THere is a fantastical fellow in Dion much-what of your humour , Master Broughton , who was fully perswaded , that , because he had maried Tully his widow , of necessitie Dion Co●. he should proue summus Orator ; or in that he had once sate in Caesars chaire , he must needes become summus Imperator : such is your conceit , as appeareth by your manifold malepart letters to her Maiestie , his Grace , and the late L. Treasurer , that be like because a Iew once saluted you with an epistle ( as you faigne ) therefore you are the only Hebrician , and in that your armes are the three Owles , Athens fowles , forsooth , therefore you are the onely Graecian in the world , and which are your owne words , by Heroaldie Ep. ad Thesa● a great gentleman , and therefore no meane place must serue your turne . This conceit of yours , whetted with some small learning , but especially edged with naturall pride , hath made your tongue so keene , and your stile so sharpe , that neither spares to wound whom your fancie misliketh . Aboue all others you haue chosen the most Reuerend father the L. Archbishop of Canterbury to launce and cut therewith , * * Ep. ad eun● reioycing , as you say , to haue so high a personage to worke vpon , threatning in your letters to a Doctor of Diuinitie , to Ad D. Stoll . set either his Graces fame , or your owne past cure . I know that Accius is reported to haue cut through a whetstone with a rasor ( it may Liuy . bee he deserues the whetstone that records the storie ) yet that was a miracle , and a greater would it be accounted by him who knowes you both , that your pen , Sir Hugh , made of a goose quil , should any way pearce , much lesse wound , the impenetrable fame of a Prelate , so learned , so graue and vertuous . Whom , if you knew how little your virulent letters ( parbreakt from a poysonfull stomacke , ingorged with impudent lies , belching forth insolent and vnsauourie challenges ) did affect or moue , were you not past all shame , you would haue done with them ; as that Emperour did with his Aiax , long since haue put them to the ●et . Aug. spunge : or , as it seemeth , being void of all patience , with that rayling Poet , when he saw his Inuectiues nothing moued his aduersarie , slipt his neck into an halter , & made a rafter his death-bed : and so , as the Poet said , haue made of your selfe one long ●lut . dist. adul . letter , to see so small effect of your lying letters . Wherefore if you expect his Graces owne answere to your querulous Libels , for all your much pretended learning , you shew your selfe , in that , an idiot , to thinke that either he should bee so idle in that high place , being 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 : or so prodigall of precious ●phocles . time , as to waste good houres in answering such vaine follies , or so carelesse of his honour , as to stoope the billing of such filthie garbage : yea so much he pities your madnes , ( being acquainted therewith from your subsizership in Trinitie Colledge ) that when some sonnes of Zeruiah , in zeale of his high calling , offered ●am. 16. themselues to throttle this Shemei and hot-tongued curre , his answer was to them with Seneca , Quibusdam canibus innatum est , vt ● . de rem . fort . non pro feritate , sed pro consuetudine latrent : It is custome , not curstnes , which makes him barke . Wherein , vnder correction , his Grace is deceiued in you : for a dog not wormed while he is yong , will in time proue mad : your worme from your youth hath been a proud conceit of your self , which , being no●rished vnder your tongue so long , makes it now runne riot . It is to late to worme you , and preuent your madding , but time enough to file your teeth , or muzzle you , to keepe you from biting . And this haue I taken vpon me to doe , the weakest of many , who would faine haue been vpon you , yet strong enough to grapple with Hugh Broughton , a man of such rare wants and singular imperfections . How the Reuerend Archbishop will like it I know not , whose replie , being moued thereunto , hath bin that of Salomons , Answer not a ●u. 26. 4. foole according to his follie , least thou also be like him . All one with that of Socrates , fitting , in metaphore , you more aptly : If an Asse Diog laert . kicke me , shall I kicke him againe ? Notwithstanding I take my selfe , being both a member of that Church , whereof his Grace next vnder her Maiestie , hath chief gouernment , & also an attendant on him , ingaged to him by some fauours , bound in conscience to spend a few spare houres of vacant time , in answering those saucie letters , slanderous reproches , and scandalous imputations of a conceited , malecontented runnagate , such a one whom S. Peter and Iude haue liuely described Presumptuous , standing in his owne 2. Pet. 2. Iud. vers. 8. 13● conceit , a wandring starre , a raging waue of the sea foming out his owne shame , and speaking euill of them which are in authoritie . Which raging madnes , had it kept it selfe in inke vnder seale , silence had been the best answere , and your papers , Sir Pamphletor , might haue made fit sacrifices for Vulcan his altar , 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Homerus & Plut. 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 . But sithence you will needes be mad with a witnes , & proue a foole in print , & slauer out your follies in view of the world , vnder reformation , it standeth not with Christian policie , or charitie , to let you slip vncontroled , but as Salomon wi●heth to Answer a foole according to his follie , least he braue it out , & triumph in Prou. 26. 5. his owne eyes . For though a guiltles conscience , like a marble stone , saith Ierome , shiuereth al reproches , like arrowes , shot against it : Hierony . August . yet as S. Augustine hath well obserued , it is magnae crudelitatis , for a publike magistrate , sic in consciencia acquiescere , vt famam negligat , so to relie vpon the innocence of his actions , that he neglect all annoyance of his good name . And therefore , Mr. Broughton , arme your selfe with patience , if it bee possible for a proud man to haue such a vertue , that since against the law you haue not Exod. 22. 28. ceased to curse the ruler of the people , and * * Act. 23. to reuile God his high Priest , which S. Paul repented hee had ignorantly done , though that Priest were an vsurper : and against the profession of a Diuine , with such ribauld termes , vnsauourie , and shamelesse lies , yea , and contrarie to all humanitie , against him , who in the Vniuersitie ( by your owne confession ) was a chiefe meanes of your preferment ; Epist. ad Com. Hunt. ad Sed , Olam . be ( I say ) as patient as you can , and * * Psal. 109. let not indignation vexe you like a thing that is raw , that you may learne , in your own vaine , hereafter to rule your pen , and order your tongue , and forbeare the presse , though you will neuer bee taught to know your selfe , to feele your weaknes , or regard your betters .

I Remember Theophylact , alluding to that place of Salomon where Theophyl . in Luc. he saith there is a Maried foole , nameth the wife 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Ladie Selfloue , which vsually is attended by foure waiting maides ; the first is 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 an inward selfe conceit ; the second 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 a vaunting vtterance thereof ; the third 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 a vaine affection of publike applause ; the fourth 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 a loftie ouerweening , with a scornfull contempt of others : the husband to this wife , saith the father , was the Pharisee , Luc. 18. who left her a widow after his death , till you , Luc. 18. Mr. Broughton , were borne and came to age ( our English Pharisee ) for Nazianzens rule is true , 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 : Greg. Naz. 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 ●Naso . Meta. 2. not the nation , but the affection makes a Pharisee . Narcissus in the Poet , neuer so madly admiring his own beautie , as you haue delighted in your selfe , in so much that , you may see , if you were not blinded sottishly , how Theophrast his prouerbe is verified in Theoph. Plut. you , 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 . You haue loued your selfe so well , that none other of iudgement either loues or likes you at all . Yet if looking your selfe often in this Selflouing glasse , you would do , as S. Iames saith , that is , hauing considered your naturall face , ●ac . 1. 24. you could goe away , and forget immediatly what your fashion was , some hope there might be of your future humilitie : but to preuent that , 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 attends you , putting you in minde of your great paines , your Concent of the Bible , your Sinai sight , your Daniels weekes , your Rabinicall oracles , your Genealogicall Catechismes , wherby you are so houen and lifted vp , that with Simon Magus your Preuentor , ( for that title fits him better for semblance of pride , ●p. ad Reg. pa. 3 & literas ad D. Stoll . then D. Bancroft , whom you call your Preuentor in the Bishoprick of London ) as if you were borne at Nonesuch , you are not contentented to be accompted 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 . Act. 8. 9. a great Diuine , but 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 . Act. 8. 9. 10. vers. 10. the Cleerer of Diuinitie , the I perse I , and the belweather of Diuines ( it is a poore flocke of sheepe where the Ew must beare the bell ) for so your masked Iew , viz. your selfe writes . ●pist . Abr. Rub. ●c dicta . Behold that is the wiseman , whose praise is gone ouer the whole earth , euen Hugo Broughton . Which selfe conceit forgeth such fancies in your head , that as the runnaway apprentice thought , the bels recalling him , told him he should be Maior of London : so your humours building towers in the ayre , and Bishoprickes in your fancie , faine a sounding in your eares , that you heard the Archbishop should say you deserued as good a place as himselfe . That the Varijs epistolis ad Archiep. & Thesaur . LL. should giue out that you were Nulli secundus for knowledge . That the Queene should say she would not for all the preferments in the world you should leaue the Realme . That such a noble man should tell you that her Maiestie would , of her selfe , haue giuen you the Bishoprick of S. Dauids . That Iewes call for you to conuert them . Meere buzzings of your owne conceited dizzie braine , ( like him in Aelian AElianu● v● H●sto . who thought all the great ships in the hauen were his owne ) none of them euer meant or vttered by them , but onely inuented by the strength of your opinion , pleasing it self with dreams of high desert : which you know ( Master Broughton ) hath been the ouerthrow of many well quallified men , and was among the sages of Greece accompted 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 , the principall impeachment Bion in Laert of many mens both proceedings and preferments : for many ( saith the Stoike ) might haue proued good schollers , if they Seneca . had not thought they had been so alreadie , and many had risen to great places , but that , with Remus , they would attaine them Liuy . by leaping ouer the wall , not rise to them by degrees and steps . And yet , Non vlli tacuisse nocet , if you had onely intertained this Cato . 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 and selfe-conceit , smothering it within your breast , the annoyance had been yours alone and inward , yet the world might haue taken you for a wiseman ( for euen a foole , saith Salomon , holding Prou. 17. 28. his peace is counted wise ) : but 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 so bewitched you , that like an old bottle with new wine , vnlesse you should vent , you Matth. 9. would burst . Whereupon , though the Wiseman his counsell be , Let another man praise thee , not thine owne mouth ; a stranger , not thine Prou. 17. 2. owne lips , you , vt ex stulto insanus fieres , as if you were wiser then Salomon , ( for a foole , saith he , is wiser in his conceit , then seuen men Prou. 26. 16. Iob. 32. that can giue a reason ) must needes , as Iob saith , be your owne Herald , and giue titles to your selfe , blazon your owne armes , record your owne deserts , euen so palpably , that your foes floute you , and your friends pitie you . For thus you pronounce of your selfe , in writing . The best learned in Europe thanke me most highly . Epistolis ad Arch. & Thes. Scotland writes for me . I haue found great thankes from Zurick , Denmarke , French , Dutch. I know my selfe inferiour to none for Hebrew and Greeke studies . The best Diuines haue plowed with my Heyfer , ( yet himselfe neuer grew beyond a calfe . ) All the learned through Christendome , Iewes , Papists , Protestants , thinke my paines an honour to the Bible . Lingua quo vadis ? What , master Hugh , will you hyperbolize aboue S. Gregorie , who is contented to marshall the foure Greg. epist. generall Councels in equipage with the foure Euangelists , but your scriblets , forsooth , must countenance the Bible ? For Honor is in honorante non honorato . But of all the most Thrasonicall Braggadoccion Arist. self-boasting , is that cogd epistle of Abr. Ruben ▪ aliâs of Hugh ap Broughton to himselfe , ( which when Master Beza had read , told a countrie man of ours being present with him , that sure you were a very vaine man ) scil. All thy valuation , M. Hugh , An epistle coyned by Br. with a Iewes stampe . is according to the sickle of the Sanctuarie , 20. Gerahs to a sickle . The delights of thy most high perfections are in that mans throate . The sweet smell of the myrrhe of thy learning ( which is as signes and wonders in heauen and earth ) is gone ouer the Ocean sea . God hath created thee , M. Hugh , to make the honour of England more honourable . Thou art a glorie and renowne euen to the Queene her selfe . Beside many other phrases giuen in Scripture to God himselfe , prophanely abused to your commendation , sauouring not onely of arrogancie , but blasphemie . To such an outrecuidance hath your selfe-conceit caried you . Which glosing letter , suppose it were true , that a Iew had written , a wiseman would haue either answered at the reading thereof , as that Philosopher did once in the like , Me hic Diog. Laert. aut ludit , aut odit . This man would procure me either scorne , or hatred . For hyperbolicall commendations are motiues to both . ●lat . Demet. Or else haue concealed them , least the world should thinke he delighted in his owne praises , the speciall cognisance of a foole , in Cato his wisedome . But to take copies thereof , and disperse them ●ato . abroad in Basil , and send them into England , and Geneua , that men might point at thee Leuiculum nostrum Demosthenem , ( so ●ul . Tus . quaest. you call your selfe in your epistle to the Vniuersitie of Oxford ) and suppose you to be the Homer of our time , the 7. Cities neuer ●ul . Gel●ius ●ul . pro Arch. so striuing for him , as nations and kingdomes challenge you , this is an extreame vanitie : marry to coyne an epistle of your selfe to your selfe , vnder a Iewes name , with such Taratantara fictions and applauses , not learning onely , but euen common reason would deeme to be a desperate phrensie : for as he is mad for hunger ( saith Plutarch ) which will eate his owne flesh , so is he Plutarch . de se laud. much more hunger-starued for commendations , who is driuen to praise himselfe , especially with forgeries and impostures . Yet , this is the Syrenicall allurement of your attendant 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 , who perswades you that written letters are personall and priuate , and selfe-praises vnder seale are easily concealed , and therfore least either enuie , or time , or silence should suppresse them , to the presse with them .

ANd hence commeth your Printed Pamphlets . Belike because it were a sinne to spoyle cleane paper with base imployments , you will blot i● with your fooleries , that so it might be sent from the Printers presse to the Apothecaries shop , there Horace epist. to make cases for spices at the best , Et piper & quicquid chartis amicitur ineptis . Which prating rhapsodies , like Sappho his parrats , crying nothing but Magnus Deus Broughton , to winne you Herodot . the more renowme , you doe not onely dedicate to Noble men of high place , ( an insolent indiscretion to make those personages patrones of such boggard stuffe ) but many of them most presumptuously you front with the sacred name of her royall Maiestie , ( as if your inuentions were all Treasure trouue , fiske royal , mines vnheard of , for Princes onely , being in deede to him that digs in them , as vnto Pompey his souldiers , a lost labour , and Plut. Pomp. time ridiculously spent , and the stuffe it selfe according to the prouerbe Thesaurus carbones ) whose singular affabilitie and clemencie Eras . adag. though it bee such , that she will vouchsafe the speech of the meanest , and a small gift from the poorest : yet as Augustus the Emperour , famous in Rome that way , as not disdaining course intertainment where hee was inuited , when one as simply , as boldly , had requested him to his house , cheering him vp with Macrob. Sat. nothing but browne bread and leekes , at his departure gaue his host this farewell , Non put âram ●e tibi tam f●miliarem esse . The like answere may you iustly expe●● , or a sharper rather , Master Hugh , for your foolish paines ; s●●●lable to that , because you are a Graecian , as Philip of Macedon ●●ue to such a cenodoxicall Rhodig . companion as your selfe , who hauing ●cribled a pamphlet in the praise of Labour , with an epistle prefixed to King Philip of Macedon , his booke bearing title 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 the King puts out the 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 . and now , saith he , the author hath praised himselfe . Were there in you that learning which you pretend , Seneca might haue taught you what punishment it deserued , Principis imaginem ●eneca . obscaenis inferre , to set the Princes stampe vpon base vessels , much more to dare dedicate to her sacred Maiestie infamous Libels , make the best of them , frothie conceits , fomed out from an hot mouth , working and fretting it selfe vpon the bit of discontentment . What man of common sense or reason , would presume to print an epistle to a Prince of her diuine parts , admirable learning , singular iudgement , and menaging such weightie affaires , containing nothing else , but a fabulous discourse of a Iewes letter sent to . N. that is to the Noddy your self , ●pr . Basil . 98. and appoint her who should answer it ? And , in another , to perswade her that while you were expecting her answer touching your preferment , there fell such foule weather vpon the land , ●●pr . 99. that some godly disposed selected you to auert Gods wrath by prayer and preaching ; which you did , forsooth , by expounding Act. 7. ● pag. 3. how Rempham and Chiun , Babylon and Damascus might be reconciled from Amos to Stephen , and vpon this ( so fit a theame for foule weather ) the people thanked you for cleering the heauens by your paines , and Strangers thanked her Maiestie for ● pag. 4. cleering S. Stephen by your pen . First proue this , what Strangers euer thanked her for you , name them , shew their writings , note the time , set downe the words , else are you too impudent to abuse your Princes name , and the readers patience with such grosse vanities ; remember what the Poet said of one , almost as vainly proud in the opinion of his beautie , as you are of your ●autu●●gior . diuinitie , Ait sese vltr● omnes nationes sectarier , Is est derisui quaquâ incedit omnibus . And as for the other , for shame , Broughton , ( now I cannot forbeare thee ) leaue to arrogate that to thy selfe , which all diuinitie , and God himselfe denies thee . Thy prayers and preaching to worke miracles with God ? God heareth Ioh. 9. Iam. 5. not sinners . The prayer of a righteous man preuailes with God : righteous he cannot bee , in the meanest degree , which hath neither humilitie , nor charitie . Thy prayers to stop the bottles of the clowdes , as Iob calleth them ? the prayers of a weaned Iob. 38. Psal. 131. & 127. Esay . 47. Herod . Psal. 109. Esay . 66. childe are as the arrowes of a Giant forcible to pearce the heauens : but proceeding from the spirit of Babel , I am , and there is none but I , they are like Xerxes arrowes shot vp against the Sunne , these reculing to their hurt that shot them , and they returning to their curse that made them . To him , saith God , will I incline mine eare , that hath an humbled spirit , and a contrite heart : which sacrifice you could neuer yet offer , nor can , till you abase your hornes , as Iob speaketh , and disgarboyle your selfe Iob. of those corrupt affections , and loftie thoughts , which makes your person , wheresoeuer you come , burdensome , and your surquedry intolerable . Se ipsum immolet qui Deum vult laudare , ( saith Augustine ) & totum te consumat ignis eius . And when you Augustinus . Psal. 51. haue made Dauids sacrifice of your houen imaginations , and Pauls metamorphosis of your malicious minde , then may you Rom. 12. perswade vs that you haue wrought a miracle . But what doe I speake of reason , or religion to a mad man ? For were you not so , more guiltie you are of treason then reason : for in another of your Paperworkes , you prescribe her Maiestie a time to preferre you , and if she will not , you threaten that then you will forsake Epist. ad Reg. the land , and of that you had sent word to the King of Scots . A good subiect verily , and a great losse no doubt . And what spirit doth Impr. 99. that speech sauour of in your last epistle to her Maiestie , that a chiefe Commissioner in her Highnes name and authoritie , suppressing a booke of your schismaticall fancies , you should dare to say , that he vsed more authoritie then her Maiestie had to lend him . A good world it is , when such giddie brained dottards , as you are , will limit Princes prerogatiues , and charge the High commission of Atheisme , for calling you to account for your delirious doctrine . It might goe hard with you , but that the Ciuill law pleades for your necke , in saying , that Furiosus & impubes ● . de iniur . & fam. lib. iniuriam facere non possunt quia non habent iudicium . The foolish painter in Plutarch , that had painted a Cocke like a Goose , was Plut. & Aelia . faine to write ouer the head , this is a Cocke : you might haue spared that labour in putting your name to the epistles , for it is a thousand to one , if her Maiestie did euer lose time to reade them , she easily gessed that the author went a crowing with a combe .

OF the like Lunaticall humour are your epistles to the Lords , especiallie that which came from you about Midsomer moone last , To and against the Archhishop of Canterburie , about Sheol and Hades , senseles for the period , vnsound for the argument , immodest in reproches , vntrue for the slaunders , dishonest in false witnesses , ridiculous for the vanities . Wherein your last attendant 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 doth play her part , with a cup of ouerweening liquour , hauing so intoxicated your weake braine , ( For the proudman is as he that transgresseth with wine ) that as Zebul being ●bac . 2. ●●d 9. well tipled , tooke an whole armie of men to be but shadowes of mountaines , so you there scorne all others comparatiuely without all respect , impudently without all shame , vnsauourly without all discretion , vnsoundly without all iudgement , madly without all reason , prophanely without all religion , forgetting that thundring speech of the spirit , as the Sept. reade it , 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 . ●hilo . And yet this is that Hel●na , wherewith you are so enamoured , of which you haue so often boasted , and with which you haue so long threatned to disgrace his Grace ; in your epistle to her Maiestie , you will call him to account for all at once : in an epistle to the Lord Treasurer , you will put his Graces fame in print : in your letters to D. Stoll . you will set his Graces fame past cure : in priuate letters to himselfe , belching out vnsauourie menaces of that , which here you haue disgorged . Wherein you haue spent all the vires and power you haue for the defence of a vaine paradox , and spit out all the virus and poyson you could conceiue , in the abuse of his reuerend person , in both fulfilled the prophecie of Esay : In the former , hauing spun the spiders web , for your opinion heathenish and ridiculous ; in the latter , ●ay . 59. 5. hatching the Cockatrice egges , your phrases and stile being reprochfull and malicious : and because you will be the Homerist of our time ( although Master Beza his iudgement was , to a great mans sonne , who was with him at the receipt of your Greeke epistle , that you might very well haue written in Latin ) your answere shall bee Homer-like , to the last first . Taking this by the way , which Pindarus foretold , and you haue fulfilled , 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 , Pind. Olymp. that importunate selfe-boasting brings a man to madnes : and therefore some not vnfitly haue deriued 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 from 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 . And now I answer .

IVlian the Apostata , as good a scholler as your selfe , writing a Lactant. tractate against the Christians , yet , more wisely then honestly , to allure the reader , which otherwise would haue abhorred the booke , intituled it Ad Christianos : but you , adding gall to Deut. 29. wormewood , and impudencie to your slaunders , haue fronted your Libell with this inscription , To and against the Archbishop of Canterburie . Wherein though you haue watched a double ad●antage , both of this time and generation , hauing curious eares , ●hirsting more after great mens disgraces , then Athens after Act. 17. newes ; and also of apologie , because as Apuleius ( he that wrote the metamorphosis of your golden brother ) hath wisely said , that Insimulari quiuis innocens à quouis nebulone potest : It is an easie Apul. ap● . matter for euery rake shame to reuile an innocent , but it is neither safe nor fit for euery man to cleere the accused ; not fit , because if the answerer depend vpon him whom he defends , he shall be counted a flatterer : not safe , because in the accompt of Xenophon and Demosthenes , it is 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 : to great men that are Xenoph. Dem. de coror truly vertuous , there is nothing more burdensome , then the displaying of their praises . Yet in despight of enuie , ex tuo ore te iudicabis serue nequam . Thine owne conscience , and the triall of Luc. 19. thy countenance shall testifie against thee , as the Prophet speaketh . Esay . 3. 9. Exod. 22. In Moses law he that had slaine a Burgleyer by night had been guiltles , but if the Sunne were vp when he smote him he was punished as a murtherer . Had you not knowne him whom you thus haue smitten with your tongue , but , like Aiax in the Tragady , whipt a ram for a man , and lent your blowes at randon , S●phocles . the Ciuill law might once more haue pleaded for you , Error in persona cui fit iniuria , facit vt non oriatur actio iniuriarum . And F●de iniur . & fam. lib. your excuse might haue been either rash indiscretion , or false information : but your conscience grounded vpon long experience and certaine knowledge of the Archbishops great industrie , from his youth , not pregnancie alone ; his manifold knowledge , not paines onely ; his sound iudgement , not knowledge onely ; his effectuall preaching , not iudgement onely ; his irreprehensible life , not preaching onely ; his wise gouernment , not vertues onely ; makes it 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 , as Philo speaketh , and Philo . doubleth thy sinne against thine owne head , and findes thee guiltie not onely of malicious slaunder to reuile the innocent , but of impudent and infamous libelling to dishonour the name and place of such a worthie and reuerend Father : of whom ( if euer of any man ) it may be said as of Zachary , 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 , let not ●urip . 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 ●b . 31. malice be iudge , he hath walked irreproueably before God and men : and may pleade for himselfe against such as thou art , as Iob against his exulcerating comforters , Though mine aduersarie should write a booke against mee , would I not take it vp , and binde it as a crowne vnto me ? Hauing so often verified that in himselfe which Saint Augustine speaketh , Qui volens detrahit famae meae , nolens ●ugust . ●●rip . ●lut . ●lly . addit mercedi meae . For as Telephus wound 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 , was healed by the speare that hurt him ; and the st●oke , intending death to Iason and Prometheus , cured both : so , certaine it is , that neuer any durst touch him with any crime , either for gouernment or otherwise , but either with an after repentance in themselues they were confounded , or by his eminent integritie in all good mens opinion they were confuted , their slanders working his glorie , and their owne shame . And yet this sacred Prelate , this honorable Counsellor , this graue Diuine , to giue him no more titles , then that which S. Basil calleth 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 , this ●sil . ●aut . Men. ●mer . Seruant of God ; tu tu ( as one of your owles speaketh in Plautus ) 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 he may say , hast presumed to professe to write against . Were it as Dem. said to Aeschi : that Aeacus or Rhadamanthus , some person of note , of incomparable learning , of high place , of irreprehensible deportment ( the Reuerend Archbishop hauing , we will suppose it , giuen offence ) should haue confuted him , it had been too much for any such , without due reuerence , to haue aduaunced a Rebutter against his Grace : for the fathers , we know , howsoeuer their higher Prelates sometimes offended the Church with infecting opinions , neuer profest to write against them , but still superscribed their epistles and bookes To such and such . Yet this Vide Bern. & Aug. & Hilari had been tolerable in any such person : but for a 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 , a fantasticall genealogist , a paradoxicall expositor , a tragicall ape , a forlorne Pharisee , a running-headed fugitiue to bee thus publikely malepart , in presuming to write against an Archbishop , auering a trueth Apostolicall , as the impudence is intolerable , so I wonder how so many , that haue fared so well by his Graces preferment , can with patience indure , or with silence brooke this insolent and shamelesse presumption ; but that it is knowne to proceede from an Archilochus leane and hidebound with hart-fretting enuie , but , as the Poet describes him , 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 , Pindaru● fatting himselfe vp with contumelious scornes , and reproches . Not sparing the holy fathers of the Church , the reuerend Beaupeeres of diuine knowledge , but giuing Melchis . p. ● . some the bable , as S. Austen by name , * * p. 49. lib. Sheol . befooling the penner of the Creede not expounded to his fancie , and in a short abstract calling all the Latin fathers the plague of Diuinitie . But Epist. ad reg. who can looke for more reuerence at his hand toward the Ecclesiasticall fathers , whose pride hath so caried him past all grace , that he sticketh not to traduce , euen in publike letters , his owne naturall father ? so farre hauing been busied in Sems progenie , that he is fallen into Chams opprobrie , accusing Gen. 9. his father , in more vile termes then I will expresse , for an Aleknight and common drunkard ; for an whoremaster and a In ep. ad Arch. Eras . chil . minion maintainer , ( Turdus sibi malum ) for a raunger and a beggerly 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 ; euen in the very same letters , wherein it pleaseth the foule-mouthed varlet to intitle the most Reuerend Archbishop ( I tremble to write it ) Nebulo , 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 , & ruina regni . What saith Saint Iude ? Yet Michael the Archangell , encountring Iude ver. 9. 11. the deuill , durst not blaspheme . But such a tongue-murthering Cain , an ambitious Balaamite , ( still bawling for preferment ) cannot withhold , but laboureth like a flie about the candle , to perish in the gainsaying of Corah . And therefore writing about the descent into Hell , hath inflamed his owne tongue with the fire of hell , that as by his genealogicall glosses he hath abused 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 , so by his gehennical cursings Iac. 3. he might set on fire 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 , and kindle a dissention about the descention , wherein there hath been so long consent . Hominem malignum forsan te credant alij , Ego esse miserum credo Martial . cui placet nemo . Other perchance will gesse thee to bee a malignant slaunderer , but I rather take thee to bee a wretched skrat pinde with enuie , whom none can please , either fathers in Diuinitie , or fathers by authoritie , or parents naturall ; but as the Argyraspides answered some forward youths , whose Plut. steps thou pasest , so say I , 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 .

NOw if any man would know what ministred the fuell to this flagrant controuersie about hell , to this publike challenge and open confutation ; nothing that the Archbishop hath either publikely preached , or at any time printed in that cause . But the briefe , and the trueth is this ; Doctor Andrewes hauing , in a Sermon vpon that article , strongly out of Scripture and Fathers confirmed the descent , according to the words , you , forsooth , not worthie to bee ballanced with him for sound learning , ( howsoeuer most impudently you tell the old L. Treasurer that he said , knowing you to bee his Epist. ad Thes. better in studies , that he would yeeld to you ) you I say , quantulus , quantulus ? presse into the pulpit not long after to refute his doctrine : which had it been in charitie and zeale for the trueth , it had been more schollerlike and diuine : but , as your manner is , with such contempt and contumelies to the person of the man , you held that course , which neither policie for example , nor religion for peace could tolerate , vpon which you were called before his Grace , 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 . Here Th●●yd . you began to stirre , not onely contemptuously refusing to come , but malepartly answering his Grace with scornfull letters , and subscribing them , very familiarly at the best , in truth most saucely , Tuus 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 , your fellow souldier . ( Sir Hugh your fellowes are in Bedlem . ) And as that Souldier , your Paterne and predecessor in the Comedie , said of himselfe , because Miles gl●● . he had deigned his presence to one that requested it . Non , aedepol , tu scis , mulier , quantum ego honorem nunc illi habeo : so you stand vpon it mightily , in a large volume , that you countenanced Ad Dominu● Thesaur . his Grace very much , in calling your selfe his Souldier fellow , yea they are your owne words , that you vouchsafed to call him a fellow in iudgement with you for religion . Nay further you trust , you say , that her Maiestie reioyceth to bee 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 with your defence for religion . Base vassall , who will not be taught the dutie of a subiect to a Prince , but will measure her learning by thy modell . Her Highnes knowes better then thy selfe , that 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 in Herodian , and other Grecians , as also Commilitones among the Romanes , is giuen by an Euphemismus of Captaines to their souldiers , to knit Herod● . Thucy● . their hearts to them by such familiar titles : and in the Testament , being but twise vsed , it is vouchsafed by Paul , the great Philip. 2. Philem. ver. 3. Apostle , vnto his inferiours , but neuer reciprocall . When you were fellow of Christs Colledge ( whereof came the prouerbe ) that there were in the house twelue fellowes and a foole , which was your selfe , you being allowed the same diet with the Master , if you had written to him , would you haue called him your fellow commoner ? Had you written to Iohn Whitgift Doctor of Diuinitie , and called him your 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 and fellow Minister , degrees being equall , it had sauoured of some wisedome and learning : but inditing your letters to the most reuerend Archbishop , and subscribing them with that malepart stile tuus 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 , is surely a solaecisme in manners , and argueth great want of discretion , yea of learning : for Xenophon will tell you , that 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 and 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 , and 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 and Xenoph. 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 are all one , that is a fellow souldier and a follower , and so in authors synonymically confounded , and euer applied from the better to the meaner , but not vpward : and soothly so you meant , for in the very same epistle , you say , Ad Dom. Thes. that you know your selfe to bee his Graces better , and superiour in studie , and knowledge .