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A00594 Cygnea cantio: or, Learned decisions, and most prudent and pious directions for students in divinitie; delivered by our late soveraigne of happie memorie, King Iames, at White Hall a few weekes before his death. Featley, Daniel, 1582-1645. 1629 (1629) STC 10731; ESTC S120658 15,410 50

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holocaust that hath beene offered in this kinde in our memorie for ought I know VVhereupon the wits of the Citie which usually will be working upon such occasions have made a conceited Pageant And although even innocent mirth may bee subject to censure when the occasion rather presents matter of pensive or at least serious thoughts yet because the Embleme and Motto devised upon this occasion discovereth the affections of many that were there present I hold it not altogether unfit here to set them downe Saint Pauls Crosse is drawne at large and a number of men partly running away that they might not see such a spectacle partly weeping and wiping their eies to see a booke so full as they conceived of heavenly zeale and holy fire sacrificed in earthly and unhallowed flames their Motto was Ardebant sancti sceleratis ignibus ignes Et mista est flammae flamma profana piae In the middest of the area there is described a huge pile of bookes burning and on the one side the Author casting his bookes into the fire with this Motto Sancte nec invideo sine me liber ibis in ignē And on the other side a Popish shaveling Priest answering him with this motto in the next verse Hei mihi quod domino non licetire tuo Before the burning of the Bookes the Preacher at the Crosse declared divers erroneous assertions therein condemned as he said by Authoritie Among which that assertion in the fore-front Inter damnatos touching the deniall of the Sacrament to the sicke requiring it on their death-bed collected by consequences from some passages of that booke seemed to me most blame worthie For what law of God or man depriveth the sicke in their greatest extremitie of paines of body and troubles of minde of that unspeakeable comfort which the participating of the blessed Sacrament affordeth to all that worthily receive it What devout Christian would not desire with Simeon to take his Saviour into his hands before his departure that he might the more cheerfully sing his Nunc dimittis Is the Church so charitable to send the other Sacrament home to sicke infants and will any denie this Sacrament to men of ripe yeares hungring for this bread of life what though this Sacrament be not of like necessitie as the other is yet is it of as great vertue and greater comfort by present apprehension wherof men stand in great need amidst the temptations of Satan and terrors of conscience and feare of death and the strict account to bee given after death Who knoweth not that the Primitive Church tooke speciall care that all those who were taking their last journey to another world should be provided of this celestiall Viand which they call Viaticum morientium nay 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 yet such is the nature of misguided zeale that under colour of weeding out superstition it will pluck up by the rootes many plants of Paradise and acts of true Religion But because M. Elton himselfe hath now made his account before the supreame Iudge of all I will amplifie no longer upon this or any other error rehearsed out of those bookes published after his death nor enter anie action of unkindenesse against any concerning that businesse but burie all in his grave because though some of them perhaps intended much evil against me yet God through his Majesties grace and goodnesse hath turned it to good Plinie writeth of a marble Image of Diana set up in Chios the face whereof was so drawne by Art that the Goddess seemed to look sad upon her worshippers as they entred into her Temple but smiled upon them as they came out This Statua presenteth to mee a copie of his Majesties countenance in this busines which was sad and dreadfull at my comming to him but cheerfull and comfortable at my departing It is well knowne what a bitter storme fell at my first appearance before his Majestie which yet the day following through Gods mercie in whose hands the hearts of Kings are turned a golden shower which fell literally upon M. Crompton and allegorically upon me Seldome or never heard I especially on the sudden such apt solutions of knottie and intangled questions so pithie and sinewie Arguments such usefull observations such divine instructions from anie Chrysostome in our Church as I heard that day from his Majesties mouth Had not feare and sorrow for his Majesties displeasure much crazed my memorie and deaded my spirits at the present I should have caried away more and have given a better account of his Majesties learned resolutions and pious admonitions given to me and M. Crompton that day Now I can but present bracteolas sermonis purè aurei stricturas ingenii vere ignei THe first thing to my remembrance questioned touching M. Cromptons booke was a clause in my written defence that I was rather induced to licence the booke out of a respect to my Lord D. his Grace to whom the book is dedicated by his Chaplaine What a reason is this said his Majestie Is it an honour to my Lord D. to bee a patron of errors Is it any honour to me that the Arians in Polonia have dedicated one of their books to me containing damnable heresies I account it rather a dishonour and cannot with patience looke upon their dedication to mee For answer hereunto I humblie beseeched his Majestie that hee would bee pleased to heare that clause in my answer entirely read unto him VVhereupon my Lord of Durham reached me the paper wherein I read as followeth That although I found many errors in M. Crompton his booke for which I might have wholly rejected the booke yet I chose rather to purge those errors and mend those faults in the booke and therein used the helpe and advise of M. Cooke who lately set forth a Treatise of the same argument intituled S. Austines Religion to the end I might gratifie M. Crompton out of a respect to the Duke to whom the Booke was dedicated The next thing examined by his Majestie was the reason of the suppressing three of the Authors Sections whereof he complaineth in Print in the conclusion of his booke My answer to this charge was That I crossed out those Sections because they crossed the doctrine and discipline established in this Kingdome and savoured of that humour which never yet bred good blood in the Church And for proofe of my exceptions against those sections I produced the originall copie written with M. Cromptons owne hand which tendering to his Majestie he commanded M. Crompton to reade the first Section suppressed touching a paritie amongst the Clergie Vpon the hearing whereof his Majestie much distasting M. Crompton his assertions tooke occasion fully to enucliate that question touching the distinction of Bishops and Presbyters jure divino Beside the judgement of the primitive Church and consent of all ancient writers his Majestie much pressed the subscription of the Epistle to Titus and of the second Epistle to