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A76079	A declaration demonstrating and infallibly proving that all malignants, whether they be prelates, popish-cavaleers, with all other ill-affected persons, are enemies to God and the King: who desire the suppression of the Gospel, the advancement of superstition, the diminution of the Kings prerogative and authority, with the oppression of the subject. All which is evinced by strong proofes, and sufficient reasons. By John Bastwick Dr. of Physick.	Bastwick, John, 1593-1654.	1643 (1643)	Wing B1061; Thomason E101_8; ESTC R1900	48,987	64

the Hierarchy be sacred and the Prelates be the chief members of it then they are a generation of sacred frogs the holinesse notwithstanding of the which is such as few mens impiety is greater or more dangerous to Church and State and their usurpation upon both authorities deserving severely to be punished especially for that they so abuse his sacred Majesties authority in oppressing his poore subjects and trampling upon his Prerogative so that to any eye of understanding it may sufficiently appear by that the Defendant hath said that the Prelates are not only contemners and disgracers of holy Scripture but also invaders of the Kings Prerogative Royall and enemies of his Imperiall Dignity It yet remaines to prove also that they have farther dishonoured the King their Master and King James of famous memory yea our most holy Religion and Profession and all this in the Defendants Censure For what any one of the Prelates did all the other assented to they being one Body and it was the action of them all though acted in the person of the Prelate of Canterbury which was this to magnifie the Church of Rome and defend the purity of her Doctrine affirming openly that she never erred in fundamentall points and was a true Church as much as to proclaime the King and all his Subj cts Schismatickes and Heretickes and that by the mouth of the Prelate of Canterbury which the Defendant saith is not onely injurious to the King their Master but to King Iames of famous memory his renowned Father with whom for piety and learning all the Prelates together are not to be named the same yeare his Royall excrements are mentioned King Iames that glorious and learned Prince in his Apologie to all Christian Princes and States proves the Pope of Rome to be Antichrist and the man of Sin by many unanswerable Arguments He proves likewise the Church of Rome to be the Whore of Babylon for her abominations Spirituall Sodom for her filthinesse and uncleannesse Spirituall Egypt for her inslaving the Saints and Servants of God and all this he evinceth by irrefragable authority and thus taught he the whole world his Royall Son and all his subjects and perswaded all Christian Princes to come out of Babylon and to shake off the yoke of the Pope And in this faith he lived and died And this faith is King Charles his Son and our gracious Soveraigne now Defender of and all this is Orthodox Doctrine which our King did preach unto us and our Royall King now professeth and which all his Loyall Subjects to God and his Majestie will seale with their blouds This heroicall King notwithstanding and his divine Doctrine is stamped under foot by the Prelates to the infinite dishonour of our most pious and element Prince the eternall disgrace of his most incomparable Father and the discredit indeed of the whole Church and Kingdome if not indangering the same to the great hardening of the Papists in their Hereticall wayes and the perverting of the Kings most loyall Subjects and teaching the Papists to rebell And to all this the dignity and glory of the Scripture is offuscated by their sable mouthes So that what can any man either say or thinke of this progenie of Prelates whose contumacie and rebellion reacheth to the very clouds and what can men thinke of this degenerating off-spring of this age The one that they dare against God and the King openly breathe out their blasphemies and call evill good and good evil The other that they should out of cowardise suffer their Royall King and his most excellent Father to be abused But this Defendant hopeth that this honourable Court like that noble Nehemiah with other true-hearted loyall Subjects remaining about the King will now at last informe his Majestie of the intolerable insolence of the Prelates of which he beleeveth they were formerly ignorant or not so well acquainted and seeke by his authority for redresse against their impudencie As for this Defendant for his part he is resolved though left alone ever to say LET THE KING LIVE FOR EVER And although he should suffer a thousand torments from the Prelates living and dying he will ever cry LET THE KING LIVE FOR EVER And let the name of his learned and transcendent Father live to perpetuity And let the enemies of the King and the Gospel perish Neither will he ever suffer to the uttermost of his power That either the Kings honour or the dignity of his most illustrious Father or the glory of our most holy Profession or the honour of the holy Scriptures shall be contaminated or Babylon or superstition advanced in his Dominions and cruelty and injustice exercised by the Prelates over his poor Subjects and hold his peace All which evidently appeare in the daily proceedings of the Prelates in their High Commission and from their speech hourely there and their practises through the whole Kingdome Some of which he desireth in order to prove that the honourable Court may be the fuller informed that he hath not causlesly in his Apologie laid any crime unto their charge which they are not guilty of And now to proceed to the other things the Defendant is charged with viz. that he taxeth the High Commission Court of cruelty injustice want of wisdome and temperance and that they are perswaders of his Majestie to bloud-shed and are the upholders of idolatry superstition and profanenesse that he scandalously defameth the witnesses produced against him and that he hath causlesly and boldly inveighed against the Oath ex officio and other the ancient formes of proceedings of the High Commission Court To all these the Defendant answereth as they lie And first whereas the Defendant chargeth them with cruelty injustice want of wisdome and temperance he conceiveth he hath very good reason for that his charge both in respect of himselfe and others and in regard both of the soules and bodies and estates of men all which they captive enslave or dissipate and scatter at pleasure and in as much as in them lies seeke the ruine of To say nothing of their dayly practices who condemne men without either exhibiting Articles producing of witnesses or any legall proceedings against them as if a man should be hanged without evidence given or indictment framed which is the height of injustice the Defendant saith that their very proceedings against himselfe sufficiently shew their cruelty injustice want of wisdome and temperance and their very speeches apparantly prove all these things Neither is there such a president of wrong and cruelty in the whole world that any man of what ranke order or degree soever he be that shall write a Booke in defence of that Religion that is established by publicke authority for the honour of the King and in defence of his Prerogative against a common enemy that for this indeavour of his should be ruined he his wife and children cast into prison deprived first of all possibility of livelihood railed upon and reviled publickly

Bishops and with their owne Arguments wounded them And therefore he could not but take it unkindly that when in this combat they should have helped him against the common enemy they defending him fell upon the poore Defendant to his perdition saying that he meant them that he was erronious and factious in his opinions Now if the Defendant hath erred in the discussing of these truths the Scripture that word of life hath brought him to it which were blasphemy to thinke and therefore when they adjudged this booke to be burnt they might as well have burnt the Scripture also yea all antiquity and the gravest and learnedst of ancient Fathers whose testimonies also he hath made publicke for the greater vindication of the truth against errour and cruelty But that the integrity of the Defendant may yet more clearly appeare he most humbly entreateth this Illustrious Tribunall to heare how the businesse was carried against him at his Arraignment before the Prelates Barre at Lambeth and how submissively he demeaned himself these and how superciliously they carried themselves towards the Defendant on the contrary side When it came to his part to speake for himselfe the Advocate having formerly denied to plead his case any farther then about the witnesses testimonie which he also did very jejunely being an Advocate of such excellent parts of learning and eloquence as he was and also at the Bar renouncing it saying That the Defendant should plead himselfe which when it was put upon him he then first related unto the Assembly the Theame of the booke which was the maintenance of the Kings Prerogative royall Then he told them the occasion of his writing of it that he was provoked thereunto by a Pontifician who often had dared him into the list of dispute which at last he could not deny as he was a Christian and as he was a Subject for by the Word of God he told them and by the Law of the land and his speciall oath he was bound unto it which oath he also read at large in open Court the which also all the Bishops of England and all the Judges of the kingdome had taken and were equally bound with him to observe Then before he entered into the combat with the adversary he showed what caution he used that being to write against the Bishop of Rome and Italian Bishops it was onely as they arrogate their authority over their brethren and the Church of God yea over Kings and Emperours jure divino against such Bishops onely he affirmed he did dispute and read the words of exception formerly cited at the Barre as for such Bishops as acknowledge their jurisdiction power and authority from Kings and Emperours he said he had no controversie against them as he there againe and againe declared himself in the number of which he the Defendant said ours were for all the Bishops of England and in his Majesties Dominions had and received or at least wise ought so to do their authority and jurisdiction over their brethren from him For proofe of which he cited and read publickly the Statutes and Acts of Parliament as follow First that of the first of Queen Elizabeth of famous memory wherein the Oath of Allegiance was ratifyed in the which Statute there are these words That all jurisdiction all Superiorities and all Priviledges and preeminencies spiritual and temporall are annexed to the imperiall Crown which by Oath he being bound to maintaine could do no lesse being provoked by an adversary of regall dignity He read also the Statute which was inacted in the 37. of Henry the eight which is That Archbishops and Bishops and all other Ecclesiasticall persons have no other Ecclesiasticall jurisdiction but that which they received and had by the King from the King and under his Royall Majestie He read also the Statute made in the first of King Edward the sixt in these words That all jurisdiction and Authority spirituall and Temporall is derived and doth come from the Kings Majestie as supreme head in the churches and Kingdoms of England and Ireland and that by the Clergie of both the Kingdomes it ought no otherwise to be held or esteemed of and that all Ecclesiasticall Courts within the said Kingdomes ought to be held and kept by no other power and Authority either domesticall or forrain then that which comes from his most excellent Majestie And that whosoever did not acknowledge and venerate this authority that the same men are ipso facto in a praemunire and under the Kings high displeasure and indignation as the words of the Statute run and the mouth of the law speaks and then with some reason also which the Defendant produced besides the Word of God he shewed That no Romish Bishops had authority over their fellow brethren nor could jure divino challenge it much lesse over Kings and Emperors and therefore so long as the Defendant had the word of God the Laws of the Kingdom and reason it self on his side he told them he thought himself reasonably secure from all danger in that place And then applying his speech unto the right Honourable and noble Lord the Earle of Dorset then present the Defendant told his honour that he could not but wonder that he should stand there at the Bar as a Delinquent for maintaining the Religion established by publick Authority the honour of the King and the glory of his Majesty and that one Chouny a Sussex man a laick as well as himself should write a book and set it forth by publick authority maintaining the Church of Rome to be a true Church and never to have had so much in her as the suspition of error in fundamentall points and that this book should be dedicated to the Prelate of Canterbury and patronized by him which book the Defendant both read and exhibited in Court by which notwithstanding the King himself and all his Subjects were made Shismaticks and hereticks to the infinite dishonour of God our Gracious King and King Iames of blessed memory and our most holy profession and Religion This as the Defendant told the Lord of Dorset struck an amazement in him and especially when the authour of it must be favoured and countenanced by Canterburie and for the defending of the honour and dignity of our church and the honour of the King the Defendant should stand as an evil doer Now when the Defendant was come thus far was then approaching more closely unto them all intending more fully in the pleading of his cause to have set forth their unjust dealing they told him that he railed and Imperiously commanded him to hold his peace which was the reason of his Apologericus ad Praesules Anglicanos where he took liberty to write that and publish it to the view of all the world which he would have then spoke But after they had silenced him they then fell a thundering against him every one as he pleased all of them joyning in this one onely excepted that

all ancient truth and the vetust est Bishops and by the whole Clergy of England in King Henry the Eights dayes as all the Learned and ingenuous doe well perceive and know both at home and abroad So that if the Informers with the Prelates will make this book a libell then let them make holy Scripture the Lawes of the Kingdome and all the ancient records of learned Bishops libells also for the Defendant in that hath said nothing concerning the Presbytery which is not agreeable to them all And for the matters in speciall he is charged with the information viz. That he hath causlesly enveighed against the oath ex officio and other ancient formes of proceedings in that Court and against the Sacred Hierarchy and orders of Bishops Priests and Deacons preferring a Presbyterian parity before it And that he hath falsly and scandalously defamed the witnesses produced against him and falsly and maliciously taxed the High Commission Court it selfe and the Judges therein in generall and some of them particularly and personally with cruelty and injustice with want of wisdome and temperance and that they are perswaders of his Majesty to bloodshed and are upholders of idolatry superstition Popery and Profanenesse and further most maliciously and falsly affirmeth that Canterbury London and Ely are disgracers and contemners of holy Scriptures and falsly traduceth them and the rest of the Bishops for Traytors and invaders of his Majesties Prerogative and that in the said booke there are contained divers other unlawfull and scandalous passages against the established government and setled discipline of the Church of England the Bishops and Clergy and their proceedings which being many and of various nature is delivered into his Majesties Court of Starchamber To all which things that he is here charged with the Defendant will answer with what brevity and the best Method he can and doubteth nothing but whatsoever he hath writ in his Apology against the Prelates and their proceeding shall be made evidently appear to this Court to be most true And to begin with the things laid to his charge in the last place that he accuseth the Bishops to be disgracers and contemners of holy Scripture to be invaders of his Majesties prerogative upholders of idolatry Popery superstition and profanenesse All which is most true for so they are as he hath sufficiently proved against them in that book and doth here also adde that they have greatly dishonoured the King their Master and King James his Father of perpetuall Memory all which he will briefly declare and demonstrate to this noble Court And that they are contemners and disgracers of holy Scripture what can be more manifest when they say that the Scriptures are the refuge of all Schismaticks Hereticks as much as if they should say the good Laws and Statutes of a Kingdom and the Kings Edicts Proclamations are the cause of all disorder wickednes withall what is it to be contemners and disgracers of the holy Scriptures if this be not to say That they can neither be knowne to be the Word of God nor distinguished from the Apocrypha and Prophane Authours nor to be understood and the meaning of them attained unto for their obscurity but by the Fathers If this be not to contemne Sacred Writ then all Orthodox Writers both in ours and all reformed Churches and King James himselfe have accused the Church of Rome most falsly whom they prove blasphemous against God and disgracers of the Holy Scriptures for the same assertions as all their learned writings witnesse with innumerable Arguments in them for proofe of the same The Defendant desireth to know what it is to prophane and contemne holy Scripture if this be not to slight and vilyfie the Authority of it and to preferre humane authority before it which the Bishops did blasphemously saying that they could not be knowne to be the Word of God without the help of the Fathers when every page and leafe of those Sacred monuments breath a Divine Spirit and they are called the lively Oracles Acts 7. verse 38. as if the Scripture had lost his ancient lustre life and Divinity by its antiquity and were inferiour to all other things both Naturall and Artificiall When notwithstanding there is such a Majestie and Splendour in the Scripture as it dazleth the eyes of all those that look into it with his transcendent and heavenly clarity and brightnesse the eyes of whose mindes the God of this world hath not blinded yea under the very law when there was a vaile before the eyes of men so that they could not so clearly see into them as now Christians may yet then such dignity and excellency was discerned in them that at the first reading of them men cryed out the voice of God and not of man and tore their garments for very anguish and fear of the threats in them and never were so ungracious and impious to say How shall we know these bookes to be the Word of God for the holy Scriptures had ever such an innate and Domesticall light beauty and goodnesse in them and carried such testimony and witnesse within themselves ever able to declare themselves divine and holy and to be the very word of the everliving God that they needed borrow no help from without them or fetcht in humane witnesse for the declaring of their divinity There was no need to send unto the Prophets or the Church in old time to enquire whether the Scriptures were the word of God amongst any that were but any thing acquainted with the language of Canaan as is manifestly evident in the 2. of the Kings 22. verse 8.10 and the 2. of the Chron. 34. verse 14 15 19. where it appeareth that when the Booke of the Law was found by Helchia the Priest in the house of the Lord he knew it at the first reading of it to be the word of God the same did the King they were neither of them told by the Church or any Prophets or Fathers that it was the Booke of the Law neither did the King send unto Hulda the Prophetesse to know whether it were a true and authenticke Copy all this needed not it needed then no Godfathers and Godmothers to Christen and give it the name of the Law of God and holy Scripture as without the which it could not have beene knowne there was no need of any such thing or any humane authority for the proofe of that in those times all that were then true Israelites knew it by its own testimony to be the word of God and shall any man now think that the Scriptures are more obscure and dark and harder to be discerned by their own testimony to be Divine and holy then when they had a vail before them and their sacred treasuries of Divine truths were muffled up in so many tipes and mysteries Certainly this is not onely great ingratitude to Gods bounty but very contempt and disgrace of holy Scriptures that their most excellent

and after all this given to the devill and that onely for writing a booke which had nothing in it but Scripture and in the which the Defendant thought they meant him and that they should still prosecute him and seeke his eares and the defacing of him which they threaten Such a President of wrong and cruelty the Defendant saith cannot be produced in toto Macrocosmo and therefore the Defendant in respect of his own particular justly chargeth them with cruelty injustice and intemperance And in respect of all other honest men that come under their jurisdiction the same may be said and proved by thousands whether one respect their souls bodies or goods for they use cruelty in regard of all sparing neither age nor sex poor or rich young or old bond or free but upon every triviall occasion or for the meane t neglect of any of their idlest and impious Ceremonies or for any misprision it is enough to have him hoisted into the High Commission Court and brought from the remotest parts of the kingdom to the utter undoing of them and their families when as the greatest breach of any of the Commandments of the first table is not once thought of And in the bringing of them into troubles they deal with those poor men as they do with bears and buls at Paris Garden they first by violence and their officers to their mighty expences hale them into their Courts and then with bands of two or three hundred pounds they tie them to their stakes and bait them three or four years together with all maner of contumelies and reproaches vexations expences calamities and torments till they have wearied them to death and made their lives tedious unto them and after all this they fling them into one jaile or other destitute of friends and moneys And as if this were not enough even as the persecuters of the Martyrs in the Primitive times as Histories relate dealt with the Saints when they brought them to the slaughter they were wont to clothe them with the skins and hides of wilde beasts that so they might make them the more formidable and the better animate their dogs and curs against them to teare them in pieces In like manner do the Prelates and their complices in these our times deale with poore honest Christians and the true and faithfull servants of the Lord and the Kings most loyall Subjects they make them monstrous ugly and deformed unto all men King and Nobles by their Relations and Informations they clothe them with saying of them That they are maligners and enemies of Governement troublers of Church and State Seducers of the Kings Subjects making them disloyall unto their Prince stirrers up of sedition and faction and a thousand such crimes setting all the people against them in their open Courts have their Orators to blanch over their defamatory false accusations charging them with foule crimes the thought of which never came into their heads as this present information may witnesse Yea in the very Court Sermons they incense the King and Nobles daily against those they brand with the name of Puritans and Sectaries which all this honourable Assembly can witnes and the Defendant hath heard many Court Sermons with his own ears in the time of his liberty but never heard one where the Puritans as they terme them were not brought up in the pulpit and most shamefully and unchristianly traduced as those that opposed the Kings proceedings and such as maligne his government and trouble the peace of Church and State and humbly besought his Majestie that some severe course might be sought and taken against them These and such like sprincklings of their brotherly Rhetorick the Defendant himself hath often heard neither can this honourable Court be ignorant of the truth of this And what is all this but great cruelty and injustice to abuse thus their brethren by malicious and false accusations to the incensing of their Gracious King and Soveraign against them when they are most innocent and harmlesse desiring nothing more then the life safety prosperity and happinesse of his Majestie and of his Royall Progeny and his flourishing raigne and would lose ten thousand lives if they had them for the honour of his Crowne and dignity for they desire nothing more then to be found loyall neither do they seek any thing more then the peace and welfare of the Church and the good of this Common-wealth And therefore if there be any this is cruelty and injustice in a high degree to deale thus mercilesly with their too too much already afflicted brethren of whom they are ever making sinister relations to King Councell and State to the depriving of them many times of their liberty livelyhoods and states to the making of them and theirs ever miserable and all this also they do in their Courts every day defaming them as enemies of government and enemies of the Church and casting them into prison with great Fines on their backs And this is the cruelty they daily use in respect of their bodies lives and estates But yet their cruelty is greater in respect of their soules for they have through the Kingdome of England and Wales taken away almost all their glorious painfull Ministers and those that with most diligence taught the people and sent droanes and loyterers amongst them dumbe dogs that cannot barke and is not this great cruelty to the poor Souls of men to deprive them of the food of life and to starve them See what Paul saith to Bariesus the Sorcerer in the 13. of the Acts when Sergius Paulus the Deputy of the Country a Prudent man called for Barnabas and Saul and desired to heare the word of God it is said that Elemas the Sorcerer withstood them seeking to turne away the Deputy from the faith to whom Saul filled with the holy Ghost fetting his eyes on him said O full of all subtilty and all mischiefe thou childe of the devill thou enemy of all righteousnesse wilt thou not cease to pervent the right wayes of the Lord Those then that take away the meanes of Salvation and hinder others from the hearing of the word they are most cruell unto them hindering of them of salvation it selfe and such are the children of the devil the enemies of all righteousnesse and perverters of the wayes of the Lord the holy Ghost hath spake it and Christ himselfe saith Matth. 23. and the 13. Wo unto you Scribes and Pharisees hypocrites for ye shut up the Kingdom of heaven against men for you neither go in your selves neither suffer you them that are entring to go in And in Luke the 11. and verse the 52. he saith Wo unto you Lawyers for ye have taken away the key of knowledge ye enter not in your selves and them that were entring you hindred Christ himselfe pronounces woe here to all such Soule murtherers as take away the key of knowledge from the people and shut up the Kingdome of heaven against them which