The Canterburians Self-Conviction, Title page – List of witnesses
LADENSIVM ἈΥΤΟΚΑΤΑΚΡΙΣΙS, THE CANTERBVRIANS SELF-CONVICTION.
OR An evident demonſtration of the avowed Arminianiſme, Poperie, and tyrannie of that Faction, by their owne confeſsions.
With a Poſt-ſcript to the Perſonate Jeſuite Lyſimachus Nicanor, a prime Canterburian.
Written in March, and printed in April, 1640:
COR VNVM VIA VNA
Summa Capitum. THE Preface ſhoweth the unreaſonableneſſe of this new warre: That we have committed nothing againſt the late pacification: That compaſſion, hope, and all reaſon call now for peace at home; that at laſt we may get ſome order of our enemies abroad: That the Canterburian faction deſerve… not ſo well of England, that armes in their favour ought to be taken againſt Scotland: VVe 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 nicke 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 vvhole ſubſequent Treatiſe. OUR Adverſaries decline to anſwer our firſt and chiefe challenge: The ſcope of this writt: All our plea is but one cleare ſyllogiſme, the Major whereof is the ſentence of our Iudge, the Minor, the confeſſion of our partie, the concluſion a cleare and neceſſary conſequence from theſe two premiſſes.
CHAP. II. The Canterburians avovved Arminianiſme. ARminianiſme, is a great & dangerous innovation of our Religion. King Iames his judgment thereof; 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 & ſecond article of Arminius. Why King James ſtiled Arminians Atheiſts: They teach the third & fourth article; alſo the fifth. The Arminians in England advanced: Their oppoſites diſgraced and perſecuted. Canterburie and his fellowes contrary 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 contrary to the Proclamation.
CHAP. III. The Canterburians profeſſed affection towards the Pope & Poperie in groſſe. ONce they were ſuſpected of Lutheraniſme, but at laſt Poperie was found their marke: To make way for their deſignes, they cry down the Popes Antichriſtianiſme, they are content to have the Popes authoritie ſet up againe in England. Their minde to the Cardinalat: They affect much to be joyned with the Church of Rome as ſhee ſtands.
CHAP. IV. The Canterburians Ioyne vvith Rome in her groſſest Idolatrie. 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 avovv their embracing of the Popiſh hereſies and groſſest errours. THey joyne 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 Monkes and Nunnes therein as of old; How neere they approach to Purgatory and prayer for the dead.
CHAP. VI. Anent their Superstitions. FEW of all Romes ſuperſtitions are againſt their ſtomack; They embrace the groſſeſt not onelyonly of their privat, but alſo of their publick ſuperſtitions.
CHAP. II. The Canterburians embrace the Maſſe it ſelfe. THey cry down ſo farre as they can all preaching. They approve the Maſſe, both for word & matter. The Scotiſh Leiturgie is much worſe then Engliſh; Many alterations into the Scotiſh, ſpecially about the offertorie, the conſecration, the ſacrifice, the Communion.
CHAP. ULT. The Canterburians maximes of tyranny▪ THE tyrannous uſurpation of the Canterburians, are as many and heavie as theſe of the Romiſh Clergie: King Charles hates all tyrannie: The Canterburians flatter him in much more power then ever he will take: They enable the Prince without advice of the church, to doe in all Ecceleſiaſticall affaires what he thinks meet: They give to the King power to doe in the State what ever be 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 own ambitious & covetous ends.
The Chiefe vvitneſses vvhichwhich in the follovving action are brought into depone.
WIlliam Laud Arch-biſhop of Canterburie in his speech before the Starre-chamber, in his relation of his Conference with Ieſuite Fiſher, as 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. VVhyte of Eli, in his treatiſe upon the Sabbath, and his anſwer 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 origenes.
B. Hall of Exeter, in his ould Religion ſet out with his owne apologie, and the apologies of his Friends M. Chomley, and M. Butterfield: In his remedie of profaneſſe.
Peter Heylen Chaplan in ordinary in his anſwer to Burton ſet out, as he ſayes, by the command of authoritie as a full and onelyonly Reply to bee expected, against all …he exceptions which commonly are taken at my Lord of Canterburie his actions, in his antidotum Lincolinenſe ſubſcribed by Canterburies Chaplane.
D. Pottar, Chaplan in ordinary, in his charitie miſtaken, as he prints, at the command of authoritie.
D. Laurence, Chaplan in ordinary, in his Sermon preached before the King, and printed at the command of authoritie.
D. Pocklingtoune, in his Sunday no Sabbath, in his Altare Chriſtianum, both ſubſcribed by Canterburies Chaplane.
Chriſtopher Dow, in his anſwer to Burtoune, ſubſcribed by Canterburies Chaplane.
Couzine in his devotions, the fourth Edition, ſubſcribed by the B. of London, my Lord high Treaſuror his owne hand.
Chounaeus in his Collectiones Theologicae; dedicated to my Lord 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 and Engliſh, by diverſe of the Ʋniverſitie fellowes, defended yet still by Heylene, and Dow, in their bookes which Canterbury hath approven.
Antonie Stafford, in his female glory, printed at London, and notwithstanding of all the challenges, made against it, yet ſtill defended by Heylene and Dow in their approven writs.
William Wats in his Sermon of apoſtolicall mortification.
Giles Widowes in his Schiſmaticall Puritan.
Edward Boughen in his ſermon of order and decencie.
Mr. Sp. of Queenes Colledge in Cambridge, in his ſermon of Confeſſion.
Samuel Hoards in his ſermon at the metrapolecall 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.