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authority_n	absolve_v	according_a	acknowledge_v	210	4	7.9230	4	false

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A38199	The Romanists designs detected, and the Jesuits subtill practices discovered and laid open collected from their own authors and other approved testimonies / by Anthony Egan, B.D.	Egan, Anthony, B.D.	1674 (1674)	Wing E251; ESTC R3340	16,045	42

then assurance of death yet it will willingly be embraced for the preventing of those general Calamities which by this your transcendent Authority and grace with his Majesty are threatned unto us And indeed the difficulties herein are more easily to be digested since two of the intended Attemptors are in that weak state of body that they cannot live above three or four Months The other three are so distressed in themselves and their friends as that their present griefs for being only Recusants do much dull all apprehensions of death None is to be blamed in the true censuring of matters for the undertaking hereof for we profess before God we know no other means left us in the world since it is manifest you serve but as a Match to give fire unto his Majesty to whom the worst that we wish is that he may be as great a Saint in Heaven as he is King on Earth for intending all mischiefs against the poor distressed Catholicks This giving your Lordship this Charitable Admonition the which may perhaps be necessary hereafter for some others your Inferiors at least in Grace and Favour if so they run on in their former Inhumane and Unchristian Rage against us I cease putting you in mind That where once True and Spiritual Resolution is there notwithstanding all dangers whatsoever the Weak may take sufficient Revenge of the Great Your Lordship 's well-admonishing Friends c. A. B. C. c. It may be your Lordship will take this but as some forged Letter of some Puritans thereby to incense you more against Recusants But we protest upon our Salvation It is not so Neither can any thing in humane likelihood prevent the effecting thereof but the change of your course towards Recusants This Letter at the beginning offers fair seeming to detest the Gun-powder-Plot but little of truth and sincerity may be expected from it when we consider that the design of it is to Apologize for Murther to which it appears there is a Club or number of them consenting and attempting and they are not ashamed to assert That though they murther Privy-Counsellors yet the Murtherers may be good men nor are they to be blamed for it for 't is a True and Spiritual Resolution The Oath of Allegiance was prudently drawn up and confirmed by Act of Parliament and that you may see what it was their tender Consciences so scrupled the taking of I have here inserted the Oath it self The Oath of Allegiance Anno tertio Jacobi I A. B. do truly and sincerely Acknowledge Profess Testifie and Declare in my Conscience before God and the World That our Soveraign Lord King is Lawful and Rightful King of this Realm and of all other his Majesty's Dominions and Countreys And that the Pope neither of himself nor by any Authority of the Church or See of Rome or by any other means with any other hath any power or Authority to Depose the King Or to dispose any of his Majesties Kingdoms or Dominions Or to Authorize any Forreign Prince to Invade or Annoy him or his Countreys Or to Discharge any of his Subjects of their Allegiance and Obedience to his Majesty Or to give License or Leave to any of them to bear Arms raise Tumults c. Or to offer any violence or hurt to his Majesties Royal Person State or Government or to any of his Majesties Subjects within his Majesties Dominions Also I do swear from my heart That notwithstanding any Declaration or Sentence of Excommunication or Deprivation made or granted or to be made or granted by the Pope or his Successors or by any Authority derived or pretended to be derived from him or his See against the said King his Heirs or Successors or any Absolution of the said Subjects from their Obedience I will hear Faith and true Allegiance to his Majesty his Heirs and Successors And him and them will defend to the uttermost of my Power against all Conspiracies and Attempts whatsoever which shall be made against his or their Persons their Crown and Dignity by reason or colour of any such Sentence or Declaration or otherwise And will do my best endeavour to disclose and make known unto his Majesty his Heirs and Successors all Treasons and Trayterous Conspiracies which I shall know or hear of to be against him or any of them And I do further swear That I do from my heart Abhor Detest and Abjure as Impious and Heretical this Damnable Doctrine and Position That Princes which be Excommunicated or Deprived by the Pope may be Deposed or Murthered by their Subjects or any other whatsoever And I do believe and in Conscience am resolved That neither the Pope nor any Person whatsoever hath power to absolve me of this Oath or any part thereof Which I acknowledge by good and full Authority to be lawfully ministred unto me And do renounce all Pardons and Dispensations to the contrary And all these things I do plainly and sincerely acknowledge and swear according by these express words by me spoken and according to the plain and common sense and understanding of the same words without any equivocation or mental evasion or secret reservation whatsoever And I do make this Recognition and Acknowledgment heartily willingly and truly upon the true Faith of a Christian So help me God A. B. Unto which Oath so taken the said person shall subscribe his or her Name or Mark. King James doubted not but that all honest and good Subjects would submit to this Oath Because as he said that he that shall refuse to take this Oath must of necessity hold all or some of these Propositions following Apol. for the Oath of Alleg. Pag. 49. I. That I King James am not the lawful King of this Kingdom and of all other my Dominions II. That the Pope by his own Authority may depose me if not by his own Authority yet by some other Authority of the Church or of the See of Rome If not by some other Authority of the Church and See of Rome yet by other means with others help he may Depose me III. That the Pope may dispose of my Kingdoms and Dominions IV. That the Pope may give Authority to some Forreign Prince to Invade my Dominions V. That the Pope may discharge my Subjects of their Allegiance and Obedience to me VI. That the Pope may give license to one or more of my Subjects to bear Arms against me VII That the Pope may give leave to my Subjects to offer violence to my Person or to my Government or to some of my Subjects VIII That if the Pope shall by Sentence Excommunicate or Depose me my Subjects are not to bear Faith and Allegiance to me IX If the Pope shall by Sentence Excommunicate or Depose me my Subjects are not bound to defend with all their power my Person and Crown X. If the Pope shall give out any Sentence of Excommunication or Deprivation against me my Subjects by reason of that Sentence are not bound to

reveal all Conspiracies and Treasons against me which shall come to their hearing and knowledge XI That it is not Heretical and Diabolical to hold That Princes being Excommunicated by the Pope may be either Deposed or Killed by their Subjects or any other XII That the Pope hath power to absolve my Subjects from this Oath or from some part thereof XIII That this Oath is not administred to my Subjects by a full and lawful Authority XIV That this Oath is to be taken with Equivocation Mental Evasion or secret Reservation and not with the Heart and good will sincerely in the true Faith of a Christian man One would now think that none that intended to be good Subjects or indeed did not intend to be otherwise when they had opportunity should refuse the taking this Oath yet so it was that though some did take it yet the most refused it And because the Pope would not have those of his Religion tyed from acting Treasons and Villanies to support his Power he sent several Buls into England against this Oath one of which being of later date viz. in King Charles the First 's dayes I have here inserted so much thereof as concerns the said Oath VRBANVS Pp VIII Dilectis Filiis Catholicis Angliae Dilecti Filii Salutem Apostolicam Benedictionem NON semper terraena foelicitas est beneficium Coeli Patrimonium Pietatis pacem enim peccatorum videns Ecclesia non raro experta est potentiam mortalium esse stipendium sceleris Quare Catenas Martyrum anteferimus exuviis Triumphantium Rex sempiternus Principatus Coelestes pollicetur non ils qui superbo pede jura proterunt sed qui persecu ionem patiunturpropter justitiam c. Quod si eousque vis progrediatur ut vos ad noxium illud illicitum Anglicanae fidelitatis jura mentum adigat mementote Orationem vestram ab universo Angelorum spectantium consessu audiri Et adhaereat lingua vestra faucibus vestris priusquam Authoritatem B. Petri ea jurisjurandi formula imminutam detis Non enim ibi id solum agitur ut fides Regi servetur sed at sacrum Universae Ecclesiae sceptrum eripiatur Vicariis Dei Omnipotentis Quod foeliciis Recordationis Paulus V. Praedecessor noster in tam gravi deliberatione decrevit id omnino tanquam Decretum Veritatis servare debeatis Dilecti Filii Tributum hoc Principi Apostolorum debitum nullae hominum minae aut blanditiae a vobis unquam extorqueant qui secus suadent ij visionem mendacem divinationem fraudulentam prophetantvobis Citiusenimviro Christiano debet potentium gladius vitam eripere quamfidem Quod si Angelus etiam e Coelo descendens vos aliter quam veritas Apostolica doceat Anathema sit c. Datum Romae S. Petri sub Annulo Piscatoris die xxx May 1626. Pontificatus nostri Anno tertio Pope VRBAN VIII To his beloved Sons the Catholicks of England Beloved Sons Greeting and Apostolical Benediction TErrene foelicity is not always the benefit of Heaven and the Patrimony of piety For the Church seeing the prosperity of sinners hath often found by experience that the greatness of Mortals is the stipend of Impiety Wherefore we prefer the Chains of Martyrs before the spoils of the Triumphant and the Eternal King promiseth Heavenly Principalities not to them who proudly trample the Laws under their feet but to those who suffer Persecution for Righteousness sake c. And if Violence proceed so far as to compel you to that pernicious and unlawful Oath of Allegiance of England Remember that your Prayers are heard in the whole Assembly of the Angels beholding you And let your Tongue cleave to the roof of your mouth rather than you permit the Authority of St. Peter to be diminished with that form of Oath For that is not all that Fidelity be kept unto the King but that the Sacred Scepter of the Catholique Church be wrung from the Vicar of God Almighty That which our Predecessor Paul V. of blessed memory with so great deliberation Decreed that ought ye altogether to observe as a Decree of Truth Beloved Sons this Tribute due to the Prince of the Apostles no threats or flatteries of men ought at any time to extort from you and they who perswade you otherwise prophesie unto you a lying Vision and a fraudulent divination for sooner ought the Sword of the Mighty take from a Christian his life than his Faith yea if an Angel from Heaven teach you otherwise than the Apostolique Truth let him be Accursed c. Dated at Rome at St. Peters under the Signet of the Fisher xxx of May 1626 the third year of our Popedom I shall here give a farther instance that abhorrence of Treason and Fidelity to the Prince is not only contrary to the desire and express command of the Pope but to the opinion of the greatest part of the Roman Catholicks themselves Peter Walsh a Romanist of the Order of St. Francis somewhat more honest and peaceable minded than the rest esteeming it not only his but the Duty of all Persons to be subject to the Prince under whom they live and by whom they receive protection about the year 1662. drew up a formulary and procured it to be subscribed by as many of the Romanists in the Kingdom of Ireland as he could whereby they did profess their obedience to his Majesty and subjection to the Laws with their Resolution to live peaceably under them and although this submission occasioned his Majesty to be much more favourable to them than before yet the greatest part of the Romanists of that Kingdom were so far from subscribing the said Formulary that they got it not only to be condemned in formal terms as unlawful detestable Sacrilegious yea in effect as Schismatical and Heretical by the publick Censures of the Lovaine Theological Faculty and by the publick Letters also of the Bruxel Internuncio's De Vecchii and Rospigliosi and of the Roman Cardinals de propaganda fide but prosecuted the Subscribers of it for these twelve years especially for these six last with continual Monitories Citations Depositions Excommunications Denunciations and even publick affixing or posting of them and have persecuted and hunted them almost to death for no other cause but for professing Allegiance to his Majesty So dangerous a thing it is reputed in the Court of Rome for Subjects to give their natural Prince any pledge of their Faith which the Pope cannot undo It is no less Criminal in the esteem of that Court than if the very essentials of the Papacy were invaded by it as you may see at large in a Letter to the Catholicks of England Scotland and Ireland written by the said Peter Walsh And now I shall leave it to the Candid Reader to judge what reason those have to be protected by the Laws who will not be tyed by them nor subject to them but profess themselves the subjects of a Forreign power Their Designs to