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<DIV1 TYPE="title page">
<PB REF="1" MS="y">
<P>AN ANSWER TO A Lawle&s;s Pamphlet entituled, The Petition and Articles exhibited in <HI>Parliament</HI> again&s;t <HI>Doctor Haywood,</HI> late Chaplain to the Bi&s;hop of CAN|TERBURY.</P>
<P>By <HI>R. M.</HI></P>
<P>LONDON, Printed by <HI>I.N.</HI> for <HI>Henry Seile,</HI> at the Tygres head in Fleet&s;treet, over again&s;t Saint <HI>Dun&s;tans</HI> Church, 1641.</P>
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<DIV1 TYPE="letter">
<PB REF="2">
<PB N="1" REF="2">
<HEAD>To the honorable, the Knights, Citizens, and Burge&s;&s;es of the Commons Hou&s;e in Parlia|ment, &amp;c.</HEAD>
<OPENER>Mo&s;t humbly &s;heweth,</OPENER>
<P>_THat wee live under the pa&s;torall Charge of one <HI>William Haywood</HI> Doctor of Divinity, who hath lately publi&s;hed, in &s;undry Sermons by him preached in his Pari&s;h Church, mo&s;t damnable and erronious Doctrines full of gro&s;&s;e Popi&s;h tenents. And whil&s;t he was Hou&s;e Chaplaine to the Archbi|&s;hop of <HI>Canterburie,</HI> did licence a Book, intituled, <HI>An Intro|duction to a devout Life,</HI> containing the like Popi&s;h Do|ctrines, <HI>&amp;c.</HI></P>
<P>Who&s;e practice in Church Di&s;cipline is &s;uperstitious and idolatrous; manife&s;ted by &s;trange antike ge&s;tures of cringings and bowings, <HI>&amp;c.</HI></P>
<P>In who&s;e Pari&s;h Church afore&s;aid, are &s;et up Crucifixes, and divers Images of Saints, and likewi&s;e Organs, with o|ther confu&s;ed Mu&s;ique hindring Devotion, <HI>&amp;c.</HI></P>
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<DIV2 N="1" TYPE="affirmation">
<PB N="2" REF="3">
<HEAD>I</HEAD>
<P N="1"><HI>1</HI> HEE affirmed that a Mini&s;ter hath power to re|mit and retaine &s;innes, and not declaratively, or Mini&s;terially onely, as (he &s;aid) &s;ome would have it, but actually and ab&s;olutely, <HI>&amp;c.</HI></P>
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<DIV2 N="2" TYPE="affirmation">
<HEAD>II</HEAD>
<P N="2"><HI>2</HI> He affirmed that every man in his natural condition is by the fall of <HI>Adam</HI> wounded only, and but halfe dead, <HI>&amp;c.</HI></P>
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<DIV2 N="3" TYPE="affirmation">
<HEAD>III</HEAD>
<P N="3"><HI>3</HI> He affirmed that the Virgin <HI>Mary</HI> was free from, and without any mortall &s;ins, <HI>&amp;c.</HI></P>
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<DIV2 N="4" TYPE="affirmation">
<HEAD>IV</HEAD>
<P N="4"><HI>4</HI> He affirmed that Confe&s;&s;ion to the Prie&s;t, of our parti|cular &s;ins, is very nece&s;&s;ary to the forgivene&s;&s;e of &s;inne, <HI>&amp;c.</HI></P>
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<P>Particular Erroneous, popi&s;h Doctrines, conteined in a booke Intituled, <HI>An Introduction to a devout life, &amp;c.</HI></P>
<P>The &s;aid Church is divided into three parts&punc; the <HI>Sanctum Sanctorum</HI> being one of them, is &s;eperated from the chancell by a large Screene in the figure of a beautifull gate, <HI>&amp;c.</HI></P>
<P>Seven or eight foot within this holy place is a rai&s;ing by three &s;teps, and from thence a long Raile from one wall to the other, into which place none mu&s;t enter but the Prie&s;ts and the &s;ubdeacons, <HI>&amp;c.</HI></P>
<P><PB N="3" REF="3">
This deske is overlaid with a covering of purple &V;eivet, which hath a great gold and &s;ilke fringe round about, and on this Deske is placed two great Bookes wrought with needle worke, in which are made the pictures of Chri&s;t and the Vir|gin <HI>Mary</HI> with Chri&s;t in her armes, <HI>&amp;c,</HI></P>
<P>For the preparation of this duty, the &s;aid Doctor and three Sub-deacons doe all goe from the body of the &s;aid Church, <HI>&amp;c.</HI></P>
<P>Then they all advance to the beautifull Gate, where they &s;tand; Then every one bowing to he ground three &s;everall times as they goe; They enter into the <HI>Sanctum Sanctorum,</HI> in which place they read their &s;econd Service, <HI>&amp;c.</HI></P>
<P>It was proved, that when that Popi&s;h Book was printing, the Printer &s;eeing &s;uch gro&s;&s;e popery in it, commanded his Work|man to &s;tay his hand, till he &s;poke with the Licencer: &s;o hee tooke his Corrector of his worke, (being a ma&s;ter of arts) with him, and &s;hewed the Doctor divers popi&s;h pa&s;&s;ages in the Booke, &s;aying he dur&s;t not print it, <HI>&amp;c.</HI></P>
<P>The printer was troubled, and put into the Pur&s;ivants hands, threatned with Star-chamber, except hee would deli|ver up the originall Coppy by which he printed it, which he re|fu&s;ed to doe, for that it is ever their cu&s;tome to keep originalls by them for their own &s;afeguards, <HI>&amp;c.</HI></P>
<P>But at length hee by promi&s;es and threats was con&s;trai|ned to deliver up the coppy wherein the Licence was, <HI>&amp;c.</HI></P>
<P>At the hearing of the bu&s;ine&s;&s;e before the committee, the Doctour was asked in what places it was altered from that he licenced. Hee an&s;wered in page <HI>691.</HI> Articie <HI>4.</HI> hee al|lowed it to be read&punc; <HI>Call to mind the Saints of Heaven, &amp;c.</HI> and the printer had left out the word <HI>mind. &amp;c.</HI></P>
<P><PB N="4" REF="4">
It was proved that a Pari&s;hioner of his being &s;educed to Popery, the Doctor was intreated to admoni&s;h and reclaime her: and though he had beene &s;olicited three or four &s;ever all times, yet hee refu&s;ed, <HI>&amp;c.</HI></P>
<P>Another woman being perverted, her husband got her to go to the Doctor, hoping by his coun&s;ell and rea&s;ons to have re|claimed her: in&s;tead whereof he confirmed, her, in &s;aying, that Salvation might be had in the Church of <HI>Rome, &amp;c,</HI></P>
<P>He hath cau&s;ed the <HI>Prote&s;tation</HI> to bee read and taken in that ridiculous, ab&s;urd, and disdainfull manner, <HI>&amp;c.</HI></P>
<P>What was already heard, appeared &s;ufficient cau&s;e for his removall, which this Honourable a&s;&s;embly without all que|&s;tion will doe, <HI>&amp;c.</HI></P>
<P>His Altar &s;tands dect continually, weeke days and all, and me wed up within the Screene and Rayles as before, &s;ome of the pari&s;hioners de&s;iring to receive the Sacrament in their Pewes, were denyed it, and &s;ent away without it, and hee for|ceth all to come up to the Railes &s;till as before. In divers of his Sermons &s;ince the hearing of his bu&s;ine&s;&s;e, he hath with much bitternes inveighed again&s;t the petitioners, and at tho&s;e that goe from their owne pari&s;h Church, although he hath &s;o weak a voice that hee cannot be heard by the one halfe of the&s;e that come to Church.</P>
<TRAILER>FINIS.</TRAILER>
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<DIV1 TYPE="introduction">
<PB N="5" REF="4">
<P>_HApning lately upon a printed Pam|phlet entitled, <HI>The Petition and Ar|ticles exhibited in Parliament again&s;t Doctor</HI> Haywood, &amp;c. and finding many apparent untruths in it, I thought it a deed of charity to vindicate the man, le&s;t hee &s;hould &s;uffer in the opinion of them that know him not, and le&s;t tho&s;e that are wel-affected to him in his Pari&s;h &s;hould be too much &s;candalized by the boldnes of &s;ome few malicious ones, who&s;e blinde zeale I much pity. Knowing therefore the Doctor imploy'd in continuall preaching, and ha|ving little lei&s;ure to an&s;wer for him&s;elfe, I have endeavoured to give an an&s;wer to &s;ome particulars, &s;uch as are notoriou&s;ly fal&s;e or &s;candalous, and de&s;ire the indiffe|rent Reader by that little here replyed, which will be found undoubtedly true, to judge of the re&s;t of their accu&s;ations again&s;t the Doctor.</P>
<P>Fir&s;t, whereas they call it a <HI>Petition exhi|bited by the Pari&s;hioners of Saint</HI> Giles <HI>in the fields,</HI> it were to be wi&s;hed they would tell
<PB N="6" REF="5">us, who they are and how many of them. For as the world reports, the Petition was at fir&s;t &s;et on foot by two or three illiterate Trade&s;-men in the Do|ctors ab&s;ence having beene fourteene weeks &s;icke, and then &s;cant recovered waiting at Court. And whereas in all rea|&s;on &amp; con&s;cience they ought fir&s;t to have repaired to him (taking offence at ceremo|niall matters) to have tryed whether hee would have yeelded to alter any thing or no, they were &s;o far from it, that they labourd under hand to procure as many hands as they could again&s;t him, &amp; though they attempted all of al &s;orts many days to|gether, yet they could draw none of any quality, not a Nobleman, not a Gentleman, not a Ve&s;tryman, not a Citizen of any bet|ter breeding, but a few &s;uch as them&s;elves illiterate and ignorant, many of them not able to write their names, and &s;cant any of them u&s;ing to come to Church. And of tho&s;e they could not make up 100. taking &s;o great advantage of the Doctors long ab|&s;ence,
<PB N="7" REF="5">and &s;oliciting al per&s;ons again&s;t him, whereas the pari&s;h con&s;i&s;teth of above 5000. Communicants, numbers whereof are Noblemen, Knights, Gentlemen, and wor&s;hipfull Citizens, as greatly interes|ted in the affairs of the Church, &amp; as much ingaged in con&s;cience to complain, if they thought the pari&s;h not well &s;erved, as a|ny of the Petitio|ners, if not more.</P>
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<DIV1 TYPE="answer">
<PB REF="6">
<PB N="9" REF="6">
<HEAD>The Petition it &s;elfe. <HI>To the Honourable</HI> Knights, Citizens <HI>and</HI> Burge&s;ses. <HI>&amp;c.</HI></HEAD>
<P>TIs worth ob&s;erving in this Peti|tion, fir&s;t that they touch not the Doctor any way for his life, nor his frequency in prea|ching, or re&s;iding among&s;t them, none of all which they would have &s;pared if they had found any colour to ac|cu&s;e.</P>
<P>Secondly; where they charge him with popi&s;h doctrine in his &s;ermons, tis wel known he hath preached in the Pari&s;h Church of St. <HI>Giles</HI> within this five yeers &s;ince hee was fir&s;t Par&s;on, neer upon 200. Sermons (nei|ther fails hee any week being in health and not other|wi&s;e cald away) among all which Sermons they except but again&s;t three, two of them preached about two yeers &s;ince, the third more then a twelve-month ago. And it can hardly bethought if at any other time he had preach|ed what the&s;e men could have excepted again&s;t, they would have failed to have in&s;erted it.</P>
<P><PB N="10" REF="7">
But for the Sermons, to &s;ati&s;fie the world, the Doctor hath the~ word for word as they were delivered writte~, and heere willing to promi&s;e for him, &s;ith they are thus publikely traduced, they &s;hall God willing, as &s;oon as may be, bee publikely &s;et forth for every mans reading, and he takes God to witne&s;&s;e that hee will not alter, nor adde, nor dimini&s;h, a word from the coppie by which he preached them.</P>
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<HEAD>The particulars of the Sermons.</HEAD>
<P>In the meane time the better to cleer the&s;e accu&s;ations, hee hath given me certain pa&s;&s;ages of the Sermons com|plained of, to &s;et downe <HI>verbatim</HI> as they were &s;poken, and definitively uttered as his own opinion, which many that heard them will witne&s;&s;e to be &s;o. And let any man judge by tho&s;e pa&s;&s;ages, whither it be po&s;&s;ible for the Doctor &s;o far to contradict him&s;elfe in one and the &s;ame Sermon, as to &s;ay what the&s;e Petitioners would make him.</P>
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<DIV2 TYPE="part">
<HEAD><HI>Out of the Sermon preached</HI> April <HI>21. 1639 upon</HI> Who&s;e &s;oever &s;inns ye remit they are remitted.</HEAD>
<P>Yea! What hath man then the authority of impri|&s;oning or relea&s;ing the con&s;cience? Hath Chri&s;t put off his power &amp; given it to his Apo&s;tles? Hath the Father com|mitted all judgement to him, that he may commit it to them, and &s;et them as it were in Gods Throne to pro|nounce &s;entence of life or death upon &s;inners as they li&s;t? No, not &s;o. A power though Chri&s;t hath granted, yet it is not an ab&s;olute power, and independent, but mini&s;teri|all onely and &s;ub&s;ervient. He hath not given over what is proper to him&s;elfe, but onely honoured men to &s;erve under him&s;elfe, <HI>&amp;c.</HI></P>
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<DIV2 TYPE="part">
<PB N="11" REF="7">
<HEAD><HI>Out of the Sermon preached</HI> Iune <HI>7. 1640. upon</HI> Which now of the&s;e three thinke&s;t thou was neigh|bour to him which fell among theeves? <HI>&amp;c.</HI></HEAD>
<P>Thus mi&s;erably wounded he lies in the way to eter|nall Perdition, <HI>Adam</HI> and all mankind with him. Halfe dead, becau&s;e though his body be alive, his &s;oule is dead in &s;in, and as it were corrupted. Though he have &s;ome little motion to good, yet hee is utterly unable to fulfill it, <HI>&amp;c.</HI></P>
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<DIV2 TYPE="part">
<HEAD><HI>Out of the Sermon preached</HI> Ianuary <HI>20. 638 upon,</HI> Je&s;us &s;aid unto her, woman what have I to doe with thee?</HEAD>
<P>For what concernes the Holy mother of our Lord, I mu&s;t &s;peake freely, I cannot &s;ee how it can any way ad|vance the honour of our religion, to ca&s;t dirt on her honour, or to wre&s;t all places in the Go&s;pell to the wor&s;t &s;en&s;e that may bee made, onely to &s;hew her guilty of &s;in, and not much holier then other women. Sure I am, wee may be far from adoring her, far from invocating her and cloathing her with Gods honour, and yet confe&s;&s;e her &s;potle&s;&s;e and blamele&s;&s;e from any fowle &s;infull touch, as pre&s;erved by that holy Spirit that cho&s;e her for his Man&s;ion. By &s;infull touch, I meane not Originall guilt, nor lighter &s;lips, but gro&s;e actuall crimes, and therein have St. <HI>Au&s;tin and many ancients to &s;econd me, &amp;c.</HI></P>
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<DIV2 TYPE="part">
<HEAD>Out of the Sermon fir&s;t mentioned preached <HI>Aprill</HI> 21. 1659. upon <HI>VVho&s;e&s;oever &s;inns ye remit,</HI> &amp;c.</HEAD>
<P>And yet, not as if no &s;inner could be forgiven but what the prie&s;t forgives: Let me not be &s;o mi&s;taken. God is
<PB N="12" REF="8">mercifull at all howers, and hath not bound up his grace in &s;uch fetters. But becau&s;e in great and weighty ones that wound the con&s;cience deeply, there he would have our &s;oules humbled, not onely before him, but before his Mini&s;ters. Where this may po&s;&s;ibly be done, and with|out perill, this would be done; where not, we goe not to limit Gods infinite goodne&s;&s;e, he hath other wayes of remitting then we imagine, <HI>&amp;c.</HI></P>
<P>Let any one judge by the&s;e pa&s;&s;ages which vvere ut|tered definitively, and not as an others opinion, whether the Doctor could &s;o&punc; contradict him&s;elfe as in the &s;ame &s;ermons to teach what the&s;e Petitioners charge him vvith. And let it vvithall be noted, that his Auditory at all the fore&s;aid Sermons vvas very large, full, and Judicious, not one of which ever told the Doctor of any offence taken at the &s;aid Sermons or at a|ny other preached by him: Neither vvere the&s;e Petitio|ners by the Doctor, or any of his friends heard to find fault vvith the&s;e Sermons, till &s;ome yeere or tvvo after they vvere preached <HI>viz.</HI> in <HI>December</HI> la&s;t, after this pre&s;ent Parliament had long &s;itten.</P>
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<DIV2 TYPE="part">
<HEAD>Particular erroneous Doctrines contained in a Book intituled <HI>An Introduction to a Devout Life.</HI></HEAD>
<P>It &s;eems the&s;e Petitioners wanted matter to furni&s;h up their charge again&s;t the Doctor, that they have brought in this Book, called in by authority, and burnt five yeers agoe. And by who&s;e meanes vvas it called in, but by the Doctors own complaint fir&s;t, finding divers popi&s;h pa&s;&s;ages, touching invocation of Saints, re-in&s;erted af|ter he had da&s;hed them out. The Book is well known by all that know the latin original to be a very pious work, &amp; excellent well worth the tran&s;lating, and publi&s;hing in any language (abating onely &s;ome u&s;uall &s;uper&s;titious pa&s;&s;ages touching invocation of Saints among&s;t tho&s;e kind of people, &amp;c. for it was made by a papi&s;t) &amp; it had
<PB N="13" REF="8">been divers times before tran&s;lated into Engli&s;h though the Doctor then knew not &s;o much. But knowing it in many things a godly treati&s;e, and a booke that might doe much good, if well purged, hee be&s;towed his paines the more willingly on it; and never mi&s;doubting the hone&s;ty of the tran&s;lator that brought it to be licenc'd, one <HI>Chri&s;topher Barrows,</HI> as hee called him&s;elfe, who came recommended to the Doctor by letter from a &s;pe|ciall friend, after the Doctor had kept the booke with him &s;ome halfe a yeere, and &s;trooke out all pa&s;&s;ages con|trary to our Religion, hee gave it licence in <HI>November</HI> 1636. being then at <HI>Croydon,</HI> by rea&s;on of the great &s;ickne&s;&s;e in London, which cau&s;ed the Doctor to allow the larger time for printing, &amp; to deliver it to the Tran&s;la|tors hands alone, But this tran&s;lator played the knave egregiou&s;ly, For hee kept the Book in his hand after it was licenced, &amp; caried it not to the Pre&s;&s;e till towards the end of <HI>February</HI> following, and in the meane time had opportunity to make what alterations hee plea&s;ed. And &s;o it appeared he did, for when the Book came out in <HI>Aprill</HI> following, diver&s;e gro&s;&s;e pa&s;&s;ages of Popery were to be &s;eene in it, which the Doctor was &s;ure hee had cancelled. Whereupon according to his duty, the Doctor pre&s;ently certified the Lord Keeper, and the Arch Bi&s;hop, as their Chaplains can witne&s;&s;e, how much he thought the Church and him&s;elfe abu&s;ed. And the booke was pre&s;ently called in, and the mattter was brought in que&s;tion before the Lords of the Councell, Who required the Kings Atturney to &s;end for the Au|thour, and the Printers, and the licencer, and to enquire where the abu&s;e lay, which he did, and finding the whole fault to have beene in <HI>Barrows</HI> (who fled in&s;tantly upon the books calling in, and was di&s;covered by his Trunk and papers left behind him to be a Romi&s;h Prie&s;t) the Kings Atturney accordingly certified the Coun&s;el Bord. Whereupon a Proclamation went forth immediately
<PB N="14" REF="9">for the apprehending of <HI>Barrows,</HI> and the D. and the Printers were di&s;mi&s;&s;ed without farther trouble.</P>
<P>No rea&s;on therefore hath the Doctor to &s;tand to any thing in the &s;aid corrupted booke, which lay &s;o long in the hands of a popi&s;h Prie&s;t to alter it how hee plea&s;ed. For this <HI>Barrows</HI> was afterwards Over&s;eer of the Pre&s;&s;e, and when the Booke was Printed, carried halfe the written coppy away with him. And how he might play fal&s;e by in&s;erting new &s;heetes and adding new pa&s;&s;ages who knowes; for the Doctor remembers no particulars now but what were turned over before the Kings Attur|ney, and his lei&s;ure vvould not &s;erve to look on many. One thing the Doctor is &s;ure of; The petitioners had lit|tle rea&s;on to complaine of theo Booke: For it gave them no offence, they never &s;aw a coppie of it till they &s;ought for it about <HI>December</HI> la&s;t to fill up their charge again&s;t the Doctor. Nor could they have met with it had they not hapned by chance upon <HI>Okes</HI> that Printed it.</P>
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<DIV2 TYPE="part">
<HEAD>Doctor <HI>Haywoods</HI> &s;uper&s;ticious and idolatrou&s;e manner of admini&s;tration of the Sacrament, <HI>&amp;c.</HI></HEAD>
<P>Here are many untruthes couched together. The <HI>Sanctum Sanctorum,</HI> and the Subdeacons, and the beauti|full Gate, are all termes or the&s;e mens own invention. The Doctor never &s;o called them, nor any by his aproba|tion. The Skreene a faire Ornament of the Church, and great honour to that religious Lady who be&s;towed it, vvas a&s;&s;igned vvhere to &s;tand by the Pari&s;hioners, nor can it be placed conveniently but vvhere it now is. The Doctor neither per&s;waded the making of the Screene, nor contributed a peny towards it, nor knew of what fa&s;hion it would be, nor vvas pre&s;ent in the Pari&s;h, when it vvas &s;et up. The Ornaments of the Holy Table, The &s;ilke curtaines, Carpet, Covering, Books, and
<PB N="15" REF="9">much plate are all the pious guift of the &s;ame honoura|ble lady which be&s;towed the Skreene. And being for the decencie of Gods &s;ervi e, and well accepted of by the Pari&s;hioners, the Doctor had no rea&s;on to refu&s;e them. As for the Crucifix, Organs, and Church-mu|&s;ick me tioned in the Petition, they were there long be|fore Doctor <HI>Haywords</HI> coming. There is no Deske up|on the Lords Table, onely a little &s;tay to hold up the plate, nor any &s;uch pictures on the Books as the Petiti|oner &s;peake of. For the Ceremonies u&s;ed in admini|&s;tring (the &s;cornfull de&s;cription whereof, and his abu&s;ive wit that drew it, the Doctor much pitties) they were none of them invented, nor new brought up by Doctor <HI>Haywood.</HI> His pattern he had from his Maje&s;ties Chap|pell, not far from that place: Neither did any man ever tell him he was offended with the &s;ight of the&s;e few Ce|remonies. Yet &s;ince the Petitioners complaint, the Do|ctor (as I heard) hath laid them downe; And profe&s;|&s;es that for matters of Ceremony he will ever be obe|dient to the lawfull orders of the Church wherein hee lives, nor ever u&s;e any hereafter, but what authority and generall cu&s;tome require.</P>
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<HEAD>The&s;e Articles were all proved before the grand Committee, &amp;c.</HEAD>
<P>This &s;eemes a &s;tirewd evidence again&s;t the Doctor, but if well &s;ounded makes rather for him. For what doth it prove, but that the Doctor beleeved well of his own indu&s;try in purging out Popery, and credited his owne judgement, rather then the Printers objections, an argu|ment that he had be&s;towed good paines in peru&s;ing the Booke? But why doth not the Printer tell us what were the Popi&s;h pa&s;&s;ages that &s;o much &s;tumbled him? They were &s;uch as the Doctor denies to be popi&s;h. Three of them as hee remembers the Printer told him of. One
<PB N="16" REF="10">that the Church triumphant praid for the Church mi|litant, which the Doctor as tis &s;aid defended. Another, that we ought to de&s;ire the praiers of the Saints living upon Earth for us. A third, that before God there is no re&s;pect of Prelate, Prince, or People. Not one of the&s;e three are objected in the Doctors charge, and I beleeve the petitioners objected all they could find&punc; But indeed the Doctor heartily wi&s;hes, either that the Printer had never come to him, or that hee had &s;hewed him &s;omewhat truly popi&s;h, that hee might have had cau&s;e to &s;u&s;pect <HI>Barrows,</HI> and to &s;top the pre&s;&s;e. For &s;hewing him &s;uch &s;light things (which in a tran&s;lation might well e|nough be borne with, though, not &s;o well perhaps in a new book) the printer lo&s;t the credit of his judgement with the Doctor, and increa&s;ed the Doctors good opi|nion of <HI>Barrows,</HI> and made <HI>Barrows</HI> thereupon more bold to put in what popery he li&s;ted, while the Printers were the &s;lacker to complaine of it.</P>
<P>As for the Originall Coppy the Printer reports to have been wre&s;ted from him, the D. wonders what be|came of the fir&s;t part of it; for before the Kings Atturney there was produced but the latter halfe: The re&s;t it was &s;aid <HI>Barrows</HI> had convei'd away with him. 'Tis well known the Doctor had never &s;ight of the Originall Coppie after it was fir&s;t delivered to the Pre&s;&s;e, but onely before the Kings Atturney, while the fal&s;ifications were turned to: For the Coppie was laid up in the Star-cham|ber office where it is yet.</P>
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<HEAD>At the hearing of the bu&s;ine&s;&s;e before the Committee.</HEAD>
<P>The Doctor &s;aid not that the Printer had left out the word Mind, but that <HI>Barrows</HI> had fal&s;ified that place and &s;trooke out the word Mind, &s;o that the printer could read it no otherwi&s;e. And this the printers examination
<PB N="17" REF="10">upon oath confirmed. The Doctor in&s;tanced in this place, becau&s;e one of the Printers was &s;o impudent, as to &s;ay before the Committee, there was never a blur, nor any thing canceld in the originall coppie, But it is evident to them that looke on the &s;aid Coppie, That where the Tran&s;lator had fir&s;t made it, according to the Latin, Invo|cate the Saints of Heaven, the Doctor had &s;trooke out the word Invocate, and put over head Call to mind the Saints <HI>&amp;c.</HI> And <HI>Barrows</HI> had again &s;trooke out the word Mind, and left it Call to the Saints <HI>&amp;c.</HI> which was done que&s;tionle&s;&s;e after the book was licen&s;ed, and done of purpo&s;e. For what rea&s;on el&s;e had <HI>Barrows</HI> to run away? or how &s;hould the &s;ame vvords [call to mind] and the &s;ame manner of da&s;hing out be found in &s;everall places in the written coppie as it is?</P>
<P>But the D. takes God to witne&s;&s;e, he never allowed any exhortation to invocate the Saints in that book nor in any other, Nor any &s;uper&s;titious pa&s;&s;age el&s;e, contrary to our Religion, wittingly. Invocation of Saints is a point the Doctor hath often preached again&s;t, publikely di&s;pu|ted again&s;t, and &s;ub&s;cribed again&s;t; Nor did he ever in his life favour that Romi&s;h Error, or abet any that did.</P>
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<HEAD>At the hearing of the busine&s;&s;e before the Committee, <HI>&amp;c.</HI></HEAD>
<P>The D. denies not, but that this whole &s;entence taken together may beare an un&s;avory &s;en&s;e, but it may al&s;o as properly beare an Orthodox &s;en&s;e. And the Doctor might very well under&s;tand it in the better &s;en&s;e vvhen he read it, and not con&s;ider the wor&s;e: and according to the La|tine, it mu&s;t be &s;o under&s;tood, <HI>Recordare &s;anctos (quibus &s;pecialiter devotus ei) ut te in coele&s;ti itinere promoveant</HI> Cal to mind the Saints (to whom thou ha&s;t a &s;pecial devotion) to help thee in the way to Heaven [call to minde] that needs little defence, for it is in regard of imitating their
<PB N="18" REF="11">ventues [to whom thou ha&s;t a &s;peciall devotion] that needs not much, There is devotion in calling the Saints to mind, and a &s;pecial devotion in calling &s;ome &s;peciall vertues of &s;ome Saints to mind, And thi&s; calling to mind the vertues and good life of the Saints doth helpe in the way to Heaven. But the Doctor rather believes it might be&s;ome mi&s;take, for hee had in divers places before tur|ned [invocate] into [call to minde] and might doe it here, ha&s;tily reading it, and thinking the place &s;ufficient|ly purged, without deliberating upon what followed. And yet I Pray who knows whether tho&s;e words (to whom thou ha&s;t a &s;peciall devotion) were not the hand|writing of <HI>Barrows,</HI> after the Book was Licen&s;ed?</P>
<P>It was proved that a Pari&s;hioner of his being &s;educed, &amp;c. There is nothing here to be blamed but the Doctors memory, confounded with a multitude of other bu&s;ine&s;&s;e. Tis notoriou&s;ly fal&s;e, that the Do|ctor was &s;ollicited three or foure &s;everall times: For hee never &s;aw the Womans husband that reports this, but twice, till he &s;aw him at the Committee. The fir&s;t time he met the Doctor going upon earne&s;t bu&s;ine&s;&s;e to We&s;t|min&s;ter, and the Doctor tooke his name, and the place where he dwelt, promi&s;ing to come; Yet appointing no certain time, through multitude of other bu&s;ine&s;&s;e, for|got it. The man comming againe about a fortnight after, and perceiving his face, and his errand forgotten by the Doctor, went away in a chafe, and came no more.</P>
<P>But it is well known, and ready to be proved, that the Doctor hath conferred with divers Recu&s;ants, and con|verted more families then one, and brought them to Church; Although he hath great rea&s;on to take heed how hee talks with women, for that other womans &s;ake mentioned pre&s;ently after. For whereas tis delivered, that the Doctor &s;hould &s;ay <HI>Salvation might bee had in the Church of Rome:</HI> It was no &s;aying of his, but a que|&s;tion put forth by the woman asking the Doctor whe|ther he could deny it. To whom the Doctor replyed (as
<PB N="19" REF="11">diver&s;e will witne&s;&s;e) That what ever might be thought of Papi&s;ts beyond Sea, or of tho&s;e in for|mer times who knew no other Religion, yet for &s;uch as &s;hee was, who lived in wilfull di&s;obedience to the Church wherein &s;hee was baptized, and re|fu&s;ed to be better informed out of Gods word gra|ciou&s;ly offered her, there was no hope of &s;alvation.</P>
<P>But above all things, the Doctor wonders any &s;hould except again&s;t his manner of taking the Pro|te&s;tation. What could be more &s;olemne? Twas taken on Whit&s;unday la&s;t in the afternoon, imme|diatly after Sermon, before &s;o great a congregation as u&s;ually no Sunday in the yeere hath more. It was told the Pari&s;hioners in the morning publike|ly that they &s;hould take it. The afternoons Preacher &s;o &s;oon as ever the P&s;alm after Sermon was ended, fir&s;t read it in the Pulpit, then took it, &s;o did the cu|rate. Warning being then given to &s;trangers, and women to depart, and the Pari&s;h gathering about the Doctors Pew, the Doctor him&s;elfe fir&s;t took the Prote&s;tation audibly in his own per&s;on, and give it to others to doe the like. When this was done, there was a place a&s;signed, that as many as had taken it &s;hould come &amp; &s;ub&s;cribe their names in a book, namely, at the Ve&s;try, on Tue&s;day fol|lowing, where the Doctor and the Church-war|dens &s;ub&s;cribed their names, and others of the Pa|ri&s;h as many as would did the like, both then and on the next Sunday following.</P>
<P>All which con&s;idered, it may bee wondred why any &s;hould yet doubt of the Doctors &s;ound|ne&s;&s;e
<PB N="20" REF="12">in Religion, notwith&s;tanding the&s;e mens ob|jections. For le&s;t their malice &s;hould not &s;ufficient|ly appeare in alleaging things colourably true, they have not &s;pared to print things manife&s;tly fal&s;e, &s;uch as the&s;e, That he hath inveighed again&s;t the Petitioners in his Sermons, a thing that all his hea|rers, except the Petitioners, will be ready to &s;weare the contrary. That hee forceth all Communicants to come to the Rails, whereas the Doctor know|eth not of any yet that hath ever refu&s;ed to come, till Sunday la&s;t, being the 27 of <HI>June</HI> 1641. That he inveigheth again&s;t tho&s;e which goe from their Pa|ri&s;h Church, whereas hee never yet reproved or cau&s;ed to be pre&s;ented one of his Pari&s;hioners for &s;o doing. That his voice is &s;o weake halfe the Church cannot heare him, which none but deafe people will &s;ay. Nor is it much more to the pur|po&s;e to alleage his keeping the Lords Table with|in the Screen and the Rayls, a thing that no autho|rity hath yet enjoyned the contrary, As for the Honorable Hou&s;es of Parliament, for both which the Doctor daily prays, they need not be pointed out by the&s;e men what they have to doe. They &s;ee I doubt not, how much their ju&s;tice is prejudi|ced by &s;cattering &s;uch Libels, expo&s;ing men to obloquie before they are proved guilty. Let mee therefore de&s;ire the&s;e Petitioners not to &s;natch the power of judicature out of their hands, and to con|demne and pro&s;cribe before &s;entence, Nor to fol|low with &s;uch implacable bitterne&s;&s;e a harmle&s;&s;e Mini&s;ter, of God, who prayes heartily that God
<PB N="21" REF="12">would give them a better minde, And endevours nothing more then theirs, and all his Pari&s;hes pro|ficiencie in godline&s;&s;e, de&s;iring them for a farewell to think upon that &s;entence of S. <HI>Paul,</HI> 1 <HI>The&s;&s;.</HI> 5.12, 13. <HI>Wee be&s;eech you, brethren, to know them that are ever you in the Lord, and admoni&s;h you. And to e&s;teem them very highly in love for their work &s;ake, and be at peace a|mong your &s;elves.</HI></P>
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