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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A87881	The observator observed, or, Animadversions upon observations on the history of King Charles wherein that history is vindicated, partly illustrated, and severall other things tending to the rectification of some publique mistakes, are inserted : to which is added, at the latter end, the observators rejoinder.	L'Estrange, Hamon, 1605-1660.	1656 (1656)	Wing L1188A; ESTC R179464	41,478	51

but in love that is keeping the unity of the spirit in the bond of Peace This unity of love must be preserved even where there is not an unity of faith in things not fundamental which I take not one of those controversies to be and if they be not so it is a most sad thing for the Church of God to be torn and rent in the entire cloth with diversities of such opinions whose truths will neither carry us to Heaven nor errours to hell what the uncharitable animosities on both sides may produce I tremble to think It was St. Augustines opinion and I wish it entertain'd by our whole Church in such Polemick questions as these Laudandi sunt qui pro bono veritatis tolerant quod bono veritatis oderunt they are to be commended who for Christian verities sake patiently endure what they would else dislike for the avail of Truth To proceed Page 70. Fol. 96. For Arminianism informations were very pregnant that notwithstanding the Resolution of the Archbishop of Canterbury and other Reverend Bishops and Divines assembled Anno. 1595. c. Observator Why man the Articles of Lambeth were never looked upon as the Doctrine of the Church of England nor intended to be so looked upon by them that made them Answer Why Man who said they were not I it was Mr. Pym and the Committee for Religion said so I do but recite what that Committee declared as the product of their inquiries and with this answer legible enough to any who can read I might easily avoyd no lesse then 25 pages of the Observator So that I might justly have this Man in the Moon like Mithridates his soldiers sighting by Moon-shine with his own shaddow Had he not scattered my particulars in my way which detain me First Stating the occasion of making the Lambeth Articles he saith page 74. That the Compilers of the book of Articles and the book of Homiles the publique Monuments of our Church in point of Doctrine differ'd from Calvines since in the point of Predestination and its subordinates Answer This is very probable for it is very rare for two ever of the same party to agree exactly in all parcels of these controversies But if they did in some things vary in opinion I am still to demand Quorsum hoc what then Secondly Page 74. He saith of Petrus Baro at the end of his three first years he relinquished the Professorship and retired not long after into France Answer Three errours in not full so many lines First Petrus Baro relinquisht not his Professorship at the end of his first three years He was Professor Anno. 1574. his Lectures upon Jonas tells us so And the Observator will have him Professor about the time of the Lambeth Articles which were in 1595. So then he relinquisht his place not at the end of his first three years Secondly his first three years are manifestly mistaken for two For by the Statutes of the Lady Margaret Foundresse of that Professorship every Professor is eligible at the expiration of two not of three years The precise words are Et volumus insuper quod de caetero quolibet Bienmio ultimo die cessationis cujuslibet termini ante magnam vacationem universitatis praedictae una habilis apta idonea persona in lectorem lecturae praedictae pro uno Biennio integro viz. a festo nativitatis B. Mariae Virginis tunc proximè sequente duntaxat duraturo eligatur Fol. 105. in nigro codice This I thought fit to insert for the information of very many of a contrary belief Thirdly Peter Baron never went or retired into France after the Resignation of his Professorship but went up to London to Crutched Friers there he lived there he dyed and was buried in St. Olaves Church at whose Interrment the Bishop of London Ordered all the most eminent Divines Ministers in that City to be present Of this I hope I am credibly informed from his own Son still alive Thirdly the Observator laboureth to discredit the Articles of Lambeth by telling us a story perhaps a tale of the Queen the Lord Burly and Archbishop Whi●gift in reference to those Articles To which I answer first This story was never heard of till the year and the reputed father thereof is one Aurelius not Aurelius Augustinus nor Petrus Aurelius to be sure a Kentish-man who was unborn when those Articles were framed Secondly admit his relation true that Assembly was neither the first nor the Greatest that have incurr'd a Praemunire Fol. 96. By the prevalency of the Bishops of London and Winchester the Orthodox party were depressed and the truth they served was scarce able to protect them to impunity Observator A very heavy charge which hath no truth in it for I am very confident that neither of these Bishops did ever draw any man within the danger of punishment in relation only to their Tenets in the present Controversies if they managed them with that prudence and moderation which became men studiously addicted to the Gospel of Peace Answer I fear then the fault will be in their Prudence for that some were snibb'd for matters of like nature restrained from speaking their consciences the same journals relate Sir Daniel Norton and Sir Robert Phillips informing the House the one of Dr. Moor the other of Dr. Marshall who both testify'd they were chid by that B. of Winchester for preaching against Popery and commanded to do so no more Page 80. Ibid. By the uncontrouled Preaching of several points tending and warping towards Popery by Mountague Goodman Cozens and others Observator How again our Author is I think mistaken for neither Mountague nor Cozens were questioned for preaching any thing warping towards Popery c. Answer All the error the Observator can here pick out is in the word Preaching which I confess should have been Publishing though both are sometime of the same never of a much differing import And though I shall agree with the Observator that in Dr. Cozens his Horary there is no direct Popery yet might it raise jealousies of his tendency that way considering the time wherein he published it But seeing that Doctor hath appeared of late a stout advocate for the Reformed Church as I was first informed by my Reverend friend Mr. Lionel Gatford and am now further assured by others I wish all men would indulge him a favourable construction of that his right-hand Error Charity to himself as Christian and to the unity of this distracted Church requires no less Page 85. Observator That Adoration towards the Altar or Eastern part of the Church was generally used by the best and most religious Christians in the Primitive Times Our Author if he be the man he is said to be being well versed in the Monuments of most pure Antiquity cannot chuse but know Answer Because the Observator appeals here to my knowledg though I boast not of any great knowledge of or acquaintance with the