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A16612	A briefe censure vpon the Puritane pamphlet entituled, (humble motyves, for association to maintayne religion established.) Reprooving of it so many vntruthes, as there be leaues in the same.		1603 (1603)	STC 3519; ESTC S116908	31,775	92

are become dennes of theeues and serpents The names of Arch-bishops Bishops Arch-deanes Deanes and such be Dyabolicall No signe of the Crosse or memory of mans Redemption may be vsed Assoc pag. 39. and whatsoeuer religeth a man to God must not be remembred vnder their curse for superstition If we put these people into ballance with the idolatrous Gentiles Turkes Iewes and Brachmans it is euident by al writers that although those Infidels doe erre in true Religion yet they maintayne forged Priesthoods Sacrifices and other tokens of Reuerence to keepe in seare of a diuine Maiesty all which thinges be wanting in this Puritane hauing no one positiue or affirmatiue opinion concerning worshippe And so for Religion and binding of men to God haue brought in a plaine priuation of those duties irreligion and a freedome to all liberty and vndutifulnesse both to God and man THE VI. VNTRVTH IN THE sixt worde established IT is euident by the whole discourse of this Religious Associator and so hee rearmeth himselfe in diuers places that he is a Puritane and laboureth to settle that same profession as he bewrayeth in plaine tearmes Pag. 19 And yet who knoweth not but Puritanes be condemned at the least as before in 32. questions by that Religion which is setled in England Admonit Purit Com. B Parl. 5. et 13. Elizab. as their owne Admonition the Communion booke and Parlaments themselues are witnesse against them Therefore this Innouator seeketh not to associate to maintayne any Religion setled but to settle his own vnsetled sect THE VII VNTRVTH THE seauenth foule and flattering Vntruth is two leaues longe as though Puritanes were the most loyall louing and obedient subiects which her Majestie hath and in respect of them neither Councell Nobility Bishops or any other were dutifully carefull of her preseruation But Sr because you pretend you selfe so dutifull a Subiect to our Soueraigue and regardfull of reuerence to the English Protestant Clergy and that Religion which they professe you will giue me licence to vtter in a fewe wordes the true allegeance and loue which your reformed Seignorie and eldership beareth vnto them For except this affection be knowne to bee excellent in your Society you will not bee worthy to be admitted to such exempted fauour with our Queene and her Bishops to whome you write Then I will condemne you by your owne sentences to be vndutifull to her Maiesty our Queeene moste malitious to her Clergy and deuoted Aduersaries to their Religion for whose maintenance you counterfeite desire of Assoctations And to exemplifie what forreigne Religion is so gratious in your eies as that of Geneua Admonit parl in fin Repl. Admon Parl. tract 20. and other Churches there abouts which you call for that reason resormed your Admonition to the Parlament approoueth the Presbitery of Scotland and the French Puritanes so farre that you propose them for example of imitation to England your owne writings I hope you will not deny And if you forsake Caluin and Beza your Fathers and dearest friends you are discredited for euer Then to begin with them first which I named last let the Reader iudge vvhether our Soueraigne her Arch-bishops Bishops with the rest of the Parlament Ministery and their Religion so contrary vnto Puritanes liue in security be honoured by this people Concerning Princes which be not of Caluins purity he vseth these wordes Caluin in Da. c. 6. v. 22.25 c. They spoile themselues of all authority yea they are vnworthy to bee accounted in the number of men and therefore we must rather spit vpon their heades then obey them And touching the English Communion booke which is the rule of Parlament Religion hee calleth it fooleries Stat. 1. Eliz Surn of hol disc Beza epist ded nou test an 1564. et epist ad Episcop Ebor Beza euen in his Epistle to her Maiestie of England defendeth Rebellion against Princes of a different Religion and honoureth such as bee slaine in such quarrels with the glory of Martyrs And in his Epistle to a Protestant Bishop of England condemneth the exercise of their Religion The reformed Churches of France holde the same sentence both concerning King and worship in their 39. Article Congreg artic 39. Articul Puri Scon Two of the chiefest Articles of the Scottish Puritanes be these 1. Bishops and Archbishops haue no authority their very names and titles be Antichristian and Diabolicall 2. It is heresie for any Prince to call himselfe heade of the Church But he may be excommunicate and deposed of his ministers And to come to English Puritanes and the Consistory of your Eldership and reformed Scignorie the chiefest Patron thereof T. C. is knowne to be an ancient and mortall enemy to the present Arch-bishoppe of Canterbury and is farre from allowing the Titles names dignities and authority of him or any Bishop Deane high Commissionor or other by her Maiesties proceedings that as the same Arch-bishoppe hath gathered to my handes T. C. in repl to the ans of the Admonit I. whitgift prefat to the ans to the Reply of T. C. T. C. in Repl. in fin Confes c. 18. T. C. repl pag. 5. T. C. pag. 144. he wil not allowe him the dignity of a Doctor but Ironice and scoffingly after your manner calleth him M. Doctor 370. times at the least in one litle book And telleth vs that the equality of Ministers is consirmed by the sentence of the Puritanes of Heluctia Tygurine Berne Geneua Polmia Hungary and Scotland with others And although you to slatter the Protestant Arch-bishops and Bishops of England woulde bring your disagreement from thē toceremonies yet he desendeth that the doctrine of the English Protestants is such that Puritanes are bound to deny it with losse of as many liues as they haue haires on their heades And for reuerence and duty to our Soueraigne denounceth by his Euangelicall preeminence against all Protestant Princes which will not be Puritanes and embrace their Presbitery that to vse his own wordes They must submit their Scepters and throwe downe their Crownes before the Church of their Eldership and licke the dust of their feete The highest cathedrated sentence of your Admonition written in all your names rayleth at the Protestants affirming your contentions to be but Ceremonies But I will alleadge the wordes of that holy worke both for your confusion in this and all other your wicked practises in this Association These they be Lordy Lordes Arch-bishops Bishoppes Prefat Admon Parl. Admonit tra 2.3 c Suffraganes Deanes Doctors Arch-deacons Chauncellors and the rest of that prowde generation whose Kingdome must downe Titles liuings and offices of Metrapolitane Arch-bishop Lordes grace Lordshippe Suffrragane Deane Arch-deacon were denised by Antichrist and are plainely in Christs worde forbidden and are vtterly with speede to be remooued Prefat Admonit supp But in a few wordes to say what we meane either must wee haue a right ministerte of God and a right

gouernment of his Church according to the Scriptures set vp both which we lacke or else there can bee no right Religion nor yet for contempt thereof can Gods plagues be from vs any while deserred Wee in England are so farre from hauing a Churche rightly reformed according to the prescript of Gods word that as yet we are not come to the outward face of the same Admonit tract 10. Tract 11. In the booke of Common prayer a great number of thinges contrary to the worde of God are conteyned Except they yeeld not onely Gods instice shall be powred forth but also Gods Church in this Realme shall neuer bee builded The way therefore to auoide these inconueniences and to reforme these deformities is this to remooue Aduousons Patronages Impropriations Bishops authority You must plucke downe without hope of restitution the Court of Faculties remooue Homilies Articles Con. Lon. anno 1562. Parl 5 Eli. Booke of articles c. Tract 17. admonit this is the Book where the summe of Englishe Protestant doctrine is allowed Iniunctiōs the Queenes spirituall laws a prescript order of scruice the Communion booke take away the Lordship the loytering the pompe the idlenesse and liuings of Bishops c. In steede of Chauncellors Arch-deacons Officials Commissaries Proctors Doctors Admonit tract 18. Sumners Church-wardens and such like you haue to place in euery congregation a lawfull and godly Seignorie The Lord Bishops their Suffraganes Arch-deacons Chauncellors Officials Proctors Doctors Sumners Tract 18. sup and such rauening Rablers take vpon them which is most horrible the rule of Gods Church The Archbishops Court is the filthy Quauemire and poysoned Plashe of all the abbominations that doe infect the whole Realme Neither is the Controuersie betweene them and vs as they would beare the worlde in hand as for a Cap a Typpet Addit Admonit Admonit Parl. Tract 20. or a Surplesse but for greater matters concerning a true Ministery and Regiment of the Church according to the worde To these three ioyntly that is the Ministers Seniors Deacons is the whole Regiment of the Church to be cōmitted Hitherto be the wordes of that holy Puritane sentence And that it may be manifest what their loyalty and loue is to our Soueraigne her Bishops and their proceedings both in temporall and Religious affaires making no exception at all Tract 23 either of Queene councell Bishoppe or whatsoeuer except poore ignoraunt soules they bestowe their holy blessing vpon all which will not allowe of their Admonition and holy Eldershippe in these tearmes following God confound them that his peace may be vpon Israell his saumg health vpon this Natiō Now let the Reader iudge whether these men seeke Associations to preserue her Maiesty her State and Religion or no or whether they intende so great loue and duety to the Protestant Bishops as is glosed in this Pamphlet or that no kinde of Subiect is so carefull as they to preserue the honour and quiet of our Kingdome Let vs now see whether this be true or no. Philosophers and Diuines teach that to loue is velle alicui bonum to wishe good to the beloued then by how much more good is wished by so much the loue is greater lesse when lesse good is desired and where no good but euil is wished Pa. 1 lin 4. it is hatred This Pamphletor himselfe acknowledgeth in the fourth line of his worke that 3. things in duety are to be exhibited by the Subiects to the Magistrates that is Honor Obedience and Defence Then who hath performed these duties to our Soueraigne none but Putitaine call honour is temporal or spirituall the first is most dutifully yeelded of all both Protestants and Catholicks of spirituall honour the Catholicks make distinction and are disliked chiefly for that opinion But this Puritane friend absolutely denyeth the secōd and speaketh doubtfully of the first As for spiritual honor the case is euident in al their assertions And towching the terrene honour of a Princesse Goodm li. demonstr Regim muher was not Goodman in the time of Q. Mary a Geneuean Puritane and yet he tearmed the temporall regency of a woman Monstrosum Regimen A Monstrous Regiment And this was the doctrine of his consorts and practises of their Disciples Stowe hist in Q. Mary Groft c. For who were they which laboured so much to depose not onely that Catholicke Queene but our present Soueraigne No man will say that they were Catholickes therfore I say and prooue that they were Geneuean Puritanes our English Parlament Protestancie then not being established or knowne but diuers yeares after in these dayes Iacob Rex Scot. in li. Regin ad fil Are not the Ministers of Scotland Puritanes then aske the King himself if the booke of Regiment published in his name did come from him how full of honour obedience and defence this people is in that country he complaineth of them aboue all others in desect of these duties Petr. frar or cont sectar Staphil apolog fixe to 2. Mon. test tr ordin Burg in remonst sup edict Reg Gal. pare 2. Defens Reg. Relig. Were not Caluin Beza Spiphanius Othomanus the Swizerland French Hugonites Puritaines yes and be so accounted in England And yet what Councels Consistories did they keepe to depose Kings Princes what base and tyranicall Vsurpers did they erect what lawfull Magistrate in Fraunce was not deputed by them to death Who haue more turbulently behaued them selues in these times then this deceitfull and lying Sect. What Libels Admonitions threatnings chalendges hath this people made againste Queene and all kinde of magistrates especiallie the Protestant Bishops and ministerie with whom they would now in words be associated Demande an hundred sooleries of Martin Marprelate this Writer and his companions This is the honor and obedience they vse and defence whiche I feare they would exercise if it came to tryall Let them examine Catholiks by theyr owne Rule of rendring dutie of honor obedience and defence They were Catholickes which first crowned her with honor they were Catholiks which obeyed her when they were powerable to be disobedient Then by all presumption Catholickes will euer defend her And I trust with our prudent Princesse and Councell the malitious inuentions falsehoods of Puritans to aduance them selues nor the lewde slander of any Apostata to excuse his impietye will be admitted against the consciences of so many Religious Priests and Iesuites renouned in al parts of the christiā world protesting euen with daylie dangers and death it selfe theyr Innocencie in these affaires THE VIII VNTRVTH THIS Pamphletor affirmeth that the estate of our Soueraigne is dangerouslye impeached with the Perill of her Person by the indeuour of Papists to bring in the Superiority Supremacie of a Forraigne Prelat c. I meruaile where this man learned his consequences Is the Superioritie and Supremacy of Pope or any forraigne Prelate only exercised in