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B01850	The history of the reformation of the Church of England. The second part, of the progress made in it till the settlement of it in the beginning of Q. Elizabeth's reign. / By Gilbert Burnet, D.D.	Burnet, Gilbert, 1643-1715.	1681 (1681)	Wing B5798A; ESTC R226789	958,246	890

the Emperor conceive at last a jealousie of him and he writ for him to come and clear himself Then he refined it higher for having left Orders with the Officers whom he had made sure to him to follow with the Army in all the hast they could he himself took Post with as small a Train as his Dignity could admit of and carried one of those corrupted Secretaries with him but on the way he complained of pains in his side so that he could not hold on his Journey but sent forward his Secretary who gave such an account of him that it together with his coming so readily a great part of his way in so secure a manner made the Emperor now lay down all his former distrusts The Emperor writ to Trent and to many other Places that there was no cause of fear from Maurice And Maurice to colour the matter more compleatly had sent his Ambassadors to Trent and had ordered Melancthon and his other Divines to follow them slowly that as soon as the safe Conduct was obtained they might go on and defend their Doctrine Upon their coming to Trent and proposing their desires Proceedings at Trent that all might be again considered the Legates rejected the Proposition with much scorn The Emperors Ambassadors and Prelates pressed that they might be well received The Arch-bishop of Toledo shew'd how much Christ had born with the Scribes and Pharisees and that in imitation of him they ought to leave nothing undone that might gain upon them So it was resolved that the Council should make a Protestation that the usage they gave them was out of Charity which is above all Law since it was against the Decretals to have any Treaty with professed Hereticks At the same time the Imperialists dealt no less earnestly with the Ambassadors from the Protestant Princes not to ask too much at once but to go on by degrees and assured them they had a mind to lessen the Popes greatness as much as they had The Ambassadors first step was to be for obtaining a safe Conduct They excepted to that which the Council had given as different from that the Council of Basil had sent to the Bohemians in four material Points The first was That their Divines should have a decisive Voice 2. That all Points should be determined according to the Scriptures and according to the Fathers as they were conformable to those The third That they should have the exercise of their Religion within their own Houses 4. That nothing should be done in contempt of their Doctrine So they desired that the safe Conduct might be word for word the same with that of Basil But the Legates abhorred the Name of that Council that had endeavoured so much to break the Power of the Popedom and had consented to that extraordinary safe Conduct only to unite Germany and to gain them by such compliance to be of their side against the Pope Yet the Legates promised to consider of it The Ambassadors were received in a Congregation which differed from a Session of the Council just as a Committee of a whole House of Parliament differs from the House when set according to its Forms They began their Speech with this Salutation Most Reverend and most Mighty Fathers and Lords they added a cold Complement and desired a safe Conduct At this time the Pope hearing that the Emperor was resolved to bring on the old designs of some Councils for lessening his greatness and that the Spanish Bishops were much set on it united himself to France and resolved to break the Council as soon as it was possible and therefore he ordered the Legates to proceed in the decision of the Doctrine hoping that the Protestants would despair of obtaining any thing and so go away So the safe Conduct they had desired was not granted them and another was offered in its room containing only full security for their Persons Upon this security such as it was Divines came both from Wirtenberg and the Town of Strasburg But as they were going on to treat of Matrimony the War of Germany broke out and the Bishops of the Empire with the other Ambassadors immediately went home The Legates laid hold on this so readily that though the Session was to have been held on the second of May they called an extraordinary one on the 28th of April and suspended the Council for two years An Account of the Council of Trent And being to have no other occasion to say any thing more of this Council I shall only add that there had been a great expectation over Christendome of some considerable event of a General Council for many years The Bishops and Princes had much desired it hoping it might have brought the differences among Divines to a happy composure and have setled a Reformation of those abuses which had been long complained of and were still kept up by the Court of Rome for the ends of that Principality that they had assumed in Sacred things The Popes for the same reasons were very apprehensive of it fearing that it might have lessened their Prerogatives and by cutting off abuses that brought in a great Revenue to them have abridged their Profits But it was by the cunning of the Legates the dissensions of Princes the great number of poor Italian Bishops and the ignorance of the greatest part of the other so managed that in stead of composing differences in Religion things were so nicely defined that they were made irreconcilable All those abuses for which there had been nothing but practise and that much questioned before were now by the Proviso's and Reservations excepted for the Priviledges of the Roman See made warrantable So that it had in all Particulars an Issue quite contrary to what the several Parties concerned had expected from it and has put the World ever since out of the humour of desiring any more General Councils as they are accustomed to call them The History of that Council was writ with as much Life and Beauty and Authority as had been ever seen in any humane Writing by Frier Paul of Venice within half an Age of the time in which it was ended when the thing was yet fresh in Mens Memories and many were alive who had been present and there was not one in that Age that engaged to write against it And a Judgment of the Histories of it But about forty years after when Father Paul and all his friends who knew from what Vouchers he writ were dead Pallavicini a Jesuit who was made a Cardinal for this Service undertook to answer him by another History of that Council which in many matters of Fact contradicts Father Paul upon the credit as he tells us of some Journals and Memorials of such as were present which he perused and cites upon all occasions We see that Rome hath been in all Ages so good at forging those things which might be of use to its Interests that we know not how to

to preserve the Catholick Religion both which she promised but performed neither This is said without any Proof and is not at all probable but is an Ornament added to set off the one and blemish the other Queen Mary's Sickness was concealed as much as was possible A week before her Death they were burning Hereticks as busily as ever and by the managing Affairs in the Parliament it appears there was great care taken to conceal the desperate Condition she was in so it is not likely that any such Messages was sent by her to her Sister And thus far have I traced our Author in the History he gives of the Reigns of King Henry the Eighth Edward the Sixth and Queen Mary and have discovered an equal measure of Ignorance and Malice in him but he was the fitter to serve their Ends who employed him and were resolved to believe him how false or improbable soever his Relation might be We see what use they have made of him ever since that Time His Friends were so sensible of the Advantage their Cause received from such a way of Writing that they resolved to continue down the History through Queen Elizabeth's Reign in which we are told Sanders himself made some Progress but that not being done to such a perfection as Rishton and others intended to bring it they undertook it and have written so skilfully after the Copy Sanders had given them that if it is possible they have out-done him in these two particular Excellencies of writing Histories in which he was so great a Master Impudence and Falshood as to Matter of Fact In one thing they had manifestly the better of him that they writing of what fell out in their own Time could not be ignorant of the truth of Things whereas he writing of what was done before he was born or when he was but a Child might have said many things more innocently delivering them as he had them by report But this Excuse cannot fit them who did knowingly and on Design prevaricate so grosly in Matters of Fact A little taste of these I shall give only so far as I have carried down the History of this Queen for to examine all the Faults they have committed would require a new Volume but from the taste I shall give the Reader he will easily know what judgment to pass on the whole work As for the Decency of the Style the first Period gives an Essay of it in which the Author promises such a Description of the Queen's Reign that this Lioness shall be known by her Claws And for his sincerity in writing the whole Preface is one indication of it in which he accuses the Queen for acting against the Laws of Nature and Religion in assuming the Supremacy and represents it so that the Reader must needs think she was the High Priest of England that ordained Bishops and Ministers and performed all other Holy Offices whereas she was so scrupulous in this Point that as she would not be called the Supream Head of this Church so she made it be declared both in one of the Articles of Religion set forth in the beginning of her Reign and afterwards in an Act of Parliament what was the nature of that Supremacy which she assumed making it both a part of the Religion and the Law of the Land By these it was declared that they gave her not the Ministry of God's Word or of the Sacraments but only that Prerogative which was given by God himself in the Scriptures to Godly Princes that they should rule all committed to their charge by God whether they be Ecclesiastical or Temporal and restrain with the Civil Sword the stubborn and evil Doers If Men were not past shame they could not after such an express and publick Declaration put on the confidence of writing as this Author does I shall follow him in some more steps and doubt not not but I shall convince the Reader that he was the fittest Man that could be found to have writ a Continuation of Sanders's History Pag. 255. 1. He says Henry the Second of France in a solemn Assembly did after Queen Mary's Death declare the Queen of Scotland his Daughter-in-Law Queen of England and Ireland This was neither done in a Solemn Assembly nor presently after Queen Mary's Death nor was it done by Henry the Second The Queen of Scotland did by her Uncles Advice assume that Title without any publick Act and it was not done till they understood that Philip was moving for a Dispensation in the Court of Rome for marrying Queen Elizabeth King Henry did only connive at it but neither ordered it nor justified it when the Queen's Ambassador complained of it An Author that is so happy in his first Period as to make three such Mistakes is likely to give us an excellent History Ibid. 2. He says The Arch-Bishop of York and all the other Bishops one only excepted refused to anoint her This was one of the most extraordinary things that ever was in any Government that the Bishops refusing to crown the Queen were not only not punished for it but continued to hold their Bishopricks still and the Arch-Bishop of York was continued a Privy Counsellor many months after this This is none of the Claws of a Lioness but rather a slackness and easiness of Clemency that deserves censure if it had not been that the Queen resolved to begin her Reign with the most signal Acts of Mercy that were possible Pag. 256. 3. He says Cecil and his Friend Bacon raised vast Estates to themselves and involved the Government into vast Difficulties and brought the Queen's Revenue into great or rather inextricable Confusion This may pass among Forreigners and perhaps be believed but we at home that when we wish for happy Times and excellent Counsellors do naturally reflect on the Days of that glorious Queen and her wise Councils will not be much wrought on by it The Revenue was never better managed the Undertakings of the Government were never greater and the Charge was never less This gives a Character of those Ministers beyond all exception Sir Nicholas Bacon never raised himself above that Quality which he brought with him into the Court. And Cecil was not advanced above the lowest Rank of Nobility tho he was in the chief Ministry above thirty Years and though they both left good Estates behind them yet far short of what might have been expected after so long a course in such great and high Employments 4. He says Pag. 257. There was an Oath enacted in the Parliament for the Queen's Supremacy and those who refused to swear it for the first Offence were to forfeit their Benefices and all their Goods and to be Prisoners for Life the second Offence was made Treason Such a false recital of a printed Act deserves a severer Animadversion than I shall bestow on it The refusing that Oath did infer no other punishment but the forfeiture of Benefices and