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A56144	Canterburies doome, or, The first part of a compleat history of the commitment, charge, tryall, condemnation, execution of William Laud, late Arch-bishop of Canterbury containing the severall orders, articles, proceedings in Parliament against him, from his first accusation therein, till his tryall : together with the various evidences and proofs produced against him at the Lords Bar ... : wherein this Arch-prelates manifold trayterous artifices to usher in popery by degrees, are cleerly detected, and the ecclesiasticall history of our church-affaires, during his pontificall domination, faithfully presented to the publike view of the world / by William Prynne, of Lincolns Inne, Esquire ...	Prynne, William, 1600-1669.	1646 (1646)	Wing P3917; ESTC R19620	792,548	593

make the Word of God quarrell with and thwart and crosse it selfe Example they would prove Rom. 3. 28. 4. 25. to be false by Iam. 2. 21. Now we know these expositions to be false because the establishing of the one place is the demolishing of the other Fol. 276. Thirdly the Papists have Rimes which must be said over three or four times every day certainly with a little pains a man might make a good Parret a good Papist for he might be taught to speak all this Fol. 476. Q. Wherein are the Papists to blame concerning the Augmentation of Faith Answ They are faulty in two things Negant fiduciam certitudinem fidet they grant faith but deny both confidence and certainty of faith c. fol. 52. Answ But the Monkish life is not persecution except thus because the Locusts which are no other but Monks and Fryars Revel 19. doe bite and sting like Serpents that is do secretly wound mens consciencex and four lines after Thirdly all go not to Christ that come into Monasteries but rather goe from him they living after another rule then Christs for Francis their great founder erected a new sect of Monkery and found out a new rule for them which he called regulam Evangelicam the rule of the Gospell as though Christs rule were not sufficient Many other passages of like nature over-numerous to recite were blotted out of this Author by the Licenser We shall conclude with such passages as Doctor Bray with the Arch-bishop's privity purged out of Doctor Featlyes Sermons wherein some Texts of Scripture were expunged to do Popish Priests seducers a favour p. 90. What are the great Foxes but the Priests and Jesuits what are the little Foxes but the Demipelagian cubs which will spoyle our fairest clusters the Colledges of both Universities if in time they be not looked unto as they have done already in our neighbour Vine in the Low-countryes c. page 472. If these cries of the soules under the Alter awake not the zealous Magistrates whom God hath made protectors of his Spouses to draw out the sword of wholsome Statutes out of the scabbard to wound the hairy scalpe of the Strumpet yet let them at least take compassion on the soules of the living even their sonnes and daughters who are dayly enticed by secular Priests and Jesuits and by their Agents conveyed over beyond the Seas to be sacrificed to the Molech at Rome What or how shall I speake unto you beloved brethren I need rather teares then words to bewaile the great losse our Church sustaineth of hundred nay thousand of soules that have been drawn out of the right way and are fallen into the snares of Satan and den of the Beast c. Here though I lose my voyce by it I cannot but cry aloud with zealous Bullenger What clemency call you this to suffer the Lords Vineyard to be spoyled and layd waste by ugly monsters what mercy to spare the Wolves which spare not Christs sheep redeemed with his procious blood Ubinune lex Iulia dormis To what purpose serves our wholsome Lawes and Statutes if they rust as the Orator speaketh like swords in the scabbards and are never drawne upon the sworne enemies of our Church and state c. page 485. That the severity of our Lawes and Canons should fall upon straying Doves silly seduced persons without any gall at all whilst the Black-birds of Antichrist are let alone if chaste Lydia be silenced for her undiscreet zeale let not Jezabel be suffered to teach and to deceive Gods servants c. page 495. I know to restraine such abuses is the peculiar duty of the Ecclesiasticall and civill Magistrates but to detect and discover them to authority and to refraine from society or Idolaters is the duty of us all and I beseech you for the love of him who hath espoused your soules to himselfe and decked them with the richest Jewels of his grace and made them a Joynture of his Kingdome beware of Jezabels Panders who goe about to entice you to spirituall fornication If they be your brethren the sonnes of your mother or your owne sonnes or daughters or the wife that lyeth in your bosome or your friends that are as your owne soules that solicite you in this kind ye are to renounce them and by the law of God to see justice executed upon them c. p. 796. Beware therefore deare brethren beware of the Panders of Antichrist who goe about to intice you not to corporall but which is farre worse to spitituall whoredome If they be your brethren the sonnes of your owne mother or your owne sonnes or daughters or your wives that lye in your bosome or your friends that are as your owne soule that intice you to goe to Masse and partake with the Romanists in their manifold idolatries you are bound by the Law of God to be so far from consenting to them or hearing them that you are to account of them as your capitall enemies and proceed against them as you would against those who have plotted your utter ruine and overthrow Good God! that such patheticall clauses as these against seducing popish Priests and Jesuits nay the very words of sacred Scripture it selfe should be thus obliterated in our Protestant Church by the Arch-bishop's owne direction who professeth himselfe such an enemy to Priests and Jesuits Doubtlesse his vapouring protestations against them were all meere delusory complements to beguile the over-credulous since all these purgations proclaime both him and his agents to be their most endeared friends as they openly vaunted them to be at Rome and to hold most strict intelligence with them From these purgations against Popery Popes Papists Priests Jesuits Monks and other Romish vermine in the generall we shall next proceed to sundry expunctions against doctrinall poynts of Popery in particular which we shall prosecute in an Alphabeticall manner the first whereof is this 4. That the Absolution of Priests is but declarative and that they cannot bind and loose men at their pleasures against Gods Word as the Papists hold their Priests can doe IN Doctor Clerkes Sermons Sermon 3. of the Nativity page 23. the Licenser hath expunged these words Nay nor bind nor loose sinne neither but declarativè the Priest does but pronounce the absolution c. So that in this purgation Christ is but the Physick the Priest is the Physitian or Apothecary at least but he wants Heleborus to purge his braine In Master Richard Ward his Comentary upon Matthew the Licenser hath quite obliterated this passage as erronious Matth. 18. 18. Whatsoever ye bind c. the Papists hold this grosse opinion that men are bound and loosed in Heaven according to the will and pleasure of every Priest exercising the Keyes upon earth and this Tenet they ground upon the generality of these words Whatsoever sinnes ye remit they are remitted and whatsoever you bind on earth should be bound

God of Glory hath invested mortall men withall in which respect it hath been said and not otherwise the head of the Emperor hath beene subjected to the Priests hands Priests onely have this Commission from Christ unto whom he said As my father sent me so send I you and receive you the Holy-Ghost whose sinnes you remit they are remitted And in his Originum Ecclesiasticarum Tomi prioris Pars posterior p. 464. to 470. Printed at London 640. he largely asserts Sacerdotes remittunt peccata quomodo Non annunciative tantum aut optativè SED AVTHORITATIVE as he briefly expresseth himselfe in his Index thereunto This Popish Doctrin of his with some additions touching confession of sins to Priests their power to remit them was publikly justified by M. Sparow in a Sermon preached by him in St. Maries church in Cambridg for which he being questioned by the Vice-Chanceller Posted up to London to the Archbishop his Chaplaines for sanctuary and procuring his Sermon to be there forthwith Licensed and printed he hereupon turned in triumph to Cambridge to the great griefe and discouragement of the Protestant but extraordinary encouragement of the Popish party there In which Sermon of his touching Confession we find these Popish passages Page 10. Our Confession must be integra perfecta not by halfe All our sins must be confessed omnia venialia omnia mortalia pag. 14. 15. Thus have we seene the nature of Confession and by that learn how to confesse sed ubi Confessarius where is a Confessor all this while where is any to take our Confessions here is none in the Text to confesse to if we had a mind to it None indeed expressely named but here is one plainely enough described here is one that can pardon our sinnes would you know who this he is I even I saith God am he who blotteth out all your iniquities to him even to him let us confesse be sure this is necessary and no pardon to be hoped for unles we confesse to him at least But there is another Confessor that would not be neglected Qui confiteri vult ut inveniat gratiam quaerat Sacerdotem saith St. Augustine He that would be sure of pardon let him seeke out a Priest and make his humble confession to him for God who alone hath the prime and originall right of forgiving sinnes hath delegated the Priests his Judges here on earth and given them the power of absolution so that they can in his name forgive the Sinnes of those that humbly confes unto them but is not this blaspemy said the Scribes once is it not Popery say some with us now Take the Councell that is given in Iob cap. 8. v. 8. enquier of the former Generations aske the Fathers and they shall tell thee Heaven waites and expects the Priests sentence here on earth for the Priest sits Judge on earth the Lord followes the servant and what the servant bindes or looseth here on earth clave non errante that the Lord confirmes in Heaven Words so cleare for the Juditiary formall absolution of the Priest as nothing can be said more plaine Please you next to enquire of Saint Ierome who is said to be the Patron of that opinion that holds the Priests power barely declarative and so indeed none at all yet he speakes home in his Epistle ad Heliodorum c. pag. 16. Heare what St. Gregory the great saith The Apostles and in them all Priests were made Gods vicegerents on earth in his name to retaine and forgive sinns not declaratively only but juditially Animarum Iudices fiunt as he goes on they are made the judges of the Soules of men casting the obstinate down to the gates of Hell by the feareful power of Excommunication and lifting the penitent into Heaven by the blessed power of absolution whatsoever sins ye remit c. here is plainly a power of remitting sins not by preaching as some expound it nor by Baptizing as others guesse c. pag. 18. Confesse also to the Priest if not in private in the eatę since that is out of use male aboletur saith a devout Bishop 't is almost quite lost the more the pitty yet however confesse as the Church appointed publikely c. Doctor Pocklington who among other Popish Errors which he maintained long since in Cambridge justified Auricular Confession to Priests hath divers short passages tending to the same effect in his late published Popish scandalous book intituled Altare Christianum set forth by the Archbishops Command and licenced by Dr. Bray his househould Chaplaine pag. 24. To the Chancell belonged the Vestry Lavatory Repository and Relcinatories for hearing of Confessions How prone those who confessed their sinnes to Priests were to receive absolution from them hee thus expresseth in the same Booke pag. 143. Their Penitents used adgeniculari to fall downe upon their knees taking absolution before the Altars Old doting Shelford who in the Title of his Treatises which he presented to the Archbishop stiles himselfe a Priest to make himselfe more fit to say Masse and heare Confession vvrites thus pag. 71. 119. Then they confessed their sins to God and their Minister for spirituall comfort and Councell c. Confession and absolution is flat Popery with such and all is superstition save a Sermon from the spirit c. Christopher Dow a great favorite of the Archbishops in his late Authorized book against Mr. Burton intituled Innovations unjustly charged determines thus Page 55. To advise and urge the use and profit of private Confession to the Priest is no Popish Innovation but agreeable to the Constant and resolved Doctrine of this Church And if any shall call it Auricular because it is done in private and in the eare of the Priest I know not why he should therefore be condemned of Popery But this Doctrinall Popery is more clearely and fully expressed in a Booke written in Latine by John Lanspergius a Carthusian Fryar translated into English Licensed for the Presse by Dr. Baker and printed at London for Will. Brooks 1637. intituled Christs Epistle to a Devoute soule p. 237. Thou shalt do well every month once at least to confesse thy sins Sacramentally to receive the Sacrament of my blessed body and this thou mayest do also upon speciall festivall dayes as upon the feast of my Resurrection at Penticost also and at the Assumption of my blessed Mother and at the joyfull Feast of all my Saints c. P. 246. Promise thy Obedience herein to thy Confessor or to some other man that feareth me c. Pag. 251. Thou must confesse thy sinnes often to an approved Confessor Pag. 252. Say some devoute prayer or doe some greater pennance as thou and thy spirituall Director shall thinke fit c. This was seconded by another Booke licensed by Doctor Haywood the Archbishops Popish Chaplaine the selfe same day that Christs Epistle was by Doctor Baker and for the same party Books compiled by a Popish Bishop of

in heaven in this verse and in John 20. 23. Remist Annot. John 20. 23. These places are not so to be understood as though God were bound to ratifie every decree of men upon earth For First this power is given to all lawfull Pastors who maintaine and hold the Apostolike faith and not to idolatrous ignorant and blasphemous Priests such as most if not all the popish Priests are Secondly they must decree in the earth according to Gods will and therefore John 20. 22. out Saviour dotb first breath his Spirit upon his Apostles and then giveth them their Commission signifying thereby that they must execute this power as they shall be directed by Gods Spirit yea hence Matth. 18. 20. it followeth that they must be assembled in the name of Christ that is according to Christs rule and the direction of his Word they must bind and loose and not at their owne discretion There are divers other purgations of this nature which brevity enforceth as to omit 5. Clauses against adoring the Eucharist and consecrated Bread in the Sacrament expunged MAster Ward in his Comentary on Matthew had this memorable clause against Papists adoring the Eucharist purged out by the Licenser Object The Eucharist is to be adored because Christ is very God Answ He should have assumed the Eucharist is very God which is blasphemy to say and therefore not to be uttered by any but by Babylons brood unto whose Prince and head is given the name of Blasphemy Revel 13. 1. yea a mouth speaketh blasphemies verse 5. even against the most high God verse 6. and therefore we leave this opinion to the Papists to whom properly it belongs The Licenser it seems would have Protestants embrace this opinion as well as Papists and therefore purged out this clause as heterodox Doctor Jones in his Comentary on the Hebrewes had the like purgation page 20. Then how sharply are the Papists to be reproved that worship a peece of bread in the Sacrament Strange that such a passage should be deleted but that our bowing to and toward the Altar because there 't is hoc est corpus meum tended to introduce the selfe same adoration of the Eucharisticall Bread among us by degrees 6. Passages expunged averring That the Pope is Antichrist of which see Section 2. before YOU have already heard of sundry purgations of this nature in the premises we shall present you with others not formerly remembred Doctor Clerke in his sixth Sermon of the Nativity page 53. line ult had this clause But the Pops is the Antichrist which the Licenser thus transformes but one is Anchrinst easing the Pope of this title Master Ward in his Comentary upon Matthew page 303. had this whole discourse concerning Antichrist expunged by the Licenser How many wayes is this name Antichrist taken in the Scriptures that our Saviour saith many shall come in his name affirming that they are Christs First it is taken somtimes commonly and thus his name Antichrist belongeth to all who are enemies to Christ and these are either 1. open professed enemies as the Iews Turks and Infidels in which sense the word is not used in Scripture or 2. covert and close enemies who professe themselves christians and under the name and profession of Christ oppugne Christ and his truth and thus it is taken either 1. more largely to signifie the whole body of hereticks as 1 John 2. 18. 22. or 2. more strictly and so it signifies the society of them who having made an Apostacy from Christ have received the marke of the Beast and these we hold to be the Apostaticall Church of Rome Secondly this name Antichrist is sometimes taken properly or rather peculiarly and so it belongeth to the man of sinne and the sonne of perdirion a Thes 2. 3. who after a more generall manner is the head of all hereticks and more specially of that society which hath the mark number and the name of the Beast Revel 13. 17. and this we hold to be the Pope of Rome as is abundantly proved by Davaeus Bishop Downame and Master Squire and that not onely because he is the head of the Antichristian body but also because he being in profession the Vicar of Christ is indeede Aemulus Christi i. e. an enemy opposed to Christ in emulation of like honour as if we should say a counter-Christ as the word Antichrist doth also signifie How doth it appeare that there are many Antichrists for although Christ saith here that many shall come in his name yet many deny this affirming that the Antichrist shall be but one particular person and consequently that there shall not be many Antichrists but one onely That Antichrist is not one singular man but a whole state and succession of men and consequently that there shall be many Antichrists pecularly or 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 so called will appeare by these Arguments First if Antichrist were in the Apostles time and was to remaine untill the second comming of Christ then Antichrist is not one singular man but a succession of men but Antichrist was in the Apostles time and is to continue untill the second comming of Christ as both Saint Paul 2 Thes 2. and John 1 cap. 2. 18. 4. 3. 2 John 7. testifie Therefore Antichrist is not one singular man but a succession of men Secondly that in the 7. and 11. of Daniel and in 13. and 17. of the Revelations is described under the name and figure of a Beast is not one singular thing or person but a whole state or succession But Antichrist in these places is described under the name and figure of a Beast Therefore Antichrist is not one singular person but a whole state or succession Thirdly the seven heads of that Beast which signifieth the Roman state are not so many persons but so many heads or states of Government whereby the Common-wealth of the Romans hath been at divers times governed the sixth head was the state of Emperours the seventh Antichrist as the Papists confesse the eighth which is also one of the seventh the state of Emperours revived whereby it evidently appeareth not onely that Antichrist is not one man but also that the Pope who is the seventh head is Antichrist if the Reader would see the two former Arguments enlarged and another added not here mentioned then let him read Bishop Downame de Antichristo lib. 2. cap. 20. to 32. Page 16. this clause is deleted Ob. Antichrists name shall not be knowne untill he come c. Answ 2. Secondly Antichrist is already come yea the Pope of Rome is this Antichrist as is abundantly proved by many of our Divines and therefore his rise seat and name are knowne well enough page 14. Ob. 5. Whosoever shall put away his wife the Pope is called the adversary or he who opposeth himselfe against Christ 2 Thes 2. 11. and is justly so called because he and his Divines doe maintaine assertions directly contrary to

Justice of peace within that City and an inhabitant of S. Edmonds Parish there took just offence at some pictures in one of the glasse-windows in that Church near unto his seat and ever in his eye in which window was contained in old rude rusty painted glasse the History of the Creation not as it is related by Moses in the first Chapter of Genesis but after the Painters fancy who in this window consisting only of four panes had made no lesse then seven picturs of God the Father in form of a little old man clad in a blew and red coat with a pouch by his side about the bignesse of a Puppet and preposterously placed the fourth daies work of creation before the third and made that to be done on the fifth day which was created on the sixth and in one place he had represented God the Father creating the Sunne and Moon and squaring them out with a pair of compasses in his hand as if he had formed them by some Geometricall rules and the help of a Compasse To these pictures M. Sherfield and others had seen Ema Browne and other old women make low curtesies who being demanded why they made such curtesies answered that they made them to their Lord God and to God the Father in the Glasse-window which was proved by divers witnesses upon oath Wherupon M. Sherfield being perswaded in point of conscience that these Idolatrous Pictures were directly forbidden by the second Commandement and many expresse Texts of Scripture prohibiting any representations of God the Father condemned thus by the Homilies of our Church against the Perill of idolatry Part. 3. ● 40. which determine that The Image of God the Father the Sonne and Holy Ghost either severally or the images of the Trinity be by the Scriptures expresly forbidden and condemned as appears by these places Deut. 4. Isay 40. Acts 17. Rom. 1. there cited at large By these and many other places of Scripture it is evident that no Image either ought or can be made to God For how can God a most pure spirit whom man never saw he expressed by a grosse body or visible similitude or how can the infinite Majesty and greatnesse of God incomprehensible to mans minde much more not able to be compassed with the sense be expressed in a SMAL and LITTLE IMAGE as this of God the Father was How can a dead and dumbe Image expresse the living God c. Wherefore an Image of God is not only a lye but a double lye also But the Devill is a lyar and the Father of lyes Wherefore the lying Images which he made of God to his great dishonour and horrible danger of his people came from the Devill Wherefore they be convict of foolishnesse and wickednesse in making of Images of God or the Trinity for no Image of God ought or can be made yea and once to desire an Image of God commeth of infidelity thinking not God here present except they see some signe or Image of him And to be abolished out of Churches by the resolution of Queen Elizabethe Injunctions the Canons and Oxthodox Writers of our Church the Statutes of our Realme and King James his own resolution in sundry of his Works moved the Parish at a Vestry where were six Justices of Peace present that he might have liberty to take down this offensive scandalous Window being a burthen to his conscience an occasion of much superstition and idolatry to ignorant people and the Church it self a Donative as they conceived belonging to the parishioners and to set up a new window of white glasse in its place whereupon it was unanimously ordered by the Vestry about January 1629. and the Order entred that if M. Sherfield thought fit he might take downe the painted old glasse of this Window and set up new Whereupon not long after he did with his staffe breake or picke out some of those peeces of glasse representing God the Father which amounted not to above the value of six pence the whole glasse window not being worth forty shillings when it was new intending to new glaze the same Whereupon by the Archbishops means and instigation an Information was exhibited against him in the Star-chamber by the Kings Attorney Generall for breaking these idolatrous pictures and that in opposition of the Church-government established by law among us This cause was prosecuted with all rigour and at last brought to a hearing on the 8 of February 1632. where this Archbishop then Bishop of London as was proved by the Oathes of Master Tomlins a Barrister of the Temple M. Joseph Caryll Lecturer at Lincolnes Inne and the testimony of M. Robert Nicholas a Member of the Commons House a Commissioner in that cause shewed himselfe very violent against M. Sherfield made a long speech in defence of Images in Churches contrary to our Homilies justified the picturing of God the Father in forme of an old man out of that place of Daniel where God is called The ancient of dayes which the Earl of Dorset refuted being an expression only of Gods eternity declaring him to be before all times and notwitstanding it was proved by four witnesses that those pictures were adored by divers persons yet the Archbishop was so violent against Mr. Sherfield that for breaking of these idolatrous pictures according to the doctrine of our Church in the Homilies against the perill of Idolatry Queen Elizabeth Injunctions and the statute of 3 4 E. 6. ca. 10. which were pleaded for his justification he agravated his offence to the utmost from his Office his Age his profession and divers other circumstances instead of mittigating it fined him a thousand pound to the King sentenced him to be removed from his Recordership in that City to make a publick acknowledgement of his great fault in the Parish-church where this was done and in the Cathedrall at Salisbury and to be bound to his good behaviour some of the Temporall Lords excused his fact spake much against Images and thought it fit to impose no fine upon him This Archbishop then concluded his speech against M. Sherfield in justification of Images with these words I have been the willinger to render this ancount at this time because some are ready to slander Vs as maintainers of POPISH SVPERSTITION and I know not what This sentence gave great incouragement to the setting up of superstitious idolatrous Pictures Images and Crucifixes in our Churches and discouraged most men from opposing the intended introducing of them which followed thereupon in sundry places To this we shall adde the Archbishops tyrannicall sentence and proceedings against M. John Workeman a godly painfull Minister Lecturer in the City of Glocester for preaching against Images in Churches This pious Minister being Lecturer in S. Stephens Church in that City was prosecuted for preaching publickly in a Sermon there That Pictures or Images were no more ornaments to a Church then Stewes to a Common wealth That for a man to

printed copy page 196. Finally the Doctor in his Manuscript page 106. had this serious Exhortation We have begun in pure and sound religion Let us not end in Popery in Atheisme in Brownisme in Anabaptisme The Licenser to demonstrate where he and his Arch-grace would have us end and settle at last blots out the word popery and puts in prophanenesse in its stead and so it is is printed page 140. Let us not end in prophanesse instead of Let us not end in Popery in which they then intended we should all shortly end though God by his omnipotent power and admirable providence hath wholy frustrated this their intended end We shall now proceed to another head of expunctions to wit 2 Passages expunged out of bookes tendred to license against the Papacy Rome the Popes Supremacy Pride Tyranny Cruelty Treasons murthering and deposing Princes Popes vicious lives practises and being Antichrist that man of sinne c. Doctor Jones in his Comentary on the Hebrewes had inserted these severall passages against the Pope in his written copy which the Licenser expunged as insufferable and thereupon they are quite omitted in the printed book page 179. 251. 309. 377. 396. 406. Page 206. in the written copy Our Saviour Christ was as wise a man as the Pope furnished with guifts for both affices as well as he yet he would not meddle with civill matters Luke 12. 14. of the extraordinary example of Melchesedeck no ordinary rule can be made Page 266. All papists kisse the Pope's feet yea Kings Princes and Emperours saith the copy yea in so doing they make an Idol of him as the idolaters kissed Baal Page 284. Antichrist hath been discovered every man may see what he is unlesse the God of the world blind their eyes naught is wanting unlesse it be the open conversion of the Jewes Page 301. Nay the Pope himselfe he must be carried on mens shoulders Page 308. The holy Ghost thinks it sufficient to call Christ the great Priest that will not content the Pope he must be Sacerdos maximus Christ hath the positive he must have the superlative a proud prelat that Antichrist that exalteth himselfe above God Page 130. As for the calling of Luther Calvin and Beza and of the Ministers of the Gospel it is warrantable by the Word we can shew our Letters of Orders from Jesus Christ the great Bishop of our soules Are we not true Ministers because we are not created by the Pope and his Bishops The Apostles were not made by the Pharisees or any priestes of that time yet good Ministers and so may we though not made by the Bishop of Rome it is succession 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 not 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 as Nazianzen speakes that is a good lawfull succession Good God! that such passages as these should ever be expunged by such who professe themselves protestant prelats or Ministers certainly they had a Pope in their hearts whatever good words we find in their mouths Master Ward in his Comentary upon Matthew had an Index expurgatorius passed on these ensuing clauses against the Pope his pardons power and usurped authority fol. 224. The Pope is called the Adversary or he who opposeth himselfe against Christ 2 Thes 2 11. and is justly so called because he and his admirers doe maintaine assertions directly contrary to the word of Christ one example whereof we have in this verse Whosoever shall put away his Wife Fol. 314. Quest 7. We have no need of a second purging How derogatory then are the Papists to the sufferings of Christ who ascribe more to the Popes pardons then to Christ's pangs Antichrist by his indulgencies can both deliver and preserve from purgatory and send the soule streight into Heaven but they will dye in the quarrell before they will grant such or so much power and efficacy to be in the death blood-shed and merits of Christ fol. 160. Quest 2. who are like unto the Pharisees c. Answ The Church of Rome whose commandements are more observed then the commandements of God as appeare by this it is there taught c. II. That to eat flesh upon a good Friday is a greater sinne then to commit murther or adultery and yet that is the Friday on which Christ did ordinarily eat the paschall Lambe III. To blaspheme the name of God in this world is a small offence but to speak ill of the Pope especially in Italy and Spaine is an unpardonable and damnable offence IV. The Jewes have a Religion whereby they affirme Christ to be a cozener but to say that there is no other purgatory but the blood of Jesus Christ is a crime deserving the inquisition V. Every Bishop of France may give absolution for faults committed against the law of God but they cannot absolve men of sin● committed against the Pope and his Sea Secondly in the Roman church they teach things contrary to the Word of God for first God saith c. II. God saith in his Law six dayes shalt thou labour but the Pope saith thou shalt not labour six dayes but shalt observe the Feasts commanded by the Pope to be observed IV. God's commands by his Apostle 1 Cor. 10. That when we are invited to the house of Infidels we should eat of that which is set before us making no scruple On the contrary the Church of Rome commands when we are invited to the house of Hereticks not to eat of all that which is set before us in Lent or on Good-Friday and fasting dayes Fol. 163. Answ 2. Let us avoyd all Popish errors Answ 3. Thirdly they are to blame also who bind themselves by a Vow not to eat flesh upon some certaine dayes and upon such dayes have no other care then to abstaine from flesh onely Ibid. On Mat. 15. 9. these passages are oblitered In vaine doe they worship me These words being urged by us against the Popes power in making lawes which binds the conscience Bellarmine answers three things thereunto namely First by the Commandements of men are understood Commandements which are contrary to the law of God but the Popes precepts are not so To this we answer I. All the commandements of men in whose observation the worship of God is placed is expresly and directly condemned for God is to be worshipped as himselfe prescribes II. All such commandements are contrary to the law of God which saith Thou shalt not adde to the word which I command thee namely in substantiall things or which are imposed as essentiall parts of God's worship III. There is no mysticall ceremony introduced or brought into the Church by the Popes or Popish Clergy which was lesse contrary to the laws of God then was that tradition of washing hands before meat which was ordained by the Elders of the Jewes Secondly the Jesuit answers that our Saviour blames here onely unprofitable and frivolous ceremonies onely invented by a humane braine or spirit but the precepts of the Pope are no such To this we

posted Letters thither to him immediatly after his departure hence by these severall passages in his Diary May 11. 1625. Die Mercurij primo mane Dux Buck. Versus mare se transtulit obviam iturus Reginae Mariae in Galliam Dedi ad Ducem eo die Literas sed quae properantem sequerentur Maij 19. Die Jovis Literas secundas misi ad Ducem Buck tunc paulisper morantem Parisijs Maij 29. Die Solis Literas tertias dedi in manus Episcopi Dunelmensis qui cum Rege iturus traderet eas Duci Buck. ad litus applicanti Junij 5. Die Pentecostes mane instanter iturus ad sacra Literas è Gallia à Duce Claris Buckinghamiae in manus meas se dedere Responsum dedi Aurora proxima Junij 12. Die Solis Regina Maria maria pertransciens ad Litus Nostrum appulit circiter boram septimam Vespertinam Det Deus ut Haspera sit foelix Stella orbi nostro These severall Letters of his to and from the Duke upon this occasion the Originals and Copies whereof could we have met with them would doubtlesse have discovered many notable secrets intimate both his privity to and concurrence in this popish French Match as well as in the Spanish This we shall further cleere by other passages in his owne Diary discovering what a great favourite and instrument of the Qveens he hath been even since the Marriage Aug. 30. 1634. Saturday at Oatlands the Queen sent for me and gave me thanks for a businesse with which shee trusted me her promise then that she would be my friend and that I should have immediate addresse to her when I had occasion Here we have the Queen trusting the Arch-bishop with a private businesse her thanks for his discharge of this trust with a promise of future favour and immediate addresse to her upon all occasions May 18. 24. 1635. Whitson Munday at Greenwich my account to the Queen put off till Trinity Sunday then given her by my selfe and assurance of all that was desired by me c. A very suspitious passage after which five whole lines are so rased that they are not legible April 3. 1639. Wednesday before the Kings going I setled with him a great businesse for the Queen which I under stood shee would never move for her selfe the Queen gave me great thanks and this day I waited purposely on her to give her thanks for her gracious acceptance shee was pleased to be very free with me and to promise me freedome This intimacy of the Arch-bishop with the Queene these private services he did for her and these speciall mementoes of her favours to and freenesse with him could not be to convert her to the Protestant Religion which he never attempted in any measure for ought we ever heard it being contrary to the tenth Article of her Marriage which runs thus Also the King of Great Britaine is by Oath bound NOT TO ENDEAVOUR BY ANY MEANS AT ALL to have his said Queen to renounce the Catholike Apostolike and Romish Religion nor compell her to do any thing whatsoever that is contrary to the same Religion Now this Archbi was so farre from endeavouring her conversion to our Religion himselfe that in his owne Metropoliticall visitation he prohibited Ministers publikely to pray for the Queens conversion in their Pulpits and questioned censured some Ministers in the High Commission for praying for her conversion from Popery to our Religion as a grand unpardonable offence To prove this we shall first produce his owne Informations and Instructions to Sir Nathaniel Brent endorsed subscribed with his own hand touching his Metropoliticall visitation in the Diocesse of London in March 1636. Among which we find a paper thus endorsed Informations of divers abuses in the City of London The second particular whereof is this That some Preachers take great liberty to pray before and after their Sermons loosly and factiously as FOR THE CONVERSION OF THE QUEEN over against which these two names are written in the margin Master Walker of Saint Johns Evangelist Master Burtons Curate c. Saint Matthew Friday-street To which himselfe adds this subscription directed to his Vicar generall that visited I require you that besides my other Instructions you give me an account of all particulars within named W. CANT Hereupon Sir Nathaniel Brent in pursuance of this Order in his open visitation prohibited the Ministers to pray for the Queenes conversion for proofe whereof Master Hugh Ratcliffe of Martins Ludgate testified upon oath That at a visitation held at Bow Church in London by Sir Nathaniel Brent Vicar generall to this Arch-bishop of Canterbury in whose right he then visited about Mar. 1636. the said Sir Nath. then and there in his publike charge to the Ministers in his bearing used these words Whereas divers of you in your Prayers before your Sermons Use TO PRAY FOR THE QUEENS CONVERSION YOU ARE TO DOE SO NO MORE Adding that the Queen did not doubt of her conversion meaning that shee doubted not but that shee was already in the right way We could produce other witnesses of this but the thing is so notorious we shall need no more From this inhibition of his we may certainly inferre these conclusions First that he who thus publikely inhibited other Ministers to pray for the Queens conversion would never questeonlesse himselfe endeavour by prayer conference or intimacy with her to convert her to our Religion Secondly that he must verily beleeve her popish Religion to be the true Religion and ours the false else both himselfe and all other our Ministers were bound in duty conscience most realously and constantly to pray in speciall manner to God for her Highnesse conversion from it because Gods Word and christian charity required it the imminent danger that might and doth acrew thereby to her owne soule in particular to his Majesty his royall Issue and this whole Church State in generall exacts it and the publike Liturgy of our Church which this Prelate so much stickled for both warrants and prescribes it not onely in the speciall Collects for the King and Queen the Letany the Prayer for the estate of the whole Church militant but likewise in the Collect for Good-friday which runs thus Mercifull God who hast made all men and hatest nothing that thou hast made nor wouldest the death of a sinner but rather that he should be converted live have mercy upon all Jewes Turkes Insidels and Heretycks and take from them all ignorance hardnesse of heart and contempt of thy Word and so fetch them home blessed Lord to thy stocke that they may be saved among the remnant of the true Israelites and be made one fold under one Shepheard Jesus Christ our Lord c. May yea must we then pray for all Jewes Turkes Hereticks in generall that God would really convert and bring them to his fold though we have no speciall relation to them and must our Ministers

evasions that this Picture was conceived to bee the picture of God the Father as Master Caryl deposed not a picture of him in truth It is a most childish evasion for the Scripture is expresse That God being a spirit an invisible infinite Essence can have no true pillure likenesse or similitude made of him by any corporall visible representation Isay 40. 18. to 27. c. 46. 5 6 Acts 17. 29. Rom. 1. 23. 24 25. whence every such Image of God is tearmed a lye in Scripture Isay 44. 20. Hab. 2. 18. Rom. 1. 25. c. And if ever any Image of God were a lye then certainly this as hath bin proved Now whereas he pretends it appeared not it was adored and idolozed till the hearing it is certaine it appeared to Mr. Sherfield long before the hearing or demolishing of it as he deposed in his answer and this appearing by witnesses upon Oath to the Bishop and whole Court when the cause was heard made his unjust and heavy censure farre more abominable to God and man Eghtly Mr. Workman was principally censured for his preaching against Images though his expressions were the very words of our Homilies The other particulars vvere all justifiable true no wayes censurable except the sixt which was pretended but not proved Therefore his censure most unjust and his censuring of some of those of Gloucester that joyned in a grant of Annuity to him under the City Seale though the Fine was but small and afterwards remitted was far more unjust 1. Because the grant of this Anpuity was not only an act of Charity but justice and equity punishable by no Law and highly to bee commended 2ly Because they were censured in their privat naturall Capacity for what they acted only in their politique as Members of the Corporation under their Common Seale wherein the whole City were engaged as much as they 3ly Because they damned this grant of which they had no cognisance to starve a faithfull Minister and his Family who had no other Livelyhood As for his prohibiting him to teach Schoole to practise Phisick when he had put him from his Ministry without any just cause it was a treble tyrany and oppression he being enforced to take this course only to supply himselfe and his family for which the Law of God and nature enjoynes him to provide unlesse he will be worse then an Infidell and doubtlesse he must needs be worse then any Infidell who had the heart to do it upon such a poore pretence that he might infect others with his opinions to wit of the unlawfullnesse of Images in Churchs or private houses the very approved resolved Doctrine of our Statutes Homilies Injunctions Writers Church 9ly For that he alleageth by way of justification and excuse touching the most barbarous censures of Mr. Prynne Mr. Burton Dr. Bastwick We reply 1. That his hand was to all the Warrants for their Illegall commitments crose imprisenments before their censures That the Books for which they were questioned were neither scandalous Seditious nor Schismaticall but necessary Apologies Pleas against his unjust tyrannicall proceedings in the High Commission and Popish Innovations in the Church to subvert our Religion That himselfe in his Starchamber Speech and Heylin and Dove after him confesseth justifieth the truth of these Innovations wherewith those Bookes did charge him all which the former and this present Parliament have unanimously complained off and voted to be illegall Popish destructive to our Religion Therewere these Bookes were neither Scandalous nor Libellous 3ly Both the proceedings and sentence against them are voted adjudged by both Houses to be altogether illegall unjust barbarous contrary to Magna Charta the Lawes of the Land and liberty of the Subject and unparralel'd in any age therefore ordered to be utterly rased and taken off the file as unfit to remaine upon record to prejudice posterity 4ly Their prosecution proceeded principally from him the Orders for shutting them up close prisoners denying them pen inke paper and speech with one another were procured by him The Orders for denying them liberty to put in their Answers under their owne hands taking them pro confesso were made when himselfe sate and Voted in Court being both prosecutor party and Iudge the sentence was given He sitting in Court though particularly excepted against though he gave no Vote in the Censure it selfe yet al knowe he was the cause and contriver of it before it was given yea he approved and thanked the Lord for it in his Speech when it was given caused it to he most seveerly executed when given against the will of those that gave it instigating his Majesty to the bloudy execution of it afterwards when executed denyed Mr. Pryns servant liberty upon Rayle to attend him during his wounds set his hand first to all the Warrants for sending them to and close imprisoning them in remote Castles and after that for banishing them into forraigne Islands where they were so strictly mewed up that neither freind Wife Children could have the least accesse unto them for their releife nor they procure liberty of pen inke or paper to write unto them for necessaries Yea had not he ingaged his extraordinary power and malice in their prosecution neither the Court Iudges Officers nor Lords had bin so extravagant so unjust in their proceedings Censures Executions against them nor their Councell so over-awed as they were nor they denyed liberty to answer for themselves and to impeach their Opposites by a Crosse Bil which if admitted as it ought of right and justice it would have prevented their heavy Censure elsewhere which probably would have falne short of this he is now likely to incurre All which considered this part of the charge stickes fast upon him in each particular 7ly Himselfe sent for Dr. Featly and commanded him to carry his Sermons to his Chaplin to peruse who thereupon expunged this and other passages out of them after they were printed to please his Lord and his Chaplains Act in this case is his own And though other passages against Images remained yet no reason can be given for expunging this being the direct words of the Homily but his complyancy with the Papists Yea Dr. Featlie sweares expresly that he did complaine of it to Sir Edmond Scot who told him it would bee bootlesse to complaine to the Archbishop who would undoe nothing his Chaplaine had altered 8ly For the Popish pictures we have proved them printed in London by the Archbishops own authority and direction that himselfe saw and approved them whiles in printing being the very same with those his Chapell windowes the Masse-Booke and Boetius a Bolswort found in his study That they were ordinarily bound up in Bibles and sold in shops of which the Stationers complaining to him he thereupon gave them the foresaid answer himselfe But that the Lords of the Counsel gave any such order he produceth no proofe at all In few words if the pictures were lawfull to bee