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A34962	Anti-Baal-Berith justified and Zech. Crofton tryed and cast in his appearance before the (so called) prelate justice of peace in an answer to his seditious pamphlet entituled, Berith-anti-Baal : wherein his anti-monarchial principals are made manifest and apparent, to deserve his just imprisonment : together with an answer and animadversion upon the holy-prophane league and covenant : wherein, according to their own words and ways of arguing, its proved to be null and invalid, and its notorious contrariety to former legal oathes, is in several particulars plainly demonstrated / by Robert Cressener ...	Cressener, Robert.	1662 (1662)	Wing C6888; ESTC R4964	91,100	91

hath once read and reading well considered the Primates Fair Warning to beware and take heed of this Scottish Cockatrice he will find cause enough to perceive a vast contradiction between the Protestation and this Yea and as different a sound between them both as there is betwixt two bells in a steeple and so by good consequence see too the horrible impiety of their solemn League and Covenant The Protesters vow too according to the duty of their Allegiance to maintain and defend His Majesties Royal Person Honor and Estate without any cursed destructive Limmittation of that defence All which are diminished decreased and taken away by Sir Johns Holy League which therefore can admit of no accord between them The late Carolian Martyr in his discourse upon the covenant professes he could not c See Eikon Basilike See how they wil reconcile such an innovating observe that O Leaguer oath and Covenant with that former Protestation which was so lately taken to maintain the Religion established in the Church of England since they count discipline so great a part of Religion But if all that hath been said cannot which in my weak judgement hath sufficiently prove the opposition of the one to the other That there is a great deal of difference between them may be easily perceiv'd by his Majesties deep silence when the Protestation was taken under his nose as we use to say when they were hard by him at Whitehal as well as by his Publick Printed proclamation as far as Oxford against the taking of that Seditious and Traiterous Vow and Covenant as he called it in the day he heard thereof and his prohibition of all people upon their Allegiance not to swear it as ingaging the takers in Acts of high Treason yea and by the late order of the Lords and Commons for the Hangmans burning of it when they did not so much as mention the Protestation which if it had agreed with the Covenant sure enough those Loyal Houses would never have suffered it to have lain still but had sent them both one way together Upon consideration of all that hath now bin said by way of evidence to prove the great contradiction between the two Legal Sacred Oaths of Supremacy and Allegiance the Protestation and this jugling League and Covenant for my own part I cannot but submit to the Primates truth d See his Fair Warning p. 31. That this Covenant is neither valid nor lawful nor consistent with our former oaths but deceitful invalid impious rebellious and contradictory to our former ingagements and consequently obligeth no man to performance but all men to repentance And therefore the difference being so great between them I appeal to any Casuist living whether the former must not be kept as well as the latter rejected the one stood to and maintained for fear of its true consequence Perjury as well as the other to be renounced and disclaimed for the very same cause by those that took any of the three former and so according to the exhorting Leaguers own words it calls for repentance and not pertinacy in it which makes also palpable and manifest the great necessity and justness of that memorable Vote of the two now most Honorable Houses when out of a noble disdain to all Religious Rebellion and Seditious Leaguing principles as well as out of a true fear of God and the King they ordered this Presbyterian Scotland whore to be burnt by the hands of Smectymnus the common hangman § 18. Having now gone through this peerless Covenant and proved as far as my poor understanding enables me to see the great sinfulness thereof both in the form and matter of it and also its jugling contradictions in it self as well as its absolute opposition to former Legal Oaths and so by consequence undeniable the great necessity of every takers sad and serious repentance renuntiation and abhorrence thereof I shall desist from saying any more now of it but shall from hence proceed to the consideration and examination of a certain seditious Paper-book entituled BERITH ANTI-BAAL set forth by one ZECHARY CROFTON a Presbyter of the Right stamp whose contradictions and shallow Arguings therein against the reverend Lord Bishop of Exeter made it so much the fitter task for me to set down my Animadversions on it I know indeed the man is looked upon as the Diana of the party amongst the Brethren and the ablest to deal with such unlearned Ceremonialists as the short-sighted proselites Judge the Profound Episcopalians how learned soever they be But certainly they are either deceived in their Judgements of his parts or else the man was so hampered with what the Bishop replyed to him that as he affirmes of the Bishop in this Rejoynder of his e See the fifth side of his preface Having loosed from the Haven of Reason true Religion and the fear of God he runs a drift wherever the wind of his own words can hurry him and leades his Reader into a Wilderness where he hears no sound but the shrieks of Satyrs barking and howling of beasts at best raging and rayling of men or wild and improper discourses that tend to no certain end For in my judgement which is none of the wisest I am sure but nevertheless what I write I commend to the censure of the impartially Judicious this book of his for a great part thereof contains nothing but sedition and justification of rebellion to the debasing of the Regal Supremacy power of making Laws or of giving his consent thereunto for Crof ton tell us the two Houses may exercise their Legislative power without the Royal consent and sneaking away from the question in hand like a meer shifter and acting in some places the part of a pitiful Caviller And by that time I have set down what I have to say of it I leave it to every Readers judgement to make answer whether it be not so in his And to that end and purpose I shall set down what in my short cursory perusal of the Book I found worth taking notice of to be answered He good man in a fit of piety cries out The Lord deliver me from rendring railing for railng And yet to Page 8. give the world a specimen of his breeding and manners and good words in the second side of his Preface he saith he fears nothing more then to be bound to his good behavior for misbehaving himself so much as to answer a fool according to his folly meaning the learned Prelate and to show his meekness humility and aversation to rayling for he tells us p. 8. he doth not delight to rake in that puddle In the very first side of his Preface he compares the Bishop to the Devil in the fifth and sixth to the Heretiques and Harding the Jesuit e Pag. 62. to an envious and cruel Vulture the book he stiles a f Pag. 3. swoln Toad the Bishop himself he calls g Pag. 42. a proud Pashur

own naturally deformed one appear the neater and beautifuller But I consider otherwise he could not hide his folly from being palpable and open to every person that is not possessed of a Bedlamers understanding nor his Book from being thrown into the fire by ingenuous persons rather then they would vex themselves so much as to read his lies and juglings his cavillings and sedititon his false quotations and confident language both of the judicious Assertions and person of that Learned Reverend Prelate whom this Holy Leaguer may well put to silence after the usual Presbyterian ways of Disputing for indeed it will soon make any wise man leave off medling with such notorious Salamanders who loves to live in peace and quietness and endeavour to advance the Unity of the Church and delights not to live in contention with them to kindle the fire of Combustion and Sedition both in Church and State But we will see however what the man conceived fit in his Scotized noddle to say for himself and make it the matter of his Answer to the words of the Bishop as he had filthily mangled them in his false quotation of them and that I finde upon search to be this learned one that follows with a m P. 25. of his Book But Sir have you not stretch'd too far and stept into a Premunire Little Mr. Crofton should fear to be made less by the head as guilty of Treason Sedition at the least should be thus confront King and Parliaments in what all their Statutes declare to be their own creature and constitution changeable at their pleasure even from the Statutes of Carlisle and 25. of Edward the 3. Declaring against the Pope That holy Church was founded in Prelacy by their own Donation Power and Authority and so by the same way changeable Where is Sir the Kings Prerogative why not Supremacy Would not that word have choak'd you over all persons in all causes Ecclesiastical What is become of your oath of Supremacy Can you make this peremptory determination as your self calls it consist with it any more with your Covenant Hath a gracious King lately advanced you to debase nay dethrone him and his Parliament too And then tells his Readers a story How it hath been observed to be the fatall chance of the Bishops of England to run themselves into a Premunire The man would fain make people believe that Bishops are Seditious persons and in particular his Reverend Antagonist and therefore the best course will first be to consider what the Bishop hath said and then see whether it amount to the Sedition supposed by the Leaguing Rhodomantado and in order thereunto I shall begin with the first particle of the Bishops words That Kings Lords and Commons have no prudent moral religious and lawful authority to change an ancient universal Church-Government by Bishops to any that is As new and schismatical So far worse and unsuitable to England every way and see whether they may be found to be either contrary to truth or a derogation to His Majesties legal Supremacy and therefore first that they have no prudential authority to change Episcopal Government much less swear to extirpate them root and branch is evident not onely by the desperate excommunicating antimonarchical brasen tricks and practises of the Godly partie forsooth in Scotland against the excellent King James in walking direct contrary to his Royal Commands and stirring up the people in Rebellion against him because he did not submit himself to their traiterous imperious humours and making him for his own safety to flie out of his own capital City of Edinburgh but also by that Kings famous Motto No Bishop no King and by the sad woful experience of the truth thereof by the late never to be forgotten Rebellion in 1642 and the Regicidian genuine issues and effects of it knowest thou not Sir John Presbyter the undeniable truth of that Assertion of the noble L'estrange which he put forth to the view of the world That m See his Interest mistaken or The holy Cheat pag. 88. by those very Troops that cryed down Bishops was the King murthered Knowest thou not Sir John what the wise King James said to Dr. Reynolds's desire at the conference at Hampton Court for the rearing up a domineering Tyrannical Presbytery within this Kingdom if not then I shall for once declare it unto your Honor the Royal Answer ran thus n See the Conference at Hampton Court p. 81. Stay I pray you for one seven years before you demand that of me and if then you finde me pursey and fat and my wind-pipes stuffed I will perhaps harken to you for let that government be once up I am sure I shall be kept in breath then shall we all of us have work enough both our hands full but Dr. Reynolds till you finde that I grow lazie let that alone If Kings and Parliaments have a mind never to be quiet and to be alwaies in a combustion I know no better advice can be given them then for to set and rear up this Presbytery but if they desire to keep themselves in rest peace and unity they 'l find I am confident no prudential authority to extirpate Episcopacy by a Baal-Berith and bring an headless currish Presbytery in its room but will abandon the Covenant that o See Mr. L'estrange his Interest mistaken p. 35. popular Sacrament of Religious disobedience as the very poison of hell and the secret underminer of the Regal Authority and Supremacy but then § 25. Again secondly that they have no religious authority for as for moral authority that is an authority secundum morem according to former custom their authority is so altogether in the negative there that its in vain to blot any paper with an answer but I say that they have no religious authority to change Episcopal government is evident too in regard of the Apostolicalness and primitive use thereof by the Apostles while they lived in commanding obedience and controuling the subordinate governors and their disorders as well as the peoples in the several Churches they planted and enjoyning the same to be done by his Episcopal deputies at Ephesus and Creet and in them all their successors in the Episcopal office in those several Churches over whom they had their jurisdiction Certainly he that tells me that p 1 Tim. 3. 1. he that desires the office of a Bishop desires a good work gives me no religious nor lawful authority to vow and swear with an Anti-regal Oath to extirpate it and make an exchange for one of the plagues of Egypt to overwhelm us instead of that That the Apostle said the one and that therefore for that very reason Kings and Parliaments have no religious authority to do the other None but a Crofton and his crafty companions would ever have had the confidence to deny it which makes me proceed to the next thing and that is § 26. That they have no lawful