AN APPEAL OF THE ORTHODOX MINISTERS OF THE CHURCH OF ENGLAND: Against RICHARD MONTAGUE, Late Bishop of Chichester, now Bishop of Norwich. TO THE MOST ILLUSTRIOUS, High, and Honourable Court of PARLIAMENT. AND TO THE NOBILITY, ORTHODOX Clergy, Gentry, and Commonalty of England. With the proceed against him in Bow-Church. And an Epistle to B. Montague himself. also, A Supplication of the Ministers of Scotland against the said Montague. Wherein His dangerous Heresies are revealed; and the Character of an Arminian or Mountaguists is added.  
EDENBURGI. M. DC. XLI.   

Most Noble, Honourable, Worshipful and Religious: MEN, FATHERS, BRETHREN.  
We the Orthodox Ministers of the Gospel in the Church of England, to the number of 1000 and more; In most humble and zealous manner, not without bleeding hearts and on bended knees, do Remonstrate unto You this great and grave Senate, the Worthies of our English-Israel, now assembled in the high and honourable Court of Parliament. That (as is notorious, and you not ignorant) Mr. RICHARD MOUNTAGVE hath heretofore written and published three several Books; the first, entitled, An answer to the Gagger of Protestants; the second, A Treatise of the Invocation of Saints; the third, An Appeal to Caesar.  
In the two former whereof he pretendeth to answer the common Adversary of our Church: though indeed he is nothing better than a cunning stickler and Advocate for them: For the which he was touched by Information in Parliament, xxjo. JACOBI. But that Parliament ending, and soon after, King (JAMES of famous memory) dying; he set forth his third Book called the Appeal to Caesar: wherein he more openly shows himself in his colours, by spitting forth his venom and spewing forth his gall against King JAMES (of ever blessed memory) and, whereof he was supreme Governor, the Church of England, and all the sincere Professors of the Gospel therein: and yet, with an audacious face, whorish forehead, and accurate ambo-dexteritie, he would seem to pin these his bastardly Bats upon the sleeve of our dear and chaste mother the Church of England: And not resting there, this his third Book of Appeal, he asw impudently as audaciously dedicateth to our gracious Sovereign King CHARLES, presently upon his coming to the Crown; and thereby subtly endeavoureth to infect the mind of his Majesty, in his tender years, by unsound Tenants; (how beit we hope his sacred Majesty, as was his royal Father, is sound grounded in Orthodox writings and opinions) unsound, said we; yea, haereticall, savouring one while of old- Pelagianism, and eftsoons of new- Arminianism, and otherwhiles of flat- Papism.  
All which his errors and Heresies have been publicly displayed and confuted by divers of our Orthodox Brethren of the Church of England: Viz. Reverend Doctor CARLETON, late Bishop of Chichester, (now with God:) Doctor SUTCLIFFE, Deane of Excester: Doctor GOAD and Doctor FEATLY, late Chaplains to the most Reverend Archbishop of Canterbury: Mr. BUXTON; Mr. YATES; Mr. WOTTON; all these, we say, Divines: and besides, (whom we must not forget) two worthy Gentlemen, Mr. ROUSE and Mr. PRINNE, Orthodox members of our Church: All these beforenamed, their Books of Confutation are extant to the World in print.  
Now, for the opinion of the Reformed Churches beyond the Seas, we are not ignorant that his last Book of Appeal to Caesar, having been translated and sent beyond Seas, the Church of Geneva, with all the reformed Churches of France, (though now under the Cross) have condemned it: the orthodox Churches of Germany and the Netherlands have done no less. And this knowledge we have by Letters sent to some of our grave Brethren residing in London.  
And now (by order also) O worthy House, you must give us leave to put you in mind, when Mountagu had published that his last Book, wherein he spared not to vilify the Synod of Dort; Your religious care in behalf of that Synod, appeared in an Act you had in agitation (by P) etition) at Oxford, 1. CAROLI, Against Heresies and false Doctrine: the Copy whereof we present here unto your view, exhibited by your House of Commons in Parliament, 1625. which remains upon Record in Records as followeth;  
An Act for the repressing and prevention of Heresies and false Doctrines.  
MOst humbly and instantly beseeching your Majesty, your faithful and loyal Commons in this present Parliament assembled, and representing all those your many Millions of people in this your Kingdom of England, who are not of the Degree of the Nobility; That for as much as all men know how dishonourable to God, how dangerous to the souls of men, and to the peace both of Church and Commonwealth the seeds of erroneous doctrines have ever proved: as hath appeared by that fearful trouble which lately trenched into the Churches and state of the United Provinces in the Low-countries, by the pestilent opinions of Arminius and such as followed his party; whereby the state had been utterly ruined, if our late most learned and prudent King; of happy memory, your Majesty's most royal Father, had not provided for the repressing of that Fire, by a grain learned Synod convened at Dort, and consisting of choice and worthy Divines, not only of the said United Provinces themselves, but divers others out of other Countries; that is to say; some out of yours his Majesty's Kingdoms of England and Scotland, and others out of France and Germany, Geneva and the Palatinate: In which godly Synod the said opinions of the Arminians, after a mature deliberation and debate, were unanimously taxed, adjudged and condemned, as unsanorie, false, and dangerous positions: opposite to the Apostolical Doctrine and general belief of the reformed Churches: And whereas also upon the maintainers thereof your Majesty's Royal Father (as a very able Defender of the Faith) by public writing expressed and stamped his zealous Censure. That they were Heretics, or rather Atheistical Sectaries: And whereas the said Determinations of that learned and general Synod have been an occasion of much quietness in all the Low. Country's ever since; and have been also confirmed and approved not only by the Nationall Synod of all the Reformed Churches of France, convened at Charenton; but in Ireland also one of your Majesties own Dominions: It may therefore please your Majesty for the preventions of great Mischiefs and Inconveniences, which may grow and ensue within the Church and Commonwealth of this your Majesty's Kingdom of England, by the divulging of the like pestilent opinions within the same, that it may be enacted by the Authority of this present Parliament, that the said determinations of the said Synod, consisting of seventeen Articles positive and nine rejective or opposite, may stand and be likewise annexed, received, ratified and established with in this your said Kingdom, as part of the doctrine of the Church of England.  
Against which, it shall not, or may not be lawful for any to preach, writ, or print any thing: But that such as shall so do, may be censured as the impugners of the Church of England and disturbers of the peace thereof, etc.  
Thus fare your religious Act in agitation at Oxford, against Heresies and false Doctrive.  
And now, in its due place, we also present unto your view, your own more particular Charge in your Articles exhibited by your House of Commons against Mountagu, at Westminster, in Parliament, 2. Careli, 1626. which also remains upon your Records as followeth;  
MARCH. 1626. Articles exhibited by the Commons in Parliament against RICHARD MOUNTAGV Clerk.  
THat he the said Richard Montague in or about the 21th year of the reign of our late Sovereign King james (of famous memory) hath caused to be printed and in his name to be published, one book called An answer to the late Gagger of Protestants, and in and about the 22th, year of the same King, he caused to be printed and published one other book entitled, A Treatise of the Invocation of Saints, And likewise in that first year of his Majesty's Reign that now is, he procured to be printed and in his name to be published, an other book entitled, An appeal to Caesar: in every of which books, he hath maintained and affirmed some doctrines contrary or repugnant to the Articles whereupon it was agreed by the Archbishops and bishops of both Provinces, and the Whole Clergy in the convecation holden at London, in the year of our Lord God, 1562. according to the computation of the Church of England, for avoiding diversicy of opinions, and for establishing consent touching true Religion; All which appears in the places hereafter mentioned, and in divers other places and passages of the same books, and by his so doing hath broken the Laws and Statutes of this Realm in that case provided, and very much disturbed both the peace of the Church and Commonwealth.  

1  
Whereas in the 35th. Article of the Articles abovementioned it is declared, That the second book of HOmilies doth contain a godly and wholesome doctrine, In the 16th Homily of which book it is determined, That the Church of Rome as it is present, and hath been for the space of 900. years and odd, is so fare void from the nature of a true Church, that nothing can be more, He the said Richard Montague in several places of his said book called, 
Gag. pag. App. p. 136.  The Answer to the Gagger, and in his other book called the Appeal, doth advisedly maintain and affirm, that the Church of Rome is and ever was a true Church, since it was a Church.   

2  
Whereas in the same Homily it is likewise declared, that the Church of Rome is not built upon the foundation of the Prophets and Apostles, and in the 28th Article of the said Articles, that Transubstantiation overthroweth the nature of a Sacrament. And in the 25th of the same Articles, That five other reputed Sacraments of the Church of Rome are not to be accounted Sacraments; yet contrary and repugnant hereunto, he the said Richard Montague doth maintain and affirm in his book aforesaid called, 
Gag. pag. 50  The Answer to the Gagger; That the Church of Rome hath ever remained firm upon the same foundation of Sacraments and doctrine instituted by God.   

3  
In the 19th. of the same Articles, it is further determined, that the Church of Rome hath erred not only in their living and manner of Ceremonies, but also in matters of faith, he the said Richard Montague speaking of those points which belong to faith and manners, hope and Charity, doth in the same Book called the Gagger, 
Gag. p. 14.  affirm and maintain, That none of these are contreverted, inter parts, meaning the Protestants and the Papists, And notwithstanding, That in the 31th. Article it is resolved, That the Sacrifices of Moses in which as is commonly said, That the Priest did offer Christ for the quick and the dead, to have remission of pain and guilt, too, are blasphemous fables and dangerous deceits, This being one of the points controverted between the Church of England and the Church of Rome. The said Richard Montague in his book called the Gagger doth affirm and maintain, 
Gag. p, 14.  That the controverted points are of a less and inferior Alloy; Of them a may man be ignorant, without any danger of his soul at all, A man may resolve or oppose this or that way within peril of perishing for ever.   

4.  
Whereas in the second Homily (entitled against peril of Idolatry) contained in the foresaid book of HOmilies, approved by the 37th. Article aforementioned, it is declared; That Images teach no good lesson neither of good nor godliness but all error and wickedness: He the said Richard in the book aforesaid, 
Gag. p. 300.  called the Answer to the late Gagger doth affirm and maintain, That Images may be used for the instruction of the ignorant and exitation of Devotion.   

5  
That in the same Homily it is plainly expressed, That the attributing the defence of certain Countries to Saints is a spoiling God of his honour. And that such Saints are but as Dij Tutelares of the Gentile Idolatours. TLhe said Richard ountague hath notwithstanding in the Book afore mentioned entitled, 
Inu. p. 107.  A Treatise concerning the Invocation of Saints, affirmed and maintained: That Saints have not only a memory, but a more peculiar charge of their friends, And that it may be admitted, that some Saints have a peculiar patronage, 
108.  Custody protection and power, 
109.  as Angels also have over certain persons and Countries by especial deputation, And that it is no impiety so to believe.   
Note that he saith in his Appeal (108. and 109.) Show me that the Saints have knowledge of us here, And I will not doubt to pray to them. So that hence it will be evident, That Mountagu holds it lawful to pray to Saints.  

6  
Whereas in the 17th of the said Articles it is resolved; That God hath constantly decreed by his Council secret to us to deliver from curse and damnation, Those whom he hath chosen in Christ out of mankind, and to bring them by Christ to everlasting salvation; Wherefore, they which be endued with so excellent a benefit of God, be called according to God's purpose working in due season: They by grace obey the calling, they be justified freely, walk religiously in good works, and at length by God's mercy attain to everlasting felicity.  
He the said Richard Montague in the book aforesaid called the Appcale, 
App. p. 30.  doth maintain and affirm, that men justified may fall away and departed from that state which once they had, they may rise again and become new men possible, but not certain nor necessary, And the better to countenance this his opinion, he hath in the said Book wilfully added falsified and changed divers words of the 16th. of the Articles, . And divers other words both in the Book of Homilies as in the Book of Common Prayer. 
App. p. 29.31, 32.35.  And all the same places so misrecyted and changed, he doth allege in his said book called the Appeal, endeavouring thereby to lay a most wicked and malicious scandal upon the Church of England, as if it did herein differ from the Reformed Churches of Ireland, and from the Reformed Churches beyond the Seas, and did consent to those pernicious Errors, which are commonly called Arminianism, and which the late famous Princess Queen Elizabeth and King James (of happy memory) did so piously and diligently labour to suppress.   

2  
That he the said Richard Montague contrary to his duty and allegiance, hath endeavoured to raise great factions and divisions in this Commonweal, by casting the odious and scandalous name of Puritans upon such of his Majesty's loving subjects as conform themselves to the doctrine and Ceremonies of the Church of England, under that name laying upon them divers false and malicious imputations, so to bring them into jealousy and displeasure with his most excellent Majesty, and into reproach and ignominy with the rest of the people, to the great danger of sedition and disturbance in the State, if it be not timely prevented.   

3.  
The scope and end of the said Richard Montague in the Books aforementioned, is to give encouragement to Popery, and to withdraw his Majesty's subjects from the true Religion established to the Roman Superstition: and consequently to be reconciled to the Sea of Rome. All which he laboureth by subtle and cunning ways, whereby Gods true Religion hath been much scandalised, Those mischiefs introduced which the wisdom of many Laws hath endeavoured to prevent, the great peril and hazard of our Sovereign Lord the King and of all his Dominions and loving Subjects.   

4.  
That the aforesaid Richard Montague hath inserted into the book aforesaid called the Appeal, divers passages dishonourable to the late King his Majesty's Father (of famous memory) full of bitterness, railing and injurious speeches to other persons, disgraceful and contemptuous to many worthy Divines both of this Church of England, and of other reformed Churches beyond the Seas: Impious and profane in scoffing at Preaching, meditating, conferring, Pulpits, Lectures, Bibles, and all show of Religion: All which do aggravate his former offences as having proceeded from malicious and envenomed hate against the peace of this Church and sincerity of the Reformed Religion publicly professed and by Laws established in this Kingdom.   

All which offences being to the high dishonour of Almighty God and of most mischievous effect and consequence, against the good of his Church and Common Weal of England, and of other his Majesty's Realms and Dominions, The Commons assembled in Parliament do hereby pray, that the said Richard Mountagu may be punished according to his demerits, in such exemplary manner, as may deter others from attempting so presumptuously to disturb the Peace of Church and State, and that the Books aforesaid may be suppressed and burnt.   
And thus fare, (O worthy House) your religious charge in your Articles exhibited, March 1626.  
But by the fatal dissolution of those first and second Parliaments, that Act, and that your Charge in those your Articles, slept; until the last Parliament called or summoned to begin in March, and continued until july 1628. During which sitting, That your charge in those your Articles, was awakened and in agitation against him, as we heard. But by reason of other matters of high consequence, and the sudden Prorogation of that Parliament, It again fell asleep.  
Now, upon the ending of that Session, and breaking up of the House (And Bishop Carleton, Mountagu's learned Diocesan and Antagonist dying, during the sitting of the House) immediately after, Mountagu; by mediation of his potent Patron, alijsque vijs ac modis, got his Majesties grant of the Bishopric of Chichester; and soon after sued out, as it seems, his Congedelier for the same Bishopric: and in August following, according to custom, Proclamation was was made at St. Marry le Bow Church-door in these very words following;  
All manner of Persons that can or will object against the Election of the Right Worshipful Mr. Richard Mountagu, Bachesour of Divinity and Parson of Petworth, Elected Lord Bishop of Chichester, the form of his Election or the party Elected; Let them now speak and object in due form of Law, and they shallbe heard; otherwise they shall be precluded.  
Upon which Proclamation, 7, or 8. days before the day of Confirmation of the said elected Bishop, (and all manner of men being thereby invited to object,) it pleased God to stir up the heart of one honest Christian man to take Council and get objections drawn, by an ancient Doctor of the Arches: which Objections were extracted out of the forenamed Articles in Parliament: And upon Friday the 22. of August, when the aforesaid Elect Bishop came to Bow-Church to be Confirmed, and the aforesaid Proclamation was again by the Beadle of the Arches audibly 3. times pronounced in the Church, one Mr. jones by name (an honest and ancient Professor of Religion) did object, whereof we hope this sacred Senate is already possessed, and presented the Objections, in writing (drawn as is before said, by a Doctor of the Arches) unto Doctor Rives then substituted judge for the busineffe, and said, with an audible voice, 3. times, I object against him, and here are my objections in due form of Law: The Copy of which his Objections, is here also preented unto your view: (which chief concerneth you the Worthies of the House of Commons, because they were drawn out of your own former Charge:) and it is Verbatim as followeth;  
22ᵒ. Augusti, 1628. in Ecclesia Sanctae Mariae de Arcubus.  
In DEi nomine Amen. Coram vobis Reverendissimo & honorando Patre Georgio divina providentia Cantuariens. Archiepisc. vestrove Deligato, Officiali, Vicario in spiritualibus generali, ejusve Surrogato antony's alio judice judicibusve in hac parte competen. seu competitur. Willielmus Iones literatus Stationarius Londinensis, omni quo possit aut debet meliori via modo & juris forma, nec non ad omnem, quecunque juris effectum exinde quovismodo sequi valen. nomine accusatorio ac ut accusator. Ric di. Mountagu Clerici nuper in Episcopatum Cicestrens. ut dicitur electi, accusando querelando obijciendo & excipiendo contra prefat. Ricardum Mountagu Clericum & ad impediendum juxta juris in hac parte exigentiam & non aliter promotionem & confirmationem ipsius Ricardi in Episcop. sic ut prefertur electi comperuit dictus Willielmus Iones allegando dicendo querelando accusando & obijciendo articulatim ut sequitur.  

1.  
IN primis, That you the said Richard Mountagu have caused to be printed and in your name to be published, one Book called An Answer to the late Gagger of Protestants, and one other Book entitled A Treatise of the Invocation of Saints, and a third book entitled An Appeal to Caesar. In every of which books you have maintained and affirmed some doctrines contrary and repugnant to the Articles whereupon it was agreed by the Archbishops and Bishops of both Provinces, and the whole Clergy in the Convocation holden at London in the year of our Lord God, 1562. according to the computation of the Church of England for avoiding of diversity of opinions, and for establishing consent touching true Religion; And by your said Delicts you have broken the laws and Statutes of this Realm in that behalf provided: And you thereby have very much disturbed the peace of the Church and Commonwealth, to the high dishonour of Almighty God. Which your Books are Confuted by the late right reverend Bishop Carleton and divers other Orthodox and conformable Divines of the Church of England. And I Article and object, Conjunctim aivisim & de quolibet.   

2  
Item, That you the said Richard Mountagu in several places of your said Book called the Gagger, and in your other book called the Appeal, do and have advisedly maintained and affirmed, That the Church of Rome is and ever was a true Church, contrary to the Sixteenth Homily of the second book of Homilies, and as is declared in the 35. Article of the aforesaid Articles, And I object as aforesaid.   

3  
Item, That you the said Richard Mountagu do maintain and affirm in your aforesaid book, the Answer to the Gagger; That the Church of Rome hath ever remained firm upon the same foundation of Sacraments and Doctrine instituted by God: Contrary to the Homily last named, and as is declared in the 28. Article of the said-Articles. And I object as aforesaid.   

4  
Item, That you the said Richard Mountagu in your book called the Answer to the Gagger, do and have maintained and affirmed, That Images may be used for the instruction of the ignorant; Contrary to the second Homily entitled, against peril of Idolatry; which is approved by the 37. Article of the Articles aforesaid. And I object as aforesaid.   

5  
Item, That you the said Richard Mountagu in your Treatise of the Invocation of Saints, do and have affirmed and maintained, that Saints have not only a memory, but a more peculiar charge of their friends, and that it may be admitted that some Saints have a peculiar patronage, Custody protection and power, as Angels have also, over certain persons and Conntries by especial deputation, and that it is no impiety so to believe; Contrary to the doctrine in the Homily aforesaid: And I object as aforesaid.   

6  
Item, That you the said Richard Mountagu in your said book called the Appeal, do maintain and have maintained and affirmed, that men justified may fall away and departed from that state which once they had, and that they may rise again, and possibly become new men, but not certain or necessary; And the better to maintain this your opinion you have in the same book wilfully added, falsified and changed divers words of the 16. Article of the book of Articles aforesaid, and divers other words both in the book of Homilies, and also in the book of Common prayer, And all the same places are so by you misrecited and changed in your said book called the Appeal to Caesar, and you do and have endeavoured thereby to lay a most wicked and malicious Scandal upon the Church of England, as if it did herein differ from the reformed Churches beyond the Seas, and you did and do consent to those pernicious Errors which are commonly called Arminianism, and which the late famous Princes, Queen ELIZABETH, and King JAMES (of most happy and blessed memory) did piously and diligently labour to suppress: And I object as aforesaid.   

7  
Item, That you the said Richard Mountagu in all your three several Books afore-named, do maintain and have maintained and affirmed divers other unsound and heretical Doctrines and opinions, as is at large proved in the books of Confutation of your said books; which you have, nor cannot reply unto; And I object as aforesaid.   

8  
Item, quod prefati Willielmus jones & Richardus Mountagu Clericus suerunt respectiue & sunt provinc. vestrae Cantuariens. jurisdictionis vestrae subsiditi in hac parte; & obijcit ut supra.   

9  
Item, quod omnia & singula premissa sunt vera publica notoria publica & manifesta tam infra Civitatem & Dioc. London & alia loca publica & famosa infra Regnum Angliae; & obijcit ut supra.  
Omnia & singula premissa proponit & obijcit dictus Willielmus Jones conjunctim & divisim non arctan. se ad omnia & singula premissa probanda nec ad onus superflue probationis, de quo protestatur, sed quatenus probaverit in premissis catenus obtineat in petitis sub protestatione de addendo premissis, eademque magis specifice declarando & specificando eademque probando pro loco & tempore congruis & oportunius, semper sibi salvo omni juris beneficio in hac parte sibi competen. seu competitur eaque protestatione sibi semper salva petit Articulos Capitula sive Interrogatoria sua predicta ad omnem juris effectum admitti partemque adversam eijsdem & corum cuilibet secundum juris extigentiam respondere compelli & protestatur de expensis. Et petit Jus & justiciam (vestrum Officium Domine Judex antedict. humiliter implorando.   
Per me Willielmum jones.  
Thus fare the Objections of the Objectour in due form of Law:  
And judge, O judge; ye worthy judges of the House, whether these objections were not in due of Law.  
But the judge aforenamed, taking the paper of Objections; first seemed to read them over silently to himself, and then delivered them to the said Elect Bishop Mountagu: who seemed also to read them over silently to himself, and then with an untoward look and trembling hand, gave the paper bacl to the judge; Who, called to him one Doctor Samms of the Arches, advising with him what to do in the business, and he told him he would run into a Praemunire if he did not proceed: Who thereupon gave the Obiectour Mr. jones an answer to this effect: My friend, you have given here Objections against this my Lord elect of Chichest or: but your Objections are not in due form of Law, because they have not a Doctor of the Arches hand unto them, neither have you an Advocate to plead your Objections; Therefore, nevertheless, by virtue of this his Majesty's Commission under the Great Seal (which he took in his hand and turned) I will proceed to confirm him: And so did.  
Now judge, O judge, again, (thrice judicious judges) whether any person be not invited by the former Proclamation to object, in due form of Law: And whether any Doctors hand or Advocate are thereby required: And besides, the Court at that time for Confirmation is not any Court for pleading; What need therefore had the Obiectour of any Doctors hand or Advocate? He himself setting his hand unto it and being there, o'er tenus.  
Then when the judge had with a strong hand peremptorily proceeded in the Confirmation of the aforesaid elect Bishop Mountagu; This new confirmed Pontifex still with a brazen face and whorish forehead, made an Apology for himself and his Books, and said most impudently, to this effect;  
That he himself had subscribed to the Book of Articles, and the Book of Homilies, and all other Books of Conformity to the Church of England; and that if any whosoever could publicly or privately confute those his Books, he would be the first man that would cause those his Books to be burnt 〈◊〉. Whereas, it is most manifest (as before) 〈…〉 ●●●inst the Doctrine of those Books of Articles, and Homifies, etc. And who knoweth not? his own Books are confuted by divers learned and pious men, as in the premises: his Books condemned by a charge in Parliament, and other reformed Churches as in the premises also: Natherlesse this Gamaliel, highly applauded with adulation this his confirmed Bishops (base) Apology, and said: You have well said my Lord: and he also said, That those Objections were nothing but the blattering of a Tradesman, who was too busy to meddle with such high mysteries of Divinity: but indeed it was the disease of the Time now for mechanical Tradesmen so to do, etc.  
Also the aforesaid Doctor Rives,, and one Drake the Register, and one Fish the Proctor, (all three employed in the said Confirmation) did all jointly use other disgraceful, scoffing, scornful and jeering words, gestures. and behaviours towards the Objectour, and the Objections: They also checked and taunted a religous Gentleman who took the Objectours part: Whereof there were divers, not a few, we may say, a Cloud of witnesses, and some of them Minasters, our Brethren, there present, the reverend rector of the Church, and others: So as, We do also complain to this Honourable House, of Doctor Rives, Doctor Samms, Drake and Fish, who all four we perceive to be Delinquents in the business: and none so fit as the Objector afore-named to produce witnesses to this Honourable and Noble Senate of the same:  
The third day after this day of Confirmation, being Sunday, or the Lord's day, Mountagu came to be Consecrated by the most reverend Archbishop of Canterbury, then residing at Croyden, who, as it seems, had no knowledge of the Objections: (concealed by Mountagu and his Adherents:) And the Ceremonies of Consecration were performed: Only this happened, as we are informed, whiles Mountagu and his fautors were sitting at the feast or dinner of Consecration, the news was brought to the most Reverend Archbishop, that the Duke of Buckingham (Mountagu's potent Patron) was stabbed to death at Portsmouth, (and that on Saturday, the day after and about the same hour that Mountagu was opposed in his Confirmation;) which for the time as they say, helped to mar Mountagu's mirth: and espacially stopped the chirping of a certain Wren, which Bird, coming lately out of an unclean Cage, began to strain high his lascivious notes to make music against godly Ministers, etc.  
Nevertheless, by this time, you may see Mountagu in his Pontificalibus, Elect, Confirmed and Consecrated Bishop of Chichester, in despite of all Opposition: and as he is in his Pontificalibus, now to be ranked inter Dominos Spirituales.  
Good Lord! He who by the doom of God, 
Tit. 3.10.  in his Word, and all good Orthodox men, not thought worthy to live, at leastwise not to enjoy any further Spiritual promotion in our Reformed Church of England, nor ever could have the grace of the University to Commence so much as Doctor in Divinity: and in stead of being censured by Parliament and degraded from any Ministerial office: He, we say, to become a Bishop and a Governor in our Church! woe must needs be to that Diocese, especially, that hath such a Bishop, such a Governor. Yea, it is well known, he spareth not already since his Consecration, to say and swear in his Tabletalk, he will plague the Puritans in his Diocese? And they say he hath already silenced some Lecturers) and by Puritans his meaning is always, according to his garb and writings, all honest Orthodox Divines, that due oppose and will not adbaere unto his unsound and unsavoury opinions and Doctrines; though they other wise be never so conformable to the orders and Caeremonies of the Church of England.  
And these his Errors and Heresies are so notorious and manifest, both by his writings, as in the premises and in his Preach, when he gets into the Pulpit, that all the water in the (Pontifician) Sea of Chichester can never wash off these black stains from him: For, can a Leopard change his spots?  
Let us crave leave of this honourable House, a little to digress: And then We are also not to conceal but reveal unto You, that this notable Mountebank is familiarly acquainted with divers known Papists who have resort unto him, he recourse unto them. and by name which we can prove, he hath often private conference with one Hugh Holland, a professed Papist and sworn slave to his Lord God the Pope; and some say a lay-Iesuite, (if there be any such order:) however a ruffianly Locust, and seducer of the King's Liege-people, a vilifier of Parliaments: And what this fellow else is our reverend brother the Rector of Fan-church can can, if he be pleased; inform this House: And so we leave this base Associate of B. Mountagu, and return to himself.  
But how long, therefore, how long Lord, most holy, most wise, most just and true? Wilt thou suffer the Grapes of the Vintage to be destroyed, the Corn of thy Harvest to be spoilt by such a Fox, such a Wolf, and such like Foxes and Wolves? (For more unclean Birds there be of the same Cage, etc. as will appear hereafter in our Catalogue of them.)  
Pardon, O pardon, our digression and fervent deprecation; since our zeal, in God's cause, hath transported us so fare. And now return we, most honourable House, out Appeal unto You; and to draw to a Conclusion thereof; A mongst your many weighty matters and of high Consequence for Church and Commonwealth, We most humbly supplicate that this new made Bishop Mountagu, who though he now rangeth himself amongst the Spiritual Lords and temporal Peers in the Upper House of this high Assembly of Parliament, may yet be taken into consideration, that he may no longer Lord it over God's people and his Heritage, 
2. Pet. 5.3.  us the poor (despised) orthodox Ministers of the Gospel in this Church of England; And that he having deserved (as we conceive) rather Fire and faggot than further Preferment, may come maturely to be censured and degraded; if the House shall so be pleased at the least, by this High and honourable Court, and his pernicious Books to be at length called-in and burned. The which, again, we most humbly implore on our bended knees, and That for GOD our Creators' sake, for CHRIST our Redeemers sake, for the holy Spirit our Comforters sake: Unto which Almighty and All-sufficient Three in One, We most humbly commend and betake You all of this honourable Court, and your serious Consultations for Church and Commonwealth.  
By those that daily and incessantly pray for the Peace of Zion and Consolation of jerusalem, The orthodox Ministers of the Church of England.  
Postscript.  
IF this Honourable House (or any other whatsoever) shall doubt of the assent of our Brethren of the Church of England to this our Appeal or Remonstrance, We pray, let any by deputation from the House (or other) take the pains to go and get the hands of Bishops and Ministers in every Diocese of the Kingdom, and we the exhibiters hereof (being on good grounds well assured) will pawn our lives, that the major part of Bishops and Ministers will subscribe thereto: And then we hope it will not be denied but the major part of the Clergy is the Church of England: Ergo the whole Church of England is against this one man B. Mountagu.   

An Epistle of the aforesaid orthodox Ministers of the Church of England, to Bishop MOUNTAGV himself.  
SIR, although you have betrayed the Truth and wounded our Mother the Church of England; yet in a charitable hope that you have not committed the unpardonable Sin, Grace be with you and Peace, 
1. Cor. 1.  from God our Father and from the Lord Jesus Christ: We your Brethren, till you shaken off fraternity with us, doe beseech you by the name of our Lord jesus Christ, that you would be reconciled to the Church of England, our dearest Mother: that you with us, may speak one thing, and there be no further dissensions between you and us, but let us be knit together in one mind and one judgement: That in the end, if it be possible, your soul may be saved.  
Which your Reconciliation must be by your public Recantation of your dangerous and malicious errors and Heresies, against God, his Truth, and good men. Away then with and for shame abandon your total Tenants of final fall away from Grace: Away with your odious terms against orthodox Divines: Away with your impious and profane scoffing at Preaching; meditating, conferring, etc. Away with your Images for exitation of devotion: Away with your praying to Saints: Away with all other your Trumperies, Opinions & Doctrines: which your Impieties have wrought higher than the and do cry at Heaven gates for Vengeance: and which are raked out of the sinks and puddles of Pelagianism, Arminianism and Papism: and those your mongrel Haere-schismes, in fine, will yield you no sound comfort, but be such miserable comforters unto you in the day and hour of death (when as one dram of the Truth defended will stand one in more steed than 1000 Tenants sophistically maintained) that they will sink you irrecoverably into the infernal Tophet, without true and sound Repentance beforehand: And Sir, be you not ashamed to make your public Recantation, but consider greater Clerks than yourself have made their public Recantations, and have gotten honour not infamy by it: viz. Mr. Barret at Cambridge, in St. Mary's Church, Doctor alabaster, Doctor Sheldon, Mr. higgon's, their spontaneous Recantations from Popish Priesthood were publicly preached at Paul's Cross, and afterwards printed to the World's public view: and divers others, whom we need not recite.  
All which considered; We now adjure you, in the name of the Lord JESUS, to make your Recantation, without which you can never have Salvation: Sir, Remember the fatherly Admonitions and Counsel that the most Reverend Father the Archbishop of Canterbury gave you at your Consecration. Away then with your private excusatorie Letters to his Grace or other great personages, farced full of idle apologizing stuff: which indeed is nothing but daubing with untempered mortar.  
But if for all this, you will not recant nor be reconciled to us, and still persist peremptorily in your dangerous doctrines, and maintain your impieties, Know assuredly that as you have laboured to be chronicled in Cassaneus his Catalogue us Gloriae Mundi: so you are like in the next edition of Schlasselburgius his Catalogus Hariticorum to have your name enroled. When as our godly and reverend brethren who have confuted your books, we doubt not, shall be remembered in the Catalogus Testium Veritatis, on Earth, 
Dan. 12.3.  and shine as Stars in the Firmament of Heaven.  
And good Sir give us leave, by the way; to ask you, Of what Religion are you? The name of Protestant you deny; Papist you will not be: Pelagian or Arminian you cannot endure: (and yet by your writings you salute and shake hands with all:) and for the name of Christian, that you abhor, and hold it puritannical. Well, go too Sir, your name Mountagu, (and 'tis pity you bear that Name, whereof there is so noble and religious a Family, the Mountagus of Northamptonshire:) we trow you will not deny: Your hodgepodge Doctrines and squint-eyed Divinity shall be Mountaguisme, your Disciples and Adherents Mountaguists: for you affect to be head of a Sect: there's your Ambition, and that we hope will please you, to be enroled, (we say) in the Catalogue of Heretics, with those damned old Heretics, Arrius, Sccinus, Pelagius: and the more modern and little better Arminius, Vorstius, and your old acquaintance Belga Thomsonius, who did more hurt in the University, by his Arminianism, Libertinism and Epicurism, than 1000 Drunkard's will ever do good, etc.  
And now Sr. saving the Reverence of your Bishopric, Remember your Original, (for some of us, have known you ab origine,) your mean birth & parentage, (we say not a Carter or Ploughman's son,) near Okingham in Berkeshire: at whose Cost you were brought up at Eton College-Schoole and at the King's College in the University; (at either of which places, if God had given grace, you might have imbibed better things;)  
Certes, Sir Henry Savile, that worthy and learned Knight (deceased,) when he employed you in his Greek Chrysoftomes Variae Lectiones, had more hope of you than to have proved such an ill member in the Church. But it is no marvel, and you may remember that that Reverend By shop of Winton, of the Honourable House afotenamed; (now with God) when you were his Chaplain, told you eftsoons (Prophetically) You would never do good in the Church.  
And if none of these things will serve to humble you nor to take down the Pride of your heart, (for all Errors, Heresies and Schisms, arise through pride of heart) Remember yet how God hath by nature marked you with a sinistral or Goatish look, promising no good to his Church and Children, whom he hath promised shall sit on his Right-band: And if this neither will serve to humble you, We must and do leave you to be humbled and censured by that High and Honourable Court of Parliament, unto whom we have appealed against you: And we hope your Errors and Heresies are so notorious, that your shuffling and intruding from being Parson of Petworth to be Bishop of Chichester, and so to be accounted a Spiritual Lord of the Upper House will not serve to protect you: For, have we not (within the revolution of not many years) seen a bigger Bishop than yourself brought near censure and on his knees to the House? have we not seen a Lord Chancellor censured and displaced? have we not seen a Lord Treasurer censured and displaced? and even the last Session or sitting of the House, have we not seen a Doctor of Divinity censured.  
And for yourself, we will say no more than we have said: Only Sir, Remember what that great Doctor of the Gentiles saith in the Conclusion of his first Epistle to the Corinthians, If any man love not the Lord Jesus Christ, let him be Anathema, Maranatha; Yourself being so great a Clerk know what the words signify, Cave, for whosoever broacheth and maintaineth any heresies or haereticall Doctrines in the Church cannot love Christ who is Truth itself. And so Sir, If you (can) love the Lord Jesus, and do belong to his Election of Grace, The Grace of our Lord lesus Christ be with you, and our love shall be with you in Christ Jesus,  
Amen. By those that wish your Salvation, (if it may be:) The orthodox Ministers of the Church of England.  
Postscript to Bishop MOUNTAGV.  
SIR, Whereas we understand that you have procured his Majesty's Pardon under the Great Scale of England: We deny not but his Majesty may give Pardons to what Malefastors he pleaseth; yea though they be condemned to be Beheaded or Hanged: And we guess yourself best knows what ends you have in procuring your Pardon thus beforehand: and we must leave the consideration thereof to the honourable House: But good Sir give us leave to tell you, that your Impieties against GOD and his Church, are of that nature, that an earthly Prince's Pardon will yield small Comfort to your Conscience, unless (besides your Recantation before men) you labour (which we wish) to get the King of Kings his pardon under the Great Seal of Heaven, through the only merits of CHRIST JESUS and the blood of his Passion; If we say again, it be not too late for you so to do.   

Hereunto is annexed an brief Supplication of the Ministers of the Church of Scotland, to the high Senate of Parliament in England, against the same Richard Mountagu.  
Right Illustrious, Nobles, Knights, Burgesses.  
We the Ministers of the Kirke of Scotland, reform according to God's ure Word in his holy Writ, (to a great number,) serving the same God, obeying the same King, and with an Vnanime Consent, agreeing in matter of Faith, Doctrine and Discipline, with our well-beloved Brethren the Ministers of the Church of England. In like most humble and submiss manner, do second the same which our Brethren, the orthodox Ministers of England have Remonstrated unto this Right Illustrious Court, against Mr. Mountagu and his Bukes; which have done no good but much hurt and damage to this our Reformed Kirk: For it is not so old as true a saying; That where God hath his Kirke, the Devil hath (or labours to have) his Chapel: And it is well known, that although our Kirk hath been purely reform according to God's holy Writ, yet there are many Papists in this his Majesty's Kingdom of Scotland. And since that false Lowne of the Kirk Arminius lived and vented his public Errors and Heresies, we have not been clear from Arminians, and those of late increased and heartened by Mountagu's Writings. And yet praised be God, for the most part, we have his Bukes in such obloquy and hatred, that when we see any of them at the Buthes of any of our Bukesellers, we hold them fit to stop Mustard pots, than to give silver for them. Also, our three Academies of St. Andrew's Glasco, and Edinburgh have condemned them. And certes, we make much merveile to hear that sick a man, whom before, we heard should be censured and branded in your last Session of Parliament, should immediately be made an Bishop and Governor of your Church: We daily pray to God for better Brethren, better Governors, in our Kirke. Though of late we have one of our own Nation come from you, who was Chaplain to the late Duke of Buckingham, and over with him at the I'll of Ree, and had 2. or 3. Live in London; who by the mediation of his mighty Mr. the Duke, is made Bishop of the Isles with us, and he is come over to us, a Bird of the Libertine Feather, and we doubt a Mountaguist: And they say he was so well beloved in his Parish of St. Martin's in the Vintree, that they rang the Bells when he was removed from them, and they of St. Faith's would have done no less, if they had had any Bells to ring: but they did more; for they gave him much money to be rid of him. But what else is this man? They that came out of England with him say; That all the way as he came he did nothing but talk profanely and scoffingly, and did eat and drink freely: and instead of Prayers, he had constantly the Fiddlers to play and sing obscene and scurrulus Songs, early and late, at every place where he came, all the way as he went: And what doth he since he came amongst us, but feast and epicurise and and take Tobacco? Yea, he doth eftsoons open his mouth wide against the Puritans of London: for so like Mr. Mountagu he termeth all honest Orthodox Ministers: We would therefore if it were the will of God, that you had him bacl from us, or else that he were with his great Lord and Master. For we like not such lounes in our Kirk: And Lord, when it is thy will, remove such Loiterers out of thy Vineyard. But craving pardon for our digression, to leave him and return to Mountagu.  
We do most humbly supplicate the Honourable House to hearken (if not to us) unto our Brethren the Ministers of the Church of England, and we hold their Appeal or Remonstrance good, godly and religious; it being in God's cause, and for the Truth; which we are not only bound to labour to defend, but if need be, to lay down our lives for the same: And we are of unanime-opinion, that Mr. Mountagu deserveth severe Censure and punishment, if it were but for vilifying King james (of blessed memory) his Writings against the arminians, his secret depraving our Kirk of Scotland, his more open vilifying the sacred Synod of Dort, which was so piously procured and highly approved by his said Majesty, of ever blessed and happy memory. For the whilk his vile do, we hope doubtless, when ever it may please God to move his Majesty's heart, or any other Christian Prince or State, Reform, to call a Synod again; Mountagu though now a Bishop, and his Bukes will be condemned and censured to posterity.  
And so the God of Abraham, the God of Isaac and jacob's God be with you, and all your pious and religious Consults, for his Glory. Your most humble and submiss Orators, The Ministers of the Kirk of Scotland.   

The Publishers Postscript, or Conclusion to all.  
FOr this present ensuing Year of Christ, 1629. We will not take upon us to define or confine the Consummation of all things, within the compass thereof, as an ancient Scholar did publicly deliver at Paul's Cross, upon a Text out of the Revelation about five years past: And although we may be persuaded that the Last-Day is not so fare off as the secure World thinks it: Yet seeing that Year, Day, and Hour, are Arcana Dej, we are content to leave them locked uppe in Arca Dej, unto whom they belong. We are content also to pass by the Prench and English Prognosticators Predictions for this ensuing Year: But we will not cease to pray and beseech the Lord of Hosts so to unite the heart of the King's Sacred Majesty to the Parliament (his Great Council) that the Higher and Lower House may unanimously agree, and be reciprocally united to the KING, that matters now much amiss in Church aend Commonwealth may be so Reform, that this YEAR may be accounted Annus Aureus, and that this Parliament (this Year) may be Inscribed and engraven in Marble affixed to the House, in Letters of Gold, SACRED TO MEMORY AND TO POSTERITY, THE (LONG EXPECTED) HAPPY PARLIAMENT.  
M. DC.XX.IX.  
And however, in as much as in the Praemisses, The Mystery of B. MOVNTAGV's Iniquity is so manifestly revealed, seeing we are enjoined in the Litany of our English Liturgy, to Pray; From all false Doctrine and Heresy, Good Lord deliver us. So we hope it shall be no impiety to add, From B. Mountagu and his false doctrine and Heresy, Good Lord deliver us. Amen.   

An Arminian or mere Mountaguist.  
IS an Animal, 
His Study.  scarce rational, whose study, is to read (and applaud) Peter Lombard and john Duns, before Peter Martyr and john Calvin: and for more modern polemics, he prefers Bellarmine above Chamierus.  
His garb or fashion, 
His Garb.  when he comes from the University, wit affectation, is to wear a long Cloak, and a correspondent Cassock, short not where but in the waist, which is girt up with a girdle and a knot or rose almost up to his nose: commonly a falling-band; because Precisians wear small set-ruffs.  
His Religion, 
His Religion.  is, like a Confection, compounded of many, the least ingredient being Protestantisme: and to believe as the Church doth.  
His first Ambition is to address himself to be some great-mans' Trencher-Chaplain; 
His Ambition.  that so he may not be out of the Path way to preferment, not an Ignoramus in Court-curtesies, nor a sot in State-affairs.  
His Devotion, 
His Devotion.  is so conformable to the Ceremonies of the Church, that he thinks it impiety to decline the least particle thereof: and yet he declines the Doctrine of the Church so much, that he wisheth with all his heart, the Praver in the Litany of our English Liturgy, From all false Doctrine and Heresy, Good Lord deliver us, were obliterated.  
He is a mongrel Divine, 
His Divinity. N. C. his Achitophel.  who, as it were betwixt Hawk and buzzard, can see nicely to distinguish betwixt a Puritan in opinion and a Puritan in discipline: and hath taught the name, contrary to the first institution, so fare to enlarge itself, that a Protestant must make hard shift to save himself harmless. 
I.R. his Speech in Parliament, 21. Janua. 1628. His politic part.  And he is one that makes the Grace of God lackey it after the will of men, the Sheep to keep the Shepherd, and a mortal seed of an immortal God.  
He is the spawn of a Papist, and if there come the warmth of favour upon him, you shall see him turn into one of those Frogs which arose out of the bottomless Pit: and if you mark it well, you shall see him reaching out his hand to a Papist: (a Papist to a jesuite, and a jesuite gives one hand to the Pope, and another to the King of Spain:) And so we leave him to get more Grace, profess and practise more goodness.  
His Motto CONCORDIA-DISCORS. Orthodoxus.  
FINIS.