publick and the further it extends it gives the greater Lustre Whereof the Candle put upon the Hill that could not be hid was his own Example directing his Clergy to their Duty by his own often Preaching Injunctions Articles Orders Advertisements and the like I have heard wise Men say expire with the Prince's Life that appointed them saving that their Prudence and Equity do never expire But Canons oblige till they be lawfully repeal'd The first Canon among us that I know past by Convocation and confirm'd by Royal Authority is that of 1571. That all Bishops should diligently teach the Gospel not only in their Cathedral Churches which they govern but also in all the Churches of their Diocess where they shall think it most needful And principally they shall exhort their People to the Reading and Hearing of the Holy Scripture c. Which Canon this Bishop did awake in his frequent Practice He had good Gifts to preach withal and good Gifts are given to prosit others None of God's Talents must be hid in a Napkin nor in a Rochet And who doth hide them Qui percepto dono sub otio torporis abscondit says Gregory Past cu. Lib. 1. c. 9. Which Sin had been the greater in this great Divine who was so apt to teach so able by found Doctrine to exhort and to convince Gainsayers Who excell'd his Brethren in that Faculty as much as he did transcend them in Dignity It is not to set him forth at an Hyperbolical rate but that this Testimony may be given him that the best that were famous in the Pulpit might learn Method and Perspicuity from him He had not his fellow in that Point of Art And he spake as one that deliver'd the Oracles of God 1 Pet. 4.11 His Notions were not vulgar but found and weighty smelling of Pains and of Piety Many a Sabbath-days Journey he took to the adjacent Towns to let them see and hear their Diocesan not omitting the Punctilio of the Canon to stir them up to the Reading and Hearing of Holy Scriptures but taught it with much variety from Luk. 16. v. 31. If they hear not Moses and the Prophets neither will they be perswaded though one rose from the dead The sound of Aaron's bells were to be heard when he went into the holy place and when he came out that he died not Exod. 28.35 Iram judicii exigit si sine sonitu praedicationis incedit says Gregory again Lib. 2. c. 3. Be it that place be eminently meant of Christ our High Priest who was heard of God in his Mediation and of the People in his Instruction Yet it belongs by way of Pattern to all them whom Christ hath sent as his Father sent him Sweet is the Sound of their Golden Bells Gold doth not give a shrill noise like sounding Brass or tinkling Cymbals but it is rich and precious The Multitude by ill custom look for Clamour strong Lungs and weak Doctrine But happy are those Auditors that can try which is a golden Bell upon the Touch-stone of their Understanding and run not giddy after them whose words are hot in the Mouth and cold in digestion Those Ages did afford the best Disciples that learnt their Principles from the gravest Fathers And the People did profit most where the Bishops preacht most As St. Austin says that so long as he staid at Millain every Sunday he heard the great Doctor St. Ambrose Millain or any other City Bethany or any Hamlet would forsake others to hear them It was so with us in England to the brink of our great Change High and low of all sorts and degrees came with their greatest Attention to hear the Sermon of a Bishop Their very Habit which set them forth with Comeliness did affect some the Authority of their high Calling did move others the Contemplation of their Learning and Wisdom which had advanc'd them did work more their painfulness in their Duty did please all Upon which of these hinges the Delight of the People did turn I dispute not It is enough that it was apparent that the Message of God was heard with most reverence when it was deliver'd by one that look'd like an extraordinary Embassador Above all those chief Pastors were the best Trumpets to sound a Retreat from Innovations 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 As I take it from Longinus p. 10. New-fangledness makes us giddy at first and in time mad and none were so powerful as the good Prelates to warn the People of them Experience and Age and Knowledge did plead on their side that they best knew the Tradition of the Fathers 42. Nor could it but have sped well if it had been consider'd that constant or at least frequent Preaching would have made our Bishops been rightly understood that their Judgments adhered to the Doctrine of the Church of England as it is settled in opposition to Popery Some of our Reverend Fathers that stated our Controversies moderately and with no more than due distance which is an infinite advantage to a Disputant were had in Jealousie for almost Apostates by those that shot wider from the Mark which both aimed to hit A Jealouâ—ie which some Diligence in the Pulpit had prevented For when did you hear of a Lecturer suspected for it But this is the Imperfection of mortal Affairs that when one inconvenience is removed another will rise up in the room For the good Office of Preaching perform'd often by a Bishop was call'd Puritanism by some in those times that fomented such a Faction that made the Name of Puritan the very Inquisition of England Not using it as formerly to preserve the good Order and Discipline of the Church but to cast any Man out of Favour that was so innocent as not to be able to be charged with any thing else Thrust a worthy Man between the first and second Censure and how hard did we make it by such uncharitable Traducings to live evenly in the indivisible Point of Protestantism This Bishop being not indiligent to preach the Gospel for which St. Paul and our own Canons had provided was decipher'd to the King for an upholder of Non-conformitants Neque sapere Principi potest quod his praegustatoribus non ante placitum sit probatum Bud. Pand. Lib. 2. c. 14. The King's Tasters had disrelish'd him to his Majesty with that unsavory report that he could not be believ'd with proof sufficient made against the prejudice Which made no alteration in him but that he would follow the Plough to which he had put his Hand Like the Resolution of Alexander Curt. Lib. 9. that would not be deterr'd with Rumors from finishing his Expedition in Asia for says he Fugissemus ex Asiâ si nos fabulae debellare potuissent So stout Lincoln would give no ground to Scandals taken but mistaken No Discouragements could remove him from great Designs from two especially The former that he began and purpos'd to go on to write a Comment in Latia upon
as for the Praise of this Man of God He was as free as Water that runs from a public Conduit to lay open his Knowledge to all that would listen to his Discourse If I must give Precedency to this Charity to any before him it shall be only to that Glorious Servant of God the Marrow of Learned Communication the Lord Primate of Armach But to our present Matter thus he would say as my self and many others have heard it come often from him That his Contemporaries in Cambridge delivered to him by Tradition which was given to them in the name of Dr. Whitaker's Resolved Rule By Proviso first of all sift the Chaff from the Wheat mark whom Valla Erasmus and others have bored in the Ear for Counterfeit Pieces and for the rest acquaint your selves with the choicest and least corrupted Editions The Protestants to their great Commendation had given no cause to suspect them in either kind They that had notoriously more than all others vented false Wares were Italian Huckiters for beâ—de those good Authors Coins Medals Monumental Inseriptions in Stone and Brass nay nothing of Archaique Value had escaped their false Fingers Having separated the Viâ—e from the Precious expect that all the Leaven of the Fathers is hid as the Gospel speaks in three Measures of Meal They are very witty and exuberant in Allegories which are the Windows of the House they serve well for Light but not a jot for Strength Another share of their Works is taken up in maintaining Ecclesiastical Decrees grounded upon Canons and prudent Orders for Decency and Discipline And a good Moiety of their Writings presseth only such Matters as are settled by no more then Canonical or Humane Authority No wonder if now adays we hold such Obligations but in a slip Knot Variableness of Customs alternation of Manners sundry new Products in new Ages gives power to dispense so we abuse not our Liberty to a scornful Licence But it is approveable in Musick to set new Tunes if we keep the old Gammut The 34th Article of the Church of England decides it gravely That every particular or National Church hath Authority to Ordain Change and Abolish Ceremonies and Rites of the Church Ordained only by Man's Authority so that all Things be done to Edifying Now these Canonical and Human Decretals are Butteresses to the House of God they are raised up without the Walls but all that is within is the stronger for their Supportance The third Part of the Heavenly Extraction of the Fathers the Pearl growing between the two Shells premised is Dogmatical their Doctrine of Faith and Works necessary to Selvation In any of which when many of them consent we may well presume that the Spirit of Christ breathed in them For the Martyrdom of soms the Humility Self-denial and Sanctity of them all will attest that they intended the Truth and one Point of Success that those who gainsaid them never took Root or prosper'd will perswade you that they found the Truth Neither is there any Reverence towards them diminish'd by this distinction that what they sowed in the Field of God saving here a little and there a little was sound Wheat but all that they mowed down were Weeds or Heresies without exception Thus far He or rather Dr. Whitaker whose Antagonist Duraeus would seem to ascribe more to the Fathers indeed it is but a seeming Says he We assent to all the Doctrine of the Holy Fathers to all of it without exception A mighty Concession but his Hand slacks immediately Nâ—que patres censentur cum suum aliquid quod ab Ecclesiâ non accepâ—â—â— vel seribunt vel docent For if they write or teach any thing which they have not received of the Church they are not to be esteemed Fathers As like to Plato's Sophister as one drop of Water to another who would prove that no Shoe-maker did ever make a bad Shoe for he that made a bad Shoe was not Master of his Crast he was not a Shoe-maker 22. I will invite the Reader but to the notice of one Thing more upon this Title This Man was the least Distasted so far as I have known Men among all of his Profession with a Scholar that was divers from him in a Theological Debate And this he said he learn'd from the moderation of the Fathers who were zealous Upholders of the Glory of the Blessed Trinity of Christ and of his Mâ—diatorship and of the Covenant of Grace for the Redemption of Penitent â—ners but for differences of Questions which were not so prime and substantial they caused no angry Contract about them much less a Separation of Churches St. Cyprian is praised for this Candor by St. Austin De Bap. con Donat. lib. 3. c. 3. in this wise Cyprian was not to be removed from a darling Opinion of his own too much his own about Re-baptizing of those that had been Baptized by Heretics yet so as Nominem judicantes nee à jure communioâ—s aliquem si diversum senserâ— amovâ—ntes I like this Concordance says Austin with two Explanations 1. In iis quaestionibus quae nondum eliquatissimâ perspectione discussae sunt 2. Exceptis iis quae jam sunt dâ—sinita in totâ Ecclesiâ First Not to think the worse of any much less to make a Rupture for maintaining Opinions which were not discuss'd so far to be convincing and conspicuous Secondly To be the bolder with them if they were the Tenets of some Men only and not the Definitions of the Church Univeral O that many living Stones now scattered from one another were cemented together with this Mortar O that such as are rigidly addicted to their own Fancies would desine less and leave more charitable Allowance to their weak or at least dissenting Brethren O that there were less Inclosure and more common Pasturage in the Church for poor Cottagers And I wish again that it were wisely considered that a good Conscience may continue in our Brother though he be not so found in some lesser Truths Then you would not deny him your Love because he submits not his Wit and Reason to all your Perswasions Many hot Opiniators of our Age are little better then the Sâ—maritans as describ'd by Epiphanius Haeres 61. 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 They thought it piaculous to touch a Man that did not Dogmatize as they did Therefore how many Slanders must they put up quietly who were of Mr. Williams his Equanimity sociable with them that are at point blank contradiction in some Quarrels of Polemical Divinity nâ—y as ready to prefer the one side as the other how sure is this to be called by our Fâ—riâ—sâ—'s lukewarm and undigested Christianity I have seen the Life 〈◊〉 Renowned Frier Padre Pâ—â—lo of Venice written in Italian by his 〈…〉 and 〈◊〉 tersely and faithfully into English by that Gentleman 〈◊〉 great and elegant Parts Mr. 〈…〉 Secretary to this Heâ—oical Prelate of whom I write when he was Lord-keepeâ— Out of that Piece I
foolish in their several Extreams of Years I prostrate at the Feet of your Princely Clemency Which was granted as soon as the Paradox was unridled to pitch upon them Another Gust that blew from the same Cape I mean from the Pulpit began to be so boisterous that it came very cross to his Majesty's Content Our Unity among our selves was troubled in Point of Doctrine which was not wont The Synod of Dort in the Netherlands having lately determined some great Controversies awakned the Opposition of divers Scholars in our Kingdom who lay still before Learned and Unlearned did begin to conflict every Sunday about God's Eternal Election Efficacy of Grace in our Conversion and Perseverance in it with much Noise and little Profit to the People The King who lov'd not to have these Dogmatizers at Variance us'd all speed to take up the Quarrel early that our Variances might not reproach us to them that were without For there was that in him which Pope Leo applauded in Marcian the Emperor Ep. 70. In Christianissimo Principe sacerdotalis affectus He was a mixt Person indeed a King in Civil Power a Bishop in Ecclesiastical Affections After he had struggled with the Contentious Parties a while and interposed like Moses Sirs ye are Brethren Acts 7.26 and that this rebated not the keen Edge of Discord he commanded Silence to both Sides or such a Moderation as was next to Silence First Because of the Sublimity of the Points The most of Men and Women are but Children in Knowledge and strong Meat belongs to them only that are of full Age Hebr. 5.14 St. Austin subscribed to that Prudence Lib. 2. de porsev c. 16. Unile est ut taceatur aliquod verum propter incapaces Secondly Because the ticklish Doctrine of Predestination is frequently marr'd in the handling either by such as press the naked Decree of Election standing alone by it self and do not couple the Means unto it without which Salvation can never be attained or by those that hold out God's peremptory Decrees concerning those whom especially he hath given to Christ and do not as much or more enforce the Truth of Evangelical Promises made to all and to every Man that whosoever believeth in the Son of God shall not be confounded Now let the Reader consider all the Premises and he shall find how the Instructions that follow depend upon them Which in Form and Stile were the Lord Keepers in the Matter his Majesty's Command and were called Directions concerning Preachers 101. Forasmuch as the Abuses and Extravagancies of Preachers in the Pulpit have been in all Ages repressed in this Realm by some Act of Council or State with the Advice and Resolution of Grave and Learned Prelates insomuch as the very Licencing of Preachers had his Beginning by an Order of the Star-Chamber 〈◊〉 July 〈◊〉 Hen. 8. And that at this present young Students by Reading of late Writers and ungrounded Divines do broach Doctrines many times unprofitable unfound Seditious and Dangerous to the Scandal of this Church and Disquieting of the State and present Government His Majesty hath been humbly entreated to settle for the present either by Proclamation Act of Council or Command the several Diocesans of the Kingdom these Limitations and Cautions following untill by a general Convocation or otherwise some more mature Injunctions might be prepared and enacted in that behalf First That no Preacher under the Degree and Calling of a Bishop or Dean of a Cathedral or Collegiate Church do take occasion by the Expounding of any Text of Scripture whatsoever to fall into any Discourse or common Place otherwise than by opening the Coherence and Division of his Text which shall not be comprehended and warranted in Essence Substance Effect or natural Inference within some one of the Articles of Religion set forth 1562 or in some one of the Homilies set forth by Authority in the Church of England not only for a Help to the Non-preaching but withal for a Pattern and a Boundary as it were for the Preaching Ministers And for their further Instruction for the Performance hereof that they forthwith read over and peruse diligently the said Book of Articles and the two Books of Homilies Secondly That no Parson Vicar Curate or Lecturer shall Preach any Sermon or Collation upon Sundays and Holy Days hereafter in the Afternoon in any Cathedral or Parish Church throughout the Kingdom but upon some Part of the Catechism or some Text taken out of the Ten Commandments or the Lords Prayer Funeral Sermons only excepted And that those Preachers be most encouraged and approved of who spend this Afternoon's Exercise in the Examining of the Children in their Catechisms and in the Expounding the several Heads and Substance of the same which is the most ancient and laudable Custom of Teaching in the Church of England Thirdly That no Preacher of what Title soever under the Degree of a Batchelor of Divinity at the least do henceforth presume to Preach in any Popular Auditory the deep Points of Predestination Election Reprobation or of the Universality Efficacy Resistibility or Irresistibility of Gods Grace but leave those Themes to be handled by Learned Men and that moderately and modestly by way of Use and Application rather than by way of positive Docttine as being Points fitter for the Schools and Universitles than for simple Auditories Fourthly That no Preacher of what Title or Denomination soever under the Degree and Calling of a Bishop shall presume from henceforth in any Auditory within this Kingdom to Declare Limit or bound out by way of positive Doctrine in any Sermon or Lecture the Power Prerogative Jurisdiction Authority or Duty of Sovereign Princes or to meddle with Matters of State and the References between Princes and the People otherwise than as they are Instructed and Precedented in the Homily of Obedience and in the rest of the Homilies and Articles of Religion set forth as before is mentioned by Publick Authority but rather confine themselves wholly to those two Heads of Faith and good Life which are all the Subject of the ancient Sermons and Homilies Fifthly That no Preacher of what Title or Denomination soever shall causelesly and without any Invitation from the Text fall into any bitter Invectives and undecent raising Speeches or Scoslings against the Persons of either Papists or Puritans but modestly and gravely when they are occasion'd thereunto by the Texts of Scripture free both the Doctrine and Discipline of the Church of England from the Aspersions of either Adversary especially where the Auditory is suspected to be tainted with the one or the other Infection Lastly That the Arch-Bishops and Bishops of the Kingdom whom his Majesty hath just Cause to blame for former Remisness be more wary and choice in Licensing of Preachers and revoke all Grants made to any Chancellor Official or Commissary to pass Licenses in this kind And that all the Lecturers throughout the Kingdom a new Body severed from the ancient
it was not set off with much Ceremony to quicken Devotition yet it wanted neither a stamp of Reverence nor the metal of Godliness Yet he would be careful in Launching out so far in Curiosity to give no Scandal to Catholicks whose Jealousie might perhaps suspect him as if he thought it lawful to use both ours and the Church of Rome's Communion Therefore he made suit to be placed where none could perceive him and that an Interpreter of the Liturgy might assist him to turn the Book and to make right Answers to such Questions as fell by the way into his Animadversions None more forward then the Lord Keper to meet the Abbat in this Request Veritas oculatos testes non refermidat The Abbat kept his hour to come to Church upon that High Feast and a Place was well fancied aloft with a Latice and Curtains to conceal him Mr. William Beswell like Philip Riding with the Treasurer of Queen Candace in the same Chariot sate with him directing him in the Process of all the Sacred Offices perform'd and made clear Explanation to all his scruples The Church Work of that ever Blessed day fell to the Lord Keeper to perform it but in the place of the Dean of that Collegiate Church He sung the Service Preach'd the Sermon Consecrated the Lords Table and being assisted with some of the Prebendaries distributed the Elements of the Holy Communion to a great multitude meekly kneeling upon their knees Four hours and better were spent that morning before the Congregation was dismiss'd with the Episcopal Blessing The Abbat was entreated to be a Guest at the Dinner provided in the College-Hall where all the Members of that Incorporation Feasted together even to the Eleemosynaries call'd the Beads-men of the Foundation no distinction being made but high and low Eating their Meat with gladness together upon the occasion of our Saviours Nativity that it might not be forgotten that the poor Shepherds were admitted to Worship the Babe in the Manger as well as the Potentates of the East who brought Rich Presents to offer up at the shrine of his Cradle All having had their comfort both in Spiritual and Bodily Repast the Master of the Feast and the Abbat with some few beside retired into a Gallery The good Abbat presently shew'd that he was Bred up in the Franco-Gallican Liberty of Speech and without further Proem defies the English that were Roasted in the Abbies of France for lying Varlets above all others that ever he met We have none of their good word I am sure says the Keeper but what is it that doth empassion you for the present against them That I shall calmly tell your Lordship says the Abbat I have been long inquisitive what outward Face of God's Worship was retein'd in your Church of England What Decorums were kept in the external Communion of your Assemblies St. Paul did Rejoyce to behold good Order among the Colossians as well as to hear of the stedfastness of their Faith cap. 2.5 Therefore waving Polemical Points of Doctrine I demanded after those things that lay open to the view and pertain'd to the Exterior Visage of the House of God And that my Intelligence might not return by broken Merchants but through the best Hands I consulted with none but English in the Affairs of their own home and with none but such as had taken the Scapular or Habit of some Sacred Order upon them in Affairs of Religion But Jesu how they have deceiv'd me What an Idea of Deformity Limm'd in their own Brain have they hung up before me They told me of no composed Office of Prayer used in all these Churches by Authority as I have found it this day but of extemporary Bablings They traduc'd your Pulpits as if they were not possest by Men that be Ordein'd by imposition of Hands but that Shop-keepers and the Scum of the people Usurp that Place in course one after another as they presum'd themselves to be Gifted Above all they turn'd their Reproaches against your behaviour at the Sacrament describing it as a prodigious Monster of Profaneness That your Tables being furnish'd with Meats and Drinks you took the Scraps and Rellicks of your Bread and Cups and call upon one another to remember the Passion of our Lord Jesus All this I perceive is infernally false And though I deplore your Schism from the Catholick Church yet I should bear false Witness if I did not confess that your Decency which I discern'd at that Holy Duty was very allowable in the Consecrator and Receivers 218. My Brother Abbat says the Lord Keeper with a Smile I hope you will think the better of the Religion since on Christ's good Day your own Eyes have made this Observation among us The better of the Religion says the Abbat taking the Words to relate to the Reformed of France nay taking all together which I have seen among you and he brought it out with Acrimony of Voice and Gesture I will lose my Head if you and our Hugenots are of one Religion I protest Sir says the Keeper you divide us without Cause For the Harmony of Protestant Confessions divulg'd to all the World do manifest our Consonancy in Faith and Doctrine And for diversity in outward Administrations it is a Note as Old as Irenaeus which will justifie us from a Rupture that variety of Ceremonies in several Churches the Foundation being preserv'd doth commend the Unity of Faith I allow what Irenaeus writes says the Abbat for we our selves use not the same Offices and Breviares in all Places But why do not the Hugonots at Charenton and in other Districts follow your Example Because says the Lord Keeper no part of your Kingdom but is under the Jurisdiction of a Diocesan Bishop and I know you will not suffer them to set up another Bishop in the Precincts of that Territory where one is establish'd before that would savour of Schism in earnest And where they have no means to maintain Gods Worship with costly Charge and where they want the Authority of a Bishop among them the people will arrogate the greatest share in Government so that in many things you must excuse them because the Hand of constraint is upon them But what constreins them says the Abbat that they do not Solemnize the Anniversary Feast of Christ's Nativity as you do Nay as we do for it is for no better Reason then because they would be unlike to us in every thing Do you say this upon certainty says the Keeper or call me Poultron if I feign it says the other In good troth says the Keeper you tell me News I was ever as Tully writes of himself to Atticus in Curiositate 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 apt to search narrowly into Foreign Churches and I did never suspect that our Brethren that live with you were deficient in that Duty For the Churches of the Low-Countries of Heidelberg Helvetia Flassia Breme and others do observe a yearly Day to the
reprehendit vindemiam quia in occasu anni est Aut â—livam quia postremus est fructus Suppose some Antiquity be alledged from the Fathers it shall have its due reverence and will help a little and but little in this matter For says Bishop Montague Orig. Eccles Tom. 1. P. 2. pag. 314. Aram habemus seu potius altare quibus nominibus vetusti proceres locum illum in quo erant 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 vocabant sed mensam saepius The Bishop quotes the words of C. Bellarm. lib. 1. de missâ c. 27. That the New Testament by the special instinct of the Holy Ghost did purposely forbear to insert into their Writings the name of an Altar This is p. 116. Joyn to this what you find p. 147. That in the Romish Reformation of the Canon of the Mass they never use in Rubrick or Prayer literally nor so much as by allusion the name of Table And is it not time to keep the proper and Scripture Word in authority when the Papalines with an ill mind had quite shoulder'd it out If there were any reasons as I know none to think the name Altar as pertinent as Table yet our Rubrick and Canons will be above them for it is a prudent Maxim in Baron anno 542. p. 205. Deseratur reverentiae Synodorum ut in his quae minus intelliguntur earum cedatur authoritati 103. Which Rubrick and Canons have rejected the name Altar and substituted the other of Table as being conjunct with the Sacrament ordained for eating and drinking from the Table So out of Bishop Morton p. 130. H. T. Tell us where was it ever known that any Altar was ordained for eating and drinking Out of C. Peron p. 102. It is ever called a Table when it points to a Communion Supper and an Altar when it points to the Sacrifice Out of Bishop Andrews Strictures p. 131. Christ was given to us per modum victimae on the Cross per modum epuli in the Sacrament Out of the Act of K. Edward's Privy Council p. 132. If we come to feed on Christ spiritually and spiritually to drink his Blood which is the use of the Lord's Supper then no man can deny but the form of a Table is more meet for the Lord's Board than the form of an Altar The alteration of Words came in then as who doth not see it partly because we would be beholden to the Scripture for our terms rather than to the wisest men in the World partly to give in this Evidence among others that we had renounced the Sacrifice of the Mass the very offering up our Saviour in an unbloody Oblation not again but by one and the same Act with which he offered up himself on the Cross a Chymaera which is not intelligible to any mortal man This was never dreamt of by those holy men who freely called this Sacrament a Sacrifice and Oblation Honesta quidem sed ex quibus deterrima orirentur Tac. An. lib. 1. They are excellent Notes which our Bishop quotes out of Bishop Bilson p. 116. Christ and his Apostles did forbear the term of Sacrifice therefore our Faith may stand without it The Speeches of the Fathers in this kind are dark and obscure and consequently unuseful for the edifying of the People Lastly We find by experience that the very Expression hath been a great fomenter of Superstition and Popery Therefore this is an Exception at the word Altar that it is a Relative to a Sacrifice Dr. Heylin Antid p. 79. pleads for the Vicar that in that name he aimed at no propitiatory Sacrifice I believe him And the like for many other of the noble Army of our Hierarchical Church for when that Sacrifice was exploded yet for a while Christ's Board was called an Altar This was our Bishop's mind and I take it the same was and is in all our learned men That in that Holy Sacrament there is a Spectacle of the Sacrifice of Christ's Body as it suffer'd on the Cross represented by breaking the Bread and pouring out the Wine by eating the one and drinking the other that there is a commemoration of that Sacrifice in the repetition of the words of Institution that there is an application of that Sacrifice to their Souls that partake by Faith and that all this makes properly a Sacrament improperly and figuratively a Sacrifice Hereupon lest the notion of a Sacrifice in this improper and secondary acception should be forgotten some are willing blamelesly to refresh it in their Memory by calling the place of the representation of it an Altar Nec cuiquam sunt injucunda quae cantant sibi says Quintil. lib. II. But stay there and step no further because Lauds and Thanksgivings the sweet odour of the Oblation of Alms the Calves of our Lips a broken and contrite Heart a mortified Body are spiritual Victims before and after the Sacrament as well as in it Sed non ibi consistunt exempla ubi caeperunt Pater lib. 2. It is good Counsel to be sparing in the use of those words whose elegancy and innocency cannot countervail the Errors that have encroached from them There are some I have heard it from their own Lips who say that they call this Utensil an Altar without any reference to a Sacrifice Thus they explain themselves That what is set apart to God should be differenc'd in its Name from common things that Religion might have a Dialect proper to it self as Paten Chalice Corporal Albe Paraphront Suffront for the Hangings above and beneath the Table Instances are innumerous and Church-men were ever pleased with Terms of Art peculiar to their own Mysteries which are not common and familiar with secular occasions But if this Project breed confusion it is against edifying if it give Offence it is against Charity And if I may not offend my Brother with my Meat when I am free that is when my Superiors have made no Ordinance upon it then if I walk conscionably I must not offend him in usurpation of words when I am free and shall not break the Commandment of Authority I see not then but the word Table was to prevail for the Gospel brought it forch the Church among us did more generally like it the Canons and Rubrick score it to be used and if you will ascend as high as to the Figures of the Old Testament says the Bishop p. 126. not the great Altar for Sacrifice but the Table of the Inner Temple on which the Shew-bread was set was the true Type and Presiguration of the Communion-Table as divers Jesuits yield it Now in the end of this 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 or Word-strife I profess it had never been inserted into this Memorial of the Bishop of Lincoln if the Doctor had not revived it in some late pieces which he hath printed For who hath leisure to cast his Thoughts upon such small Contentions when we are overwhelmed with Heresies and Schisms that pluck up our Foundations Praesentia hobetantur
to be done and being dozzled with fear thinks every man wiser than himself Lincoln spake what was fit for Comfort and did what he was able for Redress He lookt like the Lanthorn in the Admiral by which the rest of the Fleet did steer their Course And as Synesius gives a Precept to a Bishop Ep. 105. 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 To do as much work as all his Clergy beside So this Man bestirred himself and ran before the most diligent in this Chase When he was a Courtier he had ever declined Acquaintance with James Marquess of Hamilton now he made him his most Intimate waited on him at his Lodgings went in hand with him to the King tried him every way what Counsel he had in his Breast to breed Loyalty in the Scottish Army that the Contagion might not breed the same Rudeness in the English and would give an even poise to such uneven Humors The Bishop knew not what to make of this Marquess Incertum Lar sit an larva whether he were a good or a bad Genius Only he said he found every thing in him contrary to the Vulgar Opinion which esteemed him cunning and false For he took him to be no false one had will enough to help the King neither did he find any great Cunning in him but rather that he wanted a Head-piece So he laid him and aside but used him sparingly because he could not frame things of any great concernment from him Then he gets acquaintance with Mr Alexander Henderson and some of his Disciples in Commission with him presents them feasts them offered good pay to them and the Heads of their Faction as much as the King could spare which was the only Bait to catch his Country-men who were needy and ravenous for Prey Which is well set out in Salust p. 187. Feras omnis generis quò magis sunt attenuatae penuriâ cò magis praecipites â—ffraenatas ruere in perniciem videmus All Beasts will venture their Lives to devour what they can get when they are hungry The Bishop was sure he dealt with such as were bare and necessitous from the Orcades to Berwick and that it was part of their Errand into England to carry away Gold and to get Pensions But the House of Commons that knew their half famisht Fortunes as well as the Bishop voted such a Mass of Money to them by a word which coâ—t England dear called Brotherly Assistance that the King with all his Exchequer and perhaps his Credit was not able to raise it far less to out-bid it Yet Lincoln gave not over to perswade their headstrong Party to have no quarrel with the Church of England to draw no hatred upon themselves by reaching at the Subversion of the Episcopal Dignity which was never wanting here since the Nation received the Gospel of Christ Bade them remember what Vows their Kirk had made and printed them in their Common-Prayers never to unquiet the Peace of this Land since Queen Elizabeth Anno 3. of her Reign did beat the French out of Leith and compelled their Forces to return home conducted under the best Souldiers of France whose purpose it was to drown the Protestant Religion in the Blood of their Lords of the Congregation Hereupon some of Henderson's Assistants stagger'd and bade leave our Church to its own staple Order when at the same time in their private meetings they began to forsake this moderation They saw how their Debt of Brotherly Assistance would be paid the better if the Revenues of the Prelates were confiscated They look'd upon their own Work that they had dethron'd Bishops in Scotland and so long as England kept up that Dignity it cried Shame upon their Confusion And if Bishops lived at Durham and Carliste so near to their Borders they suspected the like would creep in again at Glascow and Edenburg And their intention was to shape our Church as ill as their own to make us as odious to the King as themselves that both our Offences might grow higher than the hope of a Pardon could fly unto So in fine our Bishop perceived that he dealt with men that made no scruple to shift from Promise and to break Faith Diodorus lib. 3. tells of strange men in the Island of Taproban Divisam linguam habentes eodem tempore duobus hominibus perfecrè loquntur I would such double Tongue had lived as far off as Taproban that we had never known them The end of this Conflict was when Entellus could not overcome Vastos quatit aeger anhelitus artus Aen. lib. 5. 136. No sooner had the Northern Carles begun their Hunts-up but the Presbyterians flock'd to London from all quarters and were like Hounds ready to be entred They had struggled in the days of Q. Elizabeth and K. James to set up their Discipline Patriae communis Erynnis but in vain After twenty Repulses they began afresh Tantus novelli dogmatis regnat furor Prud. de Coron and though their Liquor was stale and sowre as dead Wine they broach'd it now again to set out Teeth on edge The Stings of Wasps once lost are never repaired but these were like Staggs that had cast their Horns often but new ones sprouted up The Independants the same Creature with the Brownists but had shed their upper Coats and look'd smoother these had not yet a Name And as Alexander spoke neglectfully of the Cadusians Quod ignoti sunt ignobiles sunt nunquam ignorari viros fortes Curt. lib. 4. so these were of no reckoning in the first sally of the tumultuous times and such Ignotes were not courted but pass'd over as a Pawn at Chess that stood out all of Play The wise Bishop turned his Skill upon the Presbyterians being less distastful to them in his Person than any that wore a Rochet He laid down his Reasons to them in many Conferences with such prudence such softness and lenity that they confess'd for his part he deserv'd a great Place of Pre-eminence And some of the chief Lords of that Knot made him such Offers of Honour and Wealth for his share if he would give way to their Alterations that they would buy him if his Faith had been salaeble with any Price The worst Requital that could be propounded to an honest man and of the narrowest to scantle their Blessing to him alone that labour'd for a Publick Good As Ben. Johnson hath put it finely into his Underwoods p. 117. I wish the Sun should shine On all mens Fruits and Flowers as well as mine When they saw he was not selfish it is a word of their own new Mint some of their Ministers that were softened with the dewy drops of his Tongue eased their Stomachs with Complaints against the Courts Ecclesiastical and the rugged Carriage of certain Prelates Lincoln knew their Censures had somewhat of Truth and much of Malice but seemed to give them great attention in all for he had rather bring them over to the King than
Vote of all the People in the Representatives of your Forefathers and you are obliged as good and honest men to maintain what your selves have done It is not possible that all your Disagreements blown abroad should incorporate then either you will devour your selves with Despight at last or Strangers will deâ— us all Dumque esse putamus Nos facimus miseros Grot. Poem Lock back from the beginning of Q Elizabeths Reign to this day Can you wish the Gespel to frand better against the Church of Rome than it hath done so long under the Bishop 〈◊〉 and Canons That flattering word Liberty puts our whole frame out of joyur Non dominari instar servitutis est Many of the lowest fortune are so proud that they complain of Servitude if they may not govern nay if they may not domineer Out of this Idol of imaginary Liberty which you worship you will make so many Masters to your selves that we shall be all Slaves It is a popular word but in the abusive sonce of it like Homer 's Moly black in the Root though white in the Flower They that live in the lower Orb of Obedience please God as much as their Rulers and shall be blessed alike if they quietly follow the motion of the higher Sphere of Authority Our Doctrine is consonant to the Consessions of all Reformed Churches and every Nation enjoy their own Ceremonies without opposition only we excepted They are wiser than we who consider duly that they are the greater things of Faith and a Holy Life for which we shall be tryed before the Judgment of Christ and not for a sew unvaluable Rites of Circumstance and Comeliness which yet cannot well be spared My Brethren I here can tell you out of Naz. Orat. 23. that Hero a peaceable Bishop said often 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 that piety consisted not in small things If you require more Justice from Christian Counts or that scandalous and dumb Ministers should be displaced it may be done without Sedition But because you think you do not find so much Good as you look'd for in the old way you would set up a new one not foreseeing how much evil you shall find in that Non quod habet numerat tantum quod non habet optat Manil. lib. 4. But let me tell you you will quickly love the Winding-sheet of the old Wedlock better than the Marriage-sheets of the new Enjoy that real Blessing which you possess rather than an Utopia found no where but in the Distempers of the Brain A little small Meney in the Purse is better than a dream of Gold and a Cottage to live in is better than a Castle in the Air. First seek for Piety to God Loyalty to the King and Peace with all men and all things else will be added unto you These were the Lenitives with which the Bishop prevailed more than could have been done with Censures and Menaces As in the Old Testament a Cake of unleaven'd Bread was better made ready with Ashes than with Fire Beside the more hurt they could do the less to be forced to Extremity And marvel not if a man of so losty a Spirit could humble himself so far as to speak so correctedly in such Auditories full of ignoble Sectaries and high-shone Clowns For even Alexander taking the Kingdom upon him after the murther of his Father Philip Diodor. lib. 17. p. 487. 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 was fain to collogue with the People to get their Benevolence with fair words And he that gets a good Bargain with Courtly Language buys it with Money which is soon paid and quickly told 157. No sooner had our Bishop dispatch'd his Visitation and was come again to sit in the face of the Parliament but he heard of a muttering against him from the Lower House not only for visiting his Diocess in such a time of unsettlement but because he had said in divers places That no Power could protect them against Statutes still in force that sell into Disorders and Deviations against them So he took his opportunity at a Conserence that was between the two Houses in the Painted Chamber as well to justifie the labour he had undergone to uphold the Rights of holy Government as to silence them that were unlicens'd Preachers and presumed to say and do what they would as if all Government were dissolved Non minùs turpe est sua relinquere quà m in aliena invadere injust um ambitiosum Salust Bel. Jug He maintained he had done God good Service to unmask them to their shame that were ignorant Laicks yet preach'd privately and publickly to the corruption and dishonour of the Gospel Nay all would be Teachers in the gatherings of the Sectaries scarce a Mute in the Alphabet of these new Christians but all Vowels Every one puts Hand to Christ's Plough that neither know Seed Soil nor Season Souldiers as the Heathen feign may come up like Cadmus Teeth Seed in the Morning and grow Men by Noon 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Synes Dio. Sativos Theologos nulla hactenus fabula prodigiosè finxit Nay these Praedicants were never so much as potentially Seed but Mushrooms Christ is brought in Luk. 2.46 being but Twelve years old sitting in the midst of the Doctors hearing and asking Questions Ne infirmus quis docere audeat si ille puer doceri interrogando voluit Montag Orig. par 2. p. 299. Christ could learn nothing of them but we learn of him that ignorant men must not presume to teach since he that knew all things conformed himself to our Weakness as if being young he would be taught by Questions It is a lame Excuse to say in the behalf of some of these Upstarts that they are gifted men Who reports this but such as are as blind as themselves They have bold Foreheads strong Lungs and talk loud 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Plut. 8. Sympos An empty Cask will make a great sound if you knock upon it They have sounded it sweetly when their Disciples are Anabaptists Familists Brownists Antinomians Socinians Adamites any thing but Orthodox Christians yet a world of these unstable People flock after these Coachmen-preachers Watchmaking-preachers Barber-preachers and such addle headed Companions Pliny says of Dates taken just at their ripeness lib. 13. c. 4. Tanta est musteis suavitas ut fims mandendi non nisi periculo fiat So â—entices and Country-folk hunt after these Teachers and are ready to burst their Bellies with new Dates But worst of all these silly Bawleâ—s qualifying themselves for the Peoples Favour vent such Politicks as are by odds the most dangerous part of their Discourses encroaching so far upon Allegiance that they cut off all Duty which St. Paul would have given to the higher Powers But what if they were guilty of such Gists as some would seem to observe in them Is there nothing else that goes to the making of a Minister of God's Word The Woman that reckoned the Charge of her Brewing forgat the
unto him He complains further of want of Expedition in the Letters to be written by your Lordship to those principal Officers to whom it pertains for the Suspension of all Trouble and Molestation to the Roman Catholicks his Majesty's Subjects in matter of their Conscience His Majesty marvails not a little that the Pardon and Dispensation are so long delayed before they be delivered and the Letters so long before they are written His Majesty being troubled and offended that Cause should be taken upon these Delays by the Embassador to call into Jealousie his Majesty's Roundness and Integrity in Proceeding In all which Points his Majesty now prays you to give all possible Expedition that his Majesty may be no more soiled with the Jealousies and Suspitions of the Embassador nor importuned with their Requests for those things so entirely resolved on Albeit this Letter is so strict and mandatory the Lord Keeper presumed on the King's Goodness to write a Remonstrance to Mr. Secretary Conway flat against the Mandate with sundry Reasons to shew the high Expedience that the Instruments demanded should not yet be delivered To the which on the 9th of September Mr. Secretary sends back word Right Honorable I Have represented yours of the 18th to his Majesty who interprets your Intentions very well and cannot but think it good Counsel and a discreet Course had the State of the Business been now entire But as Promises have been past the Truth of a King must be preferred before all other Circumstances and within three Days you must not fail to deliver the Exemplification of the Pardon and Dispensation with the Coppy of the Letters c. Two Days after see the Hand of God September 21 a Post brought Intelligence that the Prince was departed with fair Correspondencies from the Court of Spain was certainly long before that time on Shipboard and would weigh Anchor as soon as Wind and Weather served him So in good Manners all Solicitations were hush'd and attended his Highness's Pleasure against he came into England These are the Performances of the Lord Keeper upon the Immunities which the Papists contended for to be derived to them by the Prince's Marriage with the Daughter of Spain Whither any States-man could have contrived them better I leave it to be considered by the Senators of the Colledge of Wisdom in my Lord Bacon's new Atlantis If it be possible for any to disprove these excellent Excogitations of Prudence with his Censure he will force me to say in this Lord's Behalf what Tully did for the Pontiss of old Rome Orat. pro resp Aurus Satis superque prudentes sunt qui illorum prudentiam non dicam assâ—qui sed quanta fuerit perspicere possint The Collection of all the precedent Passages were gathered by that Lord himself and stitched up into one Book every Leaf being signed with the Hands of Sir George Calvert and Sir Edward Conway principal Secretaries to his Majesty If it be asked to what end was that provided it was to shew he had a Brest-Plate as well as an Head-Piece It was to defend his Integrity against any Storm that dark Days might raise about the Spanish Matters It was a gathering thick when my Lord of Buckingham caused Mr. Packer his Secretary to write a Letter of Defiance to him Cab. P. 87. wherein every Penful of Ink is stronger than a Drop of Vicriol Take a Line of it That in the Spanish Negotiation he had been dangerous to his Country prejudicious to the Cause of Religion which he above all others should have laboured to uphold But rip up all his Actions turn the Linings outward shew any Stain-Spot in his Fidelity in his Innocency chiefly in his Maintainance of the Reformed Religion Therefore he met the Lord Duke couragiously Pag. 89. I do not in the least beg or desire from your Grace any Defence of me if it shall appear I betray'd my King or my Religion in Favour of the Papist or did them any real Respect at all beside ordinary Complement Therefore I appeal to all Posterity who shall read this Memorial how a Minister in his Office and intrusted with the whole weight of such a ticklish Negotiation could come off better with more Honour with lâ—ss Prejudice Photius in his Biblioth says of Saluslius the Cynick that he was a worthy Man but 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 He had listed himself into that Sect of Philosophy which was carved out or exposed to Reproach and Contumiâ—y So this noble Councellor was as Harmless as he was Wise as Honest as he was Active But the Business which he underwent for his great Master and the Prince was Planet-struck with an ill Opinion of many and could look for no Thanks but from a few that were the Wisest 167. Especially most circumspect and diligent Endeavours if superior Providence hath decreed to make them barren shall not be pitied as they deserve but be insulted upon because they cannot reach their End The best Angler that is we commonly think he fish'd ill if he catch'd nothing Inde plaerumque eadâ—m sacta modò diligentiae modò vanitatis modò libertatis modò furor is nomen accipiunt Plin. lib. 6. Ep. Lucky Success makes a Fool seem wise and a wise man that is unfortunate shall be called a Fool. It is a hard Task to dig into the Mines of Poâ—icy when Event shall be the Measure both of Reward and Praise Yet all this must be endured after his Highness took his Leave of Spain the Donna Hâ—rmesa left behind the Stock of Love spent and in a while the Credit of it protested Our King was not ill disposed to the News that is Son made preparation to come Home The People began to be churlish that he staid so long And his Majesty look'd for no Good from that Part of the World while our Duke was in it He found that so long as he was so remote from his Tutorship he was heady a Novice in carrying Business and very offensive to the Crown of Spain The Prince was desirous to make haste from them that would make no better haste and could no longer endure the Pace of a dull Spanish Mule As a weary Traveiler's Inn seems still to go further from him so his Highness had attended long for a sweet Repose in Wedlock till it made him impatient and think that every Consuito cast him further back from the Fruition of his Joys The Junto of the Spanish States-men were very magisterial and would not bate an Inch but that every thing should be timed to a day as they designed it These were the Links of the Chain by which they pluck all Power to themselves First A Disposorios or Contract must go before the Marriage For that 's a Rule from which their Church doth never vary unless good Order be broken by clandestine Marriages To the Contract they could not go on in this Case till the Dispensation from the new Pope gave Authority for it That came to
Madrid Novemb. 12. says Sir Wal. Aston whom I believe though others say later The tenth day after the Dispensation made known in the Church let the Betrothing be Solemnized and the tenth day after it the Marriage Then the Prince may take his own Time to return when he will but the Lady could not make ready for the Seas considering her Train that must attend her till March. The Prince did not like the Arithmetick of this Counting-Table More time than the first Week of September he was resolved not to spend in that Land The Coming of the Dispensation he would not await which might be failing thither upon the idle Lake in the Fary Queen â—oth slow and swift alike did serve their turn To stay and Consummate the Marriage in his own Person he knew was unfit in two Respects He must take a Blessing from one of their Bishops in the Face of their Church and submit to their Trinckets and Ceremonies which he had rather hear than see Then if the Infanta had Conceived they would keep her it is likely till she was delivered The Child must stay till it was strong to endure the Seas so it might come to pass to be bred up and Naturalized a Spaniard in Religion and Affection When the Clock would not go right with those Plummets the Junto cast the i me out ino another Figure that his Highness would out of Courtship wherein he excelled and out of great Love to his Mistress which he professed perfect the Desponsation in his own Person and trust no other with it the Marriage and the Lady should follow after that is upon the Certificate of their Embassador out of England that Conditions were performed there to which the King of Great Briâ— ain had engaged To this his Highness was short That he would linger no longer and play at Cards in King Philip's Palace till the Messenger with the Port-mantick came from Rome Neither would he depend upon Embassadors and their Reports when the Illustrious Damosel should begin her Journey towards England Embassadors might certifie what they pleased and inform no more than their great Master's Counsel inspired them At last his Highness took upon him to deside the Wrangling and cast out the sacred Anchor from the Stern to keep their Counsels from further Floating that he would be burdensom to the K. of Spain no longer the magnetick Vertue of his own Country drew him to it Yet to confirm that he lest his Heart behind with his Beauteous and high born Mistress he would Sign a Proxy and Assign it to K. Philip or his Brother Don Carlo or either of them which should remain in the Custody of the Earl of Bristol that the Espousals between him and the Infanta might be ratified within ten days after the dispensation unstopt the way unto them and he would leave it to the Princessa to shew her Cordial and Amorcuolous Affections how soon she would prepare to follow after him 168. Which stood for a Decree agreed and obey'd The King of Spain would have been glad if the Prince might be perswaded to stay longer in his Court But since after Six Months continuance there his Highness defir'd to breath again in his Native Air King Philip caused preparation to be made for it for freedom is the Noblest part of Hospitality and was dismiss'd with as much Honour and Magnificence as he was Receiv'd The Earl of Briâ—ol who certainly knew the day when he took his Leave writes to the Lord Keeper Cab. p. 21. That he would begin his Journey for England the 9th of Sept. others set it three days back and adds the day before I Conceive the contract will be which is false Printed it should be That the Day before he would Sign and Seal his Procuration for the Contract which Intelligence is Authentick being so Corrected Now looking upon those that were the Magnificoes of Spain when the Prince took his farewel of them and how dear they held him how they Voiced him beyond the Skies for the most express Image they had seen of Vertue and Generosity methinks his Highness should have behold it with his Eyes open and have inferred out of it that he could not be more happy then to marry with that Blood and to keep Friendship with that Nation He was most Gracious in the Eyes of all Great and under Great Never Prince parted with such Universal Love of all Cab. p. 16. and Bristol to the Lord Keeper p. 21. The Love which is here born generally to the Prince is such as cannot be believ'd by those that daily hear not what passeth from the King and his chief Ministers The most concern'd was the rare Infanta of whom says one out of the Spanish Reports Sander p 552. That she seem'd to deliver up her own Heart at parting in as high Expressions as that Language and her Learning could with her Honour set out Let not this Essay of her sweetness be forgotten that when the Prince told her His Heart would never be out of Anxiety till she had pass'd the intended Voyage and were safe on British Land She Answered with a modest Blush That if she were in danger upon the Ocean or discompos'd in Health with the rowling brackish Waves she would chear up herself and remember all the way to whom she was going For which she deserves to be Honour'd with Theogena the Wife of Agathocles for that saying Se nubendo ci non prosperae tantùm sed omnis fortunae iniisse Societatem Just lib. 20. When it came to the King her Brothers turn to Act his part of Royal Civility he carried the Prince with him to his most gorgeous and spacious Structure of the Escurial There he began That his Highness had done him favour beyond all compass of requital that he had Trusted the safe-guard of his Person with him and given him such an occasion in it to shew his Honour and Justice to part with him with as much Fidelity as his Highness desir'd or expected that there he was ready to perfect the Alliance so long in Treaty that he might call him Brother whom above all in the World he loved as a Friend The Prince Answered He had a better Heart to conceive then a Tongue to signifie how much he owed to his Majesty He hop'd the incomparable Infanta would thank him for the unparallel'd Courtesie shewn to him And because a drop of true meaning was better then a River of Words his Highness being encircled with the Noblest Witnesses of that Kingdom produced and Read his Proxy interpreted by the Earl of Bristol and committed to his Charge but first Attested to by the Hand of Secretary Cirica as a Notary of the greatest Place That this much pass'd it is certain Much more is Reported but it is contentious This Obligation intending to the Contract was thus dispatch'd in the Escurial of which let me say hereupon as Valerius of the Senate House of Rome lib. 6. Illam Curiam