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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
B11858	An apology of an appeale Also an epistle to the true-hearted nobility. By Henry Burton, pastor of St. Mathewes Friday-Street.	Burton, Henry, 1578-1648.	1636 (1636)	STC 4135; ESTC S106955	19,673	40

resolved on and set on foot for the preventing if possible of the imminent ruines both of Church and State Nor let this motion be contemned because it commes from so meane a person as in the worlds opinion a poore Minister of Christ Certainly I am one of the watchmen of Israel though the meanest yet one who hath obteined mercy to bee faithfull Nor have I inconsideralty or rashly rushed upon this businesse but have been by a strong hand drawne into it Yea my Lords knowe assuredly that Christ himselfe my great Lord Master hath called me forth to be a publique witnesse of this great Cause who will certainely mainteyne both it and me against all the Adversaries of God and of the King And being so doth not the same Lord Iesus Christ the King of Kings and Lord of Lords call both the King your Honors and all his Nobles and worthies to lay to heart such a cause as this if with the whole Realme you will not be brought backe againe under the Papall and Antichristian yoake which where euer it cōmeth Lordeth and tyrannizeth over soules bodies consciences goods lawes and Liberties What shall we see Religion overturned the Lawes out lawed our Liberties captived Christ Kingdome and the Kings throane together undermyned and Antichrists throane exalted over us and that by a Faction of Iesuited Poly-pragmatiques and wee like heartlesse doves sitt trembling while the Hagards doe outdare us as if we were made for nothing els but for them to prey upon Certainely if wee thus sit us downe and hide us under the hatches while the Romish Pyrates doe surprise our Ship and cut our throaths and cast us overboard what volumes will be sufficient to Chronicle to posterity the basenesse of Degenerate English Spirits become so unchristianized as to sett up Antichrist above Christ and his annoynted and to suffer our selves to be cheated and nose-wiped of our Religion Lawes Liberties and all our Glory and that by a sorte of bould Romish * Such as Francis a Sancta Clara and other his Iesuiticall Compli●●● Mountebanks and Iuglers Obiection But some will object what doth this concerne any of the Laity Doe not matters of Religion properly pertaine to the Clergy Have not they all the power and Authority to determine such matters Tractent fabrilia fabri will they say Answer O egregious and pernicious errour The Clergy only by which they meane the Church to have power in matters of Religion to determine them As if lay persons who are Christians be not members of the Church of Christ Gods peculiar people and inheritance Againe what should become of our Parliamentary Lawes by which our Religion hath been established and the Popish abolished Or what shal become of our Religion so established if the Authority therof must now depend only upon nthe Clergy that Clergy for the most part dependes upon the authority of one who exerciseth a kinde of Papall power in dedermining matters of Religion Then how easy were it for one Arch-Bishop of Canterbury if hee be possessed with a Papall spirit and zeale for Popery should have great favour power in Court in one assembly of Prelates at one clap to overthrow all our religion by Law established and to set up againe the whole body of Popish superstition and Idolatry Moreover why should it be unlaufull for lay persons Nobles and others to looke into matters of Religion within the limits of their calling whether generall as Christians or speciall as members of the common weale when Clergy men dare in affront to Gods word to Christs Doctrine and example of his Apostles to all Councels and Canons whatsoever usurped take upon them to intermeddle in the managing even of the highest and weightiest affaires of Princes States and temporall Kingdomes which is incompatible with the ministeriall function Againe have not all Christians soules to save and are not those of Berea * Acts 17. 11. 12. indigitated in Scripture as being more honourable then others in searching the Scriptures daily whether those things were so which even the Apostle Paul himselfe did teach And are not all Christians themselves enjoyned to try the spirits whether they bee of God And the rather because many false * 1. Io. 4. 1. Prophets are gone out into the world 1 Iohn 4. 1 And are not all Christians so to know the Scriptures as if any teach * Gal. 1. 8. otherwise yea though Angell from heaven to hould him accursed Gal. 1. 8 And are we not all Christians And if every Christian how mene soever should have a care of his owne soule and not to pinne it upon any ones sleeve as not knowing whither hee may carry it how much more every great man that is in high place and hath greater gifts of knowledge and is in * Eccles 10. 1. estimation for wisdome and glory It is a Iusuiticall principle and that very mystery of iniquity which supports Antichrists throane to require or render blinde obedience to the dictates of the Church alias of the Pope or Prelate or Priest then which servitude and spirituall bondage none in the world is more vile and base none more perillous and pernicious Thus the * Math. 1● 14. blind leading the blinde both fall into the ditch thus the Pope carrying with himselfe millions of soules to be tormented with the great Divell and none to reprove him for it as their owne Decretalls say what amends will this bee to those soules thus miserably deceived by him So as this new doctrine of the Iesuites so much cryed up now adayes in Pamphlets and Pulpits therby to captivate the faith and Conscience of all the Laity yea and of all inferior Ministers to the dictates of the Metropolitan chaire is nothing els but that prime Article of the Antichristian and Papall Creed to overture all the Articles of our Christian Faith And if this Iesuiticall Doctrine be creapt into the Court and there beginne to Lord it the Lord himselfe roote it up and cast it out But your honors have not so learned Christ as thus to come under Ephes 4. 20. Antichrists Babilonian yoake And therefore in the name of Christ rowse up your noble Christian zeale magnanimous courage for the truth and now sticke close to God and to the King in helping the * Iudges 5. 23. Lord and his Annoynted against the Mighty and earnestly contend for the maintenance of that Faith * Iude. 3. Religion which was once delivered to the Saints and hath been sealed with the blood of so many holy Martyrs and transmitted downe to us from our worthy Progenitors and whereof our gracious King is intituled the Defender and hath in sundry his royall Declarations and proclamations solemnely protested that hee will never suffer the least Innovation and which also your Honors have bound your selves not only as Christians in your Baptisme but as Counsellers and Statesmen by Oath to mainteyne not suffering

and accuse my selfe in a matter of Sedition which if true might call not only my reputation but also my life liberty into question whereas Whitgift Archbishop of Canterbury in the Conference at Hampton Court printed by Authority there publickly averred that in matter of life liberty or scandall it is not the course of that Court to require any such Oath or to inforce any man that hath taken the Oath to answere to any such Articles And Paul himselfe when he was accused for Sedition by Ananias the High Preist Tertullus was neither required nor inforced to take any such Oath as appeares by Acts. 25. Fourthly in that they would inforce me to answere upon Oath and bring in a Copy of what I publickly preached in my Parish Church which I conceive I am not bound by the Law of God or man to doe nor ought they to require For Iohn the 18. 19. 20. 21. 22. 23. when the High Preist asked Iesus being convented before him of his Disciples and of his Doctrine Iesus answered him saying I spake openly to the world I ever taught in the Synagogue and in the Temple whither the Iewes allwayes resort and in secret have I said nothing Why askest thou me Aske them which heard me what I have said unto them Behold they know what I said And when he had thus spoken one of the officers which stood by strooke Iesus with the palme of his hand saying Answerest thou the High Preist so Iesus answered him If I have spoken evil beare witnesse of the evil but if well why smitest thou me A plaine testemony from our Saviours owne Doctrine and Example which no man can condemne as unjust or illegall that no Minister ought to be put so much as to give an answere much lesse a Copy of what he publickly preached in the Church and that upon Oath to prejudice or accuse himselfe thereby but what ever he delivered ought to be proved by witnesses that heard him and the High Preist being satisfied with this answere of our Saviour I hope no High Commissioner but ought to have rested satisfied with the like from me though as yet they still proceed to presse ●e to an Oath Fiftly in calling a Private Commission out of Terme ●n or neere Dr. Duckes private Chamber at Doctors ●ommons and no publick Court and there proceeding to suspend me in my absence under pretence of a contempt in not appearing before them when as first I had ●o lawfull Citation under Seale then and there to appeare Secondly no sufficient legall notice of the time and place of the said Commissioners meeting and so was not bound by Law to appeare before them especially in a Corner out of Terme in an unusuall manner Sixtly in suspending me notwithstanding my Appeale to your Sacred Majesty entred formerly at Dr. Duckes house at Cheswick by their owne Register before the said suspension of which my Appeale being registred in the Court they ought all to have taken notice Seventhly in suspending me against all Law and Iustice both from my Office and Benefice in my absence as if formerly lawfully convented before them and publishing the said suspension in an unusuall manner in my Parish Church and commaunding all Parsons Vicars Curats Clerkes and Ministers within the City of London to whom rhe said suspension is directed upon the Sunday next and immediately following the receipt thereof openly to publish and declare me to be suspended both from my Office and Benefice in their severall Parish Churches when the Congregation shal be then and there assembled to my intollerable disgrace and scandall Eightly in taxing and condemning me of Sedition and other misdemeaners in their said suspension before either heareing my Answere or the Cause Ninthly in denying me a Copy of the Articles exhibited against me to perfect this my Appeale to your Majesty by and to annex them thereunto and refusing to give me a Copy of the Acts of the Court and proceedings against me though I have often sent for them These my most Gratious Soveraigne are the grounds reasons of my Appeale from the said Commissioners excepted against to your Majesty my Soveraigne Lord and Patron which together with my person and cause I here humbly prostrate at your Majesties royall feet imploring the justice of your royall Throne which is established by righteousnesse and that in so important a Cause of God and of the King which I am certaine you will never deny to your meanest Subject much lesse to your auncient Servant and dayly Orator to the Throne of Grace Henry Burton TO ALL THE TRVE-HEARTED NOBILITY OF HIS MAIESTIES Most Honorable Privy Councell MY HONORABLE LORDS Expect not here from mee the Court language or dialect it will not suit my person much lesse the cause which here I present to your Honors being such a cause as I know not how the Court spirit will relish it much lesse digest it Let me therefore be bould in the first place to awaken those Nobler spirits if haply either layd and luld asleepe by the inchantments of these present times or otherwise smothered under the heape of Court imployments and the like yea spirits heavenly inspired which respiring a while and retiring into the closet of your inmost Muse may summon all your cares and powers to the sad and solid eonsideration of a cause so important as all circumstances and consequences well weighed I dare say the like hath not come upon the stage for these many yeares being a cause so much concerning the honor of God the peace welfare and honour of the King the State of Religion and of the Commonweale by good Lawes established the liberty of our consciences and the honour of your Lordshipps being Peeres of the Realme Counsellors of State and so pillars of the Kings Throane of Religion and of the Republique all which doe now exceedingly suffer and are terribly shaken yea ready to fall to ground if not prevented by some speedy and effectuall remedy And whence should remedy be expected but next unto God from his Sacred Majestie and from his prudent and faithfull Counsellors of State the great chariots and horsemen of Israel To the end therefore that his Majestie may take notice of so weighty a cause in hand and lay it to heart and strengthen his hands with Iustice to vindicate his honor therein I have humbly addressed my selfe to his Majestie both by petition and Appeale and next to your Honors by way both of information and of sollicitation to give your eyes no sleepe till you have effectually moved his Majesty to a serious consideration of such a cause that so neerely concerneth the weale or woe of this Kingdome Not that I take upon mee to judge of such high matters but that his Majesty would bee pleased to weigh the cause in the just scales of his mature wisedome and unpartiall judgement all respect of persons layd aside and also consult his sage Senators therein that some thing may bee forthwith