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A69038	The theatre of Catolique and Protestant religion diuided into twelue bookes. Wherein the zealous Catholike may plainelie see, the manifest truth, perspicuitie, euident foundations and demonstrations of the Catholique religion; together with the motiues and causes, why he should perseuer therin. ... Written by I.C. student in diuinitie.	I. C., student in divinity.; Copinger, John, b. 1571 or 2, attributed name.; Colleton, John, 1548-1635, attributed name.	1620 (1620)	STC 4284; ESTC S115632	314,600	666

The 3. was of Traian in whose time 3. holly Bishoppes suffred vid. Saint Clement the disciple of saint Peter saint Ignatius disciple to saint Iohn the Euangelist and saint Polycarpe The 4. was of Antoninus Verus The 5. of Seuerus The 6. of Maximinus The 7. of Decius who did put saint Laurence to death The 8. of Valerian The 9. of Aurelian The 10. was the crwelest of Dioclesian of Maximinus These persecutions were before Constantius the great who was a Christian 3. Vnto these saint August added the persecution of Iulian the Apostata which was most pernitious for he depriued the Christians of offices and places in the common wealth as also of all their goodes and studies of learning Another was of Valens all these were Romane Emperors Another was of Sapor king of Persia who caused his people to adore the sunne wherin 16000. thousand suffred amoungest whome were many Bishoppes priests and many holly virgins dedicated to Christ Before all these saint August sets downe the first persecutiō of all which was of Iudea vnder Herod wherin the Apostle Saint Iames the greater suffred Wee doe nott speake here of the persecutions of the Vandals in Affricke or of other heretiques or infidels but only of the Romane Emperors whose persecution was nott only in one kingdome or prouince but in all places especially at Rome at Alexandria where S. Cathrin suffred at Antioch Nicomedia Cesarea of Capadocia Cesarea of Palestin in Ponto in Helesponto in Africa in Aegipt at Saragosa at Parris where saint Denys of Areopagita with his followers were putt to death at Syracusa where S. Lucia at Catanea where saint Agatha in Bithinia in Achaia at Smirna at Thebes and in all other places subiect to the Romans 4. Were all these persecuting princes lawfull heads of Christes church or some of them If some all should be for the one ought to haue asmuch authoritie in that head-shipp as the other if that stile or dignitie should rightly belong to the Emperiall scepter or should be annexed to the Royall authoritie as a power or iurisdiction comprised and comprehended within the maiestie of a regall dignitie as some protestants do hold Yf this be trew all these blessed martyrs wherof some of them were the blessed Apostles as saint Peter and saint Paule who suffred vnder Nero were damned is arrogant and dissobedient subiects for not conforming themselues to their princes wills and humors in causes ecclesiasticall and consequently none that was put to death by them was a holy martyr but an obstinat and wilfull subiect which is most foolish and absurd If yow say that a king to be head of the church ought to be a Christian as some other English protestants do say I aske of them who was head of the church the space of the first 300 yeers after Christ when all kings were infidels and persecutors thereof as I haue declared For either the church all that while was without a head or els some other that was not a king must be a iudge and haue this authoritie and supreame iurisdiction of the king therin and such ought to haue no les iurisdiction ouer the Christians in causes of their consciences and ecclesiasticall matters now then at that time 5. Nowe the Christians are no les nor no better then they were in that golden age of the primitiue church Epiph. heresi Optat. lib. 2. contra Parmen S. Aug. Epist ad generosum quae est 105. Hiero. Prosper in continuatione chronici Eusebij and consequentlie the same ecclesiasticall iurisdiction ought to continew still in the church of Christ which he builded setled and founded vppon saint Peter and his successors as vppon a firme Rocke whose foundation shall neuer faile against whome the gats of hell with all the plottes and pollicies of Sathan and the cunninge deuises and attempts of Matche-villian protestantes shall not preuaile And so in vaine they striue to build the same vppon any other fundation then that which was alreddy laid downe by Christ himselfe being the Corner and head stone of this foundation vppon saint Peter the Apostles and prophetts and their successors for euer I meane the Bishopps and priests vnto whome he committed the authoritie and regiment ouer his flocke to feed and defend them from the woulues to saue them from the violent excursions of infidels and heretiques vnto whome it is sad in the Actes or the Apostles Attendite vobis vniuerso greg● in quo c. Loocke well to your selues Act. 20. Matt. 10. Matt. vlt. Mar. vlt. Iohn 20. Iohn 21. and to the vniuersall flocke in which the holy ghost placed you Bishoppes and pastoures to gouerne and rule the church of God And as this church is the mysticall body of Christ and a spirituall Common wealth so it should be gouerned and managed by spirituall parsons and pastours that should haue spirituall orders and consequentlie ought to haue spirituall authoritie and iurisdiction ouer her rebellious and obstinat children to chastice their rebellions disobedience to correct their offences and to extend the rodd of discipline vppon them when they will nott obey her otherwise it should be a poore distressed common wealth when none hath power or iurisdiction therin to chastice the transgressor of her lawes and so all her subiects may with libertie and impunitie keepe or breake them 6. But no article or inunction of the protestant religion is of greater force amongest the protestants specially of England then that the king is supreame head of the church and that euery one whether he be a catholique or protestant must not only encur the imputation of high treason but also the pennalties and disgrace of traitoures that wil● not sweare solemly and publickly that he thinckes in his conscience this to be trew which is nothing els then to enthrall and enforce a catholique perhapps some pro●estants to a damnable and wilfull preiury against his owne conscience that knoweth or at least thincketh the contrary Was not this new fundation and grownd of the English protestant church newly coyned the 26. yeer of king Henry 8. when the oath of supremacy was inuented by the instigation of his fatall and filthy passion of lust and concupiscence and by the industry and suggestion of certaine cogging mates as Thomas Cromwell and Robert Barnes an apostat frier the one beheaded the other I meane the frier burned rather of malice then of any conscience or honesty without which there can be no good religion not warranted by scripture but deuised in the court not by the best but by the worst quorum Deus venter est quorum finis interitus gloria in confusione c. not perswaded by reason but violentlie constrained not ordained for the edification of the church but for the destruction and confusion of innocēt christiās not resolued of by the schooles and learned diuines but first determined by the king and enforced in the parleament against the definition of all former parleaments

for a man as meate drinke or sleepe and said moreouer that if a married woman would not render the coniugall debpte of matrimonie Lib. ae vita coniug serm de matrimonio that the husband should not spare his maide The like filthie lust but farre more detestable was the occesion of Caluine his heresie For it is well knowē as may appeare by the iudiciall actes and recordes of Nouodiū Bolsecus in vita Calu. cap. 5. Iul. Brig pag. 59. that he was condemned of the filthie sinne of the flesh against nature had it not beene for the intreatie of the bishop there which obtayned that his punishmente should be turned vnto a hoate burninge iron on his backe he should haue bene altogether burnt Iohn Witcliffe for that he was depriued of his personnage in Oxforde for his vitious misdemenor began his heresie Arrius because Alexander was preferred to the Archbishopricke of Alexandria before him Nicep de pen. l. 5. c. gaue occasion of the Arrian heresie against the deitie of Christe Mōtanus for that he was denyed the primacy of Asia which he soughte verie earnestlie troubled the Church with newe heresies as Nicephorus wyttnesseth de penitentia l●b 5. cap. 15. Aerius alsoe for beinge denyed of a Bishopricke fell into Arianisme and afterwardes inuented himselfe a newe heresie which was that wee ought not pray for the dead 2. Henry the eighte as Iohn Foxe a greate puritan in England doth wyttnes Fox in historia pa. 512. edit 1 all the world knoweth to be true for his diuorce made from Queene Catherine his wyfe was by the Bishoppe of Rome excommunicated who beinge sore exasperated therby assembled a parlamente by which he brought to passe that he banished the Popes authoritie out of England made himselfe head of the Church thus far Iohn Foxes owne wordes Hollin in descrip Brita l. 1● cap. 7. For it is certainly knowen that from the conuersion of England by S. Augustine duringe soe many hundred yeares vnto Kinge Henry the 8. as all English historiographers and ministers themselues doe acknowledge the Catholicke or papisticall religion as it pleaseth them to tearme it did florish in England that the cheefe pointe thereof was that the Pope was iudge moderatour and cheefe Pastor aswell of the English Church as of all other Churches of the Christians in Ecclesiasticall matters which Catholicke faith the said Kinge Henry defended the space of xx yeares as longe as he liued with his lawfull married wife aswell against domesticall heretickes that were his subiects by all penall statutes and exquisit torments at alsoe against forraine hereticks by a most learned booke in the defense of the 7. Sacraments which booke I haue in myne owne custodie for which he was ennobled and honored by Pope Leo the tenth with the title of defēder of the Catholicke faith which was neuer giuen to any kinge in the worlde before which he receaued as Foxe saies with great ioy for when it came to the kinge beinge then at Greene wich he went to his chapel accompanied with manny nobles Ambassadors Cardinall Wolsey said Masse the Earle of Essex brought the basen of water the duke of Suffolke gaue the assay the duke of Norfolke held the towell the Heraldes with their company began their accustomed cryes prononcinge Fox anno 1528. fol. 441. Henricus Dei gratia Angliae Franciae defensor Fidei Dominus Hiberniae And amongest his other magnificent titles he lefte to this day this title to his posterity as is well knowen to the world Neyther only with bookes but alsoe with his victorious and inuincible armes did he defende the Catholike Romane faith and the dignitie thereof for the which he foughte againste sundrie princes and their confederates as againste Lodowicke the 12. kinge of France and Iames the 4. kinge of Scottes though married to his sister Who beinge vanquished and his great armie ouerthrowen by the Earle of Surrie in England and the said kinge himselfe being slaine in the battle for that he was excommunicated was not suffred to be buried in any Christian graue Also he sent his Armie by sea to ioyne with the Spaniardes againste the kinge of France to assaulte France in the frontiers of Spaine by the powerfull force of the English Iohn Albertus the kinge of Nauare was driuen altogether out of the kingdome beinge excomunicated by the Pope which Spaine doth possesse at this daye Did not the said kinge within fewe yeares after send an Armie into Italie against the Emperor Charles the first in the defence of Clement the 7. then Pope And notwithstanding he was his great frinde and his Nephewe for that Queene Cathrine was his Aunte yet through the filthie concupiscence by which he was besotted and blinded to marrye Anna Bul●ene and soe to be diuorced from his lawfull marryed wife he turned all thinges topsie turuie reiected the Popes authoritie which he before aswell by Gods lawes the holy scriptures as by the fathers and Councells of the Church defended and soe by a parlament of one Realme or kingdome he disanulled and abrogated that which was established by soe manny generall parleaments and generall Councells of all Christendome yea by Christe himselfe and by all such as trulye beleeued in him And for not yealding vnto his desire herein manny religious and constant Martyrs offred their liues and their bloode amoungest whome was the lighte of England that most sacred Martyr and learned diuine Iohn Fisher Bishopp of Rochester Sr. Thomas More Lord Chancelor of England of these sorte of people our Sauiour wished vs to beware Act. 20 the Apostle alsoe saith woulues shall enter after my departure and shall not spare the flocke Rom. 16. Therfore in another place he requested vs to marke and knowe what people they be that raise dissentions and scandalls in the Churche and doe teach otherwise then wee haue alreadye receaued and to fly from them Heb. 4. Iohn 4. He alsoe exhorted vs that wee should not be lead away with mutable and strange doctrine S. Iohn alsoe wished vs not to beleeue euerie spiritt but that wee should trye whether they be of God 3. But the doctrine of Luther cannot by any triall be founde true so that as Christ saith Iohn 7. my doctrine is not myne but my fathers which did send me soe Luther may say his doctrine is not his but his fathers the diuell that did send him Luth. lib. de Missa Ang. to G lenens Ger 10. 7. wittēb 1. Cor. 13. 1. Cor. 14. whom he boasted to haue suggested vnto him arguments to ouerthrowe priest-hoode and sacrifice that by that meanes he should ouerthrowe and confounde the true worshipp of the true God for God as the Apostle saith is the God of peace and charitie not of dissention For whosoeuer procures sectes and diuision betwixt brethren saith the prophett is a diuell When therfore by Luthers meanes wee see so manny sectes against Godds Churche wee must

companie and not one slaine but he whose head was carried into england and standes disgracefullie vppon London bridge for a traitors head His brother Sr. Iohn was found vppon the highe way by Sr. Iohn Souch and hauinge notice that the englishmen were marchinge towardes him he was not able hauinge a principall good horsse to moue hand or foote vntill the english souldiors came vppon him and kild him This is the iuste iudgment of God executed vppon them that made the world beleue their quarrell was for religion and yet their first exploite and cruelest acte was putt in execution vppon poore catholicks churches sanctuaries consecrated vessells which they polluted prophaned Nothinge doth displease God more then hipocrisie for as a holy man saith Simulata sanctitas est duplex iniquitas fained holines is double iniquitie for noe vice is more often reprehended of our Sauiour then this vice and wickednes and although he pardoned all manner of sinnes yet vnto hipocrites he cried out woe Matt. 23. and course and that many times 10. Sr. Iohn Norrice in his Portingall voiage with the bastard don Antony going to take Lisbone and to make him kinge thereof of his great armie which consisted of 18. thowsand able men he brought not men enough to bringe home his shippes the first enterprice that he attempted was vppon a monasterie by the Grine which his soldiors destroied and cast downe The Earle of Esex that was the only Phenix of England the cheefe fauoritt of the Queene and the only man that all the contrie flatterd and followed and all the English nation applauded was arraigned and condemned of high treason and beheaded in the tower of London who when he tooke Cales in Spaine an exploite both terrible to the Spaniardes ioyfull and honnorable vnto England the churches and sanctuaries of that cittie felt the greatest smarte which he prophaned burned and cast downe whose sacred vessells his souldiors tooke away and turned them into prophane and filthy vses for the which fewe or none that assisted in that exploite escaped an ominous and fatall end as manny doe obserue and note In the Machabees Macha 2. Cap. 3. Heliodorus doth testifie thus much who counselled his kinge if he had an enemie that he should send him to robb the Temple of Hierusalem and he should find the smarte thereof because there is in that place the power of God which doth destroie and confound such as come to annoy that place 11. S. Ambrose speakinge with Valentine the yonger vsed these wordes Epist 33. If you haue ●oe right to doe anny iniurie to any mans priuate howse much lesse can you take away from Gods howse which neuer suffred sacrilegious persons vnpunished and robbers of churches and sacred thinges as by the precedent examples appeares as also by the griuous punishment of Cardinall Wolsy is euident who for erectinge his new college at Oxford and at Ipswiche as Stow writteth obtayned licence of Clement the seauenth to dissolue to the number of fortie monasteries of good fame and bountifull hospitalitie wherin the kinge bearinge with all his doinges none durst controll him In the executinge of which busines fiue persons were his cheefe instruments which were sore punished by God two of them fel at discord amoungest themselues and the one flue the other and the surminor was hanged for his labour the 3. drowned himselfe in a well the 4. being wealthie enoughe before begged his bread to his dyinge day and the 5. was Doctor Allen. The cheefe instrument amoungest them was murthered by Thomas fitz-Gerrald The Cardinall fallinge afterwards into the kings greuous displeasure was deposed and died miserably and the colleges which he meant to haue made soe glorious a buildinge came neuer to good effecte For this irreligious robberie was done of noe conscience but to patch vpp pride which priuate wealth could not furnishe Whether the kinge may take away church liuinges at his pleasure And whether as he is absolute kinge of the temporall goodes of his subiectes he be so also of the Church and of Churche liuinges CHAPTER IV. 1. THe only argument Protestants vse to proue this doctrine is that of the Prophett Samuell who said to the children of Israell that if they would needes haue a kinge he would take away their vineyardes their landes and liuinges and would bestowe them vppon his seruants c. Testado in lib Reg. cap. 19. The holie doctors doe expound this place to be ment of Tyrannicall kinges who followinge their passion or proper will and not lawe or reason would performe this towardes those stiffnecked people And soe to diuert and disswade them from the vehement desire they had to gett them a kinge he vsed those wordes not that of right or iustice a good kinge ought soe to doe And soe S. Gregorie doth expound the same sayinge Lib. 4. c. 2. in Reg. cap. 8. that Tyrantes and not good kinges will doe this for saith he in that historie of kinges wee read that God was highly displeased with Achab for takinge away the vineyarde from Naboth for which the said Achab with his Queene Iezabell was sore punished by God for the same therfore S. Gregorie saith this was not godes comaundement And therfore Dauid beinge sollicited at the request of Orna Iebuseus to take a platt of grounde for to edifie an alter for our Lord he would neuer take or accept it vntill he made payment thereof Soe as whatsoeuer is sett downe by the prophett Samuell is to giue warninge to good kinges what they should obserue and what they should forbeare to doe thus farr S. Gregorie 2. S. Iohn Chrisostome did reprehend the empresse Eudoxia the wife of Arcadius the Emperor for takinge away from a certaine widdowe her vineyarde and seinge that he could doe nothinge with her by faire meanes he caused the church gates to be shutt against her For Emperors and kinges are not absolut Lordes of the landes and goodes of their subiectes neither can they take them away accordinge to their pleasures vnles it be for great offences although many protestant courtiers doe say the contrarie only to flatter their Princes for if Kinges and Princes had the proprietie and dominion of their subiectes goodes then there should be noe neede of anny parleament or courtes to treate with the subiects for the kinges necessitie but they may take from the subiects all they haue at theire owne pleasure But the kinge for beinge head and Lord of the kingdome and for his paines taken in the gouernment thereof hath his owne patrimonie rents and seruices with such like or if this be not sufficient for the defense of the weale publique christiā religiō the subiects ought to supplie his wāts rather by request then by violence But these newe gospellers say with the matchevillians Plutar. in Apo. that kinges by their prerogatiues may take all their subiects goods to their pleasure as a flatterer said to the kinge Antigonus that all thinges