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A25601	An Answer to the Lord George Digbies apology for himself published Jan 4, Anno Dom. 1642 put in the great court of equity otherwise called the court of conscience, upon the 28th of the same moneth / by Theophilus Philanax Gerusiphilus Philalethes Decius.	Decius, Theophilus Philanax Gerusiphilus Philalethes.; Bristol, George Digby, Earl of, 1612-1677. Lord George Digbie's apology for himself.; Bristol, George Digby, Earl of, 1612-1677. Two letters, the one from the Lord Digby, to the Queens Majestie ; the other from Mr. Thomas Elliot.; Elliot, Thomas.	1642 (1642)	Wing A3421; ESTC R8961	70,751	74

be a man that hath taken the Protestation hath not given as much cause of suspicion of his having violated that part of it wherein he in the presence of God vowed to maintain and defend the Kings Honor a word not to be found in the oathes of Supremacie or Allegiance by charging the Cavaliers to have thought to have circumvented part of the Earle of Essex Army and to have forced their passage through their quarters and to have seised on all the Ordnance and Ammunition in the Earles Army then at Hammersmith by breach of faith For that parenthesis reflecteth full upon the Kings Honor and being written after His Majesty hath given as to me it seemeth ample and full satisfaction to that fowle charge of the Writer of the speciall Passages (a) I conceive the Intelligencers crime is so much greater than his that I will be bold to adde That what Protester soever hath read his last weeks Intelligence and having opportunity shall not upon reading what I have now written make complaint as well of the Intelligencer as of the writer of the Passages his cousin Germane hath not so far as lawfully he may opposed and by all good wayes and means endeavoured to bring to condigne punishment all such as have done any thing contrary to any thing in the Protestation contained Not excepting your Lordship who I suppose hath taken the Protestation But as to the Intelligencers rude charge of your Lordship all I dare say is That your Lordship had very ill lucke to tell the story you have done in your Apologie of that which passed between you and a friend of yours who told you that you lost much of your credit by being observed to be so much at Court For if the about this time with which your Lordship beginneth that relation were the time about which this wicked paper was missing I forbear to tell your Lordship what inferences the City wits of this unhappy Age are like to make of the originall rise of your credit in Court though for my part I here professe all your Lordship hath written in your Apologie upon this occasion is to my understanding most just and reasonable and that I am so far of your minde that till the Court and Countrey be in truth all of a piece and that there be no more cause of jealousie between them neither the one nor the other of them can be happy nor the City neither I am also afrayd that those words in the Preface of your Lordships Speech to the Bill of Attainder of the Earle of Strafford I have had the honor to be employed by the House in this great businesse from the first hours that it was taken into consideration It was a matter of great trust and I will say with confidence that I have served the House in it with industry according to my ability but with most exact faithfulnesse and secrecie And that parenthesis in this part of your Lordships Apologie where you again say you had served the House of Commons with all faithfulnesse may do you no good especially if the mislaying of the above-sayd mischievous paper were in the time of the tryall of the Earle of Strafford and before the proceeding against him by Bill of Attainder which is the part where your Lordship hath inserted this parenthesis For your Lordship knoweth much better than I that the making of these voluntary Apologies to persons that do not charge a man with the faults which he goeth about either to excuse or acquit himselfe of are alwayes taken for confessions of guilt by suspicio●s hearers especially if the Apologizer himselfe take no notice of the crime whereof he is accused by common fame which I perceive was your Lordships case before you wrote this Apologie If the Intelligencers relation be true And now that by his helpe I have ●uggested all I can to ●our Lordship upon this occasion I humbly beseech you be not wanting to your selfe but lay your present condition to heart remember whence you are falne in your reputation in your hopes take heed of catching another more ●angerous fall now in the rode of good wi●s by thinking you are bound to maintain all that you have done or sayd be it right or wrong truth or error and that you are able to do it There is many times but one step between this and being given over to think evill good and to believe lyes I beseech God direct you to that course which may tend most to his glory your honor and the publick good Be not afraid to acknowledge any mistake or to take any shame to your selfe if there should be any occasion for you to do it which I hope there is not according to my duty though I thus write but believe stedfastly in his Omnipotence and truth that hath said and never yet brake his word Those that honor me I will honor and they that despise me shall be lightly esteemed There is often a resurrection of the good names of good men in this life to give credit to the promise aforesayd and to support our faith of the perfect accomplishment thereof in that which we look for But the name of the wicked doth rot upon earth and in the great day of the Lord shall rise to universall and eternall confusion in the presence of God of his Angels and of his Saints God of his mercy and by his grace keep this for ever in your Lordships remembrance and minde and keep us also from despairing of his mercy if we should be guilty of so great a sin which there is no cause for There is no sin except that against the holy Ghost not the innocent bloud of a million of souls no not the being guilty of the bloud of the Son of God himselfe which may not be expiated by his bloud And yet I have observed that there could be no attonement for that sin wherewith the Intelligencer hath so fouly aspersed your Lordship without confession But upon confession of the sin there is a full promise that it shall be forgiven the offender not by vertue of the offerings enjoyned in the Law but by the relation they had to a better sacrifice which I pray God may through our faith be effectuall to all of us that may at any time find our selves to stand guilty of so grievous a crime which I doubt hath spread it selfe farther in this Kingdome than we are aware of and that the Land mourneth for it because we do not APOLOGY Under this weight ●nough to have broken a body and a mind better prepared for th●se exercises then mine I suffered till the rudenesse and violence of that Rabble drave both their Majesties for the safety of themselves and their children to Hampton Court whither by command I attended them In this short journey many Souldiers and Commanders who had assembled themselves joyntly to sollicite the payment of their arrears for the late Northern expedition from the two Houses of Parliament

at the same instant or at least before His Maiesties return from thence was this unlucky Tenet of your Lordships taken up again to induce His Maiesty to declare his fixed Resolution by a writing under his own Royall hand continue and maintaine Episcopacy in this Kingdome Which unexpected stop of the torrent of some mens hopes as well as desires of a like through Reformation in this Kingdom was in my observation who looke on at a great distance the first stirring cause of that fierce flood which rising soone after spread it selfe farre and wide and is now growne to such violence and height that it carries all before it And yet for their sakes with whom I concur in the desire of such a reformation I hope this will not at last prove the Cause now in so hot dispute between the King and His Parliament though I have observed that His Majestie chargeth a Faction in Parliament with a violent and undue purfuit of an absolute destruction of the Ecclesi●sticall Government of this Church So much hurt hath come to the Churches of God in this Iland by that Tenet of your Lordships Neither hath it stayed there For by that design which was begun to be out in practise in Scotland in a wrong climate God confounding the councells of some who in corners did not spare to vent their dis●steem of all other reformed Churches abroad as having no Priests because they have no Bishops it may too probably and without breach of charity be doubted that they had yet more abhominable projects in their heads although I believe they are commonly believed to have been yet more abhominable then they were Which is an Argument I must not divert into here Your Lordship seeth how many mischiefs as well as absurdities I have followed upon the entertaining of one erronious Principle your Lordship thought fit to be put into our Catechisme which I humbly pray you to take into consideration as an aggravation of that errour For if upon the whole matter you shall be reduced but to the temper of the good Archbishop Whitgife and of Mr. Hooker who as your Lordship knows though they held the Government of the Church by Bishops to be more agreeable to the Scriptures then any other yet have fully declared themselves to be of opinion that no form of Church Regiment is so set down there but that it may be lawfull to alter it even for a worse upon Civil respects I am then very confident that upon a new ballancing of the account of the inconveniencies of the removing or retaining Episcopacie in this Church as things now stand your Lordship will be inclined to an alteration thereof For in truth my Lord that we cannot put down a Bishop in a Diocesse without setting up a Pope in every Parish and that no other Church Government is compatible either with Monarchy or with ou● Common Law are meer imaginations of your Lordships and some other men sufficiently confuted by the experience of other Churches and Kingdoms that of Scotland by name which not to insist on the two former as evident to every man hath a Common Law as well as ours as also other Kingdoms and States in Europe have all though there be a popular groundlesse perswasion of many wise men to the contrary And if upon a review your Lordship should finde sufficient reason to change your minde concerning the inconvenience as well as concerning the unlawfulnesse of abolishing Episcopacie in this Church that so ours may be reduced to an Uniformity with that of Scotland since the reduction of theirs to the likenesse of ours which was lately made a matter of great importance is now impossible the publication thereof may well repatriate your Lordship in the good graces of all that have had their mouths opened against you upon this occasion except it be of a few over hot Zelots For many wise and religious men differing from your Lordship in your opinion touching Episcopacie and concurring with me in mine are yet of your minde that it is better to begin with such a Reformation thereof whereunto there is a happy unity of Opinions not onely in the Representative but almost throughout the Lay part of the true body of the Kingdom then to attempt the doing of it all at once till the humours yet very crude shall be further prepared for such a sweeping purgation which for my part I hold to be a politique that is a doubtfull Probleme And so your Lordship hath my thoughts upon that first point which hath held me too long APOLOGY Then came on the tryall of the Earl of Suafford in the which I must say I failed not of my duty in proving the charg● and evidence before those who were to judge of both In the discharging of that duty it was my fortune by the unluckie acception of some expressions of mine to draw upon ●e ● sharp malignaty from some persons of much interest in the House which ●ever fail to manifest it selfe after that accident upon every the least occasion About this time I was told by a Friend that I lost much of my credit by being observed to be so much at Court I replied that I had not then the same justice with other men who were there more than I though they avowed it lesse● that it was a principall joy to me to see those persons who had been the prime Actors in the happy Reformation of this Parliament so acceptable at Court and like to have so great a share in the chiefe ●lucs there and the conduct of affairs for the future That since it bad pleased His Majesty to give so plenary a Redresse to all the grievances of His Subjects and to secure them for ever from the like invasions by such a wall of brasse as the Trienniall Bill I conceived that thence forward there was no more to be thought on but how in a gratefull return to His Majesty to advance His Honor and plenty according as before such happy settlements I had often heard those principall intendents of the puqlike good most solemnly professe and consequently that the Court and Countrey were in truth now to be all of a pi●ce and there would hereafter be no more cause of jealousie between them Lastly that howsoever I thought my selfe as likely to do good there as do good there as to receive hurt The first evidence I had of the disfavour of the House of Commons where I had served with all faithfulnesse diligence and humility was upon the printing of my Speech to the Bill of Attainder of the Earle of Strafford As for the Good-Fridayes exercise which the delivery of it in the House procured me I reputed that a most comfortable● and ●min●nt testimony of the continuance still of much justice and favour towards me in that Honorable House since after a dozen distinct charges upon the severall passages of that Speech urged against me with great strictnesse and acrimony by that number of the most