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doctrine_n	church_n	faith_n	protestant_a	2,183	5	9.3322	5	false

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A57609	Rome for Canterbury, or, A true relation of the birth and life of William Laud Arch-bishop of Canterbury together with the whole manner of his proceeding, both in the star-chamber, high-commission court, in his owne house, and some observations of him in the tower : with his carriage at the fight of the deputyes going to the place of execution, &c. : dedicated to all the Arminian tribe or Canterburian faction, in the yeare of grace, 1641 : whereunto is added all the articles by which he stands charged of high treason, &c.	Prynne, William, 1600-1669.	1641 (1641)	Wing R1895; ESTC R17938	6,955	8

Rome for Canterbury Or a true Relation of the Birth and Life of William Laud Arch-bishop of Canterbury Together with the whole manner of his proceeding both in the Star-Chamber High-commission Court in his owne House and some observations of him in the Tower With his carriage at the sight of the Deputyes going to the place of Execution c. Dedicated to all the Arminian Tribe or Canterburian Faction in the yeare of grace 1641. Whereunto is added all the Articles by which he stands charged of High Treason c. Printed also in the same 1641. Roome for Canterbury or the Relation of the Birth Life and Proceedings of William Laud Arch-Bishop of Canterbury and Metropolitan of all ENGLAND GReatnesse● and Goodnesse are two severall blessed attributes co●ferred upon man but seldome méete in one pe●son Greatnesse ma● bee stiled a gift in●erd by fort●ne but Goodnesse a grace i●fused by God The fir●● labo●rs in mistrust and is borne the bonds●ave of Chance seldome attended without ●●vy and though to many pers●ns it appeare excéeding pleasant yet the higher wee are seated although by vertue the greater is our fal● if corrupted by vice By Honour and Office men ●●come great yet is it not the place ●hat maketh the pers●n but the pe●son that maketh the place honourable and that preferment and power which is both well acquir'd and worthily con●er'd Non est invitamen um ad tempus sed perpetuae virtutis praemium is no tempo●arie invitation but a perpetuall inheritance Goodnesse is of a co●tra●y condition men are not t● be accounted good either for their authority or age but for their sincerity and actions Hée th●t is good is better than the good he doth and he that is evill is wo●se ●●an the bad déed done by him All great men are not consideratel● goo●● but all good men are consequently great Greatnesse and goodnesse with grace add●d ●o ciment them together make unques●i●nably a perf●ct ●nd compleate man Here was grace which had it ●●ene ●●l●s●i●lly inspi●e● as it was but temporally disposed might t● that grea●nesse ●ave so combined goodnesse as from thence could have growne no such tribula●ion Hows●●v●r let no man grieve at his present afflictions for they are the rods by which God ●hallis●th his children I here is nothing that the wo●ld can ●ake awa●●●om us● bec●u●e it can give nothing unto us fame fadeth pote●cy perisheth weal●h wasse●● True riches consist in our constancy in casualty and though perturbation and punishment be the prison of the body yet courage and comfort are the libe●ty of the soule to which I onely adde Patience which is so allyed to Fortitude that shée séemeth to be either her sister or her daughter things that compulsively come upon us should be borne with patience and co●●rage of which we have had late president and more generous it 〈◊〉 for a man to offer himselfe to death in triumph than to be drawne unto it with terrour Gaudet patientia duris I come now to the person He was borne at Reading of honest parents his father was a Clothier in that Towne of a competent estate and carefull to sée his children to be well educated and instructed This his sonne William being of an excellent wit and pregnant capacity was sent from the Grammar schoole to Oxford where he was admitted into St. Johns Colledge where shortly hee prov'd an ingenious disputant and ere hee tooke his first degree of Batchelour was well verst in Logick philosophy and the Liberall Arts after he devoted himselfe to the study of Theologie in which he procéeded Doctor with no common applause attaining to these dignities belonging to so famous an Academy and being of an active spirit was called from thence to the Court where he grew so gracious that after some private preferments he was first made Bishop of St. Davis and thence removed to London and after the decease of the right reverend George Abbot Arch●Bishop of Canterbury was inaugurated into that prime See and was Metropolitane of all England steps that his predecessor who was a Clothiers sonne in Guilford had trod before him whom lesse than two yeares was Bishop of Coventry and Lichfield London and Canterbury What this Prelates deportment now in agitation in so high a dignity was is sufficiently noys'd amongst all made apparent by his Dia●conicall Censures in the Star-Chamber the High Commission Court c. And it was a great aspersion iustly cast upon such high authority that hee so much affected summum jus iustice without mercy as sparing neither person nor profession and to leave all others witnesse how he did persecute the good Bishop of Lincoln D. Williams being of his owne degrée and function his more than severity in his rigorous censure and sentence upon Master Burton the Divine Master Prin the Lawyer and Doctor Bastwick the Physiciqn and even that poore fellow Thomas Bensted whom he caused to be hang'd drawne quartered he could make that a matter of Treason though he was but a subiect His threatning of the honest Iudges his 〈◊〉 other Officers and Ministers of tge Kings his sternnes and 〈◊〉 a●●wers even to Gentlemen of worth and now Parliament men who have but pleaded for poore men in iust causes it was a good wish that either he might have more grace or no grace at all which is now come to passe It is observed by some that in all the time of his Pontificall Prelacy he never promoted any to Church preferment that favoured not of the Arminian ●●et and still when Benefices fell that were either in his gift or where his power was to have them bestowed hee hath caused such men to be instituted and inducted as either were dunces in learning or debaucht in their lives such men being most apt for their tempo●ising or ignorance to imbrace any Innovation that should bée brought into the Church nay when places have not béene voyd but supplyed by pious Pastors and devout Ministers that were constant professors of the Protestant faith yet by spies and intelligencers such Cavills have béene made at their Doctrines and Disciplines that notwith●tanding their charge of wife and children and that their utter undoings impended upon the taking away of their meanes yet they have béene supplanted that the other might subsist in their places the first turn'd out the latter took in but that which farre transcends the former that he hath laboured to suppresse the French and Dutch Protestant Churches here in London who for their Conscience and Religions sake have abandoned their Countries to aveyd persecution and have made this famous Citie their Asilum and Sanctuary for themselves and families It hath béene observed also that he never gave censure upon a Iesuite or Seminarie or any Popish Priest though brought before him by his owne warrant and the Pursuivant imployed by himselfe For though apprehended yet they were never punished but if to ni●ht imprisoned to morrow infranchized and set at libertie or else he so cautelously