blood of Christ unworthily shall be guilty of the very body and blood of Christ Vers 28 c. Wherefore let every man first prove himself and so let him eat of this bread and drink of this drink for whosoever eateth or drinketh it unworthily he eateth and drinketh to his own damnation because he putteth no difference between the very body of Christ and other kindes of meat Justification Fiftly As touching the order and cause of our Justification We will that all Bishops and Preachers shall instruct and teach our people committed by Us to their spiritual charge that this word Justification signifieth remission of our sins and our acceptation or reconciliation into the grace and favour of God that is to say our perfect renovation in Christ Item That sinners attain this justification by contrition and faith joyned with charity after such sort and manner as we before mentioned and declared Not as though our contrition or faith or any works proceeding thereof can worthily merit or deserve to attain the said justification for the onely mercy and grace for the Father promised freely unto us for his Sons sake Jesus Christ and the merits of his blood and passion be the onely sufficient and worthy causes thereof And yet that notwithstanding to the attaining of the same justification God requireth to be in us not onely inward contrition perfect faith and charity certain hope and confidence with all other spiritual graces and motions which as we said before must necessarily concurre in remission of our sins that is to say our justification but also he requireth and commandeth us that after we be justified we must also have good works of charity and obedience towards God in the observing and fulfilling outwardly of his laws and commandements For although acceptation to everlasting life be conjoyned with justification yet our good works be necessarily required to the attaining of everlasting life And we being justified be necessarily bound and it is our necessary duty to doe good works according to the saying of S. Paul s s Rom. 8. 12 c. We be bound not to live according to the flesh and to fleshly appetites for if we live so we shall undoubtedly be damned And contrary if we will mortifie the deeds of our flesh and live according to the spirit we shall be saved For whosoever be led by the spirit of God they be the children of God And Christ saith t t Mat. 19. 17. If you will come to heaven keep the commandements And Saint Paul speaking of evil works saith u u Gal. 5. 21. Whosoever commit sinfull deeds shall never come to heaven Wherefore We will that all Bishops and Preachers shall instruct teach Our people committed by Us unto their spiritual charge that God necessarily requireth of us to doe good works commanded by him and that not onely outward and civil works but also the inward spiritual motions and graces of the Holy Ghost that is to say to dread and fear God to love God to have firm confidence and trust in God to invocate and call upon God to have patience in all adversities to have sin and to have certain purpose and will not to sin again and such other like motions and virtues For Christ saith w w Mat. 5. 20. Except your righteousnesse shall exceed the righteousnesse of the Scribes and Pharisees ye shall in no case enter into the kingdome of heaven that is to say We must not only do outward civil good works but also we must have these foresaid inward spiritual motions consenting and agreeable to the law of God Articles concerning the laudable Ceremonies used in the Church of Christ and first of Images As touching Images truth it is that the same have been used in the Old Testament and also for the great abuses of them sometime destroyed and put down And in the New Testament they have been also allowed as good Authors doe declare Wherefore We will that all Bishops and Preachers shall instruct and teach Our people committed by Us to their spiritual charge how they ought and may use them And first that there be attributed unto them that they be representers of virtue and good example And that they also be by occasion the kindlers and stirrers of mens mindes and make men oft to remember and lament their sins and offences especially the images of Christ and our Lady And that therefore it is meet that they should stand in the Churches and none otherwise to be esteemed And to the intent that rude people should not from henceforth take such superstition as in time past it is thought that the same hath used to doe We will that Our Bishops and Preachers diligently shall teach them and according to this doctrine reform their abuses for else there might fortune idolatry to ensue which God forbid And as for sensing of them and kneeling and offering unto them with other like worshippings although the same hath entered by devotion and falne to custome yet the people ought to be diligently taught that they in no wise doe it nor think it meet to be done to the same images but onely to be done to God and in his honour although it be done before the images whether it be of Christ of the Crosse of our Lady or of any other Saint beside Of honouring of Saints At touching the honouring of Saints We will that all Bishops and Preachers shall instruct and teach Our people committed by Us unto their spiritual charges that Saints now being with Christ in heaven be to be honoured of Christian people in earth but not with that confidence and honour which are onely due unto God trusting to attain at their hands that which must be had onely of God But that they be thus to be honoured because they be known the elect persons of Christ because they be passed in godly life out of this transitory world because they already doe reigne in glory with Christ and most speically to laud and praise Christ in them for their excellent virtues which he planted in them for example of and by them to such as yet are in this world to live in virtue and goodnesse and also not to fear to die for Christ and his cause as some of them did And finally to take them in that they may to be the advancers of our prayers and demands unto Christ By these waies and such like be Saints to be honoured and had in reverence and by none other Of Praying to Saints As touching Praying to Saints We will that all Bishops and Preachers shall instruct and teach Our people committed by Us unto their spiritual charge that albeit grace remission of sin and salvation cannot be obtained but of God onely by the mediation of our Saviour CHRIST which is onely sufficient Mediatour for our sins yet it is very laudable to pray to Saints in heaven everlastingly living whose charity is ever permanent to be Intercxessors and to pray for
Several censures on this sad accident others suspect the Devil therein not for a Lyer but a Murtherer and this Massacre procured by Compact with him a third sort conceived that Dunstan who had so much of a Smith had here something of a Carpenter in him and some Devise used by him about pinning and propping of the Room It renders it the more suspicious because he disswaded King Edward from being present there pretending his want of Age though he was present in the last Council and surely he was never the younger for living some Moneths since the same Assembly If truely performed Dunstan appears happier herein then Samson himself who could not so sever his Foes Anno Dom. 977 but both must die together Anno Regis Edvardi Martyris 4 Sure I am no ingenuous Papist now-a-dayes will make any uncharitable Inference from such an accident especially since the Fall of Black Friers 1623. enough to make all good men turn the Censuring of others into an humble Silence and pious Adoring of Divine Providence 38. But the Monks made great Advantage of this Accident Seculars outed and Monks advanced conceiving that Heaven had confirmed their Cause as lately by VVord at VVinchester so now by VVork in this Council at Caln Hereupon Secular Priests are every where outed and Monks substituted in their Room Indeed these later in civil respect were beheld as more beneficiall to their Convents because Secular Priests did marry and at their deaths did condere Testamenta make their VVills and bequeathed their Goods to their Wives and Children whilest Monks having no Issue which they durst own made their Monastery Heir of all they had It was also objected against the Priests that by their Loosnesse and Lazinesse left at large in their Lives they had caused the generall declination of Piety at this time whilest it was presumed of the Monks that by the strict Rules of Observance to which they were tied they would repair the Ruines of Religion in all places 39. It appears not Priests hardly dealt with what Provision was made for these Priests when ejected and they seem to have had hard Measure to be dispossessed of their civil Right Except any will say it was no Injury to them to loose their places so soon but a great Favour that they enjoyed them so long living hitherto on the free Bounty of their Founders and now at the full Dispose of the Church and State Little can be said in excuse of the Priests and lesse in commendation of the Monks who though they swept clean at the first as new Besomes yet afterwards left more Dust behind them of their own bringing in then their Predecessours had done Thus the Hive of the Church was no whit bettered by putting out Drones and placing Wasps in their room Yea whereas formerly Corruptions came into the Church at the Wicket now the broad-Gates were opened for their Entrance Monkery making the way for Ignorance and Superstition to overspread the whole World 40. Another Humour of the former Age to make one Digression for all still continued The prodigious prodigality in building and endowing of Abbeys and encreased venting it self in the fair Foundations and stately Structures of so many Monasteries So that one beholding their Greatnesse being Corrivals with some Towns in receipt and extent would admire that they could be so neat and considering their Neatnesse must wonder they could be so great and lastly accounting their Number will make all three the object of his Amazement Especially seeing many of these were founded in the Saxon Heptarchy when seven Kings put together did spell but one in effect So that it may seem a Miracle what invisible Indies those petty Princes were Masters of building such Structures which impoverish Posterity to repair them For although some of these Monasteries were the fruit of many Ages long in ripening at several times by sundry persons all whose Parcels and Additions met at last in some tolerable Uniformity yet most of them were begun and finished absolute and entire by one Founder alone And although we allow that in those dayes Artificers were procured and Materials purchased at easie Rates yet there being then scarceness of Coin as a little Money would then buy much Ware so much Ware must first in exchange be given to provide that little Money all things being audited proportionably the Wonder still remains as great as before But here we see with what eagernesse those Designes are undertaken and pursued which proceed from blind Zeal every Finger being more then an Hand to build when they thought Merit was annexed to their Performances Oh with what might and main did they mount their Walls both day and night erroniously conceiving that their Souls were advantaged to Heaven when taking the Rise from the top of a Steeple of their own erection 41. But it will not be amisse Caution to our Age. to mind our forgetfull Age that seeing Devotion now better informed long sithence hath desisted to expresse it self in such pompous Buildings she must find some other means and manner to evidence and declare her Sincerity Except any will say that there is lesse Heat required where more Light is granted and that our Practice of Piety should be diminished because our Knowledge thereof is increased God no doubt doth justly expect that Religion should testifie her Thankfulnesse to him by some eminent way and Works and where the Fountain of Piety is full it will find it self a Vent to flow in though not through the former Chanels of Superstition 42. King Edward went to give his Mother-in-law at Corfe-Castle a respectfull Visit 6 when by her contrivance he was barbarously murthered 979 so to pave the way for her Son Ethelred his Succession to the Crown King Edward murthered alias martyred But King Edward by losing his Life got the title of a Martyr so constantly called in our Chronicles Take the term in a large acception otherwise restrictively it signifies such an one as suffers for the Testimony of the Truth But seeing this Edward was cruelly murthered and is said after death to work Miracles let him by the Courtesie of the Church passe for a Martyr not knowing any Act or Order to the contrary to deny such a Title unto him 43. Ethelred Ethelredi cognom the Unready 1 Edward's half-Brother King Ethelred prognosticated unsuccessfull succeeded him in the Throne One with whom Dunstan had a Quarrel from his Cradle because when an Infant he left more Water in the Font then he found there at his Baptizing Happy Dunstan himself if guilty of no greater Fault which could be no Sin nor properly a Slovennesse in an Infant if he did as an Infant Yet from such his addition Dunstan prognosticated an Inundation of Danes would ensue in this Island which accordingly came to passe But Ethelred is more to be condemned for the Bloud he shed when a man it being vehemently suspected that
Bishop elect of Bangor Humphry Tyndall Dean of Ely D r Whitaker Queens professor in Cambridge and others were assembled these after a serious debate and mature deliberation resolved at last on the now Following Articles 1. Deus ab Aeterno Praedestinavit quosdam advitam quosdam reprobavit ad mortem 2. Causa movens aut efficiens Praedestinationis ad vitam non est praevisio Fidei aut Perseverantiae aut bonorum Operum aut ullius rei quae insit in personis praedestinatis sed sola voluntas beneplaciti Dei 3. Praedestinatorum praefinitus certus est numerus qui nec augeri nec minui potest 4. Qui non sunt praedestinati ad salutem necessario propter peccata sua Damnabuntur 5. Vera viva justificans fides spiritus Dei justificantis non extinguitur non excidit non evanescit in Electis aut finaliter aut totalitor 6. Homo vere fidelis id est fidei justificante praeditus certus est plerophoria Fidei de remissione peccatorum suorum salute sempiterna sua per Christum 7. Gratia salutaris non tribuitur non excommunicatur non conceditur universis hominibus qua servari possint si velint 8. Nemo potest venire ad Christum nisi datum ei fuerit nisi pater eum traxerit omnes homines non trabuntur à Patre ut veniant ad filium 9. Non est positum in arbitrio aut Potestate unius cujusque hominis servari 1. God from eternity hath predestinated certain men unto life certain men he hath reprobated 2. The moving or efficient cause of Predestination unto life is not the foresight of faith or of Perseverance or of good works or of any thing that is in the person predestinated but only the good will and pleasure of God 3. There is predetermined a certain number of the predestinate which can neither be augmented or diminished 4. Those who are not predestinated to Salvation shall be necessarily damned for their sins 5. A true living and justifying faith and the spirit of God justifying is not extinguished falleth not away it vanisheth not away in the elect either finally or totally 6. A man truly faithful that is such an one who is endued with a justifying faith is certain with the full assurance of faith of the remission of his sins and of his everlasting salvation by Christ 7. Saving grace is not given is not granted is not communicated to all men by which they may be sav'd if they will 8. No man can come unto Christ unless it shall be given unto him and unless the Father shall draw him and all men are not drawn by the Father that they may come to the Son 9. It is not in the will or power of every one to be saved Matthew Hutton the right Reverend Arch-Bishop of Yorke did also fully and freely in his judgement Concurr with these Divines as may appear by his Letter here inserted ACcepi jam pridem literas tuas Reverendissime Praesul veteris illius Benevolentiae amoris erga me tui plenas in quibus efflagitas opinionem meam de Articulis quibusdam nuper Cantabrigiae agitatis non sine aliqua piorum offensione qui graviter molestéque ferunt Matrem Academiam jam multitudine liberorum quidem doctissimorum florentem ca dissentione filiorum nonnihil contristatem esse Sed ficri non potest quin veniant Offendicula neque desinâ—t immicus homo iâ—ter triticum Zizanta Seminare donec cum Dominus sub pedibus contriverit Legi Articulos relegi dum parerem aliquid de singulis dicerc visum est mihi multo potius de ipsa Electione Repâ—obatione unde iâ—la dissentio orta esse videtur meam sententiam opinionem pau is verbis explicare quam singulis sigillatim respondens sratrum forsitan quorundum animas Quos in veritate diligo exacerbare Meminisse potes ornatissime Antistes cum Cantabrigiae unà essemus et sacras literas in Scholis publicis interpretaremur eandem Regulam seculieam semper fuisse inter nos Consensionem in omnibus Religionis Causis ne minima quidem vel dissentionis vel simultatis suspicio unquam appareret Igitur hoc tempore si judicio Dominationis tuae id quod pingui Minerva scripsi probatum ire intellexero multo mihi minus displacebo Deus te diutissime servet inâ—lumâ—m ut tum Reginae serenissimae toti Regno fidelissimus Consilitarius tum etiam Ecclesiae huic nostrae Anglicanae pastor Vtilissimus multos adhuc â—nnos esse possis Vale è Musaeo meo apud Bishop Thorp Calend Octob. Anno Dom. 1995. 24. The high opinions sâ—me had of these Articles But when these Articles came abroad into the world mens Brains and tongues as since their pens were employed about the Authority of the same and the obedience due unto them much puz'led to finde the new place where rightly to rank them in reputation how much above the results and resolutions of private Divines and how much beneath the Authority of a Provincial Synod Some there that almost equalled their Authenticalness with the Acts a Synod requiring the like Conformity of mens judgements unto them They endeavoured to prove that those Divines met not alone in their private capacities but also representing others alledging this passage in a publick a See it cited at large in our History of Cambridge Anno 1595. letter from Cambridge subscribed with the hands of the Heads of that University We sent up to London by common Consent in November last D r Tyndall and D r Whitakers men especially chosen for that purpose for conference with my Lord of Canterbury and other principal Divines there c. 25. Others value them at a lower rare Others maintain the contrary For grant each man in this conference at Lambeth one of a thousand for Learning and Religion yet was he but one in Power and Place and had no Proxie or deputation the two Cambridge Doctors excepted to appear in the behalf of others and therefore their determinations though of great use to direct could be but of little Authority to conclude and command the consent of others 26. Some flatly condemned both the Articles and Authors of them But a third sort offended with the matter of the Articles thought that the two Arch-Bishops and the rest at this meeting deserved censure for holding an unlawfull Conventicle For they had not express command from the Queen to meet debate and decide such controversies Those of the opopsite party were not solemnly summoned and heard so that it might seem rather a design to crush them then clear the truth The meeting was warranted with no legall Authority rather a private action of Doctor John Whitgift Doctor Matthew Hutton c. then the publick act of the Arch-Bishops of Canterbury and Yorke b Mr Mountague in his appeal pag 55. 56. 71. 72. One goeth further
well it is in Latine calling his Book Charta Cacata which saving reverence to the Reader may be returned on the foul of mouth of him who first uttered it 32. Now I conceive Justly disproved not onely Queen Elizabeths poor people at Greenwich so are the Almes-men there termed in a fair House which this Mr. Lambert charitably g Cambd. Brit. in Kent founded for them engaged to assert their good Patron but also that all ingenious English men are obliged in his just vindication from this unjust aspersion Indeed his Book is a rare piece of learning and he in age and industry the true successour to Leland in the studies of English Antiquity and the height thereof above common capacity the sole cause that his Book as also his worthy work on the Saxon Laws hath no oftner passed the Impression His labours are feasts for schollars not like Stow's works daily fare for common people Thus the Draper may sooner sell forty ells of freeze and course cloath than the Mercer four yards of cloath of gold as onely for the wearing of persons of prime quality Nor doth the slow-selling of a book argue it to be a drugge wanting reall worth in its self seeing this railing Reinerius his own Book notwithstanding the pompous Title thereof Apostolatus Benedictinorum in Angliâ though printed nine and twenty years since viz 1626 hath not on my best enquiry as yet been honour'd with a second Edition 33. Before we take our farewell of Fryers Antipathy betwixt Fryers and Parish-Priests know there was a deadly Antipathie betwixt them and Parish-Priests For the former slighted the later as good alone to take Tythes and like Hackney post-horses onely to run the stage in the Masse-book secundùm usum Sarum Ignorant and unable to preach Wherefore the Fryers when invading the Pulpit would not say to the Parson By your leave Sir but proudly presuming on their Papall Priviledges assumed it to themselves as forfeited to them for the Parson's want of skill or will to make use of it But these Vultures had the quickest sight and scent about Corps flocking fastest to men of fashion when lying on their Death-beds whose last Confessions were more profitable to the Fryers than half the Glebe-land that year to the Priest of the Parish 34. This plainly appeareth out of Erasmus in his Dialogues In Erasâ—â—â— his Jeast-earnest Dialogue who though perchance therein he doth Lucian it too much yet truth may be discovered under the varnish of his scoffing wit He in his Dialogue entituled FUNUS tells us how Sir George the rich Knight being formerly confessed to the Fryers the Parochiall Pastour refused to bury him because he could not give an account to God of this his sheep as unacquainted with his finall estate and this case commonly happened in England the occasion of much heart-burning betwixt them 35. Monks also hated Fryers at their hearts Monks why hating Fryers because their activity and pragmaticalnesse made Monks be held as idle and uselesse yea as meer Cyphers whilst themselves were the onely Figures of reckoning and account in the Church 36. h Hist. Angl. in Hen. 3. pag. 949. Matthew Paris a Benedictine Monke of S. Albans was a back-friend to Fryers and on all occasions hath a good word in store for them thus speaking of the coming in of the Brethren of the Sack as also of the Order of Betblemites he welcomes them with this Complement That now there were so many Orders in England that of them there was an inordinate confusion 37. Indeed Fryers stinted to 4 Orders the Pope at last grew sensible that the world began to groan as weary with the weight of Fryers Who if multiplying proportionably in after-Ages would so increase there would be more mouthes to beg almes than hands to relieve them and therefore they were stinted to the aforesaid four Cardinal Orders of Dominicans Franciscans Carmelities and Augustinian Eremites These boasted themselves to be like the i Erasmus Dialogues in Fun. four Evangelists though the number alone excepted no conformity betwixt them And they more like unto God's four k Ezek. 14. 21. sore Iudgments wherewith he useth to afflict a sinfull Nation 37. Come we now to Nuns The numerousnesse of Nuns almost as numerous in England as Monks and Fryers as having though not so many Orders more of the same Order The weaker sex hath ever equalled men in their devotion Often exceeded them in superstition as in the one instance of Gilbertines may appear These were an Hermophrodite Order as is aforesaid admitting both men and women under the same roof and during the life of Gilbert their first Founder for seven hundred Brethren there were l Weavers Fun. Mon. pag. 148. eleven hundred Sisters entred into that Order None can be so exact in reckoning up the Nuns as the Fryers because that sex afforded no Writers to acquaint us with the Criticismes of their observances 38. We will insist onely on three sorts The ancientest and poorest Nuns 1. The Antientest 2. The Poorest 3. The latest Nuns in England Of the first sort we account the she Benedictines commonly called black Nuns but I assure you peny white being most richly endowed The Poorest follow being the strict Order of S. Clare a Lady living in the same time and born in the same Town with S. Francis and her Nuns did wear a like habit in colour with the Franciscans I am charitably enclined to believe that these were the least bad amongst all the Professions of Virginity 39. The Brigettean Nuns were the latest in England Brigetteans the last Order of Nuns first setled here in the second year of King Henry the fifth Anno Dom. 1415 dissolved with the rest of all Orders Anno 1538 so that they continued here onely one hundred three and twenty years an Order to be loved on this account That it was the last in England Bridget Queen of Sweden gave them their name and institution Men and Women living under the same roof the Women above the Men beneath and one Church common to both By their Order their House was to be endowed plentifully at the first whereon they might live without wanting or begging as well in dear as cheap years and after their first foundation they were uncapable of any future benefactions Si posteatotus m Tho. Walsingham in Hen. 5. in Anno 1413. mundus possessiones praedia eis offerret quicquam omninò recipere non liceret If afterwards the whole world should proffer them farms and possessions it was utterly unlawfull for them to accept any thing thereof as indeed additions to such who had plenty before is rather a burden than a benefit 40. The mysterious number of Brigetteans might not exceed the number of eighty five The mysticall number of Brigetteans which forsooth was the number of Christ's Apostles and Disciples put together and thus they were precisely to be qualified 1.
and that very truly that he was Vir maguae potentiae being indeed well borne well allied well learned well landed and well loved wanting neither wit wealth nor valour though at present all were ill imployed by him Indeed this his Treason may be said to fall in labour some weeks before the full time thereof occasioned by a sudden fright and therefore no wonder if the issue thereof proved abortive For Wyat hearing that one of his Dear Friends was cast into the Fleet though for a cause unrelating to this Plot to which the Partie was privy suspected Anno Dom. 1553-1554 as guilt is ever jealous that this his Friend had betrayed the designe which made Wyat anticipat the due date thereof and break our the sooner into open hostility 26. The Queen The Queens Herauld sent unto him hearing of his commotion sent an Herauld unto him to desist which Herauld came to Sr. Tho. his house deeply moated round about the Bridge being drawn up yet so that a place like a Ford pretended a safe passage thereunto On the inside thereof walked the proper case of a man well habited and his face carrying no despair of wisdome therein The Herauld asked him whether he might safely go over there to whom the other slightly answered Yea Yea but had not the strength of his Horse been more then ordinary he either had been drowned in the water or buried in the mudde 27. The Herauld hardly escaping fills all the House with complaints Almost drowned with false directions that being an Officer sent from the Queen under the protection of the publike faith having his coate his conduct upon him he should be so wilfully abused by false directions to the danger of his life by one of Sr. Tho. his servants The Knight highly offended at the fault as Gentleman enough and enemy to actions of basenesse summons all his Servants to appear before the Herauld vowing that the Offendour should be sent Prisoner to the Queen with his leggs bound beneath his Horse belly to receive from her the reward of his wickednesse 28. The Herauld challengeth the party at the first sight of him But all ends in merriment Alasse said Sr. Tho. he is a meer Naturall as will appear if you please to examine him Why Sirrah said the Herauld did you direct me to come over where it was almost impossible to passe without drowning To whom the other answered the Duckes came over not long before you whose leggs were shorter then your horses Hereat the Herald smiled out his anger adding withall Sr. Thomas hereafter let your Foole wear the Badge of his Profession on him that he may deceive no more in this kinde But passe we to matters of more moment Wyat courteously dismissed the Herauld but denying to desist marched to Rochester to meet his Complices out of the West of Kent who came short unto him as intercepted and routed with Sr. Henry Ilsley their Conductour by the Lord Abergaveny though this losse was presently repaired 29. For when Thomas Duke of Norfolke marched down with five hundred Londoners The Londoners revolt to Wyat. in white Coats to resist Wyat Janu 29. and was now come to Stroud on the other side of Rochester the Londoners revolted to Wyat. Thus the most Valiant Leader cannot make his Followers Loyall Yet these Londoners false to forsake the Duke were faithfull not to betray his person which they might easily have done if so disposed Wyat is much elated with this supply as more in the omen then in it self who concluding all Londoners of the same lump hereby promised himself easie enterance into that City and hearty entertainment therein 30. His insolency is said to rise with his successe Wyats insolence and Q Mary her oration so that having a Treatie with some of the Privie Councellours in his passage to London he demanded unreasonable conditions affirming that he would rather be trusted then trust and therefore requiring the person of the Queen the Tower of London to be committed unto him with power to displace evill Councellours not propounded with more pride but that with as much scorne they were refused Febr. 1. Mean time Queen Mary came to Guild-Hall and there made a long oration and indeed if on just occassion she could not speak confidently and pertinently She was neither Daughter to her Father nor to her Mother Mr. Foxe e Act. Mon pag. 1419. addeth that she seemed to have perfectly conned her speech without book which if so sounds nothing to her disgrace some being for extempory prayers but none to my knowledge for extempory pollicy This her oration secured the affections of the Citizens unto her as by the sequell will appear 31. Entring Southwarke he enjoyneth his Souldiers to offer no violence Southwarkâ— entred and Prisons opened or take any thing without payment yet Winchester House soon felt their fury though such by his command a Generall can but proclaini and punish the Breakers of his Proclamation were made exemplary for their rapine Then were the Prisons and Southwarke is well stored with houses of that kinde set open for such who were guilty onely of pretended heresie not Felionte and murther But some who thanked him for his curtesie refused the acceptance thereof a tender conscience is a stronger obligation then a Prison because as they were legally committed they would be legally discharged 32. But now all the Towers of the Tower Southwarke left Kingston marched to and the topps of the square Steeples neer the Bridge-Foot on the otherside were planted with Ordnance so that both Church and State threatened his ruine ready to be discharged into Southwarke either to beat down the Burrough or to force Wyat to depart who perceiving it impossible to force his passage into London over the Bridge and moved with the miserable moans of the Southwarkers left their Burrough Feb. 6. and though towards the evening marched swiftly silently secretly to Kingston upon Thames Speed begets speed quicknesse causeth successe in matters of execution as here in Wyat his comming to Kingston before any almost had notice of his motion 33. But Wyat was not so much advantaged with his own expedition The carelessenesse of the Queene her Souldiers as with the coincident oversights of the Queens party whose carelessenesse and cowardise met together enough to destroy her cause had not Divine Providence resolved with finall successe to rectifie all humane mistakes First such set to order Kingston Bridge did their work by halves breaking and not breaking it down so that the substantialls standing the rest were easily repaired for Wyat his safe passage over Secondly two hundred men set to defend the opposite banke quitted their Station a B. Godwins annalls of England in Q. Mary pag. 394 the very sight of two pieces of Ordnance planted against them Thirdly the Queens Scouts lost their eyes and deserved to lose their Heads who could not discover a Body
same purpose to prepare matters fit for their cognizance the Bishop of Lincoln having the Chair in both authorized to call together divers Bishops and Divines to consult together for correction of what was amisse and to settle peace viz. b More were named but these chiefly were present The Archbishop of Armagh The Bishop of Durham The Bishop of Exeter Doctor Samuel Ward Doctor John Prideaux Doctor William Twisse Doctor Robert Sanderson Doctor Daniel Featlyâ— Doctor Ralph Brounrigg Doctor Richard Holdsworth Doctor John Hacket Doctor Cornelius Burges Master John White Master Stephen Marshall Master Edmund Calamy Master Thomas Hill Jerusalem-Chamber in the Dean of Westminsters house was the place of their meeting where they had solemn debates six severall dayes alwaies entertained at his Table with such bountifull chear as well became a Bishop But this we behold as the last course of all publick-Episcopall-Treatments whose Guests may now even put up their Knives seeing soon after the Voider was called for which took away all Bishops lands and most of English-Hospitality 47. First they took the Innovations of Doctrine into consideration They consult on Innovations in Doctrin and here some complained that all the tenets of the Councell of Trent had by one or other been preached and printed abating only such points of State-Popery gainst the Kings Supremacy made treason by the Statute Good works co-causes with faith by justification private confession by particular enumeration of sinnes needfull necessitate medii to salvation that the oblation or as others the consumption of the Elements in the Lords-Supper holdeth the nature of a true sacrifice prayers for the dead lawfulnesse of monasticall vowes the grosse substance of Arminianism and some dangerous points of Socintanisme 48. Secondly And in discipline they enquired into preter-canonicall conformity and innovations in discipline Advancing Candlesticks in parochiall Churches in the day time on the Altar so called Making Canopyes over with traverses of Curtains in imitation of the Vaile before the Holy of Holyes on each side and before it Having a credentia or side-Table as a Chappel of ease to the Mother Altar for divers uses in the Lords Supper Forbidding a direct prayer before Sermon and Ministers to expound the Catechism at large to their Parishioners carrying children when baptized to the Altar so called and there offering them up to God pretending for some of these innovations the injunctions and advertisements of Queen Eliz. which are not in force and appertaining to the printed Liturgy secundo tertio Edvardi sexti which is reformed by Parliament 49. Thirdly And concerning the Common-Prayer they consulted about the Common Prayer-Book whether some legendary and some much doubted saints with some superstitious memorialls were not to be expunged the calendar c This I did write out of the private notes of one of the Committe Whether it was not fit that the Lessons should be only out of Canonicall Scripture the Epistles Gospells Psalmes and Hymes to be read in the nâ—w translation c. Whether times prohibited for Marriage are not totally to be taken away Whether it were not fit that hereafter none should have a Licence or have their Banes of Matrimony asked save such who should bring a Certificate from their Minister that they were instructed in their Catechism Whether the Rubick is not to be mended altered and explained in many particulars 50. Lastly And regulation of government they entered on the regulating of Ecclesiasticall government which was not brought in because the Bishop of Lincoln has undertaken the draught thereof but not finished it as imployed at the same time in the managing of many matters of State so easy it is for a great person never to be at leisure to doe what he hath no great minde should be done 51. Some are of opinion that the moderation and mutuall compliance of these Divines Divers opinions what this conference might have produced might have produced much good if not interrupted conceiving such lopping might have saved the felling of Episcopacy Yea they are confident had this expedient been pursued and perfected Troiaque nunc stares Priamique arx alta maneres Troy still had stood in power And King Priams lofty Tower Had remained at this hower it might under God have been a means not only to have checkt but choakt our civill War in the infancy thereof But the Court prelates expected no good from the result of this meeting suspecting the Doctrinal Puritans as they nicknamed them joyned with the Disciplinary Puritans would betray the Church betwixt them Some hot spirits would not have one ace of episcopal power or profit abated and though since confuted by their own hunger preferred no bread before half a loaf These maintained that any giving back of ground was in effect the granting of the day to the opposit party so covetous they be to multiply their cravings on the others concessions But what the issue of this conference concluded would have been is only known to him who knew what * 1 Sam. 23. 12. the Men of Keilah would doe and whose prescience extends not only to things future but futurable having the certain cognisance of contingents which might yet never actually shall come to passe 52. This consultation continued till the middle of May Broken off and the weaving thereof was fairly forward on the Loome when Atropos occat the bringing in the Bill against Deanes and Chapters Root and Branch Anno Dom. 1641 Anno Regis Caroli 16 cut off all the threds putting such a distance betwixt the fore-said Divines that never their Judgements and scarce their Persons met after together 53. In the midst of these troublesome times Aprill 21. John Davenant Bishop of Salâ—sbury ended his life The dâ—ath of Bâ—shâ—p Davenant His Father was a wealthy and religious Citizen of London but born at Davenants-lands in Sible Heningham in Essex Where his Ancestours had continued in a worshipfull degree from Sir John Davenant who lived in the time of King Henry the third He bred his sonne a Fellow Commoner in Queens-Colledge in Cambridge and would not suffer him to accept a Fellowship though offered as conceiving it a bending of these places from the direct intent of the Founders when they are bestowed on such as have plenty Though indeed such preferments are appointed as well for the reward of those that are worthy as the relief of those that want and after his Fathers death he was chosen into that Society In his youthfull exercises he gave such an earnest of his future maturity that Dr. Whitacre hearing him dispute said The he would in time prove the Honour of the University A Prediction that proved not untrue when afterward he was chosen Margaret Professour of Divinity being as yet but a private Fellow of the Colledge Whereof some yeers after he was made Master and at last Bishop of Salisbury Where with what gravity and moderation he behaved
himself how humble hospitable painfull in preaching and writing may better be reported hereafter when his memory green as yet shall be mellowed by time He sate Bishop about twenty yeers and died of a Consumption anno 1641. to which sensiblenesse of the sorrowfull times which he saw were bad and foresaw would be worse did contribute not a little I cannot omit how some few hours before his death having lyen for a long time though not speechlesse yet not speaking nor able to speak as we beholders thought though indeed he hid that little strength we thought he had lost and reserved himself for pupose he fell into a most emphaticall prayer for half a quarter of an hour Amongst many heavenly passages therein He thanked God for this his fatherly correction because in all his life time he never had one heavie affliction which made him often much suspect with himself whether he was a true Child of God or no untill this his last sicknesse Then he sweetly fell asleep in Christ and so we softly draw the Curtains about him 54. The whole Bodies of Cathedrall Churches Deans and Chapters first opposed by Parliament being of too great a bulk to be blown up by their adversaries at once they began with the Quires accusing the members thereof for uselesse and unprofitable The Prelaticall Court Clergy were not so active and diligent in defending these foundations as it was expected from their interest and relations Whether because they were disheartned at the imprisonment of their chief the Archbishop of Cant. or because some of them being otherwise obnoxious to the Parliament were loath therein to appear or because they vainly hoped that this heat once over all things would continue in their pristine condition or because they were loath to plead in that Suit wherein they despaired to prevaile as foreseeing those places destined to dissolution 55. Yet some of the same side causelesly complained of the backwardnesse of other moderate Cathedrall men An unjust charge that they improved not their power with their Parliament friends so zealously as they might in this cause as beginning too late and proceeding too lazily therein who should sooner have set their shoulders and backs to those tottering Quires so either to support them The Cathedrall men endeavour to preserve their foundations or to be buried under the ruines thereof Whereas they did whatsoever good men could or wise men would doe in their condition leaving no stone unturned which might advantage them herein 56. Indeed it was conceived inconsistent with their gravity to set themselves to fight against the shadow of common rumour and so to feign an enemy to themselves whilest as yet no certainty of the Parliaments intentions to destroy Deanes and Chapters What had this been but perchance to put that into their brains which otherwise they charitably beleeved would not enter therein But no sooner were they certified of the reality of their designe but they vigorously in their callings endeavoured the prevention thereof By Appointing one in each Cathedrall Church to sollicite their friends on this behalf Drawing up a Petition the same mutatis mutandis to House of Lords and Commons which because never formally presented I forbear to insert Retaining and instructing learned Councell to move for them in the House Untill they were informed that the Orders of the House would not bear any to plead for them but that they must personally appear and viva voce plead for themselves 57. Lest therefore their longer silence should by posterity be interpreted May 12. either Sullennesse Dr. Hacket his Speech in the defence of Deans and Chapters that they would not or guiltinesse that they durst not speak for themselves by their friends they obtained leave to be admitted into the House of Commons and to be heard what they could alledge in their own behalf They made choice of Dr. John Hacket Prebendary of Pauls and Archdeacon of to be the mouth in the behalf of the rest The brief heads of whose speech copied by his leave out of his own papers are here inserted 58. First he craved the favour of that Honourable House to whom he was to speak on a double disadvantage One caused from the shortnesse of time this employment being imposed on him but in the afternoon of the day before The other because he had not heard what crimes or offences were charged on Deanes and Chapters that so he might purge them from such imputations reports only flying abroad that they were accounted of some of no use and convenience the contrary whereof he should endeavour to prove reducing the same to two heads quoad res quoad Personas in regard of things of great moment and divers Persons concerned in such Foundations 59. To the first It is fit that to supply the defects of prayer committed by private men the publick duty thereof should be constantly performed in some principall place in imitation of the primitive practice and this is dayly done in Cathedrall Churches And whereas some complain that such service gives offence for the super-exquisitenesse of the Musick therein so that what was intended for Devotion vanished away into Quavers and Aire he with the rest of his Brethren there present wished the amendment thereof that it might be reduced to the form which Athanasius commends ut legentibus sint quà m cantantibus similiores And here he spake much in prayse of the Church-Musick when moderated to Edification 60. Hence he passed to what he tearmeth the other wing of the Cherubin which is Preaching first planted since the Reformation in Cathedrall Churches as appears by the learned Sermons which Dr. Allens afterwards Bishop of Excester preached in the Church of St. Pauls and since continued therein Where by the way he took occasion to refell that slaunder which some cast on Lecture-Preachers as an upstart-Corporation alledging that the locall Statutes of most or all Cathedrall Churches doe require Lectures on the week dayes And in the name of his Brethren he requested that Honourable House that the godly and profitable performance of preaching might be the more exacted 61. In the third place he insisted on the advancement of learning as the proper use and convenience of Cathedralls each of them being a small Academie for the Champions of Christ his cause against the Adversarie by their learned pens Here he proffered to prove by a catalogue of their names and works which he could produce that most excellent labours in this kinde excepting some few have proceeded from persons preferred in Cathedralls or the Universities Now what a disheartning would it be to young Students if such promotions were taken away witnesse the fewnesse of such admitted this last yeer into the Universities and the deadnesse of the sale of good Books in St. Pauls Church yard meerly upon a timorous imagination abroad that we are now shutting up learning in a case and laying it aside But if the bare threatening make such a stop