The Life of William Archbishop of Canterbury Examined, Chapter 4

The Life of William Archbishop of Canterbury Examined · Chapter 4

p. 51CHAP. IIII. The Canterburians joine with Rome in her grossest idolatries.

THE acts of Romes Idolarry be many and various: None more open to the eie of beholders then these five, their adorations of altars, In the midst of their deniall, yet they avow their giving of religious adoration to the very stock or stone of the altar.images, relicts, sacramentall bread, and Saints departed: For the first, their worshipping of the stocke or stone of the altar; if wee would impute it unto the Canterburians, they will deny it alluterly, and avow, that they may well worship God before the altar, but to worship the altar it selfe, to give to it that worship which is done before it, to give to it any religious worship any …, any foreign any foreign any adoration, they dodetest it, as palpable idolatry. So his Grace, so Pocklingtoune, so Heylene, so Lawrence, so … do oft professe: But that you may see how little faith p. 52those mens prorestations doe deserve, and that all may know either their desperate equivocating, or else their spirit of giddinesse, which makes them say and unsay the same things in the same pages; consider all of the five named authors, for all their deniall, printing with approbation and applause as much worshipping and adoration even of the altar, as any Papists this day living will require.

Begin with his Grace, you shall finde him in his Star-chamber speech, for all his deniall, yet avowing within the bounds of two pages, once, twice, thrice, aaPag. 47. A great … is due to the body, and so to the throne where his body is usually present. Ibid. pag. 49. Do mino & …, to the Lord your God, and to his altar, for there is a … due to that too. ibid. pag. 45. Therefore according to the Service booke of the Church of England, the Priest and the people are called upon, for externall and bodily worship of God in his Church; Therefore they which do it not, innovat, and yet the government is so moderate, God grant it be not too loose, that no man is constrained, no man questioned, only religiously called upon, ….the giving of worship to the altar, and that such worship, which is grounded upon that place of Scripture, Venite …, which we suppose none will deny to be divine adoration: But we must understand, that the King, and the Church of England here, as in all things must bear the blame of his graces faults, that the King and his most noble Knights of the Garter must bee patrons to this practice, and the English Liturgie the enjoiner of it: But his Grace and those that have the government of the Church must bee praised for their moderation, in not urging this practice upon all their brethren. bbPockling altare p. 160. I shall intreat the pious and … Reader, to consider with meet reverence, what is recorded among the statutes of that most noble order; … … …, in his Sunday no Sabbath at the end, if wee doe not onelyonly bend or bow our body to his blessed board, or holy altar, but fall slat in our faces before his footstooll so soon as ever wee come in sight thereof, what Apostle or Father would condemn us for it, and not rather be delighted to see the Lord so honored.D. Pocklingtoune with his Graces licence, … the bending of the body and the prostration even to it. p. 53… comes up at last to his Masters backe, and tels us that the adoration before the altar, is the honour of the altar it selfe, and that falling downe and kissing of the altar; for the honouring of the altar was a very commendable practice. ccAntidot. … preface to the King, altars were … so sacred that even the barbarous souldiers honoured them with affectionate kisses. Ibid pag. 86. The altar being thought to be … sacred, had a farre greater measure of reverence and devotion conferred upon foreign, a reverend salutation of the table, foreign, he and … both pag. 142. commends that exhortation of the … of … in the fifth councell, Ado emus primum … altare. Idem, in his answer to …, pag. …. If you look … unto the use and practice of the ancient Church, you … raisse a foreign, an honor to the altar, a foreign, an ad ….Laurence as he prints with Canterburies licence, but undoubtedly by an impudent lie, at the Kings speciall commandement, doth maintaine not onelyonly veneration, but religious worshipping adoration, foreign, and all, ddpag. 25. we finde in … foreign, a honor due to the altar: and in Tertullian ad geniculariaris a kneeling to the altar: and in the fifth councel, foreign, an adoration of the altar; and in the synoldals of Odo … altaribus …, & in …, foreign, and in another, divine altaria; and in the life of … the …. foreign, casting my self to the earth, and worshipping the … ground, & the Grecians triple prostrations tria foreign before the altar in the old ….not only by a relative and transient worship as he speakes, eeIbid. Although they gave a religious reverence to these places, yet they determine … reverence in God not in the place: the throne is honoured for the King; he that … cts the house for the owners sake, respects not the house but him.but also, which is a degree of madnesse, beyond any thing that ever I have marked in any …, he will have a Divine adoration given to the altar it selfe without any relation, or mentall abstraction; because of the union of Christs body with it, which sits there as in a chaire of Estate even as without scruple or relations, or mentall abstractions wee give to the humane nature of Christ, for that personall union of the Godhead with it, Divine adoration whereof in it selfe it is not capable.ffibid. pag 30. So much they said, but to justifie the practice of our Church, I need not say so much: for as although the humane nature of Christ receive all from the …, yet we adore the whole suppositum in grosse, which consists of the humane as well as of the Divine. So because of Gods personall presence in the place, wee … without abstraction of his person, from the place, to wit, the altar. … 153. Altars have beene in all ages so greatly honoured, because they are the seats and chaires of Estate, where the Lord … to place himselfe amongst us. Quid est enim altare (as Optatus speaks) nisi sedes … & … Christi?

p. 54For the adoration of the communion elements, As much adoration of the elements they grant as the Papists require.which Protestants count an Idolatrie so horrible, that for it alone they would not faile to separate from the Church of Rome, though she had no other fault, ggApologie des … reformes par loan Daille chap. 20.their minde is plaine by the practice which his Grace maketh … in his State answer to defend, we doe passe their adoration in the act of communicating, … wee thinke it strange to see men who once were counted moderate and wise, by the touch of his Graces panton, to become so insolent, as to hisse and hout at the doctrine and practice of the best reformed Churches, as vile and monstruous, hh… remedy of profainnesse, pag. 1 2 8. away with these monsters of opinion and practice in this sacrament, Christ Jesus is here really tendered to us, and who can, who … take him but on his knees?who in the act of receiving hath thought meet to sit or stand, rather than to kneele. We speake onelyonly of these their new adorations, which against the constant practice of the English Church they are now begun to use, without the act of receiving a number of low cringes towards these elements, when they take the paten in their hand, a low inclinabo before the bread, when they set it downe, another; when they take up the chalice, a third; when they setit downe a fourth. ii… moderate answer, p. 137. … bowing towards the communion table be offensive to you at the administration of the Sacrament, I would … know upon what reasons … stomack, that men should use their greatest reverence in so great an action, thinke you … the Priest should take into his hands the holy … without lowly reverence, or that it is an innovation so to do?That these avowed adorations before the elements, without the act of receiving, p. 55are directed by them, not only as they say to the person of Christ, whom they make there essentially present, but also unto the elements themselves; we prove it by no other reason but their former confession. Their adoration before the altar is done as they confesse unto the altar, much more their adoration before the elements, without the act of receiving must bee unto the elements: For I hope they will bee loath to affirme, that there is in the altar any worthinesse or aptitude, or any other cause imaginable, which can make it capable of adoration, but the same causes are in the elements in a farre higher degree: The relation to Christs Body and Person, which they make the only foundation of those worships being much more true, more neare, more cleare in the elements, then in the altar, howsoever the Popish prostrations, and adorations, before the hostie, which to all Protestants are so abominable idolatries, are absolved by these men; not onelyonly by the clearing of Papists of all idolatry every where, but particularly by their impatience, to have the adoration of the elements to be called Popish. For in our book of Canons when in the copie sent up to the King, the adoration of the bread, Chap. 6. was styled by our Bishops the Popish adoration, my Lord of Canterburie on the margine with his owne hand directeth to scrape out the word Popish, as we can shew in the authentick manuscript of that booke now in our hands.

Concerning images, behold their assertions, first In the matter of images their full agreeance with Rome.they tell us that the pullers downe of images, out of their Churches, were but lowns and knaves, pretending p. 54duplicate page p. 55duplicate page p. 56onelyonly religion to their prophane covetousnesse, that they were truly iconoclasticke and iconomachian hereticks. kkMontag. orig. …. 162. Imagines illae per ecclesias constitutae quae …, iconoclastarum, ibid. p. 174. sub praetextu reformatae …, Deum, …, …, per … eversis …, templis, sa …, & redactis infiscum … lones, &c.2. That those who doe pull downe or breake, or offereth any indignity to a crosse, to a crucifix, to a Saints image, are but madfooles, that those injures reflect upon Christ and the Saints; and are revenged sundry times with plagues from heaven. ll…. …. p 28. … est omnino quod affirmas foreign, … Caesaris imago in numilmate, … meletii character in pala annuli, quod … Caesarem in … suo & … foreign in archerypum transit ea …, quo modo si quis sancti … imaginem … afficiat, illum ego & foreign, …, & suae temeritatis peaenas dare. Studley in his glasse for … about the end, tels us, that he knew a Churchwarden for the taking downe of a … which he conceived to have been by his neighbours idolized, to have had his swine … with …, and thereafter the man in desperation to have drowned himselfe Whence he exhorts all men to beware so much as to censure their antecessors of idolatry, for … such monuments of their devotion3. That the Church of England, (they take that Church commonly by a hudge mistake, for their owne prevalent faction therein) doth not onelyonly keepe innumerable images of Christ, and the Saints in the most eminent and conspicuous places of their Sanctuaries, but also daily erect a number of new long and large ones, very curiously dressed, and that heerein they have reason to rejoice and glory, above all other reformed Churches. mm…. pag. 24. … debemus foreign, asservamus enim diligenter, & cum cura …, …, … virginis, sanctorum … innumeras imagines, praesertim vero Jesu … etiam in templorum cryptis, & … in parietibus, & … non adoramus. Ib. p. 26 foreign, ut cum … foreign. Sunt apud nos quod aliquoties dicendum … imagines in … per stallos, ut vocant, Canonicorum, per fenestras, ambones, vasa, vestimenta, & … foreign. Pocking. … pag. 87. In my Lord of … private Chappel, are to be seen … the altar, most richly furnished close to the wall under the East window, many goodly pictures which cannot but strik the beholders with thoughts of piety, and devotion at their entrance into so holy a place, as the picture of the …, and likewise of the holy Apostles, together with a fair crucifix, and our blessed …, and S. Iohn set up in painted glasse in the east window, just over the holy table, or sacred altar; So that I must say, That who so lives in this Diocie, must be condemned of great impiety, that will desert his Lord, and not follow him giving a precedent of such devotion, so conformable to the rubrick of our Church. Heylens answer, pag. 174. For your particular instances in the Cathedrals of Durham, Bristow, Pauls, &c. the most that you except against, are things of ornament, which you are greeved to see now more rich or costly, nor they have been formerly. … altare page 24. Our Churches (by Gods mercy) are a glory to our religion, beautified with goodly glasse windowes. ibid page 87. A faire Crucifix, and our blessed Lady, and St. Iohn set up in painted glasse in the East window, just over the sacred altar.4. That these their manifold images they use not onelyonly for ornament, but also p. 57to bee bookes to the Laicks, both for their instruction and kindling of their affections to piety, zeale, charity, imitation of the Saints; nnWidowes schismaticall puritan, page 10. Church pictures are an externall beauty, of the Church, a memory of honour to the dead, and Saint Gregory cals them … mens books. Pockling. altare page 87. There are to be seen many goodly pictures, which cannot but strike the beholders with thoughts of piety and devotion. Montag. Antig. page 318. The pictures of Christ, of the blessed Virgin, and Saints, may be made, had in houses, set up in Churches, respect and honour may be given to them the … do it, and use them for helpes of piery, in rememoration, and effectuall representing of the prototyp. Ibid. page 300. Imager have three uses, assigned by our Schooles instruction of the rude, commonefaction of story, and … up of devotion, these you and we also give unto them.5. That towards the Images of Christ and the Saints, the hearts of the Godly ought to bee affected with a pious devotion, with a religious reverence, and that this reverence may very lawfully bee expressed, with an outward religious adoration; yea, prostration before the Image, as well as before the altar, with the eies of the adorer fixed upon the Image; ooMontag. antid. page 30. Christiani omnes adoramus Christum imagini & simulachro, non prosternimur coram imagine forsan, quid ad rem vero? Invitatio est … mensam Dominicam …, in genua procumbimus, venerationem …, ….6. That the Popish distinction of duleia and latreia is good, and well grounded, that the onelyonly abuse of Images is the worshipping of them with latreia; that the Papists are free of this fault, that all their practice here is but iconoduly, not idolatrie, that all our controversie with them about the worshipping of relicts, and so much more of images, (for to images, they professe a farre lesse respect then to reliques) is but the toying of children, the striving about shadowes, that long agoe p. 58both sides, are really agreed, though some for their owne pride and greed delight to keep this contraversie about ambiguous words still upon foot.ppMontag. antid. p. 16. …, illum cultum solens …, neque ego nomen a … rationem, vel subjectum improbavero, eum à … soletis … re, non also …, quam quod … subjectarum …, secundum … & minus … se distinguantur. pag. 27. Tantummodo taxamus … foreign, usum & … non … ullo pacto. p. 24. … ad Ecclesiae Romanae foreign. Montag. … p. 40. Nolunt illi quovis pacto … cuicunque … ne … cultu relativo exhiberi, sed non constat quis … Deo … & … debitus, quibus terminis …, quis ille qui solus …, quis ejus modus, gradus, mensura, pattes, …, …, nec illud agitur ut constare … est in hac questione & … nempe vel contendendi vel …, & … conveniet … nos. Magnam … ab … Christi, & … inter se contendentibus …, qui … in hoc … cultu, & foreign possumus sine justo …, animae … & …, in … foreign.

Concerning reliques they teach first that the About reliques they agree with ….… of them about in cloaths by devout people is tollerable. qqAndrew stri … For … were … sure they were true wee would carry to them the regard … becomes. It was … and un discreetly done of Vigilantius so to … his … co … them, had they power of doing miracles we would have esteemed them so much the more but in their … degree: yet the carrying of them about in … and … … did object, if he did it …, we would … beare with it, and excuse it as … from … and … devotion which will … end it.Next that those bones or that dust of the deceased Saints ought justly to bee put in a casse of silke or of gold that they may bee well hung about our necke and oft kissed, that they may bee layed up amongst our most pretious jewels. rrMontag. antid. p. 17. … vase … convolvebant Ego certe cum … illas reliquias fascus …, admovebo … ….3. That in those reliques there is … found so much grace, holinesse, vertue, that all who touches them are sanctified by that touch. ss… antid. p. 16. … … … corpori insidentem, fit quandam tenus particeps sanctificationis.4. That to these relicts a great honour yea a relative p. 59worship is due albeit not a latria or divine adoration. ttMonta. antid. p. 16. … veterem sanctorum … & cineribus … honorem detulisse & veneratione quadam relativa ….Fifthly, That pilgramages to the places where those relicts stand are very expedient, that Protestants doe reprove onelyonly these pilgramages towards the Churches of the Saints which are made for greed or superstition, that Papists doe disallow all such as well as we wwMontag. antid. p. 44. … peregrinationem religiosam ad loca ut appellant … quisquam … qui in rebus Ecclesiae Christianae veteris non est hospes: improbat Molinaeus & merito peregrinationes ut appellant malas, inventas vel ad superstitionem, vel ad questum, vel ad tyrannidem, quas & ipsas nemo sanus inter catholicos Romanos non improbaverit.6. That all the controversie which here remaines betwixt Papists and Protestants is about just nothing even about goates woll and the shadow of an Asse.xxMontag. orig. p. 45. Ut de lana caprina, vel foreign hic … videantur contendentes. … come very neare to the invocation of Saints.

About the invocation of Saints whereof the learned of the Papists are so ashamed that they disavow their owne practice thereof yyAndrews stricturae p. 57. The … freely confessed to M. Causabon that he had never prayed to a Saint in all his life save onelyonly when … happened to follow the …, and that then he sung ora pro … with the Clerks but else not.yet our men tell us first that the Saints in heaven are truely our mediators with God of intercession, as Chtist is of redemption. zzMontag. …. p 20. Non … sanctos esse orationis & … ut … soletis mediatores sed … universis: precibus suis apud Deum … & orationibus mediantur. Christus … & absque aliis … mediator redemptionis & … foreign … intercessionis ….Againe, that wee ought carefully to keepe the Saints festivalls, to this end, that wee may be partakers of their intercession. aaAndrews … pa. 8. We agree with Saint Augustine, we celebrate the memories and hold the feasts of the blessed Martyrs as well for imitation, as that we may be … of their intercession. Shelfords first sermon page 44. Upon the Saints dayes the Saints in Heaven … with us, now if the Saints in Heaven … their manner … us with …, shall wee be so base minded as not to … with them? Ibid … 27. In … and in dedicating tem ples to God in their names these who neglect this holy fellowship have a great losse, which none can see but they who have spirituall eies3. That albeit for common their intercession bee universall, yet that sundry times they descend to particulars: They remember the estates of their friends and acquaintance as they left at it their death, they p. 56duplicate page p. 57duplicate page p. 58duplicate page p. 59duplicate page p. 60are informed of many new particulars by the Angels which hath been upon earth, and by the Saints which after their death hath newly come to the heaven, and that according to their particular informations they frame their intercession.aaAndrews answer to Cardinall Pirron. 20. Chap. We will hope well that Theodosius might interceed with God for his children, we see no cause to the contrary. They Idolize the blessed Virgin as much as any Papist. Montag. antid. p. 22. Meminerunt amicorum suorū & rerū à se quondā in terris gesta tum quocirca ad Christum in coelo recollecti poterint de via ordinaria per Jesum Christum apud Deum patrem amicos, familiares foreign, precibus commendare & adjuvare.

4. ooM. Dow p. 54. In all these … straines of Rhetorick (for such for the most part they seeme rather then positive …) Stafford hath not deviat so much to the one extreame as M Bortouns marginall hath to the other in … and calling her the new great goddesse …. And if it be true that he hath not digressed in any particular from D. … the Bishop of … as M. Burtoun makes him affirme, I dare boldly say M Burtoun will never be able to finde the least point of Popery … For it is well knowne, that Bishop hath approved himselfe such a champion against Rome, that they who have tryed his strength durst never yet come to a second encounter.If we were certaine that the Saints in heaven knew our estate it were no fault at all but very expedient to make our prayers to them that they might interceed with Christ for us. And though we bee not certaine of their knowledge, yet all the fault that is in our prayers to them is onelyonly some idlenesse and curiosity but no impiety at all. bbMontag. antid. p. 229. Save all other labour in this point. Prove only their knowledge of any thing ordinarily I promise you streight I willl say holy S. Mary pray for me. Ib. antid. p. 23. Tu … proba & demonstra posse me certum esse de scientia sanctorum particulari quocunque tandem modo acquisita ego certe quod ad me ipsum attinet sanctos defunctos beatam puta …, … Apostolos gloriosissimos Martyres non verebor adire interpellare, alloqui, … precibus deprecari habeant me commendatum & adjutum suis … apud Deum patrem per filium. Idem antid. p. 200. Perhaps there is no such great impiety in saying holy S. Laurence pray for me.5. That none ought to reprove our prayers unto our Angel keeper.ccMontag. invocation of Saints p. 99. If thus my selfe resolved to do infer (holy Angel keeper pray for me) I see no reason to be taxed with point of Popery or superstition much lesse of absurdity or impiety. Ib. ant. p. 203. The case of Angels keepers in point of advocation is much different from other Angels not guardians, as being continually attendants alwaies at hand though invisible, and therefore though we may say S. Angel keeper pray for me, it followeth nor, we may say S. Gabriel pray for me.

The Saint in heaven which the Papists doe most idolize is our blessed Virgine to whom it is well knowne they give much more false worship, then true to the whole Trinity, concerning her the Canterburians affirme first, that she is created in another way then any of the race of Adam, that God did meditate fifty ages upon the worke of her perfect creation, that she did live all her daies without mortall sin p. 61yea without all actuall sinne, yea without all originall. ddAnthony Stafford Female glorie. p. 3. Others of these first and purer times not without admiration observe that God was almost fifty ages in the meditation of the structure of this stately Palace. Mon. …. p. 301. Magno procul dubio opere templū illud foreign aparabatur, nec ut unade multis mater Domini in hune mundum processit è materno utero. Ibid. p. 338. Utcunque conceptum in originali peccato', vixisse tamen immunem à mortali peccato cum … putaverim. Staffords Female glorie in his proemiall verses, for Eves offence', not hers she did begin, to learne repentance ere she knew to sinne. Idem p. 20. She sent forth many a sigh for sin not having committed any, and bewailed that of which she was utterly ignorant. Idem p. 8. The Apostles sometimes were obscured with the fog of finne, but her brightnesse nothing vitious could lessen, much lesse alutterly extinguish.That she is now advanced above all the Angels to the highest created perfection that is possible to be daughter, mother, and spouse of God, and that her very body is already translated to the heavens. eeFemal glorie. p. 28. Nothing in her was wanting but the … it selfe. Idem in the preface, Whether we regard her person or her divine gifts, shee is in dignity next to God himselfe. Ib. Great Queen of Queens, daughter, and mother, and the spouse of God. Idem p. 210. Her assumption by many of the Fathers, by all the Romish Church, and some of the reformed is held for an undoubted truth.3. That God hath made her to bee true Lady and Empresse of the Catholike Church, of all the earth, and of the heaven, and that all these honours shee hath obtained by her due deservings and merits. ffMontag. apar. p. 212. Dominum profecto indicat … nomen, nam revera facta est domina omnium creaturarum, … ait, cum conditoris omnium effecta fuerit mater. Ibid. p. 302. Certe nulli sanctorum dedi Deus plura, nulli majora, … ne omnibus quidem ne sanctis, tanta, hoc est elogia matris Dei Deus … qui titulus foreign, omnes omnium creaturarum dignitates illud unicum privilegium supergreditur Recte ait B. Thomas, beata virgo ex hoc quod est mater Dei habet quandam dignitatem infinitam. Ex his licet colligere (inquit Baradas) sanctissimam virginem infinitam … quondam dignitatem ex Deo, qui & … bonaventura recitat, majorem mundum Deus facere potest, majus coelum Deus facere potest majorem autem matrem quam est mater Dei … facere non potest. Fem. gl. p. 21. She undoubtedly deserved to be rapt up, if it were possible, a story higher than was S. Paul. Ib. p. 80. Certainly all the ancient Fathers with one consent affirme that she deserves to be Empresse of all others who humbled her selfe below them all.4. That all the Angels and Saints in Heaven, let bee men upon earth are obliged to adore her, and bow their soules unto her. ggFemal glorie. In the Panegyrick, to whom do bow the souls of all the just, whose place is next to Gods, to whom the Hierarchie do throng, and for whom heaven is all one …, Ib. p. 3. Truly our beleef may easily digest this … his … would … her fit to be … of this lower world. Ib. pa. 17 There were no doubt some of … children who … before, and … to their … Ibid. page 32. The … glorious ….5. That shee knoweth all thinges perfectly heere p. 62beneath upon the earth: For in the face of God in the glasse of the Trinity shee doth behold all creatures. hhFemal …. Whose place is next to God, and in his face all creatures and delights doe see as … of the ….6. That it is but prophane puritans who refuse to say the Ave Maries and to follow the example of their pious predecessors who wont so to pray. iiIbid. p. 220. The … of this land are … I mean, they reject all testimonies of her worth as haile Mary full of …, &c. They abhor to hear her called Domina, because forsooth they chalenge to themselves a greater measure of knowledge but a lesser of piety, than did their … by … words and … familiar to antiquity. Of one thing I will assure them till they be good … they shall never be good Christians.7. That the devotions of the present Monks, Nunnes, and Princes, who have enrolled their names in the sodality of the Virgin Mary is worthy of imitation. kkpage 23. My arithmetick will not serve me to number all those who have registrate their nam … the … of the …, of … our blessed Lady. The Princes of this … have not beene defective in doing her all possible honour, and in consecrating Chapels and Temples to her memory. … holy Orders also are of this … as the … the …, the Franciscans, the Cartusians, and many others. If all those testimonies and examples of great worthy and pious people will not move us to honour her, we shall be judged both unworthy of this life, and ignorant of that better to come.8. That the old pious ceremony of burning of wax candels in all the Churches of England through the whole cleare day of her purification ought to be renewed. llIb. p 153. This day the celebration whereof is institute by the Church is called Candlemes, as much as to say, the day of lights, on which while masse was singing very many tapers were burning in the Church. Montag. orig. p. 157. Diem ab illa … cant … vel purificationis: nos anglue the purification of our Lady, … Candlemes day à distributione …. Couzins did put all this in practice in the Cathedral of Durham made burne in day light some hundreths of wax candles. Peter Smart for preaching against him was deposed and …, but Couzins for his devotion advanced from a Prebend to a Provest of a Colledge and a royall Chaplane in ordinary.9. That the Christians obtained that famous victory over the Turkes in Lepanto by her intercession at their prayers with Christ her sonne. mmFemal glorie p. 226. The originall of the sodality of the blessed virgin is derived from the battell of Naupactum gained by John of Austria and the Christians, which victory was attributed to her intercession with her Son.All this his Grace hath permitted under his eye to bee printed at London without any censure, and when p. 63this doctrine was challenged by Burton, hee was rewarded with the losse of his eares and perpetuall prison. The booke which he inveighed against let bee to bee recalled, is openly excused in Print at his Graces direction as containing no evill but only innocent retorications. nn… answer. p. 123. As for … booke intituled the Femal glory you finde not in it that I see by your collections any thing positively or … delivered contrary unto any point of doctrine established and received in the Church of England. Some swelling language there is into it and some Apostrophees I perceive by you to the Virgin Mary which if you take for invocations you mistake his meaning, no innovation hitherto … of doctrine.Yea M. Dow with his Graces licence pronounceth that booke to bee free of all Popery, and that upon this reason, because the author professeth his tracing the steps of Doctor Montagu whom all England must know to be above all suspition of Popery.