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A79473	Chillingworthi novissima. Or, The sicknesse, heresy, death and buriall of William Chillingworth. (In his own phrase) Clerk of Oxford, and in the conceit of his fellow souldiers, the Queens arch-engineer, and grand-intelligencer. Set forth in a letter to his eminent and learned friends, a relation of his apprehension at Arundell, a discovery of his errours in a briefe catechism, and a shorr [sic] oration at the buriall of his hereticall book. By Francis Cheynell, late fellow of Merton Colledge. Published by authority.	Cheynell, Francis, 1608-1665.	1644 (1644)	Wing C3810; Thomason E36_7; ESTC R13256	46,148	66

shame work not feare may the same feare which falls upon the men of Northumberland the feare of a Scottish Reformation I will not listen at the doore of your Iunto to heare what newes nor will I peepe into your pretended Parliament no nor into Merton Colledge for feare I should see some sights like those in the eighth of Ezekiel some with their backs towards the Temple of the Lord and their faces towards the East and if I should look farther one that is no Prophet tells me that I may see greater abominations then these Sir I beseech you keepe downe your staffe but if you will hold it up as Eurybiades did I must cry as Themistocles did {non-Roman} {non-Roman} {non-Roman} {non-Roman} {non-Roman} strike if you please yet heare me or at least heare what the Prophet saith to me doth he not speak of you Then hee said unto me Hast thou seene this O sonne of man Is it a light thing to the house of Iudah that they commit the abominations which they commit here for they have filled the Land with violence and have returned to provoke me to anger and lo they put their branch to their nose Therefore read and tremble at the rest Come come away with this learned Atheisme your Iudge looks upon you the searcher of hearts and discoverer of secrets is acquainted with all your plots The Lord sees what the Ancients of Oxford doe in the dark every man in the chambers of his imagery the Lord heares what you say O doe not say as the Ancients of Israel said The Lord seeth us not the Lord hath forsaken the earth I am afraid that you have the same temptations at Oxford which were presented to Origen an Ethiopian woman and an Idoll he was you know put to this unhappy choice to commit folly with which he pleased Some lust as mnch after idols as others doe after women if in these dayes of liberty you restraine from neither you doe in effect tempt to both and are the grand seducers of the hopefull Gentry but alasse you are guilty of a more ambitious wickednesse it is your study to seduce a King I remember an old story of King Canutus who as the Chronicler relates took off the Crowne from his owne head and set it upon the Crucifixe at Westminster But tell me you that have read some Italian Jesuite more subtile then the Politicians Saint Saint Machiavel doe you conceive that you can perswade our King to take off his Crowne from his owne head and place it upon your idoll the Queene or her idoll the Crucifixe at Oxford We have none at Westminster Well plot on my Masters and walke in the light and warmth of that fire which you have kindled but heare what the Prophet saith Behold all you that kindle a fire and compasse about your selves with sparkes walke in the light of your fire and in the sparks which you have kindled This shall ye have of mine hand ye shall lay downe in sorrow Pardon our just feare if we dare not say a confederacy to all those Welch Atheists Irish Rebels bloudy Papists of the French or Spanish faction to whom you say A confederacy Associate your selves together you know what followes take counsell together in your pretended Parliament and it will be brought to nought enact and pronounce a decree imagine mischiefe as a Law yet you shall not prosper for God is with us I know you urge the 13 to the Romanes to justifie your royall cruelty but you know what Chrysostome and many others have said upon that place But I shall onely aske you one queshion with which I stopped your friend Chillingworths mouth be pleased to answere it Doe you beleeve that Tyrannie is Gods ordinance I ever held it a violation of Gods ordinance and whether the supreme Judicatory of the Kingdome may not repell that force with force which would violate Gods ordinance judge ye for it is absurd to talke as Doctor Ferne doth of a morall restraint in such a case Sure I am the Parliament hath power to raise an Army to preserve Gods ordinance inviolable when it cannot be preserved by any other meanes They doe certainly resist Gods ordinance who seeke to violate it You endevour to violate it We to preserve it who is in the fault I have examined your great Champion Doctor Ferne his three bookes and cannot finde any thing in them whereby the conscience of an impartiall Scholar may be fully resolved or satisfied It is very impertinent in my weake judgement to talke of the priviledges of the Kings of Judah who were immediately elected by God or to discourse of the power of the Romane Emperour or the first draughts of Government in the Saxon and Norman lines for Doctor Ferne doth acknowledge that it is not injurious to his Majesties posterity that the King sweares to a limited power a power limited by priviledges and immunities granted or restored to the people since the conquest which priviledges grants liberties though not originall yet are they irrevocable Doctor Ferne distinguishes betweene the Title of the King and the Power of the King but wee did never so much as once question his Majesties Title whether it be limited or no It is confessed that his power and therefore much more the exercise of his power is limited by the Priviledges of the Parliament the immunities of the Subject and the Kings owne oath Nay it is acknowledged that the two houses of Parliament are in a sort co-ordinate with his Majesty to some act or exercising of the supreme power by a fundamentall constitution Truely here is in my judgement so much granted that the rest need not be disputed But what if these powers be divided and clash one against the other why then the power is not fully in King or Parliament for the power which is in the three Estates is suspended whilest one part suspends So Doctor Ferne Give me leave to aske him and you whether the power of the Militia be not in the three Estates as well as the power of making Lawes if it be not then sure the power of making Lawes is to no purpose because they have no power to defend or enforce I aw and if the power of the Militia be in the three Estates then the Kings power of levying arming men c. is suspended by the severall Ordinances of Parliament for it is Doctor Fernes conclusion that the power which is in the three Estates is suspended whilest one part suspends Ergo much more if two Estates suspend But on the other side I desire Doctor Ferne to shew how the Kingdome is secured by the government of three Estates if the two houses of Parliament have not sufficient power to preserve the King and the Kingdome in case the King refuse to preserve it or him It is unreasonable saith Doctor Ferne that the supply should be made by the body onely without the head nay

to imply that God is angry for them Answ to the Preface p. 19. Qu. May a man goe constantly to Masse and be saved Ans. Yes if he bée devout at it for that he meanes by a godly Lay-man if he bée strongly perswaded that there is no impiety or superstition in the use of the Latine service Answ to the Preface p. 9. sect. 7. It seems there is no fault in the Masse but that it is in Latine Qu. What profit might be gained by the Masse-book if it were in English Ans. Much devotion instruction edification salvation in the place forecited Was not this a stout Champion chosen by Canterbury on purpose not to confute but harden Papists and seduce Protestants Qu. What are the causes of errour Ans. Negligence in séeking truth unwillingnesse to find it pride obstinacy a politique desire that that Religion should be true which sutes best with my ends feare of mens ill opinion or any other worldly feare or worldly hope these seven betray men to and kéepe men in damnable errours p. 158. It is one of the most honest passages in his book Brethren let us beware of these motives Qu. What kinde of man was Knot Ans. One that went about to delude his King and Countrey with strange captions Sure Mr Chillingworth and hee were both of a make read 117. Qu. How may a King usurp an Absolute Lordship and Tyranny over any people Ans He néed not put himself to the trouble and difficulty of abrogating Lawes made to maintaine common liberty for he may frustrate their intent and compasse his own design as well if he can get the power and authority to interpret them as he pleases and to adde to them what he pleases and to have his interpretations and additions stand for lawes if he can rule his people by his Laws and his Laws by his Lawyers p. 51. cap. 2. I think our Iudges followed his directions in the point of Ship-money Qu. What weapons of warfare may be justly called carnall Ans. Massacres Treasons Persecutions and in a word all meanes either violent or fraudulent p. 52. God grant that the Irish forces which land daily doe not make us as well acquainted with this warfare in England as they are in Ireland Qu. What obedience doe we owe to the lawes and judgements of Courts Answ. Onely externall obedience not internall approbation p. 97. Qu. If I disapprove the judgement of any Court am I bound to conceale my owne judgement Ans. No I may lawfully professe my iudgement and represent my reasons to the King or Common-wealth in a Parliament as Sir Thomas Moore did without committing any fault p. 97 Why then are men so much blam'd for professing their judgement against some things which seeme to be established by Law and representing their reasons to the Parliament and why did not Master Chillingworth yeeld externall obedience to the Common-wealth of England in this Parliament for who can deny that the Common-wealth of England is assembled in this Parliament Qu. May not a Court which pretends not to be infallible be certain enough that they judge aright Answ. Yes our Iudges are not infallible in their iudgements yet are they certaine enough that they iudge aright and that they procéed according to the evidence that is given when they condemne a thiefe or a murtherer to the Gallowes p. 140. Now Reader judge Master Chillingworths workes my proceedings and this Treatise according to the evidence given and thinke an implicite faith in thine owne reason almost as bad as implicite faith in the Church or Pope of Rome I conclude all as Doctor Fern concludes his last booke The God of Power and Wisdome cast out all Counsels and defeat all Designes that are against the restoring of our Peace and the continuance of the true Reformed Religion Amen Soli Deo gloria FINIS Dr. Bayly Dr. Prideaux Dr. Fell {non-Roman} {non-Roman} {non-Roman} {non-Roman} {non-Roman} {non-Roman} {non-Roman} {non-Roman} {non-Roman} {non-Roman} Ezek. 8. 16. Ezek. 8. 17. 18. Isa. 50. ult. Isa. 8. 9 10. Vbi jus humanum naturale vel divinum arma e●pere jubet ibi juris autoritas intervenit etiamsi expressa voluntas principis non accedat Biel. 4. Sent. q. 4. Dr Ferne his 2. book p. 33. Dr Fern ib. p. 27 Dr Ferns 2. book p. 6. Book 2 p. 34. Book 2. p 28. Book 2. pag. 6. 2 Book p. 28. Ib. ubi supra 2 Book p. 16. Iudg. 9. 24. * Ac ne maledicis verborum in eos uti conviciis arguamur causam perditionis publicae ne cuiquam ignota sit non tacemus Hilar. contra Arian p. 214 Iudg. 9. 19 20 23 and 57 verses a Nec Plancus illepide cum diceretur Asinius Pollio orationes in eum parare quae p●st mortem Planci ederentur ne resp●ndere posset cum mortuis non nisi larvas luctari quo apud erud tos nihil impudentius judicatur Plin. Praefat. Hist. Natural * Scilicet esse oportet Marii reliquiat dissipari jussit acerbiore odio quàm si tam sapiens suisset quàm vehemens fuit Cicero de L●g Consulas Histor. de vita obitu Buceri Tertul. in Apolog. Synod Eliber Can. 34. 37. Vigilantius cum Synodo praedict. illam gentilium consuetudinem damnavit Prope inqu●t Vigilantius ritum gentil●um videmus sub praetextu religion●s introductum in Ecclesias Dei Sole ad●us fulgente moles cereo●um accendi Hieron. ad Vigilant cap. 2. Virgil En●id Videsis Greg. Naz. Orat. in laudem Gorgor Comment. in Iob vulgo ascripta Origeni lib. 3. Ambros. de Valent Gratiano disser●n Beati ambo si quid meae orationes valebunt nulla dies vos silenti● praeteribit nulla inhonoratos vos mea transibit oratio nulla nox non donatos aliquâ precum mearum contextione transcurret c. Ambros. de obitu Valentiniani Imperatoris Gen. 50. 7 9 and 14 verses Dr Vsher his answer to the les●ites Challenge upon the Argument of prayer for the dead {non-Roman} {non-Roman} {non-Roman} {non-Roman} {non-Roman} Chrysost. Hom. 4. in epist. ad Heb.

if in the midst of these distresses the Souldiers breake forth into a mutinous flame and set all their fellowes in a combustion must the Engineer bee blamed if the Castle be surrendred in such a case Now I appeale to their Councell of Warre whether their case were not so like to these cases which have beene put that it is hard to say wherein they differed Let not then Master Chillingworth be charged with more faults then he was guilty of I cannot but vindicate his reputation from all false aspersions which are cast upon him by some who know not how to excuse themselves I tooke all the care I could of his body whilest he was sicke and will as farre as he was innocent take care of his fame and reputation now he is dead nay whilest he was alive I tooke care of something more precious then his health or reputation to wit his precious and beloved soule for in compassion to his foule I dealt freely and plainly with him and told him that he had been very active in fomenting these bloudy warres against the Parliament and Common-wealth of England his naturall countrey and by consequent against the very light of nature I acknowledge saith he that I have beene active in these warres but I have ever followed the dictates of my conscience and if you convince me that I am in an errour you shall not finde me obstinate I told him I conceived that he might want sleep being at that time newly come out of the Castle and therefore I gave him time to refresh himselfe and when I came to him againe I asked him whether he was fit for discourse he told me yes but somewhat faintly I certified him that I did not desire to take him at the lowest when his spirits were flatted and his reason disturbed but had much rather undertake him when he was at the highest because I came prepared to receive satisfaction and looked upon my selfe as unlikely to give satisfaction to one whom I acknowledged so much above mee in regard of his parts gifts experience he having studied bookes and men and more accurately discussed that question of State then ever I had done He then told me that he was pretty well refreshed and as able as he used to be in these times of distraction for any discourse about that great controversie of State He desired me to begin I satisfied his desire and told him that it would be very requisite in the first place to state the Question aright for as I conceived many ingenious men were grossely mistaken even in the very state of the Question First then be pleased quoth I to consider that the originall difference was not between the King and the Parliament but between the Parliament and Delinquents and indeed betweene the Queen and the Parliament I told him that hee could not be ignorant that upon the fourth of January two yeares agoe the King went unto the Parliament upon the Queens errand and I beleeved that he knew better then I how much the Queen was discontented because her bloody designe was not put in execution He told me that he could not deny it and he would not excuse it When I was going on to discourse about other matters of fact he confessed very honestly that he did now perceive that they had no certaine information of matters of fact at Oxford whereby I perceived that it was no wonder that so many brave men were seduced to fight against the Parliament Vpon further discourse he told me that he observed a great deale of piety in the Commanders and Souldiers of the Parliaments Army I confesse sath he their discourse and behaviour doth speake them Christians but I can finde little of God or godlinesse in our men they will not seeke God whilest they are in their bravery nor trust him when they are in distresse I have much adoe saith he to bring them upon their knees to call upon God or to resigne themselves up to God when they goe on upon any desperate service or are cast into any perplexed condition I liked him well when I heard him run on so fluently to this effect and I closed with him and desired him to tell me freely whether in good earnest he thought the Parliament did intend any thing else then the taking of the wicked from before the King the establishing of the Kings throne in justice the setting up of Christs ordinances in power purity liberty and the setling of the knowne lawes of the land the priviledges of the Parliament and liberties of the subjects in quiet and peace Sir saith he I must acknowledge that I doe verily beleeve that the intentions of the Parliament are better then the intentions of the Court or of that Army which I have followed but I conceive that the Parliament takes a wrong course to prosecute and accomplish their good intentions for warre is not the way of Iesus Christ Truely I was ashamed to dispute with him any longer when he had given me so much advantage For first he clearly condemned himselfe for being confederate with them whose intentions were destructive because no man must promote an ill designe by any meanes whatsoever be they never so lawfull Secondly he confessed himselfe cleane out of his way when he was in Armes for warre saith he and he learnt to say so of the Anabaptists and Socinians is not the way of Iesus Christ all that he could say for himselfe was that he had no command in the Army and yet their greatest Officers told me that in a true construction there was no man else that had a command to any purpose but Master Chillingworth And as touching their intentions it is no hard matter to guesse at the intentions of the French and Spanish faction at Court or the Irish intentions of the Papists Prelates Delinquents c. that follow the Queens Army I am sure one of the Captains that was taken Prisoner at Arundell had a Spanish head a French nose and an Irish heart And there was a Letter found in Arundell-Castle which was directed to Master Beckingham the Earle of Arundels Receiver which doth declare the good intentions of the Queens Army I took a copy of it which I will here transcribe word for word Good Mr Beckingham I Doubt not but you are acquainted with the generall and voluntary contribution of the whole Catholikes of this Kingdome both to declare the true affection of their hearts towards his Majesty in this as in all other occasions as also to exhibite such aid as their estates doe afford to assist his Majesty in this present businesse which doth concerne each one in particular The monies which the Catholikes are to give must be presented this Terme and therefore I entreat you that you will be pleased that what your liberality will bestow in so good a cause you will cause it to be delivered to me in London and I shall give an account thereof to such as it doth concern and