A
IOYNT
ATTESTATION
,
avowing
that
the
Discipline
of
the
Church
of
England
was
not
impeached
by
the
Synode
of
DORT
.
IT
behooveth
him
,
that
pretendeth
to
frame
A
just
Appeale
from
unjust
Informers
,
therein
to
keepe
himselfe
cleare
from
the
just
imputation
of
unjust
informing
.
Yet
hath
the
Author
of
the
Treatise
,
styled
Appello
Caesarem
,
rashly
and
without
ground
cast
a
foule
blot
upon
the
Synode
of
Dort
in
generall
,
and
consequently
in
common
reputation
upon
all
the
members
thereof
;
among
whom
those
Divines
,
that
were
by
his
late
Majesty
of
blessed
memory
sent
thither
,
and
concurred
in
the
Conclusions
of
that
Nationall
Synode
,
are
in
speciall
aymed
at
,
as
having
betrayed
,
or
impeached
the
government
of
their
Reverend
Mother
.
The
Discipline
of
the
Church
of
England
in
that
Synode
is
held
unlawfull
.
And
againe
,
The
Synode
of
Dort
in
some
points
condemneth
upon
the
Bye
even
the
Discipline
of
the
Church
of
England
.
Was
that
distressed
Church
,
in
the
midst
of
her
distractions
about
matter
of
Doctrine
,
so
wily
in
her
intentions
,
as
to
make
preposterous
use
of
their
neighbors
assistance
,
and
to
draw
them
in
for
concurrence
,
in
matter
of
Discipline
,
with
a
forreine
sister
against
their
owne
Mother
?
Were
those
,
that
hence
ayded
that
Church
,
tam
naris
obesae
,
so
dull
of
apprehension
,
as
not
to
perceiue
the
interest
of
their
owne
?
Or
did
they
demeane
themselves
tam
sublesta
fide
,
so
perfidiously
,
as
to
suffer
the
government
of
this
renowned
Church
,
so
much
as
upon
the
Bye
,
to
bee
condemned
by
others
there
,
and
to
sit
downe
by
it
?
Had
there
been
any
colour
for
such
surmise
,
it
might
have
pleased
the
Appealer
,
or
Appeacher
,
before
he
Recorded
in
print
such
his
odious
Information
,
tendered
to
his
Majesties
owne
hands
,
to
have
demanded
in
private
such
a
question
of
some
of
those
,
from
whom
in
all
likelyhood
hee
might
have
received
particular
satisfaction
.
Civill
correspondence
required
no
lesse
of
him
towards
those
,
whose
persons
hee
professeth
to
respect
The
best
is
,
though
himselfe
,
for
his
own
part
,
doth
often
salute
that
Synode
with
the
complements
called
in
Rhetorique
〈◊〉
〈◊〉
〈◊〉
〈◊〉
〈◊〉
,
and
〈◊〉
〈◊〉
〈◊〉
〈◊〉
〈◊〉
,
Non
equidem
invideo
,
and
such
like
flowers
strewed
along
his
Treatise
,
yet
in
his
indulgence
hee
giveth
others
,
as
cause
,
so
leave
to
speake
in
their
owne
behalfe
.
Let
them
looke
to
it
,
and
answer
for
it
,
whom
it
concerneth
.
And
againe
,
Let
them
,
that
are
interessed
,
plead
for
themselves
.
Wee
therefore
,
who
have
hereto
subscribed
our
names
,
being
interessed
in
that
Synode
,
and
withall
deeply
in
this
crimination
of
Puritanisme
,
can
doe
no
lesse
then
answere
,
and
cleare
in
some
publique
manner
this
slander
published
against
us
.
And
first
in
generall
to
remove
the
often
objected
suspition
of
complication
betweene
foreine
Doctrine
and
foreine
Discipline
,
wherby
is
intended
,
that
there
is
a
kinde
of
naturall
consanguinitie
betweene
that
Doctrine
(
which
odiously
hee
styleth
foreine
)
subscribed
unto
by
that
Synode
,
and
the
Presbyteriall
Discipline
established
in
that
and
other
forein
Churches
:
wee
answer
,
that
in
the
Netherlands
,
the
party
opposite
unto
that
Synode
,
and
most
aggrieved
with
the
Conclusions
thereof
concerning
the
Points
controverted
,
are
notwithstanding
as
vehement
and
resolute
maintainers
of
the
Ministeriall
Parity
,
as
any
that
concluded
,
or
accepted
the
judgement
of
that
Synode
.
Moreover
,
in
our
private
conversing
with
the
most
eminent
of
the
Ministery
there
,
wee
found
divers
times
,
upon
occasion
of
our
declaring
unto
them
the
order
and
manner
of
our
Church-government
,
that
they
were
more
ready
to
deplore
,
then
defend
,
their
owne
estate
,
and
wished
,
rather
then
hoped
,
to
bee
made
like
the
flourishing
Church
of
England
.
Nor
were
these
therefore
the
lesse
ready
to
concurre
for
the
Dort
Conclusions
,
but
were
rather
of
the
principall
and
forward
actors
therein
.
Secondly
in
speciall
we
plead
against
a
supposed
act
of
damning
our
owne
Episcopal
discipline
.
Which
inditement
,
in
fayre
accusation
,
should
have
beene
layed
more
particularly
,
what
action
,
what
Session
,
what
Conclusion
.
Now
are
wee
put
to
seeke
,
not
so
much
our
defence
,
as
our
fault
.
And
for
such
surmise
wee
can
finde
no
other
footing
,
then
(
possibly
)
in
the
approbation
of
the
Belgique
Confession
,
propounded
to
the
Consideration
of
the
Synode
about
a
weeke
before
it
brake
up
.
This
Confession
(
composed
an
:
1550
,
and
received
in
their
Church
,
and
in
the
Wallon
Churches
,
ever
since
the
first
reforme
of
Religion
)
is
unto
them
,
for
consent
in
Doctrine
,
a
Rule
not
much
unlike
to
our
Articles
of
Religion
here
established
.
Which
as
it
was
formerly
anno
1583
accepted
and
approued
by
the
Reformed
French
Church
in
a
Nationall
Synode
at
Vitree
,
so
upon
the
opportunitie
of
this
Nationall
Synode
the
State
and
Church
there
recommended
the
same
to
more
publique
judgement
for
further
establishment
.
And
because
two
or
three
Articles
therof
concerned
Church-discipline
,
and
avowed
a
Parity
of
Ministers
,
they
,
prudently
fore-seeing
that
the
Britaine
Divines
would
never
approve
,
but
rather
oppose
the
same
,
did
therefore
provide
that
before
the
examining
or
reading
thereof
,
protestation
should
be
made
by
the
President
of
the
Synode
,
that
nothing
,
but
the
Doctrinall
points
,
was
to
be
subjected
to
their
consideration
and
suffrages
:
and
for
the
surer
preventing
opposition
or
dispute
,
the
Articles
concerning
Discipline
were
accordingly
retrenched
and
suppressed
in
the
reading
of
that
Confession
to
the
Synode
.
If
therefore
the
Britaine
Colledge
had
in
their
suffrages
onely
answered
ad
quaesita
,
concerning
Doctrine
,
and
uttered
no
opinion
at
all
de
non
quaesitis
,
concerning
Discipline
,
they
thinke
they
had
not
herein
beene
wanting
to
their
Synodicall
duty
and
calling
.
The
rather
for
that
1
They
were
sent
thither
to
endeavour
the
peace
and
composure
of
that
distracted
Church
,
by
expressing
their
judgements
in
the
Points
there
already
controverted
,
not
by
intruding
in
matters
not
at
all
questioned
among
them
.
2
Among
the
Instructions
given
them
by
his
Majesty
,
they
had
none
to
meddle
with
the
Discipline
there
established
,
but
had
charge
to
use
moderation
and
discretion
,
and
to
abstaine
from
multiplying
of
questions
beyond
necessity
.
3
In
that
subject
there
was
no
hope
,
on
possibility
of
prevayling
by
argument
or
perswasion
;
especially
in
that
Church
,
where
the
Civill
government
is
popular
,
and
so
complyeth
more
easily
with
Ecclesiastique
Parity
.
Yet
wee
thought
not
fit
to
content
ourselves
with
warrantable
silence
;
but
,
upon
our
returne
from
that
Synodicall
Session
to
the
place
of
our
private
Collegiate
meeting
,
wee
diligently
perused
the
Confession
,
not
onely
for
points
of
Doctrine
;
referred
to
our
judgements
,
but
also
for
those
excepted
Articles
touching
Discipline
.
And
consulting
together
what
was
fit
to
bee
done
in
delivering
our
opinions
the
next
day
,
wee
joyntly
concluded
,
that
,
howsoever
our
Church
discipline
had
not
beene
Synodically
taxed
,
nor
theirs
avowed
,
yet
it
was
convenient
for
us
(
who
were
assured
in
our
consciences
that
their
Presbyteriall
Parity
,
and
Laicall
Presbyterie
was
repugnant
to
the
Discipline
established
by
the
Apostles
,
and
retayned
in
our
Church
)
to
declare
in
a
temperate
manner
our
judgement
as
well
concerning
that
matter
,
though
by
them
purposely
excepted
,
as
the
other
expresly
referred
to
us
.
Accordingly
the
next
morning
,
when
suffrages
were
to
passe
concerning
the
Doctrine
comprised
in
that
Confession
,
wee
(
having
by
our
place
the
prime
voyce
in
the
Synode
)
gave
our
approbation
of
the
substance
of
the
doctrinall
Articles
,
with
advice
touching
some
incommodious
phrases
;
and
withall
(
contrary
to
the
expectation
of
the
whole
Synode
)
wee
added
expresse
exception
against
the
suppressed
Articles
,
with
some
touch
also
of
Argument
against
them
.
Which
our
Contestation
,
or
Protestation
(
for
so
may
it
bee
styled
)
was
principally
performed
by
him
,
whom
for
prioritie
of
age
,
place
,
and
dignitie
it
best
became
,
and
from
whose
person
,
and
gravitie
it
might
be
the
better
taken
by
the
Civill
Deputees
of
the
States
there
present
.
Therein
he
professed
and
declared
our
utter
dissent
in
that
point
:
and
further
shewed
that
by
our
Saviour
a
Paritie
of
Ministers
was
never
instituted
,
that
Christ
ordained
twelve
Apostles
and
seventy
Disciples
;
that
the
authoritie
of
the
twelve
was
aboue
the
other
:
that
the
Church
preserved
this
order
left
by
our
Saviour
.
And
therefore
when
the
extraordinary
authoritie
of
the
Apostles
ceased
,
yet
their
ordinarie
authoritie
continued
in
Bishops
,
who
succeeded
them
,
who
were
by
the
Apostles
themselves
left
in
the
government
of
the
Church
to
ordaine
Ministers
,
and
to
see
that
they
who
were
so
ordained
,
should
preach
no
other
doctrine
:
that
in
an
inferiour
degree
the
Ministers
,
that
were
governed
by
Bishops
,
succeeded
the
70
Disciples
:
that
this
order
hath
bin
maintained
in
the
Church
from
the
time
of
the
Apostles
.
And
herein
he
appealed
to
the
judgement
of
Antiquity
,
or
of
any
learned
In
giving
our
severall
suffrages
the
same
exception
was
seconded
by
the
rest
of
us
Collegues
,
partly
by
other
allegations
,
and
partly
by
briefe
reference
to
this
declaration
made
communi
nomine
by
our
Leader
.
To
this
our
exception
and
allegations
not
one
word
was
answered
by
any
of
the
Synodiques
either
Strangers
or
Provincialls
.
So
that
herein
we
may
seeme
to
have
had
either
their
consent
implied
by
silence
or
at
least
approbation
of
our
just
and
necessary
performance
of
our
bounden
duty
to
that
Church
,
whereunto
they
all
afforded
no
small
respect
,
though
differing
in
government
from
their
severall
Churches
.
Herein
perhaps
by
some
we
might
be
deemed
rather
to
have
gone
too
farre
in
contestation
and
upbraiding
,
quasi
in
as
,
the
Civill
Magistrate
,
and
Ministery
there
with
undue
forme
of
government
of
that
Church
,
whose
doctrine
onely
was
offered
to
our
opinions
.
But
on
the
contrary
part
it
hath
bin
suggested
here
at
home
by
some
,
that
herein
wee
came
short
of
our
duty
,
that
we
ought
to
have
stepped
yet
farther
by
exhibiting
in
writing
a
formall
Protestation
to
bee
entred
,
and
kept
by
the
Actuary
of
the
Synode
.
Whereto
we
answer
.
First
that
the
course
there
taken
for
the
manner
of
delivering
our
judgements
,
was
not
(
as
in
the
5
Questions
controverted
)
by
subscription
,
but
onely
by
vocall
suffrage
:
which
gave
no
oportunitie
of
putting
in
a
written
Protestation
;
whereas
,
if
we
had
subscribed
our
names
unto
that
Confession
,
we
would
infallibly
have
added
with
the
same
penn
our
exception
against
the
Articles
concerning
Discipline
.
Secondly
in
that
vocall
proceeding
had
we
been
overborn
by
the
multitude
of
their
voyces
,
or
receiued
any
grievance
or
affront
from
them
touching
Discipline
,
we
would
have
releeved
our
just
cause
either
by
written
Protestation
,
or
better
meanes
.
But
when
as
neither
the
Civill
Magistrate
(
in
whose
hearing
our
exceptions
were
constantly
uttered
)
did
gain-say
us
,
nor
any
of
the
Divines
in
the
Synode
once
opened
their
mouths
either
in
offence
of
our
government
,
or
defence
of
their
owne
,
what
needed
we
to
redouble
our
stroke
upon
those
,
that
turned
not
upon
us
?
Rixa
suam
finem
,
cum
silet
bostis
,
habet
.
Peradventure
some
hot
spirit
would
not
have
rested
in
a
formall
recorded
Protestation
neither
:
but
would
have
charged
those
Churches
to
blot
those
Articles
out
of
their
Confession
,
and
forthwith
to
reforme
their
government
;
otherwise
not
have
yeelded
approbation
to
any
Article
of
Doctrine
,
as
there
comprised
:
but
renounced
the
Synode
,
and
shaken
off
from
his
feet
the
dust
of
Dort
,
I
have
nothing
to
doe
with
your
Conclusions
.
I
have
no
part
nor
portion
in
them
.
What
ends
you
have
,
how
things
are
caryed
,
I
cannot
tell
;
nor
care
.
We
confesse
,
we
were
,
and
are
,
of
another
minde
;
our
owne
dispositions
,
and
the
directions
of
our
blessed
Peace-making
King
,
kept
us
from
kindling
new
fires
;
where
we
had
worke
enough
to
quench
the
old
.
We
then
thought
(
and
so
still
in
our
consciences
are
confident
)
that
we
forgat
not
our
duty
to
our
venerable
and
sacred
Mother
the
Church
of
England
,
but
tooke
a
course
conformable
to
the
rules
,
as
wel
of
filiall
observance
,
as
of
Christian
moderation
.
And
even
then
(
according
to
our
custome
of
weekly
transmitting
into
England
briefe
narrations
of
the
proceedings
in
each
severall
Session
to
be
imparted
to
his
Majesty
)
we
by
the
next
messenger
sent
our
relation
hereof
,
as
no
whit
ashamed
of
our
deportment
herein
.
Which
,
because
it
was
then
framed
,
when
we
did
not
imagine
that
any
quarrell
would
be
picked
against
us
,
for
more
impartiall
and
unpassionate
attestation
,
is
here
inserted
,
as
much
as
concerneth
that
particular
.
1619.
April
.
29
stylo
novo
.
Sessione
144
pomeridiana
.
Gregorius
Martine
,
unus
ex
politic
is
ad
Synodum
delegatis
,
Hagâ
jam
recens
reversus
,
narrat
quanto
Dni
Ordines
gaudio
afficiantur
de
singulorum
in
Canonibus
sanciendis
unamini
consensu
.
Eo
nomine
Theologis
cùm
exteris
tum
Provincialibus
gratias
habere
eorum
Domniationes
ob
labores
Synodicos
exantlatos
.
Proximo
in
loco
postulare
vt
Confessio
Belgica
perlustretur
:
ita
tamen
vt
sine
gravi
causa
nihil
immutetur
,
nec
phrasium
Grammaticarum
argutijs
curiosè
insistatur
.
In
eadem
judicijs
Synodicorum
subjiciuntur
tantùm
ea
,
quae
doctrinam
spectant
,
omissis
prorsus
ijs
,
que
disciplinam
.
Intercurrit
quaestio
de
authentico
exemplari
.
Sumitur
illud
quod
in
Ecclesiarum
reformatarum
Confessionibus
habetur
.
Totum
perlegitur
,
pretermissis
,
qui
disciplinam
Ecclesiasticam
attinent
,
articulis
.
Sessio
.
145.
April
.
30.
antemeridiana
.
Rogantur
de
hac
Confessione
suffragia
.
Dominus
Episcopus
Landavensis
omnia
doctrinae
capita
probat
.
Interea
tamen
de
disciplina
paucis
monet
.
Nunquàm
in
Ecclesia
obtinuisse
Ministrorum
paritatem
,
non
tempore
Christi
ipsius
;
tunc
enim
duodecim
Apostolos
fuisse
Discipulis
superiores
:
non
Apostolorum
aetate
,
non
subsequutis
seculis
.
Nec
valere
rationem
in
hac
Confessione
usurpatam
;
nempe
quia
omnes
sunt
[
*
](A02253-e1030-b)
*
In
the
more
correct
edition
(
then
promised
,
and
since
published
among
the
Acts
of
the
Synode
)
Articulo
31.
the
words
aquè
and
aequalem
are
cashiered
.
aequè
ministri
Christi
.
Nam
&
70
discipuli
erant
Ministri
Christi
aequè
ac
Apostoli
:
non
tamen
inde
Apostolis
aequales
:
et
omnes
omninò
homines
sunt
aequè
homines
:
non
inde
tamen
homo
homini
non
debet
subesse
.
Haec
non
ad
harum
Ecclesiarum
offensionem
,
sed
ad
nostrae
Anglicanae
defensionem
se
submonuisse
professus
est
.
A
reliquis
Britannis
nonnulla
alia
sunt
subnotata
de
libero
arbitrio
,
de
passiva
Christi
obedientia
;
praesertim
vero
de
phrasi
nimis
dura
&
generali
,
cum
dicatur
de
Canonicis
libris
nullam
unquam
fuisse
controversiam
:
Quae
quidem
incommoda
phrasis
vitio
interpretis
irrepserat
,
cum
in
originali
Gallicana
benè
se
habeat
.
Item
exceptioni
de
disciplina
adjioitur
à
reliquis
Britannis
similis
exceptio
,
si
quid
contra
legitimos
ritus
externos
generaliter
ibidem
statuatur
.
Britannorum
interpellationi
à
Synodicis
responsum
ne
〈◊〉
〈◊〉
〈◊〉
〈◊〉
〈◊〉
quidem
.
About
a
yeare
after
our
returne
the
Acts
of
the
Synode
were
published
in
print
,
wherein
among
other
particulars
,
the
Belgique
Confession
is
at
large
set
downe
in
37
Articles
.
Whereof
two
or
three
containe
matter
of
Discipline
received
in
those
Churches
;
These
belike
our
Censurer
viewing
,
prout
jace●
in
terminis
,
thereupon
,
without
any
further
search
,
concluded
,
that
Synode
Guilty
and
condemnable
,
as
condemning
the
Discipline
of
the
Church
of
England
.
But
still
wee
hold
our selves
to
stand
cleare
,
and
therefore
prosecute
our
Appeale
from
the
rash
sentence
of
this
Appellant
,
alleadging
for
our selves
1
Though
all
and
singular
the
Articles
there
comprised
had
passed
Synodicall
sorutiny
,
and
beene
approved
canonically
,
yet
will
it
not
follow
,
that
all
and
every
the
Synodiques
there
gave
consent
thereto
.
For
this
approbation
might
have
passed
by
the
votes
of
the
major
part
,
etiam
reclamantibus
Britannis
,
who
for
number
were
not
considerable
among
so
many
both
other
strangers
and
Provincialls
.
And
so
a
favourable
construction
might
have
exempted
the
Britaine
Divines
from
(
that
which
is
here
covertly
put
upon
them
)
being
thought
to
reach
forth
their
hand
to
the
striking
their
Mother
.
2
We
deny
that
upon
view
of
those
Synodall
Acts
we
by
presumption
in
Law
need
to
be
put
to
our
purgation
herein
,
as
members
involved
in
a
Capitular
decree
of
the
whole
Body
.
For
in
point
of
Discipline
there
passed
no
Act
at
all
,
there
was
no
proposition
made
:
as
evidently
appeareth
by
the
same
booke
of
the
Synodall
Acts
,
in
the
narration
of
the
Belgique
Confession
;
where
the
matter
subjected
to
deliberation
is
recorded
with
limitation
,
first
positive
,
quae
ad
dogmata
&
doctrinae
essentiam
pertinerent
,
points
dogmaticall
,
and
pertaining
to
the
essence
of
Doctrine
:
then
exclusive
,
Monitum
proinde
fuit
eo
tempore
Articulum
[
*
](A02253-e1270-b)
*
The
word
trigesimum
should
have
beene
twise
repeated
,
which
by
mistake
was
here
cast
out
as
redundant
.
And
upon
this
errour
the
word
utroque
crept
in
for
illis
.
trigesimum
,
primum
,
&
secundum
non
esse
examinandum
:
quia
in
utroque
de
ordine
Ecclesiastico
,
quem
exteri
nonnulli
à
nostro
diversum
habent
,
ageretur
.
Declaration
was
accordingly
made
at
the
same
time
that
the
thirtieth
,
first
,
and
second
Articles
were
not
to
be
examined
,
because
in
them
Ecclesiasticall
Order
or
Church
government
was
handled
,
wherein
some
strangers
(
namely
the
Church
of
England
)
differ
from
ours
,
(
namely
from
that
of
the
Church
of
the
Netherlands
.
)
This
recorded
testimony
of
so
expresse
withdrawing
from
the
eye
of
the
Synode
all
view
of
Church
discipline
might
demonstrate
to
any
indifferent
peruser
of
those
Acts
,
that
there
was
no
possibility
of
Synodicall
condemning
,
so
much
as
upon
the
Bye
,
the
Discipline
of
the
Church
of
England
in
such
examining
the
Belgique
Confession
.
As
for
our
manner
of
examining
and
judging
thereof
,
though
it
be
not
so
particularly
set
downe
in
the
said
printed
Acts
,
as
we
could
have
wished
,
&
would
have
provided
for
,
had
wee
beene
made
acquainted
with
any
intent
of
their
publication
,
yet
is
it
in
some
sort
touched
in
the
same
page
in
that
very
narration
of
the
next
Session
,
testifiyng
a
cautelous
delivery
of
our
judgements
.
Declararunt
clarissimi
Magnae
Britanniae
Theologi
,
se
Confessionem
Belgicam
diligenter
examinasse
,
nihilquè
in
ea
deprehendisse
,
quod
ad
fidei
quidem
dogmata
attineret
,
quod
verbo
Dei
non
consentiret
.
The
Divines
of
great
Britaine
declared
,
that
they
had
diligently
examined
the
Belgique
Confession
,
and
that
therein
(
for
as
much
as
concerned
dogmaticall
points
of
faith
)
they
found
nothing
,
that
agreed
not
with
the
Word
of
God
.
Which
reservation
implyeth
that
somewhat
else
(
which
did
not
concerne
point
of
faith
,
but
other
matter
)
received
not
their
approbation
.
It
may
be
sayed
(
and
so
wee
our selves
say
)
that
the
disposers
and
publishers
of
these
Synodicall
Acts
had
done
more
right
to
the
Britaine
Divines
,
if
speciall
mention
had
beene
made
of
that
other
matter
not
approved
by
them
,
and
of
their
particular
exceptions
against
the
Articles
,
which
concerned
Church
government
.
But
,
it
seemeth
,
(
as
in
most
other
vocall
passages
in
this
Synode
)
the
Actuary
here
intended
abridgement
in
what
he
set
downe
and
meant
not
to
expresse
in
particular
what
was
sayd
by
any
concerning
points
not
propounded
to
Synodicall
deliberation
;
especially
touching
upon
so
tender
a
string
as
the
open
impeachment
of
their
owne
established
Discipline
.
And
so
they
thinke
that
they
have
given
us
our
due
herein
,
partly
by
thus
pointing
afar
off
to
what
we
did
in
our
owne
defence
,
leaving
the
reader
to
finde
it
by
implication
,
and
partly
by
recording
that
all
Synodicall
proposition
and
approbation
of
this
Confession
was
confined
to
matter
of
Doctrine
onely
.
According
to
which
reserved
forme
of
expression
the
President
of
the
Synode
,
in
the
great
Church
of
Dort
(
immediately
after
the
publication
of
the
Synods
Iudgment
upon
the
five
Controversies
)
notifying
the
approbation
of
this
Confession
sayed
(
not
that
the
whole
,
and
every
parcell
,
was
approved
,
but
)
doctrinam
in
Confessione
comprehensam
,
in
Synodo
relectam
,
atque
examinatam
,
—
ut
orthodoxam
&c.
fuisse
approbatam
.
The
doctrine
comprised
in
that
Confession
,
read
over
in
the
Synode
,
and
examined
,
was
approved
as
orthodoxe
.
Which
style
of
speach
excludeth
whatsoever
is
there
comprised
concerning
,
not
Doctrine
,
but
Discipline
,
whatsoever
was
not
examined
Synodically
,
nor
so
much
as
read
in
the
Synode
,
whatsoever
in
common
understanding
admitteth
not
the
title
of
Orthodoxe
,
which
attribute
is
proper
unto
dogmaticall
points
.
In
this
sense
,
and
of
this
subject
they
did
,
and
well
might
,
there
alleadge
the
concording
judgements
omnium
tàm
exterorum
,
quàm
provincialium
Theologorum
,
of
all
the
Divines
,
as
well
strangers
,
as
Provincialls
.
Nor
had
we
cause
to
expect
,
that
in
such
publication
of
the
whole
Synods
doctrinall
consent
they
should
trouble
their
owne
people
with
expressing
the
dissent
of
some
few
of
the
Exteri
in
matter
of
Church-discipline
.
Which
our
dissent
they
have
delineated
in
this
Record
of
their
Acts
,
though
over-veyled
for
their
owne
peace
,
yet
transparent
enough
for
our
defence
.
But
our
ill
happ
belike
it
was
,
that
he
,
who
turned
over
all
the
leaves
of
the
Belgique
Confession
there
set
forth
,
to
finde
the
Articles
concerning
Discipline
,
could
not
intend
to
cast
his
eye
upon
the
page
next
fore-going
that
Confession
,
to
view
the
limited
manner
of
both
propounding
,
and
approving
that
body
of
Articles
.
Which
limitation
had
he
seene
and
considered
,
(
so
confident
are
we
of
his
ingenuitie
)
he
would
not
have
cast
this
harsh
imputation
upon
us
.
And
now
being
better
informed
by
this
our
true
account
of
the
cariage
of
that
businesse
,
he
,
that
hath
traduced
us
,
will
(
we
hope
,
and
crave
)
make
us
some
competent
satisfaction
,
by
acknowledging
his
over-sight
,
and
recalling
what
he
hath
unadvisedly
written
to
our
prejudice
.
Which
reparation
we
have
the
more
cause
to
expect
,
for
that
,
upon
credence
yeelded
to
this
his
Information
,
this
imputation
hath
of
late
bin
further
,
upon
the
Bye
,
grated
on
and
upbrayded
in
the
audience
of
divers
personages
of
note
,
whose
opinions
of
us
we
have
great
cause
to
respect
.
As
for
our selves
,
in
the
integritie
of
our
consciences
we
herein
doe
not
decline
the
judgement
of
any
indifferent
unpassionate
man
;
and
such
,
we
hope
,
this
true
and
plaine
Narration
will
satisfie
.
But
above
all
,
according
to
our
duty
and
desire
,
we
humbly
submit
this
,
and
all
other
our
actions
concerning
our
calling
,
to
the
judgement
of
our
most
venerable
Mother
the
Church
of
England
.
From
whose
sacred
rule
(
we
avow
)
we
have
not
swarved
,
nor
any
whit
impeached
her
Discipline
,
or
authorised
Doctrine
,
either
abroad
,
or
at
home
.
And
as
in
that
Synode
our
speciall
care
,
and
perpetuall
endeavour
was
to
guide
our
judgements
by
that
sound
Doctrine
,
which
we
had
received
from
the
Church
of
England
:
so
were
we
farre
,
and
ever
shall
be
,
from
usurping
our
Mothers
authoritie
,
or
attempting
to
obtrude
upon
her
children
any
of
our
Synodicall
conclusions
,
as
obligatory
to
them
:
yet
remaining
our selves
never
the
lesse
resolved
,
that
whatsoever
there
was
affented
unto
,
&
subscribed
by
us
concerning
the
five
Articles
,
either
in
the
joynt
Synodicall
Iudgement
,
or
in
our
particular
Collegiate
suffrage
(
styled
in
the
Acts
of
the
Synode
Theologorum
Magnae
Britanniae
Sententia
,
and
at
large
extant
there
)
is
not
only
warrantable
by
the
holy
Scriptures
,
but
also
conformable
to
the
received
Doctrine
of
our
said
venerable
Mother
.
Which
we
are
ready
to
maintaine
,
and
justifie
against
all
gain-sayers
,
whensoever
we
shall
be
thereunto
called
by
lawfull
Authoritie
.
Ita
attestamur
-
GEORGIVS
Cicestriensis
Episcopus
.
-
IOHANNES
Sarisburiensis
Episcopus
.
-
Gualterus
Balcanquall
Decan
.
Roff.
-
Samuel
Ward
Pub.
profess
.
Theol.
in
Acad.
Cant.
&
Coll.
Sid.
Praefect
.
-
Thomas
Goad
Sacrae
Theol.
Doctor
.
FINIS
.