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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
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

is alleaged was neuer before heard nor read of in the Christian Church and therefore I would haue wished the Pope before hee had set downe this Commaundement to all Papists here That since in him is the Power by the infallibility of his spirit to make new Articles of Faith when euer it shall please him That he had first set it down for an article of faith before he had commanded all Catholikes to beleeue and obey it I will then conclude the Answere to this point in a Dilemma Either it is lawfull to obey the Soueraigne Question in Temporall things or not If it be lawfull as I neuer heard nor read it doubted of Then why is he so vniust and so cruell towards his owne Catholikes as to Commaund them to disobey their Soueraignes lawfull Commandement If it be vnlawfull Why hath he neither expressed or any other that either would professe or any wayes tollerate the professors of our Religion contrary to his manifold vowes and protestations simul eodem tempore and as it were deliuered vno eodem spiritu to diuers of his Maiesties ministers abroad professing such kindnesse and shewing such forwardnesse to aduance him to this Crowne Nay the most part of Catholikes here finding this Breue when it came to their hands to be so farre against Diuinitie Policy or naturall sense were firmely perswaded that it was but a counterfeit Libel deuised in hatred The Catholikes opinion of the Breue of the Pope Or at the farthest a thing hastily done vpon wrong Information as was before said Of which opinion were not onely the simpler sort of Papists but euen some amongst them of best account both for learning and experience wherof the Archpriest himselfe was one But for soluing of this obiection the Pope himselfe hath taken new paines by sending forth a second Breue only for giuing faith and confirmation to the former That whereas before his sinne might haue bene thought to haue proceeded from rashnesse and mis-information he will now wilfully and willingly double the same whereof the Copie followeth TO OVR BELOued sonnes the English Catholikes Paulus P. P. V tus BEloued Sonnes Salutation and The second Breue Apostolicall Benediction It is reported vnto vs that there are found certayne men amongst you who when as wee haue sufficiently declared by our Letters dated the last yeere on the tenth of the Calends of October in the forme of a Breue that ye cannot with safe Conscience take the Oath which was then required of you And when as wee haue further straightly required you that by no meanes yee should take it yet there are some I say among you which dare now affirme That such Letters THE ANSWERE TO the second Breue NOw for this Breue I may iustly reflect his owne phrase vpon him in tearming it to be the craft of the Deuil For if the deuill had studied a thousand yeeres for to find out a mischiefe for our Catholikes here hee hath found it in this That now when many Catholikes haue taken their Oath and some Priests also yea the Arch-priest himselfe without compunction or sticking they shall not now onely bee bound to refuse the profession of their naturall Allegiance to their Soueraigne which might yet haue bin some way coloured vpon diuers scruples conceiued vpon the words of the Oath but they must now renounce and forsweare their profession of obedience already sworne and so must as it were at the third Instance forsweare A double Oath of every Subject their two former Oaths first closely sworne by their birth in their naturall Allegiance and next clearely confirmed by this Oath which doeth nothing but expresse the same So as no man can now hold the faith or procure the Saluation of his soule in England that must not abiure and renounce his borne and sworne Allegiance to his naturall Soueraigne And yet it is not sufficient to ratifie the last yeeres Breue by a new one come forth this yeere But that not onely euery yeere but euery moneth may produce a new Monster The great and famous writer of the Controuersies The late Vn-Iesuited Cardinall Bellarmine must adde his talent to this good worke by blowing the Bellowes of Sedition and sharpening the Spurre to Rebellion by sending such a Letter of his to the Arch-priest here as it is a wonder how Passion and an Ambitious desire of mainteining that Monarchy should charme the wits of so famously learned a man The Copie whereof here followeth TO THE MOST Reuerend Master GEORGE BLACKVVEL Arch-priest of the English Robert of the holy Church of Rome Cardinall BELLARMIN sendeth greeting MOst reuerend Sir and Brother in Christ It is almost fourtie yeeres since we did see one the other But yet I haue neuer beene vnmindfull of our ancient acquaintance neither haue I ceased seeing I could doe you no other good to commend your labouring most painefully in the Lordes vineyard in my prayers to God And I doubt not but that I haue liued all this while in your memorie and haue had some place in your prayers at the Lords Altar So therefore euen vnto this time wee haue abidden as S. Iohn speaketh in the mutuall loue one of the other not by worde or letter but by labour and trueth But a late message which was brought vnto vs within a few dayes of your bonds and imprisonment hath inforced mee to breake off this silence which message although it seemed heauie in regard of the losse of your pastorall function which you haue exercised in that Church yet withall it seemed ioyous because you drew neere vnto the glory of Martyrdome then the which thing there is no gift of God more happie That you who haue fed your Flocke so many yeeres with the worde and doctrine should now feed it more gloriously by the example of your patience But another heauy tidings did not a litle disquiet and almost take away this ioy which immediatly followed of the aduersaries assault and peraduenture of the slip and fall of your Constancie in refusing an vnlawfull Oath Neither truely most deare brother could that oath therefore be lawfull because it was offered in sort tempered and modified for you knowe that those kinde of modifications are nothing els but sleights and subtilties of Satan that the Catholique faith touching the Primacie of the Sea Apostolike might either secretly or openly be shot at for the which faith so many worthy Martyrs euen in that very England it selfe haue resi sted vnto blood For most certaine it is that in whatsoeuer words the Oath is conceiued by the aduersaries of the faith in that Kingdome it tends to this end that the Authoritie of the head of the Church in England may bee transferred from the successour of S. Peter to the Successour of K. Henry the eight For that which is pretended of the danger of the Kings life if the high Priest should haue the same power in England which he hath in all other