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A43718	Plus ultra, or, Englands reformation, needing to be reformed being an examination of Doctor Heylins History of the reformation of the Church of England, wherein by laying together all that is there said ... / written by way of letter to Dr. Heylin by H.N. ...	Hickman, Henry, d. 1692.	1661 (1661)	Wing H1913; ESTC R19961	41,680	57

Cloyster lined with manifold favours your zeal for the Church cannot want its recompence but sir it is good to remember your latter end you know not but that your conscience may be then awakened and read over this history you have written and pinch you for the Errata's of your zeal and charity against your poor Brethren we are confident that much of that you have laid into the foundation of the Reformation of the Church of England though you and others judge it gold silver pretious stones will be found wood hay and stubble when he appeareth who is like a refiners fire There is one very naughty passage in your book pag. 38. part 1. utterly unbecoming the mouth of a Christian much less a Doctor of Divinity where you are not ashamed to say That because in the twenty fourth Injunction in King Edwards time that upon Holy and Festival dayes it shall be lawful for men to labour in harvest you extend this liberty as well to the Lords day as the Annual Festivals and then you quote an Act of Parliament to authorize this liberty and say that by that Act any man either in harvest or or at any other times in the year when necessity shall so require who will not pretend necessity may labour ride fish or work any kind of work at their pleasure upon the Lords day And you tell us what was done at Court on that day Sir we are confident that the intention of that Act did not reach to allow so gross a prophanation of the Lords day and you that are so versed in Acts of Parliament for they are the only sphere wherein Liturgy and Ceremonies move cannot you find an Act of Parliament restraining this abuse If you cannot which we know you may it had been the duty of a Protestant Reformed Doctor of Divinity to have discovered the evil of such abuses and to have laboured with all your might that such an Act may pass Oh Sir must Jesus Christ our Lord have no preheminence above our Lady and must Iohn Baptist be lifted up to an equality with him whose shoe-latchet he confessed he was not worthy to unloose What! have Peter and Paul and Philip and Iacob done as much for us as Jesus Christ and where is the least hint that one hour is to be set apart to their honour Must every paltry holy-day be set in equality of reputation with the Lords day which Christ sanctified by his resurrection the accomplishment of a far greater work then that of Creation and his Apostles instituted by their constant solemn Assemblies upon it You say in page 38. part 1. in the latter times the Lords day began to be advanced into the reputation of the Jewish Sabbath If by latter times you mean the Apostles times it is true for then it began and when ever it began why should not Christians be as zealous to advance the Lords day unto the highest pitch of reputation that ever the Jewish Sabbath was in abateing the Ceremonious rigor have not Christians greater obligations greater encouragements to glorifie God and lift up his name which is Holy Holy Holy Oh Mr. Doctor the time past may suffice you for this folly You need not have now told us that men may do any thing at their pleasure if they say they have necessity on the Lords day and seek to establish this mischief by a Law We would be loth to be in your coat in the day of the Lord for your debasing the Lords day for the best preferment the Church of England can give us We say to you as Bishop Iewel said to Harding Arripe severitatem Christianam palinodiam cane Well Sir to go on with our reckoning you have seen one Non-conformist and Ridley's recantation for his Prelatical rigor which amounts to another and so he is to be taken off the file and you have two less then you had We shall pass on with more speed in the numbring up the rest You tell us page 93. part 1. of one Trins a Deacon who refused to wear the vestments appointed to be worn Of one Mr. Iohn Rogers Prebend of Saint Pauls and Divinity Reader of that Church who could never be perswaded to wear them The like aversness as you call it you ascribe unto Mr. Iohn Philpot Archdeacon of Winchester who suffered in Queen Maries time So that here you have Hooper Ridley when in his cold blood Trins Rogers and Philpot all disgusting these Ceremonies Many more there were but these you have left upon record with your own pen. To proceed to the times of Queen Elisabeth you have heard Iewels testimony in part who was the glory of her Reign for learning and you will see it more fully by and by You tell us page 120. part 2. that one Whitehead who had been Chaplain to Anne Bollen the Queens mother was offered the Archbishoprick of Canterbury but you say he refused it because he was more inclined to the Presbyterians then the Episcopal form of Government And page 123. part 2. you say Coverdall waved the acceptation of the Bishoprick of Oxon or any other then vacant out of a disaffection to the Habit of that Order And page 124. part 2. you say Alexander Nowell Dean of Saint Pauls Preaching before Queen Elisabeth spake irreverently of the sign of the Cross for which she from her closet window immediately checked him commanding him to retire from that ungodly digression And page 165. part 2. you tell us that Father Iohn Fox the Martyrologist being called on to subscribe appeared before the Bishop with the New Testament in Greek To this said he I will subscribe and if this will not serve take my Prebend of Salisbury the only preferment I hold in the Church of England and much good may it do you You tell us of Sampson Dean of Christ-Church who was deprived you say pag. 164. part 2. for refusing to wear the Habit belonging to his place You tell us also of one Hardiman page 115. part 2. a Prebend of Westminster deprived also for throwing down the Altar and defacing the vestments And in the same page you say both the Professors of divinity in the two Universites and Whitington Dean of Durham were Non-conformists These instances are your own and so you have no reason to except against them We have not wronged you as far as we know in a syllable and now Sir we leave it to you to judge Whether the point of conformity to such Ceremonies which have been a continual occasion of offence to the Reformed Churches both at home and abroad be still to be pressed with accustomed rigor A second branch of the third Querie was Whether such Ceremonies which link us in a conformity with that Church from which in many other things we have justly separated be to be continued and enjoyned We say that the Church of England having renounced Communion with the Church of Rome in all material points of Doctrine ought in point of

Spirit doth very well sort with your low postures and cringings to the holy Altar which was a thing unknown to Bishop Iewel You shall find these words in his answer to Mr. Hardings Preface page 5. You say we have overthrown Altars verily Mr. Harding we have overthrown nothing but that which Gods good will note Sir was should be overthrown Christ saith Every plant that my heavenly Father hath not planted shall be rooted up An Altar we have such as Christ and his Apostles had the Table of the Lord and stood not at the end of the Quire but in the midst of the people as many wayes it may appear You say also page 140. part 2. That the Zuinglian Gospel lers or the Genevian party why cannot you call them Prote stants did rejoyce at a lamentable accident which happened to Pauls Steeple and there you fall into the praises of that Idolatrous Fabrick and to quit it of the displeasure of heaven you have got a tale by the end of an old Plumber who confessed that woful accident came by his negligence in leaving carelesly a pan of coals in the Steeple when he went to dinner We shall be as careless of examining the truth of this story as your plumber was of his coals and shall only tell what Iewel saith in his Treatise of the Holy Scriptures bound up with the Defence page 30 speaking of Kingdoms and Coun tries which were in times past Heathenish mentions England also and saith he Here in England Pauls Church in ` London was the Temple of Diana Peters Church in Westminster was the Temple of Apollo In ten of your last lines you threaten the world with a Presbyterian History for the carrying on of whose designs since the dayes of Calvin you may say Luther as well they have most miserably you say imbroyled all the States and Kingdoms of these parts of Christendom the Realms and Churches of great Britain more then all the rest Mr. Doctor where was your conscience and modesty when you writ thus Where was your Loyaltie and Obedience to your Dread Soveraign which you profess in your Epistle Dedicatory Will not your bitter spirit be conjured down neither by Royal command nor Soveraign example Sir you know or may know that Bishop Iewel is fain to Apologize for the Church of England to wipe of that slander you have cast upon the Presbyterians page 10. of his Defence They cry out upon us faith he at this present every where that we are all Hereticks and have forsaken the Faith and have with new perswasions and wicked learning utterly dissolved the concord of the Church And again page 15. That we labour and seek to overthrow the state of Monarchies and Kingdoms Nay Sir do not you shake hands with that Varlet Harding pag. 18. Before Luthers time saith he before Calvins time say you all Christian people came together peaceably into one Church in one accord but after c. That which this Reverend Bishop returns to Harding by way of answer to these filthy slanders will very well serve to take out that blot your unhappy and uncharitable pen flings upon the Presbyterians We will not justifie the seats and passions oppression makes a wise man mad of every individuum of that perswasion but having been all this time rather standers by then actors and seriously weighing their rule by which they desire all Church concernments may be regu lated and considering that you as the mouth of the Hierarchy have pleaded nothing but two Acts of Parliament the Members whereof you more then once tell us were led mostly by politique and Popish considerations in what they did for authorizing and confirming all the matters in difference we are bold to say they are got upon the better ground though the wind be against them and their advantages for inward peace though not for outward preferments are so much greater as the Word of God is greater then an Act of Parliament and the authority of God then the authority of men Oh Mr. Doctor when shall the voice and authority of Christ be heard and bear sway in the Church of God Non est Ecclesiae loqui saith Beza sed meritum loquentem audire Good Mr. Doctor consider these words of Beza in his Epistle Dedicatory before his Annotations on the New Testament Hic vero mihi in mentem venit vox illa hominum ut sibi quidem videntur acutissimorum qui non transformandam sed reformandam Ecclesiam arbitrantur Reformationem vocant eorum rituum qui florente ut loguuntur Ecclesiâ obtinuerunt sublatis nonnullis quae temporum injuriae velut rubiginem quandam ills obduxerunt restitutionem Quae nisi à nobis admittatur Ecclesiam transformari penitus suo decore Note Sir privari contendunt Bella certè speciosa oratio sed à satanae spiritu profecta qui tum demum se prodit quum adrem ventum est Tum enim nihil adeò turpe est Quòd si qui objiciat no omnia ab Apostolis vel à Luca fuisse perscripta Quaeso cur ita censent An quia pauca continent Imò verò utinam eâ paucitate contenti fuissent qui se Apostolis jactant successisse Neque enim voluit abrogari Dominus Mosaicos ritus ut alii substituerentur etsi Iudaiz●re non licuit multo minus Gentilizare oportuit quod si veteribus Episcopis in mentem venisset Christiana religio neque tam citò neque tam turpiter primum Note Sir in Ceremonias vanas Ludicras Liturgias deinde etiam in manifestissimam superstitionem ac tandem in Atheismum degenerasset Mr. Doctor we are sorrie that having travailed over your History we must say of you as Reverend Iewel said of Harding in his Preface to the Reader of his Defence When Scriptures fail then discourse of wit must come in place of your Acts of Parliaments and when wit and discourse will not serve then good plain round railing must serve the turn Then he discourseth and flingeth now at his Lutherans now at his Hugenotes now at Brown now at the Puritans now at Bale now at Illyricus Now at the Calvinists now at the Zuinglian Gospellers Thus he saith Iewel jumpeth and courseth this way and that way as a man roving without a mark or a Ship fleeting without a Rudder Thus he sheweth us a mountain of words without substance and a house full of smoak without fire and imagineth that his little Elder-pipe by discourse of 〈◊〉 will resemble the sound of a double Canon When 〈…〉 we may say of him as the poor man said that shore 〈…〉 Here is a great crie and little wool Bring us but the authority of Scripture that wisdom that is from above to justifie our obedience in these points in difference you shall find us gentle and easie to be intreated But if you resolve to turn us off as you say Weston did Mr. Iohn Philpot and the five other Divines page 30. part 2 It is not saith he the Queens pleasure that we should spend any longer time in these debates and ye are well enough already for you saith he have the Word and we have the sword if you resolve to assault us with this Argument the Lord put on you the bowels of mercy and on us the Armour of patience FINIS You tell us in your Epistle to the Reader what study and diligence you used in the performance of the work p. 10 Note Note Note Note Note Note Note Note Note Note Note Note Note Objection Concio Synod pag. 29. Solution 1 Cor. 14 40. explained Object Dr. Pierce his Concio Synodica pag. 37. Sol. Note If Dr. Pierce be pleased to read the right learned Prelate Iewel he may learn from him we hope he will not take it in scorn to learn less upon tradition and more upon the Word of God Note Note Note See Dugdales History of Pauls Cathedral p. 5. We say also help O King Fully verified in our gracious King Note See Dugdales History of Pauls Cathedral page 3. Note Note Note