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A43528	Ecclesia restaurata, or, The history of the reformation of the Church of England containing the beginning, progress, and successes of it, the counsels by which it was conducted, the rules of piety and prudence upon which it was founded, the several steps by which it was promoted or retarded in the change of times, from the first preparations to it by King Henry the Eight untill the legal settling and establishment of it under Queen Elizabeth : together with the intermixture of such civil actions and affairs of state, as either were co-incident with it or related to it / by Peter Heylyn.	Heylyn, Peter, 1600-1662.; Heylyn, Peter, 1599-1662. Affairs of church and state in England during the life and reign of Queen Mary.	1660-1661 (1661)	Wing H1701_ENTIRE; Wing H1683_PARTIAL_CANCELLED; ESTC R6263	514,716	473

called unpardonable and so affirmed to be by our Lord and Saviour _____ XVII Of Predestination and Election Predestination unto life is the everlasting purpose of God whereby before the foundations of the world were laid he hath constantly decreed by his counsel secret ●nto us to deliver from curse and damnation those whom he hath chosen out of Mankind and to bring them by Christ to everlasting salvation as vessels made to honor Wherefore they which be endued with so excellent a benefit of God be called according to Gods purpose by his Spirit working in due season they through grace obey the calling they be justified freely they are made sons by Adoption they are made like the image of the onely begotten Jesus Christ they walk religiously in good works and at length by Gods mercy they attain to everlasting felicity As the godly consideration of Predestination and Election in Christ is full of sweet pleasant and unspeakable comfort to godly persons and such as feel in themselves the working of the Spirit of Christ mortifying the works of the flesh and their earthly members and drawing up their mind to high and heavenly things as well because it doth greatly establish and confirm their faith of eternal salvation to be enjoyed through Christ as because it doth fervently kindle their love towards God So for curious and carnal persons lacking the Spirit of Christ to have continually before their eyes the sentence of Gods Predestination is a most dangerous downfall whereby the devil doth thrust them either into desperation or into wretchlesness of most unclean living● no lesse perilous than desperation Furthermore though the Decrees of Predestination be unknown to us 17 yet must we receive Gods promises in such wise as they be generally set forth to us in holy Scripture and in our doings that will of God is to be followed which we have expresly declared unto us in the Word of God XVII Of Predestination and Election Predestination unto life is the everlasting purpose of God whereby before the foundations of the world were laid he hath constantly decreed by his counsel secret unto us to deliver from curse and damnation those whom he hath chosen in Christ 16 out of Mankind and to bring them by Christ to everlasting salvation they are made the sons of God by Adoption they be made like the Image of His onely begotten Son Jesus Christ c. Furthermore we must receive Gods promises in such wise as they be generally set forth to us c. XVIII Everlasting Salvation to be obtained onely in the Name of Christ. They also are to be had accursed that presume to say That every man shall be saved by the Law or Sect which he professeth so that he be diligent to frame his life according to that Law and the light of Nature For holy Scripture doth set out unto us onely the Name of Jesus Christ whereby men must be saved XVIII Of obtaining Eternal Salvation by the Name of Christ. They also are to be had accursed that presume to say That every man shall be saved by the Law or Sect which he professeth c. XIX All men are bound to keep the Precepts of the Moral Law 18 Although the Law given from God by Moses as touching Ceremonies and Rites do not bind Christian men nor the Civil Precepts thereof ought of necessity to be received in any Common-wealth yet notwithstanding no Christian man whatsoever is free from the obedience of the Commandments which are called Moral Wherefore they are not to be heard 19 which teach that the holy Scriptures were given to none but to the Weak and brag continually of the Spirit by which they do pretend that all whatsoever they preach is suggested to them though manifestly contrary to the holy Scripture _____ XX. Of the Church The visible Church of Christ is a Congregation of faithful men in which the pure Word of God is preached and the Sacraments be duly ministred according to Christs Ordinance in all those things that of necessity are requisite to the same As the Church of Jerusalem Alexandria and Antioch have erred so also the Church of Rome hath erred not onely in their Livings and manner of Ceremonies but also in matters of Faith XIX Of the Church The visible Church of Christ is a Congregation of faithful men in which the pure Word of God is preached c. XXI Of the Authority of the Church It is not lawful for the Church to ordain any thing that is contrary to Gods Word written neither may it so expound one place of Scripture that it be repugnant to a●other Where●ore although the Church be a witnesse and keeper of holy Writ yet as it ought not to decree any thing against the same so besides the same ought it not to enforce any thing to be believed for necessity of Salvation XX. Of the Authority of the Church The Church hath power to decree Rites and Ceremonies and Authority in Controversies of Faith 20 It is not lawful for the Church c. XXII Of the Authority of General Councils General Councils may not be gathered together without the commandment and will of Princes And when they be gathered together forasmuch as they be an Assembly of men whereof all be not governed with the Spirit and word of God they may erre and sometimes have erred even in things pertaining unto God Wherefore things ordained by them as necessary to Salvation have neither strength nor authority unless it may be declared that they be taken out of holy Scripture XXI Of the Authority of General Councils General Councils may not be gathered together without the commandment and will of Princes c. XXIII Of Purgatory The Doctrine of the School-men concerning Purgatory Pardons Worshipping and Ado●ation as well of Images as of Relicts and also invocation of Saints is a fond thing vainly invented and grounded upon no warranty of Scripture but rather perniciously repugnant to the Word of God XXII Of Purgatory The Doctrine of the School-men concerning Purgatory c. XXIV No man to minister in the Church except he be called It is not lawfull for any man to take upon him the office of publick Preaching or ministring the Sacraments in the Congregation before he be lawfully called and sent to execute the same And those we ought to judge lawfully called and sent which be ●hosen and called to this work by men who have publi●k Authority given unto them in the Cong●egation to call and send Ministers into the Lords Vineyard XXIII Of ministring in the Congregation It is not lawful for any man to take upon him the office of publick Preaching c. XXV All things to be done in the Congregation in such a Toung as is understood by the People It is most fit and most agreeable to to the Word of God 21 that nothing be read or rehearsed in the Congregation in a Tongue not known unto the People which Paul hath forbidden to be done unless

as willing as himself to have the Catholick Religion entertained in all parts of the Kingdom though neither of them seemed desirous to act any thing in it or take the envy on himself that he was well enough pleased with that reservednesse hoping they did not mean it for a precedent unto him or others who had a mind to shew their zeal and forwardness in the Catholick cause Have I not seen saith he that the hereticks themselves have broke the Ice in putting one of their own number I think they called him by the name of Servetus to a cruell death Could it be thought no crime in them to take that more severe course against one of their brethren for holding any contrary doctrine from that which they had publickly agreed amongst them And can they be so silly or so partial rather as to reckon it for a crime in us if we proceed against them with the like severity and punish them by the most extream rigour of their own example I plainly see that neither you my Lord Cardinal nor you my Lord Chancellor have any Answer to return to my present Argument which is sufficient to encourage me to proceed upon it I cannot act Canonically against any of them but such as live within the compasse of my jurisdiction in which I shall desire no help nor countenance from either of you But as for such as live in the Diocesse of Canterbury or that of Winchester or otherwise not within my reach in what place soever let them be sent for up by order from the Lords of the Council committed to the Tower the Fleet or any other Prison within my Diocesse And when I have them in my clutches let God do so and more to Bonner if they scape his fingers The Persecution thus resolved on home goes the bloody Executioner armed with as much power as the Law could give him and backed by the Authority of so great a King taking some other of the Bishops to him convents before him certain of the Preachers of King Edwards time who formerly had been committed to several prisons of whom it was demanded Whether they would stand to their former doctrines or accept the Queens Pardon and Recant To which it was generally and stoutly answered That they would stand unto their doctrines Hereupon followed that Inquisition for blood which raged in London and more or less was exercised in most parts of the Kingdom The first that led the way was Mr. John R●gers a right learned man and a great companion of that Tyndal by whom the Bible was translated into English in the time of King Henry After whose Martyrdom not daring to return into his own country he retired to Witt●berge in the Dukedom of Saxonie where he remained till King Edward's comming to the Crown and was by Bishop Ridley preferred to the Lecture of St. Pauls and made one of the Prebends Nothing the better liked of for his Patron 's sake he was convented and condemned and publickly burnt in Smithfield on the 4th of February On the 9th day of which Month another fire was kindled at Glocester for the burning of Mr. John Hooper the late Bishop thereof of whom sufficient hath been spoke in another place condemned amongst the rest at London but appointed to be burnt in Glocester as the place in which he most had sinned by sowing the seeds of false doctrine amongst the people The news whereof being brought unto him he rejoyced exceedingly in regard of that excellent opportunity which was thereby offered for giving testimony by his death to the truth of that Doctrine which had so oft sounded in their ears and now should be confirmed by the sight of their eyes The W●rra●● for whose burning was in these words following as I find it in the famous Library of Sir Robert Cotton Whereas John Hooper who of 〈◊〉 was called Bishop of Worcester and G●ocester is by due order of the Laws Ecclesiastical condemned and judged for a most ●bstinate false and detestable Heretick and committed to our Secular Power to be burned according to the wholsome and good Laws of our Realm in that case provided Forasmuch as in those Oities and Di●cesses thereof he hath in times past preached and taught most pestilent Heresies and Doctrine to our Subjects there We have therefore given order that the said Hooper who yet persisteth obstinate and refuseth mercy when it was graciously offered shall be put to execution in the said City of Glocester for the example and terrour of others such a● he hath there seduced and mis-ta●get and because he hath done most harm there And will that you calling to you some of reputation dwelling in that Shire such as you think best shall repair unto your said City and be at the said execution assisting our Mayor and Sheriffs of the same City in this behalf And for asmuch as the said Hooper is as other Hereticks a vain-glorious person and delighted in his tongue to persuade such as he hath seduced to persist in the miserable opinions that he ha●h sown amongst them our pleasure is therefore and we require you to take order that the said Hooper be neither at the time of his execution nor in going to the place there suffered to speak at large but thither to be led quietly and in silence for eschewing of further infection and such inconveniences as may otherwise ens●e in this part Whereof fail ye not as ye tender our pleasure The like course was also taken with Bishop Earrar but that I do not find him restrained from speaking his mind unto the people as the other was A man of an implausible nature which rendred him the less agreeable to either side cast into prison by the Protestant and brought out to his death and martyrdom by the Popish party Being found in prison at the death of King Edward he might have fared as well as any of his ranck and order who had no hand in the interposing for Queen Jane if he had governed himself with that discretion and given such fair and moderate Answers as any man in his condition might have honestly done But being called before Bishop Gardiner he behaved himself so proudly and gave such offence that he was sent back again to prison and after condemned for an obstinate Heretick But for the sentence of his condemnation he was sent into his own Diocess there to receive it at the hand of Morgan who had supplanted and succeeded him in the See of St. Davids Which cruell wretch having already took possession could conceive no way safer for his future establishment than by imbruing his hands in the blood of this learned Prelate and to make sure with him for ever claiming a restitution or comming in by a Remitter to his former estate in reference whereunto he past sentence on him caused him to be delivered to the Civil Magistrate not desisting till he had brought him to the Stake on the third of March more glad to see

had been given before between the time of the Duke's Acknowledgment and the Sentence passed on him by the Lords and so disposed that none of the Factions might have any ground for a Complaint One of each side being taken out for these Advancements For on the nineteenth day of January William Lord St. John a most affectionate Servant to the Earl of Warwick was preferred unto the Title of Earl of Wiltshire the Lord Russell who had made himself the Head of those which were engaged on neither side was made Earl of Bedford and Sir William Paget Comptroller of his Majestie 's Houshold who had persisted faithfull to the Lord Protectour advanced to the Dignity of a Baron and not long after to the Chancellour-ship of the Dutchy of Lancaster Furnished with Offices and Honours it is to be presumed that they would finde some way to provide themselves of sufficient Means to maintain their Dignities The Lord Wentworth being a younger Branch of the Wentworths of Yorkshire had brought some Estate with him to the Court though not enough to keep him up in Equipage with so great a Title The want whereof was supplied in part by the Office of Lord Chamberlain now conferred upon him but more by the goodly Manours of Stebun●th commonly called Stepney and Hackney bestowed upon him by the King in consideration of the Good and Faithfull Services before performed For so it happened that the D●an and Chapter of St. Paul's lying at the Mercy of the Times as before was said conveyed over to the King the said two Manours on the twelfth day after Christm●ss now last past with all the Members and Appertenances thereunto belonging Of which the last named was valued at the yearly rent of 41. pounds 9. ● 4 d. The other at 140. pounds 8 ● 11. ● ob And being thus vested in the King they were by Letters Patents bearing Date the sixteenth of April then next following transferred upon the said Lord VV●ntworth By means whereof he was possessed of a goodly Territory extending on the Thames from St. Katharine's near the Tower of London to the Borders of Essex near Black-wall from thence along the River Le● to Stratford le Bow and fetching a great compass on that side of the City contains in all no fewer then six and twenty Town-ships Streets and Hamlets besides such Rows of Building as have since been added in these later Times The like provision was made by the new Lord P●get a Londoner by Birth but by good Fortune mixed with Merit preferred by degrees to be one of the Principal Secretaries to the late King Henry by whom he was employed in many Embassies and Negotiations Being thus raised and able to set up for himself he had his share in the division of the Lands of Chantery Free-Chapels c. and got into his hands the Episcopal House belonging to the Bishop of Exeter by him enlarged and beautified and called Paget-House sold afterwards to Robert Earl of Leicester from whom it came to the late Earls of Essex and from them took the name of Essex-House by which it is now best known But being a great House is no● able to keep it self he played his Game so well that he got into his possession the Manour of Beau-desart of which he was created Baron and many other fair Estates in the County of Stafford belonging partly to the Bishop and partly to the Dean and Cha●ter of Lichfield neither of which was able to contend with so great a Courtier who held the See and had the Ear of the Protectour and the King 's to boot What other Course he to●k to improve his Fortunes we shall see hereafter when we come to the last part of the Tragedy of the Duke of Sommerset For Sommerset having gained his Liberty and thereby being put into a Capacity of making use of his Friends found Means to be admitted to the King's Presence by whom he was not onely welcomed with all the kind Expressions of a Gracious Prince and made to sit down at his own Table but the same day the eighth of April he was again sworn one of the Lords of the Privy Council This was enough to make Earl Dudly look about him and to pretend a Reconciliation with him for the present whom he meant first to make secure and afterwards strike the last blow at him when he least look'd for it And that the knot of Amity might be tyed the faster and last the longer a True-Loves-Knot it must be thought or else nothing worth a Marriage was n●gotiated between John Lord Viscount L'isle the Earl's Eldest Son and the Lady Ann Seimour one of the Daughters of the Duke which Marriage was joyfully solemnized on the third of June at the King's Mannour-House of Sh●●e the King himself gracing the Nuptials with his Presence And now who could imagine but that upon the giving of such Hostages unto one another a most inviolable League of Friendship had been made between them and that all Animosities and Displeasures being quite forgotten they would more powerfully Co-operate to the publick Good But leaving them and their Ad●erents to the dark Contrivances of the Court we must leave England for a time and see how our Affairs succeeded on the other side of the Sea Where in the middle of the former Dissensions the French had put us to the Worst in the way of Arms and after got the Better in a Treaty of Peace They had the last year taken in all the Out-works which seemed the strongest Rampar●s of the Town of Bulloign but had not strength enough to venture on the Town it self provided plentifully of all necessaries to endure a Siege and bravely Garisoned by men of too much Courage and Resolution to give it up upon a Summons Besides they came to understand that the English were then Practicing with Charles the Emperour to associate with them in the War according to some former Capitulations made between those Crowns And if they found such D●ffi●ulties in maintaining the War against either of them when they fought singly by themselves there was no hope of any good Success against them should they unite and poure their Forces into France Most true it is that after such time as the French had bid Defiance to the King and that the King by reason of the Troubles and Embroilments at home was not in a Condition to attend the Affairs of France Sir William Paget was sent Ambassadour to Charles the Fifth to desire Succour of Him and to lay before Him the Infancy and several Necessities of the young King being then in the twelfth year of His Age. This desire when the Emperour had refused to hearken to they besought Him that he would at the least be pleased to take into His Hands the keeping of the Town of Bulloign and that for no longer time then untill King EDVVARD could make an End of the Troubles of His Subjects at home and compose the Discords of the Court which

not be affirmed of England in the times preceding so neither can it now be said of any State or Nation in the Christian world in all which there are several sorts of copper mony as current with them for publick uses as the purest metal She provided also in like manner for her peoples safety and the encrease of Trade and Merchandise in English Bottoms For towards the end of this second year she made great preparation of Ordinance Arms Munition and Powder of her own materials to be in a readiness to defend her Realm in all emergencies of danger For the advancing of which service it so pleased the divine Providence which watched over her actions that a rich Mine of Brass was found near Keswick in Cumberland such as sufficed not onely for furnishing her own Forts and Ships with all manner of Ordinance but for supplying other Countries as their wants required And to compleat so great a mercy in her preservation the Stone called Lapis Calaminaris exceeding necessary for all brass-Brass-works was at the same time also found in England in most plentiful manner And whereas complaint was made unto her by the Merchants of the Hans-towns or Merchants of the Stilyard as then commonly called that King Edward had first ceized their Liberties and that afterwards Queen Mary had raised their Customs upon all sorts of Merchandises from one to twenty in the Hundred her Answer was That as she was resolved not to Innovate any thing so she could grant no other privileges and immunities to them than those in which she found them when she came to the Crown Their Trading hereupon being intermitted the English Merchants took the managing of it upon themselves and thrived therein so well after some adventures that Cloth and other Manufactures heretofore transported in the ships of those Merchants were from henceforth fraughted and dispersed in English Vessels By means whereof the English in a very short time attained unto the reputation of being the wealthiest Merchants the most expert Mariners and the ablest Commanders for Sea-fights of any Nation in the world I shall conclude this year with a work of piety in the foundation of the Collegiat Church of St. Peter in Westminster which in the space of twenty years had been changed from an Abbey to a Deanry from a Deanry to a See Episcopal reduced unto a Deanry again and finally restored to the state of an Abbey But the Abbey being dissolved in the foregoing Parliament an offer was made to Fecknam and the rest of the Convent if Sanders be to be believed in this particular for continuing in their places and possessions as before they did clogged with no other conditions than the taking of the Oath of Supremacy and officiating all divine Offices by the English Liturgy But this offer being by them rejected the Act of dissolution passed in both Houses of Parliament Concerning which there goes a story that the Lord Abbot being then busied in planting some young Elms in the Deans yard there one that came by advised him to desist from his purpose telling him That the Bill was just then passed for dissolving his Monastery To which the good old man replied That he resolved howsoever to go on with his work being well assured that that Church would be always kept for an encouragement and seat of Learning And so it proved in the event for the Queen having pleased her self in the choice of some of the best Lands which remained unto it confirmed the rest upon that Church which she caused to be called the Collegiat Church of St. Peter in Westminster as appears by her Letters Parens bearing date in the second year of her most gracious and most prosperous Reign A foundation of a large capacity and as amply privileged consisting of a Dean and twelve secular Canons two School masters and forty Scholars petit Canons and others of the Quire to the number of thirty ten Officers belonging to the Church and as many servants appertaining to the College diet and twelve Alms-men besides many Officers Stewards Receivers and Collectors for keeping Courts and bringing in of their Revenue the principal of which called the High Steward of Westminster hath ever since been one of the prime Nobility and in great favour at the Court The Dean entrusted with keeping the Regalia honored with a place of necessary service at all Coronations and a Commissioner for the Peace within the City of Westminster and the Liberties of it by Act of Parliament The Dean and Chapter vested with all manner of jurisdiction both Ecclesiastical and Civil not onely within the City and liberties of Westminster but within the precinct of St. Martins le grand and some Towns of Essex exempted in the one from the Bishop of London and in the other from the power of the Archbishop of Canterbury The Scholars annually preferred by election either to Christ-Church in Oxon or Trinity College in Cambrige each College being bound by an Indenture made with Queen Elizabeth to take off yearly two or three at the least though since that number is extended to four or five to be preferred to Scholarships Fellowships in their several Houses A College founded as it proved in such a happy conjuncture that since this new foundation of it it hat given breeding and preferment to four Archbishops two Lord Chancellors or Lord Keepers of the Great Seal of England twenty two Bishops and thirteen Deans of cathedral Churches besides Archdeacons and Prebendaries and other dignitaries in the Church to a proportionable number which is more than can be said of either of the two famous Colleges of Aeton and Winchester or of both together though the one was founded 168 and the other 114 years before it Anno Reg. Eliz. 3. A. D. 1560 1561. WE shall begin this third year of the Queen with the death of Francis the second King of the French who deceased on the 5th day of December when he had scarce lived to the end of his 17th year and had Reigned but one year and five months or thereabouts His death much altered both the counsels and affairs of Christendom distracting the French Nation into schisms and ●actions incouraging the S●ots to proceed with confidence in their Reformation and promising no small security to Queen Elizabeth in regard of the pretensions of the Queen of Scots But so little was her condition bettered by it that she seemed to be in more danger by the acts of her enemies after his decease than formerly in the time of his life and government Francis of G●ise a man of great abilities for Camp and Counsel had made himself a very strong party in the Court of France which he intended to make use of for the Queen of Scots whose Mother the late Queen Regent of Scotland was his only sister And this he might the better do by reason of a division in the Court of France about the government of the Kingdom during the minority of Charls