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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A56725	The life of John Whitgift, Archbishop of Canterbury, in the times of Q. Elizabeth and K. James I written by Sir George Paule ; to which is added a treatise intituled, Conspiracy for pretended reformation, written in the year 1591, by Richard Cosin ...; Life of Archbishop Whitgift	Paule, George, Sir, 1563?-1637.; Cosin, Richard, 1549?-1597. Conspiracy for pretended reformation.	1699 (1699)	Wing P878_ENTIRE; ESTC R1659	167,057	342

make herein shall be upon thorns and therefore I am to fear pricking Yet for all this I am not without hope neither is the same grounded but by good warrant The end why I write unto you is this to intreat you to give thanks to those holy men all on my behalf who are now in question I have reaped much benefit from them by their carriage towards me though they know it not For I durst not in regard of danger which might grow Note to them visit any of them since I found my self carried with a zeal to do somewhat in the same Cause for which they suffer If by some effects hereafter I may shew it that is it which I desire to do and in the mean time do what I can to persuade the Saints that in this Action I seek God's glory and not mine own I have been heretofore put back and dissuaded from attempting any thing lest I marred all by the wisest the learnedest the zealousest and holiest Preachers of this City gene Causes and weighty Reasons moving thereunto But yet this will not make me leave it but still I am enforced by little and little to labour to make my self fit to take upon me the managing of it Wherefore if it please you to shew the other Letter and this and beseech them from me to lay them before the Lord when they shall meet and join together in prayer And if the Lord's Spirit shall assure their Spirits that he hath been is and will be with me in this Action how hard soever it seemeth to be let me by their means be vouchsafed this favour that I may be allowed conference with the Preachers of the City which Sute I make not for that I would seek to have approbation from them or any other living Creature but from God himself Or that I purpose to do that which heretofore I have been advised unto namely acquaint them with the Courses which I purpose by God's assistance to Note take in hand whereby great danger might grow to them and little good to me But that my carriage towards them may witness unto them the humility of my mind and lowliness of my spirit and care and conscience not to enter into the matter without offer to have my Gifts examined and if they shall be supposed to be such as the Church may have use of then let all holy means be used which shall be advised to be fit to be done in such a dangerous time and weighty Action So beseeching God to govern us in all our ways and preserve us in all our dangers and supply us with whatsoever we stand in need of I humbly and heartily commend you to God this 21st day of May 1591. The effect of the Speeches which Coppinger Coppinger incourageth the said Gentleman to persevere in defence of the Cause He declares to him his Revelations and extraordinary Gifts and Calling touching the Reformation of the Church had with him at their Conference as the said Gentleman himself reported was to commend the Cause of the Preachers committed to incourage him to the defence of it adding that it was the truth of God and that in the end it would prevail Then the said Coppinger began to declare unto him his Revelations his great fasting and prayer and how God had indued him with an extraordinary grace of Prayer Persuasion or Prophecy And that God had appointed him as he was persuaded to reveal the will of God touching the reformation of his Church that he had an extraordinary Calling to do good to the Church and what several conflicts he had in himself before he yielded to this extraordinary motion or calling from God Therefore his Request was That by He desires that his Gifts and Calling may be tried and allowed by the Preachers the said Gentleman's means his Gifts and Calling might be tried and allowed by those godly Preachers c. What the Preachers and others that were conferred with answered to Coppinger herein and whether more dutifully to the Estate than warily so as they might neither as they thought endanger themselves nor kill or discourage the Zeal of that their Brother in so pretended holy a Cause may partly by that which is afore spoken appear and we may then believe them when they shall tell us the whole truth thereof But how slender and cold discouragement A cold Answer from some he found with some Preachers of London with whom he dealt touching his fantastical extraordinary Calling and dangerous Plots may also appear by these words found in a Letter of his viz. Good Master L. as Master E's former carriage in this Action which standeth me much upon to deal advisedly in did somewhat trouble me so his Christian and loving Answer delivered now by you from him unto me doth much comfort me though by reason of some particular business which I must necessarily follow I cannot attend till Friday in the Afternoon or Saturday any part of the day And after in the same Letter thus Satan by his Angelical wisdom which he still retaineth doth many times prevail with the holiest to make them fear good success in the best Causes in regard of the lets and hindrances which himself layeth in the way It cannot be denied but that the Cause is good which I desire to be an Actor in But it is said by some that it is impossible that I should be fit to meddle therein So that here a Christian A further Conference The Course not misliked but Success only doubted from his unfitness and loving Answer to his great comfort is given further conference by speech is offered and the Course not so much misliked as the Success only is doubted by reason of his unfitness that was to be an Actor in it But what Resolution herein was also returned from the Preachers of Foreign Parts to this Case of Conscience propounded by Coppinger may hereby not unprobably be gathered Arthington at one of his Examinations confessed that Penry sent a Letter unto him forth of Scotland wherein he signified Penry writes to A thington from Scotland that Reformation must be set up in England that Reformation for so they speak must shortly be erected in England And herein he said that he took Penry to be a Prophet Now it is sure that Penry conveyed himself privily into England and was lurking about London at the self-same time when these other Prophets arose in Cheapside attending as seemeth the fulfilling of this his Prophecy also by their means How dutifully and advisedly those that be Subjects have dealt which having intelligence hereof did conceal it till it burst forth of it self with apparent danger to her Majesty and the whole State may thus be The concealing of this Design dangerous to the State gathered For by this Conceit of Coppinger's you hear it is pretended and surmised that a commendable Cause a Cause to be defended yea the very truth of God which must prevail

he riding into the Country as he rid fansied to himself that there was leave given him to speak to God in a more familiar manner than at any time before And also persuaded himself that God's Spirit did give him many strange Directions wherein the Lord would use him to do service to his most glorious Majesty and to his Church Upon which he had thought to have returned presently back and to have left his intended Journey But going on and after being returned back he imparted to his former Fast-fellows the work of God in him and desired they might again join in the like which he with some other went forward with to their comfort but without their chief Guide for he refused to join Hereupon he saith that he was Note again stirred up to such business of such importance as in the eyes of flesh and blood were likely to bring much danger to himself and unlikely to bring any good success to the Church of God Hereof he writ to some Preachers out of the Realm and to some in the Realm At length he writ hereof to one in the City that was silenced Who resolved him that God did yet work extraordinarily in some Persons to some special uses Hereupon he obtained this Preacher's consent to join with him and about four others on the Dord's-Day in a Fast Which Day was chosen that they might not binder their worldly Affairs in the Week and that they used means to have notice given to some of the Preachers in Prison of the Day of their humiliation desiring them to commend to God in their Prayers the holy Purposes which any fearing God should in time Note attempt to take in hand by seeking to bring glory to God and good to the Church That in their Prayers at the said Fast he and others did beseech God That if he had appointed to use any of them to do any special service to him and his that to that end he would extraordinarily call them that he would seal up his or their such Calling by some special manner by his Holy Spirit and give such extraordinary Graces and Gifts as are fit for so weighty an Action The Night following he saith he thought in his sleep that he was carried into Heaven and there being wonderfully astonished with the Majesty of God and brightness of his glory he made a loud and most strange noise whereby he awaked his Brother that lay with him and some in the next Chamber Since which time saith he I find every day more and more comfort And suppose that there is somewhat in me which my self am not so fit to judge of And therefore I desire the Church I mean your self and such as you shall name unto me because I cannot come to you without danger to your self and me to look narrowly into me And if I be thought to be any way misled I crave sharp censuring If I be guided by God's Spirit to any good end as hereafter shall be adjudged I shall be ready to acquaint you and them with generalities and particularities so far forth as you and they be desirous to look into At this time the end of my writing is only to acquaint you with the occasions of mine entring into this great Action and to have your further answer to some Questions wherein I desire to be Note resolved with your direction also what hereafter I am to signify to your self concerning the matter it self Of the Questions wherein he thus desired resolution I do find two Copies of Coppinger's own hand The one more large and confused the other briefer and in better order but both to one purpose which to have set down may give good light in mine opinion to this Narration The Questions to be resolved viz. 1. Whether there be in these days any extraordinary The Questions to be resolved are 1. Whether there be not extraordinary Persons in the Church in these days as Apostles Evangelists c. 2. Whether their Call be not immediate from God and manifested to the Church by extraordinary Gifts and Graces 3. Whether the Church may examine the same and in what manner 4. Whether may the same be found in a Country where the Gospel is truly preached but the true Discipline not established but oppugned 5. If no extraordinary Calls to be expected but where there is waste in the Church and if there be waste in the Church where Prince and Magistrate oppose the Discipline Whether may not an extraordinary Call be expected of some to deal with the Magistrate in the Name of God to Execute the True Discipline 6. Where the true Discipline is wanting whether a Pastor thrust on the People without their choice have a lawful Call Workers and Helpers to his Church either Apostles Evangelists or Prophets where need requires more or less or Nazarites Healers Admonishers in any special sort 2. If there be is not their Calling immediate from God and his Spirit a Seal unto their Spirits through which they have such excellent gifts and graces of Wisdom Knowledge Courage Magnanimity Zeal Patience Humility c. as do manifest such their Calling to the Church 3. If such Graces and Gifts shall appear whether may the Church enter into consideration of the success which God may please to give yea or no If they may in what manner are they to proceed with such a Person extraordinarily called 4. If it shall be confessed that there may be until the end of the world immediate Callings from God Whether may the same be found in a Country where the Gospel is truly preached and the Sacraments in some sort truly administred though not universally but here and there not perfectly but in part And where the true Discipline is not established but oppugned by the publick Magistrates c. 5. If it shall be answered that no extraordinary Callings are to be looked for but where there is a waste of the Church whether can it be truly said that there is a waste of the Church where the Prince and chief Magistrates are ignorant of the necessity of the Discipline opposing themselves against it persecuting such as seek it By means whereof all wicked Persons whatsoever be admitted to publick exercise of the Word and to the Lord's Table Whether I say may it be hoped for that God for his glory's sake and the good of the Church may extraordinarily call some by giving him a Spirit above others to deal with the Magistrate in the name of God To provide that the People may every where be taught and true Discipline executed where the People already have knowledge 6. Whether where there be wanting Pastors Doctors Elders Deacons and Widows c. in the Church established and only a Minister thrust upon the People to be their Pastor without their choice or liking Whether it can be truly said a man so placed though furnished with all inward Gifts and Graces of God's Spirit fit for that Calling hath