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A56218	The time-serving Proteus, and ambidexter divine, uncased to the vvorld containing two letters of M. John Dury (the great champion for the new ingagement, faithfully extracted out of the originalls under his own hand) : the first, to Joseph Hall, late Bishop of Exeter : the second, to William Lawd, late Archbishop of Canterbury : wherein he expresseth the reasons which moved him, not onely to scruple and dislike, but in some sort to renounce his ecclesiasticall orders and ministeriall function, formerly conferred on him in the reformed churches beyond the seas, because not given by a diœcesan bishop ...	Prynne, William, 1600-1669.; Dury, John, 1596-1680.	1650 (1650)	Wing P4106; Wing D2892; ESTC R19645	6,280	8

this I fell in a deep trouble of mind whereupon I went back again to those that had sent me thither and got a q discharge from them out of that place and permission to go to my Country There I stayed a long while before I could find a resolution to continue in the Ministery which at last by the perswasion of learned and godly friends I found so far that I thought it not lawfull for me to ronounce altogether that calling whereunto from my youth I had sincerely dedicated my studies to which I had been publiquely chosen by a Church to which I was approved fit by the judgement of many and to which I had obliged my self by solemn promise towards God So being afterwards called to a Noblemans family I returned to the function of a Lecturer and would never take upon me the charge of souls and thus have continued till now in ministeriall imployments of such a nature as did not bind me to any particular Church But now finding my selfe called in another Church otherwise ordered to a particular cure and finding the r nature of this cure agreeable to the Word of God and my self disposed in due time to discharge it I think that seeing the former Ordination hath been heretofore troubled with doubts and interrupted to the end I may go about this charge to which I am now called with a s full resolution and a faithfull assurance of a blessing from God I ought to enter by the door and crave such inabling as the Church can give me by Gods Ordinance not neglecting the t Power which God hath bestowed upon the Rulers thereof whereby they can give Orders unto their subordinate Ministers whereof I am appointed to be one And therefore to quench and prevent all further doubts of my calling to the Ministry I find my self u bound in conscience to crave and receive Orders in this Church of England which for these besides other causes right Reverend Father in God I humbly desire your Lordship to confer upon me if I shall be found capable of them after tryall and examination For which favour and benefit I have cause to praise God and be bound to pray for your Lordships perpetuall increase in all spirituall and temporall happinesse remaining alwaies Exeter 22. Feb. Anno 1634. Your Lordships most humble and devoted servant in Christ John Dury Mr. Dury was so far in love with these reasons of his wherein he manifested himself not only an absolute Episcopall Proselite but Parasite both in his conscience judgement and practise beyond all former presidents by Archbishop Lawds presentation of him to a good benefice in Devonshire which wrought these strange alterations and miraculous effects therein expressed that he sent the copy of them written with his own hand indorsed by him as aforesaid unto this Archbishop of Canterbury inclosed in this ensuing Letter written with his own hand and thus indorsed by the Archbishop himself Rece Mar. 10. 1633. Comp. Aug. To the * most Reverend Father in God my most gracious Lord William by Gods Providence Lord Archbishop of Canterbury Primate of all England and Metropolitane Chancellour of Oxford and one of the Lords of his Majesties most honorable Privy Counsell my most Noble Lord and ever-honored Patron Most reverend Father in God SEeing I ought to be jealous over my self in all things that concern the publike least I give just occasion to any body but chiefly unto your Grace of conceiving any thing of my actions but chiefly of that which doth concern my taking Orders in this Church otherwise then might be * for my credit as if either formerly I had without sufficient cause delayed a thing of so great moment or now lately had rushed upon it unadvisedly neither considering the nature of the work in it self nor the offence which Forrainers might take at me if they should come to know it I did think good for all these respects to present this Letter first in the originall to my Lord of Exeter and now in the Copy unto your Grace that all sinistrous and doubtfull opinions might be prevented and the true cause might appear wherefore I did now and never heretofore intend this matter therefore I beseech your Grace to take this also in good part and keep me in the favour of your good opinion as one that desires nothing more then to live and behave my self so that I may * testifie to all the world that I am your Grace his Most humbly devoted servant in all obedience John Dury Westminster 10. March 1634. BY the serious consideration of these two Letters and the marginal animadversions on them Mr. Iohn Dury his seduced engaging Patrons and Disciples comparing them with his subsequent changes and wheelings about with the times and thriving Party may take an exact Character as well of his inward as outward complection which S. James thus characteirzeth Jam. 1. 6. 8. He that wavereth is like a wave of the Sea driven with the wind and tossed A double-minded man is unstable in all his waies We shall say no more of him at present but recommend these three sacred texts to him and his followers most serious considerations and second thoughts Prov. 24. 21 22. My son fear thou the Lord and the King and meddle not with them that are given to change for their calamity shall rise suddenly and who knoweth the ruine of them both Jer. 2. 36 37 Why gaddest thou about so much to change thy way thou also shalt be ashamed of Egypt as thou wast ashamed of Assyria Yea thou shalt go forth from him and thine hands upon thy head for the Lord hath rejected thy confidences and thou shalt not prosper in them Rom. 1. 35. Who changed the truth of God into a lie and worshiped and served the creature more then the Creatour who is blessed for ever Amen Isai. 9. 16 17. For the leaders of this people cause them to erre and they that are led of them are destroyed Therefore the Lord shall have no joy in their young men neither shall have mercy on their fatherlesse and widdows for every one is in hypocrite and an evill doer and every month speaketh folly or villany for all this his anget is not turned away but his hand is stretched out still FINIS a Did you enter thus into your present Living and Pastorall charge without institution admission or induction of a Bishop b Archbishops preferments made Mr. Dury an Episcopall Proselite and marr'd his Presbyterianship c He voluntarily sues to the Bishops for new Orders without their motion or instigation d d No Ordination lawfull with him but that of Bishops e His conscience is very tender yet stretching and mutable with times and preferments f His former Ordination by Presbyters made him no Minister nor Member of the Clergy in his judgement g The Bishops Ordination only not the Presbyters is the door whereby all must enter into the Sheepfold h We have much failed herein of late years i Ordination by Bishops alone he calls Gods Ordinance but not by Presbyters k He intends and promiseth exact Canonicall obedience beforehand l Ordination by Bishops most agreeable to Gods Commandements m Ordination by Presbyters insufficient in his judgement which nulls and makes void the Ministers and Ministry of the reformed Church n Bishops and Ministers different in degree in his judgement o His Ordination by Presbyters much troubles his conscience p Doth not the present Ingagement put a greater restraint and confinement upon Ministers and the Ministry then this you mention q He could not in conscience accept of a Pastorall charge in a Presbyterian Church yet he can do it with a good conscience in a Prelaticall belike the revenues of the one were small but the other so great that it easily overpoised his conscience and judgement to accept it r A Parochiall Cure under our late Bishops is agreeable to Gods Word but not a Pastorall charge under a Presbyter Therefore I must renounce his present cure upon this ground as well as his first s A call from a Bishop gives a faithfull assurance to him of a blessing from God to his Ministry but not from a Presb●tery t The power of Ordination bestowed of God on Bishops only in his opinion not on inferiour Ministers u He is bound in conscience to seek a Reordination from the Bishop whom he Courts and flatters with all his Lordly Titles * He Courts this Archbishop to the full with all his Lordly Titles * Your Reordination Reasons and frequent changes are little for your credit Your Reasons Reordination and mutations have given them just offence and scandall too * He desires to testifie to all the world that he was this Archbishops most humbly devoted servant which will now make little for his credit

THE Time-serving Proteus AND Ambidexter Divine Uncased to the VVorld Containing two Letters of M. John Dury the great Champion for the New Ingagement faithfully extracted out of the Originalls under his own hand The first to Joseph Hall late Bishop of Exeter The second to William Lawd late Archbishop of Canterbury WHEREIN He expresseth the Reasons which moved him not onely to scruple and dislike but in some sort to renounce his Ecclesiasticall Orders and Ministeriall Function formerly conferred on him in the Reformed Churches beyond the Seas because not given by a Dioecesan Bishop but by particular men whereof none is above the degree of a Priest and in point of conscience to crave and receive a Reordination and new Orders from our English Bishops that so he might enter by the door into the sheepfold Whose superiority in degree over other Ministers and sole jurisdiction in conferring Orders he asserts to be jure divino professing withall his conscientious observance of and submission to all their Canons and Constitutions and testifying to all the world that he was the Prelates and this Archbishops most humbly devoted servant in all obedience and so he actually was till their fall and then he quite deserted them and turned a zealous Presbyterian again untill the late change of affairs metamorphosed him into an Independent and since into the first printed Advocate for the New Ingagement proving a Divine of as many various Editions as there are severall impressions of his inconsiderate Considerations Jam. 1. 8. A double minded man is unstable in all his wayes Jude 12. 13. Clouds they are without water carried about of winds Trees whose fruit withereth without fruit twice dead plucked up by the roots raging waves of the sea foaming out their own shame wandring stars to whom is reserved the blacknesse of darknesse for ever Printed in the Yeer 1650 A Copy of a Letter presented to the Reverend Father in God JOSEPH Lord Bishop of Exeter by Iohn Dury Wherein he setteth down the reasons which moved him to crave Orders in the Church of England after he had gotten a presentation to a Cure although else-where beyond seas he had been formerly called to a Pastorall charge in one of the Protestant Churches Right reverend Father in God IT doth import every one who is called to a Pastorall charge in the Church to satisfie his own conscience in all things belonging thereunto and be sure that he a entereth in by the door into the Sheepfold least if he enter in another way he be counted a thief and a robber Now I was lately called by my b Lords Grace of Canterbury to such a charge in this Church of England whereof I never was heretofore a member in the Clergy Therefore I thought it my duty to consider with my self whether or no I could lawfully take such a charge upon me except I were first received admitted unto the Ministry as others are in this Church of England which after ripe deliberation I found I could not do either lawfully in respect of the Church in which I am to have a charge or conveniently in respect of the duties to be discharged in it or safely in respect of the tranquillity of my own conscience concerning both For which cause I found it requisite to c request among other favours this at your Lordships hands that you would be pleased to grant me the orders which are appointed by the Canons of this Church to be received after a presentation or title is granted and before institution and induction may be given to any who is to have a charge of souls It is therefore my humble desire and intreaty that I may have the priviledge and right which others have by d lawfull ordination into the Ministry to discharge the office unto which I am called in this Church And least this request should seem to be without ground and motives sufficient to perswade my e conscience to desire it I will shortly set down the reasons which induce me to sue for this favour 1. I cannot find in conscience that I am a true member of the Clergy in this Church except I have the orders which others have in it and as it is appointed by the Law that every one should have For the f Ordination of the Church giveth one the right to be a member of the Ministery in it and he is none of the members that is not ordained as the Church appointeth Now it is so with me therefore I think my self obliged to seek for your Ordination that I may have the previledge of a true member of the Clergy and g enter in by the door into the Sheepfold 2. A Minister must be h carefull before all things to be without blemish and occasion of offence both in respect of the Church wherein he is to follow his calling and in respect of a good conscience whereby he must walk and be conversant in his calling But except I receive i Orders appointed by God in the Church I conceive that I cannot be blamelesse in either of these respects For first in respect of the Church I should not be blamelesse because the Law of the Church doth admit none to be a Curate or Minister except he be ordained by some Bishop of this Church Secondly I should not be blamelesse in respect of my own conscience because I must k intend to observe and submit my self to all the Canons and Constitutions of the Church agreeable or not contrary to the Word of God Now I know that this Canon touching the Ordination of Ministers is one of the chief and important Constitutions and l most agreeable to Gods Commandement therefore I acknowledge my self bound to observe it 3. Although I have been admitted els-where unto the Ministry yet I think not that m Ordination sufficient to authorize me to discharge a Pastorall office in this Church 1. Because the Church where I was formerly admitted is not the same with the Church of England as being different in Government from it 2. Because the orders which I received formerly were not given by persons of the same degree and authority by which these of the Church of England are conferred For those are given by particular men whereof none is above the n degree of a Priest but these are given by a Diocesax or Bishop 4. Because in my o former calling to the Ministery I have been heretofore interrupted and perplexed in conscience about it For a year after I was ordained I fell in trouble of mind concerning my calling and was once resolved to have left it wholly The cause of my doubt was a p certain restraint and confinement of my Ministry to certain conditions not agreeable to the freedome of a good conscience in professing the Gospell which were laid upon me both by those that sent me and those to whom I was to minister the Word When I found