r. coarctatus p 9. Bonium r. Boiorum ib. 9 exoriâ—ntur r. exuruntur ib. y Laudec r Pan dect p. 10. c oculus tuuis r. oculus tuus p. 12 in the text infest r. infect p. 13. q â—urent r. curabant p. 16 u confitentum r. confitentium p. 17 y languiudi rlam guidi ib â— Pardus r. Paradinuâ— p. 18 â— 2. in the text vs we r. that we ib. l 16. foâ—â—e r some ib s Christus r. Christi p. 20 siu-siu r. sin-sin ib. i que accepit ostendit r. qâ—ae accepit ostendunt p 22. g alma r. la alma p. 23. b Apostoli vxorem r Apostoli vxorati p. 24 r Syluan r. Sylua p. 26. x In in miuoribus r In minoribus p. 27 l 15. Franciscanus â— Francischinus ib. b habâ— at r habeanâ— p. 28. Wernâ—riuâ— r. Wernerus Ib c Paâ—dr r Pâ—ndect Ib k Cytizensi p. 31. â—â—n 16 serue r deserue p 32. por eppo r. por ello â— 33. plâ—ruque r plerumque p. 34. g Iesue r â—osue p 36 â— 26 Sherifeâ— r Sherife p. 38. l. 33 proposinoÌ„ r. propositions p. 4. l. 11. quaerit r. quad p. 44 l â—â— Tâ—eire r. True p. 46 â— 3. harend r. â—azend p 47 l. 2â— if Iurie r. it â—ur â— 51. â— Argironae r. Angyrâ—â—ae Ib Nâ—gedon r Hvgedon p 58 â—3 Cacologus r Cacologâ—â—â— Ib l. 20 Not of their Theologus but of their Cacologus r Not of their Theologues b â—â— of their Cacologues p 59. g sentiat r. sentiant p. 62. Nutius r. mâ—tâ—uâ— p 67 b mâ—niae r. neniae p 7â— l 14. sharos r. shooes ib. l. 16 and allowing besides r and all know besides ib. l 19. common â—urâ—â—o r common burrâ—aâ—â—â— 77 sultaries r surtaâ—ies p 86 d â—â—â—ciâ—uis r. specialius p. 99 Lvâ—â—â—throâ—â—â—s r Lycanthropia ib q modo is muneret donegare r. modo is â—â—m â—â—â— deâ— gaâ—â— ib. x megabâ— r negabit p. 100 â—oemine r. foemineo p 102 k Sâ—naedâ—â— r. Cynâ—dis ib â— vneimuâ— r. venâ—mus p 104 exclaime â— proclaâ—â—â—â— â—â—â— â— Bâ—â—â—â—ulaeuis r 〈◊〉 p 105. l. 4 stoneâ— â— stoues â—â—â— 12. sorely r. w li â—â— â— â—â—â—â— cautionâ— r dedi cauâ—â—â—nem b s 〈◊〉 â— insaniae ib. t â—asâ—â—â—â—â—asu p. 106. l. and that r and â—f that 107 l 9 â—â—vâ—â— r â—â—y p â—08 l. 4. can 〈◊〉 â—audaces p â—â—9 â— sâ—mniaria r sâ—â—â—â—a p â—â— Monasteâ—â—um r. Monasteriâ— p. 113. a ab otium r. ob otium p. 116. Thâ—ca r. Theâ—a The Sixt Article Of the sufficiencie of the Holy Scripture for Saluation HOLIE Scripture containeth all things necessary for saluation so that whatsoeuer is not read therein nor may be proued thereby is not to bee required of any man that it should bee beleeued as an Article of faith or be thought requisite or necessary to saluation In the name of the holy Scripture wee do vnderstand those Canonicall bookes of the olde and new Testament of whose authority was neuer any doubt in the Church Of the names and number of the Canonicall Bookes GENESIS EXODVS LEVITICVS NVMBERS DEVTERONOMY IOSVA IVDGES RVTH 1. booke of SAMVEL 2. booke of SAMVEL The 1. booke of KINGS The 2. booke of KINGS 1. booke of CHRONICLES 2. booke of CHRONICLES The 1. booke of ESDRAS The 2. booke of ESDRAS The booke of ESTHER The booke of IOB The PSALMES The PROVERBES ECCLESIASTES or the Preacher CANTICLES or Song of SALOMON 4. Prophets the greater 12. Prophets the lesser And the other bookes as Hierom saith the Church doth read for example of life and instruction of manners but yet doth it not apply themto stablish any Doctrine such as are these following The third booke of ESDRAS The fourth booke of ESDRAS The booke of TOBIAS The booke of IVDITH The rest of the booke of ESTHER The booke of WISEDOME IESV the sonne of SYRACH BARVCH the Prophet The song of the three Children The Storie of SVSANNA Of BELL and the DRAGON The prayer of MANASSES The first booke of MACCHABEES The second booke of MACCHABEES All the Bookes of the New Testament as they are commonly receiued we do receiue and accompt them for Cauonicall This Sixt Article maintained and explained by the more moderate and learneder sort of Papists from whom I haue taken these Propositions following 1 THat they make the same Canon with vs. 2 Exhort vs to the diligent study of this sacred Word 3 Shew the manifold vse and profit that we may reape thereby 4 Its perspicuity 5 Its necessity to saluation 6 The vnprofitable and vnnecessary vse of all other bookes 7 Its commonnesse to be read of all 8 Lastly its contempt and reformation Whence by way of Corollarie I will entreate briefely 1 Of its translation into the vulgar 2 Of the Latine Edition 3 Of the Septuagint 4 Of the Hebrew Canon shewing that it ought to be the Canon and rule of all other Translations The First Proposition That they make the same Canon with vs. FIrst Leonâ—ius commonly called Aduocatus is a sure Aduocate for vs in this point making the same Canon almost with vs and informing vs That in his time it was not onely his but the Churches opinion Irmilius in his learned Dialogue betweene the Master and the Scholler proceeds further and yeelds the same reason that we doe because the Hebrewes difference them after the same sort according vnto the testimony of S. Hierome and others But there is a cautè lege or Caueat put in against them both Maledicta glossa quae corrumpit Textum Scripturae libris non Canonici Caute lege nam perperam quosdam libros à Canone ss Scripturarum euellit Secondly Boston of Bury the painefull but vniudicious Monke treating of Apocrypha bookes out of Isidore and Iuo makes the selfe same Canon with vs and that for the same reason and with the same limitation Shewing besides who were the supposed Authors of those Apocrypha bookes Lastly the History of Bell and the Dragon is challenged by our quick-sighted Erasmus for an Apocrypha story The like censure Spondanus passeth vpon the Booke of Tobie and Erasmus vpon Iudith and the Macchabees ¶ The second Proposition That they exhort vs to the diligent study of the sacred Scriptures BY the complaint of diuerse writers both old and new the Scriptuees were too too much neglected shall I say or vtterly despised generally of their Monkes and Friars Preachers and others as more opportunely shall be shewed in the handling of the eight proposition and therefore the Spirit of God which bloweth where it listeth and illuminateth whom it pleaseth raised vp some in priuate some in publike to be notable instruments of his glory I will onely touch and away In the history of the Councell of Basiâ—e there is a whole Sermon to rouse their diligent attention to the hearing and heeding of Gods word Vatablus more powerfully and feelingly before his Bibles with the double translation and Scholiaes hath collected summed vp all
A MANVDVCTION OR INTRODVCTION VNTO DIVINITIE CONTAINING A Confutation of Papists by Papists throughout the important Articles of our Religion their testimonies taken either out of the Indices Expurgatorii or out of the Fathers and ancient Records But especially the Manuscripts By THO. IAMES Doctor of Diuinitie late Fellow of New-Colledge in Oxford and Sub-Deane of the Cathedrall Church of Welles This marke †noteth the places that are taken out of the Indices Expurgatorij And this ☞ a note of the places in the Parchments Imprinted for Henry Cripps and Henry Curteyne at â—â—â—ord 1625. TO THE RIGHT HONORABLE AND RIGHT REVEREND Father in God John Bishop of Lincolne Lord Keeper of the Great Seale and one of his Maiesties most Honourable priuy Councell Right Honourable my very singular good Lord BEing incouraged by your Lordships fauorable acceptation of some small Labours of mine heretofore presented vnto your Honour I presume to offer vp these few but important and chiefe Articles of our Religion vnto your Lordships farther consideration as they are maintained and explained by Primitiue Fathers knowne Papists and ancient Manuscripts a threefold corde which in my coniecture cannot easily be broken As concerning the Manuscripts they are ancient but not many innominable as yet but not long so to continue if their names can bee redeemed by any meanes and y t they cannot well be excepted against by the common Aduersarie being written long before Luther Hus VVicklife or VValâ—o as the Character plainely sheweth And if they were not old enough it would be easie for me to euicl the true Antiquitie of our Religion â—ut of that great Treasure of Bookes amassed together by that iudicious Knight Sir Robert Cotton the truest Philobiblos of our Age in his kind For the Papists whose words and workes are often cited by me though the Papists would seeme to elude their testimonies or expunge their Sentences in thâ—â—r vnsufferable and vnwarrantable thrise-accursed Indices Expurgatorij yet they speake fully and home for the truth of ours and the falshood and nouellisme of their Religion and doe the Papists what they can as what hath not been done by their close Indices Yet all the water in the maine Ocean will neuer be able to wish their testimonies out of our Bookes Ours I call them because though bred and brought vp in the bosome of their Romane Church they are but seeming Papists so called as Montes are a non mouendo or Paâ—cae a non pâ—rcendo being easily mooued to take part with vs and if need were to defend and subscribe vnto the Articles of our Religion so vniformely so Catholikely agreed vpon by the Prelates of our Religion in the yeare 1562. Lastly for the Fathers whom they would faine make Partiaries and defenders of their new and vpstart opinions it is not to bee marueiled when they haue squeazed out the iuyce of their Bookes Text or Glosse pared them to their purposes and purged them to their minds or fancies rather For if they also chance to erre or mis speake in their iudgements as the best haue failed sometimes and in some things they haue a delâ—antur for them also they shall be no longer Fathers but Sonnes and therefore subiect to their censures and in plaine tearmes purgeable as Gretser the Iesuite hath long since from Ingolstad aduertised vs. But let them leaue the Fathers of the purer Ages in puris naturalibus without mixture or mutation of theirs pure and sincere and wee doubt not but the truth of our Religion will as clearely appeare as the Sunne shine at mid-day which I shall beleeue till I shall see a round and plenarie Refutation of the defence of â—ewels Apologie which was threatned to be answered in the late Councell of Trent and our Countriman Master Harding hath challenged it here and there of some mis-quotations which the learned Bishop doth confesse most ingenuously and retort the like and greater escapes vpon the Challenger but wilfull or purposed corruptions idque cum authoritate such as theirs are he cannot he shall not find in him nor any of his supposts This small Worke of mine Right Honourable such as it is and better it had been if due encouragement health and meanes had not fayled me I willingly submit vnto your iudicious Fatherhood and graue wisdome hoping some small good may accrew thereby vnto my deere Mother the Church of England a sound member and obedient child whereof I professe my selfe to be farre from Poperie and farther distant if farther may be from all itching vpstart Schismaticall humor going the Kings High-way and fighting as others haue done before me contra Dextrarios sinistrarios I haue better learned my Religion out of Tertullian and others that the first Religion is the best and that the higher we steppe the neerer we approach vnto the truth And if this small attempt of mine graced by your Honourable Patronage shall but worke in my poore seduced Countrymen and Compatriots a true loue of Antiquitie and detestation of all Popish corruptions in defacing and dâ—sgracing of all manner of good Bookes to God onely be the glorie I haue my desire Resteth nothing but to shew my willing readinesse and ready willingnesse to be imployed by your Honourable Lordship in any seruice that commeth within the compasse and spheâ—re of my small knowledge and poore abilitie and so I rest Lond. 26. April 1625. Your Honourable Lordships in all dutie to command Tho. Iames. The points that are briefly handled in this Booke OF the sufficiencie of holy Scripture for saluation c. 1 2. Of the iustification of Man 14 3. Of good Workes 19 4. Of Priests Marriage 23 5. Of the authoritie of generall Councels 27 7. Of the Ciuill Magistrate 29 7. Of Purgatorie 57 8. Of Indulgences 61 8. Of Prayers for the Dead 67 9. Of Reliques and Pilgrimages 67 10. Of Funerals and Diriges 72 11. Of Adoration of Images 73 12. Of the Inuocation of Saints 81 13. Of the Sacrament of Penance 83 14. Of Auricular Confession 85 15. Of Satisfaction and Contrition 88 16. Of the authoritie of the Church 90 17. Of the Lords Supper 95 18. Of the certaintie of Saluation 97 19. Of Rome 98 20. Of Cardinals and Bishops 101 21. Of Popish Priests 103 22. Of Popish Monkes and Friars 109 23. Of Miracles 114 Errata Pag 3. b â—â—milio reade â—unilio p 4. c pretera r preterea ib. l. 2 collected summed vp r. collected and summed vp ib. esta perfecta r. esca perfecta p 6. c. Iud r. â—nd ib. â— confugium r. confugimus p. 7. p poâ—iendâ— r. ponenda ib. x Val r. Vat. p 8. z Luic in ex r. Lincoln in ep ib. b scita decretas r sciâ—a decretaque ib. c disputandi r disputanda ib. f curiosaâ— r. curiosae ib g Quaedam esca est praelator est perfect r quaedam esca est praeâ—atorum perfect p 8 It s common r Its commones ib i qui nouit r. quod nouit ib. k coarctatuu
iurisdiction Where we attribute to the Kings Maiestie the chiefe Gouernment by which title we vnderstand the minds of some slanderous folkes to be offended we giue not to our Prince the ministring either of Gods Word or of the Sacraments the which thing the Iniunctions also set forth by Elizabeth our late Queene do most plainely testifie But that onely prerogatiue which wee see to haue been giuen alwaies to all godly Princes in holy Scriptures by God himselfe that is that they should rule all Estates and degrees committed to their charge by God whether they be Ecclesiasticall or Temporall and restraine with the Ciuill sword the stubborne and euill doers This thirtie seuenth Article explained and maintained by the Papists in these subsequent Propositions 1. THe Kings Maiestie hath the chiefe power in this Realme of England and other his Dominions 2. Ouer all persons in all Causes whether they be Ecclesiasticall or Ciuill 3. The King is not subiect to any forraine iurisdiction 4. Hee may restraine with the Ciuill sword the stubburne and euill doers The first Proposition The Kings Maiestie hath the chiefe power in this Realme of England and other his Dominions I Must craue pardon of euery honest Reader if I inlarge my papers in this point and the propositions following beyond my first proposall for that I take it to bee a piece of my alleageance for me and all of my coate not onely to oppose those paper walles but to interpose our deerest liues betweene the King and danger if need require Danger there is and euer will be to Kingly power as long as their bloody Inquisition-house shall stand at Rome for if their transcendent and vniustifiable power be not limited they will in time to come if they may haue their willes quod absit first thrust Kings out of their bookes and then out of their Kingdomes But the best is nocumenta documenta his most excellent Maiestie being forewarned is forearmed not only to preueut the danger by their bookes but by their mischieuous persons with a iust deleantur both out of his Kingdome and State Wee may see their euill intents in their thrice accursed Indices Expurgatorij If a flower of Regall authoritie do begin to bud forth it is presently nipped off with their vlcerous hands For example Place we the King according to our bounden duties by the Lawes of God and men in a Throne higher than all other men because he hath no Peere or Compeere vpon earth that can equalize much lesse ouertop Honore quolibet sublimiorem quum habeat dignitatem this doctrine was taught vs long agoe by Agapetus the Deacon and other ancient Writers whose steppes the Papists pretend to follow and who but they that seeme to reuerence their graue sentences and gray haires Neuerthelesse you see a crosse in the Margent and you shall find a Deleatur in their books or a Caue as if you had trod vpon a Serpent I haue an ancient Manuscript in my keeping that made an hard shift to come vnto mee for he almost lost his coate by the way but ragged and torne as he is he hath these words which doe serue to bee written in letters of gold because they speake the Supremacy in expresse tearmes and accord with this our Article The King hath no liuing person aboue him in his Kingdome who then dares appeale from him Vnlesse it be some traiterous Becket or other that passing the Seas raised such seas of trouble in this Kingdome that he had welnigh ouerwhelmed both King and State if the prouidence of God had not the better preserued them as may appeare in our English Stories But leauing Becket to be fully displaied in all his colours and prooued to bee as he is a notorious Traytor notwithstanding all their shifts that would apologize for him I proceed and further shew that there is iust occasion giuen vs to feare that if this old Manuscript had lighted into the Papists hands either this leafe should haue bin purged or torne or the whole booke made away that it should neuer haue come in euidence against them For Manuscripts as well as other books whether Greeke or Latin old or new are the subiect or obiectum adaequatum of their damnable vnheard of and Diabolicall censures But to resume my first Proposition againe that the Kings Maiestie hath next vnder God the chiefe power in this Realme is a doctrine so harsh and distasteful in their mouthes that there is a Deleatur wheresoeuer it is found non habet in terris se quicquam excelsius He hath no man greater vpon earth is shamefully put forth and cleane turned out of an ancient Writer in their Bibliotheque of ancient Fathers This very sentence in other words in Lud. Viues Epistle vnto King Henrie the eight hath endured the like purgation and is washed away cleane out of the booke Now to grow to a conclusion If the Papists doe so ill entreate Kings in their bookes I leaue you to imagine what they would doe to their persons if they could as easily come by them But nouerint vniuersi I would haue all men know that the more they corrupt the lesse they gaine in the iudgement of any indifferent Papist not too much Romanized and of fauour let me aske them this question and let them answere mee if they can vpon their consciences doe these sentences that they haue caused to bee blotted and blurred make against them or not If they doe not they make themselues ridiculous by taking so much labour in vaine the Thalmud of the Iewes nor the great Theater of Zuinger amongst the Protestants nor Tostatus or Salmeron among your Papists nor any booke in any Science haue wearied your patiences or terrified your Inquisitors from prying into their bookes or corrupting their writings if they doe make against you and your doctrine which cannot subsist without these notorious shiftings and shufflings wrenchings and wrincklings the more dishonest men you that while the controuersies are depending and the questions are in disputing doe shamefully either suborne Authors to beare false witnesses to testifie vntruths or suppresse and subuert the testimonies that make against you To close vp this first Proposition and your mouthes if it be possible this first Proposition standeth inuiolable The Kings Maiesty hath the chiefe power in this Realme of England and other his Dominions The second Proposition Ouer all persons in all causes whether they be Ecclesiasticall or Ciuill HEarken then I pray you to your own Writers Claudius Espencaeus a man of singular note trencheth vpon this troublesome question and decideth it thus Hauing spoken of Saint Pauls omnis anima Let euery soule be subiect to the higher powers expounded by Chrysostome whether he bee Apostle or Euangelist Prophet Priest or Monke which exposition is seconded by Theodoret Theophylact Oecumenius and what Greeke Writer dares oppose against it he inferreth these words Yea Gregorie the first Gregorie the Great doth ingenuously acknowledge
Tho. Gascoigne    1478  Dominicus de Dominicis   Laur. Valla.      Car. Militzius 1480  Gabr. Bieli   Fr. Guicciardinus 1480  Hier. Sauanarola   Io. Roffensis 1494  Wern de Rollowinck   Nigellus Wirocher 1511  Nic. Kus   Anon. Vetus scripter 1511  Io. Keyserberg   Conr. a Liechtenawo 1514  Friar Flechen   Io. Auentinus 1518  Caietanns   Henricus Henriquez   Cassander    In this Catalogue I haue mentioned none but such as were esteemed at the least of their Church and complained of the sundry abuses of it I haue purposely omitted these that follow P. Valdus Io. Wickleph Walter Brute Guil. Swinderby Ric. Turmyn Io. Cleydon Io. Puruey Henr. Token Nic. Russe Ric. Hume These were all Waldenses Wickleuists or Hussiâ—es you will neuer accept of their testimonies when they are brought against you and I am very well prouided without them to make good these two Propositions 1. That there is no such treasure of the Church wee haue but carbones pro the sauro 2. If there be or put case there be yet they are ill distributed and as they are bought and sold cannot bee defended These two Propositions are maintained and explained by the Papists to whose writings I haue confined my selfe when I might as you perceiue by that which hath been written haue made vse of a great many more testimonies both pregnant and pertinent to my purpose but these and a few Parchments shall suffice The first Proposition That there is no such Treasure of the Chureh WHatsoeuer Pontanus the Iesuite out of that of Virgil InfectuÌ„ eluitur scelus aut exoritur ignis proues Purgatory yet you haue heard that Polydore Virgill could neither fetch Purgatory nor Purgatory Pardons so farre because the Well was deepe and his bucket would not reach so farre Fr. Polygranus in his Catholike Assertions knoweth no other Pardons nor I then such as by the Law of God any ordinary Priest might giue vnto a true penitent that is to pronounce him absolued before God Hee doth this but declaratiue or ministerially it is God alone that doth truly forgiue sinnes and acquit vs both a paena a culpa I alone saith he by the Prophet Isay doe put away or put out the sinnes of my people Also Ambrose Hee and none but he forgiueth sinnes that died for thee And Saint Augustine most elegantly concludes the Chorus in these words No man can take away our sinnes but Christ alone which is the immaculate Lambe that taketh away the sinnes of the World hee taketh them away both by pardoning them that are already committed and by keeping vs from committing any more and by bringing vs to heauen where it is impossible to sinne any more More then this what can be said to take away the Keyes from the Pope and giue them to the true owner Christ To point vs out with the finger or to direct vs to the true Treasure of the Church the Merits of our Sauiour the true Purgatorie of Christs blood and thus much briefly of the first Proposition The second Proposition That Indulgences if they had been good at their first institution which can neuer be prooued being abused as they are and euer will be are not to bee tolerated any more in the Church of Christ THe Pope whom Polygranus in the place before cited which I had forgotten to tell you maketh the sole Steward and distributer of this Treasure for that they were abused when they were in the hands of euery ordinary Priest to be disposed and distributed as liked them best pretendeth the good of the Church by his Croisadoes and building of Saint Peters Fabrique But he intendeth nothing lesse then the aduancement of the true Crosse and the publishing of Saint Peters doctrine but the diuiding and sharing of so many millions amongst his new made Cardinals which hee had fleeced but a little before taking for the making of thirtie Cardinals not passing fiue hundred thousand Crownes Alack when shall our Sauiours precept come in date gratis accepistis gratis date that they would bestow that freely which freely they haue receiued But it may bee said or feared at the least that some of their Popes come not so freely by their Chaire and therefore make a common Matte of these Pardons As Pope Boniface being both a couetous wretch and a Simoniack sent not his Disciples as Christ did to preach but his Brokers to trade for Pardons â—ffering his plenarie Pardons so cheape that many began to loath them and waxe wearie of them for there was no sinne so hatefull no crime so enormous but it was bought out for ready money This was the second foule abuse of Pardons But if wee cast our eyes vpon the History of the Councell of Trent we shal see many horrible abuses of Pardons that could not be related without teares as first that Leo 10. should giue the benefit of his IndulgeÌ„ces to his sister Magdalen wife vnto Franceschetto Cybo Innoc. 8. his bastard Secondly the Pardoners in Tauernes and elsewhere in Games and other things not fit to be named spent them The Trent-Masters durst not name all the abuses either for shame or modestie belike but one Tho. Gascoigne that was sometime Chancellor of this Vniuersitie and might haue been Bishop of this Realme hauing publikely read against the abuses of Indulgences in his Lectures at Oxon and shewed that they were cause of much wickednesse afterwards he relateth these particulars That they were carried vp and downe the Country in Baskets and either sold for sixe pence foure pence or two pence or giuen for a game at Tennis for a cup of Ale and worse matters that is in plaine English for lying with awench He himselfe is much against the Popes changing penance into money and farther sheweth that there was a Doctor English belike at the Councel of Basil disprouing Indulgences out of a Paper-booke of the Councels in Durham Colledge The booke of Councels which the Doctor vsed is now fairely bound and charily preserued in Balliol Colledge and the authoritie that is cited out of that booke against Indulgences is to this effect to proue that the Pope cannot sell his Pardons and if he did they would be of no force arguing neither charitie in the one nor piety in the other This I speak only vpon my own coniecture grounded vpon these two reasons first because there be foure books of Sermons Acts and other passages in that Councell and secondly because he doth treate of this point somewhat largely and with an English freedome But esteeme of its authoritie as you will To draw this point to some conclusion I know your eares by this time begun to glowgh to heare of so much baggage stuffe seeing the doctrine of Indulgences take it at the best
generall report that marched vncontrouled through out all the world but hee doth as baâ— or rather worse he saith he hath heard it from credible men of good iudgement as well Protestants as Papists that this was but a trick of State to lay it vpon the Romane Catholiques when they that had a hand in the penning of the Proclamation were the chiefe Auctours and contriuers of this Conspiracie y que siue de sus acostumbrados ardides de estado para fundar con color de iustitia la persecution que querian reuouar and that it was one of their old trickes of State to lay a foundation of a persecution of the Romane Catholiques that was intended shortly to follow after and to shadow it vnder pretences of seeming iustice Was the like spightfull man euer heard to vomite and belch our these wordes against our late King State so dangerously vntrue so deuilishly inuented and vented abroad in diuers languages And these wordes fell not from his penne by misaduenture for in an other place of this infernall booke being occasioned againe to speake of the powder Treason though he grant that there were eight or six Knights more or lesse very boyes or youthes that had a finger in the Powder Treason being drawne into this hellish plot by the cunning perswasions of the Protestants themselues as the report geeth this is the most that con be saide against them But admit it be so as our Aduer saries would haue it although as I haue saide before it is voyced publiquely by many and those most graue and substantall persons to the contrary that all was but apolitique inuention of the State and a snare to intrap them silly sonles whereby it may appeare that those which should haue put this treason in execution were the Authors and plotters of it Here are the same words twice repeated note them well and call to minde that if this Treason which God did miraculously preuent and confound had quod ab sit taken effect it should haue beene bruted and rumored abroad that this had bene the fact of the Puritants to set the Puritants and the Protestants together by the eares and whilst they had beene sheathing their swordes one in anothers bowels the Spaniards might haue come in and cut all their throates Heere hence I draw a double obseruaaion one of the wily Spaniard who knowing that his Maiestie and the State was iustly incensed against the Puritants cast all the enuie they can vpon them the fall of the House in the black Friars was vpon Puritants the King was or should haue bene deposed by the Puritants the powder Treason should haue bene wrought and brought to passe by Protestant Puritants The other obseruation is this that there is no report so hellish diuellish or incredible but a Romanist or Hispaniolized Papist will soone beleeue it if it bee told him in ordine ad Deum or to make the King of Spaine their Master Master of the Land in whose pay as it were the most of them are already as Villalpandus saith congratulating the King of Spaine for getting more ground of the English by a Treatie of peace then his Father could doe by an open warre But to draw this relation to an end is there any true hearted Papist in this land that hath but any sence of religion or any droppe of English blood in his body or any thing of a man in him that can indure these enormous diuelish and hellish opprobries and calumnies that are cast vpon the King State and Religion And in your vnpartiall iudgements doth not the Auctour the late reporter of the powder Treason deserue to bee beaten all to powder that neither searing God nor men dares report such insamous lies that in a superlatiue degree of infamie touch this State and then cause the booke thus published to bee translated into diuers languages I know you can not but thinke that your vncatholike religion doth suffer for these false reports To come neerer to my purpose you were best denie that there be any Indices expurgatorij that searse medle with the marginall notes muchlesse with the Text of your owne men Or if it bee it is but in praecept only it is not in practise but for purging and expurging the Fathers God forbid that any thing should bee spoken of your Indices it cannot be shewed it cannot be proued so say your ghostly Fathers and so say you But I say that each part and member of this accusation shall bee iustified to your faces to your shame First for your Indices cease off for very shame to deny it wee haue these many knowne I haue seene the first of Antwerpe that Iunius reprinted three of Spaine one of Portugal another of Naples and the first Tome of that which is the Master Index of all other of Rome Marginall notes and Annotations you doe in a manner acknowledge to be deseruedly put forth and words in the text are shamefully corrupted by sundry Additions subtractions and wilfull commutations sometimes in the reprinting of new bookes but mostly by the penne You haue no great care or appetite to reprint any of those Auctours workes that come vnder your diuelish censures but if they be reprinted iuxta mandatum Inquisiciouis Hispanicae or Romanae then make no doubt but they will keepe touch with you vnlesse it be in France where this kinde of Inquisition was neuer yet fully receiued See the later Editions of the probable Fathers in I know not how many Tomes Polydor Virgill of Rome print Eman. Sa. and sundry other but if they faile in reprinting them they haue no great stomake to it as I haue told you yet they faile not with the penne to blot out all the places that are to bee expunged and let me see the proudest Scholler amongst you all that dares keepe a booke vnpurged by them it is a kinde of Praemunire losse of bookes and finable if it amount not to perpetuall imprisonment This is plainly manifested both out of the paine contained in the Indices and out of the bookes themselues that come vnto vs by diuine prouidence especially from the Colledge of Cadiz After this manner Did. Stella Io. Ferus Guil. Budaeus remaine to this day in the publique Library some whole leaues pasted together the sentences blotted and the bookes tormented in a pittifull manner that it would grieue any mans heart to see them and this was done by publique Authority according to the prescript forme of your Expurgatorie Indices the Inquisitors name is either fore scribed or subscribed to euery booke It were a world to see Krantzius and Auentine as they come out of their hands There are some a priuate persons in Oxford that haue bookes in like sort expunged and sigued with the Inquisitors hands What might the number bee of all those thinke wee that came out of that Colledge It is no maruell then if Massarena the Bishop or any other offered such large
summes for to haue had the bookes againe they feared belike that their knauery would come forth and the mystery bee vnfolded of this worke of darkenesse which since that time hath lyen no more secret in corners but is now knowne to the body of all Christendome and herehence by sight of your bookes thus scored or printed occasion is giuen to the wiser sort of Papists to thinke it must needes bee a weake and bad cause that needeth to be supported by weake and bad shifts But the last obiection of all is that the Fathers are not purged no text of the Fathers in any Index is purged or expunged say ye so what say ye to Saint Cyrill Eucherius Intextu deleatur the like may bee said of Greg. Nyssene Saint Iohn Chrysostome Agapetus and diuers others either in their owne workes or in other mens workes of great Antiquitie purged and repurged and expurged againe What your purpose is I know not I do easyly imagine that it is to no great good of our religion that you haue fiue times at the least printed seuerall Editions of the Bibliotheca Sanctorum Patrum first printed by Bigne and lately at Coleyne with additions of I know not how many volumes with Iesuiticall notes and Annotations in Greeke and Latine and so much for this ninth obseruation which I haue the rather insisted vpon so long because it containeth the marrow and pith of all the rest 10. These men that beare witnesse for vs are no meane Fellowes abiect Writers or contemptible persons but the glory of those dayes the honour of those times the great Lampes and Ornaments of their Romish Church some of them Inquisitors but grone now vnder the Inquisition themselues quis enim custodiat ipsos custodes but as I haue elsewhere and may hereafter more fully shewed there is no more certaintie in their censures then there is assurednesse in their religion which is iust none at all But briefely and orderly that you may know of what great account they were at the latter end of this booke you shall perhaps haue an Alphabeticall Table that out of their own censures shall demonstrate this point to the full Lastly you see by these Indices if flesh and blood might haue preuailed by the secret operation of the Deuill how the Pontificians would haue taken from vs and the World so many testimonies of Fathers middle aged Writers and of all sorts all at one time and as it were blowne them vp like Faâ—xes in the Vaught but that God is mightier then men the truth then lyes by this one act of theirs and that a diuelish one But God hath blowne as it were the Powder into their owne faces filling them with shame and confusion laying their nakednesse open to the eye of the World insomuch that all wel-minded men doe either hisse or laugh at it seeing our Religion reasonably well confirmed and established by their owne men What pittie had it been that so many Noble Writers and worthy Authors should haue perished from vs and them And thereby any man of the meanest capacitie may thence draw forth this conclusion that God had his Church in the middest of Poperie and speciall men that in euery age did reclaime and declaime against their foule abuses both in doctrine and life These are the knees that neuer bowed to Baal the men that truly serued God though it were in secret which if they had been free to speake their minds and their minds had been fully knowne to vs they would most willingly haue imbraced our Religion and made a greater reformation then that of Luthers and that of the Princes of Germanie which was by the secret Iudgement of God to be performed in ore gladij cruentati as was long prophecied before I close vp all with this admonition that all the materiall places by me cited and by them expunged or expurged carry this note †of the Crosse before them to shew that the Authors endured the Crosse for Christ and were persecuted for righteousnesse sake Concerning the Manuscript Copies by me cited they are after proofes and not many hauing the figure of a hand ☞ to direct you Rome was not built vpon a day I haue cited but a few and those for the most part neglected and trod vnder foote they are all of them almost innominable bookes but not feigned by me but written and vrged many yeares agoe the character and letter will best shew the time and some circumstances may hereafter better discouer vnto vs the Authors but be they who they will in many points of doctrine they are wholly ours By that time we haue gone ouer all the vnprinted Manuscript Copies in both Vniuersities the famous Librarie of Sir Robert Cotton and other priuate Libraries is there not great hope of much good to bee done for the publike benefit of the Church If I had but halfe a dozen of such as I know that are both willing and able for pittie let not the Iesuite vpbraide vs any longer with his Nemo eos conduxit for want of due incouragement and imployment in this sacred and weightie businesse Some such matter hath been motioned in Conuocation Oh let it not be said as it was once spoken of of our Conuocations and Congregations here in Oxford that they were cause of much euill because they were inutiles sine fructu I complaine not for my selfe I thanke God I haue somewhat to liue on and to pay euery man his owne but there is somewhat else to be done vnlesse I would bee an Infidell and deny the Faith of the Church of England notwithstanding all their flatteries and false promises I haue gotten those small Benefices that the late Lord Bishop of Canterbury and this present with my Lord of Bath and Wels euer to be remembred by me with all thankefulnesse freely and without sute or seeking without gift or reward without cure of soules or charge of men Let any Priest or Iesuite beyond the Sea shew mee that their Abbots and Bishops haue done the like so freely so vnasked and I will resigne these vp vnto them which I am not minded yet to doe as my Predecessor did shewing one Italian tricke for our learning And thus taking my leaue I rest yours in the Lord wishing the Aduersaries to answere this booke if they haue a mind to it 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 not by snatches and catches as some haue done but punctually and throughly auoyding personall calumniations and truly quoting their authorities in the beginning or end of their bookes HERE FOLLOWETH A PROFESSION OF THE Catholike Faith set out according to the Decree of the Councell of Trent I.N. doth with a steadfast faith beleeue and professe all and euery point contained in the Symbole of the Faith that the holy Romane Church doth vse to wit to beleeue in God the Father Almighty maker of Heauen and Earth of all things visible and inuisible And in one Lord Iesus