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Laudensium apostasia: or A dialogue in which is shewen, that some divines risen up in our church since the greatness of the late archbishop, are in sundry points of great moment, quite fallen off from the doctrine received in the Church of England. By Henry Hickman fellow of Magd. Colledg Oxon.
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Hickman, Henry, d. 1692.
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professed or have imposed penalty upon repugnants of non-consentients unto it Ap. p. 143. There is no such Doctrine concerning Antichrist in the Book of Articles or in any other publick Monument or Record of the Church of England but the contrary rather and this appeareth by a prayer at the end of the 2d Homily for Whitsunday viz. That by the mighty power of the H.G. the comfortable Doctrine of Christ may be truly preached truly received and truly followed in all places to the beating down of sin Death the Pope the Devil and all the Kingdome of Antichrist Dr. Pet. Heylin Res. Pet. p. 133. Pacif. There 's scarce any opinion more generally received and owned by Divines that wish well to our reformation then this that the Pope is the Antichrist but I 'le not contend by their testimonies but by passages which I have excerpted out of the Homilies Tom. 1. p. 17. edit. 1623. Justification is not the office of man but of God or man cannot make himself righteous by his own works neither in part nor in whole for that were the greatest arrogance and presumption of man that Antichrist could set up against God p. 38. Honour be to God who did put light in the heart of his true faithful Minister of most famous memory K. H. 8th and gave him the knowledg of his word and an earnest affection to seek his Glory and to put away all such superstitious and Pharisaical Sects by Antichrist invented p. 70. For our Saviour Christ and St. Peter teach most earnestly obedience to Kings but the Bishop of Rome teacheth that they are under him are free from all burdens and charges of the Common-wealth and obedience toward their Prince most clearly against Christs Doctrine and St. Peters He ought therefore rather to be called Antichrist and the successor c. See more of the like nature and purport collected by Dr. Bernard See also the Prayer made for the Fifth of November Laud If a Controversie were referred by the Church or an Heresie to be corrected in the Church which touched the case of the Catholick Church it could not be put over more fitly to any one man by the Church representative in a Council then unto the Pope first Bishop of Christendom of greatest not of absolute power among Bishops Answ. to Gagg p. 29. Pacif. Never did the Church of England call the Pope first Bishop of Christendom nay she censures him for his bold usurpation of such a title Part. 2. Hom. p. 214 215. And he that thinks the Pope to be the fittest to refer a controversie he must bring us to such a Pope as I think did never sit in the See of Rome But it may be you and I have not the same thoughts of the dangerousness of Popery Laud It is a hard case that we shall think all Papists and Anabaptists and Sacramentaries to be fools and wicked persons certainly among all these Sects there are very many wise men and good men as well as erring and although some zeals are so hot and their eyes so inflamed with their ardors that they do not think their adversaries look like other men yet certainly we find by the results of their discourses that they are men that speak and make Syllogisms and use Reason and read Scripture and although they do no more understand all of it then we do yet they endeavour to understand as much as concerns them even all they can even all that concerns repentance from dead works and faith in our Lord Jesus Christ Dr. Taylor Epist. Dedic. to Liberty of Pro. p. 9 10. Pacif. A little charity will serve a man to think there are wise men and good men among Sacramentaries and Anabaptists but I do not like your joyning together of Papists Anabaptists Sacramentaries nor do I think that the learned Papists such are all they that can speak and make Syllogisms do endeavour to understand as much as concerns them or all that they can for an easie endeavour will inform them That their Church hath been and is mistaken in many points of great concernment and if she hath been mistaken she is not infallible Laud We have no other help in the midst of our distractions and disunions but all of us to be united in that common term which as it does constitute the Church in its being such so it is the medium of the Communion of the Saints and that is the Creed of the Apostles and in all other things an honest endeavour to find out what truths we can and a charitable and mutual permission to others that disagree from us and our opinions Ibid. p. 33. Pacif. I like it well that the Apostles Creed should be had in reverence but sure there are Articles necessary to salvation that are not {non-Roman} {non-Roman} {non-Roman} {non-Roman} {non-Roman} contained in that Symbole Laud None of those who hold the Creed entire can perish for want of necessary Faith neither are we obliged to make our Articles more particular and minute then the Creed for since the Apostles and indeed our Blessed Lord himself promised Heaven to them who believed him to be the Christ that was to come into the world and that he who believes in him should be partaker of the Resurrection and Life Eternal he will be as good as his word yet because this Article was very general and a Complexion rather then a Proposition the Apostles and others our Fathers in Christ did make it more explicite and though they have said no more then what lay entire and ready formed in the bosome of the great Article yet they made their extracts to great purpose and absolute sufficiency and therefore there needs no more deductions or remoter consequences from the great Article than the Creed of the Apostles Liber Prop. p. 12. Pacif. In this you must allow me to differ from you and so do all that wish well to the reformed Protestant Religion the secinians such a wretched sort of men that Grotius before Crellius had tampered with him counted not worth the name of Hereticks would fain be called and received as Christians because they receive and embrace the Apostles Creed Vid. Jonam Schlict apud Hora. Sosci confut p. 255 256. and yet they deny the Divinity of Jesus Christ they deny his satisfaction to Divine Justice for the sins of his people they deny the Holy Ghost to be a Person or else they make him to be but a finite created Person Hear Smalius contra Frantz Disp. 119. De Ecclesiâ p. 280. Apage istam puerilem tractandi homines pios cordatos rationem In Symbolo ait docenter tres personae Trinitatis In quonam Si aliud ostendat quam Apostolicum quod vocant tanquam humanum Commentum ridebo illud respuam si Apostolicum nego in eo doceri tres Trinitatis Personas Docetur quidam in eo patrem esse Filium Spiritum Sanctum in eos ut hoc concedam
Students not only privately within the Colledg walls but also publickly in the Schools Thus runs the decree extant Libro senioris procuratoris B. fol. 35. A. Decretum Convocationis Anno Domini 1579. Jan. 27. ad extirpandam haeresin quamcunque ad informandam juventuntem in verâ pietate Vetus statutum contra Haereticos perverse de Christianâ fide sentientes renovandum in usum revocandum duximus additâ hac explanatione Ad extirpandam Haeresin quamcunque ad informandam in verâ pietate juventutem Libros hosce legendos censemus statuimus viz. Catechismum Alexandri Nowelli majorem Lat. aut Graec. Vel Catechismum Johannis Calvin Lat. Gr. aut Hebr. vel Elementa Christianae Religionis Andreae Hyperii Vel Catechesin Heidelbergensem pro captu auditorum arbitrio legentium 2. His adiungi possunt Henrici Bullingeri Catechismus pro adultis Institutiones Calvini vel Apologia Ecclesiae Anglicanae vel articuli Religionis in Synodo Londinensi Latine conscripti autoritate regia editi cum explicatione locorum Communium testimoniis è sacra scriptura aut interdum è patribus desumptis Ad primam lectionem Juniores ad secundam provectiores omnes nullo gradu insignitos astringi volumus 3. Catechismos omnes sanae huic doctrinae contrarios aliosque libros superstitiosos Papisticos legi haberi penitus interdicimus 4. Hanc legendi interpretandi provinciam demandamus privatim Tutoribus publice alicui Catechistae in singulis Collegiis Aulis per praefectos assignando 5. Quo Decretum hoc diligenter inviolate observetur examen habeatur domi per Catechistam aut etiam Praefectos in Academiâ singulis anni terminis per Procancelarium adhibitis praeleetoribus sacrae Theologiae qui à studiosis convocatis profectus rationem exigant 6. Si quis discentium aut docentium negligentior ant alioqui culpabilis deprehendatur judicio praefectorum aut si opus sit Procancellarii corrigatur puniatur I would fain know how it came to pass that there 's no mention of this Decree in our new Statutes if our late Grandees did not steere a course quite contrary to our old Protestant Divines Nor do I know any ground that the Articles of our Church and Calvins Institutions which this Decree joyned together should now with so much Zeal be put asunder Laud Private Opinions heretofore especially if countenanced by some eminent Name were looked on as the publick resolution of the Anglican Church and the poor Church condemned for teaching those Opinions which by the Artifice of some men had been fastned on her Dr. Crackanthorp when he was commanded to make answer to the Archbishop of Spalato his Consilium redeundi chose rather to defend those Lutheri Calvini dogmata which had been charged upon this Church in the Bishops Pamphlet then to assert this Church to her genuine Doctrine They that went otherwise to work were like to speed no better in it or be otherwise requited for their honest Zeal then to be presently exposed to the publick envy and made the common subject of reproach and danger So that I must needs look upon it as a bold attempt as the times then were in Bishop Mountague of Norwich in his answer to the Popish Gagger and the two Appellants to lay the Saddle on the right Horse to sever or discriminate the opinions of particular men from the received and authorized Doctrines of the Church of England to leave the one to be maintained by their private fautors and only to defend and maintain the other And certainly had he not been a man of a mighty Spirit and one that could easily contemn the cryes and clamours which were raised against him for so doing he could not but have sunk remedilesly under the burden of disgrace and the fears of ruine which that performance drew upon him To such an absolute Authority were the Writings and Names of some men advanced by their diligent followers that not to yield obedience to their ipse dixits was a crime unpardonable It is true King James observed the inconvenience and prescribed a remedy sending instructions to the Universities bearing date Jan. 18. 1616. wherein it was directed among other things That young Students in Divinity should be excited to study such Books as were most agreeable in Doctrine and Discipline to the Church of England and to bestow their time in Fathers and Councils Schoolmen Histories and Controversies and not to insist too long on Compendiums and Abbreviations making them the ground of their studie And I conceive That from that time forwards the names and reputations of some leading men of the foraign Churches which till then did carry all before them did begin to lessen Divines growing every day more willing to free themselves from that servitude vassalage to which the authority of those names had enslaved their judgements But so that no man had the courage to make such a general assault against the late received opinions as Bishop Mountague though many when the ice was broken followed gladly after him Dr. Heylin Preface to Theologia Veterum Pacif. You have given me a large account how as you conceive Calvin Bullinger c. came to decrease but such as is no way satisfactory for 1. It is gratis dictum that the reading of Fathers Councils c. will make any one abate his esteem of any Orthodox Cystem 2. It is no way probable that King James should by his instructions in An. 1616. design the hindering of the Calvinian Doctrines who appeared so very zealous An. 1618. against the Tenets of Arminius who did contradict Calvin in those points which of all others held by him are most liable to exception 3. Nor is it any way probable that if any Calvinistical or Lutheran Dogmata had been super-induced to the Articles of our Church which had the least seeming contrariety to them that none should be either acute enough to discern such superseminations or couragious enough to pull up such tares but only Richard Mountague B. D. Had he only learned to deny himself had the spirit of courage and resolution departed from all the English Clergy and rested upon him alone Sure I am that Dr. Forbes of Edenburgh leaveth this Mr. Mountague under this censure that he too much complyed with Calvinism in the point of justification Propter puritanorum undique strepentium clamores nescio quomodo refugerit ad distinctionem Forbes de Justif. lib. 2. c. 5. 4. 'T is scarce credible if Mr. Mountague had only separated chaffe from the wheat and distinguished only the received Doctrines of the Church from some busie Puritans private Opinions that he should have been so severely censured for his Book by the Parliament and confuted by some Divines of great note and learning and as conformable as himself particularly by his Reverend and much Reverenced Diocesan And Archbishop Abbot in his