WHensoever it shall please his Grace to consider that the wordes immediatly going bef [...]re those which he citeth Pro. 18. viz. Observ. That it is not good to ac [...]ept the person of the wicked, to cause the righteous to fall in judgement; His conscience may happily tell him that he wresteth the sence of the words cited, ap­plying them to the words or writts of the poore men [...]hat he [...]e hath caused to suffer under pretext of a Crime (which he [...]ath caused through his power and greatnes) to be imputed to acts [...]f theirs both honest and lawfull.

But I humbly beseech Your Majesty to consider, that 'tis not We only, [...]at is, the Bishops, that are strucke at, but through our sides, Arch. B. [...]ur Majesty, Your Honor, Your Safety, Your Religion, [...] [...]eached.

[Page 2] [...]serv.The mention making, yea the reproaching and condemning those actions of Bishops, which argue a probability of their intention to la­bour innovation in religion, is no striking of the King through the Bi­sh [...]ps sides, As Christian religion hath beene brought into th [...] domi­nion of many Princes, so alterations have beene made in it, sometimes against their wills, and sometimes without their knowledge, by artifice and cunning of Churchmen, who often (as one writeth of those that did abuse the great trust they had with the Emp. Theodosius) aut stabi­li [...]e impia dogmata, aut arte m [...]j [...]res distractiones, facere conantur, ne ips [...] ­rum au [...]horitas labefactetur; As wise Princes, as ever have bee [...]e, can be, or now are; Have beene and may be abused by Churchmen in trust; Constantine was by Churchmen moved both to embrace the A [...]rian haeresie, and to establish it by his auth [...]rity and consent of a ge­nerall counsell; Constantius was induced by Churchmen not onely to authorize it by decrees and acts of six severall generall counsels, but to commaund also all Churchmen to approve the said acts by sub­scription thereunto; Churchmen perswaded Arcadius to banish Chri­sostome, And The [...]dosius, to convocate a counsell, and besett it wi [...]h ar­med men, for establishing the haeresy of Eu [...]ches. As the mention made by Orthodox Christians, and impugning of those haeresies and artifices, whereby those Churchmen induced those Emperours to esta­blish them, were such acts of the duty of loyall subjects and good C [...]ristians as could not be lawfully termed a striking of those Prin­ces through their Prelates sides; So neither the historicall narration, nor the preaching or writing against those acts of Bishops, which argue probability of their purpose, to use their power to reduce our country to Popery, is noe striking at his Majestie through the Bi­sh [...]ps sides.

And seeing no Bishop hath hitherto condemned, impugned or ac­cused Sancta Clara, and such as appl [...]ud his booke, of the cryme of str [...]k [...]ng at the K. t [...]rough the Bishops sides, by alleadging the writings of Bishop Andrewes, Bish [...]p Mon [...]ague, Hooker and others, and an act of commencement a [...] Cambridge in 1634. and pretended interpreta­tions by some learned English divines, of some words in the articles of the con [...]ssion of the Church of England, to prove that the religion of the Church of England is all one with the Popish in the doctrine of [...]eewill, naturall justice, & perfecti [...]n, de merito congruo, justification by [...]orkes, workes of superarogation, invocation of Saints, adoration of [Page 3] images and other strange articles, mentioned in the booke inti [...]uled, Deus, natura, gratia, Pag. 7.27.33.55 68.133.158.181.211.212.245.260.275.276.277.307.316. and 318.

Yea seeing it ca [...] be pr [...]ved by irr [...]proch [...]ble witnesse, that the Printer of that booke, affirmed before [...]ufficient witn [...]sses, that he made two impressions of it at London by his Graces allowance, and that the Prelates thought the bo [...]ke was to the advantage of our Church, because a Popish author of it alloweth us the name of a Church, and approveth the doctrine of our English divines, (out of whose writings (notwithstanding) he citeth nothing but Popish doc­trine;) Jt is to be wondered, that a man of such temper and modera­tion as his Grace, should affirme, that by the defendants mentioning the innovations which he alloweth the making of; the K. is struck at, through the Bishops sides: and his Majesties honour, safety and re­ligion impeached; for if Prelates teaching by their writings, the Po­pish doctrine mentioned by Sancta Clara; be no impeaching of his Majesties honour, safe [...]y and religion, the defendants mentioning of other acts of Prelates, tending that way, is no striking at the K. through the Bishops sides, nor any impeaching of his Maj [...]sties safety, honour and religion; What Prelates dare doe, or have done, other subjects may say they doe or have done, without being obnoxious thereby to the imputation of striking through their sides at the K. or of impea­ching his honour, Majestie, safety, and religion.

GOD be thanked 't is in all points otherwise with you: For God [...]ath blessed you with a Religio [...] heart, and no [...] subject to change. Arch-B. And He hath filled You with Honour, in the Eyes of Your People: And by [...]heir Love and dutifulnesse [...] He hath made you safe.

The love and dutifulnes whereby his Majestie is safe, is not that which is professed unto him, Observ. and expressed in the smooth and faire words of such, as by sundrie artifices have got much benefitt, or some [...]att benefices from him, or of such sycophants and parasites of Court as [...]till hunt after them, but onely that which is br [...]d in religious hartes by the zeale of that religion, which as well the late Parlia­ment, as many of his Majesties best subjects shew a feare of innova­ [...]ion of.

I hope they are not many that are unthankfull to You, Arch. B. or to God for You.

[Page 4] [...]bserv.Of Bishops and such as have had great benefitt or benefices from his Majestie there are many more unthankfull to him, then amongst all those that had never one groate of benefitt or place of power from him in the rule of either Church or State; and all such as are either enemies, or ignorant, or unjust judges, to the happines which they en­joy under his Majesties raigne, are either fiery and fierce Papists, or lukewarme Conformists, that measure their duties by their benefits and private endes, and measure their gettings not by their deservings, but by their desires, whereby Quicquid i [...]s infra votum venit, beneficij nomen amittit.

[...]rch. B. Yet I shall desire, even these to call themselves to an account, and to re­member, that Blasphemy against God, and slandering the footsteps of his annointed are joyned together, Psal. 89.

[...]bserv.Albeit there are divers good places of Scripture as well against slandering the Lords annointed, as there is against blaspheming of God, yet in the place cited by his Gr: blaspheming against God and slandering the Lords annointed are not joyned together, (as his Gr: pretendeth) for the words, both according to the originall, and as they are translated in the translation commaunded by K. Iames, can be (and are) but these; wherewith thine enemies have reproached O Lord, wherewith they have reproached the footsteps of thine an­noynted; It is true that in the booke of Common prayer, the word (THEE) is foisted in, whereunto if his Gr: doe rather cleave then to the Bible, certainely he so blotteth, blemisheth and slandereth the Bible, whiles he seeketh a Text in Scripture for giving lustre and grace to the imputation he casteth upon those men whom be accuseth of slandering; But suppose the Bible (even) in the translation made by the command of K. Iames, were to be ruled by the booke of Com­mon prayer, which the Prelates thinke they have power to straine and change at their pleasure, in that case either the Prelates must be e­steemed our Princes and Soveraignes annointed by God, or a desco­very of their maluersation, and such discourse of their actions and in­novations as they are offended at, cannot be esteemed a slandering of Gods annointed, and so his Graces words in this place doe seeme im­pertinent, either for that quality which they imply of Prelates persons in our Country, or in the desire which his Grace expresseth, for having men to remember here that blasphemy against God, and slandering the foo [...]esteps of his annointed are joyned together.

[Page 5] But then, as I desire them to remember, [...]o I doe most humbly be [...]eech your Majesty to account with Your selfe too: Arch. [...] And not to measure your peoples love by the unworthinesse of those few. For a loyall and obedient people You have, and such as will spare nor Livelyhood, nor Life to doe You service: And are joyed at the heart to see the Moderation of your Government and your constancy to maintaine Religion, and your Piety in Exampling it.

As those that feare prejudice to Religion by the P [...]elates craft and unlawfull ambition, Observ. are his Majesties most faithfull subjects, and most to be trusted unto in a defence of his soveraignty against the Pope and Spanyard, and all forreyne enemies of his greatnesse, so are they for loyalty & love the chiefe men to be trusted unto in the defence of his Majestie and of the publike, against the prejudices which Prelates ambition, avarice and artifice may breed to the quyet of the Church or State by the dangerous Practises of Papists, Atheists, and disconten­ted persons within the Iland.

And as I thus beseech You for your People in generall, Arch. [...] so doe I parti­cularly for the three Professions which have a little suffer'd in these three most Notorious Libellers Persons.

It cannot be made appeare that any of the three Professions have suffered by any act of the defendants, Observ. done against the Kings honour, benefitt or power; but by practise of his Gr: Counsell of the com­mand which he adviseth his Majestie to lay upon the reverend Iudges, not onely law and reason, but the Kings honour likewise would migh­tily suffer: For, howsoever it is very consistent with justice and his Majesties goodnes, to putt whatsoever he thinketh fitting to the de­liberation of [...]he reverend Iudges, yet to prescribe them what to resolve, is not compatible with his Majesties wisedome and honour. And seeing it seemeth as well compatible with Episcop [...]ll dignity, as it is with appearance of reason and moderation for Bishops to convent in a legall way before the reverend Iudges (in those Courts where Bishops are no members) such as affirme that their keeping Courts & issuing Proces [...]es in their owne names, are acts against the Statutes & Lawes of our Countrie, and seeing a Sen [...]ence of the Iudges in such course, after hearing the reasons, allegations and answers of both par­ties, could not but shew more considerate, more just, and more legall then any decree or resolution of Iudges for obedience of his Majesties peremptory command, without any hearing or citation of parties, it [Page 6] is very strange to see that any greatnes of power in Church or State, should have made so wise a man as the Archbishop to adventure to advise the K. to ordaine his Iudges, to publish a resolution and decla­ration repugnant to Statutes and acts of Parliament, which many un­derstanding men affirme to be standing unrepealed, especially seeing in consultations (even) about cas [...]s wherein there is nothing deter­mined by Parliament, it is a derogation both to the liberty competent to a Counsell, and to the Majestie of a lawfull Soveraigne, to prescribe or command their resolutions; This d [...]sire of his Grace may happen to breede a suspition in most part of his loyall subj [...]cts in Scotland, that it was his G [...]: Counsell that made his Majestie in Parliament a [...] Ede: in 1633. expresse what he would have them resolve in some cases, put to voicing in his owne hearing, and to discountenance, and with his owne Royall hand write in a note as disaff [...]ctioned to his service, the names of all those that voted not as his Highnes required, whereby his Majesties honour as well as the liberty, due to a Parlia­ment, did suffer in the opinion of his best subjects in that nation. Meane while seeing upon the 12. of June, it was ordered by his Maje­sties High Court of Starr-Chamber, that the opinion of the Iudges should bee taken in the particulars, which hee desireth his Majestie to cause them resolve and publish, it seemeth strange that i [...] this E­pistle Dedicatorie of his Gr: most reverend speech, pronounced two dayes thereafter, his Gr: willeth his Majestie to cause them resolve what is here craved, for as it seemeth not to be pertinent to crave that his Majestie command the Iudges to deliberate or consider the mat­ter after he hath done it, so the matter being r [...]ferred to their conside­ration, it seemeth not pertinent to desire his Majestie to cōmand what he will have them to resolve, but leave it to their science & conscience to declare, what they judge to be lawfull in the case, unlesse there bee som [...] prerogatiue not obuious to sence, nor bounded with any reason either for his Gr: desire, or his Majestie command of such resolution.

[...]r [...]h-B. And for Physicke, the Profession is honourable and safe: And I know the Professors of it will [...]emember that Corpus humanum, mans body, is that, about which their Art is conve [...]sant, not Corpus Ecclesiasticum, or Politicum, the Body of the Church, State, or Common-wealth. Bastwick hath been hold that way. But the Proverbe in the Gospell, in the fourth of S. Luke. is all I'le say to him, Medice, cura teip [...]m, Physitian heale thy s [...]lfe.

[Page 7]As mans body is that about which the art of Phisick is conversant, observ. so the G [...]spell and mans spirituall good by the preaching of it, not Corpus Physicum aut Politicum, is that about which the art and calling of Churchmen ought to be conversant. For albeit I can hardly agree to Erasmus, where he writeth, that as ‘ Crocodilus anceps animal nunc in terris, nunc in aquis degit, in terra ponit ova, in aqua pr [...]edatur & insidiatur, ita qui & aulici sunt & Ecclesiastici, utrobique pesti­lentes.’ Yet I dare not but reverence the judgement of so learned a man where he writeth: ‘Quemadmodum mulus ex equo & Asino conflatus, nec equus est nec asinus, ita quidam dum a [...]lici esse vo­lunt & Ecclesiastici, neutrum sunt.’

And yet le [...] me tell your Majestie, Arch-B. I believe hee hath gained more by making the Church a Pati [...]t, than by all the Patients hee ever had be­side.

There is no Bishop that hath not gained more by conversing in matters Politicall and plying the wayes of Courts, Observ. and by working upon the trust they gett sometimes with good Princes, sometime with weake subjects, then any of them hath ever gott by labouring in the word and doctrine, for which the Apostle saith double honour is due to C [...]urchmen, wh [...]me he designeth by the name of Presbyteri.

Sir, Arch-B. both my selfe, and my Brethren have been very coursely used by the Tongues and Pennes of these men, yet shall I never giv [...] your Ma­jestie any sower Counsell; I shall rather magnifie your Clemencie, that proceedeth with these Offenders in a Court of Mercie as well as Iustice: Sinc [...] ( as the Reverend Iudges then declared) you might have justly [...]alled the Offendors into another Court, and put them to it in a way tha [...] might have exacted their Lives, for their stirring (as much as in them lay) of mutinie and sedition.

Seeing the defendants are able to make it appeare, Observ. that in their writs and speeches excepted at, they had a lawfull end, compatible with the duety of loyall subjects, and with the nature of the said writs and speeches, [...]hey are very wrongfully reproached for such as bend their whole power to stirre mutiny and sedition: If they had had any such end, they could have employed their tongues and pens in such way as BB. and Prelates used for stirring of Sedition and Mutiny a­gainst such of his M [...]jesties Predecessours Kings of England, as they made the people beleeve, to be either neglecters of Parliaments, or maintainers of the maleversation of their Officers: where his grace [Page 8] saith, that the defendants might have beene called in another Court and their Lives exacted, he sayes very true, for as our Saviour told his Disciples, MAT. 10.17. that men would deliver them up to the Councils, and scourge them in their Sinagogues, without saying that they should convince them of any Crime, so, doubtles his Gr: could have caused the defendants to be called into another Court, and scourged and put to death, though it is not in the power of any man to make appeare either by Law, or reason, that the deedes for which he hath got them to be censured, are in their owne nature either Crimes or faultes. Arch. B.

Yet this I shall be [...]old to say, and your Majestie may consid [...]r of it in your Wisdome; That one way of Government, is not allwayes [...]tt or safe, when the Humors of the people are in a continuall Change. Observ.

The maxime is good, and the defendants wish that his Majestie would change the course of his cl [...]mency against such as labour for any change, either in Religion or State that may prejudice him, eithe [...] in the opinion and affection of his subjects, or in respect amongst forainers. Arch. B.

Especially, when such men as these shall worke upon your people, and labour to infuse into them such malignant Principles, to introduce [...] Pari­ty in the Church or Common-wealth. Et si non satis s [...]â sponte in sa [...]i­ant, instiga [...]e, And to spur on such among them as are to sharply set already.

Observ.They that would introduce a Parity in the common-weale ought to be esteemed as well enemies to the ordinance of God for humane Government, as Churchmen that pretend authority over their Bre­thren ju [...]e divino, are transgressors of our Saviours rule in that point of Church-government.

Arch. B. And by this meanes make and prepare all advantages for the Roma [...]e par­ty to scorne Vs, and peruert them.

Obs [...]rv.Advantages are prepared for the Roman party, to scorne some and pervert others by those that abuse the name of the Kings authority, for satisfying their owne spleene, vanity, or other endes, in silencing, ba­ [...]ishing, emprisoning, fining, pillaring, or putting to death such as re­fuse to doe any worship, either to Image, Altar, or Sacrament, to ad­mitt of the Masse in English, or to acknowledge [...] necessity of a white Surplice, or any other Pagan, Popish, or Iewish Ceremony for divine worship [...] and such as write against the Popes pretended power, & de­monstrate him (as King Iames did to be the Antichrist, & such as write [Page] against that doctrine which San [...]ta Clara citeth and proveth o [...]t of the Authors before mentioned, to bee coincident with the Romish, and withall countenance such as by publike writing maintaine Popish Re­ligion, or preach new doctri [...]e in matter of faith.

I Shall not need to speake of the infamous course of Libelling in any kind: Arch. B [...] pag. 1.

Nor of the punishment of it, which in some cases was Capitall by the Imperiall Lawes. As appeares: Cod. l. 9. T. 36.

Nor how patiently some great Men, very great Men indeed, have borne Animo civili (that's Sueton: his word) In Iul. [...]. 75. laceratam existimationem. The tearing and rending of their credit and reputation, with a gentle, nay, a generous minde.

THough his Gr: Observ. pretendeth it needles to shew how libels have beene heretofore punished, neverthelesse, being to charge men with the crime of Libelling, it seemes expedient (at least [Page 10] not unfit) to tell what a libell is, which if it be here in England (as hi­therto it hath beene every where else acknowledged to bee truly de [...]i­ned) ‘Compositio in scriptis facta ad infamiam alicujus ob aliquid quod Author probare no [...] v [...]lt (aut non potest) in publico loco, occul­to nomine affixa, and if withall it be true that si injuria personae in­c [...]rtae illata fuerit, nemo propterea potest se contumelia affectum ju­re dicere; s [...]aque interesse ut honor & existimatio, vindicetur per ac­tionem de injuria,’ the defe [...]dants, could not lawfully have beene ei­ther accused or condemned as Libellers for any thing contained in bookes, printed in their names, and without designing any man in them reproachfully. But suppose Bishops may in England (by some prerogative whereof the mistery is not to bee inquired into) change the nature of any thing they please, and aswell make every writ con­taining truths avowed by their Authors to become libels, and untruths which no man owneth, as the Roman Clergy pretend their power to transubstantiate bread into the body of our Saviour. Yet seeing [...]ur Sa­viour ordained his Disciples and Apostles to blesse such as should revile th [...]m, it is no [...]ore incompatible with the duty of a Church-man, than it is with wisdome in men that have no Church office to neglect, con­temne (at least not to be moved with) such libels, and to consider that Convi [...]ia si iras [...]are agnita videntur, spreta vilescunt. And suppose like­wise that it were heresie, libelling or some other crime, either to pre­sume that Lord B. should take notice of our Saviours precept afore­said, or not to acknowledge their exemption from such obligement of civill reason and prudence as doth binde men of all other condition, and suppose also that the bookes published in the defendants names and avowed by them, were libels occulto nomine in publico loco af­fixi, yet by the law which his Gr: citeth Cod. lib. 9. Tit. 36. they could [...]ot have beene condemned for the same, in respect it be [...]reth, that si a [...]sertionibus suis (speaking of a libell, that the Author of, is discove­red or legally convented) veri fides opitulata fuerit laudem maximam & praemium meretur. Like as there is a law in that same booke Tit. 7. bearing ‘si quis modestiae nescius aut pudoris ignarus, improbo petu­lantique maledicto nomina nostra [...]rediderit lacessāda, & temulentia turbulentus obtrectator temporum nostrorum fuerit, [...]um paenae noli­mus subjugari neque durum vel asperum volumus sustinere, quoni­am si ex leuitate processerit contem [...]end [...]m est, si ex insania, mis [...] ­ratione [Page 11] dignis [...]mum, si ab injuria, r [...]mittendum. And l. famos [...]. ff. 3. ad leg. [...]ul. Majest. Ne [...] lubricum linguae ad poenam facilè trahendum est.’ And suppose also that they who for reproaching the Prelates (for making the innovations for which his Gr: in this speech pretendeth some reasons and warrants) an intention to introduce popery, were to bee esteemed libellers by the foresaid law and ordinance, and that it were inconsistent with Episcopall dignity to forbeare to take notice of such libellers, and to forgive them; yet all they could in reason have craved for punishment of them, was, that such punishment should be inflicted on them as the law maketh Papists (and such as usher in Po­pery) obnoxious unto; for ‘si deprehendetur Author famosi libelli eatantum poena plectendus est ad quam convitium passus meritó dam­naretur si verum crimen e [...] libello imponeretur;’ And seeing in En­gland there is no law that punisheth Papists criminally or maketh their Religion (much lesse the ushering of it in) a crime, so as albeit it were true, that the Prelates did not only usher in, but were them­selves content to professe Popery with as much passion as they have commanded the observation of Popish Ceremonies, and manner of Church-government, they could not for that by any English law be [...] punished with either Pillory or prison, it followeth consequently that the defendants for charging the said Prelates with the ushering in of Popery (though falsely) could not (lawfully) for that be punished ei­ther with Pillory or prison.

But suppose finally that there were either reason, or some law in England, (without making Popery a crime, or the ushering in of it any fault) to make the speaking or writing of Prelates, apparent inten­tion to introduce it, to be libelling and subject to such punishment as the Statutes ordaine for libelling against K. or Qu. The defendants could have onely beene punished with an hundred pound fine, and a months imprisonment, by the Statute of Qu. Mary: or at the most, with 200. pound fine, and 3. moneths imprisonment by a Statute of Qu. Eliz. without any corporall punishment, unles [...]e they refused to pay the fine.

But of all Libels, they are most Odious which pretend Religion: Arch. B [...] as if that of all things did de [...]ire to bee defended by a Mouth that is like an open Sepulch [...]r, or by a Pen that is made of a sick and a loath­some Quill.

[Page 12] [...]s [...]rv.The pretending Religion for an unjust accusation or wrongfull im­putation of a libell to any man, is no lesse odious th [...]n the pretending of it for a true libell; for Religion neither can be defended nor ought to be invaded by a mouth that is an open sepulchre, or by a pen made of a sick and loathsome quill.

A [...]ch. B. ibid.There were times when Persecutions were great in the Church, even to exceed Ba [...]barity it sel [...]e: did any Martyr or Confessor, in those times, Li­bell the Governou [...]s? Surely no; not one of them to my best remembrance:

Observ.Such as are persecuted for refusing idolatrous ceremonies, or not acknowledging any manner of Divine worship necessary, which hath no warrant in the precepts of our Saviour or his Apostles, doe no more libell against their Governours, then the Martyrs did of old, bu [...] complaine of persecution and suffering by the cunning and power of evill Prelates, as many good Christians & Martyrs did in former times.

Arch. B. pag. 3. My Lords, it is not every mans spirit to hold up against the Ve­nome which Libellers spit.

O [...]ser [...].It is but for such as acknowledge there was wisdome and conside­ratenes in the rule pr [...]scribed by the Emp. Tit. 7. lib. 9. cod. before ci [...]ed; or for such as beleeve the doctrine of Christian patience founded upon our Saviours precept before mentioned, & other pas [...]ages of his Evang [...] and Apostles, or for such as wanting due knowledge of Christian hu­mility have mindes fraughted with such proportion of morall vertue as enableth them to master their passions, where [...]dium or amor, ira or libido doe [...]irre and trouble their calme.

In the meane time I shall remember what an Ancient under the name of S. H [...]rom [...] tels me, Arch. B ibid. Ad Ocean. de Ferend. Opprob. Indignum est & preposterum, 'tis unworthy in it selfe, and preposterous in demea­nour for a man to be ashamed for doing good, because other men glory in speaking ill.

Observ.It is as preposterous a demeanour not to be ashamed in doing evill, because other men have occasiō to glory both in doing & speaking wel.

It is not my purpose to examine your Gr: intentions, nor to contra­dict any of your words, but where they are used for wresting the de­fe [...]dants writings to what they meant not, or for palliating with faire pretexts the innovations charged upon Prelates.

Arch [...] B. [...]ag. 4.For my care of this Church, the reducing it into Order, the uphold­ding [Page 13] of the Eternall worship of God in it, and the setling of it to the Rules of its [...]irst Reformation, are the causes (and the sole causes, what ever are pretended) of all this malicious sto [...]me, which hath lowred soe black upon Mee, and some of my Brethren.

If by the storme (which his Gr: Obser [...]. saith hath lowred so black upon him and some of his brethren) hee meaneth the discourse and expressions made by many honest men of innovations made by them (either apolo­gized for, or not touched upon in this his speech) neither the reasons which his Gr: here mentioneth of the said storme, are the true causes thereof, as he pretendeth, nor could they which hee saith have stirred it, be lawfully convented as libellers against the King, nor could his Gr: or any Prelate that pretendeth himselfe prejudiced thereby, bee judge thereto, for those that speake o [...] the said innovations doe reve­rence all that have care of this Church, but are able to make it appeare [...]hat his Gr: is so farre from upholding the externall worship of God [...]n it, as he is like to pollute it with commanding a nece [...]ity of som [...] [...]opish ceremonies which were not purged out but winked at, in the first reformation, and with much erroneous doctrine in points of free wil. Gods electio [...], predestination, which were expugned at the first re­ [...]ormation [...] like as what is spoken or written against a subject cannot [...]e a ground for furnishing actionem de injuria aut contumelia in regem, [...]nd no subject ought to bee judge in a case where he is a plaintiffe.

And in the m [...]ane tim [...], they which are the only, Arch-B. pag. 5. or the chiefe [...]nnovators of the Christian wo [...]ld, having nothing to say, accuse us of [...]nnovations; They th [...]mselves and their Compli [...]es in the mean time being the greatest Innovators that the Christian world hath almost e­ver known. J deny not but others have spread more dangerous Errors [...]n the Church of Christ [...] but no men in any age of it, have been more guilty of Jnnovation than they while themselves Cry [...]out against it: Quis tulerit Gracchos.

What the Parliament hath either found, Observ. or just reason to suspect or fear [...], cannot bee unlawfull in a private subject to speake, write, su­spect or feare; the ho [...]ourable Court of Parliament that representa­tive body of the Kingdome, his M [...]jesties m [...]st faithfull and least c [...] ­ruptible counsell of [...]a [...]e did find your Gr: and others of your Coat innovaters of Religion [...]

[Page 14]Neither can you make it appeare that they are innovaters. Your Gr: cannot make good your charge, and the defendants are able to make it appeare both that there have beene, and that there are now knowne, some greater innovators then they, or any of their abettors.

The repetition of this reproach of innovation is so farre from being a good probation of the truth of it, as it argueth unability in his Gr: to make it good and an aparant presumtion of his Gr: immoderate hatred of such as are nicknamed Puritants, and of his confidence that all he speaketh (how false and impertinent soever) shall get respect enough (by reason of his eminency) from the reader or hearer. As those that by the Powder [...] plot an. 1605. intended to hav [...] blowne up the whole bo­dy of the Parliament, had a purpose (as some of them did ingeniously confesse) if their designe had succeeded, to charge the said Puritans with the reproach of being Authors and actors of i [...]: So all those that greeve at the honour and power of the King: and seeke the overthrow of Religion and liberty of Parliament, study to make them hatefull by all sorts of calumnies, whereas the truth is, that those that disswade his Majestie from convening of Parliaments, and those that under co­lour of his Authority command in the point of Gods worship a neces­sity of doing divers things that [...]he refusers thereof esteem unlawfull, and [...]hem [...]elves affirme indifferent, are underminers of his greatnesse, and such incendiaries both in the stat [...] and Church, as doe what in them is to stirre mutiny and seditio [...].

Arch. B.For'tis most appar [...]nt to any man that will not winke, that the Intenti [...]n of these m [...]n, and their Abettors, was and is to raise a Sedi­tion, being as great Incendiaries in the State (where they get power) as they have ever beene in the Church; Novatian himselfe hardly greater.

Observ.Though his Gr: were able to suborne and produce witnesses to prove this case, their testimony or probation were not to bee respe­cted because ‘testis deponens de intentione cordis alterius, nullam fi­dem meretur quia humani cordis intentio soli Deo nota est. Invoc. su­per de renunc. Bald. in margarita.’

They that cannot force their consciences to the acknowledging a necessity of using ceremonies in Gods worship, which they are able to demonstrate to be both unlawfull and inconvenient, cannot in reason [...]ee esteemed so great incendiaries either in Church or State, as they [Page 15] that both acknowledge an indifferency in the [...]eremonies that they presse a necessity of, and pretend a right jure Divino, to such power, and jurisdiction as they obtaine from the indulgence, benevolence, and free graunt of their Soveraigne; like as those that are, or have beene alwayes the chiefe causes of troubles, schismes, or dissentio [...]s in the Church, are and have beene alwayes apt to breed troubles in State government, and may be truly called incendiaries both in Church and State, and Cassand [...]r even a popish writer saith as truly as wisely, that ‘Dissidiorum in Ecclesiis causae illis assignandae s [...]nt, qui quodam fastu Ecclesiasticae potestatis inflati recte & probe admonentes superbe contemplerunt & repulerunt.’

Our maine Crime is (would they all speake, Arch. [...] as some of them doe) that wee are B [...]shops; were we not soe, some of us might bee as passable as other men. And a great trouble'tis to them, that wee maintaine that our calling of Bishops is Iure Divino, by D [...]vi [...]e Right: Of this I have said enough, and in this place, in Leightons Case, nor will I repeat. Only this I will say and abide by it, that the Calling of Bishops is Iure D [...]vino, by Divine Right, though not all Adjuncts to their calling. And this J say in as direct opposition to the Church of Rome, as to the Puri­tan humour.

When I fund his Gr: affi [...]me that some speake plainely out, Observ. that the [...]eing BB. is the Prelates maine crime and for instance marke in his margine. Burt. Apo. p. 110. J looked the booke and funde that [...]ll that Burton saith in that place (after he hath instanced a number of evils which BB. hav [...] done both in the Church and the Kingdome) is that if there were such a fashion and danger in propounding new lawes in E [...]gland as was amongst the Locrians, h [...]e should adventure this proposition, that it would please the great Senate of the land to take into their consideration, whether upo [...] such wofull experience, it were not both more honorable to the King, & more safe for the Kingdome, & more conducing to Gods glory, & more consisting with Christian liberty, and more to the advancement of Christs Ki [...]gly of­fice, which by usurping Prelates is troden downe, that the Lordly Pre­lacy were turned into such a godly government, as might sute better with Gods word and Christs sweet yoke. He neither saith plainly that the being BB. is a crime, nor can his words affoord a ground for any such conclusion. He [...] citeth Authors there who tell that Bruno Seg­ninas [Page 16] re [...]used a Bishoppricke, and that P [...]pe Marcellus saith that he [...] could not see how they that possessed that high place could be saved, and that Claudius Exp [...]nsius ( in Tom. digr [...]s [...]. lib. 3. cap. 4.) gives ma­ny examples of pious and learned men who refused Bishoppricks, bu [...] doth neither say nor citeth any man saying that it is a crime to exerci [...] the [...]ffice of a Bishop, and his writing, that if there were such a cu­stome in England, as the Locrians had in propounding lawes, he would adventure the proposition before menti [...]ned to the consideration of [...] Parliament, is not a speaking out that it is a maine crime to be a Bi­shop.

Arch. B. biid.And a great trouble'tis to them, that wee maintaine that our callin [...] of Bishops is Iure Divino, by Divine right: of this J have said enoug [...] and in this place in Leightons Case, nor will I repeare. Only this I wil [...] say, and abide by it, that the calling of Bishops is Iure, D [...]vino, by Divi [...] right.

All kinds of degrees of Officers in the Church that can pretend ei [...]ther ordinary or extraordinary calling jure Divino from G [...]d an [...] Christ immediately, [...]bserv. Ephes. 4. 11. are designed by the names of Pro [...]phets, Apostles, Evangelists, Pastors and teachers; to no man in an [...] of these degrees was there given any jurisdiction above another in t [...] same degree; yea all authority given unto th [...]m, and whereof the [...] can pretend a right jure Divino (as appeareth, Mat. 18, 19, 20.) is [...]ne [...]ly a power to preach the Gospell to all nations teaching them to ob [...]serve all things whatsoever our Saviour hath commanded, and ( Ioh [...] 20.23.) is onely a power to [...]inde and loose sinnes. His Gr: will not ( [...] hope) say (at least, cannot make good) that L. B. are Apo [...]tles, or Pro [...]phets, or that they can pretend any calling jure Divino, but what i [...] comprehended under the names of either Pastors or Teachers, or t [...]a [...] they have any calling jure Divino, but what is like expre [...]sed by the name Episcopi, ( Ph [...]l [...] 1. Act. 10. & Tit. 1.) and [...]y the word Pres­byteri. 1. Tim. 5.17. Tit. 1. v. 5.7.

And seeing our Saviour Mat [...]h. 20.25, 26. Ma [...]k. 10.42, 43 [...] Luk. 22.25, 26. pr [...]hibiteth to such all dominion ove [...] their B [...] ­thren, [...]e [...]ing likewise 1 Pet. 5. the Apostle ordaineth Presbiters to [...]eed their severall flocks, non ut d [...]minantes [...]le [...]is, and 1 Tim. 5. Pa [...]l [...]ac [...]e [...]h that m [...]t h [...]nour is due ijs P [...]e [...]bit [...]ris qui laborant in ve [...]b [...] & [Page 17] doctrina, the L: Bishops as well English as Romish, in so farre as they assume or claime all power of ordination & excommunication, and whose chiefe labours is not in the word and doctrine, cannot lawfully pretend that authority in their calling jure divino, for the words which they alledge, super hanc petram, &c. Mat. 16. & pasce oues meas, v. 21. Et ne cui manus imponito citò. 1 Tim. 5. &, constituas oppidatim presbyteris. Tit. 1.5. Are no better warrant to prove the L. Bishops Monarchicall [...]uthority in government of the Church, or that Timothy or Titus alone [...]ad power the one at Eph [...]sus and the other in Crete, to ordaine Pa­ [...]ors, then the words 1 Tim. 4.7. which ordaine Timothy not to take [...]eede to fables and to have faith & a good conscience, and the words which ordaine Titus to teach sounde doctrine, can bee warrants to [...]rove, that in Ephesus and Creete none but Timothy and Titus were ob­ [...]ged to neglect fables, to keepe a good conscience, and to teach sound [...]octrine, or that the words Quicquid ligaveritis Mat. 18. & quorum miseritis peccata remittentur ijs, Io [...]: 20. & Attendite ad vos ipsos & totum [...]egem in quo vos spiritus ille sanctus constiu [...]t Episcopos, Act. 20.28. were [...]t spoken both to all Christs Apostles & to all Pastors in the Church.

And I say farther, that from the Apostles times, in all ages, Arch-B. pag. 6. in all [...]aces, the Church of Christ was governed by Bishops: And Lay-Elders [...]ver heard of, till Calvins new-fangled device at Geneva.

That there were Lord Bishops dominering over the Church in [...]e Apostles time, Observ. his Gr: forbeareth to alleadge, and cannot but ac­ [...]owledge that in the Church assembly mentioned, Act. 15.22. all de­ [...]ees were made of the Apostles, Elders, and whole Church without [...] much as naming L: Bishop, which could not have beene omitted if [...]hrists Church had beene then governed by them, and Mat. 18.17. [...]ur Saviour teaching how such as offend should be delt with, ordai­ [...]eth that the Church should be told of those that doe not mend upon [...]rivate admonitiō, it is evident that in those daies the Church of Christ was governed (as Ierom some few ages after writeth) communi presbi­terorum consilio; but whatsoever place Bishops had in Church-govermēt [...]n the Apostles dayes, and long after, it appeareth they were not such as English & Romish now are. Basil. Mag. Moral. 70. cap. 28. saith: Non [...]portet eum cui concreditum est praedicare Euangelium, plus possidere quàm ea [...]uae ad necessarium ipsius usum sufficiant. Negociatorum clericum, & ex inopi diuitem & ex ignobili gloriosum quasi quandam pestem fuge, saith Ierome [...]n his Epist. to Nepot. And a Canon of the Couns [...]ll of Carthage (where Augustine was present) beareth, Episcopus hespitiolum habeat aut domum [Page 18] Ecclesia pr [...]pinquàm & tenui supellectili instructam, mensam & victum pau­perem [...] & d [...]gnitatìs suae autoritatem fide & vi [...]ae meritis qu [...]ra [...]; and Chri­sostome upon Philip. 2. s [...]rm. 9. (writing of the lawfull maintenance of Pastors) saith, Dic quaeso, sericis vest [...]ur Pasto [...], mul itudinem se­q [...]entium & comi [...]tium habens? Circ [...] forum [...]rrog [...]ter incedu? Equ [...] v [...]h [...]u? d [...]mos [...] AE [...]ficat habens ubi manea [...]? S [...] ista facit, eum quoque sa­cerdotio indig [...]um dico, quamodo enim admon [...]bit ne superfluis istis [...]acent, q [...] seipsum [...]monere nequ [...]? All good subjects acknowledge that his Maj [...]sty may give [...]o his [...]ubjects of any condition, great revenues, raise ignoble and base persons to a ranke more eminent then the nobility [...] trust them with the managing of the Patrimony of the Crowne, rul [...] of the people, and chiefe places in the Government, and acknowledg [...] likewise that persons benefited by his Majesty with these advantage [...] may (without reproach of presumption or of ostentation) wal [...] throug [...] the streets on horse-backe, or in their C [...]aches, accompanied with ma­ny followers and waiting men; but Churchmens accepting or attain­ing these advantages, doth not give them prerog [...] or power jure Di­vino, either [...]o domineere over such as have a [...] office in the Church de­signed by the name of Pastor (as is said) or to call the discipline and government used in the Apostles time communi Presbiterorum consilu (and continued after them, untill ambition, avarice, craft and corrup­tion of Church-men wrought out of the weaknesse and ignorance of some Princes and people, those grounds which have bred Bishops) Calvins new-fangled device at Geneva, for in the Church of the Apo­stl [...]s time, either there were Elders which did not preach, and were not obliged to labour in the word and doctrine, or the distinction of E [...]ders m [...]ntioned 1 Tim. 5.17. [...]s imper [...]inent. But if his Majesty and his high C [...]urt of Parliament should be pleased to reduce Episcopacy, in the point of revenues, mansions, followers, ranke and power in the temporall government to the rule of the foresaid counsell of Carthage, and condition which Ierome and Chrysostome in the places quoted (and others also) shew that they ought to conforme themselves unto, it is possible (and probable too) that they would forbeare either to pretend authority above their brethren jure Divino, or to command in divine worship the ne [...]essary doing of that which themselves esteeme indiffe­rent; & the refusers thereof thinke unlawful, especially seing it appea­reth Rom. 14. that it was not of old unlawful for Christians to doubt [Page 19] of the lawfulnes of the practice of some things which are in their own nature indifferent, nor to forbeare the practise of that, which they doubted the lawfulnesse of. With all it is to be wondred that his Gr: (who both hath, read and cannot but know that others have read Ec­clesiasticall writers also) is not ashamed to say that Bishops from the Apostles times have ever governed the Church of Christ in all places and in all ages, for either Bishops power and rule hath had a begin­ning in Churches which were planted in divers places and many yeares after the Apostles time, or else S. Ierome writeth both falsely and foolishly, where he saith, that when factions began in the Church, [...]o prevent schisme it was decreed through the whole world, that one elected from the Presbyteries in severall places and countries, should be set above the rest, to whom the care of the Church should apper­taine: but as Musculus ( loc. com. cap. de verb. minist. pag. 421.) wri­teth, if Ierome and those of his time had seene as much as they that came after, they would have concluded that Episcopacy was never brought in by Gods spirit (as was pretended to take away schismes) [...]ut by Satan to wast and destroy the former ministery that fed the flock, and Daneus, cont. 5. lib. 1. cap. 18. (after he hath refuted B [...]llarm: ground, whereupon all Episcopall prehemi [...]ency is founded) saith, but afterwards by ambition of them that were set over the rest, the Apo­ [...]tolicall forme of Discipline was taken away, BB. began to seperate from preaching Elders, all honour was given to them that usurped that name against the Word, and none almost left for the Elders; So began the Church to be troden under foot, the Apostolicall Bish: to perish, and humane Bishops to fl [...]rish, which afterwards grew to be Satani­call and Antichristian, this kind of Episcopacy is not jure divino, and taketh much from the Kings right & power over them, as it is exerci­sed in the Romish and English way now a dayes.

For though our Office be from God and Christ immedia [...]ely, Arch. B [...] pag. 7. yet may wee not exercise that power, either of Order or Iurisdiction, but as God hath appointed us, that is, not in his Majesties, or any Christian King [...] Kingdomes, but by and under the power of the King given us so to doe.

If greatnes of power and trust with great Princes, Obser [...] were not apt to misleade th reason and judgement of any man that is over tickled or swollen therewith, none could beleeve that a Churchman of his Graces [Page 20] sufficiency could have a face to affirme, or adventure to sett under his hand, both that Bishops have their office Iure Divino, and that they may not exercise it in any Christian Kings Dominions, without power from the King, for doeing of it: for it cannot bee shewen either by Scripture, or by the writings of the Fathers, or in the acts of Ec [...]lesia­call Counsels, that Officers appointed by God, for teaching his Church the tr [...]e way of his worship, are forbidden to exercise their office without a power from C [...]ristian Kings to doe it, and it is eviden [...] that the Apostles and Pastors of the C [...]urch long after them, did exer­cise their calling under Pagan Emperours, without seeking their war­rant, yea after their prohibition thereof; and it is not likely that they which have office in the Church Iure Divino (which may be exercise [...] in the Dominions of Pagan Princes, notwithstanding their command to the conrrary) may not under Christian Princes lawfully doe wha [...] was not unlawfull to bee done by vertue of such office under Heathe [...] Emperours, Hereticks, and persecutors of the Church.

Arch. B. pag. 7.And were this a good Argument against us, as Bishops, it must needs be good again [...]t Priests and Ministers too; for themselves grant that their calling is Iure Divino, by Divine Right; and yet I hope they will not say, that to be Priests and Ministers is against the King, or any His Royall Prerogatives.

Observ.The argument is good against such Ministers as intend any fur­ther power jure divino then preaching of the Gospell, administration of the Sacraments, reprehension, correction, excommunication, and re­laxation from the sentence thereof such as shew true repentance; And Ministers that pretend a righr Iure Divino to any rent, power, or ju­risdiction that depe [...]deth upon the Kings gift, are as well against the King and the Royall Prerog: as those that appropriate to a few under pretext of juris divini, Ecclesiastici, or regi; all that power (or any part of it) which is competent to all Pastors, are against God, and the res­pect due to the simplicity and sincerity of our Saviours rules and pre­cepts for government of his Kingdome which he professed, was not of this world.

Arch-B. pag. 8.Now then, suppose wee had no other string to hold by (I say suppose this, but I grant it not) yet no man can Libell against our calling (as these men doe) bee it in Pulpi [...], print, or otherwise, but hee [Page 21] Libels against the King and State, by whose Lawes wee are esta­blished.

When Chur [...]hmen pretend, Observ. that the power granted them authori­ [...]ate humana, belongeth to them jure divino, they may lawfully be op­posed by all that are in duty bound to defend the right of Soveraigne [...]ower, and authority of the temporall Prince or State wherein they [...]ive, and opposition of reason to those that dare pretend such divine [...]ower, is no libelling against King or State; Fendatarius that disday­ [...]eth his superior by the civill Law forfeiteth jus [...]eudi, and Bishops [...]at presume to ascribe to their title jure divino, that right which they [...]ave by the Kings graunt, or Parliamentary confirmation, deserve to [...]e deprived of whatsoever they have gotten from King or Parlia­ [...]ent, it being as unlawfull to pretend a claime Iure divino to a title [...]r right depending upon the King and Parliament, as it is for Bishops [...] devise a new guise for Gods worshipp, and to impose others a ne­ [...]essity of it.

W [...]y did they not modestly Petition His Majestie about it, Arch. B. pag. 9. that his P [...]incely wisedome hee might set all things right, in a Iust and [...]derly m [...]nner? But this was neither their intention nor way.

Though State diseases which none but his Majesty with his Par­ [...]ament can c [...]re, may be lawfully laide open in word or w [...]itt, not [...]ely when the discovery thereof importeth the duty of any man in [...]s calling, but also when it is necessary or expedient for vindicating [...] in [...]ocency of honest men from imputation and reproaches cast [...]pon them by men of so great power in Church or State (through [...] trust from their Soveraigne) as none but a Parliament may without [...]anger represent to the Soveraigne their malversation, neverthelesse [...]o p [...]ivate subject can in good manners petition his Majestie, for re­ [...]ormation of such a [...]uses, or prevention of such dangers as doe highly concerne the State and Religion, that they cannot in probability be [...]olpen or av [...]ided without the advice of his Majesties Estates in his [...]igh Court of Parliament. Againe. His G [...]: doth presse [...]ere to [...]ubb a most false and pernicious reproach upon honest men, who are [...]ble in a Parliament to make appear [...] both their owne loyalty to his Maiestie, the traitrous harts of those that through impotencie to mo­ [...]erate their Prosperous fortune, charge them with mutiny, and with what else they please.

[Page 22] Arch. B. [...]ag. 10.And by most false and unjust Calumnies, to defame both our Cal [...]lings and Persons.

Observ. Eum qui nocentem infamavit non est aeqnum ob eam rem condemn [...] praesertim quando reipub [...] interest vitium illud quod (etiam convitiando) ob [...]jectum fu [...]rit manifestum fieri. Dig. lib. 47. Tit. 10. l. 18.

Arch. B. pag. 11.And these men, knowing the Disposi [...]ion of the people, have labo [...]red nothing more, than to misinforme their knowledge, and misguid [...] their Zeale, and so to fire that into a sedition, in hope that they, who [...] they causlesly hate, might miscar [...]y in it.

Observ.It is not within the reach of understanding of men, that move in [...] low sphere, to conceive how it can be con [...]istent as well with his Gr [...] wisedome as it is with his greatnes to affirme both here, that there was danger of sedition from the defendants and their abettors, and i [...] his Epist. Dedicat. of this speech, that there are few or none of their humor, for from few there could be no danger of sedition or mutiny [...] Withall causelesse hatreds easily evanish, and are not likely to dispose [...] any man to attempt the fyring of a sedition purposely, that they whome they causelesly hate may perish in it; Men doe not adventure an assured danger to their credits, fortunes and lives, without some probability of some either honour or profi [...]t by the successe of their attempt; But if the defendants and their abettors were so foolish t [...]aitors as without any such hope, for a causelesse hatred to attemp [...] [...]ring of the peoples zeale into a s [...]dition, yet is there no appearance o [...] possibility in their power to kindle any such fire, his Gr: knoweth that they are not able to misguide the zeale of Papists to such an end, and that there is no zeale in the lukewarme Conformists, nor in the professed Atheists that can be fired, but by such materialls (good coy [...]e hope of benefit or preferment) from the Pope or Spaine, as neithe [...] the defendans nor their abettors could afford, and among those th [...] have zeale in the substance and scare at a necessity of using Ceremo­nies, i [...]vented by man, for d [...]vine worship, there are few (as his Grace saith) of the defendants humor, and from those few (as saide is) there could be no danger of sedition or mutiny.

Arch-B. ibid.Soe sayes M ^r Burton expresly to change the Orthodox Religion established in England and to bring in I know not what Romish S [...] ­perstition in the roome of it.

Observ.If Mr. Burtons booke was writ [...]en since 1628. it is likely that his [Page 23] [...]xpressions in it, of danger of change of the Orthodoxe Religion, [...] founded upon such reasons as in that and the yeare following bred [...] the High Court of Parliament, a fe [...]re of such a change, and possi­ [...]y his feare was, and is so much the greater, because the last Parlia­ [...]ent was brok [...]n up when they were advising the remedy which they [...]ended to have acquainted his Majestie with, for preventing the [...]nger of the inconveniences of such change, and attempting of it, if [...]s booke ha [...]h beene written before these Parliaments, he is blame­ [...]orthy, if he hath not expressed in it such reason, for shewing the ap­ [...]earance of the saide danger, as the High Court of Parliament when [...]s Majestie conveneth it, shall acknowledge to be sufficient for the [...]me.

For there is not a more cunning tricke in the world, Arch. B. pag. 12, to withdraw [...] peoples hearts from their Soveraigne, than to perswade them that [...] is changing true Religion, and about to bring in grosse superstition [...]o [...] them.

It is neither to be denyed what is here affirmed in the generall, Observ. nor [...]n it be made good, that the defe [...]dants were guilty of the crime [...]re expr [...]ssed, yet may it be affirmed also, that there is not a more [...]nning trick in the world to withdraw a Soveraings hart from his [...]ople, then to perswade him that al notice offered [...]o be given him (ei­ [...]er by any private sub [...]ect or by the Parliamēt it self) of the maluersa­ [...]on of Prelates or other Officers in Church or State, are acts which [...]ike (and wound) his Majestie through their sides (as his Graces [...]oresaid Epist: to the King affirmeth) and that his Majesties giving [...]re or listening thereto, or reference thereof to the triall of a Parlia­ [...]ent, is a prostitution of his authority, whereas in truth the pun [...]sh­ [...]ent of those disloyall acts of some Prelates and Officers that can be [...]scovered, and the Kings shew of trusting the wisedome and loyalty [...] his Parliament as it deserveth, are most assured wayes for holding [...]st the harts of his subjects, and preserving his autho [...]ity from all s [...]ch dangers as Soveraigne power hath often beene obnoxious unto [...] the cunning flatteries and malversaton of Prelates and other per­ [...]ns trusted by their Princes, when it importeth their private endes to [...]ith draw the Soveraignes hart from his subjects; and when it falleth [...]t that the pretence of S [...]veraigne authority is v [...]ed (as it was i [...] Qu: [...]aries daies) for changing true Religion, they that perswade the [Page 24] Prince such a course, and not they that affirme the truth, in such [...] case are to be charged with the crime & reproach of using a cunning trick to withdraw the peoples harts from their Soveraigne; None of the defendants nor of their abettors doe doubt of his Majesties since­rity and constancy in religion; Yet without prejudice of their dutifull perswasion thereof, they may feare that Prelates worke upon him i [...] that point, as Churchmen have heretofore done upon Constant: and diverse his successors, and such feare is very consistent with subj [...]cts love to his Majesty.

Arch. B. Pag. 1 3. And for the Prelates; I assure my selfe they cannot be so bale, as to live Prelates in the Church of England, and labou [...] to bring in the Su­perstitions of the Church of Rome, upon themselves and it.

Observ.The Prelat [...]s in our Church have no grounds, whereupon either they may build their Lo [...]dly authority, or to obtrude the Ceremonies which they inforce upon many honest mens consciences, but such as the Roman Church u [...]eth for Prelates greatnes and doctrine of their Ceremoni [...]s; And howsoever p [...]ssibly [...]is Grace is well enough min­ded in having his hand sooner then any man agai [...]st such as labou [...] to bring in more Popery then hims [...]lfe hath yet done, yet the know [...]ledge which men have of some passages in the last Parliament, an [...] of some actions of his Gr: both before and since the breaking of it up [...] will scare most men from discovering to him what they knew (Per­haps) touching Prelates labouring in that kinde.

Arch. B. Pag. 1 4.I have ever beene farre from attempting any thing that may truely be said to tend that way in the least degree.

Observ.Your Gr: doctrine expressed in the High Commission Court, th [...] the P [...]pish religion doth not differ from ours in fundamentalibus, your direction for bowing at the Altar, and praying towards the East, your allegation and making use of some Popish Canons, for vindicating your selfe from imputation of innovation, in commanding these and other Ceremonies Popish, rev [...]ved by you in our Church, your opinion of Chr [...]sts corporal [...] presence [...]n t [...]e Sacram [...]nt (manifested Pag. 47. of this your speech) your Gr causing & pressing a necessity of Cere­m [...]nies, which your selfe acknowledge to be indifferent, the punish­ment which you cause to be i [...]flicted upon the refusers of them (wher­of [...]me in their conscience thinke them [...]nlawfull, and all [...]en (of moderation) inexpedient) and upo [...] diverse Orthodoxe men, fo [...] [Page 25] [...]riting against them, your causing Censure of D [...]ct [...]r Bastwicke, and [...]ndemning his bookes written against the Popes authority, your [...]nnivence (some say [...]avour and countenance) shewed to the writings [...] Sancta Clara (reprinted in London by your Graces direct [...]on or [...]mission at least) Chonaeus, Shelford, Cosens, Re [...]ve, Pocklington and [...]ers conteining doctrine of Popery and Atheisme, seeme to argue a [...]position in your Gr te [...]ding to Popery; assuredly these acts [...]ourage Papists, make Atheists merry, and greeve all religious [...]ts, and men of good judgement thinke that they so tend to the [...]ering in of Popery, as when you have well considered the matter, [...] Gr: wilbe loath to give your oath that you have beene farre from [...]mpting any thing which may be said to tend to the altering of [...]gion in the least degree, your Gr: is knowne to be an understan­ [...]g Courtier, and to have the dexterity to offer as well your oath [...]our service to such as you know either dare not, or by their condi­ [...] may not, or esteeme it against good manners and civility to put [...] Lordship to it in a case, that no man which knoweth your Lord­ [...]s actions can possibly imagine you can sweare safely.

[...]ee live under a Gracious and a Religious King. Arch. B. pag. 15.

[...] be not p [...]rverted by some p [...]rnicious Churchmen, as Constan­ [...], and others. Observ.

[...] shall humbly desire your Lordships to give me leave to recite [...]fly all the Innovations charged upon us bee they of lesse or greater [...]ent, Arch-B. pag. 16. and as briefly to answer them.

[...]mong other innovations pretended, made by Prelates, Observ. M ^r. Bur­ [...] mentioneth that they procured from K. Iames both a command [...]e Universities that young Students should not reade Calvin or [...], or any of the moderne learned Writers of the reformed Church [...]thout any prohibition of reading Popish Writers) and an order [...]biting young Ministers, to preach the Doctrine of electiō & repro­ [...]ati [...], whils old Doctors, Deans, & Bish did both preach & print (books [...] [...]lse & erroneous Popish & Arminian Doctrine in those points.

[...]econdly, that his Gr: affirmed at the Censure of Doctor Bastwick, [...] wee and the Church of Rome differ not in fundamentalibus, and [...] [...]llowance of the bookes written by Chonaeus & Sancta Clara to [...] purpose, with the bookes of false Doctrine, published by Monta­ [...] Shelford, Ailword, Iacks [...]n, C [...]s [...]ns.

[Page 26]Thirdly, his not censuring those that maintaine, that the Pope is neither Antichrist (as K. Iames in his printed workes hath plainely declared) nor that Babilonicall Beast of Rome, m [...]ntioned in 6. Hom. of rebellion.

4. New doctrine in the point of obedience to superiours, and con­cerning the Lords Sabbath

5. That the Censures in use against Drunkards, Heretiques, and other vicious persons, are now inflicted upon Ministers that esteeme it unlawfull or inexpedient to impose a necessity of Ceremonies, which the Prelates acknowledge to bee indifferent in their owne nature.

6. Their adding to the Ceremonies of our Church, other rites and Ceremonies then are mentioned in the Communion-booke, wher­unto they are restrained, by the act of Parliament, praefixed to the said booke.

7. Their practising without speciall warrant a power to judge of cases, which are the object of ciuill (not Ecclesiasticall) Courts. Now seing his Gr: in this place where he promiseth both to recite & answer all the innovations, (be they of lesse or greater moment) charged up­on the Prelates, as tending to th'advancing of Poperie) is so farr from answering, as he doth not recite any of these particulars, but mentio­neth onely those that he can give such colour of answer unto, as hi [...] greatnesse is able to beare out against all reason that any man dare al­ledge against the same, and seeing [...]e acknowledgeth that exe [...]ptio [...]ir [...]mat regulum in non exceptis, his Gr: propounding of a part and for [...]bearance to mention the foresaid perticulars, charged by Mr. Burton upon the Prelates argueth, that M ^r. Burton doth truely chardg [...] the Prelates with the said innovations, and that they can neither deny nor give a reason for the making thereof.

Arch-B. pag. 17.And there was visible Inconvenience observed in mens former flo [...]king to Sermons in Infected places.

Observ.When preaching was forbidden under pretext of danger of infec­tion, by concourse of people at Sermons; Comedies and scurrulou [...] interludes contrived in derision of religion, and true piety were no [...] onely suffered to be acted in all ordinary Stages, but in the Court i [...]selfe also with great confluence of people, as though the meanes o [...] humiliation, and not wayes to prophannes, were pestilentious in great [Page 27] assemblies, and that Gods vengea [...]ce were not so much to be feared for the practise of sin, as the preaching of that doctrine, which pin­cheth or disquieteth prophane mens consciences; there cannot any reason be given justifiable either in wisedome or goodnes upon occa­sion of death or sicknes, that hath beene incident to some at a Sermon, to prohibite the [...]se of that spirituall foode at usuall times, [...]o such as have mindes hungering with an appetite thereof, no more then to prohibite men to take their ordinary food or phisick (when they finde t [...]eir stomacks at their usuall times disposed thereto) because men [...]ic­ken or dy sometime after a good meales meate, or after phisick; in­conveniences that sometimes fall out at Sermons either in wholsom [...] or infected places, are not sufficient pretences for prohibition or dis­charging of so lawfull, good and necessary a busines.

But the businesse was debated at the Councell Table, Ar [...]h. B [...] pag. 17. being a matter of State, as well as of Religion. And it was con [...]luded for no S [...]rmons in these infected places.

And in all likely hood by the Counsell referred to the Prelates con­sideration, Observ. who, having inj [...]yned the fast (mentioned in those newes from [...]p [...]w [...]) without Sermons in London, contrary to the orders for ot [...]er fasts i [...] former times; The [...]entioning an innovation in that point is very injuriously named a Libell, for it cannot be called a crime nor judged unlawfull to any man to speake or write what is not un­lawfull for Prelates to doe.

Nor Thirdly is that true that Se [...]mons are the Onely meanes to humble men. Arch. pag. 18 [...]

I have heard that K. Iames discou [...]sing at Table of the un [...]avouri­nes of ling to his ta [...]t and smell, Observ [...] a gentlememan answering to his Ma­jesty, told him, that ling was his onely meate, my meate (said the King) I sweare man J have never in all my life eate of that fish, whereupon the gentleman replyed, that by onely meate hee meant, it was speciall good meate; The author of the newe [...] from Ipswitch, being charitably construed, or admitted to interpret his owne words wilbe p [...]ssibly found to have meant, that Sermons are the most and (best) speciall good meanes to h [...]mble men; It is an act that smelleth more of pride then of justice to wrest to an ill sence, words that can beare a good interpretation, and are well meant.

[Page 28] Arch-B. pag. 20. Besides, these men live to see the Fast ended, and no one Wed [...]esday Lecture suppress [...]d.

Observ. Chat escha [...]dè eraign [...] l'eau [...]roide; Men that had heard of the pr [...] ­hibition of Sermons upon the wednesday in time of solemne fast, an [...] had seene many other simptomes of dislike of them, and inclination [...] place all exercise of Religion in the Ceremonies and Letany, migh [...] very probably feare and thi [...]ke there was some intention to suppress [...] wednesday Lectures; Many wise men have shewed feare of thing [...] which have never come to passe, and many have beene mistaken i [...] their ju [...]gements of mens intentions, when they measured them b [...] t [...]e successe of their actions; Great mens intentions are not allwaye obvious to the understanding of men that live in a condition beneat [...] them, nor allw [...]yes Priv [...]ledged with succes [...]e, or with prerog: [...] chardge a crime up [...]n such as mistake them, or understand them no [...] and the argument is not good; VVednesday Lectures are not sup [...]pres [...]ed, E [...]go his Grace had no intention to suppresse them.

Arch. B. ibid.A [...]d [...]he Arch. B. and B [...]sh [...]ps to whome the ordering of the book [...] i [...] commited, have pow [...]r under the Ki [...]g, [...]o put in, or leave out, whatsoe­ver they thinke fi [...]t for the present occasion; as their P [...]edic [...]ss [...] have ever done before [...]hem.

Observ.This generall implicite power is not suf [...]icient, for affirming truel [...] tha [...] they have the Kings command or warrant for every thing th [...] put in, [...]r leave out, no more then the generall power, which t [...] Chancellor, Secretary and other O [...]ficers have from the King, is suffi [...]cient fur alleadging the Kings command and warrant for every act they doe in their severall stations; they cannot change any thing once axcepted out of their O [...]fices, without a new speciall vvar­rant.

Arch. B. Pag. 21. Provided that nothing be in contrary to the Doctrine or Discipline of the Church of England.

Observ. Quaeritur, whether the Doctrine and Discipline of our Church be that which Bishops invent, prescribe, or purchase colour of his Maje­sties au [...]hority for commanding off; Or that which by other Re­formed Churches is held to bee of divine institution.

Arch. B. ibid.And it is not the custome of the Church, nor fitt in it selfe to pray for seasonable weather when wee have it, But when we wan [...] it.

[Page 29]Why not as well as it is the custome of the Church, Obser [...] and fitt in it selfe [...]o pray for grace, wisedome and understanding of the Lords of coun­ [...]ell that want none of these, and for illuminating Bishops, with true [...]nowledge and understanding of the word which they have & want [...]ot.

Thirdly, 'tis most inconsequent to say; Arch. B [...] pag. 22. that the Leaving that Prayer [...]ut of the booke of devotions, caused the Shipwrackes and the Tempest, [...]hich followed.

In the newes from Ipswitch, it is not saide, Observ [...] that the leaving out that [...]ayer caused the shipwracks and tempests, but was one cause (that is [...] farre as men may judge) one of the occasions thereof, and to this [...]ce a man may speake without exceeding the limits of Christian re­ [...]rence, duety and humility. in speaking of actions and accidents, [...]ereof no other cause can be affirmed literally, but the will of al­ [...]ghty God, and the saying that the leaving out of that prayer, is [...]e of the causes of the shipwracks, is as justifiable a way of speech, [...] the saying of a man sick of the ague, that his sinnes are the causes [...]reof.

I humble desire your Lordships to weigh well the Consequence of [...] great and dangerous Innovation. Arch. B. pag. 23. The Prayer for faire weather [...] left out of the Book for the Fast; Therefore the Prelates intend to [...]ng in Popery.

[...]here is not so much as one line (in those newes excepted against [...]is Gr. Obser [...]) inferring either upon this or any other of the innovations [...]tioned in it, a conclusion of the Prelates intention to bring in [...]ery, yet upon the whole conjunctio an appearance of such inten­ [...] may be in reason as well affirmed as feared. August. Tom. 10. [...]mil. 42. saith, de minutis guttis implentu [...] flumina, per minutas rimula [...] [...]at aqua,, impletur sentina, mergitur nav [...]: Small drops make floods th [...]ough small rifts the water loaketh in, filleth the deck, and sinketh [...] ship.

To this I answer First, As before; Arch. B [...] ibid, It was lawfull for us to alter what we thought fit.

And Secondly, since that Collect made mention of Preaching, [...] Act of State forbad Sermons on the Fast dayes in infected pla­ [...]; wee thought it fit, in pursuance of that Order, to leave out [...] Collect.

[Page 30]For reply may bee repeated the answer to the 3, Se [...]: withal [...] act of State forbidding Sermons, is not a sufficient warrant for leav [...] out of a prayer in use to be read, a collect because it mention pre [...]ing.

Arch. B. pag. 24.For the branch in the other, which is the first Coll [...]ct, Though [...] did deliver our forefathers out of Romish superstition, (yet God be [...] sed for it) we were never in.

Observ.Though it were absolutely true (as it is not) that none of the [...]rers of these prayers, which are usually read, were [...]ver in Romis [...] perstition, as his Graces Speech here implyeth, yet could not t [...] a sufficient reason for leaving out the collect here mentioned, be [...] in the deliverance of our forefathers out of the said superstition [...] [...] did deliver us; Withall by the same reason his Gr. might cause [...] beare the thanksgiving and prayers appointed to be used for del [...]rance from the Powderplott. A reverend remembring and than [...]ving in our prayers to God, for delivering our foref [...]thers out of [...]mish Superstition, is a point, more materiall in Gods worship the [...]ther an aeriall Crosse, a Surplice, or bowing at the n [...]me of Iesus: [...] as there is not so much reason, for leaving out t [...]a [...] branch of [...] Collect, as there is for refusing a nec [...]ssity of the aeriall Crosse, Sur [...] and ducking to an Altar, or at the sound of the word Iesus, by su [...] esteeme the doing thereof scandalous, superstitious, or otherwise [...] lawfull; and seei [...]g there are many of the [...]ormalists, or good Co [...]mists, who by the doctrine, practise the Ceremonies, approved [...] urg [...]d by most Prelates, are led the b [...]ad way to the avowed pr [...]sion and beleefe of Popery, that clause which implyeth a prayer fo [...] [...]liver [...]nce from Romish Superstition, is not unfittingly expressed (as [...] Gr: alleadgeth) in the said Coll [...]ct, the words left out being these: [...] hast delivered u [...] from Superstition and Idolatry, wherein wee were [...]ly drowned, and hast brought us into the most cleare and comfortable [...] of thy blessed word, by the which we are taught how to serve and [...] [...]hee, and how to live orderly with our neighbours in trueth and verity.

Arch-B. ibid.Because in this Age and Kingdome there is little opinion [...] meriting by fasting.

Observ.Papists in this age and Kingdome have still an opinion of meri [...] by fasting, and the enjoyning of a fast in Lent and other se [...]t ti [...] [...]sed by the Roman Church, maketh the lukewarme Conformists ap [...]ertaine [Page 31] the same opinion, and breedeth in many religious harts a [...]ition and feare, that the forbearance of rhe words which taught [...] people that they should not presume their fasting to be merito­ [...]s, hath beene purposely ordered to content Papists and Atheists, [...] to have the better occasion to teach, command or breede a beleefe [...]he weake sorts of persons religiously disposed, that they doe (and [...] meritt by fasting.

[...]nd this was done according to the Course of the Church, Arch. B. pag. 25. which or­ [...]ed ordinarily names none in the Prayer, but the right line descending. [...]here is no Canon of the Church, Observ. or warrant of Scripture for re­ [...]ing the prayer for such as are o [...] a Royall family, to those onely [...] are of a right line desc [...]n [...]i [...]g; His G [...]: well knoweth, that tur­ [...] eijcitur quam non admitt [...] ho [...]p [...]s, and that the Queen of Bohemia [...] ever made a part of tb [...] C [...]mmon prayer, could not be left out [...] by any warrant, either of Religion, or State wisedome, and that [...] leaving her out of it, could not but become a scandall and offence [...]ome, breede in ma [...]y an opinion that they which are unwilling [...] have prohibited) that usuall prayers be made to God for her, will [...]dge to afford her the wordly supply, which her Estate needeth, and [...] may in reason expect and hope for, from his Majestie and all such [...]ubjects as are loyall & [...]ot corruptible by either Spanish or Popish [...]sents, pensions, or promises; if the King hath given command for [...]nder his hand (as his Gr: here saith) his Majesty hath beene abused some shew of reason suggested to him, which his Grace neither [...]ntioneth, nor dare (J thinke) avow, nor are obvious to the [...]ce of any honest man, nor likely ever to be approved by Parliam: I beseech your Lordships to consider, Arch. B. pag. 26. what must be the Consequence [...]: The Queene of Bohemi [...]e and her Children are left out of the [...]llect, therefore the P [...]elates intend to bring in Pope [...]y.

There is no such conseq [...]ence inferred upon the onely leaving out [...] this Collect, Observ. and albeit upon this & the remanent innovations made [...] his Gr: (here apologized for) & the rigorous urging of needlesse [...]erem [...]nies, concurring with the knowledge which many have of discoveries made (by the last two Parliament) of his Graces and some [...]her Prelates wayes, bred in most men an opinion, that some of the [...]elates inte [...]d to bring in Popery, neverthelesse it doth not follow [...]at the persons which his Gr: inveigh [...]th against, doe goe about to [Page 32] poison the people, with a conceite, that the Queene of Boh [...]mia a [...] her Children would keep [...] out Popery out of England, and that the King and his Children will not; Such Prelates as intend innovation in reli­gion, are likely to thinke it for th [...]ir ende, to worke such an opinio [...] where they have power, for they may expect good benefit bo [...] from great persons abroade, and great Traitors (as Papists, Atheists, and lukewa [...]me Conformists) at home, by working into the harts [...] the people any opinion, which may be made use of to breede in t [...] kings own hart a jealousy of his Royall sister, and of the hopefull Pri [...]ces her Children. T [...]e persons Inveighed agai [...]st by his Gr: canno [...] hope for any good or adva [...]tage by labouring to poison the peopl [...] with such a villanous conceite, nor are they in any possibility to b [...] disposed as Papists, Atheists and Formalists aforesaide to any cour [...] tending to the prejudice of his Majesties greatnes, or publike good [...] For as their har [...]s are enflamed with a zeale in their religion, to t [...] service of God, so are they with affection and loyalty in their allei [...]gance to the K: their Soveraigne; neither doe they impute to his M [...]jesty the blame of those actions, which they have hope (yea confidence [...] that his Majesty shall one day (either by his Parliam: or some othe [...] way) discover that Prelates have caused to be done under pretext an [...] cover of his authority, to the prejudice of true religion, and over­throw of many learned and modest Ministers, and to the great griefe of his M [...]j [...]sties best and most loyall subjects.

Arch. B. [...]ag. 26.For my part I honour the Qu [...]ene of Bohomia and hir Line, as much as any man whatsoever, and shall bee as ready to serue them.

[...]bserv.Men that consider that his Gr: hath not only now caused to rase o [...]t the name of that good Queene and her Children out of those Col­lects, but blot al [...]o out of the patent graunted by his Majestie an [...] 1635. for a collection for the distressed Churches of the Palatinate, the words bearing them to be of the same Religion, which our Churc [...] [...]f [...]sseth, cannot beleeve that his Gr: did speake these words but i [...] his Court stile, not minding their literall [...]ence (whereunto it is i [...] manners and against Cour [...] wisedome, to ty the Court language) fo [...] his c [...]mmand to bl [...]tt out these words in the sa [...]d patent, formed b [...] his Majesties attorney (upon the modell of a former patent in the same kinde graunted by K. Iames, which av [...]wed the people of the Palatinate to be of our Re [...]igion) [...]rgueth that [...]e hateth the Religious [Page 33] [...]ofessors, both in that Country where the Queene of Bohemia was [...]rne, and in that wherein shee was maried, and wherein her selfe and [...]er Princely Children have beene bred and educated, and a Prelate [...]hich either hateth the Q [...]eene of Bohemias Religion, or professeth [...]other Religion then shee and her Children doe, and useth all pos­ [...]le craft and violence, to make all hee can embrac [...] it; ought not to [...] beleeved in the literal sence of the words when he saith that he ho­ [...]ureth the Qu: o [...] Bohemia & her line as much as any mā whatsoever [...] But J know not how to depart from my Allegean [...]e, Arch. B. pag. 27. as I doubt these [...]n have done.

Prayers might have beene continued by his Gr: Observ. for the Queene of [...]hemia and her Children, without departing from his allegeance, [...]d mens desire of continuance of that prayer, or being [...]ffe [...]ded at [...]e leaving o [...]t of it, is not a sufficient reason for his Gr: to inferre [...]onclusion to charge them with the crime of departing from their [...]egeance, or for his Gr. suspition of it, In the Reformed French and [...]ch Churches throughout all the United Provinces, prayers are [...]de, not [...]n [...]ly for the Queene of Bohemia and her Princely Chil­ [...]en, but for our K. also, yet is not that esteemed a departure of the [...]eachers and people that practise it, from the alleadgeance due by [...]em to the Soverainty of the [...]tate they live under.

That this Alteration was made in my Predecessors time before I [...]d any Authority to meddle with these things, Arch-B. ibid. And his Majesty ac­ [...]owledges, it was done by his speciall direction, as having then no [...]ildr [...]n to pray for.

If the words [ who art the Father of thine elect and their seede] have O [...]serv. [...]ene left out, or changed by his Majesties direction, certainely [...]ee [...]us [...] have had some other reasons suggested unto him (by some Pre­ [...]e, whose advice he trusteth in matter of prayer and divine worship) [...]en (that which is here sett downe) because the King had no Chil­dren to pray for, when he gave command to leave out these words, for if that were the reason, then that clause w [...]re now to be resumed (which is not done) since the K. hath [...]eede (which God bles [...]e) like as [...]he [...]sing of those words is compatible enough with a [...]y Gods elect, [...]ther having or wanting seede, so as to obtaine his Majesties warrant [...]r leaving out these words, it is likely th [...]t his Gr: or some othe [...] P [...]e­ [...]te hath suggested to him such arguments as Papists and Arminians [Page 34] vse for impugning that article of Christian religion, which con [...]er [...]e [...] Gods election, without acquainting his Majestie: with the answer [...] made thereto by orthodoxe writers.

Arch. B. pag. 28.The truth is, it was made at the comming in of K. IAMES [...] and m [...]st of necessity be changed over and over againe pro ratione Te [...]porum as Times and Persons varie.

Observ.The Parliament appointed that prayer to be vsed and it can nei [...]ther be lawfully omitted and forborne (which his Gr: granteth [...] auoweth the doing of) nor changed without warrant of the same a [...]ritie.

Arch. B. pag. 29.Here give mee l [...]ave to tell you 't is At the name of Iesus, in [...] learned Translation made in K. Iames his time. About which m [...]ny learned Men of be [...]t note in the Kingdome were imployed, bes [...]de some P [...]elates.

Observ.If the translation made in K. Iames time hath At the name, ce [...]tainly it is not soe consona [...]t to the Greeke Originall which ha [...] ( [...]) or to the Latine version ( in nomine) as in the the nam [...] and ( In) being so long vsed in many impressions of the common pr [...]er booke confirmed by Parliament: it is not likely that the chang [...] hath beene error Typographi, but a direction of some P [...]elate in [...] late edition, and therefore with very good reason this alteration m [...] bee numbred among other innovations made by Bishops.

Arch. B. pag. 30.And M ^• P [...]ynn [...] (whose Darling busines it hath long been to [...] downe the honour due to the Son of God, at the mentioning of [...] sa [...]ing Name Iesus) knowes the Gramm [...]r Rule well, In a place, or a [...] place, &c.

Observ.The honor dew to the Sonne of God, is not cryed downe by s [...] as m [...]intaine that all reverence that can bee or is required by his D [...]vine Majestie, is dew vnto him (as M ^r. Pryn and all good Christi [...] ackn [...]wledge) and that alike honour is due unto him, when hee mentioned by the name of Christ, God, Jmmanuell, &c: As when [...] is mentioned by the name of Jesus, and the word Phil: 2.10. Doe [...] oblig [...] Christians to worship the letters and sound of the word [...] but his Person, which is expressed to our memories and understa [...]ings, as well by his other n [...]mes, as by the name Iesus, and by (bow [...] of the knee) in th [...]t passage nothing is understood or meant, [...] the same that is meant by b [...]wing of the knee Rom [...] 14.1 [...]. Esa [...]: 45 [...] [Page 35] [...]t w [...]re idolatry to reverence the pers [...]n for the names sake, and if we [...]everence the name for the persons sake every name competent to him [...]ught to bee a like reuerenced; withall if the words (bowing of the [...]nee) import a necessity of kneeling; [...]he words (and every toung shall [...]onfesse that Iesus is the Lord) in that same place must oblige all men [...]o a necessity of a uocall and loud confession that Iesus is the Lord [...]hich must make a confusion & disturbance in all assemblies, for prea­ [...]hing praying or reading of scripture, yea, if the sence of the wordes [...]ere to be taken literally, that would [...]blige men to kneele, but not [...]p, no [...] crosse, nor to bow the head at the name o [...] Iesus, his Gr: doth [...]ot pres [...]e kneeling either in the literall or metaphoricall sence of the [...]ords, and is not able to produce a text for capping or bowing the [...]ead at the sight or sound of the name Iesus.

This I finde in the Queenes Injunctions Arch-B. pag. 31., without either word In [...] At. Whensoever the name of Iesus shall bee in any Lesson, Sermon, or [...]herwise pronounced in the Church ('t is injoyned) that due rev [...]rence bee [...]ade of all persons, young and old.

Queene Elizabeths injunctions ought to be reverenced, Obser [...]. yet mortuo [...]anda [...]ore expirat mandatum; And no act, order, or command of a [...]veraigne Prince, not ratified and authorized by his estates in Par­ [...]ment, doth rule either his successors, authority, or his subjects obe­ [...]ence after his death. Queene Eliz: possibly ordained courtesy [...]d uncovering the head at the pronouncing of the name of Iesus, for [...]e same respect, for which shee suffered an Altar, to remaine in her [...]appell, after that by act of Parliament they were ordained to be [...] [...] downe in all Churches of England, and after the pulling downe [...] them in many Parishes (even before warrant of the said act was proved) The reasons of Princes commands, or connivences are not be too curiously pried into, where subjects without being obnoxi­ [...] to any inconveniency, may both forbeare doeing of the thing en­ [...]ned or commanded, and imitating of the thing winked at or prac­ [...]d by them against a Law; Meane while, the enjoyning of such cour­ [...]s [...] onely as thereunto doth necessarily belong, and before then ac­ [...]omed, sheweth that shee did not impose a necessity of ducking, [...]ging, capping, or kneeling, because it was easy to finde that there [...] no custome in the old orthodoxe or Reformed Churches ancient­ [...] of late dayes for so doeing, but onely among Papists, whose a­buses, [Page 36] super [...]titions, and mountebankeries, though shee could n [...] purge of a suddaine (especially trusting much to Prelates in the bu­sines) yet had shee no intention (doubtlesse) by her injunctions to follow or approve them.

Arch. B. pag. 32.So here is necessity laid upon it, and Custome for it, & both expres [...]sed by Authority in the very beginning of the Reformation; & is the [...]fore no Innovation now.

Observ.Since such was the nature of the Law and Custome here ment [...]ned, as is before designed, they cannot be a ground for the in [...]rence which his Gr: thereupon maketh, that bowing at the name of I [...]sus, commanded by his Gr: is no innovation, because neither in the [...] orthodoxe, nor in the late Reformed Churches, there was either [...] or custome for the said bowing, and the cannons or customes of Papi [...] were not ordained to be followed by Qu: Eliz: injunctions, yea Ho [...] calleth that bowing an absolute ceremony, & the introductiō of an [...]solute ceremony, is as well an innovatiō as the hatching of a new [...]

Arch. B. Pag. 33.That's left to the Church, therefore here's no Innovation aga [...] that Act of Parliament.

Observ.As it is a notorious trueth, that the act of Parliament containing command for prayers & thanksgiving every: 5. Novemb: was pri [...] before the booke containing the prayers ordered to be read in obe [...]en [...]e of the saide act, so is it a notorious trueth, that for respect to [...] said act, a prayer was conceived, An: 1605. in the words which [...] been in vse to be read every 5. Novemb: since that yeare, & albeit the making of the foresaid act, the contriving of the foresaid pray was left to the Church, yet doth it not thence follow that a change the words of the prayer then contrived, and so long in use, is no al [...]ration. Arch. B. ibid.

The Aleration first mentioned, that is, The Sect or that Sect them: O [...]serv. is of so small cons [...]quence as 'tis not worth the spe [...]king of.

There seemeth to be so little difference betweene the sence of [...] words changed, and of those that are putt in the place, as [...] would thinke that it were against discretion either to charge the cha [...]ger with the reproach of innovation, or to imagine that any man [...]ven of ordinary sufficiency) can bee moved with such reproach up [...] grounds apparantly so weake, yet when men consider that it is [...]likely that so wise a man as his Gr: would have directed a changes [Page 37] [...] prayer used in the Church above 32 yeares, but upon solide reasons [...]ther of state or Religion (because such a change seemeth an impli­ [...]ite accusation of either error or ignorance in the contrivers and u­ [...]rs thereof, or of neglect of duty or want of understanding in those [...]ishops that have suffered the same so long) it is probable that Mr. Burton not being able to conceive any reason of State or Religion, [...]hich his Gr: could pretend for it, or any honour or benefitt to the [...]ing or publike (which are the ende of all state actions) by the saide [...]ange, hath judged that because the tropicall expression of the words [...]ng used, did clearely point at the Romane Church & Doctrine, and [...] literal sence of the words as his Gr hath caused them to be disposed the change, doe not pinch any people that is knowne, he hath or­ [...]ined all the words to be insert, which are expedient for expressing [...] literall sence, as more tender and lesse pinching the Romane [...]urch.

I did not move the King, directly, or indirectly; Arch. [...] pag. 34 to make [...] changè.

In all the actions of Ministers, which are Formalists and good Con­ [...]mists, Observ. done for edification and feeding of any people or person, [...]th food approved by his Gr: within that which he calleth his Dio­ [...]se and Province, are and must be esteemed his Graces actions (if [...]eir power for doing thereof be derived from his Gr: and that the [...]ole Church power in every Diocesse is inhaerent in the Bishopp [...]reof, as the Formalists reach) soe whasoever any Prelate or person [...]ggesteth to his Majesty (and breedeth in his royall minde a beleefe [...] a perswasion off, by vertue of the respect they have with his High­ [...]s, through his Graces recommendation and character made by him [...] his Majesty of them) tending to purposes which his Gr: doth not [...]allow ex post facto; And whereof he may challenge the thankes and g [...]ory as his du [...], are such as his Gr: well knoweth, ought to be e­steemed his Graces actions, and that he can no more safely give his oath, that he is not the mover off, then he will acknowledge upon oath no man hath authority or power to make one man a lawfull Pastor of many severall Churches.

And that both these are true, Arch. [...] pag 35. I here againe freely offer my selfe to [...]y Oath.

[Page 38] Observ.Howsoever his [...]r: here offereth his oath, that the King comm [...] ­ded the cha [...]ge without being therein moved by him, and that he had his Majesties hand to the booke, for warrant of the saide alteration [...] before he made them, and setteth downe three reasons, for which th [...] King (as he saith) commanded at least might command the sam [...], y [...] to all men of sence it seemeth more likely, that his Gr: (who is an u [...]derstanding Courti [...]r) offereth here his oath by way of complemen [...] knowing that no man would putt him to it, then that his Majesty [...] the saide reasons was induced to command (and to give warrant [...] the saide alterrtions, without being by his Gr: or some of his coate r [...]quired and perswaded thereto, and that not onely because it is n [...] likely that his Majesty (who is not by his Royall Office a [...]d calli [...] necessarily conversant in the study of divinity) would upon his p [...]vate thought make any alteration in a prayer so long used, esteem [...] sufficiently considerate and expedient both in matter and forme, [...] because likewise neither the forbearance made in Queene Elizab [...] time to pray for deliverance from the tyranny of the Bish: of Rom [...] after the state was clearely delyvered, and in posture to owe and gi [...] thankes for delivery from the same, nor his instance of four sorts [...] Religion in the world, nor K. Iames assertion that no Papist in his D [...]minions was put to death for Popery either during his raigne [...] Queene Eliz: can be (as his Gr: alleadgeth (reasons able to induce [...]ther a Prince of his Majesties wisedome and goodnesse, or any rati [...]nall man to condemne the wo [...]ds, which call the Popish Clergy Bab [...]lonish, & their religion rebellion in the sence that the prayer, is befo [...] it was changed, cal [...]ed them; withall if the words before and af [...] the change have one meaning, the change was neeedlesse, and if th [...] words changed have another sence then the former, either they, or [...] former must be thought impertinent, if not pernicious, and either [...] Gr: or his predecessors in Office impertinent in the exercise of it.

Ar [...]h. B. pag. 40.Therefore by that, and such like Innovation [...] the Prelates intend [...] [...] bring in Popery.

It is very true, that from the leaving out a prayer for the naui, [...] from any one such like innovation (as hath beene saide) there canno [...] be any conclusion inferred, demonstrating that Prelates intend [...] bring in Popery. Neither is it compatible with Episcop: wisedo [...] & with the respect they pretend due unto them to doe actions where­ [...] [Page 39] any man may bee able perfectly to know & discover their inten­ [...]ns, when they either dare not, or thinke not fitt to avow them. [...]e Bishop of S. Andrewes (in a booke entituled Confutatio libelli de [...]imine Eccle [...]iae Scoticanae) writeth that Episc: jurisdiction (which by [...]s of Church a [...]semblies ratified in many Parliam: hath beene con­ [...]mned as humanum commentum and Antichristian) was brought in­ [...] that Church [...]on confestim sed pedetentim, & per inter [...]alla ne res agi [...]eretur; And albeit it may be now safely affirmed that those Ministers [...]t advised the King, to make constant moderato [...]s in their Church [...]emblies, and to offer to the Church jus suffragij in comi [...]ijs, by some [...] the Ministery which the Church should have a power to choose [...]ore every Parliam: have (since they obtained these prerogatives) [...]ought back into that Church both that office and divers Ceremo­ [...]s rejected at the reformation, and abjured by the accep [...]ers of them, [...]well as by all other Officers and members of the Church in that [...]gdome, neverthelesse it had beene a ridiculous ratiocination be­ [...] their evident apostacy and perjury to say; The Ministers have ob­ [...]ed warrant for voice in Parliam: and an act for constant modera­ [...] in their assemblies, and many of them good pensions out of the [...] exchequer; Ergo they intend to bring in into the Church con­ [...]y to their oaths and subscriptions, a Government and Ceremoni [...]s [...]cted by them at the reformation, and often abjured since; So albeit [...]re is no good l [...]gick for inferring upon any of the foresaide inn [...] ­ [...]ions, the Prelates intention for Popery, neverthelesse men many say [...]t it is more probable that th [...] innovaters of the whole particul: by [...] Gr: here apologized for, intend Popery in the point of Doctrine [...]n it was that those Scottish Ministers intended Popish Discipline; [...]iscopacy and Ceremonies rej [...]cted and abiured by their oathes and [...]scriptions (as said is) there are many things quae peracta laudantur, [...]t the cariage of, is dangerous, and the actors of it will never (or dare not) avow the intention of; The pitifull suffering of many honest men in Scotland, since the reduction of the P [...]p [...]sh manner of rule and Ce­r [...]monies, helpeth much to breede [...]hat [...]eare, which many honest men [...]nd all loyall subjects here in Engl: have that those innovators inten­ [...]ons are as much sett for Popish Doctri [...]e, as the seekers of t [...]ose m [...] ­ [...]ratorships, pensions, and voice in Parliam: were sett for Popish rule [...] discipline in Scotland.

[Page 40] Arch. B. pag. 41.No one thing hath advanced or Vsherd in Popery soe fast, as [...] grosse Absurdities even in the Worship of God, which these Men, an [...] their like maintaine both in Opinion and practise.

Observ.No man but Papists, or Atheists object against their doctrine or o [...]pinions in matter of faith, and if by their practise be here unders [...]o [...] their lives and conversation, neither Blasphemy, sabbath-breaking, dri [...]king, playing and other alehouse gaming, luxure, pompe, pride, pro [...]gality, indyet, and apparell, whoring, obscene discourses and actio [...] non residence, nor plurality of benefices can bee soe much object [...] to any of them as to most of the conformists.

Arch. B. pag. 41.To this J can truly say, that since my owne memory this was in [...] in very many places as being most proper (for those prayers are th [...] read which both precede and follow the Communion,) and by li [...] and little this Ancient custome was altered, and in those places [...] where the Emissaries of this faction came to preach.

Observ.Neither can your Gr: bee ignorant that it was out of vse in mo [...] places (200. to o [...]e) then since your memory it was used in, and [...] practise of it in some few places without a lawfull warrant cannot, [...] a reason for inferring that either the command or practise of it of [...] is not an innovation in those places where it was neither command [...] nor practised before his Gr: began this and the like innovations.

Arch. B. ibid.With this the Rubrickes of the Common-prayer booke agree: fo [...] [...] first Rubrick after the Communion tels us that upon Holy dayes, thou [...] there be no Communion, yet all els that [...]s appointed at the commu [...]on shall be r [...]ad.

Observ.The Rubrick as well as the booke of common prayer was ma [...] by the prela [...]es, by whome though at the beginning of the reform [...]on there were diverse Rubricks, orders and prayers left (which [...] founde no possibility to reforme a [...] the fi [...]st) in it, as the Appostles [...] in the Churches infancy a [...]er Christ assension for respect to the [...] brethren of the Iewes in the matter of Circumcision (which [...] [...]ractised in the person of Timothy Act: 16.3. and forbare in the [...] of Titus Gal: 2.2.) and in the point of Abstinence from bloud [...] things stra [...]gled, neverthelesse all religious & modest Bishops [...] have beene since the reformation in [...]ffice at any time, have forb [...] ( [...]s the Apostle did circumcision) either to practise o [...]her unlawfull [...] d [...]r [...] l [...]f [...] in it, or to command to reade at the communion table [...] [Page 41] [...] communion is not given) the prayers which are appointed to bee [...]ead at the communion, for albeit the Rubrick ordered that when [...]e communion is given, the Priest shal stand and reade the prayers [...]pointed to be reade at the Communion table, it followeth not that [...]hen the communion is not given he must nece [...]arily reade the same [...] the communion table, and not in the desk, as the custome hath been [...] this case before these late innnovations.

Moses did reverence at the very Dore of the Tabernacle, Num. 20. [...]ezekiah, Arch. pag. 4 and all that were present with him, when they had made an [...]d of offering, bowing and worshipping, (2. Chron.) David cals the peo­ [...]e to it with a Venite, O come let us Worship, and fall downe, and kneele [...]fore the Lord our Maker. ( Psa. 95.) And in all these places (I pray [...]arkei) 'tis bodily worship.

The example of Moses falling downe at the dore of the tabernacle [...]d of Ezekias bowing and worshipping cannot oblige to the like [...]orship any, but those that offer the like sacrifice, and Moses Example [...]ligeth to bow before, & Ezekias examlpe only after a man hath made [...] end of his Sacrifice. From neither of them nor from Davids words [...]sal. 95. cited by his Gr: can be inferred either that at the entry into a [...]hristian Church, a man must fall downe, bow and worship, or that [...]ere is a particular place in the Church toward which a man must of [...]cessity turne his face for worshipping God, or that he that doth not [...]th these when he commeth into the Church, doth no more reverence [...] God then a Tincker and his Bitch when they come into an alehouse, [...] as it cannot bee truely affirmed, that whosoever at his going out of Church upon a sunday after the evening service, goeth not to may­ [...]mes, pyping, dauncing or other such exercise warranted by the [...]oke for Sabbath recreations (contriued as is conceived, by some a­ [...]eistically Popish Churchman) goeth out of the Church with no more [...]verence then a Tincker and his Bitch going out of an alehouse; soe can it [...]t be truely affirmed that whosoever at his entry into a Church doth [...]ot bow and cringe to the Altar (conforme to injunctions hatched (as is supposed) by some Popishly Hypocriticall Churchman, and allowed by authority) hath no more reverence to God then a Tin­ker and his Bitch, when they goe into an Alehouse.

It is against charity to condemne men, as having no reverence to [Page 42] God, that either after Sermō retire to their chamber, for private pray [...]er, reading, or religious conference upon the points heard by them, o [...] enter into th [...] Church with eares and hearts bent to assist the Mini­sters prayer, and to hearken to his preaching, because the one goe [...] not to Maygames at his g [...]ing out of the Church, and the other du [...] not at, or to the Al [...]ar at [...]is comming in, for it is possible that the o [...] thinking in their conscience, that the sports authorized by the sai [...] booke, are not so consistent as private prayer, reading, or religio [...] conference after Sermon, with such observation of the Sabbath [...] God hath commanded; And that the other in their conscience thin [...] that adoring, ducking, cringing, kneeling to, or at the Altar [...] is [...] seemeth to be an idolatrous act, and derogatory to that revere [...] wherewith a mans hart ought to bee fi [...]led when he entreth into Church for religious exercise) withall as a Tinker with his Bi [...] dri [...]king and dominering in an Alehouse, up [...]n a Sunday, after [...] hath duckt to the altar, may not by any good Conformist be reproac [...]ed f [...]r breach of the morall Law for the Sabbath, in respect of his pr [...]viledge for so doing by warrant of the booke for recreations; So [...] not ducking to the Altar at a mans entry into a Church, can [...]ot bee ground for inferring, that the omitter of it hath no more revere [...] toward God then a Tinker and his Bitch comming into an Alehou [...] in respect of the warrant that is in Scripture, for worsh [...]ppi [...]g G [...] alone; For albeit the command forbid [...]eth only to fall downe [...] bow before an image, it followeth not that it is lawfull and necess [...] for Gods worship to bow and fall downe before an Altar, or at the [...]try of a Church where there is no image, or that he that doth it [...] faileth [...]hereby in his reverence due to God.

Arch. B. pag. 45.No man is constrained, no man quèstioned, only Religiously called [...] on, Venite Adoremus: Come, let us worship.

Obser [...].If there be any Church Canon (or command of those that [...] power in the times) to bow to the Altar at a mans entry into [...] Church, the [...] are men con [...]trai [...]ed t [...] doe it, for there is a neces [...] either of obedience, or da [...]ger of being obnoxious to punish [...] for [...]ot obedience in such a case; and if there be neither Canon [...] Law, the practise of it is an innovation without any pretext of [...]tant.

[Page 43]For there ' [...]is Hoc est corpus meum, This is my bo [...]y. Arch-B. pag. 47. But in th [...] [...]ulpit tis at most, but; Hoc est Verbum meum, This in my Word. And greater R [...]verence (no doubt) is due to the Body, then to the Word of [...]r Lord. And so, in Relation answerable to the Throne, where his B [...] ­ [...] is us [...]ally pres [...]nt, then to the Seate, Whence his Word use [...]h to bee [...]oclaimed.

The argument (founded by his Gr: Obser [...] upon the words hoc est corpus [...]eum) cannot bind any man to a necessity of adoration and bowing to [...]e Altar, but only at the time of the celebration of the communion; [...]hen it is not given, his Gr: (who as yet neither doth with the Ro­ [...]ish Church professe a beleefe of transubstantiation, nor hath or­ [...]ined pretended transubstantiated breade in the body of our Savi­ [...]r, to be kept in a boxr upon the Altar) can [...]ot by any warrant of or­ [...]odoxe religion pretend, that because the body of our Saviour is up­ [...] the Altar in such manner as the word is in the Pulpitt, that there­ [...]re at the entry into the Church a man must adore or bow towards and where his Gr: for shewing a necessity of this bowing and crin­ [...]ng to the Altar, sayeth, that a greater reverence is due to the body [...]en to [...]he word of our Lord; as the words Verbum & Corpus expre [...]se [...]e essence of Chri [...]t; That alike reverence is due to both, I thinke noe [...]n will deny, and where Corp [...] [...]hristi is taken for the Sacrament, [...]d Verbum Christi for the Gosp [...], or preaching of it S. August. lib. [...]. hom. 26. Affirmeth that alike reverence is due to both; Saith he, [...]terrogo vos fratr [...] vel sorores dici [...]e mihi quid vobis plus esse videtu [...], ver­ [...]m Dei an corpus Christi? Si verum vultis respondere, hoc vtique dicere [...]etis, quod non sit minus verbum Dei, quam corpus Christi, & ideo quan­ [...] sollicitudine observamus quando nobis corpus Chris [...]i administratur, ut ni­ [...] ex ipso de nostris manibus i [...] terram cadat, tanta sollicitudine observ [...]mus [...] verbum Dei quando nobis e [...]ogatur, dum aliquid cogitamus a [...] loqui­ [...]r, de corde [...]stro pereat, quia non minus reus crit qui verbum Dei ne­ [...]genter audierit qu [...]m ille qui [...]orpus Christi in terram cadere negligen­ti [...] sua permisaeret; If Aug: saieth true, that as great reverence is due to the word as to the body, then is there as much reverence due to t [...] pulpit for the word, as to the Altar for the Sacrament, and either there is no necessity for Gods worship to cringe and duck to the Altar, or it must bee also necessary to cringe and duck to the pul­ [...]t.

[Page 44] [...]rch-B. [...]ag. 48.And this Reverence yee doe when yee enter the Chappell, and whe [...] you approach nearer to offer. And this is no Innovation, for you are bound to it by your Order, and that's not New.

Observ.Suppose the Knights of the Garter are bound (as his Gr: affirmeth) by their order to bow towards the Altar when they enter into the Chappell, and approach nearer to the Offer, at the great anniversary solemnity of the saide order, it will not thereupon follow, that the Prelates injunction of that po [...]ture, to all other persons, is no innova [...]tion in the manner of Gods worship either according to the Aposto [...]licall institution thereof, or our Churches practise for the most par [...] [...]ince the reformation. Though some Ceremonies at the solemnitie [...] the Order of the Garter, are done in the Church, they doe not there by become such a piece of divine worship, as his Majesties other Sub­jects must necessarily follow the paterne and practise off; For as th [...] solemnity doth not give to all his subjects the ability to make so ri [...] Offers to the Altar, as are made thereto by those of the Order, so do [...] it no [...] oblige them to a duety of ducking at the dore towards the Al [...]tar, as the Knights doe; when a mariage is solemnized in the Churc [...] in our English way, the mā mu [...]t putt a ring upon the womans fo [...] finger, and say, with this ring I thee wed, with my body I thee w [...]ship, with all may wordly goods I thee endue; this practise thoug [...] done in the Church, in solemnizing an action that hath better warra [...] in Gods institution then the most honourable Order of the Gar [...]e [...] doth neither oblige men that are not married to a bodily worship [...] women, nor maketh a mariage unlawfull, in the solemnizing whereo [...] such ring and words are not used; So his Majesties and the Knigh [...] ducking & offering, and other gestures in the Church at the solemn [...]zing some Ceremonies of the aforesaid order, doe neither oblige oth [...] subjects to the same way of worship, nor maketh all other worshi [...] profane & unlawfull. In a word, if the Kings practise in his Chappe [...] & in the celebration of the Ceremonies of the Order of the Gar [...] were sufficient to oblige the people to doe the like, in all the Church [...] in Engl: his Gr: might by the like reason pretend that the K. suffer [...] or allowance of Mas [...]e in his house ought to be a sufficient warrant [...] Law for doing the like in every family of Engl: whi [...]h his Gr: J think [...] will not say, unlesse he be confident both to overthrow all respect [...] acts heretofore made in Parliam: and to diswade the K: from [...] [Page] [...]ing any Parliam: and to move his Majestie, to command the reve­ [...]d Judges of England, to resolve that solemnizing of Masse in eve­ [...] House, as well as Bishops issuing processe, and keeping Courts in [...]ir owne names, is not against the Lawes of the Realme.

And Jdolatry it is not to Worship GOD towards his Holy [...]. Arch. B. Pag. 48.

The bowing towards a Table, a stoole, a stone, a Wall, a House, Observ. a [...]urch, a dore, an Altar, or any thing else that is before a man when he [...]eth for divine worship, doth not thereby become Idolatry, but [...] bowing towards any thing with relation to it, as of greater Holi­ [...] then another thing by it, is idolatry, and proved so to be by Prote­ [...]t divine, of the Church of England, outward worship in Gods [...]ice, and bowing before a stone, Crosse, Image, or Altar, are not to confounded, and his Graces greatnesse is not able to make them [...]ome all one with jumbling them.

[...]ccording to a Constitution of Hen. the fifth (as appeares) to give [...] honour and Reverence, Arch. B. pag. 49. Domino Deo & Altari ejus, in mod [...]m viro­ [...] Ecclesiasticorum; That is, to the Lord your God, and to his Altar (for [...]re is a Reverrnce due to that too, though such as comes farre short Divine worship) and this in the Manner, as Ecclesiasticall persons both [...]ship and doe Reverence.

This Constitution mentioned (as his Gr: Observ. saith) in the black booke Windsor, is more lik [...] a fable and forgery of a Monke or Hypo­ [...]call vaine Churchman in those dayes, then an order or command [...]uch a King as Henry 5: It is not mentioned by any approved Hi­ [...]ian in his time, nor in times after him, neither is it likely that so [...]ious, victorious and wise a Prince as Hen. 5. either did or would [...] adde to the solemnity, appointed by the foundation of the order [...]nstitution so ridiculous, as the directing those of his order to make [...]rtesy to the Altar, ad modum virorum Ecclesiasticorum, withall, if [...] Gr: doe not (which no man is able to doe) prove that before H [...]ry 5. there was either divine Apostolicall, or Imperiall record, for commanding Ecclesiasticall persons, to bow to the Altar as a part of divine worship, the Constitution mentioned in that black booke [...]ough it were as true as it is apparantly forged) will not be sufficient [...]rove that that Lesson which it appointeth the Knights to learne of [...] Priests for making a leg or a duck [...] either was necessary for divine [Page 46] worship in the Knights or their Example obligatory of the people [...] condemnatory of all worship done without bowing, cringing or [...] king to the Altar in the fashion that viri Eccle [...]iastici (without warr [...] or command from lawfull authority) were wont to doe in K. He [...] 5. his dayes

Arch-B. pag. 51.Bishop Iewell will come in to Help [...] Mee there. For where H [...] ­ding names di [...]erse Ceremonies and particularly bowing themselv [...] adoring at the Sacrament, I say, adoring at the Sacrament not ador [...] the Sacrament; there Bishop Iewell (that learned, painefull, and re [...] Prelate) approves all both the Kneeling and the Bowing.

Observ.Bishop Iewells approving of bowing and kneeling ( not to bu [...]) the Sacrament in his answer to Harding as commendable gestures tokens of devotion so long as the people understand what they mea [...] is not a sufficient ground either for imposing a necessity of duck [...] kneeling, or bowing to the Altar, upon all such as understand these [...]remonies fully, and apply them to God, and to none but God, [...] they are not at the Sacrament, nor for affirming (as the Bishop do [...] that with us the people did ever understand them fully, and [...] them to God, and [...]o none but God, many Pagans could well aff [...] that they directed no worship to the stockes and stones and ot [...] workmanship of mens hands which they had in their Temples, but the deity represented by them, and the learned Papists professe [...] teach that they neither adore Crosse nor Image, nor Altar, but Chr [...] crucified, or upon the Altar; neverthele [...]se the practise of the learned [...]sort in that point hath beene one of the chiefe causes of the idola [...] universall among the Pagans and Papists; So though many are w [...] taught and consent with Bishop Iewell, that bowing and kneeling [...] commendable gest [...]res at the receiving of the Sacrament, yet if the [...] be commanded to be done to the Altar, when men are not at t [...] communion, they wilbe thought idolatrous by such as esteeme ge [...]stures of adoration due to God onely, and that they have no warran [...] For as, al [...]eit it is commendable in a man to close his chamber-door [...] and to kneele when [...]e prayeth alone, it doth not follow thereupo [...] that if he doe not shutt the dore & kneele every time that he entre [...] into his Chamber, that he entreth it with no more reverence then [...] [...]ker and his bitch going into an alehouse; Soe albeit it is a commendable gesture in B. Iewells opinion, to kneele or bow at the receaving of the [Page 47] [...]rament it doth not thence follow, that he that doth not bow or [...]ge to the Altar at his entry into a Church when the Sacrament is [...] given, is as much wanting in reverence to God, as a Tinker going [...] his Bitch into an Alehouse.

[...]n the Kings Royall Chappels and diverse Cathedrals, Arch. B. pag. 53. the Holy Table [...] ever since the Reformation stood at the upper end of the Quire, [...] the large or full side towards the people.

Neither the Kings Chappell, Observ. nor Pauls, nor Westminster, nor the prac­ [...] of any particular Church in Engl: but divine institution and his [...]esties Lawes, founded upon warrant thereof, ought to rule his [...]ects in the substance, ceremony, matter, and forme of Gods wor­ [...]; A subject is bo [...]nd to yeeld and measure his obedience not by [...]magination of the inward motion of the minde, or knowledge [...]s Princes practise, but by his expresse Lawes & directions.

[...]ere is nothing done either by violence or command to take off the [...]fferency of the standing of the Holy Table either way, Arch. B. ibid. but only lay­ [...] fairely before men, how fitt it is, there should be order and uni­ [...]ity; J say still reserving the Indifferency of the standing.

[...]y please your Gr: to remēber that a rayle is set about the Table, Observ. [...]h cannot be removed, there is no indifferency in the standing of [...] which b [...] a rayle is limited to it's place, and there appeareth as [...] violence in fixing unlawfully any thing to a constant place, as in [...]nlawfull removall of it, like as men are denyed the S [...]cram: that [...] not come up to the raile, and the Churchwardens and others that [...]se to sett up the raile, are hurried and sued in the High Commis­ [...], which argues both violence, and that the indifferency (which his [...]here mentioneth) of the standing of the Table, is not reserved, as [...] is affirmed.

[...] would faine know, how any discreet moderate man dares say, Arch. B. pag. 54. that the placing of the Holy Table Alter-wise (since they will needs call it so [...] done either to advance or Vsher in Popery.

Since your Gr: hath acknowledged Bishop Iewell, Observ. a learned, paine­full & reverend Prelate, where you pretend his helpe (but by wresting the sence of his words, as appeareth by what hath beene saide Pag. 5 [...].) I hope you will not deny him the attribute of a discrete moderate man, because in his Preface of his reply to Hardings answer, he wri­ [...]; An Altar we have such as Christ and his Apostles, and other holy [Page 48] Fathers had, which of the Gre [...]ke was called [...], the holy Ta [...] and was made not of stone, but of Timber, and stood not at the end [...] of [...] queere, but in the middest of the people; ano [...]her or better Altar then [...] and these holy Fath [...]rs had, we desire to ha [...]e none, & espe [...]ially any such [...]tar as h [...]th beene purposely sett up against the Altar of Christ. And [...] 3. Divis. 26. of the saide reply, he citeth Origen & Arnobius te [...]ies, that in their times the Chr [...]st [...]ans had no Altars at all, and S. [...]gust. to prove that such Altars as were in his time were made of [...]b [...]r, & called Mensa D [...]m [...]ni a [...]d Eus [...]bius to proue that the Al [...] placed in the middest of the Church, whereby it appeareth that B [...] I [...]well esteemed a position of the holy table altarwise (that is [...] east end of the Quire) to be contrary to the Doctrine of the Fath [...] in all liklyhood would haue judged the commanding of such [...]tion an innovation tending to Popery.

Arch. B. pag. 54.Did Queene Elizabeth banish Popery, and yet did shee all alo [...] Raigne, from first to last leave the Communion Table so standing [...] owne Chappell Royall, in Saint Pauls and Westminster and other [...] and all this of pu [...]pose to advance or Vsher in that Popery which sh [...] driven out?

Observ.In the beginning of Qu: Eliz: (as Cambden writeth) the whole ce [...]nies of the Masse were officiated in her chappel Romano ritu, ( [...] that the Lords Prayer and Letany were in English,) till by act o [...] [...]liam: it was otherwise provided, and after the act of Parliam: ho [...]ver most of corruptions of the Masse were purged out of the f [...] booke of her Chappell, there were candlesticks and torches (no [...]ning) some embossed plate, empty ewers of silver, a greate booke [...] (as Thuanus writeth, lib. 13. pag. 67.) Effigies Christi affixi Cruci [...]tained upon the Altar in it, yet by act of Parliam: the Masse be [...]bolished, and Altars appointed to be taken downe (and the z [...] pulling downe many before warrant of the said act, approved) th [...] the whole Kingdome, neither the Queens Chappell, nor Paul [...] any particular Church, as is saide, were to be patternes, for obli [...] all other Parish Churches to such Altars and Ornaments for [...] worship, as have beene (without warrant of Law, divine or h [...] retained in the saide Chappell and some other Churches.

Arch. B. Pag. 56.For the words of the Queenes Injunctions are these:

The Holy Table in every Church (marke it I pray, not in the [...] [Page 49] [...]ppell or Cathedrals only, but in every Church) shall bee decently made [...] se [...]t in the pla [...]e where the Altar stood. Now, the Altar stood at th [...] [...]er end of the Quire North and South, as appeares before by the [...]tise of the Church.

Albeit those words import, Observ [...] that the Holy Table in every Church [...] be decently made and sett in the place where the Altar stood, yet [...] they not oblige men to sett the Table Altar-wise; There are two [...]es which may competently be attributed to every body, locus ubi, [...]cus in quo; an ordinary place where a body is designed to be set [...] placed, may be of greater extent then the thing placed, but when [...]n speaketh Mathematically of a placen wheri a body is sett, there [...]nderstood onely that which in dimension holdeth no more th [...]n [...]hing placed; The Queenes injunction (as the Author of the [...]ke called the Holy Table, names or thing doth well marke) doth [...] designe the Mathematicall place, but the ubi onely of the Altar, and [...]eth not the subject to a necessity of setting the Table with one of [...]des (and not one of the endes) to the wall, yea, there being iniunc­ [...] ordaining the commandements to bee written on the E [...]st wall [...] church and the communion table to stand in the Chancell, when [...]ommunion is not given, and at the giving of it, in such part of the [...]rch whence the Minister may be best heard, it is evident that Queenes injunctions mentioned by his Gr: did not binde her sub­ [...] to a necessity of framing the holy table to the strict dimensions of [...]ar in a mathematicall proportion, & to set it so in the place of the [...]; for if such strict proportion had beene required, then the com­ [...] of taking downe altars had beene nedlesse since they could have [...]d for such communion tables as those that the Prelates have cau­ [...] be railed in; like as if the iniu [...]c [...]o [...] had bene mathematicall for [...]g by al proportions, the table in the altars place, it might fall out [...]n many churches there would not be roome enough to hold [...] [...]ommandements, and the Minist [...]r could not bee soe well heard of the people as the Queenes iniunction intended, and is [...]ssary in such a case. But suppose the Queenes Injunctions did ordaine the Holy Table to be framed to the strict dime [...]sions of [...] [...]ltar in a Mathematicall proportion, yet now these injunctions [...] [...]oide, because mortu [...] mandatore expi [...]at mandatum, as hath beene [...], and no commands of Princes binde their successors & subjects, [Page 50] but such as are approued and ratified by their estates in Parliam [...] as since those injunctions, there is a rubrick and expresse Canon, i [...]porting that the Communion Table shall stand in the middle of [...] Church or Chauncell, yea if there had beene a necessity intended [...] those injunctions for the Tables standing Altar-wise; Bishop [...] who lived in our good Queenes time, would not have contended [...] zealously against Harding in that point, contrary to the mean [...] (which his Gr: pretendeth) of the Qu: injunctions.

Arch. B. pag. 58.Some difference was lately rising about placing of the Comm [...] Table in a Parish Church of his Diocesse. The Bishop carefull to p [...]vent all disorder, sends his Injunction under his hand and seale to [...] Curate and Church-Wardeus, to settle that busines: In which [...] hath these two passages Remarkeable. I have seene and read [...] Order.

The first Passage is this; By the injunction of Queene Eliz [...] (saith he) And by C [...]n. 82. under King Iames, the communion [...] should ordinarily bee set and stand with the side to the East wall of the [...] cell. Therefore this is no Innovation, since there is Injunction [...] Cannon for it.

The other passage is this; 'Tis Ignorance (saith that learned Bi [...] to thinke that the standing of the Holy Table there, Relishes of Pope [...]

Observ.The Bishop of Salisburies injunction in May 1637. which hi [...] [...] mentioneth, and his imputation of ignorance to those that think [...] [...] heate used in urging the standing of the Communion Table [...] wise, cannot but be esteemed expressions rather of that reverend [...] Courtscience then of his conscience, being done by him after he [...] the streame and storme of power runne so strongly for Cerem [...] and the opposers of them so many wayes persecuted in their fo [...] credits, and persons, and that speaking against them was the [...] compendious way for Court-favour to such as have beene esteem [...] [...] Doctor Davenant) opposers of Popery and Arminianisms, and [...] the Apostle Peter to pleasure the Iewes, preached Circumcision to [...] Gentiles, it is not to be wondered that that learned man, the [...] B [...]hops to pleasure those that have power of all that concerne [...] Church or State, hath conformed his injunctions to the liking of [...] that have the chiefe sway and power to induce our Gracious S [...]raigne to distribute praemia and poe [...]s, as they thinke fitt, especi [...] [Page 51] [...] times that all piety (yea all shew of it) is nicknamed Puritanisme, [...]ll Religion reduced to the establishing, preaching, & pressing of [...], Cro [...]ses, cringing, ducking, Surplice, feasting, fish-eating at cer­ [...]e times stinted by Prelates, and singing of prayers to the Romish [...]. But here J hope his Gr: will either both beleeve [...]nd acknow­ [...]e the trueth and soundnes of this Prelates writing against Armi­ [...]isme and Popery in materiall points of Doctrine, or shew some [...] and appearance of as probable advantage for his writing what [...]ath done that way, as is here sett downe for his expressions cited [...] Gr: touching these Ceremonies.

[...]he Author prevaricates from the first word to the last in the book; Arch. B. pag. 60. [...] takes on him both for the Name and for the placing of the Holy [...], and the like, to prove, that Generally and Vniversally, and Ordi­ [...]y in the whole Catholicke Church, both East and West, the Holy [...] did not stand at the upper end of the Quire or Chancell. And this [...] [...]ust prove, or he doth nothing.

[...]ther it is preuarication to affirme that the K: Observ. hath in his Crowne [...] Divino, the right and power of all Ecclesiasticall Iurisdiction, and [...] Parliam: are not called to confirme but to affirme and declare [...] [...]awes of God with much such like stuffe, cap. 2. that no good [...]formist will (or ought to) deny [...] or else his Gr. doeth not here [...] affirme, that the Author of that booke that the Bishop of Lin­ [...] licensed the printing [...]ff, prevaricateth from the first word to [...]st in it; Like as it conteineth much in fauour of Episcopall juris­ [...]on which his Gr: wilbe loath to call prevarication, unlesse that [...] that breaketh one of Gods Commandements, is guilty to the [...]gression of his whole Law, so he that sheweth an opinion diffe­ [...] from his Gr: will and pleasure in the position of Altars, become [...]by so perverse and pernicious, as all he speaketh or writeth be­ [...], mu [...]t be damned by the reproachfull name of prevarication.

[...]d you know both in Law and Reason, Arch. B. pag. 61. Exceptio firmat Regulam in [...]n exceptis. So that upon the sudden I am not able to resolve, whe­ther this Minister hath done more wrong to himselfe or his Readers, for [...] h [...]th abused both.

It is true that Exceptio [...]mat Regulam in no [...] exceptis, Observ. as his Gr: [...] saith, but withall his Gr: doth not shew any rule or Law binding [...]ersally and ordinarily the whole Church to sett the Holy Table [Page 52] alterwise at the upper end of the Quire or chancell, [...]t affirmanti incu [...]bit probatio, unlesse therefore his Gr: make appeare that there was su [...] a generall rule, he cannot pretend in reason that the q [...]otations made [...] the author of the aforesaid booke of the practise of diverse particu [...] churches are but exceptions from a generall rule, but contrariwise [...] particulars instanced by him doe make appeare that it cannot be true [...] affirmed, that there ever was a generall rule and law either comm [...]ding to set the holy table to on ende of the church for celebration of [...] Sacrament or declaring it to bee necessary for Gods worship to se [...] alterwise.

Arch. B. pag. 68.Why my Lords J have a Copie, of the Articles in English, of the [...] 1612. and of the Yeare 1605. and of the Yeare 1593. and in Latine of [...] Yeare 1563, which was one of the first printed copies if not the first [...] all.

Observ. In Anno 1631. One Iohn Ailword, a Popish Priest, publishe [...] [...] booke, intituled an Historicall narration of the Iudgement of [...] learned divines, concerning Gods ele [...]tion, wherein hee affirmeth [...] doctrine and judgement of the Martyrs and first reformers of [...] Church to be the same, in the points of Election and Predestinati [...] which was taught of old by Pelagius, and in our dayes by Armi [...] This booke (licensed by Mr. Ma [...]tin chaplaine to the Bishop of L [...]don) comming to the hands of that learned Knight S ^r. Hump [...] Lyne, was by him found to containe nothing but tho Coppy ( verba [...] of a Letter printed in the third yeare of Queene Elizabeth, (with [...] name of Author, Printer, date of time or place) whereunto in th [...] times there were two answeres, printed by publike authority, the [...] by Iohn Veron (a Lecturer of Paules) intituled, an Apology or of the Doctri [...]e of Predestination, dedicated to Queene Eliz. the four [...]h yeare of her raigne, and printed at London by Iohn [...]dale, the other by Robert Crowley, in his Apology for those Engl [...] Preachers and Writers, which Cerberus (the three-headed Do [...] of Hell) chargeth with false Doctrine, under the name of Pre [...]stination, printed at London by Henry Denham, Anno 1566. b [...]th which bookes the Author of the af [...]resaide Letter is designe the words of it, Verb [...]tim, recited i [...] severall Sections, [...] confuted.

[Page 53]And albeiit the then Arch-Bishop of Canterbury, after he was made [...]cquainted herewith, caused the bookes to bee called in, yet most [...]art of them being sold and dispersed through the whole Kingdome, [...]id breade a perswasion of trueth of the assertions therein contained, [...] the mindes of all such as did imagine that the Bishop would have [...]aused the bookes to bee burned and made some publicke act against [...]em for discouering the impos [...]ure, if hee had dislyked the false Doc­ [...]ine (and iniurious to the memory of the worthy Martyrs and first [...]eachers of reformation to our Church) wherewith they were stuffed [...]ce Ailword durst make use of an old unwarranted and long agoe [...]futed Pamphlet, for proving that our church allowed Arminian & [...]pish doctrine in the point of election, and could get such a booke li­ [...]ced and contenanced by his Gr: owne Chaplaine, and escape all [...]ishments or censure afte [...] discovery of such an imposture, tending advance Popery, It is probable that for the same or the like respect [...] persons could obtain [...] his Gr: countenance for maintaining prin­ [...] Articles of our Church containing some Articles as falsely imposed [...] in the point of discipline and rule, as the booke published by the [...] Ailword was false in the Doctrine affirmed by it, of the saide re­ [...]end divines in the points of election and predestination.

[...]he copies which his Gr: pretendeth to have of the Articles of our [...]rch, printed Anno 1612.1605.1593.1563. and the written Co­ [...] out of the records of his Office under his Officers [...]and, are not [...]cient either to purge the Prelates from appearance of forging the [...]s of the 20. Artic: of the Church, or to chardge those that his [...] inveigheth against, with the imputation of rasing out tha [...] Articl [...] of the Copy given to bee printed Anno 15 [...]1. because neither the [...]ers shop, nor a te [...]timony under the hand of a Bishops Officer, [...] [...]he warrant of the one and the other, can bee a proba [...]ion of the [...] which they pretend by the said 20. Articl: neither is the pow­ [...] [...]hich his Gr: i [...]s [...]nuateth that some had [...]n the Government Anno 15 [...] so probable a ground for inferring an imputation upon the per­sons [...] foresaid inveighed against, for rasing that article out of the co [...]y then given to be prin [...]ed by authority of Queene Elizabeth as [...]he power which his Gr and those of his Coate have now soe [...] [...]ad in the government, is a probable ground, whereupon [Page 54] to imagine it likely that [...]e may cause to be printed or sett under his hand Copies of what tenor and date he pleaseth to com [...]and, and certainely Bishops either must shew that Iure D [...]vino, or by acknow­ledgement of a Lawful Church assembly they have power to decree rites and Ceremonies in divine worship, and authority in matters of faith, or else they can hardly bee free of being suspect of forging the 20. art: in the said Copies, and inserting of it, with the K. decl [...] ­ration, Anno 1628.

[...]rch. B. [...]ag. 71.If you bee pleased to looke back [...] and consider who they were th [...] Governed busines in 1571, and rid the Church almost at their pleas [...] [...] And how potent the Ancestors of these Libellers then did grow you [...] thinke it [...]o hard matter to have the Articles printed, and this Cla [...] left out.

Observ.This argueth that his Gr: either acknowledgeth that some m [...] rule, & doe things in the name of the Soveraigne, without lawfull w [...]rant of his authority, or that at least Qu: Eliz: was ledde & abused [...] factious persons in those dayes, and therefore his Gr: ought n [...]ither [...] wonder nor be offended that the like thoughts are incident to so [...] good and judicious both Parliament men and others now a dayes.

Arch. B. [...]ag. 73.Some few more there are, but they belong to a matter of Doctr [...] which shall presently be answered Iusto Volumine, at large to satisfi [...] [...] well-minded people.

Observ.I [...] seemes tha [...] his Gr: either hath forgot that he said pag. 16. [...] he would recite briefly all the innovations charged upon the Prela [...] and also briefly answer them, or that, albe [...]t he hath neither answer [...] nor mentioned the most materiall innovations (which are in [...] of doctrine) that M ^r. Burton chargeth them with the making off, [...] imagined that all his then [...]earers and the readers afterwards of [...] his Speech ought to esteeme the promise here made of a Iustum v [...]m [...]n, in answer to Mr. Burtons booke, a sufficient performance of [...] foresaid other promise. Of both a brief rehearsall and answer to [...] the innovations changed by him upon Prelates. I know not what p [...]viledge or prerog: his Gr: may have concerning his promises, or [...] acts of his Office, but sure I am the shift he useth, could not have sa [...] another man f [...]om imputation of impudency and charlatanery, if [...] should have dared before such Hearers promise to recite and conf [...] bri [...]fly all imputations charged upon him, whether of great or [...] [Page 55] [...]oment, and after such answers to some of the least promise that these [...]f greatest moment sho [...]ld be answered justo volumine.

Not long after the publicati [...]n of his Gr. gracious Speech, one [...]ter Heylin p [...]blished a booke of 26. sheetes of paper, with an in­ [...]iption of a briefe and moderate answer to, &c. and a preface con­ [...]ning 4. [...]heetes [...] where he writeth, th [...]t he was commanded by au­ [...]ority t [...] r [...]turne an answer to all the chalenges and chardges in the [...]o Sermons an [...] Apologie of M ^r. Bù [...]ton, which that booke beareth [...] st [...]le no lesse M [...]gistra [...]e, if not so Magistraticall as this Speech that [...] a M [...]jestie from his G [...]: owne mouth.

Now, albeit a designation of all the impertinences, proud papisti­ [...] and passi [...]nate expressi [...]ns, which are comprehended within the [...]passe of that moderate answer, would seeme in this place a dimi­ [...]ion of the respect due to the M [...]jestie of his Gr: Speech; never­ [...]es [...]e, I h [...]pe th [...]t [...]is Grace: will bee graciously ipleased; That, [...]ere the said Peter Heylin pag. 1 [...]4. sayeth, that his Gr: hath reason [...], that the Church of E [...]gland and Rome diff [...]red not in funda­ [...]tali [...]us, because the Church of England hath not any where deter­ [...]ed that wee and those of Rome differ in fundamentalibus; and [...] Iu [...]ius, Wittaker, and the Bish [...]p of Exèter affirme, that there are [...] things in the Church of Rome, quae ad veram Ecclesiam pertinent; [...]venture to say here, that if the consequence were good, it would [...] likewise, that wee and the Mahometans, Iewes, and Ethnickes [...] not in fundamentals; For the Church of England hath not any [...] determined that they and wee differ in fundamentals, and [...] have divers [...] things, quae ad veram Exclesiam pertinent. And where [...] 125. he affirmeth that the Ch [...]rch of Rome hath done more then [...] Puritane (a nick-name imposed to all that cannot allow Church­ [...] any temp [...]rall authority or jurisdiction, more then Christ or [...]is [...]stles did assu [...]e to themselves, or practise during their being in th [...] [...]orld) against the Here [...]iq [...]es of this age, in maintenance of the di [...]inity of our Lord and S [...]viour; I dare likewise say, that the Ro­ [...]nists in daring affirme th [...]t a Priest can transub [...]antiate breade in [...] body of our S [...]viour, and that bread so transubstantiated, is subject [...] corruption (m [...]y be eaten with Myse, Rattes, Dogs, Swine, and by [...] how rep [...]bate soever) faile as well in respect due [...]o the divinity [...] the humanity of Christ.

[Page 56]And where p. 128. hee sayes that the words Babilonicall Bea [...]t o [...] Rome, in the 7. Homili [...] of rebellion, doe not signifie the Bb. [...] Pope of Rome, but rath [...]r the abused power of that prevalent Se [...] i [...] time of K. Iohn, and it not being spoken dogmatically that the Po [...] is, and is to be beleeved the Babilonicall Beast of Rome, it is not [...] be accounted for a Doctrine of the Church of England, I wo [...] faine know what difference there is betweene the abused power [...] the then Sea, and now Sea of Rome, or whether the Pope now do [...] assume, or pretend lesse power, then the Popes did in K. Iohns day [...] or if the then prevailent and predominant Sea was the Babilonic [...] Beast, as Heylin acknowledgeth, at what time began that Sea to [...] from being the Babilonicall Beast. And where (pag. e [...]d) he say [...] that unlesse it can be proved and made good, that the Pope of Ro [...] conf [...]s [...]eth not that Iesus Christ is come in the flesh, there is [...]o re [...] to conclu [...]e that he is Antichrist, and citeth St. Iohn for a warran [...] saying: Every Spirit that confesseth n [...]t that Iesus Christ is come [...] the flesh, is not of God; but is that Spirit of Antichrist, whereof [...] have hear [...], I hope his Gr: will give me leave to say, that St. Io [...] sayeth not that no man is Antichrist, but he that refuseth to confe [...] that Iesus Christ is come in the flesh, for he that sayeth with his mo [...] and knoweth in his conscience that Iesus Christ is come in the fl [...] but withall against his conscienc [...] affirmeth, and teacheth that hee [...] power to make Christ of a peece of bread, and to give power to ot [...] to make him, and that h [...] whom he so maketh, should bee worship [...] in the same manner, that he, whom he confesseth to be come in [...] flesh, is as well Antichrist as hee that in expresse words deny [...]th ( [...] most Iewes doe) his being come in the flesh. This brave argum [...] Heylin hath stollen out of the Iesuite Gre [...]serus booke, written again [...] Iames Monitory to all Christian Princes, but his Gr: must not bee [...]ended, that I can neither take his nor Heylins ipse dixit for a suffici [...] reason for this point of D [...]ct [...]ine, different as well from the Chu [...] of England (before it was stinted by the Bb. pleasure of la [...]e) as o [...] Reformed and Orthodoxe Churches, till either his Gr: or Heyl [...] confute the reasons, wher [...]by K. Iames, in his said Monitory, and in [...] Comment. upon 7.8.9. and 10. verses of the 20. chap. of the [...] proveth the P [...]pe to be An [...]ichrist. And where p. 138. for pr [...]ving [...] bowing at the name of Iesus is no innovation, he alleadgeth that P [...] [Page 57] [...]astasius, who lived in the 5. Centurie, did bring it in, it seemes that [...] the same reason, he may pretend that invocation of Saints, adora­ [...]n of Images & Crosses, transubstantiation, purgatorie, pilrimages, [...]icular Confession, and the like shalbe no innovations, if his Gr: bee [...]ased to command the beliefe and Doctrine of them, for they were [...]ught in by Popes many ages agoe, and the introduction of any [...]ng not contained in the artic: of [...]he Church of England at the re­ [...]mation, nor in the practise of it since warranted by authority of [...]er Scripture or Parliam: must be esteemed an innovation.

[...]f this booke of Heylin be the large volume promised by his Gr: [...]nswer to Mr. Burtons chardges of innovations upon the Prelates, [...]th in these and many other passages, so minse and smooth the Po­ [...] Doctrine, and so wrest the good meaning and sence of the words [...]rthodox writers, and zealous Preachers, that it cannot but breed [...]at suspition of the Prelates intention, to introduce Poperie, if [...] power can reach it. But admitting that Heylins booke were [...]justum volumen, promised for answer to Mr. Burton, and suf­ [...]t to liberate his Gr: of his answer promised to all th'innovations [...]h Mr. Burton chardges upon Prelates, yet since in this whole [...]ch there is not one line containing any particular mentioned, [...]ch could be made a pretext for conventing, (much lesse convicting) [...]i [...]her D ^r. Bastwick or M ^r. Pryn in any Court, it is evident that [...]er his Gr. hath not performed his promise, pag. 16. of reciting & [...]uring briefly all th'innovations wherewith Prelates are chardged [...]ey of lesse or greater moment, or if what he hath here written, bee [...]ee can say, against them two, they have suffered very unjustly: His [...]aying to the King in his Epist: both that Mr. Pryn hath thrust [...]ken Law into Pamphlets, to wrong the Governments of the [...]rch, a [...]d that Bastwick onely hath beene bold to meddle with the [...] of the Church, cannot in a vvay obvious to common sence bee [...]ne to bee either a sufficient performance of his promise made in the 16. pag. foresaid, or a sufficient ground, whereupon to convince ei­th [...] the one or the other, of any crime punichable in the way, that his Gr: hath caused them suffer: especially since Dr. Bastwick beeing brought to the place of his suffering, did solemnely avow that he was [...] conscious to himselfe wherein hee had committed the least tres­ [...] (to take the outward shame he was then putt unto) either against [Page 58] God or the King; and that th'occasion of his suffering was the writi [...] of a booke against the Pope, which if it bee flagellum pontif. whi [...] goeth in his name, it is a wonder where the crime lyeth. And M [...] Prynne said in the same place that he having tendered to the Co [...] his answer to the Information, which contained an accusation agai [...] him in the point of Libelling against the Prelates, the Court refu [...] to accept it, and that neverthelesse he was condemned for not putt [...] in answer to the said Information, withall he offered to maintaine [...]gainst all the Prelates in Christendome, that their calling was not [...] divino, and against all the Lawyers in the Kingdome ( [...]hat should [...]pose him) that the Prelates sending forth of writs and Proces in [...] owne names, is against the Law & Iustice of the Land, & entrenc [...] on the K. prerog. and subjects liberties. If these two poore men [...] spoken falsely, they did both deserve to bee hangd [...] after their pi [...]ring, and it is likely too, that men that have beene condemned [...]o [...]fer what they have done, (and that without any pretext of [...] and for no crime, but a pretended not putting in their answers to [...] Informations against them, which they tendered and the Court [...]fused) could not have misled, being hangd or worse considering [...] Prelates Spleene and power against them, if their Speeches had [...] beene true, alwaies leaving that booke to the Iudgement of mode [...] men, I returne [...]o his most powerfull Gr: who is pleased so farr [...] descend in his Speech from the height of his place, as to say:

Arch. B. pag. 73. Yet one thing more I beseech you, give Mee leave to adde. 'Tis [...] Burtons charge upon the Prelates. That the Censures formerly laid [...] on Malefactors, are now put upon Gods Ministers for their Vertue [...] Piety.

A heavy charge this too. But if he or any man else can shew that [...] hath beene punished in the High commission, or else where, by the Prel [...] for Vertue & Piety, there is all the reson in the world we should be severaly [...]nished our selves. But the trueth is, the Vertue and Piety for w [...]ich these [...]nisters are punished, is for Preaching Schisme and Sedition.

Observ. Tertullus called Paul a pestilent fellow, the Iewes said our Savi [...] had a Devill, by whose power he cast out Devils, that he had [...]phemed against God, and refused to acknowledge the Soverainity [...] Caesar, though such calumniatours had than more power in the w [...] then either Christ did assume, or Paul practise or pretend right [...] [Page 59] [...]ither the Speech [...]s, nor quality of those revilers, did make them [...]ilty to those foule imputations. So albeit his Gr: say, that the Mi­ [...]ters and others who have suffered by banishment, prison, fynes, re­ [...]aches in their good names, or by corporall punishment, for refuse­ [...], writing, or preaching against Popish Ceremonies, have suffered [...] for preaching of schisme and Sedition, it followeth not that they [...]re guilty of these crimes, and his Gr: being as well in feare of pre­ [...]ice to his worldly estate, by the preaching of those whom by his [...]atnesse he maketh to be chardged with the foule aspersio [...]s of mu­ [...] and sedition (for every act or speech they utter, where the one or [...] other sheweth any good reason against Episc. unlawfull ambition [...]urisdiction,) as the Scribes and Pharisees were in [...]eare of prej [...] ­ [...] to their worldly pompe by our Saviours Doctrine, his Gr: re­aches against them, ought to have no more weight towards their [...]udice, then the Jewes, Scribes, and Pharisees ra [...]lings had (in any [...]) against our Saviour. But that they have not suffered for either tiny or Sedition may as clearly appeare to all such as are ignorant [...]he true cause of their suffering, as it is knowne to the consciences [...] Prelates their persecuters, not onely by inquiry and examen of [...]everall pretexts, used for the persecution of such as cannot straine [...] consciences to a nec [...]ssary practise of the Ceremonies, that there [...]e colour of Law and Custome for the practise off, but by the [...]ring also of diverse Conformists.

1629. Mr. Smart a prebend of Durhame, a [...]ingular Conformist [...]dyting before the judges of Assise Cozens and Burgone (two [...] prebends there) for bringing in new Popish [...]euices in [...] Church (besides those that were tolerated in it before [...]nst law, was for that, by the high commission put from his place de­ [...]ed of his whole meanes, fined and kept in prison many yeares, al­ [...] the said judges of Assise find his billavera, and gave sentence a­gain [...]t th'indyted parties: M ^r Geo: Huntley for refusing a visitation ser­mon upon th' Archdeacons warning (though the Canon prescribes the Bishop & Ar [...]h-deacons to preach themselves, when they visite) M r. Crowde without any article exhibited to him or witnesse against him or any proofe conviction or confession of any crime, underpretext that m [...]ers were so foule against him as they were not fit to bee Articled [...] in Court, M ^r. Iohn Heyden for preaching against setting [Page 60] up of Images and against imposing some ceremonies that are not co [...]manded by the booke of common prayer, whereby th [...]r extent is limi [...]ted, Mr. Iohn Vicars Minister at Stamford for some things that two Pap [...] accused him of withou [...] sufficient proofe, and a number of others onely [...] refusing to reade in the Church the booke for sports on the Sabbath [...] reading whereof there was neither Law nor command of his Majes [...] have beene deprived of their benefices and put from their Ministery wi [...]out being either convented or convicte [...] of mutiny or sedition before co [...]pe [...]e [...]t judges to such crimes. Mr. Hugh Peter in 1628. Committed 6 we [...] close prisoner, only because being a Zealous preacher, he was followed much people, Mr Butter a booke seller committed to the fleet by his [...] specially direction for printing a letter of D ^r. Dauenant to Bishop [...] passage against Arminians, which his Gr: Chaplaine had given directi [...] leave out, to please the'Arminians: Mr [...] Sparke and Ionas Hardly Censured printing bookes Orthodox, against Popery & Armini. Dr. Souch Dr. [...] Dr. Tailar M ^r Dauvenport condemned as notorious delinquents only for ting their hands to a Certificat, for furthering a private cōtribution a [...] Charitable Christians for relie [...]e of some poore Ministers of the Palitin [...] Her [...]by it is evident since his Gr: cau [...]es to inflict such punishments ( [...] upō good conformists for preaching or doing things which Papists offen [...] albeit by his greatnes he charges such others as he hath caused to suffer the crime of schisme and sedition, neverthelesse the true reason for [...] he ha [...]h caused persecu [...]e them, is not so much their nonconforming [...] nenessity of Ceremonies that there is some pretext of authority for c [...]manding of, as because they are strongly bent to th'opposition of al [...] Popery then that which hath been retained in our churches by the Pre [...] that had some hand in the first re [...]ormation: for if he could haue convi [...] them of mutiny and Sedition he would doubtles, have convinced them fore competent judges to these crimes [...] bu [...] it is ordinary to Prelates to a reproach of mutiny and Sedi [...]ion upon any man that opposes their un [...]full waies: the Scots Prelates havnig long labo [...]ed to quench in the peo [...] hearts both all zeale to religion and all affection to their Soveraigne vsing pretext of the K. authority for establi [...]hing Churchmen of [...] life & unsound Doctrine, & for obtruding diverse points of Pope [...]y, rep [...] his Majesties most loyall subjects, that stand in their way, with th'aspers [...] of M [...]tiny and Sedition. [...]f Prelates, when they falsely reproach men [...] are under them, were as well in danger of punishment, as men of [...] [...]state when they speake truely of Bishops actions, when they are in [...]sistent with the duety both of a loyall subject, & of an Orthodox [...] man, his Gr. would not have so liberally objected mu [...]iny and Sedi [...] to those he hath through all his Speech inveighed against.

[Page 61] I sh [...]ll end all with a passage out of S. Cyprian, Arch. B. pag. 75. when hee, then Bishop of [...]rthage was bitterly rayled upon by a pack of Schismaticks, his answer [...], 'tis now mine; They haue railed both bitterly and falsly upon mee, and Non oportet me paria cum illis facere; it beho [...]s [...]s not mee to an­ [...] them with the like, either Levi [...]ies or Revilings, bu [...] to speake and write [...] only which becomes Sacerdotem Dei, a Priest of God.

[...]t is strange if his Gr: thinke either in his owne minde, Observ. or that such [...]ave heard or read this his Speech, esteeme it no reviling or shew of [...], where he sayeth pag. 2. they libell and raile without all mea­ [...], and complaine of persecution, without any shew of cause. Pag. 5. of innovatours of the Christian world; The greatest innovatours [...] the Christian world hath almost ever knowne; incendiaries as [...] in the State, where they get power, as they have ever beene in [...] Church. Pag. 9. Have no other purpose then to stirr Sedition a­ [...]gst the peop. one clamours out of the pulpit, and all of them [...] the presse, and in a most virulent and unchristian manner. Pag. [...]0. by most false and unjust calumnie defame our callings & persons, [...]tty their rage, God forgive their malice. Pag. 11. Fyre the [...]. zeale into a Sedition. P [...]g. 18. Humorous men, their Sermons [...]re fitter a great deale to stirr up Sedition, then to humble men. Pag. [...]. Emissaries of this faction, where they came to preach, by little and little altered the auncient custome of reading the second service at the Communion Table: These me [...] maintaine gross [...] absurdities in the Word of God, both in opinion & practise. Pag. 48. As these men use the matter, it is verbum Diaboli, this is the word of the Devill in too many places, witnesse Sedition, and the like to it.

Pag. 57. Stulti dum vitant vitia, weakmen as these libellers are runne into one superstition whilst [...]h [...]y would avoyd an other. Pag. 72. I chardge upon that pure Sect this foule corruption of that falsefieing the Articles of the Church of England. Pag. 73. Attendants upon Rabsaketh. Pag. 74. The vertue and piety for which these Ministers are punished, is for preaching mutiny and Sedition.

And since in former times, Arch. B. pag. 76. some spared not to call [...]he Master of the house Beelzebub, how much more will they be bold with t [...]ē of the housh [...]ld.

His Gr: can shew in the New Testament one Arch-B. of the Household of Christ [...] Observ. and that [...]ome man hath datred call his Gr: with such names as those that were of Christs Hou [...]ehold, were called by the [...]e that called Christ Beelzebub, the comparison here made by his Gr: with leave of his [...]eatnesse, will never be esteemed pertinent.

[Page 62] Arch. B. Pag. 77. But be [...]ause the busines hath some reflection upon my selfe, J shall [...]beare to censure them, & leave them to GODS mercy and the KING Iustice.

Observ.As in that Consistorie wherein Christ was condemned to death, [...] the Scribes and Pharisees said ( Iohn 18, 31,) it is not lawfull for us to [...] any man to death, yet when they cryed, Crucifie him, they pronou [...] a sentence of death against him with bloody malignitie; Even so, [...] Prelates forbeare to pronounce judgements of blood, and thinke the [...]selves free from blame, of directing judgement of death, or trunca [...] of members, by absenting themselves from pronunciation and execu [...] of such penall sentence [...] yet their very debating and disputing in del [...]rations concerning th [...] same, maketh them guilty to the shedding the [...]of. And his Gr: forbearance to pronounce the sentence that he [...] the Iudges, to decree against these poore men, doth not make him ga [...] lesse of their innocent blood, neither can it be lawful to Prelates, to re [...] or desire the doing of that which is not lawfull to them to assist the [...] off. Ruffinus Hist. lib. 10, c. 2. writeth, that albeit Saul for pallia [...] his mallice against David, under the shadow of innocency, said (1 Ch [...] 18 17.) let not my hand be upon him, but the hand of the Philistins; ne [...]thelesse whatsoever excuse of his malice this dissimulation wrought [...] men, God did see it the more in his heart [...] And albeit David did onely [...]rect Ioab, to put Vriah in the forefront of the strength of the Battell, ne [...]thelesse Nathan said well, that David had slayne him with the swor [...] the Children of A [...]mon; If those men have deserved to suffer his [...] to be commended for being the chief cause and maine instrument of [...] they have suffered unjustly, their blood must be on his Gr: head, and [...] upon either the King, who did the duety of his place, in referring the m [...]ter to his Court of Iustice, or upon the Iudges who without seing their [...]swers lookt upon their case in the shape and colours wherein his Gr: [...] represent it to them. God forbid J say that (which God onely doth kno [...] his malice was no lesse against them, then Sauls against David, or Dan [...] against Uriah, onely I may adventure to say that in many places of [...] Speech, and in his Epist. Dedicatory to his Majestie: his Gr. express [...] some shew of Passion, of anger and of dislike of the men. What the [...] trueth is, is onely knowne to his Gr: conscience, and to God Almig [...] who in his owne time, I hope, will shew more either iustice or mercy his Gs. then he hath shewen to these poore men, whose sufferings [...] much both talked of, and commiserated by strangers as well as by [...] owne Countriemen and Freinds.