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A68300	A sermon preached at Pauls Crosse, the 25. of Nouember. 1621 Vpon occasion of that false and scandalous report (lately printed) touching the supposed apostasie of the right Reuerend Father in God, Iohn King, late Lord Bishop of London. By Henry King, his eldest sonne. Whereunto is annexed the examination, and answere of Thomas Preston, p. taken before my Lords Grace of Canterbury, touching this scandall. Published by authority.	King, Henry, 1592-1669.; Preston, Thomas, 1563-1640.	1621 (1621)	STC 14969.5; ESTC S108024	33,075	94

harme I wish them is that they would leaue off this thred-bare trade of Calumny especially towards the Dead grow better acquainted with speaking and writing the Truth and not conuersing with her at such a distance as now they doe Or if they will needs be Architecti mendaciorum still hammering vntruths I would aduize them to lay probable foundations and chuse such Materials as are more malleable and in the worlds esteeme not so impossible for them to worke vpon as He they haue heere selected For euery wood will not make a Mercury nor is euery good man a fit mould to cast Them a Conuert in Farewell H. K. THE EXAMINATION OF THOMAS PRESTON taken before the Lord Archbishop of Canterbury at Lambeth Decemb. 20. 1621. BEing asked Whether he hath not heard by report and bruite abroad that it hath been said of him that hee was with Doctor King late Lo. Bishop of London a little before his death and that he reconciled the said Bishop to the Church of Rome and therein performed vnto him the office and function of a Priest And being further asked Whether he hath not heard of a Book not long since published which is intituled Protestants Plea and Petition for Priests and Papists and that in the same Booke it is said that the fore-named Bishop did humbly at the feet of a Priest confesse his sinnes receiue Sacramentall absolution at his hands and was reconciled to the Catholike Roman Church And being hereupon charged vpon his conscience and his Priesthood to speake the truth whether hee were the person spoken of by report or designed by the said booke to performe such an office Hee answereth That it is true that hee hath often heard that such a Report was spredde abroad concerning him and many both Protestants and Catholikes haue come vnto him to inquire whether that report and bruit were true or no. And that hee hath heard that in the booke before named some such thing is deliuered and vpon the day of this his examination hee was shewed the booke by the Lord Archbishop of Canterbury wherein hee found those things afore mentioned to bee contained For the declaring of truth in all which he protesteth before God and vpon his conscience as he shall answere at the dreadfull Day of Iudgement that the said Bishop of London did neuer confesse himselfe vnto this Examinate nor euer receiued Sacramentall absolution at his hands nor was euer by him reconciled vnto the Church of Rome neither did renounce before him the Religion professed and established in the Church of England nor did performe any other circumstance tending that way as is in the said booke of the Protestants Plea deliuered Yea he addeth further that as he hath hope to be saued by Christ Jesus he this Examinate to his knowledge was neuer in company where the said Doctor King late Lord Bishop of London was neither did he euer receiue letter from him nor did write letter vnto him neither did he euer to his knowledge see the said Bishop in any place whatsoeuer nor could haue knowne him from another man and therefore affirmeth that this bruit and report is raised concerning this Examinate and the said late Bishop without any true ground and foundation Being asked what hee should thinke to bee the cause wherefore any person should raise this fame or report hee saith that from the beginning hee did conceiue it to be nothing else but that some who did maligne him were willing to disgrace him or vndoe him by bringing him in obloquy with the King or State where he remaines a prisoner Being demanded whether euer hee hath probably or credibly heard that any other Priest did repaire to the said late Bishop did take his Confession gaue him absolution or reconciled him to the Roman Church hee protesteth that he did neuer credibly or probably heare of any such thing Being asked whether he hath heard that Masse hath been said for the said Bishop in any part beyond the seas hee answereth that he hath heard such a report but doth not know any thing of certainty concerning the same Examinatur coram G. Cant. Ego Thomas Prestonus qui supra testor haec omnia esse vera Recognit coram nobis 28. Decemb. 1621. T. Edmondes Geo. Caluert In praesentia mei Gulielmi Bakeri Notarij Publici Faults escaped in some Copies Page 3. lin 20. reade 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 pag. 9. lin 16. pag. 11. lin 8. and pag. 18. lin 18. reade The word that I said vnto you p. 28. lin vlt. in marg reade Rey. p. 29 l. 16. reade our Luminaria p. 43. l. penult reade Abyssum inuocat p. 44. l. 11. reade States p. 45. l. 2. r. Inuentories Ibid. l. 7. Extracted a Quintessence p. 54. l. 4. reade Notion In the Epistle to the Reader Pag. 1. lin 17. reade Sivera dicam Diuision 1 2 3 First Part. Remember Gregor Nazian Epitaph Caesar. Ibid. Isa. 58. 1. Martial The word that I said 1 I said Iohn 18. 6. Cant. 5. 2 The word c. Psal. 12. 6. Prou. 8. 11. Psal. 119. 127. Matth. 13. 19. Iudg. 16. 2 King 19. 13. Iuuenal sat ● Holinshed vita Rub. 1. in fine Dan. 8. 3 4. Uers. 7. Martial Epigr. Ioh. 4. 13. Hieron epist. Iam. 1. 22. Mat. 23. 37. Iohn 10. 4. Chrysost. Hom. in Mat. Esa. 53. 1. Isidor Pelus lib. 4. epist. 21. Aug. Ser. 18. de Uerb Dom. Id. ib. Horat. de arte poet Num. 27. 12. Deut. 9 7. Eccles. 12. 1. Eccles. 11. 9. Iuuenal Amos 7. 12. Esa. 30. 10. Ibid. Lucan Job 3. 3 5. Second part The seruant is not greater then his Lord. 1. Cor. 15. 41. Aug. Gen. 1. * Tomo primero de la conueniencia de las dos Monarquias Catolicas la de la Iglesia Romana y la del Imperio Espanol c. Author el M ro fr. Iuan de la Puente de la orden de Praedicadores Chronista de la Mag d Catolica c. En Madrid en la Imprenta Real 161 n. Lor mandado del Roy. 1. Pet. 2. 18. Rom. 13. 1. 2. Sen. ep 47. Ioh. 15. 14. Sen. ibid. Aug. Hom. 42. in orat Dominic Aug. Phil. 2. 7. Mal. 1. 6. Colos. 4. 1. Psal. 82. 6. Gen. 37. 7. Gloss. Ioh. 13. 16. Aug. Ser. 10. de Verb. Dom. Obad. 1. 4. Mat. 4. 8. Vers 9. Iuuenal 2. Thes. 2. Psal. 82. 6. Math. 21. 5. Frederick 1. waited on Pope Adrians stirrop Ioh. 13. 16. Math. 22. 21. Math. 19. 17. Bzouius Annal. Tom. 13. Extra Verbo Significasti Tit. 14. cap. 4. Platina Act. 7. 58. Third part If they haue persecuted me they will also persecute you Calui Harmon Matth. 10. 24. Gen. 3. Verse 15. Matth. 2. 13. Zach. 13. 6. 1. Sam. 26. 20. Cant. 2. 17. 1. King 22. 31. Zach. 13. 7. Psal. 136. 7. Hugo Card. Psal. 42. 7. Sen. Trag. * Uenâ basilicá Mark 5. Vers. 9. Augustin Math. 10. 28. Tertullian Math. 27. 63. Heb. 10. 33. Bozius de signis Ecclesiae l. 23. c. 3. Lindan Dialog Cochleus Hieron Bolseic in eius vitâ Apoc. 2. Cyprian Minut. Felix 1. Ioh. 1. Aug. Math. 5. 37. Gen. 3. 15. Act. 12. * Thomae Preston Appellatio p. 8. a Personatus ille Schulkenius extra omnis modestiae charitatis Christianae limites tam horrenda crimina VViddringtono imponit illumque tam inuerecundè calumniatur vt eum quantumuis Ecclesiae Catholicae Roma nae se filium esse syncerè prositeatur ipso tamen Luthero Calui no aut alio quouis perditissimo in reprobum sensum dato homuncione deteriorem faciat illumque praeter manifestae haereseos crime quod illi falsissimè obijcit etiā impijs simis Christi Domini Apostolorum omniumque Christi Martyrum persequutoribus Ecclesiae Romanae sedisque Apostolicae hostibus iuratis aequiparare non perhorrescat Id. pag. 6. Juuenal Homer Iliad Iude Ep. vers 9. Act. 23. 9. Act. 5. 41. Tertullian Martial Hieron epist. ad Celantiam Psal. 14. Psal. 14. Hieron Ep. ad Celant Luk. 4. 14. Theophylact. in Ioh. 26. 1. King 22. 24. * B. of Couentry and Lichfield B. of Bath and VVelles B. of Ely August Ciuit. Dei lib. 1. cap. 11. 1. Cor. 16. 31. Esa. 65. 24. Psalm 6. Phil. 1. 23. * Sir Henry Martin his Chancelor M. Matthias Cal licot M. Philip King his Brother Iohn King his second Sonne and myself c. Luk. 22. 15. Doctor Cluet Archdeacon of Middlesex Iohn 8. 56. Deut. 11. 29. Acts 7. Joh. 20. 4. Ioh. 19. 40. * He commanded in his VVill his body to be buried in the Cathedrall Church of S. Paul without any Pompe or solemnities onely with a Tombe-stone with this Inscription Resurgam 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Act. 8. 2. VVhere also was present the Lord Bishop of Ely 2. King 2. Homer Odyss Acts 9. 15. Ad confutandos haereticos mator vis in traditione quàm in Scriptura Canus Loc. lib. 3. cap. 3. Matth. 10. 25. * It was the Motto of his Episcopall Scale Matth. 5. 11 12 Gerson de laude script consider 1

oris either the materiall sword of the executioner or if not so the sword of a two-edged lying tongue hath runne thorow all the ancient Apostles and most of those Haereditarios Discipulos Apostolici seminis frutices later Apostles who in their seuerall ages haue succeeded in the Church Christ himselfe was not free from it was not hee branded with the name of an Impostour after his death and the Disciples were 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 made Theaters of misery in their liues of scorne and infamy in their deathes Thus did the Arrians scandalize the great Athanasius And as executors vnto them the Romish Priests Iesuits with their frontlesse imputations haue striued to darken the glorious truth of our Church and Religion by traducing the Professors and on their ruined credits sought to build vp their owne rotten cause Luther was defamed for lewd life and conuersing with the diuell and that he had hanged himselfe Bucer for denying Christ at his death Oecolampadius for dying suddenly when hee was sixteene dayes sicke in his bed Caluin for dying distracted and desperate an aspersion which my Author saith Bolsecke himselfe recanted in the Synod with teares Beza giuen out for a Conuert and a reuolter from the Protestant Church to theirs All which so grosse and false that some with their owne pens confuted the calumniations cast vpon them and amongst the rest Beza after the report of his death and conuersion published his owne defence and their periurious falshood in a tract called Beza rediuiuus Beza reuiued I haue yet one instance of the selfesame quality as false as that though not so well confuted One indeed too many by that and so deare that I could haue wished He had not so soone been added to this catalogue of wronged Worthies But that wish is vaine and like Him lost and by that losse am I furnished with what most willingly I would haue wanted a sad example Your conceit already lookes thorow me and my meaning is articulated in your apprehensions before vttered in words One he was knowne to all enough to me more neerly as being tyed to him in double bonds of Canon and of Nature Sometimes the Bishop of this See or to vse the phrase of Saint John the Angell of this Church though now taken vp into a better Hierarchy the society of Angels in heauen I had cause to thinke hee now was out of the reach of detraction and too high fixed to be traduced but I see flouds of reproche throwne after him by the Papists as after the woman in the Wildernesse For my owne part I thought once not to haue meddled at all in this subiect knowing that Rerum irrecuperabilium foelieissima est obliuio vnhappy losses are happily forgot much lesse with the slander raised after him supposing it too light vpon the Ballance to poyze or sway any wise mans beliefe Againe I could not iudge it but as very ridiculous or malicious if ridiculous I hoped like a fume it would haue vanished For mendacia diù non fallunt and hauing arriued at nine dayes the age of a wonder died in laughter If malicious I held best not to take notice of it For iniury is no iniury if not apprehended Omnis iniuria in sensu patientis saith one to own a scandall crownes the reuenge of the Authour whereas neglected it quickly findes its owne graue But I see this spurious Brat hath found too many Nurses since it was exposed and like a Snow-ball by rolling is growne greater Longa aetate non infringitur sed augetur and as it hath acquired more age so also with those that wish it so more credit Therefore because impudent auouchings make wise men somtimes doubt and the ignorant stumble and for that I would not with a guilty silence seeme to betray a Truth or confirme their errour who take all for granted which is not contradicted I haue at last aduentured to speake Not that I hold my selfe fit or able for this taske at any time much lesse now but onely for that I hoped what I should say might win more beliefe as hauing been an eare witnesse and which is more Oculatus testis an eye-witnes of all his last passages and could beare record against his Accusers falshood as Saint John did of the truth Quod vidimus quod audiuimus c Yet alas what can I say what proportion will words hold against peremptory assertions I haue nothing to conuince them but a plaine vnglost deniall Petilianus dicit Ego nego They say it is so I know it is not and in a iust case it is Rhetoricke enough Let bad causes shrowd themselues in suspected apologies Trueth needs no clothing but as a principle scornes proofe or demonstration Besides it were difficult to prooue a Negatiue much harder to refute an vntruth by the tracke you may as well descrie the Eagles path or define that which is a twinne of the same litter non ens Neither finde I any such President from that Incarnate Truth Christ Jesus who being accused by clouds of false witnesses answered either nothing at all or very little according to his owne prescript Let your communication bee yea and nay And yet if I would seeke euidence to cast them I would looke no further then their owne Iurors but ex ore ipsorum from themselues fetch circumstance to confute them For I neuer yet knew any Lye so close built but there was some loope-light for the Truth to discouer it This is mendacium fenestratum hath many wide windowes for you to behold it First you know Hee whose conuersion they now vrge had been long an eye-sore to them railed on by many of their Pamphleters Parsons especially and that other vnchristened Jesuite for he hath no name or else shames to put it to his booke who thought it would be credit to his worke if he could bring in the name of Doctor King thogh but in the Rere and Post-script Iudge then how can this Report cohere to detest him liuing to defame him sicke yet claime him dead Were it true there is little policy to trust a reconciled enemy But being so false it is most impious and diabolicall to belie the dead For insidiari calcaneo which Gregory expounds to be Finem vitae is the diuels proper passion Secondly for the Authour of his conuersion they alleage such a one who sure vttered words which no man euer heard and acted feats which none could see For had he been a Substantiue visible or to be vnderstood and no Iugler nor dreame nor aire nor meere metaphysicall noiton we who were scarce euer absent should at one time or other haue descryed him But peraduenture it was a night-piece and not fit to bee perused by euery light Well then apply their owne Ignis fatuus to it and grant them as much as they can suppose and marke if it appeare not farre worse You must

the crime thine It shall bee my aduice to all that heare me and to such as heare mee not for Opprobrium non accipere aduersus proximos suos not to receiue or credit opprobrious calumniations cast out against our brethren is one of the degrees of innocence and happinesse recited by the Psalmist Do but remember that if God hath denounced a wo against those that speake euill of Good Et iustitiam iusti auferunt ab eo and rob the righteous of their good names he hath also a woe for them Qui furem vident consentiunt who consent vnto the theft But my perswasion is misplaced you are not such before whom I need to cleare him of this defamation I hope with modesty I may vse Saint Hieroms words Aduersus obtrectatorum libidinem pugnat meriti magnitudo he had deserued better ranke in your estimations then so For did he so long runne his course thorow this Churches Zodiack and as a true Diocesan visit each Pulpit within your City some of them oftner not onely taught within it but 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 in all the adioyning villages where hee liued neuer allowing his numerous affaires so much as a Sabbath or Sundayes rest whilest he was able So by his vnwearied industry telling the world that they which for gaine or ease or for ambition aimed at Bishopricks mistooke that waighty calling since that as Theophylact speakes Ministerium affert non facit Dominum when Christ made his Apostles Bishops and Superintendents of his Church he appoynted thē not so much to Lord the flocke as to feed it Did he all this and with that zealous care that as a Torch hee consumed himselfe to light others and when Himselfe should faile prouided so farre as in him lay for a succession in his Blood to set hand to the same plough hauing dedicated in his desire all his Sonnes in act Two to the Ministery of this Church and by no meanes willing to heare of any other course though otherwise inuited by Gracious offers for some of them in particular to be vndertaken by them saue that function alone And can it be conceiued he should after all this turne a shifter of his Religion Let me aske with better right then did Zedekia When went that Spirit of God which had accompanied him thorow all the passages of life from him Great buildings before they fall giue warning of their ruine by inclining some way or other what argument did hee euer giue of his Reuolt or that like Ephraim hauing bin so long harnessed so long militant in Gods battels so long a Captaine in the Armie he should in the last day of battell turne backe when hee had now but one enemie to incounter Death that he should forsake his Colours or like a 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 and Renegado recant that faith which with much contention and with losse of Spirits he so long had maintained Had his resolution wauered this way how could he haue disguized so apparant a relapse from those reuerend Bishops who were his familiar and frequent visitants and especially his most honoured friend the Lord Archbishop of Canterbury who was with him on the Wednesday before his decease 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 is the old rule the end of life euer answeres the beginning If so who can imagine that One who began in opposition to the Church of Rome should end in Apostasie and reconcilement to it Nay that good Father is confident Mors mala putanda non est quam bona vita praecesserit It is incredible he that liued so well should make so inglorious an end Nor was this confidence in him any way abused neither his end disproportionate to his beginning Hee that had so long taught others how to liue was by his owne infirmities tutord in the art of dying It is not strange he should bee perfit in this lesson since for a long time to vse the Apostles words He dyed daily his sharpe agonies hauing made his life but 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 no better then a liuing death vnto this wholly doth hee addresse his thoughts and admonished by his increasing paines as from the tongue of the Prophet sent from God to summon Ezekiah he sets his house in order Where first he resolues himself into his principia naturalia bequeathing his Soule to God that gaue it his Body to the dust from whence it was taken and not onely so but In principia fortunae hee resolues his fortunes into their beginnings acknowledging with all thankfull duty that vnder God our gracious Soueraigne had been the maker of them I will not conceale his owne words dictated in his last Testament First I bequeath my soule into the hands of Almighty God beseeching him for Christ Jesus sake my most blessed Sauiour that as it hath pleased him euen from my mothers wombe to take mee into his speciall fauour and protection and to continue the same vnto me thorowout all the passages of my life especially vnder my most gracious Ma●ter and Soueraigne the Instrument of his goodnesse and bounty to me and mine for these eighteene y'eres and hath vouchsafed me though the vnworthiest of many to bee a Minister of his holy Word and Sacraments so it would please him in this my time of sicknesse and grieuous infirmity to hold mee vp by his right hand and to vouchsafe mee the comfort of his holy Spirit that I may patiently indure this crosse and affliction which he hath laid vpon me A Petition as soone granted as desired nay I may say as it is in the Prophet Antequā clament ego exaudiam God heard his prayer long before it was framed in this place For from the first beginning of his sicknesse hee was indued with such a spartana patientia well knit patience that some of his Reuerend brethren comming purposely to comfort him professed they found more comfort from him then they could bring and though hee might truly say with Dauid I am weary of my groning and Euery night wash I my bed with teares Yet neuer did any impatient murmure it was a religious boast in the Lord vttred by himselfe breake from his lips against that high hand which had so long humbled him neither did that Petra rockestony disease grow so fast within him but his Christian resolution hardened as fast and his faith built as firmely on the true Rocke of his Saluation Christ Jesus with the Inuocation of which Name hee began and ended the day vsing most frequently those words of Saint Paul Cupio dissolui esse cum Christo I desire to bee dissolued But before he loosed from this shore considering hee was bound for a long voyage he was not vnmindfull first to take in Uiaticum animae the holy sacrament which hee professed in the presence of some especiall friends his wife children and family appoynted by his owne inuitation to accompany him to that feast as Christ

his death out of the abundance of their Romish charitie would perswade the world he died Reconciled vnto their Synagogue for I may not call it Church vnlesse it be Ecclesia malignantium Ecclesia maledicentium Nor let this Lye prooue more authenticke because Printed that rather discredits and weakens it and you haue now more cause to suspect it then before It is a ground in their Religion that Vnwritten traditions haue more authority then written Scriptures And if so why should not we take them at their word and make as slight and scornefull reckoning of their writings as they of Gods Lastly that none may wonder or be perplexed or through a nice misprision suspect there could not but bee some ground for this farre-blowne Calumnie let him but Remember the word that Christ sayd and what He Suffered and then all wonder will end in satisfaction For who can thinke it strange that Christs Seruants are slandered when Hee their Lord and Master could not auoyd the poysoned breath of Slander If His Innocence had no protection but that He on no ground at all was belyed by malicious tongues surely on as little ground will they belie any Disciple of His For the Seruant is not greater then his Lord And saith Christ If they haue persecuted me they will also persecute you Why then Sufficit Discipulo vt sit sicut Magister eius Let it satisfie all the world and his owne fame that this now dead Disciple hath had but the same fate and vsage his Master had It is the glory of Imitation to counterfeit the life and Art is most proper when it most resembles Nature The Apostles were but Copies drawne from Christ their perfection therefore must needs be greatest who come neerest to the Originall And that Disciple is a true Disciple who learnes not the Lesson but the Master not only suffers for Him but in degree and qualitie as like as may be to Him This is truly Discere Christum to learne Christ this is Induere Dominum Jesum to put on the Lord Iesus this is to Partake the sufferings of Christ. They who durst partake his sorrowes shall share with Him in ioyes they that are sicut in terra shall be also sicut in coelis For so hath the Spirit assured vs. Si compatimur conregnabimus If wee suffer with him in earth we shall raigne with him in Heauen Behold a voyce hath bid me write Blessed are ye when men reuile and persecute you and say all manner of euill for my Names sake falsely Reioyce and be glad great is your reward in Heauen TO THE READER HOw little I affect to be in Print needs no Apologie to any who either know already it was the desire of some my most Honourable friends whose intreaties were commands to me or but consider the subiect which first set me a worke a Slandered and traduced Father vnto whom duty and necessity vrged me to doe this right And I cleerely professe if a true relation of his end may doe him right I haue faithfully performed it and haue giuen the world so iust an account of Him tanquàm Ephemeridem Deo traditurus as if I should haue made my conscience last shrift to God Whether I haue vprightly stewarded his honour and my owne faith I leaue to the strict iudgement of any who are able to distinguish colours and discerne Truth from Imposture being confident as innocence can make a man that none are able to disallow the reckoning Si veredicam Deus testis si mentiar Deus Vindex As therefore the acquitting of His integrity was the prime motiue which entred me into this Quarrell so now the clearing of my owne fidelity was a secondary motiue for the publication of it First that they might not thinke by false alarms and the confused outcries of Report to beare downe a good cause or so easily to triumph in their supposed victory as if none durst affront them I thought good in the meane time thus on the sudden to checke the rumour till haply some more deliberate pen which they shall not long or vainely expect may quite race it out And though this byrth of mine were more hastily formed I hope it will not be vntimely for Truth neuer knew abortion but like a starre newly risen to discouery hath its being of old though the obseruation was but late and moderne Secondly to let those calumnious tongues who gaue out my Reuolt also as well as my Fathers both true alike know I haue not yet so doted on their part or dis-affected my owne as to leaue my Countrey or Religion nor I thinke euer shall except my vnderstanding wits and aboue all the Grace of God leaue me or their perswasions haue the same power ouer me as Mercuries had ouer Sosias that they can make me beleeue Ego non sum Ego I am not the Son of such a Father And what in this case on my owne behalfe I write is likewise auowed on behalfe of my second brother IOHN KING entred into the same orders as my selfe who also had his share in this lewd imputation as well as my selfe for we are not more brothers in nature then by Gods mercy in this resolution Thirdly to take the liberty of adding and explicating some remarkeable circumstances which better become a Margin then a speech Lastly that though the slander hath hitherto got the start the Detection might at last be set in a course to ouertake it Which taske Sermo transiens a Sermon pronounced could not so thorowly effect except it were also Sermo in scriptis written A course no way improper for scriptor praedicare dici potest A Writer is in some sort a Preacher Certè si lingua silet manus praedicat fructuosiùs aliquandò quantò Scriptura venit ad plures vberior quàm transiens sermo though his tongue be silent his Pen preaches and a Sermon preached from the Presse sometimes edifies so much the more then from the Pulpit by how much the Report is carried further So that the audience which before was but Parochiall or at most Prouinciall may by this meanes grow more Generall and as it were Oecumenicall And now hauing committed it to the view of all men I will not preiudicate or doubtfully forestall the beliefe of any I make no question but all will rest satisfied except those wayward dispositions who are resolued afore-hand not to be satisfied at all Non persuadebis etiamsi persuaseris hauing banished all reason from them without hope of repeale Such though vnwillingly I must leaue to their owne hardened obstinacy Stultos iubeo esse libentèr and suffer fooles gladly that will be so against my consent If they can yet flatter themselues with any aduantage this fiction may affoord them I shall not enuie them that Paradise into which their fond imagination hath put them I rather pitty the poore shifts they are driuen to for the keeping of their weather-beaten Cause a-float All the