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justice_n	chief_a	lord_n	plea_n	5,523	5	9.8646	5	true

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A13156	An ansvvere to a certaine libel supplicatorie, or rather diffamatory and also to certaine calumnious articles, and interrogatories, both printed and scattered in secret corners, to the slaunder of the ecclesiasticall state, and put forth vnder the name and title of a petition directed to her Maiestie: vvherein not onely the friuolous discourse of the petitioner is refuted, but also the accusation against the disciplinarians his clyents iustified, and the slaunderous cauils at the present gouernement disciphred by Mathew Sutcliffe.	Sutcliffe, Matthew, 1550?-1629.	1592 (1592)	STC 23450; ESTC S117875	163,829	254

AN ANSWERE TO A CERTAINE LIBEL SVPPLICATORIE OR RATHER Diffamatory and also to certaine Calumnious Articles and Interrogatories both printed and scattered in secret corners to the slaunder of the Ecclesiasticall state and put forth vnder the name and title of a Petition directed to her Maiestie Wherein not onely the friuolous discourse of the Petitioner is refuted but also the accusation against the DISCIPLINARIANS his clyents iustified and the slaunderous cauils at the present gouernement disciphred by Mathew Sutcliffe These dreamers defile the flesh and despise gouernment and speake euill of them that are in authoritie Iude vers 8. Etsi loqui nesciant tacere tamen non possunt Hierom. Neither can they well speake nor wisely holde their peace 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 They pretend and seeke the reward of Phinees zeale but doe the workes of Zimri Imprinted at London by the DEPVTIES of CHRISTOPHER BARKER Printer to the QVEENES most excellent MAIESTIE 1592 TO THE HONORABLE SIR EDMVND ANDERSON LORD CHIEFE IVSTICE OF HER MAIESTIES COVRT OF COMMON PLEAS ALthough my good Lord I cannot without griefe remember the daungerous and hurtfull effectes of the late stirres which certaine factious persons haue made both in the Church and common wealth about the new consistoriall gouernement yet seing diseases cannot be wel cured vnlesse they be made knowen nor well knowen vnlesse the patient declare them I could not refraine from vttering them being one of that Church and state that hath so long suffered them yea though not I onely but all others whom they concerne should of importune shamefastnes conceale them yet would they not being so great be concealed It is well knowen what scandale thereof hath growen to religion diuers wicked persons are thereby confirmed in their atheisme weake christians are either driuen backe to poperie or discouraged from comming forward to embrace religion the Seminaries abroad are replenished with many towardly schollers seeking that abroad which they dispaire to finde at home sectes euil opinions growe vp lyke noysome weedes in diuers corners those that should and would represse them are by domesticall stirres of secret enemies thuarted hindered The Papists take thereby incouragement and hope for innouation 1 De schism lib. 3. quo bello Catholici indies plures constantiorésque in fide sunt facti saith he speaking of his false Catholikes and Romaine peruerse taith Sanders in his booke as he calleth it of schisme doth bragge That through these contentions the Romanistes dayly multiplied among vs and grewe more resolute they also from these domesticall braules made by some against our Church doe drawe an argument to harden mens hartes against religion and the authors of religion both 2 In lib de cansis cur catholisis c. Vlenbergue and Rosse in their seditious treatises against vs doe much insist vpon that poynt and it is a common obiection made by the enemie yea a matter not lightly feared of frendes For learning hath lost almost all reputation while these vnlearned and vnwise confistorians declame against learning and seeke no further diuinitie then Caluins and Bezaes and Iunius his glosses and commentaries and without ground of learning and artes as it were with vnwashen feete enter into the Lordes sanctuarie while the fathers and auncient writers of the Church are despised and euery man taketh vpon him to interprete scriptures after his owne foolish conceite and forceth them to serue their owne changeable humors they runne into diuers daungerous opinions I reporte me to the strange doctrine of 2 Theologia sacra Fenner and his Maister T.C. in their new booke of Consistoriall diuinitie of the lawe gospell sacraments and ecclesiasticall gouernement there is scarce any poynt deliuered without error but those are faultes of a lighter marke in respect of poyntes concerning the diuine essence and the Trinitie whereof they talke strangely In the 3 Theologia sacra lib. 1. diuine nature they confound essence and person and deuide the persons of the Trinitie into two members and make the sonne together with the holy ghost to proceede from the father where all religion saith that he is borne of the father which is the characteristicall difference of that person further they affirme that the holy ghost proceedeth from the father 4 Ibidem without mentioning the sonne they teach also that hatred as it is attributed to God is the essence of God And while they would commend their fond preaching and disgrace the scriptures Iohn Penrie 5 In his supplicat one of the great disciplinarian prophets eyther like a dolt or if he defend it a blasphemous heretike Maketh Christ to be the word preached therein destroying Christes eternall essence and diuinitie in 6 The booke was offered to the parliament by common consent of this faction that it might throughout England be recented their Communion booke they haue taken out two articles of the Creede namely that of Christes buriall and Christes descending into hell and added a newe Article viz. of their new fantasticall discipline a compendious and short way to erect their new kingdome for articles of our Creede are rather to be beleeued then to be disputed of In their Creede also they make Christ to be borne of the virgine according to the flesh diuiding Christ into two parsons with Nestorius lastly for here I meane not to speake of all they forget A petition in their braue paraphrase of the Lords prayer which matters are very shamefull and yet not to be denyed for their owne worthles bookes conuince them While they haue refused the olde order of preaching and followed the stile of Bezaes vaine and verball sermons whereof I and many others that haue heard and read them are witnesses their expositions be eyther verball or fantasticall or both their prayers for the most part are disordered fancies yea some times malicious inuectiues full rather of wordes then deuotion conceiued without studie and vttered without iudgement which kinde of 1 Matth. 6.7 verball babling Christ condemneth as heathenish To leaue matters of the Church we see how schooles are decayed and how both learning and rewardes of learning are dayly diminished and all this while these vnworthie fellowes first thinke that all learning is conteined in Caluins institutions and Bezaes opuscula and secondly measure euery mans merites by their owne foote and allow no more to others then they suppose they deserue themselues taking away all hope of honor or rewarde by making the ignorant iudge of the merite of learning and talking of certaine strange positions of fortie pound pensions as if fortie or a hundred pounds yeerely were the vttermost reward that learning coulde deserue and euery other sort of men were worthie of most high rewardes and preferment the number of schollers decreasing in both the Vniuersities doth declare how much men are discouraged and examples of this sacrilegious discipline otherwhere receiued doe shewe what further wracke is to be feared hereafter The gouernours both of

crowne and for a contumacious and rebellious person that maketh question whether hee ought to obey such lawes as her Maiestie and the whole parliament and wisest men of England haue thought to bee godly and conuenient and lastly in what case the Putcase and his fellowes are that in broade speeches openly and in printed bookes directly oppugne them and by calumnious questions pinch at them 2 Quaere whether those that woulde ouerthrowe not onely the priuiledges and liberties of the Church of England but also the whole ecclesiasticall state their iurisdiction and liuings seeke not the ouerthrowe of Magna charta and infinite statutes and of a great part of the common lawes of this Realiue and seeke the dishonour of her Maiestie and the state by requiring at her handes things that tende to the violating of her oathe taken at the time of her coronation and the ouerthrowe of the rewardes of learning and whether such as are chiefe doers in these causes are longer to bee suffered to proce do in their presumption 3 And because the Putcase maketh mention of that reuerende Iudge Sir Christopher Wray late lorde chiefe Iustice of England let him also answere whether hee did nor both in his opinion as a iudge and in bitter re●mes as a man in vtter dislike of these mens obstinacie coudemne those that obstinately refused before ecclesiastical iudges to take their othes or to declare being examined mattens concerning themselues or others so farre as then concerned had life or member and whether the reuerend learned iudge and lawyers of England haue not resolued the proceedings of ecclestasticall courts to be lawfull and disallowed the notorious contumacie of those men that refused notwithstanding vpon their owne vaine conceipts to answere 4. Quaere whether the booke of Fenner that is intituled sacra Theologia and came forth with the Pythagoricall allowance of T. C. conteine not strange diuinitie and whether it be likely that the resolutions of the consistorie shoulde bemore learned then the positions of two such omniscient diuines 5 Quaere whether it bee not reason to make T.C. recant those dangerous opinions he hath published in that booke and whether those that made the newe communion booke are not to be called in question for publishing of new confessions offaith and new doctrine 6 Let also great inquiry be made by what law or title the churchaldermen do clayme so large authority both in ecclesiasticall and domesticall matters as lately they haue taken vpon them in some churches k Quaere what is become of the actes and memorials of the consistorie that is supposed to haue beene both in the Church of God vnder the lawe and vnder the Gospell and what may bee the reason that so famous men should neither haue their names nor doings mentioned in any historie holy or prophane or other writing Quaere whether such as suffer their children to die without baptisme because the time of the assembly of the congregation commeth not betweene their birth and death are not guilty of contempt of baptisme and whether they that teach this doctrine bee found christians that rather then they will breake a consistorial rule will suffer christians children to depart without the badge and marke of christianitie 9 Quaere whether they that cal those scriptures which are commonly called Apocryphall lyes and fables doe therein declare themselues to haue the iudgement of learned men or modestie of ciuill persons seeing the fathers of olde time and diuers learned men of our times also doe honor them next after the Canonicall scriptures 1 Zanch. confess and whether T.C. would not take it in euill part to haue his voluminous replies called lyes and fables which notwithstanding are farre inferior to the worst part of the Apocryphal scriptures 10 Quaere whether the consistoriall constitutions doe not bring into vse the iudiciall lawes of Moses as for example that of retaliation of capitall punishments of adulterie and blasphemie and whether felonies that were by Moses lawe punished ciuilly may not be punished with death and whether that the Consistoriall faction doeth not deny her Maiestie power to pardon offenders that by Moses iudiciall lawes are to be punished with death 11 Quaere how it happeneth that the disciplinarians shame not to speake against Bishops which themselues deny not to haue bene euer in the Church since the Apostles times and which we offer to proue to haue authoritie by the word of God seeing they commend a fond and new found gouernement that hath neither authoritie of lawe nor confirmation by ancient practise the lawes whereof are most absurde and vnreasonable 12 Quaere by what authoritie they interpre the wordes Dic Ecclesiae and presbyteriqui bene praesunt c. and the wordes of the Apostle 1. Cor. 12.28 Ephes 4.10 Rom. 12. contratrarie to all the ancient fathers to histories to themselues yea contrarie to the text it selfe and common reason 13. Quaere why Ministersshould not be forced as well to subscribe to the gouernmēt of the church of England as the ministers of France to the French discipline they of Geneua to the ordinances of Geneua these being so lately inuented and established and hauing so notorious exceptions against them and being no way to be compared to the orders of our Church for authoritie antiquitie or other good condition or qualitie 14 Quaere whether the Consistorie decreeing and proceeding contrarie to the discipline of France and Geneua and their new Zion is to be allowed or obeyed and whether euery acte of the Consistorie be lawe to binde the rest of that congregation and if it be then what certeintie can be in that gouernement and whether that gouernement be not worse then papall seeing the Popes proceede according to their owne lawes these fellowes will not be bounde by any lawes either of their owne or others 15 Quaere if the Consistories sentence be the sentence of the Church whereunto euery one is to obey and he that obeyeth not to be holden as a heathen and publican how it chanceth that the Synode sometimes is so bolde as to reuerse the Consistories sentence and not to holde the disobedient as a publican and sinner 16 Quaere if by the wordes It shall not be so with you all power of ordination iudgement making and executing of orders deposing of ministers and such like authoritie be taken from Bishops by what reason the ministers of the new discipline in their new Consistories and Synodes take on them so peremptorily to put in and out and to make lawes and to determine most absolutely and imperiously 17 Quaere what time of the yeere and vnder what signe the resolutions of the Consistorie are most ripe viz. whether when the sunne entereth into Aries or Capricorne or in haruest time or midsommer moone and whether a madman that hath Lucida interualla as one of the authors of the petition hath bee a sound man to make a piller of the Consistorie and what order is to be taken