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B02269	A collection of several treatises concerning the reasons and occasions of the penal laws. Viz. I. The execution of justice, in England, not for religion, but for treason: 17 Dec. 1583. II. Important considerations, by the secular priests: printed A.D. 1601. III. The Jesuits reasons unreasonable: 1662.	Burghley, William Cecil, Baron, 1520-1598. Execution of justice in England for maintenaunce of publique and Christian peace.; W. W. (William Watson), 1559?-1603. Important considerations which ought to move all true and sound Catholikes.	1678 (1678)	Wing C5192AC; ESTC R174039	70,520	139

deposed all that do obey her are likewise innodate and accursed which point is perillous to the Catholicks for if they obey her they be in the Popes Curse and if they disobey her they are in the Queens danger therefore the present Pope to relieve them hath altered that part of the Bull and dispenced with them to obey and serve her without peril of excommunication which dispensation is to endure but till it please the Pope otherwise to determine Wherefore to make some conclusion of the matters before-mentioned A Conclusion that all the infamous Books against the Queen and the Realm are false all persons both within the Realm and abroad may plainly perceive that all the infamous Libels lately published abroad in sundry languages and the slanderous reports made in other Princes Courts of a multitude of persons to have been of late put to torments and Death only for profession of the Catholick Religion and not for matters of state against the Queens Majesty are false and shameless and published to the maintenance of Traitors and Rebels And to make the matter seem more horrible or lamentable they recite the particular names of all the persons which by their own Catalogue exceed not for these twenty five years space Difference of the small numbers that have been executed in the space of five and twenty years from the great numbers in five years of Queen Maries Reign above the number of threescore forgetting or rather with their stony and sensless hearts not regarding in what cruel sort in the time of Queen Mary which little exceeded the space of five years the Queens Majesties Raign being five times as many there were by Imprisonment Torments Famine and Fire of Men Women Maidens and Children almost the number of four hundred and of that number above twenty that had been Archbishops Bishops and principal Prelates or Officers in the Church lamentably destroyed and of Women above threescore and of Children above forty and amongst the Women some great with Child out of whose bodies the Child by fire was expelled alive and yet also cruelly burned examples beyond all heathen Cruelty And most of the youth that then suffered cruel Death both Men. Women and Children which is to be noted were such as had never by the Sacrament of Baptism or by Confirmation professed nor were ever taught or instructed or ever had heard of any other kind of Religion but only of that which by their blood and death in the fire they did as true Martyrs testifie A matter of another sort to be lamented with simplicity of words and not with puffed Eloquence than the execution in this time of a very few Traytors who also in their time if they exceeded thirty years of Age had in their Baptism professed and in their youth had learned the same Religion which they now so bitterly oppugned And beside that in their opinions they differ much from the Martyrs of Queen Maries time for though they continued in the profession of the Religion wherein they were Christened yet they never at their death denied their lawful Queen nor maintained any of her open and Foreign Enemies nor procured any Rebellion or Civil War nor did sow any Sedition in secret Corners nor withdrew any Subjects from their Obedience as these sworn Servants of the Pope have continually done And therefore all these things well considered there is no doubt but all good Subjects within the Realm do manifestly see and all wavering persons not being led clean out of the way by the seditious will hereafter perceive how they have been abused to go astray And all strangers An Advertisement to all Princes of Countries abroad but especially all Christian Potentates as Emperours Kings Princes and such like having their Soveraign Estate either in succession hereditary or by consent of their people being acquainted with the very truth of these her Majesties late just and necessary actions only for defence of her Self her Crown and People against open Invaders and for eschewing of Civil Wars stirred up by Rebellion will allow in their own like Cases for a truth and rule as it is not to be doubted but they will that it belongeth not to a Bishop of Rome as Successor of Saint Peter and therein a Pastor spiritual or if he were the Bishop of all Christendom as by the name of Pope he claimeth first by his Bulls or Excommunications in this sort at his will in favour of Traytors and Rebels to depose any Soveraign Princes being lawfully invested in their Crowns by succession in blood or by lawful Election and then to Arm Subjects against their natural Lords to make Wars and to dispense with them for their Oaths in so doing or to excommunicate faithful Subjects for obeying of their natural Princes and lastly himself to make open War with his own Souldiers against Princes moving no Force against him For if these powers should be permitted to him to exercise then should no Empire no Kingdom no Country no City or Town be possessed by any lawful title longer than one such only an earthly man sitting as he saith in St. Peters Chair at Rome The Authority claimed by the Pope not warranted by Christ or by the two Apostles Peter and Paul should for his will and appetite without Warrant from God or Man think meet and determine An Authority never challenged by the Lord of Lords the Son of God Jesus Christ our only Lord and Saviour and the only Head of his Church whilst he was in his Humanity upon the Earth nor yet delivered by any Writing or certain Tradition from Saint Peter from whom the Pope pretendeth to derive all his Authority nor yet from St. Paul the Apostle of the Gentiles but contrariwise by all Preachings Precepts and Writings contained in the Gospel and other Scriptures of the Apostles obedience is expresly commanded to all earthly Princes yea even to Kings by special name and that so generally as no person is exempted from such duty of obedience as by the sentence of St. Paul even to the Romans appeareth Omnis anima sublimioribus potestatibus sit subdita That is Let every soul be subject to the higher Powers within the compass of which Law or Precept St. Chrysostom being Bishop of Constantinople writeth that even Apostles Prophets Evangelists and Monks are comprehended And for proof of St. Peters mind herein from whom these Popes claim their Authority it cannot be plainlier expressed than when he writeth thus Proinde subjecti estote cuivis humanae ordinationi propter Dominum sive Regi ut qui superemineat sive Praesidibus ab eo missis That is Therefore be you subject to every humane ordinance or creature for the Lord whether it be to the King as to him that is supereminent or above the rest or to his Presidents sent by him By which two principal Apostles of Christ these Popes the pretended Successors but chiefly by that which Christ the Son of God the only

England I say all such Benefices and Collations belong more to the King than to the Pope For it being clear that the Offices to which Benefices are annexed are to be provided of able men and who are able men one can tell that understand not the Office 't is plain that Secular Clergy-men ought to be the chusers of Officers of their kind Regulars of Regular Superiors and by consequence the Donors of such Benefices But the people first got an influence on the chusing of Bishops because 't was rationally believed those would be able to do most good who were in the peoples good liking But when Bishops grew to have great Revenues and to be esteemed men of so high Quality in the Common-wealth the Emperors and Kings began to cast an eye on their Election and not without reason for it concerns them that none be in eminent places but such as they are secured of will breed no disturbance in the Common-wealth After this if any Clergy-man had done the King service he found in the best way of recompence to cause him to be chosen into a place of Authority and Eminency The Popes title to the giving of Benefices began by his Office of Patriach of the West which since the Council of Nice he more narrowly looked to the government of exhorting and correcting by Letters such Bishops and Churches there as did not their duties And this held till Pepin found how efficacious the reverence of the Pope was to make him obeyed and accepted for King of France Since which time whether for Ambition or for security sake men began to think no Act firm unless it were ratified at Rome In times following the Popes began to have need of Christian Princes and these found it the sweetest way to help the Popes by granting imposition upon the Clergy So came the first-fruits to the Popes and to assure those Incomes the custom of having Bulls from Rome to confirm the Elections of the Clergy was likewise introduced So that this Authority of the Popes comes from the Princes Agreements with them and not from any Superiority or Power of the Popes Wherefore these Agreements being by time and essential changes annulled all giving of Benefices belong to the Chusers and the King I come now to the close If your renouncing of Benefices make you less subject to the Pope as you pretend it makes you in England less subject to the King And if it makes you more hardly rewardable and more pressing on the Pope it will make you the like to Kings As in Leopold's time you were so wholly the means for coming to Benefices that hardly a command from Spain could take place for any that was not your Confident 11. My Eleventh Doubt is how you answer your banishment out of France and Venice viz. that Both these States have repealed their Acts. Which answer makes nothing to this that you either did not deserve the sentence or deserved to have it released one of which any judicious man would have expected at your hands Now to come to particulars the Venetians were so resolute against you that they made it Treason for any of their State so much as to motion your return and refused divers Princes intercessions for you Till their case reducing them to fear the slavery of the Turk if they had not the Popes assistance promised them largely if they would re-admit you they rather chose to struggle with your Treasons at home than admit the Barbarians conquest of their Dominions Whether they have cause to repent or not I know not But the current news at this present is that the Pope who procured your admittance has having found you so unfaithful to him notwithstanding all his love to you insomuch that he 's about question you by what means you are so suddenly raised to so great wealth wherein I fear he 'l not find obedience so ready as he found flattery when he was to pleasure you Your measure in France was indeed hard the fault being not proved to be universal but particular and so in divers places was never executed and easie to be repealed having proceeded more out of presumption than proof But your case in England is far different your whole English Congregation following their Head Parsons and maintaining his Acts even since his Death 12. My Twelfth Doubt is concerning your conclusion Whether you intend to mend what hitherto you have done amiss or rather to persist in your Equivocations and Dissimulations For first whereas you being the chiefly or only suspected Body are therefore bound to offer more satisfaction than others you make your Proposition to submit to whatever all other Catholick Priests shall agree to which sounds as much as if any disagree you will adhere to them or in plain terms that you 'l agree to no more than by shame you shall be forced to for not plainly appearing the worst of Priests and Enemies to the Catholick Cause 13. My Thirteenth Doubt is why you pretending to be the greatest Divines among Catholicks remit your selves to the determinations of others and not as good Subjects ought examine what satisfaction is necessary and fit to be given the State and both offer it your selves and provoke others to do it not standing so scrupulously upon your generals decree which surely should not be thought to bind in such extreme cases even the Laws of the Church and of general Councils we know oblige not where our obedience would ruine us and will you still more precisely observe your own By-Laws than the sacred Canons of the Universal Church Methinks therefore in due satisfaction concerning the pretences of the Pope against the King whatever Catholick Doctors hold favourable to Princes in these differences should by you be gathered together and subscribed and promised to be maintained with all your power As first the Doctrine which denies that the Pope has any Authority in any case to depose or temporally molest the King or any of His Majesties Subjects Likewise that he has no Authority to release any lawfully made Oath of Allegiance or other promise to his Majesty or any of his Subjects And because none of these or the like assertions can be strong and firm in the mouth of him that holds the Pope's Infallibility in determining points of Faith but whenever the Pope shall determine the contrary he must renounce what before he held for good therefore you should do the like in respect of the Pope's Infallibility Moreover because if the Pope by his own or any others Authority may force his Majesties Subjects to go into Countries where they cannot enjoy the protection of their Prince the Subjects are not free to maintain these assertions therefore this Position also that a Subject to England is bound to appear before any foreign Tribunal without His Majesties consent is also to be condemned Nor is it less necessary you should expresly renounce the Doctrines of Equivocation and Mental Reservation without which all the