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A75518	An appeale of the orthodox ministers of the Church of England against Richard Mountague, late Bishop of Chichester, now Bishop of Norwich. To the most illustrious, high, and honourable court of Parliament. And to the nobilitie, orthodox clergie, gentry, and communaltie of England. With the proceedings against him in Bow-Church. And an epistle to B. Mountague himselfe. also, a supplication of the ministers of Scotland against the said Mountague. Wherein his dangerous heresies are revealed; and the character of an Arminian or Mountaguists is added.		1641 (1641)	Wing A3566; Thomason E206_11; ESTC R209850	17,891	41

the House haue wee not seene a Doctour of Divinitie censured And for your selfe wee will say no more than we haue sayd Onely Sir Remember what that great Doctour of the Gentiles sayth in the Conclusion of his first Epistle to the Corinthians If any man loue not the Lord Jesus Christ let him bee Anathema Maranatha Your selfe being so great a Clerke know what the words signifie Cave for whosoever broacheth and maintayneth any haeresies or haereticall Doctrines in the Church cannot loue Christ who is Truth it selfe And so Sir If you can loue the Lord Jesus and doe belong to his Election of Grace The Grace of our Lord lesus Christ bee with you and our loue shall bee with you in Christ Jesus Amen By those that wish your Salvation if it may bee The orthodox Ministers of the Church of England Post-script to Bishop MOVNTAGV SIR Whereas wee vnderstand that you haue procured his Majesties Pardon vnder the Great Scale of England Wee deny not but his Majestie may giue Pardons to what Malefastors hee pleaseth yea though they bee condemned to bee Beheaded or Hanged And wee guesse your selfe best knowes what ends you haue in procuring your Pardon thus before-hand and wee must leaue the consideration thereof to the honourable House But good Sir giue vs leaue to tell you that your Impieties against GOD and his Church are of that nature that an earthly Princes Pardon will yeeld small Comfort to your Conscience vnlesse besides your Recantation before men you labour which wee wish to get the King of Kings his pardon vnder the Great Seale of Heaven through the onely merits of CHRIST IESVS and the bloud of his Passion If wee say againe it bee not too late for you so to doe Hereunto is annexed an briefe Supplication of the Ministers of the Church of Scotland to the high Senate of Parlament in England against the same Richard Mountagu Right Illustrious Nobles Knights Burgesses WEe the Ministers of the Kirke of Scotland reformed according to Gods ure Word in his holy Writ to a great number serving the same God obeying the same King and with an Vnanime Consent agreeing in matter of Faith Doctrine and Discipline with our welbeloved Brethren the Ministers of the Church of England In like most humble and submisse manner do second the same which our Brethren the orthodox Ministers of England haue Remonstrated unto this Right Illustrious Court against Mr. Mountagu and his Bukes which haue done no good but mickle hurt and domage to this our Reformed Kirk For it is not so old as true a saying That where God hath his Kirke the Devill hath or labours to haue his Chappell And it is well knowne that although our Kirk hath beene purely reformed according to Gods holy Writ yet there are many Papists in this his Majesties Kingdome of Scotland And since that false Lowne of the Kirk Arminius lived and vented his publike Errours and Haeresies wee haue not been cleere from Arminians and those of late encreased and heartned by Mountagu's Writings And yet praised be God for the most part wee haue his Bukes in such obloquie and hatred that when we see any of them at the Buthes of any of our Bukesellers we hold them fitter to stoppe Mustard pots than to giue siluer for them Also our three Academies of St. Andrewes Glasco and Edenburgh haue condemned them And certes wee make mickle merveile to heare that sick a man whom before we heard should be censured and branded in your last Session of Parlament should immediately be made an Byshop and Governour of your Church Wee dayly pray to God for better Brethren better Governours in our Kirke Though of late wee haue one of our owne Nation come from you who was Chaplain to the late Duke of Buckingham and over with him at the I le of Ree and had 2. or 3. Livings in London who by the mediation of his mightie Mr. the Duke is made Byshop of the Iles with us and he is come over to us a Bird of the Libertine Fether and we doubt a Mountaguist And they say he was so well beloved in his Parish of St. Martins in the Vintree that they rang the Bells when he was removed from them and they of St. Faiths would haue done no lesse if they had had any Bells to ring but they did more for they gaue him mickle money to be rid of him But what else is this man They that came out of England with him say That all the way as he came he did nothing but talke prophanely and scoffingly and did eate and drinke freely and instead of Prayers he had constantly the Fidlers to play and sing obscaene and scurrulus Songs early and late at every place where he came all the way as he went And what doth he since he came amongst us but feast and epicurize and and take Tabacco Yea he doth eftsoones open his mouth wide against the Puritans of London for so like Mr. Mountagu hee termeth all honest Orthodox Ministers We would therefore if it were the will of God that you had him backe from us or else that he were with his great Lord and Master For we like not such lounes in our Kirk And Lord when it is thy will remoue such Loyterers out of thy Vineyard But craving pardon for our digression to leaue him and returne to Mountagu We doe most humbly supplicate the Honourable House to hearken if not to us unto our Brethren the Ministers of the Church of England and we hold their Appeale or Remonstrance gude godly and religious it being in Gods cause and for the Truth which we are not onely bound to labour to defend but if need be to lay downe our liues for the same And we are of unanime-opinion that Mr. Mountagu deserveth severe Censure and punishment if it were but for vilifying King Iames of blessed memory his Writings against the arminians his secret depraving our Kirk of Scotland his more open vilifying the sacred Synode of Dort which was so piously procured and highly approved by his said Majestie of ever blessed and happy memorie For the whilk his vile doings we hope doubtlesse when ever it may please God to moue his Majesties heart or any other Christian Prince or State Reformed to call a Synode againe Mountagu though now a Byshop and his Bukes will be condemned and censured to posterity And so the God of Abraham the God of Isaac and Jacobs God be with you and all your pious and religious Consults for his Glory Your most humble and submisse Oratours The Ministers of the Kirk of Scotland The Publishers Post-script or Conclusion to all FOr this present ensuing Yeere of Christ 1629. Wee will not take vpon vs to define or confine the Consummation of all things within the compasse thereof as an auncient Scholler did publikely deliver at Pauls Crosse vpon a Text out of the Revelation about fiue yeeres past And although wee may be perswaded that the Last-Day is not

of Homilies and all other Books of Conformitie to the Church of England and that if any whosoever could publikely or privately confute those his Bookes hee would bee the first man that would cause those his Bookes to bee burnt 〈◊〉 Whereas it is most manifest as before 〈…〉 ●●●inst the Doctrine of those Bookes of Articles and Homifies c. And who knoweth not his owne Bookes are confuted by divers learned and pious men as in the premisses his Bookes condemned by a charge in Parlament and other reformed Churches as in the premisses also Natherlesse this Gamaliel highly applauded with adulation this his confirmed Bishops base Apologie and said You haue well said my Lord and he also said That those Objections were nothing but the blattering of a Tradesman who was too busie to meddle with such high mysteries of Divinitie but indeed it was the disease of the Time now for mechanicall Tradesmen so to doe c. Also the aforesaid Doctour Rives and one Drake the Register and one Fish the Proctour all three employed in the said Confirmation did all joyntly vse other disgracefull scoffing scornefull and geering words gestures and behaviours towards the Objectour and the Objections They also checked and taunted a religous Gentleman who tooke the Objectours part Whereof there were divers not a few we may say a Cloud of witnesses and some of them Minasters our Brethren there present the reverend Rectour of the Church and others So as We doe also complaine to this Honourable House of Doctour Rives Doctour Samms Drake and Fish who all foure wee perceiue to bee Delinquents in the businesse and none so fit as the Objector afore-named to produce witnesses to this Honourable and Noble Senate of the same The third day after this day of Confirmation being Sonday or the Lords day Mountagu came to be Consecrated by the most reverend Archbyshop of Canterbury then residing at Croydon who as it seemes had no knowledge of the Objections concealed by Mountagu and his Adhaerents And the Ceremonies of Consecration were performed Onely this happened as we are informed whiles Mountagu and his fautors were sitting at the feast or dinner of Consecration the newes was brought to the most Reverend Archbishop that the Duke of Buckingham Mountagu's potent Patron was stabb'd to death at Portsmouth and that on Saturday the day after and about the same houre that Mountagu was opposed in his Confirmation which for the time as they say helped to marre Mountagu's myrth and espacially stopped the chirping of a certaine Wren which Bird comming lately out of an vncleane Cage began to straine high his lascivious notes to make musicke against godly Ministers c. Neverthelesse by this time you may see Mountagu in his Pontificalibus Elect Confirmed and Consecrated Byshop of Chichester in despight of all Opposition and as hee is in his Pontificalibus now to bee ranked inter Dominos Spirituales Good Lord Hee who by the doome of God Tit. 3.10 in his Word and all good Orthodox men not thought worthy to liue at leastwise not to enjoy any further Spirituall promotion in our Reformed Church of England nor ever could haue the grace of the Vniversitie to Commence so much as Doctour in Divinitie and in stead of beeing censured by Parlament and degraded from any Ministeriall office Hee wee say to become a Byshop and a Governour in our Church woe must needs bee to that Diocesse especially that hath such a Byshop such a Governour Yea it is well knowne hee spareth not already since his Consecration to say and sweare in his Table-talke hee will plague the Puritans in his Diocesse And they say he hath already silenced some Lecturers and by Puritans his meaning is alwayes according to his garb and writings all honest Orthodox Divines that due oppose and will not adbaere vnto his unsound and unsavorie opinions and Doctrines though they other wise bee never so conformable to the orders and Caeremonies of the Church of England And these his Errours and Haeresies are so notorious and manifest both by his writings as in the premisses and in his Preachings when he gets into the Pulpit that all the water in the Pontifician Sea of Chichester can never wash off these blacke staines from him For can a Leopard change his spots Let vs craue leaue of this honourable House a little to digresse And then We are also not to conceale but reueale unto You that this notable Mountebank is familiarly acquainted with divers knowne Papists who haue resort unto him hee recourse unto them and by name which wee can proue hee hath often priuate conference with one Hugh Holland a professed Papist and sworne slaue to his Lord God the Pope and some say a lay-Iesuite if there bee any such order however a ruffianly Locust and seducer of the Kings Liege-people a vilifier of Parlaments And what this fellow else is our reverend brother the Rector of Fan-church can can if hee be pleased informe this House And so wee leaue this base Associate of B. Mountagu and returne to himselfe But how long therefore how long Lord most holy most wise most just and true Wilt thou suffer the Grapes of the Vintage to bee destroyed the Corne of thy Harvest to bee spoyled by such a Fex such a Wolfe and such like Foxes and Wolves For more uncleane Birds there bee of the same Cage c. as will appeare hereafter in our Catalogue of them Pardon O pardon our digression and fervent deprecation since our zeale in Gods cause hath transported us so farre And now returne wee most honorable House out Appeale unto You and to draw to a Conclusion therof A mongst your many weightie matters and of high Consequence for Church and Common-wealth Wee most humbly supplicate that this new made Byshop Mountagu who though hee now raungeth him selfe amongst the Spirituall Lords and temporall Peeres in the Vpper House of this high Assemblie of Parlament may yet bee taken into consideration that hee may no longer Lord it over Gods people and his Heritage 2. Pet. 5.3 us the poore despised orthodox Ministers of the Gospell in this Church of England And that hee having deserved as wee conceiue rather Fire and faggot than further Preferment may come maturely to bee censured and degraded if the House shall so be pleased at the least by this High and honourable Court and his pernicious Bookes to be at length called-in and burned The which againe wee most humbly implore on our bended knees and That for GOD our Creatours sake for CHRIST our Redeemers sake for the holy Spirit our Comforters sake Vnto which Almightie and All-sufficient Three in One Wee most humbly commend and betake You all of this honourable Court and your serious Consultations for Church and Common-wealth By those that daily and incessantly pray for the Peace of Syon and Consolation of Ierusalem The orthodox Ministers of the Church of England Post-script IF this Honorable House or any other whatsoever shall doubt

so farre off as the secure World thinkes it Yet seeing that Yeere Day and Houre are Arcana Dej wee are content to leave them lockt uppe in Arca Dej vnto whom they belong Wee are content also to passe by the Prench and English Prognosticators Praedictions for this ensuing Yeere But wee will not cease to pray and beseech the Lord of Hosts so to unite the heart of the Kings Sacred Majestie to the Parlament his Great Councell that the Higher and Lower House may unanimously agree and bee reciprocally united to the KING that matters now much amisse in Church aend Common-wealth may bee so Reformed that this YEERE may be accompted Annus Aureus and that this Parlament this Yeere may bee Inscribed and engraven in Marble affixed to the House in Letters of Gold SACRED TO MEMORIE AND TO POSTERITIE THE LONG EXPECTED HAPPIE PARLAMENT M. DC.XX.IX And however in asmuch as in the Praemisses The Mysterie of B. MOVNTAGV's Iniquitie is so manifestly revealed seeing wee are enjoyned in the Letanie of our English Liturgie to Pray From all false Doctrine and Haeresie Good Lord deliver vs. So wee hope it shall bee no impietie to adde From B. Mountagu and his false doctrine and Haeresie Good Lord deliver vs. Amen An Arminian or meere Mountaguist IS an Animal His Study scarce rational whose study is to read and applaud Peter Lombard and Iohn Duns before Peter Martyr and Iohn Calvin and for more moderne Polemicks he preferres Bellarmine aboue Chamierus His garb or fashion His Garb. when hee comes from the Vniversity wit affectation is to weare a long Cloke and a correspondent Cassock short no where but in the wast which is girt up with a girdle and a knot or rose almost up to his nose cōmonly a falling-band because Precisians weare small set-ruffs His Religion His Religion is like a Confection compounded of many the least ingredient being Protestantisme and to beleeve as the Church doth His first Ambition is to addresse himself to be some great-mans Trencher-Chaplain His Ambition that so he may not be out of the Path way to preferment not an Ignoramus in Court-curtesies nor a sot in State-affaires His Devotion His Devotion is so conformable to the Ceremonies of the Church that hee thinks it impietie to decline the least particle thereof and yet hee declines the Doctrine of the Church so much that hee wisheth with all his heart the Praver in the Letanie of our English Liturgie From all false Doctrine and Haeresie Good Lord deliver vs were obliterated He is a mungrell Divine His Divinitie N. C. his Achitophel who as it were betwixt Hawk and buzzard can see nicely to distinguish betwixt a Puritane in opinion and a Puritane in discipline and hath taught the name contrary to the first institution so farre to enlarge it selfe that a Protestant must make hard shift to saue him selfe harmlesse I.R. his Speech in Parlamēt 21. Janua 1628. His politike part And hee is one that makes the Grace of God lackey it after the will of men the Sheepe to keepe the Shepheard and a mortall seed of an immortall God He is the spawne of a Papist and if there come the warmth of favour upon him you shall see him turne into one of those Frogs which arose out of the bottomlesse Pit and if you marke it well you shall see him reaching out his hand to a Papist a Papist to a Iesuite and a Iesuite gives one hand to the Pope and another to the King of Spaine And so wee leave him to get more Grace professe and practise more goodnesse His Motto CONCORDIA-DISCORS Orthodoxus FINIS