408 ADVICE TO SIR GEORGE VILLIERS. 



vines, especially such as are sad and discreet men, 

 and exemplary for their lives.] 



2. In this you need not be a monitor to your 

 gracious master the king : the chiefest of his imperial 

 titles is, to be The Defender of the Faith, and his 

 learning is eminent, not only above other princes, but 

 above other men ; be but his scholar, and you are 

 safe in that. 



[If any question be moved concerning the doc 

 trine of the Church of England expressed in the 

 thirty-nine articles, give not the least ear to the 

 movers thereof: that is so soundly and so orthodoxly 

 settled, as cannot be questioned without extreme 

 danger to the honour and stability of our religion ; 

 which hath been sealed with the blood of so many 

 martyrs and confessors, as are famous through the 

 Christian world. The enemies and underminers 

 thereof are the Romish Catholic, so stiling themselves, 

 on the one hand, whose tenets are inconsistent with 

 the truth of religion professed and protested by the 

 Church of England, whence we are called protestants; 

 and the anabaptists, and separatists, and sectaries on 

 the other hand, whose tenets are full of schism, and 

 inconsistent with monarchy : for the regulating of 

 either, there needs no other coercion than the due 

 execution of the laws already established by par 

 liament.] 



3. For the discipline of the Church of England 

 by bishops, &c. I will not positively say, as some 

 do, that it is &quot; jure divino&quot; ; but this I say and think 

 &amp;lt;e ex animo,&quot; that it is the nearest to apostolical truth 



