The Life of William Archbishop of Canterbury Examined, Title page – List of witnesses
THE LIFE OF WILLIAM Now Lord Arch-Bishop of CANTERBVRY, EXAMINED.
Wherein his principall Actions, or Deviations in matters of Doctrine and Discipline (since he came to that Sea of Canturbury) are traced, and set downe, as they were taken from good hands, by Mr. Robert Bayley, a Learned Pastor of the Kirk of Scotland, and one of the late Commissioners sent from that Nation.
Very fitting for all judicious men to reade, and examine, that they may be the better able to censure him for those thing wherein he hath done amisse.
Reade and Judge.
LONDON, Printed for N B in the Yeare of Grace. 1643.
Summa Capitum.
THE Preface showeth the unreasonablenesse of this new warre, That we have committed nothing against the late pacification: That compasson, hope, and all reason call now for peace at home; that at … we may get some order of our enemies abroad, That the Canterburian faction deserves not so well of England, that armes in their favour ought to be taken against Scotland: We offer to instruct their insupportable crimes by their owne writs: If armes be needlesly taken in so evill a cause, they cannot but end in an untimous repentance: In this nick of time very poore wits without presumption may venture to speake even to Parliaments: The obstinate silence of the English Divines is prodigious.
CHAP. I. The delineation of the whole subsequent Treatise.
OVR Adversars decline to answere our first and chiefe challenge: The scope of this writ, All our plea is but one cleare syllogisme, the Major whereof is the sentence of our Iudge, the Minor, the confession of our party, the conclusion a cleare and necessar consequence from these two premisses.
CHAP. II. The Canterburians avowed Arminianisme.
ARminianisme, is a great and dangerous innovation of our Religion: King James his judgement therof: the great increase of Arminianisme in Scotland by Canterburies meanes: King Charles his name stolne by Canterburie, to the defence of Arminianisme: the Irish Church infected with Arminianisme by Canterburie: the Canterburians in England teach the first and second article of Arminius: Why King James stiled Arminians Atheists: they teach the third and fourth article: Also the fifth: the Arminians in England advanced: their opposites disgraced and persecuted: Canterburie and his fellowes, contrare to the Kings Proclamation, goe on boldly to print, let be to preach Arminian tenets: A demonstration of Canterburies Arminianisme in the highest degree: they make Arminianisme consonant to the articles of England, and so not contrare to the Proclamation.
CHAP. III. The Canterburians professed affection towards the pope and popery in grosse.
ONce they were suspected of Lutheranisme, but at last Poperie was found their marke: To make way for their designes, they cry downe the Popes Antichristianisme: They are content to have the Popes authoritie set up againe in England: their mind to the Cardinalat: they affect much to be joined with the Church of Rome as shee stands.
CHAP. IIII. The Canterburians joine with Rome in her grossest idolatries.
IN the middes of their denyalls, yet they avow their giving of religious adoration, to the very stock or stone of the altar: As much adoration of the elements they grant as the Papists require: In the matter of images their full agreement with Rome. About relicts they agree with Papists: they come neere to the invocation of Saints.
CHAP. V. The Canterburians avow their embracing of the popish heresies and grossest errours.
THey joine with Rome in setting up traditions in prejudice of Scripture: In the doctrine of faith, justification, fulfilling of the Law, merit, they are fully Popish: In the doctrine of the Sacraments behold their Poperie: they are for the reerection of Monasteries, and placing of Monks and Nunnes therein as of old: How neere they approach to Purgatorie and prayer for the dead.
CHAP. VI. Anent their Superstitions.
FEW of all Romes superstitions are against their stomack: They embrace the grossest not only of their privat, but also of their publick superstitions.
CHAP. VII. The Canterburians embrace the Messe it selfe.
THey cry downe so farre as they can all preaching: They approve the masse both for word and matter: The Scotish Liturgie is much worse then the English: Many alterations into the Scotish, specially about the …, the consecration, the Sacrifice, the Communion.
CAP. ULT. The Canterburian maximes of Tyrannie.
THE tyrannous usurpation of the Canrerburians, are as many and heavie as these of the Romish Clergie: King Charles bates all tyrannie the Canterburians flatter him in much more power then ever he will take: they enable the … without advice of the church, to do in allEcclesiasticall affairs what he thinks meet: They give to the King power to doe in the State what ever he will without the advice of his Parliament: In no imaginable case they will have the greatest tyrants resisted: What they give to Kings is not for any respect they have to Majestie, but for their owne ambitious and covetous ends.
The chiefe witnesses which in the following action are brought in to ….
WIlliam Lad Archbishop of Canterbury in his speach before the …-…, in his relation of his conference with … Fisher, is it was the last yeare amplified and reprinted by the Kings direction: In Andrewes opuscula posthuma, set out by him, and dedicated to the King.
B. Whyt of Eli in his treatise vponupon the Sabbath, and his answere to the lawlesse Dialogue.
B. Montagu of Chichester in his answer to the gagger, in his appeale, in his antidiatribae, in his apparatus, in his origines.
B. Hall of Exeter, in his old Religion set out with his owne apologie, and the apologie of his friends M. Chomley, and M. Butterfield: In his remedie of profainnesse:
Peter Heylen Chaplane in ordinar in his answer to Burton set out, as he sayes, by the command of authority, as a full and … Reply to be expected, against all the exceptions which commonly are taken at my Lord of Canterbury his actions, in his antidotum Lincolinense subscribed by Canterburies Chaplane.
D. Pottar, Chaplane in ordinar, in his charity mistaken, as he prints, at the command of authority.
D. Laurence chaplane in ordinar, in his sermon preached before the King, and printed at the command of authority.
D. poklingtoun in his Sunday no Sabbath, in his altare Christianum, subscribed by Canterburies Chaplane.
Christopher Dow in his answere to Burton, subscribed by Canterburies Chaplane.
Couzine in his devotions, the fourth edition, subscribed by the B. of London his owne hand. Chounaeus in his collectiones Thelogicae; dedicated to my L. of Canterburie, and subscribed by his Chaplane.
Shelfoord in his five pious Sermons, printed at Cambridge, by the direction of the Vice-chanceler D. Beel, set out with a number of Epigrames Latine & English, by divers of the university fellowes, defended yet still by Heylene, and …, in their bookes, which Canterbury hath approved.
Anronie Stafford in his female glory, printed at London, and not withstanding of all the challenges, made against it, yet still defended by Heylene & Dow in their approved writs.
William Wats in his sermon of apostolicall mortification.
Giles Widowes in his schismaticall Puritan.
Edward Boughen in his Sermon of order and ….
Mr. Sp. of Queenes Colledge in Cambridge, in his Sermon of Confession.
Samuel Hoards an his sermon at the Metropoliticall visitation.
Mr. Tedders in his sermon, at the visitation of the B. of Norwitch, all subscribed by the hands of my L. of Canterburies Chaplane, Bray, Oliver-Baker, or some others.