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A68103	Ladensium autokatakrisis, the Canterburians self-conviction Or an evident demonstration of the avowed Arminianisme, poperie, and tyrannie of that faction, by their owne confessions. With a post-script to the personate Iesuite Lysimachus Nicanor, a prime Canterburian.	Baillie, Robert, 1599-1662.	1640 (1640)	STC 1206; ESTC S100522	193,793	182

Tedders in his sermon at the visitation of the B. of Norwitch all subscribed by the hands of my L. of Canterburies Chaplane Bray Oliver Baker or some others THE PREFACE IT is fallen out much beside our expectation Wee did expect nothing lesse then warre that the storme of warre should now againe begin to blow when we did esteem that the mercy of GOD and justice of our Prince had setled our Land in a firme peace for many generations at least for many daies ever while some appearance of provocation should have arisen from us for the kindling of the wrath of our enraged enemies whose furie though we know well not to be quite extinguished yet we did surely think it would not breake forth in haste in any publick and open flame til some new matter had been furnished or some probable colour of a new quarrell could have beene alleadged against us When we have scattered that cloud of calumnies We have committed nothing that can bee pretended with any goodly colour for the breach of the late pac●fication which by their tongues and pens they had spread abroad of our rebellion many other odious crimes when by our frequent supplications informations remonstrances declarations and other writs wee have cleared aboundantly the justice of our cause the innocencie of our proceedings to all the ingenuous minde of the Yle and to so many of our neighbour nations as have beene desirous to cognosce of our affaires when our gracious and just Prince in the very heat of his wrath raised alone by their mis-informations even while armes were in his hand hath beene moved with the unanimous consent of all his English Counsell of all his Commanders and whole armie to acknowledge us good and loyall Subjects And after a full hearing of our cause in his Campe to professe his satisfaction to pronounce us free of those crimes which before were falsely blazed of us to send us all home in peace with the tokens of his favour with the heartie embracement of ●hat armie which came against us for our ruine When we in a generall Assembly of our Church with the knowledge and full consent of his Majesties high Commissioner whole Counsell have justified our opposition to the innovation of our Religion and Lawes by the Prela●es our excommunication of them therefore the renewing of our Covenant and all the rest of our Ecclesiast●call proceedings when our States in Parliament were going on in a sweet harmonie to confirme the weaknesses set right the disorders of our Estate that no farther then clear equitie reason law yea the very words of the pacificatorie Edict did permit whē our whole people were minding nothing but quietnesse having cast their neckes under the feet of our reconciled king put all their Castles Canons in his hand without any securitie but the royall Word and received heartily all those fugitives who had taken armes in the Prelates cause against their Countrie having no other minde but to sit down with joy g●e about our own long neglected businesse praising God and blessing the King The martiall mindes among us panting for languor to be imployed over sea for the honour of the Crowne in spending their bloud against the insolent enemies of his Majesties house While these are our only thoughts It was more then marveilous to us that first the dumbe and obscure whisperings and at once the loud blasts the open threats of a new more terrible and cruell warre then before should come to our eares that our Castles should be filled with strāgers be provided with extra ordinarie victuals and munition as against a present assault or long siege Many of our Nobles tempted to leave our cause numbers of assayes made to breake the unitie of all our Estates and at last our Parliament commanded to arise the Commissioners thereof after a long and wearisome journey to Court for the clearing of some surmised mistakes about moods and formes of proceedings refused presence a Parliament in England indicted as the rumour goeth to perswade that Nation our dearest neighbours with whom our cause is common to imploy their meanes and armes against us that so our old nationall and immortall warres may be renewed to make sport to Prelates a bridge for the Spainyard or French to come over Sea and sit downe masters of the whole Yle when both Nations by mutuall wounds are disabled for defence against the force of an enemie so potent as either France or Spaine are this day of them selves without the assistance which too like shall bee made them by the Papists of the Yle and many more who will not faile to joyne for their owne ends with any apparent victory Wee admire how it is possible that intestine armes without any necessity should be takē up at this season Compassion hope and all reason call now for peace at home that at last we may gett some order of our enemies abroad when all the Forces the whole Yle can spare are most earnestly called for by the tears of his Ma. only sister by the bloud long desolation of her most miserable Subjects by the captivitie and banishment of all her hopefull Children Prince Charles lying dayly under the hazard of the French hang man at Paris Prince Robert of the Austrian at Vienne the rest of that royall bloud lying so many yeares with their Mother banished in a strange Countrie Pietie would command us to put up all our homeward quarrels though they were both great and manie let be to forge any where none reall can be found Yea hope would allure us to try now if ever our Armes on those spitefull Nations the hereditary enemies of our Religion and of our Yle when God hath made them contemptible by the cleare successe hee giveth dayly to every one that riseth against them Banier with a wing of the Swed●sh Armie dwelling in spite of the Emperour all this yeare in the heart of his Countries a part of Weymers forces with a litle help frō France triumphing on the Rhene for all that Baviere Culen the Emperour or Spainiard can doe against them That very great and strong Armado all utterly crushed in our eyes by the Hollanders alone without the assistance of any The very French not the best sea men having lately beaten oftener then once the Spanish navies in the Mediterrian Shall we alone sit still for ever shal we send alwayes nought but base contemptible derided Supplications to these intractable Princes shall we feed our selves still with their scornfull promises which so oft wee have found to our great disgrace most false yea rather then to beate them by that aboundance of power which we have if God will give us an heart to imploy it rather then to pull downe those tyrants who have shed rivers of Protestants bloud who hath lōg tred on the persons of our nearest friends and in them on our honour Is it now meet we should choose

all their hundreth and six glorious Predecessours are endebted before God and the VVorld all their Prerogatives both of nature grace and estate so much as any Princes were ever to their mother church native Countrie CHAP. II. The Canterburians avovved Arminianisme ARminianisme how great and dangerous an inn●●ation of the Reformed Religion it is Arminianisme ● great and dangerous innovation o● Religion wee m y learne by the late experiences of our neigh●ours when that weed began to spread among 〈◊〉 The States of Holland have declared in many p●ssages of their Dordracen Synod that they found it a more readie meane to overthrow both their Church and State then all the engines Policies armes which the Pope and Spaniard in any bygan time had used ●gainst them The Church of France the other yeare when Amir●t and Testard and some few of their Divines were but surmised to incline a little towards some small twigs of one article of Arminius was so affrighted that they rested not till in a generall assembly at Paris they did runne together for the extinguishing of the first sparkes as it were of a common fire When Barrow in Cambridge began to run a little on this rock how careful was my Lord of Canterburie and the Bishops than in the meeting at Lambeth for the crushing of that Cokatrice in the egge when that Serpent againe in the same place began to sett up the nose in the writtes of Thomson how carefull were the Bishops then by the hand of their brother of Salisburie Doctor Abbots to cutt off the head of that monster But what speake wee of the Churches Reformed The very Synagogue of Rome whose conscience is enlarged as the Hell to swallow downe the vile●● morsels of the most lewd errours that Antichrist can present yet did they stick much at this bone when the Iesuite Molina began to draw out these dreggs of Pelagianisme from the long neglected pitts of some obscure Schoolemen what clamours were raised there not onely by Alvarez and his followers but ulso by numbers of Prelates and some great Princes till the credit of the Iesuites in the Court of Rome and the wisedome of the Consistorie prognosticating a new Rent in their Church did procure from the Pope a peremptorie injunction of silence to both sides on all highest paines hoping if the Dominicans mouthes were once stopped that the Iesuites by their familiar arts and silent Policies would at last worke out their intended point which indeed since that time they have well neare by fully gained But to King Charles eye no evidence useth to bee so demonstrative as that which commeth from the learned hand of his blessed Father VVould wee know how gracious a Plant Arminianisme and the dressers of it will prove in England or any where else advise with King Iames King Iames judgement of Arminianisme who after full triall and long consultation about this emergent with the Divines of his Court especially the late archbishop Abbots gave out at last his Decreet in print and that in Latine not onely for a present declaration to the States of Holland of his minde against Vorstius and a cleare Confession of his Faith in those points to the Christian VVorld but above all to remaine a perpetuall Register for his heirs and successours of his faithfull advise if after his death their Kingdomes should be ever in danger to bee pestered with that wicked seed In that treatise his Majestie doth first (a) Declarat contr Vorst pag. 15. Non erubescit ita crasse mentiri ut affirmet haereses libro suo expressas á professione Ecclesiae Anglicanae non dissentire avow all them to be grosse lyers who doe not blush to affirme that any of the Arminian articles even that most plausable one of the Saints apostasie are consonant with the Doctrine or articles of the Church of England (b) Ibid. pag. 12. Gnaviter impudens ferreioris Hee stileth Bertius for such a slander a very impudent and brazen faced man 2. (c) Ibid. pag. 18 Detestandae haereses novitor exortae maturè exstinguēdae ad usque inferos unde manarunt relegandae He pronounceth these Doctrines of Arminius to be heresies lately revived and damnable to the hells from whence they come 3. (d) Ibid. pag 12. Sola inscriptio clamat igni damnandum That Bertius for the very title of his booke The Saints apostacie deserved burning 4. (e) Ibid. pag. 14. Inimicus Deo Arminius cujus discipuli pestes arrogantes haeritici 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 sectarij That A●minius and his Schollers were to be reputed pests enemies to God proud schismaticall hereticall Atheists 5. (f) Ibid. pag. 15. A Deo maledictionem apud Ecclesias omnes infamiam in Republicam perpetuam distractionem The great increase of Arminians in Scotland by Canterburies meanes Hee affirmeth that their tolleration would not faile to bring upon the heads of their toleraters let be favourers Gods malediction an evill report slander and infamie with all the Churches abroad and certaine Schisme division and tumults at home Shall wee then make any doubt of King Charles full contentment that we avow Arminianisme to bee such a dangerous innovation in our Religion as the Reformed Churches abroad and his Father at home hath taught us to count it where ever it is found Notwithstanding this bitter roote amongst us was setting up the head of late very boldly in all the prime pl●ces of our Kingdome wee have had since the reformation many bickerings about the Church government and Ceremonies but in matters of Doctrine never any controversie was knowne till some yeares agoe a favourable aire from the mouth of Doctor Laud at Court began to blow upon these unhappie seeds of Arminius No sooner was those south-winds sensible in our climate but at once in S. Andrews Edinburgh Aberdeen and about Glasgow that weed began to spring amaine Doctour Wederburne in the new Colledge of S. Andrews did stuffe his dictates to the younge Students in Divinitie with these errours This man upon the feares of our Churches censure having fled the Countrie was very tenderly embraced by his Grace at Court and well rewarded with a faire Benefice in England for his labours But to the end his talents should not lye hid although a man very unmeete either for preaching or government hee was at once sent downe to us without knowledge of our Kirk by Canterburies onely favour to be Bishop of Dumblane for this purpose mainly that in the Royall Chappell whereof that Bishop is alwayes Dean hee might in despite of all our Presbyteries weive out the webbe hee had begun in S. Andrews So at once there was erected a society of twentie foure Royall Chapplains who were thought fittest of the whole Cleargie of the Kingdome to be allured with hopes of favour from Court to preach to the State the Deans Armiminian tenets In Edinburgh M. Sydserfe did partly play his part and for the