agitation at Oxford against Haeresies and false Doctrine And now in its due place we also present unto your view your owne more particular Charge in your Articles exhibited by your House of Commons against Mountagu at Westminster in Parlament 2. Caroli 1626. which also remaines upon your Records as followeth MARCH 1626. Articles exhibited by the Commons in Parlament against RICHARD MOVNTAGV Clerke THat hee the said Richard Mountague in or about the 21th yeare of the raigne of our late Soveraigne King Iames of famous memorie hath caused to be printed and in his name to bee published one booke called An answere to the late Gagger of Protestants And in and about the 22th yeare of the same King hee caused to be printed and published one other booke intituled AT reatise of the Invocation of Saints And likewise in the first yere of his Majesties Raigne that now is he procured to bee printed and in his name to bee published an other booke intituled An appeale to Caesar in everie of which bookes hee hath maintained and affirmed some doctrines contrary or repugnant to the Articles wherevpon it was agreed by the Archbishops and Byshops of both Provinces and the whole Clergie in the Convocation holden at London in the yeare of our Lord God 1562. according to the computation of the Church of England for avoyding diversity of opinions and for establishing consent touching true Religion All which appeares in the places hereafter mentioned and in diuers other places and passages of the same bookes and by his so doing hath broken the Lawes and Statutes of this Realme in that case provided and very much disturbed both the peace of the Church and Common-wealth 1 Wheras in the 35th Article of the Articles aboue-mentioned it is declared That the second booke of Homilies doth containe a godly and wholesome doctrine In the 16th Homily of which booke it is determined That the Church of Rome as it is present and hath beene for the space of 900. yeares and odde is so farre voyd from the nature of a true Church that nothing can bee more Hee the said Richard Mountague in severall places of his said booke called Gagg pag. App. p. 136. The Answere to the Gagger and in his other booke called the Appeale doth advisedly maintaine and affirme that the Church of Rome is and euer was a true Church since it was a Church 2 Whereas in the same Homily it is likewise declared that the Church of Rome is not built vpon the foundation of the Prophets and Apostles and in the 28th Article of the said Articles that Transubstantiation overthroweth the nature of a Sacrament And in the 25th of the same Articles That fiue other reputed Sacraments of the Church of Rome are not to bee accompted Sacraments yet contrary and repugnant heerevnto hee the said Richard Mountague doth maintaine and affirme in his booke aforesaid called Gag pag. 50 The Answere to the Gagger That the Church of Rome hath ever remained firme vpon the same foundation of Sacraments and doctrine instituted by God 3 In the 19th of the same Articles it is further determined that the Church of Rome hath erred not onely in their living and manner of Ceremonies but also in matters of faith hee the said Richard Mountague speaking of those points which belong to faith and manners hope and Charitie Gagg p. 14 doth in the same Booke called the Gagger affirme and maintaine That none of these are controverted inter partes meaning the Protestants and the Papists And notwithstanding That in the 31th Article it is resolved That the Sacrifices of Moses in which as is commonly said That the Priest did offer Christ for the quicke and the dead to haue remission of paine and guilt too are blasphemous fables and dangerous deceipts This being one of the points controverted betweene the Church of England and the Church of Rome The said Richard Mountague in his booke called the Gagger doth affirme and maintaine Gagg p 14. That the controverted points are of a lesse and inferior Allay Of them a may man be ignorant without any danger of his soule at all A man may resolue or oppose this or that way within perill of perishing for ever 4. Whereas in the second Homily entituled against perill of Idolatry contained in the foresaid booke of Homilies approved by the 37th Article aforementioned it is declared That Images teach no good lesson neither of good nor godlinesse but all errour and wickednesse Hee the said Richard in the booke aforesaid Gag p. 200. called the Answere to the late Gagger doth affirme and maintaine That Images may be vsed for the instruction of the ignorant and exitation of Devotion 5 That in the same Homily it is plainly expressed That the attributing the defence of certaine Countries to Saints is a spoyling God of his honour And that such Saints are but as Dij Tutelares of the Gentile Idolatours The said Richard Mountague hath notwithstanding in the Booke afore mentioned entituled Inv. p. 107. A Treatise concerning the Invocation of Saints affirmed and maintained That Saints haue not onely a memorie but a more peculiar charge of their friends And that it may bee admitted that some Saints haue a peculiar patronage 108. Custody protection and power 109. as Angels also haue over certaine persons and Countries by especiall deputation And that it is no impietie so to beleeue Note that hee saith in his Appeale 108. and 109. Shew me that the Saints haue knowledge of vs here And J will not doubt to pray to them So that hence it wil be evident That Mountagn holds it lawfull to pray to Saints 6 Whereas in the 17th of the said Articles it is resolved That God hath constantly decreed by his Councell secret to vs to deliver from curse and damnation Those whom hee hath chosen in Christ out of mankind and to bring them by Christ to everlasting salvation Wherefore they which bee indued with so excellent a benefit of God bee called according to Gods purpose working in due season They by grace obey the calling they bee justified freely walke religiously in good works and at length by Gods mercy attaine to everlasting felicitie Hee the said Richard Mountague in the booke aforesaid called the Appeale App. p. 30. doth maintaine and affirme that men justified may fall away and depart from that state which once they had they may rise againe and become new men possible but not certaine nor necessarie And the better to countenance this his opinion hee hath in the said Booke wilfully added falsified and changed divers words of the 16th of the Articles afore-mentioned And divers other words both in the Booke of Homilyes as in the Booke of Common Prayer App. p. 29.31 32. 35. And all the same places so misreoyted and changed hee doth alledge in his said booke called the Appeale endeauouring thereby to lay a most wicked and malicious scandall upon the Church of England as if
it did herein differ from the Reformed Churches of Ireland and from the Reformed Churches beyond the Seas and did consent to those pernicious Errors which are commonly called Arminianisme and which the late famous Princesse Queene Elizabeth and King James of happy memorie did so piously and diligently labor to suppresse 2 That hee the said Richard Mountague contrary to his dutie and allegiance hath endeavoured to rayse great factions and divisions in this Common-weale by casting the odious and scandalous name of Puritans vpon such of his Majesties loving subjects as conforme themselues to the doctrine and Ceremonies of the Church of England vnder that name laying vpon them divers false and malicious imputations so to bring them into Iealousie and displeasure with his most excellent Majestie and into reproach and ignominie with the rest of the people to the great danger of sedition and disturbance in the State if it bee not timely prevented 3. The scope and end of the said Richard Mountague in the Bookes aforementioned is to giue incouragement to Poperie and to withdraw his Majesties subjects from the true Religion established to the Roman Superstition and consequently to be reconciled to the Sea of Rome All which hee laboureth by subtill and cunning wayes whereby Gods true Religion hath beene much scandalized Those mischiefes introduced which the wisedome of many Lawes hath endeavoured to prevent the great perill and hazard of our Soveraigne Lord the King and of all his Dominions and loving Subjects 4. That the aforesaid Richard Mountague hath inserted into the booke aforesaid called the Appeale divers passages dishonourable to the late King his Majesties Father of famous memorie full of bitternesse rayling and injurious speeches to other persons disgracefull and contemptuous to many worthy Divines both of this Church of England and of other reformed Churches beyond the Seas Impious and prophane in scoffing at Preaching meditating conferring Palpits Lectures Bibles and all shew of Religion All which doe aggravate his former offences as having proceeded from malicious and invenomed hate against the peace of this Church and sinceritie of the Reformed Religion publiquely professed and by Lawes established in this Kingdome All which offences being to the high dishonour of Almightie God and of most mischievous effect and consequence against the good of his Church and Common Weale of England and of other his Majesties Realmes and Dominions The Commons assembled in Parlament doe hereby pray that the said Richard Mountagu may bee punished according to his demerits in such exemplary manner as may deterre others from attempting so presumptuously to disturbe the Peace of Church and State and that the Bookes aforesaid may be supprest and burnt And thus farre O worthy House your religious charge in your Articles exhibited March 1626. But by the fatall dissolution of those first and second Parlaments that Act and that your Charge in those your Articles slept untill the last Parlament called or summoned to begin in March and continued untill Iuly 1628. During which sitting That your charge in those your Articles was awakened and in agitation against him as wee heard But by reason of other matters of high consequence and the suddaine Prorogation of that Parlament It againe fell a sleepe Now upon the ending of that Session and breaking vp of the House And Byshop Carleton Mountagu's learned Diocesan and Antagonist dying during the sitting of the House immediately after Mountagu by mediation of his potent Patron alijsque vijs ac modis got his Majesties grant of the Byshopricke of Chichester and soone after sued out as it seemes his Congedelier for the same By shoprieke and in August following according to custome Proclamation was was made at St. Mary le Bow Church-dore in these very words following All manner of Persons that can or will object against the Election of the Right Worshipfull Mr. Richard Mountagu Bachelour of Diuinitie and Parson of Petworth Elected Lord Bishop of Chichester the forme of his Election or the partie Elected Let them now speake and object in due forme of Law and they shall bee heard otherwise they shall be precluded Vpon which Proclamation 7 or 8. dayes before the day of Confirmation of the said elected Byshop and all manner of men beeing thereby invited to object it pleased God to stirre up the heart of one honest Christian man to take Councell and get objections drawne by an ancient Doctour of the Arches which Obiections were extracted out of the forenamed Articles in Parlament And upon Fryday the 22. of August when the afore said Elect Byshop came to Bow Church to be Confirmed and the aforesaid Proclamation was againe by the Beadle of the Arches audioly 3. times pronounced in the Church one Mr. Iones by name an honest and auncient Professour of Religion did obiect whereof wee hope this sacred Senate is already possest and presented the Obiections in writing drawne as is before said by a Doctour of the Arches unto Doctour Rives then substituted Iudge for the businesse and said with an audible voyce 3. times I object against him and heere are my objections in due forme of Law The Copie of which his Obiections is heere also presented unto your view which chiefly concerneth you the Worthies of the House of Commons because they were drawne out of your owne former Charge and it is Verbatim as followeth 22o. Augusti 1628. in Ecclesia Sanctae Mariae de Arcubus In Dei komine Amen Coram vobis Reverendissime honorande Patre Georgie divina providentia Cantuariens Archiepisc vestrove Deligato Officialt Vicario in spiritualibus generali ejusve Surregate aut alio Iudice Iudicibusve in hac parte competen seu competitur Willielmus Iones literatus Stationarius Londinensis omni quo possit aut debet meliori via modo juris forma nec non ad omnem quecunque juris effectum exinde quovismodo sequi valen nomine accusatorio ac vt accusator Rudi Mountagu Clerici nuper in Episcopatum Cicestrens vt dicitur elects accusando querelando obijciendo excipiendo contra prefat Ricardum Mountagu Clericum ad impediendum juxta Iuris in hac parte exigentiam non aliter promotionem confirmationem ipsius Ricardi in Episeop sic vt prefertur electi comperuit dictus Willielmus Iones allegando dicendo querelanda accusando obijciendo articulatim vt sequitur 1. INprimis That you the said Richard Mountagu haue caused to be printed and in your name to be published one Booke called An Answere to the late Gagger of Protestants and one other Booke entituled A Treatise of the Invocation of Saints and a third booke entituled An Appeale to Caesar In every of which bookes you haue maintained and affirmed some doctrines contrary and repugnant to the Articles whereupon it was agreed by the Archbishops and Byshops of both Provinces and the whole Clergie in the Convocation holden at London in the yeare of our Lord God 1562. according to the computation of the Church of
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 c. Whereas it is most manifest as before hee writes against the Doctrine of those Bookes of Articles and Homilies 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 Nathelesse 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 religious Gentleman who tooke the Objectours part Whereof there were divers not a few we may say a Cloud of witnesses and some of them Ministers 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 Archby shop 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 especially 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 doe oppose and will not adhaere vnto his unsound and unsavorie opinions and Doctrines though they otherwise 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 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 thy 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 our Appeale unto You and to draw to a Conolusion therof Amongst your many weightie matters and of high Consequence for Church and Common-wealth Wee most humbly supplicate that this now 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 we 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 of the
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 ILLVSTRIOVS High and Honourable Court of PARLIAMENT AND TO THE NOBILITIE ORTHODOX Clergie Gentry and Communaltie of England With the proceedings against him in bow-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 EDENBVRGI M.DC.XXIX Most Noble Honourable Worshipfull and Religious MEN FATHERS BRETHREN WEe the Orthodox Ministers of the Gospell in the Church of England to the number of 1000. and more In most humble and zealous manner not without bleeding hearts and on bended knees doe Remonstrate vnto You this great and graue Senate the Worthies of our English-Israel now assembled in the high and honourable Court of Parliament That as is notorious and you not ignorant Mr. RICHARD MOVNTAGVE hath heeretofore written and published three severall Bookes the first entituled An answere to the Gagger of Protestants the second A Treatise of the Invocation of Saints the third An Appeale to Caesar In the two former whereof hee pretendeth to answere the common Adversarie of our Church though indeed hee is nothing better than a cunning stickler and Advocate for them For the which hee was touched by Information in Parliament xxjo. JACOBI But that Parliament ending and soone after King IAMES of famous memorie dying he set forth his third Booke called the Appeale to Caesar wherein hee more openly shewes himselfe in his colours by spitting forth his venome and spewing forth his gall against King IAMES of ever blessed memorie and whereof hee was supreame Gouernour the Church of England and all the sincere Professours of the Gospell therein and yet with an audacious face whorish forehead and accurate ambo-dexteritie hee would seeme to pin these his bastardly Bratts vpon the sleeue of our deere and chast mother the Church of England And not resting there this his third Booke of Appeale hee as impudently as audaciously dedicateth to our gracious Soueraigne King CHARLES presently vpon his comming to the Crowne and thereby subtilly endeavoureth to infect the mind of his Majestie in his tender yeares by vnsound Tenents howbeit we hope his sacred Majestie as was his royall Father is soundly grounded in Orthodox writings and opinions unsound said wee yea haereticall savouring one while of old Pelagianisme and eft-soones of new Arminianisme and otherwhiles of flat Papisme All which his errours and Haeresies haue beene publikely displayed and confuted by diuers of our Orthodox Brethren of the Church of England Viz. Reverend Doctour CARLETON late Bishop of Chichester now with God Doctour SVTCLIFFE Deane of Excester Doctour GOAD and Doctour FEATLY late Chaplaines to the most Reverend Archbishop of Canterbury Mr. BVRTON Mr. YATES Mr. WOTTON all these wee say Divines and besides whom we must not forget two worthy Gentlemen Mr. ROVSE and Mr. PRINNE Orthodox members of our Church All these before-named theyr Books of Confutation are extant to the World in print Now for the opinion of the Reformed Churches beyond the Seas wee are not ignorant that his last Book of Appeale to Caesar hauing beene translated and sent beyond Seas the Church of Geneva with all thereformed Churches of France though now under the Crosse haue condemned it the orthodox Churches of Germanie and the Netherlands haue done no lesse And this knowledge wee haue by Letters sent to some of our graue Brethren residing in London And now by order also O worthy House you must giue vs leaue to put you in mind when Mountagn had published that his last Booke wherein he spared not to vilifie the Synode of Dort Your religious care in behalfe of that Synode appeared in an Act you had in agitation by Petition at Oxford 1. CAROLI Against Haresies and false Doctrine the Copie whereof we present here unto your view exhibited by your House of Commons in Parlament 1625. which remaines upon Record in Records as followeth An Act for the repressing and prevention of Haresies and false Doctrines MOst humbly and instantly beseeching your Majestie your faithfull and loyall Commons in this present Parlament assembled and representing all those your many Millions of people in this your Kingdome of England who are not of the degree of the Nobilitie That for as much as all men know how dishonourable to God how dangerous to the soules of men and to the peace both of Church and Common-wealth the seeds of erronious doctrines haue ever proued as hath appeared by that fearefull trouble which lately trenched into the Churches and state of the Vnited Provinces in the Low-countries by the pestilent opinions of Arminius and such as followed his partie whereby the state had beene utterly ruined if our late most learned and prudent King of happy memorie your Majesties most royall Father had not provided for the repressing of that Fire by a graue learned Synode convened at Dort and consisting of choyse and worthy Divines not onely of the said Vnited Provinces them selues but divers others out of other Countries that is to say some out of yours his Majesties Kingdomes of England and Scotland and others out of France and Germany Geneva and the Palatinate In which godly Synode the said opinions of the Arminians after a mature deliberation and debate were unanimously taxed adjudged and condemned as unfauorie false and daungerons positions opposite to the Apostolicall Doctrine and generall beliefe of the reformed Churches And whereas also vpon the maintainers thereof your Majesties Royall Father as a very able Defender of the Faith by publike writing expressed and stamped his zealous Censure That they were Haereticks or rather Atheisticall Sectaries And whereas the said Determinations of that learned and generall Synode haue beene an occasion of much quietnesse in all the Low-Countries ever since and haue beene also confirmed and approued not onely by the Nationall Synode of all the Reformed Churches of France convened at Charenton but in Ireland also one of your Majesties owne Dominions It may therefore please your Majestie for the preventions of great Mischiefes and Inconveniences which may grow and ensue within the Church and Common-wealth of this your Majesties Kingdome of England by the divulging of the like pestilent opinions within the same that it may bee enacted by the Authoritie of this present Parlament that the said determinations of the said Synode consisting of seuenteene Articles positiue and nine rejectiue or opposite may stand and bee likewise annexed received ratified and established with in this your said Kingdome as part of the doctrine of the Church of England Against which it shall not or may not bee lawfull for any to preach write or print any thing But that such as shall so doe may bee censured as the impugners of the Church of England and disturbers of the peace thereof c. Thus farre your religious Act in
England for avoyding of diversitie of opinions and for establishing consent touching true Religion And by your said Delicts you haue broken the lawes and Statutes of this Realme in that behalfe provided And you thereby haue very much disturbed the peace of the Church and Common-wealth to the high dishonour of Almighty God Which your Bookes are Confuted by the late right reverend Bishop Carleton and divers other Orthodox and conformable Divines of the Church of England And I Article and object Conjunctim divisim de quolibet 2 Item That you the said Richard Mountagu in severall places of your said Booke called the Gagger and in your other booke called the Appeale doe and haue advisedly maintained and affirmed That the Church of Rome is and ever was a true Church contrary to the Sixteenth Homilie of the second Booke of Homilies and as is declared in the 35. Article of the aforesaid Articles And I object as aforesaid 3 Item That you the said Richard Mountagu doe maintayne and affirme in your aforesaid booke the Answere to the Gagger That the Church of Rome hath ever remained firme upon the same foundation of Sacraments and Doctrine instituted by God Contrary to the Homily last named and as is declared in the 28. Article of the said Articles And I object as aforesaid 4 Item That you the said Richard Mountagu in your booke called the Answere to the Gagger doe and haue maintayned and affirmed That Images may bee vsed for the instruction of the ignorant Contrary to the second Homily intituled against perill of Idolatry which is approved by the 37. Article of the Articles aforesaid And I obiect as aforesaid 5 Item That you the said Richard Mountagu in your Treatise of the Invocation of Saints doe and haue affirmed and maintained That Saints haue not onely a memorie but a more peculiar charge of their friends and that it may bee admitted that some Saints haue a peculiar patronage Custody protection and power as Angels haue also over certaine persons and Countries by especiall deputation and that it is no impiety so to beleeue Contrary to the doctrine in the Homily aforesaid And I object as aforesaid 6 Item That you the said Richard Mountagu in your said booke called the Appeale doe maintayne and haue maintayned and affirmed that men justified may fall away and depart from that state which once they had and that they may rise againe and possibly become new men but not certaine or necessary And the better to maintaine this your opinion you haue in the same booke wilfully added falsified and changed divers words of the 16. Article of the booke of Articles aforesaid and divers other words both in the booke of Homilies and also in the booke of Common prayer And all the same places are so by you misrecited and changed in your said booke called the Appeale to Casar and you doe and haue endeauoured thereby to lay a most wicked and malicious Scandall vpon the Church of England as if it did herein differ from the reformed Churches beyond the Seas and you did and doe consent to those pernicious Errors which are commonly called Arminianisme and which the late samous Princes Queene ELIZABETH and King IAMES of most happie and blessed memorie did piously and diligently labour to suppresse And I object as aforesaid 7 Item That you the said Richard Mountagu in all your three seuerall Bookes afore-named doe maintayne and haue maintayned and affirmed divers other vnsound and hereticall Doctrines and opinions as is at large proued in the bookes of Confutation of your said bookes which you haue nor cannot reply vnto And I object as aforesaid 8 Item quod prefati Willielmus Iones Richardus Mountagu Clericus fuerunt respectiue sunt provinc vestrae Cantuariens jurisdictionis vestrae subsiditi in hac parte obijcit vt supra 9 Item quod omnia singula premissa sunt vera publica notoria publica manifesta tam infra Civitatem Dioc. London alia loca publica famosa infra Regnum Angliae obijcit vt supra Omnia singula premissa proponit obijcit dictus Willielmus Jones conjunctim divisim non arctan se ad omnia singula premissa probanda nee ad onus superflue probationis de quo protestatur sed quatenus probaverit in premissis catenus obtineat in petitis sub protestatione de addendo prentissis eademque magis specifice declarando specificando eademque probando pro loco tempore congruis oportunius semper sibi salvo omni Iuris beneficio in hac parte sibi competen sen competitur eaque protestatione sibi semper salva petit Articulos Capitula sive Interrogatoria sua predicta ad omnem Iuris effectum admitti partemque aduersam eijsdem torum cuilibet secundum luris extigentiam respondere compelli protestatur de expensis Et petit Jus Iusticiam vestrum Officium Domine Judex antedict humiliter implorando Per me Willielmum Iones Thus farre the Objections of the Objectour in due forme of Law And judge O judge yee worthie Iudges of the House whether these objections were not in due of Law But the Iudge aforenamed taking the paper of Objections first seemed to read them ouer silently to himselfe and then delivered them to the said Elect Bishop Mountagu who seemed also to read them over silently to himselfe and then with an vntoward looke and trembling hand gaue the paper backe to the Iudge Who called to him one Doctour Samms of the Arches advising with him what to doe in the businesse and hee told him hee would runne into a Praemunire if hee did not proceed Who thereupon gaue the Obiectour Mr. Iones an answer to this effect My friend you haue giuen heere Objections against this my Lord elect of Chichester but your Objections are not in due forme of Law because they haue not a Doctour of the Arches hand vnto them neither haue you an Advocate to plead your Objections Therefore neverthelesse by vertue of this his Majesties Commission vnder the Great Seale which hee tooke in his hand and turned I will proceed to confirme him And so did Now Iudge O Iudge againe thrice Iudicious Iudges whether any person bee not invited by the former Proclamation to obiect in due forme of Law And whether any Doctours hand or Advocate are thereby required And besides the Court at that time for Confirmation is not any Court for pleading What need therefore had the Obiectour of any Doctours hand or Advocate He himselfe setting his hand vnto it and being there Ore tenus Then when the Iudge had with a strong hand peremptorily proceeded in the Confirmation of the aforesaid elect By shop Mountagu This new confirmed Pontifex still with a brazen face and whorish forehead made an Apologie for himselfe and his Bookes and said most impudently to this effect That he himselfe had subscribed to the Booke of Articles and the Booke of Homilies and
assent of our Brethren of the Church of England to this our Appeale or Remonstrance Wee pray let any by deputation from the House or other take the paines to goe and get the hands of Byshops and Ministers in every Diocesse of the Kingdome and wee the exhibiters hereof being on good grounds well assured will pawne our liues that the major part of Byshops and Ministers will subscribe thereto And then wee hope it will not bee denyed but the major part of the Clergie is the Church of England Ergo the whole Church of England is against this one man B. Mountagu An Epistle of the aforesaid orthodox Ministers of the Church of England to Byshop MOVNTAGV himselfe SIR although you haue betrayed the Truth and wounded our Mother the Church of England yet in a charitable hope that you haue not committed the unpardonable Sinne Grace bee with you and Peace 1. Cor. 1. from God our Father and from the Lord Jesus Christ Wee your Brethren till you shooke off fraternitie with us doe beseech you by the name of our Lord Iesu Christ that you would bee reconciled to the Church of England our decrest Mother that you with vs may speake one thing and there bee no further dissentions betweene you and vs but let vs bee knit together in one minde and one judgement That in the end if it bee possible your soule may be saved Which your Reconciliation must bee by your publike Recantation of your daungerous and malicious errours and Haeresies against God his Truth and good men Away then with and for shame abandon your totall Tenents of finall fallings away from Grace Away with your odious termes against orthodox Divines Away with your impious and prophane scoffing at Preaching meditating conferring c. Away with your Images for exitation of devotion Away with your praying to Saints Away with all other your Trumperies Opinions Doctrines which your Impicties haue wrought higher then the and doe cry at Heaven-gates for Vengeance and which are raked out of the sinkes and puddles of Pelagianisme Arminianisme and Papisme and those your mungrill Haere-schismes in fine will yield you no sound comfort but bee such miserable comforters unto you in the day and houre of death when as one dram of the Truth defended will stand one in more steed than 1000. Tenēts sophistically maintained that they will sinke you irrecoverably into the infernall Tophet without true and sound Repentance before-hand And Sir bee you not ashamed to make your publike Recantation but consider greater Clerkes than your selfe haue made their publike Recantations and haue gotten honour not infamie by it viz. Mr. Barret at Cambridge in St. Maries Church Doctor Allabaster Doctor Sheldon Mr. Higgons theyr spontaneous Recantations from Popish Priesthood were publikely preached at Pauls Crosse and afterwards printed to the Worlds publike view and divers others whom wee need not recite All which considered Wee now adjure you in the name of the Lord IESVS to make your Recantation without which you can never haue Salvation Sir Remember the fatherly Admonitions and Counsell that the most Reverend Father the Archbishop of Canterburie gaue you at your Consecration Away then with your private excusatorie Letters to his Grace or other great personages farced full of idle apologizing stuffe which indeed is nothing but dawbing with untempered morter But if for all this you will not recant nor bee reconciled to us and still persist peremptorily in your dangerous doctrines and maintaine your impieties Know assuredly that as you haue laboured to bee chronicled in Cassaneus his Catalogus Gloriae Mundi so you are like in the next edition of Schlusselburgius his Catalogus Haeriticorum to haue your name enrolled When as our godly and reverend brethren who haue confuted your bookes wee doubt not shall bee remembred in the Catalogus Testium Veritatis on Earth Dan. 12.3 and shine as Stars in the Firmament of Heaven And good Sir giue vs leaue by the way to aske you Of what Religion are you The name of Protestant you denie Papist you will not be Pelagian or Arminian you cannot endure and yet by your writings you salute and shake hands with all and for the name of Christian that you abhorre and hold it Puritannicall Well goe too Sir your name Mountagu and 't is pitie you beare that Name whereof there is so noble and religious a Familie the Mountagu's of Northampton-shire wee trow you will not deny Your hotch-pot Doctrines and squint-ey'd Divinitie shall bee Mountaguisme your Disciples and Adhaerents Mountagnists for you affect to bee head of a Sect there 's your Ambition and that wee hope will please you to bee enrolled wee say in the Catalogue of Hareticks with those damned old Haereticks Arrius Socinus Pelagius and the more moderne and little better Arminius Vorstius and your old acquaintance Belga Thomsonius who did more hurt in the Vniversitie by his Arminianisme Libertinisme and Epicurisme than 1000. Drunkards will ever doe good c. And now Sr. saving the Reverence of your Bishopricke Remember your Originall for some of us haue knowne you ab origine your meane birth parentage we say not a Carter or Ploughmans sonne neere Okingham in Berkeshire at whose Cost you were brought up at Eaton College-Schoole and at the Kings College in the Vniuersitie at either of which places if God had giuen grace you might haue imbibed better things Certes Sir Henry Sauile that worthy and learned Knight deceased when hee employed you in his Greeke Chrysostomes Variae Lectiones had more hope of you than to haue proved such an ill member in the Church But it is no marveile and you may remember that that Reverend Byshop of Winton of the Honorable House aforenamed now with God when you were his Chaplaine told you eft-soones Prophetically You would never doe good in the Church And if none of these things will serue to humble you nor to take downe the Pride of your heart for all Errours Haeresies and Schismes arise through pride of heart Remember yet how God hath by nature marked you with a sinistrall or Gotish looke promising no good to his Church and Children whom he hath promised shall sit on his Right-hand And if this neyther will serue to humble you Wee must and doe leaue you to bee humbled and censured by that High and Honourable Court of Parlament vnto whom wee haue appealed against you And wee hope your Errours and Haeresies are so notorious that your shuffling and intruding from beeing Parson of Petworth to bee Byshop of Chichester and so to bee accompted a Spirituall Lord of the Vpper House will not serue to protect you For haue wee not within the revolution of not many yeeres seene a bigger Bishop than your selfe brought neere censure and on his knees to the House haue wee not seene a Lord Chancellour censured and displaced haue wee not seene a Lord Treasurer censured and displaced and even the last Session or sitting of the House haue wee
not scene 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 out Lord Iesus 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 Seale of England Wee deny not but his Majestie may giue Pardons to what Malefactors 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 pure 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 so farre off as