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A56144	Canterburies doome, or, The first part of a compleat history of the commitment, charge, tryall, condemnation, execution of William Laud, late Arch-bishop of Canterbury containing the severall orders, articles, proceedings in Parliament against him, from his first accusation therein, till his tryall : together with the various evidences and proofs produced against him at the Lords Bar ... : wherein this Arch-prelates manifold trayterous artifices to usher in popery by degrees, are cleerly detected, and the ecclesiasticall history of our church-affaires, during his pontificall domination, faithfully presented to the publike view of the world / by William Prynne, of Lincolns Inne, Esquire ...	Prynne, William, 1600-1669.	1646 (1646)	Wing P3917; ESTC R19620	792,548	593

among the Archbishops Papers To the most Reverend Father in God the Lord Archbishop of Canterbury His Grace Primate of all England and Metropolitan one of His Majesties most Honourable Privy Councell My very good Lord. May it please Your Grace I Have according to Your Graces direction survayed the Churches of Your Graces Arch-Deaconry in the Citie of Canterbury In some of which I find Galleries and seates raised from the ground three or foure ascents as likewise monuments with diverse Inscriptions erected without authority at the East-end of the Chancells And in Saint Gregories Church of the same City one other Monument in which is described the Gunpowder Treason with this Motto or Inscription in Capitall letters IN PERPETVAM PAPISTARVM INFAMIAM This he held him selfe in all humility bound to acquaint Your Grace withall who is ready to execute what Your Grace shall Command for the ordering of these particulars or any other thing Your Grace shall be pleased to enjoyne him and never ceaseth to pray for Your Graces prosperitie and welfare Resting Your Graces most humble Servant VVilliam Kingsley April 13. 1636. To which Letter the Archbishop returned this answer sound in his study thus endorsed The Copy of my Letters to the Arch-Deacon of Canterbury Aprill 29. 1636. concerning the taking downe of Galleries and Monuments in some Churches of Canterbury c. S. in Christo SIR YOur Letters of Aprill 13. I have received and I thanke you for your care and paines in Visiting the Churches of your Arch-Deaconry within the City of Canterbury in which I have often heard there are some things amisse and finde by your report that the Information given me was true And because you certifie me of some things of greater moment then ordinary I thought it very fit to acquaint His Majestie with all the contents of your Letter and did so By which meanes I shall with more freedome give you the fuller answer to the three particulars mentioned by you For the first which is the raising of Galleries and Seates from the ground three or foure ascents His Majestie hath commanded mee to write unto you that they be taken down and the Seates left orderly in the Church But you are to take care to acquaint the Minister and Church-wardens with it and to see it done in a faire and peaceable manner The like Course you are to take with the second for it is no way fit that any Monument whatsoever should be set up at the East end of the Chancell thereby standing equall at least if not above the Communion Table and fit for nothing but to cast it out of its proper place Therefore if any such be in any Church within your jurisdiction you are to speake with them that are next of Kinne or whom such Monuments may most concerne And if they will remove them and set them up in any other place on the sides of the Church you are to give them leave so to do but if they will not you are then to take them downe in an orderly way and not to suffer any to stand at the East end of the Chancell Your third businesse is of greater consequence it is that there is another Monument in Saint Georges Church in which there is described in Capitall Letters the GUN-POUDER TREASON with this motto In perpetuam Papistarum infamiam c. I hope this stands not at the East end of the Chancell for if it doe you must see it removed to some other place but if it stand upon any side of either Chancell or Church then you are with the knowledge of the Minister and the Church-Wardens or any other whom that Monument may concerne to take some Painter to you and cause him to put out of the Monument all that concernes the Fleet in 88. because that belongs to a Forreigne Nation And though your Letters make no mention of 88. yet the Picture of the Monument which you sent me up doth which I shewed His Majestie as well as Your Letter So having here given you a cleare direction in all your three particulars I shall expect your care in the execution of them according to it So I leave you to the grace of God and rest Your very loving Friend Will Cant By these two Letters it is apparent that the Archbishop gave speciall directions not only to Sir Nathaniell Brent but to the Arch-Deacon of Canterbury to take down Galleries and Monuments at the East end of Chancells neare the Communeon-Tables and to place the Tables there at in their proper place as likewise to obliterate the memoriall of our happy deliverance from the Spanish Armado in 88. out of that Church where it had long continued Finally it was proved by the testimony of Master Sutton Master Browne and others that in the yeare 1640. in the new Chappell at WEST MINSTER the Kings Armes were set up in the East Window which was first glased with white Glasse afterward the Archbishop promising to bestow a new window instead of it the Kings Armes were thereupon taken downe by direction of Doctor Haywood the Archbishops Chaplaine and Browne this Joyner and placed in another obscure window and the Archbishops Arms supported by Seraphins put up in its place to signifie that hee was the sole donor of this new Window where instead of the white Glasse there was set up in coloured glasse the Picture of the Holy Ghost in form of a Dove with the Images of the Virgin Mary Christ Angells and Ceraphins for which the Glasier was payd since the Archbishops commitment to the Tower by the Archbishops direction as the Glasier verily believed this new painted Window being set up about the beginning of this Parliament but since demolished by order of Parliament which manifests the Archbishops perseverance in his Popish Innovations notwithstanding the Scotish troubles and the many late complaints against them in the last dissolved and present Parliament When this Arch-Prelate had in his Metropoliticall Visitation by private instructions only to his Vicar Generall and other Agents set on these Innovations and introduced them into many Parish-Churches in most Diocesse hee then by his subordinate Suffragans and Creatures began to enforce them universally upon all Ministers Church-Wardens Parishes by Visitation Oaths and Articles upon which such Ministers Church-Wardens and others who opposed them were presented yea prosecuted as Delinquents Among others Dr. Pierce Bish of Bath and Wells Mathew Wren Bish of Norwich Bish Lindsy of Peterborough Bish Mountague of Chichester and Skinner Bishop of Bristall were the chiefe promoters of his Innovations especially of rayling in Communion Tables Altarwise bowing to and towards them saying second service at them and comming up to the new rayles to receive the Sacrament prescribing these particulars in their severall Visitation Articles Witnesse Rich Mountague Bishop of Chichester his printed Visitation Articles there 1635. which after his translation to Norwich he enlarged with some printed additions for that Diocesse Anno 1638. of which

Justice of peace within that City and an inhabitant of S. Edmonds Parish there took just offence at some pictures in one of the glasse-windows in that Church near unto his seat and ever in his eye in which window was contained in old rude rusty painted glasse the History of the Creation not as it is related by Moses in the first Chapter of Genesis but after the Painters fancy who in this window consisting only of four panes had made no lesse then seven picturs of God the Father in form of a little old man clad in a blew and red coat with a pouch by his side about the bignesse of a Puppet and preposterously placed the fourth daies work of creation before the third and made that to be done on the fifth day which was created on the sixth and in one place he had represented God the Father creating the Sunne and Moon and squaring them out with a pair of compasses in his hand as if he had formed them by some Geometricall rules and the help of a Compasse To these pictures M. Sherfield and others had seen Ema Browne and other old women make low curtesies who being demanded why they made such curtesies answered that they made them to their Lord God and to God the Father in the Glasse-window which was proved by divers witnesses upon oath Wherupon M. Sherfield being perswaded in point of conscience that these Idolatrous Pictures were directly forbidden by the second Commandement and many expresse Texts of Scripture prohibiting any representations of God the Father condemned thus by the Homilies of our Church against the Perill of idolatry Part. 3. ● 40. which determine that The Image of God the Father the Sonne and Holy Ghost either severally or the images of the Trinity be by the Scriptures expresly forbidden and condemned as appears by these places Deut. 4. Isay 40. Acts 17. Rom. 1. there cited at large By these and many other places of Scripture it is evident that no Image either ought or can be made to God For how can God a most pure spirit whom man never saw he expressed by a grosse body or visible similitude or how can the infinite Majesty and greatnesse of God incomprehensible to mans minde much more not able to be compassed with the sense be expressed in a SMAL and LITTLE IMAGE as this of God the Father was How can a dead and dumbe Image expresse the living God c. Wherefore an Image of God is not only a lye but a double lye also But the Devill is a lyar and the Father of lyes Wherefore the lying Images which he made of God to his great dishonour and horrible danger of his people came from the Devill Wherefore they be convict of foolishnesse and wickednesse in making of Images of God or the Trinity for no Image of God ought or can be made yea and once to desire an Image of God commeth of infidelity thinking not God here present except they see some signe or Image of him And to be abolished out of Churches by the resolution of Queen Elizabethe Injunctions the Canons and Oxthodox Writers of our Church the Statutes of our Realme and King James his own resolution in sundry of his Works moved the Parish at a Vestry where were six Justices of Peace present that he might have liberty to take down this offensive scandalous Window being a burthen to his conscience an occasion of much superstition and idolatry to ignorant people and the Church it self a Donative as they conceived belonging to the parishioners and to set up a new window of white glasse in its place whereupon it was unanimously ordered by the Vestry about January 1629. and the Order entred that if M. Sherfield thought fit he might take downe the painted old glasse of this Window and set up new Whereupon not long after he did with his staffe breake or picke out some of those peeces of glasse representing God the Father which amounted not to above the value of six pence the whole glasse window not being worth forty shillings when it was new intending to new glaze the same Whereupon by the Archbishops means and instigation an Information was exhibited against him in the Star-chamber by the Kings Attorney Generall for breaking these idolatrous pictures and that in opposition of the Church-government established by law among us This cause was prosecuted with all rigour and at last brought to a hearing on the 8 of February 1632. where this Archbishop then Bishop of London as was proved by the Oathes of Master Tomlins a Barrister of the Temple M. Joseph Caryll Lecturer at Lincolnes Inne and the testimony of M. Robert Nicholas a Member of the Commons House a Commissioner in that cause shewed himselfe very violent against M. Sherfield made a long speech in defence of Images in Churches contrary to our Homilies justified the picturing of God the Father in forme of an old man out of that place of Daniel where God is called The ancient of dayes which the Earl of Dorset refuted being an expression only of Gods eternity declaring him to be before all times and notwitstanding it was proved by four witnesses that those pictures were adored by divers persons yet the Archbishop was so violent against Mr. Sherfield that for breaking of these idolatrous pictures according to the doctrine of our Church in the Homilies against the perill of Idolatry Queen Elizabeth Injunctions and the statute of 3 4 E. 6. ca. 10. which were pleaded for his justification he agravated his offence to the utmost from his Office his Age his profession and divers other circumstances instead of mittigating it fined him a thousand pound to the King sentenced him to be removed from his Recordership in that City to make a publick acknowledgement of his great fault in the parish-Parish-church where this was done and in the Cathedrall at Salisbury and to be bound to his good behaviour some of the Temporall Lords excused his fact spake much against Images and thought it fit to impose no fine upon him This Archbishop then concluded his speech against M. Sherfield in justification of Images with these words I have been the willinger to render this ancount at this time because some are ready to slander Vs as maintainers of POPISH SVPERSTITION and I know not what This sentence gave great incouragement to the setting up of superstitious idolatrous Pictures Images and Crucifixes in our Churches and discouraged most men from opposing the intended introducing of them which followed thereupon in sundry places To this we shall adde the Archbishops tyrannicall sentence and proceedings against M. John Workeman a godly painfull Minister Lecturer in the City of Glocester for preaching against Images in Churches This pious Minister being Lecturer in S. Stephens Church in that City was prosecuted for preaching publickly in a Sermon there That Pictures or Images were no more ornaments to a Church then Stewes to a Common wealth That for a man to

habeant Et ulterius de gratia nostra speciali ac ex certa scientia mero motu nostris nec non de avisamento Concilii nostri dedimus concessimus ac per praesentes damus concedimus praefato Superintendenti Ministris Ecclesia Germanorū aliorū peregrinorū in Civitate London Totum illud Templum sive Ecclesiam nuper fratrum Augustinentium in Civitate nostra London ac totam terram fundum solum Ecclesiae pradict excepto toto choro dictae Ecclesiae terra fundo solo ejusdem habendum gaudendum dictum Templum sive Ecclesiam ac catera praemissa exceptis praeexceptis praefato Superintendenti Ministris Successoribus suis in puram liberam Eleemosinam Damus ulterius de avisamento praedicto ac ex certa scientia mero metu nostris praedictis per praesentes concedimus praefato Superintendenti Ministris Successoribus suis plenam facultatem potestatem authoritatem ampliandi majorem faciendi numerum Ministrorum nominandi ac appunctuandi de tempore in tempus tales hujusmodi subministros ad serviendum in Templo praedicto quales praefato Superintendenti Ministris necessarium visum fuerit Et quod haec omnia juxta beneplacitum Regium Volumus praeterea quod Johannes Alasco natione Polonus homo propter integritatem innocentiam vitae ac morum singularem eruditionem valde celebris sit primus modernus Superintendens dictae Ecclesiae Et quod Gualterus de Laenus Martinus Flanders Franciscus Riverius Richardus Gallus sint quatuor primi moderni Ministri Damus praeterea concedimus praefatis Superintendenti Ministris Successoribus suis facultatem authoritatem licentiam post mortem vel vacationem alicujus Ministri praedictorum de tempore in tempus eligendi nominandi surrogandi alium personam habilem idoneum in locum suum It a tamen quod persona sic nominatus electus praesentetur sistatur coram Nobis Haeredibus vel Successoribus nostris per Nos haeredes vel suecessores nostros instituatur in ministerium praedictum Damus etiam concedimus praefatis Superintendenti Ministris Successoribus suis facultatem authoritatem licentiam post mortem seu vacationem Superintendentis de tempore in tempus elegendi nominandi surrogandi alium personam doctum gravem in locum suum It a tamen quod persona sic nominatus electus praesentetur sistatur coram Nobis Haeredibus vel Successoribus nostris per Nos Haredes vel Successores nostros instituatur in officium Superintendentis praedictum Mandamus firmiter impungendo praecipimus tam Majori Vice-Comitibus Aldermannis Civitatis nostrae London Episcopo London Successoribus suis cum omnibus aliis Archiepiscopis Episcopis Iusticiariis Officiariis Ministris nostris quibuseunque quod permittant praefatum Superintendentem Ministros successores suos liberè quietè frui gaudere uti exercere Ritus Ceremonias suas proprias Disciplinam Ecclesiastitam propriam peculiarem Non obstante quod non conveniant cum Ritibus Ceremoniis in Regno nostro usitatis absque impetitione perturbatione aut inquietatione eorum vel eorum alicujus aliquo Statuto Actu Proclamatione Iniunctione Restrictione seu usu in contrarium inde antehac habitum factis editis seu promulgatis in contrarium non obstante Eo quod expressa mentio de vero valore annuo aut de certitudine praemissorum sive eorum alicujus aut de aliis donis sive concessionibus per Nos praefatis Superintendenti Ministris Successoribus suis ante haec tempora factis in praesentibus minime facta existit aut aliquo Statuto Actu Ordinatione Provisione sive Restrictione inde in contrarium factis edictis ordinatis seu Provisis aut aliqua alia re causa vel materia quacunque in aliquo non obstante In cujus rei testimonium has litteras nostras fieri fecimus Patentes Teste Meipso apud Leighes vicessimo quarto die Iulii Anno Regni nostri quarto Per breve de privato Sigillo de dat praedict Authoritate Parliamenti signatum P. Southwell Et est sigillatum Sigillo Regio sub-appenso To the Copy of this Patent found in the Archbishops study we shall subioyne these ensuing Orders and Passages in their favour and confirmation of this Patent in Queen Elizabeths King Iames and King Charles their Reignes presented to the Archbishop by the Ministers of these Forraigners Churches The Letters of the Privy Councell to the Church of London containing these words Non ignoramus variis Ecclesiis varios diversos jam ab initio Christianae Religionis semper fuisse ritus ac ceremonias dum hi stantes illi in genua procidentes alii proni procumbentes adorant precantur tamen eadem pietas est ac religio si verè ad verum Deum oratio tendat absitque impietas ac superstitio c. Non contemnimus ritus vestros neque vos ad nostros cogimus probamusque ceremonias vestras ut vobis vestrae reipublicae unde orti estis aptas convenientes The Order of the Privy Councell the 29 of Iune If others would joyne themselves to the said Churches that such Persons shall be counselled to betake themselves to some other parts of this Kingdome where they may be commodiously received If they doe this we will willingly call in our former Commandement The Answer of King Iames to the French and Dutch Ministers the 21 of May. Ie vous protegeray ainsi quie convient a un bon Prince de maintenir deffendre tous ceux qui ont abandone leur Patrie Pour la religion Mou desire est de vous deffendre comme a fait la Reyne ma So●ur qui vous a receu eu so● Royaume pour laquelle vous avez prie Dieu Que si aucun vous trouble ou moleste pleignez vous en amoy Ie vous maintiendray The perpetuity granted to the Dutch at Colchester Ann. 10. Jacobi the 17 of October As also their Orders in their Church and Assemblies there tending to the good Government of the said Congregations in as free large and ample manner in all respects and to all intents constructions and purposes as heretofore they have used and hath been tolerated and allowed unto them according to the true intent of this our present Ordinance any Provision or Jurisdiction to the contrary thereof in any wise notwithstanding The Order of the Privy Councell for the French Church of Canterbury the second of May. That the said Congregation within the City of Canterbury shall according to his Majesties gracious pleasure peaceably and freely enjoy all such Priviledges Liberties and Immunities and be permitted to use their Assemblies and Congregations in as ample manner as heretofore hath

of England and Baron Denham riding the Western Circuit in the Lent Vacation 7º Caroli there being at the Assises in the County of Sommerset many persons indicted for murthering Bastard children begotten at Wakes and Revels with sundry other grand disorders occasioned by these intemperate meetings the Justices of that County earnestly importuned the Judges to make a severe Order for the suppression of these disorderly Wakes and Revels as divers of their Predecessors had done without which they could never keep the Country in good Order nor prevent the multitude of Bastards murthers bloodsheds drunkennesse quarrels and other disorders occasioned by them whereupon these Judges made this ensuing Order in the publike Assises An Order made by the Judges of the Assises for the suppressing of all Ales and Revels the nineteenth day of March Anno Regis Caroli nunc Ang. c. Sept. WHereas divers Orders have been made heretofore by the Judges of the Assise for the suppressing of all Ales and Revels the same Order is now confirmed at this Assises and again Ordered by the Court In regard of the infinite number of inconveniences dayly arising by means of Revels That such Revels Church-Ales Clerks-Ales and all other publick Ales be henceforth utterly suppressed and if hereafter it shall be known to the Justices of the Peace within this County of such to be set up hereafter to be used That then the Justices of Peace within their severall divisions take course as well for the speedy apprehending and punishing of Idle and lewd persons drawing together at such places as also for the binding over of such persons using tipling inflicting such punishment upon all offenders in such places as the Law doth inflict And to the end this Order may be the better observed it is further Ordered That the Clerk of the Assises shall leave Coppies hereof with the under-Sheriffe and from the under-Sheriffe every Constable of the hundred shall take a Coppy for his severall Hundred and Liberty and shall deliver a Coppy to the Minister of every Parish within his severall Hundred and Liberty and shall take a note of every Minister under his hand the day when he received it and shall publish it yearly within the Parish Church the first Sunday in February and likewise the two Sundayes before Easter yearly And it is further Ordered That every Constable every Lent-Assises present unto the Judges of the Circuit a note of the same Order under the hands of the said Ministers And for the avoyding the concourse of idle people it is further Ordered That Minstrels and such other persons as usually carry up and down Bulls and Beares to bate being Rogues by the Statute shall be punished as Rogues for the further preventing of such inconveniences as usually hapneth at such meetings This is a Copyy of the Order To Lawrence Musgrave Constable The now Arch-Bishop being informed of this good Order was very much netled at it both in regard of the subject matter of it the suppression of Church-Ales Wakes Revels commonly kept on the Lords Day and likewise of the manner of publishing it by the Ministers in the Church which he conceived to be an Vsurpation upon the Bishops Ecclesiasticall Jurisdiction and an injury to the Church Upon which grounds he had formerly quarrelled with Sir Nicholas Rainton when he was Lord Mayor of London for prohibiting an Apple-woman to sell Apples on the Lords Day within Pauls Church-yard threatning to complaine of him to the King and his Councell for usurping on his Jurisdiction and telling him she should sell Apples there on the Sunday notwithstanding his Command to the contrary and let him punish her if he durst as he likewise excepted against this pious Order of Richard Deane Lord Mayor of London Anno 1629. found in his study by Master Prynne thus endorsed with his own hand Aprill 20. 1629. The Lord Mayor of London his Warrant against breakers of the Sabbath MY JVRISDICTION INTERESSED WHereas J am credibly informed that notwithstanding divers good Laws provided for the keeping of the Sabbath day holy according to the expresse Commandement of Almighty God divers Jnhabitants and other persons of this City and other places having no respect of duty towards God and his Majesty or his Laws but in contempt of them all do commonly and of custome greatly prophane the Sabbath day in buying selling uttering and venting their Wares and Commodities upon that day for their private gain Also Jnholders suffering Markets to be kept by Carriers in most rude and prophane manner in selling Victuals to Hucsters Chandlers and all other commers also Carriers Carmen Clothworkers Water-bearers and Porters carrying of burthens and Watermen plying their Fares and divers others working in their ordinary callings And likewise that J am further informed that Vintners Alehousekeepers Tobacco and strong Water sellers greatly prophane the Sabbath day by suffering Company to sit drinking and bibbing in their houses on that day And likewise divers by cursing and swearing and such like behaviour contrary to the expresse Commandement of Almighty God his Majesties Laws in that behalf and all good Government For the Reformation whereof J do hereby require and in his Majesties name straightly Command all his Majesties loving subjects whatsoever and also all Constables Headboroughs Beadles and all other Officers whatsoever to be ayding and assisting to I. S. the bearer hereof in finding out and apprehending all and every such person and persons as shall be found to offend in any of these kinds and them and every of them to bring before me or some other of his Majesties Justices of the Peace to answer to all such matters as shall be objected against them and to put in good security for their good behaviour whereof fail you not as you or any of you will answer at your perill Dated Aprill 20. 1629. To all Constables and other his Majesties Officers Ministers whatsoever within the City of London and liberties thereof and to every of them Rich. Deane Major The Arch-bishop much vexed at the Judges forementioned Order against Ales and Revels complained of the Judges and it to his Majestie as he had formerly done of the Lord Mayor of London and procured a Commission to some Divines of that County and Bishop Pierce to enquire of the manner of publishing this Order in Churches and what was done therein and of the Lord Chiefe Justice Richardsons carriage in this businesse Notwithstanding which Commission this chiefe Justice the next Assizes gave a strict charge against these Ales and Revels required an Account of the publication and execution of the foresaid Order and punished some disorderly persons for breach thereof Wherewith the Archbishop then of London being acquainted by Sir Robert Philips and others he thereupon complained again to the King of the Judges and writ the ensuing letter to the Bishop of Bath and Wels to make the better way for the publike authorizing of Wakes and Revels even on the Lords own Day and his

should wonder both at the mans selfe and at the mans men not at the Jesuits onely and the Seminary Priests you shall not know them to make them the wonderment But the Recusant Papist yea every profest Papist let us wonder at them too They wax in number and in spirit and their mouthes speak presumptious things Think you they censure that treason from their heart surely I will think that he that sayes as the Pope sayes will also doe as the Pope does Say he comes to Church and hold the Kings supremacy tamen Romanus est as Segismond the Emperour said of a Cardinall yet he is a Papist nullus est fidus eorum affectus quorum est diversa fides therefore trust not that man that holds any Popery if he kisse like a Serpent he sure will sting too his peace is with thee but rebus sit stantibus he is that womans Son he thirsts for blood even thy blood that embraceth him he sayes with Esau in his heart the dayes of mourning for Isaac will come one day then I will kill my Brother Ia●cob but let us wonder Ibid. page 286. l. 10. these words are expunged Instance but in the Pope he is but one Serpent but a great one Draco magnus in the Apocalipse He curseth Kings and States by his B●le that is his Hisse murders and massacres by his Jesuits they are his sting page 416. l. 25. I will not say the Jew but surely the Gentile before the Jesuit page 420. l. 14. Rome is no Court of Arches to license the Jesuit to teach where he will page 427. l. 6. No Papist no right Papist is a right Israelite for there is guile in him page 435. l. 5. The Epie●re Jesuits and Stoick Priests call these Calvinists bablers others of them say they set forth strange gods for they preach to the people Iesus sola sides a Male God and a Female may we not know what this doctrine this new doctrine whereof these Calvinists speak is we will know what these things doe meane Unhappy Recusants Page 348. l. 6. To so many hearers so intelligent little need application yet the times crave it Is not this Land a limbe of this Ierusalem of Jerusalem it is but not of this not of David's Ierusalem you heare Jerusalem taxt roughly by the Prophet both for murther and adultery for shedding Saints blood and serving strange gods England is no persecutor but it is an halter between two Religions Dagon affronts Gods Arke here 's both Eucharist and Masse Babylon is in Ierusalem It 's not unworthy the observing that Jerusalem in the Originall tongue is of the Duall number there are two Ierusalems David bid● pray for Ierusalems peace but whether Ierusalem that surely which he here describes where is Unity v. 2. Religion v. 4. and Justice v. 5. Ierusalem is a City that is at Unity within it self thither goe up the Tribes to prayse the Lord and there are our seats of judgement Is our Jerusalem such schisme in the Church and faction in the State shew there is no Unity Popery and Atheisme spread over the whole Land prove there is small Religion and impunity lesse Justice and may we pray for peace on this Ierusalem we may but yet it must be by some other Text pray we may for any Moses did for Israel though fallen greivously Samuel for Saul though a grand sinner we may well curse though happily in vaine for God sayes non est pax there 's no peace to the wicked sinne at length captiv'd Israel sackt the City raced the Temple nunc seges est grasse growes at Ierusalem Yet despaire not daughter Zion return our Sullamite there 's no peace to the wicked cease we to doe evill sorry we for sinnes heartily weep we pray we God for peace we shall have peace the prodigious pride of women their wanton vanities censured often by preachers but in vaine they will come with them to Church in spite of us I think in spite of Angels too who are ever present in our Church and the drunkennesse of men their whoredomes and blasphemies draw downe divine revenge on our Jerusalem France will be Gods ●od and Spaine will be his hammer to scourge and beat Ierusalem to powder mature repentance will preuent all and peace will be on Israel And page 445. 446. Jesuits must speak for Mammon he is their god There are seekers of soules a phrase frequent in Scripture seekers of blood Iesuits are such seek fooles they should Iesus selfe did it he sought to save them Iesuits doe but to destroy them They Querere animas but not in Christs sense in Satane sense to devour them they seek carefully for they will 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 do as the devil does walk about the world to doe that worke There are seekers of lyes v. 42. The Church of Rome swarmes with such seekers That 's from below too another of Satans seekers whom Christ cals father of lyes These passages are all deleted by the Lincenser as heterodox In Master Ward 's Comentary upon Matthew these clauses were purged out by the Licenser fol. 120. Thirdly Fishes i. e. men not onely rich men but all men and therefore the Monks are but bad fishers who fish onely for great and rich men labouring onely to draw them into their nets Fol. 148. First my servants shall drink and ye shall be thirsty and therefore it is a great insolency in the Papists thus diametrally to contradict the direct promises of God Secondly Aliquando bonus dormit Hom●rus wise men may play the foole sometimes and subtle Sophisters dispute absurdly as our witty country-man Stapleton doth in this present Argument disputing thus c. Secondly if our country-man Stapleton had not been a professor of Divinity and a teacher of others he might have gone to the Logick professor to learne to frame a better Argument this thus framed by him being so absurd Those that desire temporall things are wicked therefore those who want temporall things are not happy he had need look well to this Syllogisme or Argument least with its foure feet it runne away from him Fol. 154. Secondly there is an anlawfull Hospitality which is shewed to Traytors Jesuits popish Priests Fourthly they are faulty here who give unto the rich as the Papists who plentifully feast the fat Monks and send large presents to the Jesuits and Cap●chins Secondly there are sowers of discord in Kingdomes viz. those who instigate others unto warres as the Cardinals and Jesuits upon every occasion doe whisper in the eares of Princes to make warre upon their Neighbours when they perceive any advantage to be had thereby Fol. 212. Secondly adde nothing to the Word of God Neither first the chaffe of superstition with the Papists Nor secondly Machavillinisme and unwarrantable policy with some Statists Neither thirdly New opinions c. Fol. 213. Secondly that is no true sense of Scripture which doth make any sentence in Scripture false as the Papists