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A26728	Hieronikēs, or, The fight, victory, and triumph of S. Paul accommodated to the Right Reverend Father in God Thomas, late L. Bishop of Duresme, in a sermon preached at his funeral, in the parish church of St. Peter at Easton-Manduit in Northampton-shire, on Michaelmas-day, 1659 : together with the life of the said Bishop / by John Barwick ...	Barwick, John, 1612-1664.	1660 (1660)	Wing B1008; ESTC R16054	101,636	192

Mason pretends c. 96. These are the Authors words and they have already been proved to be so notoriously imposterous and false in a Book written by the accurate pen of the right Reverend Father in God the Lord Bishop of Derrie that I might have saved my Reader this trouble but only that I measure this action by what I know was the minde of this Reverend Bishop while he lived who was so exceedingly sensible of the wrong done him in this particular that he never thought any thing too much to vindicate himself from it And this is evident by his tripling his guard against it first in that Codecil annexed to his Will which is herewith published then by a Letter to Mr. Gunning desiring him to take notice of the injury in a Book which he was then preparing for the Press and last of all in a Formal Protestation made by him in the presence of a publick Notarie before several competent witnesses and attested unto afterwards by all the Bishops now surviving who sate in that Parliament excepting only the Bishop of Bangor who lives so far remote in Wales as he could not conveniently be sent unto and likewise by as many of the Temporal Lords who sate in that Parliament as with any convenience it could be presented unto and last of all by all the Clerks that attended in the House of Peers and who are sworn officers to keep true and perfect Records of what passeth there The form whereof and of the Attestations annexed to it are word for word as followeth and for the other circumstances of that Action I shall refer the Reader to my Preface before the Learned Bishop of Derries Book above mentioned The Bishop of DURESMES Protestation 97. WHereas I am most injuriously and slanderously traduced by a nameless Author calling himself N. N. in a Book said to be printed at Rouen 1657. intituled A Treatise of the Nature of Catholick Faith and Heresie as if upon the presenting of a certain Book to the Vpper House in the beginning of the late Parliament proving as he saith that the Protestant Bishops had no Succession nor Consecration and therefore were no Bishops and by consequence ought not to sit in Parliament I should make a speech against the said Book in my own and all the the Bishops behalf endeavouring to prove succession from the last Catholick Bishops as he there stiles them who by Imposition of hands ordained the first Protestant Bishops at the Nags-head in Cheapside as was notorious to all the world c. I do hereby in the presence of Almighty God solemnly protest and Declare to all the world that what this Author there affirms concerning me is a most notorious untruth and a gross slander For to the best of my knowledge and remembrance no such Book as he there mentions was ever presented to the Vpper House in that or any other Parliament that I ever sate in and if there had I could never have made such a speech as is there pretended seeing I have ever spoken according to my thoughts and alwayes believed that Fable of the Nags-head Consecration to have proceeded from the Father of Lyes as the Authentick Records of the Church still extant which were so faithfully transcribed and published by Mr. Mason do evidently testifie And whereas the same impudent Libeller doth moreover say that what he there affirms was told to many by one of the Ancientest Peers of England present in Parliament when I made this pretended speech and that he is ready to depose the same upon his oath and that he cannot believe any will be so impudent as to deny a thing so notorious whereof there are as many witnesses living as there are Lords and Bishops that were that day in the Vpper House of Parliament c. I answer that I am very unwilling to believe any Peer of England should have so little sense of his Conscience and Honour as either to swear or so much as affirm so notorious an untruth And therefore for the justification of my self and manifestation of the truth in this particular I do freely and willingly Appeal as he directs me to those many Honourable persons the Lords Spiritual and Temporal yet alive who sate in the House of Peers in that Parliament or to as many of them as this my Protestation can come to for a true Certificate of what they know or believe concerning this matter humbly desiring them and charging upon their Souls as they will answer it to God at the Day of Judgement that they will be pleased to testifie the truth and nothing but the truth herein to the best of their knowledge and remembrance without any favour or affection to me at all I cannot reasonably be suspected by any indifferent man of denying any thing that I know or believe to be true seeing I am so shortly in all probability to render an account to the Searcher of hearts of all my words and actions being now at the least upon the Ninty fifth year of my Age and I acknowledge it a great mercy and favour of God that he hath reserved me thus long to clear the Church of England and my self of this most notorious slander before he takes me to himself for I cannot imagine any reason why this shameless writer might not have cast the same upon any of my Reverend Brethren as well as me but only that I being the Eldest it was probable I might be in my grave before this untruth could be taken notice of in the world And now I thank God I can chearfully sing my Nunc dimittis unless it shall please him to reserve me for the like service hereafter for I desire not to live any longer upon Earth then he shall be pleased to make me his instrument to defend the truth and promote his glory And for the more sosolemn and full confirmation of this my Free and Voluntary Protestation and Declaration I have hereunto set my hand and seal this seventeenth day of July Anno Dom. 1658. Signed Sealed published and declared in the presence of Tho. Duresme Tho. Saunders Senior Tho. Saunders Jun. Jo. Barwick Cler. R. Gray Evan Davies 98. Hereunto was added the Attestation of a Publick Notarie subscribed with his hand and Signed with his Notarial mark and Motto in these words I Tobie Holder publick Notarie being requested by the right Reverend Father in God Thomas Lord Bishop of Duresme at the House of Thomas Saunders Esq in the parish of Flamestead in the County of Hertford in the year of our Lord Moneth and Day above specified was then and there personally present where and when the said Reverend Bishop did signe publish and declare this his Protestation and Declaration above written to be his Act and Dead and did cause his Authentick-Episcopal Seal to be thereto affixed in the presence of the Witnesses whose names are there subscribed And did there and then likewise signe publish and declare as his Act and

the Church of Rome might be decided by the doctrine and practice of the Church for the first five hundred years after Christ for that hath been my design in all my writings 9. If I had not believed upon sufficient evidence that the succession of Bishops in the Church of England had been legally derived from the Apostles I had never entred into that high calling much less continued in it thus long And therefore I must here expresly vindicate my self from a most notorious untruth which is cast upon me by a late Romish writer That I should publickly in the House of Peers the beginning of the last Parliament assent to that abominable fiction which some Romanists have devised concerning the Consecrating Matthew Parker at the Nags-head Tavern to be Arch-Bishop of Canterbury for I do here solemnly profess I have alwayes believed that Fable to proceed from the Father of lyes as the publick Records still extant do evidently testifie Nor do I remember that ever I heard it mentioned in that or any other Parliament that ever I sate in 10. As for our Brethren the Protestants of forraign reformed Churches the most learned and judicious of themselves have bewailed their miserie for want of Bishops And therefore God forbid I should be so uncharitable as to censure them for No-Churches for that which is their Infelicity not their fault But as for our perverse Protestants at home I cannot say the same of them seeing they impiously reject that which the other piously desire And therefore I cannot flatter those in this Church who have received their Ordination only from meer Presbyters so far as to think them lawfully Ordained S. Hierom himself reserved to the Bishop the power of Ordination 11. Seeing therefore I have been as I hear so far misunderstood by some among us as to be thought to approve of their Ordination by meer Presbyters because I once said it might be vallid in case of Necessity I do here profess my meaning to be That I never thought there was any such Necessity in the Church of England as to warrant it where blessed be God for it there be so many Bishops still surviving And therefore I desier them not to mistake my meaning in that saying 12. Wheresoever there is a formed Church there must of necssity be some set form of Gods worship Otherwise it will quickly fall in peices as wofull experience hath taught us And of all formes of Gods worship in the whole Church of Christ none in my judgement did ever exceed the Leiturgy of the Church of England both for decency edification and devotion in all the severall offices of it If the Assemblers themselves that first laid it aside could have found any faults in it their modesty was not so great if we may judge of it by their other actions as to have concealed them from the world 13. Having thus far prevented the uncharitableness of others against my self I do here from my heart protest my unfained charity to all the world and more particularly both towards those Papists and perverse protestants whom I have so much endeavovred to undeceive both by my Sermons conferences and writings It was only their errors whereat I was offended I have alwayes loved and pittied their persons and prayed and laboured for the right informing of their minds and the eternall salvation of their soules 14. But yet my common charity to them must not supersede my more particular love and obligation which I have to those truly humble and meek soules in the Church of England and more especially in my own Diocess of Duresme who still stand firm upon the foundation of a sound faith and continue obedient to the doctrine of Gods word and discipline of his Church without wavering either to the right hand or to the left 15. And my earnest exhortation to them is that they would still continue their former affections notwithstanding all temptations to the contrary both to the doctrin disciplin government and form of worship of this poor afflicted Church Which if I did not believe to be the securest way for the salvation of their soules I had not ventured my own upon the same bottom 16. This is the onely Legacy I now can and the best I ever could leave them beside my prayers Wherein I commend them all to the blessing of almighty God and to the glory of his saving grace in Christ Jesus I have appointed two Copies of this my Legacy or Declaration to be written The one whereof I do hereby order to be annexed as a Codicill to my will and the other to be delivered into the hand of my beloved Chaplain Mr. John Barwick to be published in print after my death Both of which I have signed sealed published and declared this 15. day of Aprill in the year of our Lord 1658. In the presence of Tho Duresme Thomas Saunders Iunior John Barwick Cler. Joseph Draper Cler. R. Gray Evan Davies And now you have had His Sermon as well as mine and may see by it he hath not ended his fight though he hath ended his life For by this he hath set a guard upon his memory after his body is in the grave I might in this thing fitly compare him to Abel before the flood who being dead yet speaketh Or to Samson under the Law Who slew more at his death then in his life but only that I have made choyce of St. Paul for the pattern now under the Gospell It is the Gospell rule not to kill but to save With St. Paul to build up the Church of lively stones the soules of men and not with Sampson to pull down the house upon our selves and others To this it was that St. Paul engaged in all his fights both in what he did and what he suffered and in this it was that he was looked upon as a pattern and presedent by this reverend Bishop How many thousand soules the Apostle hath gained even since his death is known only to God And so is it also how many may still be brought in by this crowning act of this deceased Bishop They have each done his part in their severall rank and degree according to the proportion of their abilities And God in mercy will I hope supply the rest both to them and us They have severally fought a good fight they have finished their course they have kept the faith and henceforth is laid up for each of them a crown of righteousness and so there will be for us also if we follow their good example For it is no peculiar reward to them or any other in particular The Lord the rigteous judge 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 will give or render it not only to them but as it followes in my Text to all those that love his appearing To him therefore with the Father and the Holy Ghost three persons and one God let us render as is due all glory honor prayse power thankesgiving and

adoration this day and from henceforth for ever more Amen Amen Amen A SUMMARIE ACCOUNT OF THE HOLY LIFE AND HAPPY DEATH Of the Right Reverend Father in God THOMAS LATE LORD BISHOP of DURESEME Added as a supplement to the Sermon preached at his Funerall By the same Author Eccles 7 1. A good name is better then precious Ointment and the day of Death then the day of ones Birth Claudian Antiquos Evolve duces assursce futurae Militiae LONDON Printed for R. Royston at the Angel in Ivy-lane 1660. The LIFE and DEATH OF THOMAS Lord BISHOP OF DURESME The Preface 1. AS the death of Gods Saints is precious in the sight of the Lord So will the memoriall of their lives also be in the hearing of all that are really his people And of all his Saints none can be more precious to him nor should be to us Then those that are most peculiarly honored with that title by the spirit of God in holy Scripture Those that are by him called unto and imployed in some holy office as well as qualified with Sanctifying grace like Aron who was Gods high Priest and for that reason is emphatically stiled the Saint of the Lord. 2. If there had not been something that is sacred in the office of a Bishop even as it is distinct from the order of Priest-hood the generall councell of Chalcedon could not as we know it did have adjudged it Sacrilege to take down a Bishop to the degree of a Priest And whatsoever that was it was in this person over and above his sanctity of life and sacredness of his other inferiour orders of Ministery in the Church And therefore I may represent this reverend Bishop to the world as a Saint or holy person for his Calling as well as for his life without any prejudice to the truth and thereby oppose that current of Sacrilege which some of late yeares hath much improved who will not allow him the title of a Saint nor none else that is not of their own sect or faction I have already upon another occasion made some short essay of it and this is only to supply what the largeness of the subject and shortness of the time would not then permit me to speak 3. And in this I must disclaim all thoughts of by ends or any other designe then only by asserting the truth to be just to him and charitable to others That neither his enemies may wrong his good name nor his friends want some small preservation of his memory Nor both of them the benefit of his good example 4. I know his charity while he lived had a speciall eye upon his enemies and so shall mine have now he is dead in convincing them also as far as I am able of their great injustice as well as uncharitableness against him and the rest of his Reverend Brethren in vilifying their persons and contemning their sacred function to the high displeasure of Almighty God the great scandal of Christian Religion and the extream hazard of the Church of England by opening so wide a gap to Schisme and Heresy and even Athesme it self 5. How those that so zealously affect the exterpation of Episcopacy can arrogate to themselves the title either of Christians or Protestants is a thing that may justly be questioned seeing Bishops were planted in the Church together with Christianity even by the Apostles themselves as is evident from the concurrent suffrages of all antiquity And that the first Protestants from whom all the rest derive that title did clearly profess in their confession of Auspurgh their willingness to submit to their Bishops even of the Romish Church provided they would not impose upon them such new and unjust burthens as had not been received by the custome of the Catholick Church Which none of our present English Bishops ever did but the quite contrary was objected against them for their greatest crime 6. I know that many of the seduced people have repented of these errours already and I hope the rest may be brought to repentance when they see what persons they were both for life and learning who sustained the office of Bishops at that time when the cunning and malice of the Divell did so unjustly incense the rude multitude against them I shall confine my self to this one instance leaving the rest for others as occasion shall require who was in as great an hazard of his life in one of those tumults as any and yet there was as little objected against him by those that raised them as against any of the rest 7. And in what I say of him I shall keep my self to the exact rule of truth both for his sake and my own and the Readers and the end I cheifly aime at without either flattering his memory or omitting those passages of his life which may cheifly qualify his example for our imitation Only I must beg my Readers pardon if the length of his life and multitude of his imployments and greatness of his learning and christian concealement of much of his piety necessitate me to omit many things I could not learn and pass over somethings I know and fall much below his merit in what I relate for brevities sake 8. Having premised thus much I presume the Reader will expect no Panegyrick but only a bare and that also a short narrative of his life for the information of posterity and conviction of his enemies rather then for any solace to his friends who could not but know him well enough seeing he was a burning and shining light for so great a number of yeares here amongst us And what I say shall for methods sake be reduced to these three heads 1. A plain Narrative of the principall passages in his Life 2. A breif Catalogue of his works 3. A short Character of his person and Qualities CHAP. I. A plain Narrative of the principall passages of his Life 1. HIs Coat armour and pedigree will shew him to be of the same Originall and Stock with that eminent prelate and wise states man John Morton Bishop of Elie and Lord Chancellor of England afterward Arch-Bishop of Canterbury and Cardinall by whose contrivance and management the too Houses of York and Lancaster were united Whereby that issue of blood was stopped which had so long and plentifully flowed within the bowells of this our Native Country And from hence the judicious Reader will conclude his Ancesters could not be obscure at lest since this Cardinals time for such persons as he was seldom left their kindred without some considerable preferments If I were so good an Herald as to trace up his pedigree to those times it is possible it would reach to Thomas or John Morton whom the Cardinall made his Heires as being Sones to two of his Brothers Sure I am that Sir Thomas Morton of Dorsetshire who reckoned his descent from one of them sought him out and acknowledged his kindred and desired his

in these words We were informed and that too truly that our County of Lancashire abounded more in Popish Recusants then any County in England and thus hath still continued to our great regret with little amendment save that now of late in our last riding though our said county we find both by the report of the Judges and of the Bishop of that diocess viz. this reverend Bishop that there is some amendment now daily beginning which is no small content to us 46. Having thus fallen casually upon this declaration it will be requisite to speak more fully of it seeing this reverend Bishop was in a peculiar manner concerned in it And the case was thus It was no small policie in the leaders of the Popish party to keep the people from Church by danceing and other recreations even in the time of divine service especially on holy dayes and the Lords day in the after noon By which meanes they kept the people in ignorance and luke warmnesse and so made them the more capable to be wrought upon by their emissaries Which gross abuse this Bishop endeavered to redress in his primarie visitation 47. But it was represented to King James as a very great greivance at his return out of Scotland through Lancashire Anno. 1617. by some in Court who were too favourable to that partie And his readiness to hear any complaint against a thing that carried but the name of a publick greivance incourraged some to so much boldness the next Lords day after as even to disturb the publick worship and service of God by their piping and dancing within the hearing of all those that were at Church whereof the King being fully informed by this Bishop utterly disavoued any thoughts or intention of encourraging such prophaneness and therefore left them that were guilty of it to the Bishops censure which he inflicted only upon one that was the head and causer of it by way of publick acknowledgement of the fault and penance for it having formerly caused the Piper to be laid by the heeles 48. There wanted not some still to complain to the King of the Bishops proceedings herein as rigourous and tyranicall considering that the chief thing they desired was only some Innocent Recreation for servants and other inferiour people on the Lords day and Holy dayes whose laborious callings deprived them of it at all other times and thereupon to sollicit his Majesty for some favour therein and the rather because it was the generall desire of most of that Country Which the King finding to be true upon enquirie and willing to give them satisfaction therein consulted with this reverend person being the Bishop of that Diocess how he might satisfy their desires without endangering this liberty to be turned into Licentiousness 49. The Bishop hereupon retiring from the Court at Houghton Tower to his own lodging at Preston considered of six Limitations or Restrictions by way of Condition to be imposed upon every man that should enjoy the benefit of that liberty which he presented to the King in writing the next day and which the King did very well approve of and added a seventh saying only he would alter them from the words of a Bishop to the words of a King It is not to be omitted that Bishop Andrewes attended the King at the same time and therefore in all probability was consulted in the same business but all I can positively say in it is what I have here said and this I can positively say because I have often heard it from this reverend Bishops own mouth And upon this it was that King James published his Declaration of May the twenty-fourth in the 16. and 51. year of his Reigne intituled concerning lawfull sports to be used under these following Conditions and Limitations which I think not amisse to insert seeing all of them but one which I think is the first had their originall and first being from this reverend Bishop viz. 50. 1. That all unlawfull games should be prohibited on Sundayes as Beare Bull-bayting interludes and bowling at all times by law prohibited to the meaner sort of people 2. That all such known Recusants either men or women as abstained from coming to Church or divine service shall be barred from this benefit and liberty they being therefore unworthy of any lawfull recreation after the said service that will not first come to Church and serve God 3. All that though conforme in religion are not present at Church at the service of God before their going to the said recreations were also debarred this liberty 4. All such as in abuse of this liberty should use these exercises before the end of all divine services for that day were to be Presented and sharply punished 5. That every person should resort to his own parish Church to heare divine service And 6. that each parish by it self should use the said recreation after divine service 7. And last of all That no offensive weapons should be carried or used in the said times of recreation I have kept my self to the very words of the Declaration as much as I could 51. And he that shall duely consider these restrictions and compare them with the temper of the people in those parts at that time as they were then wrought upon by some emissaries of the Romish partie will easily see and grant that this was in all probability the likest course to bring them to Church to serve God and to be instructed out of his word and consequently to stop the current both of Popery and Profaness by allowing them a small latitude for innocent-recreations thus limitted and bounded 52. I am not ignorant what tragicall exclamations some have raised against the same Declaration when it was reprinted and published a new by our late Gracious Soveraigne whether out of faction and malice to traduce him and the Bishops or ignorance and inadvertencie in not searching into the true state of the question must be left to the searcher of hearts to judge Only this I shall add for the betrer information of the misguided people that setting aside the convenience of republishing this declaration at that time whereof I am no competent judge and which ought not to be measured by the event all the arguments I could ever yet see urged against the Lawfullness of what is permitted by it taking it as it is still and ever was restrained by these limitations and conditions are grounded upon no other bottom for the most part then the bare name of Sabbath as it is applied or misapplyed to the Lords day Which being a question still under dispute among learned men on both sides I shall trouble my Reader no further about it and had not thus far but only to defend this learned Bishop from the calumnies which some may still cast upon him in this particular 53. I shall say no more of him while he was Bishop of Chester but only that the great and unwearied paines he took

Deed another of the same Tenour written in Paper which he signed with his Manual Seal in the presence also of the same witnesses All this I heard saw and therefore know to be done In testimony whereof I have subscribed and thereto put my usual and accustomed Notaries signe Tob. Holder 99. To this Protestation were annexed these three following Attestations from the Bishops Temporal Lords and Clerks The Attestation of the Bishops WHereas we the surviving Bishops of the Church of England who sate in the Parliament begun at Westminster the third day of November 1640. are requested by our Reverend Brother the Lord Bishop of Duresme to declare and attest the truth concerning an Imputation cast upon him in the Pamphlet of that nameless Author mentioned in his Protestation and Declaration here prefixed and whereas we are obliged to perform what he requesteth both for the justification of the truth and for the clearing of our selves of another slanderous aspersion which the same Author casteth upon us as if we had heard our said Reverend Brother make such a speech as is there pretended and by our silence had approved what that Libeller falsely affirmeth was delivered in it we do hereby solemnly Protest and Declare before God and all the world that we never knew of any such Book presented to the House of Peers as he there pretendeth nor believe any such was ever presented and therefore could never hear any such Speech made against it as he mentioneth by our said Reverend Brother or any other much less approve of it by our silence And if any such Book had been presented or any such Speech had been made there is none among us so ignorant or negligent in his duty in defending the truth but would have been both able and ready to have confuted so groundless a Fable as the pretended Consecration of Bishops at the Nags-head out of the Authentick and known Registers of the Church still extant mentioned and faithfully transcribed and published by Mr. Mason so long before For the Confirmation of which Truth and Attestation of what our said Reverend Brother hath herewith Protested and Declared we have hereunto set our hands dated the nineteenth day of July Anno Dom. 1658. Guil. London Will. Bath and Wells Ma. Elie. Ro. Oxon. Jo. Roffens Br. Sarum The Attestation of the Lords Temporal 100. WE of the Lords Temporal whose names are he under written who sate in the Parliament begun at Westminster the third day of November 1640. being desired by the Bishop of Duresme to testifie our knowledge concerning an Imputation cast upon him about a Speech pretended to be made by him in that Parliament more particularly mentioned and disavowed in his prefixed Protestation do hereby Testifie and Declare that to the best of our knowledge and remembrance no such Book against Bishops as is there mentioned was presented to the House of Peers in that Parliament and consequently that no such Speech as is there pretended was or could be made by him or any other against it In witness whereof we have signed this our Attestation with our own hands Dated the nineteenth day of July Anno Dom. 1658. Hertford Dorchester Lindsey Rutland T. Southamton T. Lyncoln W. Devonshire E. Manchester Berkshire Cleveland Monmouth Hen. Dover M. Newport F. Willughbye J. Lovelace The Attestation of the Clerks of the House 101. WE whose names are hereunto subscribed being Clerks in the Honourable House of Peers during the Parliament begun at Westminster the third day of November 1640. who according to our several places and Offices did give continual attendance in the said House and as our duty required did respectively and particularly observe whatsoever was debated and concluded in it do hereby Testifie and Declare that to the best of our knowledge and remembrance no such Book was presented to that honourabe House nor any such Speech made in it by the Reverend Bishop of Duresme or any other as are mentioned and disavowed in his Lordships Protestation and Declaration here prefixed And therefore we have freely voluntarily given this our Attestation for the Confirmation of the Truth of what is affirmed and declared by the said Bishop in his said Protestation In witness whereof we have hereunto set our hands Dated the twenty seventh day of December Anno Domini 1658. Jo. Browne Cleric Parliamentorum Jo. Throckmorton Sam. Smith 102. This is so full a vindication of this Reverend Bishop from this foul aspersion and so clear and honourable an Attestation to the cause of the Church of England in point of Succession that I cannot see what more needs be added to it excepting only this ensuing Certificate out of the Journal of the House of Peers which I must ascribe to the great pains and civility of Mr. Scobel who after a long and diligent search wrote these following words over against the place where the objection is made Page 9. in the Margine of the Book which I have in my custody Upon search made in the Book of the Lords House I do not finde any such Book presented nor any entry of any such Speech made by Bishop Morton Hen. Scobell Clerk of the Parliament 103. And now I speak it unfainedly I know not what N.N. can reply to all these clear Testimonies either in truth or modesty but only by confessing his error If all these persons of Honour and ingenuity after such a solemn charge laid upon them by this pious Bishop to speak nothing but the truth in sincerity must be thought to conspire together in a Lye rather then his Ancient Peer shall incur the suspicion of being mistaken yet the Authentick Record of the proceedings in the Lords House will sufficiently justifie them against that Calumnie Or if on the other side the journal of the House shall be condemned by N.N. either as imperfect or obliterated in this particular yet the Readers even of the Romish perswasion will be satisfied as many of them as will be satisfied with reason that this is a poor and groundless shift when they shall seriously consider these concurrent testimonies of so many persons of all ranks and orders that are most likely both to know the truth and remember it But both of these concurring together will make it as clear as the sun at noon-day that either N. N. or his Ancient Peer is mistaken 104. And hence I conceive it is that N. N. as I here in a late reply which I have not yet seen to the above-mentioned Book of the learned Bishop of Derrie hath not the confidence to deny the truth of what is both there and here testified but only betakes himself to the last reserve of a bad cause downright railing venting all the malice he can upon the innocent Ashes of this deceased Bishop Wherein I shall not gratifie him so much as to make even that return which Michael the Archangel did to him that suggested this Topick to him but rather that which better becomes a Christian and was