POST-HASTE A REPLY TO PETER DOCTOR HEYLIN'S APPENDIX TO HIS TREATISE INTITULED Respondet Petrus c. BY WILLIAM SANDERSON Esq LONDON Printed for the use of the Author 165â— The Contents PEtrus his Preface examined A castigation of Doctor Heylin for his ill Manners to the late Primate of all Ireland And his scandalizing Doctor Prideaux at Court in divers false Informations With a Copy of his Answer to each And the Protestation he was compelled unto to cleer himself The Character given by Doctor Hackwell of Doctor Heylin Three passages replied unto and confirmed as before With some seasonable good Counsell to the Doctor if he have the will to accept thereof POST-HASTE A Reply to Peter Doctor Heylin ' His Appendix to his Treatise c. THere is a Treatise come forth the other day Intituled Respondet Petrus or an answer of Peter Heylin to Doctor Bernard c. And although it be very large to small purpose yet at the 109th Page he adds an Appendix in answer to certain passages in Mr. Sandersons History of the late King Charles relating to the Lord Prymate The Articles of Ireland and The Earl of Strafford And as if it were so memorable a business to be kept upon Record he gives us punctually the day when he began to undertake this Taske and the time of his finishing In which I find little else true but the confessing of his infirmities and his unfitness to enter into disputes c. Instead of cleering himself he hath added more spots to his former Indeed Petrus hath made hast for notwithstanding the extremity of the season as he sayes and his languishing quartanague he hobled up his answers for the middle of the Term following with as much ease as Hoggs eate Acornes or Pidgeons pick Pease Yet he was interrupted the publishing by the undertakers with him a dead vacation not profitable for the vent thereof And so it came not forth untill just the first day of this Midsomer Term By it he hath both thriftily gotten the advantage of sale and enforceth his adversaries to hunt dry-foot after him a whole long Summers Vacation contemptible Grashoppers compared with such a sonne of Anak as himself Only Petrus considers wisely that although convicia spreta exolescunt c. Short liv'd Pamphlets with which he hath been often bang'd pass away upon the breath of Rumour but for him to be enrolled upon record in the body of an History what is it lesse than for him to live defam'd and dye detestable a scorne to these times and an ignominy to all ages following But who can help it if a Man will make himself such I wish he be not prophetick in it which by this book he hath put hard for Let him not blame me t is the malefactor himself not the judge who pronounceth justly that is the Author of his own ruine And thus in briefe we have the Preface to his large Treatise which I shall leave to such whom it may concern if they conceive it worthy of answering for I find some learned Men are for the Negative as if he had been in it his self-revenger and next doore to a felo de se rather to be pitied than opposed I shall only take notice of his Appendix and shew him to the Reader by that light by which he longs to be seene wherein Petrus falls upon me not so much answering as to shew how little he deserves it I have been a while considering which part to take of that double Counsell of Solomon in the like case Answer not c. And yet answer c. I concluded upon the latter in this Post-Hast that the Term might not want an enterlude at the ending as well as it had by his Book at the beginning of it And now let me meet my Petrus who spends 17 whole Pages in the combate with me taking in his large Frontispeice or the Contents of his Appendix which might have well stood for the whole So have we seen a daâ—â—ing coward practise on the Stage to fence with his supposed foe when all that while it was but with his own hat and feather How much time doth Petrus spend to hear himself speak imagining the Reader to be bound up to his sence and audience Indeed I had warning heretofore not to meddle with him and was told that although he was blind yet he with his helpers could see as far into a Millstone as any other Man And that if he should be concerned in my History as how could he scape he would reprint himself and be thereby well paid for his paines And truly I conceive it no discretion for me to make it my business other than to dry blow beat him since he is not herein worthy of bleeding For to say much were but to give him further occasion to assume fresh credit of copeing with the deceased now at rest whom he hath endeavoured to disturbe even the most Reverend name and living fame of that approved learned Prelate the late Arch-Bishop of Armagh Prymate of all Ireland But to be a little serious with him 't is no newes for Doctor Heylin to be a disturber of pious and eminent Men while they were living of which now he is not like to live long himself t is time to think upon repenting I shall upon this occasion only instance in his demeanour towards Doctor Prideaux at and after the taking of his degree in Oxford Anno 1635. Who catching at some particulars which fell from Doctor Prideaux in the discussing the questions * given by Doctor Heylin scandalized him at Court to the late King being then at Woodstock An Ecclesia authoritatem habeat * In fidei controversiis determinandis Interpretandis sacras scripturas Decernendi ritus et ceremonias Upon which the Doctor was compelled to make his defence with a protestation under his hand against those false Informations given in against him Pretending to have been cross to the Articles and in speciall to the 20th of the Church of England branched into positions viz. 1 That the Church is Mera Chimaera 2 That it teacheth and determines nothing 3 That controversies might better be referred to the Vniversities than to the Church 4 That learned men in the Vniversities might determine of controversies without the Bishops or acquainting them with them To these Doctor Prideaux was fain to make answer which to satisfie the desire of the Reader not being heretofore publisht I shall give him a transcript as followeth viz. The answer of Doctor Prideaux to the Information given in against him by Doctor Heylin These passages imperfectly catched at by the Informer were not positions of mine for I detest them as they are layd for impious and ridiculous but oppositions according to my place proposed for the further clearing of the truth to which the Respondent was to give satisfaction And this generall protestation I hope takes off all that can be laid against me in the particulars
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 Alâ—â—â—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
Author was Doctor Heylin In order thereunto he acquainted me with such passages as did concern that of the Earl of Strafford whose commands I presently effected intending then to have set it out by it self least the Doctors Malice should Gangreen by neglect But the Lord Prymates decease immediately following it was referred to my History with some fresh Notions more proper which in my absence was neglected by the Press and at my return they being inserted have given cause of Intersections in the Impression between fol. 108 and 109. With which Petrus is so much troubled and spends his breath in a dispute with himself whether it were mine or Doctor Bernards And why so jealous good Petrus First saith he because Mr. Sanderson before in his Preface makes Doctor Heylin a person of some fame and great ability That possibly might be my mistake as the next in my speaking reprochfully of him is his Indeed I acknowledg that Doctor Heylin deserves Characters of severall kinds as most men may discover who consult his writings and so Cato's lesson learnt by him long agoe Convenient nulli c. will better serve the turn to decipher him than mee Secondly saith he Mr. Sanderson in his History fol. 200. informs us that in Anno. 1635. There was a Synod held in Ireland c. But in his foysted Argument he speakes the Contrary Good Petrus consult some true friends that will read â—right to you and you will find the severall Folio's you mention not to be any thing contrary which are too tedious to insert in this short Castigation Three points there are in which Petrus fancies me to act for Doctor Bernard 1 The acquitting the Lord Prymate from the distinction of a Politicall and a personall conscience And yet it is confessed by himself to have been done to my hand by Mr. Howell's attestation of my history who was concerned in those words 2 The proving that the Articles of Ireland were not abrogated those of the Church of England inserted in their stead And yet he hath prevented any further confirmation of either by his own confessing of his being too much credulous in beleiving and inconsiderate in publishing such mistaken intelligence Which are his own words folio 87. And I could wish that in the Errata of the next Edition of his History of the Sabbaoth if the world be ever troubled with it again he would Record this Ingenuity of his being such a rarity in him so as to retract it and howsoever he is much offended at the Primates expressions viz. Nor shames he to affirm as being a Notorious untruth c. Truly with me it seemes a gentle penance for so presumptuous an assertion and pertinaciously continuing in it these many yeares till he was thus convict defaming not only a single person but a whole Nation 3 That the Lord Prymate boar no grudge to the Earl of Strafford so as to advise the King to pass the Bill of Attainder This whosoever he accounts the Actor hath been sufficiently cleared also and needs no repetition here For the term of Sophistry for which he is also much offended with the Prymate he hath in the Iudgment of divers made it good throughout his book which are so many that they would find as much work for an observator as he saith my History will afford him I shall only trouble the Reader with one instance ex ungue Leonem by this you may judg of the rest which is in such great Characters that he who rides post may read it without stopping 'T is folio 63. where he repeating a Quotation of the Prymate in the conclusion of his Letter to Doctor Twiss viz That Gregory the great esteemed it to be the doctrine of the Preachers of Antichrist who at his coming shall cause both the Lords day and the Sabaoth to be kept or celebrated from doing any worke Petrus in his pretended answer hath blindly mistaken the Copulative and for the disunctive or though the Prymate in the next words had given him warning of that Stumble And so upon a false fent he runs away with the Hunt as if it must necessarily follow from thence That it is the doctrine of the Preachers of Antichrist that no manner of work be done on the Saturday or the Sunday And from that surmise he makes an application of which I leave it to others to give the sense What will become saith he of our English Sabbatarians and their Abettors who impose as many restraints of this kind upon Christian people as ever were imposed on the Iewes by the Scribes and Pharisies And in Conclusion he attempts to put out our Eies also in perswading us again That 't is all one to say on the Saturday and the Sunday as on the Saturday or the Sunday As if unity and division conjunction and separation were alike with him And it seemes by this that his Nature is most addicted to the latter As for that great offence taken by him in the mistake of weakness for incredulity and Idleness for Inconsideration in the printing of the Prymates Letter There is no such difference either in quantity or quality but that if he can swallow the one as he hath done even now he may as easily digest the other And it being but a copy it might as well happen as other greater mistakes have been in my absence between the Margin and the body of that letter Though 't is possible for Petrus to shew his guilt of Idleness to make more work for the Press to no purpose Which petulant brain of his may be excused by the want of that sense which might divert his thoughts otherwise And for what else remaines concerning the Bishops whether sent for or sent to the King Or whether the Iudges were williâ—â—or unwilling to deliver their Iudgmâ—â—â— against the votes of the Parliament I r 〈…〉 the Reader to what hath been said in the History too tedious to recite As for the challengers threats with which he concludes hereafter to commit a publique Riot on my whole History and therein to be made immortall by being loud and troublesome He that marcheth against the Ocean may no doubt take abundance of Cockle shells Captive I confess ingeniously there may be mistakes in the body of so large an History which will be amended in the next Impression as it is sodainly intended wherein your oblique Information or any civill advertisement of others will direct me Seeing as Petrus saith abilities not governed by Infallibility cannot exempt a man from being obnoxious to mistakes with which his own Pamphlets are pestered But spare your Intelligence in the disquisition of one particular concerning the Children of Mr. Iohn Hambden of Buckingham Shire which is confessed an Errata and must be thus corrected That he died of his wounds and left three Sonnes compleat Persons both of body and mind what ere sinister Report then gave occasion of the mistake And now Petrus at parting I could find in my heart to give you a little good Counsell Be not so wilde an Ishmaelite as to have your hand against every man and provoking every mans hand against you Take the advice given to your name-sake Peter put up thy sword again into his place Leave off this crossâ—grain humour studying the injury against such Persons as the late eminent Prymate so far above you in learning and reputation that wise men look upon your language like the barking at the Moon or a mad-man throwing up a sharp stone which falls on his own pate This your last Book having made you such a Bankrupt in point of reputation with most men that all the charitable collections of your numerous helpers will not easily recruite you I reverence your function and mervail that many of your Bookes do so little concern it rather to the dishonour than otherwise and I am not at all obliged to respect your person Your travail hath been much earthy at which you began had you continued that Iourney you might have amended your own Errours What is otherwise as the observations of the Lords day or of Persons of piety who were and are for it you have been in a continuall combate against both Your own friends conceive you unfortunate to the disturbance of the Church in each For my part so soon as I find you reformed I shall contribute my endeavours that your credit now out of joint may be set right again Your own Pen that broke you must repair you though as yet I am among the number of those that therein despair And as you have been a * Doctor Heylins desturbance of Doctor Prideaux * Insor mat ex Articul 20. affiâ—m Informer Doctor Prideaux Doctor Heylin Informer Doctor Prideaux The accuser of the 〈◊〉 Rev. 12. 10. Doctor Prideaux Protestation * Such proceeded 〈…〉 Doctor Heylin 〈…〉 one Doctor Hackwells Character of Doctor Heylin The occasion why I undertook his observations on Mr. l'eStrange Append pa. 142 Three points of mine quarrelled by Petrus Append p. 195. Append p. 147.