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A21070	The application of the lavves of England for Catholike priesthood and the Sacrifice of the Masse. Directed to the lords of his Maiesties most honourable priuie counsell, iudges, iustices, and other studients of the law.	Pendryck, William, 1583-1650.	1623 (1623)	STC 7435; ESTC S117587	48,936	110

needy Officers who cared not by whose fall they rose not hauing deserts or other degrees to clime to the height of their ambition We passed thorough for so many yeares if they had fallen out among any other constitution of men then Catholiks they might haue wrung very probably out of men well mortified and patient some action of dislike and discontentment seeing Tristia pro virtute tollerare to endure heauy things for vertues sake is a point hard to be practised But yet neuerthelesse what hath beene our fidelity towards our Prince and behauiour towards our Magistrates with all humility respect modesty and subiection euer either readily doing what they enioyned or patiently suffering what they imposed Fiant inimici nostri Iudices Let our enemies be our Iudge therein and let the Roles Registers and Recordes speake The true reason whereof was the doctrine for by the Religion which we professe we are taught that we must obey our Princes Non propter itam sed propter conscientiam not for any indignation but for conscience sake and that to resist them is to resist Gods ordinances And this is the bit and bridle that euery true Catholicke carieth in his mouth to restraine him from that by grace and feare of Gods iudgements which flesh and bloud otherwise with the liuely sence and feeling of insupportable miseries and afflictions might driue him vnto And if some of vs forgetting our best fortunes at home did flie from the storme of persecution into a place of refuge taking such helpes as the charity of other Countries afforded and there perfected in the course of vertue and learning returned into England our onely intent was as heauen and earth shall witnesse with vs at the dreadfull day of Doome to win soules from misbeliefe and with the sweat of our browes yea of our dearest bloud to gleane a fewe eares the silly reliques of their infortunate Haruest who had misled infinite soules into endlesse perdition Alas what is Priesthood now that was not in former times that it must be accounted in these our dayes treacherous which hath euer beene reputed both in Parliament and else-where the most honourable calling next to the Prince as the places of our great Priests and Archbishops beare euidence Nothing is or can be changed in that Sacrament howsoeuer the mindes and proceedings of Protestants doe change Neither did or doth the Pope or any other Bishop by making vs Priests claime or get any more authority in England then they of Geneua or Amsterdam by making Protestant Ministers And as for oathes and promises in receiuing holy Orders wee neither take nor plight any but one common to the Priests of all Nations which is a solemne vow of perpetuall chastity a thing rather pleasant then offensiue to vertuous mindes But Gods true Religion being abandoned out of our miserable Countrey through our sinnes the honour of God and reuerent respect of his sacred Priests was gone withall and in steed of Priuiledge and Prerogation graunted to them by diuine and humane Lawes they haue beene most subiect to iniuries villanies contempt and calumnies of all conditions and states of the Realme But if the glorious Doctor St. Augustine Epist 212. might haue beene heard these imputations had not receiued such credit against them for thus he saith to Pancarius an Officer and honourable person before whom a certaine Priest named Secundarius was accused of a great crime Quod videntur obiicere Presbitero c. The crime wherewith they change their Priest must be looked vnto so alwayes if those that be his accusers be Catholickes for against a Catholick Priest wee neither can nor ought to admit the accusation of Heretickes But seeing it now pleaseth our gracious Soueraigne to consider our estate and with the eyes of his Peerelesse clemencie to looke vpon vs so long and so dangerous sicke of the late Queenes euill whom no Physick can cure but the sacred hands of his annoynted Maiestie nor no Salue can heale but the soueraine Balme of his renowned clemencie And so to qualifie our former pressours permitting vs comedere buccellam nostram sine dolore to put a bit of meate into our mouthes without sorrow without frights without flights and without circumuentions of our Aduersaries Wherefore most Honorable Reuerend Graue and Learned Patrones for I doe presume to challenge this title at your hands vouchsafe to assist now our gracious Soueraigne in this his Royall disposition and call to minde your Predecessours who being Religious wise learned politique and discreete and therefore dignified by our Soueraignes Catholick Progenitours did leaue you to succeede them not onely in their sincerity of Iustice and fidelity towards their Princes but likewise in their Religion towards God The law of nature the law of Nations the law of England it selfe in that state it is requireth it the law of God calleth vpon you and bringeth euidence of this your obligation your promise to God to his Church when you were first borne bindeth you So many of your noble companie as are admitted to the Honourable Order of the Garter haue or ought to haue sworne it you are all Councellours or Officers to his Maiestie which by title of inheritance and at his Coronation by the Oath and Fidelity of a Christian Prince hath obliged himselfe to maintaine it of that which is his office your places professe performance your promise to God obedience and voluntary submission to his Church fidelity to Prince duty to Countrey compassion to the vniust oppressed daily call vpon you to see it done Pardon Noble Patrons if peremptorily without all exception I demaund but iustice by the present forcible Lawes of England Who for his better satisfaction desireth to see these ensuing points at length then reade that most worthy and laborious Treatise entituled The Protestants Apologie for the Romane Church SECTION I. THE LAVV TEARMES IN GENERALL PERVSED IN THIS OVR APPLICATION RIGHT HONORABLE REVErend Graue and Learned SEING your selues are as it were the principall passages vnder his Maiestie in and by which is transported whatsoeuer is done in execution of Iustice In which course of your great and weighty Imployment as you are continually occasioned and somtimes importuned Iudiciously to obserue and discerne both of causes persons brought in question before you So are there none whome neccessity hath so much prouoked to become in this kinde your humble Suppliants as are the dailie deiected disgraced impouerished Catholikes And for as much as Religion is the matter of their calamity we haue presumed bereby with all humble remoÌ„strance in their behalfe to commend the same vnto the serious and retired view of your leasurable iudicious graue Considerations The which also we do with more confident I confesse peculiar respect in that the method grounds of proofe which shal be obserued and prosecuted throughout this our humble Application are in them selues correspondent to the like receiued principles of your owne lawes and as being such do

as Hospinianus in histor Sacram fol. 131. part altera Hospin Io. Regius Ioannes Regius considerat censurae pag. 123. Neither was this conference betweene the Deuill Luther spirituall only or a dreame but as Balduinus Balduinus a follower of Luther lib. de disput Luther cap. 4. pag. 83. saith a reall truth written by Luther saith he not hyperbolically but seriously and according to the truth of the history And if we looke to Luthers life after his Apostacie we shall find it answerable to his doctrine both tending to libertie it needeth not any other testimonie then that which the Protestants themselues acknowledge For say they Luther became so arrogant Ioac Camar de conâ—ugio Lutheri Conrad Regius de caena Dom. insolent and possessed with the sinne of Pride that God therefore did withdraw his true spiritt from him This we may manifestly gather out of his owne writings Tom. 2 Germ. Fol. 9. praefat lib. de abrog Miss where he acknowledged his conscience accusing him condemning him of singularity against the whole Christian world all times places persons and authorities These be his owne wordes how often hath my heart panted reprehended me obiecting against me what art thou only wise can it be credible that all others do erre haue erred so long time haue all generations so often euer bene deceaued What if thou dost erre bring so many into errour that shal be damned for euer art thou only he which hath the true pure word of God Hath no man in the world thesame but thou that which the Church of Christ hath hitherto defined and so many yeares obserued as good dost thou ouerthrow it as though it were euill so dost dissipate by thy doctrine both Ecclesiasticall ciuill common weales Thus his coÌ„science so long as he had any coÌ„demned him thus he repented his disobedience and said in praef in tom 1. Germ. Ientacul that he hoped the bookes which he had written would be burnt infect no more but when the bridle of Obedience was altogether broken his conscience extinguished and the plumes of pride sensualitie had mounted so high and carried him so farre he behaued himself in his apostacie Suet. as by the testimonie of Suetonius in vita Iul. Caes Iulius Caesar did in his temporall Rebellion against the Roman state who in the beginning doubted whether he should go forward or no Luther in colloq Mensal fol. 241. Tom 5. Germ. 121. Osiand cent 13. lib. 1. cap. 4. pag. 329 The ceÌ„t writers cent 13. cap. 5. Fulk in his retentiue pag 124. MelaÌ„ct loc coÌ„ de potest Ecclesiast Whitak cap. 18. Osiand Epist cent 16. pag. 86. Conrad in Theol Caluinist in proaem but when he had cast of shame he brake out into this speech Iacta est alea my chance is throwne So Luther wheÌ„ shipwracke was made of shamefastnes vttered his vnreasonable resolution of obstinate persisting in these termes Because saith he I haue entred into this cause now I must looke vnto it of necessity say it is iust If you aske a reason Doctor Martin Luther will haue it so sic volo sic iubeo sit pro ratione voluntas And thus much briefly of Sathans labouring by the ministry of Luther to impugne the Masse and neuer knowne to haue bene in any age before impugned otherwise then by the Albigenses Apostolici Almericus VVickliffs and such other as in regard of their other opinions were coÌ„fessedly euen in the Iudgment of our very aduersaries all of them noted knowne heretikes whose opinions in this other particulars were priuate by the said parties afterwards recanted called backe or else died with them And as for Carolostadius Zuinglius coÌ„temporanean to Luther whome Protestants name brethren their proceedings to impugne the Masse was not different from that of Luthers viz by illusions of Sathan as Protestants themselues do with dislike report of them Luther in loc com class 5 pag 47. speaking of Carolostadius calleth him a man giuen ouer into a reprobate sense and of Zuinglius he saith he condemned auoyded him with all his hart as despayring of his saluation as Hospinianus witnesseth in histor Sacram part Whitak contra camp rat 8. alt pag. 187. And the same they thinke of Luther So well agree the Fathers the Brethren as Protestants call them SECTION XII THE CONCLVSION PARDON me therefore Right honorable Reuerend learned if I be so bould now to appeale to your VVisedomes graue and mature Iudgement Vt sup whether Luthers doctrine concerning the Masse which had its growth in this age by apparitions from the Deuill as him self his dearest Schollers do accordingly confesse be of greater credit authority then that doctrine Religion whose vndoubted proofes are answerable correspondent to the like receiued principles groundes of your owne lawes then that ReligioÌ„ which remaineth in it self beautified with manifold confessed ornaments from ancient and memorable testimonies of your owne nation of all Christian nations of all precedent times then that Religion whereto the English nation was in the Apostles times confessedly first conuerted Then that Religion which hath founded your ancient municipall lawes and courts of iudgement erected your Churches Bishops-seas Religious houses Colledges Vniuersities and many other knowne monuments of pietie Then that Religion to which so many Kings Kingdomes of Gentils haue bene conuerted according to the sundry plaine praedictions of the Prophets had in that behalfe of Christs true Church which said praedictions otherwise then in by this Religion are yet hitherto coÌ„fessedly left vnperformed Then that Religion whose Priesthood and sacrifice was foretould by the Prophetes and acknowledged by the Apostles Then that Religion which is answerable to the doctrine of those Religious Iewes who liued before Christ Then that Religion which euen then long since was vniuersally professed in the Christian world Then that Religion in which was then also confirmed to vs from heauen with testimony of vndoubted miracles Then that Religion Faith approued of by the consent of so many Generall Nationall and Prouinciall Councels by the Iudgment of so many holy learned ancient Fathers practise of all times and ages and euen by the confession of our aduersaries Then that Religion against which all Sects heresies whatsoeuer howsoeuer deuided otherwise amoÌ„gst themselues do yet generally conspire Then that Religion to which our aduersaries afford to the members Professours therof the hopefull promises of saluation Then that Religion which only is ratified by all authoritie all Scriptures Traditions Prophetes Sibills Rabbins before Christ by the Apostles Euangelists all holy learned Fathers Historians Antiquaries and Monuments all Sinods Councels lawes Parliaments Canons decrees of Popes Emperors Kings Rulers all Martyrs Confessors and holy Witnesses by all Friends Enemies euen Mahometans Iewes Pagans infidells all former Heretikes Schismatikes and these Protestants themselues when they were most probable to speake truth and all Testimonies that can be deuised not only in this world but of God of Angells and glorified soules whose euidence cannot be vntrue of deuills and damned soules in hell condemned for their contempt or negligence thereof of soules in Purgatorie and whatsoeuer can be cited for witnesse in such cases as is most euident in this brief treatise In respect whereof your knowne Wisedomes in other matters cannot be wanting or transported herein with generall preiudice of our cause but obseruing your owne principles and abandoning all preiudice of opinion try the spirits if they be of God and proue all things houlding that which is good as S. Iohn saith in his 4. Chapt. To the reading therefore carefull examinatioÌ„ of this our Application do we humbly request you and that by the tender care had of your countrey by the deare respect of your saluation by your Christian zeale vnto true Religion by whatsoeuer else is sacred and holy Your poore Countryman M.E. A TABLE OF THE SEVERALL points handled in this treatise diuided in to 12 Sections as followeth The first Section THe lawe tearmes in generall perused in this Applicacation pag. 1. Sect. 2. A verdict consisting of twelue generall Councells all of them being within the first 400. odde yeares after our Sauiour Christ pag. 5. Sect. 3. The testimony of twelue lawfull credible witnesses pag. 14. Sect. 4. The Confession of twelue of the leardenest of the aduersary party pag. 25. Sect. 5. Of Priority of Possession pag. 41. Sect. 6. Of Prescription pag. 56. Sect. 7. Of Continuall Claime pag. 61. Sect. 8. Of the doubtfulnesse of the statute law pag. 69. Sect. 9. Of high courtes of Iudgment pag. 73. Sect. 10. Other Proofes pag 80. Sect. 11. A discouery of the contrary doctrine pag. 87. Sect. 12. The Conclusion pag. 92. FINIS

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