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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

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

of the new-borne babes if they will forsake the Deuill and all his works c and esteemeth the Font more holy then other places inioyneth likewise purifying of women and a thousand such like costly and chargable vanities which were tedious to relate and all these and more then these doe the Prelats in like maner in all which their Antichristian autority with their Popish practices are sufficiently manifest so that there is little or no difference betweene Pope and Prelats And all autority of doing this they arrogat vnto themselues iure deuino Limbes therefore they are of Antichrist from whom doctor Pocklington gloryes that they are lineally discended in his impious pamphlet Sunday no Sabbath pag 2 and 44. And if it be so that they be lineally descended from that good race we may neuer promise vnto our selues any comfort from them or to the King or Kingdome true peace and security but may iustly looke for miseryes one after an other and extreme calamityes For King Iames sayes of that generation that they are the frogs that came out of the bottemles pit and are of the nature of amphibia that liue in the water and vpon the earth seeming to be Church men and yet are intermedling with States affayres and indeed troubling the whole world and all common-wealths where they dwell or haue any place and authority as all the Christian world can witnes which is now drowned in bloud that they haue been the onely originall of and such a gender of filth that great frog left behind him here when he was droue away that there hath such a brood ofstinking polwigs rose from that as euer since the very earth and aire hath been so putrified with them and the very fountaines of liuing water so corrupted as Egypt it selfe was not more stinched with the noysomenes of them then we haue been with the continuall bane of these in our nostrils insomuch that they are now lothsome to God men and dangerous to vs all So that the duty I beare to my Soueraigne Lord the King and the loue I haue to the happy flourishing of this Kingdome and the good of the Church hath made mee cast away all feare and speake the truth which when I doe I cannot but say the Prelats are the most wicked prophane and vnconscionable men that liue vpon the earth and inferior to the Pope in no impiety but rather transcending him in regard of their knowledge which the Pope wanteth and also in that he neuer yet forced any man to prophane the Lords day which they doe But more of this afterwards in our farther paragonating of them together And truely in regard of what King Iames hath taught his subiects in his diuerse books writings and of our gracious King his Declarations that he will neuer autorize any thing that tendeth to innovation in the least degree I cannot but from my soule detest the Prelats as the greatest innovaters that euer were in the world of which practises all men know the danger as that they haue many times been fatall to Kingdomes and Republicks and euer perillous if they were not from worse to better which then all reason doth allow of And therefore it hath euer been so stricktly looked to in all Countries prouided so against by as many Statutes and decrees and wayes of punishment as by the wit of man could be deuised and especially in this Kingdome singular care was had by the Gouerners and whole State that all occasions of revolting back againe to Popery might be prevented euen as the Lord himselfe once tooke order by many caueats to the people of Israel and by speciall prohibitions charged them not to returne into Egypt for he knew well they had still a lingering after the flesh-pots Onions so I say our rulers and the whole common wealth assenting vnto them as if the Statutes and records be searched you shall find had such a provident care neuer to returne backe againe to that Romish Egypt that there was speciall order taken not onely about greater matters but euen about thy very standing of the Communion table and it was by publick consent appoynted to be placed in the middest of the Church that euery one might see the whole administration of the Sacrament and the actions about it And order likewise was taken that alters should be beat downe and remoued out of all Churches But in this Age tables are turned againe into Altars in many places and set alterwise euery where a new way of vshering in Popery being now found out And howsoeuer by the same wisdome and common consent and speciall statutes and lawes it was ordered that no autority Ecclesiasticall should be exercised in the Kings dominions in their owne names nor no Courts held but by the Kings sole autority and all this for preuention of backsliding to Popery yet the Prelats against these speciall decrees and statutes keepe Courts make sommons and alter all things by their owne autority as if they were absolute Princes without any dependency to the infinit dishonor of his Maiestie the molestation of his subiects and troubling of the Church of God And howsoeuer it was decreed that all those that should iure diuino challenge a superintendency in the Church aboue their brethren were ipso facto in a Praemunire and under the Kings indignation and high displeasure yet the Prelats in their open Courts do challenge their jurisdiction and autority iure diuino and punish those with seuere censures that deny it And howsoeuer I say againe there are many more statutes yet in force that prouide against innouations with the Kings declarations yet our Prelats violating them all dayly bring in innouation not onely to the troubling of the Kings best subiects but to the putting of them to infinite expenses in the execution of them and for the bringing-in againe of Popery and superstition and all abomination and in as much as in them lyes to the ruining of this flourishing monarchy and kingdome All which wicked proceedings with the bringers of them in we ought to detest as we feare God and the King if we will listen vnto Solomon who in the 24. of the Prov ver 21. 22. thus sayth My Son feare thou the Lord and the King and medle not with them that are giuen to change for their calamity shall rise sodainly and who knoweth the ruine of them both So that we see both diuine and human wisdome haue allwayes prouided against changes and innouations as being most dangerous and perillous to a state and that made our gratious King in his declarations set forth his mind so clearly as that he would no way allow of it Notwithstanding all this the Prelats are mightily taken vp with noueltyes and innouations so as they haue troubled the whole realme by them ruined and trust out all the most painfull and diligent Ministers to the vtter vndoing of them their poore wiues and children and the staruing of the soules of

most excellent help for the edification of them in their most holy faith and well perceiuing that all his possibelity of working that stratagem was taken away and he was now disappoynted of his purpose he goes then an other way to worke and seeing he could not haue his will that way hee resolued to haue it an other and therefore brings-in a contrary extreme worshipping of the bread and wine for Christ himself the greatest and fearfullest idolatry that euer was in the world But for the vsheringin of this peece of Seruice he had no better instrument then Antichrist that opposeth Christ in all things and his shauelings the Prelats who haue left Christs example forced their owne idolatricall one vpon all Christians vnder their gouernment a horrible contempt and neglect of Christ We were wont to say Reges ad exemplum Kings examples were to be their Subiects paterns and so Christ and his Ministers teach all his children and Subiects to doe what he their King by life doctrin and example hath taught his Church which equally bind but Antichrist and his seruants constraine the people to leaue Christs example and teach them to follow his which is the enimy of Christ Which I thinke is the duty of all such as feare the Lord to detest But now to goe forwards in this waighty businesle Seing it is most certayne that the Pope and the Prelats are against Christ in the gesture of receiuing and doe not that Christ and his apostles did Let vs now take notice in the second place what the Apostle speaketh of the institution I haue saith he receiued of the Lord that also which I deliuered unto you that the Lord Iesus the same night in which he was betrayed tooke bread c. Here the Apostle begins from the time of the institution saying the same night and in the 20 verse he calleth it the Lords Supper and calls it also bread and wine all which things deserue their consideration and are matters of greater consequence then at first are thought of and teach all men in the reformation of any abuses to haue recourse vnto the first originall fountaine and institution as the Apostle doth here and tells vs what he hath receiued from the Lord. And conserning the time of the institution of the sacrament which is also to be taken notice of he sayth the same night c. and it is therefore by the holy Ghost called the Lords Supper Now for the time of institution the apostle here taught it to the Church as receiued from Christ and which Paul then and the whole Church of God obserued in the primitiue times and so it was lift by the apostle to be continued for as far as I can perceiue or iudge vnto the worlds end neither can I see any reason why the time should be changed without we will plainly confesse that Christ hath done all things out of season and order and was neither reuerent nor seasonable nor orderly in his proceedings and especially in the institution and celebration of the sacrament of the Lords Supper for his gesture pleased not before which were more then a little arrogancy so to speake Yet I say except men will so vilify the actions of the Lord Iesus I know no cause why the time should be changed for as the Passeouer was instituted in the euening so the children of Israel and the Church of the Iews precisely obserued the time neuer being so impudent and temerarious as to alter it but it was continued so vnto the last vse of it as by Christs owne example is sufficently manifest And yet I presume there might as good reasons haue been giuen for the change of the time in the celebrating of that ordinance amongst the Iews as can now by any man be giuen and yet the Israelits were not so foole hardy as to thinke any time better or more seasonable then that which God himself had appointed and contented them selues well with it But Antichrist that changeth times seasons and all things and his disciples that oppose Christ in all his ordinances they haue changed the time and conuerted the Supper of the Lord into a breakfast a great innouation and make it no small offence to celebrate it in the euening So that now to speake properly it cannot be called the Lords Supper but the Lords break fast and so it is to them indeed for they eate vp the Lord at a breakfast and swallow him downe whole and make no bones of him he is with them but their mornings nuntions and yet they eate him flesh bloud and bones as they say and really and then after that they drink vp his blood most sweet CANABALS and after all this they can eate a sufficeint dinner too These fellowes must needs haue good stomacks But by all this it is manifest that Antichrist and his Apostles haue euer opposed Christ in his proceeding be they what they will be But here now commeth a sucking obiection to be answered to which is this if Christs example say some be to be followed so closely and so precisely adhered to in the administration of the Sacrament as in his gesture and the time of celebration then also it must be in an vpper roome and but with twelue c. This I affirme is so poore a foppery as I wonder learned men should make vse of such wretched cauils and yet I had it from one of great name for Scholarship But for answer I say that the Sacrament of the Passeouer was to be celebrated in euery priuat family by themselues if they had company enough within themselues to eat the Lambe and if they had not then indeed they were to call in as many other families to ioyne together as would suffice for that purpose so that howsoeuer there was a community among them one with an other in that action as at this day the communicants of one church may participate with an other in the Supper of the Lord from this very example yet this was to be done in a priuat house so that for their meeting place it was not publick Now very order and nature required that it should be a place large enough to entertayne the company and guests that were met together the number being for the most part vncertayne But whether they would eate it in an vpper roome or a lower roome that was left arbitrary no commandement giuen for either neither can it enter into any vnderstanding mans heart to thinke that all the Israelits houses had variety of roomes in them though some had both vpper and lower roomes So that for their company it was onely required that they should haue as many as could eate the Lamb as Christ in his family and company had and that the roome should also be spacious enough and decent which is of all Christians now for order and decency sake to be obserued that for either priuat or publick meetings for performance of duties of religion if they haue

people as damnable sacrilege it is indeed and to be abhorred of all men It is greater impiety and sacrilege in the Prelats to rob God himselfe of a part of his worship and which in expresse words he challengeth and therefore in them to seperat the confession of the mouth part of the worship that is there required from the other of the knees especially when it is sayd with the mouth man confesseth to Saluation is without doubt a crying sacrilege and impudent temerity for what God hath ioyned together let no man separat Now most cleare and euident it is that the confession of the mouth and that of the whole congregation is as much required at the name of Iesus as corporall and externall bowing of the knee and if the neglect of the one be a sin and deserue punishment the neglect of the other is a sinne and deserueth punishment also and for the confession with the mouth to be ioyned with the bowing of the knee at the name of Iesus it was neuer yet practised in the world nor can possibly be without such confusion as neuer was brought into the Church and such a perpetuall bondage to all Christians as that of the Iews was nothing to it For first what an interruption of all duties would there be if at the name of Iesus as often as it sounds the whole congregation should cry out a lowd in the assembly Iesus Christ is the Lord. I say it would perturbat and interrupt all holy dutyes and fill the world with confusion Now God is a God of order and not of confusion and therefore the holy Ghost by those words neuer intended any outward bodily bowing or orall confession at all which as I sayd would not bring-in confusion onely but vnsupportable bondage yea a continuation and an ineuitable circulation of worship which may be called the cyclopedia of the Prelats for at the name of Iesus we must bow and at the name of Iesus likewise we are cōmanded to confesse aloud that Iesus is the Lord and this orall confession calls for a new bowing and that bowing for a new confession so that the one cannot be without the other and hauing once made a beginning they must goe on without cessation and this doth necessarily follow from the text if it be a command and if the words be to vnderstood and taken as they sound for if bodyly bowing be required then outward confession also at the name of Iesus is required and if the one then the other if not both then neither So that if it be a command as the Prelats will have it they haue euer liued in the open breach of it for I neuer heard them yet at the name of Iesus with their mouthes confesse alowd in the congregation that Iesus was the Lord and therefore for them to liue in the apparent breach of this soe graat a commandement it is a great impiety and to serue God onely with quarter seruice and horrible hypocrisie and disobedience Wherefore I would perswade them for time to come to leaue off to peruert the holy Scripture by putting salse glosses vpon it and laying burdens vpon mens shoulders which they will not touch with one of their little fingers or els they may surely looke that the Lord will seuerely punish their damnable hypocrisy wickednesse cruell tyranny they exersice ouer their brethren For can there be a greater impiety then this for what God commands them by example and precept as they themselues confesse that they will not doe What he forbids them that they will doe He sayes at the name of Iesus euery tongue shall confesse alowd that Iesus is the Lord to the glory of God the father and that they should bow both their knees But this command they haue neuer yet obeyed He bids them feed his sheep as they loue him and sent them for that purpose they neither feed his sheep nor will let others feed then He bids them learne of him to be humble and meeke and that they should not seeke the first places and highest roomes in assemblyes They affect nothing but state POMPE GREATNES PREEMINENCE AND PRECEDENCY BEFORE OTHERS Christ also forbids them to be Lords of his inheritance and to exercise autority ouer their brethren and tells then plainly that they must imitate him who came to serue and not to be serued as formerly also he by his owne example had instructed them flying from those that would haue put worldly dignity and honour vpon him refusing to be a Iudge and diuider of the inheritance and openly before Pilat renounced secular power and autority Notwithstanding the Pope and Prelats rebelling against Christs commands and prohibition exercise as great yea greater autority and domination ouer their poore brethren then any secular Princes and Lords do captiuating them at their pleasure not onely iudging of them dayly and diuiding their inheritances but giuing away all they haue and their very soules to the deuill to the vndoing of them their wiues and children and that for doing their duty which is the greatest tyranny that euer was exercised in the world And as they exercise more then a Lordly power and authority ouer their poore brethren so they are attended like the Lords and Princes of the earth with mighty retinues and are carryed in coaches with foure or six horses a peece in them when a wheele barrow such as they trundle white wine vineger about the towne were a great deale fitter for them I wosse so little honour they deserue for their seruice towards God or the King and for the good to the Church and State of all which they are the cursed enemies who thinke nothing that Christ did or spake reuerent timely or orderly but it must be either altered or neglected or absolutly reiected by them and abiured and howsoeuer he inioines them to teach or preach nothing to the people to be obserued but what hee gaue them in commission yet neuertheles they preach and vrge little other but their owne conceits superstitions and vainest and idlest ceremonyes aud howsoeuer Christ strickly forbad them to be Lords ouer his flook as I sayd before yet they boldly tell him to his face if he should be obeyed in that there could be no gouerment and those that would vrge the necessity of his commaunds vpon the Ministers of the Gospell they labour to ouerthrow Monarchies and all regality and therefore they being a little wiser aud knowing better what belongs vnto the managing of the Church and States they thinke it very fit to take autority and domination into their hands and to obtrude their owne lawes vpon their brethren and with greater seuerity and rigor exact the obseruation of them and with more bitter seuerityes punish the meanest neglect of them then the breach of all Gods commandements and this you cannot deny by all which proceedings of theirs it is more then apparent that the Prelats and their confederats are enimyes of Christ and of his Kingdome