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A56398
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A reproof to the Rehearsal transprosed, in a discourse to its authour by the authour of the Ecclesiastical politie.
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Parker, Samuel, 1640-1688.
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1673
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Wing P473; ESTC R1398
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management of their own affairs and all his Epistles to Princes and Prelates were written with the confidence of Papal Decrees You may satisfie your self with a multitude of instances in his Letters to the King Princes and Castellans of Poland to the Prince Elector of the Palatinate to the Church of Strasburgh to the Duke of Wirtenburgh and to the Lantgrave of Hess beside his particular missives and instructions to his Vicar-Generals residing in several Kingdoms and Provinces But to keep more closely to our own concernments by his Letters Patents to the Exiles of Francfurt the English Liturgy was casheir'd to make way for the entertainment of the Order of Geneva and Dr. Cox with his Associates Grave and Reverend Men cum gregalibus suis as he stiles them were rated for endeavouring the establishment of the Liturgy of the Church of England And when Mr. John Hooper Bishop Elect of Glocester had pickt up a quarrel against Caps and Tippets and Gowns and Rochets and Chimeres who forsooth must solicite the Duke of Somerset then the Great Minister of State to have these idle scruples dispensed with in despite of the Customes and Constitutions of the Church but John Calvin Not to mention his Letters to the King to the Arch-Bishop to the Bishop of London to Cecil and to the Lords of the Council in which he very frankly and before his advice is asked makes his exceptions to the English Liturgy and finds fault with many Popish and superstitious Rites and with an Apostolical Authority advises the Lay-Lords to set aside all prudence and worldly wisdom in carrying on the work of Reformation and admonishes the Bishops to strip themselves of all Secular Power and Jurisdiction and charges it upon the Bishop of London in particular as his duty to inform the Queen that she ought not to trust or trouble them with any more Authority than what they might challenge and exercise purely by vertue of their Spiritual Office And all this I suppose to make way for the more easie admission of his Discipline with a great many stories more that I could tell and of which Kings might by the help of their Royal Understandings make excellent use And now after all this it matters not much whether Geneva be scituated upon the South-side of the Lake Lemane or the South-west or the South-west and by West for peace sake I will grant you any point in the Compass though as far as I can learn by Maps and Books of Geography they all inform me that it stands where it alwayes did on the South-side and if they are mistaken it is none of my fault for I am no Traveller and had I been imposed upon in a matter so collateral and impertinent to my main design yet no man that had not been to seek for more material exceptions would ever have attempted to make so much noise and advantage of so small a trifle for though Geneva were removed at as great a distance as Surat and Grand Cairo yet for all that Calvin was an over-busie and pragmatical man and intermedled with several Affairs foreign to his Judicature and out of his Diocess not only before his Advice was asked but after it was refused And therefore I shall not at all concern my self to examine the Debates of your Oecumenical Council about the scituation of Geneva the discourse is suited to the wit and wisdom of the company that consists I suppose of your particular Friends that you so often remember Gilian the Cook-maid and Abigail the Chamber-maid and Mopsa the dry Nurse together with some of your Charing-Cross and Lincolns-Inn-field wits you your self being President for after having condemn'd their remarques for crude and cold conceits after a frown or two with your mouth and some smiling with your forehead they being both perform'd by the same Muscles you gravely determine that it was well and wisely done of me to choose a South-sun for the better and more suddain growth of the bramble It is such an Oracle as if there were not a South-sun on the North as well as the South side of the Lake And thus having finisht your serious counsels you are at leisure to advance to a dance and recreate your self and the company with Anagrams and Acrosticks upon Calvins Name And to confess the truth for I love wit in an enemy Lucianus and Usinulca are very pretty conceits but yet I have heard of an old Elsibeth one that in my poor Opinion is more worth than both of them though I recreate my self with believing that my simple judgment cannot beyond my intention abate any thing of the just value of your wit with others And thus having done you right as you did the Bishop by making you this pious Apology I will venture to let it out and it is Culina for beside the transprosing Wit that is common to it with all Anagrams it is an unhappy Omen to betoken how much his followers should delight in Dripping pan comforts For beside our own experience at home if we may relye upon the relation of your Travels abroad The Presbyterians are in all parts the very Canibals of Capons in so much that if Princes do not take care the Race of Capons is in danger to be totally extinguish'd The Race of Capons man This Geneva certainly is the most breeding soil whatever some Travellers may report of Africa in the whole Universe For who ever heard of any other Climate so fruitful that even Capons are able to propagate their own Race But how should Princes take care lest this Race be totally extinguish'd by the sharpsetness of the Presbyterians when there is no such Race to be found in any Kings Dominions for as I take it ever since the Bishops banishment there has been no King of Geneva His Majesties Curiosity has replenish'd St. James's Park with all sorts of Fowl from all parts of the World but could never yet that I can hear of procure one single Bird of this Capon Race So that I perceive notwithstanding all his great Alliances and Correspondences abroad he has no great interest in the Court of Geneva But you Sir have travel'd those parts and have no doubt contracted acquaintance with the good House-wifes of the Countrey it would be a very considerable piece of service to the Common-wealth in general and to your dear Presbyterian brethren in particular whose mouths you say hang so much Capon-way if you could but help us to some of the Chickens of both Sexes of this Capon-brood I am confident it would be so well accepted both in Court and City that you might easily obtain a Patent for the Monopoly and a Pension for the service Especially when they are of the greatest size of any in the reformed World so that if this race should be totally extinguish'd it might prove of fatal consequence to the Growth and Interest of the reformation in Hungary Transylvania Bohemia Poland Savoy France the Netherlands Denmark Sweden Scotland