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A43545	Observations on the historie of The reign of King Charles published by H.L. Esq., for illustration of the story, and rectifying some mistakes and errors in the course thereof.	Heylyn, Peter, 1600-1662.	1656 (1656)	Wing H1727; ESTC R5347	112,100	274

77. he would deny them nothing of their Liberties which any of his Predecessours had granted to them and finally in the close thereof when He enacted the Petition of Right and made it passe into a Law of which our Authour tells us Fol. 87. That never Arbitrary power since Monarchy first founded did so submitters fasces so vaile its Scepter never did the prerogative descend so much from perch to popular lure as by that Concession He vailed his Crowne unto all three by suffering the House of Commons to set up a Committe for Religion to question Manwaring Sibthorp and divers others for Doctrinall matters which if erroneous were more proper to be censured in the High Commission or the Convocation to which the cognizance of such Causes doth of right b●…long and not unto a Consistory of Lay. Elders which though it might consist of the wisest men yet were they for the most part none of the greatest Clerks He vailed his Crown also unto the Scots when having power to bring them under his command he yeilded to the Pacification at Barwicke not more unto his own dishonour than to their advantage which drew him on first to abolish the Episcopal Government the greatest prop of hi●… Estate in the Church of Scotland and after at their instance to call a Parliament in England and by the terrou●… of their Armes first to give way that the Lords of the Privie Councel in referenc●… to the Tryall of the 〈◊〉 of Strafford should be examined upon oath in points debated and resolved on at the Councill Table that being done to yeild to a Triennial Parliament to be called upon his default by Sheriffs and Constables and finally to perpetuate that Parliament to his owne destruction What other vailings of the Crown followed upon this we shall hereafter see upon another occasion In this Session of Parliament was Mr. Mountague questioned for publishing certain Bookes prejudiciall to the Protestant cause c. Somewhat of Mr. Mountague we have seen before and shall now adde that his Books contained nothing prejudiciall to the Protestant Cause or to the established Doctrine of the Church of England but onely to the Calvinisticall Sect who had imposed their Heterodoxies upon credulous men for the received Doctrines of the Church This Mr. Mount●… disavowed in his Answer to the Romish Gagg●…r and severing private mens Opinions from the Churches Doctrines to be defended by their own Patrons and abettors which so offended that whole Party that an Information was intended and prepared against him which being made knowne unto King James he did not onely give him his discharge and quietus est and grant him leave in regard the Accusation was divulged and the clamour violent humbly to appeale from his Defamers unto His most sacred cognizance in publique and to represent his just defence against their slanders and false surmises unto the world but also to give expresse order unto Doctor White then Deane of C●…l sle cried up when L●…cturer of St. Pauls for the stoutest Champion of this Church against those of Rome for the authorizing and publishing thereof which was ●…one accordingly So he in his Epistle Dedicatory to the late King Charles These are the Books The Answer to the Romish Gagger and the Defence thereof ca●…led Appello Caesarem so prejudiciall is you say to the Protestant Cause and therefore fit to be in●…ed on by the House of Parliament The cause of that restraint v●…z the grant of Tonage and Poundage for no more than one yeare being a designe to reduce it to the rate setled in Qu●…n Maryes daies And had they brought it unto that their Grant would have been like the Apples of Sodome goodly and beautifull to the eye sed levi tactu pressa in vagum pulverem fatiscunt saith the old Geographer but never so gently handled fell to dust and ashes a nut without a kernil and a painted nothing And yet they might have made the King some faire amends if they had brought the Subsidies to the same rate also or to the rates they were at in her Fathers daies when as one single Subsidie of foure shillings in the pound was estimated to amount to eight hundred thousand pounds of good English money which is as much as eight whole Subsidies did amount to when King Charles c●…me unto the Crown The Divinity Schoole was appointed for the House of Commons And qu●…stionlesse this giving up of the Divinity School unto the use of the House of Commons and placing the Speaker in or neer the Chair●… in which the Kings Professour for Divinity did usually reade his Publick Lectures and moderate in all Publick Disputations first put them into a conceit that the determining in all points and Controversies in Divinity did belong to them As Vibius Rufus in the story having married Tully's Widow and bought Caesars Chair conceived that he was then in a way to gain the Eloquence of the one and the Power of the other For after this we find no Parliament without a Committee for Religion and no Committee for Religion but what did think it self sufficiently instructed to manage the greatest Controversies of D●…vinity which were brought before them with what successe to the Religion here by Law established we now see too clearly Most of the Voters of this Remonstran●… flew high and impetuously prest in upon the Duke And this makes good that saying of the wise Historian Quam breves infausti Romani populi amores that the D●…rlings and Affections of the Common People take which sense you will are of short continuance It was not long since that this very man was cried up in Parliament for the great ornament and honour of the English Nation the chief preserver of this Kingdome from the Spanish practises no attribute sufficient to set forth his praises no honour large enough to requite his merits Now on the sodain he is become the subject of a popular h●…d tossed from one Parliament to another like the Ball of Fortune many times struck into the hazard and at last quite tossed out of the Court and-tumbled into his grave by a desperate Ruffion But as I have been told by some intelligent man this sodain alteration came another way and not from any premeditated purpose in the Parliament men who after voted this Remonstrance For having an ill eye to the B●…shop of Lincolne and a designe to make h●…m lighter by the Seal the B●…shop to prevent the danger and divert the humour proposed the Duke of Buckingham unto some leading men amongst them as the fitter game offering to furn●…sh them with matter and to m●…ke good that matter by sufficient evidence which coming not long a●…ter to the ears of the Duke to whom he had done many ill offices when he was in Spaine he procured the Seale to be taken from him of which more anon And who i.e. Sir Robert Mansell had an unquestionable right to the chief conduct of this

publick Treaties and Negotiations and many private Conferences and debates of Councell he was out-witted and made use of unto other mens ends by almost all that undertook him And on●… might say I fear●… too truly that by putting off the Majesty belonging to a King of England that so he might more liberally enjoy himselfe neglecting the affaires of State and cares of Government to hunt after pleasures deserting the imperiall City to sport himselfe at Roiston Newmarket and such obscure places which were to him as the Isle of Capre was to Tiberius Caesar and finally by letting loose the Golden reines of Discipline held by his Predecessors with so strict a hand he opened the first gap unto those confusions of which we have since found the miserable and wofull consequences But I know not what temptation hath drawn this note from me I goe on againe A stout adversary he was to the Arminians and Semi-Pelagians whom he called as Prosper before him did the Enemies of Gods grace In this short sentence there are many things to be considered 1. What these Arminians were which our Author speakes of 2. Whether they were the Enemies of Gods grace or not and 3. what the reason was why King James shewed himselfe so great an adversary to them as you say he did And first for the Arminians as you call them they were a branch of the Sect of Calvin to whose Discipline in all particulars they conformed themselves and to his Doctrines in the most differing only in the matter of Predestination the points subordinate but managing tho●… differences with a better temper then their Opposites did Nor were these differences onely controverted in the School of Calvin but had been many times disputed with great heat and passion betwixt the Franciscans and Dominicans in the Church of Rome The rigid and moderate Lutherans in the Churches Protestant The rigid Lutherans who looke on Flacius Illyricus a man of a turbulent and fiery nature as their Head and Captaine and with them the Dominieans or black Friers goe the same way as Calvin and his followers do●… and these proceed upon the authority of Saint Augustine whose zeale against the P●…lagian Heresies transported him into such inconvenient expressions as the wis●…st men may fall into on the like occasions The moderate Lutherans of which Melancthon a sober and right learned man and therefore not unfitly called the Phoenix of Germany was the principal leader and with them the Franciscan Friers and of late the Jesuits goe the same way which the Arminians since have followed grounding themselves upon the constant current of the antient Fathers who lived and flourished ante mala certamina Pelagiana before the authority of Saint Augustine in canvassing and confuting the Pelagian Heresies carried all before it For Doctor James Hermin the University Reader in the University of Leidon preferring the Doctrine of Melancthon in these points before that of Calvin not onely maintained it in the Schooles but preached it also in the P●…lpit as occasion was not that he was the first of the School of Calvin that professed this way but that he was of better parts and of greater Learning then any who before had undertook it And being he was a man of such parts and Learning and that his doctrine was conceived to be more Rationall in it selfe farre more agreeable unto the Justice and Mercy of Almighty God and more conducing unto Piety then that of the Rigid Calvinist was esteemed to be it quickly found great multitudes of followers in the B●…lgique Churches and these not onely of the Vu●…gar but the Learned sort of which last ranke I may reckon Episcopius Corvinus Bertius Tilenus John G●…rard Vossius for his abilities in Learning made a Prebend of Canterbury and that great magazine both of Divine and Humane literature Hugo Grotius These are the men who commonly are nick-named Arminians and these the rigid Calvinists have indeavoured to oppose to the publick hatred by fastning on them many horrid Blasphemies and grosse absurdities which cannot properly and of right be charged upon them For in the continuation of the History of the Netherlands writ by one ●…rosse as I remember a fellow of no Parts or Judgment and so more apt to be abused with a false report It is affirmed that there was a Synod called at D●…rt to suppresse the Arminians and that the said Arminians held amongst other Heresies first that God was the Author of Sinne and secondly that he Created the far greatest part of mankinde onely of purpose for to damn them with severall others of that kinde which every man of Reading knowes not onely to be the Consequence and Results of Calvin's Doctrine but to be positively mainteined and taught by some of his followers By these and such like sub●…ill and malitious practises they indeavoured to expose their adversaries to the publick hatred and make them odious with the people till at the last those poore men might have said most justly as once the Primitive Christians did under the burden of the like Calumnies and Imputations Condemnati sumus quia nominamur non quia convincimur as Tertullian hath it the name of an Arminian carried a Condemnation in it selfe without any conviction 2. But if they were the Enemies of the Grace of God and that King James so conceived of them they did undoubtedly deserve all this and more but certainly whatsoever King James might please to call them I am sure he had little reason for it those whom you call Arminians speaking as Honourably and Religiously of the grace of God as the most Orthodox writers in the Primitive times It is true ind●…d that the Pelagians did ascribe so much to the powers of Nature in the Conversion of a Sinner and the whole worke of Regeneration ut gratiam Dei necessariam non putarent that they thought the Grace of God 〈◊〉 be together unnecessary as Lyrinensis tells us of them If the Arminians as you call them were of this opinion they were the Enemies of Gods Grace there is no doubt of that But looke into the five Articles which they exhibited in their Remonstrance to the States of Holland and after to the Assembly at Dort and you will finde the contrary it being there affirmed expresly in these following words Gratiam Dei Staiuimus esse principium progressum complementum omnis boni ●…deo ut ne ipse quidem regenitus absque praecedente sive praeveniente ista excitante prosequente cooperante gratiâ bonum cogitare velle aut peragere possit u●…isve ad malum tentationibus resistere It a ut bona opera actionesque quas quis cogitando potest adsequi gratiae Dei in Christo adscribenda sint We teach say they that the Grace of God is the beginning and promotion and accomplishment of every thing that is good in us insomuch that the Regenerate man can neither thinke will nor doe any thing that is good without this grace