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A68103	Ladensium autokatakrisis, the Canterburians 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 Iesuite Lysimachus Nicanor, a prime Canterburian.	Baillie, Robert, 1599-1662.	1640 (1640)	STC 1206; ESTC S100522	193,793	182

reward of his boldnesse had cast in his lap in a trace the Deanrie of Edinburgh the Bishoprick of Brechan and last of Galloway with full hopes in a short time of an Archbishops cloake In the North Doctour Forbes the onely Father of the most of those who fell away from the doctrine of our Church came to good speed in his evill labours and for his paines was honoured with the first seate in the new erected chayre of our principall citty Others about Glasgow made their preaching of the Arminian errours the pathway to their assured advancement In our generall Assembly we found that this cockle was comming up apace in verie manie furrowes of our field Some of it we were forced albeit to our great griefe to draw up cast over the dike which at once was received and replanted in England in too good a soyle We confesse that it happened not much beside our expectation that our Arminians The Kings names stolen by Canterburie to the defēce of Arminians after the censure of our Church should at Court have beene to graciously received and sheltered in the sanctuarie of his Grace at Lambeth But this indeed did and doth astonish us all that any should have beene so bold as to have stolen King Charles name to a printed Declaration wherein not onely our generall Assembly is condemned for using any censure at all against any for the crime of Arminianisme (g) Large declar pag. 74. According to their weake and poore power they did determine cōtroversies concerning predestination universal grace irresistibilitie of grace concurrance in grace and other such like intricate points that some mē would be loath to live so long as they could make them understand them But also Arminius articles are all utterly slighted and pronounced to be of so obscure and intricate a nature that both our Assembly was to peart to make any determination about them and that many of our number were altogether unable by any teaching ever to winne so much as to the understanding of the very questions (h) Some Mininisters were dedepr●ved for Armini●●isme a course never heard off ●n any p●ace where any rule of justice was observed that a Min ster should bee deprived for holding any Tenet which is not against t●e doctri e of that Church wherin he liveth and that before it be prohibited condemned by that Church Now there is nothing in the confession of that Church against these Tenets Yea those articles are avowed to be consonant and in nothing to bee opposite to the Confession of our Church and are freely absolved of all Poperie (i) Pag. 303. They could no answer when it was told them th se Tenets could not b●e counted Popish concerning which or the chiefe of which as learned Papists as any in the world the Dominicans Iesuites did differ as much as th● Pro●estants and tha● those which doe adhere to the Augustin confession did hold hat side of ●hose Tenets w●ich the Arminians did hold and yet they were very far rom beeing Papists beeing the first Pro●estants and there ore it was a●ainst all sen●e ●o condemne that for P perie wh c● was held by many Pro●ella●ts Churches and reject by many learned Papists Because indeed for this is the onely reason some learned Papists finde divers of Arminius points to be so absurd that their stomackes cannot away with them and some of the Lutherian divines agree with the Arminians in certaine parcels of some of their articles They must be strangers in these questions who are ignorant in how many things the Dominicans and all Papists agree with Arminius and in how many the Lutherans disagree from him However wee were and are amazed to see Canterburie so malapeart as to proclame in the Kings name beside many other strange things the articles of Arminius to bee so farre above the capacitie of our generall Assembly that it deserves a Royall reproofe for minting to determine any thing in them and that they are no wayes contrary to the doctrine of our Church neither any wayes Popish and that for a reason which will exeeme from the note of Poperie every errour which is so grosly absurd that some learned Papists are forced to contradict it or some grosse Lutheran can gett his throat extended to swallow it downe This boldnesse can not in any reason bee imputed to our gracious Soveraigne For how is it possible that hee upon any tollerable information should ever have suffered himselfe to be induced to write or speake in such a straine of these things which so lately by his learned Father was declared in print and that in Latine to be no lesse then heresies worthie of burning yea damnable to the very infernall pitt whence as he sayes they did first come up Neither is it like that these Sentences come from the heart of D. Balcanquell the penman of them For hee was a member of Do●t Synod and brought up in the Church of Scotland the man is not unseene in the Popish Tenets How is it p●ssible that his conscience should absolve the Arminian errours of all Poperie and all contrarietie to the Scotish confession May any be so uncharitable as to suspect his late promotion in Durhame hath altered so soone his minde Sure not long since both in England and Scotland he did desire to be esteemed by his friends one of those whom Canterburie did maligne and hold downe for his certaine and knowne resolutions and reputed abilitie to oppose his Graces Arminian and Popish innovations His Majestie being certainly cleare of this imputation and readily also Balcanquell the amanuense on whom can the fault lye but Canterburie the directors back For the world knowes that on his shoulders for common alone the King doth devolve the trust of all Bookish and Ecclesiasticall affaires that concernes him that at his commandement hee hath written in the Kings name that part at the least of the declination which patronizeth the Arminians persons and cause we doe not conjecture but demonstrate by the constant avowed course of his Graces carriage in advancing Arminianisme at all occasions in all the Kings Dominions That this may appeare consider his practises not so much among us as in the Irish Church The Irish Church infected with Arminianisme by Canterburie where yet his hand is very nimble to set these ungratious plants and to nippe off all the overspreading branches of any tree that may overtop them For who else in a moment hath advanced D. Bramble not onely to the Sea of Derrie but to be the Kings Vicar Generall Who sent D. Chappell first to the Universitie of Dubline and then to his Episcopall Chaire Who holds downe the head of that Orthodox P●imat and of all who have any zeale there to the truth of God Who caused not onely refuse the confirmation of these Antiarminian articles of Ireland in the last Parliament but threatned also to burne them by the hand of the hang-man Whose

aut●m dicit author ille tuus dans gloriam Deo 8 That the temporall principalities which the Pope enjoyeth this day in Italie or elswhere are but his just possessions which none ought to invy him (p) Montag antid pag. 95. Habeat ille suas sibi opes facultates fundos habeat latifundia principatum dominium per Ecclesia terras Petri possessiones obtineat dummode contentus vetuctiorum principum liberalitate alienam non invadat possessionem 9. That the restitution of the Popes ancient authority in England and yeelding unto him all the power that this day he hath in Spaine or France would be many wayes advantageous and in nothing prejudiciall to the King (q) Cant. relat pag. 202 Hee that is not blinde may see if hee wil of what little value the popes power in France and Spaine is this day further then to serve the turns of their Kings therewith which they doe to their great advantage 10 The old constitution of the Emperour whereby all the westerne clergie is so farre subjected to the Bishop of Rome that without him they are disabled to make any Ecclesiasticall law and obliged to receave for lawes what he doth enjoyne was very reasonable Yea if the King would be pleased to command all the church men in his dominions to be that far subject to the Pope they would be unreasonable to refuse present obedience (r) Montag antid pag. 156. Quod è codice allegatur Theodosiano decernimus ne quid tam Episcopis Gallicanis quā aliarum provinciarum contra consuetudinem veterem liceat sine viri venerabilis Papae urbis alternae authoritate tentare sed illis omnibusque legis loco sit quicquid sanxit sanxeritve sedis apostolicae authoritas Quicquid hic pontifici sayeth Montagow arrogatur id totum edicto debetur Theodosiano vel vetustae consuetudini quicquid autem per rescriptum tribuitur imperatoris ad occidentales credo solos pertinebat nec omnes quibus juxta veterem consuetudinem Pontifex praesidebat ut Patriarcha Decernat imperator de G●rmanis episcopis Rex Angli● de Britannis suis Francorum de Gallicanis quod olim Theodosius decrevit dicto erunt omnes obedientes Onely by all meanes my Lord of Canterburies prerogative behoved to bee secured his ancient right to the patriarchat of the whole Isle of Britaine behoved to be made cleare that to his rod the whole clergie of the Isle might submit their shoulders as to their spirituall head and Monarch from whom to Rome there could bee no appeale (ſ) Cant. relat pag. 171. It is plaine that in these ancient times in the Church government Britaine was neever subject to the Sea of Rome for it was one of the six diocies of the West Empire and had a p●●mat of its own Nay Iohn Capgraw and William Mabinnesburrie tell us that Pope Vrb●n the second in the Councel at Bari in Apuleia accoun●ed my worthie predecessor S. Anselme as his owne Compeer and said Hee was as the patriarch and apostolick of the other world quasi comparem veluti Apostolicum alterius orbis Patriarcham Now the Britains having a primate of their own which is greater then a Metropolitan yea a patriarch if yee wil he could not be appealed from to Rome in any cause which concerned onely the churches of the Kings dominions for in causes more universall of the whole catholicke Church willingly they are contented that the Patriarch of Britaine and all others should submit to their grand Apostolicke father of Rome (t) Montag Antid pag. 57. Rectè cautum erat olim per canones vetustae Ecclesiae ut Romanus ille primus Episcoporum cui tot per occidentem suffraganei adherebant suam sententiam rogatus adhiberet ubi fidei Ecclesiae universalis vel 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 in rebus ad politiam spectantibus agitabatur supra Everie one of these pontificall positions since the midst of Henrie rhe eights raigne would have beene counted in England great paradoxes yet now all of them are avowed by Canterbuerie himself in that verie booke which the last yeare at the Kings direction hee set forth for to satisfie the world anent their suspition of his Poperie or else by D. Montagu in his books yet unrepealed and cleanged of all suspition of Poperie by M. Dow under the seal of his Graces licencing servant This much for the Pope About the Cardinalls they tell us that their office is an high and eminent dignitie in the Church of God Their minde to the Cardinalat for the which their persons are to be handled with great reverence and honour (w) Montag ap pag. 56 Penitere non potuit Baronium eruditissimū laboriosissimum virum industriae suae ac deligentiae Cardinalitiame niminde merito quidem suo adeptus suscepit dignitatē ibid. pag. 75. Virum illustri adeo nominis celebritate eminentissima dignitate cōstitutum honestum probum preterea in vita privata rigidem severum ac tantum non 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 nusquam nisi honorificentissime compellavi that their office is a reward due to high graces and vertues that some of them though the greatest enemies that ever the reformed Churches have felt such as Baronius that spent all his time in opposing the trueth and advancing Antichristianisme and Barromaeus (x) Pokling Alt. pag. 34. The Linchonshire Minister it his jearing veine flouteth Cardinal Baromaeus whereas if he list to read his life he may not be ignorant that the Cardinall was a man of exemplarie holinesse and spent the greatest part of his life in fasting prayer almes-deeds preaching exhoration and doctrine and did detest both impietie and vanitie both in word and deed Me thinkes his conscience should checke him for his scornfull usage of a man who had the report of so vertuous and pious a Bishop a bloudy persecutor of our religion and one of the fathers of Trent that even such men are so full of grace and pietie that it is a great fault in any protestant to break so much as a jest on their red hattes Where the head and shoulders are so much affected it is hard to restraine charitie from the rest of the bodie These good men vent their passion no lesse towards the bodie of the present Church of Rome then towards the Pope and the Cardinalls Fo● first his grace avowes over and over againe that the Papists and wee are of one and the same religion They affect much to be joyned with the Church of Rome as shee stands that to speak otherwayes as the Liturgie of England did all King Iames dayes were a matter of very dangerous consequent and therefore he confesseth his helping that part of the liturgie which puts a note of infamie upon the popish religion least that note should fall upon our owne religion which with the popish is but all one (y) Cant. relat p 36 The Church of Rome

lesse then Turkish If ye finde that I prove my offer I trust I may bee confident of your wisedomes that though Cicero himselfe with him Demosthenes as a second Orpheus with the enchantments of his tongue and harp as a third marrow should come to perswade yet that none of you shall ever be moved by all their oratorie to espouse the quarrels of so unhappie men If I faile in my faire undertaking let me be condemned of temeritie and no houre of your leasure be ever againe imployed in taking notice of any more of my complaints But till my vanity be found I wil expect assuredly from your Honours one hearing if it were but to waken many an able wit nimble pen in that your venerable House of Convocation Numbers there if they would speake their knowledge could tell other tales then ever I heard in an out-corner of the Isle far from the secrets of State and all possibilitie of intelligence how many affaires in the world doe goe It is one of the wonders of the world how many of the English Divines The silence of the English Divines is prodigious can at this time be so dumbe who could well if they pleased paint out before your eyes with a Sun-beame all the crimes I speake off in that head members It is strange that the pilloring of some few that the slitting of Bastwick●● and Burtowns nose the burning of Prinnes cheeke the cutting of Lightouns eares the scourging of Lilburne through the cittie the close keeping of Lincolne and the murthering of others by famine cold vermine stinke and other miseries in the caves and vaults of the Bishops houses of inquisition should binde up the mouths of all the rest of the Learned England wont not in the dayes of hottest persecution in the very Marian times to bee so scant of faithfull witnesses to the truth of Christ wee can not now conjecture what is become of that Zeale to the true Religion which wee are perswaded lyes in the heart of many thousands in that gracious kirk we trust indeed that this long lurking and too too long silence of the Saints there shall breake out at once in some hundreths of trumpets and lampes shining and shouting to the joy of all reformed Churches against the camp of these enemies to God and the King that quickly it may be so behold I here first upon all hazards doe breake my pitcher doe hold out my Lampe and blow my trumpet before the Commissioners of the whole Kingdom offering to convince that prevalent faction by their owne mouth of Arminianisme Poperie and Tyrannie THE MAINE SCOPE And Delineation of the subsequent TREATISE CHAP. I. OUR Adversaries Our Adversaries decline to answer our greatest challenge are very unwilling to suffer to appeare that there is any further debait betwixt them and us but what is proper unto our Church and doe arise from the Service-Book Canons and Episcopacie which they have pressed upon us with violence against all order Ecclesiasticall and Civill In the meane least they become the sacrifices of the publick hatred of others in a subtile Sophisticatiō they labour to hide the notable wrongs and effronts which they have done openly to the Reformed Religion to the Churches of England and all the Reformed Churches in the main and most materiall questions debated against the Papists ever since the Reformation for such as professe themselves our enemies and are most busie to stirre up our gracious Prince to armes against us doe wilfully dissemble their knowledge of any other controversie betweene them and us but that which properly concerneth us and rubbeth not upon any other Church In this their doing the Judicious may perceive their manifold deceit whereby they would delude the simple and many wittie worldlings doe deceive themselves First they would have the world to thinke that we obstinately refuse to obey the Magistrate in the point of things indifferent And therefore unnecessarily and in a foolish precisenesse draw upon our selves the wrath of the King Secondly when in our late Assemblies the order of our Church is made knowne and the seeds of superstition heresie idolatrie and antichristian tyrannie are discovered in the Service-Booke and Canons they wipe their mouth they say No such thing is meant and that we may upon the like occasion blame the Service-Booke of England Thirdly when by the occasion of the former quarrellings their palpable Poperie and Arminianisme are set before their eyes and their perverse intentions desires and endeavours of the change of Religon and Lawes are upon other grounds then upon the Service-Booke and Canons objected against them they stopp their eares or at last shut their mouthes and answer nothing This Challenge they still decline and misken they will not let it be heard let be to answer to it And for to make out their tergiversation and to dash away utterly this our processe they have beene long plying their great engine and at last have wrought their yond most myne to that perfection that it is now readie to spring under our wals By their flattering calumnies they have drawn the Prince againe to arms for the overthrow of us their challengers and for the affrighting by the terrour of armies on foot of all others elsewhere from commencing any such action against them As for us The scope of the Treatise truely it were the greatest happinesse wee doe wish for out of Heaven to live peaceably in all submission and obedience under the wings of our gracious Soveraigne and it is to us a bitternesse as gall as wormwood as death to be necessitated to any contest to any contradictorie tearmes let bee an armed defence against any whom he is pleased to defend Yea certainly it were the great joy of our heart to receive these very men our mortall enemies into the armes of our affection upon any probable signes in them of their sincere griefe for the hudge wrongs they have intended and done to their Mother-Church and Countrie But when this felicitie is denyed and nothing in them doeth yet appeare but induration and a malicious obstinacie going on madly through a desperate desire of revenge to move a very sweete Prince for their cause to shed his owne blood to rent his owne bowels to cut off his owne members what shall wee doe but complaine to GOD and offer to the worlds eyes the true cause of our sufferings the true grounds of this Episcopall warre or rather not Episcopall but Canterburian broyle for we judge sundrie Bishops in the yle to be very free of these mischiefes and beleeve that divers of them would gladly demonstrate their innocencie if so bee my Lord of Canterburie and his dependants were in any way to receive from the Kings justice some part of their deservings Howsoever that wee may give a testimonie to the truth of God which wee are like at once to seale with our blood wee will offer to the view of all Reformed Churches and above