Survey and Censure of Mr Cozens, Dedication (1 of 2)

Survey and Censure of Mr Cozens · Dedication (1 of 2)

To the Right Honourable, the Knights, Citizens and Burgesses of the Commons house of Parliament now assembled.

RIght honorable, thrice worthy, a…d true Christian Senators, your pious z…ale, and zealous pietie, in questioning some Popish and Arminian Bookes, which hauehave beene lately published (and I would I could not say authorized and patronized:) by some spurious and Romanized, if not Apostalized Sonnes, and Pastors of our Church, to the inquietation of o…r State, the h…zzard of our Church, the propagation of Pop…ry and Arminianisme, the be…r…ying of the truth, the encouragement of our Enemies, and the inexpiable blemish of our orthodox and Apostolicall Religion; hath, as at first inuited me to pen, so now emboldened mee to p…blish, and dedicate, this BRIEFE SVRVAY and Censure of Maste… Cozens his cozening Deuotions to your Honours: if not to animate, helpe, or further, yet at least to ease you in the Anatomie and cleare Discouery of that virulent and popish poyson, which is couched in the veines, and cloaked vnderunder the Coule, and Saint-like habit of those new Deuotions, which now expect, nay neede, your doome and censure. As it fares with potent States and aaNulla magna Ciuitas diu quiescere potest: si foris hostem non habet domi inuenit. Liuie. Rom Histor. l. 30. sect. 14. Arma quae non habent hostem, saepisame in ciuem conuertuntur. Case. Polit. l. 7. c. 14. p. 6…2.ample Cities; that they can no sooner want an enemie abroad, but presently they finde and feele some foes at home: so hath it of late befell our Church; who hauing secured her selfe against the feare of foraigne Enemies by those bbQuam graue & quam acerbe est hostibus tam pro…ligatis, & nemine…x aduerso se opponere audente, vt ipsi nos oppugnaremus mutuo, & sic …aetitiam inimicis atque adeò …sum praeberemus. Theodoret. Ecclesiast. hist l 1 c. 7.sundry victories and glorious Trophi…s, which her Tyndall, her Fox, her Iewell, her Rainolds, her Whitakers, her Fulke, her Perkins, her Abbot, her Whites, her Willet, her Morton, her Vsher, and her other learned Wo…thies hauehave ofttimes gained ouer Romes Master-Champions, and greatest Goliahs, who proclaime vsus Victors by their long continued silence: is now endangered and almost surprised by Couzning and ccNon longe scilicet hostes Quaren li nobis, circumstāt vndique muros Virgi. Aeneid. l. 11. Intus habes, qu… poscis. Ouid. Met. l. 6Domesticke foes, who in fighting for her, doe but warre against her: her foraigne peace, hath bred her warres and iarres at home; and raisd ddVirgil. Aeneid. l. 2.a Troian Horse within her bowels, which is like to set her all on fire at vnawares, vnlesse some showers of soueraigne Iustice quench her flames. Now blessed be the God of heauen, who hath infused this Christian prouidence, and zealous care into your pious hearts, to single out these wilie and friend-seeming enemies of our Church, before you hauehave seized on those rauenous and oppressing eeQuot usquisque en…m iuxta diuitem pauper, aut i… tactus aut tutus est? Quid enim omnium aliud dignitas sublimium quam proscriptio ciuitatum: aut quid aliud quorundam, quos taceo praefectura, quam praeda? Nulla siquidem maior pauperculorum est depopulatio, quā potestas. Ad hoc enim honor a paucis emitur, vt cunctorum vastatione soluatur. Quo quid esse indignius aut iniquius potest? Reddunt miseri dignitatum praetia quas nonemunt. Comercium nes…iunt, et solutionem sciunt: vt pauci illustrentur, mundus euertitur. Vnius honor, orbis excidium est. Veniunt plerumque noui nun…, noui… epistu ar… a summis sublimitatibus missi, qui commendantur illustribus paucis ad exitiae plu…morum: decernuntur his noua muner…, decernuntur noua indictiones: decornunt potentes, quod soluant paupe…es: decernit gratia diuitum, quoa perdat turba miserorum, Ipsi enim in nullo se…t…unt, quod decernunt. Salu. De Gubernat. Dei l. 4. p. 104.105. l. 5. p. 161. 162.Wolues, which prey vponupon our State. What Authority and right a Parliament hath, to deale in Ecclesiasticall affaires; to patronize Religion; to vindicate & plead its cause: and to arraigne, conuent, and censure such, who violate the setled and receiued Doctrines of our Church; let Christ Iesus testifie: who informes his Apostles and Saints: ffMarke 14.9. Luke 21.12.13.Mark 14:9Luke 21:12Luke 21:13that they should be brought, not onelyonly before Councels and Synogouges: but likewise, before Kings and Rulers; that is before secular Magistrats: not for temporall and State affaires onelyonly: but for his name sake, and for bearing witnesse to his truth and Gospell: Whereby hee admits, that temporall Magistrates, may intermeddle with Religion, if occasion serue: Whence it was, that not onelyonly ggEuseb. Eccl. hist. lib. 3. c. 16.17Iohn the Euangelist, and other hhIustin Martyr Atolog. 1. & 2. Tertul. Apolog. aduersus Gent. et ad Scapulam lib see Zozeman. Eusebius. Nicepherus. Socrates. and the booke of Martyrs, according.Christians in the Primatiue Church, were conuented before temporall Magistrates for matters of Religion: but likewise S^t. Paul himselfe was by the very Iewes themselues accused iiAct. 24.25. & 26.Acts 24:25Acts 24:26before Faelix, Festus, and Agrippa, for his very preaching and Doctrine; before whom he pleads his cause; and at last kkAct. 25.9.10.11.12.Acts 25:9Acts 25:10Acts 25:11Acts 25:12appeales to Caesars iudgement seate, euen in these particulars of Religion: which he would not hauehave done, had not Princes and secular Magistrates a Iurisdiction and Prerogatiue, as well in Church, as State affaires. Not to trouble you with the llSee Thomas of Walsingham. hist. Angl. Rich. 2. p. 256.257.petition of M^r. Iohn Witcliffe to the Parliament, in the time of Richard the 2. for the Reformation of the Clergie; for the weeding out of many false, and the establishment of sundry Orthodox point… of Doctrine in our Church: his seuerall posi…ions. mmIbidem. p. 205.208.209.That the Parliament or temporall Lords, might lawfully examine and discusse the State, the disorders and corruptions of the Church: That they might lawfully and deseruedly, (yea that they were bound in conscience,) vponupon the discouery of the Errors and corruptions of the Church, depriue her of all her Tithes and temporall endowments, till she were reformed. And that any Ecclesiasticall person, yea the Pope of Rome himselfe might be lawfully accused, censured and corrected by Lay men: do sufficiently confirme your Parliamentary praerogatiue in matters of Religion: Not to recite the opinions and Resolutions of two reuerend and learned Praelates of our Church nnDefence of the Apologie. part. 6. cap. 2. diuision 1. pag. …22.Iewell and ooChristian subiection, & Ant…christian Rebellion. part. 3. neere the end.Bilson: who both acknowledge; that Eccl…siasticall or Church affaires, and matters of Religion, both may, and hauehave been alwayes debated, determined and setled in Parliament, as well in former, as in latter ages: Our Common prayer-booke, our Articles, and our Homilies, (in which the body of our Religion doth subsist) which are all established and setled in our Church by pp2. & 3. Ed. 6. cap. 1.19.3. & 4. Ed. 6. c. 10.5. & 6. Ed. 6 cap. 1. 1. Eliz. cap. 2.Act of Parliament: together with Articuli super Clerum. 1. E. 2.36. E. 3. c. 8.1. R. 2. c. 13.15.2. H. 4. c. 25.4. H. 4. c. 17.2. H. 5. c. 7.26. H. 8. c. 1.2.27. H. 8. c. 15.28. H. 8. c. 10.31. H. 8. c. 9.14.32. H. 8. c. 15.26.33. H. 8. c. 31.32.34. & 35. H. 8. c. 1.35. H. 8. c. 5.1. Ed. 6. c. 1.2. 2. & 3. Ed. 6. c. 1.19.20.21.23.3. & 4. Ed. 6. c. 10.11.12.5. & 6. Ed. 6. c. 1.3.12.1. & 2. Phil. and Mary c. 8.1. Eliz. c. 1.2.5. Eliz. c. ….28.27. Eliz. c. 2.39. Eliz. c. 8.1. Iac. c. 4.11.12.3. Iac. c. 1.4.5.7. Iac. c. 8. and sundry other Statutes, both in the times of Popery, (when as Clergy men had the greatst iurisdiction and command:) and since; for the establishing and setling of Religion; the ordering of Ecclesiasticall persons and affaires; and the suppression of haeresies and haeretiques: doe abundantly testifie: that the Parliament hath an ancient, genuine, iust and lawfull praerogatiue, to establish true Religion in our Church: to abolish and suppr…sse all false, all new and counterfeit Doctrines whatsoeuer; and to question and censure all such persons, who shall by word or writing oppugne the setled and receiued Articles and Doctrines of our Church: what euer some ignorant or supercilious Clergie men (who can be content to merge and drowne themselues in secular Offices, and Imployments, in lay and State Affaires, against the resolution of qqSee Apostol. Canones. Can. … 7.80.82. Clemens. Conflit. l. 2. cap. 6. Concil. El…berenū. Can. 19. Carthag 1. Can. 6.9. 3. Can. 15. 4. Can 18.20.51.52.53. Chalcedon. Can. 3. Tur…nense. 1 Can. 5. 3. Can. 23. Aurelianense. 3. Can. 26 4. Can. 23. Mateconense. 1. Can, 11.13. Toletanum. 4 Can. 30.4…. 11, Can. 6. Constan…in…. 6. Can. 9. Palat…um. Vernis. Can. 16. Nicanū 2. Can. 10. Forotuliense. Can… 6. Cabilon…nse. 2. Can. 5.6.11.12. Moguntinū. Can. 10.12.14. & sub Rabano. Can 13. Rhemense Can. 29.30. Aquigian Can 85.93.100. Parisiense. l. 1. cap. 28. Meldense. Can. 49. Wormatense. Can. 67. Synod. 8. Oecumenica. Can. …4. Triburiense. Can. 2. Coloniense. part. 2. cap. 25.30.…1. Lateran. pars. 1. cap. 12. part. 17. & Can. 106. Reformat. Cleri. Germania, cap 4 Synod. Augustensis cap. 10. Concil. Trident Sess. 2…. de Reformat cap. 2. Sess. 25 cap. 1. Sess. 25. cap. 17. See Gratian. Causa. 21. Quaestio. 3. Roger Houedon. histo. Angl. p. 589.590. H…erom. Epist … ad N…potianū. Decreta Pelagii. cap 17 Surius Concil. Tom. 2. p. 295. Rescripta Nicholai. 1. Tit. 10. cap. 6.7. Bernard de Consid. l. 3. c. ….…. l. 4. c. 2. See Thomas of Walsingham hist. Angl. p. 181. …podigma Neustria p. 132 Where vponupon the petition of the …ords in Parliment. 4 … of Ed. 3. all Bishops and Clergie men were d…priued of all theire temporall offices.sundry & famous Councels, which prohibit it.) do mutter and obiect against it. What right or calling Laickes hauehave to write of matters of Religion, I hauehave fully discussed in a rrPerpetuity of a Regenerate mans estate: The appendix to the Epistle to the Reader.former Treatise: only let me adde to this; (to anticipate the enuious and malignant Cauils of some peeuish Diuines, who would monopolize Diuinity to themselues alone:) that Laicks euen in the Primitiue Church, hauehave not only conuerted whole Nations vntounto God: witnesse the ssTheodoret. Eccl. hist. lib. 1. c. 23.Indians conuerted by Erumentius; and the ttTheodoret. Ib. c. 24.Iberians, and vvMunster Cosmogr. l 4. c. 39.Bulgarians reduced and brought home to God from Paganisme, by two Christian woman; (a thing well worthy obseruation:) but likewise written of points and matters of Diuinity with publike approbation. Not to record those 16. ancient lay writers in the primatiue Church recorded by me in another place. St. Augustine himselfe informes vsus in expresse termes: xxExtant libri quos adhuc laicus recentissima mea conuersione conscripsi, &c. Contra Iulianum. l. 6. c. 4. Tom. 7. part. 2. p. 508.That hee pennd and published sundry bookes and Treatises of Diuinitie which are yet extant, whiles he was a Lay-man, not entred into Orders. To passe by yyAugust. de Anima et eius Origine▪ l. 2. c. 1. 2.Vincentius Victor a young Laicke, who wrought three seuerall Treatises of Diuinity, which S. Augustine answered, together with whole Catalogues of moderne lay-Authors which I might enumerate: I shall ground and rest my selfe with that one famous example of Origen: who did not onelyonly zzEuseb. Eccl. hist. l. 6. c. 19.20.21.22.23.compile many Commentaries on the Scriptures, and sundry other Treatises of Diuinity being yet a Lay-man, for which hee was honoured and respected farre and neere of all the learned and godly Bishops of his age, who were glad to learne Diuinity from him: but aaEuseb, Ecel. hist. l. 6. c. 19.did likewise dispute, and expound the Scriptures in open Church vntounto the people, being yet not called to the Ministrie, at the earnest suite and intreaty of the Palestine Bishops: For which fact of his when he was blamed and censured by one Demetrius; (a pragmaticall Clergie man as it seemes:) as being an vnheard of practise and praesident; that Lay-men should teach in the Church in the presence of Bishops: Alexander then Bishop of Ierusalem, and Theoctystus Bishop of Caesarea wrought thus vntounto Demetrius in defence of this fact of Origen: that he had reported a manifest vntruth: when as there might be found such Lay-men as had taught the people in open Assemblies, when as there were present learned men that could profit the people, and more ouer holy Bishops at that time also exhorting them to preach: for example sake; at Laranda Euelpis was thus requested by Neon; at Iconium, Paulinu… was thus requested by Celsus; at Synada, Theodorus was thus requested by Atticus, who were no Clergie men, but godly brethren: It is like also (say they) that this was practised in other places: So that by all these pregnant proofes and testimonies, it is cleerely euident, that not onelyonly your Honors being but Lay-men may proceed iudicially: but I my selfe being bbSee Doctor Sparkes Answer to Albines, cap. 13. And Bishop Vshers Praeface to Sir Christopher Syb…orps booke, accordingly. Nihil itaque ind…gnadū vel dolendum si quicunque de diuinis quaerat, sential, proferat… cum non disp…tanti… authoritas, sed disputationis ipsius veritas requiratur: atque etiam quo impe…it…or sermo, hoc illustrior ratio est Minutius, Fal…: Oct…u…o. p 44.but a Laicke may goe on ministerially; to suruay and censure these Cozening and Popish Deuotions, as farre forth as they vary from the Scriptures, and the established doctrines of our Church.

Go on therefore, you Christian Heroes, and valiant worthies of the Lord, to vindicate the cau…e, and Doctrines of our Church, against those Cozening, treacherous and rebellious Sons (if Sons) of hers, who hauehave betrayed her with a kisse and ccA…tera manu ferunt lapidem dum panem ostentant altera, P…auti. Aulularia. Act 1. p 82.Acts 1wounded her with one hand, whiles they seemingly imbrace her with the other: and the God of heauen shall be with you. And h…ue you not cause enough, (yea is it not now high time) to execute your power, and display your zeal…, in the cause and quarell of our Church? doe not her goared sides, her bleeding scarrs, and festered sores, now need▪ may craue your helpe and cure; since ddIer. 8.22.Jer 8:22there is no balme in Gilead, at least no good Phisitian there, to suppell and bind vp her wounds? Since shee hath few P…iests or Praelate…, for to pitty her, fewer to succour her in her present dangers? Alas, wh…re are the learned, reuerend, humble, stout, and zealous Praelates? where are the Ecclesiasticall or High-commission Courts? where is the Conuocation or assembly of the Prophets, that either do, or dare apply… a salue or plaister, to her homebred maladies; or auenge her of those treacherous, corrupt and Cozening watchmen, eeCant…c. 5.7.Song 5:7who hauehave smitten her to the heart, and almost betrayed her to her Roman enemies? What Bishops Consistory, what Conuocation-house, or High-Commission Court, hauehave lately questioned, censured, suspended or degraded, a Mountague, a Cozens, a Iackson, or a Manwering? a Papist or Arminian? a Nonresident, or carelesse Pastor, who neuer feeds his flocke? a iouiall or good fellow Minister, whose Tobacco-pipe is his Psalter, and his Canne, his Text? or a rayling and inueying Shemie, whose sermo…s are but bitter, prophane, and poysonous Sa…yrs against the practicall power, and forwardest Professors of Religion; whom he reuiles and scoffes at vnderunder the name of Purit…ns, or holy Brethren; ffHeb. 3.1. 1 Cor. 16.20 Ephes 6.23. 1 Thes. 5.26. 1 Iohn. 3.16.Heb 3:11 Cor 16:20Eph 6:231 Thess 5:261 John 3:16a phrase which the holy Ghost doth of… times vse? What Popish or Arminian bookes; what I…suiticall Treatises, or Romish prayer-bookes, Portua…ses, and Mannuals, (which hauehave beene lately scattered) and printed here among vsus in ggSee Gees Catalogue of of Popish bookes, that hauehave beene lately printed and d…spersed here in England▪great abundance;) hauehave been of late anticipated, prohibited, or suppressed by them; though it be their proper Office to forestall, and crush them in the shell? Nay shall I speake the hhMaluerim ver… effendere quam …lacere adul…i…do. Seneca de Clementia. cap. 2.truth vntounto your Honors, (which I beseech you to lay neer your hearts or else farewell Religion:) what Popish and Arminian bookes hauehave not beene vented, yea, countenanced… authorized, and borne out of late against all op…positions whatsoeuer, by some who say they are, (and I would to God they were,) the Fathers of our Church, and Pillars of our Faith? hauehave not M. Mountagues two Popish and Arminian Bookes, (though questioned th…ice in Parliament,) beene licenced and approued at the fi…st by some, (I say not by such who had then Authority, though since they hauehave had thei… Interregnum:) and since not onelyonly not quaestioned nor inhibited sale: but euen patronized, iustified, and protected by force and sinister practises, against all aduerse powers? Was not the way and pass…ge to the p…esse blockt vp at first against all such whose zeale to piety, to the publicke weale and safety of our Church, had caused them to t…k… vp pen and paper armes against his Popish, and Arminian Doctrin…s? and h…ue not all their Orthodox …nd pious workes which past the Presse by steal…h or othe…wise, b…ene questioned and prohibited, since the vnhappy breach of the l…st Parli…mentary Asse…bly, though they were tainted or accused of no Heresie, Scisme, False doctrine or Sedition? Was not reuerend Bishop Carltons booke, though backed with the ioynt Attestation of that learned Praelate, D^r. Dauenat Bishop of Sarum, D^r. Ward, D^r. Goad, & D^r. Bel-Canquell, our selected Dort Diuines: tog…ther with Dr. Succliffes booke, M^r. Rouse his booke, M^r. Burtons booke, M^r. Yates his booke, M^r. Wottons booke, D^r. Goads Paralell, Doctor Featlies Paralell ▪ (…o omit my owne poore Treatise of Perseuerance, which though it were licensed and reprinted, is yet suppressed and called in, vponupon no doctrinall nor iust exc…ptions:) inhibited, cald in and seized on, vnderunder the bare pretence of not being lic…nsed, but in truth because they did oppose Mr. Mountagues Popery and Arminianisme, (which the Parliament it selfe tooke notice of,) & displaid both it and all his treachery and falsehood to the wo…ld? and were not all the Printers and Stationers, which were the instruments to publish th…m vntounto the world, conuented Ex Officio, before the High Commissioners, (where th…y w…re glad to buy theire peace at last) for their good seruice to our Church and State, in printing and divulging all t…ese books, to the affronting and suppressing of his spreading errors? Since these old stirs and garbo…l…s, hauehave not these priuate Deuotions and houres of prayer, whose Censure and Suruay, I here doe humbly tender to yo…r Honours: beene licensed in a sp…ciall manner for the Press…, …uen with an affixed and printed Approbation; (like that of D^r. Whites, to M^r. Mountagues Appeale:) and since its publication, so guarded and supported by Autho…ity, though fraught with 20▪ seuerall points of Popery, and patched vp of Popish ragges and reliques: that neither the complaints and cryes of m…n against them, nor the voy…e and presence of a Parliament, could yet moue any of our swaying, great, and zealous Praelates to suppresse them, or passe a doome of condemnation on them: who now inste…d of Answering, and inhibiting them, doe not onelyonly d…ny to licence, but likewise diligently suppresse and intercept all Answers and R…plies vntounto them, as the intercepting M^r Burtons Answer at the Presse, and the detaining of the Copie of this my present Censure in the Licensers hands, who will neither licence nor deliuer it, do abundan…ly testifie.

And is it not then high time for your Honours to engage, besti…re, and shew your zeale in the cause, the quarrel and patronage of our Church and Faith, when Popery and Arminianisme are growne now so potent, so head-strong, so impudent, sawcy, and audacious, as to ouer-top, controll, affront and beard the very truth and Doctrines of our Church; to **Temeraria, falsa & impia dicta refell…tote redarguste, reprobate: Nam Intercipere scripta, & publicatam velle submergere lection…m non est Deos defendere, sed veritatis testificationem timere: Arnob: Adu: Gentes… l: 3. p: 104.stop their pleas, and b…rre their passage to the Presse in a peremptory and presumptuous manner, euen whiles the Parliament doores of Iustice stand wide open to heare their pressures, and auenge th…ir wrongs; bidding particular and personall defiance to these two spreading and combinings errors which threaten ruine and surpris…ll to them? When those Consistories and High-Commission Courts, which should be Sanctuaries, Shields, and chiefe Protectors to them, against domesticke vipers, which gnaw out their bowels; and those from whom they might expect and iustly challenge, the greatest fauour, aide, and best support; are now so farre from shielding and assisting them against their Mountebanke, Cozenin…, and domesticke Opposites: that they doe euen bend themselues against them, in intercepting all supplies which priuate louers would impart vntounto them; in silencing, questioning, and clubbing downe such by force, who take vp armes in their defence ag…inst their personall, homebred, and professed foes? Al…s, whith…r should our poore distressed Church, or our Religion flee? where should they seeke for succour and reliefe in this their forlorne and distressed condition; when as they are so forsaken of their owne indeared and ingaged friends, that few of them h…ue eares to heare, or hearts to pitty their pressures and most iust complaints; and fewer courage, hands, or strength enough, to ease or quit them of these pressing, opressing, and suppressing vulters, which rent and teare their liu…rs and their in most parts? To you, to you alone (right Christian Senators, and valiant worthies of the Lord) they now addresse their tongue-tide grieuances, and silenced complaints: to you they flye for present succour and redresse against their aduerse and preuailing powers; and now implore your aide, your iustice, doome, and finall sentence, (euen with silent sobs and mournfull teares, because their mouthes are closed and shut vp,) against those opē & professed enemies whose wo…ks and writings hauehave betraid their cause: and those tyrannicall vsurping powers, who hauehave en…oyn'd them silence at the Presse, and interc…pted or reiected all those Counterplees, Answers, and Rebutters which hauehave beene tendred, or drawne vp by any to vindicate their right and cause, against homebred and perfidious Opposites: And can …ou then denie their importunate, fl…xanimous and most iust …equests, which you hauehave so readily and cheerefully embr…c…d at the first, w…hout Petition? Blessed be God, your zeale and cour…ge for Religion are so eminent and intense already, that they neede no spu…s o… mine to quicken or …xcite them, to so necessary and pious a worke: Therefore leauing all needlesse exhortations and encouragements to set on these requests, I shall bri…fely glance vponupon the best and speediest meanes of dis…n…rating our Church of all her pr…sent grieuances; of rescuing her restrained Doctrines from their Egyptian thraldome; of reinuensting them in their former priuiledges, and quitting them from all future dammages, incrochments, and inuasions what…oeu…r; which mean…s I here humbly prostrate and submit to your mature, graue and pious wisedomes, which hauehave no such Pole-star to direct them as themselues. The meanes which I shall meekely off…r and propose to your refined iudgements for this purpose, are:

First, to suppresse those Popish Deuotions, and Arminian 1Treatises, which hauehave beene published of late among vsus by appprobation and authority: and to expiate; defecate, and pu…ge out their Romish and Arminian drosse and filth, at least by fire; that so they stand not as Records against vsus, to the shame, the weakning, or betraying of our Cause, and Church.

Secondly, to ppCuncta prius tentanda: sed immedicabi…e vulnus ense reseidendum est, ne pars syncerae trahatu…. Oui. Metamop l. 1.lop off those putred, gangrend, festred and contagious members, who are like qqGrex totus in agris, vniu… scabie ca…i…: & porrigine porci, v…aque conspecta, liuorem ducit ab vua. Iuuen. Satyr. 2to putrifie, leauen and infect the whole intire body of our Church: and hauehave already sowne by their pernicious writings the Tares of Popery, and Cockels of Arminianisme which sprout vp ap…ce, amidst the Wheate and pure Doctrines of our Church: that so their rrCum feriunt vnum non vnum fulmi… t…rrent Iunct aque per…usso tur…a …auer… solet. Ouid de Pont. l. 3. ele. 3exemplary and open punishment… may deterre all others, from …he like …udacious, scandalous, treacherous and pernicious attempts.

Thirdly, to inquire out, the roots and great-bulkt 3trees which nourish and support those limbs and vnderunder-branches, which hauehave thrust forth these buds of Popery, and blossomes of Arminianisme, which your flamish zeale and feruency to Relig…on, are like to scorch and blast before they come vntounto maturity: to discry those superiour spheeres, and vppermost wheeles which moue those lower and inferior Orbs, which now run out of course; to search those Dens and Burrowes out, which harbour and protect those Cant. 2.15.Song 2:15little Popish and Arminian Foxes, which now spoyle our Vines, and offer violence to their tender Grapes: and to discouer those higher Springs, and poysonous Fountaines, which send out those muddy, bitter and vnwholsome streames, which doe not water, but poyson and defile our Church. Certainly, these budding branches whose Popish and Arminian fruits you now examine, receiue their sap, their nourish…ment, and support, from some greater Trunkes and deeper Roots, which must be felled and stockt vp, before these bitter fruits will fade or fall. These petty Orbs and vnderwheeles, which hauehave made such irregular motions, and commotions in our Church; deriue their motions, from some higher and superiour spheeres; which must be rectified, and reduced to their true and proper motions, before the l…sser Planets, and clocke-wheeles of our Church will moue aright. These little Foxes, hauehave some strong and mighty Burrowes, wherein to shelter and repose themselues, which must be stopped and demolished, before the Grapes, the Vines and Vinyard of ou… Church be freed from their inuasions: These poysonous, muddy, and polluted riu…lets, descend and flow from greater streames, and higher Fountaines: which must be knowne, dammed, and dried vp, at least diuerted; or else the waters of our Church will still be venomous, slimie and vnwholesome. And till all this be well accomplished, you shall but onelyonly skinne, (and uuAlitur vitium, cresci…que tegendo. Virg. G…ag l 3. Multa dum le…iter corriguntur, sapius mai…ra consurgunt. Concil. Cabilonense 1. c. 19so increase) not heale and cure the festr…d sores and wounds of this our Church; which will soone breake out againe with greater torment, and lesse hopes of cure.

Fourthly, to examine and finde out the cause (if it 4be not like the head of xxHerodotus: Euterpe: secte 42, 43, 44. Strabo: Geog… l. 17. Diodor: Sicul: Bibl: hist: l: 1: sect: 32: Lucan: Pharsal: l: 10:Nilus, vnsearchable and past finding out, though yyPurc: Pilgr: lib: 2: c: 19:some of late, record the con…rary:) why Popish and Arminian bookes hauehave now of late beene published, printed, and countenanced by Authority, and not suppressed as they ought to be? why there is now such diligent and daily search at Printing-houses, to anticipate and stoppe all Answers to Mr Cozens his, or Mr Mountagues Bookes? from what originall grounds, and whence it comes to passe, that the seuerall Answers and Replies to M^r Mountagues Gagge, and virulent Appeale, were denied licence at the first, and since surprized and call'd in, though there was neither matter of Haeresie, Schisme, false Doctrine, or Sedition in them, but onelyonly a bare defence, and positiue iustification of the established Doctrines of our Church, oppugned and traduced in those Arminian and Popish Bookes of his, which were neuer yet so much as once inhibited or questioned but in Parliament? and who were the principall Agents and Factors in this worthy seruice, of suppressing all these Answers? The …ucleating and discussing of these intricate and perplexed Quaerees, (a taske which well befits a Parliament) may happily reueale a world of treachery, and vnfold a deepe, obstruce, and hidden Mysterie of Iniquitie; yea, it may chance to shake and ouerturne the very pillars, and foundation stones of the Roman and Arminian Faction, if it be but prosecuted, sifted, and ventilated to the full.

5Fiftly, to prouide; that all such vnauthorized Answers and Replies, consonant to the established Doctrine and discipline of the Church of England, which hauehave beene giuen to M^r Mountagues, or any other such Popish or Arminian Bookes, and since suppressed; may be henceforth lawfully printed and dispersed without controll, to counterplead and beat down Popery and Arminianisme; and to giuegive publike testimonie and satisfaction to the world, that how euer some hauehave lately broached, yet that our Church disclaimes and disapproues their Popish and Arminian Doctrines. And withall, to secure the Authors, Printers, and Dispersers of all such Answers and Replies, from all High-Commission suits, and other troubles and vexations whatsoeuer: Else none will euer dare to write or print hereafter, in the defence and quarrell of our Church and Truth, in hard and euill times (from which God ke…pe vsus) when Popery and Errour shall hauehave all, and Truth no sway, nor licence for the Presse; For **Qui… enim virtu…em amplectituripsam, pramia sitoll…s? Iuuenal: Satyr: 10.what encouragement can men hauehave to write, or to shew themselues actiue for the Churches good, when they shall hauehave no other reward nor gratification for their paines and industry, but High-Commission Suits and troubles: but heauy fines and mulcts, or long and tedious imprisonments and restraints (which is all the encouragement, reward and thankes that some hauehave found:) And if no writers to vindicate Religion, the Truth and Churches cause, when as they are opposed, by authoriz'd writings; then Truth, Religion, Church, (yea State and Kingdome which fall or stand together with them) will soone be ouer…grown with Haeresies, Errours, Schismes, Factions, and false Doctrines, and so brought quite to ruine.

Sixthly, to take some speedy course, to inhibit the 6publishing and diuulging of all Popish and Arminian Doctrines, either by word or writing, vnderunder seuere mulckts and penalties: and to establish some good and setled course, for the inhibiting & suppressing of all scurrilous and prophane Play-books, Ballads, Poems, and Tale-bookes whatsoeuer: and the free and speedy licensing of all such orthodox, learned, and religious Tractates, as shall be thought necessary, meet and worthy for the Presse: that so Schollers may be incouraged to write and study vponupon all occasions for the Defence, the propagation and aduancement of Religion; and not discouraged as they hauehave beene of late, because all their industry and labour is but lost, and buried in silence and obliuion, for want of licence and authority to diuulge them in due season, for the publike good.

Seauenthly and lastly, to take speciall care and Order, 7that the two famous Vniuersities of our Kingdome (the very nurseries and seed-plots of our Church) may be defaecated and purged, from all poysonous, Popish, and Arminian Doctrines: and that all such heads and fellowes of Colledges, together with all our other Diuines, who are either notoriously knowne, or iustly suspected, to be the chiefe Abbettors, Heads, or Patriots of the Arminian, or Popish cause or Faction, may be speedily conuented before a selected Committee, assisted by some orthodox, choyce and prime Diuines and Prelates: to be there interrogated and examined, in all the now controuerted points of Popery and Arminianisme: and vponupon their iust conuiction or attainder of all or any of the foresaid Points, to be enioyned a particular and open recantation of them in writing (to which they shall subscribe their names) so farre forth as they are dissonant either from the Homelies, Articles, and established Doctrines of the Church of England, or Ireland; or from the fiue Conclusions and Resolutions of the Synod of Dort: or else vponupon refusall of such recantation and subscription, yyTutius est hos offendere quam demer…isse. Seneca: de Beneficiis, l: 2. c: 24:to be immediately depriued of all their Ecclesiasticall and spirituall promotions whatsoeuer.

These are the wayes & courses in my raw conceit (which I humbly submit to your maturer iudgements:) to quit and free our Church and our Religion from all their present: and to bulwarke, and secure them against all future homebred opposites, and pressures whatsoeuer. Now hee who hath put that zeale, that care and courage into your pious hearts, as to ingage your selues in the defence and patronage of our Church and Faith, which are now beser, and violently assaulted, by troops of forraine and domestique Enemies, who would spoyle and cheat vsus of them to our faces: inspire you with such heauenly wisedome from aboue, as may pitch you on the speediest, best, and safest proiects, for the extirpation and suppression of all their open or concealed Foes; the vindicating of their former purity & freedome: the establishment of their future peace: & the perennious preseruation and propagation of that pure orthodox & sincere Religion which we yet enioy. Which Religion, as it is the breath and fragrant odor of our nostrils; the delight and pleasure of our eyes; the swetest harmony and musicke to our eares; the most luscious hony and Manna to our pallats; the most rauishing ioy and satisfactory contentment to our hearts: (the onelyonly food, the essence, life and being of our soules; the grand procurer of all our outward comfort and prosperity; the onelyonly Author of our peace and welfare; the most transcendent glory and honour of our Nation; the brazen wall, the strongest fence and bulwarke of our kingdome; the chiefest dread and terror to our Enemies; the sole encouragement and comfort of our Confederates; the fundamentall prop and pillar of our State; the onelyonly pawne and euidence of our future hopes and happinesse; and the onelyonly polestar, way and passage to conduct and lead vsus vntounto Christ, to God, to heauen and eternall blisse: (all motiues for to prise and hold it fast, in these degenerating, declining and reuolting times:) so if we once but slacke our hold, or let it goe, (it being the very rocke on which our Church, our kingdome, and we all do rest and Anchor:) both Church and State, our selues, our soules, and all we now poss…sse are wrackt, and lost for euer. Wherefore right Christian Worthies, what euer becomes of other outward Priuileges and aaCito indignatur libertas si opprimit…r Nemo plus impetrat a libero quam qui seruire non cogit: Hierom. Epist. 62, cap. 3. Ipsi Britanni dilectum ac tributa, & iniuncta imperii munera impegrè obeunt sim…uria absint: has a…grè tolerant …am domiti vt pareant nondum vt seruiant: Taciti… Apri…oll vita: cap: 5:hereditary liberties, (the losse of which you cannot brooke with any patience; where as the condescending vntounto them alone, would win your hearts and purses too:) be sure to hold fast and guard this maine foundation whereon our Church, our kingdome, and we & ours stand, against all Cozening vnderunder miners and Fauxes whatsoeuer, who labour for to blow it vp: If this bee safe, our Church, our King, our Kingdome, our liues, our goods, and liberties are all secure; we need not feare, what Spaine, what France, bbPsal: 56, 11: Psal: 118, 6:what man can doe vntounto vsus: For then cc1 Cor: 3, 21, 22: 2 Chron: 20, 15, 17, 22: Iudg: 5, 20.God is ours, Christ is ours, the holy Ghost is ours: Angels, and Men and all the hostes and creatures of heauen and earth, yea earth and heauen it selfe, and all is ours: all these will take our parts, & plead our cause against our Enemies; ddRom: 8: 31.and if these be for vsus, who, what can be against vsus?? But if this be once endangered or rased but a little, O then we sinke, we droope, wee perish: our God, our Crowne, our peace, our glory, our wealth, our liberties, and all those sundry magazines, and heapes of blessings which we now inioy, will forthwith take their winges, and flie away, and leaue vsus destitute, helplesse, hopelesse & forelorne, in those ouerwhelming floods and bitter stormes of misery, bondage, sorrow, want, and woe, which shall euen breake our hearts, and crush our bones, and sinke our soules in endlesse horror and despaire. O therefore looke betimes to this Foundation, which now begins to shake, to totter, and moulder by degrees; settle but this a right, and roote out all those domestique Romane and Arminian Pioners, who dig so deepe and fast, to vndermine it; and then both Church and State will soone be settled in their former peace and happinesse: O consider, that the present totterings, declinings, and ruines of our State, arise but from the wauerings, wastings, and backslidings of our Church: Our State and kingdome now decline so fast, and hasten to the period of their former glory; because our Church, our faith, our louelove, our Religion, lose their ground: Our Realme is full of factions, and diuisions, because our Church is so: Popery, Arminianisme, False doctrines, sin, and all prophannesse hauehave ouer-spred our Church, yea wasted & corrupted our Religion: no wonder then if pressures, greuances, losses, crosses, penury, misery, beggery, shame, and a world of other euils do now annoy our State: Our State Enemies, are no other but our Church Enemies: O therefore curbe, purge out, & quite suppresse, the Achans, Errors, and great Annoyances, which trouble, oppresse and vndermine our Church, and our Religion; and then our State and Kingdome will be settled, and freed from those many pressures, miseries, and afflictions which they now sustaine; and not before. In vaine is it to mend the tiles and vpper roomes, till the Foundation be repaired: in vaine doe any labour to repaire the decke, whiles the keele is full of leakes; whiles the head and heart is sicke, the other members cannot prosper. Neuer looke that our decaying State should thriue or flowrish, till our Church be healed and recouered: Goe on and hasten therefore with this maine and weighty Cure, and hauehave a speciall eye to this great Cozening and infectious plague-sore, whose briefe Suruay and Censure, I here in all humility present and tender to your Honours: and the great Physitian both of soule and body, so blesse and ayde you in all your good endeauours; that all the festring wounds and sores of our gangrend and consuming Church and State, may now receiue a sound, a perfect, and a present Cure, & be reduced to their perfect soundn…sse: that so our wildernesse may be like Eden, ddIsay 51, 3:Isa 51:3and our Desart as the Garden of the Lord: that our wast places may be comforted, and all our sad and drooping hearts may bee filled with ioy and gladnesse, with thanksgiuing and the voyce of melodie: that you, and I, ee2 Chron: 7, 10:and all the people of the Land, in the period and perclose of this your great Assembly; may be sent away vntounto our tents and habitations, glad and merry in heart, for all the goodnes that the Lord hath shewed vntounto Dauid and Salomon; to our King, our Church, our State, & to Israel, we his people, by this your happy, and much desired meeting: and let all that louelove our Dauid, our Salomon, or our Israel say: Amen.

Your Honours in all humility, seruice, and respect, WILLIAM PRYNNE.

p. 1A BRIEFE SVRVAY, AND CENSVRE, OF Maister COVZENS his Couzening DEVOTIONS.

IT hath alwayes beene the beaten rode, and method, of all Heretiques, and seducing Spirits, in all the ages of the Church: to aaVenena non dantur nisi melle circumlita. Hierom. Epist. 7 c. 4.Dulcerate their Venomus, Harsh, and bitter Potions, with Lushious, and sweete Ingreedients: bbDe spectaculis c. 27.Nemo venenum temperat felle & hell…boro, sed conditis pulmentis, & bene saporatis; saith Tertullian: Heretiques, and false Teachers are alwayes cunning Apothecaries: they neuer temper their Poysons with Gall, or Colloquint: but with the best, and pleasantest Conserues: their venome lurkes in Honie Potions, that so men may swallow it downe with greater greedinesse, and lesse suspition.

ccProsper Aquit. de Prouidentia Lib.Viperium obducto potamus melle venenum.

Heresies, and false Doctrines, (yea, ddOmne malū aut timore, aut pudore natura perfudit. Tertul. Apolog. Ad Gent. c. 2.all euill things whatsoeuer,) as they are of an Odious, so likewise are they of a Timorous, and Bashfull disposition: they dare p. 2eeError per seipsum non ostenditur, no denudatus depraehendatur: sed amictu splendido calli dè ornatur, vt ipsa veritate veriorem se exhibere videatur imperitioribus, per externam apparentiam. Iraeneus. Adu. Haer. l. 1. Proaemio.not walke Vnmasked, (especially, in the brightest Orbe and Hemisphere of the Gospel-sunne:) for feare of present discovery: whence, they alway claspe, and twine themselues at first, with knowne and approued Trueths: (which serue as Sauce, or Baites to draw them downe:) ffAbscondunt omnes haeretici & operiunt mendaciorum suorum dogmatu, vt sagittāt in obscuro rectos corde. Heirom l. 1. in Dan. 5.Dan 5and cloathe themselues in the Amiable dresse, and Rich attire, or at least wise Christen themselues, by the name and title, of the Orthodoxe, and receiued Doctrine of the Church, vnderunder whose Banners they pretend they fight: that so they may the more insensibly Insinuate, and more strongly ggAnima pestes tantò periculosius laedunt, quantò subtilius serpunt. Concil. Cabilon. 2. Can. 32and dangerously incorporate themselues, into the Hearts, and Intralls, of vncautelous, and ouer-credulous Christians, who are insnared by them, at vnawares. As the long and beaten experience of former ages, so the Assiduous practise of some Couzening, and seducing Authors, in these our present, and declining times, doe abundantly euidence, and confirme this Truth: Who because they dare not yet proceed so farre, as to shew themselues open and professed Factors for the Church of Rome, for feare their plots, and aimes should be detected: doe therefore vent the Adulterous Drugges, and Poysonous Doctrines of the hhReu. 17.4.5.Rev 17:4Rev 17:5Whore of Rome, vnderunder the vaile, and colour of DEVOTION: and that in such a iiSi non caste, tamen caute. Terent. Eunuchus.Clandestine, Subdolus and inchanting manner, that they hauehave euen charmed Authoritie it selfe; and lulled Argos quite asleepe: Whose vigilant eyes, should alwayes so farre wake, as to distinguish Poperie from true Deuotion: and not to ouer-looke the one, whiles they admire, and approue the other. But though Argos, and the MAISTER-WATCHMEN sleepe, and close their eyes, and eares, at once: yet, it is fit that some should wake, and watch against deuout, kkMath. 7.15.Matt 7:15and sheepe-skind Wolues: (who thinke to prey Cum Priuilegio on the flocke, because the Shepheard hath Authorized them,) for feare lest flocke and Shepheard perish: And this hath caused me, llSee Liuie Rom. Hist. l. 5. Sect. 47.like that Roman Goose, in p. 3the sleepe, and slumber of the Dogges, and Watchmen: to clap my wings, and stretch my voyce, at the couert, and mmTanto silentio in summum euasere, vt non custodes tantum fallerent, sed ne canes quidem solicitum animal ad nocturnos strepitus excitarent. Ib.tacite approach, of those treacherous, Mountebanke, Couzening, and Domestique Gaules, who now are scaling of our sacred Capitoll; that so some Manlius, or other might awake, to rout and chase them from our walls, and banish them for euer from our Confines.

The Booke which I hauehave here pitched vponupon, is intituled: A COLLECTION OF PRIVATE DEVOTIONS, OR THE HOVVERS OF PRAYER: The Author, and Composer of it, is rumoured to bee one Maister COVZENS, Chaplaine to the Bishop of Winchester, that now is: nnPlutarch. de Oracul. Cessatione lib. Coelius Rhod. Antiq. lect. l 3. c. 8.Ex vngue leonem: You may discouer the Authors qualities and conditions, by this his Paw, and Handy-worke, which smells, nay, stinkes of Poperie.

Not to enter vponupon any large, and punctuall discouery of the absurdities, and Errors of these pernitious Deuotions, nor yet to trace the Author in his course, from page, to page: I shall resolue the summe of my Exceptions to this worke of his, into these ensuing Conclusions.

First, that this Booke of Priuate Deuotions, is meerely 1Popish, both in the forme, and matter of it.

Secondly, that the Authors end in publishing of it, was 2nothing else, but to introduce, and Vsher Poperie into our Church: at least to grace and countenance it.

Thirdly, that the Author endeauors to make Queene 3Elizabeth of euer blessed Memorie, the Patronesse of this his Poperie; and to harber it vnderunder her Protection.

Fourthly, that the Prayer booke of Queene Elizabeth, 4Printed by William Seeres, a 1560. and a 1573. (which the Author onelyonly mentions, to giuegive a glosse, and colour to his Poperie, and to delude the simple; and lesse wary by it:) doeth neither warrant the forme, nor matter of these new Deuotions: which in trueth were most of them stolen out of Popish Primers, Prayer Bookes, and Chatechismes; and not transcribed out of the Prayer Booke of Queene Eilzabeth.

p. 4Fiftly, that there are diuers falsities, Popish absurdities, and abuses of Scripture in it.

Sixtly, that there are some prophane, and dangerous passages inuolued in it.

Seuenthly, that it is fraught with contradictions.

Eightly, that it is scandalous, and preiudiciall to our owne, and aduantagious onelyonly to the Church of Rome.

For the first of these; That this Booke of Deuotions is meerely Popish; it is most cleerely euident: First, from its Frontispice: Secondly, from its Title: Thirdly, from its Frame and Method: Fourthly, from its Stile and Phrases: Fiftly, from its Subiect and Matter.

First, it is meerely Popish, in regard of the ooHeu quam difficile est crimen non prodere vultu. Ouid. Metamorph. lib. 2.Frontispiece. For, if you view the Fore-front of these Deuotions, you shall finde these three Capitall letters; (I H S.) incircled in a Sunne, supported by two Angels, with two deuout Nunnes, or Women praying to it, one of them holding a Crosse in her hand. Now, what is this but an vndoubted Badge, and Character of a Popish, and Iesuiticall Booke; of an Idolatrous, and Romish Deuotion? Looke into the Frontispiece of all Iesuits workes, you shall finde this stampe, and Impresse on them; (I H S.) in the selfe-same forme as here: Looke into your Popish Horaries, Primers, Offices, Prayers, and Deuotions: Loe there a Crosse, a (I H S.) and men praying to them, or before them: But neuer saw I such a Fore-front in any Orthodoxe English, or Out-landish writers. ppClarke de Aulico. l. 1. p. 30Index animi vultus; the very Effigies, Draught, and Portraiture therefore of the Frontispiece, proclaimes the Booke it selfe, and him that Pen'd it, to bee meerely Popish: It hath the very qqReu. 14.9.11Rev 14:9Rev 14:11Marke, and Seale of the Beast vponupon its Fore-head; therefore, it must needes be his.

But if Pictures, which Papists stile; rrSynod. Nicen… 2. Actio. 1. Sur. Tom 3. Concil p. 54. Actio. 6. lb. p. 48 150.154. Adriani. 1. Scriptū de Imaginibus. Ib. p. 214.their Lay-mens Bookes, want tongues to publish our Authors Hieroglyphicall, and Implicit Poperie to the World: then let the very Title of the Booke, and Fore-front testifie, what the dumbe, and speechlesse Picture cannot vtter. Not to p. 5picke any quarrell with the word DEVOTIONS, with which some men might chance to iarre: the variation of it: (OR THE HOVVERS OF PRAYER:) in this Church and age of ours, is a sufficient euidence, that the Booke, and Author both are Popish. For where shall you euer finde these HOVVERS OF PRAYER mentioned, or prescribed, (at least in the abstract, as here,) but onelyonly in Popish Authors? I confesse indeed, that there is mention made both in the ssActs 2.1.15. & 3.1. & 19.3.9. Dan 6.10. Psal. 55.17.Acts 2:1Acts 2:15Acts 3:1Acts 19:3Acts 19:9Dan 6:10Ps 55:17Scriptures and the Fathers, of the third; the sixt; and the ninth hower: (that is, of Morning, Euening, and of Noone-day;) and of Solemne Prayers, both publike and priuate at these howers. ttCypr. Serm. 6. de Orat. Dom. Hierom. ad Eustochium.But neuer could I finde as yet, where these HOVVERS OF PRAYER, were prescribed, or distributed after the Roman computation: where the antiquitie, or vse of them were iustified and defended: where the Deuotions of any were confined to these Howers: or where mens priuate Deuotions at these limited seasons, were euer stiled, the HOVVERS OF PRAYER, in the abstract: but onelyonly in Popish Councells, Offices, Primers, and Authors, from whom our Author tooke his Title. I confesse, indeed: that the first Edition of the Booke of Latine Prayers, published by Queene Elizabeth in the yeere 1560. quoted by our Author, in the second Title page; was stiled: ORARIVM: SEV, LIBELLVS PRAECATIONVM: (not Horarium: nor Libellus praecationum, seu, Orarium:) in which there is onelyonly a briefe recitall of the first; the third; and the ninth hower of Prayer, farre different from our Authors, as I shall shew anon: But this very Booke, in the second, and third Impressions of it: in the yeere 1564. and 1573. had no other Title, but PRAECES PRIVATAE IN STVDIOSORVM GRATIAN COLLECTAE: & in these Editions which were the last & best, there is not so much as any touch or menti…n, of these Canonicall Howers of Prayer, or first, sixt▪ or ninth howers: Neuer could I heare as yet of any Deuotions, or Prayer Bookes, intituled the HOVVERS OF PRAYER: but p. 6onelyonly one in Spanish, Printed at Paris, by William Merlin, 1556. Stiled, HORAS DE NVESTRA SENIORA▪ The Howers of our Lady: Fraught with the very dregs of Popery, and Idolatrie: The very Phrase, and Emphasis therefore of this Title, (which is neuer mentioned by way of approbation, in any Protestant writers; nor yet in the Articles, Common Prayer Booke, the Bookes of Homilies, or Canons of our Church: nor yet in any Orthodoxe English writer,) doeth stampe a kinde of Brand, and Impresse of Poperie, and Superstition, on the Booke it selfe, and euidence it to be meerely Popish.

3Thirdly, the whole Fabricke, Frame, and Method of these Deuotions, doe prooue them to be Popish: For they are directly moulded, formed, and contriued according to our Ladies Primer, or Office: Printed in Lattaine at Antwerpe, 1593. and in Lattaine, and English for the vtilitie of such of the English Nation, as vnderstand not the English tongue: 1604. According to the Breuiary of Pius the fift, and Clemens the eight: Printed at Antwerpe, 1621. and the Howers of our Lady, Printed at Paris, 1556. For first, you hauehave here a Frontispice: with (I H S.) in a Sunne held vp by two Angels: and two deuoute Females, one of them holding a Crosse in here hand, Supplicating vntounto it: Then you hauehave for the Title: A Collection of priuate Deuotions: or the Howers of Prayer: together with a Preface. Iustifying Canonicall Howers; condemning all conceiued Prayers; and confining men to the vnerring Deuotions of the Church; and to the Ceremonies, Formes, and Sacraments of the ancient Church: (which can bee no other but the Church of Rome, as I shall prooue anon:) Then you hauehave a Calender with a Preface to it: Containing the Festiuall, and Fasting dayes of the Church; and the Memories forsooth, of none but holy Martyres and Saints: (though many of them were neuer found in rerum natura, and others of them were neuer Sainted but at Rome:) Next you hauehave a Table of moueable Feasts, and rules for them: Then you hauehave the p. 7Fasting dayes of the Church; or dayes of speciall Abstinence and Deuotion: whereof our Ember weekes, and Rogation dayes; Ash-wedensday: the Fridayes after Whitsontide, and holy Crosse: the Saturday after Saint Lucies day: and all the Fridayes and Saturdayes of the yeere, must bee the chiefe; though our Church enioynes them not: Next you hauehave the times wherein Marriages are not to be Solemnized: which times, the Calenders, Articles, and Canons of our Church, doe neither mention, nor prescribe. Then succeedes the Apostles Creed in twelue Articles: the Lords Prayer in seuen Petitions: the tenne Commandements with the dueties enioyned, and the Sinnes prohibited by them: together with **These are onelyonly to bee found in Popish Primers, Catechismes and Writers.the Precepts of Charitie; the Precepts of the Church; the Sacraments of the Church: (and these forsooth, must bee seuen:) the three Theologicall Virtues: the three kindes of good Workes. The seuen gifts of the holy Ghost: the twelue fruites of the holy Ghost: the Spirituall, and Corporall workes of Mercy: the eight Beatitudes: Seuen deadly Sinnes, and their contrary Vertues: then Quatuor nouissima: all Popish trash and trumpery, stolen out of Popish Primers, and Chatechismes, as I shall prooue anon: and neuer mentioned in any Protestant writers. Then comes in His collections for priuate Deuotions, with his Plees both from Scriptures, Fathers, and Popish Authors: for the practise, and obseruation of Canonicall Howers, both in generall, and speciall; all taken out of **Bellarm. de bonis Operibus in Partit. l. 1. c. 13.Bellarmine, **Instit. Moralium part. 1 l. 9 c. 2.10.6.Azorius, and the **Annotatiōs on Acts 10. Sect. 6.Acts 10Rhemish Testament: And first, you hauehave his preparatiue Prayers, before Mattins: and among them, one at our entrance into the Church, and another when we come into the Quire: then you hauehave a preparatiue Hymne. Then comes in a Iustification of the antiquitie of Mattins, AND THAT AT THE FIRST HOVVER: then followes His Mattins for the first; the third; the sixt; and ninth Hower, beginning with the Lords Prayer; seconded with an Hymne; continued with Psalmes, and gloria Patri, &c. with a piece or fragment of a Chapter, or Lesson; and Consummated, with some Prayers, and a p. 8Thankesgiuing: Then succeed his VESPERS, then his COMPLINE: all of them exactly framed, after the Popish Offices, Primers, and Horaries, and not according to our Common Prayer Booke, or any Protestants Method. Now follow some other Prayers, with the seuen Penitentiall Psalmes: Next the Collects of our Church; with seuerall Aduertisments, and Prefaces them: then Prayers and Meditations both before and after the Sacrament: and among them, one WHEN WEE ARE PROSTRATE BEFORE THE ALTER: a Prayer worth the obseruing: another, desiring the MEDIATION OF ANGELS: Then follow seuerall formes of Confessions to bee vsed, according to the directions of the Church, especially, before the receiuing of the Sacrament: then a deuout manner of preparing our selues, TO RECEIVE ABSOLVTION: with a Thankesgiuing after ABSOLVTION: then followes some speciall PRAYERS FOR EMBER-WEEKES, not mentioned in our Common Prayer Booke: Then Prayers for the Sicke; Prayers at the Hower of Death; yea, and A PRAYER FOR THE DEAD: then other Prayers and Thankesgiuings: And as he beginnes with the SIGNE OF THE CROSSE, so hee concludes with the VIRTVE OF CHRISTS BLESSED CROSSE: yea, and with the INTERCESSION OF ALL SAINTS (as I hauehave heard:) before the leafe was altered and torne out, vponupon some exceptions taken to it. So that if you Suruay the whole frame and modell, of these Deuotions and Howers of Prayers; either in the whole intire structure: or in the forme, and order of its seuerall parts: you shall finde; that it tooke its patterne, and sample, from our Ladies Primer, and the forequoted Deuotions, which runne in the selfe same method, forme, yea, matter too▪ not from the priuate Prayers of Queene Elizabeth, nor yet from our Booke of Common Prayers, as I shall prooue more fully anon.

Fourthly, the very Stile, and Phrases of it, doe euidence, 4and conuince it to be meerely Popish: Take these for all the rest that might bee mentioned: The Howers p. 9of Prayer: which is eighteene seuerall times mentioned, and some twelue of them by way of Preface; or Title: The ancient Church: in the second Title page: the Ancient Lawes and godly Canons of the Church: in the first Preface: The Festiualls, and Fasting dayes of the Church: the Title before the Calender: The Fasting dayes of the Church. The precepts of the Church: The Sacraments of the Church: (which being all compared together, with their subiect matter, will plainely testifie, that he meanes the Church of Rome, and no other; since the Ancient Lawes and Canons of the Church, for the obseruation of Canonicall Howers: the Precepts of the Church there mentioned, and the Sacraments of the Church, which hee makes seuen, can bee appropriated to no Church but that alone, and not vntounto our own, or other Churches, which approoue of no such Sacraments, and knowe of no such Canons, Lawes, and Precepts, as are here recorded:) To these I may adde: his first, his third▪ his sixt, and his ninth Howers of Prayer: His Vespers, aaPag. 143.Suffrages, and bbPag. 165.Compleine: his Priests, and Priests of Gods Church (oft repeated: and the word Ministers neuer vsed, though ccSee Doctor Rainolds conference wi…h Hart. pa. 4…6 to 473. Doctor …ulkes Notes on Heb. 8.9. & 10.Heb 8:9Heb 8:10we affirme, the name of Priests, to bee an incongruous word, not proper to the Ministers of the Gospel:) His Times wherein Marriages are not Solemnized: The two Precepts of Charitie: The three Theologicall Virtues: Three kindes of good Workes: Seuen Gifts: and twelue Fruits of the holy Ghost: **After his Calendar.The 7. Spirituall, and Corporall workes of Mercy: The eight Beatitudes: Seuen deadly Sinnes, Quatuor nouissima: ddPag. 17.A Prayer, when we come into the Quire: eePag. 132.The seuen Penitentiall Psalmes to bee vsed in times of Penance, &c. ffP. 233.334.Septuagessima Sunday, was but to prepare the people for their solemne Fasting, and Penance; and to forewarne them of Lent: that when it came, they might more strictly, and Religiously obserue it. ggPart. 2 the Title.Christs holy Sacrament, his blessed Body and Blood. hh2 Part. p. 4.When we are prostrate before the Altar: iiPag. 10.That the remembrance which we now offer vp to thee, may by the Ministrie p. 10of thy holy Angels, be brought into thy Heauenly Tabernacle: kkPag. 12.13.At the receiuing of the Body: Adding with the Priest: llPag. 25.30.A deuout manner of preparing our selues to Absolution: A thankesgiuing after Absolution: compared with the fift Precept of the Church: mmPag. 122.The vertue of Christs blessed Crosse, &c: these seueral Phrases, & Passages, which are seldome or nowhere found, but in Popish Authors, and beare a tange, and smell of Poperie alwayes with them: are a strong and pregnant euidence, that these Deuotions are patched vp of shreds of Poperie.

5Fiftly, the very Subiect matter of this Booke, is meerely Popish: therefore the Booke it selfe, must needes be such: If we branch the matter of this Booke, into points of Doctrine, and substance: Of Ceremonie, Forme, and Circumstance: and consider these, either absolutely in themselues, or Relatiuely, with reference to the Authors, whence they were taken; we shall discouer much hidden, and concealed, yea, some euident, and apparant Poperie, euen twined and inuolued in it. For Doctrinall, and Positiue Poperie, you hauehave these seuerall Limbes, and Branches couched, and by necessary implication, affirmed in it: which I shall enumerate and muster vp in order, as I finde them scattered by the Author.

1. That the Church of Rome is the true and Ancient Mother Church; and that her holy Canons, Lawes, Precepts, Ceremonies, Constitutions, Canonicall Howers and Sacraments, are duely and Religiously to bee obserued by vsus.

2. That the visible Church of Christ, (yea, the very Church of Rome) can neuer Erre in matters of Faith.

3. That the Lent-fast, is an Apostolicall Constitution; that it comes from Diuine Authoritie: And that we are to obserue and keepe, both it, and Ember weekes, Rogation dayes, together with Wednesdayes, Fridayes, Saturdayes, and Holy day Eues, with Deuotion, and Abstinence: not in politicall respects, as prescribed, and enioyned p. 11by the State; but by vertue of the precepts and iniunctions of the Church.

4. That the Pictures, and Images of God the Sonne, and God the holy Ghost, may be lawfully made.

5. That men may worship them in these Images.

6. That men may adore the Persons, and Images, of Saints, and Angels, though not with that Solemne worship of Latria, which is due t… God alone.

7. That Auricular Confession to a Priest, and Absolution from him, are necessary.

8. That there are seuen Sacr…ments of the Church.

9. That there are but three kindes of good Workes.

10. That there are Sinnes Veniall in their owne Nature.

11. That Christ is corporally present in the Sacrament of the Lords Supper.

12. That the Sacrament is a rea…l Sacrifice, and that we are for to adore it.

13. That Ange…s are our Mediators to present our Prayers and seruices vntounto God, as well as Christ.

14. That Prayer for the Dead is lawfull.

15. That there is a Diuine blessing and efficacy in the bare Crosse of Christ.

These fifteene Points of Fundamentall, ranke, and Doctrinall Poperie, are shrowded, and cherished vnderunder the protection, and countenance of these Pious Deuotions.

For the first of these, I collect it from the Title page: aaThis Title is taken From the howres of our Lady: Printed at Paris, 1556. From Bellarmine de Bonis Operibus in Partit. l 1. c. 13 And our Ladies Primer.The practise of the Ancient Church, called, The Howers of Prayer: From the Preface to the Booke, Those who accuse vsus here in England to hauehave despised all the old Cermonies, and cast behind vsus the blessed Sacraments of Christs Catholique Church, doe but betray their owne infirmities: bbThis from A Manuall of Prayers by Laur. Kellam: Printed at Doway 604 at the beginning.The Fasting dayes of the Church, or dayes of speciall Abstinence, and Deuotion: Whereof Lent, Ember weekes: some Holy day Eues, and all the Fridayes of the yeere, except p. 12those that fall within the Twelue dayes of Christmas. **This out of our Ladies Primer. Iames Ledesma his Catechisme Cap 13. Bellarmines Ch…istian Doctine cap. 7. Vaux his Cate…hisme. c. 3.The Precepts of the Church: First, to obserue the Festiualls, and Holy dayes appointed: Secondly, to keepe the Fasting dayes with Deuotion, and Abstinence: Thirdly, to obserue the Ecclesiasticall customes, and Ceremonies established, & that without frowardnesse, or contradiction: Fourthly, to repaire vntounto the publike Seruice of the Church, for Mattins, and Euening song, with other Holy offices at times appointed, vnlesse there bee a iust, and vnfained cause to the contrary: Fiftly, to receiue the blessed Sacrament of the Body and Blood of Christ with frequent Deuotion, and three times a yeere at least, of which times Easter to be alwayes one. And for better preparation thereunto as occasion is, to disburthen, and quit our Consciences of those sinnes that may grieue vsus, or scruples that may trouble vsus; to a Learned, and discreet Priest, and from him, to receiue aduice and benefit of Absolution: ccThis is stolen from Our Ladies Primer at the beginning. Ledesma his Catechism cap. 15. Vaux his Catechism cap. 4. Bellarmines Christian Doctrine. cap. 9.The Sacraments of the Church: The principall, and truely so called, (as generally necessary to Saluation,) are Baptisme, and the Lords Supper: The other fiue, that is to say; Confirmation, Penitence, Orders, Matrimonie, and Visitation of the Sicke, or extreame Vnction, though they be sometimes called, and hauehave the name of Sacraments, yet hauehave they not the like nature, that the two principall, and true Sacraments hauehave. From all these seuerall passages stolen out of Popish Authors: and not so much as mentioned in the Prayers of Queene Elizabeth, or in our Common Prayer Booke, Homellies, or Articles: I argue thus; If there bee no Ancient Church, which enioynes the practise of Canonicall Howers, and strict obseruation of the recorded Fasting dayes, with Abstinence, and Deuotion: If there bee no Church, which admits, or allowes of seuen Sacraments, or giues such Precepts, as are here recited, but onelyonly the Church of Rome: then it is certaine, that the Author affirmes the Church of p. 13Rome, to be the True, and Ancient Mother Church, and that her holy Canons, Precepts, Ceremonies, Canonicall Howers, and Sacraments are duely, and Rerigiously to bee obserued by vsus: But there is no Ancient Church, which enioynes the Practicall obseruation of Canonicall Howers, and the strict obseruation of the Recorded Fasting dayes; there is no Church, which approoues of seuen Sacraments, or which giues such Precepts, as are here recited, but onelyonly the Church of Rome. Therefore it is certaine, that our Author, affirmes the Church of Rome, to be the True, and Ancient Mother Church: and that her Canons, Ceremonies, Precepts, Canonicall Howers, and Sacraments, are duely, and Religiously to bee obserued by vsus. The sequell cannot bee denied, because the Author, doth presse these Canonicall Howers, Precepts, Ceremonies, and Sacraments vponupon vsus, from the Authoritie, and practise of the Church, in which they alwayes hauehave bene, and yet are in vse. The Minor is already euident: because **See the Homily of Fasting. Part. 2.no Church by its owne Authoritie alone without a relation to the Policie of State, doeth vrge any set Fasting dayes, nor yet enioynes Canonicall Howers, or Auricular Confession to a Priest: nor allowes of seuen Sacraments, (as I shall prooue more largely in its place:) but onelyonly the Church of Rome, whose secret Factor questionlesse our Author was: Therefore, our Author is vndoubtedly guiltie, of this first Popish Tenent.

For the second, that the visible Church of Christ, 2(yea, the very Church of Rome) can neuer Erre in matters of Faith, and Doctrine: is vnfalliblie collected, from this ensuing passage in his Preface. That wee might bee sure to speake in the Grane, and Pious language of Christs Church; which hath euer more beene guided by the Spirit of God, and the holy Ghost. From which I argue thus.

That CHVRCH, which is euermore guided by the Spirit of God, and the holy Ghost, can neuer Erre in matters of Faith: this all Protestants, and Papists testifie.

p. 14But the Church of Christ, (saith our Author, speaking of that particular Church, out of which these scattered Deuotions were collected, which is no other, but the Church of Rome:) is euermore guided by the Spirit of God▪ and the holy Ghost, and that in matters of Faith, and Doctrine: according to the aaSee Epist. Synodales Concil. Basil. Surius Tom 4. pag. 143. Rhemists Annotations on Iohn 14. Sect. 5. On cap 16. Sect. 2.5. & cap 17. Sect 2. Bellarmine l. 3. de Eccles. cap. 14 and all other Papists on this Controuersie, accordingly.John 14Sir 14Tenent of the Papists: who affirme; that the Pope, the Church, and Generall Councells cannot Erre; because they are alwayes guided by the Spirit of God, and the holy Ghost: And contrary to the expresse Doctrine, and Tenent of bbSee Whitakers De Ecels…. Cont. 2. Quaest. 4. c 2.3. Master Bernards Rheemes against Rome Proposition 12. Doctor Raynolds Thesis 2. Apologia 2. Thesis and Conference with Hart, with all other Protestants both of our owne and other Churches who write of this Controuersie.all Protestant Diuines: who affirme; that any visible Church, or Generall Councells, yea, that the Church, and Pope of Rome, may Erre: because they are not all euermore guided by the Spirit of God: with which the 19. and 21. Articles of our Church concurre.

Therefore the Church of Christ, (to wit, particular Churches, or Generall Councells, which are the representatiue Church,) in our Authors iudgement, cannot Erre in matters of Faith, and Doctrine: which is a Branded Error.

Now marke what good vse our Antagonist makes of this Conclusion, euen the same that the Pope, & Church of Rome doe: to Countenance, and Iustifie all those Erronious, and Popish Ceremonies, Trumperies, and Positions, which are couched, and set abroach in his Deuotions, and to make them passe for currant Trueth: because these Deuotions, are nothing else but the approoued, and accustomed Deuotions of the Ancient Church of Christ, (videsicet the Church of Rome,) which was euermore guided by the Spirit of God, and the holy Ghost: and not the Deuotions of priuate ghosts, and spirits, (as hee there stiles them,) which are subiect vntounto Error. Therefore there can bee no hurt, no Error, no False, nor Popish Doctrine, couched in them. So that hee doeth not onelyonly iustifie, and approoue, but likewise apply this Popish Position, in a Subdolous, and Popish manner, euen to iustifie the vnerrabilitie of these his p. 15Deuotions: and in them the infallibilitie of the Church of Rome, from whose weedie Garden, this Garland of Deuotions hath beene gathered.

Come we now vntounto his third Position collected from 3these seuerall passages. **This is transcribed out of Laur. Kellams Manuall of Prayers Printed at Doway, 1604. Immediately after his Calender.The fasting dayes of the Church. Or dayes of speciall Abstinence and Deuotion: The holy dayes of Lent: The Ember weekes at the foure seasons: The three Rogation dayes: The Eues and Vigils before some thirteene Holy dayes. It hath beene also an Ancient Custome to fast all the Frydayes in the yeare, except those that fall within the 12 dayes of Christmas. **P. 234.235.To this ende: (speaking of Septuagesima Sunday, and the Lent Fast) there was a godly Ordinance in the Ancient Church (made by the Councell of Anxerre more then a thousand yeares since) that in the ende of the Epiphany there should be certaine daies appointed (such as this, and the two Sundayes following are.) Wherein to prepare the people for their solemne Fasting and Penance, to giuegive them warning of their Lent before hand, that when it came, it might bee the more strictly and religiously obserued. And afterwards, through the variety of Fasting in diuers places, it came to passe that these three Sundayes were made to be the beginnings of the Lent-Fast: Some extending their humiliation, to a larger time then Ordinary, and others excepting from it those dayes of the Weeke, whereupon many Christians, had either no custome, or no leaue to fast. All agreeing in this, that whether we begin at Septuagesima, or any of the Sundayes following, the Lent-Fast is duly to be kept at one solemne time of the yeare, and Religiously to bee continued vntounto the great Feast of Easter. **P. 237.By the Ancient Lawes and Customes of the Church of Christ, we still obserue an yearely solemne time of fasting and prayer, which we call our Lent-Fast. aaPag. 240The Lent Fast which wee now keepe is, and euer hath beene an Apostolicall Constitution. It p. 16is no humane Inuention (as they call it) but it comes from Diuine Authoritie, that we Fast our Forty Dayes in Lent. bbPag. 246.247.The last weeke of Lent is an holy weeke, and Christians hauehave vsed to call it, The holy and great weeke, or the passion weeke, and more solemnly to obserue it then any of the rest before, &c. This is the reason why all the Wednesdayes of the yeare hauehave bin heeretofore, and why the Frydaies and Saturdayes of eueryevery weeke besides are now continued, and made common dayes of Abstinence and Prayer.

From the words and scope of all which passages, the Author doth palpably and infallibly teach: That the Lent-Fast is an Apostolical Constitution, comming from Diuine Authority, which binds vsus accordingly to obserue it. And that Ember weekes, Rogation dayes, together with Wednesdayes, Frydayes, Saturdayes, and the last weeke of Lent especially, and some certaine Holy-day Eues are to be kept with Deuotion and Abstinence: Not in any Politicall respect, as prescribed and enioyned by the State for Politique endes: As the increase of Cattell, the maintaining of Ships, and Marriners, and the incouragement of Fishermen: (in which respect our Church doth principally obserue these dayes: not as Fasting dayes, or dayes of Deuotion to be spent in Prayer and Fasting: but rather, yea chiefly, as Fish-dayes, for the aduancement of Fishing, and sparing of young Cattle: not as dayes enioyned by the Churches but designed by the States Authority: As our Homely of Fasting Part. 2. 2-Ed 6. cap. 19. 5. Ed 6. cap. 3. 5. Eliz cap 5. 27. Eliz. cap. 11. 29. Eliz. cap. 5. The Kings Maiesties Proclamations, for the obseruing of Lent, and most of our Protestant Diuines affirme,) but as Apostolicall Praecepts and Constitutions, praescribed and inioyned by the Churches bare Authoritie: which opinion both of the Lent-Fast, and of these other Fasting-dayes ▪ (or Fish-dayes rather;) all ccCaluin Instit. lib 4 cap. 12. Sect. 20. Doctor Fulk… Answere to the Rhemish Testament, Matth. 9. Sect 11 Math. 4. Sect. 2 Marke 1. Sect. 6. Luk. 4. Sect. 1 & …. Sect 4. Acts 13. Sect 5. Festus Hommius Disput. 69. num: 4. p. 469 Hocker Eccles. Poll. l. 5 Sect. 72. Doctor Featly Handmayde of Deuotion. p. 526 54…. to 546. Mr. Masons Christians Fast. cap. 10.Matt 9Matt 4Mark 1Luke 4Acts 13Protestant Authors doe disclaime, as a meere Popish Assertion; p. 17And none but ccBellarm de bonis Oper. in partic l. 2. c. 14 Rhemish Annotations on Mat. 4. Sect. 2. Mark 1. Sect. 6 & Luk. 4 Sect. 1. See the Popish Authors quoted by Mr. Mason in his Christians Fast cap. 10. p. 151.152. All to this purpose: That the Lent Fast is a Diuine, or at least an Apostolical Institution: as Master. Cozens here affirmes.Matt 4Mark 1Luke 4professed Papists doe mainteine. Wee keepe our Lent, and the fore-recited Fasts, by vertue of the Statute of 2. and 3 Ed. 6. cap. 19. and by no Ecclesiasticall, or Apostolicall constitutions: Wee know no expresse Precepts, in our Articles, Homelies, Canons, or Common Prayer Booke of our Church, that binde vsus to obserue these Fasts; but onelyonly the fore-recited Statutes: which are the Lawes, and Precepts of the State, not of the Church: Therefore our Authors Doctrine in these points of Lent and Fasting Dayes, which differ from the expresse words, and Preamble of the Statute of 2. and 3. Ed. 6. cap. 19. from the ddHomely of Fasting, part. 2Doctrine of our Homelies: and the receiued Tenent of all our Writers: agreeing verbatim with the assertion of Iesuites, and Popish writers; must needes be Popish.

For the fourth; That the Pictures of God the Sonne, and God the holy Ghost, may be lawfully made: it is couertly, and necessarily intimated in his first Diuision of such who doe off…nd, against the second Commandement: Offenders against the second Commandement (saith he) are, They that fancie to themselues, any likenesse of the Deitie; or frame for to make any Image, either of God the blessed Trinitie, or of God the Father; who neuer appeared to the World in a visible shape: So that he cleerely admits, and intimates in these words: that the Images, and Pictures of God the Sonne, and God the holy Ghost. may be safely made: eeThis is Bellarmines reason in his Christian Doctrine. c. 6. p. 142.143.because they appeared to the World in a visible shape, (as hee pretends;) though God the Father, and the blessed Trinitie neuer did. His applying then of this reason onelyonly to God the Father, and the blessed Trinitie: His stopping at the Father; without any further mention of the Sonne, and holy Ghost; together with his ensuing words: Those that make any other Image, (be it of Christ and his Crosse, or bee it of his blessed Angels,) with an intent to worship them. Doe fully euidence, that hee approoues the making of the Images, and Pictures of God the Sonne, and God the p. 18holy Ghost: a meere Popish assertion, which the ffRhemists Annotat. in Acts. 17. Sect. 5 Vaux: in his Catechisme on the 2 Cō mandement. The Councell of Basil: of Trent: and all the Papists. See Bishop Vshers answer to the Iesuits Challenge. cap. 10.Acts 17Papists onelyonly doe mainteine: and which our owne ggHom. 2. & 3 against the perill of Idolat…y Article 22.Homelies, and hhDr. Fulks Annotations in Acts 17. Sect. 5. Bishop Babington, Mr. Perkins, and Mr. Dod on the 2. Commandement. BB. Vshers Answer to the Iesuits Challenge. ca. 10. Where all the Fathers are quoted to this purpose. M. Iohn Whites Way to the Church. Digres. 51. Sect. 11. Caluin. Institut. l 1. c. 11. Sect 12. And all our Protestant Diuines that writ of Images.Acts 17Orthodoxe writers doe expressely condemne, as Sinfull, and Vnlawfull.

For the fift Position; That God the Sonne, and God the holy Ghost, may be worshipped in their Images; which is necessarily collected from these words: Offenders against the second Commandement: are, They that make any other Images, or the likenesse of any thing whatsoeuer▪ (be it of Christ and his Crosse, or be it of his blessed Angels,) with an intent to fall downe and worship them. They that are worshippers of Idoles or representments of false Gods: In which passages, our Author onelyonly disclaimes the worshipping of meree Pictures, Idoles, and false Gods, which the iiBellarmines Ch…istian Doctrine, cap 6. p. 139. Vaux his Catechisme, c. 3. Rhemists Notes on 1 I…hn 5. Sect. 5Papists lik…wise doe condemne: or the adoration of the bare Pictures of Christ, and the holy Ghost: intimating, that wee may worship them in their Pictures, (for why else doeth hee allow men for to make them:) though we may not Adore the Pictures themselues; according to the kkRhemists Notes on Phil. 2. Concil. Trident. Sess 25.Phil 2ancient Popish distinction, and euasion; which our llHom. 1.2 3 Aga…nst the perill of Idolatry. BB Babington. Mr. Perkins, and Mr. … on the 2. Comm…ndement PB. Vshers Answer to the Iesuits Challenge. cap. 10.Homelies, and the fore-quoted Protestant Authors doe condemne, and vtterly reiect, as Popish and Erronious.

For the sixt; That the Persons, and Images of Saints and Angels, may bee worshipped, though not with the s…lfesame worship▪ wherewith wee Adore God himselfe This is euidently inforced from his Exposiotin on the second Commandement. **Thi… being compaiared with his blessing at the end: whe…ein there was the Intercession of all Saints …nser…ed. (as I hauehave heard) before his Maiestie tooke exceptions to it▪ will euidence his meaning to the full.God is to be worshipped with the lowly reuerence of our bodies: also; This to bee religiously done vntounto him: This also to be done purely, without any such outward, p. 19and solemne worship, to be giuen either to the Person, or Image of Saint, or Angel, or any other creature whatsoeuer: which being compared with that which followes: Offenders against this Commandement; They that are worshippers of Saints Images, and out of a false opinion of demeriting the protection of the blessed Virgin, or any other Saint of God, doe giuegive a religious Adoration, to those vsuall representations that are made of them. So that hee doeth here euidently, and clearely grant, mmAnswer to the Gagg. pag. 318. See Dr. Featly his Paralell p. 21.22.as Maister Mountague also in expresse tearmes doeth:) That nnConcil. Trident. Sess. 25. Bellarmines Christian Doctrine, cap. 6. Iames Ledesma his Catechisme cap. 6.there may bee a religious vse of the Images of Saints, and Angels; and that wee may Worship, and Adore, either Saints, or Angels, at least wise, with the Worship of Dulia, as the ooRhemists Notes no Mat. 4. Sect. 3. Act… 10. Sect. 7. c. 14. Sect. 2. Hebr. 11. Sect. 9. Concil. Nicen. 2. Act. 2. & 4. Sur Concil. Tō. 3. p. 74.102.120. Adrianis Scriptum de Imaginibus. Ib. pag. 217.Matt 4Acts 10Heb 11Acts 2Papists hold: though not with that outward and solemne worship, (marke the Emphasis of the words,) which is due to God alone: For hee onelyonly condemnes the giuing of religious Adoration, to the bare Images, not to the persons of Saints, and Angels, (which his last words doe seeme clearely to admit,) and the yeelding, not of Religious worship, and Adoration: but of that outward, and solemne Worship onelyonly, which is due to God alone: which is no more, then all the Papists doe acknowledge: who appropriate the worship of Latria vntounto God alone; though they giuegive that of Dulia, and Hyperdulia vntounto Angels, Saints, and Images. So that in these Points of Images, and Prayer to Saints, (make the best of them that can be,) hee goes no further then moderate Papists, and not so farre as all Orthodoxe Protestant Authors doe: so Frozen are his Zeale, and hote Deuotions in these points of Saints, and Angels, which are meerely Popish.