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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

upon my owne knowledge affirme that never King was more happy in a loyall and obedient people then the King is in them never detrecting obedience to the losse of life liberty and estates but as they were borne under obedience desire to live and dye in that condition and are ever most willing to spend their best blouds for his honour crowne and dignity or in the cause of any of his allies which is well knowen to the whole Christian world And yet notwithstanding all this their condition is most greivous whether yea respect soule or body liberty or meanes they being every where deprived by the Prelats of their faithfull and true honorable Pastors and diligent teachers by which the keys of heaven are taken from them and idle drones and Epicures put in their places who neither feed the people themselves with the bread of life nor will let others doe it or suffer them to provide for their owne soules good but if they goe into any other parish to heare the word when they have none at home then they hoyst them up into the high Commission and there ruine and undoe them or if the people for feare are deterred from hearing of sermons and seeking to be acquainted with the word of God and if there chance a two or three neighbours to meet together for to conferre about holy things or in every thing observe not all their vaine and needles yea too too chargable and burdensome Ceremonies any of these things are matter enough to procure perdition and destruction unto them of body soule and goods as daily experience teacheth us Neither can any secular man Magistrat or Officer be he Iustice of peace Mayor Bayly or Constable Iury-man or witnes or any other doe his office and duty in putting in execution the Kings Lawes either for the honour of the King or his Religion against a delinquent Preist or against any of their impious Officers or write or witnesse the truth against them or the common enimy but they are immediatly hoisted up in their Courts and the King hath forthwith strange informations given against them as if they were notorious delinquents against King Church and State so that they are not onely deserted of all help from his Majestie and Nobles and the Lawes of his Kingdome but made a prey to the mercilesse fury of their enimies and the Prelats being their enimies and parties witnesse Iury and Iudge in their owne cause sit and give sentence against them And whereas Christ would be no Iudge nor divider they howsoever they pretend to be his successors judge the poore people most cruelly and divide not onely their inheritance but give away their whole estates and commit their soules to the Devill and commit their bodies to eternall prisons to the utter undoing of them their poore wives and children and that upon every triviall occasion and many times against all Lawes of God and nature and captivate the poore people and keepe them in a greater slavery both for soule and body then ever Pharao did And whereas Christ came to heale cure and spilt his owne precious bloud for the redemption of others and no sooner was Malchus his eare cut off but hee put it on againe they spill the blood of the people and cut off their eares at pleasure yea with ignorance and cruelty murder them soules and bodies of all which no subject can be ignorant that knoweth any thing and I by woefull experience have found it so that for my particular I may truely say that in respect of our gracious King and his clemency I had rather live with bread and water under his regiment then in all plenty under any Prince in the world yet in respect of the Prelats tyranny who abuse the authority committed into their hands I had rather live under the grand senior in the meanest condition then where they domineer with all plenty for by their cruell proceedings cursed inhumanity they so imbitter our lives and make us so odious both in Court and Countrey and such a prey to every prophane Preist that our lives are not onely irksome unto us but our being and living a very burden so that death is most welcome for by that and that onely we are set at liberty And I dare presume that of what I now say ten thousand thousands will witnes with mee of the truth of it For it is the Prelats that have onely enslaved us against all the Lawes of God and the Land and have made us hatefull to all men and a spectacle of men and Angels and yet they perswade his royall Majestie that they are his most loyall and faithfullest subjects and all those they accuse for Puritans the pest and plague of his Kingdome and seek with Human the extirpation of them all and by all manner of oppressions make thousands of them fly the land and others that have no abilities to support them in strange Countries to eate the bread of affliction and live here with wounded consciences when they put upon them such burdens of Popish Ceremonies and force them upon payne of severe punishment to the observation of so many superstitious performances which by their knowledge and in their consciences they are taught ever to abhorre and by this meanes the people are made miserable every kind of way And all this intolerable bondage procedeth onely from the Prelats who many times arme themselves with his Majesties authority pretending to his Highnes that they onely injoyne those things for order when there is no such matter And while they doe all this annoy to the kings subjects can they challenge the name of Mag●●●●es and be counted among the truely noble Peeres of the Kingdome especially when in their open Courts they renounce his authority and challenge their owne preeminency and dignity 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 and punish his subjects for writing against Antichrist and the Church of Rome which King Iames calls Babylon and Spirituall Egypt and Sodome to the infinit dishonour of King Iames of famous 〈…〉 and the now King their Master by all which proceedings they have made themselves guilty of great contumacy against God and the King and ipso facto are all in a Premunire by which they are fallen from all honour and dignity and are at the Kings mercy as delinquents and such as for my part so long as they continue in that condition I never intend to honour Neither have I cause for my owne particular to think any otherwise of them then of n●cent members of Church and State both by the warrant of King Iames himself and for their carriage towards mee and the Kings best subjects for when I was in the high Commission Court how superciliously the Prelats carried themselves towards mee all the standers by can tell and when the advocats saw the violence of his deportment towards mee and earnestly perswaded mee to an humble submission for otherwise they told mee he would utterly undoe mee which indeed so fell out I

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

is this That the breeding of the Kings and Noblemens childeren and the most illustrious Families through the Kingdome should be put into the hands of Preists and such men who as they are by nature and education men that never saw farther then a Cloister at Cambridg or Oxford never knew what Heroicall and Princely vertue was 〈◊〉 never came where either breeding religion or ●●d maners came the Vniversities themselves ●●ing corrupted by them and and educated to su●●●stition or prophanesse and contempt of religion And yet notwithstanding these men I say should be made the tutors of Kings and Nobles children who ●●ght to be brought up by learned and truely religious Gentlemen that have been bred up in Princes Courts and are lovers of learning piety and vertue 〈◊〉 all which those monkish fellowes are meere stran●●●rs and are as fit to bring up Princes as a cow is 〈◊〉 a saddle for besides their deficiencies both na●●●all and morall they are a very ignorant society for the most part not knowing well themselves ordinary literature so that they are commonly ridi●●lous to other Nation I must confesse I thinke ●his to be one of the principall banes of the Nobi●●ity and that they know no more in learning and States policy which is their art and therefore if they will follow a poore mans counsell I would wish them all never to let a Preist or a Prelat breed ●heir children for all the Prelats and Preists are ●●●bs of the beast and his image and they bring up ●he Noblemen and Princes in the hatred of true re●igion and all them that feare the Lord and brand 〈◊〉 with Puritanisme and adapt them onely to super●itious observations and make them beleeve that ●e hath religion enough that can bow at the name ●f Iesus or crouch to the Altar or turne to the East ●●d doe such other performances with hearing of a ●●ttle service and that all those that are not affected ●ith this superstition are enimies of Church and ●ute and so they make these worthy heroes but ●●eir executioners and butchers to torment and af●ict the poore people wheresoever they have power The truth is The Prelats are the cursed enimies of ●he Lord Iesus Christ and his Kingdome neither is 〈◊〉 any rayling to call a spade a spade the Scripture ●alls their predecessors the Scribes Pharisies and High Preists a generation of vipers the Sonnes of the Devill c. and therefore by the same authority wee may call them by the same names for they are their successors and the of-spring of Antichrist who is the enimy of the Lord Iesus Christ and by consequent no lawfull authority but an usurping power that is an enimy to all Government appointed by God himself and therefore they are not within the compasse of those Saint Iude speaketh of being worse then Satan who when he was there rebuked let the Angell bury Moses but the Bishop of Rome will keepe whole Kingdomes from buriall six yeares together and the Prelats have the same power to doe the same wickednes yea they are not onely not so obedient to God as the Devill but they are greater causes of rebellion against God and therfore worse then the Devill and ought more to be detested for the Devill in tempting to sin and bringing mē to evill he hath buth a simple suggestion But the Prelats they have a double power for they can both suggest evill and constraine us to doe it as all Kingdomes Nations know very well who groane under the heavy burden of their unsupportable tyranny and therefore I do absolutly conclude that there is no sinne in saying the Prelats are the little toes of Antichrist and in calling the Pope of Canterbury VVILLIAM the DRAGON and his Legatus a latere the Bishop of Yorke the ABBEY LVBBER OF THE NORTH for they are enimies all of God and the King and of all the Saints and Servants of God And therefore to draw now to a conclusion I could wish that all the world in our dayly LETANY would pray with mee from plague pestilence and famin from Bishops Preists and Deacons Good Lord deliver us Fare you well Yours most infettered In Lymbo Patrum IOHN BASTWICK Heare ends the fourth part of my LETANY the other foure are to follow as also some of my Latine books are shortly to come out Nihil agunt Episcopi sine typho sacriligae superbia sine inflata cervice arrogantiae sine contentione lividae invidiae 〈◊〉 asancta humilitate a pace Catholica a charitate Christiana Bishops do nothing without the haughtines of sacrilegious pride without the swollen necke of arro●●●cie without the contention of wan envy far from holy humility from Catholicke peace from Chri●●ian charity FINIS