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A67904	The life of William now Lord Arch-Bishop of Canterbury, examined. Wherein his principall actions, or deviations in matters of doctrine and discipline (since he came to that sea of Canturbury) are traced, and set downe, as they were taken from good hands, by Mr. Robert Bayley, a learned pastor of the Kirk of Scotland, and one of the late commissioners sent from that Nation. Very fitting for all judicious men to reade, and examine, that they may be the better able to censure him for those thing [sic] wherein he hath done amisse. Reade and judge.; Ladensium autokatakrisis, the Canterburians self-conviction	Baillie, Robert, 1599-1662.	1643 (1643)	Wing B462; ESTC R22260	178,718	164

the pen of his man Pocklingtonne and the like to disgrace them with that stile 6 The English will have the Ministers and people to communicate in both kinds our booke enjoynes the Priest to receive in both kindes but the people onely in due order This due order of the people opposite to the communion of the Priest in both kindes may import the removall of one kinde from the people so much the more may wee feare this sacriledge from their hands since they tell us that our onely ground for communicating of the people in both kindes is stark naught that for this practice there may well be tradition but Scripture there is none Also that in divers cases the ancient Church did lawfully give to the people the bread alone that the Sacrament after the publick communion was oft reserved to be sent to the sick to be taken at private occasions and laid up in the Church in a publicke repository Now it is well knowne and the papists presse this upon us when they would rob the people of the cup that the wine was not sent to the sicke in a farre distance from the Church nor taken home by the people to be used with the bread in the times of straight nor set up in the Church in the Ciboir or Repositorie These changes of the English Liturgy which the Canterburians have made in some few pages lying together of the Scottish service if they be either few or small your selfe pronounce the sentence The last chapter containing the Canterburian maximes of Tyrannie ONe of the great causes of Protestants separation from Rome is the tyranny of the Romish Clergie whereby they presse upon the verie conscience of their people a multitude of their own devices with the most extreame and rigorous censures which can be inflicted either upon bodies or soules And for the more facilitating of their purposes they advance the secular power of Princes and of all Soveraigne Estates above all that themselves either crave or desire alone for this end that their Clerks may ride upon the shoulders of Soveraignty to tread under the feet of their domination first the Subjects and then the Soveraignes themselves How much our men are behinde the greatest tyrants that ever were in Rome let any pronounce when they have considered these their following maximes They tell us first that the making of all Ecclesiastick constitutions doth belong alone to the Bishop of the Diocesse no lesse out of Synod than in Synod That some of the inferiour Clergy may be called if the Bishops please to give their advice and deliberative voyce That the Prince may lend his power for confirming and executing of the constitutions made but for the worke of their making it is the Bishops priviledge belonging to them alone by Divine right 2. That in a whole kingdome the Bishops alone without the privatie of any of the Clergie of any of the Laity may abolish all the Ecclesiasticall judicatories which the standing and unrepealed lawes which the constant customes ever since the reformation had setled and put in their roomenew forraigne Courts which the kingdome had never knowne scarce so much as by their name That at one stroke they may annull all the Acts of three or fourescore Nationall Assemblies and set up in their roome a Book of Canons of their owne devising That they may abolish all the formes used in the worship of God without any question for threescore yeeres and above both in the publicke prayers in the administration of the Sacraments in singing of Psalmes in preaching the Word in celebrating of marriage in visiting the sicke and in ordination of Ministers neither this alone but that it is in their hand to impose in place of these accustomed formes foure new Bookes of their owne of Service of Psalmes of Ordination of Homilies All this our Bishops in Scotland have done and to this day not any of them to our knowledge can bee moved to confesse in that deed any faile against the rules either of equity or justice what ever slips of imprudence there may bee therein And all this they have done at my Lord of Canterburies direction as we shall make good by his owne hand if ever we shall bee so happy as to be permitted to produce his owne authentick autographs before the Parliament of England or any other Judicatorie that his Majestie will command to cognosce upon this our allegeance Readily Rome it selfe cannot be able in any one age to parallell this work which our faction did bring forth in one yeare It is a bundle of so many so various and so heavie acts of tyrannie Certainly England was never acquaint with the like we see what great trouble it hath cost his Grace to get thorow there one poore Ceremonie of setting the Communion Table Altar wayes for there themselves dare not denie that it is repugnant to the established Lawes of their Church and state for any Bishop yea for all the Bishops being joyned to make the poorest Canon without the voyces of their Convocation house or nationall Assembly yea without the Parliaments good pleasure 3. They avow that all their injunctions though so many and so new yet they are so holy and so just that the whole kingdome in conscience mustembrace them all as the commands of God That whoever will be so peart as to affirme in any one of them the least contrariety to the Word of God he must have no lesse censure then the great excommunication from which he must never be relaxed but by the Bishops own mouth after his publick repentance and revocation of so vile an errour That his bodily and pecuniall penaltie shall be at the free-will and discretion of the Bishop That the worthiest men of any liberall profession get favour to lose but their eares to have their nosesslit and cheeks burnt for contradicting their innovations That the furthest banishments for tearme of life is a priviledge which their indulgence may grant but to few That the vilest dungeons irons whippings bread and water chaining to posts without all company day or night in the coldest and longest winters is but a part of their opposers deserving That the greatest Nobles of the Land ought in Law to forfeit their Life and Estate if they be so bold as to put their hand to a supplication unto their gratious Prince against their practices That all this is but just severity and the very expedient meane to advance their cause which they glory hath well neere already close undone their opposites and which they boast shall still bee used But alas it is gone now beyond boasts when they are the second time upon the very poynt to kill millions of the Kings best Subjects to dash together all his dominions in a bloody warre as pitchers one upon another for the confirmation of their intollerable tyranny where long it hath beene tottering and the

examples to prove that Bourton and his like deserved no lesse than publike execution And yet these men are so gentle to Papists that they glorie in their meeknesse towards them professing that to the bitterest of the Jesuites they have never given so much as a course word So Canterburie in his Epistle the other yeare to the King before the relation of the conference God forbid that I should ever offer to perswade a persecution in any kind against the Jesuites or practise it in the least for to my remembrance I have not given him or his so much as 〈◊〉 language King Charles hates all tyranny o His Majesties speech in Parliament 28. p. 75. The peoples liberties strengthen the Kings prerogative and the Kings prerogative is to defend the peoples liberties p Proclamation at York April 25. 1639. We heartily declare and faithfully promise that although wee bee now in armes they shall be no wayes used either to force upon that our native Kingdome any innovation of religion or to infringe any of the civill liberties or the lawes thereof accounting it our glorie to preserve libertie and freedome among them according to their Lawes Therefore wee 〈◊〉 once againe by this renew our former promises for the maintenance of Religion and Lawes and this we doe in all sinceritie of heart we take God the Searcher of all hearts to witnesse that as we are Defenders of the true Protestant Religion which we from our heart professe so we trust we shall by his goodnesse continue in the same and never shall permit any innovation to 〈◊〉 in this or any other of our Kingdomes One of the articles of Dunce pacification is this We are further graciously pleased that according to the Petitioners humble 〈◊〉 all matters Ecclesiasticall shall be determined by the Assemblies of the Church and matters 〈◊〉 by the Parliament and other inferiour Judicatories established by Law which accordingly shall be kept once a yeare or so oft as the affaires of the Church and Kingdome shall require q Cant. relat p. 112. In some Kingdomes there are divers 〈◊〉 of greatest consequence which cannot be finally and bindingly ordered but in and by Parliament and particularly the Statute Lawes which must bind all the Subjects cannot bee made or ratified but there the supreme Magistrate in the civill State may not abrogate Lawes made in Parliament thogh hee may cispense with the penaltie of the Law quoad hic nunc r The which seditious discourse and writing the authors therof intended should bee dispersed as if the same had beene entertained by your 〈◊〉 with purpose to put it in execution and to alter the ancient Laws of this Kingdom and to draw all things to your Majesties absolute will and pleasure and to dispose of your Subjects goods without their consent and to make and repeale Lawes by your Majesties Proclamation only without consent of Parliament which if it should be beleeved by your people could not but raise infinite discontent amongst them the consequence whereof might be of extreme and almost inevitable danger to your Majesties person and to the whole frame of the Kingdome s Bilson of Subjection p. 280. Neither will I rashly pronounce all that resist to be Rebels Cases may fall out even in Christian Kingdomes where people may plead their right against the Prince and not be charged with rebellion As for example if a Prince should go about to subject his Kingdome to a forraine Realme or change the forme of the Common-Wealth from Emperie to Tyranny or neglect the Lawes established by common consent of Prince and people to execute his owne pleasure in those and other cases which might be named if the Nobles and Commons joyne 〈◊〉 to defend their ancient and accustomed libertie regiment and lawes they may not well be counted Rebels Ib. By superiour powers ordained of God we do not meane the Princes private will against his lawes but his precepts derived from his lawes and agreeing with his lawes which though it be wicked yet may it not be resisted by any subject with armed violence but when Princes offer their subjects no justice but force and despise all lawes to practise their lusts not any private man may take the sword to redresse the Prince but if the lawes of the land appoint the Nobles as next to the King to assist him in doing right and withhold him 〈◊〉 doing wrong then bee they licenced by mans law so not prohibited by Gods Law for to interposethemselves for the safeguard of equitie and innocencie and by all lawfull and needfull meanes to procure the Prince to bee reformed but in no case to deprive him where the Scepter is inherited Ibid. pag. 94. Spoiles massacres conspiracies treasons even to the destruction and murther of Princes by their owne servants if a Priest say the word you count in your selves to bee just honourable and godly war if others do but 〈◊〉 on their guard to keep their lives and families from the blinded rage of their enemies seeking to put whole townes and provinces to the sword against all law and reason and to disturb Kingdomes in the minoritie of the right Governours or if they defend their Christian and ancient liberties covenanted and agreed upon by those Princes to whom they first submitted themselves and ever since confirmed and allowed by the Kings that have succeeded If in either of these two cases the Godly require their right and offer no wrong neither impugne their Princes but onely save their owne lives you crie rebellious Hereticks rebellious Calvinists surie frenzie mutinie and I know not what yee may pursue depose murther Princes when the B. of Rome bids you and that without breach of duty law or conscience to God or man as you vant And that when neither life nor limme of you is touched we may not so much as beseech Princes that we may be used like subjects not like slaves like men not like beasts that we may be convented by lawes before Judges not murthered by Inquisitors in corners but incontinent the fume of your uncleant mouth is ready to call us by all the names you can devise The Canterburians flatter the King in much more power than ever he will take And 〈◊〉 him without advice of the Clergy to doe in the Church what he pleaseth t H 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 answer p. 28. What spirit leads you that you are 〈◊〉 with 〈◊〉 Power which men of better understanding than you have given to Princes Ib. p. 32. Princes are Gods deputes of whom should they be limited if ye say by the Laws of the land those themselves have made a prince in 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 is above the lawes though in concreto a just prince will not breake the lawes which himselfe hath promised to observe otherwise wee say of princes Principi lex non est posita that they doe not governe onely by the 〈◊〉 but are above it that he is sure and hath an absolute authority Ibid. p. 〈◊〉 I

reerection of it where it s owne unsupportable weight hath caused it to fall As for the power of Princes the most of those this day who are Christians and especially our gracious Soveraigne are very well content to bee limited within the bounds of the lawes which themselves and their predecessors have setled in the Church and State of their dominions to make the preservation of those Lawes and of their subjects liberties Ecclesiastick and Civill according to them the greatest glory of their prerogative Royall To give assurance of their resolution never to abolish any old or bring in any new act either in church or state without the concurrence of Assemblies and Parliaments Neither to impose any taxation on their subjects goods without their free consent thereto given by their Commissioners in Parliament the extending of the prerogative to the making of new lawes or abolishing of old to the imposing of taxes by simple proclamation without Parliament our Prince doth so farre abhorre that he condemned a certaine writ for importing his Majesties entertainment of such motions yea his Majestie by his Attourney generall called the Earle of Bedford and other noble personages to censure for keeping such a writ wherein did lye so pernicious positions Where some Princes misled through passion and mis-information have deviat so far from the path of justice as to intend by violence and armes the overthrow of the true religion and ancient liberties of their subjects the opposition which the subjects are forced to make in this case against the oppression of their Prince our gracious Soveraigne hath been so farre ever from counting of it rebellion of which crime the greatest royalists in England wont alway to absolve it that his Majestie hath thought meet before all Europe after the example of his glorious Father and renowned predecesrix Elizabeth to give his countenance aid and powerfull assistance to them all when their just grievances and feares were laid out before his Throne If so be King Charles had esteemed the late wars in France of the protestants against their king the present wars of Holland and of the high Dutches against the Spaniard and Emperour an unlawfull defence let be a trayterous insurrection of Subjects against their Soveraignes Weepresuppone his Majesties justice would have beene loath ever to have defiled his Scepter by supporting them all with men and moneyes as oft he hath done and yet doth avow the deed While our gracious prince is so farre inflamed with hatred against all tyranny yet behold this wicked fiction how carefully they goe about by all the meanes they can to draw his royall mind to that which naturally it doth so much abhorre For they tell us first that the power of all true Kings is so simply absolute and illimitate that for any man to reason what they may not is a crime no lesse than treason that they are far above all Law 2. That the Oath which a Prince makes to keepe the Lawes is but a personall deed which cannot oblige his successor that his Oath and promise at his Coronation to keepe the Lawes is to be exponed of his resolution to make his lawes to be keeped by others That all the oathes and promises he makes at his coronation are but of his meere free-will and arbitrement that by them all no true covenant or paction can bee inferred betwixt the King and his subjects 3. That the prince alone is the Law-giver both in Church and State 4. That in matters Ecclesiasticall they themselves alone without the advice of any of the Clergie may lawfully make what Canons they please and compell their Clergie to embrace them 5. That it is a part of the Kings prerogative to have power to impose upon all his Subjects such Confessions of Faith such Liturgies such Canons as he thinks meetest without the advice of any Church Assembly 6. When it is his pleasure to call an Assembly the members of that Ecclesiastick Court are onely such as hee is pleased to call whether of the Clergie or of the Laity 7. That when they are called onely the Princes voyce is decisive the voyce of all the rest at most but consultive or if any of them become decisive it is by the Princes favour or at least permission 8. That Church Assemblies are onely politick Conventions not grounded upon any Divine right and so to bee used or disused as the prince shall thinke expedient 9. That it is in the power of all Soveraignes whether Monarchick Aristocratick or Democratick to appoynt for the government of the Church in their dominions such Officers and Spirituall Courts as they finde most meet and agreeable to their temporall estates to erect Bishops and put downe Presbyteries to erect Presbyteries and put downe Bishops 10. That all this power to conclude every ecclesiastick affaire which can bee subject to the jurisdiction of any ecclesiasticall Synod doth belong alike to all Soveraignes whether Turkish Iewish Pagan Hereticall or Christian and Orthodox Concerning the Kings power in matter of State they teach first that a Parliament is but his arbitrarie Councell which in making or annulling of his Lawes hee may use or not use as hee pleaseth 2. When hee is pleased to call a Parliament it is his due right by his letter to ordaine such Barons to be Commissioners for the Shires and such Citizens to bee Commissioners for Burrowes as hee shall bee pleased to name 3. That hee may lawsully exact when he hath to doe what portion of his subjects goods hee thinks meet and by himselfe alone may make such Lawes for exactions in times to come as seemes to him best 4. That no subject of his Kingdome can have any hereditarie jurisdiction but any jurisdiction that either any of the Nobilitie or any other Magistrate or Officer possesseth they have it alone during his pleasure that at his presence the power of all others must cease and at his death evanish and be quite extinguished till by his successors by new gift it bee renewed 5. That Scotland is a subdued Nation that Fergus our first King did conquer us by the sword and establish an absolute Monarchie for himselfe and his heires giving to us what Lawes he thought meetest 6. That all the Lands in Scotland were once the Kings propertie and what thereof hath beene given out for service yet remaines his owne by a manifold right 7. That to denie any of the named parts of this power to the King is to destroy his Monarchike government to dethrone him and make him no King to subject him to his people and make them his Masters or at least Collegues in the Empire But thankes be to God that our gracious prince hath so oft declared himselfe to bee farre from all such thoughts yea that my Lord of Canterburie himselfe is forced whiles to let drop from

〈◊〉 pag. 19. In Monarchia 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 voluntas de substantialegis est praevia cum populo 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 si utilis imò 〈◊〉 sit 〈◊〉 tamen non est 〈◊〉 cum imperatore 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 dicendum videtur explosis ridiculosis ambiguitatibus verum conditorem interpretem legum esse solum 〈◊〉 ligem legislatoris non 〈◊〉 non ex vi con sensus 〈◊〉 sed ex regia 〈◊〉 viobligantem 〈◊〉 pag. 8. Non 〈◊〉 Juristarum 〈◊〉 qui 〈◊〉 in 〈◊〉 ron obligare legem nisi à 〈◊〉 acceptetur cum mon 〈◊〉 fit legislator lex 〈◊〉 qua lex obliget 〈◊〉 ut ad eam 〈◊〉 dam cogendi fint 〈◊〉 post legis à 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 publicationem temporisque quoad populi notitiam 〈◊〉 sufficientis lapsum potest 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 publica legis observatio praecise ingeri Heylens 〈◊〉 p. 66. The declaration of his 〈◊〉 pleasure in the case of S. Gregorie is to bee extended to 〈◊〉 other cases of the same nature It is a maxime in the civill law Sententia Principis jus dubium declarans jus sacit quoad omnes Item Quodcunque imperator per 〈◊〉 constituit vel 〈◊〉 decrevit legem esse constat Id in his moderate answer pag. 29. Onely these commands of the King are to be refused which are directly against Scripture or include marifest impiety He learned this from his opposite the Lincolneshire Minister pag. 68. I say that al commands of the King that are not upon the clear and immediate inference without all prosyllogismes contrary to acleare passage of the word of God or to an evident Sun-beame of the law of nature are precisely to bee obeyed nor is it enough to finde a remote and possible inconvenience that may ensue f 〈◊〉 Wemius page 23. 〈◊〉 ut civium ad Comitia delegatos non ita absolutè à Baronum vel Civium 〈◊〉 pendere volumus ut non possit Rex quos 〈◊〉 maxime idoneos censuerit eligendos 〈◊〉 praesertim 〈◊〉 pro legibus ferendis 〈◊〉 quae administrationis 〈◊〉 publicae statuendis 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 sunt in quibus liberum denegare regi 〈◊〉 quos 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 quibuscum deliberet sibi in 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 esset ex Rege non 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 statuumque voluntati ad Regiae depressionem eminentiae nimis 〈◊〉 g Joannes Wemius page 19 Omnia fatemur 〈◊〉 in regno sunt regis esse quarex est 〈◊〉 est qua 〈◊〉 regui dominus adeoque qua 〈◊〉 ipsius qua rex est aut publica regni conditio posse regem de 〈◊〉 bonis disponere praesertim ubi omnes in regno terrae in feuda concessae fuerint à rege aliquod penes se dominium retinente Id. p. 17. Licet non de jure omnium bona exigendo tamen dejure in omnes leges ferendo sine omnium consenso statuere potest Montag orig p. 320 Omni lege divina naturali nationali vel politica licite semper reges principes suis subditu tributa 〈◊〉 licitè quoque exegerunt cum ad patriae reipublicae defensionem tum ad ipsorum familiae honest amprocurationem Hanc doctrinam accurate tuetur ecclesia 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 in qua sacerdotes licet magis gaudere soleant debeant immunitatibus tamen frequentius exuberantius libentius quam 〈◊〉 dec marum decimas subsid a annatas primitias 〈◊〉 h Joannes Wemius page 136. Cum regis sit insuo regno judices Magistratus constituere qui ipsius sint in judicando jubendo vicarii potest rex 〈◊〉 judicandique jus ac Mag stratus judicesque constituendt potestatem 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 prout regno utile esse visum ei fuerit abutent 〈◊〉 us auferre nulla 〈◊〉 est sub Rege patr monialis haereditaria jur sdictio Rege solo jurisdictionem tanquim propriam habente aliisque quibus eam non dat sed communicat tanquam depositam 〈◊〉 Igitur non ut terras ita jurisdictionem simpliciter ut loquuntur privative Rex alienare potest nisi Rex esse 〈◊〉 Ibid. page 157. Siiudices sint principum vicarii 〈◊〉 est eorum principe praesente potest as cum solius absentis teneat 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 si quae est alicubi 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 ron nisi jus est judicium regium volente Rege declarandi ut ita ex jud 〈◊〉 ore proferatur Regis sententia Ibid. page 17. In 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 non tam 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 psis quam ass stent bus imperium exercet Rex quandoquidem praesente 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 omnium 〈◊〉 derivata ut fluviorum 〈◊〉 nomen potestas cum in mare 〈◊〉 Ibid. pag. 143. Principis occasu 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 omnium tam 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 quam delagatorum jus Negari non potest tam apud Romanos quam altos in usu suisse ut qui in demortuorum succederent locum reges 〈◊〉 regnorum guberracula capesserent 〈◊〉 iudicumque 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 ut ostenderetur 〈◊〉 regibus nullam esse inferiorum authoritatem 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 tacitè 〈◊〉 i Corbet p. 45. There was no law in the Kingdome of Scotland before 〈◊〉 gave it for 〈◊〉 Fergus his 〈◊〉 wee were 〈◊〉 hominum agreste sine legibus 〈◊〉 imperio Hee and his Successors gave lawes ibid. 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 did conquer us k Corbet p. 25. Fergus his Successours divided the whole land which was their owne and distinguished the orders of men did establish a 〈◊〉 t This is cleare ex 〈◊〉 regiis ubi satis constal regem esse dominum omnium 〈◊〉 directum omnes subditos esse ejus vassallos qui latifundia sua ipsi domino referant accepta sui 〈◊〉 obsequii servitii praemia l Ioannes Wemius p. 18. Quo casu dicerem nonpreprie esse regnum sed ar stocratiam vel democratiam Ibid. p. 23. Hoc esset ex rege non regem cum facere Ibid. p. 38. Quodsi alicubi non habeat rex potestatem leges ferendi nisi ex 〈◊〉 comitiis consensu sic fundamentaliter limitata proprie Rex non est ac non tam acceptans est populus quam cum Rege 〈◊〉 collega legem ferens Ibid. p. 53. Non est imperium illud vere 〈◊〉 sed principatus quidam imperans ille non Monarcha aut Rex sed tantum Princeps ut Venetorum Dux residente in opt matibus aut populo 〈◊〉 summa m Relat. of the Conference pag. The Statute Lawes which must bind all the Subjects cannot be made but in and by Parliament the supreme Magistrate in the civill state may not abrogate Lawes made in Parliament Ibid. pag. 158. Tiberius himselfe in the cause of Silanus when Dolabella would have flattered him into more power than in wisdome he thought 〈◊〉 then to take to himselfe he put him off thus No the Lawes grow lesse when such power enlargeth nor is absolute power to bee used where there may be an orderly proceeding by Law In no imaginable case 〈◊〉 wil have Tyrants resisted n Ioannes Wemius pag. 21. Teneri videtur subditus seipsum fame 〈◊〉 ut principem salvaret propter conservationem boni publici singulis adempta est adversus principem quae naturalis dicitur iuris defensio scu iniuriae depulsio o Canterb relat p. 205. Where the foundations of the faith are shaken by Princes there there ought to be prayer and patience but no opposition by force Aberdeens Duplys pag. 25. The way for all Christian Subiects to conquer Tyrants and the remedy provided in the New Testament against all persecutions is not to resist powers which God hath ordained lest we be damned but with all 〈◊〉 to suffer that we may be crowned It is evident by Scripture that it is unlawfull for Subiects in a Monarchicall estate to take armes for religion or for any other pretence without warrant from the Prince The renow ned Thebaean Legion of 6666 Christian Souldiers without making resistance as they had strength to have done suffered themselves rather to be slaine for their Christian profession by the Officers of Maximinian the Emperours executors of his cruell commandements against them Corbet p. 42. For your examples from reformed Churches since we live not by examples but by 〈◊〉 I will not stand upon them from facts to prove the lawfulnesse of resisting is ridiculous none of those by resisting gained so much as by suffering as experience too late doth thew p 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 pag 29. Such was the doctrine and practice of many other great lights which shined in the 〈◊〉 of Iulian the Apostate and in the dayes of the Arrian 〈◊〉 and Gothick Arrian Kings q Corbet pag. 26. Qui 〈◊〉 Caio 〈◊〉 qui Augusto ipse 〈◊〉 qui 〈◊〉 vel patri vel filio 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 ne per 〈◊〉 ire 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 qui Constantino Christiano ipse apostatae Iuliano Ibid. pag. 36. If the Iewes in the dayes of Assuerus had beene of this new Scottish humour when an utter extirpation was intended by Haman both of themselves and theirreligion they would have taken armes but their prayers and teares were their defence in their greatest 〈◊〉 What they give to Kings is not for any respect they have to Maiestie but for their owne ambitious and 〈◊〉 ends r Ioannes We 〈◊〉 in his preface to the Duke of Buckingham Reges in 〈◊〉 sortem transcripti cute 〈◊〉 tenus homines reipsa boni genii censendi sunt in quos ut bumanos Ioves divini honoris 〈◊〉 pene consortes oculos animosque nostros desigi convenit Tu Heros nobilissime coruscas velut inter ignes Luna minores quem in 〈◊〉 augustioris gloriae 〈◊〉 divina prorsus virgula constitutum nemo potest dissiteri s Smart Sermon pag. 1. M. Couzins uttered these trayterous speeches in an open and affirmative manner that the Kings Highnesse is no more supreme head of the Church of England than the boy that rubs his horse heeles and this as we are credibly informed hath beene proved against him by the 〈◊〉 of two sufficient witnesses t 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 supra cap. ult A. w 〈◊〉 supra cap. 3. O. x Montag supra cap. tertio z