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A05611	The ansvver of Iohn Bastwick, Doctor of Phisicke, to the exceptions made against his Letany by a learned gentleman which is annexed to the Letany it selfe, as articles superadditionall against the prelats. In the vvhich there is, a full, demonstration and proof of the reall absence of Christ in the sacrament of the Lords Supper, with the vanity and impiety of the consecreation of temples churches and chapples, also the necessity of the perpetuall motion and circulation of worship if men be bound to bow the knees at the name of Iesus. This is to follow the Letany as a second part thereof.; Litany. Part 2	Bastwick, John, 1593-1654.	1637 (1637)	STC 1573; ESTC S104507	58,802	32

scorne or other and some notorious lyes told of them So that I wonder not that those poore men are thought so euilly of though a most innocent and harmles people as any liues upon the earth For when the place of God it self from whence truth should onely sound is made a theater of lying and false accusations no wonder that the Kings Maiesty and nobles of the Kingdome haue a prejudicat opinion of them they call Puritans when they expect nothing but truth and veritable narrations from that place In my yonger dayes that I may in some thing relate my owne condition I was bred in as great a hatred of Puritans as any tender yeares was capable of as it is well knowne and thought those men not worthy to liue yet knew not any of them our Country hauing then scarce two in it neither was there a sermon perhaps in halfe a yeare thereabouts and that read out of a paper booke and halfe of it commonly was rayling against the Puritans But whē it pleased God that some of those that spake euillest of them through surfetting and excesse had brought themselues to languishing sicknes and after to death it selfe I say when those men in their greatest extremities chose rather to trust them yea and to preferre them before there owne brethren and niest kins-folks and bequeath their children estats into their hands and then being also demanded the reason of such trust and confidence in them whom they had reputed the worst of men before and most of all traduced and hated they then openly declared themselues and their opinion of them saying that they were now dying men and that it was now time to speake the truth and that they in their harts beleiued they were the true seruants of the Lord howsoeuer despised and contemned in the world and withall they desired that their soules might goe the way that theirs went I say when I saw such a wonderfull change in these men who were men many of them of knowledge and vnderstanding in all religions and some of them trauellars and courtiers and that now on their death beds they should giue such an approbation and so honourable testimony of those men of whom they had in their prosperity spoken so maliciously I being then of yeares of descretion and better able to discerne and iudge of things that differ began more seriously to consider of that matter and soe much the more studious I was because I had in some sort seene the vanity of all pleasures hauing indeed been bred in nothing else The right way then to find blessednes was my onely ayme which through Gods speciall fauour benediction vpon my earnest endeauours dayly reading of the word and holy scriptures priuat duties godly society and frequent hearing of the word which is onely able to saue our soules I found out to the prayse and honour of his name be it spoken And I then well perceiued looking into the liues and maners of men that those that were comonly branded with the name of Puritans were the happiest and that if any were eternally blessed they were such of them as squared there liues in sincerity according to their profession And least that I might through an ouerweening conceit of some seeming blessednes in them be mistaken I contented not my self with home comparing of men and domesticall experience but I resolued to seek out still a more excellent way if there were any whereupon I went into forraine nations and liued among all sorts of men and in the greatest Princes Courts conuersing among all ranks and orders of them and that many yeares and amongst all professions Courtiers Soldiers Scholars citizens merchants and among all sects of factions and religions and examining all those in the ballance of Iudgment I found none in life and death happy and truely comfortable but those that are branded with the name of Puritans or at least those that liue and die in their faith And for my owne particular to speake now my conscience I had rather goe the way of the meanest Puritans that liue and die according to their profession then of the greatest Prelats that euer liued vpon the earth and this I speake in the presence of God for of the ones happinesse I am as sure as the word of God is sure and of the others I can promise nothing hee liuing in rebellion to God all the dayes of his life and his repentance not knowne vnto mee And notwith standing I say all rhis that these are such an holy people yet are they made but the off-scouring of the world and of all things and brought vpon euery stage and into the pulpit as fittest for ludibry by the Players Preists and Prelats yea and in their Courts it is enough to ruine a mans cause if his aduersary can but taint him with the name of a Puritan but most especially are they vilely abused by the Preists and Prelats in their Pulpits Now I say if it be lawfull in them to make playes of honest men and to faine what they please against them I pray let it be lawfull in mee in merriment to speake the truth of them which as neare as I can I will not transgresse If some shall say they haue not so great traynes nor so much adoe in their marching I affirme that at all tymes they goe more like Princes then humble Ministers of Christ and the Apostles Successors of whom we neuer reade they came euer in coach or on horseback but when Paul was mounted by autority or that they had euer a seruant to attend them much lesse such pompe and state yet one of them conuerted more soules in one day then all the Prelats euer did that euer I read of neither to speake truely haue I heard of any they euer conuerted but of many thousands they haue confounded But now to the matter in hand because one of their abetters sayd not long since that they had not such attendance as I accuse them of I say if they haue lesse company one day they haue more an other and whether they be their owne or others Seruants when they are in their Company be they the Nobles themselues they are all their attendants and the best of them most hartily glad if by their seruice they can please them and we know it vsuall that the denomination of the retinue is alwayes from the greatest and they are sayd to be his followers And I haue heard the pursuiuants themselues often brag of the greatnes of their Masters attendance and in such ample maner as I thinke the Kings Maiestie hath not commonly greater and therefore that cannot be denyed which is dayly practised And for their Seruants insolency I haue frequently both seene it and felt it Now whereas you thinke that it will not be will taken that I call Bishops Preists and Deacons Antichrists little toes and in my LETANY desire deliuerahce from them and withall seeme to accuse them of incontinency

great comfort and releife they will in time be made a prey to the cruelty of euery oppressor and their liues become untolerable to them especially when it shall be thought a State policy that he that hath the best faculty of tyrannising and oppressing the King subjects shall bee esteemed the most seruiceable member in a common-wealth the greatest Statist And this is policy from hell the authors of which the Lord himself will confound if they repent not But in the meane time in seeking for releif and ease vnder oppression though it be in the diseases of the common-wealth as it is in the bodies of men the speedier remedy to them is euer the best for the longer they continue the more dangerous they are yet as the patient submits himself to the Physitian for the time of the Cure So much more ought the subject to leaue the Cure to Kings best opportunityes as the onely Physitians of Kingdomes and who as they are called Gods so many times imitate him in long suffering conniuing at and patient enduring the insolent and domineering oppressors and such as trample not onely vpon the people but their owne lawes yea vpon their crownes and dignity and yet seeme in the meane time to be their faithfullest seruants and those that stand most of all for the advancement of their honour and glory as those cursed enimies of God did in the 66 of Isaiah 5. Let the Lord be glorified say they when they persecuted and oppressed his seruants hated them and cast them out So say these sycophants Let the Kings honour be mainteyned when they meane nothing lesse All which things Kings many times know very well and them to be mere hypocrites and to doe all they doe for their owne base ends and therefore in their fittest opportunities purge the Church and State of them And as Kings are Gods in respect of health safety gouernment and wisdome So they are likewise in respect of invocation onely to be sought to and called vpon of their subjects in all times of the calamities of oppression next after God himself we are not to goe in our troubles and oppressions to wizards of State the Kings enimies that bewitch men with presents or rebells or take indirect courses of insurrections and tumultuation this is a remedy worse then the disease and more displeasing to God and dishonorable to the subject and deserues a greater yoake of seruitude but we must continue our humble petitions to the King and tell his Majesty how the matter stands We must be like the importunat widow and allthough we meet with many discouragements as those that came unto Christ did yet we may not surcease and be weary or droue back for Kings are Gods and are exorable full of pity compassion and neuer send away their subjects without comfort that with lowly importunity sollicit them and this is the duty of all good subjects and such as will approue their wayes before God and men in the number of which I shall desire euer to liue and die being though but poore as rich in loyalty as any subject in the Kings three dominions But now to shut vp all Whereas you think many will blame mee for that I vse such coorse expressions towards them and it will fauour of some inward splene and study of reuenge and may also scandall religion for they will say they are all of this Spirit In answer to that I protest in the presence of allmighty God that I am so farre from either rancour and hatred toward them for all the wrong they haue done mee as I neuer thinke of any euill towards them because I referre my cause to God and vengeance to him and cast my self vpon his prouidence in a more speciall maner chiefly at this time when I haue none other to depend vpon I being made odious amongst all men and hatefull to them that neuer saw mee But this I confidently confesse vnto you that I know more of the wicked plots of the Prelats then any Subiect that is a Protestant with in the Kings dominions and you would say there were reason for it if you knew all And before I haue done with them I will make the wickednes not onely of our Prelats but of all the Prelats in the whole world knowne vnto all Christians Princes and to al their Subiects who to speake the truth are all infinitly abused by them not onely for the trampling vnder their feet all the sucular Peeres vnder them and the Nobility and flower of all Kingdomes where they dwell and the subiugating of their Commons but in fine in regard of the danger of hauing their necks brought vnder a greater yoake of bondage then euer it formerly was all which I will make appeare vnto all Christian Princes and vnto all men as clearly as the Sun shines at Noone day The mistery indeed that they are a working is carryed closely so that Kings and Nobles do not see it for they all buzze Nobles and Princes in the eare that those that are enimyes to the Hierarchy they indeed would disthrone Kings and haue no gouernment and they would slight the nobility and dignityes and ouerthrow order and states and then they tell a thousand storyes to them all to incense the King and Nobles against that poore company of men that more honour dignityes and powers in a Kingdome then euer any prelat did as shall be euidently proued in my ANATOMY of the pRELATS which I dedicat vnto all Christian Princes and Common-wealths for it concernes them all but especially all such as make profession of the reformed religion I dare say by that time you and all men shall haue read that booke you will see into the mystery of their iniquity so clearely that you will affirme there are no names bad enough for them or sufficient to expresse the wickednes and treachery of those empostors Our Prelats writ books sometime against the Pope and call him the grand Imposter but the truth is the Papists say that all such Bishops are knaues and that if the Pope be an Impostor they are greater for they are all Pops and thus much I haue often heard them speake and that were it not for the hindering of the Catholick cause and the vniuersall Monarchy they could make them fly without gunpowder but they hoped in time they would leaue to write against the Church of Rome They know one an others kneueries all which I haue made knowne in the Anatomy of the Prelats which is in the hands of some speciall friends The printing of which I haue reserued till my censure in the starre-chamber because I desire to doe things methodically and vpon mature deliberation and in such sort that all Christendome may haue the greater cause to looke into businesses that so highly concerne their well being You know I haue been a traueller and liued many yeares abroad and in the most florishing vniuersityes of Europe and in many Courts of great Princes and haue