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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A52139	The rehearsal transpros'd, or, Animadversions upon a late book intituled, A preface, shewing what grounds there are of fears and jealousies of popery	Marvell, Andrew, 1621-1678.	1672 (1672)	Wing M878; ESTC R202141	119,101	185

that ●…he offering of some grains of Incense was only to per●…ume the room or that the delivering up of their Bibles was but for preserving the Book more carefully Do you think the Christians would have palliated so 〈◊〉 and colluded with their Consciences Men are 100 prone ●…o err on that hand In the last King's ●…ime some eminent Persons of our Clergy made an open defection to the Church of Rome One and he yet certainly a Protestant and that hath deserved well of that cause writ the Book of Seven Sacraments One in the Church at present though certainly no less a Protestant could not abstain from arguing the Holiness of Lent Doctor Thorndike lately dead left for his Epitaph Hic jacet c●…pus Herberti Thoradike Praebendarij hujus Eccle●… qui vivus veram Reformatae Ec●…lesia rationem modum precibus studiisque prosequebatur and nevertheless he adds Tu Lector requi●…m ei beatam in Christo resurrectionem precare Which thing I do thus sparingly set down only to shew the danger of inventive piety and if Men come once to add new devices to the Scripture how easily they slide on into Super●…tition Therefore although the Church do consider her self so much as not to alter her Mode 〈◊〉 the fancy of others yet I cannot see why she ought to exclude those from Communion whose weaker consciences cannot for fear of scandal step further For the Non-conformists as to these Declarations of our Church against the Reverence to the Creatures of Bread and Wine and concerning the other Ceremonies as before will be ready to think they have as 〈◊〉 against the clause That whosoever should atfirm the Wednesday Fast to be imposed with an intention to bind the Conscience should be punished like the spreaders of falso news which is saith a learned Prelate plainly to them that understand it to evacuate the whole Law For all human Power being derived from God and bound upon our Conscinces by his Power not by Ma●… he that faith it shall not bind the Conscience saith it shall be no Law it shall have no Authority from God and then it hath none at all and if it be not tyed upon the Conseience then to break it is no sin and then to keep it is no duty So that a Law without such an intention is a contradiction It is a Law only which binds if we please and we may obey when we have a mind to it and to so much we are tyed before the Constitution But then if by such a Declaration it was meant that to keep such Fasting-days was no part of a direct Commandment from God that is God had not required them by himself immediately and so it was abstracting from that Law no duty Evangelical it had been below the wisdom of the Contrivers of it no man petends it 〈◊〉 man saith it no man thinks it and they might as well have declared that that laiw was none of the ten Commandments p. 59 of his first Book So much pains does that learned Prelate of his take who ever he was to prove a whole Parliament of England Coxcombs Now I say that th●…se Ecclesia●…ical Laws with such Declarations concerning the Ceremonies by them 〈◊〉 might muta●…is mutandis be taxed upon the same Top●…k But I love not that task and ●…hall rather leave it to Mr. Bayes to paraphrase his learnd Prelate For he is very good at correcting the 〈◊〉 of Laws and Lawgivers and though this work indeed be not for 〈◊〉 turn at present yet it may be for the future And I have heard a good Engineer say That he never 〈◊〉 any place so but that he reserved a feeble point by which he knew how to take it if there were occasion I know a medicine for Mr. Bayes his Hiccough it is but naming J. O. but I cannot tell certainly though I have a shrew'd guess what is the cause of it For indeed all his Arguments here are so abrupt and short that I cannot liken them better considering too that ●…requent and perpetual repetition Such as this Why may not the Soveraign Power bestow this Priviledge upon Ceremony and Custom by virtue of its prerogative What greater Immorality is there in them when determined by the Command and Institution of the Prince than when by the consent and institution of the people This the Tap-lash of what he said p. 100. When the Civil Magistrate takes upon him to determine any particular Forms of outward Worship 't is of no worse Consequence than if he should go about to define the signification of all words used in the Worship of God And p. 108. of his first Book So that all the Magistrates power of instituting significant Cerem-onies c. can be no more ●…rpation upon the CONSCIENCES of Men than if the Soveraign Authority should take upon it self as some Princes have done to define the signification of words And afterwards The same gesture and actions are indifferently capable of signifying either honour or contumely and so words and therefore 't is necessary their signification should be determined c. 'T is all very well worth reading p. 441. of his Second Book 'T is no other usurpation upon their Subjects Consciences than if he should take upon him to refine their Language and determine the proper signification of all phrases imployed in Divine Worship as well as in Trades Ar●…s and Sciences p. 461. of the same Once we will so far gratifie the tenderness of their Consciences and curiosity of their Fancies as to promise never to ascribe any other significancy to things than what himself is here content to bestow upon words And 462. of the same So that you see my Comparison between the signification of Words and Ceremonies stands firm as the Pillars of the Earth and the Foundations of our Faith Mr. Bayes might I see have spared Sir Salomon's Sword of the Divine Institution of the Sacraments Here is the terriblest weapon in all his Armory and therefore I perceive reserved by our Duellist for the last onset And I who am a great well-wisher to the Pillars of the Earth or the eight Elephants lest we should have an Earth-quake and much more a Servant to the Kiag's Prerogative lest we should all fall into consusion and perfectly devoted to the Foundations of our Faith lest we should run out into Popery or Paganism have no heart to ●…his incounter lest if I should prove that the Magistrates absolute unlimited and uncontrolable Power doth not extend to define the signification of all words I should thereby not only be the occasion of all those mischiefs mentioned but which is of far more dismal Importance the loss of two or three so significant Ceremonies But though I therefore will not dispute against that Flower of the Princes Crown yet I hope that without doing much harm I may observe that for the most part they left it to the people and seldome themselves exercised it And even Augustus Casar though

too into the ba●…gain and they may be g●…atified with some new Ecclesiastical Power or some new Law against the Fanaticks This is the naked truth of the matter Whereas English men alwayes love to see how their money goes and if the●…e be any interest or profit to be got by it to receive it themselves Therefore Mr. Bayes I will go on with my business not fearing all the mischief that you can make of it There was saith he one Sibthorp who not being so much as Batchelor of Arts by the means of Doctor Pierce Vice-Chancelor of Oxford got to beconfer'd upon him the title of Doctor This Man was Vicar of Brackley in Northamptonshire and hath another Benefice This Man preaching at Northampton had taught that Princes had power to put Poll-money upon their Subjects heads He being a man of a low fortune conceiv'd the putting his Sermon in Print might gain favour at Cou●…t and raise his fortune higher It was at the same time that the business of the Loan was on foot In the same Sermon he called that Loan a Tribute Taught that the Kings duty is first to direct and make Laws That noting may excuse the subject from active obedience but what is against the Law of God or Nature or impossible that all Antiquity was absolutely for absolute obedience in all civil and temporal things And the imposing of Poll-monie by Princes he justifi'd out of St. Matthew And in the matter of the Loan What a Speech is this saith the Bishop he observes the forwardness of the Papists to offer double For this Sermon was sent to the Bishop from Court and he required to Licence it not under his Chaplin but his own hand But he not being satisfi'd of the Doctrine delivered sent back his reasons why he thought not fit to give his app●…obation and unto these Bishop Laud who was in this whole business and a rising Man at Court undertook an answer His life in Oxford faith Archbishop Abbot was to pick quarrels in the Lectures of publick Readers and to advertise them to the Bifhop of Durham that he might fill the Ears of King James with discontent against the honest men that took pains in their places and setled the Truth which he call'd Puritanism in their Auditors He made it his work to see what Books were in the Press and and to look over Epistles Dedicatory and Prefaces to the Reader to see what faults might be found 'T was an observation what a sweet man this was like to be that the first observable act he did was the marrying of the Earl of D. to the Lady R. when she had another Husband a Nobleman and divers Children by him Here he tells how for this very cause King James would not a great while endure him 'till he yeilded at last to Bishop Williams his importunity whom notwithstanding he straight strove to undermine and did it at last to purpose for saith the Ar●…hbishop Verily such is his undermining nature that he will under-work any man in the World so he may gain by it He call'd in the Bishop of Durham Rochester and Oxford tryed men for such a purpose to the answering of my Reasons and the whole stile of the Speech runs We We. In my memory Doctor Harsnet then Bishop of Chichester and now of Norwich as he came afterward to be Arch-bishop of York preached at White-Hall upon Give unto Caes●…r the things that are Caesars a Sermon that was afterwards burned teaching that Goods and Money were Caesars and so the Kings Whereupon King James told the Lords and Commons that he had failed in not adding according to the Laws and Customs of the Countrey wherein they did live But Sibthorp was for absolutely absolute ●…o that if the King had sent to me for all my Money Good●… so to the Clergy I must by Sibthorps proportion send him all If the King should send to the City of London to command all their wealth they were bound to do it I know the King is so gracious he will attempt no such matter but if he do it not the defect is not in these flattering Divines Then he saith reflecting again upon the Loan which Sibthorp called a Tribute I am sorry at heart the King 's Gracious Majesty should rest so great a Building on so weak a Foundation the Treatise being so ●…lender and without substance but that proceeded from an hungry Man Then he speaks of his own case as to the Licensing this Book in parallel to the Earl of Essex his divorce which to give it more authority was to be ratified judicially by the Archbishop He concludes how finally he refused his approbation to this Sermon and saith it was thereupon carried to the Bishop of London who gave a great and stately allowance of it the good man not being willing that any thing should stick with him that came from Court as appears by a Book commonly called the seven Sacraments which was allowed by his Lordship with all the errours which have been since expunged And he adds a pretty story of one Doctor Woral the Bishop of London's Chaplain ●…olar good enough but a free fellow-like man and of no very tender Conscience who before it was Lic●…nsed by the Bishop Sibthorps Sermon being brought to him hand over head approved it and subscribed his nam●… But afterwards he●…ring more of it went to a Counsel at the Temple who told him that by that Book there was no Meum nor Tuum left in England and if ever the Tide turn'd be might come to be hang'd for it and thereupon Woral Woral scr●…ped out his name again and left it to his Lord to License Then the Arch-bishop takes notice of the instructions for that Loan Those that refused to be sent for Souldiers to the King of Denmark Oaths to be administred with whom they had conference and who disswaded them such persons to be sent to prison c. He saith that he had complain'd thrice of Mountagues Arminian Book to no purpose Cosins put out his Book of seven Sacraments strange things but I knew nothing of it but as it pleased my Ld of Durham and the Bp of Bath so it went In conclusion the good Arch-bishop for refusing th●… Licence of Sibthorps Sermons was by the under-working of his adversaries first commanded from Lambeth and confined to his house in Kent and afterwards sequestred and a Commission passe●… to exercise the Archie piscopall Jurisdiction to the Bishops of London Durham Rochester Oxford and Bishop Laud who from thence arose in time to be the Arch-bishop If I had leisure how easy a thing it were for to extract out of the Narrative a just parallel of our Author even almost upon all points but I am now upon a more serious subject and therefore sh●…ll leave the Application to his own ingenuity and the good intelligence of the Reader About the same time for I am speaking within the circle of 20 30 and 40. Caroli