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A10046	The defence of truth against a booke falsely called The triumph of truth sent over from Arras A.D. 1609. By Humfrey Leech late minister Which booke in all particulars is answered, and the adioining motiues of his revolt confuted: by Daniell Price, of Exeter Colledge in Oxford, chaplaine in ordinary to the most high and mighty, the Prince of Wales.	Price, Daniel, 1581-1631.; Leech, Humphrey, 1571-1629. Triumph of truth.	1610 (1610)	STC 20292; ESTC S115193	202,996	384

retract It is not credible that you received as you saie incredible iniurie in the lawfull proceedings against you The Vniversitie censured you not imprisoned you The Colledge for a time discōmoned you not expelled you This small punishmēt no banishment your Cōplaint is the same with m In orat pro sexto Roscio Fimbria in Tully quod non totum tèlum in corpore recepisset you received great iniurie because you were not suffred to doe great iniury But be not deceiued God is not mocked enter into a serious and religious cogitation whether in this course that you are you need not feare the true description of malecontented Apostats I would you were not sutable to them as they be liuely deciphered both by S. n 2. Pet. 2. Peter and S. o Iude. 13. Iude to be presumptuous standing in their owne opinion wandring starres raging waues of the Sea foaming out their owne shame and speaking evill of them which are in authority which a man that maintaineth your third Counsaile of obedience should not doe The scornfull aspertion you cast vpon vs by the byname of Calvinists we neither reiect nor receiue Reverend learned holy Calvin was the greatest glory of the French Church that ever was since he was Hooker praef to his Church Politic. as a famous writer witnesseth And though our Religion seeke neither antiquitie nor authoritie from him nor we denomination or confirmation by him because as the Apostle speaketh we reioice not in men yet wee reverence him because as the same Apostle in the same verse concludeth o 1. Cor. 3.22.23 whether it be Paul or Apollos or Cephas al are ours we Christs and Christ Gods Mr LEECH Finally my brethren with my honest petition and necessarie counsaile I ioine my harty praiers and teares with them that it would please the author of all goodnes and the God of all truth to powre the abundant riches of his grace into your soules that your vnderstandings may be fully enlightned with his truth and that your wills may be made conformable therevnto in your profession of the holy Catholike faith For which as I now suffer the want of my natiue country so in defence thereof I shall be ready to yeeld vp my life when it shall please my gratious Lord to call mee vnto that honour whereof I am vnworthy Your devoted brother in Christ Humfrey Leech ANSVVER The Epistolary conclusion with a petition and coūsaile we should receiue more willingly if your petition were more honest and your counsell more Evangelicall Your prayers we returne tenfold into your bosome beseeching the Lord that it may please him to free your vnderstanding by truth ab p Albert. in Comp. Theol lib. 5. ignorantia veri to rectifie your will by good a concupiscentia mali and to purge your whole soule by grace ab impotentia boni that your will maie be subiect to his will your life to his seruice not his service to your will and so you may be reduced to the true Apostolique Catholique faith that as you complaine you suffer the want though the wanton want of your natiue Country so you may not endure the want of heavenly Ierusalem your spirituall Country that when you are to appeare at the fatall and finall iudgement among the great and smale when the muffling of conscience shall bee discovered the worme of conscience be not your portiō And that in your pilgrimage here you may rather wash your garments in the blood of the Lambe then in your owne blood so by the teares of a sinner blood of a Sauiour prayers of his Saints on earth you may bee brought againe to this militant Church in the better world receiue a permanent state in his triumphant Church Yours if you be Christs DANIELL PRICE THE PREFACE VNTO the whole discourse Mr LEECH VVHen first I set footing into this present businesse my purpose was not no not in my most secret thoughts to enter into any point of cōtroversie or to giue occasion of offence or dislike vnto any only my resolution was plainely positiuely as the course of my studies had ever bent and carried me to glaunce at a maine point of doctrine it comming but obiter in my way directly warranted nay lineally deduced from the vniforme consent of all ancient times bequeathed vnto vs by the perpetuall tradition and practise of the Church ANSVVER YOu tooke wrong footing in this busines both in secret and in open sight of God men and Angels wherein let me remember you how manie aimes you gaue to this question how desirouslie you entred into it how not onlie in Academicall but Parochiall sermons you taught it how you frequentlie seasoned your inkepot with the Colloquintida of contradiction sometimes openlie somtimes secretlie continuallie full of opposition Wherin as you were not often happie in the choice so not in the successe one beeing the cause of your pastorall remooue in * A most Faire large and ancient towne famous for building and cloathing but more especially for civill government care of Religion detestation of Popery what soeuer is praise worthy Shrewsbury the other the cause of your Academicall censure in Oxford And whereas you saie you meant to giue but a glaunce the purport of your whole sermon of distinguishing great and small a matter of great consequence prosecuted to small purpose sheweth how you did wire-draw a distinction vpon one part of your Text and prosecute especiallie that one point so farre as the howre and your paper could afford and indeed your glaunce so glanced vpon the whole Auditory that some departed others were perplexed all offended therewith Religion so wronged and the Vniversity disgraced by the publike cōtesting of a superstitious supercilious doctrine the consequences whereof are pernicious and dangerous and the question it selfe the verie ground of Monkish life as the Rhemists confesse Annot. Rhē in Nov. Test wherein men flying some occasions of evill they flie all occasions of doing good and prooue drie figge trees withered vines empty sepulchres broken cesternes And whereas you affirme that the position was directlie warranted nay lineallie deduced from the vniforme consent of all ancient times I thinke I may speake of it as a Cael. Rhod. antiq lectionum Rhodogine did of old Images Perierūt cum antiquitate you haue nothing to proue your position to be old but because it is rotten But we deny it as it shall appeare to haue any part of reverend antiquity to countenance it And whereas you affirme your maine point of doctrin to be bequeathed I enquire if bequeathed by what Testament surely neither by the old nor new by what Legacie Neither by the Fathers nor Generall Councels but by tradition you say wherein I may say to you as our b Mark 7.9 Saviour said to the Pharises Well do yee reiect the Cōmanmandements of God that you may obserue your owne traditions And yet for anie Apostolicall tradition to confirme

feare of God or care of truth you did so importunately craue for occasion of publike advantage which as oft as you desired so oft you received the resolute repulse You pretended the generall and particular satisfaction only as a pretext for who heard your sermō that desired not censure against your opinion Mr LEECH This petition was reinforced in my name by a graue and ancient M. of Arts who pleaded to obtaine the same in regard of Iustice wisdome and Charitie Iustice See Act. 25.16 vt accusatus locum defendendi accipiat ad abluenda crimina quae ci obijciuntur because said he it was the forme of law that the party accused should answere articulately vnto the crime obiected Wisedome that you may deliver your selfe from the suspition of iniurie and especially since the whole Vniversitie is much distracted vpon these late proceedings Charity that you may rectifie M. Leech his vnderstanding by a proper conviction of his supposed errour To punish without instruction it is tyranny Salust And I dare promise in his behalfe that if you can convince his iudgement he will recant the doctrine for I haue heard him often protest thus much These reasons and persuasions of my friend entered so deeply into M. Doctour Kings heart for the present that he promised to convent me againe and that he would proceed with me according to my desire herein Notwithstanding hee violated this promise also to his exceeding great disreputation ANSVVER The graue and ancient M. of Arts though able to speake very elegantly yet not very willing in so bad a cause protesteth he vsed no such tearmes as you doe by Atturny here vtter His honest care was such that first he sought to remoue your opiniō before he made meanes for your pardon which motion of his to you as he testifieth tooke so good effect that he found you willing to acknowledge the offence till some nocturnus ambulo diurnus nebulo some Romish fugitiue altered you who is not only suspected but knowne to haue dealt with you here in this businesse By this your graue and learned Advocate the Vicechancelour was moued only as Deane of Christchurch to vouchsafe you the benefit of your Commons This conditionally he promised for no man is more mild to a relenting vanquisht adversary But for promise of second convention the Reverēd Deane and your louing and learned friend doe both disclaime any speech of it Vpon your and his importunacy you were promised one to conferre and dispute with you if you would But first the condition was to be performed namely that as you had offended in disobedience to authority contrary to D Huttons inhibition presuming to preach so you should come first to acknowledge this and after you should be conferred with But this conference you accepted not fearing it would proue a disputatiō as knowing the much difference between dicere and disserere Your opinion you knewe was but Chymicall durst not abide the touchstone of Argument It is shamelesse therefore to vrge any promise of another convention your conviction being past and gracelesse to accuse the Vicechancelour for violating such a promise which he never mentioned and which your friend never moued Conscientia cauterizata hauing lost spirituall feeling cannot be more hardned thē I feare me you are A bramble hauing no reputation would set on fire a Caedars estimation Mr LEECH But I come now vnto his answere which he made vnto my former humble petition Sir said he it shall satisfie you and the Vniversitie that I haue don it take your remedy where you can If I haue wronged you here right your selfe elsewhere This was spoken like a King indeed and not like a subiect who though he be a Magistrate over others yet should be subordinate vnto a common law and Lord. And happy are those gouernments where the wise sentence of an heathen Poet is not neglected Quicquid à vobis minor extimescit Horat. Major hoc vobis Dominus minatur This was my last refuge and finall hope but how far I was deceiued in my iust expectation the sequele shall declare ANSVVER As your petition was most vnreasonable so also the time was vnseasonable the Reverend Vicechancelour at that time being negotiated with the particular occasions presence of very many Vpō your preposterous comming to him and vehemently desiring not so much as formerly you did but that you might answere at another place his wisdome did as earnestly wish it as you did impetuously and intempestiously moue it not only because he knew his proceedings to be iustifiable but that by this the light of his iudgement against you might the more appeare by the darknesse of your vnderstanding and apprehension that had followed so bad a cause with so incessant suite The resolute answere gaue you leaue and encouragement if you had had any such intent Your scorne This was spoke like a King indeed calleth to minde not only what a resolute champion of truth doth testifie for this worthy against Parsons D. Morton Deane of Winchester Encounter who venteth his choler adust vpō the name of Doctour King where Parsons is answered that he considered not the admirable and indeed kingly worthinesse of this our Doctor And to this I may adde the title that MAIESTIE it selfe hath bestowed vpon him entitling him the King of Preachers And though he be a Magistrate over others yet noe one more considerat of his awfull observance to those aboue him or of his respectfull care of those below him And this may bee his crowne and garland that hee hath ever so confined himselfe within the circle of iustice that his eares never heard any accusatiō against his gouernmēt but yours which is as hatefull as shamefull All harts else haue both the affections of loue feare so sweetly cōioined that there is as much ioy in vs that we liue vnder such a gouernor as in such a place Your verses quoted out of Horace but not found there are in Seneca his Thyestes And I requite them with Horace seeing you quote him who prophecied of you Hor. de art Poetic Non missura cutem nisi plena cruoris hyrudo CHAP. 5. Mr LEECH BEing now silenced by the Vicechancellour from preaching within the precincts of the vniversity so that I could not exercise my function neither in the publique audience of the learned nor yet in any of the parish Churches which I had vsually visited by course every sabboth and holy day vnlesse some speciall occasion diverted me from my customable practise I receiued letters from the Lord Bishop of London my very Honorable and much respected friend whom it pleased freely to bestow that place vpon me in regard of my first sermon preached in Oxford from which his successour had now suspended me for the last wherein his Lordship required me to preach at S. Pauls crosse and not to faile at the time prefixed in his summons Wherevpon I prepared my selfe accordingly and certified