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A05611	The ansvver of Iohn Bastwick, Doctor of Phisicke, to the exceptions made against his Letany by a learned gentleman which is annexed to the Letany it selfe, as articles superadditionall against the prelats. In the vvhich there is, a full, demonstration and proof of the reall absence of Christ in the sacrament of the Lords Supper, with the vanity and impiety of the consecreation of temples churches and chapples, also the necessity of the perpetuall motion and circulation of worship if men be bound to bow the knees at the name of Iesus. This is to follow the Letany as a second part thereof.; Litany. Part 2	Bastwick, John, 1593-1654.	1637 (1637)	STC 1573; ESTC S104507	58,802	32

and buryall by the glorious resurrection and ascention and by the comming of the holy ghost FROM BISHOPS PREISTS AND DEACONS good Lord deliuer vs. VVe Sinners do beseech thee to heare vs good Lord. And so after my Letany I come to your other exceptions wherein you thinke they will argue mee of scandalizing them in saying they goe to their Venery in forma pauperis by which words I seeme to accuse the holy tribe of iucontinency and this you thinke they will make penall bnt for that to say nothing of my owne experience as I AM A PHYSITIAN nor of what I haue heard from the most famous of that profession of the incontinency of those followes who they haue had vnder their cure after their venery because I will not in any thing temerate our function nor be like those beastly Preists that in their displeasure against a man will reueale whatsoeuer was most secretly commetted vnto their trust in deepest familiarity and sweare to it also and make records of it to the vndoing of many a poore man and the violating of all the lawes and iura Ioues hospitalis to speake nothing now I say of my owne knowledg looke but a little into their bawdy Courts in all the diocesses through the Kingdome and there will scarce passe a Court day wherethere are not two or three Pre●●ts or more presented for incontinency and either for getting their owne mayds with child or their neighbours or it may be more profound vncleannes then they bring along with them their compurgators which doe that office vpon condition that they shall be compurgators for them an other time and so they are pronounced rectos in curia and freed from all crime and thus they harmonise together for the cloaking of one an others knauery Nor to say nothing of Chaplins in generall what base filthinesse they perpetrate euen in the familyes of illustrious men where they are entertayned and too much honoured sometime with their daughters or allyes sometime which their seruants or freinds of which the Kingdome cryes shame they professedly carrying kissing comfits in their pockets and blush not to publish their lesciuiousnes being at any time demanded what they smack I my self haue been an eare witnes of that good confession But not to speake of this neither nor of their codpisse Simony to vse their owne language and dialect nor of the suits that for their beastlinesse haue been cast on t of the HONORABLE COVRT OF STARCHAMBER But to come to the High Commission Court in the which if you please to be present you shall heare sometime foure or fiue in a terme of such base filthynesse OF THEIR PREISTS as no chast eares can heare them such things indeed as the apostle sayes expresly they are not to be named amongst Christians aud such as the very prophaue cry shame of and yet it is wonderfull to see with what grace and how distinctly and orderly the Registers will reade that good stuffe sometimes three or foure houres together and more and how diligently and attentiuely those reuerend fathers a whole after noone together will heare those BAWDY BVSINESSES when to be one houre in the pulpit to teach the people their duty towards God and their neighbour in half a yeare is a thing very tedious vnto them So that they cannot take it in ill part when their owne Courts do sufficiently proue their lewd behauiour which indeed now is well knowne through the Kingdome insomuch that though their incontinency with their debaushednes be proued neuer so manifestly they shall find compurgators and come well enough of except they be branded with Puritanisme also and that he preacheth diligently then perhaps he may lose his place for it But I say let his incontinency be neuer so euidently proued and that he is a breaker of all the lawes of God suspention is all that I euer heard was inflicted vpon such persons if they be conformable and if there be any other punishment against INCONTINENT PREISTS it is more then I know But this I haue often obserued that others that haue been proued men of an incontaminat life of holy conuersation diligent Preachers yet found fayling perhaps in some trifle of conformity they haue been depriued ipso facto of their ministry and of their liuely-hood and committed to prison without either mercy and compassion So much conscience is punished now a dayes and incontinency fauoured amongst our reuerend Fathers And therefore if they take pepper in the nose for saying they goe to their venery in forma pauperis let them do their worst for I will neuer feare to speake the truth Now whereas you suppose they will make it an hainous crime THAT I INVITE THE WHORE OF BABILON to my christning with the Prelats I do conceiue no such offence in that businesse For I hope all learned men and good Christians are well assured that Godfathers and Godmothers are not essentiall to baptisme and that many thousands were well christened in primitiue tymes and euery day are in many reformed Churches in our age without either Besides he that shall looke into the first originall cause of them will at this day see no need of them among vs at least very little For Baptisme succeding circumcision and as vnder the old law children were not to be circumcised whose Fathers and mothers were not within the Pale of the Church and within the Couenant So I say in the tyme of the new testament baptisme comming in place of circumcision none were thought fit in the first Christian churches being children to be receiued to that holy Sacrament of initiation but such as were the children of Christian parents for the promises were made and renewed to them and to their children Herevpon when children were to be baptised and to receiue the seale of the couenant Christians being but few in comparison of Iews and Gentiles and withall a persecuted generation of men and all forced to liue in obscurity and stragling one from an other and to haue their meetings very priuate especially in the great persecutions of the Church for the satisfaction of the whole congregation when they assembled together and when any INFANTS were there presented vnto them to be baptised there came in some two or three Christian neighbours to testify vnto the congregation that those children that were brought into the assembly were Christians children so that they might without any scruple admit them to the sacrament of Baptisme and this was all the end of witnesses in those times and all they did at the Font which any two either Iews or Pagan● might haue done as well as Christians for ought I know for the congregation desired but to know whether they were Christians children otherwise they admitted them not to baptisme Now a Iew or a Gentile that was their enemy would not haue their owne children incorporated among Christians but would make Christians goe among their owne fraternity therefore as I suppose their witnes would easily

vsheringin of this peece of Seruice he had no better instrument then Antichrist that opposeth Christ in all things and his shauelings the Prelats who haue left Christs example forced their owne idolatricall one vpon all Christians vnder their gouernment a horrible contempt and neglect of Christ We were wont to say Reges ad exemplum Kings examples were to be their Subiects paterns and so Christ and his Ministers teach all his children and Subiects to doe what he their King by life doctrin and example hath taught his Church which equally bind but Antichrist and his seruants constraine the people to leaue Christs example and teach them to follow his which is the enimy of Christ Which I thinke is the duty of all such as feare the Lord to detest But now to goe forwards in this waighty businesle Seing it is most certayne that the Pope and the Prelats are against Christ in the gesture of receiuing and doe not that Christ and his apostles did Let vs now take notice in the second place what the Apostle speaketh of the institution I haue saith he receiued of the Lord that also which I deliuered unto you that the Lord Iesus the same night in which he was betrayed tooke bread c. Here the Apostle begins from the time of the institution saying the same night and in the 20 verse he calleth it the Lords Supper and calls it also bread and wine all which things deserue their consideration and are matters of greater consequence then at first are thought of and teach all men in the reformation of any abuses to haue recourse vnto the first originall fountaine and institution as the Apostle doth here and tells vs what he hath receiued from the Lord. And conserning the time of the institution of the sacrament which is also to be taken notice of he sayth the same night c. and it is therefore by the holy Ghost called the Lords Supper Now for the time of institution the apostle here taught it to the Church as receiued from Christ and which Paul then and the whole Church of God obserued in the primitiue times and so it was lift by the apostle to be continued for as far as I can perceiue or iudge vnto the worlds end neither can I see any reason why the time should be changed without we will plainly confesse that Christ hath done all things out of season and order and was neither reuerent nor seasonable nor orderly in his proceedings and especially in the institution and celebration of the sacrament of the Lords Supper for his gesture pleased not before which were more then a little arrogancy so to speake Yet I say except men will so vilify the actions of the Lord Iesus I know no cause why the time should be changed for as the Passeouer was instituted in the euening so the children of Israel and the Church of the Iews precisely obserued the time neuer being so impudent and temerarious as to alter it but it was continued so vnto the last vse of it as by Christs owne example is sufficently manifest And yet I presume there might as good reasons haue been giuen for the change of the time in the celebrating of that ordinance amongst the Iews as can now by any man be giuen and yet the Israelits were not so foole hardy as to thinke any time better or more seasonable then that which God himself had appointed and contented them selues well with it But Antichrist that changeth times seasons and all things and his disciples that oppose Christ in all his ordinances they haue changed the time and conuerted the Supper of the Lord into a breakfast a great innouation and make it no small offence to celebrate it in the euening So that now to speake properly it cannot be called the Lords Supper but the Lords break fast and so it is to them indeed for they eate vp the Lord at a breakfast and swallow him downe whole and make no bones of him he is with them but their mornings nuntions and yet they eate him flesh bloud and bones as they say and really and then after that they drink vp his blood most sweet CANABALS and after all this they can eate a sufficeint dinner too These fellowes must needs haue good stomacks But by all this it is manifest that Antichrist and his Apostles haue euer opposed Christ in his proceeding be they what they will be But here now commeth a sucking obiection to be answered to which is this if Christs example say some be to be followed so closely and so precisely adhered to in the administration of the Sacrament as in his gesture and the time of celebration then also it must be in an vpper roome and but with twelue c. This I affirme is so poore a foppery as I wonder learned men should make vse of such wretched cauils and yet I had it from one of great name for Scholarship But for answer I say that the Sacrament of the Passeouer was to be celebrated in euery priuat family by themselues if they had company enough within themselues to eat the Lambe and if they had not then indeed they were to call in as many other families to ioyne together as would suffice for that purpose so that howsoeuer there was a community among them one with an other in that action as at this day the communicants of one church may participate with an other in the Supper of the Lord from this very example yet this was to be done in a priuat house so that for their meeting place it was not publick Now very order and nature required that it should be a place large enough to entertayne the company and guests that were met together the number being for the most part vncertayne But whether they would eate it in an vpper roome or a lower roome that was left arbitrary no commandement giuen for either neither can it enter into any vnderstanding mans heart to thinke that all the Israelits houses had variety of roomes in them though some had both vpper and lower roomes So that for their company it was onely required that they should haue as many as could eate the Lamb as Christ in his family and company had and that the roome should also be spacious enough and decent which is of all Christians now for order and decency sake to be obserued that for either priuat or publick meetings for performance of duties of religion if they haue not a low roome fit for those pious purposes then they may take an vpper roome that is more convenient all places now in Gods seruice being alike as after I shall proue So that for any man from the certaine company of Christ and his apostles and from the vpper roome to conclude a necessity of this for euer in the world and from a priuate action to conclude the likenes in a publick this is no good consequence nor followeth not as in the two former and that euery

rising of the Sun euen vnto the going downe of the same my name shall be great among the Gentiles and in euery place incense shall be offered vnto my name c here wee see now this prophecy accomplished by Christ and all places consecrated to his seruice Ye shall neither in this mountaine nor yet at Ierusalem worship the father and Paul exhorts Christians in all places to lift vp pure hands and hearts sufficiently instructing those to whom hee writ that all places were made holy for such purposes Now I desire that any of the Popes at home or abroad would tell mee ingenuously what he thinks of Christs concecration here was it good or bad did he consecrate well or not let him answer mee in the word of a Preist with out tergiuersation candidly If he shall say it was not well consectated I will tell him to his face he is a blasphemer and proue him so If he shall freely confesse Christs consecration to be good and authentick and that all places indeed were consecrated by Christ himself to the worship of God then how impious and arrogant a thing is it in the Prelats to vnconsecrate and to make profane that which Christ hath consecrated and made holy For so they doe in their consecrations as by and by we shall see I will assure you there is a greater piaculum in this thing then men at first can well discerne and looke into Mee thinks that of Saint Peter in the tenth of the Acts should deterre them from such abominations where when the vessels descended to him like a foure cornered sheet full of all manner of foure footed beasts of the earth and creeping things and foules of the ayre and the voice also came vnto him bidding him kill and eate And Peter answered not so Lord for I haue neuer eaten any thing that was common and vnsleane And the voice spake vnto him againe the second time saying what God hath cleansed that call not thou common By which Peter as you may in the same place see learned by that that Christ had taken away the wall of difference and had consecrated and made all things cleane And fore-warning him that he should not make that vncleane that he had purified cleansed Mee thinks I say this might something haue deterred our great Masters from their dayly impietyes Nothing with them is holy and cleane but that that hath been washed with the Popes holy water or hath had their filthy greasy Fingers of consecration vpon it of which procedings of theirs there is not a word of warrent in all the book of God without which there can be nothing made holy neither is there any need of such wretched fooleryes for as I said before Christ the Lord both of heauen and earth hath consecrated it and made all places cleane and so they were all cleane before they had polluted them with their greasy consecrations with their idols and idolworships Insomuch that there is no place more vnholy then their cathedralls and altarchurches and their cloicters which are so many dens of theeves and cages of filthines and Idolatry which I shall euer be able to mayntayne And from this impious polluting of that that Christ hath made cleane I had thought that of Paul might some thing haue diuerted those vngodly men for so they are yea notoriously wicked against God and vncharitable all wayes towards the liuing temples of the holy Ghost I say I had thought that of Paul in the 17 of the Acts 24. 25 might haue restrayned such palpable impiety for there he saith God that made the world and all things therein seeing that be is Lord of heauen and earth dwelleth not in temples made with hands neither is worshipped with mens hands as though he had need of any thing seeing he giueth to all life and breath and all things What could be sayd more manifestly for the ouertrowing not onely their reall presence but also of that fiction of theirs that one place is more holy then an other when he is the Lord of all things and one place and creature is as much his as an other and the seruice offered vnto him in one place according to his will as well pleasing as in an other It is a prodigious wickednes in deed and a thing not supportable to compare the Creator of all things to the creature or to circumscribe the incomprehensible or to think with magnificence and statelinesle of buildings or any presents to procure his fauour or make him more propitious vnto vs. All which base conceits haue euer been the fountaynes of all superstition and idolatry in all nations and come from the deuill And so much the more we should be desmayed from such vaine imaginatious of reall presence which is the source of all other will worship if we considered what Paul sayth in the 5. of the 2. of the Corinthians 16. wherefore henceforth know wee no man after the flesh yea though we haue knowne Christ after the flesh yet now henceforth know we him noe more as much as if he had sayd wee must not think of Christ after a carnall manner who hath now left the world and is to be thought of and considered of vs spiritually All those fictions therefore of the reall presence of Christ rather in one place then an other as at CRVCIFIXES CROSSES PICTVRES ALTARS TABLES are the dreames of idolatrous braynes suggested by the diuill for the keeping of the minds of men fixed vpon earthly things and attent to his seruice making them belecue that Religion consists onely in outward performances and by such delusions as these he hinders them from seeking those things which are ahoue where Christ sits at the right hand of God which is expresly contrary to the comand of Paul How outragiously superstitious then yea diabolically impious are those men thinke you that spend such mighty summes of mony in adorning and making such sumptuous buildings as serue for no vse but superstition and idolatry and the mayntenance of LAZY BELLIGODS AND PROPHANE SCORNERS OF ALL TRVE RELIGION GODLINESSE AND PIETY and neglect the very liuing temples of the holy Ghost that famish for want of food Truly it cannot but be a great occasion to prouoke the Lord to iealousie and hot displeasure against this land when contrary to the light of reason and apparent scripture his reuealed will they set vp superstition and idolatry and will worship and think better of their owne inuentions and preferre their traditions before his most holyest lawes and precepts and by them transgresse the lawes of God scandall and offend their brethren yea punish the meanest neglect of them or the speaking against them more seuerely then the breach of all Gods comandements I say these things must needs exceedingly prouoke the Lord when mens deuices shall be so aduanced and promoted and when the Gospell and the poore members of Christ are stamped vnder foot and droue by vnkind vsage both out of the Kingdome What may

we thinke you now promise vnto our selues IN THESE SAD TIMES BVT SPEEDY PERDITION for as our sauiour sayd those that despise his true messengers despise him and those that despise him despise him that sent him that is God himself As the Gospell hath euer brought peace plenty happy dayes and good gouerment where euer it hath become as all the places in England can tell where it hath been faithfully preached as all England in generall can witnes what good we haue receiued by it so the contempt of it and the Ministers of the same will bring desolation and ruine vpon the whole land And if we shall now be contemnes of the Gospell and the Ministers thereof and aduancers of Superstition and make a mock of it what I say may we then looke for but speedy confusion and deplorable misery Truely it would greiue the hart of any that either loue God the King or their Country or their religion to see the strange metamorphosis of all things in this Kingdome to see how idolatry creepes up EVEN IN THE VNIVERSITYES TO POYSON the WHOLE REAL ME how in all places superstition is euery where preached vp both in Court and Country and what way there is made for subuerting of preaching and the bringing-in of human inuentions and apish ceremonyes in STEAD of the Gospell and the promulgation of the same which should saue mens soules What holinesse I pray is now a dayes placed in Churches and Chappels what adorning of them to the ruining of the parishes almost where they are what adoration to tables altars Syllables all contrary to the expresse commaund of God who hath sayd thou shalt not make to thy selfe any grauen image or the likenes of any thing in heauen aboue or in the earth beneath thou shalt not bow downe to it or worship it Yet all this cannot restraine them for they auerre notwithstanding all this the place is holy and ought to be venerated What I beseech you is contempt of God if this be not It would pity and perplex the hearts of all those that truely feare the Lord to see what infinite costs haue within these few yeares been bestowed vpon chappels and Churches onely for the aduancing of superstition and to say now something of Paules how hath the whole country for aboue these fifty yeares been made fooles about that there hauing been so many gatherings made for it and Stones brought vp to it and preparations made for the repayring of it and after they haue pursed the mony what haue they done else but conuert it to their owne vse And now of late what immense summes of money haue been gathered for the same purpose I haue heard from IESVITS themselues that are well acquaynted with those businesses if not principall sticklers in them who I know at least are very ioyfull at such preparations that it AMOVNTETH to ABOVE TWO HVNDRED THOVSAND POVNDS that which hath already been gathered and remaynes yet to be payd which had been almost sufficient to haue built a royall house for the honour of the King and Kingdome and all this mighty masse of money must be spent in making a seate for a A PREISTS ARSE to sit in for it is cathedra Episcopi a Bishops chaire and for the Deane and subdeane and for the Prebends Canons Pety canons VERGERS QVIRISTERS c all to keepe the POPES SADDEL WARME as the Popelins themselues bragging prate The truth is the whole fraternity of that crew is but a generation of vipers whose imployment is nothing els but to mayntayne the superstition allready retayned to vsher in more and Popery it selfe vpon the first occasion and to sing Credos and anthems and exercise prophanenes Such droues of those vnprofitable Epicures there are through the Kingdome as deuoure more reuenues then all the Nobility of the kingdome or many mighty Prince enioyes And all this they possesse for the plauge of the Kingdome for the bringing-in of luxury idlenes superstition Popery and Idolatory the least of which sinnes are enough to moue the Lord to displeasure and all that I now speake you know to be true nay the whole Kingdome knoweth it well neither can there any good reason be giuen for the maintenance or vpholding of them without a pestilence and plauge be necessary for the honour of a State and Kingdome which all that rabble rout are to ours and all Conntryes where they dwell and the very truth is the Papists and they are all one the one as profound idolaters as the other and so say the Papists themselues that if it were not for the Puritans they should quickly accord and so the Papists haue told mee twenty times at home and abroad and therefore they so hate them they stigmatize with the name of Puritans What a lamentable thing is this then that this Kingdome should harbour then within it selfe it s owne destruction AND BESTOW VPON THAT VERMIN SVCH MIGHTY REVENVE and all for the eating out of the bowels of their mother Time doubtles it is that the King and State should looke speedily to them yea it is high time and so much the more it concernes his Maiesty in that they pretend his authoritie for all their wickednes and getting his hand abuse his whole kingdome in pillaging and poling of it and in inslauing his subiects vpon euery slight occasion and make them vnable to yeild vnto the Kings most vrgent necessityes which when through mere indigency they are found fayling in then they hauing the Kings royall eare cry these are the Puritans that deny yon highnes their assistance in time of your occasions when they haue been impouerished by their exactions and by their wicked Courts and thus they abuse both the King and his people as all the world knoweth well and therefore I say due time it is that his Maiesty should looke a little into these things And so much the rather because all these their deuillish plots are for the ADVANCING OF POPERY which will be the bane of him his and the whole realme and the ruine of all things at last What impudency allready the Prelats are come to the cry of the whole Kingdome can witnes Their late proceedings in the Fast businesse can tell for howsoeuer it pleased his royall maiesty out of his pious zeale to proclaime a Fast through the kingdome for the humbling of the people for their sinnes and commanded that the same booke of prayers should be reprinted which had been set forth by publick authority in former calamityes of plague and pestilence the prelats contrary vnto his royall proclamation see out an other or at least left out many things of purpose that rended to the beating downe of Popery and superstition and other things to the dishonour of him and his nighest Allies a horrible affront against regall command and would haue cost any other Subiect as much as he had been worth deseruedly that should thus dispise his Imperiall Maiestics Proclamation and often declarations but