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A05604	The ansvver of Iohn Bastwick, Doctor of Phisicke, to the exceptions made against his Letany by a learned gentleman which is annexed to the Letany it selfe, as articles superadditionall against the prelats. In the vvhich there is, a full, demonstration and proof of the reall absence of Christ in the sacrament of the Lords Supper, with the vanity and impiety of the consecreation of temples churches and chapples, also the necessity of the perpetuall motion and circulation of worship if men be bound to bow the knees at the name of Iesus. This is to follow the Letany as a second part thereof.; Litany. Part 2	Bastwick, John, 1593-1654.	1637 (1637)	STC 1573; ESTC S104507	58,976	32

which proceedeth from the tyranny of the Prelats who indeed thirst after the ruine of all them they loue not and those that truely feare the Lord and this dayly experience teacheth vs. Now I say when they fight not against men onely but God himself as I haue shewed sufficiently and when they trample vpon the Prerogatiue royall pretend what they will and the lawes of the Kingdome which they are bound to obey and defend as well as my self being subiects it is the duty of all good subiects to lay open the wickednes and vngratitude of such men by the most fittest termes they know how to expresse it Wee see the scripture is full of expressions of this kind malice and hatred to their persons being layd aside which I harbor not in my heart against them I thinke it me duty 18 set forth their malicious plots the best way I can for to such a hight is their malice come that speak them faire or speak then fowle nay let them but thinke you speake to them though you meddle not with them it shall ruine you Neither are they content with their owne power in destroying of poore men which no Court hath in a greater measure or euer had that I remember but they call for all aide still of the Nobility and of the Kings maiestie himself to help them in their dayly oppressings of poore men as if any of them resisted at any time their autority or as if they of themselues without any other help could not ruine all the honest men they brand with the name of Puritans in the Kingdome and trample vpon them at pleasure when the whol realme seeth and feeleth dayly their tyranny ouer their brethren which they groane most greiuously vnder and vnder the which thy haue no way to releiue themselues but by appealing to Caesar the Kings most excellent Maiesty which was all the refuge of poore Christians and all distressed subiects in all nations and ages yea vnder heathen Emperors and that now is all the hope of releife they at this day do enioy which if it fayle them they cannot expect from the Prelats any other but a life far worse then death for I haue credibly been informed that they dayly labour to incense his gracious Maiesty against such as complayne of their exorbitant domineering ouer them and would make the whole State beleeue that they are weary of their liues and the onely persecuted men that now liue though they liue in all honour and pompe and onely forsooth because there are some vnder others names and others without names set downe the greivances of Ministers people which maner of complayning I could wish were subscribed euer vnto with the hand of the authors for that I thinke more beseemeth men whatsoeuer the issue be for they must dye one day and to dye for the honour of God the King their Religion and country or to suffer any thing for either of them it was euer thought honourable and I call God to witnes the onely loue and honour of these hath made mee abandon all loue to my self and mine in comparison and made mee lye downe in dust and ashes whereas if I could haue temporised I might haue enioyed no small portion in things of this life But I say I would earnestly wish that the oppressed would shew his Maiesty indeed by name and by the effects that they groane under a mighty and vnsupportable bondage vnder the Prelats not knowing which way euer to haue releise but by his gracious assistance And truely if men would goe playnly simply to worke to justify vnto the Prelats faces the things they accuse them of as I euer will if it did themselues no good it would witnes to all posterity that there were some willing to abdicate all for the honour of God and the good of the Country and Religion And who knoweth but as Benedad said of the Kings of Israel and Iuda that they were mercyfull and therefore they might by humble entreaty find favour so our Christian Kings succeeding them and the best of them in faith and goodnes and being more mercifull who knowes I say but humble suitors may happily find favour at their princely hands at last and that they truely being informed of the calamities their poore subjects sinke vnder would send them speedy relief especially when they consider their owne place and the end of their being that King and Princes are appointed by God himself to be nursing fathers and nursing mothers of his people and therefore they haue their titles of gracious Princes and Sauiours of their people for Kings are Gods vicegerents to doe that which otherwise he might doe himself which is to releiue the oppressed and deliuer them from the mighty and help them against their enimies and were wont to sit in the gates to receiue their complaynts and this is the doctrine that God teachers Princes the practice of which in common wealths is far better then Machiauells and brings more security ever to their crownes and dignities And those that teach Kings and Princes contrary vnto that that God himself hath taught them are but sucking Polititians whatsoeuer the world esteemes of them and haue been euer fatall to all Empires as if you looke into histories you shall finde If God himself hath said that for oppressions and cruelties a land shall be made desolate and giues in charge to Kings and Princes for their owne preservation and the common good to remoue those that oppresse the people and cause them to sin if Machiauell and his disciples shall say the contrary that Kings must favour such as seeme to advance Princely dignity by what meanes soeuer it be and by so much the more that the commons complaines against them and that Kings are not tyed to any Lawes but by their absolute autority and prerogatiue may doe what they will I will affirme it vnto the death it is damnable doctrine and the teachers of it ought to be put out of office at least be they Bishops Preists or Deacons But concerning such men heare what the learnedst King that euer was King IAMES I meane said in his speech to the Lords and commons at whitehall March 21. 1609. who had more policy in the paring of his nayles then all the Grollish Polititians that are now extant in the whole body of them yet he said that those that perswade Kings to doe contrary vnto their lawes are vipers and pests both against them and the common-wealth And these are the words of a mighty learned and prudent King this doctrine I haue receiued from him And if it would please his Highnes our renowned King whom God long preserue well to consider what his father says his Majesty would better Perceiue the truth of 〈◊〉 his speech for in that he spake not onely like a King of wise dome but like an oracle frō heauen And indeed Monarchies haue euer been preferred before all populer gouernments because there is one

vs and withall that the Lord would put it into his royall breast duely to looke into the intentions of those enemyes of all goodnes who ayme not at the flourishing of his crowne and dignity but the ruine of it and the true Religion and to bring in a confusion both in Church and State for the better effecting of those devilish purposes that no gunpowder plot could bring yet to passe But that we may a little looke back to this preachment of the Court Preists and the comedy in it Whereas they compared their bretheren to the rebellious Iewes I could earnestly desire that his Highnes and the Nobility would but seriously a little consider these mens proceedings and their Christian candor in it and that they would examine them by the rule of truth and Iudgement and then they should well perceiue that malice and enuy and not ripe and mature brotherly reason had dictated this calumniating ventosity to thē by which they make themselues preuaricators against God and men Let them not therefore say that those they brand with the name of Puritans are like the Iews but proue it Wherein I pray haue they euer shewne their least disloyalty to his Maiesty or plotted any thing against his life or dignity or impeached his royalty in any thing has he not their liues liberty and purses to the vttermost yea aboue their abilities at his command doe they or euer did they resist his royall authority in the least thing nay in any thing do not his seruants hale them to prison take away their goods driue away their cattle at any time vpon any pretence without the least reluctation Let dayly experience then the prisons convince this notorious calumniation wherefore then are these abominable things acted against them in their pulpits before King and Councell the whole Nobility and flower of the Kingdome I know there is not one of these poore men but would spēd their best bloud abandon their wiues and children and hazard their estates yea all they haue for the honour of his crowne and dignity and that most willingly and although they should be trampled vpon to death would neuer harbour a disloyall thought against his Soueraignty but as Iob sayd concerning God if the Lord kill mee I will trust in him so I dare promise in the person of them all if the King should conceiue neuer so meanly of them and of their allegiāce were it to death it selfe yet they would a thousand times rather die before they would be found disloyal in any duty that the King by the right of a King or the lawes of his Kingdōe can either expect or chalenge at their hāds or by any autority or Prerogatiue royall vindicat How is it thē I say that these unworthy Preists dare thus abuse the Kings royall eares and so honorable an audience with such dayly false accusations What a damnable hight of impiety are our profane Preists and Prelats come to to make the pulpit a stage and place to vent most seditious lyes in and those for the incensing of the king against his most loyall Subiects and that to make a diuision between the head and the members the vnity of which is not onely the glory but the safety of a kingdome which neuer florisheth so well as when there is a sweet harmony between the king and his people This is not to be Ministers of Christ who is the king of peace but of the deuill and Antichrist so to preach Looke vpon the first Sermon that euer was preached after the natiuity of Christ by the Angel to the shephards it was a sermon of ioy and Peace and of good tidings Listen also the heauenly host what a sermon they made in the theater of glory in their praysing of God and you shall heare them saying glory to God in the highest and on earth Peace and good will towards men And when the disciples like the Preists and Prelats of our age before better information would haue had fire come downe from heavē to destroy those that would not entertaine Christ he sayd vnto them you know not of what Spirit you are teaching all his disciples euer after by that Sermon to preach peace and good will and not to incite to destruction their auditors And indeed the Gospell is a message of peace and the Ministers of it should teach peace and good will and not warre incensing and inflaming kings against their poore Subiects and alienating the Subiects from their Soueraigne Lords and Masters Sainct Tiberne is a fitter Place pulpet for such Preachers then the kings chappell Neither can there be any thing writ spake or done too seuerely against such sowers of sedition and especially those that make the pulpit a place of it The peace-makers haue euer been blessed by Christs owne testimony but for such as are cause of sedition oppressiō and warre in a common wealth they are accursed Christ the blessed peace maker made peace between God and men Moses his seruant he stood vp in the gap between God and the people and made an attonement for the people The Apostles likewise were all preachers of peace and so are all their true Successors But our Preists and Prelats they preach warre and make the Pulpet a place to act their lying comedies in to the estranging of the king from his Subiects and breeding in his royall heart sinister surmises against them to the wounding of the poore Subiects hearts with greefe when they see their King and ruler the breath of their nostrils whom they honour and loue better then their liues to be alienated from them And that the Pecres and Nobles of the king dome should by their diabolicall preachments harbour any evill thoughts of them This I say wounds the poore Subiects hearts and of all this lamentable misery are the Prelats Preists the onely cause by their dayly acts in their pulpits They haue diuerse parts in their sceane Sometime they bring them in as most dangerous and pernicious enimyes of his Highnes making them worse then the powder plotters And because forsooth there was a man killed his mother and his brother not long since there must be a booke printed that he was a Puritan that he did that facinorous exploit because they would not kneele at the Sacrament and howsoeuer there be sufficient witnesses to the contrary yet that must goe for current there must I say be a rayling pamphlet set forth against the whole company of those that feare the Lord as if they were all of the same mold But had it been so that a distempered man had perpetrated so foule a crime through some deuillish temptation that had made profession of religion must it follow they are all such Because Iudas was a Traytor must all the Apostles be therefore condemned Because one Courtier may be found disloyall to his Prince therefore must all the rest be accused of the same wickednes and because one merchant may breake and play