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A05604	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	58,976	32

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 all which you thinke will be censured of vnad uisednes at least if not thought scandalous and punishable To this I answer first that by Bishops I vnderstand the Prelats and by Preists their owne creatures a generation vnknowne in the Church of Christ and by Deacons the vnder Preists in this Kingdome Officers of which the Scripture knoweth nothing likewise For the Deacons such as the Churches chose and were allowed by the Apostels they were men of grauity full of Faith and the Holy Ghost men of wisdome and good gouerment and honesty and were the treasures of the faithfull and the Church of God and distributed the liberalityes of the Saints amongst the poore indigent and necessitated brethren Now I know neuer a Deacon in England either guilty of any of those Vertues before specified or that was euer imployed in that Office or was thought fit to be trusted with the treasury of the poore or tooke the least care of them who ordinarily they trample vpon and most reprochfully abuse with the name of rascality So that such Deacons as I pray against are limbes of the Beast and the inferior order of shauelings such as ought to be spewed out of the Church as profitable for nothing but the increase of wickednes And for Bishops such as God appoynted I honour them and will mayntayne their dignity to the last drop of my bloud so far I am from praying against such Neither did I euer speake vnreuerently against the Kings Bishops and those that were apoynted as an Order in the State till they had in their open court renounced his authority and run themselues by that and many other notorious proceedings into a Praemunire and so had made themselues enemyes of his Prerogatiue royall and delinquents against his Maiestie and vnder his Highnesses displeasure as by the Statutes of the Kingdome they are proclamed to be and by the defenders of their proceedings in their Ecclesiasticall Courts who in a booke set forth by their common consent doe conclude all those in a Premunire that challenge their authority Iure diuino as the Pope and clergie of Rome which at this time they doe And for your better satisfaction looke in the Apology for proceedings in Courts Ecclesiasticall a booke made by the Prelats owne creatures and in the first chapter you shall see all the Prelats by their owne witnes in a Premunire and delinquents against his Maiestie in a high degree of contumacy And truely I thinke there was neuer such an affront put vpon regall dignity as on that day I was censured neuer such dishonour put vpon the Scriptures by such as would be thought Ministers of the word and the Bishops and Pastors of Christ neither were the scriptures euer more blasphemously abused thē they were at that time in their open assembly I shall briefly therefore tell you that dayes work of which there is a thousand witnesses as also of their impious words against the most sacred word of God and diuine oracles of holy writ by all which you will see I haue good reasō to call them ANTICHRISTS LITTLE TOES and to pray against them for they are as Disperatly impious equally to be detested of all such as truely feare the Lord and the King for if wee compare them together there will no disparity appeare between them they being euery way as malicious against the word of God and his deare seruants and as diametrally opposing regality as Antichrist himself But that all things may the more clearly be euidenced vnto you let mee tell you that dayes proceedings You must take notice that howsoeuer they had fained some triuiall articles against mee they were all by the generall consent of the Court thought so poore as they openly auerred they would not condemne mee for them so much the rather because those that had sworne to them were proued to be my capital enimyes and also in their depositions to haue sworne point blanck one against an other and like euill witnesses could not agree in swearing therefore they onely cōdemned mee for my booke which I writ in defence of the honor of Christ and his Kingdome and of the Kings most excellent Maiesties prerogatiue Royall and Supremacy against the Pope and Popish Bishops prouoked there vnto by a Papist to which duty I was bound both by the law of God the law of the land my speciall oath all which I alleged at the barre farthermore added that in writing against the Bishop of Rome I intented no such Bishops as acknowledge their autority from Kings and Emperors but onely those Bishops that vsurp autority ouer Kings and Emperors and their fellow brethren and the Church of God iure diuino and so I had prefaced in my book which also I openly read there And to speake the truth I looked for fauour and assistance in this combat from the Prelats neuer suspecting that they would haue been my enimyes for this endeauour especially I hauing also in that place alleged the Acts and Statutes establyshed by the publick consent of the whole Kingdome in which it was ratified that the Prelats haue all their autority and iurisdiction which they now exercise from the King as immediately deriued from him and to affirme the contrary is to be ipso facto an enimy of his crowne and dignity And as the Prelats were an order established by the King and state I was so farre from opposing them that I neuer impeached their dignity in the least thing in all the booke neither would I euer haue medled with them if they had kept that standing but they like the euill Angels out of pride not keeping their first station BVT OPENLY RENOVNCING THE KINGS AVTORITY and affirming that Iesus Christ made them Bishops and that the holy Ghost consecrated them and that they were Princes and had their thrones and that before Kings and all this iure diuino by all which they made mee their enimy they being delinquents against the King And because I had retified whatsoeuer I sayd in my booke by the word of God they as they had before renounced the Kings autority and barbarously reuiled mee for my paines most impiously likewise vilified the holy scripture Saying in their Sessions that they looked for some great matter in my booke finding mee so confident but more diligently reading of it they found nothing but scripture in it which was the refuge of all Schismaticks and Heriticks and that the Scripture could not be knowne

THE WHORE OF BABILON and earnestly exhorts all Christian Princes to come out of her And the Prelats in their Court affirme that the Church of Rome is a true Church and neuer had so much as a suspition of error in fundamentall poynts of religion and in putrid pamphlets set forth by their autority they confirme the same and that the Pope is not Antichrist Is not this damnable impiety against God and the King preiudiciall to the saluation of thousands the maintenance of the Papists in their diabolycall doctrins and the making of many poore people at their wits end not knowing which way now to take for the sauing of their soules and withall yeilds and ministers to my knowledg many arguments vnto the Preists and Iesuits of seducing the Kings Subiects and to peruert and mislead the people and keeping of the seduced in error and disloyalty to their King when they shall heare our Fathers the Prelats to proclayme the synagogne of Satan Rome it self to be the true Chuth and that she neuer had so much in her as the appearance of error and that saluation may be found and had in it And yet royall and learned KING IAMES ABSOLVTELY ASSEVERS NAY VNANSWERABLY PROVETH THAT THE POPE is ANTICHRIST AND ROME THE WHORF OF BABILON AND that SALVATION CANNOT BE HAD IN THAT CHVRCH and in the same faith he liued and dyed and in the same our gracious King Charles was bred and educated and hath in two seuerall declarations after the 39. Articles of the dissolution of the Parlament pag. 21 24 Protested before God and all his Subiects that he would neuer giue any way to the licencing or autorising of any thing whereby any innouation in the least degree may creep into our Church nor euer conniue at any back sliding to Popery And that it is his hearts desire to be found worthy of that title which he esteemeth to be most glorious in all his crowne Defender of the faith Here the King protests he is of the same faith his father was defender of the same and that he will neuer licence nor autorize any thing that tends to innouation nor neuer conniue at any backsliding to Popery And who is he worthy the name of a Subiect that will not take his royall word by which he hath declared himself to be of his royall fathers faith and a defender of the same and that was that the Pope was Antichrist and the Church of Rome the whore of Babilon And yet the Prelats and their complices that vermin to the deshonour of both these famous Kings their Lords and Maisters teach the contrary and punish those seuerely that defend and mayntaine the same faith they professe themselues protectors and defenders of trampling vpon regall dignity in their Courts and abusing Princely clemency It is worth the looking on to see the pride of the Prelats in setting the Kings picture ouer their dresser in the high Commission Court for they haue placed his Highnes standing with his hat of before their worships like a delinquent his Crowne and scepter layed low as the poore Emperors and Kings were wont to stand before his impiety the Pope when they were cited to his Courts of which storyes you may reade many in KING IAMES HIS APOLOGY to goe no farther and in this very maner haue they set vp the portrait of our renowned King And the very intrinsecall marry bone of the matter is they trample vpon his imperiall dignity while they seeme to honour him with whom they make themselues in the meane time checkmates for they say they were before Christian Kings and had their thrones and that they were not beholding to him for their honour and dignity of Episcopality for they were iure diuino that they were Now what is it to trample vpon the Kings Crowne and Royalty stamp his lawes vnder their feet and to backslide to Popery and to bring in innouation if this be not But concerning innouation afterwards In the meane time by these damnable proceedings they manifest sufficiently that they are Antichrists litle toes for they are very Popes themselues and whatsoeuer can be sayd of the Pope may be spoke of them I will therefore for the more cleare elucidation of this matter in a few things breifly here compare them together For howsoeuer one may be a greater Pope then an other as one King may be greater then an other yet they are all Popes and pernicious enimyes to God the King and the whole Church of God But now to the matter The Pope writeth himself Father so do they write themselues reuerend Fathers The Pope sells sin for mony so do they as the whole kingdome and their Officers can well tell and doth nothing without mony so doe they The Pope forbiddeth marriage and meats and which Paul calleth the doctrine of deuills so doe they in the same maner whatsoeuer they pretend The Pope commandeth superstitious idoll dayes to be kept and obserued contrary to the commandements of God and punisheth the neglect of his Commands more seuerely then the breach of the waightiest lawes of God so do the Prelats as their Courts can witnes yea and command men and compell them as the Pope himself to breake the commandements of God to obserue vaine and impious traditions The Pope selleth Licences for meats and mariage the Prelats doe the same The Pope selleth nonresidences pluralityes trialityes totquots the Prelats doe the same to the staruing and ruining of the soules of men The Pope ruleth and gouerneth the Church by the cursed Canon law and Popish excommunications the scalding house of conscience the Prelats doe the very same and the breach of their stinkingest Canons is more deeply punished in their Courts then the violation of all the lawes of God and the King The Pope preferreth his Ceremonyes and traditions aboue the word of God The Prelats doe the same as dayly experience teacheth vs. The Pope maketh his Seruants or Preists by his owne power without the consent of the people and intrudeth them vpon the congregations without either their knowledge or liking the Prelats doe the same The Pope percecuteth all godly Preachers and people that preach the Gospell in the purity of it and desire in sincerity to serue the Lord and would bring their brethren to the knowledge of the same and to the purity and truth of the Apostolicall Churches the Prelates doe the like as the whole Kingdome knoweth well and the gaoles and prisons dayly witnes and the silencing of so many learned and painfull Ministers The Pope appoynts his Preists to stand at the altar with the Deacon apperrelled with his foppish and player-like accutriments those Babylonish garments and to cry out Dominus vobiscum the Deacon and Subdeacon with all the rest of Baals Preists answering him as lowd as they can the Bishops doe the same sauing onely that it is in English The Pope commandeth adoration at the Sacrament crossing of children in baptisme demanding

the people and the perishing of multitudes of families of those good subiects that durst not meddle with them in their dangerous and deuillish proceedings and made many thousands fly the country and more ready to depart not knowing where to liue free quietly for them in the whole kingdome And it is now come to passe according to that of Salomon Prov. 30 ver 21. For three things the earth is disquieted and for foure it cannot beare for a seruant when he raigneth and a foole when he is filled with meat c. So that the domineering of seruants hath euer been the disquieting of the whole land where they are for when they are filled with meat like the euill seruant in the Gospell because his Master delayed his comming fell a eating and a drinking and then a beating his fellow seruants euen so the Prelats they liue of the fat of the earth pamper and cram themselues faring deliciously euery day and then they fall a beating of vs their fellow seruants and vse vs most vnhumanly more like beasts then men and this is and hath been the very practice of Antichrist which they now take vp and therefore in all these respects I may safely conclude they are limbs of the beast and none of Christs Ministers nor the Apostles successors but the very ofspring of Antichrist and according to Poclington lineally descended from him which if you would please with a more serious deliberation to waigh and parallel the Popes and their proceedings a little more narrowly together it would yet more euidently appeare such a sweet harmony you shall find between them in all things Let vs looke therefore vpon the charge that Christ in the last of Mathew gaue vnto his disclipes and in them to all succeeding Ministers of the Gospell Ver. 19. 20. Goe therefore sayth hee and teach all nation baptising them in the name of the Father and of the Son and of the Holy Ghost Teaching them to obserue all things whatsoeuer I haue commanded you and lo I am with you alwayes euen vnto the end of the world Here then we see the whole office of the Ministers of Christ is to teach and administer the Sacraments not to domineir ouer their brethren Secondly the restriction and limitation of his Ministers teaching They must not teach the people what they list but they must teach to obserue all things whatsoeuer Christ commaunds and nothing else not their owne phantisies and foppist superstitions and vaine and idle ceremonyes And thirdly for their comfort in so doing and teaching he promiseth vnto them his perpetuall assistance and blessing and that euen to the end of the world I pray let vs now se whether the Pope or Prelats haue learned this lesson well or no whether they haue imitated the Apostles in so teaching All Christs true Ministers are teachers no Lords nor beaters euer carefull to dispense vnto the people committed to their charge the food of their soules the word and Sacraments they goe and teach all Nations The Pope and Prelats they goe beat and silence all Nations they will neither teach themselues nor will let others teach And this is their dayly practice as the whole world knoweth well Neither can the Pope or Prelats deny it Are not these therefore Antichrist little toes and to be prayed against thinke you but not to speake now more of that Now come to the limitation or restriction All the true Ministers of Christ teach the people to obserue that onely which he hath commanded neither ought they to teach otherwise or the people to heare or obserue otherwise though an angell from heauen should bring it for they haue all a speciall command not to be wise aboue that which is written and not to preach a diuerse doctrine to that they haue been taught And in the 2. of the Colossians the apostle is very large in instructing them to beware of all will worship and to take heed of all such as vnder the pretence of deuotion intrude vpon the people their owne superstitious inuentions in the worship and seruice of God And the same Apostle warnes the Corinthians that in Gods worship they should not become the seruants of men who ought not to prescribe how to serue God in regard that hee himself by Moses the Prophets and in these last dayes by his sonne Iesus Christ hath fully taught vs how to worship him And Christ himself rebuked the Scribes and Pharises for bringing their owne deuices into his Seruice openly teaching all his auditors that those serue him in vaine that worship him after the precepts of men and for our derection sends them vnto the word saying search the Scriptures for they testify of mee and in them you thinke to haue eternall life And this word Paul commands should dwell plentifully in vs and sayes that if we walk according to the rule of that the peace of God shall be with vs and Saint Peter for our comfort bids all Christians haue recourse to it for it is a light to guide vs through the darkest errors of this world And saint Paul Ephesians 4 ver 11. 12 13. 14. setting downe the reason and end why Christ gaue some Apostles some Prophets some Euangelists some Pastors and teachers saith that we henceforth be no more children tossed to and fro and carried about with euery wind of doctrine by the slight of men and cunning craftiness whereby they lie in wait to deceiue By which place it is sufficiently manifest that they haue giuen and left vnto the Church a sufficient rule of direction to be guided by and that to swarue from it is to be like little children tossed to and fro Now then if Moses the Prophets Christ and his Apostles commands be to be obeyed Ministers and people are the one to teach and the other to heare and obserue nothing but what Christ commands and either to teach or to obey contrary is open rebellion against God and pernicious to them both This you see is the restriction The word and command of Christ must be the rule and nothing els Yea an angell from heauen is not to be heard teaching otherwise nor one rising from the dead Abraham sends them to Moses and the Prophets the word of God and that onely is able to saue our soules and that onely must be the rule of teaching and obeying Now I pray to leaue the Pope a little to come nigher home Heare the Prelats teach and their shauelings when they preach euen in the Court it selfe S●imme of first the froth of human wit I meane their vaine and vnprofitable florishes take away their superstition and will worship taught there to say nothing of Popery Arminianisme and Libertinisme Pare away their raylings against the power and life of religion and the generation of the just Remoue also the flattery of them not far many times from blasphemy and able to bring a curse rather then a blessing vpon our gratious King I say remoue all these