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A43718 Plus ultra, or, Englands reformation, needing to be reformed being an examination of Doctor Heylins History of the reformation of the Church of England, wherein by laying together all that is there said ... / written by way of letter to Dr. Heylin by H.N. ... Hickman, Henry, d. 1692. 1661 (1661) Wing H1913; ESTC R19961 41,680 57

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Cloyster lined with manifold favours your zeal for the Church cannot want its recompence but sir it is good to remember your latter end you know not but that your conscience may be then awakened and read over this history you have written and pinch you for the Errata's of your zeal and charity against your poor Brethren we are confident that much of that you have laid into the foundation of the Reformation of the Church of England though you and others judge it gold silver pretious stones will be found wood hay and stubble when he appeareth who is like a refiners fire There is one very naughty passage in your book pag. 38. part 1. utterly unbecoming the mouth of a Christian much less a Doctor of Divinity where you are not ashamed to say That because in the twenty fourth Injunction in King Edwards time that upon Holy and Festival dayes it shall be lawful for men to labour in harvest you extend this liberty as well to the Lords day as the Annual Festivals and then you quote an Act of Parliament to authorize this liberty and say that by that Act any man either in harvest or or at any other times in the year when necessity shall so require who will not pretend necessity may labour ride fish or work any kind of work at their pleasure upon the Lords day And you tell us what was done at Court on that day Sir we are confident that the intention of that Act did not reach to allow so gross a prophanation of the Lords day and you that are so versed in Acts of Parliament for they are the only sphere wherein Liturgy and Ceremonies move cannot you find an Act of Parliament restraining this abuse If you cannot which we know you may it had been the duty of a Protestant Reformed Doctor of Divinity to have discovered the evil of such abuses and to have laboured with all your might that such an Act may pass Oh Sir must Jesus Christ our Lord have no preheminence above our Lady and must Iohn Baptist be lifted up to an equality with him whose shoe-latchet he confessed he was not worthy to unloose What! have Peter and Paul and Philip and Iacob done as much for us as Jesus Christ and where is the least hint that one hour is to be set apart to their honour Must every paltry holy-day be set in equality of reputation with the Lords day which Christ sanctified by his resurrection the accomplishment of a far greater work then that of Creation and his Apostles instituted by their constant solemn Assemblies upon it You say in page 38. part 1. in the latter times the Lords day began to be advanced into the reputation of the Jewish Sabbath If by latter times you mean the Apostles times it is true for then it began and when ever it began why should not Christians be as zealous to advance the Lords day unto the highest pitch of reputation that ever the Jewish Sabbath was in abateing the Ceremonious rigor have not Christians greater obligations greater encouragements to glorifie God and lift up his name which is Holy Holy Holy Oh Mr. Doctor the time past may suffice you for this folly You need not have now told us that men may do any thing at their pleasure if they say they have necessity on the Lords day and seek to establish this mischief by a Law We would be loth to be in your coat in the day of the Lord for your debasing the Lords day for the best preferment the Church of England can give us We say to you as Bishop Iewel said to Harding Arripe severitatem Christianam palinodiam cane Well Sir to go on with our reckoning you have seen one Non-conformist and Ridley's recantation for his Prelatical rigor which amounts to another and so he is to be taken off the file and you have two less then you had We shall pass on with more speed in the numbring up the rest You tell us page 93. part 1. of one Trins a Deacon who refused to wear the vestments appointed to be worn Of one Mr. Iohn Rogers Prebend of Saint Pauls and Divinity Reader of that Church who could never be perswaded to wear them The like aversness as you call it you ascribe unto Mr. Iohn Philpot Archdeacon of Winchester who suffered in Queen Maries time So that here you have Hooper Ridley when in his cold blood Trins Rogers and Philpot all disgusting these Ceremonies Many more there were but these you have left upon record with your own pen. To proceed to the times of Queen Elisabeth you have heard Iewels testimony in part who was the glory of her Reign for learning and you will see it more fully by and by You tell us page 120. part 2. that one Whitehead who had been Chaplain to Anne Bollen the Queens mother was offered the Archbishoprick of Canterbury but you say he refused it because he was more inclined to the Presbyterians then the Episcopal form of Government And page 123. part 2. you say Coverdall waved the acceptation of the Bishoprick of Oxon or any other then vacant out of a disaffection to the Habit of that Order And page 124. part 2. you say Alexander Nowell Dean of Saint Pauls Preaching before Queen Elisabeth spake irreverently of the sign of the Cross for which she from her closet window immediately checked him commanding him to retire from that ungodly digression And page 165. part 2. you tell us that Father Iohn Fox the Martyrologist being called on to subscribe appeared before the Bishop with the New Testament in Greek To this said he I will subscribe and if this will not serve take my Prebend of Salisbury the only preferment I hold in the Church of England and much good may it do you You tell us of Sampson Dean of Christ-Church who was deprived you say pag. 164. part 2. for refusing to wear the Habit belonging to his place You tell us also of one Hardiman page 115. part 2. a Prebend of Westminster deprived also for throwing down the Altar and defacing the vestments And in the same page you say both the Professors of divinity in the two Universites and Whitington Dean of Durham were Non-conformists These instances are your own and so you have no reason to except against them We have not wronged you as far as we know in a syllable and now Sir we leave it to you to judge Whether the point of conformity to such Ceremonies which have been a continual occasion of offence to the Reformed Churches both at home and abroad be still to be pressed with accustomed rigor A second branch of the third Querie was Whether such Ceremonies which link us in a conformity with that Church from which in many other things we have justly separated be to be continued and enjoyned We say that the Church of England having renounced Communion with the Church of Rome in all material points of Doctrine ought in point of
the Grandees of the Court began to entertain some thoughts of a Reformation on an hope to inrich themselves by the spoil of the Bishopricks You tell us pag. 48. That the first Parliament in the first year of his Reign though it consisted of such Members as disagreed among themselves yet they agreed well enough in one common Principle which was to serve the present time and preserve themselves that they came resolved to further such a Reformation as should most visibly conduce to the advancement of their several ends and to prepare a way for exposing the Revenues of the Church unto spoil and rapine You tell us pag. 95. That the alteration of Altars into Tables and the disfurnishing of the Altars of the Hangings Palls Plate and other rich utensills was taken up by some great men about the Court on hopes of profit You tell us in the fifth year of King Edward pag. 99. Gardiner was lifted out of the wealthy Bishoprick of Winchester to give the Courtiers opportunity to inrich themselves by the spoil thereof And in pag. 101. That one Iohn Poynet succeeded him to serve other mens turns And in the same page That the Pyrates of the Court were intent upon all advantages to inrich themselves You tell us in the second year of Queen Elizabeth page 121. That the Bishops Sees were kept void till the best flowers in the whole Garden of the Church had been cull'd out of it That the Queen and her Hungry Courtiers had alienated many fair Mannors from the rich Sees of Winchester Elie and indeed what not Thus Sir you have muddied the first Springs of the Reformation by casting into it the abhorred filth of covetousness But Sir Did your pen and your heart agree together when you said you could not reckon it for an infelicity that Edward the sixth died so immaturely or which in plain English is 'T was good for the Church he was taken out of the way The Preface to the Book of Homilies makes an honourable mention of him And when our precious Iewel had occasion to speak of him page 359. Of his defence these are his words That noble Prince of blessed memory King Edward the sixth Was it not an infelicity to the Church to lose her chiefest stay and pillar To have the hopes of a glorious Reformation nipt in the very Budd To have a fearfull Deluge of blood and idolatry rush in upon us by the succession of Queen Mary in whose Reign more precious blood was spilt then in all the times of her Predecessors The persecution under her Reign and the carriage of the Papists in it you relate out of Bishop Iewel page 81. of your History You have given a large testimony of King Edwards Learning before he wes eight years old page 12. Of his tenderness to consent to sign the Warrant for the execution of Ioan of Kent page 89. Of his great zeal for God in resisting the tolerarion of Popery only to his sister the Princess Mary though pressed to it by the Arch-Bishop of Canterbury and the Bishop of London resolving rather to venture lite and all things else which were dear unto him then to give way to any thing which he knew to be against the truth expressing his inward trouble by a stood of tears page 103. Of his Piety and fervent Charity in his last godly Prayer wherein he calls upon God O my Lord God! Bless my people save thy chosen people of England O Lord God! Defend this Realm from Papistry and maintain thy true Religion that I and my people may praise thy holy Name for Jesus Christ his sake As you have related it page 140. What better qualities and Principles could be desired in a Prince And what greater felicity in that kinde could the Church enjoy then so gratious and Godly a King And do not you Mr. Doctor shake hands with the shameless rayler Harding against our glorious Iewel When you hear him call'd Rayler be not displeased Look on that large Catalogue of hellish slanders poured out on that blessed man summ'd up by himself immediately before his decease This is offered to you the rather because when you have occasion to mention Harding a base Apostate and grand enemy of the Gospel it is with terms of honour and reverence viz. Dr. Iohn Harding one of the Divines of Lovain and the most learned of the Colledge page 128 in the latter part of your History But when you speak of those glorious lights of the Reformation Luther Zuinglius Calvin it is barely Calvin or Iohn Calvin as all along your History is evident That Rabshakeh Harding dipt his Pen in the same gall and speaks your sence page 31. of the Defence Did not saith he your Religion begin first of covetousness And for your ●ear of the poor Chruch being left destitute of Lands and Ornaments your Right learned Prelate Iewel gives you a corrective in page 567. of his defence c. Ye say saith he to Harding Your Bishops are gay and gallant attended and guarded with Princely routs behinde and before And thereof ye make no small account specially in respect of our estate which you call beggarly In such disdain the Heathen sometime said That Christ was the beggarliest and poorest of all the Gods that were in Heaven Howbeit our Bishopricks saving that certain of your Fathers have shamefully spoil'd them are now even as they were before certainly the poorest Bishoprick in England as it is reported is better in revenues then some three or four of your Popes Italian Bishopricks in the Kingdom of Naples Howbeit the Gospel of Christ standeth not by riches but by truth In comparison of the one we make small reckoning of the other Had that glorious King lived to perfect the Reformation which you would have accounted an infelicity to the Church and taken away more of her Patrimony yet if you will believe the Right Learned Prelate Iewel he might have revok't in all those grants made by his Predecessors See his Defence page 639. If our Kings in that darkness and blindeness of the former times gave them these things of their own accord and liberality for Religions sake Now saith he when the ignorance and error is espied out may the Kings their Successors take them away again seeing they have the same authority the Kings their Ancestors had before For the gift is void except it be allowed by the will of the Giver and that cannot seem a perfect will which is dimmed and hindered by error The next thing Mr. Doctor to be spoken to is the Reformation it self whose History you present to us And in p. 34. p. 1. you write That neither to lose time nor press too much at once upon the people it was thought fit to smooth the way to the Reformation by setting out some preparatory injunctions this to be done by sending out Commissioners accompanied with certain godly Preachers who when they went from the people left behinde them Homilies to