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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A07647	Immediate addresse vnto God alone First deliuered in a sermon before his Maiestie at Windsore. Since reuised and inlarged to a just treatise of inuocation of saints. Occasioned by a false imputation of M. Antonius De Dominis vpon the authour, Richard Montagu.	Montagu, Richard, 1577-1641.	1624 (1624)	STC 18039; ESTC S112845	131,862	253

IMMEDIATE ADDRESSE VNTO GOD ALONE First deliuered in a Sermon before his MAIESTIE at Windsore Since reuised and inlarged to a just Treatise of INVOCATION of SAINTS Occasioned by a false imputation of M. ANTONIVS DE DOMINIS vpon the Authour RICHARD MOVNTAGV LONDON Printed by William Stansby for Matthew Lownes and William Barret 1624. TO THE RIGHT REVEREND FATHER IN GOD AND RIGHT HONORABLE LORD JOHN Lord Bishop of Lincolne Lord Keeper of the great Seale of his Majesties most Honorable Priuie Councell Visitor of the Collegiate Churches of Windsore and ●●on Right Reuerend in Christ Right Honorable IT is now three yeeres and more that preaching at Windsore as my course then fell before his Majestie I tooke my Text Psal 50.15 which that Sunday was verbum dici in die suo Read in the publike Seruice of the Church according to directions in the Booke of Common prayer In Pulpits and in popular Sermons J nor like it in others nor Practise it my selfe to meddle much or far with any Point of abstruse or controuerted Diuinitie For common capacities are made and fitted for matter of meane and ordinarie apprehension Preaching is appointed to make men better in practique knowledge and so was euer vsed of the Ancients not acute and subtile for discourse and speculation which is the ordinarie pietie of these times But as then it fell out such was the Auditorie so extraordinarie The wordes as they fell in processe of handling that Psalme and of that importment Call vpon me in time of trouble So direct and plaine for addresse vnto God vnto Him alone for Immediate accesse without assistance or mediation J could not well waue the Case of Inuocation Aduocation and Intercession of Saints and Angels so much perswaded vrged practised and abused in the common vse and custome of the present Church of Rome And yet not so as to dwell vpon it wholly or to make it 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 altogether Concluding it a point of plaine folly if no more for any man to implore the Helpe of others to vse Aduocates and Assistants vnto God in any exigence time of neede or necessitie who is so directed counselled and inuited by God himselfe to immediate accesse without mediation in Call vpon me Of folly and ridiculous absurditie as it is by them conceiued taught and laid downe euen by the most learned judicious and aduised amongst them though J know in point of practice and performance the simple vulgar people not acquainted with nor capable of Scholasticall niceties or difference in termes of Inuocation and Aduocation Helpe originall and deriued goe to it down right with direct addresse indeed vnto flat Impietie against God and Jdolatrie in their ordinarie deuotion vnto the Creature J was as Conclusiue against this custome as I could be as directly opposite vnto their Doctrine of Aduocation as Contradiction could make me and yet Right Honorable I haue beene vouched for an Abettor of their practice at least in part I am sure slandered in my Opinion and Preaching There was present at my Sermon that infamous Ecebolius of these times Religion is desultor Archbishop somtime of Spalata then Deane of that Church Marcus Antonius de Dominis This Man and Runaway from Religion a man if any other of his Coate and Calling apt enough to be circumcised and denie Christ Jesus if the Grand Signior would but make him chiefe Muftie so much would Ambition and Couetousnesse his bosome infirmities sway with Him in his late impudent leud shamelesse Recantation in which he professeth and proclaymeth himselfe vnto the world a Knaue in graine a man of a cauterised Conscience and prostituted Honestie vnto all euen Ciuill conuersation as without all modestie he belyeth that Church in generall which my selfe haue heard him often publiquely and priuatly commend and admire As he spareth not Particulars of most Eminent place so also amongst others hath he belyed me as if J concurred with himselfe now in opinion or auowed that ridiculous Romane Doctrine and Practice of Praying vnto Saints and Angels in time of need For He heard with great delight and content as he saith one of his then Canons of Windsore preaching before the Kings Maiestie maintayne That there was no cause why euery man might not turne himselfe vnto his Angell keeper and say Holy Angell keeper Pray for me Hee nameth me not in this passage I graunt but wrappeth vp a certaine quendam in generall and in doubtfull termes And had J not my selfe professed En adsum qui feci J well and quietly had rested blamelesse ●y a namelesse aspersion and left them to ghesse at randon or shoot at Rouers who would happely haue fastned it otherwhere But nothing was said why I should shunne the Charge or diuert the Imputation vpon any And because the first notice that euer I had hereof being from though at second hand your Lordship I could not possesse my Soule in patience without giuing your Lordship intimation how vntruly an aspersion of siding that way had by him so loose a Lozell beene cast on that society whereof himselfe sometimes had beene and my selfe am yet through his Majesties Grace a member the rather because wee haue all vnder his sacred Maiestie especially in Cases of this condition a Reference vnto your Honor as our Visitor May your Lordship then be pleased to take notice of his dealing conformable to the rest of his leuder actions in his turne-coating from side to side He stileth me One of his Canons of Windsore as if for That my dependance had beene vpon Him or my selfe and the rest of my Brethren there had beene his by appropriation What the course is in the Court of Rome J know not where Places of such qualitie are bought and sold But here J am sure He was but one of vs The fundamentall Statutes running thus De tredecim Canonicis quorum vnus Custos vel Decanus existat The Deane and Prebends there being no mans Canons but his Maiesties who by Right Originall is in his Royall Predecessors Founder and Patron of that College Secondly he doth not bl●sh to write that he heard me with great delight and content Whereof He nor was nor could be capable For in his owne intent and meaning to heare is to vnderstand and apprehend This he did not this he could not doe For I preached in English vnto an English Auditorie though composed then of Royall and Noble presence English hee might heare but could not vnderstand except carptim and sparsim now and then here and there a word or halfe a sentence And yet I know he Read for I was present and subscribed he saith since against his conscience the more Knaue he to injoy a good Benefice for I was a witnesse thereto the Articles of 1562. in West-Ilsly Church in Barkshire But Reade I can that which J vnderstand not Vnderstanding and Reading are two things And yet this honest man as if he had vnderstood my Sermon from point to point shameth not to