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A80756	The royal prerogative vindicated in the converted recusant convinced by Scripture, reasons, fathers, and councils, that the oath of abjuration (compared with those of allegiance, and supremacy) containeth nothing, but what may be lawfully taken by every pious Christian, and loyal subject; and that the known doctrine, and discipline of the Church of England, in opposition to Popery on the one hand, and all sects, and schisms on the other, is the safest way to peace and loyalty here, and salvation hereafter. To which is annexed The King's supremacy in all causes, ecclesiastical, and civil, asserted in a sermon preached at the assises at Monmouth before Sir Robert Hide, one of his Majestie's judges, March 30. 1661. / By John Cragge, M.A.	Cragge, John, M.A.	1661 (1661)	Wing C6790; Wing C6786; Thomason E2261_1; Thomason E2261_2; ESTC R210148	173,676	266

where you have any Power it truly may be said to be writ in Oyl for the gentleness thereof If I may have leave to parallel What think you of your Pope Innocent the Third (t) Ex Hermanno Mutio Innocentius 111. Anno 1212. who made but one Bonefire of an hundred Nobles and others in the Country of Alsatia in one day (u) See these Stories at large in the Book of Martyrs page 868. Of Minerius one of the Pope's Captains who destroyed two and twenty Towns of the Merindolians barbarously murdered the Inhabitants whether they resisted or not ravishing Virgins and Matrons butchering Women with Childe and when their Men had deserted their Cities leaving their Females and Infants behind in hope of Commiseration the bloody Assasinat practised such inhumane Barbarity upon five hundred Women at once besides innocent Babes as hath been unheard off In the Town of Cabriers he culled out thirty choice Men carrying them into a Meadow caused them to be hewed in pieces by his Souldiers he shut up forty silly Women whereof some with Childe in a Barn full of Straw and Hay and caused it to be set on fire at the four Corners and when a Souldier pitying the out-Cry let them out the Tyrant (x) Doctour Taylor in his Romish Furnace commanded them to be cut in pieces exenterating their Bowels that their Children fell out whom they trod under feet And Dioclesian-like he sent a Band of Ruffians into the Church where a numerous Company of Women Children and Sucklings had taken Sanctuary and without respect of Age or Sex slew all they found In this one Town the Catalogue of murdered Protestants was above a Thousand In the year 1560. under Pope Pius the Fourth (y) Acts and Monuments pag. 859. were in two Towns of Calabria condemned at one time six hundred Protestants whereof fourscore and eight were executed at once in this manner having enclosed them in one house the Executioner singles one out after another and blindfolding them with a Muffler causes them to kneel down and cuts their throats till all were dispatched (z) Virgil. Aenead 2. Quis talia fando Myrmidonum Doloptimque aut duri Miles Ulyssis Temperet a lacrymis A direful and lamentable Spectacle insomuch that a Romist writing to his Friend at Rome and one Simon Florellus writing to an Italian Doctour of Physick in the Vniversity of Basil profess both they cannot express themselves without weeping But the Turkish Histories the Stories of Nero Decius and Dioclesian veils to the Barbarity of that French Massacre at Paris (a) Gathered out of Janus Augustus Thuanus President of the Parliament at Paris where in the Space of three days ten thousand and in the space of thirty days thirty thousand Protestants were perfidiously murdered I need not instance in the Martyrologies of Queen Marie's days nor revive the Tragick Stories of the Albigenses Waldenses Wicklifists Taborites and Lollards in former times The Sufferings of them of Piedmont under the Duke of Lorrain is fresh in our Memory Gent. You have said too much though I do not approve of this Cruelty in the extent and Dimensions of it yet it may seem pardonable in comparison of yours in a twofold respect First This was acted by Catholicks against Hereticks yours by Hereticks against Catholicks Secondly This you mention respects the punishment onely of the Persons offending and hath no influence on Posterity yours tends to the ruin of Posterity although they should conform to your Profession leaving the Parents scarce a Shroud nor the Children any Livelyhood Minist Whether ye or we be true Catholicks I shall demonstrate anon as impartially as Solomon decided whether the living Childe was the true Mother's or the Strumpet's For the present Have your punishments no influence on Posterity when the former Records discover so many harmless Babes destroyed so many Infants perishing in the Womb you are able to name the Inquisitor who when the Childe sprang out of the womb of the Mother bound to the Stake caused it to be thrown into the Fire and burned with her because it was a young Heretick Your Fore-Fathers rage was not appeased with the death of Protestants for (b) Acts and Monuments page 816. Bucer and Fagius were cited out of their Graves to appear or any that would for them and that at Cambridge four years after their Burial which when the silly Ashes could not do they were digged out (c) Page 1780. and burned on the Market-Hill Wickliff (d) Page 739. was condemned after his Death and his Bones burned one and forty years after his Burial Richard H●●n (e) Stow's Chronic. was first apparently hanged and murdered in Prison by wicked hands and afterwards burned after his Death Peter Martyr's Wife (f) Page 1785. the Divinity-Reader of Oxford was two years after her Death digged out of her Grave John Glover (g) Page 1556. was not only excommunicate but struck with the great Sentence of Maranatha after his Death John Tooly was cited by Bishop Bonner after he was dead and buryed to appear before him on such a day and the time of Citation limited being expired and he not appearing he was excommunicated and streight Charge was given that none should eat or drink with him or salute him and if he came to Church tempore Divinorum he must be thrust out after this Excommunication he was condemned and committed to the Secular Power to be burned for an Heretick and so by the Sheriffs the poor man was the second time executed Gent. I love not to hear of these things neither do I think they were justifiable moderate Catholicks disclaim them Prove me two things and I shall be satisfied First That ever such an Oath was approved by any General or Provincial Council Secondly That the matter of this Oath is just and lawful Minist If I prove not both these I 'le loose the Gantlet Gent. If you prove them I 'le yield up mine Arms and abjure my former Profession Minist I am contented let us joyn issue in these For the former the (h) Concil Tolet. 4. Can. 74. Spaniards imposed an Oath upon all those Subjects of whose Disloyalty they were jealous and that above a thousand years ago which was ratified by several famous Toletan Councils which one of the latter expresses in these Words (i) Quicunque ex ipsis vel totius Hispaniae populis quâlibet conjuratione vel studio Sacramentum fidei suae quod pro patriâ gentisque statu vel conservatione Regis salutis po●licitus est temeraret aut regem necare attrectaret aut potestate regni exueret aut praesumptione Tyrannicâ regium fastigum usurparet Anathema esset in conspectu Dei Patris Angelorum atque ab Ecclesia Catholicâ quam profanaverat haberetur extraneus Conc. Tolet. 5 6 10. Whosoever of them meaning discontented persons or of the people throughout all Spain by any pretense or endeavour shall violate the

THE Royal Prerogative Vindicated in the Converted RECUSANT CONVINCED By Scripture Reasons Fathers and Councils that the Oath of Abjuration compared with those of Allegiance and Supremacy containeth nothing but what may be lawfully taken by every pious Christian and Loyal Subject And that the known Doctrine and Discipline of the Church of England in opposition to Popery on the one hand and all Sects and Schisms on the other is the safest way to Peace and Loyalty here and Salvation hereafter TO WHICH IS ANNEXED The KING'S SUPREMACY in all Causes Ecclesiastical and Civil asserted in a Sermon preached at the Assises at Monmouth before Sir Robert Hide one of His Majestie 's Judges March 30. 1661. By JOHN CRAGGE M. A. Matth. xxii 21. Render unto Cesar the things that are Cesar's and unto God the things that are God's LONDON Printed by T. R. for H. Twyford N. Brooke Tho. Dring and John Place 1661. TO THE HONOURABLE And truly-worthy Heroick Sir TREVIR WILLIAMS Baronet SIR I Present with all Humility to Your pious consideration a Defence of that cause which is and ought to be infinitely dearer to You then the riches of China or the wealth of the West-India Company as being that which Divine Providence hath so signally carried on with a Palm of Victory and promiseth if we be not deficient to our selves to crown with the Olive-branch of peace I mean Religion and the Royal Prerogative in opposition to Romish Superstition and Fanatick disorder and sedition which is compendiously set forth in that form of Abjuration and unparallel'd Oaths of Allegiance and Supremacy intended to conjure all Romanized and other Recusant Dissenters within the circle of verity and obedience In vindication whereof I have taken up the Gantlet against all Antichristian and Antimonarchical challengers not doubting but that upon this entring the Lists I shall be censured for undertaking so great a work so far beyond my weak abilities But it is satisfaction enough to my self and may be to others that I was not induced to it out of any unballanced conceipt of my self whose personal defects according to that of the Oracle 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 are the onely thing I presume to know But undertook it in obedience to him who exhorted all his Brethren earnestly to contend for the faith which was once delivered unto the Saints now torn in pieces like Hippolytus his body by Babylonish Wolves Jesuits Quakers and Fifth-Monarchists swarming like Locusts out of the Infernal pit which daily invade our Folds worrie our Flocks and seduce them both from Piety Loyalty whom to countermine while the Sword of Justice sleepeth not a necessity lyeth upon every faithful Pastour not onely by the power of the Keys as Preaching Praying and Discoursing when opportunity shall fairly tender it self but even by Penning though we must expect our writings will be dealt withall by them as the tongue of Cicero was after his death by Cleopatra Wife to Mark Anthony who thrust it through and through with needles and stabbed it again and again with poysoned pens For my inscribing to it Your Patronage as gratefulness may plead my duty and obligation on the one hand so your signal sufferings and activity for His Sacred Majesty may sway acceptance on the other if the handling of it were answerable to the subject I confess my person and parts are over-mean to engage in such an excelse and sublime Province For if Alexander would commit the proportion of his Body to be effigiated by none but Lysippus Apelles himself could never set out the outward beauty of his Face but slubbered and far short of the native vivacity How then shall I poor Zanie emblazon the Seraphick sublimity of the Royal Prerogative the livelyest Representative upon earth of that great Tetragrammaton in Heaven But as he that dwells on high despiseth not things below so I hope my Mite and Goats-hair may be accepted seeing it was intended in all sincerity for the honour of God and of our dread Sovereign 's Royal Majesty and to confirm his liege people in the right faith and true love and obedience of his most just and gracious Government As an Angel of God so is my Lord the King to discern good and bad therefore the Lord will be with him 2 Sam. xiv 7. I have no more to apologize but pray that he which ruleth in the Armies of Heavens would crown with the blessings of his right and of his left hand Your Self Your truly virtuous Lady Your hopeful Issue to the glory of God and comfort of all Your Relations which is the daily petition of him whom you have obliged for ever Your Honour 's most humble and devoted Servant in the Lord JOHN CRAGGE To the READER Courteous Reader PErhaps thou wilt admire why I vindicate the Doctrine of our Church and the Royal Prerogative under the Notion of that illegal Oath of Abjuration It is well known I never acknowledged that Power whence it issued but made use of it onely thereby to assert the lawfulness of this present Power As Saint Paul at Athens did of the Inscription of an Altar 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 TO THE UNKNOVVN GOD to introduce the worship of the true God Or as Arnobius and Lactantius searched the Sibyls and other Heathenish Writers that by the Concessions of their own Oracles they might convince them of their Heathenish Idolatry For having been questioned for a Sermon preached before our then Sovereign Lord King CHARLES the First of ever-blessed Memory for stiling him a Martyr in a printed Book committed for not taking and opposing the Negative Oath and involved in further danger for replying to Mr. Milton's Answer to Salmasius which took Air though by reason of the times no Stationer durst print it I still projected how I might continue in discharging my Conscience to His Sacred Majesty and the Royal Family where lighting upon that Oath of Abjuration which the then-pretended Power had mounted as a Cannon for their own Defence I found that the force and fury thereof might easily be turned against themselves as if the Contrivers thereof had acted Caiphas who being High-Priest that year prophesyed what should be For the matter thereof is in every Syllable concentrick and symbolical with the Articles and Apologie of the Church of England the Oath of Allegiance and Supremacy which are the Cynosura or Pole-star by which we ought to direct our Sails to the Haven of Piety and Loyalty This I endeavoured to improve to the best advantage but when the Children were brought to the Birth there was none to deliver them for it hath lay dormant in the Hands of the Printers almost three years but now creeps out in these Halcyon days to give the world a visit where I hope it will finde some Entertainment seeing it it comes not out of a Cage where as is Storied of Macrobius Birds there was one for Pompey as well as for Cesar as perhaps some who formerly were the greatest Sticklers