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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A05633	A more full answer of John Bastwick, Dr. of Phisick made to the former exceptions newly propounded by another wellwiller to him, against some expressions in his Letany, with his reasons for the printing of it. All set downe as more articles superadditionall vpon superadditionall, against the prelats. This is to follow the Letany as a fourth part of it.; Litany. Part 4	Bastwick, John, 1593-1654.	1637 (1637)	STC 1575; ESTC S104510	13,880	12

A MORE FVLL ANSWER OF JOHN BASTWICK Dr. OF PHISICK Made to the former exceptions newly propounded by another wellwiller to him against some expressions in his LETANY with his reasons for the printing of it All set downe as more Articles superadditionall vpon superadditionall against the Prelats This is to follow the LETANY as a FOVRTH PART of it Printed in the Yeare of the English Prelats malice and crualty against and upon Gods faithfull people 1637. The fourth part of the Letany OF JOHN BASTWICK Doctor of Phisick VVorthy Sir AS I most kindly thanke you for the many favours you shewed me in my prosperity so I do heartily for your well wishes towards mee in this my captivity and as I do cordially thanke you for both so I do likewise promise all reciprocall endeavour in all Offices of love in way of remuneration and so much the more your humanity deserves it because you condole not onely my present desolation but study to prevent further fury in my adversaries which will tend to my greater ruine as you say if they have any just or but seeming ground for it and therefore you have freindly I thanke you advertised mee of some danger you feare will come upon mee if my Letany should be published in regard of some expressions in it as that I seeme to vilifie the Service of the Church established in the Kingdome by Parlament and that I call the Prelate of Canterbury VVilliam the Dragon and his brrther of Yorke the abby lubber of the North now they being privy Councellors such speeches will be adjudged scandalous as you suppose and therefore that I shall be censured for Scandalum Magnatum And withall you thinke it is a revillng those in authority which the Angel would not doe to the very Devill And this is the summe of what you have to object against my Letany To all which although I haue formerly answered in my letters to others yet because I know not whether you may ever see them I thought fit in breife to reply as followeth And first whereas you seeme to intimate by your words that I should either totally suppresse the printing of my LETANY or els take out those words I conceive neither of both by any sound reason ought to be done for that the LETANY is printed the Prelats are the cause of it and of the writing of it for would they have let mee followed my owne imployments I should never have troubled my thoughts about them for I most ingenuously confesse unto you that nothing more greeves mee the that I am constrained to make those men a subject of my discourse that at other times I would scorne to make an object of my cogitations but they I say having by their unhuman and unchristian proceedings deprived mee of liberty and all lively hood and by this meanes ruined mee and all mine and to all this threatned farther calamity and misery unto mee as the slitting of my nose the branding mee in the forehead the cutting of my eares all which things being dayly related unto mee by others I must confesse it put me upon my devotions and was the onely cause of my Letany and had not their thundering words come unto mee I should never have done any thing in English but that my country men might see something into the Prelats well meaning towards the Church and State and withall might be stirred up to a diligent endeavour to prevent the mischeif as they feare God and honour their King and lowe their religion and country I writ that treatise and sent it to my good Angel but hearing withall that some evill Angells were abroad and had misinterpreted it and the Prelats threatned me yet more cruelly for that then I resolved to make that publick which otherwise should have been for my owne use and the benefit of some few frends onely and this is one of the causes of the printing of it and all my other superadditionall articles against them For at the making of it I had never thought to have lived a day the plague on every side environing mee about and many poore people coming up to my chamber for cure with soares running on them all the Physicians being gone out of towne and therefore my danger being so great and all possibility of escaping of it being also taken away I tooke my self then to my Letany and that it seemeth was not well taken by M. Preists Prelats neither could they conceale their venome and evill intents but must for the greater terror of others divulge them and they as I said coming frequently to my intelligence for feare withall that they should adulterate my true copy I therefore writ over another with my owne hand which I got to be copyed out and so let some of my freinds see it and such also as had been many yeares in the High Commission Court and that knew very well I slandered them in nothing I said onely out of their good affection towards mee they feared and that very much that the Prelats would proceed to the extremest and rigerousest punishment that by law could be inflicted upon mee For their Kingdome was first by bloud begun and established and by bloud hath hitherto been continued and by bloud onely shall be perpetuated but for my bloud and life I stand not for that so that the truth may be knowne and their wickednes plots and cruelty be discovered and truely next unto the especiall providence of God which allwayes bringeth good out of evill I may thank the Prelats for the honour of this good worke cost it mee what it will for they onely were the cause both of the beginning and publishing of it for if they had not breathed out threats against mee presaging their bloudthirstinesse I should never have studied to dive so far into this businesse in the which through Gods blessing I have made so good progresse as I hope all those that either feare God or their King or love their countries through the whole Christian world with all the Christian Kings Princes and Emperors and all free States will manifestly see not onely the little need of the Prelats Government in their Kingdomes and Countries but the great mischeife and damage they bring to all Common-Wealths and Nations where they dwell And to say no more but the verity there is as little need of them and their jurisdictions in Kingdoms for the well administring of them as is in our Christian and holy profession of the Service-booke which yet never either begot grace or the feare or love of God or increased any gift of God in any and is well knowne to the whole corporation of those that call upon the name of God in sincerity that it doth not onely hinder goodnes but doth hurt and that abundantly indeed were there no other just cause of casting of it out but that it doth no good this I say were enough to remove it but especially when it is a cause of

much evill every way it ought to stirre up authority to looke into it for very reason teacheth us that which is no way usefull nor needfull for the salvation of men of that there can be no true need now of the Service booke there is no need nor necessity for if there had been God would himselfe have appointed one and all Christian Churches would have had that that had been needfull to their salvation and therefore when God hath neither appointed certain prayers to be daily read nor other Christian Churches which are daily saved never had any and when no man dare conclude that any man was ever excluded from heaven that never heard any Divine service it seemeth a strange thing to mee that such a peece of service in our Church should be authorized that was taken out of the Masse booke and of the which all the learned in reformed Churches where I have lived wonder that such a learned Prince as King Iames was would ever admit it in his dominions for they all had seene it it being translated into French and this I was often an eare witnes of that the profoundest men said if so be they had a purpose to turne againe to Babylon from which they were commanded to come out they would for a speedy way bring in the English service and discipline and then farewell immediatly all true religion and the intire service of God and by this meanes they should give so great and strong a weapen into their adversaries hands as they should never be able to make good their proceeding and withall should in a little time breed such a deale of ignorance in the people as they would be easily seduced For whereas many of them had not time through their many occasions in the whole weeke to reade the Scriptures if they should also on the Lords day be taken up in reading of prayers gathered and collected out of Popish Pamphlets this would bee an absolute meanes to extinguish that little knowledge they had already and bring in blindnes in stead of it And with all the correspondency that was between them in rites Ceremonies and Service would kindle a greater love in the Papists to their superstitious worship and in the Protestant it would also upon the least occasion beget some desire to returne unto their old errors and therefore they protested as they tendered the honour of God the salvation of the people and the advancement of learning they could never admit of our service amongst them of all which they professed they thought it an enimy and they add farther that if they had ever beleeved that such formes of prayer had been for the advancement of the Gospell and the glory of God and the edification of the people they had thousands in their Church that could make formes of prayer and never be beholding to the Masse-booke for them And I can truely say thus much I neuer yet met a Minister in France were hee in neuer so meane a place but he was a diligenr preacher and able to instruct any flock withall he was of so good literature as I never saw yet Bishop or any high Priest in England to be compared to him for that which I speake to the eternall honour of that people that giue vnto their Ministers such singular breeding and haue such care in their elections that they be able and sufficient men and euery way so accomplished for life doctrine as they cannot neither by feare fauour or preferment be brought from their integrity nor by all persecutions warres bloudy massacres be in the least daunted or deterred from their holy profession And of this Christianimity is this people and many more and of this sound learning where they neuer had a Letany or seruice book or either in gouernment discipline or ceremonyes were like vnto the Papists all which haue been euer dangerous if not fatall to all true religion for when Christians began to bring in Iewish and heathenish ceremonies rites and customes and their inuentions they then began to pervert true Religion and corrupt the sound doctrine of our glorious and holy profession And King Iames himself though for some ends he was willing for a time to retayne the ceremonyes yet he professed in the conference at Hampton Court that if he did dwell among the heathens Papists that then there was great danger in symbolizing with thē in any such things for it would much animate them in their superstition by which they might be hindred rather then furthered in religion but in regard that they had no Papists among them which might be hurt by them he was the more willing to conniue at them but had he liued vntill now and seene what mischeif both ceremonyes and service haue done amongst vs or did but King Charles see or were but truly informed of the ignorance that is amongst the people both in regard of their duty towards God and his royall Maiestie of the backsliding to Popery and superstition which hath ever protested against he would take some speedy course for the remouing of all the occasions of it which is nothing els bur the seruice booke and ceremonyes with their corrupt discipline Gouerners as by his autority the autority of his royall Predecessors they were established so when the inconueniences of all such constitutions are by dayly experience seene which was euer sufficient cause to abrogat lawes and dismisse Officers they may well be remoued with the great good to the whole Church and state and to his excellencyes immortall honour and the perpetuation of his Crowne and dignity And thus much at this time shall suffice to haue spoken concerning the seruice book and the tackling belonging to that businesse because I haue formerly spoken of it And now I am come to your master and capitall exception where you thinke that they will heauily censure mee for calling the Prelat of Canterbury William the Dragon and the Bishop of yorke the abby lubber of the North. Which you coniecture will be esteemed scandalum magnatum and will cause a seuere punishment from autority and which they haue also cruelly threatned vnto mee for the same words and therefore you would haue them omitted But before I come to the distinct answer to that you now suggest I thinke it fit to say something for a proeme concerning this scandalum magnatum and the orginall of it you very well know that Kings haue euer been called and esteemed Gods vpon earth and they indeed went before their people shining in vertues and goodnes of which they were composed so farre they were from any commaculation of vice that people were not to thinke euill of the King in their bedchamber or to say what dost thou by all which is sufficiently inferred what excellency is in Princes and mighty potentates aboue other men And as Kings had the supreme and first degree of dignity both for place and vertue so next vnto them had the true