already sufficiently ratified by the dcerâ—e of the former Synod With this all parties seem contented and the Canon passed So easily may the weak Brethren be out-witted by more able heads To make this matter plainer to their severall capacities I will look upon the two Subscribers as upon Divines and on the Pamphleter our Author as a Man of law Of the Subscribers I would ask whether Saint Paul were out in the Rules of Logick when he proved the Abrogating of the old Covenant by the superinducing of the new Dicendo autem novum veteravit prius c. that is to say as our English reads it in that he saith a new Covenant he hath made the first old Heb. 8. 13. and then it followeth that that which decayeth and waxeth old is ready to vanish away that is to say the old being disanulled by the new there must necessarily follow the Abolishment of its use and practice Nor find they any other Abrogation of the Jewish Sabbath than by the super-inducing of the Lords day for the day of Worship By means whereof the Sabbath was lesned in authority and reputation by little and little in short time was absolutely laid aside in the Church of Christ the 4th CoÌ„mandement by which it was at first ordained being stil in force So then according to these grounds the Articles of Ireland were virtually though not formally Abbrogatad by the super-inducing of the Articles of the Church of England which is as much as need be said for the satisfaction of the two Subscribers taking them in the capacity of Divines as before is said Now for my Man of law I would have him know that the first Liturgy of King Edward the sixth was confirmed in Parliament with severall penalties to those who should refuse to officiate by it or should not diligently resort and repair unto it 2 3. Edw. 6th c. 1. But because divers doubts had arisen in the use and exercise of the said Book as is declared in the Statute of 5 6. Edward 6. c. 1. for the fashion and manner of the ministration of the same rather by the curiosity of the Ministers and mistakers than of any other worthy cause therefore as well for the more plain and manifest explanation hereof as for the more perfection of the said order of Common service in some places where it is necessary to make the same prayer and fashion of Service more earnest and fit to stir Christian People to the true honouring of Almighty God The Kings most Excellent Majesty with the assent of the Lords and Commons in this present Parliament aâ—embled and by the authority of the same hath caused the foresaid Order of Common service entituled The Book of Common Prayer to be faithfully and Godly perused explaned and made fully perfect Which Book being thus fitted and explaned approved by the King and confirmed in the Parliament in the 5 6 years of his reign was forthwith generally received into use and practice in all parts of the Kingdom the former Liturgy being no otherwise suppressed and called in than by the superinducing of this the Statute upon which it stood continuing un-repealed in full force and vertue and many clauses of the same related to in the Statute which confirmed the second But fearing to be censured by both parties for reading a Lecture of the wars to Annibal I knock off again Now forasmuch as the Observator is concerned in this certificate being said to have abused the said Convocation with such a grosse mistake so manifest an untruth I would fain know in what that grosse mistaking and the manifest untruth which these men speak of is to be discerned The Premises which usher in this conclusion are these viz. But that the least motion was then or there made for the suppressing of those Articles of Ireland hath no truth at all in it The Conclusion this therefore the Observator and whosoever else hath or doth averr that the said Articles either were abolished or any motion made for the suppressing or abolishing of them are grosly mistaken and have abused the said Convocation in delivering so manifest an untruth But first the Observator speaks not of any motion made there for the suppressing of those Articles The Proposition for approving and receiving the Confession of the Church of England might be made effectually and so it seems it was without any such motion And therefore if the Observator stand accused in that particular the manifest untruth and grosse mistake which those men dream of must be returned upon themselves And on the other side if he be charged with this grosse mistake and man fest untruth for no other reason but that he saith those Articles were abolished as they charge it on him they should have first shewed where he saith it before they fell so rudely and uncivilly on a man they know not The Observator never said it never meant it he understands himself too well to speak so improperly The word he used was abrogated and not abolished The first word intimating that those Articles were repealed or disannulled of no force in Law whereas to be abolished signifieth to be defaced or raced out that so the very memory of the thing might perish The word abrogated rightly and properly so taken is Terminus forensis or a term of Law derived from the custom of the Romans who if they did impose a Law to be made by the people were said Rogare Legem because of asking moving or perswading to enact the same velitis Iubeatisne Quirites c. from whence came prorogare Legem to continue a Law which was in being for a longer time and abrogare to repeal or abrogate it for the time to come unlesse upon some further consideration it were thought fit to be restored But giving these men the benefit and advantage of their own Expression and let the two words Abrogated and Abolished signifie the same one thing where is their equity the while for charging that as a grosse mistake and manifest nntruth in the Observator which must be looked on only as a failing or an easie slip within the incidence of frailty as we know who said in their friend our Author the Systeme the Body of Articles formed by that Church Anno 1615 were repealed saith the Historian Fol. 132. for abrogating the Articles of Religion established in the Church of Ireland saith the Observator pag. 240 241. both right or both wrong I am sure of that a grosse mistake a manifest untruth in both or neither And so farewell good Mr. Pullein wiâ—h Doctor Bernard I shall meet in another place In the next place whereas the Observator said that the abrogating of the Articles of Ireland was put on the Lieutenants score because Doctor Bramhall once his Chaplain and then Bishop of Derry had appeared most in it The Pamphleter answereth that there was never any Controversie in that Synod between the Lord Primate and that Bishop concerning those
and elevated by a petit blaze of mistaken honours to an height of Frenzie And though our Author be a high flyer and loves to flye at none so much as high Peers and Prelates yet he will play at small game rather than sit out there being one and but one of the inferiour Clergy whom he hath in choice and that is Peter Heylyn Dr. in Cosmography 't is well he will allow him to be Dr. in somewhat yet as he calls him there a Theologaster as with scorn and disdain enough he is called there also of him he telleth us in those printed but unpublished sheets fol. 131. That the Court Bishops netled with this Antithesis this opposition he means that which was made by the Bishop of Lincoln against placing the Communion Table Altar-wise to their grand design laboured as vehemently to maintain their own proceedings and put out the work to their bold Champion Dr. Heylyn who thereupon undertakes the Bishop and bungleth up a reply to him full of ignorance and virulence so much the fiercer because he thought the Bishop not in the state of operating any thing considerably noxious to him But the next lustre this Bishop became for a while illustrious and then he did fawn upon and cringe to him on whom he had formerly trampled no man more What a Goliah have we here stretching himself upon his Tiptoes and bidding a general defiance to the Hoste of Israel The Blatant Beast broke loose again and no Sir Laniorack or Sir Calidore to hunt him back unto his Den and there tie him up A second Mar-Prelate at the best fit to be dealt withal by none but Tom Nashes ghost and to that I leave him The honour he hath done the Dr. in giving him a place amongst so much good company requireth from any friend of his a more gentle usage then Pap with anhatchet in those times to the elder Martinists And though it is to be confessed that much of this strain stuffe died under the Press never was permitted to come abroad whether upon the second more sober thoughts of the Author himself or the care and modesty of some friends who perused the sheets doth not concern me to enquire yet doth our Author stand convicted in his first intention may be counted voto saltem si non opere as guilty of the crime of defamation as any other whatsoever in these last ill times great pity certainly that such a two-hand sword as this shou'd be kept in the scabbard and that he was perswaded not to draw it out though he had only fenced and flourished with it like a Whiffler in my Lord Maiors show to delight the multitude And yet a blessing on him for it he would be sain thought to write some of them but leaves them at the last in a worse condition then he had brought them to at first He is content to leave out the first part of that character which he hâ—d given my Lord of London whom he had formerly affirmed to be none of the best Scholars and now stands only to the last that he was none of the worst Bishops not that he finds himself to be fully satisfied with the Observator touching the abilities of that Prelate but that he was loath to abide any misconstructions finding the Historians noate verified Virorum ut magna admiratio ita censura difficilis est Fol. 26. and therefore he stands to it still that he saw no reason why he might not safely say that this Bishop was none of the greatest Scholars without disparagement to his function Scholarship or his own prudence entring upon a wild discourse touching the measure of learning required to the qualification of a Bishop and so resolves upon the point that a Bishop may be Scholar sufficient for his place though he be none of the greatest magnitude Which whether it be a righting of the person or rather a wronging of the Bishop I leave unto the consideration of the critical Reader And for that part of the Character which he hath left standing by it self without that Deleatur which he seems to brag of it is such a sorry peece of commendation as the Historian gives us of a noble Roman of whom he sayth that he was magis extra vitia quam cum virtutibus rather not guilty of any notorious vices than adorned with any eminent virtues No hearty commendations this according to the old style of England but a cold negative commendation a commendation Stylo novo and such a one as I conceive our Author would not be well pleased with from another man None of the worst Bishops and none of the worst Historians may seem to intimate that neither are positively good in their several kinds or though amongst so many bad ones as almost all the Bishops are by him presented they may pass for tolerable and therefore I desire our Author if either the History or Pamphlet live to another edition that he would pass a deleatur upon this part also leaving this reverend person unto that amends which our Author hopes he hath made in the rest that followeth Less candidly doth he deal with the other Bishop accused for saying in his Pontificall ruffe as he elsewhere phraseth it that he hoped to live to see the day when a Minister should be as good a man as any Iack-Gentleman in England For though he doth confesse that his information was not then so good as it hath been since and hath therefore corrected that expression according to the Observators for so I think he meaneth by that Authors own Copy and added Vpstart to Jack-Gentleman in the new Edition yet will he not allow that the Observators vindication of him from any such distemper in his words or actions as he freeth him from or that the expression so corrected doth argue much of that temper or wisdom which the Observator crieth up in him Fol. 29. This is hard dealing in our Author first to expose a man one of the Fathers of the Church for words which were never spoken by him and not so spoken as presented to the eye of the Reader to the publique hatred and after when the expression stands so qualified and corrected in the Author himself as to admit a justification with all sober men to keep him still under the same uncharitable terms of reproach and obloquy For why a Minister should not be as good a Man as any Vpstart Jack-Gentleman in all the Pack I can see no reason the dignity office function and the civillity of his breeding with other necessary qualifications required in him being well considered With greater zeal but with as mischievous intention doth he advocate for Bishop Potter of whom the Observator telleth us that his preferment unto the Bishoprick of Carlile could not get the King any love in the hearts of his people Our Author hereupon inferreth Fol. 14. That this must necessarily signifie something of abominable quality in either the person or Doctrine
power of Kings could do nothing lawfully but what they do with their assistance and by their consent What saith the Pamphleter to this marry he hopes for he still saves himself by hoping that no man of any ingenuity can so much as question but that his politique Descendents imply Statute Laws which no King of England hath power to make without Common consent in Parliament Fol. 7. and that the text may speak agreeably to the words of this comment he hath foisted the word Laws into it where before it was not as may appear to any man who will be pleased to compare the Editions 2ly The Historian had affirmed for certain that Sir Robert Mansell as Vice-Admirall had an unquestionoble right of the chief conduct of that enterprize against the Spaniard upon the Dukes default For which being contradicted by the Observator grounding himself on the authority and common practice of our Kings in granting those commands to any as they see cause for it The Pamphleter stands stil to his former errour upon this ground that many men of wisdome and experience hold it for a Rule not only in this particular but in all such as have vicariam potestatem Fol. 7. But yet to make sure work withall he hath thrust these words as they thought into the text of his History and thereby made his own position that Sir Robert Mansell had an unquestionable right to the chief comduct in that enterprize to be the opinion of those many men of wisdome and long experience whom the comment points too New if we ask what these men were who thought so of it we find them in some lines before to be the Mariners men I confesse of long experience but of no great wisdome and such as better understand the Jurisdiction of their Masters-place than of the Vice-admiral of England and what such men as these may hold touching the Powers and privileges of such as have vicarium potestatem is so inconsiderable that I shall not trouble my self to insist more on it 3ly The Historian had declared that for Armianism the informations were very pregnant c. For which being blamed in many things by the Observator he puts off the odium from himself to Mr. Pym and the Committee for Religion professing that he only recited what that Committee declared as the product of their enquiries and with this answer he conceiveth he might easily avoid no less than 25 pages of the Observation Fol. 15. So he and that it may be thought so by the Reader too he hath thrice foisted in these words they said into that part of his Narrative which concerns this business as Fol. 97. l. 27. for Arminianisn they said informations were very pregnant c. and Fol. 98. l. 12 13. the hazard conceived from Rome c. flowed they said partly from the uncontrouled publishing of severall points tending and working that way and ibidem â—ine 19 20. the greatest danger was from Popery direct and from this the danger they said appeared very great c. Here have we dicnnt ferunt aiunt these words they said no lesse than thrice in half a leaf foisted in the text to make it suitable to the Pamphlet And we had a praedicant in it too that you may see I have still some smattering of my Grammar an accusation of some men for their uncontrouled preaching of several points tending and warping towards Popery though now upon an admonition from the Observator he hath turned preaching into publishing as appears fol. 98 line 14. guided thereto by the illustration of his comment and a desire to do some right to Doctor Cozens which I thank him for whom he had formerly accused for preaching many things which warped towards Popery but now agreeth so far with the Observator as to excuse him from publishing and direct Popery in his Hours of Prayer 4. The Observator had declared that the Primate had conceived a displeasure against the Lord Deputy for abrogating the Articles of Religion established by the Church of Ireland and setling in their place the Articles of the Church of Enggland to which the Pampleter replyeth that the Articles of Religion established in the Church of Ireland were never abrogated though those of England were received and approved by that convocation Fol. 42. For proof whereof he hath produced a Certificate under the hands of Doctor Barnard and one Samuel Pullain whose title and degree I know and therefore am not to be blamed if I give none to him Whether this Superinduction of the Articles of the Church of England amount not to an abrogation of those of Ireland shall be considered of hereafter in that Chapter which concerns Armianism Now I shall only tell you this that whereas our Author had it thus in his first Edition Fol. 132 viz. that in the Synod assembled in Ireland the body of Articles formed by that Church Anno 1615. were repealed and in their places were substituted the thirty nine Articles of the Church of England Now to conform his text to the former Comment he hath left out the word repealed in his new Edition Fol. 137. and tells us a clean contrary story to that before which shall be looked upon in the place before mentioned as more proper for it And so I close this Chapter intended chiefly for the justication of the Observator and the retorting of some Foistings on the Authors head withall confuting many of the Pamphleters Answers which could not be so well considered of in an other place CHAP. III. The affairs of the two Kings considered Of the impowering or not impowering the Earl of Bristol by Letters of Proxie The Proxie granted to the King of Spain and Don Charles his Brother Our Author qualifieth the word ever to make it serve his turn and yet cannot do it The Letter of Philip the 3. to Olivarez nothing contained in it against the restoring of the Palanate but the contrary rather King James communicated not with the Parliament in the Breach with Spain our Author pleadeth a Demonstration but produceth none Our Authors nicety between taking Coach to and for White-hall and the vanity of it Some solid Grandure contributed to the throne of Kings in their Coronations His Catholick Majesty how concerned in our Authors scoffs That heretofore some Kings in Spain have been Crowned and anointed though of late those ceremonies be disused and upon what reasons The Pamphleters weak defences for our Authors mistake about taking the Great Seal from the Bishop of Lincoln and the Observator justified as to that particular Our Authors Annuating and Superannuating in his Temporalities His Superannuating or subtertriennuating rather in the â—ynod of Doâ—t how weakly justified and excused The Observators running leap made good and his Reasons for it A transition to the following Disputes about the Sabbath or Lords day WEE are now come to the main body of the Pamphlet in which we shall begin and good reason for it with such particulars
know who did For certainly the Canon which he built upon will not bear him out in it against the Statute if the Statute were to be so expounded as to restrain the use of all Rites and Ceremonies not specified and appointed in the Book of Common Prayer as he told us lately For though Genuflexion or bowing of the knee cannot be done saith he but in a stationary posture yet men that sit may tender due and lowly reverence at the name of Jesus by the humble bowing of their Bodies and testifie by that sign and gesture their inward humility Christian Resolution and due acknowledgement that the Lord Jesus Christ the true and eternall Son of God is the only Saviour of the world c. As in the 18. Canon of 603. But one good turn requireth another The Pamphleter in requitall shall advise the Observator not to be too confident in saying he was sure that standing at the Gloria Patri was never obtruded by the Prelates for fear there should prove some flaw in his assurance whosoever was of his Counsell in it fol. 18. This is a friendly admonition and I shall make the best use of it accordingly But how doth he weaken this assurance and abate this confidence Marry because in Bishop Wrens Articles framed for the Diocess of Norwich sure he is Chap. 4. there are these words viz. Do they i. e. the people at the end of every Psalm stand up and say Glory be to the Father c. And he thinks things inquired after in Diocesan visitations may be said to be urged and obtruded fol. 18. Hic Rhodus hic saltus this is the man and that 's his leap maâ—ch him he that can But Sir though I have heard some men ascribe insallibility to the Houses of Parliament yet I never heard of any man till now that did intitle them their Committees instruments and Agents to the Spirit of prophecy and 't is impossible that they could otherwise tell Anno 1628. what Bishop Wren would do at Norwich above seven years after Anno 1636. For marke the story as it lieth The Committee for Religion declared in Anno 1628. That upon due inspection they found it in a very tottering and declining condition c. partly from the audacious obtruding of divers superstitious Ceremonies by the Prelates as standing at the Gloria Patri c. Hist fol. 96. This is the information but what Proofs have they of it The Information is in matter of Fact of divers Superstitious Ceremonies standing up at the Gloria Patri c. At that time and before obtruded by some audacious Prelates The Proof is given them by the Spirit of prophecy in telling them what was or should be done above seven years after when Bishop Wren should hold his first visitation for the Diocess of Norwich I see our Author is as good at Logick as he is at Law For mark the Argument in Bishop Wrens Articles framed for the Diocess of Norwich Anno 1636. why was that left out it is enquired into whether the people at the end of every Psalm did stand up and say Glory be to the Father c. Ergo which is in English therefore This Superstitious Ceremony of standing at the Gloria Patri was obtruded by the audacious Prelates above seven years before Anno 1628. Brave man at Arms I must confess though weak to Baltazar And now I hope I am quit with him for his Theologaster But yet I have not payed him all there is some behinde For is not this the man that telleth us that the remissness of the Government of Archbishop Abbot made the future Reduction of tender conscienced men to long discontinued obedience interpreted an Innovation Hist fol. 127. yet he remembreth it well enough For he tels us in his Pamphlet fol. 27. Oportet esse memorem but he leaves out the most significant word of all that which most properly doth concern him Mendacem Oportet mendacem esse memorem was the Rule of old and it concerns our Author to take notice of it I well remember those words saith he but never meant they should relate to the setting Railes before the Holy Table fol. 28. Well then allowing our Author his more secret meaning we have gained thus much that placing the Table Altar-wise and bowing towards it and standing at the Gloria Patri are no more to be reckoned for Innovations but Reductions rather as our Author freely hath acknowledged For telling us that he never meant that the words alleadged should relate to the setting Railes before the holy Table he doth ingenuously confess he meant it in all the rest according to the good old Rule Exceptio firmat Regulam in non exceptis And again is not this the man that tels us Anno 1635. in his new Edition that he who desires to pourtray England in her full Stature of externall Glory may now take her dimensions he shall behold her Church shining in transcendent Empyreall brightness and purity of Evangelicall truth Her religious performances her holy offices ordered and regulated agreeable to the strict expedient of such sacred actions Her Discipline Modell sutable to the Apostolick form The set and suite of her Holy Tribe renowned for piety and learning and all those in so supereminent a degree that no Church on this side of the Apostolique can or ever could compare with her in any one fol. 142. Here is an Euge tuum belle an excellent Panegyrick I confess and I thank him for it but very different from those Taxes charges and obtrusions which we finde elsewhere Out of which I shall only note as proper to my present purpose First that this Panegyrick is placed by him Anno 1635. at what time placing the Communion Table Altar-wise and bowing towards it and standing at the Gloria Patri were grown more generally in use then they had been formerly And secondly that it is here said that her Religious performances and holy offices were then regulated agreeable to the strict Expedients of such sacred Actions If regulated by the strict Expedients of such sacred Actions as he saith they were then neither placing the Table Altar-wise nor bowing towards it nor standing at the Gloria Patri no nor the very Railes themselves coming within the compasse of these strict expedients are to be reckoned of as Innovations and Obtrusions by the Committee for Religion of which we speak Anno 1628. The Prelates being thus freed and freed even by our Author himself from innovating in the Worship of God here by Law established we must next see what danger there was feared from Doctrinal Poperie by the uncontrouled preaching of severall points tending and warping that way by Mountague Goodman Cozens and others as in the History Fol. 96. To which the Observator answered That neither Mountague nor Cozens were questioned for preaching any thing which warped toward Popery but the one of them for writing the Book called Appello Caesarem the other for publishing
a Body of Devotions according to the Hours of Prayer in neither of which an equall and judicious Reader will find any Popery What saith the Pamphleter to this Why first he doth confesse That in stead of preaching he should have said publishing and this mistake with more then ordinary ingenuity he hath rectified in the last Edition Fol. 98. Secondly as for Dr. Cozens he grants ingenuously enough that in his Book there is no direct Popery though something as he saith which might raise a jealousie of his tendency that way but yet forbears to presse it further and it is well for him that he had so good a colour to forbear the pressing of that which he could not prove Seeing that Doctor hath appeared of late so stout an Advocate for the Reformed Church as he hath been informed by some and assured by others fol. 17. To the Observators defence of Bp. Mountague there is no Reply so that the Action being withdrawn against one of the parties and the other quit by Proclamation we may discharge them of the Court without more adoe Finally as for Bp. Goodman the Observator hath informed you that though he preached something once which might warp towards Popery yet he did not preach it uncontrouled being not only questioned for it but sentenced to a Recantation before the King To this I find no Reply neither and I wonder at it considering the great advantage given by that Bishop at his death to increase the scandall a scandal so unseasonably and untimely given as if the Devil himself had watched an opportunity to despight this Church And though some men have gladly cherished this occasion to draw the rest of the Prelates and Prelatical party into a generall suspicion of being as much inclined to Popery as that Bishop was yet Christian charity should instruct them not to think evil of all for the fault of one or prejudge any one man much lesse the whole Body of a Clergy for the fault of another It rather should be wondred at by all moderate and discerning men that notwithstanding so many provocations of want and scorn which have of late been put upon them there should be found but one of that sacred order and but three more that I have heard of of the Regular Clergy to fall off to Popery though to say truth it was not in this Bishop a late falling off but a pursuance rather of some former inclinations which he had that way that being thought to be the reason why he refused subscription to the Canons of 640. mentioned in our Historian fol. 186. But oportet esse memorem as we know who said and now it will be time to passe from those Anomalous Innovations which seemed to threaten that Tiber would drown the Thames in our Authors language to those designs which tended to the bringing in of Arminianisme if all be true which was brought in to the Committee or by our Author is reported to be brought in to them CHAP. VII Our Author not so little concerned in the controversies of Arminianism as he would be thought The Arminians not called a Faction by the Observator nor said by him to be unsufferable in a Common-wealth The Lawes and Privileges of the Netherlands never more violated than in the proceedings against Barnevelt The Conspiracy of Barnevelts Kinred not to be imputea to the Arminians The moderation of King James on the like occasion The Arminians no way turbulent but as Calvinists only St. Augustine did not think himself infallible though the Pamphleter doth The Observator misreported in delivering the Tenets of some Calvinists The Pamphleters trifling in so great a matter as Eternity The judgement of King James altered in the paints of Arminianism Sir Humphries tale of the two Bishops canvassed and confuted The Bishop of Winchester vindicated Of Dr. More Dr. Marshal and their several grudges against that Bishop The Lambeth Articles confessed by our Author not to be taken for the Doctrine of the Church of England The Observators mistake in the first 3. years of Dr. Baro and the grounds thereof The Observator not disproved concerning that Doctors retiring into France nor in the storie of those Articles With the Pamphleters mistakes in both The Articles of Ireland abrogated by superinducing those of England proved first by the Certificate of the two Subscribers and after by some parallel Cases in Scripture and the statute-Statute-Laws The two Subscribers speak improperly for themselves and deal unjustly with the Observator Of the Differences in the Convocation of Ireland between the Lord Primate and the Bishop of Derry An errour of the Printers charged on the Observator BUt first we must remove a Block which lieth in our way our Author telling us how little he is concerned in these Arminian Controversies which are to be the Subject of this present Chapter Fol. 5. Thus do I hear our Author say but I find the contrary and then quid verba audiam cum facta videam The bitternesse of his Style against those poor men whom he so nick-nameth and all who seem to incline towards their opinions declare plainly of what Spirit he is how very little concerned soever he would seem to be Of this we shall not need to look for any further evidence than the Character he gives both of the men and of the Doctrine Their Doctrin branded by the name of errours and the Contrary opinions honoured with the title of Orthodox Hist Fol. 98. Their tenets joyned with those of the Massilians and Semipelagians Fol. 6. 131. their persons stigmatized in the Pamphlet as men having a strong tang of the Jesuites in practical or Dogmatical concernments and indeed a Faction a turbulent seditious faction and so found all along by the united Provinces from the first of their spawning there Fol. 46. The Lord Deputy of Ireland stands accused upon this accompt in the unpublished sheets of the History to have frighted rather than perswaded the Convocation of Ireland to repeal the Articles of that Church principally to advance these Arminian Tenets the Court-Clergy generally defamèd as deeply tinctured and stained with the Massilian and Arminian errors and Mr. Mountague afterwards Bishop of Chichester called unworthy wretch because he was supposed to incline that way Strong Arguments that our Author doth not think himself so little concerned in this businesse as he would make the world believe if he had the Art of it But whereas the Pamphleter hath told us that the Observator p. 73. hath very aptly stiled them by the name of a Faction if he consult the place again but with half an eye he will not find them stiled so by the Observator but by Dr. Whitacres Dr. Willet Mr. Chatterton Mr. Perkins and certain others desiring the Archbishops assistance to suppresse that Faction which was like to grow against them in that University And here I think it not amisse to take another running leap from Fol. 5. to Fol. 46. where he inferreth out of
being made and shewed to the King he approved well of them in regard that comming nearer to the first Liturgy of King Edward the sixth in the administration of the Lords Supper and consequently being more agreeable to the ancient Forms it might be a means to gain the Papists to the Church who liked far better of the first than the second Liturgy In this the Pamphleter very cunningly that I say no worse leaves out these words and consequently being more agreeable to the ancient Forms fastning the hopes of gaining Papists to the Church on the nearness of the Scotish Liturgie to the first of King Edwards without relating to the Forms of more elder times to which the Papists stand affected Fol. 29. This is no fair dealing by the way But let that pass he grants it is a matter beyond dispute that the Papists liked the first Liturgy of King Edward better than the second Why so Because the words of Distribution of the Elements are so framed as they may consist with transubstantiation Fol. 30. If that be all the Papists have as good reason to like the Liturgy of the Church of England now by Law established as they had or have to like the first Liturgy of King Edward the sixth The words of Distribution used in the first Liturgy being still retained in the present together with the words of Participation take and eat take and drink c. which only did occur in the second Liturgy No more consistency with transubstantiation in the words of Distribution used in the first Liturgy of King Edward nor consequently in that for Scotland than in that continued in the first year of Queen Elizabeth But then the Pamphleter subjoyns that the gaining of Papists to our Church was indeed the great pretended project of forty years continuance and yet in all that time not so much as one taken with that Bait. In answer unto which I desire to know where the fault was that for the space of forty years the intended project of gaining Papists to the Church took no more effect The Project certainly was pious and intended really and where the fault was we shall hear from our Author himself the Bishops of late yeares saith he supinely either careless or indulgent had not required within their Dioceses that strict obedience to Ecclesiastical constitutions which the Law expected upon which the Liturgy began to be totally laid aside and inconformity the uniform practice of the Church Hist Fol. 137. The Papists loving comlinesse and order in Gods publique service will not be taken with the hatefull Bait of Inconformity and forty years of generall conformity will be hardly found in which we might have gained upon them Had Bishop Laud succeeded Bancroft and the intended Project been followed without interruption there is little question to be made but that our Jerusalem by this time might have been a City at unity in it self Besides the Pamphleter might have observed had he been so minded that the Observator speaks these words of gaining Papists to the Church as a thing hoped for by the King of the Scotish Liturgy and the nearnesse which it had to the first of King Edward which they liked better than the second If the pamphleter can prevail so far with my Lord Protector as to settle the Scotish Liturgy in Scotland and the first of King Edward in this Kingdom we may in lesse than forty years give him a better accompt of the Papists gained unto the Church than can be made for the reasons above mentioned for the like space of time now past If any true Protestants have been lost hereby as here is affirmed when he hath told me who and how many they are he shall find me very ready to grieve with him for it In the mean time I shall grieve for him who so vainly speaks it We have one only thing to adde relating to this Convocation the Observator saying that he had some reason to believe that the Clergy of that Convocation did not appear in the Parliament by their Councel learned sufficiently authorized and instructed to advocate for them To this the Pamphleter replyeth by halves professing that he will not determine 't is because he cannot how the Councel for the Clergy were instructed by them but withall confidently averring that by their Councell they did appear first by Mr. Chadwell of Lincolns Inne Novemb. 26. then again by Mr. Holburn the 15 day of Decemb. who argued two hours in defence of them Fol. 40. That these two Gentlemen appeared in this businesse for the Clergy I shall easily grant that is to say that they appeared in it out of a voluntary piety and an honest zeal to doe them the best offices they could in their great extremities If the Pampleter mean no otherwise than thus he shall take me with him But there he takes the word equivocally and not according to the legal acception of it and there can be no legal appearance but by men authorized and instructed by the parties whom it doth concern and that these Gentlemen were so the Pamphleter can neither say nor will determine And certainly if the Members of that Convocation had been so ill-advised as to submit their persons Cause and Jurisdiction which I am very well assured they did not and would never doe to the Iudgement of the House of Commons it had been more proper for them to have made this appearance by his Majesties Attourney and Solliciter and others of his Councell learned the Kings interesse and theirs being so complicated and involved as the case then stood that the one could not fall without the other Being thus entered on this Parliament I will look back to those before and take them in their course and order And the first thing we meet with is an ancient Order said in the History to be found by the Lords that is to say the Lords which were of the popular party against the Duke that no Lords created sedente Parliamento should have voice during that Session c. whereupon their suffrage was excluded The vanity and improbability of which Report is proved by the Observator by these two Arguments First that the Lords Seymore Littleton Capel c. created sedente Parliamento Anno 1640. were admitted to their suffrages without any dispute though in a time when a strong party was preparing against the King And 2ly That when a Proposition of this nature was made unto the King at York he denied it absolutely though then in such a low condition that it was hardly safe for him to deny them any thing which they could reasonably desire which Arguments the Pamphleter not being able to answer requireth a Demonstration of his Errous from the Records themseves or otherwise no recantation to be looked for from him Fol. 10. Whereas indeed it doth belong unto our Author according to the ordinary rules of Disputation both to produce a Copy of that ancient Order and to make proof out of