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A04285	Triplici nodo, triplex cuneus. Or An apologie for the Oath of allegiance against the two breues of Pope Paulus Quintus, and the late letter of Cardinal Bellarmine to G. Blackvvel the Arch-priest. Authoritate regiâ.	James I, King of England, 1566-1625.; Paul V, Pope, 1552-1621.; Bellarmino, Roberto Francesco Romolo, Saint, 1542-1621.	1607 (1607)	STC 14400; ESTC S121305	37,662	98

Christian Kingdomes it is altogether idle as all that haue any vnderstanding may easily perceiue For it was neuer heard of from the Churches infancie vntill this day that euer any Pope did command that any Prince though an Heretike though an Ethnike though a Persecuter should be murdered or did approue of the fact when it was done by any other And why I pray you doeth onely the King of England feare that which none of all other the Princes in Christendome either doeth feare or euer did feare But as I sayd these vaine pretexts are but the Trappes and Stratagemes of Sathan Of which kind I could produce not a few out of ancient Stories if I went about to write a booke and not an Epistle One only for example sake I will call to your memory S. Gregorius Nazianzenus in his first Oration against Iulian the Emperour reporteth That he the more easily to beguile the simple Christians did insert the Images of the false gods into the pictures of the Emperor which the Romanes did vse to bow downe vnto with a ciuill kind of reuerence so that no man could doe reuerence to the Emperours picture but withall he must adore the Images of the false gods Whereupon it came to passe that many were deceiued And if there were any that found out the Emperours craft and refused to worship his picture those were most grieuously punished as men that had contemned the Emperour in his Image Some such like thing me thinkes I see in the Oath that is offered to you which is so craftily composed that no man can detest Treason against the King and make profession of his Ciuill subiection but he must be constrayned perfidiously to denie the Primacie of the Apostolike Sea But the seruants of Christ and especially the chiefe Priests of the Lord ought to be so farre from taking an vnlawfull Oath where they may indamage their Faith that they ought to beware that ry the Great hath written in his 42. Epistle of his 11. booke Let not the Reuerence due to the Apostolique Sea bee troubled by any mans presumption for then the state of the members doeth remaine entire when the head of the faith is not bruised by any iniurie Therefore by S. Gregories testimonie when they are busie about disturbing or diminishing or taking away of the Primacie of the Apostolique Sea then are they busie about cutting off the very head of the faith and dissoluing of the state of the whole body and of all the members Which selfe same thing S. Leo doeth confirme in his third Sermon of his Assumption to the Pope-dome when he saith Our Lord had a speciall care of Peter and prayed properly for Peters faith as though the state of others were more stable when their Princes minde was not to be ouercome Whereupon himselfe in his Epistle to the Bishop of Vienna doth not doubt to affirme That he is not partaker of the Diuine Mysterie that dare depart from the soliditie of Peter who also saith That hee who thinketh the Primacie to bee denied to that Sea hee can in no sort lessen the Authoritie of it but by being puft vp with the spirit of pride doeth cast himselfe headlong into hell These and many other of this kinde I am very sure are most familiar to you who besides many other bookes haue diligently read ouer the visible Monarchie of your owne Saunders a most diligent writer and one who hath worthily deserued of the Church of England Neither can you be ignorant that most holy and learned men Iohn Bishop of Rochester and Thomas More within our memorie for this one most weightie head of doctrine ledde the way to Martyrdome to many others to the exceeding glory of the English Nation But I would put you in remembrance that you should take heart and considering the weightinesse of the cause not to trust too much to your owne iudgement neither be wise aboue that is meete to bee wise And if peraduenture your fall haue proceeded not vpon want of consideration but through humane infirmitie and for feare of punishment and imprisonment yet doe not preferre a temporall libertie to the libertie of the glory of the Sonnes of God neither for escaping a light and momentanie tribulation loose an eternall waight world to wonder with me at the committing of so grosse an Errour by so learned a man as that hee should haue pained himselfe to haue set downe so elaborate a Letter for the refutation of a quite mistaken Question For it appeareth that our English Fugitiues of whose inward societie with him he so greatly vaunteth haue so fast hammered in his head the Oath of Supremacie which hath euer bene so great a Scarre vnto them as hee thinking by his Letter to haue refuted the last Oath hath in place thereof onely payd the Oath of Supremacie which was most in his head As a man that being earnestly caried in his thoughts vpon another matter then hee is presently in doing will often name the matter or person hee is thinking of in place of the other thing hee hath at that time in hand For as the Oath of Supremacy was deuised for putting a difference betweene Papists and them of our profession So was this Oath which hee would seeme to impugne The difference betweene the Oath of Supremacie and this of Allegiance ordained for making a difference betweene the Ciuilly obedient Papists and the peruerse Disciples of the Powder-Treason Yet doth all his Letter runne vpon an Inuectiue against the compulsion of Catholikes to denie the authoritie of Saint Peters successors and in place thereof to acknowledge the successors of King Henry the eight For in King Henry the eights time was the Oath of Supremacie first made By him were Thomas Moore and Roffensis put to death partly for refusing of it From his time till now haue all our Princes professing this Religion successiuely in effect mainteined the same And in that Oath only is conteined the Kings absolute power to bee Iudge ouer all persons aswell Ciuill as Ecclesiasticall excluding all forreigne Powers and Potentates to be Iudges within his Dominions Whereas this last made Oath containeth no such matter onely medling with the Ciuill Obedience of Subiects to their Soueraigne in meere Temporall causes And that it may the better appeare that whereas by name hee seemeth to condemne the last Oath yet indeede his whole letter runneth vpon nothing but vpon the some other authority of the Church and Sea of Rome yet by other meanes with others helpe he may depose our King That the Pope may dispose of his Maiesties Kingdomes and Dominions That the Pope may giue authoritie to some Forrein Prince to inuade his Maiesties Dominions That the Pope may discharge his Subiects of their Allegiance and Obedience to his Maiestie That the Pope may giue Licence to one or more of his Maiesties Subiects to beare Armes against his Maiestie That the Pope may giue leaue to the King his Subiects to offer violence

Triplici nodo triplex cuneus OR AN APOLOGIE FOR THE OATH of Allegiance Against the two Breues of Pope PAVLVS QVINTVS and the late Letter of Cardinal BELLARMINE to G. BLACKVVEL the Arch-priest Tunc omnes populi clamauerunt dixerunt Magna est Veritas praeualet ESDR 3. ¶ Authoritate Regiâ ¶ Imprinted at London by Robert Barker Printer to the Kings most Excellent Maiestie ANNO 1607. AN APOLOGIE FOR THE OATH of Allegiance WHat a monstrous rare nay neuer heard of treacherous attempt was plotted within these few yeeres here in England for the destruction of his Maiestie the Queene their Posteritie the whole house of Parliament and a great number of good Subiects of all sorts and degrees is so famous already through the whole World by the infamy thereof as it is needlesse to be repeated or published any more the horror of the sinne it selfe doth so lowdly proclaime it For if those a Gen. 4 10. crying sinnes whereof mention is made in the Scripture haue that Epithet giuen them for their publique infamie and for procuring as it were with a lowd cry from Heauen a iust vengeance and recompence and yet those sinnes are both old and too common neither the world nor any one Countrey being euer at any time cleane voyd of them If those Sinnes I say are said in the Scripture to cry so lowd What must then this Sinne doe plotted without cause infinite in crueltie and singular from all examples What proceeded hereupon is likewise notorious to the whole world His Maiesties Iustice onely taking holde vpon the Offenders and that in as Honourable and publique a forme of triall as euer was vsed in this Kingdome 2. For although the onely reason they gaue for plotting so heinous an attempt was the zeale they caried to the Romish Religion yet were neuer any other of that profession the worse vsed for that cause as by his Maiesties gratious Proclamation immediatly after the discouery of the said Fact doeth plainely appeare Onely at the next sitting downe againe of the Parliament were there Lawes made setting downe some such orders as was thought fit for preuenting the like mischiefe in time to come Amongst which a forme of Oath was framed to be taken by all his Maiesties Subiects whereby they should make cleare profession of their Resolution faithfully to persist in his Maiesties obedience according to their naturall Allegiance To the end that hereby his Maiestie might make a separation not onely betweene all his good Subiects in generall and vnfaithfull Traitors that intended to with draw themselues from his Maiesties Obedience But specially to make a separation betweene so many of his Maiesties Subiects who although they were otherwise Popishly affected yet retained in their hearts the print of their naturall duetie to their Soueraigne and those who being caried away with the like Fanaticall zeale that the Powder Traitors were could not conteine themselues within the bounds of their naturall Allegiance but thought diuersitie of Religion a safe pretext for all kinde of Treasons and rebellions against their Soueraigne Which godly and wise intent God did blesse with successe accordingly For very many of his Maiesties Subiects that were Popishly affected aswell Priests as Layicks did freely take the same Oath whereby they both gaue his Maiestie occasion to thinke the better of their fidelitie and likewise freed themselues of that heauy slander That although they were fellow professors of one Religion with the powder Traitors yet were they not ioyned with them in Treasonable courses against their Soueraigne whereby all quietly minded Papists were put out of despaire and his Maiestie gaue good proofe that he intended no persecution against them for conscience cause but onely desired to be secured of them for Ciuill obedience which for Conscience cause they were bound to performe 3. But the deuil could not haue deuised a more malitious tricke for interrupting this so calme and clement a course then fell out by the sending hither and publishing a Breue of the Popes countermaunding all them of his profession to take this Oath Thereby sowing new seedes of iealousie betweene his Maiestie and his Popish Subiects by stirring them vp to disobey that lawfull commandement of their Soueraigne which was ordeined to be taken of them as a pledge of their fidelitie And so by their refusall of so iust a charge to giue his Maiestie so great and iust a ground for punishment of them without touching any matter of Conscience throwing them needlesly into one of these desperate straights Either with the losse of their liues and goods to renounce their Allegiance to their natural Soueraigne Or else to procure the condemnation of their soules by renouncing the Catholicke faith as he alleadgeth 4. And on the other part although disparitie of Religion can permit no intelligence nor intercourse of Messengers betweene his Maiestie and the Pope yet there being no denounced warre betweene them he hath by this Action broken the rules of common ciuilitie and Iustice betweene Christian Princes in thus condemning him vnheard both by accounting him a Persecutor which cannot be but implyed by exhorting the Papists to endure Martyrdome As likewise by so straightly commanding all those of his profession in England to refuse the taking of this Oath Thereby refusing to professe their naturall obedience to their Soueraigne For if he thinke himselfe his Maiesties Iudge wherefore hath he condemned him vnheard And if he haue nothing to doe with the King and his gouernment as indeed he hath not why doeth he mittere falcem in alienam messem to meddle betweene his Maiestie and his Subiects especially in matters that meerely and onely concerne Ciuil obedience And yet could Pius Quintus in his greatest furie and auowed quarrel against the late Queene doe no more iniury vnto her then he hath in this case offered vnto his Maiestie without so much as a pretended or an alleadged cause For what difference there is betweene the commanding Subiects to rebell and loosing them from their oath of Allegiance as Pius Quintus did and the commanding of Subiects not to obey in making profession of their Oath of their duetifull Allegiance as this Pope hath now done No man can easily discerne 5. But to draw neere vnto his Breue Wherein certainly he hath taken more pains then he needed by setting downe in the said Breue the whole body of the Oath at length whereas the onely naming of the Title thereof might as well haue serued for any answere he hath made thereunto making Vna litura that is the flat and generall condemnation of the whole Oath to ferue for all his refutation Wherein he hath as well in this respect as in the former dealt both vndiscreetly with his Maiestie and iniuriously with his owne Catholicks With his Maiestie in not refuting particularly what special words he quarrelled in that Oath which if he had done it might haue bene that his Maiestie for the fatherly care he hath not to