Kings Prerogative as well as Magna Charta is proved by Iudge Ienkins to be a principall part of the common Law and Royal Government a Law fundamental Nay 9. It is proved by the same most learned and pious Iudge That the Supreme power even in time of Parliament was declared by both Houses to belong unto the King 10. The Kings Supremacy hath been proved by so many Arguments out of Bracton as may be seen in Dudley Diggs The Reasons of the Vniversity of Oxford Iudge Ienkins and the like that I shall onely translate some few short passages into English The King saith he hath power and Iurisdiction over all who are within his Kingdome and none but He. Every one is under the King and he under God onely He hath no Peer or equal with his Kingdome mâ—ch less is inferiour unto his subjects God alone is his superiour and to God alone is he accomptable In a word The things that concern Iurisdiction and Peace or are annexed to peace and Iustice do belong to none but to the Crown and the Kingly Dignity nor can they be separated from the Crown for as much as the Crown consisteth in them 11. The Kings supremacy is evinced from the Nature of all his subjects Tenures they holding their Lands of him in Fee Whiâ—h though it gives a perpeâ—ual Estate yet is it not absolute but conditionall as depending on the acknowledgement of superiority and as being forfeitable upon the non-performance of some duties on which supposition it still returns unto the King For the breach of Fidelity is loss of Fee In short it is agreed among the most learned in the Law â— That the King alone hath such a property in all his Lands as Lawyers are wont to call Alaâ—dium because he doth hold in his own full Right without any service or payment of Rent because from God onely 2. That subjects of all Degrees do hold their Lands ut Feuda in the nature of Fee which implyes Fealty to a Superiour 12. The Oath of Allegeance hath the force of another Oath of Supremacy For Legiancy is defined to be an obligation upon all subjects to take part with their Liege Lord against all men living to aid and assist him with their bodies and minds with their advise and power not to lift up their arms against him nor to support in any way those that oppose him Now as no Liege Lord can acknowledge any Superiour and though bound to some duties is not bound under pain of Forfeiture so subjects on the other side are Homines Ligii all Liege-men owing him Faith and Allegiance as their Superiour Which Faith if they violate He is enabled by the Law as being the Fountain of Iurisdiction saith Master Diggs to seiz upon their Goods and Lands and to destroy their persons too Whereas if He fail in the discharge of his duty he is not subject to any Forfeiture by any Law of the Land I could ever hear of and Mr. Diggs hath challenged all the world to name any Doctor Sanderson also affirmeth That if a King who is Supreme should do the things that are proposed 1 Sam. 8. and Rule as a Tyrant by no other Law then his own hearts lust he would yet be unaccountable on this side Heaven however liable to the wrath of the Soveraign Iudge of all the World For however such a Tyrant may abuse his power yet the power is His which he abuseth and who shall say unto the King what dost thou Eccles. 8.4 a Text produced by the late King of most blessed Memorie against his own most unnatural and Blood Triers 13. There is an antient Monument saith Mr. Diggs p. 83. which shews the manner of holding a Parliament before the conquest The King is the head the beginning and the end of the Parliament and so he hath not any equal in his Degree This I cite to anticipate Mr. Hiâ—kman's possible objection 14. The King by Law hath just power to pass acts of Parliament by his great Seal to grant out Commissions of Oyer and Terminer for the holding of Assisses to adjourn the Term to whatsoever place he pleaseth To make Iustices of Peace which wholly depends on his will and pleasure To pardon Delinquents and Malefactors a priviledge by law estated solely in the King To choose his Officers to protect all persons to coin money to make leagues with forrein Princes to dispose the Militia to call and dissolve Parliaments And to be in one word Le dernier Resort de la Iustice. 15. In the thirty seventh Article of the Church of England The King or Queen is declared to have the chief Power in this Realm of England c. to whom the chief Government of all Estates of this Realm whether they be Ecclesiastical or Civil in all Causes doth appertain And this called the Prerogative which hath alwayes been given to all godly Princes in holy Scripture by God himself that they shall rule all Estates and all Degrees Ecclesiastical or Temporal and restrain with the Civil sword the stubborn and evil Doers 16. And accordingly in the Canons by law established in the Church A Supreme Power is declared to be given by God in Scripture to the sacred order of Kings which is there also declared to be of Divine Right And that for any person or persons to set up maintain or avow in any their said Realms respectively under any pretence whatsoever any Independent co-active power either Papal or popular whether directly or indirectly is to undermine their great Royal office and cunningly to overthrow that most sacred ordinance which God himself hath established and so is treasonable against God as well as against the King This I earnestly recommend to Mr. Hickman his consideration and that which follows in the Canon viz. That for subjects to bear Arms against their Kings offensive or defensive upon any pretence whatsoever is at the least to resist the powers which are ordained of God And though they do not invade but onely resist 17. Saint Paul tells them plainly They shall receive to themselves damnation The most excellent Recognition which was made by both Houses in the first year of King Iames is so worthy to be written in Letters of Gold and so needfull to be rivetted in the hearts and memories of the people who desire to have a conscience void of offence towards God and men that I think I shall deserve many an honest man's thanks who hath either never known or hath forgot what once he knew by inserting some part upon this occasion The King is our onely rightfull and lawfull Leige Lord and Soveraign we do upon the knees of our heart adnize constant Faith Loyalty and Obedience to the King and his Royall Progeny in this high Court of Parliament where all the body of the Realm is either in Person or by representation we do acknowledge that the true and
as a secret not according to the vote of his guilty Brethren who never charged me with ought no not so much as a suspicion Much less did they dare to let me know my Accuser for fear I should prove him a false Accuser and spoil the trade they then were driving Much less yet would they indure that I should have the least tryall fair or foul because they were conscious of the nothing that they were ablâ— to say against me Their dealing with me in that affair puts me in mind of what I read in an English book There was nothing so common in those Times as a charge without aâ— Accuser a sentence without a Iudge and a condemnation without a hearing But I was condemned without a charge too And it seems by no Judge that will own the Judgâ—ment For § 85. Mr. Hickman is fain to say that I was turned out of my Fellowship not by the Visitors but by the Committee of Lords and Commons for non-submission to the Authority of Parliament in visiting the Vniversity p. 47. To which I answer 1. That my Answer to the Visitors was judged rational and modest by Doctor Reynolds who therefore told me it was impossible I should be banished onely for that but rather for being at least suspected to have written some Books but what books they were or why I was suspected the Author of them he either could not or woulâ— not tell me 2. Mr. Hickman layes the whole fault on the Lords and Commons which I ascribe unto the Visitors transgressing the Commission by which they sate For would the Lords and Commons undo an Orphan for being modest and conscientiously desirous to gain some time to the end he might not answer but upon due consideration This would justifie Philanglus in the book above mention'd when he said That many were outed their Free-holds Liberty and Livelyhoods before any examination much less conviction and that the order of a Committee was commonly made to controlle the fundamentall Lawes of the Land I rather think that the Visitors did return a false answer and so abused the Lords and Commons then that persons of so much honour would be the authors of such a fact as Doctor Reynolds although a Visitor so much abhorred and never would give his consent unto But Mr. Hickman doth acknowledge that the two Houses may do amiss for he dares not undertake in all things to acquit them p. 48. § 86. But why doth he call it the Authority of Parliament which he confesseth at other Times to be no more then two Houses A Parliament without a King much more against him is a contradiction in adjecto Well said Judge Ienkins The leggs Arms and Trunck of the body cannot be above the Head nor have life without it So that supposing the King to be but one of the 3. States of which a Parliament doth consist He is a part and that the highest But in truth saith the learned Judge The King is none of the three estates but above them all The three estates are the Lords Spiritual the Lords Temporal and the Commons And so Mr. Hickman is unexcusable in beheading the Parliament by exclâ—ding the King from his Royal Birthright § 87. Again Mr. Hickman proceeds to ask Is it not Impudence to say that the Visitors authorized by the two Houses under the broad Seal of England could not make me his legitimate successor p. 47. To which I answer 1. that the Visitors were never authorized by the two Houses to condemn me without some little hearing or to huddle up their sentence and Execution without Accuser or witness or accusation face to face 2. The two Houses could onely make an Ordinance not an Act of Parliament which is a Law as the Houses themselves have oft confessed And Laws are the things which bind the people Nay 3. If any statute shall be made against Magna Charta and so against Bishops provided for by Magna Charta and confirmed by thirty two Acts of Parliament or against any man's right without a triall according to Law It is by Law declared null 42. Ed. 3. ch 1. But it seems Mr. Hickman is like Oliver Cromwell whose foul-mouth'd by-word was wont to be Magna Charta Magna Farta Nay 4. It is resolved in Law Books that if an Act of Parliament referr to or confirm a thing which is not as for a man to be a Iudge or witness in his own case or a thing that is misrecited or repugnant or impossible to be performed there the common Law shall controll and adjudge such an Act to be meerly void Now we who were of the Dispersion through the Avarice and Revenge of the cruel Visitors did find those Visitors in very great part at once our Iudges our Iuries our Executioners and our Heirs Had they dealt sincerely with us and bid us plainly leave our Fellowships because they had Sons and Nephews or other good friends to be cared for as the Fox was syncere when he bid the Cock come down from the Tree alledging this reason that he was hungry I should not have used them as now I do though I use them better then they did me But their pretending to Reformation and Iustice too did make their sin exceeding sinfull 5. The Broad Seal which he speaks of is called by Judge Ienkins a Counterfeit Seal And the Counterfeiting of that he proves High Treason Last of all I will add that we were taught in our Catechism by our common mother the Church of England that we are bound by God in the fifth Commandment to honour and obey not the two Houses but the King not the two Houses and the King but the King and his ministers Saint Peter accordingly commanding us to Submit our selves to every ordinance of man for the Lords sake instructs us to do it to the King as Supreme and unto Governours as sent by him Now were the Visitors really sent by him Or were they not flatly sent against Him Whether so or so Let it be judged by the Case of the University the most materiall part of which shall now become my next Section § 88. The onely question which is by these men propos'd to every single person in the University is Whether we will submit to their Visitation or to the power of Parliament as they call it in this Visitation That without the Personall Consent of the King to this Commission as far as it respects the University in General and us as members thereof we cannot now submit to any Visitation without incurring the guilt of manifold perjuries In reference to our Vniversity oathes we have long since given an Account by way of Plea to these men That our particular Locall or Collegiate Statutes which define us particular Visitors in our particular Colledges bind us under the same most evident perjury to submit to no other Visitation but that which the
own A new Discovery of his stealths with their aggravation His mistake of Iustice for Drollery The Calvinian Tenet renders all study useless The Kings Declaration forbidding its being preached No good Arguing from evill custom The Lord Falklands judgment against Calvin's Mr. H's Inhumane and slanderous Insinuation How much worse in Himself then in any other It s odiousness shewn by a parallel case His Profession of Cordial Friendship with its effect His Sacrilegious Eulogie bestowed on them of his way The Doctrine of the Church of England Vindicated with BP Laud and BP Mountague Of Mr. H's Impertinence implying Presbyterians to be Idolaters The Archbishop cleared as to what he did against Sherfield An Impartial Narrative of the case The Doctrine of St. Iohn concerning Antichrist Original sin assented to as taught in the Article of our Church Loyalty a part of our Religion An accompt to the Reader of the Method observed in all that follows BP Tunstall and BP Hooper out weigh Tyndal c. The 17th Article 2 wayes for us So the Liturgy and Homilies and Nowells Catechism which Mr. H. produceth against himself It was not the Church of England that put the Calvinists into preferments ArchbP Bancroft an Anticalvinist Dr. Richardson and Dr. Overal both publick professors and most severe to the Calvinian Doctrines Dr. Sanderson no less since his change of judgment Persecution is not a mark of error in those that suffer it Mr. Simpson cleared from his censors as to falling from Grace and Rom. 7. Barrets Recanting an arrant Fable BP Mountagues vindication Mr. H's confession That men follow Calvin in their younger and Arminius in their riper years The causes of it given by D. Sanderson Of Dr. Iacksons Act Questions and Dr. Frewin's Of K. Iames and BP Mountague K. Iames his conversion from the Calvinian errors A change of judgment in some Divines who were sent to Dort Mr. H's sense of the University and his unpardonable scurrility of the late Archbishop Vniversal Redemption held as well by K. Iames the late Primate of Armagh and BP Davâ—nant as by Arminius Mr. H. grants the whole cause but does not know it His opposition to the Asse mbly mens Confession of faith Mr. H. proved to grant the whole causâ— at which he rails and so to be a Calvinistical-Arminian Confirmed by Du Moulin Paraeus and Dr. Reynolds Confirmed further by Dr. Twisse And by the Synod of Dort His scurrilous usage of Dr. Heylin shews the length of his own ears His concluding Question childishly fallacious Touching the Remnant of his Book HIs Self condemnation and Contradiction The Calvinists draw their own consequences from their Tenet of Decrees How Mr. H. is their Accuser and how his own How as an Hobbist and an Arminian How in striving to clear he condemns himself and confesseth his making God to be the Author of siâ— His own thick darkness touching the darkness in the Creation How he makes the most real thingâ— to be entia rationis How he obtrudes a new Article of Faith And makes it a point of omnipotence to be able to do evill He proves his own sins to be positive entities by ascribing his rage to his sobriety His slanderous charge against Mr. Tho. Barlow of Qâ—eens C. in Oxford His foul Defamation of Dr. Reynolds His self contradiction and blind zeal as to Dr. Martin The nullity of a Priesthood sinfully given by Presbyterians The Recantations of some who were so Ordained Mr. H's disappointment by Dr. Sandersons change of judgment A vindication of BP Hall BP Morton BP Brownrig from Mr. H's slanderous suggestion The perfect Amitie and Communion of all Episcopal Divines for all their difference in judgment as to some controverted Doctrines Mr. H's confession of his Ignorance an Incapacity to understand the points in controversie His confessed insufficiency to maintain the chief Articles of the Creed Yet his conceitedness of his parts is not the less His way to make a Rope of sand whereby to pull in the Puritanes His sinfull way of defending Robbery by adding a manifold aggravation His slanderoâ—s insinuation against the two houses of Parliament to save the credit of the visitors in sinning against their own commission His disparagement of the visitors in his eâ—deavours to assert them The work he makes with Hypocâ—ondriacal conceits Touching the supream authority of the Nation HE adds Rayling to his Robbery and treasonably misplaceth the Supreme power of the Nation The two Houses vindicated from his gross Insinuation an d the supreme power asserted by 19. Arguments and by very many more for which the Reader is enâ—reated to use the works of Iudge Ienkins Touching the Visitors of Oxford HOw Mr. H. became one of my uncommissioned Receivers In what sense he may be called my Receiver and Vsufructuary How the Assembly-Presbyterians became Abettors of Sacriledge and Praevaricators with the Bible Mr H's confounding possession and right and making no scruple of many Robberies at once His wilfull bitternesse sadly reflecting upon the Visitors And as much on the Lords and Commons worst of all upon the King in excludâ—ng whom he beheads the Parliament How he and his Visitors have acted against the two Houses and withall against the supreme power of the Nation Touching Mr. H's no skill in Logick A Transition to the discovery of his no skill in Logick His Insultation added to hide or bear up his Ignorance Concerning the subject of an Accident Of Subjectum ultimum ultimatum Of an Inseparable Accident Of the substantiall Faculties of the soul. By whom they are held to be its essence Of his granting what he denyes whilst he denyes it and giving up the whole cause A Postscipt touching some Dealings of Mr. Baxter THe Synagogue of the Libertines fitly applyed to Mr. Baxter Hiâ— Railing on K. Iames and BP Bancroft on BP Andrewes and Dr. Sanderson for their Iustice to the Puritans His confession of his own wickednesse again confessed by himself though but in part His prodigious falsifying the Common prayer His denyal of that confession which he confessed a little before His Perjury and Rebellion proved out of his own words His playing at Fast loose with his integrity His Time-serving and fawning upon his Soveraign Richard His rejoycing in our late miseries c. His charging upon God all the villanies of the times His Flâ—tteâ—ing mâ—ntions of Old Oliver as tenderly carefull of Christs cause His being Accessâ—ry to the most Parricidial Act the murder of Gâ—ds anointed The seven wayes of partaking in other mens sins His being an Incendiary in the war and Incouraging many thousand to rebell proved out of his confessions His denying the Supremacy of the King which yet he allowed the two Cromwells His confession that Rebellion is worse then Murder Adultery Drunkenness and the like and that he may be called a Perfidious Rebell by his consent if the supremacy was in the King HIs denying the Supremacy of the King which yet he allowed the two Cromwels How
that I should make it my first endeavour to comfute their doctrine of Reprobation § 22. What he saith next of Bp. Montagues visitation p 3. and of his Majesties Declaration which was not intended as a two edged sword p. 4. is many wayes to my Advantage For 1. the end of that Bishops inquiry in his Episcopal visitation was to silence the Doctrine of irrespective Decrees And the same was the end of my Next that ought to have been the end both of the one and the other because Mr Hickman doth now confesse that even that was the end of the Kings Majestiâ—s Declaration to which we thought it our Duty to yield Obedience 3. The two edged sword is strangely joyned by Mr. Hickman with a charitable designe to settle peace or stop mouthes 4. Whilest he saith it was designed to stop the mouthes of the Orthodox he means by Orthodox those men who taught as since the Assembly men have done that all things are ordained by God and so the murdering of the innocent as well as the punishing of the guilty And why forsooth were they Orthodox but because Authority had designed to stop their mouthes How much rather may Independents bestow on themselves the name of Orthodox whose mouths were designed to be stopt by the Presbyterians 5. The very truth of it is this That Declaration was intended to stop Discourses on eitherside any farther then our Church had given a Rule whereby to teach both in her Catechisme Liturgie Homilies and Articles whose contrariety indeed to the way of Calvin had very good reason to put a muzzâ—l upon his followâ—rs mouths whensoever they were opened to Gods dishonour And this I am able to make apparent by an eminent Person now living from whom I had the following story that when a Preacher came to Court and had put in his Text to the Clerk of the closet then Bp. of Hereford why will ye dye O house of Israel One of the Chaplaines now a Bishop was sent to give him a timely warning not to have any thing in his Sermon against the Kings Declaration And he undertaking that he had not was permitted to preach before his Majesty § 23. What he saith of the Lord Falkland his speech in Parliament speaking in favour of his party in one respect but quite against them in another p. 5. hath no other force in it then that he either thought what he spake and so that he had not yet seen his errour or that at least by his displeasure to some of the Bishops then in power he was induced to declaim in General Termes without the addition of any proof or of any thing else to supply its room And so I could tell of another Lord who would have proved I cannot say but perswaded onely that the Oath in the Canon against Popery and innovations of which Presbyterianism was not the least was someway against the King's Supremacy But wise men knew what these things meant as well as what the words signifie And let it be noted by Mr. H. that the Doctrine which he opposeth was then confessed by the Lord Falkland in the very same speech not to be contrary to Law and had nothing but custom to plead against it Not proving whether the Custom were good or evil And of what importance it is in RELIGION to draw an Argument onely from Custome let it be sadly weighed by Them who do at any time presse for a Reformation Down goes Presbyterie if yet I may imply it was ever up as farre as the speech of that Lord hath any force or strength in it § 24. But now that the Reader may be informed of the disinteressed Iudgement which that most learned and noble Lord professed to have of those points I will lead him to his Reply to the Romanists Answer in vindication of what he had written against the pretended infallibility of the Church of Rome My Lord in his pages 108 109. speaking of the great controversy betwixt the Dominicans and the Iesuites which was debated and heard before Pope Clement and of the many dayes spent in examining what St. Austin thought his Lordship adds these words concerning Austin and his Ancestors And for Austin He thought so variously concerning it that he scarce knew himself which whereas all the Antients that I could ever meet with as his Lordship goes on were with the Iesuits with an unanimous consent Whatever that Lord might think or say in any other time or place here he shews us his most avowed and I have reason to believe his ripest judgement § 25. Now comes the practice of an arrant Bigot in Presbyterianisme who saith that If whilst I have bâ—en throwing stones that is writing controversie my children have wanted their bread or have been fain to take it divided to them by a more unskilfull haâ—d thâ—n mine own Then have I put something upon my Doomesday Book which he wishes I may have Time to take off by Repentance p. 5 and 6. Here he intimates to his Reader with a barbarous If a thing as false as it is malicious And I wiâ—l punish him onely by saying what is a great and known truth That I have been as constant a weâ—kly Preacher and sometimes more then wâ—ekly too since I writ what I have publisht and all the time that I was writing as any Presbyterian within my knowledge and more then some whom I could name When indeed I have been vehemently sick for it is not all sickness that hath excus'd me my flock hath been fed by some other shepherd When I have sometimes been Absent I have seldome preached the less for that but somtimes the more and somewhere alwayes where need hath been If to avoid shifting tuâ—ns with neighbour-Ministâ—rs the cheap and lazie trick of the Presbyterians I have been at the charge to maintain a Brâ—ther for my Assistance that whether sick or absent I may not be wanting to my Flock what hurt have I done to such covetous worldlings as rather then be at that cost for their peoples good will make a scandalous shift and put their money into their Pockets I think 't were happy we had a Law whereby to compell them to use Assistants who spread out half their matter thinly and call it a Sermon in the morning the other half being reserv'd to be spread as thinly and so to be called a second Sermon after noon So mine Host in Livie brancht out his Porket that his Guâ—sts might not grumble for want of a second and third course And children are pleas'd with a couple of sixpences when they will not be content with a single shilling Alas the difference is as great I mean in one and the same man betwixt Sermon and Sermon as betwixt Gold in the ingot and in the leaf Nothing is commoner with Preachers then to thrust up mâ—ny Sermons into one or to beat out one into many And whereas it is hinted by Mr. Hickman that I have fed
Hypochondres as much as Fame hath affirmed it to have had dominion over his own I never was so inhumane as to upbraid my greatest enemy with any such bodily indisposition and have rather afforded my utmost help But since Mr. Hickman unprovoked could not abstain from objecting a sicknesse to me and such a sicknesse as I have ever by the blessing of God been exempted from it is his own fault onely though my misfortune that I am forced to expose him in this point also And for the future I do beseech him not to meddle in matters of which he hath not any knowledge nor to have so little mercy upon himself as to scourge his guilty self upon an innocent mans back but rather to conceal his great infirmities or onely reveal them to his Physician and apply himself to the means of cure I might in favour and mercy to him have prompted his Readers to believe that it was but his spleenative Conceit which made him say in his Epistle wherewith he dedicates his collection that the Doctrines printed before my birth were the meer chimaera's of my brain For which prodigious Adventure he is not capable of excuse unlesse his flatulent Hypocondres made him a kind of Pythagorean so as to fancy a transmigration of Calvin's soul into my body I am sure Pythagoras is reported to have thought himself to be Aethalides the son of Mercurie and that Aethalides being dead he became Euphorbus and that Euphorbus being departed he passed also into Hermotimus and that Hermotimus dying he lived in Pyrrhus the Fisherman And after Pyrrhus his decease he again survived in Pythagoras Sure 't were better for Mr. Hickman to think that my soul was once in Calvin or Zuinglius or Dr. Twisse then to call their writings the meer chimaera's of my brain or wilfully to deny what hath been read by thousands and may be seen in those Writers by all Mankind who can but read them The former I say were so much better then the later by how much better it is to be sick then sinfull And so 't were charity to imagine if that were possible to be done that this was one of Mr. Hickman's Hypochondriacal conceits § 76. It may be taken for one at least that he should charge me with Impudence against the Supreme Authority of the Nation p. 45. For if he deals syncerely as well as simply he hence inferr's the Oxford Visitors Mr. Cheynel and Mr. Wilkinson and such like things to have had the Supremacy in his opinion They alone being the men by whom I complaind I had been injur'd in their Transgressing the Prescriptions of those that sent them And loosers by a Proverb have still had liberty to complain I did but modestly hope Mr. Hickman would pay me my Arrears when again and again he tells his Readers I am impudent p. 45. and 47. so impudent I am as to own my Right though not so simple as to expect it And it is strange that Mr. Hickman should thus revile me for onely presuming to hope well of him or for refusing to dissemble what was so visibly my due So when the owner in the Parable sent for fruits of his Vineyard the Husbandmen abused his severall Messengers as well as sent them away empty I will not say of Mr. Hickman that he is impudent because his manners are none of mine but I must needs admire the strange nature of his modesty when he denyed a matter of Fact however attested by all mens eyes Sect. 77. If he means the two Houses by the Supreme Authority of the Nation as he seems to do pag. 47. he contradicts the fundamental Laws of the Land the Canons of the Church the Oathes of Allegeancâ— and Supremacy and implicitely censures all the Members of the House of Commons by whom the Visitors were sent in the year 1648. as guilty of willful perjury when they took those oathes bâ—fore they sate or could sit as members in the House of Commons 1. The members of Parliament did even swâ—ar in taking the Oath of Supremacy That the Kings Highnâ—ss is the onely Supreme Governour of this Realm and of all other his Dominions and Countreys as well in all Spiritual and Ecclesiasticall Things or Causes as Temporal 2. The King was ever acknowledged in the Prayers of the Clergie before their Seâ—mons to be the Supreme Head and Governour in all Causes and over all Pâ—rsons Ecclesiasticall and Civill Nor may we think that the Clergie were either taught oâ— commanded to lye to God in their Publick prayers Nay 3. he was uttâ—rly testified and in conscience declared as well by the members of Parliament as by other subjects upon oath to be not onely the Supreme which shews that none can be above him but Solus Supremus Moderator as Dr. Sanderson observes the Sole and Onely Supreme Head and Governour which shews that none can be so besides him or that none can be equal to him 4. In the generall judgement of knowing men and of Dr. Sanderson in particular The Kings Supremacy is imported by the stile of Dread Soveraign and Soveraign Lord and that of Majesty expressions used by the two Houses of the late long Parliament in their hâ—mble Petitions and addresses unto the King nor need I here tell my Reader what an humble Petition is set to signifie and as well in the most solemn establishment of Laws as in actions and forms of Jurisdiction 5. Magna Charta was first granted in effect by King Iohn and confirmed with that Title by Henry the third of his mere free will and so the liberties of the subject cannot with reason be presumed to lessen the King of his Supremacie 6. Other Statutes which have the force of Acts of Parliament are known to be directed as private Writs with a Teste Meipso And the common stile of most others is found to run in this strain The King with the advice of the Lords at the humble Petition of the Commons wills this or that so the form of passing Bills is still observed to be this Lâ— Roâ— le veult The King will have it And sâ—it faict comme il est desiré Let it be done as it is desired plainly speaking by way of Grant to something sought or petitioned for From whence by some it hath been gathered that the Râ—gaâ—ion of Laws does rightly belong to the two Houses but the Legislation unto the King That their Act is Preparâ—tive his onely Iussive 7. That Supremacy of Power which the Law hath invested the King withall is not onely over all particular persons but also over all states which all the subjects of this Realm and the Members of Parliament in particular are bound by oaâ—h both to acknowledge and to maintain And which they grant to be his Due when they desire him to protect them in their priviledges and call him alwayes in their Acts Their onely Soveraign Lord or their Royal Soveraign 8. The
were known to be I shall now observe in how many respects Mr. Baxter comes to be partaker of other mens sins besides the hideous and frightful nature of his Own I mean the sins of both the nominal Protectors and of that sort of men who had set them up To which end it will be usefull briefly to reckon the severall wayes whereby a man may be Accessory when another is Principal in a transgression 1. By Consent and Approbation so Saul was guilty of Stephens death Act. 8.1 So the Gnosticks were guilty of sins committed by other men because they had pleasure in those that did them Rom. 1.32 2. By Counsel and advise so Achitophel was guilty of Absolons Incest and Rebellion 2. Sam. 16.23 So also Caiphas had a hand in the blood of Christ Ioh. 11.49 3. By Appointment and Command so Pharoah and Herod are said to have slain the little children they never toucht Exod. 1. and Matth. 2. So David is said to have slain Vriah the Hittite though with the hand as well as the Sword of the Children of Ammon 2. Sam. 12.9 4. By Commâ—nding Defending or Excusing the Fact or the Malefactour Wo be to you that call evill Good that put darkness for light and bitter for sweet Esa. 5.20 Wo be to them that sowe pillows to all Armeholes and make Kerchiefs upon the head of every stature to hunt souls Ezek. 13.18 5. By any kind of participation of any illgotten Goods whether gotten by Rapine or kept by fraud and unjust Title Of this saith the Psalmist when thou saw'st a Thief thou consentedst with him and hast been partaker with Adulterers Psal. 50.18 Thy s Princes are Rebellious and Companions of Thieves every one loveth gifts and followeth after Rewards Isa. 1.23 6. By too much Lenity and Connivence which harden's a sinner by Impunity And therefore Ahab was threatned for the unjust Mercy he shew'd to Benhadad with a sentence of Death without Mercy Because thou hast let go out of thy hand a Man whom I appointed to utter destruction therefore thy life shall go for his life and thy people for his people 1. Kings 20.42 This was the sin that brake Eli's Neck 1. Sam. 3.13 and 4.18 The Magistrate is made to be Gods Revenger to execute wrath upon him that doth evill And he ought not to bear the sword in vain Rom. 13.4 7. By unseasonable silence and Neglect of the Christian duty of reprehension For this is a sin against those precepts Levit. 19.17 Isa. 58. 1. Ezek. 3.17 and 33.7 Now by how many of these wayes Mr. Baxter hath been Accessarie to the Murder of One King and to the exclusion of another and to the debauching the peoples souls by his scandalous writings and example I leave to be pronounced by the Intelligent Readers Who that they may judge the more exactly shall do well to compare his signal Confessions above recited both with his flattering and blessing the Old and Young Cromwell And with his other Confessions which now ensue § 12. He confesseth he was moved to engage himself in the Parliament Warr Holy Common-wealth p. 456. And yet 2. That the Disorders which on both sides were unexcusable were no just cause to cast the Nation into a Warr. p. 474. Nay 3. That he would have ingaged as he did which was against his natural King and Leige Lord if he had known the Parliament he means the 2. Houses had been the beginners and in most fault p. 480. Nay 4. that the warr was not to procure a change of the constitution to take down Royalty and the house of Lords but clean contrary p. 482. why then did he fawn upon both the Cromwels 5. That all of them did rush too eagerly into the heat of Divisions and warr and none of them did so much as they should have done to prevent it And that himself in particular did speak much to blow the coals for which he saith he daily begs forgiveness of the Lord. p. 485. Nay 6. That he encouraged many thousands to engage against the Kings Army And is under a self-suspicion whether that engagement was lawfull or not yea that he will continue this self suspicion p. 486. Nay 7. he confesseth what he is by solemnly making this Declaration That if any of us can prove he was guilty of hurt to the person of the King or destruction of the Kings power or changing the Fundamental Constitution of the Common-wealth taking down the house of Lords without consent of all three States that had a part in the Sovereignty c. He will never gainsay us if we call him a most perfidious Rebell and tell him he is guilty of farr greater sin than Murder Whoredom Drunkenness or such like Or if we can solidly confute his grounds he will thank us and confess his sin to all the World p. 490. Here then I challenge him to make good his promise For I have proved him as guilty as any Rebell can be imagin'd in divers parts of this Postscript And his grounds I have confuted in my Appendix for Mr. Hickman § 78 79. If he thinks not solidly let him answer it if he is able § 13. What his chief Ground is upon which he goes whilest he speaks of the King as of a Rebell to the two Houses I easily gather from these words which I finde in his Praeface to the same book To this question did not you resist the King His answer is Verbatim thus Prove that the King was the highest power in the time of divisions and that he had power to make that war which he made and I will offer my Head to Iustice as a Rebell He here implicitely confesseth the King was once the highest power and implyes he lost it by the Divisions But that he never could loose it and that demonstrably he had it I have made it most evident in the Appendix of this book which concerns Mr. Baxter as much as Mr. Hickman at least as far as I have proved the Supremacy of the King § 78. which both the Houses of that Parliment did swear to acknowledg and to assert However if his Supremacy had been a Disputable thing yet whilst the most learned of the Land both Iudges and Divines did assert it in books which were never answered Mr. Baxter should have staid for the decision of that dispute before he resisted that power for the resisting of which for ought he knew he might be damned Rom. 13.4 Besides when he knew 't was no sin to abstain from fighting against the King and that fighting against him was a damning sin if it was any in the judgment of such persons as BP Hall BP Morton BP Davenant BP Brownrigg D. Sanderson D. Oldsworth thousands more he should have taken the safest course and rather have strained at a Gnat then have swallowed a Camel In a word That the warr was begun by the two Houses and only followed by
the King in his most Necessary Defence hath been proved too often to be excusably denyed And that our Law doth declare it to be high Treason to seize the Kings Ports Forts Magazine of war to remove Counsellors by Arms to Levy Warr to alter the Law to counterfeit the broad Seal to adhere to any state within the Kingdom but the Kings Majesty to imprison the King until he agree to certain Demands Unanswerably proved by the most excellent Judge Ienkins from page 37. as farr as page 77. That the power of the Militia and of making war is by Law in the King yea that All Authority and Iurisdiction Spiritual and Temporal is derived from the King therefore none from the Houses The same Judge hath evinced p. 20. and 8. and 13. I exhort Mr. Baxter to read the works of that Learned person and either to baffle all that Law and to confute that mighty Lawyer or else to declare he hath been worse then either a Drunkard or an Adulterer and offer his head as a Rebell according to his present promise I would not exhort him to the later but that I think it the way to obtein his pardon § 14. Whilst he saith that his Protector was set over us by God and owned also by a full and free Parliament ibid. p. 484. lin 2. he does not only falsifie against a known matter of fact All the considerable persons in the Land having been utterly against him but he grosly gives the lye to the Secluded Members whom he had called the first sâ—rt of the best Governours in the Land and to both the Houses of that very Parliament with whom he engaged against the King In stead of proving this at large which is not fit for this Postscript I will referr him to the perusal of Mr. Pryns True perfect Narrative And to The True State of the Secluded Members Case in Vindication of themselves From thence he may see how he hath Trespassed against them Besides that a Parliament cannot be full without the King who is the Head and House of Lords who are the shoulders never was any full Body made up of leggs with an Addition of some other Inferiour Members But Squire Cromwell was not the King nor was the pack of Mechanicks an House of Lords nor is it less then high Treason to set up either with those pretentions yet this was done by Mr. Baxter let him deny it if he is able Again a Parliament cannot be Free unless the Commonâ—rs are chosen by all the people who are qualified by law to give their suffrage Whereas no loyall Man was allowd by Cromwell to give a voice at those Elections and no honest Man could safely do it For besides the danger of provoking a proud Vsurper Squire Cromwel had no more right to send out Writs for an Election of Parliament Men then any Porter or Scavinger in all the Kingdom Nay he had less rather than more by being Son to so guilty and foul a Tyrant Richards Issuing out of writs was a most Treasonable Fact And could that make a Parliament full or free for which the maker by Law might be hang'd at Tiburn Let Mr. Baxter now consider in how many respects he is obnoxious both to the wrath of God for all his Perjuries and Time-serving to the wrath of God's Anointed whose Restauration is not impossible though somwhat remote from the eye of flesh for all his Treasons and slanders To the wrath of the two Houses before they were Garbled by the Army and Oliver Cromwell by setting up to their destruction a pack of flattering Cromwellians and affording them the name of a Full and Free Parliament Lord to what times are we reserved when such a Creature may pass for a godly brother and be entrusted with peoples souls § 16. Whilst he saith The old Constitution was King Lords and Commons which we were sworn and sworn and sworn again to be faithful to and to defend Praef. p. 9. he either implyes there was since a new Constitution and then he must shew by whose Authority it was made or else he must confess he spake and acted against his conscience when he claw'd the Cromwells and their Abettors as hath been shewd And he must name by what power he could be absolved from his three oaths or else acknowledge to all the world he is a perjur'd perjur'd perjur'd person For where was his Faithfulness to the King to which he was sworn and sworn and sworn when he confesseth he encouraged so many thousands to fight against him and when he acknowledged Mr. Cromwell to be his Soveraign And set over him by God too who did but suffer and permit that is not hinder the Prince of Darkness to set him over us Is Mr. Baxter qualified for the Priesthood being not able to distinguish betwixt Permission and approbation sufferance and appoinâ—ment or betwixt Gods patience and the Activity of Satan How again did he defend the Lords and Commons of the Long Parliament in conjunction with the King or divided from him when he asserted Cromwels Iuncto to be a full and free Parliament yet he knowes what it was which he was sworn to defend § 17. Whilst he saith The King withdrawing the Lords and Commons ruled alone ibid he first gives the lye to the Lords and Commons who in their Addresses and Declarations did own the King to be their Soveraign and called themselves his humble subjects Mr. Baxter himself could say no more to Mr. Cromwel They protested against the thought of ever changing the Government or lessening his Majesties just Prerogative but their Intention was to make him the greatest Prince in Christendome They confessed that without him they might not Rule and therefore used His Name to give countenance to their Actions I could write a volume on this occasion were it not fitter to referr unto severall volumes already written Let Mr. Baxter write less till he hath read more and let him read the writings of the most learned Doctor Hammond both against the Ordinance of the Lords and Commons for abolishing the Liturgie and against taking up of Arms under colour of Religion against the lawfull Magistrate Let him read Judge Ienkins against Master Prin's first writings and let him read the latter writings of Mr. Prin against himself Let him reade Mr. Diggs and Doctor Langbane The Regal Apologie the excellent observations upon Aristotles Politiques and many more such books then do occurr to my memory whilst I am writing Next in saying the King with-drew he doth unreasonably imply the King's withdrawing from the Government why else doth he add the Lords and Commons ruled alone which as it is a most senseless and a most traiterous insinuation so it seems to be the Reason why the man makes so ill use of Grotius whom he doth either not understand as indeed Mr. Baxter is a very small Latinist and not a small but rather no Grecian or wilfully mistake and
common to us with Angels * Note his exposition of the word affording by not withholding and the word general added to influx and the locomotive faculty which is common to us with Beasts as distinguished from the will which is common to us with Angels A vindication of Bp. HALL Bp. MORTON and Bp. BROWNRIG from Mr. H.'s slanderous suggestion The perfect â—miâ—y and communion of all Episcopal Divines for all their difference in judgement as to some controverted Doctrines * Quis tulerit Gracchos de seditione querentes †See the Rd. D. GAVDEN his Hiâ—ra Dacrua ch 29. p. 384. Mr. Hickmans confession of his ignorance and incapacity to understand the points in controversie His confessed insufficiency to maintain the chief Articles of the Creed Yet his conceitedness of his parts is not the less His way to make a rope of sand whereby to pull in the Puritanes * See concerning Antichrist Bishop Montague's Appeal ch 5. p. 140. and Examen Hist. p. 253 254. * Ebrius sacrilegio qui resipuit à vino apud Authorem nescio quem His sinful way of defending Robbery by adding a manifold Aggraâ—vation His Slanderous insinuation against the two Houses of Parliament to save the credit of the Visitors in sinning against their own Commission Acts 25.16 See the New Discoverer discovered ch 6. p. 131.132 His disparagement of the Visitors in his endeavours to assert them The work he makes with Hypochondriacal conceipts * Melâ—ncholiae differentias triplici discrimine assignant Authores prima proprio cerebri vitio obtingit secunda per consensum totius corporis cujus universa temperies totusque humor est melancholicus ultima ex hypochondriis â—uscitatur i. e à visceribus in ipsis contentis potissinâ—um ab Eâ—ate Liene Mesenâ—erio c. Vide Laurent de Melancholia Differentiis cap. 4. He adds railing to his robbery and treâ—sonably misplaceth the Supreme power of the nation Mâ—r. 12.23 * Look back on c. 1. S. 2. The two Houses vindicated from his gross insinuation the Supreme Power asserted by 19. Arguments * See M. Prin his true and perfect Narraâ—ive p. 46. †Supremam hanc Potestatem quam Majestatem vel 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 dicimâ—s c. Dâ— oblâ—gat consâ—ient Praelect 7. â— 258.260 a 9 Hen 3. See Dâ— Lâ—gbain's Review of â—he Covenâ—nt p. 88 c. b 1. Eliz. c 1. c Exact col p. 5. p. 738. d Lex Terrae p. 5 bound up with his workâ— e Ibid. p. 8.7 Ed. â— Sâ—at â—t large f. 42 f Bracton l. 4 c. 24. Sect. 1. e Ibid. Sect. 5. h Ib. l. 3. c. 7. l. 5. c. 3. sect 3 de Defalâ—is i Ib. l. 2. c. 24. sect 1. See M. Dudley Diggs of the unlâ—wfulness of taking up Arms c p. 80 81. k Ibid. p. 82. l Duâ—renus in Comment dâ— Consâ—ed Feudorum c. 4. n. 3. apud eundem m Etsi non esset 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 nec peccato careret apud Deum esset tamen 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 nec deberet á populo coerceri dicique propterea mereretur abusus quidem ille potestate suâ— sed tamen suâ De Leg. Hum. Caus. effic Prael 7. p. 260. n 33. H. 8. c. 21. o 28. Ed. 1. c. 8 p 27 H. 8. c. 24. q 27. H. 8. c. 24. Confessed also Ex. Col. p. 270 715.90â— 1. Jac. c. 1. 9. Ed. 4. fol. 8. * See his works p. 23 24. 31. H. 8. c 8. 34. H. 8. c 23. * See the Preface to that Act. 31. H. 8. t 1. Ed 6. c. 12. u Exact Coll. p. 203. w Ib. p. 876. x 1. Ed 5. â— 2. And by very many more for which the Reader is intreated to use the works of Iudge Ienkins y Apud nos Anglos saltem quid potest aut certius constare aut liquidius nisi siqui in sole meridiano caecutire malint quà m uti oculis quà m ad unam serenissimam Majestatem Regiam Supremam trium istorum Regnorum Potestatem pertinere ubi suprâ— pag 260. How Mr. H. became one of my uncommissioned Receivers Digest 47.2.21 Sect. 4. for whâ—ch sâ—e Dâ— Zâ—uch his Cases and Questions p. 92. In what sense he may be called my Receiver and Vsufructuarie * Wisd. 2. Exam. Hist. p. 130. How the Assembly Presbyterians became Abettors of sacrilege and prevaricators with the Bible * See his Hiera Dacrua ch 21. l. 3. p. 333. 334. and weigh the passage with the professions of these men M. Hickman's confounding possession and right and making no scruple of many Robberies at once * Mr. Baxter of Infants Church Mem. p. 202 203. †Exam. Hist. part 1. p. 158 159. His willful biâ—â—erness sadly reflecting upon the Visitors * See Mr. Howell's sober inspections on the long Parliament p. 156. And as much on the Lords and Commons * Vbisupra Worst of all upon the King in excluding whom he beheads the Parliament * See his works p. 49. †Id. ibid. * COOKE their Oracle in his Chap. of Parliam fol. 1. apud eundem How he and his Visitors have acted against the two Houses and withall against the supreme Power of the Naâ—ion * Ibid. p. 195 197. Ib. p. 62. * See M. Prins Perfect Narrative p. 58. †Plowden f. 388 389. Cook 8 Reports f. 118. Hobards Reports p. 85 86 87. apud eundem p. 34. * p 35. †p 37- 45. * 1 Pet. 2.31 The case of the University of Oxford A.D. 1648. The sad Dilemma all its members were put to either to be perjur'd or destroyed A transition to the descovery of his no skil in Logick His insultation added to hide or bear up his ignorance Concerning the subject of an Accident Collegium Compl. in Aristot Dialect Disp. 12. de substan quaest 5 p. 419 420. Of subjectum ultimum â—t ultimatum Crakâ—nthâ—rp de Accidente p. 33. * Hurtadus de Mendozâ— Phys. Disp. 6. subs 2. Greg. de Valent 2. dist 12. q. 2. art 1. Marsilius 4. q. 9. art 2. ibid. Of an Inseparable Accident Of the substantial faculties of the Soul Aristot. 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 mihi p. 1416 By whom they are held to be its very essence * Berigardus Circulo quinto de anima facult sive potentiis †Hurtadus de Mendozâ de Anima Disput. 4. Sect. 4. * Pat. Conimbricenseâ— 2. de Anima c. 3. q. 4 artic 1. Duranduâ— 2. dist 3. quaest 5. †August lib. de sp anima c 2. 8. * Tom. 9. Tr. 15. in Joh. apud Huâ—t ubi supra †Bernardus in serm 11. supra cantica apud eund Stahlius reg Philos. Tit. 16 de Regulis subjecti accidentis ** Hurt de Mend. ubi supra ** Hurt de Mend. ubi supra Of his granting what he denyes whilst he denyes it and giving up the whole cause * 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Philo Judaeus pag. 499 * Compare this Section with his Ten Confâ—ssions For which look
he is proved by his concession to be a rebell His being a Traytor to the two Huses which he had set up above the King by setting Richard above them when they disowned him And by owning Cromwels Iunto for a full and free Parliament He is evinced out of his mouth to have been perjured over and over His charge against the Lords and commons and his setting aside the King more then the houses ever did His most Notable contradiction about the houses ruling without the King His New Miscarriage against Grotius and the Episcopal Divines He is proved to be a Jesuite by as good Logick as he useth The Jesuites Doctrine of Probability Popery common to Thomas Goodwin with some noted Presbyterians Mr. Baxters Puritanism as well in Life as Doctrin His additional falsehood The Originall of Puritanism among profâ—ssors of Christianity Our English Puritans characterized by Salmasius one of the learnedst of the beyound Sea Protestants Mr. Baxter declared by Gods Anointed to be a factious and schismaticall person His double injurie to Mr. Dance His unparallel'd bitterness against Episcopacy and our Church 7. wayes rebuked The Conclusion giveth the reason of the whole procedure which Mr. Baxter CHAP. I. § THat the Christian Reader may discern with his greatest eaâ—e and convenience in every kind how the whole Case stands betwixt my Adversary and me and may be thereby enabled without the trouble of diveâ—ting to many pages of severall Books unless as his patience and leisure serves him to pasâ— an exact and a speedy Judgement upon the matchless Adventures of this fresh Combatant the unsuffâ—ciency of his Performanceâ— when he pretends to Answer and his grosse Tergiversaâ—ions when he declines it How commonly he aimâ—s beside the mark and affâ—ctedly mistakes the Thing in Question How he is fain to tickle himself on purpose to get into a laughâ—er and how constantly his laughing doth prove to be in the wrong Place How well he justifies me and my whole proceeding whilst he solemnly contradicts and condemns himself How he happens to glory and triumph most when his overthrows fortune to be the greatest How he calumniâ—tes the Faâ—hers in their Iustification as some in the world have been kill'd in their own Dâ—fence How without all Cause but what his Principles and his Displeasuâ— have shap'd out to him his poyson'd Arrows have been sho at my sâ—lf and oâ—hers which yet have lighted on his own head and on the heads of his Predecessors whom he hath vilified in zeâ—l and exceedingly disgraced in meer good will confessing that to be Blasphemy which the mâ—st eminent Presbyâ—erians have taught expresly and in Print nâ—t onely by consâ—quence and in privaâ—e I say that the Reader may be qualified to take up all at one gâ—asp at the least expence that is possible of time or mâ—neâ— I shall prepare him with an Account of what hath past fâ—om the beginning and I shall do it with as much Brevity as I shall find will consiâ—t with Truâ—h and Clearness Nothing shall hinder me in my Dispatch but the Removal of a most Desperate and Groundless slander with which our Actor made his entrance into the Theatre that it might lye as a block in his Readers way And to preserve the most heedless from stumbling at it I think it my duty to give them warning § 2. I had indeavoured in my Notes which I was forc'd to make Publick to prevent the danger by demonstrating the deadliness of certain Doctrines which the most eminent Presbyterians had preached to us from the Press to wit That All things come to pass by God's appointment and Decree That men do sin by God's Impulse That God commandeth to do evil and compelleth obedience to such Commands That he makes men Transgressors That Adultery or Murder is the work of God the Author c. These and multitudes of the like which I produced ouâ— of their wâ—itings in my Defence of the Divine Philanthropie were not the issuâ—s of my Invention or onely horrible Consequences unduely deduced out of their Doctrines as M. Hickman hath dared to affirm in despight of God and his own conscience and in a flat contradiction to all men's eyes but the words of M. Calvin and of a man greater than he Hulderiâ—us Zuinglius whose example in Helvetia M. Calvin imitated in France And how their Followers go before them in asserting God to be the Author of all the wickedness in the woâ—ld as I have plentifully shew'd in my Autocatachrisis so shall I shew in a greater measure if M. Hickman shall adventure to make it needfull Even the worst of those expâ—essions are very publickly conâ—essed by D. Twisse and M. Barlee aâ—d divers others of their way to have been written by those Great ones on whom I charg'd them And I speak it to the praise of their ingenuâ—y who rather chose to excuse at least à tanto what was so gâ—ossly derogâ—tory to the glory of God then to deny what is â—o visible to all mens eyes But the Rhapsodist adventurâ—s beyond all possible expectation and dares to tell us in effect That when we reade the pâ—inted works either of Zuinglius or Calvin of Borrhaeus or D. Twisse There is not any such thing as we clearly see lying before us That what we reade is not written And that the things which I tâ—anscribed from some of the Authors whom he admires were the meer chimaera's of my Brain though near an hundred years printed before I came into the world Had I father'd mine own fancies upon one or more of his Predecessors as M. Hickman hath had the confidence to tell the Lecturers of Brackly I should not have thought my self fit to live And by so much the more it becomes my Duty as well as Interâ—st to clear the innocence of my dealing in this particular although I know not how to do it without the ruine of my Accuser in point of fame The shortest way to this end will be by Noteing the very lines as well as the words and the pâ—ges and the Editions of the Books from whence the Reader may take a specimen whereby to judge of the whole Heap Numen ipsum AVTHOR est ejus quod nobis est INIVSTIA Cum Deus Angelum Transgressoâ—em facit hominem Ipse tamen Transgressor non constituitur ut qui contra legem non veniat ib. lin 4â— Quod Deus operatur per hominem Homini viâ—io vertitur non etiam Deo unum atque Idem Facinus pâ—ta Adulterium aut Homicidium in quantum Dei AVTHORIS MOTORIS ac Impulsoris OPVS est crimen non est Movâ—t Deus Latronem ad occidendum innoceâ—tem etiam ac imparatum ad mortem â—mpellit Deus ut occideret ib. l. 35. pâ—rmitto Latronem coactum esse ad peâ—candum ib. l. 18. Impulsore Deo trucidavit Latâ—o ib. l. 21. movet impellit usque dum ille occisus est ib.
sincere Religion of the Church is continued and established by the King And do recognize as we are bound by the law of God and man the Realm of England and the Imperiall Crown thereof doth belong to him by inherent birthright and lawfull and undoubted succession and submit our selves and our posterities for ever untill the last drop of bloud be spent to his rule and beseech the King to accept the same as the first fruits of our Loyalty and Faith to his Majesty and his posterity for ever and for that this Act is not compleat nor perfect without his Majesties assent the same is humbly desired This proves saith Judge Ienkins 1. That the Houses are not above the King 2. That Kings have not their titles to the Crown by the two Houses but 3. by inherent birth-right and 4. That there can be no Statute without his express assent and so 5. It destroyes the Chimaera of the Kings virtuall being in the Houses 18. The Kings Proclamations heretofore to severall purposes were of no less force then Acts of Parliament And the ground of it was that the supremitie of the Regal power is given by God And however that Act was indeed repealed by the meek concession of King Edward the sixth yet the Reason of the Repeal is recorded to have been this A willingness in the King to gratifie his people upâ—n trust that they would not abuse the same but rather be encouraged with more faithfulness and diligence to serve his Highness So when Charles the First passed a Bill for the continuance of the long Parliament indefinitely it was upon their promise that the gracious favour of his Majesty expressed in that Bill should not encourage them to do any thing which otherwise had not been sit to be done And so good is the Rule in the Civil Law Cessante causa cessat Lex That the Lords and Commons even of that very Parliament did dâ—clare it to hold good in Acts of Parliament 19. When 't was declared by all the Iudges and Sergeants of Law that it cannot be said the King doth wrong it was by a Periphrasis A Declaration of his Supâ—emacy For the meaning of it must be say the greatest Lawyers That what the King doth in point of Jurisdiction he doth by his Iudges who are sworn to deal legally between the King and his people So as the Judges may be questioned for violation of Law but the King is unaccountable and on his person or power no Reflection is to be made § 78. Thus I have given such an account of the proper subject of Supremacy as my Notes of Observation suggest unto me at this time I gather'd my Notes more especially for my private use and information that I might know what Party I ought to own in these times of Triall and Temptation partly out of the Papers which passed betwixt the King and both Houses of Parliament partly from the writings of Mr. Prin Mr. Diggs Iudge Ienkins and Dr. Langbane partly out of the Book of Statutes though I have not time to consult them much Many more Arguments I could urge out of the works of Iudge Ienkins but that I find them too many to be transcribed in this Appendix and withall I consider that book is cheap and little and I hope easily to be had which makes me choose to referr my Readers to his whole Lex Terrae from page 8. to page 63. I have been so convinced by all put together which hath been said as I cannot but conclude with the most Learned and moderate Doctor Sanderson That at least amongst us here in England there can be nothing more certain or conspicuous unless we will not use our eyes but rather choose to be blind at noon by stoutly winking against the Sun then that the power of these Three Kingdoms doth onely belong to his Serene and Supreme Royall Majesty This is said by that great and judicious Casuist in his stating the obligation and efficient cause of humane Lawes After which if Mr. Hickman shall yet contend that the Oxford Visitors were commissioned by the Supreme Authority of the Nation though by the two Houses onely not onely without but against the pleasure of the King I will onely referr him to certain Notes on the Oathes of Supremacy and Allegiance in a late-Printed Book which is thus â—ntitled The Resurrection of Loyalty and Obedience out of the Grave of Rebellion § 80. But I printed saith Mr. Hickman as if I had right to two Fellowships and asks how else he is but one of my receivers p 46. To which I answer 1. That for any thing I know Mr. Hickman succeeded him that succeeded me And my words of him were these that for ought I know he may be in possession of mine own fellowship c. Or 2. If he did not succeed my successor but that his Robbery is immediate not once removed I will give him an Answer to chew upon out of the Digests When a number of men do joâ—â— their strength to steal a piece of Timber or any thing else which is anothers which none of them singly could have carried away Vlpian saith that each of them severally as well as all of them joyntly is lyable to an action for the double value of the thing And so when the right of a Society is invaded by a Society which was our case in Magd. Colledge when almost all were at once bereaved by men of violence all may require their right of all and every man from every man For every man by partnership is an Accessary to all that have done the wrong as well as principall in part and indefinitely and so responsible to all who receive the wrong or do require a reparation I could prove to Mr. Hickman that he is guilty of the Visitor's sin by accepting the spoils of their injustice But I am ready to pardon though not to dissemble my being injur'd § 81. I had but said by such a figure as is allowable in Scripture It seems the Visitors made him one of my Receivers and Vsu-fructuaries when taking my words by the wrong handle he pretends that His is the usus-fructus p. 46. But 1. he knows I there added That my legitimate Successor they could not make him which is a proof that what I spake was of what they did not ought to do And a Facto ad Ius no good Argument is to be drawn The Visitors made him my Receiver as they made their strength the law of justice Or as Lambert made Cromwell the Kings Receiver 'T is easie for one man to be mâ—de an other man's Receiver and yet by a Proverb to be as bad as the thief that made him The sons of violence and rapine made one another what they pleased as opportunity and power was in their hands So it was said by Doctor Heylin that Mr. Hickman had made a Book But he presently added As
so faulty in the discharge of his pastoral Office as he professed himself to be if he had not avowed it in very plain English both in his sheet against the Quakers and in his Saints everlasting Rest. From both I cited his words and pages And lastly for his injustice in usurping the Right of Mr. Dance I never so much as heard of it untill he told me Nor was it without his own intreaty that I demonstrated to him his great Injustice Let his Followers but consider my whole Chapter of Sequestrations and I shall hope they will be wary how they are led by his example Nay in his Postscript to his True Catholick he makes an open Confession of one part of his Confession though not of All. He saith He is aware of Hypocrisie within him p. 315. And Hypocrysy as I take it must needs denominate an Hypocrite after the measure that Hypocrisie doth dwell within him § 6. But he saith he may have my own Consent to tell the world that there is no truth in me ibid. See the desperate wickednesse of this Pretender to Reformation without so much as any colour of Common Honesty For when and where did I consent that he should tell the world so gross a Falshood And yet he saith he doth perceive he may have my consent to rayl and slander But how doth he perceive it Is it by any thing he hath read in all my writings Or by any kinde of Message which I had sent him No he contents himself to say It is my ordinary Confession in the Book of Common prayer ibid. Does this Professor believe there is a God or a Devil A Heaven or a Hell Or believing all four does he conclude he is Regenerate and cannot cease to be such by any Sin to be imagined Were it not for This or That he could not wilfully publish so leâ—d a Fiction For first in all the Common prayer there are not any such words Next I might use the Common prayer and yet not All. Thirdly the words that are likest to it are expressely taken out of S. Iohn and are only Hypothetical If we say that we have no sin we deceive our selves and there is no Truth in us 1 John 1.8 Insomuch that Mr. Baxter is just as bad as that Fellow of whom King Iames doth somewhere speak in his Basilicon Doron who sought to prove out of the Psalmist There is no God because it is said by the Prophet David The fool hath said in his heart there is no God Nay fourthly we are only commanded to use some One of those many Sentences in the Beginning of the Liturgy which a man may do for many years without so much as once repeating what Mr. Baxter doth seem to allude unto And t is more then he knows if ever I once us'd it in all my Life But fifthly let us suppose there were indeed such a Confession categorically made in the Common prayer Mr. Baxter is old enough to have known what Mr. Hooker and others might have taught him having not read it in S. Ierome a Latine Father That the Priest in publick prayer is the Mouth of the people unto God as he is in publick preaching Gods Mouth unto the people· And so Confession is to be made in such General Terms as may well become the Congregation To which as the Priest doth address himself with a Dearly beloved Brethren so doth he beseech them in the Conclusion to keep him Company in the Devotion saying after him what he speaks with a pure heart and humble voice But it seems Mr. Baxter cares not what he foams out although it be his own shame if he may ease himself for a time by aspersing the person with whom he deals § 7. Having confessed again in print his printed Confession of his Hypocrisie p. 315. He yet professeth he is so far from proclaiming himself an Hypocrite that he will imitate Job in holding fast his integrity p. 318. 1. It seems he either understands not the rule of Conjugates and believes he hath the privilege to keep his Hypocrisie without the danger of being an Hypocrite or else when he came to p. 318. he forgot what he had said p. 315. or else he thinks that to publish his Sins in print is nothing neer so much as to proclaim them or else he is desperate and careless what becomes of his reputation or else he thinks it no Disrepute to print such shameful Self-Contradictions 2. After publick Convictions of his Pride and Selfishnesse Hypocrisie and Impatience for he somewhere also confesseth he is of a pettish Disposition as I have somewhere shewed in my New Discoverer Discover'd He talks of imitating Iob in holding fast his Integrity Mr. Dance his Living cannot be called his Intrgrity which yet alone is the Thing that he hath ever held fast since first he held it As for Loyalty and Obedience Professions and Principles Oaths and Covenants Those are things he hath playd with at Fast and Loose Which I proceed to make apparent by these following Degrees § 8. First he hath printed a Confession That our old Constitution was King Lords and Commons which we were Sworn and Sworn and Sworn again to be faithful to and to defend These are all his own words in his Praeface directed to the Army 1659. Next he hath printed a Confession That after several changes of Government we had a Protector governing according to an Instrument made by God knows who After this we had a Protector governing to the humble petition and Advice and sworn to both Thirdly he printed a Confession that his Protectors came not in till after these four changes which I pray the Reader to observe that thou mayest see in the Conclusion how the Hocus of Kiderminster hath jugled with God and his own Conscience and how his Iugling is brought to Light by his own Discovery 1. The King withdrawing mark his words the Lords and Commons ruled alone 2. Next this we had the minor part of the House of Commons in the exercise of the Soveraign power Regality and a House of Lords being cast off 3. Next this we had nothing visible but a General and an Army 4. Next this we had All the whole Constitution and Liberties of the Common-wealth at once subverted Certain men being called by the NAME of a Parliament and the Soveraign power pretended to be given them and exercised by them that never were chosen by the people but by we know not whom Such a fact he confesseth as never King was guilty of since Parliaments were known 5. 6. There came a Protector and a Protector of whom I noted his Confession in my second Observation Having praemised these Confessions which prove the Titular Protectors to have been the greatest of all VSVRPERS and so the guiltiest Malefactors in all the Kingdome Let us consider Mr. Baxter in the holding fast of his Integrity of which he boasteth Let us
openly in the Court well Iesuites and Priests they say you are none but you are their Brethren pag. 52. Loves Trial. Nor do I really think that Mr. Baxter is a Iesuite though I have proved him to be such according to the Logick in which he deals I also proved he was an * Heathen by an Argument ad hominem beyond exception of which 't is well he is so cunning as not to make the least mention § 21. He concludes his postscript as I shall mine with the odious part of the puritanism of his Life of which he saith he hears little from me but his own confessions and his possessing a sequestration for he was loath to call it another mans Living concerning which he answeâ—s nothing not any one word to all my Chapter but onely saith he might answer if the love of Mr. Dance restrained him not p. 329 In which parcell of Expressions there are observable particulars to which I shall return these following things 1. Though I insisted pretty largely on many points of his practical Puritanism as all will say who will but read my New Discoverer Discover'd and therefore this is one of his many falsehoods yet now I hope in this Postscript he will find a supply of my former mercifull defect at which he must not be angry because he hath made it thus needfull for me 2. The first and worst Puritanes at least in Christendome were the Followers of Marcus that monstrous Heretick And Mr. Baxter as neer as any hath written after that Copy Those Antient Haereticks made Accompt they were so pure and perfect and under such an Incapacity to fall from Grace and Gods favour that they might live in any course of the greatest sin without the least fear because without the least danger of being damn'd For by the Benefit of Redemption they had a priviledge of Impunity for all their sins which was not indulged to other Mortals And in the midst of all their villanies they were protected with such an Helmet as they had read of in Homers Iliads And by that as by a â—kreen they were made invisible to the Iudge Now whether Mr. Baxter does hope to hide himself from God as Pallas in Homer from the discovery of Mars or as Gyges went invisible by the priviledge of his Ring or is carried away by the vehement strength of his opinion That being once godly he must be alwayes unavoidably and though God cannot but see yet can he not punish his impieties with pains eternal whether he sticks to his famous Doctrine That a man must be a greater sinner then David was in his Murder and Adultery Peter in his perjury and denyal of Christ Lot in his Drunkenness and Incest and Solomon in his Idolatry before he can be said to be notoriously ungodly sure I am I have evinced he is as scandalous in his life as in his Doctrine Because I have proved the Kings Supremacie and that in respect of the two Houses even of that very Parliament under which Mr Baxâ—er doth seek for shelter And having proved him to have been a perfidious Rebell Reader 't is his own expression by having proved the very thing upon which he confesseth he must be such and gives the world leave to say He is worse then a Murderer an Adulterer a Drunkard and the like still I speak his own words I think I need not add more concerning his Puritanism of Life Before I leave this subâ—ect which yet I will never leave finally whilâ—t Mr Baxter shall be so dareing as to continue a publick Advocate for the worst of Hypocrites whose Rebellions Murders Schism Sacrilege have evinced them to be such by many an ocular demonstration I will add the character which Salmasius hath given of our Puritanes who yet was a friend and Patron to them untill he was converted by seeing their usage of the King Belli isti sane Puritani sub Regno Elizabethae prodire è Tenebris ORCI Ecclesiam inde turbare primùm coeperunt persuadent sibi se posse cujuslibet sceleris esâ—e Affines tamen sanctitatem in medio sceleris Actu retinere In English thus Those goodly Puritanes did first come forth from the dark pit of Hell under the Reign of Queen Elizabeth And thence began to disturb the Church They persuade themselves that being once sanctified they may ingage in any villany and yet in the very act retain their sanctity 3. It were Puritanism enough if he had onely invaded his Neighbours goods and Intitled God's service to his Impiety If he shall say he is established by any Ordinance of the two Houses which without the King cannot possibly be a legal and Rightfull Parliament I shall first referr him for satisfaction to my whole Chapter upon the subject against which he hath not offâ—rd one word of Answer Next I shall tell him that the two Houses were bound to keep Magna Charta and not to break it And so they were told by his Sacred Majesty in his Printed Proclamation against the oppâ—ession of the Clergy by the Insurrection of Factious and Schismaticall persons into their cures c. wherein he said 1. That by the great Charter of England no Ecclesiastical Possession may be sequestred but by the Ordinary 2. That what ever was pretended men of learning and piety were dispossessed for their Loyalty 3. That he straitly charged and commanded all his subjects as well Ecclesiastical as Temporal not to presume to intermeddle in that affair notwithstanding any sequestration or pretended orders or ordinances or other command whatsoever of one or both Houses of Parliament 4. That if any should presume to transgress this command he did hereby declare them to infringe the good old Law of the Land and to assist a Rebellion against himself Let Mr. Baxter mark that and read the whole Proclamation to be seen in Bibliotheca Regia § 3. p. 324. 4. By saying he could say I know-not-what-of Master Dance if love did not restrain him he does maliciously imply that Mr. Dance is as scandalous as himself or at least somewhat near it Whether a drunkard or a swearer he leaves the Reader to suspect There is no worse slandering an Innocent man than by such a Paralypsis as here is used Was it not enough for Mr. Baxter to seize on his neighbours goods but he must slur his good name too 'T was ill done of Antinous to eat Vlysses his meat and to beat him too into the bargain 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 But Mr. Baxter ought to chew upon Vlysses his Answer thereupon and if he can digest it 't will do him good 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 § 22. I should here have concluded with Mr. Baxter but that in casting back my eye upon his p. 299. I find him railing at others somewhat more then at my self He saith
that commonly the whole Kennels of swearers and drunkards and scorners at godliness so he ever calls hypocrisie and such like were continued in the communion of the Prelaticall Church to which he adds page 300. The scandalous Rabble are eager for prelacy and their mode of Government and wâ—rship To which I answer 7. things 1. what he saith is but gratis dictum as proofless as it is false and yet no falser of the Prelatical then true of the Presbyterian party 2. If it were true as it is not it would hold an objâ—ction against our Saviour for admitting Iudas to his Sacrament as Publicans and Sinners to his converse 3. Neither drunkenness nor swearing no nor murder nor adultery if Mr Baxter himself may be believed is so bad as Rebellion And he may fitly consider what men are admitted to his Communion 4. That his way of Government and worship hath been followed by swearers and perâ—ur'd persons yea incestuous and murderous and parricidâ—al I have proved undeniably in my Discovereâ— Discovered 5. He forgets the foul fact with which he had charged the Presbyterian Assembly of Divines when he said That The Assembly had put down Prelacy for which a Convocation had formâ—d an oath to be imposed on all Ministers but a little before Nothing can put down the right of that which is of divine Institution No not a full and free Parliament much less the two Houses without the King much less the Assembly against the King O wonder of wickedness what a company of inferiour and obnoxious Ministers put down the Order of their Superiors It was treason for them to sit after his Majesties Proclamation Inhibiting the Assembly of Divines and others summoned to Westminster by an ordinance of both houses of Parliament what a dismal character the King did fasten upon that Ordinance and upon the Divines then Assembled as men of no Reputation or Learning and Preachers of Rebellion c. I wish that all men would reade by having recourse to the Proclamation 6. He passeth by the sin of Sacrilege which the King proved to reign in the Presbyterians and so he falls with his Assembly men under the lash of Dr Gauden As if they were Chaplains at once serving the Lord their Bellies and the Times as partaking of the Table of the Lord and the Table of Divels They rather cherish than crush this Cockaetrice fearing to seem but luke-warm Reformers if they damped some of their good Masters zeal by justly damning this darling and damnable sin of Sacrilege which puts on the form not onely of godliness and Reformation but of thrift and good husbandry to save the publick purse the necessary expenses of a Civil warr which in some mens desires as I believe it had never been begun but onely to destroy the Government of the Church and confiscate those Revenues so all things computed I no less believe that the secular purse hath had but a dear pennyworth of those Church-Lands at so vast a charge as hath attended the warr first commenced by Presbytery against Episcopacy 7. All the prime of the Nobility Gentry and Clergy the King himself and his Ancestors all former Parliaments and Magna Charta are very eager for Prelacy Are these a scandalous rabble with Mr. Baxter No the Rabble was such by which Prelacy was decryed though the Gates of Hell shall not finally prevail against it I will add no more of those men the sons of violence and Rapine then what was said by Vlysses concerning the ill natuâ—'d Antinous who took possession of his house laid siege unto his wife forbid him to enter his own doors added Railing to Robbery and Blows to Railing 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 § 23. Christian Reader I am sensible of being tedious by my prolixity And therefore will end with an Account of my vindicative Iustice to Master Baxter however some of his Fautors may call it cruel As Mr. Baxter is a man I truly love him though I spare him not at all as a Malefactor 'T is plain I love him because I labour for his conversion For I could wish him no greater punishment then to be still what he is But to spare the Malefactor were a twofold Cruelty as well to himself as his weaker brethren It were a cruelty to himself because as long as he prospers he will not mend It were a cruelty to his Brethren who live indulgently in sin by his Example To make him Contemptible unto such as do bless themselves in their Rebellions through the Authority they ascribe to his books and Practice I take it to be as good I mean as charitable a work as I can set my Heart or my Hand unto For he confessed he blow'd the coals of all our National Combustions And those I may call the Divel's bonfires It was the very worst thing in Ieroboam himself that he made Israel to sin It is for this very Reason that the Divel himself is called Satan And so Mr. Baxter hath been avowedly an Epidemicall Disease to his native Countrie For he professeth to have incouraged many thousands to ingage their force against their Sovereign And that in the judgement of Salmasius himself was to have the highest hand in the blackest murder of the best King Now the fewer Admirers this man shall have by the blessing of God upon my endeavours the fewer mens sins he will be answerable for And let him kick whilst he will my charity bids me consult his cure No sinner can be more scandalous than a sinner in Print That Mr. Baxter hath been such in a greater measure than Paraeus whose Book was burnt by the Hangmanâ—t â—t the command of King Iames and again at the appointment of the whole Oxford University I have evinced in my former and later papers upon the subject Saint Paul himself thought it a duty to shame such Sinners for their Amendment And by him I was perswaded to think it mine When a man hath taken pains to let me know that he is blind I hold it a duty to make him see or at least to make him see that he sees just nothing for fear he run against the wall and break his forehead or from a praecipice and break his neck There is nothing so dangerous as for a Baiard to be Bold upon a fansifull presumption of being quick sighted I very well know that Master Baxter if he is not converted will be imbitter'd against me by what I say But I leave it to the Prudentialists to be deterr'd with such Mormo's who dare be lazie and afraid to serve their God and their Generation And even censure their Brethren who dare not fear to serve both Besides I am armed by that of Seneca Quosdam esse Tales ut pulchrius sit ab His vituperari quà m laudari And when I consider that Mr. Baxter hath lick'd up the spittle of the Cromwells and preached them up unto the skies thereby
back on ch 3. Sect. 28. p. 52 53 54. The Synagogue of the Libertines a Acts. 6.9 b Acts 7 54. c Verse 57. d Verse 58. Fitly applyed to Mr. Baxter e See the New Discoverer Discoverd Ch. 3. Sect. 1. p. 61 62 63 64. where Mr. Baxters words and pages are set at large His railing on K James and Bp. Bancroft f 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 is derived frâ—m 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 and 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 And is used by Atheneus lib. 18. for an Incendiary a Boute-few a setter of things into combustion New Discov Discov ch 5. p. 98 99. Ibid. from p. 1â—3 â—â— p. 117. On Bp Andrews and Dr. Sandeâ—son for their Iustice to the Puritans See that Preface of Dr. Sanderson Sect. 17 aâ—d 18. i See the Reverend Dr. Hammond his pacifick Discourse c. p. 8. l. ult k Cavendum ne cum Purâ—tanis â—uibusdam Deum faciamus Autorem peccaâ—i vid. episâ— Ded. Dan. Tilen pref Notis suâ—s in Canon Synod Dordr l See the last page of the most learned Dr. Sandersons most incomparable preface m 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Herodot in Thalia c 78. p. 194. His Confession of his own wickednesse again confessed by himsâ—lf â—hough but in pâ—rt His prodigious falsifying of Common Prayers a Postscrip at the end of his True Catholick p 315. b Iude 13. His denial of that Confession which hâ— confessed a litâ—le before His perjury and Rebellion proved out of his own words See his holy Commâ—nwealâ—â— Prâ—f p â— Ibid. p. 10. Ibid. p. 9. â—nd 10. His playing at fast and loose with his Integrity His timâ— seâ—ving and fawring upon his Soveraign Richard a Five Dispuâ— of Church Gov. and worship Epist. Dedic per totam b Maâ—k how this suits with the Assemblies Confess of faith that all things whatsoever are ordained by God c Compare this with his Confession that was no Parliament which yet had a better pretencâ— then Richard Hiâ— rejoycing in our late miseries c. d Key for Câ—tholickâ— Epist. De. per totam e Note the Presbyterian agreement with the Pope in excommunicating Kings K. Charlâ—s might be faught against but Mr. Richard must not f Note his chaâ—ging upon God all the Villanies of the times His Flattering mentions of old Oliver as tenâ—erly carefull of Christs câ—uâ—e g Dedâ—c epist. or pref before his Holy Commonvvealth p. 6 h ibid. i ibid. p. 8. k ib. p. 25. l ib p. 484. m ibid. n bid o Epist. Ded. before his Key for Cath p. 8. p ibid. b. 17. His bâ—ing Accessary to the most parrâ—cidial act the murdeâ— of Gods Aâ—ointed q See the preface to the Essaâ— for the good Olâ— Cause r 1 Tim. 5.22 Reâ—el 18.4 The sâ—ven wayes of partaking in other mens sins Such were Mr. Baxters Priâ—â—es Oliver and Râ—chard Hâ—s being an incendiary in the Wâ—rr and incouâ—aging many thousands â—â— rebell proved out of his confessions t Though here he confâ—sseth he was a Cokblower and incouraged thousands to Rebell yet he daâ—es not â—epent p. 486. u Mark the tendernesse of his Conscien e first he sought against his King then considered if lawfully x Note that by one of the 3. estates he must mean the King or the Bishops His Denying the supremacy of the King which yâ—t he allovved the tvvo Cromwells vvâ—â—reby he is proved by his Confession to be a Râ—bell x Note that by one of the 3. estates he must mean the King or the Bishops y Pref. p. 23. His being a Traytor to the Houses which he had set above the King by setting Richard above them wâ—en they disowned him And for owning Cromwells Iuâ—to for a full and free parliment * Note his ungodly Resolution to take that for granted which was visibly false viz. that the King would have ruin'd the Representatives of the Nation and its whole security Holy Com. wealth page 480. section 19. He is evinced out of his mouth to have been perjur'd over and over His charge against the Lords and Commons and his setting aside the King more then the houses ever did His most Notable contradiction about the Houses ruling without the King His new Miscarriage against Grotius and the Episcopal Divines He is proved to be a Jesuite by as good Logick as he useth * See my Appendix to New Disc. Disc. sect 5. p. 170. to 174. The Jesuites Doctrine of Probability chez les provinciales p. 73 74. Popery common to Thom. Goodwin with some noted Presbyterians * See his Antapologia p. 29. * See Dr. Roger Drakes letter to M. Love p. 7. Mr. Baxter's Puritanism as well in life as Doctrine His additional Falshood The originall of Puritanism among Professors of Christianity * 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 †〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 c. Iren. advers Haer. l. 1. c. 9. p. 72. * Homer· Il. 5. 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Irenaeus ubi supra †See the pages exactly cited with the wordâ— in my new Dis. Disc. c. 3. sect 1. p. 61 62 63. c. * See his Confession in his Holy Common wealâ—h pag. 490 lin 9 10. †He hath promis'd neve to gainsay it on the hypothesis spoken of Our English Puritanes caracterized by Salmasius one of the learnedest of the Beyond-sea Protestants * Defens Reg. c. 10. †How neerly this toucheth Mr. Baxter see the whole third Chapter of my New Disc. Disc. Mr. Baxter declared by God's Anointed to be a factious and schismatical person * Quaere whether M. Baxter was not the Kings subject as much as â—romwell's * Quaere whether the King and his learned Iudges with him did not know his Right as well as Mr. Baxter His double injury to Master Dance * Quaere whether the King and his learned Iudges with him did not know his Right as well as Mr. Baxter His double injury to Master Dance Homer Odyf. 17. His unparallel'd bitterness against Episcopacy and our Church seven wayes rebuked * He means â—y that word the constant sons of the Church of England * Key for Catholicks page 416. †☞ Note that in the 42 of Edw. 3. the first chapter doth enact that if any staâ—ute be made to the contrary it shall be holden for null And see Iudge Ienk. p. 62. * Consult Biblioâ—heca Regia for it sect 3. p. 328. †See his Majesties Concessions at the â—sle of Wight ib. p. â—57 * See Doctor Gauden's Hiera Dacrua c. â—1 p. 334. Hom. Odyss 17. The Conclusion * Eccles. 8.11 * Ad quartum actum ultra in hoe Dramate desultando fâ—igultientes Presbyteriani spectati sunt Quinam alii merito Râ—gis Occiâ—i crimine notari magis debuere quà m qui viam ad eum occidendum munierunt Illi sunt qui nefariam illam securim cervicibus ejus inflixerunt non alii Salmas Defens Reg. c. 10. †Praevidit eas quas nunc Britania sentit Calamitates inde orituras Gâ—ot vot pro pace p. 49. * 2 Thes. 3.14