My
reverend
,
and
deare
brother
,
Doeg
,
or
some
Amazia
is
euer
ready
with
their
biting
censure
,
and
check
of
high
presumption
.
But
praised
be
the
Lord
,
there
is
no
small
number
of
religious
and
honest
men
in
the
kirke
and
common-weale
,
and
the
hearts
of
all
are
in
the
hands
of
the
Lord
,
who
may
at
his
pleasure
moue
any
that
hath
the
tongue
of
the
learned
to
speake
a
word
in
season
to
you
that
are
wearie
,
also
dispose
your
friends
and
brethren
of
their
old
ingenuitie
,
and
tender
compassion
of
your
bleeding
heart
,
by
their
holy
wisedome
to
remoue
your
doubts
,
confirme
your
faith
,
and
helpe
you
to
be
perswaded
in
your
owne
minde
,
and
to
advise
you
rather
now
to
hold
fast
that
which
you
haue
heard
and
receiued
,
then
afterward
with
vntimous
repentance
to
change
their
tune
,
and
stile
,
as
if
you
were
not
a
brother
,
but
an
aduersarie
,
and
Apostate
,
if
it
shall
happen
,
as
God
forbid
that
you
be
driven
from
the
bright
candle
of
your
knowne
profession
to
the
deepe
darknesse
of
an
unknowne
way
,
and
by
that
unhappy
change
so
much
the
more
blinded
,
as
your
light
hath
been
greater
,
and
with
the
purest
Ivorie
turned
with
fire
into
saddest
black
,
or
shal
be
mis-shapen
in
a
new
face
,
stained
with
the
contempt
of
your
first
puritie
,
and
blushing
at
the
disparagement
of
your
new
forme
.
A
vile
confusion
that
cannot
bee
eschewed
if
you
shall
suffer
your selfe
to
bee
drawne
back
againe
to
the
deformities
for
iust
causes
casten
out
of
the
kirk
,
and
from
that
beauty
of
reformation
,
which
you
haue
before
held
,
and
with
ioy
so
long
professed
,
and
vpon
no
better
warrant
then
a
bare
example
,
and
very
authoritie
of
mens
names
,
although
for
the
time
fathers
and
favourers
of
your
profession
,
but
after
long
standing
now
suddenly
moved
,
and
so
taken
with
the
novelties
of
the
time
,
that
for
ioyning
with
them
,
they
dare
not
onely
separate
from
their
old
masters
and
fellow
brethren
,
but
from
themselues
,
in
respect
of
that
which
they
were
.
And
yet
in
this
maine
current
some
way
to
be
excused
by
their
embarking
like
simple
men
in
a
warre
ship
,
and
miserable
mistaking
of
these
base
additions
,
to
be
layd
downe
againe
when
it
should
please
them
like
good
schollers
to
returne
to
their
owne
masters
,
the
standard-bearers
in
our
faith
,
with
imagined
liberty
,
not
onely
to
concurre
,
but
to
confirme
and
encourage
their
owne
brethren
afresh
for
the
advancement
of
the
interrupted
worke
of
the
ministry
and
edification
of
the
body
of
Christ
,
as
they
are
bound
in
conscience
and
calling
.
If
Christ
be
on
your
side
,
who
can
be
against
you
?
You
are
debter
to
him
that
hath
guided
the
steps
of
your
soule
,
&
all
that
is
within
you
to
praise
him
,
because
in
these
contentions
you
haue
done
what
you
could
in
defense
of
the
truth
,
and
haue
kept
it
,
and
never
wronged
any
man
in
any
matter
;
so
that
if
it
be
the
pleasure
of
God
you
shall
suffer
,
it
is
because
you
dare
not
forsake
a
knowne
truth
,
whereby
you
haue
received
many
rich
comforts
,
and
looketh
for
to
reape
endlesse
ioy
,
esteeming
it
your
dutie
to
cleaue
to
that
which
is
called
in
question
,
as
well
as
to
the
rest
,
which
seem
to
be
spared
:
for
your
encouragement
you
haue
a
worthy
cause
to
honor
you
,
sufficient
reasons
to
defend
you
,
and
the
experience
of
your
owne
conscience
to
uphold
you
.
Ziterius
,
when
the
Court
was
against
him
,
making
the
Emperour
Nebuchadnezar
.
And
when
this
flame
is
kindled
against
you
,
if
you
refuse
to
follow
the
droue
in
anie
new
practise
,
for
to
defend
your
libertie
by
anie
good
ancient
order
or
custome
,
you
are
summarilie
condemned
of
Brownish
Separation
,
singularitie
,
Puritanisme
,
and
of
blinde
and
fained
zeale
.
Yet
not
by
all
,
but
by
such
,
as
either
hauing
forgot
,
or
never
knowne
your
prefession
in
her
integritie
,
take
advantage
by
the
advantageous
name
of
Conformitie
to
please
themselues
,
and
grieve
them
who
cleaue
to
the
forme
of
godlinesse
whereunto
you
were
delivered
.
And
even
here
we
must
bee
patient
,
and
repent
our
own
slacknes
in
following
our
dutie
of
good
service
toward
God
,
when
so
manie
pains
haue
been
taken
to
instruct
and
strengthen
in
a
contrarie
course
,
hoping
that
although
Constantine
being
at
the
first
for
the
determination
of
the
Councell
of
Nice
,
wherunto
the
contrarie
parties
put
their
hands
,
and
afterward
by
oversight
,
&
negligence
to
possesse
the
minds
of
them
that
were
about
him
with
careful
remembrance
of
the
truth
,
he
was
by
the
continuall
neernesse
&
pains
of
them
that
were
contrarie
minded
,
changed
to
an
other
course
;
yet
our
most
high
,
wise
,
&
gracious
Emperour
,
when
his
majestie
shall
see
that
wee
are
tied
by
such
affection
to
our
harmles
profession
,
that
wee
choose
rather
patientlie
to
suffer
then
rashlie
to
change
,
as
his
highnes
royal
clemencie
hath
refreshed
manie
,
and
rid
others
out
of
thrall
,
will
bee
pleased
to
be
our
Physitian
,
&
with
his
own
hand
cure
the
distempered
body
of
this
poore
kirke
,
restoring
to
Christs
spouse
in
the
land
of
his
highnes
happie
birth
,
her
priviledges
and
servants
for
her
Lords
emploiments
,
that
everie
one
of
them
receiving
that
favour
,
may
enjoy
one
another
for
edification
of
the
kirke
,
his
maiesties
better
service
,
and
their
mutuall
comfort
.
1
Christs
practise
in
the
first
Supper
,
qualified
with
his
commandement
,
Doe
this
in
remembrance
of
me
,
and
with
Pauls
precept
,
Bee
yee
followers
of
me
,
even
as
I
am
of
Christ
,
together
with
the
common
maxime
rightly
understood
,
Every
action
of
Christ
is
our
instruction
,
should
be
the
perfect
patterne
of
our
practise
.
2
The
command
,
Doe
this
,
being
grounded
upon
Christs
practise
,
and
hauing
respect
therto
,
cannot
be
understood
,
but
by
the
understanding
of
the
particulars
practised
by
him
.
For
as
practise
and
custome
obserued
in
any
matter
before
a
law
be
made
,
are
the
best
exponers
of
the
law
,
and
not
the
customes
and
practises
that
creepe
in
afterward
,
so
in
this
Sacrament
,
the
things
done
by
Christ
and
his
Disciples
expone
the
institution
better
then
the
practises
&
customes
in
the
dayes
of
Dionysius
Areopagita
,
of
Iustinus
Martyr
,
of
Tertullian
,
and
of
the
practises
of
kirkes
in
these
,
or
other
ages
.
3
The
example
and
institution
of
Christ
are
fully
set
downe
by
Matthew
,
Marke
and
Luke
,
Euangelists
,
and
by
Paul
the
Apostle
conioyntly
.
4
In
the
night
that
the
Lord
was
betrayed
,
for
the
eating
of
the
Lords
Supper
,
Christ
and
his
Disciples
came
together
in
one
place
,
prepared
for
the
eating
of
the
Paschall
Lambe
,
and
that
holy
banket
.
5
In
that
place
where
Christ
and
his
Disciples
met
,
there
was
a
Table
prepared
both
for
the
service
of
the
Lambe
,
and
for
this
Sacrament
.
6
For
the
reverent
eating
of
this
Supper
,
Christ
by
choyce
and
no
otherwise
sate
at
that
Table
with
his
Disciples
in
the
most
comely
and
convenient
forme
of
sitting
.
7
For
visible
Elements
he
vsed
both
bread
and
wine
such
as
were
at
hand
for
the
time
,
and
onely
these
two
without
any
mixture
.
8
To
the
bread
by
way
of
preparation
Christ
did
foure
things
:
he
did
take
it
,
he
blessed
it
,
he
brake
it
,
he
gaue
it
:
and
for
the
right
vsing
of
it
,
he
spake
three
things
to
the
Disciples
,
a
commandement
,
Take
ye
,
eate
yee
,
a
declaration
,
This
is
my
body
which
is
given
(
or
broken
)
for
you
,
a
second
commandement
,
Doe
this
in
remembrance
of
me
.
9
When
he
had
supped
,
for
preparation
of
the
cup
he
did
three
things
;
he
did
take
it
,
hee
blessed
it
,
he
gaue
it
them
;
and
for
right
vsing
of
it
hee
spake
three
things
,
a
commandement
,
Drinke
ye
all
of
it
,
a
declaration
,
This
is
my
blood
in
the
new
Testament
,
which
is
shed
for
many
for
the
remission
of
sins
;
a
second
commandement
,
Doe
this
as
oft
as
yee
drink
it
in
remembrance
of
me
.
10
This
service
is
recommended
to
be
continued
in
the
kirke
,
and
frequently
used
.
For
as
often
as
yee
shall
eate
this
bread
,
and
drinke
this
cuppe
,
yee
shew
the
Lords
death
till
hee
come
.
11
A
warning
of
a
fearful
danger
,
Whosoever
shal
eate
this
bread
and
drink
this
cup
of
the
Lord
unworthily
,
shall
bee
guiltie
of
the
body
and
blood
of
the
Lord
.
12
A
soueraigne
remedy
against
this
danger
,
Let
every
man
therefore
examine
himselfe
,
and
so
let
him
eate
of
this
bread
,
and
drink
of
this
cup.
13
This
is
the
truth
of
this
holy
sacrament
,
and
in
the
most
fauourable
times
this
kirke
sought
this
truth
,
and
by
the
testimonie
and
commendation
of
other
reformed
kirkes
found
it
,
and
not
onely
the
mind
of
Iesus
Christ
anent
this
sacrament
,
but
in
all
the
particular
heads
of
religion
aboue
rehearsed
.
14
If
either
the
sacrament
it selfe
,
the
ministers
and
receiuers
thereof
were
priviledged
from
mens
corruptions
,
there
were
no
feare
of
craft
,
negligence
,
or
compulsion
to
receiue
this
sacrament
,
neither
necessity
to
examine
▪
what
were
agreeable
or
dissonant
to
the
measure
of
their
faith
that
receiued
.
15
It
is
an
infallible
observation
,
that
whosoever
after
the
truth
once
found
,
seeketh
farther
then
truth
,
shall
finde
errors
and
lies
.
16
Of
these
Fathers
,
who
in
Christ
Iesus
begot
you
,
and
brought
you
up
,
through
the
Gospell
delivered
to
you
,
as
they
receiued
it
from
the
scriptures
,
and
from
this
kirke
,
being
reformed
,
yee
receiued
the
sound
doctrine
,
and
right
use
of
this
sacrament
,
and
other
heads
of
religion
,
not
as
a
meere
doctrine
,
and
meere
rites
,
but
as
the
annointing
of
the
holy
spirit
which
dwelleth
in
you
.
If
yee
shal
receiue
divers
teachers
,
divers
doctrines
and
sacraments
,
you
must
quite
the
spirit
that
dwelleth
in
you
,
and
seek
another
.
Table
of
the
Lord
,
which
Table
by
some
Fathers
is
called
the
Holy
Table
,
and
by
others
the
Lords
Table
,
a
fit
meane
to
represent
our
vnion
and
communion
with
Christ
,
and
among
our selues
in
this
life
.
Thou
doest
prepare
a
Table
before
me
in
the
sight
of
my
adversaries
:
and
in
the
life
to
come
,
I
haue
appointed
to
you
a
kingdome
,
that
ye
may
eate
and
drink
at
my
table
in
my
kingdome
;
which
mysterie
of
spirituall
fellowship
can
no
wise
be
so
well
adumbrate
,
nor
so
sensibly
perceiued
of
any
beleeving
Christian
by
a
common
Table
in
any
mans
house
whosoever
.
Divide
it
among
your selues
;
which
forme
of
distribution
for
exercise
of
brotherly
loue
,
is
as
necessarie
to
be
vsed
upon
the
bread
,
as
upon
the
cup.
And
if
by
the
act
of
giving
the
distribuoion
of
the
cup
were
perfected
by
Christ
,
giving
sigillatim
to
every
single
person
,
and
their
sole
receiving
of
it
immediatly
out
of
his
hand
,
what
could
be
the
use
of
the
generall
commandement
,
Divide
it
among
you
?
And
to
ascribe
one
sence
to
the
act
of
giving
the
Cuppe
,
and
another
of
the
bread
,
and
to
thinke
that
the
Apostles
could
boldly
take
the
one
or
the
other
,
not
knowing
what
right
they
had
to
it
,
or
what
it
was
,
it
were
amisse
to
think
.
And
if
the
practise
of
kirkes
were
a
sufficicient
rule
,
in
sundry
kirkes
,
in
sundry
ages
,
the
Deacon
delivered
the
sacrament
to
the
people
.
As
these
differences
betwixt
you
and
them
are
evill
in
themselues
,
so
are
they
evill
in
the
alledged
ground
,
whereby
they
are
occasioned
.
Ieroboam
,
and
spreading
it selfe
over
the
people
in
all
the
ten
tribes
,
who
were
taught
in
the
truth
of
God
before
their
fall
,
found
no
contradiction
in
all
the
ten
tribes
,
notwithstanding
of
their
forme
of
religion
,
and
of
the
heavie
judgements
of
God
powred
out
upon
that
fowle
defection
,
but
it
continued
in
force
,
and
they
without
sense
aboue
three
hundred
yeares
and
an
halfe
.
The
Arrian
abhomination
broched
by
the
envy
and
stomack
of
a
man
prone
to
contradiction
,
possessing
the
Emperours
heart
by
subtile
suggestion
,
made
Arrius
personall
quarrels
to
produce
reall
questions
anent
the
Godhead
of
Christ
,
a
filthy
blasphemy
at
the
beginning
resisted
by
pastors
&
people
,
and
long
detested
,
but
by
processe
of
time
,
by
authority
,
and
by
the
subtiltie
of
few
Arrian
Apostates
,
not
onely
the
multitude
of
Bishops
,
very
few
excepted
,
some
sooner
,
some
later
,
some
as
leaders
,
and
some
as
common
souldiers
,
either
yeelding
through
feare
,
or
brought
vnder
with
penurie
;
or
by
flatterie
ensnared
,
or
else
beguiled
through
simplicitie
,
become
subject
to
the
current
of
time
.
Yea
Osius
the
ancientest
Bishop
of
Christendome
,
the
most
forward
in
defence
of
the
Catholicke
cause
,
and
on
the
contrarie
part
most
feared
,
by
whose
hand
the
Nicene
creed
was
set
downe
,
and
framed
for
the
whole
Christian
world
to
subscribe
unto
,
yeelded
in
the
end
with
the
same
hand
to
ratifie
the
Arrian
confession
,
leaving
the
catholick
faith
to
be
kept
and
defended
against
the
force
of
the
world
.
Whether
a
fretting
cancker
enter
in
the
head
,
as
in
Ieroboam
,
or
in
the
foote
,
as
in
Arrius
,
it
is
dangerous
for
the
bodie
.
Beware
,
thou
that
standest
,
lest
thou
fall
.
Valence
,
and
Vrsatius
,
the
great
patrons
of
that
impurity
.
Memorable
Athanasius
whose
motto
is
his
high
honor
,
Athanasius
against
the
world
,
and
the
world
against
Athanasius
,
and
old
Eleazar
,
who
being
desired
by
his
old
acquaintance
to
deliver
himselfe
from
death
by
eating
of
flesh
which
was
lawfull
for
him
to
vse
,
and
make
as
if
hee
did
eate
the
flesh
taken
from
the
sacrifice
,
commanded
by
the
king
,
answered
,
that
it
becommeth
not
our
age
in
any
wise
to
dissemble
,
whereby
many
young
persons
might
thinke
that
Eleazar
being
fourescore
yeare
old
and
ten
,
were
now
gone
to
a
strange
religion
.
Seeing
yee
are
compassed
with
such
a
cloud
of
witnesses
,
cast
away
the
turmoyling
of
the
world
,
and
every
thing
that
presseth
downe
,
and
run
with
patience
the
race
that
is
set
before
you
,
looking
unto
Iesus
the
author
and
finisher
of
your
faith
,
who
for
the
joy
that
was
set
before
him
,
endured
the
crosse
,
and
despised
the
shame
,
and
is
set
at
the
right
hand
of
the
Throne
of
God
.