lands and âonours determinable onely by our tempoâall lawes with others cannot come to his auââence except such imaginaries could aâd âould put Ministers out and Priests into âe Benifices of England A secret and consioable ending of many of these matters amoÌg âatholikes though iuridically can be no âore daunger in a Bishop then in a Regulaâârieste If diuersitie of Iudgments should âme time happen in the Iudgment of one a âshop giuen in priuate the inconuenience âuld be lesse the now it is by the IâdgemeÌts â many Priests all of them as much differing âm the Protestants Censures and âribunals as those by a Bishop would be Yet these fewâ cases would chance but seldome We see the Queenes Priests of France and Sotland to be permitted by the king and state to deaâe with English Catholâks âome times brânging such caâes So are all Priests of all Orders litle pleasing vnto the necessitated to doe so But seeing there can be no daunger by sucâ secret procedings none can take that officâ from a learned Bishop and leaue it to euerâ Priest learned or not 9. Such or greater difficulties were froâ the Apostles time and therein in them anâ Bishops their Successours among Ethnicâ and Pagan Princes yet the holy Scripturs before and Apostolike men haue taught aâ men obedience vnto Bishops euen in suâ daies and all good Christians did so obâ them Saint Peter in Scripture strangely eâ communicated Ananias and Saphira So dâ S. Paul Hymineus Alexander and the inceâtuous Corinthian So did the other Apostlâ among Pagans exercise spirituall Iurisdâction So did all Bishops among Infidels vâ till the Emperours and Princes more differiâ from Catholiks the Protestants should weâ conuerted yet at that time they exercised spârituall IurisdictioÌ and the Christians obeyâ them And now at this time and long vndâ the Turks Tartars Chinenses and other eâmies to Catholiks Catholik Bishops doe eâercise their Iurisdiction among the Christiâ and all obeye ât This is the case of Catholiks vnder their Bishop in Holland among the Protestant Hoâlanders And in his Maiesties Dominion in âreâand where Bishops are and doe exeâcise tâeir Iuâisdictiân Catholiks obeying them And it is Christs ordânance that ââ they should doe God forbid any bearing the name Catholike in England âo renowned for holy Conâessouâs of true Religion in this time should be wanting in âuch dutie or any other 10. But because our Protestant Persecuâours pretend most exception against the Bishop of Chalcedon for dâriuing Iurisdiâtion from the âee of Rome we must needs âith all antiquitie deliuer vnto them that in âuery age from Christ we here in Britaniââaue receiued Bishops and Pastours with âheir Iurisdiction from the Sâe oâ Rome and âhat highest Papall power and authoritie âVe haue spoakeÌ before how in the fiâst Age âaint Peter the first Pope oâ Rome consecraâd Bishops and Priâsts and founded âhurches here We aâde âurther how our Proâstants eueâ king Iames himselfe and others ây his and their greatest authoritie conâsse of the Apostolik Church It is our motâer âurch And Adde Est capuâ Roma quatenus ab ea âffasum est Euangâlium in reliquas tâââus O ãâã âclâsias in muââas Orienââs aâque in âarâarââ etiâââtra Râmanum Impeââum Nationes Rome iâ the âd as sââ it the Gospell is diââused into the rest of the Churches of all the west and into many of the East as also into Barbarous Nations out of the RomaÌ Empiere Peter preached in no place but he there orâained Bishops and teachers and founded Churches The Apostle Peter did in euery Prouince appoint one Archbishop whome all other Bishops of the same Prouince should obey The Archbishop of Britanie was Aristobulus S. Clement his Successour Pope in the later end of this and in the beginning of the second age writeth of him concerning Britanie Sanctus Clemens and other CouÌtries Episcopos persingulas Ciuitates quibus ipse non misârat perdoctos nobis miââere praecepit Quod facere inchoauimus Domino opeâ ferente faecturi sumus He commaunded vs to send veâ learned Bishops vnto all Cities to which he had nâ sent any Which we haue begun to doe and by Gâ his healpe shall doe 11. In the second age also Pope Eleuthârius sent hither S. Damianus and Phaganâ his legats with others who consecrated anâ VVestm an â85 seated here three Archbishops with 28 Biâhops Templa qua in honorem plurimorum Deoââ fundata fueranâ vni Deo eiusque Sanctis dedicarunt diueâsisque Ordinatorum coetibus repleueruâ The Churches which were builded in the honour of âny Gods they dedicated to one God aÌd his Saints aÌd fâled theÌ with diuers âsseÌblies of such as had takeÌ Ordeâ And afterwards they being by King Luciâ sent to Rome to haue those things confirmâ Idem an 186. by the Pope which here in Britanie thâ had done Quibus peractis redierunt in Britannâ praefati Doctores cum alijs quamplurimis quorum â ârina gens Britonum in fide Christi fundata refulsit VVhich being ended the foresaied Doctours accomânied with many others returned againe into Britanie whose doctrine in a short time the Britans grounâed the faith of Christ florished And although in this âonuersion of Britanie that holy Pope subâcted the Countrie now called Scotland not âmporally subiect to king Lucius of Britanie Bedalib 1. hist. Angl. c. â â the Romans vnto our Archbishop of ârke Susceptamque fidem Britanm vsque in tempora âocletiani Principis inuiolatam integramque quieâa in âe seruabant The Britans did with peace keepe the âth they âad receiued whole and inuiolate vntill the âe of Dioclesianus the Emperour Yet in the beânning Hector Boeth lib. 6 Scote Histor fol. 86. B. of the third age Saint Victor then âing Pope of Rome Donaldus king there âud Victorem Pontificem per Legatos obâinuit vt âi doctrinà Religone insignes in Scotiam ab eo âsi se cum liberis coniuge Christinomen profitenâ hapâismate insignirent Regis exemplâm Scotica âbilitas secuta auersata impietatem Christique Reâonem complexa sacro fonte est abluta Donaldus ân King by Legats abtained from Pope Victor that ââhie men both for lerning and Religion might from â be sent into Scotland who might baptize himselfe â and Childrne professing the name of Christ The âish Nobilitie following the Kings example did cast ây impietie embraced the Christian Religion and â baptiâed And those Scots or Britans were âructed both in learning and Religion Ibidem those Priests and Preachers which Pope âtor sent Incaepere tum primum sacras colere literas Saâerdotiâus Praeââptoribus ques Victor Pontifâ Maximus ad Christi dogma propalandum in exââmam miserat Alâionem Then first of all they bâgun to studie the holy Scripturs vnder the Priââ their maisters which Victor the Pope had sâ into the farthest Albion to diuulge the doctrine Christ 12. When the Persecution of Diocâesiâ raged here 9. yeares many of our Britiâ Clergie sent
these Westerne parts that both Catholik and Protestant Antiquaries thus deliuer vnto vs âraediâabat ad flumen vsque âordensâ ad mare Sâoâum vbi Caledonios Athalos Horestos ac vicinaâm Ion. Baâââ descript Briten in ãâã Albaniae regionum Inâolas docendo monendo âr ando ad veritatis obseruationeÌânstigauit Ex dâsâults suis quosdam ad Orchades Insulas ad Norweââ Islandiam misit vt âorum instructioniâus fiâi quo que lumen recipeâent Nam in Elguensi Collegio âcentos sexaginta quinque literatos viros ad id âmper paraâos habebat praetâr reliquos alijs exercitijs âditos He preached aâ farre as to the riuer of Forde â the Scotish sea where he stiâed vp the Caledoâns Athaliâns Hoâests and the Inhabitaâts of â neighboring kângdoms to Aâbion vnto the obseruaân of ââueâh by teaching admonishing and ãâã ing â sent some ãâ¦ã disciples to the Iles of Orâi ades to â waye and âsland that ãâ¦ã instruââions they ãâ¦ã receiue the light of âaith For in âhe Collâdge âââgue he âad 365. learned âân alwaise readie for â purpose besides others imploted in other exerââ Saint Asaph his scholler a Bishop of ââtanie who as Protestants saiâ from Roân power Auâhââitatem ânctânem acceâit â tooke authoritâ and ãâã Sucâceded hâm â that great charge and gouernment of at Apostolike Colledge in VVales This S. ântegern being by all accounts a Bishop â0 yeares and disciple to S. âââuanus conââaâed Bishop by S. Paââad itâs who was senâ ther from S. Celestine Pope in or about the are 431. must needâ be liuing with Saint âaph at or a litle before Saint Augustinââmâning And as our Protestants saâe Saâââaph ioyned with Saint Augustine So Saint Asaph writer of his maister S. Kentegerns liâ proueth that S. Kentegern was at Rome whâ S. Gregorie was Pope and submitted hiâselfe to him in all things and was approueâ by him also in his Apostolike proceedings 16. In this time in the yeare 596. Saiâ Augustine was sent Legate hither by the saâ holy and learned Pope S. Gregorie who bâ his supreame Pastorall power gaue him spârituall authoritie ouer all Bishops and otheâ here in these his owne words vnto him Bâ tanniarum omnes Episcopos tuae Fraternitati commiâmus Beda l. 1. Eccles hist gentis Angl. c. 27. vt indocti doceantur infirmi persuasione reborâtur peruersi authoritate corrigantur We commit â the Bishops of Britanie to your Fraternitie that the â learned may be taught the weake by persuasioÌ strengââned the wicked corrected by authoritie By this Papâ power and authoritie all things were ordeâ in the Church of EnglaÌd in S. Augustins tiâ and all his Successours by the same autâritie were setled in that Archiepiscopall Sâ which he translated after 400. yeares froâ London to CaÌterburie All those Bishops vâ to the first Protestant Bishop called Mathâ Parker who was made by Q. Elizabeth bâ will and manner receiued Consecratioâ Pall power and Iurisdiction from the See Rome and they swore obedience vnto it their owne Parker Godwin Ioceline aâ others in the liues of them and those Yorke together with all Registers Recorâ Annals and Antiquities doe prooue partiââarly In generall for this place it sufficeth in these Protestants publikely approued confessions to write it in their owne words Archbishop Parker being the 70. Archbishop after Augustine yet of all that number he was the onely man and the first of all which receiued Consecration without the Popes Bulls 17. They assure vs that vntill the 23. of King Henry the eight a ssuming supreamacie to himselfe euery Bishop in England swore âuch obedience vnto the Pope Hoc Iuramentum â singulis Episcopis Papae praestari consueuit Obediens âro Beato Petro Sanctaeque Romanae Ecâlesiae Domino meo Domino Papae suisque successoribus Papatum Romanum Râgalia S. Petri adiutor ero ad retinendum defendendum saluo meo ordine contra âmnem âominem This Oath was accustomed to be taken by âuery Bishop I will be obâdient to S. Peter and to the Lord my Lord the Pope and to his Successours I will âe an helpeâ to hold and defend the Popedome of Rome ând Râtâ of S. Peter against all men In the yeare of Christ 1536. and 23. of King Henry S. they âare and the Statuts themselues so prooue Leges in Parlamento lataesunt de Rege supremo Ecclesiae Anglicanae Capite declarando de Clero Anglicano Regifulijâiendo Ne quid deinceps amplius Papae aut Romanae Cuâiae quot unque praetextu ex Anglia pendatur De Episcopis consecrandis alijsque quae Roma anâea geâebantur intra Regnum persierendis De Eccleââasticorum beneficiorum primitijs atque decimis Principi in perpetuum soluendis His legibus potentia Papalis quae nongentis amplius annis in Angliâ durauis âentidiâ Lawes were enacted in the Parliament of declaring the King to be supreame head of the English Church of subiecting the English Cleâgie to the King That nothing heareafter vnder what pretence soâuer in England shall depend of the Pope or the Court of Rome Of consâcrating Bishops and performing other aââairââ within the kingdome which before were done at Rome Of paying pârpetually to the Prince the fiâst fruites of Ecclesiasticall Benefices and Tiâhes By these lawes the Papall power which hath bâne in forââ for these nine hundred yeares did fall And this was âo strang a thing and wonder in the world to see the supremacie of the Pope of Rome thus taken from him by a temporall Prince afâer so many hundreds of yeares continuance and a lay man to stile himselfe supreame head of the Church that his very flatterers themselues crye out Habetur Conâilium Londini iâ quo Eccleâia Angliâanâ formam potestaââs nullis aâte temporibus visum induit Henricus enim Rex caput iâsius Ecclâsiâ constituitur At London there is holden a Councell in which the English Church haâh put on a power which in no times past was seene For King Henry is constituted head of that Church So large testimonie haue we from our greatest Aduârsaries witnessing that the Catholikes of England giue no other power or Iurisdiction to tâe Pope of Rome then he had euer without any inteâruption And in this we haue âhe generall assent of all our Kings Princes Bishops and others and all the Christians in the world from the timâ of Christ vntill long aâter the greater part of King Henrie the eight his reigne No King against it but he whom the Protestant Sir VValter Ralegh sufficiently discribeth his young sonne King Edward the sixth of that name ouerruled by Protestant Protectours and Qâeene Elizabeth a woman King Iames wiser then any of them hath leât it thus publickây in open assembly declared by his Regall sentence The kings Resolution is that no Church ought further to seâerate heâselfe froÌ the Church of Rome either in doctrine or Ceremonies then she hath departed from herselfe when she was in her floâishing
in the heauens and âhatsoeuer yee shall loose on earth shal be loosed in âe heauens God hath subiected to the hands of the âriests the Regall head theaâhing vs that this Prince greater theÌ that The thronâ power authoritie ând dignitie of Priests is aboue Regall this âleth onely in things temporall the Priest â heauenly The king of heauen hath giuen his power to his Priests and hath subiected âe Regall head to thâ hands of the Priests âeclaring vnto vs that this is a greater Prince âen he Neither hath he giueÌ such power vnto ângels or Archangels as to Priâsts Saâerdotibââââum est vt potestatem habâant quam Deus neque Chrysâst lib. 3. de Sacerdotio ângelis neque Archangelâs datam esse voluit Neque âim ad illos dictum est Quaeâunque alligaueritis in ârrâ erunt alligata in coelo Et quaecunque solueretiââ terrâ erunt soluta in âoelâ It is giuen to Priests âat they shall haue power which God would haue âuen neither to Angells nor Arâhangeââs For it is not âed to them Whatsoeuer you âhall bind vpon earth âall be bound also in heauen and whatsoeuer you shall âose on earth shall be loosed in heauen The power âf binding which is in Princes is onely ouer âodies that of Priests ouer soules and extenâeth to heauen Habent terrestres Principes vinâli potestatem verum corpârum solum Id autem quod Chrysoââ ibideâ ââo Sacordotum vinculum ipsam eâiam animam conângitatque ad coelos vsque peruadit Terreane Princes âlso haue the power of fetters but of the bodie onely âut that which I saie the bonds of Priests toucheth the âule it selfe and passeth vnto the heauens This is the doctrine deliuered by Christ so expâânded both by the Grââke and âââine Church in Britaniâ and all places with all persons all good Emperours Kinges and Princeâ of England and which the whole Christian worlde haâe euer profâssed and declared 17. And the world will witnesse euery where against persecuting England that the Cathâlikâ Pâiest and Clergie thereof be as leââned ââly religious and as saââ fââm exception and eueâ haue bene since they were persecuted ââmber for number as any âââgiâââ all Chââstian reâowned Naâions And of all Engâââh people they haâe most âoâoâred ânââeast ãâ¦ã offended their Pâinces or ãâ¦ã Câââcrie Most of them be and ãâ¦ã of noble or ãâã familiââ and alâââbred ââ and discended that thây haâe ãâã at home and abroad without ãâ¦ã or huâe They ãâã left ãâ¦ã places iâ ãâã and ãâã Englââd ãâ¦ã and all They ãâ¦ã Bâshoprâcks ãâã or ãâ¦ã but leaue ãâã to thâââr ãâ¦ã any ãâã Tribââes or ãâ¦ã From their Aduersaâies The Catholikeâ of ânglanâ ãâã these âo ãâ¦ã more the Protestants doe ãâ¦ã or many ãâã Presentations and ãâã which beâoâged ãâã their âo ââll into the lapse for the Protestant Bishops to bestowe as thây will Ouâ Catholikâ Priests haue no wiues or children to trouble the CoÌmon âealth withâll Pariâheâând pâaces of birth be not postered or charged with any âuâh nâr Schoââerships or Felâowships in Vnâuersitieâ which are not orâained for Ministerâ childrenâ Tenanâs are âot put out of their liuings nor the Church Riâches and liuings horded vp beggars made âut not releeued for any ãâã of Priests âr Priests fauourers All that be of their acâuintance in Religion are instructed in dutie âo God and Prince and be most true and âutifull Subiectâ to âheir king ân all occasioÌs âhâse caÌnot be the ãâã of a bad Religion 18. Their Religion vnder preâenâe whereâf they are presecuted they haue ofâeÌ in pubâshed bookes proued in euery point and ârticle to be onely true and now doe coÌââ it âât to pâeâse which will so demonstrate ãâã euery Article of thâ Pââseâutours Reâion euen by the Apostleâ and Apoâolike men and Fathers of that age in âhich they liued holy Scripturs and Proâstants themselueâ and they haue often âade most earnest and huÌbâe petitions lateâ pâblished in print to the Parlament ãâã publickly euen with vnequall condiâons to themselues and their causâââ dispute âd mâintainâ all and euery part of the doâine they hold and ãâã against the best âarned Protestant Bishops or ãâã their Persecutours And yet if meÌ would or should speake doe and proceede consequently as they which takââpon them to be teachers instructours and Reformers in Religion of all men in all times and places ought and without vtterly disabling themselues therein are bound A Prieste or Bishop that saieth Maâse absolueth penitents or reconciâeth men to the Catholike faith by power authoritie or Iurisdiction from Rome is no more guiltie of so âermed treason by the ParlameÌt Protestant Acts and lawes then all other Ecclesiasticall ParlameÌt an ãâã Elizab. Statute 2. Parlam 1. Iacob Parlam â Carâli personâ dâacons or others inferiours Religious of what name title or degree soeuer as SubdeacoÌs Acolythists Exorcists or others wanting all such power as is euident by that oâ Queene Elizabeth receiued and prosecuteâ by king Iames aÌd king Charles Priests therefore are not or should not be so prosecuteâ for their Priestlie functions God forbyd any English minded man or louer of Englanâ should thinke or wish it a thing so penall anâ capitall for any InhabitaÌt of England or English man to be borne abid or remaine in hiâ beloued natiue Countrie of England thougâ he weâe a meaner and more vnworthie maâ then any meanest Priest of England is 19. The Protestants thus deriue our Clergââ Succession Thâ first Parlament of Qâ Câmbd Annal pag 36. ââizabeth being ended the Oath of thâ Queens supreamacie was proposed to the Catholike Bishops and Ecclesiasticall Persons many as refused to sweare were depriued their benefices dignities and Bishopriks â Rulers of Churches 50. Prebendaries 5. âisters of Colledges 12 Archdeacons 12. âanes and 14. Bishops all that then âemaiâ except one Anthonie Bishop of Landaffe â calamitie of his See and âome commitâed prison in the Tower Fleete Marshallea â kings Bench. How reuerend and learned ân those of our Clergie then weâe and they âch immediately ioyned with the and coÌtiâd a SuccessioÌ of renowned Clergie Priests â memorable bookes and writings of very ây of them in defence of Catholike Reliân ther honour therby registred among â must worthie writers and their glorie in whole Church of Christ are warrant to posteritie I am an vnworthie witnesse â many older and of more frequeÌt conuersaâ with Priests then I can better testifie that âhin 25 yeares of the Reigne of Queene Eâbeth when so many from our Seminaries â come hither that at one time there were â of them Prisoners in the Marshallea and ây of them put to death There were then ây of Queene Maries Priests depriued and âsecuted by Queene Elizabeth still liuing â labouring here in this holy cauâe and âst of them were very learned as they were â which were sent from our Seminaries to âplie their number and ioyne with them as âers published bookes from them their
able to destroâe all Obedience Religion and dutie eyther to God or man for the first defining to those of their Religion and declaring that The visible Church of Christ is a Congregation of faitâfull men in the wâich the pure worde of God is preached and the Sacraments be duly ministred according to Christs ordinance in all those things that of necessitie are requisite to the same And making the Patriarchall Churches of IerusaleÌ Alexandria Antioche and Rome the chiefest commaunding Churches by which all others must be ruled and gouerned and yet it is concluded of them all that they Hauâ erred in matters of faith They take all true faith and Religion which of all things must be most certaine out of the world For no man will or can be of a Religion which is assuredly vntrue nor worship him for God which will so deceââe vs. And to no purpose to finde truthe but to confirme Infidelitie it is said in the 20. Article The Church hath power and authoritie in Controuersies of faith the Church is a witnesse and keeper of holy writ For if the highest Iudge witnesse and keeper of holy writ and hauing authoritie in Controuersies of faith being to be obeyed of all may thus erre all men should thereby be bound to such error and eternally to be damned No man would be a Christian with such condition No man is likely so to be a true subiect for the certaintie of Religion which causeth certaintie of obedience and dutie to Princes being takeÌ away the other will faile 4. This they confirme in their 21. Article Of the authoritie of generall Councels making them though they represent the whole and vniuerâall Church to haue no more power or certainetie And if we should followe the Parâaments of our Countrie much vnequall to âhe whole Churches Iudgment we should âinde that they haue often and most inexcuâably erred by their owne Iudgements and confessions And So the Conclusion may be âuch as Athests and prophaine contemners of Religion and all dutie to God Princes and âthers in authoritie vse aÌd practise Their 22. Article intituled Of Purgatorie denying the âoctrine of the Roman Church concerning âurgatorie Pardons Images Relicks and ânuocation of Saints must needs occasiân âore neglect of good life and dutie then the Catholike doctrine For first the deniall of Purgatorie and punishment for sinne there after death if it be ioyned with the Protestant doctrine before of sinnes forgiuen by faith and ministeriall absolution from all guilt or paine thereby denying any teÌporall paine to be inflicted for or due for sinne ouerthroweth all penalties penance or punishment any Consistorie ciuill or Ecclesiasticall should inflict for any offence For where none is due or to be done in iustice it may not be inflicted And this is more theÌ any Pardons or IndulgeÌce the Pope himselfe doth giue or may vse euery pretended beleeuer or Minister taketh more authoritie vpon him herein No vse of holy Images or Reliks vsed by Catholikes can be offensiue in any CoÌmon-wealth but it rather teacheth honour and dutie which the Protestant opinioÌ doth not He that will haue or vse respect doe honour or reuereÌce to the representing signe or part of any will rather doe it to him they represent then he that denieth it And for honour to Saints he that will not honour them in heaueÌ and glorie will sooner be vnmindefull of their dutie to persons which are to be honoured on earth with terreane honour then he that honoureth and praieth vnto Saints in glorie 5. The next Articles 23. and 24. haue litle belonging to this purpose Their 25. Article of Sacraments saying they be Certaine sure witnesses and effectuall signes of grace and Gods good will towards vs by which he dotâ worke inuisibly in vs. Of seauen Sacraments they onely retaine two and the first of theÌ is Baptisme which they minister to infants They leaue here the whole life of man and all states without grace for their callings They barre the married froÌ the grace of wedlock or matrimonie Ecclesiasticall persons from all grace in Orders all that liue from the grace of Confirmation offendors from grace by penance Those that are sicke from the grace of Extreame vnction And for the Lords supper as they terme their Communion holding that it doth condemne and hurt those that be in sinne and neuer ministring vnto any but such as be of yeares subiect to many sinnes not taking theÌ away by any other Sacrament or meanes this cannot giue grace but rather damnation to the receiuers being in their owne Iudgment vnworthie Receiuers and receiuing to their damnation as they thus declare in their 29. Article The wicked allthough they doe carnally and visibly presse with their teeth the Sacrament of the bodie and blood of Christ yet in no wise are they partakers of Christ but rather to their condemnation doe eate and drinke the signe or Sacrament of so great a thing When Catholikes doe not communicate but after their sinnes be forgiuen in the Sacrament of Penance Confession and absolution of all sinnes So that by this Article Protestants haue no meanes to take away any but Originall sinne in Inâanâs none for any actuall sinne but without all grace are left alone to all vndutifulnesse disobedience and other sinnes from which Catholikes are by grace giuen in Sacraments preserued and made free and abled to performe their dutie to God and their Princes 6. The 26. Article hath nothing belonging to this question neither the 27. Article following of Baptisme hath any thing needing examine in this matter Their 28. of the Supper of the Lord denying Transsubstantiation and the Reall presence of Christ in the Eucharist and consequently the reuerence and honour due therevnto will not breede more honour to Princes on earth they not hauing more title theÌ Christ and by him of honour And they hauing before declared that the Sacraments be effectuall signes of grace and here giuing all prerogatiue to Imagined faith saying The meane whereby the bodie of Christ is receiued and eaten in the supper is faith they attribute nothing to any signe or Sacramentall thing and that Imaginatiue faith is a false faith For except as Catholiks hold Christ be truely present there by the omnipotent promise word and worke of God it is vnpossible faith should be a meane to receiue Christs bodie there True faith is onely of true and not of false things And so againe these men leaue to themselues no Sacrament to giue them grace in all their course of life after Baptisme when they are infants and so must needs be disabled to serue God or their Prince as they should and all men are bound to doe 7. The 29. Article confirmeth this as I haue deliuered before And their 30. Article of both kindes by their doctrine attributing all to their Imagined confuted false faith confirmeth it also And their assertion there That the Cupe by Christs commandment ought to be ministred to all Christian men Is
approued and practised in tâ Church of Christ in and by those so genârally receiued and professed Ritualls anâ Doctrinalls of Religion And therefoâ those pure Protestanâs which call Cathâlikes vsually in respect of their Doctrinâ Papists and their holy Religion Papistriâ Papisme Romanisme or the like confesâ plainly that Saint Augustine from Saiâ Gregorie bâought hither Masses Altars Vesments Chalices Relickes Massing Priests prayer Saincts for the Deade and to be briefe Românisme Papistrie all which they terme no Io. Bal. l. de Scripto Brit. cen tur c. 2. de Act. Poatif Rom. in Gregor Franc. Godwin conuers of Britan. Dââââl Poweâl in Giralâ Cambr. in our Catholikes Superstitionâ And nâ only Saint Augustine thus taught and deliâred but Qâââne Bââtha the French Ladiâ and her Bishoâ ãâã Lethardus did tâ same and King Eâhelbert with his Couâtrie waâ conuerted to that Religion Conuâsus âxoris Berthae âersuasione âthelbertus Rex Râmanismum cum a liunâââs supârstitionibus suscepâ King âthelbert being conuerted by the peâsuasion hiâ wife he imbraced Romanisme with all it 's Supâstitionâ 15. So we haue not only S. Augustine our âpostle with his Assistants but S. Gregorie âe Church of Rome Italie and all Subiects that See Apostolike our King Queene âd all here agreeing then with vs in this Roâanisme Papisme and Papistâie for which âe are now persecuted And this our Conârsion S. Asaph in vit Sâ KeÌtegerni Câpgrau in eod D. Bal. l. de Scriptor centur 1. in Kenâigernâ to the truâ Apostolike Religion of âhrist which is the same Catholikes now âosesse as both Catholikes and Protestants knowledge was miraculously prooued ad âretold by the words of God his prophetiâll holy Bishop S. Keâegerne long before in âe declination of the Britans that God âould giue Britanie ouer to Forraine Naâns which knewe not God and Chriânae legis Religio vsque ad praefinitum tempus âsipabââur Sed in pristinum staâum unò meâem miserante Deo in fine repârabitur the Region of the Christian Lawe vnto a determinate âââme shall be dissipated but in the ânâ by God his mercie it shall be restored to it's former yeâââtter state THE III. CHAPTER The like proued of all other persons aâ parts of England as also the Brâcans that their Religion was thâ same with the Apostles and thâ which our now Persecuted Cathâlikes Professe and maintaine 1. NOw let vs come to the Conuersioâ of the other parts of England nâ conuerted by S. Augustine or his Missioâ from Rome but by others our old Britisâ or Scotish Bishops and Priests in some partâ before by many writers and in the farâ greatest aââer And because amongst otherâ the Religious of our old British Order haâ influeÌce therein ãâã I lately spake of MoÌckâ sent into England by Saint Gregorie and â their labours and Religion here I will neâ ioyne these vnto them Their Antiquitie â haue deliuered before from S. Ioseph of Aâramathia which buried Christ arriuinâ here in the yeare of his Natiuitie 63. 2. To take better knowledge of their heauenly life and conuersation on earth I wiâ set downe their Rule as with some alteratioÌâ âs is vsuall in such holy Orders it was apâroued and deliuered to our Monckes by S. âauid Metropolitane Archbishop in Britaâie that most learned Religious holy Preâte The Rule of our old British Monckes Manuscipt antiq in vitâ S. Dauidis Io. Capgra Câtal in ââd liuing vntill with in 50. yeares of S. Auâustines comming hither Dauid constructo in âalle Rosinta Monasterio talem caenobialis praepositi âgorem decreuit vt Monachorum quisque quotidiano âsudaÌs operi manuum labore suam in commune transâeret vitam dicens Qui enim non laborat ait Aâstolus non manducet nesciens enim quod secura quies âitiorum fomes mater esset Monachorum humeâs duris fatigationibus subiugauit nam qui sub otij âiete tempora mentesque submittunt instabilem spiriâm libidinisque stimulos sine quiete parturiunt Posâsiones enim Iniquorum respuebant dona reprobabaÌt âuitias detestabantur boum nulla ad arandum curaââisque sibi fratribus diuitiae quisque bos Nulân praeter necessarium inter eos habebatur colloquium âd quisque aut orando aut Deo placiâa cogitando inânctum opus peragebat Peracto autem Rârali opere â Monasterij Claustra reuertentes aut legendo aut âibendo aut orando totam ad vesperum peragebaÌt âem In vespere verò audito Nolae pulsu dimissis âx operibus Ecclesiam petebant visis in caelo âllis ad mensam conuenientes citra saturitatem comeâbant nimia enim satietas quamuis solius panis âuriam generat Pane autem oleribus sale conditis âsti sitim lacte aquâ mixto restringebant Peractâ ânâ quasi per tres horas vigilijs orationibus genuâctionibus insistebant Quamdiu in Ecclesia orationiâs vacabant nullus oscitare nullus sternutationem facere vel salââââ ãâ¦ã Hiâita gestis sopoââ ãâ¦ã ãâ¦ã expergâfaâli ãâ¦ã Cogitationes ãâ¦ã etiaâ vel ad naturae ãâ¦ã induebantur ãâ¦ã desiderans ãâ¦ã priuâ decem diebus ãâ¦ã nâânon veââââ ãâ¦ã Si auâem benè ãâ¦ã perstarâ diem acceptus priuââ ãâ¦ã constructus seruâeâaâ ãâ¦ã desudans fractusque mulââs ãâ¦ã fraârum merebatur inire ãâ¦ã ânem cupientibus eorum nihââ ãâ¦ã ââluâ è naââragio âuadentes recepti eraâââ ãâ¦ã se extollendi non haberent S. autem Dauiââost âtinas frigidam petebae aquam in qua diuâââs manâ carnis ardorem domabat Orphanorum ââpilloruâ ViduaâuÌ Egentium Peregrinorum multitudineÌ pasââ bat In English epitomated They haâ not Ridâ or proprietie Receiued nothing of the wiâââ they lâued by their labour They had not cattell âââhing bâ themselues to âill their ground no speach âââpt necesarie at their worke but with praier and meditaââ they performed it They did not eate till ââght ââ their diet then was bread âerbs and âalâ thâ drinke water and miââe mixed together After thâ resection they persistâd three howers in watching aâ praier vppon their knees then sleeping vntill ââ croweing âf the Cocke they arose to their praiers vnâââay light Ending their corporall labour they retuââ their Monasteries and spenâ all the ãâã ââtill the eâning Annaââââcl 9. ãâã Gââw ãâã of ãâã in â ââauid in ãâ¦ã Niâââ ãâ¦ã Io. Baâ ãâã âânâ 1. in Kentigâân âââgrau ân âod God W. catal in S. ãâã Kââegâr M ãâã antiq Britââ prima ãâã Eââlesiastâ Seâââ either in reading writinâ ãâ¦ã ârres appeared in the ãâ¦ã their âll they went to the Church And ãâ¦ã âet of bodie This was part of the ãâ¦ã our âritish Monclâeâ approued by thâ greatest ârelate here who receiued iâ all ââââches âscipline by tâe Roman Authoritie 3. Their Bisâops and ãâ¦ã âsteritie in conuersation Tââ ãâ¦ã â S. Dauid ãâ¦ã âneu about ãâ¦ã The ãâ¦ã others ãâ¦ã iâ the ãâ¦ã by diuers ãâ¦ã Monââ ãâ¦ã in his Moâââ 3000. Disciââe S. VVandiâocus and Goââogillus about ãâã vnder them â âentigern and
S. Asaph had vnder each of âem 960. wherof aboue â60 were Apostoâke Preachers and yât to speake euen in our âemies words Being ãâã into companies they âended the service of God in the Church in such ãâã day and night perpetually seruice was there conâued some while by some and other âhile by others âording to an order by him S. Kentegern estaâshed and set downe 4. And although in some parte amongst âe Britans afflicted ãâã Pagans Inoasions âd cohabitation with them tââs great piâtie âd deuotion was ââcaied not long before S. Augustines comming hither from S. Grâgorie then Pope yet many oââhese with the holy Disciples as S. Brendan Vuandilocuâ Gomogillus Kentegernus Asaphus anâ others still continued in their Apostolike pâritie and perfection together with all oâ three Archbishâps of Britaâie many Biâhops and Priests thereof in the same faitâ and ReligioÌ which they receiued in our fiâ ConuersioÌ some Ceremonies onely of whicâ the obseruation of Easter was the greatest questionâd with some of them but no materiall and essântiall points at all And such wâ their holinesse euen here in Britanie wheâ into the Pagans were entered that to exeâplifie in one place of Glastenburie whoâ Churchâyard there vpon was called Tumulâ Sanctorum The Sepulcher of Saints thousands â Saints Millia were interred there before thâ yeare of Christ 550. The old Antiquities â Glastenburie recompt 104000. Cum centuâ quaâuor millibuâ and adde that the Church yarâ it being one of the greatest in compasse and the Altars aboue on and vnder theâ are so full of holy Relicks that there was ââ spaâe place to be founde Non in toto illo Coenââ terio à profundââate 16. pedum vsqi ad eius superficieâ à Sanctorum cinerilus habetur loâus vacuuâ In â that Churchâyard for 16. Foot deâpe to the superficâ or top theâof no place was found voyed of the ashes â Saints And not onely Churches and Church yards were esteemed thus holy for the Bodieâ of so many Saints buried in them but whole Countries and Ilands for and ârom the Sanctirie of so many miraculous British Saintââiuing in theÌ tooke and doe keepe still their âames of holy Iles Lands and the likâ And âo great was the Sanctitie learned and Apostolike glorie of these our British Bishops Culdeys Priests aÌd Religious in those times âhat we may almost saie of them as the Scripâure saied of the Apostles In omnem terram exiâit sonus corum in sines orbis terrae verba eorum ânto all the earth hath the sound of them gone forth ând vnto the end of the whole world the worde of âhem They preached in all or almost all the Manuscript antiq S. Asapâ Capgr in vit S. Kentegâr Bal. scrip-Brit ââtu â in KeÌâ Godw. Cata. epis in Asaph Kentegr Saxonic leges antiq inter leg S. Edwardi Regis Guâââamâard l dâ pâisâ Anglor ââgib world more then we finde deliuered of any Apostolike Clergie men or any Religious since then 5. All the world knoweth their preaching ând preuailing in all Britanie Ireland and all Ilands To the Caledonians Athals Hoâests Orchadians Norwegians Islandians ây Papall authoritie and of Saint Gregorie âimself It is coÌtained in our old Saxon pubâick lawes many hundred yeares old that âhey preached with like Commission before âhat time in Island Greenland accompted part of America Scantia Norwegia Sneâhorda Gutlandia or Iutland Dacia Semeâandia Winlandia Curlandia Roe FemelaÌdia Wirelandia Flandria Cherrela Lappa Lapland omnes terras Insulas Orientalis Oâeani vsque Russiam multas alias Insulas vlââa Scantiam vsquedum sub Septentrione and all other Ilands and Lands to Russia in the East and many other Ilands beyond Scantia in the North. Yf we turne from the East and North to West eueÌ the West India or that America we finde in the old Manuscripâe Author that wrote S. Brendans trauailes and life Capgraue and others that many Apostolike Priests consecrated by Saint Patrick that great Apostolik man went thither preached liued and died there If we turne South to make a circuite we had in Saint Peters time our Saint Mansuetus his Disciple an Apostolik Preacher in Germanie and Bishop of Trull in Loraine We had in the same age our blessed Beatus consâcrated at Rome by Saint Peter or presently after Preacher and Apostle of the Heluetians We had Saint Lucius or Lucian by some Conuertor and Apostle of the Bauarians as they acknowledge VVe had our S. Câlumbanus S. Gallus S. Kilianus Totnanus the both Ewaldi Furseus Foillanus Vltanus Offa or Offo VVitbertus or VVictbertus S. VVillibrodus and his eleuen Associats Schollers to S. Egbert of our old British Apostolick Order S. VVyrus Saint Plechelmus Egelbertus Saint Dysibodius with many in his companie of his Associats All these were of our old Apostolicall Priests and Religious Order here before any other Order came into Britanie who as Apostolike men with Papall authoritie preached in Gallia Almania Italia Franconia Bauaria Thuringia Haâsia Frisia Dania and other Countries diuers of them by Papal power were consecrated Bishops others Abbots ând in other degrees they founded Monasteâies ad Religious houses in great nuÌber which âould not be of any other Order theÌ in which âheir founders and Rules were trained vp ând professed in to wit that our most aunâient holy and learned British Order 6. This our Protestant Persecutours themâlues acknowledge who speakinâ of Banâor a Monasterie of our British order here ând of S. Columban and Brendan two Disâiples of CoÌgellus Abbot thereof they testifie âat S âernardus hunc locum tradit primum extiâss Bernard in ãâ¦ã Io. Bâl. Scââptor Brit. centur ãâã âongâllo Menasteriorum caput multa generauisse Moââhorum nullia Huius Discipuli fuere plures quoâm Columbanus Galliam Germaniam ââaliam âenâanus vâro Hiberniam Scotiam Monachoâm habitaculiâ implcuit Saint Bernard relateth this âace to haue bene the head and chiefist of Monasteries âd to haue begotten many thousands of Monckes maâ were his Disciples of whom Columbanus filled âance Germanie and Italie Brendan Ireland and âotland with habitations of Monckes To these I âight adde that renowned Archbishop and âpostolike Legate Arcâbishop of Moguntia âint Boniface and his holy companie and âartyrs with him who being a child but of âue yeares old was brought vp by our Apoâolik Priests ad after entered into the Monasteries of Exancester with vulâhardus à Moncke of our old British Order and after into the Monasterie of Huntscelle vnder Winbert Abbot of the same profession where he liued a long timâ and afterwards going into Germanie being and Abbot there he spenâ diuers yeares in preaching before he wenâ to Rome in the time of Pope Gregorie thâ second by whom he was ordained Bishop â Archbishop and Legate in the yeare of Chriâ 719. and liâed vntill he was martyred in thâ yeare 754. the 36. yeare of his being Bishoâ with 53. others Cum alijs quinquaginta tribuâ Matthew of
froÌ Rome wenâ into those pââ wâeâe the Scots now be aÌâ whether the PerâcutioÌ did not cumâ aÌd there they ioyned wâ those of Pope Victors Mission And in tâ Persecution among so many Archbishops aâ Bishops placed here by Papall authoritie â finde fewe if any at all then put to death â suruiuing after to haue consecrated Prieâ dedicated Churches and performed other âpiscopall duties and offices as the Prieâ and others did theirs also Bilustro supra â turbinis neâdum ad Iââegrum expleto emarcesâââ busque nece suorum authorum nesarijs decretis laeâââminibus omnes Christs Tyrones quasi post hiemaleâ prolixâm noctem temperiem lâcemque serenam â coeâestis excipiânt renouant Ecclesias ad solum vsâ destructââ Bâsiâitas Sanctorum Martyrum fundâ construunt perfiââunt ac veluâ Victricia signa paââ propalânt dieâsâstos celebrant sacra mundo corde â que âonficiunt omnes exultant filij gremio ac si Mâ Ecclesiae cânsoâi Mânsit namque haec Christs caâ membroâuÌ consonantia ãâã donec Ariânorum pâdia intrauit Tenue yeares of the foresaiâd Troubleâ âing as yet altogether compleate and the wicked deâes decaying in the dâth of their authouâs all the folâers of Christ wiâh iâyâull lâghâââ as âf aâtâr a ââng â er night they had receiued light aÌââpleasant tâpeâure of heauânââe aâre they âneweâ the ãâã ââich were fallen to the ground they âoânded builded â finished Cathedrall Churches of ãâ¦ã âââly did set forth as it were signes of Victorâ thây âeârated feastes thây saied Masses with pure heart and ãâã All ââildren in their mother ãâ¦ã âhey were begotten of the mother the Church and vâââ the wickednesse of the Arâââââred this swââte vâân of the members of Christ the head reâaââed So Gild as S. Bede and other great witnesses âd yeâ when Arianâsme was diâated âaâât âhan âsius S. Hâlary and other authorities âe cleare Britanie as much as any nation âroÌâ at insectââ For it remaânââ ââme and coÌânt obedience to the Popes ââ Roâe in that âwerth age both in Princes Bishops and âhers Great Constantine our Emperour âng and borne in Britanie with S. Helenâââ Mother a Briâan and Emâââsse hânoârâd âe See of Rome in the highâst maner They âd no doubt diueâs of our British Bishops â the Councelâ at Roââ of 284 westeââââshops were present and assenâed when iâââ decreed Nâââ ãâã it primâm sedem quoâm omnes âeâes a ãâ¦ã dâsidârant ãâã Neque aâ Augusto reâue ãâ¦ã Râgihus neque à popâââ Iudex ãâ¦ã â 4. Episâopâ 4. 5. Presbytârs 5. Diaconiââ duo sequentes Augustus Constantinus Mater eiâ Helena None shall iudge the first See for all Sees doâ desire that iustice be moderated by the first See neither by Augustus neither by the whole Clergie neither by Kings nor by the people the Iudg shall be Iudged Aâ heare vnto subscribed 2 4. Bishops 45. Priestes â Deacons and the two which followeth Constantine ââ Emperour and Helena his mother 13. VVe had our Bishops present and subscribing with generall assent of Britanie â the great Councell of Sardie assembled oâ of 37. Prouinces where the Popes Supreamâ spirituall power in all places is decreed aâ confirmed in two seuerall Canons and Aâpeales to be made to him as highest Iudgâ The Pope then did not onely rule the conueâted Christians But also sent Apostolike mâ Saint Ninian a Britan instructed at Româ with others to conuert the Pagan Picts â this Nation Audiens Pontifex Romanus quosdâ in Occiduis Britanniâ partibus necdum fidem Chââ suscepisse ad Episcopatus gradum Ninianum consecâuit Concreditum à Deo âalânâum per Britannorââ Scotorum Australium Pictorum terras ad seniâ vsâue latissimè profudit Ordinauit Presbyteros Epââopos consecrauit totam terram per certas Paâchias diuisit Pontifex Romanus Ninianum praemââgenti datâ bene lictione Apostolum destinauit Tâ Pope vnderstanding that some in the westerne parteâ Britanie had not as yet receiued the saith of Christ consecratâd Ninianus Bishop which Talent giâ vnto him from God he powred forth largly vntill wes agâd through all Britanie Scotland and the Southerne Picts He made Priests coÌsecrated Bishops and ânto certaine Parishes he denide the whole Land The Bishop of Rome sent Ninianus Apostle to the foresaied people giuing him his benediction 14. In the fiââe age Saint Celestine Pope sent S. Paâladius to the Irish and Scots S. Patrick after him to the Irish S Germanus Lupus and Seuerus to the Britans to roote out Pelagianisme to quiet and settle the Ecclesiasticall state here which they did consecrating Bishops Prâests and what else necessary in these Contries VVhich by their power Legatine they so happily performed that Protestants themselues so testifying among the Scots âalladius in hodres num diem Scotorum Apostolus appellatur Palladius vnto this day is called Apostle of the Scots Among the Irish Patricius incredibili spiritus feruore EuangeliuÌ Hibernis praedicans ad sinceram Christi fidem eos per 60. annos in vineâ Domini laborans conuertit Profanâ Deorum destruxit templa Ecclesias sundauit verbi ministros ordinauit Patrike preaching the Gospell to the Irish with incredible feruour of spirit laboring in the viniard of our Lord for the space of 60. yeares tenuerted them to the true faith of Christ the prophaine temples of the Gods ââ dâstroied he builded Churches he ordained Ministers of the word Old Nennius liuing soone after saith Ecclesias fundauit 365. Ordinauit Nenniuâ Episcopos 365. aut amplius in quibus spiritus Deminâ eâat Presbyteros autem vsque ad âriâ milliae ordinauit He founded 365. Churches he ordained â65 Bishops or more in which was the Spirit of ouâ Lord but Priestes he made 3000. VVhich must needs be done as the Popes Legate for other Countriâs also besides Ireland S. Germanus with Saint Lupâs at the first and second time wâth Saint Seuerus reformed all things amoÌg the Britans be made Bihops and Priestes aÌd among the rest S. Dubritius Aââhbishop âeauing him to be the Popes Legate here after their going hence 15. In the Sixt age Saint Dabritius still liued who resigning his Bââhoprike S. Dauid succeeded him both as Archbishop and Legate reforming all things and Ownes Briâanniae Eâclâsia modum Râgulam Râmanââuthoritate acceperunt All the âhurcheâ of Britaniâ by Roman authoritie receiued both then manner and Rule The Pope sent Saint Iuo an Archbishop inâo Britanie or then England who liued and died here Saint Kentegern Bishop receiued Power and Approbation from the Pope of Rome going thiter seuen times And Sanctus Papa illuÌ virum Dei Spiritus sanctâ graâiaÌ plenuÌ intelligens in âpus ministerij à Spirita Sancto illi iniunââi destinauit The holy Pope vnderstanding him âo be a man of God âeplenished with the grace of the holy Ghoste he sent him into the worke of the ministerie âhâch was enioyned him by the holy Ghoste So renowned was this holy Apostolicall Legate here and in all
Gospells from the shoulders of the ânsecrated But this maketh not much to the ârpose it being onely as I haue saied a Ceremonie and not essentiall to the Consecration of a Bishop and that true and vndouted Bishops were made before the Gospells were written Otherwise the wholâ Church then euer after and now and eueâ had wanted it and had no Ecclesiastical Order at all Which is the lamentable and desperate condition of such as persecute a truâ Bishop and Priest for their Order and power thereby confessing their want both of thaâ which is essentiall in this high office as alsâ consecratours to performe it consecrat truâ Priests or confer any Ecclesiasticall Ordeâ or degree at all not the meanest in that kinâ to any person 20. All Authors agree euen Protestants iâ their Catalogues of British and English Biâhops that we had continuall succession oâ such here in great numbers vntill Queen Elizabeth by her supreamacie depriued anâ deposed them And to keepe it farre from thâââme of an Innouation to haue one such Bishop Successour to so many if we haue thaâ libertie in time of Persecution when Bishop are driuen from their Sees vsuall in histories to remember and honour them in Exiâ and Persecution we haue still kept a Succesion of Bishops in or of this nation Of thoââ which were depriued of their Bishop pricke we haue Richard Pates Bishop of worcheste who subscribed to the Councell of Trent hâ being there present by this Title Richardâ Patus wigornieÌsis Episcopus Thomas Goldwell Bishop Godw. Catal. of Bish. in Worcest in Ric. Pates in S. Asaph in Thom. Goldwell of Asaph liued at Rome 20. yeares after that deposing Thomas watson Bishop of Lincolne was committed to prison in the I le of Elie and died about the yeare 1584. Thus the Protestants themselues deliuer and moreouer they deliuer much praise and commendatioÌs of theÌ and all others our renowned Bishops 14. or more in number who were deposed and persecuted by Queene Elizabeth yea far more and greater theÌ they doe of those which were intruded into their places Before or soone after the death of Bishop Waâson of Lincolne Owen Lew is of this our Nation was consecrated Bishop of Cassan in whose life-time our most Illustrious Cardinall William Allan was honoured with that dignitie and consecrated Archbishop of Maâkâen who liued with these honours vntill the 16. day of October in the yeare of Christ 1594. ân his time William Gifford was by Pope Clement the eight made Deane Ecclesiae Diui Petri Insulensis Of Saint Peters Church at Lile And afterward he was ordained Archbishop of Rhemes in Champaine in France where he lately liued And whilst he liued Archbishop both VVilliam of Chalcedon and Richard also who is now so persecuted were by highest Papall authoritie coÌsecrated ad sent into England And what man of ordinarie knowledge Iudgement or vnderstanding will aduenture to saie but all these were renowned men as also diuerse of our renowned Priests most worthie of Episcopall honour aÌd dignitie in equall times honourably stiled and registred for all posteritie not onely as great glories of their CouÌtrie England but the whole Church of Christ Therefore to haue one of such worthie men a Bishop in his natiue Countrie bearing for auoyding offence his Title of a place so farre hence which froÌ the first Conuersion thereof to Christ had 3. Archbishops aÌd many Bishops aboue 1400. yeares past should not in the new English Religion teaching the Church of God neuer wanted Bishops and acknowledging both him and all Catholikely consecrated Bishops and Priests to be true and lawfull Bishops and Priests vndoubtedly by right ordination be offensiue but desired such Order Function and dignitie being by their publike testimonies most needefull excelleÌt and honourable with all true Professours of Christian Religion 21. Thus we see a Succession of English Bishops though not all in England but in other CouÌtries some of them consecrated and remaining a thing not vnusuall in times of Persecution and bannishment of Bishops as in the great lights in their time of Gods Church S. Hilarius S. Athanasius S. Chrysostome and others loÌg time exiled yet thereby did not interrupt a continuall Succession in their Sees What least exception then can be taken against our renowned Bishop of Chalcedon for Order and degree so honourable and eminent by all testimonies for his owne worthines and worthily therefore to be had in high reuerence euen with his Persecutours he bringeth able witnesses with him his knowne loue aÌd honour to our king Queene and CouÌtrie his owne holy life and conuersation his learned works and writings with all at home and abroad he hath euer piously and gratefully conuersed and with honour defended and iustified himselfe against Maleâolants Among all English Catholickâ oâ Protestants few are to be found which haue more defeÌded the honour of our Soueraigne âone more acceptable to his Maiesties frieds ând Allyes in marriage no maÌ among so maây renowned Priests of England worthie of âreatest honour in equall times adiudged so ât to supply such place by that highest Paâor which hath shewed great care and loue four king Queene and hoped Posteritie ând Countrie And since Persecution and âroclamation against him what could such a âan in Persecution doe more then he hath âone in decreeing and Ordering that all âriests and Catholiks should daily with deâotion praie for our king Queene State and Countrie And both since the comming in of âim and VVilliam of Chalcedon of happie âemorie his Predecessour as likewise before âe Catholiks of England haue bene and now âe knowne to be the most loyall dutifull and liuing Subiects in our dearest Countrie of England THE VI. CHAPTER That our English Priests who teach alâ things with the Apostolicall Religioâ are truely coÌsecrated worthie men anâ are to be honoured and not persecuted 1. Hauing redeemed Episcopall Ordââ and dignitie conferred by the Sâ of Rome from all Imputation of wickâ obloquies and made it knowne to be so higâ and honourable we might spare all furthâ labour for exemption and defence of Prieââlie Function seeing euery Bishop of neceâsitie must be a Priest and whatsoeuer of thâ calling is noble and glorious in a Bishop must needs be such in Priests Episcopal hânour and consecration addeth an higher aâ greater worthinesse to him that was beforâ Priest but cannot take away or diminish aâ excellencie or renowne he had before Tâ Protestants of Scotland doe confesse whiââ all knowe that after Catholike ReligioÌ wâ ouerthrowne there they had not any preteâded Bishops before King Iames accordiââ to his manner of making such gaue suâ Titles to them And their Knoxe Buchanan Forbs Bale and others both of England ând Scotland are not ashamed to saie that âefore the sending of Saint Palladius thither ây Saint Celestine Pope about the yeare 430. âlonckes who were onely Priests supplied âhe place of that dignitie with that People âut malice to Episcopall worthinesse and âower their owne
in such or any like affaires ââ Priestlie office and function in that holy ââd vnspotted time of ReligioÌ by all coÌsents And the chiefest Protestants euen Matthew Parker their first new fashioned Archbishop of Canterburie with others both acknowledge that Saint Peter and Saint Iames said Masse and that the Order of Sacrifice or Masse Missa siâ dictâ continued from Christs Institution thereof ân the Primatiue Church aboue two hundreds of yeares vnto Pope âepherine his time and then âe alâered iâ to a more excellent matter and forme A Christi ârimo iâsâituto ducentis amplius annis in primitiââ Ecclesia durauit done eam Zâpherinus 16. Romanus Pontisâx quorundans suasionibus ad pulchriorem materiam formaÌque mutare voluit This Pope S. Zepherine was after Pope Eleutherius and Pope Victor by whose meanes and holy saârificing Bishops and Priests sent hither by there authoritie this Kingdome of Britanie wholy and generally was conuerted And these Persecutours of holy Masse and Priesthood consesse that the very same Masse and celebration thereof which Christ instituted and hiâ higâe Priests and Apostles vsed was still pracâââed without chang and alteration And the âhang aÌd mutation then in the âââe of Saint Zepherine made was for the more perâectioÌ thereof For comming to set downe what this changing was they finde it to be no other but that he decreâd Christ blood should not be consecrated in Chalices made of wood but better matter Christi sanâuinââ ConsecrationeÌ in vitreo Calice non ligneo vt antea sinâ debere flatuit He decreed that the Consecration of the blood of Christ ought to be done in a Chalice of glasse not of woode as it was done before And aâter Vibanâ the first of that name immediate except Calixtus Succesâor to the same Saint Zâpherinus by these Protestanâs them ãâã thus declared and ordained that ãâã should be of Gold or siluer ãâ¦ã in poâter Churches Nè vasa ãâ¦ã auâ auâea âut argeÌ ea aut stannea in ãâ¦ã gem dixit We are assured bâth by ãâã all and particular Testimonies that ãâ¦ã Priests came hither and that the ãâã Church serâice was Maââe and âo the Laâine tongue So had our old ãâ¦ã by Protestants suppressed in the ãâã of his booke as Abboâ ãâ¦ã in publiââ Parliament in the first yeare of Queene Elizabeth Saint ãâ¦ã Protestants so also consessing witenâsseth that ââr ââitans in this their CoÌuersion had ãâã Aââars for Masse in their Churches aâd suâââââests 8. The Protestanes also propose vnto vs an Author so Reuârend and auââânt in this our Britanie that ân the yeare of Christ 366. his Homââies or Sermons were vsually and publickly reade in thâ Churches here whereân is most manifestly and particularly proâed that the publick seruice was the same Masse which is now vsed the Priests suââ Priests and Christ really present âââereâ worshiped and praied vnto there as by the same antiquiâie is âuident in these words thereof In the old lawe faithfull men offered to God diuers Sacrifices that had foresignification of Christs bodie which for our sinnes he himselfe to his heauenly Father hath since offered to Sacrifice Certainely this Housell which we doe now hallow at Gods Altar is a remembrance of Christs bodie which he offâred for vs and of his blood which he shed for vs So âe himselfe commaundeââ doe this in my remembrance Once suffered Christ by himselfe but yet neuerthelesse his suffâring is dayly renewed at this Supper through mysterie of the holy Housâll In that holy Housell ãâã â one thing in it seene and an other vnderstoode That which is there seene hath bodilie shape and that we doe there vndeââstand hath ghostly might The Houseâ is dealed into sondrie parts âhewed betweene teach and sent into the bodlie Howbeit neuerthelesse afteâ ghostlie might it is all in euery part Many receiue thaâ holy bodie and yet notwithstanding it is so all in euery part after ghostlie mysterie That innocent lambe which the old Israelits did then kill had signification after ghostlie vnderstanding of Christs suffering who vnguiltie shed his blood for our redemption Hereof ãâã Gods seruants at euery Masse Agnus Deâ qui âollis ãâã mundi Miserere nobis Where we finde a mosâ plaine and generall concordance between the old Primatiue Christian Britans and thâ Priests of the Roman Church at this time ââ this holy sacrificing Massing Priesthood and Masse by this most auntient and venerable authoritie euen as it pleaseth Protestantâ to publish and translate it For wereas they ãâã that Aelfricus in the yeare of Christ ãâã translated this Authour out of latine into the Saxon language it is a thing most certaine and vnquestionable with all men that know antiquities that these words which I haue cited from these Protestants be not the SaxoÌ and old English speach in that time 9. Our old Cildas also as the Protestants propose and recommeÌd him vnto vs teaching as they also hold that our Christian Britans neuer changed or forsoâke the Apostolâke Christian Religion which they receiued from Rome by Massing Priests and Prelatsâ their Priests from the beginning saied Massâ and offered sacrifice on holy Altars and their Altars were the seate of the ãâã sacrifice Sacramundo corde âreque consiciâââ Sacrificâââes inter altaria staâtes Sacrificium âââerences alâaââ adsistunt sacra altaria Sacresanâta ãâ¦ã coelâstis sedes And their Priests thân were consecrated to such holy function as now they are Benedictione initiantur Sacerdoâum manââ Theâââands were consecrated and they which did daily offer the holy and heaueÌly sacrifice of Christâ blessed bodie and blood at and vpon the sacred Altars consecrating it by conseârating words Mundo ore conâleiunt must needes haue such Priestlie power giuen vnto them in their Consecration not hauing any such before to consecrate and offer Christs most Sacred bodie and blood in the holy Masse as is contained in the most old and auntient orders of Consecration in those times and these wordâ of Bishops consecrating Priests first praying for them that are to be ordered Priests âârunâ atque unmaâuââuÌ mânisterij tuâ donum custodiant Poâââle Romanum in consecratione Presbyterorum per obsequium pleââs tuae panem vinum in corpuâ sanguinem Filij tââimmaculatâ benâdictione transforment That they may obserue the pure and immaââlâ guift of thy mysterie and târough the obedience of thy people they may transforme bread and wine by the ââ maculat benediction into the bodie and blood of thy sonne VVhich prayer being ended the consecrating Bishop this proceedeth Expletâ auteâ oratione accâpââns oleum sanââum faââat crucem suââ ambas manus eorum dicensâ Consecrare sanctifiââre digneris Domine manââ istas per istam vnctionem nostram benedictionem vt quecumque consecrauerint consecrentur quâcunque benedixerint benedicantur sanctificontur in nomine Domini Iesu Christi Hoc âacto acciââ patenam cum oblaââ Calicem cum vino deâââ dicens Accipite potestatem offerre Sacrificium Deo
oblation anâ Sacrifice it offereth vnto God omnipotent the highest king and king of kings of heaâ and the vniuersall created for the liuing anâ deceased is most certainely and without a doubt or question so great and glorious ââ dare not least we should be Traitours ââ God harken vnto theÌ but lament their dolefull estate who declare and persecute it as a traiterous estate to Princes on earth which âhould subiect their wills and lawes to the will and lawe of God reuerence and honour and not so vâly vse his dearest seruants for as Iùstin Dial. cuââriphon Saint Iustine with all others affirme Neque à quoquam Deus hostiaes accipit nisi à suis Sacerdotibus God accepteth Sacrifices of none except of his Priests oÌ potestas saith Saint Ephrem inâffaeâilis quae Ephrem de Sacerdot in nobis dignââae est habitare per impositionem manuuÌ SacroruÌ Sacerdotum ô quam magnam in se continet profunditatem formidabile admiâaâile SaecerdotiuÌ O inessabile power which vouchsafest to dwell in vs by the imposition of the hands of the holy Priests O what great profunditie doth the dreadfull anâ admirable Priesthoode containe Sacerdotium saith Saint Chrysost hom 5. de verb. Isaiae vidâ Dom. Engl. Protest Pref. booke of consâcr apud Goâell Defens of Hook pag. 87. 88. 89. Exam. pag. 1â5 Deâens âupr pag. â16 117. 276. Chrysostome principatus est ipso etiam regno venerabilius ac maius Priesthood is a principalitie greater and worthier then a Kinâome it selfe Protestats before by publike regall and all power they contend to haue declared that these Priests were euer in Christes Church and were euermore had in reuerent estimation To which they adde of Priesthood with like allowance It is a power which no Prince or Potentate King or Cesar on earth can giue By blessing visible elements it maketh them inuisible grace It hath to dispose of that ââesh which was giuen for the life of the world and that blood which was powred out to redeeme fâââes To these Persons God imparteth power ouer his mysticall bodie which is the societie of soules and ouer that naturall which is himselfe a worke which antiquitie calleth the making of Christs bodie 15. And this wiâl be sufficient to excuse sacred Sacrificing Priests peâsecuted for iustice and laâe the guilt and offence vpon their vniust Accusers and Persecutours For besides this most honourable sacrificing office and ministring to the sicke in daunger to die the Sacrament of Extââme vnction deliuered in holy Scripture and euer vsed ân the Church of Christ and Protestants neuer question it aâ a matter of State there is nothing in Priestly Oâder but these men in some sense or other would haue vsed by therâ Ministers who vse preaching baptizing marriage euen of themselues forgiuing of sinnes in personall absolution euen without any penance at all ââther by them enioyâed or their Conâitents performed or vsed VVhich power they ãâ¦ã and ãâ¦ã and âââsecrating ãâã âriâsts aÌd Deaâons iâ ãâã Priestâ âlaime aâ giuân vnto them by their Protestat Bishops in their admiââance to their ministrie in these his words Receiue the holy Ghost whose sânnes thou dost forgiue they are forgiuen and whose sinnââ thou dost retaiâe they are retained Take thou autâoritie to preach the word of God and to ministeâ the âoly Sacraments in this Congregation where thou âhalt be so appointed And they aâ confidenâly vâe it with this further publike warrant and direâtion Proâeââ comâun ãâã Tâtul visit of the sicke in their Communion booke in this manner The sickâ person shall make a speciall Conââssion if he feele his conscience troubled with any weightie matter after which Confession the Priest shall absolue him after tâis sorte Our Lord Iesus Christ who hath lefâ power in âis Church to al solue all sââners which truely repânt and beleeue iâ him of his great mercie forgiue thee thine offences and by his authoritie committed to me I absolâe thee from all thy sânnes in the name of the Father and of the sonne and of the holy ghost Amân All this is or should be vsed by Protestant Ministers by their most publike Regaâl ParlameÌtall and whatâoeuer authoâitie their Religion is set out and supported by So not onely permitting tollerating and allowing but directing and commaundâng to be done and practised much more then any Priest presumeth or Pope licencetâ oâ euer licenced to be vsed or attempted yea more theâ any Papall power can so warrant no penance enioyned how many or greuous soeuer the sinnes committed and confessed be no satisfaction or restâântion once thought vpon how great and manifold soeuer the offences Iniuries damages and wrongs were Felonyes Rebellions Treasons and all things else how vile soeuer they be are quitted and freed both by ministeriall and legall allonance and are so iudged and ended as if they had beene not the least punishable offence 16. We must free Catholike Priests and all others of their Religion from such presumption practise consenting vnto or approuing sinne No absolution without penance and satisfaction with vs. And yet we with the Church of Christ and holy Fathers saie of holy Priesthood euen in this respect Nè mihi Chrysost Hom. 5. de verb. Isaiae vidi Dominum Ephrom l. de Sacârdorio Gregor Nyssân orat de Baptism orat ân âos âui alios acerb iâdicant Gild. l. de Exci Briâan Isichius in Leuiââ l. 6. â 12. Victor Vtâcon de persec Vandâliâa ââ narres purpuram neque Diadema neque vestes aureas vmbrae sunt isthac omnia vernisque floââulis leuiora Nè inquam mihi narres ista sed si vis videre discrimen quantum absit Rex à Sacerdote expende modum potestatis vtrique traditae videbis Sacerdotem multo sublimius Rege sedentem Regiue thrânus rerum terrenarum administrationem sortitus est nec vltra potestatem hanc praeterea quicquam habet authoritatis verùm Sacerdoti thronus in coelis collocatus est de coelestibuâ negoâijs pronuÌtiandi habet authoritatem Quis haec dâââ ipse coelorum Rex Quaecunque ligaueritis super terram ârunt ligata in coelis quaeâunque solueritis super terram erunt selâta in coelis Deuâ ipsum Regule caput Sacerdotis manibus subiecit nos erudiens quod hic Princeps est illo maior speake not to me of the purple or Diademâ and gââlden robes all these are but shadowes and more vaine then spring fâowers Speake not to me of these things buâ if thou wilâ see the power giuen to them boâh thou shall see the Priest sitting much higher in âigâitie theâ the King The throne of a King is chosen for the administration of earthlie things neither hath he any other authoritie besides this but to a Prieste a throne is placed in heauen and he hath authoritie to iudge of heauenly businesse who saieth this The King of heauenâ himselfe Whatsoeuer yee shall ând vpon earth shall be bound also
of rendring such duties ânto our King and haue what they could persuaded the Recusants as the refusing Protestants were therin termed to performe such âonds true offices and obligations of louing subiects Anâ although our Catholikes hauâââne sondry waieâ greuiously persecuted for their Religion yet as the world knoweth they haue most dutifully much aboue others honoured our king supplied his wants with free and lardge Donations and Contribuâions when their persecuting Protestants in great number and of great quaâitie made deâiall No man except maliciously and chridishly very falsely imagining slaunders and ântruthes against theÌ may surmise that these âen can be vnmindefull of the dutie and obeâience of true Subiects to their Soueraigne 6. If there be any either in Court or Countrie bearing the name Catholike gaining not looâng rather honoured then âisgraced preferred then persecuted giâen to libertie and disorders such as this ârotestant time can easily bestowe and âare and spirituall discipline may not be âllowed to keâpe such in dutie oâ leaue the âame Catholike Catholike Relâgâon doth âot and cannot answeare or make accompââor such Commonly they be men risen oââell reared vp by fall of Religion and Reliâious howses which complaine most against Catholikes who finde proâects of seaâe ââaâing to loose that they so easily gât Bât ãâã there is no danger towards them by English Catholikes for many or most oââhem that be landed meÌ haue also such land They be not Catholikes which euer defend âld and vnâuersall Right which aâe to be seaâed in Innouations Nouelists and louers of âingularities are the most dangerous in such respects Catholikes of England of all subiects thereof euer were and now be most obseruant of and keeping their Protestant Princes lawes seldome is or can a Catholike be charged with the breach of any excepâ concerning matters of Religion where iâ breaketh the lawe of God and his holy Catholike Apostolike Church To keepe thâ lawe of the king of all kings and his kingedome must not be termed or thought a breacâ and violating of the lawes of any priuatâ earthly king or kingedome all which muâ subiect themselues to that omnipotent king and his gouernment And to make all sure ãâã Catholikes defence in this cause we wiâ briefely examine all Articles now questioneâ betweene ProtestaÌts of England and theÌ anâ prooue in many of these Articâes as they aâ enacted by ProtestaÌts that the Catholike doctrine is farre more agreable and profitabâ for publike peace vnitie obedience anâ concord in a good ciuill Monarchicall anâ Râgall gouernment then that which Protestants hold and practise and would forââ Catholikes vnto and not any one Article ââ Catholike Religion repugnant vnto or preâudicing the Rule and gouernment of a moâ worthie king in a noble Nation THE VIII CHAPTER That euerie Article of Catholike Religion is more agreable with the best temporall gouernment then those of the Protestants and that a Catholike keeping his Religion as he is bouÌd to God so he cannot be vndutifull to his temporall Prince and Countrie THe first fiue Articles of their Religion they consisting onely of â9 âade by a few Protestants in fââwerth or âfth yeare of Queene Elizabeth the old age â this Religion doe containe nothing conâouersed betweene them and vs but were âade against new Sectaries so soone risen vp âmong them The Sixth and next Article inâtuled Of the sufficientie of the holy Scripture for âluation Denieth the vse and necessities of âraditions not written in Scripture and deâeth many bookes of holy Scripture to be âch and some of them as the booke of wiseâome and of Iesus the sonne of Sirach conâsting most of morall precepts and coÌmandments as all men knowe are most needfulâ in all kingedomes for ciuill regimeÌt So thaâ whatsoeuer of this nature is coÌtained in thesâ two morrall bookes and tenne others whicâ they likewise reiect or in holy Apostolikâ Traditions are wanting in these men and thâ Catholiks embracing both âhose bookes anâ TradiâioÌs exceede them in all temporall obedience and dutie in this respect 2. After this vntill we come to their nintâ Article stiled Of originall or birth siane they finde no difference in this point But in thiâ Article they thus enact There is no condemnation for them that beleeue and are baptized By which allowance and Decree the way to all disobedience fellonies treasons and sinnes whatsoeuer is set open to all Protestants whicâ saie they beleeue and are baptized and ââ no Treason Rebellion contempt of gouernment can condemne them Catholikes be oâ the contrarie profession And this Protestanâ libertie and disâbedience is further warranteâ and allowed in the next Article but one thâ immediate next Article after by their glossâ not at all or litle differing âroÌ Catholiks Foâ this their eleueÌth Article intituled of the Iustification of man Thus declareth That we are iustifie by faith onely is a most wholesome doctrine and very full of comfort But this is not very whole some comfortable or secure for any king kingdome common-wealth that it should giuâ libertie to all offences not to be puâished bâ God at all nor by Prince if they can secretly be committed and concealed God forbid any bearing the name of of Catholike should euer hold or followe such doctrine And these Protestants Religion in the next Article of good workes giuing litle or no efficacie vnto them will not hinder them in matter of disobedience to God or Prince So doth their 13. Article wherein they saâe that workes such as we commonly call among others obedience to kings and Rulers good works Done without the grace of Christ haue the nature of sinne By which if any man âall into drunkennesâe coÌmit Adulterie Fornication Perâuââe or any mortall sinne which depriueth of grace he may or rather must make rebellion commit âreason or whatsoeuer wickednesse he can otherwise containing and abstaining from such horrible wickednesse such his refrainings from those Impieties haue the nature of sinne 3. The 14. next Article against workes of supererogation bringeth into like desperateâesse Their 15. and 16. Articles haue no peâuliar difficultie Their 17. next Article is intituled of Predestination and Election And it deliuereth plainely that their doctrine and Religion therein euen aâ it is receiued among them is so perilous a thing That for curious and carnall persons to haue continually before their eies the sentence of Gods predestination is a most dangerous downesall whereby the diuell doth thrust them into desperation or into rechlesnesse of most vncleane liuing no lesse pevillous then desperation These Articles if wâ should goe no further are sufficient to diswade any man desiring to be a true subiect to God and his Prince from embracing the Religion of ProtestaÌts But to proceede to the end of them the 18 next Article of obtaining eternall Saluation onely by the name of Christ hath nothing in question The next 19. And the 20. Articles the first intituled Of âhe Church And the other Of the authoritie of the Church Are
vntrue by their owne Parlaments testifying that in the very Primatiue Church and allwaies it was often ministred in one kinde onely Then no commandment of Christ contrary ca be brought to condemne all Churches times and places for such practise 8. Their 31. Article of the one oblation of Christ finished vpon the crosse denyâng against the whole Church of Christ in all ages and places and thereby depriuing God of all externall sacrifice contrary to scripture and all authoritie will not by the Rule of proportion giue more or so much honour vnto earthlie kings then Catâoliks doe giuing this tribute and Sacrifice to the king of heauen and all that is belonging or was euer giuen to their terrene Princes 9. Their 32. Articâe of the Marriage of Priests hath married this kingedome to many miseries it did not feele or know before The posteritie proceeded by such lawe or allowaÌce hath brought vs to number hundreds of thousands more then Britanie or England if it had remained Catholike should haue euer seene Many thousands of these are left vnprouided for and not a few are turned or wrested out of their possessions to furnish these Ministers children many of whom also haue fallen to such extreame wants that many of them haue taken desperate courses which the Catholike practise and Religion would haue preuented 10. Their 33. Article Of excommunicate persons how they are to be auoided Differeth not froÌ Cathoâikes but that Protestants commit the businesse of excommunication and absolution to such as Catholikes hold haue no power therein when both Catholikes and Protestants confesse that men assigned to such offices by Catholikes haue true lawfull and vndoubted authoritie 11. Their 34 Article Of Traditions of the Church is wholy Ceremonious by their owne expositioÌ and no man caÌ be so singular in this or any such matter but to thinke any particular Church or kingedome the more it agreeth with the vniuersall or most florishing Christian kingedomes to be more honourable and secure thereby then such as fall into Nouelties and singularities 12. Their 35. Article of homelies is nothing to this purpose And their 36. Article intituled Of Consecration of Biâhops and Ministers To whom they commit spirituall Businesse preaching ministring Sacraments and to excommunicate absolue and whatsoeuer in like kinde they take vpon them to practise is quite ouerthrowne by themselues before in their 22. Article where they saie that Order as they vse it Is no Sacrament or effectuall signe of grace and hath noâ any visible signe or ceremonie ordained of God Then not receiuing or hauing grace or such spirituall power it cannot coÌferre aÌd giue it vnto others or so exercise it especially in so many things as is required from truely and lawfully consecrated persons such as they acknowledg the Bishopâ and Priests of the Roman Church to be 13. Their 37. Article intituled of the ciuill Magistrate doth giue to teÌporall Princes supreamacie euen in spirituall things and denieth all Iurisdiction to the Pope of Rome in thiâ Realme in such affaires Of this sufficient is said before And euery equall minded man may easily see whether the temporall state of England was not more honourable noble powerfull and secure when the Popes Iurisdiction in spirituall thinges ruled here then now it is and euer since it hath beene and yet the Ritches and wealth which fell to our kings and Princes hands and commauÌde at such chang were as infinite and so great that king Henrie 8 to haue licence or assent to suruây them to make vse thereby promised to speake in Protestant witnesses words He would create anâ maintaine 40. Earles 60. Barons Edw. howe 's historicall pref in Henr. â three thousand knights and fourtie thousand souldiers with skilfull Captaines and competent maintenance for tâem all for euer ouâ of the auntieÌt Church reuenewes Neither should the people be any more charged with loane Subfidies and Fifteenes Since wâiâh time there âauâ bâene more statuts lawes subfidies and Fifteenes then in fiue hundred yeares before Thus in the publicke Protestant Historie in the yeare 1614. dedicated to our king now the Prince Charles Since we haue heard and tasted in EnglaÌd more matters of this nature And yet if we should make but Robin-hoods penâworthes and estimate of what hath beene taken away from holy constant Catholikes for proââssing their true and Apostolike Religâân in the Reigne oâ Queene Elizabeth king Iames and king Charles euen since he married a Queene prosessing for herselfe Catholike Religion It will amount to more then would haue deliuered a farâe meaner king and kingedome then ours of England haue beenâ accoÌpted from such complaintes of feares wants needs dislikes and variaââââ tâerein if God had well approued of such proceedingâ and such means of proceeding against his Catholike SeruaÌts our kings most faithfull ãâã 14. And the spirituall Supreamacie assumed by oâr Princes king Henry 8. king Edward 6 and Queene Elizabeth confirmed againe in this Article had wrought so good effects in so short time within 4. yeares of Q. Elizabeths obtaining the Crowne that Protestants in such order or rather disorder and number denied teÌporall power in Princes here to put any Rebell or whatsoeuer most greeuious offender to death and they weÌt further affirming that Protestants might not fight in defence of their Countrie though the Prince commaunded it wherevpon they were enforced to declare in this Article in this maner against such Protestant Brethren The lawes of the Realme may punish Christian men with death for heinous and greuious offences Is it lawfull for Christian men at the commaundment oâ the Magistrate to weare Armes and serue in the warrs And there were among them teaching and holding communitie of goods noâ theft spoiling or Roberie to be punished no iustice or lawe to be executed or Oath to be taken in Iudgement all Courts and Consistories to cease as is euident by the two last Articles 38. and 39. thus following the former intituled Of Christian mens goods which are not common And thus declaring The Riches and goods of Christians are not common as touching the right Title and possession of the same as certaine Anabâptists Protestants doe beast And the last â9 Article intituled of a Christian mans Oath And thus enacting and declaring We Iudge thaâ Christian Religion doth not prohibit but that a man may sweare when the Magistrate requireth in a cause of faith and charitie so it be done according to the Prophets teaching in Iustice Iudgment and truth This suffiââenâây witnesseth wâat goodly coÌmon-wealths-meÌ their Protestant Religion euân ãâã Infancie thereof had brought forth in this kingdome THE IX CHAPTER That true and obedient Catholikes be the truest and most obedient subiects 1. And in conclusion to come to the particulare Sâate and Regalitie oâ our most honoured King Charles and king Iames before him There neuer were any Protestants in England in their times or before which so truely and ducifully carried themselues towards their Monarchicall true Title Right
and Gouernment as generally Catholikâ euer haue done and will as they are bound by Religion to doe In the time of young king Edward 6. Cranmar and his Protestant Complices by that young kings will did their vttermost to extinguish and ouerthrowe it Queene Mary and her Catholike RegimeÌt did nothing against it but reuiued preserued and confirmed it In the ProtestaÌt reigne of Q. Elizabeth Statuts were made to auoide or hinder it It was enacted by Protestant Parlament Capitall to acknowledge it Hales an Engâish Protestant companion to the Scotish Knox wrote a booke expressely against the Title of king Iameâ No Protestant answeared confuted or seemed to disalowe it Onely Catholiks Sir Anthonie Browne a Iudge Doctour Morgaâ Doctour of Diuinitie and Doctour Smith of the Ciuill lawe confuted it The death of that glorious Catholike Queene Marie Grandmother to king Charles and true Heire of England was long sought and after contriued concluded and executed by Queene Elizabeth and her Protestants Many worthie Catholicks here for her cause loste their liues lands and what they possessed And all geârally for suspition of fauouring her and king Iames his Title and now of king Charles were much persecuted Yet no Persecution could euer force vs from that dutie to lawfull Princes and their Temporall Titles but we euer performed it though with daunger as we haue and doe our dutie to God and the holy Church No Catholike Clergie man aâ any time impugned it 2. William Bishop of Chaleedon and Richard now his persecured Successor maintained proued and confirmed it So haue all Archpriests Assistants and all in any authoritie among the Clergie either by opinion word or writing And some of vs that yet liue and write I might here catch hold of my owne penne with others haue as expressely plainely and effectuaâly taught and published it as king Charles can desire The Protestant writers of their great publike Theater of greaâ Britanie haue not giuen so great allowance vnto it The Lord Verulam in his historie of king Henrie 7. hath not asscribed too much a good Catholike writer would haue gâuen more vnto it 3. And to puâ all out of doubt or question in this businesse because Pââeâts and Catholikes are charged so much for adhearing to Papall poweâ in this they are assuredly knowne to be the truest Subiects to our king For all Popes actually or virtually in neuer approuing or legittimating Queene Elizabeth haue ratified and confirmed the iust Right of Scotland in thâs kingedome and Ireland And nothing can be saide to be more authentically approuâd and confirmed by Popes authoritie then Pope Innocentius 8. by his Papall Bull as our Protestants confesse and relate Bulla Innocentij S. in ââtrim Henrici Regiâ Ang. 7. Maâââ Parker Antiquit. Brit. in ââ Merit it confirmed both the marriadge of king Henry 7. with Elizabeth daughter and heire to king Edward 4. and his most lawfull and Iust ãâã to the Crowne of England By all Titles and Rights by Right of Inheritance right of warre right of marriage right of ElectioÌ and right of Parlament by hiâ Pontisicall power Paââ ad confirmandum illud legitimum diuinitusque conciliatum ac ad pacem tranquillitatem Anglorum maximè necessarium Matrimoniuâ suis Bullis opus esse putauit quia quarto cognationis gradu coniuncti nuptias contraxerunt In quibus etiam nè authoritate carere videretur regnum acquisitum RegeÌ confirmauit illudque iure hareditario Iure belli iure coniugali Iure elecââonis Iure Senatus seu Parliamenti Anglicani necnon Iure Pontificio atque suo ad Henritum Regem septimum eiusque Haredes in perpeââââ spectare debere pronuntiauit The Pope thoughâ iâ needefull by his Bulls to confirme that godly reconciled Marriage most nâââssarie for the peace and tranquillitie of English men for that they âad married in the sowerth degree In which also least it may seeme to want authoritie âe coâfirmed the obtained kingdome on the king and declared it to appertaine perpetually to king Henrie the 7. and his heires by âââeditarie right by right of warre by right of Marriage by righâ of election by right of the Counâell oâ Engliââ Parlament by Pontificall and his owne right This is so constringent and bindâng an obligation of all English Catholikes attributing so much to Papall powâr and Iuâiâdiction as Protestants saie we doe euer to performe all temporall dutie and obedience to our king Charles the vndoubted true lawfull Heâre of that so established king Heryââ to him and his heires for euer that no Catholike man allowing of Papall authoritie can euer be iustly suspected of disobedieÌce or vndutifulnesse to our Soueraigne And all the Protestants of ângland in their Religion cannot produce such a bonde testimonie or warrant foâ their like fidelitie 4. Therefore being thus clearely and manifestly made knowne and euident that the Religion of English Catholikes in euery point is most true and holy plensing to God and profitable in temporall Regiment the sacred Orders of our Bishop and Priest so honourable we hope our king and hiâ Councell hereafter will rather thinke of defending then offending protecting then persecuting K. Charles Declaration to all Subiects An. 1628. them And besides that is here saide his owne Regall declaration published with aduise of his Councell calleth vpon him and them so to doe For there with that aduise hâ thus publikly protesteth before God and mâ We âall God to record before whoÌ we standâ that it â and allwayes hath bâne our hearts desiâe âo be founâ worthie of that Title which we accompt the most glorious in all our Crowne Defendor of the saith 5. We must mâst humbly remember vnto him the saith whereof he is ââilcââ Defender wherein there is so mâch gloââeâ it is thaâ onely true saith of Caââoâiks as is here proued and no other true faith being but one â Ephes 4. Vnus Dominus vna sides vnum baptisâa One Lord one faith one Baptisme And this faith of Catholiks of Engâand is the true Catholike Apostolik faith and saith of the Church of Româ now and when that Title Defendor of ââ faith was giuen to king Henry the 8. beforâ his lapse from the Church of Rome by the Pope there for defending that faith against Luther The Title giuen must be interpreted by the giuer the Pope not the receiuer which could not receiue but what was giuen And this Title was giuen receiued and vsed many yeares before Queene Elizabeth or before her Religion the Religion of English ProtestaÌts now was borne aÌd was vsed both by king HeÌry 8. and Queene Mary not of this new Religion wherefore we hope our king calling God to Record will rather defend the faith of his Catholikes and them then to suffer them to be thus persecuted and his Councell which counsailed him in that declaration will so aduise and counsaile him And his Parlament that could not finde their Religion 80. yeares old will not hinder him in so good a deede seeing it is certaine by their owne accompt that the Title Defendor of the faith is about 30. yeares older then their Religion and so he cannot by that Title defend their faith A non ens can haue no defence It can neither be defended or offended FINIS FAVLTS ESCAPED AND CORRECTED Pag. 17. lin 3. Theanus for Theonus l. 15. Thadiacus for Thadiocus p. 21. l. 22. paene for penè p. 27. l. 28. most worthiest for worthiest p. 39. l. 28. were for was p. 42. l. 18. Phylosopho for Philosopho p. 43. l. 20. Huntingtonsyhre for Huntington shyre p. 47. l. 21. did increased for and encreased p. 51. l. 20. these man for these men p. 52. l. 19. Missae Papisticae for Missa Papistica p. 61. l. 19. Ireland for Iland p. 63. l. 6. translated them for translated p. 69. l. 22. euery one for and euery one p. 71. l. 7. formae for forma p. 80. l. 23. iurisdiction for iurisdiction on the Christians p. 91. l. 18. after S. Peter adde and to the holy Roman Church p. 100. l. 25. make no Parenthesis p. 111. l. 8. Omitt Theodoretus p. 120. l. 26. Omitt Thou shalt p. 123. l. 6. Amphilabus for Amphibalus Some other faults of lese moment I haue not put downe here they being easie for the Reader to correct in reading FAVLTS ESCAPED AND CORRECTED Pag. 13. lin 23. at which time for after which time pag. 17. l. 3. Theanus for Theonus l. 15. Thadiacus for Thadiocus p. 21. l. 22. paene for penè p. 23. l. 24. first to haue perswaded for before to haue brought p. 25. l. 5. as they most happely did for as soone after it most happely was p. 27. l. 28. most worthiest for worthiest p. 39. l. 10. S. Bonifacius for S. Benedict Biscop p. 35. l. 28. were for was p. 42. l. 7. yea 386 for yeare 586. p. 42. l. 18. Phylosopho for Philosopho pag. 43. l. 20. Huntingtonsyhre for Huntingtonshyre p. 47. l. 21. did increased for and encreased p. 51. l. 20. these man for these men p. 52. l. 19. Missae Papislicae for Missa Papistica p. 61. l. 19. Ireland for Iland pag. 63. l. 6. translated them for translated pag. 69. l. 22. euery one for and euery one pag. 71. l. 7. formae for forma p. 80. l. 23. iurisdiction for iurisdiction on the Christians p. 91. l. 18. after S. Peter adde and to the hoây Roman Church pag. 100. l. 25. make no Parenthesis p. 111. l. 8. Omit Theodoretus p. 120. l. 26. Omit Thou shalt p. 123. l. 6. Amphilabus for Amphibalus pag. 125. l. 1. allmost 1000 for aboue 1000. p. 150. l. 22. let for left pag. 156. l. 18. many for euery Some other faults of lese moment I haue not put downe here they being easie for the âeader to correct in reading