but from mature deliberation and very good reason And whatsoeuer you may thinke of it I hope among equall Iudges it can no wayes hurt the cause of any honest men nor procure trouble to me my onely ayme and end being the honour of God and the King and the generall good of this Kingdome Which I shall euer preferr before my owne life and well being Nay had I neuer so many liues I would willingly loose them all in the cause of either Neither do I suppose any wise men to be so shallow that if I should handle a good cause neuer so weakely or vnaduisedly that the truth it selfe should suffer for my deficiency or others fare the worse for my temerity God forbid that one mans fayling should any wayes proue fatall to all those that are innocent More charity I do conceiue yet dwels in the world then that the innocuous should suffer with the delinquent But now breifly to summe vp what you obiect against MY LETANY OBLIGATION and EPISTLE to the LADY You seemd to blame some three passages as not so graue but comicall others to hyperbolicall and sauouring of some virulency and in fine thinke that some others will be questionable as scandalous and somewhat dishonourable to the diuine Sacrament of Baptisme and the holy ordinance of Matrimony To all which I suppose among all rationall men I shall find no great difficulty to answer when I am called thereunto But in the meane time by way of preface I haue sent you the ensuing lines in the which I shall tell you and that vpon good grounds there is no iust cause why any should blame mee for mingling ioc●● serijs et seria iocis all scurrility and prophanesse being avoyded For there wants not presidents of this kind in sacred writ that in the most graue and waightiest matters it pleased the Prophets of old to vse ironicall speeches yea the holy Scriptures are full of them But not now to enumerat many let one at this time suffice to be specified Where the Prophet deridingly bids Bals Priests cry alowd for that their God might either be in a iourney or a sleep or talking with his freinds I pray was not this as deepe an Irony as any euer was and that in a serious businesse But to speak no more of that let vs looke into all the famous writers of all ages and you shall find that many of them haue vsed this method for the discouering and confuting of error and haue more confounded the aduersaries of the truth in a pleasant and merry way then with all the grauity they could euer vse I dare say the Papists themselues will tell you that ALAGVNDE that noble Gentleman did them more hurt with his Beehiue And two or three other such books mixing and contempering mirth with seriousnes thē the profoundest Doctor of that age with all the pouderosity of Arguments and solidest tractats Such delight change of writing brings that euen as the same meat dressed after a common maner is not so pleasing nor so delightfull to many that know the diuersity of tasts but cooked with some variety as some time with tart sometime with pleasant sauce doth conciliat an excellent appetit so the same truth diuersly set out and comming forth in a new fashion and something merrily makes more gazing after it then if it were in an ordinary graue matronly habit which vsually is not looked after Neither was it euer more seasonable then in this age where there is such plurality of mutations in all things Besides a Writer must looke at the condition of the people whose benefit he aymes at the variety of humors sexes and conditions and must so order things that they may please the most If grauity please not they may haue that which may make them merry If seriousnes on the other side sobriety be prized they may find no want of that neither there being both the one and the other so mingled together as they may take away nauciousnes and recreat the readers And this indeed is the best way of writing though nothing now a dayes can please all mens phantasies It was the counsell of the Fathers to write with diuersity of style in the same faith that the enimies of the Gospell and errors might the better be opposed and that the way of truth might the more easily be found out and falsity discouered an excellent meanes of which they conceiued to be the variety of styles and writing And so dayly experience teacheth vs. It is with many men in our dayes as it is with those that are stung with the Tarantula in Apulia who are cured by musick and that not with euery sort of musick but such onely as at that instant pleaseth their humour which the Musitian playes long many times before he can find out or light vpon and sometyme can neuer hit it so that many perish being sodainly stupisied and benummed with the poyson But if the fidler strike vpon that string that pleaseth their

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 been imployed in matters of state and that often and in all these places where I euer liued I carryed my self as a Christian and had the repute of them all for an honest man and haue the publicke testimonyes of all places where I dwelt both for my honesty and learning and my bonds are famous now at Rome it self to my knowledg and in all the Christian world And all men that know any thing know also that I suffer not as an euill doer they stand all in wonderfull expectation what will be the issue of this businesse for it astonisheth thē to see that I should be put in prison for writing a booke against the Pope in defence of Regality and because it had nothing but scripture in it Now in this expectation of theirs I heare the Prelats are plotting new mischiefe against mee and haue desired power and greater assistance from the King for the prosecuting of mee more seuerely yet as if they had not enough before and withall that the Nobility joyne with them for the censuring of mee in the star-chamber for the cutting of my eares and worse but I hoope his Maiestie and the honorable Lords will more seriously looke into the businesse which if they doe I am confident they shall neuer find mee a delinquent but to haue deserued better from King and state then any Prelat in England euer did or can doe But by the way Let mee tell you thus much that whatsoeuer the Prelates pretend of seruice and loue to the King and Nobles they will in the conclusion deale with them as Polyphemus dealt with Vlisses his soldiers when he had got them in Antro first sayes Vlisses I will deuoure these meaning the common soldiers and after I will come to thee And euen so the Prelats when they haue deuoured the commons and them they stile by the name of Puritans they will also deuoure those graet vlisses and Heroes and this is as true as the Sunshines at none day They haue made prety beginnings of that good worke allready if men could see it and they and their creatures haue the breeding of all their children and the tutoring of them at home and abroad and all their whole endeauour is that the Lords and Peeres of the kingdome may be acquaynted with no solid learning and that which concernes either Religion or Gouernment but that they may haue some complementall way of Courtship for entertayment and be fit for pleasure onely and this say the Prelats is enough for Lords so that if any of the Lords creepe into the knowledg either of religion or of states matters it is through their owne ingenuity and industry and sore against the Prelats liking And hence it is that such misery at this day is in this kingdome that there is not one of forty of the Lords that vnderstandeth to the purpose an ordinary Latin author which is but the bark of learning so that by this meanes they are depriued of an excellent way of instruction and all this not through their owne default who otherwise are as witty and ingenious as any men but through their tutors and that indeed is their onely study to keepe Princes and Nobles ignorant and take them vp with pleasure that they may get the gouernment into their owne hands and be thought onely fit to manage state affayres to the infinit dishonour of the Nobility yea Kings themselues who if they would but set themselues a little to their studyes and looke into matters of Religion and state they would find little need of such cattle as Prelats are either in Church or state or if their were they would send them home to preach as Ministers should nay they would command them to follow that calling of preaching and leaue state-affayres to them King Iames in his Apology to Christian Princes sayes that Churchmen medling with state-affayres are the frogs that came out of the bottomlesse pit that corrupt and spoyle all things And truely till the Kings and Princes of the earth shall dismisse that crew from their Courts or send them about their owne callings they can neuer promise vnto themselues their Crownes and dignities any enduring security all which-things I will make so euidently appeare in my Anatomy of the Prelats as there is neuer Boy of eight yeares old but shall see it and I hope by that good work to doe such seruice and so good an office to all Christian Kings and to all Common wealths to the whole Church of God and to the generations of men that loue peace and syncerity as the very memory of mee the miserablest now of creatures shall be gratefull to all posterity to the worlds end But this shall be reserued till the sentence of the star-chamber is passed For I desire to print the whole passage of that Court against mee as I haue done of the high Comission that all the world may see how little I haue deserued such censures as I haue and shall vndergoe and how well I haue merited both from Church and state and when the Censure of the starre-chamber against me shall come out with the Anatomy of the Prelats you all men will then see whether the Prelats are not braue statesmen or no. But that I may notwrong any mā I must intreat your fauour in one thing I know you are an eminent man haue many freinds in the Court I shall therefore desire of You this kindnes that whatsoeuer speeches either the kings Attorney or Sollicitor or any other shall make in my absence against mee that it may be taken in short hand and sent mee forth with that I may translate it into Latin as it commeth with my answer to it and replication so that I may haue Bill and answer and all things ready for the presse at the day of my Censure and that at that day there may likewise be as many as possible can gather speeches that may take their declamations from their mouthes seuerally for I resolue to translate them all into Latine and to coment vpon them what Lords soeuer they be And I doubt not but to make it the famousest story that euer was agitated in any Court of iudicature since Paul appeared before Nero. But it is time now to draw to an end I heare that the Attorney vniuersall with the Kings Sollicitor are now a coming to examine mee and intend speedily to haue my eares I am onely sory I haue no more eares nor liues to lose for the houour of God my King and Religion but what should I greiue that I haue no more liues and eares to lose I know God accepteth of the least things so they be insyncerity offered vnto him to whose gratious perseruation I commend you and thinke this for the present sufficient to haue answered to your exceptions against my Letany and for the auoyding of others misinterpretings of my honest intentions Fare you well Your for euer in Limbo Patrum IOHN BASTVVICK Heare ends the second part of my Letany the other SIX are to Follow