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A18209 A defence of Catholikes persecuted in England invincibly prouing their holy religion to be that which is the only true religion of Christ; and that they in professing it, are become most faithfull, dutifull, and loyall subiects, to God, their King and country. And therefore are rather to be honoured and respected, then persecuted or molested. Composed by an ould studient in diuinitie. Broughton, Richard. 1630 (1630) STC 4833; ESTC S107625 93,830 235

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these Westerne parts that both Catholik and Protestant Antiquaries thus deliuer vnto vs ●raedi●abat ad flumen vsque ●ordens● ad mare S●o●um vbi Caledonios Athalos Horestos ac vicina●m Ion. Ba●●● descript Briten in 〈◊〉 Albaniae regionum In●olas docendo monendo ●r ando ad veritatis obseruationē●nstigauit Ex d●s●ults suis quosdam ad Orchades Insulas ad Norwe●● Islandiam misit vt ●orum instructioni●us fi●i quo que lumen recipe●ent Nam in Elguensi Collegio ●centos sexaginta quinque literatos viros ad id ●mper para●os habebat praet●r reliquos alijs exercitijs ●ditos He preached a● farre as to the riuer of Forde ● the Scotish sea where he sti●ed vp the Caledo●ns Athali●ns Ho●ests and the Inhabita●ts of ● neighboring k●ngdoms to A●bion vnto the obserua●n of ●●ue●h by teaching admonishing and 〈◊〉 ing ● sent some 〈…〉 disciples to the Iles of Or●i ades to ● waye and ●sland that 〈…〉 instru●●ions they 〈…〉 receiue the light of ●aith For in ●he Coll●dge ●●●gue he ●ad 365. learned ●●n alwaise readie for ● purpose besides others imploted in other exer●● Saint Asaph his scholler a Bishop of ●●tanie who as Protestants sai● from Ro●n power Au●h●●itatem ●nct●nem acce●it ● tooke authorit● and 〈◊〉 Suc●ceded h●m ● that great charge and gouernment of at Apostolike Colledge in VVales This S. ●ntegern being by all accounts a Bishop ●0 yeares and disciple to S. ●●●uanus con●●a●ed Bishop by S. Pa●●ad it●s who was sen● ther from S. Celestine Pope in or about the are 431. must need● be liuing with Saint ●aph at or a litle before Saint Augustin●●m●ning And as our Protestants sa●e Sa●●●aph ioyned with Saint Augustine So Saint Asaph writer of his maister S. Kentegerns li● proueth that S. Kentegern was at Rome wh● S. Gregorie was Pope and submitted hi●selfe to him in all things and was approue● by him also in his Apostolike proceedings 16. In this time in the yeare 596. Sai● Augustine was sent Legate hither by the sa● holy and learned Pope S. Gregorie who b● his supreame Pastorall power gaue him sp●rituall authoritie ouer all Bishops and othe● here in these his owne words vnto him B● tanniarum omnes Episcopos tuae Fraternitati commi●mus Beda l. 1. Eccles hist gentis Angl. c. 27. vt indocti doceantur infirmi persuasione rebor●tur peruersi authoritate corrigantur We commit ● the Bishops of Britanie to your Fraternitie that the ● learned may be taught the weake by persuasiō streng●●ned the wicked corrected by authoritie By this Pap● power and authoritie all things were orde● in the Church of Englād in S. Augustins ti● and all his Successours by the same aut●ritie were setled in that Archiepiscopall S● which he translated after 400. yeares fro● London to Cāterburie All those Bishops v● to the first Protestant Bishop called Math● Parker who was made by Q. Elizabeth b● will and manner receiued Consecratio● Pall power and Iurisdiction from the See Rome and they swore obedience vnto it their owne Parker Godwin Ioceline a● others in the liues of them and those Yorke together with all Registers Recor● Annals and Antiquities doe prooue parti●●arly 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 ●uch obedience vnto the Pope Hoc Iuramentum ● singulis Episcopis Papae praestari consueuit Obediens ●ro Beato Petro Sanctaeque Romanae Ec●lesiae Domino meo Domino Papae suisque successoribus Papatum Romanum R●galia S. Petri adiutor ero ad retinendum defendendum saluo meo ordine contra ●mnem ●ominem This Oath was accustomed to be taken by ●uery Bishop I will be ob●dient to S. Peter and to the Lord my Lord the Pope and to his Successours I will ●e an helpe● to hold and defend the Popedome of Rome ●nd R●t● of S. Peter against all men In the yeare of Christ 1536. and 23. of King Henry S. they ●are and the Statuts themselues so prooue Leges in Parlamento lataesunt de Rege supremo Ecclesiae Anglicanae Capite declarando de Clero Anglicano Regifulij●iendo Ne quid deinceps amplius Papae aut Romanae Cu●iae quot unque praetextu ex Anglia pendatur De Episcopis consecrandis alijsque quae Roma an●ea ge●ebantur intra Regnum persierendis De Eccle●●asticorum beneficiorum primitijs atque decimis Principi in perpetuum soluendis His legibus potentia Papalis quae nongentis amplius annis in Angli● durauis ●entidi● Lawes were enacted in the Parliament of declaring the King to be supreame head of the English Church of subiecting the English Cle●gie to the King That nothing heareafter vnder what pretence so●uer in England shall depend of the Pope or the Court of Rome Of cons●crating Bishops and performing other a●●air●● within the kingdome which before were done at Rome Of paying p●rpetually to the Prince the fi●st fruites of Ecclesiasticall Benefices and Ti●hes By these lawes the Papall power which hath b●ne in for●● for these nine hundred yeares did fall And this was ●o 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 af●er 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 Con●ilium Londini i● quo Eccle●ia Angli●an● formam potesta●●s nullis a●te temporibus visum induit Henricus enim Rex caput i●sius Eccl●si● constituitur At London there is holden a Councell in which the English Church ha●h 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 Adu●rsaries witnessing that the Catholikes of England giue no other power or Iurisdiction to t●e Pope of Rome then he had euer without any inte●ruption And in this we haue ●he generall assent of all our Kings Princes Bishops and others and all the Christians in the world from the tim● of Christ vntill long a●ter 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 Q●eene Elizabeth a woman King Iames wiser then any of them hath le●t it thus publick●y in open assembly declared by his Regall sentence The kings Resolution is that no Church ought further to se●erate he●selfe frō the Church of Rome either in doctrine or Ceremonies then she hath departed from herselfe when she was in her flo●ishing
be cōtained in Scr●tures or to be professed which Catholi● doctrines against these Protestants in th● Articles of Religion they themselues acnowledge 〈◊〉 ●al l. 2 〈◊〉 Romā 〈…〉 to be contained in the old Masse● the Britans the Papisticall Masse Missae P●s●ica as some of them terme it before S. ●lestins time 3. And to speake in order of euery pa●cu●ar in their Articles that is now questned Antiquit. ●last Gulielm M●l●● l. de antiq coe●●b Glast Io. Capgr●u Catalog in ● Iosep● Arimath omitting the rest Their Article intitul● of the Iustification of man asscribing Iustificat●● to faith onely is vtterly condemned by ● Penitentiall an Order as I haue recited fr● the Britans their so many Monasteries in ● ages by the liues of our first Religious S● Ioseph of Arimathaea and his fellowes liu● Eremits all their life in watchings fastin● and praiers so performing their deuout ● ●es to God and the blessed virgin In vigilijs ●iunijs or●tionibus vacantes De● Beatae Vir●●● deuota exhibentes obsequia So did their ●uc●essours after them and all British Religious ● other places So kings and Princes Bishops ●d greatest learned men all which by our ●●o●estan●s truely beleiued and had true ●ith though they vndertooke such penall ad ●tisfactorie course● of life And there great ●arned Doctour Priest Historian and Reli●ous man in that Penitentiall O●d●r Saint Gild. Prolog in lib. ●● exci● c●nqu●●t 〈◊〉 ●ildas wrote Sciebam misericordiam Domini sed ● iudicium timebam Laudaham gratiam sed reddi●nem vnicuique secundum opera sua verebar I did ●owe t●e m●rcie of our Lord but yet I did ●eare his ●dgment I praysed his grace but I did dread his re●ard ac●ording to euery ones worckes which con●mneth our Protestants pretended assuring ●sti●ying faith 4. Their Article stiled Of workes of supere●gation teaching such work●s cannot be tau●ht ●thout arrogancie is confuted by those Britans ● that is ●aid as an arrogant saying ●or if ●e Britans or any other peop●● had beene ●ounde to such workes of Perfection such ●haritie Chastitie Obedience voluntarie ●ouertie to so many Religious Foundations ● they performed and the like they that ●e not so must needs be damned because ● grossely they breake God Commaunde●ent among which Protestants recount ●ese and whatsoeuer man is able to doe in this life in this their Article 5. The Britans did not hold with thes● Protestants in their Article intituled of th● Church That the Church of Rome had erred in ma●ters of faith otherwise they would not as before haue so diligently and dutifully followed and obeyed it in all ages and if th● Church of Rome had then erred the Britan● still following the doctrine thereof ●ad als● erred ●n such thinges which our Protestan● haue before generally denied And the ●●preme head of the Protestants Church ● England King Iames in open Parlame● K. Iames speache in ●is 1. Parlam pronounced of the Church of Rome It w● a Rule to all both in doctrine and Ceremonies wh● it was in her florishing and best estate w●●ch 〈◊〉 he acknowledgeth to haue beene 〈…〉 in that time And being it is proued to be su● in such estate still it must be a Rule as th● it was 6. Concerning their Article Of the Auth●ritie Protestāt in their Theater of great Brit. l. 6. with others of generall Councells our Britans who tr●uailed so farre vnto such Councells subscr●bed vnto them in many Articles contrary ● these of Protestants and euer had them ● great reuerence as our Protestants co●fesse and attributed more to them then the● men doe 7. Their Article stiled Of Purgatorie fighteth against the Catholike doctrine of Pu●gatorie Pardons Indulgences Relicks ●mages and Inuocation of Saincts In a● ●ich by our Britans they are condemned ●d first in Purgatorie and praying for the dead Antiquit. Gl●ston Manuscr tabul●● fix Guli●●●● Malm●●b l. de an●●q 〈◊〉 gl●st C●●pgr●● in S P●tricio Chart. Arth. an 531. apud Ca●um l. 1. de an●●quit ●a●●ab Acad●m pag. 69. 70. Manuscri antiq de primo statu La●dauen eccl●siae ●he old Antiquities of Glastenburie teach ●at Masse and Praiers were there dayly offe●d for the Christians buried there Matthew ● westminster and others witnesse that our ●oto martyr S. Alban praied for the d●ad ●mmending them to God King Arthur ●th the cōsent of all the Bishops and Nobles Britanie and with licence of the Pope by ● Charter of Immunitie to the Schollers of ●mbridge reserued praier for the sou●es of ● the kings of Britanie his Auncestours Pro●edio animarum antecessorum meorum Britanniae ●um So did King Mauricus to the old ●urch of Landaffe in S. Dubritius time to ●ie for his soule the soules of all the kings Britanie and all faithfull soules departed ● this dayly was to be done Oratione quo●i●â ecclesiastico seruitio pro anima illius ani●us ●arentum suorum Regum Prin●ipum Bri●iae omnium fidelium defunctorum In dayly ●er and Church seruice for his soule and the soules ●is parents Kings and Princes of Britanie and of ●he faithfull dead The Britans in London ●nded a Church to such purpose to con●ue for euer In qua pro ipso Rege fide●ibus Car●●oe Naucarb●nen ●ist de vit S. Gildae man an●i● ●nctis obsequia aeternaliter celebrarentur diuina In ●●b diuine seruice should be allwa●se celebrated for ● the King and the faithfull which are dead ●nt Gildas praied dayly for the soule of his other deceased Orabat pro spiri●u fraterno quotidiè So too many to be recited 8. Concerning Pardons or Indulgences S. and Antiquit. Gl●st Chare S. Pariti Guli●lm Malmesb. l. Antiq. ●oen●b Gl●st Gapgrau in S. Patric●o Io. Leland in Artha Antiqui● G●●st Tabul Fix Pope Eleutherius by the mediatio of our Apostles Saint Damianus and Phaganus graunted Decē annos Indulgentiae tenne yeares Indulgēce for all Pi●grim● to Glast●burie and 30. yeare● Indulgence to Bishops Pilgrims And Sain● Celestine Pope graunted 12. yeares Indulgē● to it And Saint Patricke an hundred dai● Indulgence S. Patricius dedit centum dies Indugentiae 9. Touching holy Images from the fir● entrance of Christians heere they were he●vied with due reuerence Saint Ioseph and h● holy compan●e brought hither vsed here an● after their deathe●● left here the Image● of t● Crosse and others Figura● nostrae R●demptio●● aliasque figuras manifestas And these and suc● holy signes ●ere ●uch certa●ne signes of Chr●stians that when Saint Damianus and Ph●ganus Britan Antiquus Manuscript Antiq Capgrau in vit S. Alb●n Ia●ob Gēnuen in ●od Probus in vit S. Patricij Capgrau in ●od ● came hither they certainely knew ● them that Christians had dwelled here b●fore Quibus bene cognouerunt quod Christiani prilocum Inhabitauerun● Saint Amphibalus and ● Alban vsed the Image off the Crucifixe wi● such reuerence as if Christ crucified h● beene present Quasi pendentem Dominum Ies● in Cruce