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A56218	The time-serving Proteus, and ambidexter divine, uncased to the vvorld containing two letters of M. John Dury (the great champion for the new ingagement, faithfully extracted out of the originalls under his own hand) : the first, to Joseph Hall, late Bishop of Exeter : the second, to William Lawd, late Archbishop of Canterbury : wherein he expresseth the reasons which moved him, not onely to scruple and dislike, but in some sort to renounce his ecclesiasticall orders and ministeriall function, formerly conferred on him in the reformed churches beyond the seas, because not given by a diœcesan bishop ...	Prynne, William, 1600-1669.; Dury, John, 1596-1680.	1650 (1650)	Wing P4106; Wing D2892; ESTC R19645	6,280	8

this I fell in a deep trouble of mind whereupon I went back again to those that had sent me thither and got a q discharge from them out of that place and permission to go to my Country There I stayed a long while before I could find a resolution to continue in the Ministery which at last by the perswasion of learned and godly friends I found so far that I thought it not lawfull for me to ronounce altogether that calling whereunto from my youth I had sincerely dedicated my studies to which I had been publiquely chosen by a Church to which I was approved fit by the judgement of many and to which I had obliged my self by solemn promise towards God So being afterwards called to a Noblemans family I returned to the function of a Lecturer and would never take upon me the charge of souls and thus have continued till now in ministeriall imployments of such a nature as did not bind me to any particular Church But now finding my selfe called in another Church otherwise ordered to a particular cure and finding the r nature of this cure agreeable to the Word of God and my self disposed in due time to discharge it I think that seeing the former Ordination hath been heretofore troubled with doubts and interrupted to the end I may go about this charge to which I am now called with a s full resolution and a faithfull assurance of a blessing from God I ought to enter by the door and crave such inabling as the Church can give me by Gods Ordinance not neglecting the t Power which God hath bestowed upon the Rulers thereof whereby they can give Orders unto their subordinate Ministers whereof I am appointed to be one And therefore to quench and prevent all further doubts of my calling to the Ministry I find my self u bound in conscience to crave and receive Orders in this Church of England which for these besides other causes right Reverend Father in God I humbly desire your Lordship to confer upon me if I shall be found capable of them after tryall and examination For which favour and benefit I have cause to praise God and be bound to pray for your Lordships perpetuall increase in all spirituall and temporall happinesse remaining alwaies Exeter 22. Feb. Anno 1634. Your Lordships most humble and devoted servant in Christ John Dury Mr. Dury was so far in love with these reasons of his wherein he manifested himself not only an absolute Episcopall Proselite but Parasite both in his conscience judgement and practise beyond all former presidents by Archbishop Lawds presentation of him to a good benefice in Devonshire which wrought these strange alterations and miraculous effects therein expressed that he sent the copy of them written with his own hand indorsed by him as aforesaid unto this Archbishop of Canterbury inclosed in this ensuing Letter written with his own hand and thus indorsed by the Archbishop himself Rece Mar. 10. 1633. Comp. Aug. To the * most Reverend Father in God my most gracious Lord William by Gods Providence Lord Archbishop of Canterbury Primate of all England and Metropolitane Chancellour of Oxford and one of the Lords of his Majesties most honorable Privy Counsell my most Noble Lord and ever-honored Patron Most reverend Father in God SEeing I ought to be jealous over my self in all things that concern the publike least I give just occasion to any body but chiefly unto your Grace of conceiving any thing of my actions but chiefly of that which doth concern my taking Orders in this Church otherwise then might be * for my credit as if either formerly I had without sufficient cause delayed a thing of so great moment or now lately had rushed upon it unadvisedly neither considering the nature of the work in it self nor the offence which Forrainers might take at me if they should come to know it I did think good for all these respects to present this Letter first in the originall to my Lord of Exeter and now in the Copy unto your Grace that all sinistrous and doubtfull opinions might be prevented and the true cause might appear wherefore I did now and never heretofore intend this matter therefore I beseech your Grace to take this also in good part and keep me in the favour of your good opinion as one that desires nothing more then to live and behave my self so that I may * testifie to all the world that I am your Grace his Most humbly devoted servant in all obedience John Dury Westminster 10. March 1634. BY the serious consideration of these two Letters and the marginal animadversions on them Mr. Iohn Dury his seduced engaging Patrons and Disciples comparing them with his subsequent changes and wheelings about with the times and thriving Party may take an exact Character as well of his inward as outward complection which S. James thus characteirzeth Jam. 1. 6. 8. He that wavereth is like a wave of the Sea driven with the wind and tossed A double-minded man is unstable in all his waies We shall say no more of him at present but recommend these three sacred texts to him and his followers most serious considerations and second thoughts Prov. 24. 21 22. My son fear thou the Lord and the King and meddle not with them that are given to change for their calamity shall rise suddenly and who knoweth the ruine of them both Jer. 2. 36 37 Why gaddest thou about so much to change thy way thou also shalt be ashamed of Egypt as thou wast ashamed of Assyria Yea thou shalt go forth from him and thine hands upon thy head for the Lord hath rejected thy confidences and thou shalt not prosper in them Rom. 1. 35. Who changed the truth of God into a lie and worshiped and served the creature more then the Creatour who is blessed for ever Amen Isai. 9. 16 17. For the leaders of this people cause them to erre and they that are led of them are destroyed Therefore the Lord shall have no joy in their young men neither shall have mercy on their fatherlesse and widdows for every one is in hypocrite and an evill doer and every month speaketh folly or villany for all this his anget is not turned away but his hand is stretched out still FINIS a Did you enter thus into your present Living and Pastorall charge without institution admission or induction of a Bishop b Archbishops preferments made Mr. Dury an Episcopall Proselite and marr'd his Presbyterianship c He voluntarily sues to the Bishops for new Orders without their motion or instigation d d No Ordination lawfull with him but that of Bishops e His conscience is very tender yet stretching and mutable with times and preferments f His former Ordination by Presbyters made him no Minister nor Member of the Clergy in his judgement g The Bishops Ordination only not the Presbyters is the door whereby all must enter into the Sheepfold h We have much failed herein of late years i Ordination by Bishops alone he calls Gods Ordinance but not by Presbyters k He intends and promiseth exact Canonicall obedience beforehand l Ordination by Bishops most agreeable to Gods Commandements m Ordination by Presbyters insufficient in his judgement which nulls and makes void the Ministers and Ministry of the reformed Church n Bishops and Ministers different in degree in his judgement o His Ordination by Presbyters much troubles his conscience p Doth not the present Ingagement put a greater restraint and confinement upon Ministers and the Ministry then this you mention q He could not in conscience accept of a Pastorall charge in a Presbyterian Church yet he can do it with a good conscience in a Prelaticall belike the revenues of the one were small but the other so great that it easily overpoised his conscience and judgement to accept it r A Parochiall Cure under our late Bishops is agreeable to Gods Word but not a Pastorall charge under a Presbyter Therefore I must renounce his present cure upon this ground as well as his first s A call from a Bishop gives a faithfull assurance to him of a blessing from God to his Ministry but not from a Presb●tery t The power of Ordination bestowed of God on Bishops only in his opinion not on inferiour Ministers u He is bound in conscience to seek a Reordination from the Bishop whom he Courts and flatters with all his Lordly Titles * He Courts this Archbishop to the full with all his Lordly Titles * Your Reordination Reasons and frequent changes are little for your credit Your Reasons Reordination and mutations have given them just offence and scandall too * He desires to testifie to all the world that he was this Archbishops most humbly devoted servant which will now make little for his credit