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A39394	An Encyclical epistle sent to their brethren by the venerable dean and chapter of the Catholick clergy in England, upon occasion of Dr. Leyburn.	Ellis, Humphrey, d. 1676.; Leyburn, George, 1593-1677.	1660 (1660)	Wing E725A; ESTC R171942	98,200	160

in regard their Testimony importes an accusation without proof of necessity it beares the infamous marke of a slander and indeed such are the other aspersions they cast vpon me all a long their Encyclicall Epistle Besides I know well that the power of iudging is a reseru'd case pertaining to the son of God Ioan. 5. Pater omne indicium dedit Filio Yet notwithstanding all this t is lawfull for me or any other Catholick that was acquainted with Mr. Harringtons peruerse and obstinate defending of Mr. Blacloes pernicious Doctrines to conceiue coniecturally that the Tribunall of the same son of God which iudgeth euery one according to his works 2. Cor. 5. might shew him nothing of fauour since in the sicknes of which he dyed he had made no outward shew of disauowing them though his Dean Mr. Fitton brought to the like extremity had disauow'd them Furthermore whereas Mr. Knightly the Gen. Vicar had writ vnto me that Mr. Harrington after a sicknes of many dayes was departed out of the world without receiuing any one Sacrament as likewise without disposing of any one penny vnto procuring of prayers for the benefit of his soul perhaps I signified in my Answer that thereby might appeare a iust iudgement of God that Mr. Harrington who in his life tyme had impugned the efficacy of holy Churches Sacraments as to conferring of Sanctifying grace and the Sacramentall absolution as to taking away sins without perfect contrition and also the deliuerance of good souls out of purgatory through the prayers and suffrages of the Church before the generall Resurrection should want the comfort and benefit of the Sacramentall viaticum that is the holy Euchariste the Sacrament of Extream-Vnction and a Priests Sacramentall absolution but hence can onely be inferd that I might conceiue as indeed so I did and do still Mr. Harringtons death not to haue been outwardly at least so pious and precious in the sight of Heauen and earth as the Encyclicall Epistle makes it For truly I do think that neither the Heauen of the Church triumphant nor the Earth of the Church militant do approue the death of such as dye with singularity of Doctrine which is contrary to faith and the generall practise of Catholick belieuers howeuer to thinke or conceiue Mr. Harrington to haue dyed in a sad condition in order to outward signs and circumstances is not to iudge him as to the Tribunall of the son of God who for as much as his mercy is aboue all his works might assist him with efficacious illuminations in the last moment of life men can onely form conceptions conform to outward sensible actions t is God alone that hath inspection into the whole man and consequently it is he alone that can iudge him who hath an exact knowledge of both his outward and inward action Pag. 21. Fiftly they obiect Dr. Leyb vsuall calumny that his Holines iudges our Chapter schismaticall so that we feare himselfe endeuour'd to fix that calumny vpon vs at Rome In Answer to this obiecton which is built vpon Dictum proprium a Testimony without proofe that Dr. Ellis c. vse all a long their Encyclicall Epistle I protest fincerely that it is so false that as God knows best I neuer had an intent to brand the Chapter with schism or inform against it at Rome Howeuer I am very certain that the Apostolick seat does harbour no good opinion of Mr. Blacloe for Dr. Gage their Agent in his Letter of Feb. 20. 1661. which hath been shewn to our Seniors hath these express words Mr. Blacloe Doctrine is in so great a detestation here that neither that of Luther or Caluin euer vvas in a greater Whereby is euidene'd that Mr. Blacloe hath no such enimy as his own Doctrine nor our Chapter any such Aduersaries in the Court of Rome as are those Chapter-men that adhere so fast vnto him as to dare to publish his Doctrine for eminent learning which is held in detestation at Rome censur'd by the Vuiuersity of Doway as scandalous Hereticall and impious These London Chapter-men are those which if not preuented by a supream prouidence of necessity will bring our Clergy to ruine and wheras Dr. Ellis Mr. Curtis c. endeuour after their wonted manner to abuse our Brethren by seeking to persuade that euen in this present tyme our Chapter is in esteem and credit at Rome I dare boldly say vnto disabusing our sayd Brethren that it is so odious as they haue made it that not any friend of our Clergy residing in that Court will presume to open his mouth in fauour of it Pag. 24. VVe shew him Dr. Leyb the iudgements of Canon lawyers who were consulted when our Chapter was instituted one of them being Ottenbergus Bishop of Arras we shew him vnder Mr. Fitt●n's own hand that it was the sense of Pope Innocentius return'd to him by Cardinal Capponi our Comprotectour that we should gonerne by a Dean and Chapter till we had a Bishop This obiection hath two branches whereof one is built vpon the iudgements of Canon lawyers as to a Bishops power vnto instituting a Chapter which importes nothing of the question in debate to wit whether a Chapter instituted by a Bishop can succeed in Episcopall authority at the death of their Bishop without his Holines obtained condescention thereto or whether a Dean elected a new is not bound to aske confirmation of his election before the exercising of Episcopall Iurisdiction If Dr. Ellis Mr. Curtis c. could haue produced Ottenbergus or any other Canon lawyers Testimony that might haue decided the said two Queres in confirmation of what they now practise they had performd a great vvork vnto iustifying their proceedings The other branche is built vpon a testimony vnder Mr. Fittons own hand as Dr. Ellis Mr. Curtis c. auerre although in good earnest I haue no inducement from the words set down to giue credence vnto them 1. o because to my knowledge Mr. Fitton was at Paris when Innocentius was made Pope and there continued for the space of diuers yeares Secondly Cardinall Capponi was not our Comprotectour after the death of my Lord Bishop for his Comprotect our ship continued onely till Cardinall Francisco Barbarini was restored into Innocenti●s fauous which is about 10. or 11. yeares agoe soe that my Lord Bishop was not dead till long after Cardinall Capponi was outed of his Comprotectourship and therefore t is not as to reason consonant that Capponi should returne the sense of Pope Innocentius in these express words That we should gouerne by a Dean and Chapter till we had a Bishop since my Lord Bishop was not dead then Howeuer I make no doubt but that the Apostolicall sea in the vacancy of our naturall Head hath at least tacitely assented to its gouernement in order to the faculties left by our la●e blessed Bishop yet thence it follows not that the Chapter can assume the exercise of Episcopall Iutisdiction especially a new dean being

Proselites And whereas Dr. Ellis c. be onely 9. Clergy-men and their Testimony goes vnder he name of the London Clergy it will appeare that as the Adherents to wicleff stole the seale of the Vniuersity of Oxford and craftily set it to the Chief Tenets of the said wicliffe that so the approbation of the vniuersity of Oxford might get his learning credit and credence abroad in Bohemia where it had taken some roott in like manner Dr. Ellis c. will be thought to haue stoln his Brethrens votes for the same purpose Our most Rd. Bishop Cuius memoria in benedictione est foresaw the great scandals Mr. Blacloe would bring vpon himselfe and his party for in a Letter dated 6. of Feb. 1654. which his Lordship writ to my selfe and I haue shewn it to our Seniors are these express words I haue not yet seen Mr. Blacloes last book in which as you write there are such horrid speeches against the Popes infallibility which if it be true I feare Mr. Blacloe vvill goe yet further for such speeches shew the last disposition to leaue the Pope and then it will better appeare what kind of Aduersaries you and I haue had Now I leaue to the wisedom's of our Brethren to iudge out of the premises whether Dr. Ellis Mr. Curtis c. their Testimony which Mr. Blacloe in his weake Answere to the Vinditiae set's down in these words De me Cleri Londinatis Encyclica ad Fratres per Vniuersam Angliam Epistola hoc testimonium continet Quantum ad Albij Blacloi personam attinet nonimus eam semper vitae irreprehensibilis exemplaris conuictus fuisse scientiam ipsius esse eminentem fatentur omnes quae nos ex legibus naturae Societatis humanae cogit ad parem illi aestimationem retribuendam Whether I say the said Testimony comming to the Popes notice his Holines may as to reason be mou'd to confirm their Chapter and giue them their own desires as to a Successour or whether they may not haue a design to obstruct thereby the good intentions of his Holines in order to a wish'd setlement of Gouernement in our Clergy that so they may continue as they are in authority Or whether Dr. Ellis could subscribe vnto such a Testimony with a good conscience since my selfe and others that I can name haue heard him call Mr. Blacloe an vnhappie man and since he told a sober learned Brother of ours whose Letter I haue shewn another person of great quality whom I can name that part of his learning was Damnable Vir duplex animo inconstans est in omnibus vijs suis Iacob 1. Again whether Catholicks for the future are bound to belieue Dr. Ellis Mr. Curtis c. when they hear them deny their adherence to Mr. Blacloe and his learning furthermore whether they are not bound to embrace a learning which they iudge to be eminent and know likewise the Author of it to be of an vnimpeachable vertue and of a most vnblemisht life Furthermore whether Lay-Catholicks may do prudently to leaue the Charities they intend for the reliefe of the Mother-House to be dispos'd according to the instructions which Dr. Ellis Mr. Curtis c. suggest to our Brethren in their Encyclicall Epistle to the great preiudice of the said Mother-House Sed iussisti Domine sic est vt paena sua sibi sit omnis in ordinatus animus Aug. Confess l. 1o. c. 12. Pag. 32. And to wish and pray that his other works may be as seruiceable to Gods Church as those against Hereticks haue been Here Dr. Ellis c. prostrated offer their humble prayers to Heauen for Mr. Blacloes perseuerance in the pursuance of his eminent learning vnto seruing the Church of God by resisting of Hereticks In this heauenly prayer they set down a false supposall being I am certain they can produce no euidence to proue that Mr. Blacloe hath composed works which haue brought aduantages to the Church of God c. yet when I vse this manner of speech to any of his principall Proselites instantly Rushworth Dialogues are named to which I haue and do still reply that those are no works of his for though he beare the name of Thomas Blacloe Thomas White Thomas Anglus Thomas Albiorum Trinobantum and Thomas Bolton neuertheless he was neuer called Mr. Rushworth Again my selfe knew very well Mr. Rushworth and that he alone was the true vndoubted Author of those Dialogues except onely some few blasphemous and exotick propositions respectiuely inserted therein by Mr. Blacloe To cleare this busines vnto giuing to Mr Rushworth what is due to Mr. Rushworth who when I was but a Philosopher executed the office of Generall Prefect in our Mother-House a graue vertuous and Religious Person a good Diuine and much versed in Polemicall Theology that is In controuersies and when I was Agent for our Clergy he wanting a Residence I procured one for him in the Town of London where he had the opportunity to conuerse frequently with Mr. Blacloe who then was in great esteem and vogue with all our ancient Clergy and to communicate his conceptions as to his Dialogues hauing a great kindnes for him an opinion of his learning The said Mr. Rushworth not suruiuing to put forth his Dialogues and Mr. Blacloe who euen then had conceiu'd prophane nouelties thinking that the publishing of those Dialogues whereof he had a good opinion as indeed they highly deserued might proue a fit forerunner for the establishing of his own nouelle Doctrines he borrowed the Manuscript thereof from Mr. Edward Enderby Nephew to Mr. Rushworth who is yet aliue and without his leaue or knowledge printed it and notwithstanding that in the preface to the said Dialogues when they were first printed Mr. Blacloe does confess Mr. Rushworth to be the Author thereof neuertheless Mr. Blacloes friends haue made him the Author vnto giuing credit and esteem to his other writings Sic vos non vobis mellificatis apes Mr. Edward Ender by knows this to be true and a certain knight of great worth and learning with whom Mr. Rushworth communicated his said Dialogues hath been heard to say and he is aliue also that sundry poynts which are in the printed Dialogues were not in the manuscript which shew's euidently Mr. Blacloes crafty dealing and the false supposall of Dr. Ellis c. that Mr. Blacloes Workes haue been seruiceable to Gods Church c. Pag. 35. As also Dr. Leyb mou'd to our Dean and writ to Romè falsely pretending that the greater part of the Clergy would think themselues happie in hauing a Vicarius Apostolicus and that onely some few of the Chapter oppose it Now to receiue such an exterordinary Authority is both against the pleasure of her Matie exprest in her commands to our Agent at Rome not to accept it against the lawes of our Catholick Ancestors against the will of our state and so most dangerous subiecting vs to a Premunire c. For the