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A26757	The confession of the faithfull witnesse of Christ, Mr. John Bastwick doctor of physick wherein he doth declare his education and the grounds of his conversion and constancie, in the true professions of Faith : with the reasons wherefore hee became an adversary to our bishops whom he proveth to be the toes of antichrist and dangerous prelates to abide in our church : with a relation of their great pride in setting the kings picture over their dresser in the high commission court, with his hat off and his crown and scepter laid downe before their worships like a delinquent / by Iohn Bastwick...	Bastwick, John, 1593-1654.	1641 (1641)	Wing B1059; ESTC R1532	6,239	9

more an other and whether they be their own or others Servants when they are in their company be they the nobles themselves they are all their attendants and the best of them most heartily glad if by their service they can please them and we know it usuall that the demonstration of the retinu is always from the greatest and they are found to be his followers And I have heard the Pursivants often brag of the greatnesse of their Masters attendance and in such ample manner as I think the Kings Majesty hath not commonly greater and therefore that cannot be denyed which is daily practised And for their servants insolency I have frequently both seene it and felt it Now whereas you think it will not be well taken that I call Bishops Priests and Deacons Antichrists little toes and in my LETANY desire deliverance from them and withall seeme to accuse them of incontinency all which you think will be censured of unadvisednesse at least if not thought scandalous and punishable To this I answere first that By Bishops I understand the Prelates and by Priests their own creatures a generation unknown in the Church of Christ and by Deacons the under Priests in this Kingdome Officers of which the Scripture knoweth nothing likewise For the Deacons such as the Churches chose and were allowed by the Apostles they were men of gravity full of faith and the Holy Ghost men of wisdome and good government and honesty and were the treasurers of the faithfull the Church of God and distributed the liberality of the Saints amongst the poore indigent and necessitated brethren Now I know never a Deacon in England either guilty of any of those vertues before specified or that was ever imployed in that Office or was thought fit to be trusted vvith the treasury of the poore or tooke the least care of them vvhom ordinarily they trample upon und most reproachfully abuse vvith the name of rascality So that such Deacons as I pray against are limbs of the Beast and the inferior order of shavelings and such as ought to be spewed out of the Church as profitable for nothing but increase of wickednesse And for Bishops such as God appointed I honour them and will maintain their dignity to the last drop of my bloud so far I am from praying against such Neither did I ever speake unreverently against the Kings Bishops and those that were appointed as an order in the State till they had in their open Court renounced his authority run themselves by that and many other notorious proceedings into a Primunire so had made themselves enimies to his Prerogative royall delinquents against his Majesty and under his Highnesses displeasure as by the ●tatutes of the Kingdome they are proclamed to be and by the defenders of their proceedings in their Ecclesiasticall Courts who in a booke set forth by their common consent do conclude all these in a Premunire that challenge their authority Iure devino as the Pope and Clergie of Rome which at this time they doe And for your better satisfaction looke in the Apologie for proceedings in Courts Ecclesiasticall a booke made by the Prelates own creatures and in the first Chapter you shall see all the Prelats by their own witnesse in a Premunire and delinquents against his Majesty in a high degree of contumacy And truly I think there was never such an affront put upon regall Dignity as on that day I was censured never such dishonour put upon the Scriptures by such as would be thought Ministers of the word and the Bishops and Pastors of Christ Neither were the Scriptures ever more blasphemously abused then they were at that time in their open assembly I shall briefely therefore tell you that dayes work of which there are a thousand witnesses as also impious words against the most sacred word of God and divine Oracles of holy writ by all which you will see I have good reason to call them ANTICHRISTS LITTLE TOES and to pray against them for they are as desperately impious and equally to bee detested of all such as truly feare the Lord and the King For if we compare them together there will no disparity appeare betwene them they being every way as malicious against the word of God and his deare servants and as diametrally opposing regality as Antichrist himselfe But that all things may the more cleerely be evidenced unto you let me tell you that daies proceedings You must take notice that howsoever they had fained some triviall Articles against mee they were all by the generall consent of the Court thought so poore as they openly averred they would not condemne mee for them and so much the rather because those that had sworne to them were proved to bee my Capitall enimies and also in their depositions to have sworn point blanck one against an other like evill wiinesses could not agree in swearing therefore they condemne me onely for my booke which I writ in defence of Christ and his Kingdome and of the Kings most excellent Majesties prerogative Royall and supremacy against the Pope and Popish Bishops provoked thereunto by a Papist to which duty I was bound both by the law of God and the law of the land and my speciall oath all which I alleadged at the bar and furthermore added that in writing against the Bishop of Rome I intend no such Bishops as acknowledg their authority from Kings and Emperours but onely such Bishops that usurp authority over Kings and Emperours aend their fellow brethren and the Church of God jurc divinos and se I had prefeced in my Booke which I openly readt here And to speake the truth I looked for favour and assistance in this combat from the Prelates never suspecting that they would have bin my enemyes for this endeavour especially I having also in that place alledged the Acts Statutes established by the publick consent of the whole Kingdome in which it was ratified that the Prelates have all their authority and jurisdiction which they now exercise from the King as immediatly derived from him and to affirme the contrary is to be ipso facto an enemy of his Crown Dignity And as the Prelates were an order established by the King State I was so far from opposing them that I never impeached their dignity in the least thing in all the booke neither would I ever have medled with them if they had kept their standing but they like the evill Angels out of pride not keeping their 1 station but openly renouncing the Kings authority and affirming that Jesus Christ made them Bishops and that the holy Ghost consecrated them and that they were Princes and had their thrones and that before Kings and all this Iure divino by all which they made me their enemy they being delinquents against the King And because I had ratified what soever I had said in my booke by the Word of God they as they had before renounced the Kings

THE CONFESSION Of the faithfull Witnesse of Christ Mr. John Bastwick Doctor of Physick Wherein he doth declare his Education and the grounds of his Conversion and Constancie in the true profession of FAITH With the Reasons wherefore hee became an Adversary to our Bishops whom he proveth to be the Toes of Antichrist and dangerous Prelates to abide in our Church With a Relation of their great pride in setting the Kings Picture over their Dresser in the High Commission Court with his hat off and his Crown and Scepter laid downe before their Worships like a Delinquent By IOHN BASTWICK Doctor of Physicke The lively ●ffegies of Mr. Iohu ●astwicke Doctor of Physicke and sufferer under the Prelates London printed and are to bee sold by H. W. 1641. The c●nfession of Ma●ster Iohn Bastwick Doctor of PHISICK I Have heard many Sermons at the Court yer never did I heare any wherein I saw not the PURITAN brought up with one scorne or other and some notorious lyes told of them So that I wonder not that those poore men are thought so evill of though a most innocent and harmelesse people as any lives upon the Earth For when the place of God it selfe from whence truth should onely sound is made a Theater of lying and false accusations no wonder that the Kings Majesty and Nobles of the Kingdome have a prejudicate opinion of them they call Puritans when they expect nothing but truth and veritable narrations from that place In my yonger dayes that I may in something relate my own condition I was bred in as great a hatred of Puritans as any tender yeeres were capable of as it is well known and thought those men not worthy to live yet knew not any of them our Countrey having then scarce two in it neither was there a Sermon perhaps in halfe a yeere thereabouts and that read out of a paper booke and halfe of it commonly was railing against the Puritans But when it pleased God that some of those that spake evillest of them through surfeting and excesse had brought themselves to languishing sicknesse and after to Death it selfe I say when those men in their greatest extremities chose rather to trust them yea and to prefer them before their own brethren and nerest kins-folks and bequeath their children and Estate into their hands then being also demanded the reason of such trust and confidence in them whom they had reputed the worst of men before and most of all traduced hated they then openly declared themselvs and their opinion of them saying that they were now dying men that it was now time to speak the truth and that they in their hearts beleeved they were the true servants of the Lord howsoever despised contemned in the world and withall they desired that their soules might goe the way that theirs went I say when I saw such a wonderfull change in these men who were many of them of knowledge and understanding in all Religions and some of them travellers and Courtiers and that now on their death-beds they should give such an approbation and so honourable testimony of those men of whom they had in their prosperity spoken so maliciously I being then of yeares of discretion and better able to discerne and judge of things that differ began more seriously to consider of that matter and so much the more studious I was because I had in some sort seen the vanity of all pleasures having indeed bin bred in nothing else The right way then to find blessednes was my only aym which through Gods speciall favour and benediction upon my earnest endevors dayly reading of the Word and holy Scriptures private duties godly society and frequent hearing of the word which is onely able to save our soules J found out to the praise and honour of his name be it spoken And J then well perceived looking into the lives and manners of men that those that were commonly branded with the name of Puritans were the happiest and that if any were eternally blessed they were such of them as squared their lives in sincerity according to their profession And lest that I might through an overweening conceit of some seeming blessednesse in them be mistaken I contented not my selfe with home-comparing of men and domesticall experience but I resolved to seeke out still a more excellent way if there were any whereupon I went into forraine Nations and lived amongst all sorts of men in the greatest Princes Courts conversing among all ranks and orders of them and that many years and amongst all professions Courtiers Souldiers Schollers Citizens Marchants and among all sects of factions and religions examining all those in the ballance of judgment I found none in life and death happy and truely comfortable but those that are branded with the name of Puritans or at least those that live and dye in their Faith And for my own particular to speake now my Conscience I had rather goe the way of the meanest Puritans that live and dye according to their profession then of the greatest Prelates that ever lived upon the earth this I speak in the presence of God for of the ones happinesse I am as sure as the Word of God is sure of the others I can promise nothing he living in Rebellion to God all the dayes of his life and his Repentance not knowne unto me And notwithstanding I say all this that these are such an holy people yet are they made but the off-scouring of the world of all things and brought upon every Stage and into the Pulpit as fittest for ludibry by the Players Priests and Prelates yea and in their Courts it is enough to ruine a mans cause if his Adversary can but taint him with the name of a Puritan but most especially are they vilely abused by the Priests and Prelates in their pulpits Now I say if it be lawfull in them to make playes of honest men and to faine what they please against them I pray let it be lawfull in me in meriment to speak the truth of them which as near as I can I will not transgresse If some shall say they have not so great trains nor so much adoe in their marching I affirme that at all times they goe more like Princes then humble Ministers of Christ and the Apostles Successors of whom we never read they came ever in Coach or on horseback but when Paul was mounted by authority or that they had ever a servant to attend them much lesse such pompe and State and yet one of them converted more soules in one day then all the Prelates ever did that ever I read off neither to speak truly have I heard of any they ever converted but of many thousands they have confounded But now to the matter in hand because one o● their abetters said not long since that they had not such attendance as I accuse them of I say if they have lesse company one day they have