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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A80530	Experience, historie, and divinitie Divided into five books. Written by Richard Carpenter, vicar of Poling, a small and obscure village by the sea-side, neere to Arundel in Sussex. Who being, first a scholar of Eaton Colledge, and afterwards, a student in Cambridge, forsooke the Vniversity, and immediatly travelled, in his raw, green, and ignorant yeares, beyond the seas; ... and is now at last, by the speciall favour of God, reconciled to the faire Church of Christ in England? Printed by order from the House of Commons.	Carpenter, Richard, d. 1670?	1641 (1641)	Wing C620B; ESTC R229510	263,238	607

scriptos in vulgari lingua 8. Quando non possunt ferre Breviarium vel recitare officium sine probabili periculo suppleant aliquot Psalmos dicendo vel alias orationes quas sciunt memoriter 9. Si aliis Facultatibus indiguerint vel dubia circa horum usum occurrerint remittant ad Reverendum Dominum Archipresbyterum Angliae ut illis satisfaciat prout ipsi in Domino visum fuerit eique in omnibus obedire teneantur quod etiam se facturos promittant priusquamhae vel aliae Facultates ●s concedantur The Grants of giving Indulgences are either ordinary or extraordinary The ordinary are ordinarily knowne the extraordinary are these their Coppie is yet with me Formulae Extraordinariae Indulgentiarum pro utriusque sexus fidelibus qui penes se habuerint aliquam Coronam Rosarium parvam crucem aut imaginem benedictam caet 1. VT quicunque semel saltem in hebdomada officium divinum ordinarium aut Beatae Virginis aut Defunctorum aut septem Psalmos Paenitentiales aut Graduales aut coronam Domini aut Beatae Virginis aut tertiam partem Rosarii recitare aut Doctrinam Christianam docere aut infirmos alicujus Hospitalis vel detentos in carcere visitare aut pauperibus Christi subvenire consueverit vere paenitens ac confessus sacerdoti ab ordinario approbato sanctissimum Eucharistiae sacramentum sumpserit in aliquo ex diebus infra scriptis nempe Nativitatis Domini Epiphaniae Ascensionis Domini Pentecostes cum duobus sequentibus Corporis Christi Nativitatis Sancti Joan. Bapt. Sanctorum Apostolorum Petri Pauli Assumptionis beatae Mariae semper Virginis omnium sanctorum dedicationis propriae Ecclesiae Patroni vel tituli Ecclesiae atque ea die pie ad Deum preces effuderit pro Haeresium ac schismatum exterminatione pro fidei Catholicae propagatione Christianorū principum concordia atque aliis sanctae Matris Ecclesiae necessitatibus in singulis diebus ejusmodi plenariam omnium peccatorum Indulgentiam consequatur 2. Vt quicunque in prima Dominica Quadragesimae Quadragesimale jejunium salubriter celebrans vere paenitens confessus sacraque communione refectus ut supra oraverit itidem Plenariam 3. Vt quisquis vere paenitens ac si potuerit ut supra confessus sacra communione refectus alioqui saltem contritus in mortis articulo nomen Jesu ore si potuerit sin minus corde devote invocaverit similier plenariam Let the Ministers of England those I meane who dwell at home and not in Tavernes who burne with zeale not smoak with Tobacco and who steere not towards preferment but towards Heaven judge whether the man ought not to be cherished countenanced and exposed in the light and frequencie of people that hath shaken off with great loathing these wretched abuses and the Patrons of them But I poore man for so is the fortune of these times like him in the Comick Poet Vivus vidensque pereo live and while I live perish and perish in darknesse and yet see my selfe perish but am not seene to perish for then sure I should not perish But it cannot be thus long And therefore O all yee Schollers beyond the Seas under whose profession there lie secret thoughts of returning to the Church of England be cheerefull For howsoever the clouds have shadowed me the Sunne will shine out upon you The Church of God hath ever beene subject to outward alterations And you shall be received and clasped round about with the armes of true zeale and charity Gods children in England will acknowledge his children flying from Babylon And every good soule will have a sense of what you feele and a sight of what you want before you can name it They that are great shall be the greatest in godlinesse and in all their greatnesse shall thinke themselves as little as you And the golden age will come againe And therefore once more I say it be of good comfort And for me I hope I shall now sing with the Prophet I will not dye but live and declare the workes of the Lord. CHAP. VI. O What a sweetnesse of heart it was to me when I first entred into the Protestant Churches after my conversion to heare the people answer and see them lissen in divine Service O the poore Countrey people amongst the Papists who not understanding their Service and seldome hearing Sermons live more like beasts then men I have seene of the Galiegos and heard of some Countrey people in Italy who they confessed did not much differ from beasts but in the outward shape And the case of all people in Rome is to be lamented whose ordinary phrase is Come let us goe and heare Musick and the Cardinals boyes sing at such a Church This is to please the sense not God I saw such a representation of Hell and Heaven in a Cardinals Palace and the parts of Saints and Devils so performed with singing and Musicke and the soules in so great a number comming out of the world into Purgatory that it was wonderfull Shewes of this nature are often seene in their Churches Aristotle sayes well Omnis cognitio nostra a sensu initium habet All the knowledge we gather from below begins at the sense And these Scribes and Pharisees doe foole the senses of their people exceedingly I have an old manuscript wrought excellently with gold and painting In which booke there is a prayer with this inscription Oratio venerabilis Bedae Presbyteri de septem verbis Christi in eruce pendentis quam orationem quicunque quotidie devote dixerit nec Diabolus nec malus homo ei nocere poterit nec sine confessione morietur per tringinta dies ante obitum suum videbit gloriosam Virginem Mariam in auxilium sibi praeparatam The prayer of venerable Bede Priest of the seven words or speeches of Christ hanging upon the Crosse which prayer whosoever shall say devoutly every day upon his knees neither the Devill nor any evill man shall ever hurt him neither shall he die without confession and three hundred dayes before his death hee shall see the glorious Virgin Mary in a readinesse to succour him At the Busse in Holland in the Church of S. Peter they have pictured a Bishop in a glasse-window On one side of him hangs Christ upon the Crosse with his wounds bleeding On the otherside stands the Virgin Mary with her breasts running The Bishop in the middle is made with a divided countenance and these words are drawne in a long roll from his mouth quo me vertam nescio I know not to which of these two to turne my selfe either to the bloud of Christ or to the milke of the Virgin Mary And was not this an ignorant Bishop and was his flock like to thrive They lead their people strangely by the eares also They send letters very commonly to their Colledges which are read in the Refectories and recreations as their letters of newes are and

beene able and good what otherwise for these many ages Their end is The hearts of people prepossessed with evill rumours will be so filled with them that the doctrine of him upon whom the rumours attend shall either have no place or a very poore one And such a person or the good in him shall ever be looked upon through the rumour which like a false Glasse shall make a strange creature of him It is with the Popish Priests amongst themselves that knowing one another so well they know not how to instill a beliefe into one another of what they say I will give onely a soft touch or two because they are very sore in this part The Jesuits had a Scholler when I was their Scholler marked for a Jesuit and they voiced of him that every word which came from him in his exercises was worthy to be written in gold They had another Scholler whose thoughts were not with the Jesuits and he being gone they gave out a rumour that he was in opinion an Adamite and held that we ought and might with lesse danger of sinning to conforme our selves in the matter of apparell to Adam and Eve before their fall The man branded with this rumour is now a Priest and a Prisoner in England but a plaine one and as free from any such imagination as the best of us all If they be thus mischievous at their owne home what shall become of me that have another home set up in opposition to their home Where true Faith is the Mistresse Christian simplicity is ever a a waiter But falshood is weake and alwayes wanting and as she is false so are all her attendants and all her wayes The Schollers in the Seminaries beleeve nothing of the same ranke more truely then that Master Fox who wrote the Martyrologe was of so weake a braine that hee thought his head was an Vrinall and if it touched a thing of a hard substance it would breake Is not this a pretty way to transforme people into a belief that all the doctrine and history which came out of that head was no better then Urinall proofe A person of worth and great vertue amongst the Protestants wrote against them And if I have eares they reported he was tooke in the base act of Fornication with a poore Blackamore drudge They would not grant him the honour to have dealt with a Woman of his owne skinne Was not this a deepe way to perswade that his booke was begot betwixt him and the Devill I heard the man named who wrote the book in the name of Bishop King on his death-bed The Bishop was abused And yet the Church of Rome cannot blush But I cannot stay upon this Dung-hill because I see more foule way in my way concerning my selfe CHAP. II. THey reported so basely of me in the matter of my departure from them and from the place of my residence in the Countrey that I was forced to repaire to the Master of the house for a testimony under his hand of my religious demeanour who being a direct man in his way gave it me in ample manner and freed me both from the sinne and the suspition of it on his part And I can make it evident to any middle and indifferent person that I could not have proceeded otherwise either in reason or justice or prudence all circumstances considered and my knowledge of the present condition of things And yet they have not feared to report a most execrable falshood that the Master of the house tooke me in bed with his wife and vehemently protested that if I had not beene a sacred person a Priest hee would have killed me And that the matter might seeme more colourable they imployed a Minister of the same Countrey a friend of theirs and a wilde one and a man of all companies to make it his pot-discourse who in this was not Christs Minister but theirs and the Devils How much hath poore England suffered and how long groaned under such Ministers divided in their owne hearts and torne betwixt Papists and Protestants neither altogether faithfull to one nor wholly true to the other Albeit I am sure that as in all great workes so especially in the service of God the heart must be united in it selfe that it may be more strong in its motion But to turn upon the report I may use extraordinary words because I am extraordinarily charged As I shall ever desire to partake either of the promises of the Gospel or of the merits of Jesus Christ no such thing nor yet any shadow of it was true And in my conscience I cannot taxe the Gentlewoman with any thing but fondnesse and indiscretion to which the sexe is very prone and which shee hath practised upon more then my selfe Witnesse the witnesses of our conversation which either were of the house or of their Tenants Thinke now into what troubled streames he throwes himselfe that kicks off Rome and twines with the Church of England If he be not supported with strong hands both inwardly and outwardly in truth in truth he floats upon a very cold and comfortlesse condition What then when his owne Brethren make him the jest and contempt of men halfe metamorphosed into beasts But this was little to what came after It was proclaimed with a genenerall cry that I was madde and that I and my wits had beene parted this many a yeare But O my Father of Heaven I thank thee I have them still and my joy is that as they were in thy gift so they are in thy keeping If they answer these were the noises of common people and rumours are no sooner hatched but they have long feathered wings What say they to the Scotch Priest in Holborne who reported to certaine Protestants that I was runne away with the mans wife in whose house I lodged And they doubting of it doe yee thinke said he that I know it not who lodge very neere to him This rumour was discovered in the mouth where it was first borne Having preached in Saint Clements Church I was no sooner out of the Pulpit but the Reader desired me to satisfie him in one particular and related that he had spoke a day or two before with an honest and moderate Papist who assured him that in the beginning of the weeke I had ravished a maid and such a Justice naming a Gentleman in Holborne had sent me to Newgate And they were as busie in the Countrey For a Countrey-Papist came to my lodging enjoyned by his friends to see me Truely said he it is credibly reported and beleeved in the Countrey that you are dead having cut your throat O Rome canst thou maintaine thy greatnesse by no better meanes Then thou art a wretched Rome indeed and blessed be the houre in which I left thee And lately when by reason of some words in my Parish vomitted out of the black mouth of a Popish servant in the dishonour both of me and our Religion I wrote