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A56866	Quatermayns conquest over Canterburies court, or, A briefe declaration of severall passages between him and the Archbishop of Canterbury with other commissioners of the High Commission Court, at six severall appearances before them, and by them directed to Doctor Featly : with their severall conferences, and the doctors by Roger Quatermayne.	Quatermayne, Roger.; Laud, William, 1573-1645.; Featley, Daniel, 1582-1645.	1642 (1642)	Wing Q148; ESTC R9277	38,184	64

the sincere Professors of it calling them factious seditious Cum id genus monstris their foule-mouth'd Chaplaines and their gracelesse Curates in every Sermon almost have not ceased in their Turkish Dialect to powre out their venome on the most judicious and holy Christians Neither was this their malice onely against some malignant Spirits as they cald them but even against the very power of godlinesse in any poore soule that profest it As one of their reverend Champions most wickedly said That if he had had the power that Canterbury had he would not have left one Puritan in England this day Manifold and apparent discoveries wee have had of their cruell tyranny and their Arch-pittie both on the bodies estates and precious Consriences of the deare Saints of God they have not onely undone many families in the Kingdome but have the guilt of the bloud of thousands of soules upon them which are this day in hell for want of the precious meanes of grace which should have fed their soules to life eternall I need not acquaint thee with their cruell tyranny in the persecuting of th●…se Worthyes of God in their High Commission Court that Hellish Inquisition of our Land thou hast here a sufficient light to see their grace in their dealings with this Worthy of God of whom I may say in another cause as the Apostle sayth of himselfe 2 Corinth 11. 5 He is not a whit behind the chiefest of these Worthyes that have sacrificed their lives for the cause of Christ Concerning the Discourse I shall say no more but onely this Reade it and if thou finde any good by it give God the glory and the Authour thankes I know Christian Reader that manifold are the temptations which thou meetest with daily in the flesh And indeed Christ tells before hand what his service will cost If any will live godly in Christ he must suffer persecution But yet be not discouraged though wee sow in teares wee shall reape in joy though wee have a nipping Autumne wee shall have a Ioyfull Spring goe on thou blessed Christian and the Lord goe with thee fight the battailes of the Lord Jesus quit thy selfe like a man be couragious for God and his Cause start not aside for all the malice of the enemies God hath whet his Sword against them and thou shalt ere long see them all dead on the shore before thee Our Fathers beleeved in him and they were delivered David and Ieremiah and Daniel and Paul and all the excellent ones of the Earth have gone this way and are now in Heaven singing Hallelujahs to all eternitie And these were for Examples to us sayth the Apostle 1 Cor. 10. 6. God never set any upon high imployment but he gives him proportionable strength He will not suffer you to be tempted above that you are able but will give an issue with the temptation that you may be able to beare The duggs and breasts of the Scripture are even bursting with promises of this kinde Open your mouth wide and he will fill it There are a kinde of people in the world who goe for professours and would thinke it a great matter to deny them the name of Christians who will be content to follow Christ while Christ is advanced in the world and seemes to be a good neighbour but when he comes to be thrust out of the Court and out of the Councell and out of esteeme with the men of the world they are afraid to follow him too close at the heeles least he should dash out their braines they will be religious and wise they must not thrust themselves into danger they say it is good sleeping in a whole skin and indeed it is no marvell to see men fall away as leaves in Autumne and perish everlastingly for they never took Christ upon his owne Conditions they never were really ingraffed into him they hung as the Ivie to the ●…ake they had a kinde of externall being in Christ but they never drew the sap and luice of spirituall life from him In a word they never had the true and genuin bloud of Christ running in their veines Yet Christian Reader let not thy heart faile neither be discouraged at this Be faithfull to the death and thou shalt have the crowne of life I will not Apologise any farther for the Authour or the Worke they both deserve thy Christian acceptation onely my prayer to the throne of grace for thee shall be That a double portion of the Authours Spirit may be powred on thee in the reading of it that thou maist be able more valiantly to stand in the Cause of Christ and fight his battailes against Gog and Magog and all the cursed enemies of Gods Church that so having fought a good fight of faith thou maist in the end receive the end of thy faith the salvation of thy soule so prayeth thine and the Authours friend CUT SIDENHAM ERRATA PAge 2. line 13. for first of Numbers read fift of Numbers page 21. line 33. for Gavaston read Carlton QVATER MAYNES CONQVEST OVER CANTERBVRIES COVRT MY first Apprehension was on Ashwednesday in Hillary Terme the 12th day of February 1639. At which time came two Pursevants unto mee with an Attachment from the High Commission-Court under the hands of the Archbishop of Canterbury Sir Nathaniel Brent and Sir John Lambe at which time I unwisely entered into Band of one hundred pounds to appeare in their Court and my first appearance was in Easter Terme the second day of the Terme being Thursday the 23th of Aprill 1640. My appearance being made I was called and presently they called for a Booke which being tendered unto mee I asked what I should doe with it they told me I must take my Oath I answered I would not take any Oath I knew no cause why I should the Officer that attended the Court opened the Booke and I said I could open it my selfe if I would reade in it Then Doctor Reeve said I must take my Oath to answer to such Articles as were in Court against mee I told him I knew of no Articles neither doe I know wherein I have offended The Doctor told me if I would take my Oath I should know I answered I would take no Oath I did not hold it lawfull Thus much betweene the Doctor and my selfe Archbishop Then said the Archbishop Master Quatermayne Master Quatermayne I heare you though you speake but softly you seeme to scruple at the Oath taking you neede not to doe it you thinke it to be an accusing Oath but it is not so it is a purging Oath Quatermayne My Lord I thinke it to bee an accusing Oath indeed Archbishop It is not so but it is a purging Oath Quatermayne My Lord I need no purging for I have not offended yet neverthelesse if you will so administer it I will take it because I find in the first of Numbers an Oath of Purgation so that it agree with other Scriptures that

QVATERMAYNS CONQVEST OVER CANTERBVRIES COVRT OR A Briefe Declaration of severall Passages between him and the Archbishop of CANTERBURY with other Commissioners of the High Commission Court at six severall appearances before them and by them directed to Doctor Featly with their severall Conferences and the Doctors Reports to the Court As also his imprisonment by vertue of a Warrant from the Lords of the Councell with ten privie Councellours hands to it With his appearance before the Lords of the Councell and his Answers to the Archbishop and the Lord Cottington concerning Conventicles and his Answer to foure Queries propounded unto him concerning the Scots As also his tryall three severall Sessions by vertue of a Commission in Oyer and Terminor at the Guild Hall London and his blessed Deliverance And lastly A Prayer and Thankesgiving in an acknowledgement of Gods mercy in his Deliverance By ROGER QUATERMAYNE LONDON Printed by Tho. Paine for Roger Quatermayne and are to be sold by Samuell Satterthwaite at the signe of the Blacke Bull in Budge Rowe neare Tantlings Church 1642. TO THE CHRISTIAN READER Grace Mercy and Peace from God the FATHER and from our LORD JESUS CHRIST BEloved Thinke it not strange concerning the fiery tryall which is to try you as though some strange thing had happened unto you but rejoyce in as much as you are made partakers of Christs sufferings that when his glory shall be revealed you may be glad also with exceeding Ioy It was the counsell of the blessed Apostle Peter as you may see in the first Epistle of Peter the fourth Chapter the 12 and 13 Verses And the same Apostle giveth the reason thereof in the 14 v●…rse of the same Chapter sayth he If you be reproached for the Name of Christ happy are you for the spirit of glory and of God resteth upon you But sayth he in the fifteenth verse Let none of you suffer as an evill 〈◊〉 a murderer or as a busie body in other mens matters Vers. 16. But if any man suffer as a Christian let him not be ashamed but let him glorifie God in this behalfe For as the Apostle Paul sayth in the twel●… Chapter to the Hebrews vers. 6. Whom the Lord loveth he chastiseth and scourgeth every sonne whom he receiveth And he layeth downe a reason why the Lord doth chastise his children and that is not for their losse but for their benefit which is that they might be partakers of his holinesse For I●… that the sufferings of this 〈◊〉 are not worthy of the glory that shall be revealed Rom 8. vers. 18. For it is an Apostolicall Injunction laid upon the Saints that every one that wi●…l live godly in Christ Jesus must suffer persecution And indeed it is a great honour for Beleevers to be called thereunto being the proper gift of God For to you it is given not onely to doe but to suffer for his Name Vpon all these blessed Considerations Christian Reader I have made bold to present before the eyes of thy understanding a view of severall afflictions which have be●…alne me in this my Pilgrimage by those which have taken upon them the name and title of the Fathers of the Church but are indeed and in truth the enemies of Christ and his Gospel and as opposit to the power of godlinesse and the sincere wayes of the Saints as that cursed Abaddon or Apollyon of Rome is or can be as hath and doth appeare daily by their bloudy proceedings against the faithfullest Ministers and sanctifiedst and sincerest Professors that hath been and are living amongst us Witnesse their 〈◊〉 proceedings against Doctor Layton Master Peter Smart Doctor Bastwicke Master Prin and John Lilburne with divers others And lastly Concerning my selfe who had like to have suffered Ship wracke under the guidance and conduct of these Romish Pilots leading and guiding me through so many by-wayes Rocks and Sands that had not the Lord mercifully and miraculously preserved me I had been taken in their Nets and swallowed up in the pit that they had digged for me so maliciously were they bent against me as in the sequell of this Story following shall with Gods helpe more fully appeare B●…loved Christian Reader I would not have troubled thee with these few rude lines had not I be●…n solicited thereunto by many both judiciously wise and religiously honest whom I much respect as in dutie I ought they perswading me that the carriage of the businesse by Gods especiall assistance might prove to be a ground of great incouragement unto others that might in time to come be brought to the same condition and put to the same straits that I have been in Truely there is no reason why wee should be troubled or discouraged with any of their frownes or threats for the Lord hath to me and will to all his make good his promise That He will give us a mouth and a tongue to speak that the enemies shall not be able to resist You see it to be a truth in all those valiant warriours of the Lord Iesus before named with many others that I could name but that I am unwilling to be tedious Onely looke to thy Cause that it be warranted by the Word Looke to thy Conscience that it be cleansed from sinne Looke to thy heart that it be purified by faith and to thy Conversation that it be unspotted in the world and then being thus armed on the right hand and on the left goe on thou valiant man in this thy might in a strong opposition against the foolish ridiculous popish superstitious Ceremonies and deadread-Service which the blinde lame dumbe scandalous Priests and Prelates of this age so stand for and be you not discouraged from your holy duties of Religion by reason of these vile 〈◊〉 of Conventicles and the like that is cast upon it For assuredly it is and hath been the strong Arme of our God to shake this 〈◊〉 Antichristian Hierarchie and therefore for sake not the Assembly of the Saints as the manner of some is Heb. 10. 25. Through the disheartning Sermons of some Ministers among us who by their preaching formerly did promise much better service then now they performe to the Church whereby they give us just cause to suspect their fidelitie in their Masters worke and they brow beat their weake Brethren who according to their measure and the gift of God received doe labour to build up one another in their most holy faith and comfort others with the same comforts that they themselves are comforted of God But Beloved You that have tasted how sweet the Lord is in these sacred Ordinances let not goe your hold of Christ by them but follow after the Marke 〈◊〉 the prise of the high Calling of God in Christ Jesus For in due time yee shall reape if you faint not therefore lift up your weake hands and strengthen your feeble knees For certainly Your redemption draw●…th nigh You shall be delivered from the power of these Antichristian Prelates and