in truth must be confessed viz. That some of the ejected Clergy were guilty of foul offences to whom and whom alone the name of Baal and unsavory Salt did relate Nor was it a wonder if amongst Ten Thousand and more some were guilty of Scandalous enormities This being laid down and yeilded to the violence of the times I wrought my selfe by degrees as much as I durst to insert what followeth in vindication of many others rigorously cast out for following in their affections their preceding Iudgements and Consciences and no scandall could justly be charged upon them pleading for them as ensueth Church-History Book 11. pag. 207. 1. The witnesses against them were seldome deposed on Oath but their bare complaints believed 2. Many of the Complainers were factious People those most accusing their Sermons who least heard them and who since have deserted the Church as hating the profession of the Ministry 3. Many were charged with delivering false Doctrines whose Posiâ—ioâ—s were found at the least disputable Such those accused for Preaching that Baptism washeth away Originall Sin which the most learned and honest in the Assembly in some sense will not deny namely that in the Children of God it cleanseth the condemning and finall peaceable commanding power of Originall Sin though the stain and blemish thereof doth still remain 4. Some were meerly outed for their affections to the King's Cause and what was Malignity at London was Loyalty at Oxford 5. Yea many Moderate men of the opposite party much be moaned such severity that some Clergy men blamelesse for life and Orthodox for Doctrine were ejected onely on the account of their faithfullnesse to the King's cause And as much corruption was let out by this Ejection maâ—y scandalous Ministers deservedly punished so at the same time the Veins of the English Church were emptied of Much good blood some inoffensive Pastors which hath made her Body Hydropicall ever since ill humours succeeding in the room by reason of too large and suddain evacuation This being written by me some ten in the Paroxâ—sm of the Business and printed some four years since was as much as then I durst say for my Brethren without running my selfe into apparent danger If the Papists take advantage at what I have written I can wash my Hands I have given them no just occasion and I hope this my hust defence will prove satisfactory to the ingenuous That I did not designedly â—etract â—â—om any 〈◊〉 Brethren But if this my Plea finds no acceptance and if I must groan under so unjust an accusation I will endeavour to follow the Counsell of the Prophet I will beare the Indignation of the Lord because I have sinned against Him until He plead my Cause and execute Iudgment for me He will bring me forth to the Light and I shall behold his righteousnesse Dr. Heylyn But to say truth It is no wonder if he concurre with others in the Condemnation of particular persons since he concurrs with others in the condemnation of the Church it selfe For speaking of the separation made by Mr. Goodwin Mr. Nye c. fol. 209. he professeth that he rather doth believe that the sinfull corruptions of the worship and Government of this Church taking hold on their Consciences and their inability to comport any longer therewith was rather the true cause of their deserting of their Country then that it was for Debt or Danger as Mr. Edwards in his Book had suggested of them What grounds Mr. Edwards had for his suggestion I enquire not now though coming from the Pen of one who was no friend unto the Government and Liturgy of the Church of England it might have met with greater credit in our Author For if these men be not allowed for witnesses against one another the Church would be in worse condition then the antient Borderers Amongst whom though the testimony of an English Man against a Scoâ— or of a Scoâ— against the English in matters of spoil and depredation could not find admittance yet a Scot's evidence against a Scâ—t was beyond exception Lege inter Limitaneos cautum ut nullus nisi Anglus in Anglum nullus nisi Scotus in Scoâ—um testis admitâ—atur as we read in Camden We see by this as by other passages which way our Author's Bowl is biassed how constantly he declares himselfe in favour of those who have either separated from the Church or appear'd against it Rather then such good people shall be thought to forsake the Land for Debt or Danger the Church shall be accus'd for laying the heavy burthen of Conformity upon their Consciences which neither they nor their fore-fathers the old English Puritans were resolved to bear For what else were those sinfull Corruptions of this Church in Goâ—erâ—ment and Worship which laid hold of their Consciences as our Author words it but the Government of the Church by Bishops the Rites and Ceremonies of the Church here by law establisht which yet must be allowed of by our Author as the more true and reall cause of their Separation then that which we find in Mr. Edwards Fuller I knew Mr. Edwards very well my contemporary in Queens Colledge who often was transported beyond due bounds with the keenness and eagernesse of his spirit and therefore I have just cause in some things to suspect him especially being informed and assured the contrary from credible persons As for the five dissenting Members Mr. Goodwin Mr. Nye Mr. Sympson Mr. Bridge Mr. Burroughs to whom Mr. Archer may be reduced they owed not eighteen pence a piece to any in England and carried over with them no contemptible summs in their purses As for Lay-Gentlemen and Merchants that went over with them such as peruse their names will be satisfied in their responsible yea plentifull Estates Sr. MATTHEW BOINTON Sr. WILLIAM CONSTABLE Sr. RICHARD SALTINGSTON Mr. LAWRENCE since Lord President of the Councill Mr. ANDREWES since Lord Major of London Mr. BOWRCHER Mr. ASK since a Judge Mr. JAMES Mr. WHITE And although the last of these failed beyond the Seas a cacching Casually with great undertakings yet was he known to have a very great Estate at his going over Yea I am most credibly inform'd by such who I am confident will not abuse me and posterity therein that Mr. Herbert Palmer an Anti-Independent to the heighth being convinced that Mr. Edwards had printed some false-hoods in one sheet of his Gangrena proffered to have that sheet re-printed at his own cost but some intervening accident obstructed it Dr. Heylyn Nor can our Author save himselfe by his parenthesis in which he tells us that he uses their language onely For using it without check or censure he makes it his own as well as theirs and justifies them in the action which he should have condemn'd Fuller This is an Hypercriticism which I never heard of before and now do not believe In opposition whereunto I return that if a Writer doth slily weave another Author's words into his owne
that the King should never be restored to his place and Power by which he might be called to a reckoning for them Fuller It Seems Multa videntur quae non sunt The Inference is false and forced Titus Livius lived in Imperial yet wrote of Regal Consulatory Tribunitial at Rome without the least imputation of falshood I conceive Monarchical Aristocratical and Democralical truth to be One and the Same It followeth not that two-faced Ianus as beholding two worlds one before the other after the Flood had also two Hearts I did not attemper my History to the Palat of the Government so as to sweeten it with any Falshood but I made it Palatable thus far forth as not to give a wilful disgust to those in present Power and procure danger to my self by using any over-salt tart or bitter Expression better forborn than inserted without any prejudice to the Truth Dr. Heylyn For in the second Book he reckons the Cross in Baptism for a Popish Trinket by which it appears not I am sure to have been written in the time of Kingly Government that being no expression sutable unto such a time Fuller Should I simply and absolutely call the Cross in Baptisme a Popish Trinket my fore-head Signed therewith would give my Tongue the lye and return the Popery in the teeth thereof I behold it as an Ancient and Significant Ceremony but in no degree essentiall to or completory of the Sacrament witness the wisdome of the Church of England which in private Baptism permitteth the omitting thereof But when Ceremonyes shall devour their distance and intrude themselves necessary and essential it is high time to term them Superstititious Trinkets The rest I referr to what I have written when this passage recurreth in the place cited by the Animadvertor Dr. Heylyn Secondly speaking of the precedency which was fixt in Canterbury by removing the Archiepiscopal See from London thither he telleth us that the matter is not much which See went first when living seeing our Age hath laid them both alike level in their Graves But certainly the Government was not changed into a State or Commonwealth till the death of the King and till the death of the King neither of those Episcopall Sees nor any of the rest were laid so level in their Graves but that they were in hope of a Resurrection the King declaring himself very constantly in the Treaty at the Isle of Wight as well against the abolishing of the Episcopal Government as the alienation of their Lands Thirdly In the latter end of the same Book he makes a great dispute against the high and sacred priviledge of the Kings of England in curing the disease comonly called the Kings Evil whether to be imputed to Magick or Imagination or indeed a Miracle next brings us in an old Wives Tale about Queen Elizabeth as if she had disclaimed that power she daily exercised and finally manageth a Quarrel against the form of Prayer used at the curing of that Evil which he arraigns for Superstition and impertinencies no inferior Crimes Are all these passages proper to that Government also Finally in the third Book he derogates from the power of the Church in making Canons giving the binding and concluding Power in matters which concern the civil Rights of the Subjects not to the King but to the Lay-people of the Land assembled in Parliament which game he after followeth in the eighth and last And though it might be safe enough for him in the eighth and last to derogate in this manner from the King's supremacy in Ecclesiastical affairs yet certainly it was neither safe for him so to do nor proper for him so to write in the time of the Kingly Government unless he had some such wretched hopes as before we spake of Fuller I desire the Reader to remember my late words as the Animadvertor recited them FOR THE MAIN I confess though these Books were written in the Reign of King Charles yet after his Death I interpolated some lines and amongst others that of levelling all Bishopricks I raised no dispute against the Kings curing the Evil it being raised before I was born and which I endeavoured to allay referring it to Miracle as to the peruser of my History in that place will appear I tell no old Wives Tale of Queen Elizabeth it being a Masculine Truth from most authentick Authors I derogate not in the least degree from the power of the Church but the Animadvertor doth arrogate unto it more then is due by the Lawes of God and Man maintaining that Church-men may go beyond Ecclesiastical Censures even to the Limbs and Lives of such as are Recusants to their Constitutions WRETCHED and what formerly he said DISLOYAL HOPES I defie and return them in the Teeth of him that wrote the words He had WRETCHED AND DISLOIAL HOPES who wrote that King Iames went to New-market as Tiberius to his Capreae he waved his Loyalty and Discretion together who so saucily and un-subject-like counted how often King Charles waved his Crown Here give me leave to tell the Animadvertor that such whom he slighteth for LOW-ROYALISTS were whilst they had a King in England as HIGH in their Loyalty to him Prayers and Sufferings for him as those HIGH-ROIALISTS who maintain that all goods of the Subjects are at the King 's absolute Dispose and yet since those Kings are departed this life can write of them in so base and disparaging Language that any one of the LOW-ROIALISTS would have his right hand cut off rather then write the like Reader pardon my too just passion when DISLOIALTY is laid to my charge It is with me Either now speak or else for ever hereafter hold your Peace Dr. Heylyn I must needs say that on the reading of these Passages and the rest that follow I found my self possest with much Indignation And I long expected when some Champion would appear in the Listes against this Goliah who so reproachfully had defied the whole Armyes of Israel And I must needs confess withal that I did never enter more unwillingly on any undertaking But beeing solicited thereunto by Letters Messages and several personal Addresses by Men of all Orders and Dignityes in the Church and of all degrees in the Universities I was at last overcome by that Importunity which I found would not be resisted Fuller Indignation is grief and anger boiled up to the height What just cause I have given for so great passion the Reader will judge If I be a Goliah in this point may I have his Success to be conquered killed and my head cut off even with my own Sword If I be none May the Animadvertor be graciously pardoned And it may be he shall never come off any undertaking more unhappily I could mate him with telling him that Men of all Sorts and Sizes their Equals in Number and Quality have likewise importuned me not tamely to sit down but to vindicate my own credit and conscience Dr. Heylyn
some of the Kings Councill learned in the Laws of this Realm caus'd the said Canons to be read and considered of the King being then present By all which upon due and mature deliberation the Canons were approv'd and being so approv'd were sent back to the Clergy in the Convocation and by them subscribed And certainly it had been strange that they should pass the approbation of the Judges and learned Lawyers had they contained any thing against the fundamentall Laws of the Land the Property of the Subject and the Rights of Parliament or been approv'd of by the Lords of his Majesties Councill had any thing been contained in them derogatory to the Kings Prerogative or tending to faction and sedition So that the foundation being ill laid the superstructures and objections which are built upon it may be easily shaken and thrown down To the first therefore it is ansvvered that nothing hath been more ordinary in all former times than for the Canons of the Church to inflict penalties on such as shall disobey them exemplified in the late Canons of 1603. many of which extend not onely unto Excommunication but even to Degradation and Irregularity for which see Can. 38.113 c. To the second that there is nothing in those Canons which determineâ—h or limiteth the Kings Authority but much that makes for and defendeth the Right of the Subject for which the Convocation might rather have expected thanks then censure from ensuing Parliaments To the third That when the Canon did declare the Government of Kings to be founded on the Law of Nature it was not to condemn all other Governments as being unlawfull but to commend that of the Kings as being the best Nor can it Logically be inferr'd that because the Kingly Government is not receiv'd in all places that therefore it ought not so to be or that the Government by this Canon should be the same in all places and in all alike because some Kings do and may lawfully part with many of their Rights for the good of their Subjects which others do and may as lawfully retain unto themselves To the fourth That the Doctrine of Non-Resistance is built expresly on the words of St. Paul Rom. 13. v. 2. and therefore to condemn the Canon in that behalf is to condemn the Word of God upon vvhich it is founded Finally to the fifth and last That the Statute of 5 6 Edw. 6. declaring that the daies there mentioned shall be kept for Holy-daies and no other relates onely to the abolishing of some other Festivalls which had been formerly observ'd in the Realm of England and not to the disabling of the Church from ordaining any other Holy-dayes on emergent causes in the times to come Fuller DORMIT SECURUS Dr. Heylyn Assuredly that able Lawyer would have spoke more home unto the point could the cause have born it Eloquentem facit causae bonitas in the Orator's language And therefore looking on the heads of the Arguments as our Author represents them to us I must needs think that they were rather fitted to the sense of the House than they were to his own Fuller I now begin to awake and rub my Eyes hearing somewhat wherein I am concerned as if I had unfaithfully related these Arguments I confesse it is but a Breviat of them accommodated to the proportion of my Book and had they been at large much lustre must be lost whilst related seeing none but Mr. Mainard can repeat the Arguments of Mr. Mainard to equal advantage However I had them from as observant and judicious a Person as any in house of Lords and if I should name Him the Animadvertor would believe me herein Dr. Heylyn What influence these Arguments might have on the House of Peers when reported by the Bishop of Lincoln I am not able to affirm But so far I concur with our Author that they lost neither life nor lustre as they came from his mouth who as our Author sayes was a back friend to the Canons because made during his absence and durance in the Tower A piece of ingenuity which I did not look for Fuller There are some Pens that if a Man do look for Ingenuity from them he may look for it Dr. Heylyn The power of Convocation being thus shaken and endangered that of the High Commission and the Bishops Courts was not like to hold the one being taken away by Act of Parliament and the other much weakned in the coercive power thereof by a clause in that Act of which our Author tell us that Fol. 182. Mr. Pim triumphed at this successe crying out digitus Dei it is the finger of God that the Bishops should so supinely suffer themselves to be surprised in their power And well might Mr. Pim triumph as having gain'd the point he aim'd at in subverting the coercive power and consequently the whole exercise of Ecclesiastical Jurisdiction But he had no reason to impute it to the finger of God or to the carelesnesse of the Bishops in suffering themselves to be so supinely surpris'd For first the Bishops saw too plainly that those general words by which they were disabled from inflicting any pain or penalty would be extended to Suspension Excommunication and other Ecclesiastical censures But secondly they saw withall that the stream was too strong for them to strive against most of the Lords being wrought on by the popular party in the House of Commons to passe the Bill Thirdly they were not without hope that when the Scots Army was disbanded and that Nation satisfied by the Kings condescensions to them there might be such an explication made of those general words as to restrain them unto temporal pains and civill penalties by which the censures of the Church might remain as formerly And fourthly in order thereunto they had procured a Proviso to be entred in the House of Peers That the general words in this Bill should extend onely to the High Commission Court and not reach other Ecclesiastical jurisdiction for which consult our Author fol. 181. Having thus passed over such matters as concern the Church we will now look upon some few things which relate to the Parliament And the first is that Fuller I said not Mr. Pim had just cause to triumph yea somewhat followeth in my History to the contrary shewing He had no reason to rejoyce and condemn the Bishops herein seeing not Supinesse but Prudentiall condescention for the time made them rather sufferers then surprized herein Onely I say there are many alive who heard him sing aloud this his Victoria and the Eccho thereof it still soundeth in their Eares The Animadvertor himselfe sometimes triumpheth over my mistakes and carrieth me away in his own conceit whilst still I am sensible of my owne Liberty that I am in a free condition Dr. Heylyn Fol. 174. Dr. Pocklinton and Dr. Bray were the two first that felt the displeasures of it the former for preaching and printing the latter for licensing two Books
by an Arch-bishop attended with prayers and a Sermon 2. I never expected that a Chaplain to K. Charles should find fault with any thing tending to the honour of his Lord How can any good Disciple grudge at what is expended 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 on the buriall of the Memory of his Master being the last in this kind 3. My Collections I mean printed by me but observed by my most worthy Friend are abating onely the uncertain place of the Lord Maior most critically exact Lastly though the Heralds Office doth carefully preserve all such Ceremonyes yet cannot all persons living at great distance and desiring information herein have on all occasions so facill and convenient access to their Office as to my Printed Book Dr. Heylyn The like may be said also of the quick and active Raigns of Edward the the sixth and Queen Mary in which the wâ—ole Body of the reformed Religion was digested setled and destroyed sufficient of it self to make a competent Volume but contracted by our Author like Homer's Iliads in the Nut-shell into less than 25. sheets And yet in that small Abstract we find many Impertinences as to the work he hath in hand that is to say the great proficiency of King Edward in his Grammar Learning exemplified in three pieces of Latine of his making when he was but eight or nine yerrs old Fuller Just reason of such contraction because of Mr. Fox his dilatation on the same Where he found my fault he if so pleased might have found my defence viz. If Papists preserve the Nailes and Hairs of their supposed Saints give me leave to Record the first Essays of this Pious Prince especially they being unprinted rarieties with which no Divine or Schollar save the Animadvertor alone would or could have found any fault Dr. Heylyn The long Narrative of Sir Edward Montague Chief Justice of the Common Pleas to vindicate himself from being a voluntary Agent in the business of the Lady Iane Gray needlesly inserted Fuller King Edward the sixth his passing the Crown over the heads of his two Sisters to his Cousin the Lady Iane is a piece of Church-History because the continuing of the Protestant Religion is all the plausible Plea for the same and the fair varnish of so foul a Ground-work This passage of Consequence is defectively delivered by our Historians some Circumstances thereof being hitherto lockt from the world Some have endevoured to force the lock by their bold Conjectures I am the first that have brought the true key and opened it from Judge Montague's own hand truely Passive though charged to be most Active therein driven with the Tempest of Duke Dudley's anger against the Tide of his own Inclinations I prize a Dram of acceptance from the Ingenuous Reader above a Pound of the Animadvertor's Cavilling which is offended with my inserting of so authentique and informative a Manuscript Dr. Heylyn Needless the full and punctual relation of Wyats Rebellion and the Issue of it though acted upon some false grounds of Civil Interess without relating to Religion or to Church Affairs Infinitum esset ire per singula c. Fuller This Rebellion was grounded on Erronious Principles of Religion and therefore Goodman Il-man did in his Book of that Subject entitle it gods-GODS-CAUSE and though souly mistaken therein it is enough to reduce this Design to Church-concernment Had I omitted it the Animadvertor would have charged me with Puritanical pardon the Prolepsis compliance so hard it is to please him either full or fasting Dr. Heylyn But well it were if onely Aberrations from Historicall truth were to be met with in our Author In whom we find such a continual vein of Puritanism such dangerous grounds for Inconformity and Sedition to be raised upon as easily may pervert the unwary Reader whom the facetiousness of the style like a Hook baited with a painted Fly may be apt to work on Murthering of Kings avowed for a necessary prudence as oft as they shall fall into the power of their Subjects Lib. 4. fol. 109. Fuller The Page cited by him happily happeneth to be the Initial One of a Section and hath no more therein then as followeth Church-History Book 4. Page 109. Soon after his Death K. Edward was much lamented by those of whom in his liâ—e time he was never beloved Whether this proceeded from the meer mutaâ—ility â—f mens minds weary to loiter long in the lazie posture of the same affection Or whether it proceeded from the Pride of Mortimer whose insolence grew intolerable Or whether because his punishment was generally apprehended too heavy for his fault so that Deposition without Death or at the worst Death without such unhumane cruelty had been sufficient One of our English-Poet-Historians accquainteth us with a passage which to my knowledge appeareth not in any other Author This all in that page Reader I request thee do Me thy Self and Truth right Whether can my avowance of King-murdering be collected from any thing here written by me But because some will say the Quotation possibly may be mistaken If any thing sounding to that sense there or elsewhere be found in my Book may the Ravens of the Valleys whom I behold as loyall Subjects in Vindication of the Eagle their Soveraign pick out my eyes for delivering such rebellious Doctrine Dr. Heylyn The Coronation of Kings and consequently their succession to the Crown of England made to depend upon the suffrage and consent of the People Lib. 11. fol. 122. The Sword extorted from the Supream Magistrate and put into the hands of the common People whensoever the Reforming humor shall grow strong amongst them Lib. 9. fol. 51. The Church depriv'd of her Authority in determining controversies of the Faith and a dispute rais'd against that clause of the Article in which that Authority is declared whether forg'd or not Lib. 9. fol. 73. Fuller Stylus Equabilis Here is a continued Champian large Levell and fair Flat of fourteen untruths at least without any Elevation of Truth interposed No such matter in that place as hereafter shall appear False as the former as in due time and place cited now afterwards by him eagerly improved will appear I am depraved unjustly who never deprived ' the Church of her Authority I raised no such Dispute but would have quel'd it if in my power All which I refer to my Answer to these respective Quotations Dr. Heylyn Her power in making Canons every where prostituted to the lust of the Parliament contrary both to Law and constant practise Fuller Every where is No where And seeing no particular place is instanced to a General Charge a General Deniall shall suffice Let me add that whereas the Animadvertor hereafter taxeth me for calling the two Houses the Parliament we therefore may presume that he not running on the same rock by Parliament meaneth the King Lords and Commons which granted how much of loyalty and Discretion there is in these his words prostituted to the LUST
Countrey conquered to change the Laws alter the Language or new mould the Government or finally to translate the Scepter from the old Royal Family to some one of their own None of which things being done in the Invasions of the Scots and Picts they cannot properly be said to have subdued the South parts of the Island as our Author out of love perhaps to the Scots would perswade the Reader Fuller I confesse of all Five the Picts and Scots had the most short and uncertain abode in the South The distinction is very nice betwixt harrassing or depopulating of a Countrey and subduing it If I could but harrasse and depopulate that is but deargumentaâ—e the Animamadvertors Book against me I doubt not but I should be accounted to subdue it Why is not my Pen charged with a love to the Picts whom I also equally with the Scots intitle to this subduing and is a Nation now no where extant to be the object of my affection But this five-times subduing of the South of this Island is in all Authors as generally known and received as that a man hath five fingers on his hand Wherefore no more in Answer to just nothing THE THIRD BOOK From the time of the Norman Conquest to the first preaching of Wickliffe Dr. Heylin WE are now come unto the times of the Norman Government when the Church began to settle on a surer bottom both for power and polity the Bishops lesse obnoxious to the Kings than formerly because elected by the Monks and Canons of their own Cathedrals their Consistories free from the intermixture of Lay-assistance and their Synods manag'd by themselves Wherein though they had power of making such Synodicall Constitutions as did ipso facto binde all parties yet our Author is resolv'd to have it otherwise Fuller All this is but perfatary and therefore my Answer not necessary thereunto The Animadvertor seemeth to congratulate the Condition of the English Church as better hereafter in the following than in foregoing Ages He instanceth in two particulars POWER and POLITIE omitting a third worth Both Piety to which Purity in Doctrine may be reduced which now began more and more to be impaired Let me add that after the Kings of England had parted which indeed was wrested from them with the Investing of Bishops Bishops became lesse managable by and dutiful to their Prince and more insulting over the People and being lesse OBNOXIOUS to use the Animadvertors word to the Soveraign were more NOXIOUS to the Subjects Dr. Heylin Our Author proceeds Fol. 19. The Proceedings saith he of the Canon Law were never wholly received into practice in the Land but so as made subject in whatsoever touched temporals to Secular Lawes and National Customes And the Laity as pleasure limited Canons in this behalf How false this is how contrary to the power and practice of the Church before the submission of the Clergy to King Henry the eight and finally how dangerous a ground is hereby laid to weaken the Authority of Convocations will best appear by laying down the sum of a Petition presented by the House of Commons to the same King Henry together with the Answer of the Prelates and inferior Clergy then being Synodically assembled to the said Petition The substance of the Petition was as followeth viz. THat the Clergy of this your Realm being your Highnesse Subjects in their Convocation by them holden within this your Realm have made and daily make divers Sanctions or Laws concerning Temporal things and some of them be repugnant to the Laws and Statutes of your Realm not having ne requiring your most Royal assent to the same Laws so by them made nother any assent or knowledge of your Lay Subjects is had to the same nother to them published and known in their Mother tongue albeit divers and sundry of the said Laws extend in certain causes to your excellent Person your Liberty and Prerogative Royal and to the interdiction of your Laws and Possessions and so likewise to the Goods and Possessions of your Lay Subjects declaring the infringers of the same Laws so by them made not onely to incur the terrible censure of Excommunication but also to the detestable crime and sin of Heresie by the which divers of your humble and obedient Lay Subjects be brought into this Ambiguity whether they may doe and execute your Laws according to your jurisdiction Royal of this Realm for dread of the same Censures and pains comprised in the same Laws so by them made in their Convocations to the great trouble and inquietation of your said humble and obedient Lay Subjects c. the impeachment of your Jurisdiction and Prerogative Royal. The Answer thereunto was this TO this we say that forasmuch as we repute and take our Authority of making Laws to be grounded upon the Scripture of God and the determination of holy Church which must also be a rule and squier to try the justice and righteousnesse of all Laws as well Spiritual as Temporal we verily trust that considering the Laws of this Realm be such as have been made by most Christian religious and devout Princes and People how both these Laws proceeding from one fountain the same being sincerely interpretrd and after the good meaning of the makers there shall be found no repugnancy nor contrariety but that the one shall be found as aiding maintaining and supporting the other And if it shall otherwise appear as it is our duty whereunto we shall alwayes most diligently apply our selves to reform our Ordinances to Gods Commission and to conform our Statutes and Laws and those of our predecessors to the determination of Scripture and holy Church so we hope in God and shall daily pray for the same that your Highnesse will if there appear cause why with the assent of your People temper your Graces Laws accordingly Whereby shall ensue a most happy and perfect conjunction and agreement as God being Lapis angularis to agree and conjoyn the same And as concerning the requiring of your Highnesse Royal assent to the authority of such Laws as have been by our Predecessors or shall be made by us in such points and Articles as we have by Gods authority to rule and order by such Provisions and Laws we knowing your Highness wisdome and vertue and learning nothing doubt but the same perceiveth how the granting hereunto dependeth not upon our will and liberty And that we your most humble Subjects may not submit the execution of our charge and duty certainly prescribed by God to your Highnesse assent although in very deed the same is most worthy for your most Noble Princely and excellent vertues not onely to give your Royal assent but also to devise and command what we should for good order and manners by Statutes and Laws provide in the Church neverthelesse considering we may not so ne in such sort refrain the doing of our office in the feeding and ruling of Christs people your Graces Subjects we most
dissensionem consensum in vera Religione firmandum that is to say to take away diversitie of Opinions and to establish an agreement in the true Religion Which end could never be effected if men were left unto the liberty of dissenting or might have leave to put their own sense upon the Articles But whereas our instances in the Article of Christs descent into Hell telling us that Christs preaching unto the Spirits there on which the Article seemed to be grounded in King Edwards Book was left out in this and thereupon inferreth that men are left unto a latitude concerning the cause time manner of his discent I must needs say that he is very much mistaken For first the Church of England hath alwaies constantly maintained a local Descent though many which would be thought her Children the better to comply with Calvin and some other Divines of forain Nations have deviated in this point from the sense of the Church And secondly the reason why this Convocation left out that passage of Christ preaching to the spirits in hell was not that men might be left unto a latitude concerning the cause time and manner of his Descent as our Author dreams but because that passaage of St. Peter being capable of some other interpretations was not conceived to be a clear and sufficient evidence to prove the Article For which see Bishop Bilsons Survey p. 388.389 Fuller I cannot fully concur with the Animadvertor That the Church of England hath constantly maintained a LOCAL DESCENT though no man hath an higher esteem for those worthy Writers who are of that perswasion I will confess this hitherto hath staggered me viz. St. Peter his application of Davids words to Christ thou shalt not leave my soul in hel I appeal whether these words import not a favour to all unprejudiced hearers which God did to his Son bearing this natural and unviolated sense That had God left Christs soul in hell his soul had been in a bad condition as being there in a suffering capacity but Gods Paternal affection to his dear Son would not leave his soul in hell but did rescue it thence Now all our Protestant and especially English Writers who maintain a LOCAL DESCENT doe very worthily in opposition to the Romish Error defend that Christ was then in a good estate yea in a triumphing condition Now then it had been no favour not to leave his soul in Hell but a less love unto him to contract his happiness in his triumph I protest that in this or any other point I am not possest with a spirit of opposition and when I am herein satisfied in any good degree I shall become the Animadvertors thankful Convert in this particular Dr. Heylin Our Author proceeds Fol. 74. In a word concerning this clause whether the Bishops were faulty in their addition or their opposites in their substraction I leave to more cunning Arithmeticians to decide The Clause here spoken of by our Author is the first Sentence in the twentieth Article entituled De Ecclesiae Authoritate where it is said that the Church hath power to decree Rites and Ceremonies and Authority in Controversies of the Faith c. Fuller To this and to what ensueth in two leaves following I return no answer not because I am pinched therein with any matter of moment but for these reasons following First I understand That the Animadvertors Stationer taketh exception that I have printed all his book which may tend to his detriment Now I protest when I â—irst took up this resolution to present the Animadvertors whole Cloth List Fagg and all I aimed not at his damage but my own defence noâ— can I see how I could doe otherwise seeing the plaister must be as broad as the sore the tent as deep as the wound yea I have been inâ—ormed by prime Stationers the like hath formerly been done without exception taken on either side in the Replies and Rejoynders betwixt Dr. Whitgift and Mr. Cartwright and many others However being willing to avoid all appearance of injury I have left out some observations which I conceived might well be spared as containing no pungent matter against me Secondly I am confident That there needs no other answer to these notes then the distinct and serious perusal of my Church History with the due alteration of favour indulged to all writings Lâ—stly What of moment in these notes is omitted by me relateth to those two Church Questions in Law which I have formerly desired may fairly be ventilated betwixt the Animadvertor and me and if he be sensible That any thing herein tendeth to his advantage he may and no doubt will re-assume and enforce the same Dr. Heylin From the Articles our Author proceeds unto the Homilies approved in those Articles and of them he tels us Fol. 75. That if they did little good they did little harm With scorn and insolence enough Those Homilies were so composed as to instruct the people in all positive Doctrines necessary for Christian men to know with reference both to Faith and Manners and being penned in a plain style as our Author hath it were fitter for the edification of the common people than either the strong lines of some or the flashes of vain wit in others in these latter times c. Fuller With scorn and insolence I defie the words The Animadvertor might have added my words immediately following viz. They preached not strange Doctrines to People as too many vent DARKNESSES now a dayes intituled New Ligâ—ts And well had it been for the peace and happiness of the Church if the Animadvertor and all of his Party had had as high an esteem as the Author hath for the Homilies If none of them had called them HOMELY HOMILIES as one did And if they had conformed their practise to the second Homilie in the second Book and not appeared so forward in countenancing Images of God and his Saints in Churches Dr. Heylin The Author proceeds Fol. 76. The English Bishops conceiving themselves impowred by their Canons began to shew their authority in urging the Clergy of their Diocess to subscribe to the Liturgy Ceremonies and Discipline of the Church and such as refused the same were branded with the odious name of Puritans Our Author having given the Parliament a power of confirming no Canons as before was shewed he brings the Bishops acting by as weak Authority in the years 1563. 1564. there being at that time no Canons for them to proceed upon for requiring their Clergy to subscribe to the Liturgies Ceremonies and Discipline of the Church And therefore if they did any such thing it was not as they were impowred by their Canons but as they were inabled by that Authority which was inherent naturally in their Episcopal Office Fuller I profess my self not to understand the sense of the Animadvertor and what he driveth at herein And as soon as I shall understand him I will either fully concur with him or fairly
they had deserved the first thing which was done by the House of Commons after the King by their means had been brought to the fatall Block being to turn them out of povver to dissolve their House and annul their priviledges reducing them to the same condition vvith the rest of the Subjects Fuller I behold all this Paragraph as a Letter sent to me vvhich requires no Answer onely I bear the Animadvertor witnesse that it is delivered seeing I was none of the Lords on either Side But I am not altogether satisfied in the Adequation of the Animadvertor's Dichotomy to all the English Nobility That all not subscribing the Catalogue at Oxford must instantly be concluded on the opsite Party believing that upon serious search some Lords would be found in their Minority and not necessarily reducible to either of these heads Dr. Heylyn Footsteps of his moderation content with the enjoying without the enjoyning their private practices and opinions on others This comes in as an inference onely on a former passage in which it is said of Bishop Andrews that in what place soever he came he never pressed any other Ceremonies upon them than such as he found to be used there before his comming Though othervvise condemned by some for many superstitious Ceremonies and superfluous Ornaments used in his private Chappell How true this is I am not able to affirm Fuller The Animadvertor if so disposed might soon have satisfied himself in this point being Beneficed in Hampshire the last Diocesse of Bishop Andrews And though his institution into his Living was since the death of that worthy Prelate yet his information in this particular had been easie from the aged Clergy of his Vicinage Sure I am he ever was inquisitive enough in matters vvhiâ—h might make for his advantage so that his not denying tantamounteth to the affirming of the matter in question Dr. Heylyn I am less able if it should be true to commend it in him It is not certainly the office of a carefull Bishop onely to leave things as he found them but to reduce them if amiss to those Rules and Canons from which by the forwardness of some to innovate and the connivance of others at the innovations they had been suffered to decline Fuller I comply cordially with the Animadvertor in all this last Sentence Only I add That it is also the office of a good Bishop not to endeavour the Alteration of things well setled before This was the constant practice of Doctor Andrews successively Bishop of Chichester Ely and Winchester who never urged any other Ceremonies that what which he found there Now whereas the Animadvertor saith that iâ— this should be true he is not able to commend it in him the matter is not much seeing the actions of Bishop Andrewes are able to commend themselves Dr. Heylyn And for the Inference it selfe it is intended chiefly for the late Arch-Bishop of Canterbury against whom he had a fling before in the fourth Book of this History not noted there because reserved to another place of vvhich more hereafter Condemmed here for his want of moderation in enjoyning his private practices and opinions on other men But first our Author had done well to have spared the man vvho hath already reckoned for all his errours both vvith God and the vvorld Fuller He hath so and I hope what he could not satisfie in himself was done by his Savâ—our But first the Animadvertor had done wel to have spared his censure on my intentions except he had better assurance of them Here I must Reader appeal to an higher than thy self Him vvho can read the secrets of my heart before whom I protest That in this passage I did not reflect in any degree on the Arch-Bishop of Canterbury To make this the more probable knovv the Articles of his Visitation vvere observed to be as moderate as any Bishops in England Here let me enter this Memorable and let the Animadvertor confute it if he can There was a designe of the thirty six Dissenters of whom hereafter in the Convocaâ—ion to obtain that these Articles of his Visitation might be precedenâ—tall to all the Bishops in England as being in themselves in offensive and containing no Innovations This was by some communicated to Arch-Bishop Laud who at first seemed to approve thereof and how it came afterwards to miscarry I am not bound to discover I confess this my expression did eye another person related to Bishop Andrewes whom I forbear to name except by the Animadvertor's reply unto me I be forced thereunto Dr. Heylyn And secondly it had been better if he had told us what those private practises and opinions were which the Arch-Bishop with such want of moderation did enjoyâ— on others Fuller They are reckoned up in my Church-History Book 11. pag. 174. parag 47 48. This is direction enough and there one may find more then a good many of such opinions and practises On the self-same token that it was discreetly done of the Animadvertor to pass them over in silence without a word in their defence or excuse I will not again here repeat them partly because I will not revive what in some sort is dead and buried and partly because I charitably believe that some engaged therein and still alive are since sorry for their over-activity therein Dr. Heylyn For it is possible enough that the opinions which he speaks of might be the publick Doctrines of the Church of England maintained by him in opposition to those private opinions which the Calvinian party had intended to obtrude upon her A thing complained oâ— by Spalato who well observed that many of the opinions both of Luther and Calvin were received amongst us as part of the Doctrine and Confession of the Church of England which otherwise he acknowledged to be capable of an Orthodox sense Praeter Anglicanam Confessionem quam mi â— ut moâ—estam praedicalant multa video Lutheri Calvini dogmata obtinuisse as he there objects Fuller I am not bound to stand to the judgment of Spalato who would not stand to his own judgment but first in â—earâ— then in body went back into Aegypt Lay not such unsavoury salt in my dish but cast it to the Dunghill Dr. Heylyn He that reads the Gag and the Appello Caesarem of Bishop Monâ—â—gue cannot but see that those opinions which our Author condemned for private were the true Doctrine of this Church professed and held forth in the Book of Articles the Homilies and the Common-Prayer-Book Fuller He that reads the Answers returned by severall Divines to the Books of Bishop Montague cannot but see that they were rather private opinions than the true and professed Doctrine of the Church of England Here Reader I cannot but remember a passage betwixt two Messengers sent to carry Defiances from severall Armies who meeting in the mid-way though naked and without Swords yet to manifest their zeal to their Cause fought it out with their Trumpets
till both being well wearied they went about their businesse leaving the main successe to be tryed by their Armies Historians are beheld in the notion of Heralds And seeing the Animadvertor and I have now clashed it with our Trumpets let us leave the rest to be disputed and decided by those learned and pious persons who publickly in Print have engaged therein and who have or may in due timâ— meet together in bliss and happinesse In my Fathers house are though no wall of partition many mansions severall receptacles as some suppose for Martyrs Confessors c. and vvhy not for such as dissenting in the superstructures concur in holy life and the fundamentalls of Religion Dr. Heylyn And it is possible enough that the practices which he speaks of were not private neither but a reviver of those antient and publick usages which the Canons of the Church enjoyned and by the remisness of the late Government had been discontinued But for a justification of the practises the private practises he speaks of I shall refer him to an Author of more credit with him Which Author first tells us of the Bishops generally That being of late years either careless or indulgent they had not required within their Diocesses that strict obedience to Ecclesiasticall Constitutions which the Law expected upon which the Liturgy began totally to be laid aside and inconformity the uniform practise of the Church He tells us secondly of Arch-Bishop Abbot in particular That his extraordinary remisness in not exacting a strict conformity to the prescribed orders of the Church in point of Ceremony seemed to dissolve those legall determinations to their first principle of indifferency and led in such an habit of inconformity as the future reduction of those tender conscienced mens too-long-discontinued obedience was interpreted an innovation And finally he tells of Arch-Bishop Laud who succeeded Abbot in that See that being of another mind and mettle he did not like that the externall Worship of God should follow the fashion of every private fancy and what he did not like in that subject as he was in State so he thought it was his duty to reform To which end in his Metropoliticall Visitation he calls upon all both Clergy and Laity to observe the Rules of the Church And this is that which our Author calls the enjoyning of his private practises private perhaps in the private opinion of some men who had declared themselves to be professed enemies to all publick Order Fuller I have cause to give credit unto him who to the lustre of his antient and noble extraction hath added the light of Learning not as his profession but accomplishment whereby he hath presented the Publick with an hansome History likely to prove as acceptable to Posterity as it hath done to the present Age. The Gentleman in that his passage reflecteth onely on such Ceremonies is stood in force by Canon but had been disused with whom I concur But the controversie in hand is about additionall Ceremonies enjoyned by no Cannons save some mens over-imperious commanding and others over-officious complying justly deserving the censure of private practises Dr. Heylyn Our Author proceeds fol. 127. A Commission was granted unto five Bishops whereof Bishop Laud of the Quorum to suspend Arch-Bishop Abbot from exercising his auâ—hority any longer because un-canonicall for casuall Homicide Had our Author said that Bishop Laud had been one of the number he had hit it right the Commission being granted to five Bishops viz. Dr. Montain Bishop of London Dr. Neil Bishop of Durham Dr. Buckeridge Bishop of Rochester Dr. Howson Bishop of Oxford and Dr. Laud Bishop of Bathe and Wells or to any four three or two of them and no more then so Had Bishop Laud been of the Quorum his presence and consent had been so necessary to all their Consultations Conclusions and dispatch of businesses that nothing could be done without him whereas by the words of the Commission any two of them were impowered and consequently all of them must be of the Quorum as well as he which every Iustice's Clerk cannot chuse but laugh at Fuller They will soon cease their laughter at the sad story I am about to relate But be it premised that here I use the word Quorum not in the legall strictness thereof but in that passeable sense in common discourse viz. for one so active in a business that nothing is though it may be done without him therein When the Writing for Arch-Bishop Abbot's suspension was to be subscribed by the Bishops aforesaid the four Seniors viz. London Durham Rochester and Oxford all declined to set their hands thereunto and seemingly at the least shewed much reluctance and regrete thereat Then give me the Pen said Bishop Laud and though last in place first subscribed his name Encouraged by whose words and example the rest after some demur did the like This was attested to me by him who had best cause to know it the aged and credible Register still alive who attended in the place upon them This I formerly knew but concealed it and had not published it now if not necessitated thereunto in my just defence Dr. Heylyn Nor is there any such thing as a casuall Homicide mentioned or so much as glanced at in that Commission the Commission onely saying That the said Arch-Bishop could not at that present in his own person attend those services which were otherwise proper for his Cognizance and Jurisdiction and which as Arch-Bishop of Canterbury he might and ought in his own person to have performed and executed I am loth to rub longer on this sore the point having been so vext already betwixt the Historian and the Oservator that I shall not trouble it any further Fuller I confess casuall Homicide not expresly mentioned but implyed in the Commission Otherwise what did those words import COULD NOT in his person attend It was not any indisposition of body being then and some years after in health not impotency in his Intellect caused from the influence of age who afterwards when older discharged this place as the Animadvertor confeseth Though therefore the hilt of Homicide was onely shown the blade was shaked in the sheath Sure I am that some the nearest about the Arch-Bishop have informed me that he interpreted that UN-COULDING him solely to relate to his canonicall Irregulaâ—ity on the Accident aforesaid and was dejected accordingly Dr. Heylyn Onely I must crave leave to rectifie our Author in another passage relating to that sad accident Fuller To rectifie is to make that streight which was crooked before and it is an act of no less charity than skill and cunning well to perform it Onely fools can be fond of their own deformity I do not onely desire but delight to have the crookedness of my knowledge streightned provided alwaies it be done in the spirit of meekness But I understand such as streighten crooked persons beyond the Seas put them to much torture I
one of my Name printed before I was born and false never by Man or woman retorted on me However if it doth Quit mine He is now but Even with me and hereafter I shall be ABOVE him by forbearing any bitter Return I had rather my Name should make many causelessely merry then any justly sad and seeing it lyeth equally open and obvious to praise and dispraise I shall as little be elated when flattered Fuller of wit and learning as dejected when flouted Fuller of folly and ignorance All this which the Animadvertor hath said on my Name I behold as nothing and as the Anagram of his Name HEYLYN NE HILI NOTHING-worth Dr. Heylyn But my other story is more serious intended for the satisfaction of our Author and the Reader both It was in November Anno 1639. that I receiv'd a message from the Lord Archbishop to attend him the next day at two of the clock in the afternoon The Key being turn'd which opened the way into his Study I found him sitting in a chair holding a paper in both hands and his eyes so fixt upon that paper that he observ'd me not at my coming in Finding him in that posture I thought it fit and manners to retire again But the noise I made by my retreat bringing him back unto himselfe he recall'd me again and told me after some short pawse that he well remembred that he had sent for me but could not tell for his life what it was about After which he was pleas'd to say not without tears standing in his eyes that he had then newly receiv'd a letter acquainting him with a Revolt of a Person of some Quality in North-Wales to the Church of Rome that he knew that the increase of Popery by such frequent Revolts would be imputed unto him and his Brethren the Bishops who were all least guilty of the same that for his part he had done his utmost so far forth as it might consist with the Rules of Prudence and the Preservation of the Church to suppresse that party and to bring the chief sticklers in it to condign punishment to the truth whereof lifting up his wet eyes to Heaven he took God to witnesse conjuring me as I would answer it to God at the day of Judgement that if ever I came to any of those places which he and his Brethren by reason of their great age were not like to hold long I would imploy all such abilities as God had given me in suppressing that party who by their open undertakings and secret practices were like to be the ruine of this flourishing Church After some words of mine upon that occasion I found some argument to divert him from those sad remembrances and having brought him to some reasonable composednesse I took leave for the present and some two or three dayes after waiting on him again he then told me the reason of his sending for me the time before And this I deliver for a truth on the faith of a Christian which I hope will over-ballance any Evidence which hath been brought to prove such Popish inclinations as he stands generally charg'd with in our Author's History Fuller I verily believe all and every one of these Passages to be true and therefore may proceed Dr. Heylyn Our Author proceeds Fol. 217. However most apparent it is by many passages in his life that he endeavoured to take up many controversies betwixt us and the Church of Rome And this indeed is Novum Crimen that is to say a crime of a new stamp never coyn'd before Fuller I call it not Novum Crimen which I believe was in him according to his Principles Pium Propositum but let me also add was Frustraneus Conatus and that not onely ex Eventu because it did not but ex Natura Rei because it could not take Effect such the reall Unreconcileablenesse betwixt us and Rome Dr. Heylyn I thought that when our Saviour said Beati Pacifici it had been sufficient warrant unto any man to endeavour Peace to build up the breaches in the Church and to make Ierusalem like a City which is at Unity in it selfe especially where it may be done not onely salva charitate without breach of charity but salâ—â— fide too without wrong to the faith The greatest part of the Controversies betwixt us and the Church of Rome not being in the Fundamentalls or in any Essentiall Points in the Christian Religion I cannot otherwise look upon it but as a most Christian pious work to endeavour an atonement in the Superstructures But hereof our Author seems to doubt first whether such endeavours to agree and compose the differences be lawfull or not and secondly whether they be possible Fuller I confesse Scripture pronounceth the Peace-makers blessed In answer whereunto I will take no notice of Iehu his Tart return to K. Ioram What peace so long as the whoredomes of thy Mother Iezabel and her witchcrafts are so many Rather will I make use of the Calme Counsell of the Apostle If it be POSSIBLE as much as in you lieth live Peaceably with all Men. Which words if it be possible intimate an impossibility of Peace with some Natures in some differences though good men have done what lyeth understand it Lawfully in their power to performe such sometimes the frowardnesse of one though the forwardnesse of the other side to Agreement which is the true state of the Controversie betwixt us and Rome Dr. Heylyn As for the lawfulnesse thereof I could never see any reason produc'd against it nor so much as any question made of it till I found it here Fuller All such zealous Authors who charge the Papists with Idolatry and the Animadvertor knowes well Who they are do question the Lawfulnesse of such an Agreement Dr. Heylyn Against the possibility thereof it hath been objected that such and so great is the pride of the Church of Rome that they will condescend to nothing And therefore if any such composition or agreement be made it must not be by their meeting us but our going to them Fuller I remember some then present have told me of a passage at a disputation in Oxford When Dr. Prideaux pressed home an Argument to which the Answerer returned Reverende Professor memini me legisse hoc ipsissimum Argumentum apud Bellarminum At mi fili returned that Dr. ubi legisti Responsum This Objection the Animadvertor acknowledgeth he hath formerly met with but where did he meet with a satisfactory Answer thereunto Let me add It is not onely the Pride of the Church of Rome which will not let-goe her Power but also her Covetousnesse which will not part with her Profit which obstructeth all accommodation betwixt us And if the Church of Rome would the Court of Rome will not quit the Premises and the latter hath an irresistible influence on the former In this point the Court of Rome is like the Country-man who willingly put his Cause to Arbitration
Bill of Charges the Church paid the reckoning the Dominican Fryer who translated it being rewarded with a Benefice and a good Prebend as the Bishop himselfe did signifie by letter to the Duke of Buckingham Fuller I have been credibly informed by those who have best cause to know it That it was done not onely by his procurement but at his Cost Though I deny not but that a benefice might be conferred on the Fryer in reward of his paines Thus far I am assured by such as saw it That the Bishop who had more skill in the Spanish then his policy would publiquely own did with his owne hand correct every sheet therein Dr. Heylyn And as for the printing of the book I cannot think that it was at his charges neither but at the charges of the Printer it not being usuall to give the Printer money and the copy too Fuller The Animadvertor so well practised in printing knowes full well That though i◠be usuall to give Money and Copies too for a saleable book which being Printed in our owne tongue is every mans Money yet a Spanish Book printed in England is chargeable meeting with few buyers because few understanders thereof Dr. Heylyn And Thirdly Taking it for granted that the Liturgy was translated and printed at this Bishop's charges yet does not this prove him to be so great an honourer of it as our Author makes him For had he been indeed a true honourer of the English Liturgy he would have been a more diligent attendant on it than he shewed himself never repairing to the Church at Westminster whereof he was Dean from the 18. of February 1635. when the businesse of the great Pew was judged against him till his Commitment to the Tower in Iuly 1637. Fuller One reason why he seldome came to Prayers to Westminster Church was because he was permitted but little to live there after he fell into the King's displeasure being often sent away the day after he came thither On the same token that once Sr. Iohn Cook being sent unto him to command him to avoid the Deanery Mr. Secretary said the Bishop what Authority have you to command a Man out of his owne House Which wrought so much on the old Knight that he was not quiet till he had gotten his owne pardon Dr. Heylyn Nor ever going to the Chappell of the Tower where he was a Prisoner to attend the Divine Service of the Church or receive the Sacrament from Iuly 1637. when he was committed to November 1640. when he was enlarged A very strong Argument that he was no such Honourer of the English Liturgy as is here pretended A Liturgy most highly esteemed in all places wheresoever it came and never so much vilified despis'd condemn'd as amongst our selves and those amongst our selves who did so vilifie and despise it by none more countenanced then by him who is here said to be so great an Honourer o◠it Fuller Though for reasons best known to himselfe he went not to Prayers in the Tower Chappell yet was he his own Chaplain to read them in his own Chamber And let me add this memorable passage thereunto During his durance in the Tower there was a Kinsman of Sr. William Balforés then Lieutenant a Scotish man and his name Mr. Melvin too who being mortally sick sent for Bishop Williams to pray with him The Bishop read to him the Visitation of the sick having fore-acquainted this dying man That there was a form of Absolution in this Prayer if he thought fit to receive it Wherewith Mr. Melvin was not onely well satisfied but got himselfe up as well as he could on his knees in the bed and in that posture received Absolution Dr Heylyn But for this Blow our Author hath his Buckler ready telling us Ibid. Not out of Sympathy to Non-conformists but Antipathy to Arch-bishop Laud he was favourable to some select Persons of that Opinion An Action somewhat like to that of the Earl of Kildare who being accused before Henry the Eighth for burning the Cathedrall Church of Cassiles in Ireland profess'd ingeniously That he would never have burnt the Church if some body had not told him that the Bishop was in it Hate to that Bishop an Arch-Bishop of Ireland incited that mad Earl to burn his Cathedrall Church And hate to Bishop Laud the Primate and Metropolitan of all England stir'd up this Bishop to raise a more unquenchable Combustion in the Church of England So that we may affirm of him as Tertullian in another case of the Primitive Christians viz. Tanti non est bonum quanti est odium Christianorum But are we sure that he was favourable to the Non-Conformists out of an antipathy to Bishop Laud onely I believe not so His antipathy to the King did as strongly byass him that way as any thing else For which I have the Testimony of the Author of the History of King Charls publisht 1656. who telleth us of him That being malevolently inclin'd about the losse of the great Seal c. Fuller I will not advocate for all the actions of Bishop Williams and though the Animadvertor beholds my pen as over-partiall unto him yet I know who it was that wrote unto me Semper es iniquior in Archiepiscopum Eboracensem I am a true honourer of his many excellent virtues and no excuser of his Faults who could heartily wish That the latter part of his Life had been like the beginning thereof Dr. Heylyn And so I take my leave of this great Prelate whom I both reverence for his Place and honour for his Parts as much as any And yet I cannot choose but say that I find more reason to condemn then there is to commend him so that we may affirm of him as the Historian doth of Cajus Caesar Son of Agrippa and Nephew to the great Augustus viz. Tam variè se gessit ut nec laudaturum magna nec vituperaturum mediocris materia deficiat as my Author hath it And with the same Character accommodated to our Author and this present History I conclude these Notes subjoyning onely this old Saying as well for my comfort as defence viz. Truth though it may be blam'd can never be sham'd Fuller Here the Animadvertor doth Tickle and Pinch me both together yet neither will I laugh nor cry but keep my former composure I will take no notice of a piece of MEZENTISM in his joyning of the Dead and Living together and conceive my selfe far unworthy to be parallel'd in the least degree with his Eminences However I will endeavour with the Gladiators 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 honestè decumbere that when I can fight no longer I may fall handsomely in the Scene of this Life May God who gave it have the glory of what is good in me my selfe the shame of what is bad which I ought to labour to amend To the Reverend and his Worthy Friend Dr. Iohn Cosin Dean of Peter-burgh SIR You may be pleased to remember
that some two years since being informed by our friend Mr. Davenport that you took some exceptions at what I had written concerning you in my Church-History I returned you an Answer to this Effect That I would make you just reparation either in the next Edition of my History or in another Book which I was about to set forth Of the Worthies of England choosing therein the most proper and conspicuous place which might render it most visible to the Reader This last Book had since been printed had not the unhappy difference between Dr. Heylyn and me retarded it What I wrote concerning your Accusation in the House of Commons I transcribed out of the Manuscript journalls of that House As for your purgation in the House of Lords I knew not thereof which maketh such my omssion the more excusable I am now right glad that you did so clearly vindicate your innocence In my next Edition I will do you all possile right with improvement that my Pen can perform as also God Willing when I come to treat in my intended Book of the Cathedrall of Durham In the mean time joyning with Hundreds more of my Profession in thanks to you for your worthy Work on the Apocrypha and desiring the Continuation and increase of Gods blessing on your studies who do abide the Champion for our Religion in forraign parts know that amongst your many honourers you have none more affectionate than Your humble Servant Thomas Fuller To the Religious Learned and Ingenuous Reader EPistles to the Reader by way of Preparation are properly placed in the front of a Book but those by way of Recollection follow best in the Reare thereof If you have had the Leisure and Patience to peruse this Book you deserve the Name of a Reader indeed and I do as heartily wish as charitably hope Thee Qualified with those three Epithets wherewith I have intitled thee I must now accost thee in the Language of the Levite to the Tribes of Israell CONSULT CONSIDER and GIVE SENTENCE Deal truly and unpartially betwixt me and the Animadvertor please thine owne Conscience though thou displeasest us and adjudge in thy selfe where neither of Us where both of Us where one of Us which one of Us is in the right Onely this I will add for my Comfort and thy better Confidence in reading my Book that according to the received Rule in Law Exceptio firmat Regulam in non-Exceptis it followeth proportionably that Animadversio firmat Regulam in non-Animadversis And if so by the Tacite Consent of my Adversary himselfe all other passages in my Book are allowed Sound and True save these few which fall under his reproof and how justly I submit my Cause to thy Censure and thy Person to Gods keeping remaining Thine in Jesus Christ. Thomas Fuller Cranford Moate-House To my Loving Friend Doctor Peter Heylyn I Hope Sir that we are not mutually Un-friended by this Difference which hath happened betwixt us And now as Duellers when they are Both out of breath may stand still and Parley before they have a Second passe let us in cold Blood exchange a Word and mean time let us depose at least suspend our Animosities Death hath crept into both our Clay-Cottages through the Windows your Eyes being Bad mine not Good God mend them both And Sanctifie unto us these Monitors of Mortality and however it fareth with our Corporeall sight send our Souls that Collyrium and Heavenly Eye-salve mentioned in Scripture But indeed Sir I conceive our Time Pains and Parts may be better expended to Gods Glory and the Churches Good than in these needlesse Contentions Why should Peter fall out with Thomas both being Disciples to the same Lord and Master I assure you Sir whatever you conceive to the contrary I am Cordiall to the cause of the English Church and my Hoary Haâ—res will go down to the Grave in sorrow for her Sufferings You well remember the passage in Homer how wise Nestor bemoaned the unhappy difference betwixt Agamemnon and Achilles 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 O gods how great the grief of Greece the while And Priams selfe and Sons do sweetly smile Yea all the Trojan party swell with Laughter That Greeks with Greeks fall out and fight to Slaughter Let me therefore tender unto you an Expedient in Tendency to our mutuall Agreement You know full well Sir how in Heraldry two Lioncells Rampant endorsed are said to be the Embleme of two Valiant Men keeping appointment and meeting in the Field but either forbidden fight by their Prince or departing on Tearms of Equallity agreed betwixt themselves Whereupon turning Back to Back neither Conquerors nor Conquered they depart the Field severall wayes their Stout Stomacks not suffering them both to go the same way left it be accounted an Iâ—jury one to precede the other In like manner I know you disdain to allow me your Equall in this Controversie betwixt us and I will not allow you my Superiour To prevent future Troâ—ble let it be a Drawn Battle and let both of us abound in our owne sense severally perswaded in the Truth of what we have written Thus parting and going out Back to Back here to cut off all Contest about Precedency I hope we shall meet in Heaven Face to Face hereafter In Order whereunto God Willing I will give you a meeting when and where you shall be pleased to appoint that we who have Tilted Pens may shake Hands together St. Paul writing to Philemon concerning Onesimus saith For perhaps he therefore departed for a season that thou mightest receive him for ever To avoid exceptions you shall be the good Philemon I the fugitive Onesimus Wâ—o knoweth but that God in his providence permitted yea ordered this difference to happen betwixt us not onely to occasion a reconciliation but to consolidate a mutuall friendship betwixt us during our Lives and that the surviver in Gods pleasure onely to appoint may make favourable and respectfull mention of him who goeth first to his grave The desire of him who remaines SIR A Lover of your Parts and an Honourer of your Person THO. FULLER FINIS To Dr. Cornelius Burges SIR I could have wished that in your book entituled a Case concerning the buying of Bishops Lands with the lawfullnesse thereof c. you had forborn this following expression against me Part. 1. pag. 7. As that flashy jeering Author of the late published History of the Church upon hear-say onely and out of Resolution calumniari fortiter hath falsely reported him Let us go back to the occasion of these words When Dr. Hacket May the 11th 1641. made a Speech in behalfe of the Deans and Chapters of England for the preventing of the alienation of their Lands and revenues you returned an Answer thereunto and about the conclusive Result thereof is our present contest Dr. Burges You say you onely concluded those things unalienable from the Church