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A68174	A briefe and moderate answer, to the seditious and scandalous challenges of Henry Burton, late of Friday-Streete in the two sermons, by him preached on the fifth of November. 1636. and in the apologie prefixt before them. By Peter Heylyn.	Heylyn, Peter, 1600-1662.	1637 (1637)	STC 13269; ESTC S104014	111,208	228

THE PREFACE SHEWING THE OCCASION OF This following Answere with somewhat of the Storie of H. B. the principall Argument thereof AMONGST the severall commendations given unto Charitie by Saint Paul we find these particulars Charitie vaunteth not it selfe is not puffed up doth not behave it selfe unseemely seeketh not her own is not easily provoked thinketh no evill Which if they be the certaine marks of Charitie as no doubt they are we may affirm it of too many in these later daies that whatsoever Faith they pretend unto they have little Charitie Such boasters are they of themselves so arrogant so unadvised in all their doings so greedie either after lucre or vaine applause so peevish and intemperate in their speech and writings and finally so jealous and distrustfull of all those who concurre not with them in opinion That though they had all Faith so that they could remove mountains which I thinke they have not or should they give their bodies to be burned as I thinke they will not it would profit nothing Of such as these it was that S. Peter tell 's us that they are Presumptuous selfe-willed and are not afraid to speake evill of dignities of whom S. Jude relates that they were murmurers complainers walkers after their owne lusts and that their mouth speaketh great swelling words Would you a further censure of them As naturall bruit beasts saith the Apostle made to be taken and destroyed they speake evill of the things they understand not and shall utterly perish in their own corruption These are the mockers of whom the Apostles have foretold us that they should come in the last times and being come we must accordingly expect they should play their parts and doe the will of him that sent them And so they doe The Church continually traducea as if she were unsound in her intentions towards Christ as if there were a day at hand in which the Saints i. e. themselves must be tryed and sifted The Prelates generally condemned their cause un-heard as factors for the Mysticall strumpet in S. John's Apocalypse to make men drunken with the Cup of her abhominations And as for the inferiour Clergie which know no better sacrifice then obedience and willingly submitte themselves unto the just commands of their Superiors what are they but the common markes whereat each furious Malecontent doth shoot out his Arrowes even bitter words Nor hath the supreame Majesty the Lords annointed escaped so cleere but that they also have had part of those hard speeches which these ungodly sinners have spoken against them in Saint Judes language Antonij epistolae Brutique conciones falsa quidem in Augustum probra sed multa cum acerbitate habent as he in Tacitus No times more full of odious Pamphlets no Pamphlets more applauded nor more deerely bought then such as doe most deeply wound those powers and dignities to which the Lord hath made us subject Egregiam vero laudem et spolia ampla Not to goe higher then the Reigne of our now dread Soveraigne how have both Church and State beene exercised by those factious Spirits Layton and Prynne and Bastwick the Triumviri with H. Burton the Dictator what noise and clamours have they raised what odious scandalls have they fastned on their Reverend Mother what jealousies feares that I say no worse have they seditiously infused into peoples mindes And thereby turned those weapons on their Mothers Children which might have beene employed more fitly on the common Enemie But when those of the Triumvirate had received their judgement Layton and Prynne in the Starre-chamber Bastwick in the high Commission the greatest comfort of the cause did seeme to be intrusted to Dictator Burton 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 a man in whom the Element of fire had the most predominancie which made that which is zeale in others to be in him a zealous furie The rather since he had deceived himselfe in his expectations and swallowed down those hopes he could not digest That which hath heretofore made so many Hereticks occasioned his first dislike of the holy Hierarchy When once Aerius lost his hopes of being made a Bishop as Saint Austin tells us he set on foot this peevish doctrine Presbyterum ab Episcopo nulla ratione debere discerni that by no meanes there was a difference to be made betweene Priests and Bishops And that once broached there followed next non celebranda esse jejunia statuta sed cum quisque voluerit jejunandum that no set fasts were to be kept but every man might fast when he would himselfe This was the very Case of our Grand Dictator He had beene a servant in the Closet to His Sacred Majestie then Prince of Wales and questionlesse being in the Ascendent he thought to Culminate But when he saw those hopes had failed him and that by reason of his violent and factious carriage he was commanded to depart the Court he thought it then high time to Court the people that he might get in the hundreds what he lost in the Countie This pincheth him it seemes to this very day and he is so ingenious which I wonder at as to let us know it For in the Epistle to His Majestie before his Sermon if at the least a rayling and seditious declamation may be called a Sermon he stiles himselfe His Majesties old and faithfull servant and in the other to His Majestie before the Apologie he bemoanes himselfe as an old out-cast Courtier worne out of all favour and friends there Hinc illae lachrymae Hence the opinion of these quarrells Here he declares most plainly where his griefe doth lye what made him first flie out and bend his thoughts to foster and foment a faction Such is the humour of most men whom the Court casts out that they doe labour what they can to out-cast the Court. Being thus entred and ingaged hee found it necessary to acquaint himselfe with such as were affected like himselfe and in their severall professions might best aide and helpe him this made him picke out Master Prynne an utter Barrister of Lincolns Inne for his learned Counsaile Layton and Bastwicke two that had the name of Doctors to be Physitians to his person His Doctors finding by some Symptomes which they had observed that he was very fretfull and full of Choller perswaded with him either by preaching or by writing to vent that humour which otherwise for want of vent would soone burne him up his learned Counsaile standing by and promising that whatsoever he should write or say hee would finde Law for it On this encouragement he beganne to cast abroad his wilde-fire endeavouring nothing more than 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 to raise combustions in the state and like Erostratus of old seeing hee could grow famous by no other meanes to burn downe the Temple The Pulpit first erected onely for preaching of the word of God was by him made a Sanctuary or privileged place from whence to

neither For at the beginning of November when you Preached that Pasquil of the Fifteene hundred there were not twice fifteen that 's not halfe your number involved in any Ecclesiasticall censure of what sort soever and not above sixteene suspended Sixtie and sixteene are alike in sound but very different in the number and of those sixteene eight were then absolved for a time of further triall to be taken of them and two did voluntarily resigne their places so that you have but six suspended absolutely and persisting so Now of the residue there was one deprived after notorious inconformitie for 12. yeeres together and finall obstinacie after sundry severall monitions eight excommunicated for not appearing at the Court and foure inhibited from preaching of the which foure one by his education was a Draper another was a Weaver and the third was a Taylor Where are the 60. now that you so cry out of I have the rather given you this in the particulars which were collected faithfully unto my hands out of the Registerie of that Diocesse that you and other men may see your false and unjust clamours the rather because it was related to me by a friend of mine in Glocestershire that it went current there amongst your Brethren that your said 60. were suspended for no other cause then for repeating the doxologie at the end of the Lords Prayer So for your other number betweene 60. and 80. suspended upon day till Christmasse or Christide as you please to phrase it upon examination of the Registers there appeare but eight and those not all suspended neither two being Excommunicated for not appearing Eighty and Eight doe come as neere in sound as Sixtie and Sixteene before but differ more a great deale in the Calculation And so much for the grand persecution in the Diocesse of Norwich How doe you find it pray you in other places Why more or lesse say you over al the Kingdom For you complaine as truly but more generally p. 27. that many Godly Ministers in these dayes are most unjustly illegally yea and incanonically also in a most barbarous and furious manner suspended excommunicated outed of their livings and deprived of all livelihood and means to maintaine themselves How just soever the cause be on the Prelates part and that there be no other means to bring things to right there where the Orders of the Church are so out of order then by the exemplary punishment of the most pervers to settle and reduce the rest yet persecution it must be if you please to call it so Such Innocent people as your selfe that runne point-blanck against the Orders of the Church cannot be censured and proceeded with in a legall way but instantly you cry out a Persecution But thus did your Fore-fathers in Queene Elizabeths time et nil mirum est si patrizent filij CHAP. VI. The foure first Innovations charged by H. B. upon the Bishops most clearely proved to be no Innovations Eight Innovations charged upon the Bishops by H. B. King James his order to young Students in Divinity made an Innovation in point of doctrine the reason of the said order and that it was agreeable to the old Canons of this Church Another Order of King James seconded by his Majesty now being with severall Bookes of private men made an Innovation of the Bishops No difference betweene the Church of Rome and England in Fundamentalls Private opinions of some men made Innovations in point of doctrine The Pope not Antichrist for any thing resolved by the Church of England The doctrine of Obedience and of the Sabbath not altered but revived explained and reduced to what it was of old No Innovation made in point of discipline A generall view of Innovations charged upon the Bishops in point of worship Bowing at the Name of Jesus praying towards the East and adoration towards the Altar no new Inventions not standing up at the holy Gospel Crosse-worship falsely charged upon the Bishops No Innovation made by the Bishops in the civill government The dignity and authority of the High-Commission AS is the persecution such are the Innovations also which you have charged upon the Bishops both yours and so both false alike Yet such a neat contriver are you that you have made those Innovations which you dreame of the cause of all that persecution which you so cry out of For in your Pasquil it is told us that we may see or heare at the least of o●d heaving and shoving to erect Altar-worship and Jesu-worship and other inventions of men and all as is too plaine to set up Popery againe and for not yeelding to these things ministers are suspended excommunicated c. pag. 25 And pag. 64. you ground the persecution as you call it in the Diocesse of Norwich upon the violent and impetuous obtruding of new Rites and Ceremonies monies You call upon the Bishops by the name of Iesuiticall novell Doctors to blush and be ashamed and tell them that they doe suspend excommunicate and persecute with all fury Gods faithfull ministers and all because they will not they may not they dare not obey their wicked commands which are repugnant to the lawes both of God and man p. 81. If this be true if those that bee thus dealt with bee Gods faithfull ministers and the commands imposed upon them so wicked as you say they are contrary to the lawes both of God and man and tending so notoriously to set up Popery againe you have the better end of the staffe and will prevaile at last no question Meane while you have good cause as you please to tell us to comfort your selfe and blesse the name of God in that he hath not left himselfe without witnesse but hath raised up many zealous and couragious champions of his truth I meane faithfull ministers of his word who chuse rather to lose all they have then to submit and prostitute themselves to the wicked unjust and base commands of usurping Antichristian mushromes their very not yeilding in this battel being a present victory p. 83 But on the other side if the commands of the Superior be just and pious agreeable to the orders of the Church and all pure antiquity then are your godly faithfull ministers no better then factious and schismaticall persons and you your own deare self a seditious Boutefeiu so to incourage and applaud them for standing out against authority This we shall see the better by looking on those Innovations which as you say The Prelates of later dayes have haled in by head and shoulders being besides and against the law of the land and much more the law of God p. 111. These you reduce to these eight heads viz. 1. Innovation in doctrine 2. in discipline 3. in the worship of God 4. in the Civill government 5. in the altering of bookes 6. in the meanes of knowledge 7. in the rule of faith and 8. in the Rule of manners It is a merry world mean-while when you