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A73761	The epistle congratulatorie of Lysimachus Nicanor of the Societie of Jesu, to the Covenanters in Scotland. VVherin is paralleled our sweet harmony and correspondency in divers materiall points of doctrine and practice.	Nicanor, Lysimachus, 1603-1641.	1640 (1640)	STC 5752; Thomason E203_7; ESTC R17894	65,738	81

's easie to help that keepe those under who are not zealous in your cause let them not be acquainted with your mysteries nor be chosen Commissioners for assemblies if there be any matter of importance to be commended to the people send either conjunctly or severally some zealous ministers to their pulpits to rouze up the multitude and put the like edge upon such cold-rise ministers and if they become not more zealous put them in feare of Deprivation If you feare any division among the Commons it 's likely that some of them have seene the Kings extraordinary savour toward them but you ought to be carefull that they see not the Kings Proclamations and if any have seen them let them be perswaded that his Majesties Proclamations have this only end to divide them and then to destroy them and that all other faire promises shall have no reall performances Be not you behind the King in your promises to them also and howbeit you have a hundred thousand pound to take of them yet be not suddaine but by delaying put them in hope that you will never exact it For if you goe now to exact it it will make them repine and grumble and say instead of Sal●mons easie yoke we are oppressed with Rehoboams heavie burdens and so make a rupture and returne every man to his tent and in the end submit themselves to their Salomon againe And especially let the ruling Elders command their ruled Elders or ministers to be diligent in season and out of season to keepe the multitude in their zealous humour for if they doe not uncessantly blow upon them they will be like mare mortuum and never be moved Cease not to possesse them with an evill opinion of all that oppones themselves to your courses either by word or writing make them believe that all that writ against your confederacie are unnaturall enemies to their Countrie and that it is not against your faction which they doe but against Church and Kingdome and suffer no man to deny this to be a Nationall quarrell or to call it a Faction and all that refuse to cast in their lot with you call them the cursed inhabitants of Meroz that will not help you against the mightie And let all that follow their King be called the Kings faction according to the example of your progenitors who called all that followed the Queen a faction which they would punish as Traitors whensoever God should put the sword of justice in their hands Knox. hist of the Church of Scotland pag. 364. that is when they should find themselves able to depose the Queen as they did and represse her Subjects There is another thing which I desire you to remember to try where those ministers that have beene most opposite to our doctrines and practises have had their residence in the ministerie that you may place able and zealous men for our cause in those same places to build up the people which they have destroyed This worke is well begun by you in bringing Henderson from the Countrie to the town of Edinburgh Dikson to Glasgow and Rhetorfort and Blair who could not get libertie to vent our Doctrine elsewhere to S. Andrews and in particular let them bee carefull over the studients in Colledges ●uo semel est imbuta recens servabit odorem testa diu And as for those who like the men of Succoth and the inhabitants of Meroz refused to joyne with you it s well that you did not take the th rnes of the wildernesse and bryers to teach them to beat downe their houses this may content them albeit you restore not their goods which you tooke while you plundered their houses Though they be busie seeking it yet you are not bound according to our rules Nullus tenetur cum vitae peri●ulo Tolet. lb. 5. cap. 37. aut famae rem alterius restituere sunt enim vita fama nobili oris ordinis quam res No man is bound 01 with the danger of his life or good name to restore another man his goods againe for life and a good name are of a more noble order then goods are for albeit there be no danger of your life to restore every man his owne yet your name is not safe for if you restore to each man his goods againe at least it will be a tacite acknowledging of your robberie and that is hurt some to a good name But some say that it is a matter of conscience to restore a mans goods againe which is better then a good name yea the way to recover a good name but I refer this to the schooles I have some matter of expostulation with you but I will be loth to do it now who have begun to congratulate with you for that sweet Harmonie both in opinions and reasons which is of late grown up amongst us Rome was not builded in one day we must not look that at the first you can receive all our doctrine though in a short time you have profited much Et vos conversi convertite fratres Master Cant could preach at Glasgow in what need England and Ireland standeth of the Covenant where some have their eares cut for the defence of the truth and are groaning under the tyrannie of the whore of Babel And since so it is you should pitie the blindnesse of those people who have not a learned man in England or Ireland to lead them but the blind leadeth the blind But I perceive you are not negligent herein your Ironicall preterition is most notable while you say Answer to the M●●quesse of Hamiltons declaration We do not meddle with the Kirks of England or Ireland but recommend to them the patterne showne on the Mount But what patterne of the mount is this I pray you is it the Patterne showne by you on Dunce hill called by your preachers mount Sion with an armie against the face of your King if it be so it s a worthie patterne that requireth imitation But if the Patterne on the mount be the Patterne of your discipline you doe well herein to imitate your progenitors for they were desirous to have Episcopacie throwne downe in England as you are now or as wee are desirous for their pride is so great that the least of them sayes that they have no more dependance from the Pope then he from them that their calling and place is of as great power and authoritie as his is within his diocesse thus limitating the universall Bishop as if hee were onely a Diocesian Yea they are not ashamed to say that all the Popish bishops are but equivocally called Bishops and univocally are the Popes slaves for as they have their power and authority from the Pope so are they tyed to his obedience by oath Romans pentifici veram obedientiam spondeo acjuro Form Iu●● Bulla Pii 4. I promise and sweare to give true obedience to the Pope of Rome So that as the Bishops of Apulia

as to lend him their hand to write for him that foolish but seditious ballad called the Bishops bridles And I marvell more that the Covenanters have made this pattern of wickednesse to be their fittest man to present to England and Ireland their partern on the Mount for they print nothing there now without the approbation of one Johnson Clerke of their assemblies So he prints himself 〈◊〉 This AS or Alexander Sempill is so beastly and apisl● that he can finde no other matter or subject for his ballad but to allude to one Rew's preaching on Balaams asse which they make to be the Church of Scotland that have thrown off the Bishops their riders and therefore must sell their bridles This Preacher Rew did not put shame enough upon that Church but this AS must second him and continue its shame That of the Wiseman is fit for them A whip for the horse a bridle for the Asse Prov. 26.3 and a rod for the fooles back But since they delight in this comparison and will have their Church to be an Asse and the Bishops their riders I shall not displease them so to call it But let them remember that the Bishops rode upon this Asse meekly dealing with them 1 Cor. 4.21 not with the rod but in love with the spirit of meeknesse But the Lay-Bishops have throwne them off and now ride so furiously like Jehu that we complaine with the Psalmist a Psal 66.12 Thou hast caused men to ride over our heads we went through fire and water they b 2 King 4.24 drive and go forward and slacke not their riding they study to make her a wilde c Ier. 2.24 Asse used to the wildernesse that snuffeth up the Wind at her pleasure and is so farre drawne away in the wildernesse that his Majesty hath taken more paines to finde her out and bring her from her wandering 1 Sam. 9.3 than Saul did in seeking his fathers asses he sought his Fathers asses but three dayes but his Majesty hath sought this asse three yeares There is no question but she would be found and returne Esa 1.3 for the asse knowes her Masters crib but her riders will not suffer her perswading her that his Majesty will miscrably handle her though they assuredly know themselves that his Majesty will do no more harm to her than the Lion did to the asse whereon the seduced Prophet rode 1 King 13.28 the Lion did not teare the Asse the Scripture sayes but killed the seduced rider This is the onely feare they have not for the asse but for the riders who have justly provoked the Lions wrath as the messenger of death and to be buried with the buriall of an asse Ier. 22.19 drawn and cast forth beyond the gates of Jerusalem Here the Anticovenanter would have proceeded but I not being desirous to trouble my selfe in dispute with him cut him off with your words The Covenanters are exhorted not to be moved with remonstrances were they never so specious but submit themselves obediently to follow their leaders Covenanters i●form for Defensive §. 4. wh●m God at this time hath largely furuished with courage and counsell for the good of his Kirke and Kingd●me But he answered me The leaders of this people cause them to erre Esa 9.16 and they that are led of them are destroyed But leaving him I returne to my exhortation If you cannot perswade men to your pitte ne on the mount at least labour to possesse them with the opinions and doctrines which you have received of us I specially his is the duty of Blair and Livingston to water the good seed which they have sown in some of the hearts of some of your countrey-men in the North part of Ireland and by their frequent exhortations and letters to perswade them to grow and be fruitfull in those matters Especially let them by fearefull threatings of Gods judgements aff●ight them from taking that unl wfull oath which establisheth the Kings Supremacie and is urged by my Lord Deputy to whom I confesse his Masters honour is more deare than the Apple of his eye so violently that he will suffer no man to vilipend it but will have them sweare such an oath that they shall never tak● armes against their King nor protest against him but to obey his royall commands Whereby thus violently he hath put your covenant out of credit among the Scots there except you provide some remedy I heare that not only Blair and Livingston but that Rhetorfort and Dickson also have lent their helping hand and have written a learned refutation of that Oath to be taken by the Scots there I am sorry that I did not see it that I might have increased my congratulati n. Did you ever see the two Apostolike brieft which our holy Father ●aulu● 5. sent to the Catholikes in England that were urged with the same Oath that is pressed upon your brethren now Or did you ever read Bellarmines letter to Blakwell if you did they have helped you well in that matter I am sure Becanus tels us the summe of all which the Pope and Cardinall did write Vterque negat salvâ conscientiâ praestari pos●e Bec m. dis●id Angl. hoc juramentum à rege propositum quia abnegarent sidem Catholicam They both deny that that oath prescribed by the King can be taken with a safe conscience because they would deny the Catholike Faith They say you say the same onely you add many fearfull judgements upon both the exacter and takers of the same And therefore you may say of them that take this oath Ibid. as Becanus doth Hoc faciunt ad extremam patem politiam conservandam quae pluris abillis quam fides religio astimatur ideóque politici poti●s quàm Christiani appellandi sunt They do this that they may preserve outward peace which they esteeme more than of Faith and Religion and therefore they ought rather to be called Politicians than Christians Beca● resut T●tu●e t●●●● p. 1 para●t 1. For no man will grant the Kings Supremacy excepto Sacellano quibusdam aliis adulatoribus regiis Except the Kings Chaplaine Bishop Andren es and some other Court Parasites And here by the way I must tell you a notable untruth of that Bishop Andrewes in his dispute against Bellarmine he holds that the Puritans do willingly take the oath of Supremacy But albeit he was 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 having five tongues yet with none of his five tongues could he speake true in this as our Becanus proveth from no lesse than the testimony of his owne Master K. Iames in his Basil Doron But I finde one Richardus Thomsonus in Elencho refutationis Torturae torti defending Andrewes and reconciling him with his master by telling that the King spake of Scots Puritans and the Bishop of English Puritans Whether this may satisfie or not I leave it to a farther inquirie If the