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A67877	The history of the troubles and tryal of the Most Reverend Father in God and blessed martyr, William Laud, Lord Arch-Bishop of Canterbury. [vol. 2 of the Remains.] wrote by himself during his imprisonment in the Tower ; to which is prefixed the diary of his own life, faithfully and entirely published from the original copy ; and subjoined, a supplement to the preceding history, the Arch-Bishop's last will, his large answer to the Lord Say's speech concerning liturgies, his annual accounts of his province delivered to the king, and some other things relating to the history.	Laud, William, 1573-1645.; Wharton, Henry, 1664-1695.; Prynne, William, 1600-1669. Rome's masterpiece.	1700 (1700)	Wing L596; ESTC R354	287,973	291

me And Jehoiada the High Priest was the preserver of Joash the right Heir of the Crown against the Usurpations of Athaliah and when he had settled him in his Kingdom though not without Force of Arms and they also ordered by Jehoiada 2 Chron. 23. 8. he was inward in his Counsels and was ruled by him in his Marriage 2 Chron. 24. 2. and he died with this Testimony that this young King did that which was right in the sight of the Lord all the days wherein Jehoiada instructed him 2 King 12. But after his Death you may read what befel Joash 2 Chron. 24. In all the Conduct of this People out of Egypt in which many Temporal Businesses did occur Aaron was joyned with Moses in and through all Thou leadest thy People like sheep saith the Prophet Psal. 77. by or in the Hand of Moses and Aaron The Prophet David was a great Shepherd himself and knew very well what belonged to leading the People and you see he is so far from separating Aaron from Moses in the great work of leading the People that though they be two Persons and have two distinct Powers yet in regard the one is subordinate and subservient to the other they are reputed to have but one Hand in this great Work And therefore in the Original and in all the Translations which render it 't is said in Manu not in Manibus in the Hand not in the Hands of Moses and Aaron So necessary did God in his Wisdom think it that Aaron should be near about Moses in the Government of his People And as the Priests and Levites were great Men in the great Sanhedrim at Jerusalem so were two of them ever in all the lesser Sanhedrims in the several Cities of every Tribe for so Josephus witnesses expresly that two of them were ever allotted to each Magistracy Jeroboam's Sin it was and a great one to make the lowest of the People Priests 1 King 12. 13. and I pray God it be not the Sin of this Age to make the Priests the lowest of the People So by this I think it appears that nothing of like Antiquity can well be more clear than that four thousand years before and under the Law the Priests especially the chief Priests did meddle in and help manage the greatest Temporal Affairs And this as this Honourable Person cannot but know so I presume he was willing warily to avoid For he tells you he shall not need to begin so high Not need And why so Why it is because saith he the Question is only what concerns Bishops as they are Ministers of the Gospel and that which was before being of another Nature can give no Rule to this No Man doubts but this Question in Parliament belongs only to Bishops as they are Ministers of the Gospel nay more particularly than so as they are Ministers of the Gospel in the Church of England only For either this must be said or else granted it must be by this Honourable Lord that the Parliament of England takes upon them to limit Episcopacy through all the Christian World and to teach all States therein what they are to do with their Bishops And this were as bold a part for the English Parliament to do as it is for a private English-man to censure the Parliament And truly for my own part I cannot tell how to excuse the Parliament in this For though in the Act now past there be nothing enacted but that which concerns Bishops and such as are in Holy Orders here because their Power stretches no farther than this Kingdom yet their Aim and their Judgment is general And this appears by the Preface of that Act which runs thus Whereas Bishops and other Persons in Holy Orders ought not to be intangled with Secular Jurisdiction c. Ought not Therefore in their Judgment 't is Malum per se a thing in it felf unlawful for any Man in Holy Orders to meddle in or help manage Temporal Affairs For though their words be Ought not to be intangled which as that word intangled bears sense in English and stands for an absolute hindring of them from the works of their own Calling I grant as well as they yet the Act proceeds generally to divest them of all Power and Jurisdiction in Civil Affairs whether they be intangled with them or not But be it so that this Question belongs to Bishops only as they are Ministers of the Gospel yet why may not the Ancient Usage before the Law and the Law of God Himself give a Rule to this For sure if they can give no Rule in this then can they give no Rule to any thing else under the Gospel that is not simply Moral in it self as well as none to Prelates and their assisting in Temporal Affairs Which Opinion how many things it will disjoynt both in Church and State is not hard to see First then I shall endeavour to make it appear that the practice of pious Men before the Law and the Precept of the Law can give a Rule to many things under the Gospel and then I will examine how and how far those things may be said to be of another Nature which is the Reason given why they can give no Rule in this For the First that they can give a Rule I hope it will appear very plainly For in things that are Typical the Type must praefigure the Antitype and give a kind of Rule to make the Antitype known Therefore in Typical things no Question is or can be made but that the things which were under the Law can give a Rule to us Christians Though this bold Proposition runs universally without excepting things Typical or any other Besides the Priests had a hand in all Temporal Affairs and in matters which were no way Typical but meerly belonging to Order and Government as appears by the Proofs before made And therefore the Jews may be Precedents for Christians which could not possibly be if they could give us no Rule Nor is this any new Doctrine For that ancient Commentary under the Name of St Ambrose tells us expresly that that which is mentioned by St. Paul 1 Cor. 14. 30. is a Custom of the Synagogue which he would have us to follow And as this Doctrine is not new so neither is it refused by later Writers and some of them as Learned almost as this Lord. For that which was ordered 1 Chron. 23. 30. that they should stand every Morning and Evening to thank and praise the Lord is precedent enough to presume that the like is not against the Law of God And Calvin speaks it out expresly In regard saith he that God himself instituted that they should offer Sacrifice Morning and Evening inde colligitur it is thence collected plainly that the Church cannot want a certain Discipline So here the Jews Discipline gives an express Rule to us And it is very learnedly and truly observed by a late Writer

Honours to their Schools and Universities for a popular Applause or out of meer Bounty or for honour or for opinion of merit by which the Art of Clergy-men transported them heretofore But the very truth is that all wise Princes respect the welfare of their Estates and consider that Schools and Universities are as in the Body the noble and vital parts which being vigorous and sound send good Blood and active Spirits into the Veins and Arteries which cause health and strength Or if feeble or ill affected corrupt all the Vital Powers whereupon grow Diseases and in the end death it self What inconveniencies have grown in all Ages by the ill Government and Disorders of Schools your Books can inform you And to come home to your selves have not our late Parliaments complained Nay hath not the Land exclaimed that our great Schools of Virtue were become Schools of Vice This I mention unwillingly but withal do most willingly tell you to your eternal praise That fince it pleased his Majesty to take to heart a Reformation and by advice of your never too often named Chancellor sent you down some temporary Orders whereby to reduce you to some reasonable moderation thereupon by the Wisdom and Resolution of you the worthy Governours and by the inclinable conformity of all the Students in general it is now come to pass that Scholars are no more found in Taverns or Houses of Disorder nor seen loytering in the Streets or other places of Idleness or ill Example but all contain themselves within the Walls of their Colleges and in the Schools or publick Libraries Wherein I must confess you have at length gotten the start and by your Virtue and Merit have made this University which before had no Paragon in any forreign Country now to go beyond it self and give a glorious Example to others not to stay behind And if those temporary and unperfect Orders produced so good effect what may now be expected from this Body of Laws and Statutes so compleat and so digested that no former Age did ever enjoy the like Thus you have understood how the Goodness of our great King how the Care and respect of your Chancellor and how the worth and substance of the work it self may forcibly induce you to congratulate your own Happiness And therefore I might here forbear to trouble you any longer with a harsh interrupted Speech but that I cannot omit to put you in mind of one thing which I know you will hear with willingness and attention because it tendeth chiefly to the honour of our God and then by his power to the honour of our King and thence to the comfort of every true hearted Subject who will readily acknowledg with Reverence and thankfulness the great blessings we now enjoy above all other Nations I will tell you but what I know for I speak within my Element I have seen our neighbouring Countries in great Prosperity and Renown their Cities stately built and strongly fortified with Walls raised up to Heaven full of People full of Trade so full of peace and plenty that they surfeited in all excess but from hence they are since fallen partly by the boundless Ambition of great Princes partly by the Factions and Divisions in Religion and generally by their Disorders into such condition that men of great Honour sent in remote Employment found whole Provinces so sack'd and depopulated that in divers Journeys they incountred scarce a Man and of those they found dead some had Grass in their Mouths and Stomachs and some were torn in pieces by Beasts and ravenous Fowls and those that were alive had no other Care or Study than how to save themselves from Fire and Sword In general there is such Desolation that without a kind of Horror the Horror thereof cannot be express'd Now we by God's Blessing are in a better Case we sit here in God's House thankful in true Devotion for this wonderful Favour towards us We enjoy Peace and Plenty we are like to those who resting in a Calm Haven behold the Shipwrack of others wherein we have no part save only in compassion to help them with our Prayers which we all ought to do as interested in their sufferings lest the like may fall on us What then remaineth but seriously to consider how all these great Blessings are conferred upon us not for our Merits or for our more virtuous and Holy Lives but only by God's favour to his true Religion and under him by the happy Government of our Gracious King which should confirm us all to a Constancy in our Obedience and to a ready subjection to all those Rules and Orders which his Majesty shall prescribe for the Publick good Wherein this general Admonition may fruitfully be applied to the Business now in hand whereof I make no doubt So I crave your pardon and your good acceptance of that which I have rudely spoken but with a true affection to this whole Body whereof though I had my Education from another-Nurse yet I had the Honour to be an Adopted Son and as I suppose one of the ancientest that lives amongst you at this day It remaineth that Mr Vice-Chancellour perform his part and proceed to the Subscriptions and Depositions of you the Heads John Coke DIE Mercurii inter horas secundam tertiam post Meridem viz. vicessimo secundo die Junii Anno Dom. 1636. unà fuerunt in Hospitio venerabilis Viri Doctoris Pink S. Theologiae Professoris Vicecancellarii Vniversitatis Oxon. notoriè sito situato in Collegio Sanctae Mariae Winton in Oxon. vulgo voca't Collegio Novo Reverendus in Christo Pater Dominus Johannes Episcopus Oxon. honoratissimi dignissimi venerabiles Viri Dominus Johannes Cook Eques auratus Serenissimae Regis Majestati Secretarius Principalis Dominus Henricus Martyn Eques auratus Judex Admiralitatis Curiae Praerogativae Thomas Rives Legum Doctor Regis Advocatus Commissionarii Domini Regis specialiter missi ad exhibendum Librum Statutorum Vniversitatis eorum confirmationem sub magno Sigillo Angliae Coram quibus comparuerunt venerabilis Vir Christopherus Potter Collegiae Reginae Praepositus Mr. Loughe Mr. Stannix Socii Collegii praedicti qui ante Convocationem eodem die habendam pro Statutorum Confirmatione Protestationem suam in scriptis Communi Sigillo Collegii sui munitam exhibuerunt eamque in Personâ suâ legit Mr. Stannix coram Commissionariis praedictis Doctore Pink Vice-Cancellario tum praesente sub hâc verborum formulâ Protestatio Declaratio Praepositi Scholarium Collegii Reginae in Vniversitate Oxon. de Jure Titulo Interesse suis in Electione Nominatione Principalis Aulae Sancti Edmundi in Vniversitate Oxon. per quam palàm publicè in quocunque celebri dictae Vniversitatis Coetu vel alibi intimari notum fieri in perpetuam rei memoriam obnixe rogant se solos in solidum habuisse habere debere