ROSEMARY & BAYS: OR, ANIMADVERSIONS Upon A TREATISE Called, The Rehearsal Trans-prosed.  
In a Letter to a Friend in the Country.  Seneca in sap. non cad. Ut quisque contemptissimus est, & maxim ludibrio, ita solutissimae linguae est. 
London, Printed for Jonathan Edwin, at the Three Roses in Ludgate-street, 1672.   

To the READER.  
THis Letter was written in haste unto a Member of Parliament, in the Country; And with what Familiarity and Freedom it was at first, written, with the same is it published. The In-artificial and Private Divertisement of one Friend being exhibited unto the Generality, with the like Presumption.   

HONOURED SIR,  
I Do not wonder that you so little understand the Rehearsal Transprosed; I believe the Author himself never did: You had done better to have writ unto some of the Virtuosos for a Key unto it; since none are so forward to suggest impossibilities, or so great undertakers for the sense of a Man they never read or understood, be it Aristotle or the present Writer. The Rehearsal, as it was Acted at the THEATRE ROYAL, will rather puzzle, than inform your understanding: For, although here are some passages REHEARSED out of the Books of the Author of Ecclesiastical Policy; yet I do not comprehend, How they are Transprosed: They being Originally Prose. In the Comedy, which I now send you, one Bays is represented as having certain Drama Common places; It being (as 'tis said) his Method to pilfer from other Men; and If they write in Prose, He doth Trans-verse them; If they write in Verse, He doth TRANS-PROSE THEM, or express the sense of their Poesy in Prose. If you will now examine this New Book, it will appear like a Mountebank's Ball, or a project of the R. S. Wherein nothing doth answer our Expectation. It cannot be said that the Author of the Ecclesiastical Policy did Rehearse, or Transprose any considerable part of His writings; (I except wherein He violates the Act of UTTER OBLIVION) for No Author (that is fit to be mentioned) did ever hold His Principal Tenets: They contradict the Fathers, & the Authentic Declaration of Our Church concerning the Supremacy of Emperors and Kings: Neither is there any power vested in our King, the which may not descend unto a Woman. Now it would seem strange that any Woman should confer Ecclesiastical Orders, or administer the Sacrament of the LORDS SUPPER (Baptism 'tis thought may be administered by a Sage Feme) in our Church; And, notwithstanding what is said that the first Christian Emperor's new PONTIFICES MAXIMI (which perhaps is not true, as Pacidius, or, rather Gothefredus will teach you) yet the Greek Church hath a 
Concil. 6. in Trullo Canon 69. cum notis Zonat.  Canon, that it shall be lawful for no LAYMAN, but the EMPEROR to enter within the Rails which enclose the Communion-Table. Whosoever understands any thing of Antiquity cannot say that any thing that contradicts this, is TRANS-PROSED thence; and if you will ask Fleta what power our Kings had antecedently unto the Rule of Henry VIII. He had no more than totam laicalem potestatem, a Large power: And albeit Our Law doth esteem Him to some Purposes a MIXED PERSON, yet to extend that saying unto its utmost latitude, is to contradict Our Canons. If we look into ancient Governments (the formula of Regnane Christo, were there nothing else, would justify what I say, as to the Christians; and the Rex Sacrorum, and Pontificate, as to Rome) there is no such Connexion betwixt the CROWN and MITRE, that Ecclesiastical and Civil power should be INSEPARABLE. These, and many other Errors, if they have not been taken notice of, the Author of the Ecclesiastical Policy may be reputed happy through the Ignorance of HIS ADVERSARIES: But, if what He writ is not TRANS-PROSED, you will demand, Who it is that is the TRANSPROSER? I learned it long ago from the famed Stagirite, that 'tis more easy to propose Questions then to solve them; and if you peruse the REHEARSAL, you will find none (or few) of those Verses turned into Prose, by our late writer. I am certain these are not:  
Before a full pot of Ale you can swallow,  
Was here with a whoop, and there with a (hollow 
Pag. 62.   
Nor the Dialogue betwixt Thunder and Lightning, viz. I am loud Thunder. Brisk 
Pag. 170.  Lightning I. I strike men down. I fire the Town.— Look to't; We'll do't. Since these and other passages are not TRANS-PROSED; I do not know how to justify the TITLE-PAGE of this new Book: Mr. Thomas Dring at the White Lion next Chancery-lane end in Fleetstreet, hath indeed some reason to gratify the Author, who hath effectually obliged him to the prejudice of his own reputation. For conversation-sake, I will imagine you to object, that BAYS (not the word junior) is TRANS-PROSED: If I did not suppose this for conversation-sake only, I should provoke you unpardonably for one word, or name, is neither Trans-prosed, nor Trans-versed, if it consist of no more Syllables. But why must the Author of the Ecclesiastical Policy, be called BAYS Junior? He was no Roman Emperor, or Victorious Consul, with his Literae Laureatae. It doth not appear that He was a POET, or writ any PLAYS. What is it then that entitles Him unto these LAURELS? If I should grant that, His discourses are indiscreet, incoherent, stuffed with falsities and impertinencies; doth it thence follow that He is a POETASTER? If BAYS Junior be, descended from BAYS Senior; 'tis by an Equivocal Generation, as good Timber may by corruption produce Worms, or Vermin; and should I enlarge myself never so much in commendation of the REHEARSAL, the REHEARSAL TRANS-PROSED would derive no advantage thence.  
But I pass from the Title page, as from an evil Portal or Frontispiece (which yields nothing of delight, though somewhat of ill Omen) to examine the Ireatise itself; There are in it several Periods, which show the Author to have had some Intervals of SI NSE and WIT; and such you may find in the Harangues of Enthusiasts, and Madmen, though the speakers do not apprehend the things; Or, to deal more civilly with the Author. I do not find that His understanding is proportionate unto his confidence.  
It is not manifest unto me, by the Sarracenical Histories; nay, I am morally certain of the contrary, that Mahomet had not two Companions, which clubbed with Him, in making the Koran, yet our Author avows it. 
Pag. 44.   
The Parable of the Bramble, speaking (if we allow that the rest may be easily granted, or extorted) hath a Precedent in Scripture; and though the Author of the Ecclesiastical policy, do explode the use of fulsome Metaphors, and 
Pag. 50.  Scriptural Allegories; yet this Rehearser seems of another opinion, and perhaps may acquiesce in these inferior Examples of Aesop, Loeman, etc. However if BAYES Senior be so ridiculous as the Rehearsal represents him. We may indulge BAYS Junior, without incongruity.  
But this Rehearser doth spend all his wit upon the Censure of this Parable. He reserves extraordinary flashes thereof, for the subsequent discourse about the Situation of 
P. 51, etc.  Geneva upon the Lake Leman. I do except against his Raillery, by saying that the Ecclesiastical Politition writ in England, from which the whole Lake lieth Southwards. But I might complain of the Geography of this railer, for either occasion to be exceeding pleasant, or the vigour of his fancy transported him into an Error, which every one may see in the large Atlas. The Lake doth not lie due East and West, but bending itself North-wards, and then turning somewhat Westwards, doth form an Half moon, and he spoke without his Compass 
Lueus formam si spectes, ad Lunatam accedit. Beae●.  who observed this Lake to the East and West: But suppose this were true, yet would it not be false to say Geneva seated on the Southside, for all that side is the Southside, as the opposite to the North neither is Geneva seated exactly at the end, in the Lake, but upon the Southern terra firma And it seems strange, that the Assigns of John Calvin, and Theodore Beza, should be so unacquainted with the place of their residence. If any concluded that Geneva had sold Mr. Bayes a Bargain; as the Moon served the Sun in the Rehearsal they showed their want of judgement, and as little of Memory: for the Moon sells the Bargain unto the Earth, and not unto the Sun, Orbis, O Orbis.  
If the Author of the Ecclesiastical Policy, deserve the name of Bays, though no Epic or Dramatic Poet; we ought not to deny some such like denomination unto the modern Rehearser, who would seem to act the Comedian, and represents us six of Mr. Bayes his Plays (as He 
P. 134.  calls them) and instead of Plots, we must expect nothing but Aphorisms or Hypotheses. 
Pa 105.  What? Aphorisms, and Hypotheses of Plays? This Language would better become an Astronomical, or Philosophical Treatise, than a Comedy. Well, I see the Rehearser will not deserve the Bays; I will therefore term him Rosemary, and then the whole Contest will be brought to this summary, that there are two persons in the world that trade much in Rosemary and Bays, But Rosemary! though you would have acted the part of Gideon, upon this Politition of Succoth, and clawed him away with Briars, for his Parable of the Bramble, and mis-placing of Geneva: Have not you placed your Scene ill, where you represent Bays, as 
Pag. 65.  Chaplain in a Nobleman's House, and directing his reverence towards the Gentlewomen's Pew? whereas if we understand any thing of this Nobleman, no Women resort unto his Chapel, or Table.  
Though I am not of their opinion, who imagine, that the Priesthood is really consolidated with the Regal power in England: yet if Mr. Rosemary had assisted at the Coronation, he might have seen his Majesty vested 
Pag. 111.  in Sacerdotal habiliments, and thereby have satisfied his curiosity, which is now very impatient to see how the Pontifical stole would become our King.  
Mr. Bayes is charged to recommend unto the civil Magistrate persecution; And that so fiercely, that Julian whom Mr. Rosemary thinks to have been first a Reader, and then to have Heldforth in 
Pag. 125.  the Christian Churches, before he turned Apostate, and then Persecutor, could not have outdone him in Irony, or Cruelty. I confess that Julian had some right to the Bays, as a victorious Emperor: But if I have the True Character here of Mr. Bayes, there is not any resemblance betwixt Him and Julian. If Julian were a Reader in the ancient Church, it doth not thence follow, that he did ever Hold forth: except those two expressions be equipollent And as for cruelty the Reign of Julian is not infamous for that. He gave an universal indulgence, re-called the exiled Orthodox, protected the Christian Churches, and severely forbid that Christians should be enforced to Paganism. Where now doth lie the resemblance betwixt Julian, and Mr. Bayes? I do not comprehend the Hypotheses of this Drama.  
I am no less dissatisfied with his Allegations out of Mr. Hales' Treatise of Schism He was a learned man, but towards his latter end so much suspected for Socinianism, that 'tis ill done to reckon of him as one of that Church of England; especially since that tract was never allowed of, or approved by the English Church, as Hookers' policy hath been.  
I should exceed the bounds of a private Letter, should I render you an account of every failour whereunto hast, prejudice, or ignorance betrayed Mr. Rosemary: He will not approve of Truths, if uttered by the Ecclesiastical Politician, whereof this instance will convince you.  
The Eccles. Pol. said that Our blessed Saviour did in that action (of scourging the Buyers and Sellers in the Temple) take upon him the Person and privilege of a Jewish Zealot. Mr. Rosemary subjoins— Take upon him the person, that is, personam endure. And what part did He play? Of a Jewish Zealot.  
The Second person of the Trinity (may I repeat these things without offence?) to take upon Him the person of a notorious Rogue and Cutthroat! ' This seemed to proceed from too slight an Apprehension and Knowledge of the duty we owe unto Our Saviour.  
I am willing to believe that Mr. Rosemary did write this out of an hearty zeal for the lionour of our blessed Saviour; but yet his zeal is not according to knowledge: Others may think that He intended to scourge Bays, and cast Him out of the Temple, allotting unto Him for changing thus of our Saviour the same doom whereunto those were sentenced who changed moneys there. If he were not more excellent at Raillery, than Criticisms, I assure him that his Reputation would immediately decline. To take upon him the person, that is, personam endure. He might also have taken notice that personam endure doth also signify to put on a peruke and Visor-mask; and have with abomination declaimed against Bays, for introducing the Second person in the Trinty acting a modern Mascarade in the Temple. But He is content the imputation shall not extend so far: But could you imagine it to be other than the dictate of extreme malice, thus to argue? He took upon him the person; that is, personam endure; and that to Act a part in a Play. Is this the Rehearsal transprosed? Or rather an innocent expression invidiously misconstrued! In the Garden, upon his resurrection; in the Journey unto Emaus, would not any man say that the Second person of the Trinity did take upon him the person of a Gardener and Traveller? And when He made as if he would go farther; Oh! to what exceptions would Zeal and Animosity have transported Rosemary; had but the Original Greek been Transprosed, or literally translated by Mr. Bayes! But Rosemary thinks, though this expression of taking upon him the person, be it of a Reconciler and Mediator, or Judge, (or persons when attributed unto the Trinity) may not be perhaps culpable enough in the judgement of others; and therefore the case must be aggravated with playing a part. Truly the words of playing the part, are too light, and unbecoming: Ay I gad they are; And  
If that design appears,  
I'll lug Bays by the ears,  
Until I make 'em crack.  
But Sir, Mr. Bayes says no such thing: this is a Flower of Rosemary. 'Tis personam endure very ill transprosed. None would have scrupled at the expression, had it been rendered, to act the part, or take upon him the person: And perhaps by this time the Non-Conformists will not scruple at the phrase of playing the part, since they have bought up so mightily the Original Rehearsal, and find so great advantage by transprosing it. Well, if Mr. Rosemary may say without offence, that Christ did take upon him the person; yet He cannot, He doubts, say He took upon him the person of a Jewish Zealot, that is, of a NOTORIOUS ROGUE & CUTTHROAT. I do concur with Mr. Rosemary in the latter clause, that none ought to say, That Christ took upon him the person of a NOTORIOUS ROGUE & CUTTHROAT. Oh! Mr. Bayes, Mr. Bayes.  
Villain, what Monster did corrupt thy mind,  
T'attacque the Noblest Soul of humane kind?  
Tell me who set thee on?  
Sir, I have examined him strictly, but no torture of the Rack produceth this to be his sense. He saith that a Jewish Zealot hath a great resemblance unto Prince Prettyman.  
What Oracle this darkness can evince?  
Sometimes a Fishers's son, sometimes a Prince!  
It is a secret, great as is the World;  
In which, I, like the soul, am tossed & hurled.  
The blackest Ink of fate, sure was my Lot;  
And when she writ my Name, she made a blot.  
After all this blustering in Verse, and in Prose: be pleased Sir to understand that Rosemary, knows not the nature of a true Jewish Zealot: He had read, or heard some body tell out of Josephus his History of the destruction of Jerusalem, that there were a sort of Zealots, who out of a vehement and indiscreet concern for the Mosaical Law, begot great tumults, occasioned much bloodshed, and were the principal cause of the ruin of that State. To compare Christ with one of these, this seemed uncouth, and intolerable in a Christian. But, behold there were another sort of Zealots permitted by God in the Jewish Commonwealth, who might destroy their friends, kill even their sons, if guilty of Idolatry: such was Phineas, such was Mathias: and in cases of great enormities & violations of the Mosaical Law, the actings of Zealots for Reformation, were approved as Heroical, and exempt from judiciary censures or penalties. Any man, of ordinary sense, will imagine that our Saviour did (since he was not questioned for the fact, nor opposed in it) assume the person of such a Zealot, and was secured by the Law for Zealots: for it behoved him to fulfil all Righteousness, at least He came not to destroy the Law. And the Text alludes unto this case, alleging this passage thereupon. The Zeal of thy house hath eaten me up. Howsoever, Mr. Selden authenticates the Ecclosiastical 
Selden de jure nature. Heb. l. 4. c. 4, 5.  Historian; neither is there any just offence in the expression.  
But Mortals that hear,  
How we Tilt and Carrier,  
With wonder will fear  
The event of such things as shall never appear.  
Behold the passage whereat Mr. Rosemary was so much offended: I should have thought the first Expressions of Mr. Bayes, whereto this part of the Zealot related, were the less supportable, viz. That Christ being not only in an hot fit of Zeal, but in a seeming fury, and transport of Passion, did overthrow the Tables, etc. But 
Pag. 324.  Mr. Rosemary hath other Sentiments, and esteems this to be the more petulant speech: But however that I do think somewhat ill of these words; yet I know that in the Psalms, and old Prophets, there are passages which might as easily be carped at by a malevolent Pen, especially if one consult the Original Hebrew Text. And Buchanan in his version of the Psalms, doth so express himself concerning God Almighty, that we may tolerate the like in reference unto the second person of the Trinity.  
Buchanan Ps. 2.  
Tum justa accensus miseros affabiturira,  
Et per surorem caesa consilia suum  
Turbabit—  
And elsewhere:  
Dum saevient is flageat in cursu furor,  
Exigere paenas abstine.  
It may be you will reply, That the Ecclesiastical Historian can claim no benefit for his defence by any Scripture expressions: He, and the Author of the Friendly Debate, are incapable of the privilege of the Clergy, and I believe they would sooner quit their Professions (if they might hold the Emoluments) than it should be said of either of them Legit ut Clericus: they would sooner lose their lives, then preserve them by a fulsome, Metophorical, Allegorical Psalm of mercy: except they be permitted to render the Moral thereof, and having read as Clerks, to expound according to themselves. It is not to be wondered at if such as I are at a loss, and know not what the Religion is now of the Church of England. Were Bishop Whitgift and Jewel, Whitaker and Perkins alive now, they would be accounted fanatics, Heretics and Brambles: And a new part of the Friendly Debate would evince them to be the most ridiculous, canting Preachers that ever were. I believe they may esteem Bishop Latimer a fool, in that he suffered for his Religion: I am sure they would have thought him so for His Preaching. It was a wish of St. Austin, that He had but seen Christ in the Flesh, and heard St. Paul Preach; But I see now that the Father was a Simpleton, who delighted in canting expressions, Scriptural allusions, and insignificant Phrases. The Apostle Paul, and the Bishop of Hippo, were the Eastern and Southern Brambles, whence that prodigious, indefatigable, prating; preaching, scratching, biting Bramble upon the Lake of Loman had its Original. There is Magic, they say, in a Bramble, both ends whereof do grow, and strange effects are said to be wrought thereby; this Geneva-Bramble was rooted on both sides of the Lake: and besides its Agents it produced Nettles, which sting even the ecclesiastics of this Age, though many take them to be dead Nettles, or Archangel. They that piss upon them, prove exceeding peevish for a long time after: they rest evilly thereupon, and are perplexed with vexatious dreams, so as that they disquiet their Neighbours. I could wish they would not disturb the Visinage with declamations against Mr. Calvin. When I was a Stripling, I heard him oftentimes cited in the Pulpit, by Men (as those times were) and they were, as I heard, of the Church of England, very pious and Learned (and had read him) and they always added the Elegy of Judicious, when they named, Mr Calvin; I have seen Testimonies of an intimate Correspondence and Communion betwixt the Foreign Protestants and those of the English Church, and our Ambassadors had a Pew in the Church at Charenton, frequenting that Church, and receiving the Communion there; as other Royalists, exiles, did in other places. But now I see those people were all in the Briars, and like Truant Children forsook their School, to go miching after Blackberries, upon which Fruit whosoever feeds much, He will be apt to break out into the Itch (and must be clawed by the Ecclesiastical Historian) or some other cutaneous pustules, for which the Pilgrims-silve will be necessary; the which is to be had near the Stage of John Punteus in Covent-garden.  
I will not detain you any longer; I heartily wish that neither the Ecclesiastical Historian, nor the Transproser had writ; and that there were a prohibition against Rosemary and Bays, 'tis an Age of Children, and such an Edict would be acceptable amongst those. As to the Church of England few of them approved the Style of Mr. Bays and fewer his Doctrines: He was in the Pulpit declaimed against as the young Leviathan: And upon diligent enquiry, I do not see any reason why Mr. Rosemary should make so many sallies against the whole Clergy, that were innocent and un-concerned: Thus he insinuates a seizure of Church-revenues; and represents the Divines indefinitely as implacable persons, and incendiaries: It is most evident, that the civil peace (if not our common salvation) doth depend upon a Reverence unto the Clergy: and they are in times of Peace the great support of Government: whilst their dictates are regarded awfully, the people are tractable, and the Prince may with ease manage them: but when they become contemptible, and are inodiated, then standing Armies, Arbitrary power, and such like contrivances must secure the Peace and Monarchy. It is more safe and consonant to old prudence, to exact that the Priests of all Religions shall be equally reverenced then that none should be. I cannot allow his discourse concerning the original of the Wars: There was such a conjunction of causes which produced those dire effects, that 'tis a fallasie to assign one efficient thereof. If I were to deduce its origine, I should fix upon the two books, Ignoramus, and Selden of Tithes, as the occasion thereof: besides which, there were some that wanted white staves, some that were disappointed in their Amours, some that were made Cuckold's, some that envied the splendour and magnificence of others, which they themselves could not, or would not imitate. These (and such like accidents) were the true occasions, the rest were only coincident, or pretences assumed, whilst the restless, ambitious and malicious Spirits, abused the well-meaning Patriots, and Zealots. I have heard it related from the mouth of Mornay du Plessis that the Civil Wars of France, the Catholic league and the confederation of Henry the third, with the K. of Navarre, had this private Original, that the Duke of Guise cheated him that was afterwards Duke of Espernon of a Miss. And let men declare what they will, be it Religion or Liberties and Privileges, I am resolved to remain dis-engaged in the quarrel, and imagine only that there is an Amour in the bottom, or that some men would deprive others of their places and estates, or that the Lawyers (finding themselves too numerous, odious, burdensome and disrespected by the people) would endear themselves to the Nation, and make work for their profession by seeming Assertors of the Laws, Rights and freedom of the Subject. The business of the Minutes in Chancery portends worse things than the Conjunction of Saturn and Macs: and for any Chancellor to prevent 10000 Lawsuits in one Honourable Action, is a sufficient ground for everlasting quarrels & animosities. Methinks I already hear the complaints, that Dame Curstabel in Northumb hath suffered by the Rats in her Dairy, & that the intruding Mice have form unto themselves Nests in two or three of her Cheeses: which damage though it be not much considerable to Her, or the Nation: yet the Example! the Example! the property of the Subject, Meum & Tuum is universally endangered; and it behoves Cheshire and Suffolk to look unto themselves. Such reasonings as these did more mischief in 1636. then Sibthorps' Sermon. In the days of Queen Elizabeth, was not there a Loan? Was not Wentworth clapped in the Tower for debating of such State-affairs in the House of Commons, as the Queen did not refer to their consideration? Were not the Non-conformists persecuted, and some put to death? Why was not the Nation then so jealous and fearful of their Liberties, as to appear generally discontented? It is most true there was so small a number of Lawyers that they had all sufficient employment, and their interest in the Nation was not great; nor was the Press employed about Books of Reports: But I do not attribute it unto that cause; I rather think the People were then wiser than to think that one Action or two in the Queen, though they did (as John Goodwin said of some actions in K. David, and Solomon) smell rankly of Prerogative and Arbitrary power, yet did not they presage a total subversion of the Laws and Liberties of the People: That such an alteration of Government is not the work of every Prince or Age; the fierce, proud, and ambitious may attempt it: but not the popular, cautelous, and mild: Such a design is accompanied with so much hazard, that I must have powerful Arguments to persuade me that any King goes about it; and if He have potent neighbours, or be involved in Wars, or in danger of any, there is not any suggestion shall ever be powerful enough to convince me that he will pursue such projects. You see I retain the sentiments of the Age of old Elsibeth; and if the Ecclesiastical Politician will not permit us to admire the Wit, let us admire the wisdom, and retain the Religion of those times: As to the former, perhaps He will join with Us; as to the latter, I conceive it is uncontrollably settled by Law, and should we once go about to alter it, 'tis doubtful when and what the Parliament & Convocation will agree unto; or the Non-Conformists acquiesce in: 'tis not in the power of the Church to comply with all: 'tis not Wisdom to oblige one party to the discontent of the rest, especially the Royalists being of that number; and 'tis an hundred to one but if the Presbyterians ('tis those for which Rosemary must seem to plead) be indulged in point of Ceremonies, a few of the Ministers may acquiesce in Episcopacy, but the party will not: And than what prudence is it to unsettle the present state of affairs, to discontent the Loyal & Generous Cavaliers, and yet to gain (if that) a few Presbyterians good Benefices?  
But Your long experience in the Parliament, and public affairs, renders this discourse unnecessary. I am,  
Sir, Your most devoted Servant.