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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A62148	Post-haste a reply to Peter (Doctor Heylin's) appendix to his treatise intituled, Respondet Petrus, &c. / by William Sanderson, Esq.	Sanderson, William, Sir, 1586?-1676.	1658 (1658)	Wing S650; ESTC R5263	8,083	27

Notwithstanding to touch on each of them as they are layd 1 To the First I never said that the Church was Mera Chimaera as it is or hath a being and ought to be beleived but as the Respondent by his answers made it In which I conceived him to swerve from the Article where his questions were taken 2 To the Second my argument was to this purpose Omnis actio est suppositorum vel singularium Ergo Ecclesia in abstracto nihil docet aut determinat sed per hos aut illos Episcopos Pastores Doctores c. homo non disputat sed Petrus et Johannes 3. 4. The Third and Fourth may be well put together my prosecution was that the Vniversities are eminent parts and Seminaries of the Church and had better opportunity to discuss controversies than diverse other assemblies Not by any meanes to determine them but to prepare them for the determination of Ecclesiasticall assemblies of Synods Councells Bishops that have superiour Authority wherein they might doe service to the Church and those superiours not perscribe any thing unto them As the debating of a point by learned Counsell makes the easier passage for the Benches sentence And this was urged only as commended not as necessary The Queenes Al●●●oner was present I am told noe For he departed as they say that were in the same seat with him being tired as it should seem by the tedious preface of the Respondent before the disputations began but be it so or otherwise to what purpose this is interposed I know not Vpon an occasion of mentioning the absolute decree he brake forth into a great and long discourse that his mouth was shut by Authority else he would maintain that truth contra omnes qui sunt in vivis which fetch't a great hum from the Country Ministers that were there This Argument I confess was unexpectedly cast in by another but bent as I took it against some what I have written in that behalf which the Respondent not endeavouring to clear I was put upon it to shew in what sence I took absolutum decretum which indeed I said I was able to maintain against any as my predecessors in that place had done This was not in a long discourse as it is suggested but in as short a solution as is usually brought in Schooles to a doubt on the by And from this I took off the opponents further proceeding in obedience to Authority whereupon if a hum succeded it was more then I use to take notice of it might be as well of dislike as of Approbation and of other Auditors as soon as Country Minnisters A Hiss I am sure was given before when the Respondent excluded King and Parliament from being parts of the Church But I remember whose practise it is to be {non-Roman} {non-Roman} {non-Roman} {non-Roman} {non-Roman} I had rather to bear and forbear and end with this Protestation Protestation THat as I beleive the Catholick Church in my Creed soe I reverence this Church of England wherein I had my Baptisme and whole breeding as a most eminent member of it To the Doctrine and discipline of this Church have I often hitherto subscribed and by Gods grace constantly adhered And resolve by the same assistance according to my abilitie under his Majesties protection faithfully to maintain against the Papists or any other that shall oppose it The prelacie of our Reverend Bishops I have ever defended in my place which I dare say hath been more often and with greater paines taking than most of those have done who have received greater encouragements from their Lordships I desire nothing but the continuance of my Vocation in a peaceable course that after all my paines taking in the place of his Majesties Professor almost for this 18. yeares together my * sonns especially be not countenanced in my declining age to vilifie me vex me so that I end the remainder of my time which likely must be short and cannot be long in heartie prayer for his Majesty my onely Master and Patron for the Reverend Bishops the State and all his Majesties Subjects and his affaires and continue my utmost endeavour to doe all faithfull service to the Church wherein I live to whose Authority I have ever and doe hereby submit my self and Studies to be according to Gods word directed or converted Thus was this learned and eminent Professor of divinity traduced and disturbed let the application be the patience and disregard of the Reader when in this book he finds the like attempted by the same person upon the late Arch-Bishop of Armagh And yet what slender accompt is to be made of his language that way may appear by the Character which a learned person and one of note George Hackwell Arch-Deacon of Surrey and of Exeter Colledg in Oxford gives of him which I have under his own hand in a letter of his to a friend Where speaking of Mr. Heylin since Doctor whom he stiles the Patron of that pretended Saint St George hath these words of him viz. In the second impression of his book where he hath occasion to speak of the Roman writers especially the Legendaries he magnifies them more and when he mentions our men he vilefies them more than he did in his first Edition But the matter is not much what he saith of one or the other the condition of the man being such as his word hardly passeth either for commendation or a slander By this you may see that my adversary had good cause to disguise his name and so would I too were it under such an Ignominious character This is the fourth time he hath done it I expect in time he will make up the number of Labans change of Iacobs wages Here is a Proteus indeed which he would have put upon me Annonymus observator observator Rescued Rejoynder and now Petrus 'T is well he hangs by his christian name he hath in this presumed beyond any Pope who though they have assumed Paul the fift time yet none hath stiled himself Petrus We have now the one half of him we shall have the other the next either conjunctim or divisim it matters not He begins with his fancie of my being Doctor Bernards Reserve in clearing the whole proceedings of the Lord Prymate in the business of the Earl of Strafford and in the Examination and moderation of all passages between Mr. l'Estrange and him I shall satisie the Reader upon what occasion I undertoke it So soon as that Anonymus of an observator on Mr. l'Estrange came to the Prymates hands he was pleased to shew it to me and finding the Author so apt upon a slender occasion to bleamish him supposing him to be some Romish Agent whom he disdaining to Answer desired me in the prosecution of my History as it lay in my way to vindicate him though not long after I was told by his Bookseller that the