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A56866	Quatermayns conquest over Canterburies court, or, A briefe declaration of severall passages between him and the Archbishop of Canterbury with other commissioners of the High Commission Court, at six severall appearances before them, and by them directed to Doctor Featly : with their severall conferences, and the doctors by Roger Quatermayne.	Quatermayne, Roger.; Laud, William, 1573-1645.; Featley, Daniel, 1582-1645.	1642 (1642)	Wing Q148; ESTC R9277	38,184	64

such as wee could not reason together and therefore he did report to the Archbishop that after the Terme he would doe his best endeavour to give us satisfaction which gave me good content for by this means I was preserved out of prison To the Right Honourable and most Reverend Father in God the Archbishop of Canterbury his Grace Primate of all ENGLAND and METROPOLITANE MAY it please your Grace I understand by my servants that Master Roger Quatermayne and Io Garbraim and divers others were at my house since the beginning of the Terme appointed as they affirmed by order of this Honourable Court to conferre with me but being this Terme to provide for a tryall at the Exchequer Barre and being Sued both in Chancery concerning a Lease pretended to be made by the Provost and Fellowes of Chelsey Colledge and in the Kings Bench for the House wherein I dwell and by occasion of these Suits inforced to attend in divers Courts I could not appoint them any time or place where they should certainly meet me But as soone as the end of the Terme shall give me some respit from these vexatious Suits I will doe my best to give them satisfaction the rather be●…ause I finde them all willing to be informed as they professe to me and some of them conformable in all things to the Doctrine and Discipline of the Church of England save onely they make scruple of the Oath Ex Officio Your Graces humbly devoted DANIEL FEATLY WHen I came and appeared in the Court I being called the Report was read and the Archbishop was so impatient that he would not indure to heare it read thorow but said Archb. That Mr Quatermayne was the Ring-leader of all the Separatists Quater Notwithstanding I was one of their greatest opposits in regard of some particulars then said Archb. The Archbishop Mr Quatermayne I perceive that Doctor Featly hath no time to reason with you by which you have a long time to consider and so have we also I pray doe you resolve your selfe betweene this and the next Tearme for wee will demur no longer you stand very much upon Scripture and Law Bish. Wrenne I said Bishop Wrenne he is a great Scriptureman I warrant you my Lord Quater My Lord if you please to make proofe of mee I shall be able to answer you if you please or any other to convince me by Scriptures as I said before I shall be willing to submit or suffer Archb. Well Mr Quatermayne I pray satisfie your selfe betweene this and the next Tearme and I pray let us request one thing at your hands when you are gone that you doe not report that wee are cruell and mercilesse and oppressors of mens consciences you have found no hard measure at our hands wee have not dealt unkindly with you but it is the course of you all to raise evill reports of us though wee in obedience to his Majesties command sit to doe justice Farewell Mr Quatermayne and God speed you and informe you against the next Terme Officers Then said the Officers wee are glad we shall be rid of the Puritans I pray take th●…m along with you Master Quatermayne Quater I answered where one will goe with thee ten will follow mee this is the summe and substance of my fourth appearance at Lambeth House Quater And home I went accompanyed with the Saints of God 〈◊〉 my house and Mayle the Pursevant like the Devill in the first of Job went with us My fift appearance at Lambeth-House was the fifteenth day of October 1640. When I came thither the Court was Adjourned to Pauls and I asked of Medall one of the Notaries where the Court was kept and he told me it was appointed to be kept in the Convocation-House all this Terme But said he let it be kept where it will there is nothing for you to doe for you are not in the Bill this weeke nor will you be called upon this weeke Quater I answered are you certaine of it Notary And he said yes Quater So I returned home accordingly and so much for that time yet neverthelesse there was a hubbub at the Convocation-House that day although I was not there and therefore I was not the cause of the tumult Quater My sixt appearance was at the Convocation House in Pauls the 22 day of October 1640. At which time the High Commission Court was pulled downe but for as much as the whole businesse was opened before the Lords of the Counsell and answered before the Justice of Oyer and Terminer by vertue of a Commission under the great Seale of England for the Prelates use when the King went into the North I was caused to answer three severall Sessions holden in the Guild-Hall for the Citie of London all which I shall hereafter lay downe therefore I refer all till its proper time and place Quater In the next place followeth my whole businesse before the Lords of his Majesties Privie Councell First my apprehension and secondly all our proceedings Quater On Satterday which was the 24th day of October 1640. about eight of the Clock at night as I was going to my House a Messenger from the Privie Councell came unto mee with a Warrant and ten Privie Councellors hands to it and carried me away prisoner to the Catterne wheele in Southworke for his Warrant was so strict that no Bayle would be admitted of for I had neighbours that offered body for body but the Messenger durst not accept of them Truly the Messenger was in such a condition that he trembled as if he would have sunke But I blesse the Lord I was never more chearefull in all my life but there was such vild aspersions cast upon me and such false informations given to the Lords against mee and the Messengers charge so strict that he wondred to see mee so chearefull and well contented and I told him there were three things that made a man chearefull a good God a good Cause and a good Conscience and I praise God in this thing all these I have Afterwards I understood that the Lords had given him order that I should not be carried to prison for the prison would be pulled downe and I rescued from him neither that he should carry me with any tumult for feare of the like danger that might insue so upon the Lords day following as aforesaid in the afternoone I was brought to White-Hall before the Lords of the Councell and when I came thither Sir Dudly Gaveston his Clerke began to examine the Messenger whether he had found me or no Pursevant To whom he answered yes what Quatermayne yes Quatermayne said the Messenger Where is he said the Clerke Here is he said the Messenger Quater Then the Clerke looking upon me supposing I had not heard them said he is a proper tall man but before God he will be hanged all the world cannot save him I nnderhearing of him thought though all the world cannot save mee yet God can

fat and 〈◊〉 promises of the Gos●…ell and yet remaine a starveling to thy great dishonour and the reproach of Religion But grant 〈◊〉 beseech thee that in the use of all holy meanes I doe so plentifully injoy I may grow up to that age stature fulnesse and 〈◊〉 of thy saints in Jesus Christ that so as thy band hath and still is upon mee for good so my heart may alwayes meditate on thy Statutes and my tongue may speake of all thy wondrous workes Blessed Father I be seech thee to anatomize my heart and spiritualize my soule and see if there be any wickednesse in mee and by thy Word and 〈◊〉 it divide between the Soule and Spirit and joynts and marrow of my corruption and so separate betweene the precious and the vile that all iniquitie may be removed farre away from my person and from my Tabernacle that so O Lord for the time that is to come I may walle evenly with thee in the path that is called holy that so I may have my fruit in holinesse and at the end eternall life that being guided by thy counsell here I may at last be brought to glory Good Lord grant that I may never be of that number that doth so we to the 〈◊〉 to reap●… corruption but of those that doth so we to the Spirit and reape life everlasting that I may never as formerly dig broken 〈◊〉 that will hold no water but that I may drinke deeply of that fountaine of the water of life my fresh springs being found in thee that so 〈◊〉 soule may be filled with the fruits of rightcousnesse which is to the prayse of thy rich grace by faith in Christ ●…esus Deare Father I have three grand enemies to grapple with the world th●…●…lesh and the Devill the least of which is too great for me to 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 if my weaknesse be not supported and my wants supplyed But yet I know that thorow Jesus Christ that strengtheneth mee I may by faith make the Devill flye overcome the world and get my owne heart purified 〈◊〉 although holy Father of my selfe being poore weake and contemptible I can doe nothing yet thorow Jesus Christ that strengtheneth me I can doe all things for he is the right hand of thy power and strong arme of thy salvation in and from whom thou hast received full compensation to divir●… just●…ce for the sinnes of all the Elect and in particular for mee thy unworthy servant I beseech thee 〈◊〉 Lord so long as thou hast any imployment for thy unworthy servant in this 〈◊〉 and transito●…y life so long as these few broken ends of mortalitie doth remaine be thou pleased who doth all things according to the counsell of thine owne will so to uphold mee in the way of holinesse that in all th●… actions of my generall and speciall calling I may glorifie thy great Name 〈◊〉 my Brethren propagate the knowledge of the Lord Jesus Christ stop the mouths and put to silence the tongues of wicked and ungodly men for this is the will of thee my God as touching thy servant I beseech thee O Lord be not angry with poore sinfull dust and ashes and I will speake but this one time and it is in the behalfe of the generation of thy first borne whom thou from eternitie hast set thy love upon and still 〈◊〉 delight in to extend mercy to It is the Vine which thine owne hand hath planted holy holy Lord looke downe from Heavn behold and visit this Vine The straits of thy people are great but deliverance is in thine owne hands thy mercyes are thine owne I beseech thee therefore O Lord consider how deeply thine owne glory is involved in the great cause of thy Church Behold the insolency pride and subtilti●… of thine enemies and looke upon the imbecilitie and weaknesse of thy people and let that auntient motive which from the beginning and 〈◊〉 ages did stirre thee up to doe good to thy people provoke thee at this time to be mercifull to thy Church because mercy 〈◊〉 thee O Lord thou h●…st in thy Word spoken great things of thy Servants concerning their deliverance and also gathering thy Churches from the foure Corners of the World and that thou wilt rayse up thy Jerusalem and make it the prayse of the whole Earth and is not now the time come wherein thou wil●… extend thy mercy to Sion O Lord is not yet the time fully come Hath shee not lyne long enough in the dust Hath not the Plowers plowed long furrowes on her bucke for a long s●…ason Hath not O Lord the Fox●… the subtill Foxes broke off her fruitfull bowes spoyled her grapes and would not let them cluster Good Lord hath not thine enemies mingled our Wine with water our silver with drosse and thy pure worship with superstitious vanities And shall they O Lord prosper that thus runne along in their wickednesse eating up thy pe●…ple even as bread ●…vouring thy precious Saints and sacred truthes as much as in them lyeth And will not our God returne and cause the light of his countenance to sh●…ne upon his Sanctuary Thou hast said O Lord that thou never biddest the sonnes of Iacob seeke thy face in vaine is not the time yet come that the Stone cut out of the mountaine without hands shall grow to be a Mountaine and fill the whole earth When O Lord wilt thou give the Kingdoms of the earth to the Saints of the most High When shall our Sister that hath no breast desire the sincere milke of the Gospell When Lord shall those dry bones live When deare Father shall the great River Euphrates be dryed up that thy redeemed may passe over When shall that Monarch of Rome and Hiera●…chy of England which makes the reall Antichrist not onely be discovered but rooted out and consumed that thy Saints may rejoyce their hearts and warme their hands at that great bonefire so long desired that the Lord Iesus Christ may raigne in his Church Deare Father Lord of Heaven and Earth Gird thy Sword upon thy thigh O thou most mightie strike thorow the loynes of thine and thy Churches enemies Root out all them that delight in superstitious vanities avenge the quarrell of thy Covenant and maintaine thine owne glory Blesse thine owne worke O Lord the great Reformation already begunne in this Kingdome yea blesse O Lord the Parliament that strong arme of flesh which thou hast sanctified and preserved to doe great things by let not our hopes be made frustrate let not the malicious purposes of thine enemies come to passe least they grow too proud O Lord Blesse the Kings Majestie with spirituall corporall and eternall Blessings that he may so comply with his Parliament that all differences may quietly be composed Religion may flourish scandalous dumb dogs removed and faithfull Pastors and Teachers planted in their roomes with those sacred Governours and government which Christ hath instituted in his Church Blesse the Queene the Prince and the rest of that royall Race Lord let thy blessing be upon all states and degrees of people as if their names were particularized before thee Good Lord cause Warres to cease in Ireland let justice and mercy meet together in that Kingdome that thy enemies may justly be punished and thy people mercifully delivered Blesse those Forces that are imployed for that service send more and prosper them also that the great good worke hoped for may be most blessedly accomplished Good Lord blesse thy blessed people of the Scots Nation by whom thou hast done so much good to this Kingdome and all others that thy poore servant is bound to pray for by dutie Religion or any band or tye of nature or grace even for the Lord Iesus Christ his sake In whom and for whom thou receivest poore sinners to mercy To whom with t●…ine own Majesty and God the holy Spirit three persons one onely holy wise God be rendred as is most due all honour prayse glory and thankes now hence forth and for ever AMEN FINIS Jo. Lincol now York My first Apprehension My Appearance The Conference Doctor Featly Dr Feally his report Bishop of Bathe Wells Pursevant Thomas Squire Diver●… spake A Doct●… Purs●…vant Officers Notary Clerke of the Co●…cell Privie Seale Lord privy Seale Lord of Dorset 〈◊〉 Francis Windebanke Secretary of State Friend Sir Nathaniel Brent Register Lord Newborg A Lord Sir Edward Littleton Lord Cottington Lord Privie Seale 〈◊〉 Tho. Row Sir Tho. Row and Lord Goring 〈◊〉 Generall Of Sir Jo. Finch Lord Keeper Said the Jury The Archbishop

their tyrannie But Beloved least whilest I goe about to counsell and incourage you I forget my selfe I will addresse my selfe to make you acquainted with some passages in the insuing Discourse that so I may insinuate my selfe into your affections and gaine some time from your more necessary imployments to cast your eyes upon some of these more pleasing passages in my following Discourse that may recreate your spirits and not corrupt your judgement Christian Readers For unto you doe I dedicate this Narration of my troubles paine and charge that you may be incouraged in your Christian Course without feare for wh●… is it that can harme you if you be followers of that which is good 1 Pet 3. 1. In the first place You may gather some things to informe your judgements from my Answers to the great Arch-Pilot who would seeme to be the guide of all the Ships that floate on the Cantaburian Sea he writing himselfe to be the Primate and Metropolitane thereof who if you trace him aright you shall as I have done finde out his ignorance untruths malice and flattery Secondly You may there finde all the brood of Inquisitors in a strait for want of an honest Rule to walk by there being no Law to justifie their proceedings Thirdly You may there finde the Advocates complaining like Dianaes Chaplaines in Ephesus for the losse of their Trade with execrable curses on me for the same Secondly Some benefit you may get in the severall passages at the severall appearances that I had before them at the High Commission Court where you may finde them put to a stand when I come up close unto them in regard of the Lawes of God and of the Land Thirdly Some benefit you may get if you be not wanting to your selves by reading the Discourse that was between Doctor Featly and my Selfe concerning an action and rule as is there laid downe Fourthly Some benefit you may get by reading that large Discourse I had with the Lords of the Councell wherein it pleased the Lord most graciously to carry me along in my Answers without offence unto them and yet kept my Conscience uncorrupted Lastly Some profit you may reape by the proceedings against me at the Guild Hall London three severall Sessions both in point of charge in respect of Iury as also in regard of Witnesse and the malice of my persecutors and in observing the hand of the Lord in my deliverance which was not ordinary but extraordinary his blessed Name be praised therefore Thus have I given you a hint of some things considerable in the insuing Discourse which if thereby God may be glorified you may be edified then have I that which I aimed at How if it be against all this objected that I seeme in this my Epistle to justifie my selfe in my carriage of the whole businesse and much to derogate from the credit of mine enemies You know what the Apostle sayth You suffer fooles gladly because you your selves are wise Truly if I had knowne any thing in any of my Spirituall Adversaries worthy of remembrance for their credit I would not have detained or kept it backe but have freely yeelded it unto them Put when I consider what I have by experience found and what others have felt and found by their cruell proceedings and dealings with them or against them I could doe no otherwise then I have done least as Job sayth While I give flattering titles to men the Lord should confound mee And to Apologise for my selfe if I be not mistaken I have already said that I have put this to the Presse by Solicitation of others And ●…not seeking shelter as is usually done under some great Patron to defend me thought it my dutie not to detaine the truth in unrighteousnesse but to declare it nakedly without either feare of foes or hope of reward but onely that God might be glorified for whom I have suffered all this and much more and will with Gods helpe continue to the end what ever may fall out in the way As also that you might be incouraged to goe on in your Christian course of profession of the Gospel without feare and to store your selves with such promises of divine knowledge in spirituall things as that those which walke in darknesse observing no Rule by leaning to their owne understanding may be convinced by your invincible boldnesse in standing in and for the truth And thus not troubling you any farther at this time onely one Request I have unto you that you will be thus favourable unto me that where I shall come short or overlash through want of memory or weaknesse of judgement in any of the severall passages and carriages of my Answers you would be pleased to cover them with the Mantle of love and charitie and by observing my imperfections to get strength to overcome the enemies of God and of his truth And thus I commit you to God and to the Word of his grace who is able to build you up and give you an inheritance among those that are sanctified by faith in Christ Jesus I rest your loving Brother and fellow-Souldier in the quarrell of Christ and his Gospell ROGER QUATERMAYNE TO THE CHRISTIAN READER CHRISTIAN READER IT is an Axiome in Nature That things are so much delightfull as they are seasonable and wee have it confirmed by more then ●…mane authoritie in Pro 25. 11. Words in season ar●… as apples of gold with pictures of silver This Consideration Courteous Reader without any other Preface might hallenge a mat●… between thine eye and this Discourse Thou are bere presented with a suffering Discourse in suff●…ring times It hath been the lot of the Church and people of God in all ages and generations to be the butt and marke at which the enemies of Gods truth and glory have shott their 〈◊〉 arrowes of malice and crueltie God hath but a few precious ones in the world upon whom he hath set his love and glory and they are the men which are most of all vilified and contemned the enemies of Gods Church have been alwayes exceeding inraged against them but now more then ever their time being but short and their enmitie everlasting there hath sprung up in this last age of the world a cursed generation shall I say of men nay of Vipers who slily and insinuatingly have more ruined the Church then all the open persecutors that ever were who under pretence of being called Fathers of the Church have been the most mercilesse and dangerous tyrants that ever it had I meane the Prelates with all their hellish retinue who have drunke so deepe of the poyson of Aspes and have so intoxicated their braines with that same bloody Cup of the Scarlet Whore that they can spit nothing but poyson and malice against the truth and people of Christ And therefore have they laboured to put scandalls and nick-names never heard of among Christians untill these innovating Prelates brought them in Scandalls I say upon Religion and

I am freed by the Iury And they answered No Then I asked if they had not authoritie in those Letters that they had received to free me but they answered me No Then I told them I would use meanes my selfe And thus was I most graciously delivered from the Lyon and the Beare and the uncircumcised Philistims and the Diotrephes the troubler of the people of God by their prating of many swelling words of vanitie But the Net is broken and I am delivered to God onely be the glory and to the Instruments thereof due respect and praise AMEN THE PRAYER THou oh Lord God omnipotent reigneth holy are thy wayes just are thy workes great are thy mercies dreadfull are thy judgements oh King of Saints Oh Lord who is like unto thee Thy goodnesse and mercy Oh most mightie God encompasseth us round on every side Thou oh Lord hast said Thou wilt be a wall of fire round about thy people and the glory in the midst of them Thou h●…st said Thou wilt be a Sunne and a Sheild to thy Servants and no good 〈◊〉 wilt thouwithhold from them that walke uprigh●…ly before thee but grace and glory wilt thou give unto them Thy people of old beleeved in thee they called upon thy Name and were delivered Thou never ●…allen them that put their 〈◊〉 thee Oh Lord who is it then that doth know thy Name but will trust in thee Oh Lord I am thy Serva●…t the Sonne of thy hand●… Thou haste broken my bands in sunder and set my fe●…te in a 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 that I ●…ht 〈◊〉 the wayes of thy C●…mmandements ●…nd so serve thee with an upright heart and a willing minde I have ●…ound by 〈◊〉 experience Oh Lord that the issuos from death are in thy hands The enemies plotted and contrived to take away the life of thy Servant and yet behold Lord thou didst most 〈◊〉 deliver him The Net was layd the Pit was digged thy servant freed and his and thine enemies ensnared and covered Oh Lord prayse waiteth for thee in Sion and unto thee shall the Vow be performed Thou hearest Prayers and therefore unto thee shall all flesh come O Lord thou haste done wondrous things Thy promises of old are faithfulnesse and truth Oh Lord what shall I render unto thee for thy great goodnesse and loving kindnesse shewed to thy Servant I will take the cup of Salvation and give prayse unto thy name Thou haste good Lord preserved mee from the Lyon and the Beare and the usurping tyrannous Philistims of the Kingdom to what end deare Father but that I should not forget the loving kindnesse of the Lord but be still mindfull of his Covenant Thy out-stretched arme hath been my defence Thy right hand Oh Lord hath the preheminence Thy right hand deare Father hath brought mightie things to ●…asse I shall not dy●… through the malice of the enemy but 〈◊〉 live through the goodnesse of my God to declare the loving ?…?ness of the Lord I am resolved to make my boast of thy prayse all the day long my tongue shall never cease to speake of thy goodnesse whilest I have a being for Thou bringest downe to the grave and raisest up againe Thou dost all thy workes to be had in remembrance of all that are ●…ound about thee If any Creature that ever thine ●…and hath made hath cause to magnifie thy Name and to declare thy prayse then have I much more Mine enemies did as it were cast Lots upon my Vesture and had so numbred my dayes as that they thought within six houres to take away the life of thy Servant and yet behold Lord some dead ●…me run away and others imprisoned as thine the Churches the States and G●…mmon mealths enemies and yet deare Father thy Servant preserved alive to take notice of thy mercy in beleeving thy holy promise where thou sayest Thou wilt deliver the righteous out of trouble and bring the wicked in their stead Oh Lord I have found that my tim●… are in thy hands and not in the han●… of my enemies yea I ●…ve and doe finde by blessed experience o●… Lord that as the creature cannot give life so neither can it take life away Deare Father I received my life from thee to glorifie thy Name in the discharge of the severall actions and duties in my place and calling and should the enemies deprive mee of it to th●… shame and reproach of the Gospell Oh Lord thou haste forbidden it and so it is come to p●…sse for ever blessed be thy N●…e for it Lord thou haste said that we should be brought before Princes and Rulers for thy Name sake and yet we should not feare nor take care what to speake for thou wilt g●… a mouth and a tongue and behold deare Lord thou haste made this promise also good to thy servant Wherein thou didst so guide him and direct him as that he did neither deny the truth nor corrupt his conscience to please the times at that time deare Father thou didst sill his heart full with joy and peace in beleeving that all things should worke together for his good when the enemies oh Lord did coop him up and appoint him as a sheepe for the slaughter ●…hen didst thou lengthen his life and prolong his dayes to tell of all thy wondrous workes I will therefore sing of thy prayse all the day long for thou haste shewed kindnesse to thy servant Thou haste multiplyed thy hand of bountie I will never forget thy free and full acts of love vouchsafed to me Deare Father I beseech thee to direct thy Servant what to doe and how to carry himselfe in this his Pilgrimage that so ●…e may glorifie thy Name and endeavour to 〈◊〉 thy people that others may by his example be incouraged to walke on constantly conscionably and faithfully in the pursuit and practise of all the duties of Christianitie Blessed Father Lord of life and glory I doe most humbly desire thee so to direct me by thy Word and Spirit that as thou hast miraculously and mercifully preserved mee from all dangers on the right hand and on the left from the malice and fury of mine enemies I may now in an humble acknowledgement of thy goodnesse walke before thee in all holy and humble subjection to thy blessed will in all things To this end I beseech thee ●…athe my soule 〈◊〉 that ●…ountaine that thou hast opened to the house of Judah and the Iohabitants of Jerusal●…m to wash in Make good that holy promise more and more to my soule wherein thou hast said Thou wilt wash mee from mine u●…cleannesse and sprinkle mee with cleane water Deare Father it is thy good pleasure that in Christ the God-head should dwell bodily that so I might be made partakers of the divine nature yea that in him all sulnesse should dwell that so I might receive grace for grace Now I besecch thee deare Father let it not be with me as with Pharoahs leane Kine that I may still feed upon the