prepar'd to give our Author some better satisfaction in this point If we look abroad then we shall find that Bishops make a part of the three Estates in all Kingdoms and that in Europe there are only two Republiques which exclude the Clergy from medling with Civil Affairs and the same great Enemies to Monarchy namely Venice and the Low-Countries Both which our late Commonwealths-men made choice of as convenient Models for their new-fangled Government reconciling Church and State to these disagreeable Platforms And here I think it not impertinent to insert what a great Wit the fore mention'd Sir R. Filmer in his â—bservations upon Aristotles Politicks remarks concerning them The Religion in Venice and the Low-Countries saith he is sufficiently known much need not be said of them they admirably agree under a seeming Contrariety it is commonly said that one of them hath all Religions and the other no Religion the Atheist of Venice may shake hands with the Sectary of Amsterdam This is the Liberty that a popular State can brag of every man may be of any Religion or no Religion if he please their main Devotion is exercised only in opposing and suppressing Monarchy They both agree to exclude the Clergy from medling in Government whereas in all Monarchys both before the Law of Moses and under it and ever since all Barbarians Grecians Romans Insidells Turks and Indians have with one consent given such respect and reverence to their Priests as to trust them with their Laws To come nearer home In this our Nation saith he the first Priests we read of before Christianity were the Druides who as Caesar saith decided and determined Controversies in Murder in Case of Inheritance of Bounds of Lands as they in their discretion judged meet they granted Rewards and Punishments It is a wonder to see what high respect even the great Turk giveth to his Mufti or chief Bishop So necessary as he concludes is Religion to strengthen and direct Laws With him concurrs an Honourable Member at present of the House of Lords in a Speech about the lawfulness and conveniency of the Bishops intermedling in Temporal Affairs Never was there any Nation that employ'd not their Religious men in the greatest Affairs Hereof Christendome hath had a long evperience for 1300 years Bishops have voted here ever since Parliaments began and long before were imploy'd in the Publick The great and good Emperor Constantine had his Bishops with him whom he consulted about his Military Affairr as Eusebius And then in Answer to our Author who would have them restrained to their Bibles he saith further My Lords there is not any that sits here more for Preaching then I am I know it is the ordinary means to Salvation yet I likewise know there is not that full necessity of it as was in the Primitive Times God defend that 1600 years acquaintance should make the Gospel no better known to us Neither my Lords doth their Office meerly and wholly consist in Preaching the very form oâ— Episcopacy that distinguishes it from the inferior Ministry is the orderly and good Government of the Church And the same Noble Orator pleading for their Right to sit in Parliament in another speech saith That this hinders their Ecclesiastical Vocation an Argument I hear much of hath in my apprehension more of shadow then substance in it if this be a reason sure I am it might have been one six hundred years ago A Bishop my Lords is not so circumscrib'd within the circumference of his Diocess that his sometimes absence can be term'd no not in the most strict sense a neglect or hindrance of his duty no more then that of a Lieutenant from his County they both have their subordinate Ministers upon which their influences fall though the distance be remote Besides my Lords the lesser must yeild to the greater good to make wholesome and good Laws for the happy and well regulating of Church and Common-wealth is certainly more advantagious to both then the want of the personal Execution of their Office And again The House of Commons represents the meanest Person so did the Master his Slave but Bishops have none to do so much for them and what justice can tie them to the Observation of those Laws to whose constitution they give no consent the wisdom of former times gave Proxies to this House the House of Lords meerly upon this ground that every one might have a hand in the making of that which he had an Obligation to obey This House could not represent therefore Proxies in room of Persons were most justly allowed And to manifest the better that their immediate dependance upon the King is a great Obligation he hath upon their Loyalty aud Fidelity whatever our Author says to the contrary we need no clearer proof then this acknowledgment of a Common-wealahs-man and a great Wit in his Speech against Richards Cobler and Dray-men-Lords in 59. One of the main reasons for exclusion of the Bishops out of the House of Lords was because that they being of the Kings making were in effect so many certain Votes for whatever the King had a mind to carry in that House That they are not incapable of the greatest Offices of Trust and the Noblest Employments can be a doubt to none that have heard of the unparallel'd Integrity of the incomparable Lord Tresurer Iuxon Nay the Lord Viâ—count Falkland in a sharp speech against them confesses that some of them in an unexpected and mighty Place and Power express'd and equal moderation and humility being neither Ambitious before nor Proud after either of the Crosier Staffe or White Staffe Now shall the Antient Rights and just Dignities of the Clergy which our Nobility and Gentry have thus unanimously and constantly asserted be call'd in question by a few Levellers and Common-wealths-men No this device is stale The Sport of Bishop-hunting is too well known and though the Clergy be the Game in view yet they have the Temporal Lords in Chance These cunning Archers though they wink with one eye at the Spiritual Lords yet have another open with which they take aim at the rest of the Peers Many of those Arrows which were once darted at the Bishops glanc'd on the Nobles and not a few were cast over their heads at the King The same hands that were lifted up at the one struck at the other levelling Coronets with Miters and trampling on both together with the Crown No sooner were the Prelates declar'd useless but a House of Lords was voted dangerous and unnecessary and Monarchy cal'd Antichristian and Experience proves that Coordination in the State was the natural result of Parity in the Church So little 〈◊〉 is Ecclesiastical from Civil Anaâ—câ—â— Had I ever yet heard of any one Oppâ—ser of Episcopacy whose Princiâ—les or Practices declar'd him not a profess'd Enemy to Monarchy I should willingly How that Monarchy and Episcopacy are not so neerly linkt as that Royal Aphorism of King Iames No
Because both their Talents do peculiarly lye in exposing and personating the Non-conformists I gad sir and there you have nickt the present juncture of Affairs To all these Reasons our Farce-monger might have added another which is a non pareillo namely that which Mr. Bays returned when it was demanded of him Why in his grand Show grander than that in Harry the VIII two of the Cardinals were in Hats and two in Caps because By gad I won't tell you Which after a pause is a reason beyond all exception Now though the foregoing Paralell betwixt Ecclesiastical Mr. Bays Mr. Bays in the Rehearsal be so exact that it were hard to distinguish betwixt Mr. Bays and Mr. Bayes had not one writ a Preface and the other a Play Yet because in the nearest resemblances of Twins 't is not impossible to trace some marks of distinction and House-wives there have been upon Record so expert as to discern a difference even in Eggs so as they never mistook one for another we shall endeavour to shew that these two are not so alike but that they are as unlike too nay most unlike in their nearest resemblances First Then our Trans-proser craves leave to call the Writer of the Preface Mr. Bays because he hath no name or a least will not own it from whence we may infer That every Anonymus Author may be as well call'd Mr. Bays as this Writer And what may we then think of the Gentleman himself who would be Gossip to all the nameless Off-springs of the Press and yet has not fathered his own Bastard but let him learn to Christen his own Brat first before he gives Nick-names to others for who can endure that he should undertake as Godfather for anothers child that leaves his own to the Parish Had not his brain been delivered of this By-blow without the Midwisery of an Imprimatur the Printer and the Stationer at least would have appear'd as Sureties for the Childs behaviour and the Issue might have been judg'd legitimate though the Father were not publickly known But now that the Infant has crept into the World without a lawfull Father without Gossips nay without a name or what is all one without a name of its own we cannot but expostulate with Fate as Prince Pretty-man much upon the like occasion Was ever Child yet brought to such distress To be for being a Child made Fatherless Though every Nurse can readily point to Daddy 's Eyes and Mouth in the little Babies face as if the dapper Stripling were to be heir to all the Fathers features and a Dimple or a Mole if hereditary were better Titles to an InHeritance than Deeds and Evidences Yet none certainly was ever born with fairer Marks than this For it is stigmatiz'd in the Fore-head and bears in the Front the legible Characters of well-meaning Zealot And thus much in consideration of the first Reason that induc'd the Animadyerter to call the writer of the Preface Mr. Bayes because he hath no name for which reason he might as well have cal'd him Bayes Anonymus in imitation of Miltons learned Bull for that Bulls in Latin are learned ones none will deny who in his Answer to Salmasius calls him Claudius Anonymus The second Reason is Because he would avoid Tautologies and distastefull Repetitions of one word and to avoid this he has taken a sure course for since his own Invention could not supply him with variety of names he has run over the Dramatis Personae of the Rehearsal and because Mr. Bays alone was not sufficient for his purpose he has made bold with Mr. Thunderer Draw-can-sir and Prince Volscius These Titles he has confer'd on our Author in consideration of his Dignity as he is a Clergy-man of Honour But chiefly as he goes on because Mr. Bayes and he symbolize in their understandings in their Expressions in their Humour in their Contempt and quarrelling of all others though of their own Profession Now because these with their subsequent Train of Reasons because that Players and he manage their contests with the same prudence and civility and both their Talents lie in personating and exposing the Nonconformists seem to make the most Pompous shew of all the rest for the precedent ones conclude nothing why he should be call'd Mr. Bays more then any other name yetas you will easily discover this Pomp is far from a Triumph and not less ignoble then Cardinal Campejus his Pageantry whose Mules under glorious Trappings and rich foot cloaths carryed such disgraceful lumber as is not usually conceal'd in Carriers Packs 1. Then as to their Symbolizing in their Humour Expressions Mr. Bays you know prefers that one quality of fighting single with whole Armies before all the Moral vertues put together and not with standing whatever the peaceable Morallist says to the contrary allows Fortitude the Precedency of the Red-Hatted Virtues that Fortitude wch consists in Conquering not in Suffering for these two differ one from another more then Mr. Bayes his two Cardinals in Hats from those two in Caps whereas the Bishops Historian gives the Palm to Innocence Innocence which is no less a stranger to the use of Swords and Guns then the naked Indian this and an untainted Reputation were the Bishops Armour Your Weapons of Offence and your good old Fox you would have girt him with you might have reserv'd for some of your Pulpit-Officers who made less use of the Sword of the Spirit when they fought under the Banner of the Lord of Hosts so they call'd the Earl of Essex Again Mr. Bayes places most of his Art in the various Representations of Battles and in entertaining your eye with Encounters betwixt the great Hobby-Horses and the Foot or your ear with the Battle in Recitativo which resembles not a little your Troops singing of Psalms in their Marches nay he gives it as one of the greatest Elogiums to his Play that it shal Drum Trumpet shout Battle I gad with any of the most Warlike Tragedies Ancient or Modern But in the Bishops Panegyrick We hear of nothing but the softer sounds of Peace and a happy Composure of those Divisions which have too truly made the Catholick Church Militant An Union or at least an Accommodation between the Churches of Christendom was one of those glorious Enterprises and great designs which the Bishops active and sprightly Mind was butied in and for such Enterprises and Attempts Mr. Bayes and you call nothing Enterprising but going to Fifty-Cuffs with Armies you enviously compare him to the Bishops of Munster Strasbonrg and Colen and might with as much shew of reason to the three Kings of Colen and that had been Majestick indeed ay and greater to the Ear then the two Kings of Brainford for that had been three Kings of one Place But then the Animadverter adds because they symbolize in their Contempt and Quarrelling of all others though of their own Profession The Bishops Panegyrist 't is true has
into Prose that 's your first Rule Your second Rule is the rule of Observation or Record by way of Table-book As thus in my Observation say you p. 168. if we meet with an Argument in the streets An Argument how civil that is for a brawl so modest so gent both Men Women Boys that are the Auditory that 's well but Congregation would have bin better do usually give it on the modester side and conclude that he that rails most has the least reason Very subtilly concluded by our Observer the Boys and the Women Now I had thought that in a Controversie betwixt the Oyster-women and the Opponent Tankard-bearers the cause had ever been carried with confidence Noise and that the Rabble adjudg'd the Victory on their side who manag'd the dispute with the greatest clamour and violence prosecuting the baffled Scold that is the modester with stones hooting But I will allow our Authors experience in the Rabble-Affairs to be greater as having been a frequent assiduous Spectator of these little broyles of the Rascality He has told us where to find the contemplative man at the head of a troop of Boyes and Women in the corner of a Street his Table-book out and his hand and eyes very busie in remarking the petty disorders of a Riot This is his Diary in which our small Historian registers the proceedings of every Suburb Tumult in this he summs up all the Billinsgate Debates and Conferences 'T is his scolding Common-place-book which acquaints him with all the Moods and Figures of Railing here he has all the terms of that Art which Smectimnuus Marchmont Needham I. Milton or any other of the Professors ever thought of for there is a certain form Method in this as well as all other Arts but yet our Author being a well-wisher to the Railers to encourage those that have any inclination this way to improve that faculty assures them Pag. 261. That the secret is not great nor the Process long or difficult if a man would study it and though in other things your knowledge may be above his you may believe him in this he hath made it his business Every Scold hath it naturally It is but crying Whore first and having the last word Next he instructs his Pupil in the several kinds of Railing for besides the Common scurrilous way of calling men Buffoons Brokers c. p. 270. pag. 106. in which he is so expert that I am confident that Fellow in Plutarch that busied himself to find out how many several ways the Letters in the Alphabet might be rang'd tranpos'd alter'd could not invent more changes of the Letters than he has in instructing them to scold There is yet another by which dumb men may be taught to rail that is by Signs for there is a Language of the Hand and Head This is pag. 160. Where he tells us of an incorrigible Scold that though she was duck'd over head and ears under water yet â—tretch'd up her hands with her two thumb-nails in the Nit-cracking posture or with two fingers divariâ—ated to call the man still in that language Lowsy Rascal and Cuckold It is a pretty Tale I confess but so miserably foisted in that whoever will consult the fore-cited Page cannot but allow with me that our Disputant is better capacitated to maintain an Argument in his own Phrase with a rude bustling Carrman or a Porter in the street then with an Ecclesiastical Politician But to follow our Street-walker with a full Cry of Boys and Women at his heels he wants only the Fiddles to make up the Frolick marching in state with his Retinue through Lincalns-Inne-fields to â—haring-Cross after a sober remark or two according to his wonted formality on the Boys whipping their Giggs and the Lacqueys playing at the wheel of Fortune p. 206. he casts his Eye sometimes upon the Book-sellers Stalls and sometimes upon the Wall and gazing at last with admimiration at a Preface shewing what GROUNDS there are for FEARS and JEALOUSIES of POPERY after a solemn pause and profound silence having spit twice he turns him round to his Auditory the White Aprons and the Boys and with a grave Nod pointing to the Preface See here says he is one of the dutiful Sons of the Church that has writ a Preface shewing what GROUNDS there are c. when he knows as well as I or any of you I marry does he that there are no GROUNDS at all and therefore if he would have said any thing to the purpose it should have been rather A Preface Shewing the CAUSELESNESSE of the Fears and Iealousies of POPERY at which the Rout shouting Victoria Victoria the Gentleman big with wonder at his Lucky hit turns to the wall as the Privy-Councellor in Montaigne on the like occasion and pissing cries Not unto us O Lord not unto us but unto thy Name give the glory then having damn'd the Rationales as he pass'd along he slips into a Coffee-house leaving the Rabble to the following Adventures of the day Here placing himself at the Tables-end and calling for a dish of Coffee which no sooner brought but after a short grace drunk up he exalts his Superciliums and vexes his formal Beard to make his Face look like the Turks in the bottome of the Dish for by that Glass the Sages lean to dress themselves in their Oracular looks insomuch that the Coffee-Boy who had all this while intentively observ'd the Affectations of our Man of Gravity and Understanding had much ado to forbear asking him whether that was not his Picture which his Master had hung out imagining as he well might that he had sat for the Coffee-house Sign To proceed the Gazett being examin'd and many Political Discourses pass'd betwixt our Intelligent Sophy and the more judicious Boy for this little Officer you must suppose is his principal Camerade as being of greater quality then those that make up his Street Auditory and no less then our Authors Library-keeper I say after several facetious reflections on both sides on the Polish King and his Cross-legg'd Parliament of Taylors manag'd in the style of Prince Prettyman and Tom Thimble and many other Arguments too long to relate Company coming in and the house beginning to fill more Coffee is the word and away goes our Authors Camerade By this time the Politick Cabal-men were most of 'um set and all the Rooms rung with nothing but a continued Noise of Arcana Imperii and Ragioni di â—tato in these places some think most of our late Forms of Government were model'd and there are that say Machiavel the Florentine was born in a Coffee-house And now one sinks the Dutch in a dish of Coffee and another beheading the clean Pipes prognosticates the fate of De-Wit and VanPutten a third blows up a Fire-ship with a provident Whiff of Tobacco and a fourth pouring a flood of Rheume upon the floor opens the Hollanders Sluces Many secret Intrigues were whisper'd too
are not born in many Revolutions Time forms and perfects such as slowly as teeming Elephants their young and is deliver'd but of one at a Birth Subverters of Roman Empire and Ecclesiastical Policy like unusual Conjunctions of the Planets signalize Remarkable Events and fill up only the brightest spaces of Annals Now saddle the Mogols Horse mount our Heroe according to the ancient fashion of riding in Triumph with his Face towards the Tail the Headstal then may pass for the Crupper the Earth already trembling under so glorious a weight the 8. Elephant Supporters not being able to poize it on their heads display his Victorious Banners as far as the vast Kingdomes of Garter or Clarencieux do extend and proclaim before him this is the Dead-doing-man that has knockt down Durham Rochester Oxford and Canterbury with the But-end of an Arch-Bishop A new and unheard of Weapon you 'l say 't is true but such a one as has perform'd more incredible Exploits then Captain Iones his Whinyard which if the Reader dread not the Event will appear by the sequel So formidable a Tool is the But-end of an Arch-Bishop when weilded with the arm of a well meaning Zealot that none of the Episcopal Rochets are proof against it nay nor Reputation and Innocence of proof against Presbyterians this dreadful Weapon that had for a long time been peacefully laid up amongst other Instruments of War in Rushworths Armory like those rusty Armes of our Ancestors hung up in their Halls our Author having a fit occasion for its Service has taken down and to avenge the Quarrells of the Forreign Divines and Nonconformists without any further Ceremony no Ceremony but a small Preamble of 4 Pages falls upon the Ecclesiastical Politician as the Episcopal Champion and now let us see to ward off the blows as well as we can for the same Magazin which our Adversary repair'd to for a Weapon of Offence will if well searcht furnish us too with a Shield A better enquiry into the story of Sibthâ—rps Sermon and the Loan will free the Clergy and Bishop Laud in particular from many unworthy and false imputations of our Author if not Sibthorp too in some measure from being thought to play the Bishop in the States-mans Diocess For the truth on 't is he has omitted so many material passages and dislocated the rest that the Story as he has castrated it is so mutilate and deficient as the Narrative which he gives us pag. 285. is not so much Arch-Bishop Abbots as the Reverend Animadverters To look back a little into the occasion of this Loan Rushworth pag. 418 of his Historical Collections informs us That the late King receiving news of the disasters that had befaln his Uncle the King of Denmark commanded his Councel to advise by what means wayes he might fitly and speedily be furnished with monies suitable to the importance of his affairs his Allies being weakned himself threatned with Invasions from abroad Hereupon after a Consultation of divers ways together they came to this resolution that the urgency of affairs not admitting the way of Parliament the most speedy equal and convenient means were by a generall Loan from the subject according as every man was assessed in the Rolls of the last subsidy Upon which Result the King forthwith chose Commissioners for the Loan and caused a Declaration to be publisht wherein he alledged for this course of Supply besides other Reasons that the urgency of the occasion would not give leave to the calling of a Parliament but assuring the People that this way should not be made a President for the time to come to charge them or their Posterity to the prejudice of their just and antient Liberties enjoy'd under his most noble Progenitors endeavouring thereby to root out of their minds the suspition that he intended to serve himself of such ways to the abolishing of Parliaments and promising them in the word of a Prince First to repay all such sums of money as should be lent without Fee or Charge so soon as he shall in any ways be enabled thereunto upon shewing forth the Acquittance of the Collectors testifying the Receit thereof And Secondly That not one penny so borrowed should be expended but upon those Publick and General services wherein every of them and the body of the Kingdom their Wives Children and Posterity have their Personal and common Interest Then he proceeds to the private Instructions which were given to the Commissioners besides which his Majesty commanded the Bishop of Bath and Wells to draw up other Instructions to be communicated to the arch-Arch-Bishops Bishops and the rest of the Clergy of this Realm upon this occasion in order to the preparing the people toward a dutiful compliance to his Majesties desires Which was accordingly performed by the Bishop and the Instructions thus drawn up being approved of by the King and Council were sent to the Arch-Bishops of Canterbury and York with a command to see them publisht and disperst in the several Diocesses of their Provinces The Instructions are to be seen at large in Dr. Heylius History of Arch-Bishop Laud in obedience to these Dr. Sibthorp as Rushworth tells us pag. 422. preacht that Sermon at Northampton Entituled Apostolick Obedience which he afterwards printed and dedicated to the King expressed to be those Meditations which the Doctor first conceived upon his Majesties Instructions unto all the Bishops of this Kingdom fit to be put in execution agreeable to the necessity of the times and afterwards brought forth upon his Majesties Commission for the raising of monies by the way of Loan And for refusing to license this Sermon Arch-Bishop Abbot fell under the Kings high displeasure and not long after was sequestred from his Office Pag. 431. and pag. 436. the Arch-Bishop in his own Narrative tells us that Sibthorp being a man of low Fortune conceiv'd that the putting this Sermon in Print might gain favour at Court and raise his Fortune higher on he went therefore with the Transcribing of his Sermon and got a Bishop or two to prefer this great Service to the Duke of Buckingham and it being brought unto the Duke it cometh into his Head or was suggested unto him by some malicious body that thereby the Arch-Bishop might be put to some remarkable strait For if the King should send the Sermon unto him and command him to allow it to the Press one of these two things would follow That either he should Authorize it and so all men that were indifferent should discover him for a base and unworthy Beast or he should refuse it and so should fall into the Kings indignation who might pursue it at his pleasure as against a man that was contrary to his Service Out of this Fountain says the Arch-Bishop if he may be allowed to speak for himself and not our Animadverter for him flow'd all the water that afterwards so wet For Mr. Murrey of the Bed-Chamber being sent from the King to
the Arch-Bishop with a command that he and no other should Licence the Sermon the Bishop in pure obedience to his Majesties command no doubt would have declin'd the Office and shifted it off to one of his Chaplains alleadging very dutifully It was an occupation that his old Master King James did never put him upon but in the end being urg'd to Licence it himself he fram'd several Reasons why he could not consent unto it to which Mr. Murrey two or three dayes after having particularly acquainted the King with the objections brought an answer from his Majesty But this not satisfying the Arch-Bishop he dismist him with a desire that his Majesty would be pleased to send the Bishop of Bath and Wells to him that so he might by this means make known his Scruples But Mr. Murrey returning after one or two dayes more told him the King did not think fit to send the Bishop of Bath to him but expected he should pass the Book While these things proceeded thus slowly the Arch-Bishop tells us the minds of those that were Actors for the publishing of this Book were not quiet at Court that the thing was not dispatcht and therefore one day the Duke of Buckingham said to the King Do you see how this business is defer'd if more expedition he not used it will not be Printed before the end of the Term at which time it is fit that it be sent down into the Countries Which so quickned the King that the next message which was sent by Mr. Murrey was that if the Bishop did not dispatch it the King would take some other course with him Whereupon finding how far the Duke had prevailed he thought fit to set down in writing his Objections wherefore the Book was not fit to be publisht which he did and sent them to the King These Bishop Laud was commanded to answer in Writing and upon this the Arch-Bishop flies out into a Rage and taxes Laud so severely as the Animadverten tells us Pag. 286. So difficult was it for that incomparable Prelate to fulfil the Will of his Royal and not incur the displeasure of the Arch-Bishop who had not only contemptuously refused to conform to the Command of his Prince after so many urgent repeated invitations but justified his refusal in Writing and well might we expect that they who undertook an Answer should not escape his sharp Censure for besides that possibly Abbot who as 't is evident from his Narrative had no mean opinion of himself might conceit his Scruples unanswerable In so doing they seem'd to disarm him of all just pretenses and to call in question his wilful Denyal And accordingly he lays it on with a Vengeance upon Bishop Laud for this man says he who beleives so well of himself fram'd an Answer to my Exceptions this was that which stung him but to give some Countenance to it he must call in three other Bishops that is to say Durham Rochester and Oxford try'd men for such a purpose Why he that believ'd so well of himself though he thrust not himself upon the undertaking but was call'd to it by his Master should call in three other Bishops to his help I understand not Well the Confutation seem'd so strong that the Bishop of Durham and the Bishop of Bath for reward of their Service were sworn of the Privy-Council And in the end the Arch-Bishop persisting still in his Refusal notwithstanding that many things upon his motion were alter'd in the Book or expung'd out of it insomuch that he seems unwilling that his refusing to sign the Sermon should be judg'd by the Printed Book He was by the Kings Command which in the Animadverters modester Phrase is the under working of his Adversaries removed from Lambeth to Foord in Kent and afterwards sequestred and a Commission past to exercise the Archiepiscopal Jurisdiction to Mountain Bishop of London Neal Bishop of Durham Buckridge Bishop of Rochester Houson Bishop of Oxford and Laud Bishop of Bath and Wells who as our Animadverter says pag. 291. but falsly from thence arose in time to be Arch-Bishop for Abbot as all know was before his death restor'd again and Laud took London in his way to Canterbury The Approbation of the Sermon refus'd thus by Abbot it was carried to Mountain Bishop of London who Licensed it As for the Story of Doctor Woral his Chaplain who advis'd with a Gentleman of the Inner-Temple concerning his own Licensing it Rushworth has told us that it was Mr. Selden and it is enough we know the man His Expostulation with the Doctor was not unlike him if ever the Tide turn'd a civil expression that for if ever the Government chang'd he might come to be hang'd for it But Mr. Selden in this appear'd more scrupulous then Abbot himself who seemed not to disallow so much of the â—rinted Book as that any man from that should take a measure of his refusing to sign it And it is observable that the Loan being demanded of the Societies and Inns of Court the Benchers of Lincolns-Inne received a Letter of Reproof from the Lord of the Council for neglecting to advance the Service in their Society to return the Names of such as were refractory Historical Collections p. 422. With what justice now can the Animadverter call this an Ecclesiastical Loan and tell us that part of the Clergy invented these Ecclesiastical Laws instead of the Common Law of England and Statutes of Parliament for the whole Quire saith he sung this Tune pag. 294. and yet pag. 304. he makes us believe they sung so many different Tunes as the Presbyterians never invented more for one Psalm For there was Sibthorps Church and Mainwarings Church Montagues Church with many more and all this whether more ignorantly or maliciously 't is hard to say for 't is manifest this Loan the King was advised to by his Privy Council in 1626. Nor was Bishop Laud nor any of those Bishops that Arch-Bishop Abbot calls tried Men then of the Council for Durham and Bath were not sworn Councellors till 1627. So that he might have sparâ—d that Invective against the Clergy and Bishop Laud pag. 294 295 296 301. were it not impossible for him to speak well of any but the Tradesmen and the Forreign Divines That Bishop was so far from being a Principal in the matter of the Loan that he was no otherwise an Accessary then as he was employ'd by his late Majesty in drawing up the Instructions for the Clergy and penning an Answer to Arch Bishop Abbot's Exceptions and as to his undermining the Arch-Bishop Abbot himself seems to acquit him in telling us that all the water which afterwards so wet him flow'd from another Fountain For the Picture of Bishop Laud which the Arch-Bishop has drawn with so black a Coal and this Gentleman has Copied 't is done by too ill a Hand to be thought to resemble the Life and what may serve to convince us of the partiality of
the Painter is the Character given Abbot by one of our State-Historians none of Lauds greatest friends that his extraordinary remisness in not exacting strict Conformity to the prescribed Orders of the Church in point of Ceremony seem'd to resolve those legal Determinations to their first Principle of Indifferency and to lead in such a habit of Inconformity as the future reduction of those tender Conscienc'd men to long discontinued Obedience was interpreted an Innovation From hence any man may judge what construction is to be put upon the arch-Arch-Bishops Accusation of Laud for informing against the honest Men that setled the Truth which he call'd Puritanism in their Auditors For which the good man represented Laud as a Papist to King Iames. So every stickler for the Church of England was term'd in the Language of those times But if his Marrying the Earl of D. to the Lady R. when she had another Husband was not the unpardonable Sin it may seem strange that neither the Arch-Bishop nor our Writer should absolve him when we cannot in charity conceive but God did upon that his Penitent and Submissive acknowledgment which we find recorded at large in the History of his Life p. 59. Sure I am the most inveterate Enemies of this gallant Prelate have not so blackt him as the Pens of the Arch-Bishop and our Animadverter for to report him to the World in the 1 Character Sir E. Deering tells us he had muzzled Fisher and would strike the Papists under the fiâ—t Rib when he was dead and gone And being dead that wheresoever his Grave should be Pauls would be his Perpetual Monument and his own Book his Epitaph Nay in that infamous Book call'd Canterburys Doom we are told that at his Tryal he made as Full as Gallant as Pithy a Defence and spake as much as was possible for the wit of man to invent and that with so much Art Vivacity and Confidence as he shewed not the least acknowledgment of Guilt in any of the Particulars which were charged upon him So eminently remarkable were his Accomplishments which the most Malicious could not dissemble nor the most Envious conceal His sharpest Adversaries were his boldest Encomiasts and when they intended Libels made Panegyâ—icks At the same Bar condemning themselves and acquitting this Great Man who after he had been an honour to the higest place in our Church which was higher yet in being his was Translated to a more Glorious Dignity in the Church Triumphant received therewith the joyful Aâ—thems of a Quire of Angels and instal'd in White Robes according to the usual solemnities of Saints sent thither as it were before to assist at the following Coronation of his Royal Master and to set the Crown of Martyrdom on the head of that Heroick Defender of the Faith Now methinks our Author had he any spark of Vertue unextinguish'd should upon considering these things retire into his Closet and there lament and pine away for his desperate folly for the disgrace he hath as far as in him is brought upon the Church of England And though the comfort is an ill man you may believe him when he speaks against himself cannot by reproaching fix an ignominy yet the same thanks are due to his honourable Intentions and his Endeavours are not the less commendable For to say the truth he has out pitcht the Executioner half a Barr so dextrous is he in severing the Head from the Body at one blow that were he Probationer for the Headmans Office I am confident he would carry it in a free Election on without the least Opposition and so he might become a more serviceable Member of the Commonwealth then he is at present Seriously 't is great pity a man of such Accomplishments should be lost when no body can deny but he is every way qualified to fill the Place and Quality of Squire Dun. Especially if they saw how passing well he lookt in the cast Robes of a Malefactor Woe be to the Bishops if ever he procures a Patent for that Honour they cannot in reason expect any greater favour then to have the Traytors Quarters removed from the City Gates and their own hung up in the room Axes are the most necessary because the most powerful Arguments against the Clergy they confuted him whom Fisher could not Well these Bishops are the men have ruin'd all they brought the late King to the Block and have contributed to all our miseries ever since How came Cromwell Ineton and Bradshaw trow to merit their â—yburn Pomps and second Funeral Solemnities Sure 't was through some mistake that those who were but Accessaries and under-Instruments of our late troubles should be thus highly honor'd above the Principals the Prelates No doubt but it was a great Affliction to this Gentleman poor soul to see the Heads of his Master and the other two well deserving Gentlemen rais'd to that ignominious Eminency on purpose to be pointed at by the Beholders and what is worse expos'd without their Hats to the rude violence of the Weather when for ought appears it was an Exaltation they never sought and they have been undeservedly advanc'd to that Pitch of Greatness which Bishop Laud and two or three of the Villanous Clergy had theâ— had their deserts should have climb'd But since they are there much good may it do 'um with their places For after all the fatal Consequences of their Rebellion they can only serve as fair Marks unto wise Subjects to avoid the Causes And now shall this sort of Men still vindicate themselves as the most zealous Assertors of the Rights of Princes At best they are no better Subjects then Jesuites or well-meaning Zealots betwixt whom as the best of Poets draws their Parallel there lyes no greater difference then this They dare kill Kings and 'twixt you here 's the strife That you dare shoot at Kings to save their Life This Doctrine of killing Kings in their own Defence you may safely vindicate as your own it was never broacht before And from such unquestionable Principles may we reduce your Account of the late War p. 303. Whether it were a War of Religion or of Liberty is not worth the labour to enquire Which-soever was at the top the other was at the bottome but upon considering all I think the cause was too good to have been fought for Which if I understand not amiss is nothing but Iconoclates drawn in Little and Defensio Populi Anglicania in Miniature Besides the War as most gave out at first was for the removal of Evil Councellors but because as we are told pag. 252 A new War must have like a Book that would sell a New Title our Author who has a singular knack in giving Titles to both has founded the late War upon the more specious and plausible names of Religion and Liberty These which he has assign'd for causes of our Rebellion being the same with those for which the Netherlanders took up Arms against their Lawful
breeding and drawn in to mention Kings and Princes and even our own whom as he thinks of with all duty and reverence which will appear by the sequel so he avoids speaking of either in jest or earnest least he should though most unwillingly trip in a word or fail in the mannerlyness of an expression Thus being conscious to himself that he should offend he thought it a point of discretion as well as good Manners to ask Pardon before hand For it is very hard for a Private man that has seen no Kings but those in the Rehearsal to frame any other address to Princes then such as might become King Phys and King Ush of Branford And accordingly so it happens for p. 310. speaking of the Laws against Fanaticks Hence is it that the Wisdom of his Majesty and the Parliament must be expos'd to after Ages for such a Superfaetation of Acts in his Raign about the same business This is so high a Complement that he has pass'd upon the King and Parliament that I cannot but admire how one of his Private Condition and Breeding could arrive to this Degree of Court-ship especially considering how well it agrees with what our Private Courtier saith pag. 242. where he tells us these Kings have shrew'd understandings and he is not a Competent Iudge of their Actions Fie fie that 's too modest Sir you wrong your self too much not a Competent Iudge O' my word Sir but you are a great Iudge This Humility does not become such great Wits as are Princes Companions 'T is too low a Condescention for any Gentleman of Archees Robe This Familiarity with great ones is a Priviledge entail'd upon your Place and was confer'd upon you with your Cap. Little better do I like his Animadversion pag. 320. in these words If the Fanaticks by their wanton and unreasonable opposition to the ingenious and moderate Discipline of the Church of England shall give their Governours too much reason to suspecâ— that they are never to be kept in order c. Whom does he mean by our Governors The King No for he is a Single Person A pretty Artifice to shut the King out of that Text Let every Soul be subject to the Higher Powers the Parliament or the Bishops Mark whether there be a King and Bishops sitting in this Exclusive Parliament of his This Quere methinks might better have become those Times of which Mr. Digges he who wrote a Book of the Unlawfulness of Subjects taking up Armes against their Soveraign excepting no Causes as too good If Forreigners says he shall inquire under what Form of Government we live the answer must be we live over a King And having taken this Liberty with Princes and Senates no wonder if the Gentleman presume to treat the Bishops Peers Privy-Councellers are his Fellows with a little more Freedom Though for what reason he treats the present Clergy with so little Respect may be hard to say yet as for Bishop Lauds particular and his course usage of him I think I could give a guess what mov'd him to it Not that I believe as some that his Quarrel might be the same with Archees who they say was exasperated against the Bishop because he was whipt at his procurement for taking too much Liberty a Crime much like what is charg'd upon this Gentleman or as others that he or some of his Family came sometime in danger of a Star-Chamber Censure and hazarded losing their Ears but rather upon better Consideration that there might be no greater occasion for this Picque then those several Cringes and Genuflexions which the Arch-Bishop as he thinks introduced in the Church or rather restor'd and this I must confess is sufficient ground for a Grudge for it is an unreasonable thing that the Church should expect that every man of how private a Condition and Breeding soever and however unpractis'd in the Graceful Motions and Inflections of his Body should be conformable to the Genuflexions and Cringes of the well-bred Ecclesiasticks Every man has not had the good Fortune to be train'd up at the Dancing-School nor so happily Educated as to pull off his Hatt and make a Leg with an Air. And would they have these men expose themselves by not Conforming to the Ceremonies of the rest of the Congregation or betray their Breeding by an aukard Bending of their Bodies or an unsightly Bow proclaming at every Rustick Scrape that they have not been initiated by a Dancing Master in the common Rudiments of Civility No I am confident that many of the English Protestants and especially those of a private Breeding are so averse from this that they would decline coming to their Churches at all first As I have known some People somewhat wanting in the little Decencies of Behaviour avoid Conversation and appearing in Publick These Persons naturally affect a plainness of Fashion and a Homeliness in Worship And such a Diversity of Motions such quick Interchanges of Gestures distract and confound them Besides that they are like the unquiet Variety of Postures of one in a sick Bed and and really they consult their ease and what is more their health which is not a little indanger'd by being too Ceremonious and many a violent Cold occasioned by a Citizens sitting bare-headed all Service-while without the Defence at least of a pair of Broad-fring'd Gloves laid a cross well knowing that their Betters rather then incommode them in such a Case will desire their Worships to be Cover'd Several other Occasions there are that for Conveniency sake may require a Dispensation as if a fat Burger lye under an inevitable necessity of breaking Wind in a Sister'tis not civil to call it any thing but venting a Sigh at the wrong end shall not this tender-conscienc'd Man be permitted to strain a point of Decorum because 't is in the Church rather then hazard a fit of the Colick Another thing is that one Man may have an Antipathy against Wine that comes out of a gilt Chalice and another against Bread deliver'd to him by the Hand of one in a Surplice and will the Priest be so uncivil as to cram it down the throat of that puling Christian The Clergy certainly cannot be so rude and in an affair of Conscience to exact this compliance Since great Persons out of Civility will condescend to their Inferiors and all Men out of common humanity will yield to the â—eak We may add to what we have said before should any more flexible then the rest and more inclinable to the Superstitious practises of the Primitive Christians be contented to bend their stubborn Knees or to bow their Bodies to the East as oft as is requir'd might not such Gentlemen as our Author be at a loss and he that was so far out in his Situation of Geneva through pure Devotion it may be to that Place direct his mistaken Reverence towards the West which though it were neither Vice nor Idolatry yet might perhaps occasion more sport
Bishop No King seems to imply For though Royalty and Priest-hood which antiently by right of Primogeniture concenter'd in one the same being Law-giver and Sacrificer see here Mr. Author the Kings Right to the Priestly Office and the Clergies Interest in making Laws were in succeeding ages deriv'd to different Persons their Interests yet were not divided with their Persons But as the Royal and Sacerdotal Dignity have the same Original and antiently Prince and Priest had one and the same Name so though differently Branch't now yet as springing from the same Root they flourish and decay together So regularly is the Religious State incorporate with the Civil that the Image of Episcopacy like the Statuaries in Pallas Target seems so riveted in Monarchy that none can attempt defacing the one without breaking the other Nay those who have been taught by Calvin and Beza to demean themselves so irreverently to the Fathers of their Church have learn'd from such Apostles as Knox and Buchanan to whom duller Mariana might have gone to School to pay as little Obedience to the Fathers of their Country This is evident from these Opinions That the Kings Personal and Politique Capacity are distinct and so they fought for his Crown when they shot at his Person That the Original of Government is in the People and that he derives his Soveraignty from their Consent and not from Succession and by consequence is no King before he is Crown'd and his Style should not run Dei â—â—atia but Populi Consensu That he is greater then his Subjects singly and apart but lesser then them altogether that is as Mr. Digges speaks a Father is greater then this or that Son but less then all his Children together That there is a Co-ordination of the three Estates but this is moderate others go farther and tell us the King is subordinate to the other two Estates under whom he governs Nay Milton holds that the Legislative Power is in the Parliament exclusively and the Executive only in the King And that the Supreme Magistrate is accountable to the Inferior and though Paraeus's Book was burnt for this yet Mr. Baxter in his Holy Common-wealth maintains he may be call'd to an account by any single Peer Now because they have been too liberal and confer'd too large a Power in Civil Affairs on their Soveraign they will be sure to retrench it in Spirituals O they can never give enough to the Lay-Elders for they admit Lay-men to intermeddle in Ecclesiastical Matters though they exclude the King upon that account Therefore Bishop Bramhall speaking of the Scotch Disciplinarians in his Fair warning to take heed of their Discipline saith Besides those incroachments which they have made upon the rights of all Supreme Magistrates there be sundry others which especially concern the King of Great Brittain as the use of his Tenths First Fruits and Patronages and which is more then all these the dependance of his Subjects by all which we see that they have thrust out the Pope indeed but retained the Papacy The Pope as well as they and they as well as the Pope neither Barrell better Herrings do make Kings but half Kings Kings of the Bodies and not of the Souls of their Subjects They allow them some sort of Judgment over Ecclesiastical Persons in their Civil Capacities for it is little according to their Rules which either is not Ecclesiastical or may not be reduced to Ecclesiastical But over Ecclesiastical Persons as they are Ecclesiasticks or in Ecclesiastical Matters they ascribe unto them no judgment in the world Here he cites the Vindication of their Commissioners wherein they say It cannot stand with the word of God and that no Christian Prince ever claim'd or can claim to himself such a Power So that that great Prelate whoever he was be he amongst the Living or the Dead or in the World of the Moon that said The King had no more to do in Ecclesiastical matters then Jack that rubb'd his Horses heels may retract his Aphorisme since he is out-shot in his own Bow by Synods and Presbyteries for according to them Jack that rubbs the Horses heels if he be but a Lay-Elder is Supreme in Ecclesiastical matters Though why our Author would have his Adversary write a Book in defence of that Aphorism who had reserved the Priesthood and the exercise of it for the King I see not unless it be to vye him and see him and re-vye him in Contradictions This Figure now is lost to any man that is not a Gamester Upon considering all I am afraid that Reformation is Tinkers work making two holes for stopping one and therefore I am sorry that this Gentleman is employ'd in pulling Pins out of the Church for though the State should not totter he may chance to pull an old House upon his Head And really he has undertaken a desperate Vocation and there are 20 other more honest and painful ways by which he may earn a Living Not that I would have him to do in Ecclesiastical Matters so much as to rub down a Bishops Horses heels for fear my Iack should take himself for a Gentleman if he rides sometimes though it were but to water his Masters Horse Besides cleansing a Stable were it the Augean being a matter only of external neatness can never merit the Trophies of Hercules For neither can a Iustice of Peace for an Order about Dirt-Baskets deserve a Statue Nor for the same reason would I have him Chimney-Sweeper to the City though to give him his due he ought to be consider'd by them the next Offices they have in their disposal for taking such a care of their Chimneys and their Consciences None of their painful Pastors can admonish them better of their duty or their Interest Fear God Honour the King preserve your Consciences sweep 'em rather they 're fouler then your Chimneys follow your Trades and look to your Chimneys not forgetting the Crickets this is well enough for a Belmans Song instead of Look to your Fire Locks and Candle Light But Chimney-Reformation is somewhat below the man and there are many other Callings more advantagious and beneficial then crying Chimney Sweep Ay or then Card-Matches and Save-alls or the more substantial Mouse-Trap-men many I say there are of a more Orthodox Invention then these and less distastful to the sanctified ear of English Protestants witness the London-Cryes of the late blessed Times when The Oyster-Women lockt their Fish up And trudg'd away to cry No Bishop And some for Brooms old Boots and Shoes Cry'd out to purge the Commons House Instead of Kitchen-stuff some cry A Gospel Preaching Ministry And some for Old Sutes Coats Cloak No Surplice nor Service Book Well since Bishops must down and to be sure then down falls Popery I think the fairest way to rid our hands of them is for Mr. Animadverter to put his Book in the hands of the Itinerant Gospellers that travel up and down with two penny Books and
Preach the Desolation and downfall of the Man of Sin Ah many a good Book of Mr. Bs. and I. O's have these Bawlers cry'd the Project will take wonderfully with your Street-Auditory the Rabble Then they may sing the Fall of Antichristian Magistrates and Laws you have plentifully provided them with Canting for that purpose for from Pag. 243. to Pag. 250. you have carried on the Cause I will point to some of it Pag. 249. Pag. 250. Princes consider that God has Instated them in the Government of Mankind with that incumbrance if it may so be call'd of Reason and that incumbrance upon Reason of Conscience That he might have given them as large an extent of ground and other kind of Cattle for their Subjects but it had been a melancholy Empire to have been only Supream Grasiers and Soveraign Shepheards And therefore though the laziness of that brutal magistracy might have been more secure yet the difficulty of this does make it more honourable That men therefore are to be dealt with reasonably and Conscientious men by Conscience That even Law is force and the execution of that Law a greater Violence and therefore with rational Creatures not to be us'd but upon the utmost extremity That the Body is in the power of the mind so that corporal Punishments do never reach the offender but the innocent suffers for the guilty That the Mind is in the hand of God and cannot correct those perswasions which upon the best of its natural capacity it has collected So that it too though erroneous is so far innocent That the Prince therefore by how much God hath indued him with a clearer reason by consequence with a more inlightned judgment ought the rather to take heed lest by punishing Conscience he violate not only his own but the Divine Majesty So that if any Prince will hold his Kingdom by Mr. Animadveâ—ters Tenure he is fully Instated in the Melancholy Empire of all his Parks and Chases and next and immediately under Conscience over all Persons their Bodies only reserv'd in the power of their minds and their minds in the hand of God and all other kind of his said Majesties Cattle within his rational or irrational Realms and Dominions Supreme Head and Governour This indeed is the most full and comprehensive Inventory of the Goods and Chattels of Monarchy if I may so speak that eveâ— was heard of Instating Princes not only in the Government of irrational Cattle a Right which all successively have claim'd from Adam Brutal Magiâ—tracy being a Flower of his Crown and a Prerogative of his Melancholy Empire transmitted from him to the Patriarchs and all the Supreme Grasiers and Soveraign Shepherds but assigning also other kind of Cattle for their Government as their rational Subjects Ay and such Cattle as Conscientious Men. Which Right as it was at first deriv'd as some fancy from the Original Consent of the People so is the Exercise of it confirm'd by a like Consent of their Heirs or rather of their Consciences Now these tamer Subjects the Brutes are to be govern'd by force that is in our Authors words by Law for Hunters though they have an absolute Power of Life and Death over those we call the Ferae Naturae yet give Law even unto them but the Conscientious Drove are not so easily yok'd as the horn'd Subjects of the Wood and therefore Law is not to be us'd with them but upon the utmost extremity For which reason our Authoâ—tels us that Brutal Magistracy is more secure and the latter more difficult which confirms an opinion of the Malmsbury Philosophers that Horses had they Laws amongst them would prove more generous Subjects them Men. 'T is true the Animadverter says that God might have given Princes as large as extent of Ground and other kind of Cattle for their Subjects Subjects are one kind of Cattle it seems but it had been a melancholy Empire to have been only Supream Grasiers and Soveraign Shepherds And yet as Melancholy an Empire as that would have been he has instated them in one far more unpleasant and uncomfortable over Subjects from whom they must expect no greater security for Obedience then their own good Nature for punish them they must not if disloyal and unjust for fear of disobliging their Consciences for though he says that Laws should not be put in Execution but upon the utmost extremity 't is plain he intends they should not be Executed at all for in the very next words he affirms that the Body is in the power of the Mind so that Corporal Punishment do never reach the Offender but the Innocent suffers for the Guilty Admirable Stoick but say that the infamy of a Gibbet cannot shame the Generous Mind nor the Severities of the Rack and Wheel awe the most Servile say further that Corporal Punishments cannot reach the Principal Offender the Mind must therefore the Accessary and subordinate Instrument the Body scape unpunisht But the Mind it seems is not only out of the reach but Jurisdiction of the Civil Magistrate For it is in the hand of God and cannot correct those perswasions which upon the best of its natural capacity it has collecâ—ed So that if too though erroneous is so far innocent That the Prince therefore by how much God hath endued him with a câ—earer reason and by consequence with a more enlightned iudgment ought the rather to take heed lest by punishing the Conscience he violate not only his own but the Divine Majesty So now let any of the most desperate Patrons of Fatal Necessity come out and speak any more Truly this is a pretty way not only of excusing but hallowing all the Villany in the World by dedicating it I dread to speak it to the Deity This is the Syntagm of Calvin's Divinity and System of our Authors Policy Bishop Bramhall as was before noted accus'd the Scotch Disciplinarians for making Kings but Kings of the Bodies and not of the Souls of their Subjects but this Gentleman is so courteous as to release them from the charge of both for the Bodies of their Subjects are exempt from their Jurisdiction as being in the Power of their Minds and their Minds are in the hand of God and so Monarchs had best take heed least by punishing the Consciences of their Subjects they violate with their own the Divine Majesty And now shut up the Church doors there is no use of Altars for the Guilty they need run no farther then to their own Consciences for Sanctuary and be safe Cut in pieces the Whipping Posts and Pillories make Bonfires of the Gallowses set open all the Prisons and let there be a general Goal-delivery for Corporal Punishments are all unjust and reach not the Guilty but the Innocent and what is more they are manifest infringments on our Libertys and the Magna Charia of Conscience Sheath the Sword of Justice mure up Westminster-Hall and set Bills on the Courts for Laws are force and the