from God and they that take this Augustine to be the Father of their Faith had need beware whom they take for Grandfather The names of his fellow workmen that were more eminent than the rest but Inferiour in parts in all probability to him their leader were Mellitus Justus Paulinus and whereas ignorance usually is as harmless as it is dull and flegmatick theirs was high and pernicious active and politick and Harpy-like inferiour to none in the dextrous suiting of their temptations to the several inclinations of the party who was to be brought about to serve their turnes His insolent swelling pride as Mr. l Perambulation of Kent p. 79 Lambard taxes it appeared towards the Brittish Bishops who intended him a respectful meeting beyond what he could merit for his honesty going about to erect a new Bishoprick in a Diocess that did not belong unto him as an Altar against Altar and upon another Altar against all Laws and Canons Being sure of one Archbishorick by the Conversion of Ethelbert King of Kent carrying a great stroak in it who was as good as preconverted by others m Polyd. Virg. lib. 4. p. 63. ministry before he sent for Augustine though Bede conceal that matter The next mark was another Archbishoprick for Paulinus that of the York where Elthelfred and Edwin the one elder the other younger are to be won to serve their Church by different Lures Old Ethelfred is toll'd out by his ambition and zealous enmity against Christianity to seise and destroy the borders of the Brittains in the first place and himself in the next Young Edwin is brought over to the Christian Faith by carnal attraction and a n Bed lib. 2. c. 9. marriage with King Ethelbert's Daughter and the addition of pre-acquaintance in dreams between him and Paulinus to dispose him to Christianity not unlike those between o Ibid. Paul and Ananias Act. 9. but in their Truth for Edwin could be no stranger to the Christian Faith being brought up from the Cradle to ripe years as p Histor Britt Galfr. the Brittish History relates Bede not disagreeing l. 2. c. 12. with Prince Cadwalhan of the same Age whom Bede calls Carduella or Cedwalla furious enemies afterwards to one another thanks to Augustine to the loss of many thousand lives sometimes the one and sometimes the other prevailing and killing and burning all before them Edwin in the end going by the worst and Paulinus q lib. 2. c. 20. forc'd to quit his new Archbishoprick and return with young Edwin's Queen to Canterbury q lib. 2. c. 20. Carduella non pepercit religioni eorum exortae jam c. Cadwalhan not sparing to root up his new plantation Northward for the reason before cited out of Bede And yet this old part of their Ministry in match-making and bestowing mens Kingdoms from them upon others to the disturbance of Nations and sometimes of themselves the Church of Rome is not out of love with to this day And had it not been for a subtile r Bed l. 2. c. 2. Miracle of Laurentius the whole plantation of these Italian adventurers had gone presently to wrack For London soon expell'd these Forreign propagators with Mellitus their new Bishop who never durst return any more Bede smothers the true reason of this usage and sayes in one place that Seberts Children then the Princes of London did it because Mellitus denyed them being unbaptiz'd the pure white ſ Idem c. 5. bread of the Eucharist which their eye long'd for to tast as if they had been inur'd but to brown-bread before In †Idem c. 6. another place Londonienses excludunt Mellitum Idololatris pontificibus servire gaudentes The Londoners sent him away preferring Heathenish Idolatry before the Roman Religion As if the Saxon Pagans of London had not the like noble disposition for the Truth as the Kentish but those had more Grace than these But takes no notice of the Majority of the people of London being Ancient Brittains reduc'd by treaty and Christians therefore by consequence which was a reason they had a Brittish Archbishop and Clergy residing amongst them from the beginning of Christianity and after the Saxon Invasion for an Age or two till they were †M. Westmin 586. expell'd to make room for Monk Augustine Who did not welcome Augustine himself though coming with his Pall from the Pope to be an Archbishop amongst them which is the reason Malmsbury intimates of his setling at Canterbury u G. Malmesb. de Gestis Pontif lib. 1. where he was better welcome and very probably was the fear and jealousy that mov'd him to make Laurentius his successor at Canterbury in his life time against the Canons to secure the succession least the Primacy after his death should devolve where it was before and who but London could raise this fear because of old Right Much less therefore would they welcome Mellitus as a bare Bishop over them or contribute to their own degradation as well as the Sacriledge and Schisme Bede therefore is right as to the fact though not the cause that the Londoners sent him on going which is confirmed by Malmesburie's x Idem Epis◠Lond. lib. 2. Penu◠ria Potestatis that Ealbald had not power enough to keep him there which cannot be understood of the opposition of the Sebarets who were his Cousins y Ibid. and at his Devotion but more probably of the body of the City as Christians better principled But then Eadbald who succeeded Ethelbert apostatizing from his Fathers Faith had like to have blasted the remaining part of his Nursery left at Canterbury had not Laurentius I say step'd in with a miracle being sorely z Bed l. 2. c. 6. scourg'd all over black and blew by St. Peter as he lay in Church the whole night before for having some thoughts himself to follow Mellitus and Justus Bishop of Rochester his Companions who in despair of doing any good here were resolv'd to go for France The sight and story whereof made a new alteration and a present compassion in the well meaning King and Justus and Mellitus to return to England shortly after but all to little purpose Edilred King of Mercia not many years after viz. Anno 676. coming upon them Maligno a Idem lib. 4. c. 12. exercitu with a Malignant Army for Mercia had now and before received the Christian Faith from Brittish Teachers laid all Kent wast saith Bede and demolish'd b Idem Ibid. all their Churches and Monasteries to the ground with the like irreverence to their Italian Religion as Carduella or Cadwalhan had in the North and the City of Rochester was destroyed in the same common ruine and calamity b Idem Ibid. Putta its Bishop retiring and ending his dayes with Sexwulf Bishop of Mercia His Church being destroyed and plunder'd of all it had Feigned Miracles like hot waters with the intemperate may a little
e Bed l. 1. c. 26. Bertha had so prepar'd Luidhardus her Chaplain who attended her was well able to consummate and to Baptize the King whom he had no doubt instructed in the Faith before which he was far more qualified to do than Augustine was or could be having not the Tongue nor that guift of Miracle What came this Monk so many Miles hither for was it for the souls health of the Saxons and to Preach the Gospel to them in conjunction with the Brittains as he here pretends he should have us'd some likely means towards the attaining of this end better ingratiated himself with the Brittains than to pick quarrels about trifles and tonsures and inconsiderable Ceremonies against the General e Bed lib. 1. c. 28. Instructions of his Pope honoured them with his communion as did Bertha and Luidhardus hinder'd confederacies with Pagans against them as did f Antiyuitat p. 34. Palladius in Scotland or as Leland Roundly and solidly reproves this Italian Hypocrisie and zeal of him and his Pope in the judgement of the learned and eloquent f Antiyuitat p. 34. Arch-Bishop Parker supposed to be the Author of Antiquitates Ecclesiasticae debuerat Gregorius admonuisse Saxonas gentem perfidem ut si sincerè Christianismum admittere vellent Britanniae Imperium quod contra Sacramentum militiae per tyrannidem occupaverant justis Dominis as possessoribus restituerent Pope Gregory by his Augustine ought to have admonished the Saxons who were a perfidious Nation that if they intended to embrace the Christian Faith in sincerity and to any purpose they should restore the Scepter of Brittain to the right Lords and owners who had hir'd them for their service and defence from whom on the contrary they wrested it by force and perjury against the Faith and honour of Souldiers But Cressy objects quiet Possession for 4 or 5 descents fron Hengist as if Emrys or Aurelius Ambrosius and Vther Pendragon and Arthur as well as Young Vortimer had made no re-enties But this seemed as unsuccessful Divinity with Augustine as to desire the leave and liking of the Brittains to be Arch-Bishop of Canterbury over their heads or to be ordained and consecrated by the Brittish Bishops in order thereunto which he so far shunned that he went over Seas to France as far as Arles to g Bede lib. 1. c. 28. Etherius Arch-Bishop there to receive his consecration for Arch-Bishop of England and that saith Bede by the special directions of Pope Gregory which compar'd with the former passage of the same Pope concerning Brittain never having had a Pall from Rome and consequently never being Subject to or depending upon that See and their subsequent indefatigable Industry after Augustine's Plantation and succession was extinct of thrusting new arch-Arch-Bishops from time to time and undervaluing all our Brittish consecrations manifestly proves the bottom of Romes design upon England that it was not Edification but Empire that was ever there aim though with the ruin of this Ancient Church if it could no other ways be compassed so Augustine had the face in a Synodical meeting of the Brittish Bishops near Worcester as before to require the Brittains to joyn with him assuming now to be an Arch-Bishop here against leave and Law and Canons to Preach the Gospel to the Saxons which was his pretext and Artifice to hook in their allowance and approbation of his unjust and Schismatical usurpation which subtile Proposal was difficult to be granted or denied but either with the Inconvenience of betraying their Church and Country and Christian communion by the Canons of the Church if they yeilded to joyn with him or having the odium of witholding the Gospel from the Saxon Pagans if they refus'd which is the true rise and State of this Infernal calumny rais'd again the Brittains of their denying to Preach the Gospel to the Saxons which induc'd the worthy and Reverend Author afore mention'd h Bed l. 2. c. 2 to conclude this meeting to have been contriv'd for a snare to get words of Indignation from them to provoke the Pagan Saxons to form a War against them to ruin the remainder of the Brittish Clergy in Wales and to cover the combination with Prophesie to Father the murder upon God to make it justice 3 And accordingly Ethelbert as Bede acknowledges h Bed l. 2. c. 2 provok'd Ethelfred King of Northumberland the chief Patron of Paganism and Enemy of the Christian Faith against them upon the score of the high words that passed between them and Augustine at that meeting and it is as easy to guess who informed and incensed his new convert King Ethelbert from his denunciation of War against them upon the place though in the form of Prophesie and Divine Revelation Si pacem cum fratribus accipere nollent bellum ab hostibus forent accepturi no small evidence with considering men i Antiquitates Ecclesiast p. 47. non conscius sed causa Belli p. 48. of this Apostles having a chief hand in the Barbarous ensuing murders and long and bloudy Wars and devastations that followed which he could so certainly fortell for these and other Saxon Kings coming with united forces against Brochwael Scythrawg Prince of Powys not so well provided for them and soon putting him to the rout at Legecestria saith Bede that is Westchester Wales being then larger than now it is and by the Brittains called Caerleon from a Roman Legion that quartered in that City sell in the next place upon the Monks that were with him in his Army and slew of them 1250. no more but fifty of them escaping Their assisting with their Prayers being made a pretence for this hostile usage by the Kings so saith Bede But the Norman Ancient M. S of Trivet in Spelman i Spelman Cnncil p. 112. saith that they were found in the City k Wheeloc not in c 2. l. 2. Bede and every one of them put to the Sword in cold bloud because they were Brittains the Latine copies of Bede add this to be done after the death of our Augustine but there is no such clause in any of the Saxon Manuscripts l Monachi pacem petentes crudeliter occisi H. Lhuid fragm Brit. p. 58. and Bishop Jewel finds Augustine's hand to several Charters signed some years after this Massacre committed in m M. Westm An. 603· 603. whereas our Augustine acording to our best Chronologers dyed not n Spelman Concil p. 93. till 613 so that He might well be present at the place of their slaughter o Jewel defense part 5. c 1. p. 438. If it was not according to some in 613. the same year that he dyed which was a bloudy Legacy encouraging their Executioners Whereby we have a tast of the Roman forgeries while they were masters of our Records and Manuscripts Nothing that seemed to make for their Church have they neglected to insert without either Art or Colour
its destructive contrary which they rightly understood The toleration and mixture whereof within it would be confusion without a Metaphor The Christian Church whose life and being consists in Holiness can never be more destroyed and stifled than when Scandalous and Licentious lives are consistent with its Profession Nor the Roman whose summum bonum is dominion over their Brethren and Kingdoms and Churches but where Kings and Consciences and Scriptures would have their wills against the Pope And happy were it if Christians were as zealous and skilful Druids to excommunicate all vice and sin as the Papists who are firm to their Idol to excommunicate all Heretical Truths and private judgments and secular Supremacies inconsistent with their pride Whereby the Brittains by this Divine principle in the general were better fitted and prepar'd for Christianity than many others and accordingly received it before all other Nations in these parts as soon as Christ had dislodg'd their Idols they were perfect and regular Christians the former Rules and practices of their Druids serv'd presently as Church Canons to them to walk by which probably is the reason they held our intruding Romanists so close to the other express Canons of the Christian Church as to adjudge and conclude them justly to be no better than Pagans in Christian shape for their manifest violations of them as shall hereafter appear This last as well as the other instances clearly argue a great and near correspondence they had and Traditional participation of Oriental Patriarchal Mysteries and customes and the Hierogliphical meaning of the first dayes work of the Creation wherein light was separated from darkness whence Christian Communion and Excommunication had its exemplar and Idea as the Apostle intimates 2 Cor. 6 14. in which two words and parts the work and whole History of the Primitive Christian Church was compriz'd as is well known to the learned but not to digress Much less could our English Apostles receive their learning from Theodore's successors being entred a good while before upon their work and Province and the course that Rome hereafter takes that the English should be no more instructed or corrupted in their sence by their Neighbouring Brittains but by Rome alone least their Roman Replantation should be again worn out and baffled as it far'd with their first clearly proves that they conceived the Brittains to have been that way too busie I shall set down a Record out of Math. Westm. worthy the consideration of all Generous sober English men as well Roman Catholicks as Protestants that have a love for God or their Countrey whether they consider the design or the event that followed z M Westm Anno 727. Erant Doctrina Scholae Anglorum per Romanos Pontifices interdictae c. There was an interdict upon the learning and Schooles of the English by the Popes of Rome from the time of Augustine by reason of the daily Heresies which sprung up in Brittain from the first arrival of the English whilst Pagans mingled with Christians which defaced the beauty of the holy Conversation of Christianity a Ibid. Vnde Ina consensu voluntate Gregorii Papae c. which discovers near about what time this conscientious Interdict began whereupon Ina by the will and consent of Pope Gregory built an Edifice in the City of Rome which they call the School of the English to which the Kings of England and the Royal Bloud and Bishops and Priests and Clerks should repair to be Instructed in the Catholick Faith and Doctrine lest any thing should be taught awry in the Church of England or contrary to the Catholick Faith that thereby being well settled in the stable Faith they might return afterwards to their people And it was also ordained that Rome-scot or Peter Pence should thence forward be annually paid to St. Peter and the Roman Church that the English there abiding might have wherewithall to subsist A neat device to make England Tributary and that for a gross abuse and blindness brought upon the whole Nation to the end they might the easier be Governed by the Ignorance of Rome according to that Brittish Proverb Brenhin iw un-lhygeidiawg ymyfg deilliaid One eye is a King amongst the stark blind for so it proved in the event not long after as we shall have anon an account of this Paternal Roman care from King Alfred about 100 years after for Ina built this School in 727 Alfred flourished in 860 Willibrord c. Preached to the Germans in 690 in whose time there was scarce an English Clergy-man left in all the land that could understand his Latine Breviary b Spelman Concil 167. That if Pipin or Charlemain had sent hither for Wilfrids and Winfrids and Alguins to teach their Countrey such as were of Romes pure bringing up they might have been as well furnished with Apostles from among the Heathen Boors of Boetia as then from England which was not long after this Roman Reformation of our English education In so much that K. Alfred was fain to send to the Brittains for their helping hand which they and the Irish who were more Neutral were always ready to do †Bede l. 3. ◠27. for nothing though they paid dear to Rome for their Ignorance under the colour and fascination of being Orthodoxly taught which Tribute and Cittadel of shameful Ignorance and slavery the English Nation was by Catholick Arts cajoled to pay and maintain at their own proper charge for about 700 years till Henry the Eight a Brittish Prince discharged and blew it up and whipt the cheats into their own Country for which Providential Relief and Honour to our Church and Nation some drowsie stupid and Enchanted Roman-Catholicks are hardly thankful or contented to this day So it manifestly appears á priori and à posteriori that neither before or after Augustine or Theodore either the English had their learning from Rome but only from our Brittish Church But it is again objected that it is clear and evident from History that the English as also the Irish at this time of the German Propagation and before had come over from the Church of Brittain to the Church of Rome who therefore hath chief right and Title to this Plantation which was effected under its Supremacy and Government I answer It is then as clear that they were of the Church of Brittain before they went over to Rome and we in these days shall confess unto them where our Church was the worst 800 years before Luther if they will confess unto us where there Roman Church was in Brittain or Ireland the best 600 years before Augustine the Monk or Theodore For Titius taken by the Turk at 20 and kept a slave for 30 years among them and recovering his liberty in 50 is the same free man now as at first being always the same man not bound to return to slavery because it hath more years to shew then his freedom of birth hath for it
Fragm Britt p. 30 Saxon Officers and Nobles were driven into the Low-lands of Scotland by the Normans for they did not seek their refuge in Wales and the Highlands call them Saxons to this day and none retain more the Old Saxon dialect or perhaps the humour of their Ancestors in being Souldiers of Fortune abroad and Politick as in the Vigour and hasty earnestness of the Scotch Communalty and several Ancient Customes the Brittish or as men say the Welsh bloud and humour is as much discernible such hath been the apparent mercy and providence of God in their distinct preservation to this day that the whole Nation is greatly become Great Brittain again by their means and this Seed and Remnant sown over the whole field of Lhoegr amongst their Ancient Brethren again as appears more perceptibly and by Records in their Allyance with most and the chiefest Noble l Enderby Cambria Triumphans Families and Houses of England and may be dayly seen and found in most Companies you can fall into of the Communalty where Captains occurr not more frequent than Brittains either by Birth or Derivation or Alliance But is most remarkably and importantly evident and visible in the Throne it self The Royal Family of the Stewards having had their singular preservation in Wales betimes in m Cambden in Scotia p. 726. Buchanan Rege 86. p. 212. Fleance the only Son of Banquo escaping from the snares of Macbeth against his life and marrying Nesta the Daughter of Prince Griffith ap Lhewelin whereby they recovered to be Great Stewards or Abthanes of Scotland And their highest Exaltation of being Kings of Great Brittain by the like affinity and descent from King Henry the seventh in whom or his Queen was contain'd the Brittish Title from King Cadwaldr as well as the Norman and English descending either through f George Owen Harry Pedegree of King James Printed at London 1604 Et Langhornius Hist infine Gwladys Dhû the only Daughter of Prince Lhewelin ap Jorweth married to the Mortimers from whom his Queen descended or through Owen Tudyr from the last Prince Lhewelin Nephew to Gwladys Dhû from whom himself descended who though stil'd a Welsh g Hall 3. Rich. 3. f. 54. Milk-sop by King Richard Crook-back in his speech when they were ready to joyn Battle for the Crown yet it well appears what kind of Prince he was for wisdom and magnificence in my Lord Verulam's Monument of his Life and his own of his Death at Westminster So that Invasions and Conquests may be compared to Land-floods for their prevalence and premanency which for a while know no banks and discolour and alter the whole Channel from appearing to be the same current but after a short time this confusion is soon over and the River becomes the same as it was before and within its old banks and rules For we plainly perceive the English are so much the same at this day saving some few chief Families as if there had never been any Norman Inundation and by like parity the English themselves are the bulk of the Old Brittains wearing out the Saxon violence in the form of Brittains as the Norman in the form of English and all is great Brittain again as well in Truth as in Name not without Divine suggestion upon the minds of King and people to be so desirous to retrieve it As Grand Cairo is the same City though thousands go in and out in Caravans every day or our bodies are the same in substance though not in the parts which have undergone several fluxes and successions The Pressure of one Nation by another having more of chastisement in it than destruction and resembling an Ague more than Death for that when it hath made a great depredation of the Spirits which answer to the Nobility where the Disease most commonly is contracted and seated by Luxury and inflammations and brought the flesh of the body very low which answers to the Commonalty which bears its share in the smart and disorder then it departs and leaves us of its own accord without other force or Physick and we recover our old health and Spirits and Flesh and colour in our old accustom'd Aire and Aliment and are as we were at first having never been otherwise for substance but the same As in our own experience in our late Civil Wars which made two contrary Nations of one the Chiefs came to Scaffolds to Goldsmith-Hall or Tyburn for good or ill desert the body of the Nation continuing the same and the old Souldiers of the King making the best part of Cromwells Army as hath been observed and the Round-head and Cavalier now no more distinct And upon the same account our Modern Italians may be allowed to be the same Nation with the Ancient Romans but with far greater Alloy and mixture of Strangers than the Brittains Their Invasions and Feavers from Goths and Vandalls and Hunnes and Saracens being more turbulent and destructive than ours from a few Normans and Danes and Saxons which the Nation was better able to digest The main stream of the Flood passing over them and but its Eddy over us Which considerations afford an Argument and an Observation an Argument against their Cavil that would renew Alphonsus Garsias his exception to the English Embassadors plea in the Council of Basil touching the Antiquity and precedency of our Brittish Church Non sunt tempora compucanda à gente prima with him Britonibus Britonantibus quae totaliter est expulsa c. The time of Brittain's Conversion saith he is not to be reckoned from the first Inhabitants and very Brittans who were totally destroyed and expelled but from the time of the Saxons Invading England from whom the English descend for by the precedent suppositions it appears the Ancient Brittains were not wholly destroyed as he and others through ignorance have imagin'd And beside the English may with as much right inherit the priviledges of the Ancient Brittains as the modern Italians succeed in the Rights and Superiorities of the Ancient Roman Chaire For if Victorious Goths can inherit by force the Roman Supremacies why not Victorious Saxons and Normans as well inherit the exemptions of Brittain for the English are more old Brittains than the modern Italians are Old Romans And let them produce their Roman Charter when they please they 'l find our Brittanick freedom and Seniority upon the back thereof For the Pope himself Gods Rival will allow Catholick Conquerors to win and wear those Kingdoms with all their rights p Usher p. 143. which he bestowes from their right owners for their heresy setting himself therein above God's Commandment thou shalt not steal and much more lawfully doth God himself the absolute Soveraign of the World give away the rights of Nations that are to be chastised for their sins to his Instruments and labourers that he imployes in that work and the Wild Saxons were as capable to earn and succeed in such
Wight any more oblig'd to Rome for their first Gospel than those of East-Angels though the Monkish Writers are seldom wanting to set forth or enlarge with Legends any the least title which Rome hath to pretend Therefore on their part they alledge that Wilfrid driven from his Arch-Bishoprick of York by Egfrid the Son of Oswi King of Northumberland retir'd and Preached the Gospel in these parts and Converted several and erected a Monastery at Sealsy e Cambden where afterwards the Bishoprick of Chicester was first settl'd and brought the Isle of Wight to believe by the Preaching of Hildila and Berwin his Sister's Sons whom he sent amongst them But Bede could not but acknowledge that f Bede lib. 4. c. 13. Math. Westm 661. Edilwalch King of the South-Saxons was long before Baptiz'd in the Province of Mercia where the Faith was Brittish by the perswasions and means of King Wolfer who was his Godfather at his Baptism and bestowed upon him up on the score of this Spiritual adoption and his encouragement in the Faith the Isle of Wight and Meansborrow whereupon he sent also g Monastic Anglic. part 1. p. 65. Bede l. 4. c. 13. Eopa and Pedda and Bruchelin and Oida to Preach the Gospel there to the English where the Brittains had long †Usher p. 464. before Communicated it his Queen being also a Christian Baptiz'd in her own h Ibid. Countrey before the Province of the Wiccij or Worcester a Brittish Christian Diocess then and long before Neither wanted it a little Monastery i Ibid. of the Irish whereof Dicul was the Abbot to support the Plantation which in every respect whether of King or Queen or Monks or first Preachers sent amongst them was of Brittish settlement and Instistution and that before the arrival of Wilfrid whose coming if it were for Seisure and Dominion was disorderly and Schismatical thrusting his sickle into another's Harvest if for common assistance it was an Act of charity and kindness deserving present Thanks but not at all creating an eternal Superiority to Rome over this Province besides that Wilfrid's coming hither is owing in part to the North of England whence he came being himself k Idem lib 5. c. 20. Originally of Aidan's Oswaldian Monastery and ordained by Agilbertus Arch-Bishop of Paris of Irish l Idem lib. 3. c. 7 28. that is Brittish Institution And though he warped from his own Church to Rome upon the score of Easter and created great troubles to himself as well as others through his errours m Guil. Malmesbury de gestis Pontif. l 3. de Arch. Eborac Spelman p. 157. and Ambition and Ignorance being verily perswaded that the Golden Number which the Brittains slighted was a traditon of St. Peter His errour and seduction being built upon a false supposition was virtually and in the general renounc'd and disown'd by him as the soul fundamentally dissents from all Impostures and Fallacies whereby his frailty in one particular became no obstacle or hindrance to our South-Saxons but that the rest of his Ministry was wholly Brittish and that neither upon his score much less on the others are they at all oblig'd to Rome as the Mother of their Faith add to this which sort of Argument ought to be of weight with credulous Romanists the great veneration over all this Territory to the memory of n Bede l. 4. c. 14. St. Oswald the great restorer of the Brittish Church and to the day of his death upon which by a particular prediction of St. Peter and Paul appearing on purpose to set up his honour here they were assured of their deliverance from a great Mortality and Famine which heavily had raged amongst them But suppose they had been wholly and entirely converted by Roman Ministry and no other their thanks and Prayers had been due for ever to their spiritual deliverer though Forreign as afore but their obedience and subjection was due to their own Governours at home nevertheless Neither was the case and Roman Interest much better in Kent into which corner of England their whole plantation was at last reduc'd where it first began as it is observed and confessed with a kind of Lamentation that after the death and overthrow of King Edwin and the Retreat of Paulinus from his Arch-Bishoprick of York to Rochester o Praefat Monast Angl part 1. Ecclesia Itaque Anglicana intra Cantianos limites iterum redacta est neque ulla ad huc fuerat Episcoporum successio praeterquam Roffensium Cantuariorum The Church of England saith a Gentleman of great learning and moderation was again reduc'd within the bounds of Kent neither had they any succession of Bishops but only at Rochester and Canterbury But it was the Roman Church of England that was so reduc'd and worse after their Bangor Massacre but the Brittish Church of England might with ease have been observ'd to be replanted in its place over all the land and that Principally by the means of Oswald under God and Cadwalhan that restored him though the Son of Ethelfred who was Augustine's chief Instrument totally to suppress and destroy it though to his own ruin in the event verifying therein the Brittish Proverb a fynno dhrwg iw gymydog iddo ihun i daw The mischief one intends to his neighbour returns upon his own head But we shall further prove our Roman Colony to be very much unsettled and indeed eradicated within its Kentish limits For not to mention the total devastation of Kent its Churches and Monasteries by the malignant Army of p Bede lib 4. c. 12. Edilred King of Mercia as before and Putta Bishop of Rochester relinquishing his ruin'd See and ending his dayes in Mercia as it fared no better with Bishop Willelm put in to succeed him to make up the breach of whom Will. of Malmesbury faith q Will. Malmesb. lib 4. c. 12. prae inopiâ ab Episcopatu discessit he was forc'd to quit his Bishoprick for meer want and hunger And the See of Canterbury the Mother of the rest established here at first Schismatically against all right and Canons was partaker of the like Judgements and calamities And whether the Church of Rome ever faild from its first beginnings I shall now enquire but certain and manifest it is the Roman Church in England had its Period and Cessation and death For Bede himself expresly acknowledges r Bed 3. c. 28. Non erat tunc ullus excepto Wini in totâ Britttannià Canonicè ordinatus Episcopus That when Ceadda was to be Consecrated Archbishop of York about the year 668. there was not one Bishop left in the whole Isle of Brittain that was Canonically ordain'd that is with him by Roman Bishops but Wini alone all the rest being of Brittish Ordination from whom accordingly Ceadda had his Consecration And it is as clear by the unanimous ſ Idem lib. 3. c. 7. Mat. Westmin A. 666. G Malmesb. de
Popes exclusion must be acknowledged to commence with Henry the Eight Executing divers Wills at once His Own will apparently or as his Enemy say his lust the presumptive Will of Henry the Seventh the longing Will of groaning Brittain and the foretold Will and providence of God whose Divine Will and Power alone could make it possible to be effected against all human probability And the favour and frown of God upon this Nation followes remarkably its disposition towards Popery either for or against it The entrance and re-entrance whereof was ever fatal to Brittain and inauspicious to our lawful Princes Popery came first in as was observ'd when our Brittish Crown began to decline in 600. and when it recover'd in 1500. went soon out as it is observable further that then our Nation most flourished in Glory and Renown and addition to its Territory when our Princes were most watchful and resolute against Romish encroachments and as soon began to moulder into confusion and contempt and loss of strength when ever they began to connive and fall in love with Rome Who more Magnificent than King Henry the 8th who gave the first fatal blow to the Popes Supremacy in England which never could recover from that time to this Some say the Title of Majesty began to be given to our Kings in his time which was highnâ—ss or Grace before for he from first to last was indeed more like an Emperour of the West in his time than King of England Francis of France a Hall 24. H. 8. fo 207. acknowledg'd his own and his children's liberty to be chiefly his favour and b Idem paid 20000 l. per annum tribute to him for his Kingdom and its defence c Idem Charles the fifth his Nephew was made King of Spain in his Mothers life time being an Inheritrix and also Emperour after that by his means and interest which could not be denyed d Idem The Pope Imprison'd in Castel St. Angelo could never get his liberty till he interposed with Purse and men King Edward the Sixth though his Reign was short as that God in him let England see saith one what a blessing sin and Iniquity would not suffer it to enjoy yet Historians observe his victory against the Scots at Musckleborrow to have been obtain'd the same day that Images were pulled down at London by his injunction Queen Mary went against fate with great trouble to her self and People and the loss of Callice which broke her heart Queen Elizabeth who was Sincere and zealous to the utmost in the defence of our Brittish Liberties against Rome what Prince his Reign from Brute was here more glorious and successful with Peace at home and victories abroad and an Addition of Forreign Colonies to her Territories and a free Trade over all or most part of the World who lives more to this day in all English hearts of all ranks and degrees as the example and measure they pray and wish all their Princes to follow to the like honour and blessing from God and their people Who had more the purses of her people or better heads and hearts and Arms at Her command and service Her Divines were Jewels Hookers Whittakers Her Courtiers Sidnyes Her Commanders Veres Drakes Norrices Rawleighs Her States-men Walsingham's and Cecils and Her Merchants Cresham's Cloughs c. our debauch Gentry and frantick Wits whose souls are too narrow and pusilanimous to bear their fortunes without transport had been clapt up in Bedlam in her days for Lunaticks and our envyed Courtezans who are said to blind our Princes and disturb our Counsels and touch our dignities and consecrations and pollute our land would have been then preferr'd to Bridewell e 1 Cor. 5.5 for the destruction of the flesh that the spirit might be saved in the day of the Lord. Her own Epitaph best shewes Gods blessing on Her sincere Reign Religio Reformata Pax fundata c. Religion Reform'd Peace settled Money recovered to its own value a formidable Navy prepar'd Our Naval honour restor'd Rebellion extinct England for 40 years prudently Govern'd Enrich'd and Fortified Scotland deliver'd from the French France relieved the low Countrys supported Spain curb'd Ireland appeas'd the whole World once and again sail'd round King James whose heart was deep met with troubles and dangers near his first entrance f Tortura Torti p. 190. Apologizers for the Powder Plot taxing him of breach of some promise of tolaration as a Provocation who reign'd however after he began to appeare but with his Pen in earnest for Protestantism in more peace and love to him and his till he ran Counter to that Profession and the Brittanick Stars and fate in his eager Ambition after Romish Matches the Pandora's box of all our evils ever since and as cold an Espousall of the Protestant Interest in the Palatinate His glorious Son had the fate of King Oswald to lose his life and three Kingdoms by the faults of others and to gain Heaven and Immortal honour by his own Innocence and vertue For it is too much to be fear'd if events may be read in their causes that Edgehill and Newbery and Maston Moore c. bloody fights and the ruin of our late Soveraign and the Exile and troubles of his children and the soyling of our restoration fell out in the days of Gondomar in our own days we might have observ'd invincible Fleets the security and glory of our Nation strangely defeated with Mists and divided Counsels Emblemes as well as blasts of dark designs God who seeth in secret disappointing openly what was contriv'd in private Conclaves against his will and attesting his displeasure by unparallel'd judgements signs and disasters Fire Plague Comets c. So that to prosper and be victorious Courage and preparations are not more necessary than sincerity and plain-dealing And to make use of a Congruous instance in an Enemy Oliver Cromwell who had here a very jarring ruffled Government to tune and order during his Usurpation the Loyal party not to be won over to him either by feare or love his own betrayed and deceived several times over yet when all parts failed by acting a Protector of the Reformed Churches against Popery especially those abroad and harping upon that string the children of this world being wiser in their Generations than the children of the Kingdom he gave that strange content to the Body of the Nation that he lull'd them into sleep and trust and too much forgetfulness of their Exil'd Princes whom he kept out all his time and made the greatest States and Monarchs of Europe unworthily desert them likewise and stand in fear of him and brought wealth besides and great trading to the Nation and strength to its Navies and additions to its Territories As if Providence had raised him on purpose to upbraid and chastize our errours about the Britannick Fate and Interest himself being discovered likewise to be of that extraction which he disgraced
Nice upon which the Rights of London stood founded when they were Schismatically Invaded by a high hand from Rome and for many years wrongfully detain'd and usurp'd Or 2. to cut off all pretence and colour of subjection or dependance of this Church upon Rome and all occasion of stumbling to the weak Sons of the Church of England and Ignorant in History who are misled to believe that Rome is the Mother Church of Brittain because it was undoubtedly of Canterbury which is now the reputed Mother Church of all England And by consequence that our Reformation was Schismatical and scandalous the Daughter judging and rejecting the Mother the Inferiour the Superiour and of ill consequence to be approved by Princes Whereas Rome Originally never came to be a Mother to our Brittain so much as in pretence but only by Schisme and incroachment most fit and just to be remedied by Princes in discountenance of wrong and disobedience Because 3. The Learned of the Church of Rome dayly hit our Prelates of that See in the Teeth and the Unlearned likewise harbour evil opinions and surmises concerning them and forbear not to vent and utter them as if they were Vngrateful and Parricidial in their Actings against their first Founder and Maintainer whereby some of themselves also might be discourag'd and cool'd in their zeal against the Romish Vsurpation to which their honour'd predecessors owed Allegiance Whereas Augustine the first founder had his maintenance and dignity and ways of acquisitions from the Brittish See of London whereof Canterbury is parcel or the same and owed Canonical obedience and the rights and fortunes of his Successors to the Brittish Church to whom they are ultimately to refund if these are to refund to them as to the right and first owners Because 4. it would be a great strength and but a due and just vindication of Protestantism or the Apostolical Ancient Brittish Church after such long abuse and wrongful suffering by Rome and a New face and reviving glory to old Brittain to recover its Pristine right and condition in Church as well as State and Name and worthy of a share in those Solemn Consultations appointed as it were by providential instinct for its further Union in Laws and Government to the everlasting honour of that Prince in whose Reign it should be recorded to be accomplished Or 6. to make our chief See in Brittain hold some better proportion with the like in Neigbouring Kingdoms as Remes or Toledo whom in Universities and Colledge Endowments we far exceed to our Glory to be a fit preferment for some of our Princes or chiefest Nobles hereafter for the great support of the Church Or at least 7. that the name and memory of Monk Augustin the first Author of this disorder by his Infamous Schisms and murders which Reign'd so many hundreds of years in such glory under the darkness of Popery should set at last in due obscurity under the Sun-shine of Protestantism Which considerations are recounted not out of any design or desire of Innovation though into a Pristine right or to restore the bone into its due place with pain and danger that hath been so long out of joynt and well serves for use though not rightly set Though the whole design and plea of the Church of Rome be that a bone rightly set and settled and fully useful ought to be dislocated to the hazard and cripling of the whole to be in the wrong posture it once was for a time for their advantage and benefit But to solve scruples and unravel scandals and pluck up all misapprehensions by the roots whereby any might be deluded by any pretences of Equity or conscience or filial Reverence for a Mother-Church into a favourable opinion of Romish slavery Or if any be prick'd in conscience for the wrong done to Rome at the Reformation let the same prick reach to the wrong done before to Brittain by Romes Schismatical Invasion which no prescription of time or years could give right to and then all will be in right order as at first they were and ought to be and the first right owners shall have their due and old Trepassers their censure and rejection yea as by good providence they now are and stand for it ought to be well known and understood that the See of Canterbury as it stands Established is not a Roman but a Brittish See and consequently Exempt from all Romish Superiority or dependance by an Original Birth-right and Immunity and therefore forbiden by our Laws and Synods to use or wear any Pall or Liâ—â—â—y or Legatine power of Rome's bestowing and settled by our Brittish Soveraigns in Christ-Church Canterbury as effectually and Canonically as at St. Pauls in London which all Christians of Brittain whether of Protestant or Catholick stamp and Character may now with a safe and good conscience pay due submission and obedience to as they ought without Schism or scandal or forfeiture of their Christian Dignities and Orders and Communion by the Canons of the Universal Church hereafter to be recited which before they could not For though Schism be objected by the Romanists to the Episcopals as by the Episcopals to the Presbyterians and Non-conformists yet the Pope in Brittain and his Romish Convâ—â—â—clâ—s set up by craft or â—iolence over our Churches which lay out of his Jurisdiction ever were the Original Schismaticks and the first Patterns and ill examples of disobedience against Right Superiours against so many good Laws of the Catholick Church that do Excommunicate and depose them for it And nothing in all likelyhood hath or doth more foment and châ—â—ish our remaining divisions in the Land and Sâ—â—â—s in the Church than Jealousie of Popery and it spâ—â—ted hankerings and designs to reduce men again under the old yoak of Rome so much dâ—restâ—â— and justly abhorr'd by the whole Nation If All in Trust and Eminency could fully satisfie men's fears and Suspitions of their unfeigned adherence under God and the King to their Brittish Mother-Church in opposition and detestation of all Forreign Corrivals for Superiority It were strange and justly unexpected if all parties throughout this miserably divided Nation would not soon joyn hearts and hands and Church-meetings with one another in an entire and indissolvable Union and Brotherhood to the Infinite joy and happiness of Prince and People SECTION XIV That the Primacy of Canterbury as by the Pope and Monk Augustine is Schismatical and against the Canons of the Vniversal Church and of the several Nullities of the Church of Rome in England And how their Clergy Intruding here stand depriv'd of their Orders by the Canons of all the Ancient General Councils and their Laity that abet them of their Christian Communion by the same Authority BUt the Supremacy of the See of Canterbury by the Popes Authority alone as our Romanists would have it without the Authority of the Kings of England is Infamously Schismatical and irregular and against the Canons of the universal
by Ambrosius in a solemn Assembly Cleri Populi of Parliament and Convocation to express this matter in modern Terms By which may be guessed the irregularity and invalidity of Adeodatus his Ordination which was Ordain'd only by one Bishop of his Province who had received his own from such as were no lawfull Bishops as before and of Theodorus Arch-Bishop the Restorer of the Romish Religion in England who was Ordain'd by none in all this Province and came hither with Tyrannical Power against the will of the Bishops of this Province and to displace such as were regularly Ordain'd and Consecrated by the Bishops of this Territory who had lawful Power as Ceadda Archbishop of York by name whereby himself in the sence of the Catholick Church in the Canons before recited was neither Bishop nor Priest nor within Christian Communion whereby the Authority of the rest by and after him Ordain'd and the nature of the whole Roman-Catholick-Church built in this land upon such rotten Pillars may be scann'd and judg'd of with trust that there is mercy and compassion with God for the sincere in heart and Vengeance and Indignation against insolent disturbers and Tyrannical Hypocrites Which by the way might be the occasion that our Politick Popes in the Controversies heretofore berween the Sees of York and Canterbury for Priority after both sides were craftily well squeezed and lurch'd in their Purses referr'd this matter out of their moderation to be ended and detetmin'd by our own Kings as Edward the third did it under his great Seal as before whereby some Authority was by the way acquir'd to his Romish See of Canterbury which before he well knew had none at all by Church Canons by the Royal Patents of our Soveraign Kings which are favour'd by General a Con. in Trul. Can. 38. Chalc. Can. 17 Councils else for Kings to meddle in such Ecclesiastical concerns had been to touch the Apple of the Popes eye and to incurr the displeasure of St. Peter and St. Paul forever to the manifest hazard of their Crowns and Souls as there are Instances good store in matters of less offence and far more Temporal in their natures But our Popes will not stand to any Council but take themselves to be above them all which is the true reason of the Schism between the Eastern and Western Church or indeed of the Schism and departure of Rome from the whole Christian Church the true Catholick being ever govern'd by Laws and Canons but the Roman-Catholick affecting to be absolute and to Rule all Churches by its own Arbitary Will and Lust The former Arguments from General Councils though they are sufficient to satisfie all honest and right Christians yet our Popes are no more concluded by them than was Cromwell by Magna Charta unless therefore the Nullities of the Romish Church in England be prov'd from their own Rules and Principles and from their own mouths against themselves they are not prov'd home enough as to them to instance in two or three So tender are they and averse from shedding of bloud or would at least somtimes be so Accounted that their Clergy cannot be present b Con. Lateran Can. 18. at a Sanguinary Tryal but if they have the ill fate to kill a man though through mistake and chaunce they become Irregular for it and depriv'd of their holy Orders irrecoverably Much more then are they forever unclerk'd by Murder whereof if our Augustine the Monk was manifestly guilty in principal manner not towards one but towards one or two thousand Innocents no men of Arms but of the Book and Gown and Prayer then the Orders he had or conferr'd after that on others as on Justus and Mellitus made Bishops by him after this fact came all to nought as to them in fact or desert and their whole Romish Church and Ministry by consequence but that he was principally guilty of the barbarous Murder and Massacre of our Brittish Monks at Bangor as before c Juell 5 part defence 438. who by good Relation came out Bare-foot and Bare-head to beg their lives and was present at the place to encourage the slaughter for the better propagating of the Romish Faith or at the least had a great hand in this bloud is not denyed by impartial Antiquaries yea those methods us'd by Romish forgeries to palliate his crime by corrupting Bede's text and also by Enthusiastical Hypocritical praedictions to father this execrable massacre upon the Spirit of God these Arts and devices are so far from excusing that they prove and fasten it the more upon him and in a very high and nefarious manner His Orders therefore and his after Actings in the See of Canterbury were all null by their own Rules And his Communion and much more his Fatherhood in the Christian Faith to be disown'd and detested by all English Christians and true Catholicks forever in their own defence Besides Theodore Archbishop of Canterbury at a Council at Herutford pass'd this Canon which ownes and espouses the like Canons of the Ancient Church with their penalties d H. Spelman Concil p. 153. Vt nullus Episcoporum c. That no Bishop Invade the Diocess of another but rest content with the Government of his own charge But such was Brittain towards Theodore and to the Pope that sent him as well as to his Successors that followed him as before is largely and fully prov'd the Faith here being planted by the Apostles or their followers among the Brittains and by the Brittains amongst the English Therefore Theodore the restorer of the Romish Faith in England stands condemn'd he and his new Church and Successors by his own Law and sentence as well as Augustine its first founder Withall Pope Gregory himself who was the first root and contriver of our English Popery allowes not his Augustine to entrench upon the Gallican Church or the Bishop of Arles his Jurisdiction because saith he that were against Scripture and the Ancient Institution of the Fathers pointing at the several Canons of Councils before recited and to thrust one's Sickle into another mans Harvest But Brittain was a Province ever more distinct and exempt from Rome than Gallia as before is prov'd Therefore Augustine for his Intrusion stands condemn'd by his Pope And his Pope by himself for sending him And Theodore and his Successors by the same definition Withall it is observable why yet Pope Gregory subjected our Brittish but not the Gallican Church to the Romish Jurisdiction of Monk Augustine because saith he e Bede lib. 1. c. 28. ab Antiquis praedecessorum meorum temporibus Pallium Arelatensis Episcopus accepit I find the Bishops of Arles to have had their Pall from Rome in the times of my Ancient Predecessors that is because France was subject to Rome Brittain before was not Now this modest and humble Pope declares in several of his lib. 4. Epist 76 83 178. 194. Antiquitates Eccl. p. 43 45. Epistles extant
that to affect to be universal Bishop and Soveraign of all Churches both name and thing was impious and Sacrilegious and Antichristian and cryed out that Antichrist was nigh coming when John Bishop of Constantinople began to usurp such a Title If therefore by Romish principles all Churches that derive their Palls from thence are thereby subject to their Chaire and those that never had Palls from thence as Brittain and other Churches by consequence in the like case were to be made subject likewise because they had none by Pope Gregories instructions to his Missionary And so by having or not having all Churches became subject by this Artifice Therefore it is manifest Gregory by this Act made himself that universal Bishop he so much abhorr'd though not in name and title yet in effect and reality which is more and Antichrist by consequence Therefore we affirm the Romish Faith in England is to be shunn'd and disown'd by all true Christians because its first plantation was from an Antichristian strein and Original by the confession of its first founder who if Popes be Infallible as they do and must believe in that Church was Antichrist Infallibly by his own Infallible determination Lastly not one but all the Popes f Apud Dr. Hammond of Schisme p. 105. of Rome at their Creation make a solemn vow and profession to observe inviolably all the Ordinances made in the eight first general Councils where nothing is more unanimously provided for and secur'd by all Anathema's imaginable than the Ancient Immunities of Provinces against Invaders and Intruders and of our Brittish Church by consequence whose Rights therefore could not be touch'd nor violated by any of them without incurring the acknowledg'd curse of the Catholick Church and the condemnation of their Holinesses themselves for Faithlesseness and Perjury out of their own mouths What temptation can there now be to any sober Christian to renounce an Ancient and Orthodox good Church and his own Mother for another in a Forreign Countrey which stands condemned by God and the whole Christian World and by it self And these condemnations too visibly executed upon it with a probatum est in a stupendious degeneracy beyond all Heathenism not only in point of Ignorance and gross deliberate errours putting out the Candle of knowledge upon themselves and all in the room for no good ends for many hundreds of years untill the Reformation But in their so liberally Licensing and dispensing in themselves and others that is making nothing of any iniquity or Incest or breach of Faith or Treason or Gods Anathema's in order to their Catholick interest and gain which office of faculties and libertinism the worst and rudest of Heathens never dreamed of Who knowing the judgment of God that they who do such things are worthy of death not only do the same themselves 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 allow and approve that others may do them Rom. 1.32 which is so far from being Christian that no Heathens have been found or known more professedly Satanical or Antichristian Seeing therefore to contract our Argument to three undenyably positions The Catholick Church is still in being and its Canons unrepeal'd And the Church and Province of Brittain is likewise still surviving with Ancient Metropolitical Rights appertaining to it And the Clergy of Rome are dayly intruding upon us not only without the Invitation of this Province though it is their Interest and perhaps their secret practice to try by Cap or Pall or preferment what Wilfrids or Egberts or Elbods they can allure to betray Church and Countrey but against manifest and publick dissent declar'd by Laws and highest penalties What Holy Orders can such men have who are declared by the Catholick Church to be neither Clergy nor Christians for such disorder the scandalous ill consequences we have salv'd before as to the Innocent and charg'd them on their Authors or what validity or power or comfort to the Conscience can there be in their indulgences or Pardons or Consecrations any more than if Butchers or Town Bedles did absolve or Cats laid their paws upon their credulous Disciples enur'd by long custome to be abus'd SECTION XV. A short Diquisition into the Cause and character of the Roman Apostacy in its Leaders and Followers from History and Prophecy and Practice ANd though they thus refuse to be Impal'd from invading our Brittish Liberties by either Conscience or Canons or contradictions which are receiv'd bounds with all other men and Christians in the World and leaving reason seem to appeal to Club or Craft by consequence which would look very Barbarously Heretical in Protestants yet neither are they to conceive themselves Singular in such Magnanimous and Lawless adventures and usurpations for no thief ever came to the Gallows nor Traitor to the Scaffold nor cheat to the Pillory nor Malefactor to the wheel nor any sinner whatsoever to shame and damnation everlasting but for the like obstinate exaltation of their lust and Pride above the Laws of God and men only with this difference the one sin in the Night the other in the Day the one with guilt and fear and shame and somtimes with repentance but the other with open face and Catholick confidence and Sanctity Fathering all their evils upon Christ and St. Peter without hope of Repentance for to amend or change their manners would be to Apostatize from their Apostolical Faith and Principles An abominable new-found evil of Monstrous visage like a Gorgon of Pernicious influence like a Plague of hopeless Cure like a Gout for here light hath Communion with darkness which all reason and Religion and Order were Ordain'd to sever and the Wolf and the Lamb shall lie together and keep their natures and Civil and Wild and Humble and Proud and Regular and Lawless and Holy and Unconscionable and Catholick and Schismatical and Apostolical and Atheistical shall be Consistent and Church and the World and God and Mammon and Christ and Satan be of one Piece enough to distract Innocent beholders not used to monsters with so horrible a Specter and strike them dead with the Antipathy Cicero wanted words fully to express such disorder and confusion Totius autem Injusticiae nulla est capitalior quam eorum qui dum maximê fallunt id agunt ut boni viri esse videantur Of all Injustice and wrong there is none so Abominably Pernicious as that which would sanctifie it self Had he been a Christian he had allowed it the Epithite of Antichristian The like sight made another clear-spirited Heathen start beyond the Pole in his fright Vltra Sauromatas fugere hinc libet Glacialem Oceanum and chuse to be out of the World than live near the Immusical Notes and grating contradictions of debauch'd Curii dissolute Stoicks Sordid Nobles Holy Hypocrites And for its infection as nothing is more abhorr'd so nothing is sooner catching nor more seises the vitals and blunts the edge of Conscience and overthrows all the Laws of the soul The