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A75518	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 illustrious, high, and honourable court of Parliament. And to the nobilitie, orthodox clergie, gentry, and communaltie of England. With the proceedings against him in 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.		1641 (1641)	Wing A3566; Thomason E206_11; ESTC R209850	17,891	41

of Homilies and 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 〈◊〉 Whereas it is most manifest as before 〈…〉 ●●●inst the Doctrine of those Bookes of Articles and Homifies 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 Natherlesse 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 religous Gentleman who tooke the Objectours part Whereof there were divers not a few we may say a Cloud of witnesses and some of them Minasters 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 Archbyshop 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 espacially 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 due oppose and will not adbaere vnto his unsound and unsavorie opinions and Doctrines though they other wise 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 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 the 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 out Appeale unto You and to draw to a Conclusion therof A mongst your many weightie matters and of high Consequence for Church and Common-wealth Wee most humbly supplicate that this new 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 wee 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 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 Pulpits 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 asleepe 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 Byshopricke 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 Bachesour 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 aforesaid Elect Byshop came to Bow-Church to be Confirmed and the aforesaid Proclamation was againe by the Beadle of the Arches audibly 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 busineffe 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 preented 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 nomine Amen Coram vobis Reverendissimo honorando Patre Georgio divina providentia Cantuariens Archiepisc vestrove Deligato Officiali Vicario in spiritualibus generali ejusve Surrogato ant 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 Ric di Mountagu Clerici nuper in Episcopatum Cicestrens vt dicitur electi accusando querelando obijciendo excipiendo contra prefat Ricardum Mountagu Clericum ad impediendum juxta Iuris in hac parte exigentiam non aliter promotionem confirmationem ipsius Ricardi in Episcop sic vt prefertur electi comperuit dictus Willielmus Iones allegando dicendo querelando accusando obijciendo articulatim vt sequitur 1. IN primis 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 England for avoyding of diversitie of opinions and for establishing consent touching true Religion And by your said Delicts you have 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 aivisim 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 Conntries 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 Caesar 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 famous 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 suerunt 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 nec ad onus superflue probationis de quo protestatur sed quatenus probaverit in premissis catenus obtineat in petitis sub protestatione de addendo premissis eademque magis specifice declarando specificando eademque probando pro loco tempore congruis oportunius semper sibi salvo omni Iuris beneficio in hac parte sibi competen seu competitur eaque protestatione sibi semper salva petit Articulos Capitula sive Interrogatoria sua predicta ad omnem Iuris effectum admitti partemque aduersam eijsdem corum cuilibet secundum Iuris 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 Chichest or 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 Byshop 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 the 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 dee beseech you by the name of our Lord Iesu Christ that you would bee reconciled to the Church of England our deerest 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 Impieties 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 Catalog us Gloriae Mundi so you are like in the next edition of Schlasselburgius his Catalogus Hariticorum 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 Mountaguists 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 Haereticks with those damned old Haereticks Arrius Sccinus 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 Chrysoftomes 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 By shop of Winton of the Honorable House afotenamed 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-band 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