Moses Exod. 25. 1 2 c. to the children of Israel that they bring me an offering of every man whose heart giveth it freely and Exod. 36. 3. there it followeth they brought still unto Moses free gifts every morning and they ceased not till they were stayed from offering King Solomon likewise was greatly holpen in the building of the Temple by the contribution of his Subjects as appeareth by the words of Scripture 1 Chron. 29. 6 7. Further by voluntary Offerings and Contributions the Temple was repaired by Joash 2 Kings 12. and by Josiah 2 Chron. 34. And this has been the use and practice of ancient times in building and endowing most famous Churches Colleges Schools and other monuments of Religion and Learning both in our own and other Countries Our Adversaries by this course have had means to build many Monasteries Colleges and Schools for their Jesuits and Friers as propugnacles of Superstition Heresie and Idolatry and Antichrist his Tyranny to uphold and make good their own Corruptions in Religion and Usurpations upon the Magistrates Government and every Christian mans Liberty And this have they done not only in Europe but also in the Indies and not only one in every Kingdom but in some States divers and almost in every City one And shall not our flourishing Kingdom build and endow one College for the maintenance of God's true Service and the Honour of the whole State It were a dishonour to our Nation and the whole Church and State to think the contrary The work hath we confess hitherto proceeded slowly and no marvell seeing great works are not easily atchieved Noaâ—'s Arke God's Tabernacle and Temple and famous Schools and Colleges albeit founded by Kings and great men were long in building and do we wonder that this College is not yet finished Further it pleased God to deprive us of Prince Henry our principal hope and the chief Author of this Designe Lastly who knoweth whether God hath appointed these weak Means to set forward a great Work that his Power in our Weakness might have the whole Glory Let us therefore good Brethren and Country-men yea Christians hearken willingly to his Majesties motion and readily follow his Example Let it appear by our Bounty how blessedly zealous we are to maintain the everlasting Truth and to root out Error and Idolatry Let us by effects declare how studious we are to doe good works and to advance God's and our Churches honour They that have much may give of their abundance the rest according to the measure of their means God as well accepteth of the widows mite and poor mans good will as of the rich mans treasure If we honour God with our substance he will honour us and increase our substance if we build an house for the maintenance of his Truth that it may continue in our Posterity God will build us an house restore it to us and double it to our Posterity Abraham by offering his sonne to God was made a Father to many Sons yea and of many Nations And Solomon that shewed his Royal magnificence in building God a Temple in Honour and Riches passed all other Kings 1 Kings 3. 13. How can we excuse our selves at the last day if we now deny God a small Offering who daily offereth unto us many Graces and giveth to us all good things that we possess Psal 68. 9 10. Yea our souls are a sacrifice due unto him 1 Cor. 6. 20. and Rom. 12. 1. And then much more our external things And therefore no Christian may deny to him an offering out of his wordly goods if God's service for God's members and Church require it That in 1 Thes 5. 23. and indeed whatsoever it is that we have more or less is God's and whatsoever we give we give unto God but of his own which he hath first given unto us 1 Chron. 29. 14. For all that is in heaven and earth is his For the Lords is the Kingdome and he is to be exalted as head above all Both riches and honour come of him and he reigneth over all and in his hand is power and might and in his hand it is to make great and to give strength unto all 1 Chron. 29. 11 12. As for those that draw back in this his Service and refuse to concur in promoting God's Honour let them marke the words of our Saviour Matth. 12. 30. He that is not with me is against me and the Curse of the Angel on the people of Meroz Curse ye Meroz saith the Angel for they came not up to help the Lord. But we hope we shall not need many more words to move them that are already so well perswaded nor perswade men that in Religion and Devotion are so forward who know and take to heart that severe increpation of the Prophet Esay 32 6 7 8. against the evil-eyed hard-hearted fast-handed Churle and vile man but withall that the liberal deviseth liberal things and by liberal things especially in this kind he shall stand for he sowes unto the spirit Gal. 6. 8. to reap life everlasting It is the duty of good Christians to advance God's Honour and repress Superstition Heresie Idolatry Blasphemy It is the office of good Subjects to defend the Honour of the State against the Sycophancies of English Fugitives and the secret practices of foreign Enemies their adherents The Adversaries using all their skill and joyning their forces against Religion and the State it behoveth us likewise to unite our forces and to joyn in Confultation how to resist them This Common business requireth Common help the practice of our Adversaries provokes us to use speed and there is too much precious time already let run in waste almost if not altogether or more then full forty years from the first Commencement And since the Work has been let lye absolutely dormant if not dead what tares of Heresies of all sorts has the Vigilant and indefatigable envious man sown and fomented as in the field of the sluggard so as there is nothing appearing but Camelions of monstrous uncouth Errors The Quality of the work being for the defence of true pure Religion and the State will move any whose heart is not hardned and leavened in errors chearfully to give For whosoever shall give shall receive of God a full reward in this Life and when they dye their works shall follow them and then whatsoever they have sown in righteousness on earth that shall they reap in heaven in mercy whatsoever they contributed to God's work on earth they shall be rewarded in heaven measure heaped together and running over into their bosomes Wherefore recommending the College of Chelsey to every Religious Christians devout thoughts we cease further to press them but only desire them in the words of St Paul respectively to the excellency of this good deed in advancing and laying out themselves to advance this College Whatsoever things are true whatsoever things are pure whatsoever things are honest and
THE GLORY OF Chelsey Colledge REVIVED Wherein is declared I. Its Original Progress and Design for preserving and establishing the Church of Christ in purity for maintaining and defending the Protestant Religion against Jesuits Papists and all Popish Principles and Arguments II. How this design was by the Renowned King James and the three Estates of his first Parliament highly applauded As also by the most Illustrious Prince Henry and King Charles the First of ever blessed Memory with the Right Reverend the Bishops c. III. By what means this excellent work of such incomparable use and publick concernment hath been impeded and obstructed By JOHN DARLEY B. D. and of Northill in the County of Cornwall Rector Now the Prophetess dwelt in Jerusalem in the Colledge 2. Chron. 34. 22. But when divers were hardned and believed not but spake evil of that way He departed from them and separated the disciples disputing daily in the School of one Tyrannus Acts 19. 9. LONDON Printed for J. Bourn at the South entrance of the Royal Exchange 1662. 〈…〉 dell of Chelsey COLLEDGE as it was intended to be built Truth shall bud out of the earth and righteousnes break downe from heaven Ps 81. 11. This stately structure Royall in designe Yea more for mighty reasons most Divine which Sov'raign's Senat 's Synods wisedome too Did vote promote and fort the Kingdome woo Els not malign'd soe Had it its end Vowes Heresyes to choake Truth to defend Bee-hive a Trojan horse you may it call Heav'ns fire to Church State for happy wall Hells hate Romes horror of our poyson'd tymes The best of Antidotes to purge the crymes Shal't sinke O shame may 't shine yet to God's glory And sound the Parliaments aeternall story TO THE MOST SACRED MAJESTY CHARLES II. OF Great Britanny France Ireland KING DEFENDER OF THE FAITH Most Dread Sovereign and ever Blessed of the Lord MAY it suffice to shew and say unto Your most High and Sacred Majesty That the Design of Chelsey College which I now in the demonstration of it prudently and most humbly dedicate unto Your Majesty was first of all by Your Royal Grand-Father King James graciously and greatly applauded whose most excellent Sagacity having understood the wisdom of God in it gave thereunto with his Parliament it 's Feat and glorious Form Afterwards it was no less approved off by Your Royal Father of ever blessed Memory by Him it was abundantly Commended who with great zeal commanded his late Archbishop Laud to promote to the utmost this admired Design and speedily to put it into all good posture and Accommodation And therefore this Plot is of most pretious Concernment in all sorts of due Reverences for the great and incomparable wellfare of the Church of Christ For so it was in the real and tender account of those Noble Sons of Honour and true prudency of the first Parliament of Your Royal Grand-father which is therefore above all recommended to Your Gracious Majesty whom the most High and Holy One hath so Miraculously Preserved so wonderfully and blessedly Restored to be in many things and waies the Repairer of decayed Persons and Places And especially because the Case and Dignity of Chelsey College had a known and very large interest in the pious affections of Your famous and Glorious Uncle Prince Henry which he set his heart upon to get immortal Honour by his most endeared favour and Princely respects thereunto studying with all his power and prudence to advance this College to be the Pillar yea the standing and living Monument of his flourishing Fame and deserved Glory But the Lord made and found him fully ripe for his Celestial Throne that he might make Your Blessed Father the Mirrour of Princes most fit to sway the Scepter of these Kingdoms whose Princely Affections and Commands were full of integrity for the Compleating of this Seat and Nurse of Learning and Truth Now if Your Majesty shall be pleased in regard of this with the aforesaid respects to espouse this College and to meditate the perfecting of it for the most Blessed imployment thereof oh then how shall the Hearts and Tongues of all Good men whose eyes behold You as most Happy propense and Pretious blesse Your Sacred Self and multiply their delight and most holy Prayers in and for You that from the first entring upon Your temporal You readily Contemplate to make this Your eternal Praise and Dignity The rather let Your most Admired Majesty humbly be beseeched to set Your Kingly Countenance on this Design of so much weight and worth for that the King of Kings hath in his amazing and astonishing way of never-to-be-forgotten Mercy now at length like Noah's Dove returned You without Gall in all gracious Clemency with an Olive hopefull branch of long-desired and blessed Peace into the Ark of our most happy Church and State where let the High and Lofty One ever delight in and over Your Majesty to doe You good with the Richest and Choicest Blessings of this and the next life poured out both into and upon Your gracious Heart and Head And the Lord grant that You may be Crowned with the Glory of a long prosperous and uninterrupted Reign over us That holy Truth and Peace being perfected You may so have the Heavenly and eternal Kingdom begun in You which is The utmost flame of the zeal of the most holy and hearty Prayer of the humblest of Your Majesties liege Subjects JOHN DARLEY THE EPISTLE TO THE READER IF thou shalt wonder that a Man so near his grave and withall so far from Chelsey should labour to revive and give a Resurrection to a Design so long buried in its dust let me then assure thee it is not from any hope or desire of self-preferment in this world being daily about to strike saile and run my aged weak and infirm vessel into the harbour of Common but sure Rest. Nor is it from any Corrupt Principle of vain-Glory and applause That were to leave my spirit in the greatest darkness by sinning against the clear Light of Knowledge taught in the Princely Preacher Prov. 25. 27. For Men to search their own Glory is no Glory But forasmuch as some broken thoughts upon this Subject had for sundry years last past lyen by me which were perused by some of my Judicious Friends and Faithfull fellow-Labourers in the Gospel after a review they exhorted me to print my Schedules and papers in these Halcyon-times and to trust the Lord with Issues who can make this good work so Joyfully begun yet to flourish for Sion's higher Rise and Babylon's deeper Ruine Which I have done not so much in full hope of effecting what I would as being unwilling to refuse them and desirous of making tryall for I had rather as Peter du Moulin once said that Godly and Learned men should find in me want of Prudence then accuse me of Negligence Besides some Worthies having gone before me in this way I was thereby further
perswaded to cast my Mite into their treasury that they might be thankfully remembred by me and diligently followed by others Again that which did set a little sharper Edge on my willingness herein was that I might take an occasion to clear the innocency of Dr Feately the late Provost of Chelsey College and one that is honoured in his dust for his known Vertues eminent Piety abundant Learning and Labours somewhat blotted by Dr Fuller's pen proceeding rather in my Judgment of Charity from an Error in his Judgment then Will. But that which principally moved me was a clear perswasion of heart how much the perfecting and compleating of this College would contribute Glory to God Honour to the true Religion encouragement to Learning and Learned men in every Age what invincible help and assistance it might afford our Gracious King and his Royal Successors against the many subtil and unwearied Adversaries of Christ's Kingdom Gospel Faith Doctrine and holy Discipline lastly what chearfull and beautifull light of divine and heavenly knowledge what soul-reviving and refreshing satisfaction the Lords People in these three Nations yea in all the world continually in every Age and Condition might receive from the Studies Disputations and Writings of such eminentlyqualified Persons as ought to have been chosen into the Orthodox Society and Learned Fellowship of this College so richly provided for and happily accommodated with encouragements of every kind Prolixity must be avoided I therefore reine in imploring the choicest Blessings of Heaven upon my Dear Sovereign his Royal Relations and Great Councel that the work of Righteousness may be Peace and the effect of Righteousness Quietness and Assurance in our Land Now the Great Counsellor give thee Good Reader peace and understanding in all things and that by all Means Which is the Prayer of the unworthiest of those that serve thee in the Faith JOHN DARLEY Erratum Pag. 7. lin 3. for read but. THE GLORY OF CHELSEY COLLEGE REVIVED I Shall not by any needless flourish of my own words begin this Treatise of CHELSEY College but First deliver the disert words of the Act of Parliament made in the seventh year of King James of Blessed Memory in the behalf of the same College as also a Declaration published by Authority in the year 1616. concerning the Reasons that moved his Majesty and the State to erect the same God assisting me as I find it diligently Collected and extracted to my hand by the Author of the most Remarkable Monuments of London and the Precincts thereof Then Secondly give you Bishop Hall's Judgement and Recommendation with Dr. Fuller his more special report of it as also Mr. Baxter's Instigation for it and Grounds of the Necessity of prudent provision of Able and adequate Men for the work And so I shall in the Conclusion adde something concerning Dr. Sutcliffe his being the first Mover under God to advance the design in this beginning of the Embryo that it now appears in Thirdly I shall intimate the Obstructions and Impediments of it Fourthly adjoin some prevalent Motives for the Renewing or rather the reviving of the Design to it 's original intended perfection Fifthly stop the mouth of the chiefer Objections against it Sixthly propose the means though in these hard and Exhausted times to compleat it Lastly conclude with prayer for Grace Grace unto it First The Abstract of the Act runs thus Whereas his Majesty of his Royal and zealous Care for the defence of true Religion now established within this Realm of England and for the Refuting of Errors and Heresies repugnant to the same hath been graciously pleased by his Letters Patents under the Great Seal of England to found a College in Chelsey near London and therein to place certain Learned Divines and to incorporate the same by the Name of the Provost and Fellows of the College of King James in Chelsey of the foundation of the same James King of England and hath of his most gracious Goodness and Bounty not only endowed the same with certain Lands Privileges and Immunities but hath also for their further Maintenance and sustentation given unto them a Capacity and Ability to receive and take from his Majesty or any of his Loving Subjects any Lands Tenements Hereditaments Gifts Benefits and Profits whatsoever not exceeding in the whole the yearly value of three thousand pounds as in and by the said Letters Patents doth more at large appear And whereas also it is manifest and evident that the bringing in of such streams of Running water to the City of London is very convenient necessary and profitable as well for the private use of such as shall rent the same for the help of cleansing the said City in the time of sickness and preserving the same against all suddain Adventures of fire c. whereby they had the free Grant of and for draining the field and Marishes between the Bridge called Lock-bridge in or near the parish of Hackney in the County of Middlesex and the Bridge called Bow-bridge at Straford-Bow in the parish of Stepney in the said County c. Which by reason of the Ample Grant may seem to be a Royal Privilege indeed yet by reason of the vast Labour and Cost not only of digging and trenching but of buying leave of the owners of the grounds fields and limitations may seem with Reverence be it spoken and regard had to Clergy-men not versed in such Affairs not only like that in Holland but somewhat resembling that of Hercules his Labour of cleansing Augeas his stable wherein 3000 Oxen so long were tyed up by drawing the River Alpheus to run through it When I consider the many Provisions in that Grant it appears somewhat like the Arduousness of their task and undertaking Notwithstanding Christian duty ought especially when back'd with so many advantageous incouragements to swallow up greater difficulty It is the most holy exhortation Jude 3. Earnestly to contend for the Faith once delivered to the Saints And it is the delight of the Holy One to behold his enabled Servants studying and labouring to ridd the Land of the immense Dunghill of Errors and Heresies which is not for every hand that can make of Scripture fine Posies in Preaching but are too tender to pluck up or thrust away thorns this can be done only by men fenced with Iron and the staffe of a speare 2 Sam. 23. 6 7. And this above all is now if ever especially to be looked unto that the Cause of Christ be not betrayed and lost in this Age abounding with so many Anti-Christian deceipts A brief declaration of the Reasons that moved his Majesty and the State to erect a College of Divines and other Learned men at Chelsey together with a Copie of his Majesties Letters in favour of the same and an Addition of some Motives very forceable to excite the zeal of good Christians to a voluntary and liberal Contribution Vnderstanding by experience that want of Information hath much hindred mens Devotion
in Contributing towards the Erection and Donation of Chelsey College We have thought it very fit together with his Majesties Letters seconded by my Lord Archbishop of Canterbury to declare the Reasons that caused this work to be undertaken and to adde such Motives as we have supposed may be most effectual to give satisfaction to his Majesties desire and perfection to this Honourable Design First It was considered That the Popes Agents travelled Sea and Land wrote Books in favour of their Faction devised Lyes and Slanders to bring Religion and Professors thereof into hatred and not sparing any standing in their way by falshood and Treachery oppugned Kings and Princes that could not endure the Popes Tyrannical Government and to this end men of ready Wits good Speech long Experience and competent Learning have been maintained in Colleges furnished with Books holpen with Counsell and Direction bound with Laws and Oaths to uphold the Papal Hierarchie and Heresie and which moveth most with most men encouraged with great Promises and large Rewards Whereunto albeit private men piously affected have from time to time opposed themselves yet because they wanted incouragement to undertake so great a labour Counsels of the Ancients to direct them Books and Libraries to instruct them Forms of proceedings to keep them in compass and Rewards to maintain them those excepted that are due for Ecclesiastical Cures it was further advised That to make a sufficient defence for the Truth of Religion and Honour of the State and a strong and continued opposition against the continued Lyes Slanders Errors Heresies Sects Idolatries Blasphemies of our Adversaries that it was necessary to unite our forces and to appoint special men that without other distraction might attend the Cause of Religion and of the State being furnished with Directions Instructions Counsels Books Presses competent Maintenance and other necessaries This then was the reason why this College by his Majesty and the State was first designed and a Corporation granted with large Privileges viz. That a select number of Divines and others should be gathered together into one body and united with one form of Laws and there maintained who being furnished with Books and directed by men of experience and action might alwaies be ready to maintain our Christian Faith to answer the Adversaries Calumniations as wel against Religion as the State to defend the Majesty of Kings and Princes against the Vsurpation of Popes the Liberty of Christians against the yoke of Superstition to supply the defect of Teaching where Appropriations have devoured Ministry by Teaching and Conference to convince the obstinate Papist and Atheist and by all means to maintain Truth and discover Falshood This is the College commended to his Majesty and intended by the State and easie to be perfected if it please all true Christians to further it with their help and favour according to some proportion of their means His Majesties Letters directed to my Lord of Canterbury follow in these words Right trusty and welbeloved Counsellor We greet you well Whereas the Enemies of the Gospel have been forward to write and publish Books for confirming of Erroneous Doctrine and impugning the Truth and now of late seem more carefull then before to send daily into Our Realms such their Writings whereby Our loving Subjects though otherwise wel-disposed may be seduced unless some remedie thereof should be provided We by the advice of Our Councel have lately granted a Corporation and given Our allowance for erecting a College at Chelsey for learned Divines to be imployed to write as occasion shall require for maintaining the Religion professed in Our Kingdoms and confuting the oppugners thereof Whereupon Dr Sutcliffe designed Provost of the said College hath now humbly signified unto Vs that upon divers promises of help and assistance towards the erecting and indowing the said College he hath at his own Charge begun and well preceeded in the building as doth sufficiently appear by a good part thereof already set up in the place appointed for the same We therefore being willing to favour and further such a Work will and require you to write your Letters to the Bishops of your Province signifying unto them in Our Name that Our Pleasure is they deal with the Clergy and others of their Diocese to give their charitable Benevolence for the perfecting of this good work so well begun And for the better performance of Our desire We have given order to the said Provost and his Associates to attend you and others unto whom it may appertain and to certifie Vs from time to time of their Proceeding Thetford the 5th of May 1616. These Letters the Lord of Canterbury Archbishop sendeth abroad to the Bishops of his Province and secondeth them in these terms Now because it is so Religious and Pious a work conducing both to God's Glory and the saving of many Souls within this Kingdome I cannot but wish that all devout and well-affected persons should by your self and the Preachers in your Diocese as well publickly as otherwise be excited to contribute in some measure to so holy an intendment now well begun And although these and the like motions have been frequent in these latter times yet let not those whom God hath blessed with any wealth be weary of well-doing that it may not be said that the Idolatrous and Superstitious Papists be more forward to advance their Falshood then we are to maintain God's Truth Whatsoever is collected I pray your Lordship may be carefully brought in to me partly that it pass not through any defrauding hand partly that His Majesty may be acquainted with what is done in this behalfe Your Lordships very loving Brother G. Canterb. The like Letters are written to my Lord Chancellor and my Lord Maior of London So that by this that has been said it must manifestly appear that Chelsey College has not only King James his Majesties and his first full Parliament's and Convocation's the intire representative body with the Head of Church and State but that of the prime Powers and Prudencies of both of them the Archbishops the Chancellour and the Lord Maior of London the acclamation of their Energetical Prudence and Zeale By these Letters it may appear that this College is not an idle Project merely of any private man but a most Pious Work projected or rather approved and applauded by the King and State for Dr Sutcliffe must have the eternal Honour in that his most pious and sedulous wisdome moved the first stone as from God about it and that all that profess Religion and desire the continuance and advancement thereof yea all that honour his Majesty and wish the prosperity of the State and desire the increase of Learning have Interest therein and I hope shall receive comfort content and good satisfaction by the same if they put their hands and hearts unto it Being then such a work of Piety for the maintenance of true Religion who can be accounted truly Pious and
Religious and yet yield no help to advance it Being a Project to maintain the honour of the State what good Subject will not contribute to set forward this Project But to touch only the point of Gods Honour let us remember the words of the Wise man Honour the Lord with thy substance let us also consider what the Lord himself saith Them that honour me I will honour and they that despise me shall be despised Now who can say that he honoureth God that suffereth him by Idolatry Superstition Blasphemy to be dishonoured and will give nothing to suppress Baal's Priests but is content that the Pope be worshipped like the Idol Bel Can God's Honour stand with the Superstition Heresie Idolatry and Blasphemy of Papists and the Prophaneness of Atheists It is not sufficient for true Christians to profess true Religion but they must with zeal maintain it and with heart abhor and with hand suppress Idolatry and Superstition Who will rise up with me against the wicked saith the Prophet And Psal 139. 21. he saith he hated those that hated the Lord with a perfect hatred The Law Deut. 13. is direct against such as intice us to serve other Gods our eye may not pitty them nor may we shew mercy unto them no although they be our brothers our wives that lye in our bosoms An odious thing also it is either to suffer Truth to be suppressed or Lyes to be received St. Augustine in his Epistle ad Casulanum saith it is a foul Fault to hide Truth as well as to tell Lyes Vterque reus est qui veritatem occultat qui mendacium dicit Chrysostome Hom. 25. in Matth. doth charge him to be a traitor to Truth that dares not boldly utter it to defend it Non ille solum est proditor veritatis qui veritatem transgrediens pro veritate mendacium loquitur sed etiam qui non liberè veritatem pronuntiat quam pronuntiare tenetur aut non liberè veritatem defendit quam liberè defendere convenit Some suppose that Christianity and Popery may stand together and themselves as Newters stand between both or as Mediators would reconcile both But can Christ be reconciled to Antichrist There is no Concord between Christ and Belial saith the Apostle 2 Cor. 6. 15 16. Upon which place Dr. Featly's Paraphrase is here fitly to be inserted Mark the Apostles Gradation saith he What fellowship hath Righteousness with unrighteousness what Communion hath Light with daâ—kness and lastly what Concord hath Christ with Belial No more agreement may we have who are temples of the Living God with Idols There is great opposition between Righteousness and unrighteousness greater between Light and darkness greatest of all between Christ and Belial Righteousness and unrighteousness the one being a Vertue and the other a Vice are opposed contrarily but Light and darkness privatively which is a greater opposition but Christ and Belial contradictorily which is the greatest of all Righteousness and unrighteousness so opposite as that they cannot subsist in the same Soul Light and darkness so opposite as that they cannot subsist in the same room Christ and Belial so opposite as that they cannot subsist in the same heaven Righâ—eousness fighteth with unrighteousness wheresoever it meeteth with it Gal. 5. 17. But Light doth more it presently banisheth darkness But Christ doth yet more he utterly confoundeth Belial So true Religion not only fighteth with all Heresie and Superstition wheresoever it meeteth with it but banisheth it and in the end confoundeth it Dr. Featly Vertum. Rom. p. 156. No Toleration then of false and true Religion together no more then truce of the Dogg and the Hyaena Ecclus. 13. 18. No halting no halfing between God and Baal no sodering of Religion no pulling of Rome to Protestancy no more then the Fisher's pulling the Rock to his Boate who the more he pulls the more he brings his Boate to the Rock The Bishop of the Church of Pergamus was reproved for suffering them that taught the doctrine of Balaam and the Bishop of Thyatira for permitting Jezabel to teach and to deceive the people And shall the Church of England any longer suffer the Romish Balaamites the false Priests of Baal maintained by the Romish Jezabel and her Consorts to seduce God's people The false Priests of Bel used all Arts and cunning practices to deceive and now will not suffer any Religion but that of their God Bel the Pope And shall not true Christians use equal diligence to maintain holy Truth most pure Protestant holy and saving Truth and suppress Popery and all other Idolatrous and false Religions Ingemui fateor saith Hierome minus nobis inesse voluntatis ad propugnandum veritatem quà m inest illis cupiditas ad inculcandum mendacium I sighed saith he seeing less desire in us to defend Truth then in our Adversaries to maintain Lies Are not here motives of moment enough to be mighty with any that have any true tender Conscience more then to perswade them even to make them zealous after the Work Yet there is added more yet moving ones as followeth The College being erected then for the maintenance of Truth and God's true Service and for a resolute opposition against Errors and false worship of God it cannot but please God and content godly men if it be help'd onward The same also will be a means to increase Learning and prevent the dangers of places haunted with the spirits of Antichrist the Jesuits and Mass-Priests and therefore cannot chuse but be well accepted of all that either desire a learned Ministry or love Learning Finally seeing the Church hath received no greater dishonour by any then by insufficient and unlearned Church-men I hope this may be a means to recover some part of their lost Honour Wherefore whether we regard the Service of God or the Honour we owe unto the King or the love we bear unto our Country and State and above all that which omnes omnium complectitur charitates the Piety to our Church let us not shew our selves sparing and backward in yielding our aid to set forward a Work so religious and profitable for the Church so honourable for the State so necessary in regard of our Adversaries Malice and the defects and discouragement of our own Forces Other Collections have been either for private persons or Strangers or places remote or matters concerning some particular occasions This concerns a general good and toucheth every man both in Honour and Conscience Heretofore we have endeavoured to maintain Religion and favour others abroad let us not therefore now neglect our selves and our own honour and profit and necessary service at home Neither let any man think it strange that a work of such greatness should be advanced by this weak means or that a Project so necessary should proceed so slowly Almighty God albeit sufficient yet would have his own Tabernacle built by the voluntary Offerings of his own people Speak saith he to