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A04347	A manuduction, or introduction vnto diuinitie containing a confutation of papists by papists, throughout the important articles of our religion; their testimonies taken either out of the Indices expurgatorii, or out of the Fathers, and ancient records; but especially the parchments. By Tho. Iames, Doctor of Diuinitie, late fellow of New-Colledge in Oxford, and Sub-Deane of the cathedrall church of Welles. This marke noteth the places that are taken out of the Indices expurgatorij: and this [pointing hand], a note of the places in the manuscripts.	James, Thomas, 1573?-1629.	1625 (1625)	STC 14460; ESTC S107696	146,396	156

Christ the onely begotten Sonne of God and borne of the Father before all Worlds God of God Light of Light true God of true God begotten not made of the same substance with the Father by whom all things were made who for vs Men and for our saluation came downe from Heauen and was incarnate by the holy Ghost of the Virgin Marie and was made Man was crucified for vs vnder Pontius Pilate suffered and was buried and rose againe the third day according to the Scriptures and ascended vp into Heauen sitteth at the right hand of the Father and he shall come againe with glory to iudge both the Liue and the Dead of whose Kingdome there shall bee no end And in the holy Ghost our Lord and giuer of life who proceedeth from the Father and the Sonne who with the Father and the Sonne is together adored and conglorified who spake by the Prophets And one holy Catholique and Apostolike Church I confesse one Baptisme for the remission of sinnes and I expect the resurrection of the Dead and the Life of the World to come Amen I doe most stedfastly admit and embrace the Traditions of the Apostles and of the Church and all other obseruances and Constitutions of the same Church I doe likewise admit the holy Scripture according to that sense which our holy Mother the Catholike Church hath holden and doth hold vnto whom it doth appertaine to iudge of the true sense and interpretation of the holy Scriptures neither will I euer vnderstand nor interpret the same otherwise then according to the vniforme consent of the Fathers I doe also professe that there be truly and properly seuen Sacraments of the new Law instituted by Iesus Christ our Lord and necessarie for the saluation of Mankind although they be not necessarie for all men to wit Baptisme Confirmation Euchariste Penance Extreme Vnction Order and Matrimony and that these Sacraments doe giue Grece and that of them Baptisme Confirmation and Order cannot bee reiterated without Sacriledge I doe also receiue and admit all the receiued and approoued Ceremonies of the Catholike Church in the solemne administration of all the aforesaid Sacraments I doe embrace and receiue all and euery of those things which in the holy Councell of Trent haue been defined and declared touching Originall sinne and Iustification I doe professe also that in the Masse is offered vnto God a true proper and propitiatorie Sacrifice for the Liue and Dead and that in the most holy Sacrament of the Altar there is truly really and substantially the body and blood together with the Soule and Diuinitie of our Lord Iesus Christ and that there is made a Conuersion of the whole substance of Wine into the Blood which Conuersion the Catholique Church doth call Transubstantiation I doe also confesse that vnder either kind onely is receiued Christ whole intire and the true Sacrament I doe constantly hold that there is Purgatorie and that the soules which be there detained are holpen by their Prayers of the faithfull Also that the Saints who reigne together with Christ are to bee worshipped and called vpon and that they offer vp prayers to God for vs and that their Reliques are to be worshipped I doe most stedfastly affirme that the Images of Christ of the Mother of God alwaies Virgin and of other Saints are to bee had and receiued and that due honour and reuerence is to be giuen to them I doe affirme that the authority of Indulgences was left by Christ in the Church and that the vse of them is very behoofefull for Christian people I doe acknowledge the holy Catholique and Apostolique Romane Church to be the Mother and Mistresse of all Churches and doe promise and sweare true obedience to the Bishop of Rome who is the Successour of Saint Peter Prince of the Apostles and the Vicar of Iesus Christ All other things defined and declared by the holy Canons and Oecumenical Councels and chiefly by the holy Councell of Trent I do vndoubtedly receiue and professe And also all contrary things and whatsoeuer heresies condemned reiected and accursed by the Church I likewise doe condemne reiect and accurse This true Catholique Faith without which no man can be saued which now I doe willingly professe and hold I the same I. N. doe promise vow and sweare to hold and confesse most constantly by Gods helpe intire and vncorrupted euen to the last end of my life and to procure as much as shall lye in me● that my subiects or those of whom I shall haue care in my office shall accordingly teach and preach the same So God me helpe and these holy Gospels of God A Table of the Manuscript bookes vrged in this Booke BOston of Burie his Alphabeticall Catalogue of Manuscript bookes gathered out of 195. seuerall places lent me by the most Reuerend my Lord of Armagh MS. Basil the first Volume of the Acts and Sermons of the Councell of Basil now in Ballioll Colledge in Paper MS. Bas 2. The second Volume also in Paper that were sometimes bookes belonging to Durham Colledge in Gascoignes time MS. Bacon Rogeri Bacon operis minoris pars tertia MS. in the Archiues of the publike Librarie A. 68. Lincoln MS. Epistolae Rob. Grostheadi Lincoln Episcopi MS. G. 8. 8. Phil. Repingdon MS. Sermones eiusdem MS. in Bibliotheca Coll. Lincoln Tho. de Bracley Sermones MS. 30. MS. * MS. 43. MS. 21. MS. 0. MS. 29. MS. 9. MS. 38. MS. 51. MS. 7. All these fore-recited bookes were lent me very courteously by Master Hen. Parry Batchelor of Diuinitie of C. C. C. in Oxford they were in sight and shew very neglected bookes rusty dusty and sometimes vncouered and torne but they yeeld many good obseruations as you may find in the booke it selfe they are namelesse almost all of them but not worthlesse and vnpossible to be counterfeited by vs being written many hundred of yeares before our times as the writing shewes and are all giuen to the Publike Librarie and are there to be read of all men MS. Ignatius a Manuscript Ignatius in Latine of great Antiquitie in Ballioll Colledge in Oxford MS. Dunelm de visione Bosonis extant in Master Heggs hands Master of Arts of C. C. C. Tho. Gascoigne Dictionarium Theologicum in two Volumes Manuscript in Lincolne Colledge in Oxford Extracts out of the Tower fairely and largely transcribed by the industrie and care of Master Noye of Lincolnes Inne a great Antiquarie of the Law MS. Registrum MS. A Register of Acts and Epistles in the hands of Master Thomas French Register to the Vniuersitie MS. A. A Manuscript in Magdalen Colledge in Oxford wherein are contained diuers peeces of Antiquity the booke came from the Monasterie of S. Marie-ouereis to Master Iohn Fox the Writer of the Booke of Martyrs and by his sonne was giuen with diuers other good Manuscripts to the same Colledge MS. C. Another Manuscript Chronicle in Magdalen Colledge Ran. Higden Polychronicon Manuscript in Ballioll Colledge the largest and fairest

Windsore Park Concerning Deanes of Churches and Abbots and Priors of Conuents THe Priors of Kockford and Bingam were sued for proceeding against some in the spirituall Court after prohibition R. Io. anno 15. The Deane of Doncaster for molesting diuers of the Kings liege people was conuicted before the Iudges and admitted to his fine The Prior and Couent of Saint Patricks in Dublin lost their Temporals for electing an Archbishop without the Kings consent Anno 6. Edw. 1. The Deane of Wooluer-hampton was cited to appeare before the Iudges for his contempt for admitting one Ottobon to a Prebend in the same Church by a Mandate from the Pope Anno 31. Edw. 1. The Prior of Canterburie for appealing to the Court of Rome was adiudged to bee imprisoned and to reuoke his Appeale Anno 23. Edw. 1. Io. Abbat of Walden attached for the same Anno eodem Thus farre of Bishops Deanes Abbots and Priors the recitall of the rest would fill the booke and not much more satisfie the Reader and therefore I forbeare to name them and come now to shew how little the Pope of Rome or his Buls were regarded of our English Iudges There was an Act made against drawing causes to Rome anno 27. Edw. 3. and a commandement giuen anno 16. Edw. filij R. Edwardi that no man should alienate sell or send any thing beyond the Seas and how many were accordingly indited and committed as Io. Ouerton to the Tower Simon Mellercet to the Kings Bench anno 28. Edw. 3. William Beuercot to the Marshalsey anno Regis filij Edwardi 17. And for the Popes Buls how little were they regarded or rather how greatly were the getters or procurers their fautors and abettors those that did but threaten to make vse of them punished and censured There was a proceeding with some seueritie against one that threatned he would get a Bull from the Pope Anno 27. R. Henrici There was likewise an Inquisition indented taken for those that procured them anno 20. Edw. 3. their Abettors anno R. Edw. 4. and one that pleaded them was committed to prison So then those that bought those Buls at Rome giuing Gold for Lead found them still Lead and no better here in England and neither Buls Appeales Bishops or liberties of the Church could protect them against the King his Crowne and dignitie Kings of England here and I trust euer shall be able to maintaine their soueraigne iurisdiction within these Kingdomes ouer all persons and in all causes against all forreine iurisdiction which commeth next in order to bee handled The Third Proposition The King is not subiect to any forraigne iurisdiction THe Pope pretends to be the Head of the Catholique Church how rightly we shall see hereafter I am sure the King of England holdeth it by as good right as the Law of God and the Law of this Kingdome can giue him I know it will bee presently obiected that King Henry the eighth being a violent King tooke this title vpon him they are certainely deceiued that either thinke or say it and therefore to manifest this point the better I will tell you my conceit how this matter was brought to passe not without an especiall prouidence of God out of very vnlikely meanes For when King Henry the eighth was sharpened against Luther there wanted not some about him that buzzed this into the Kings eares that the doctrine of Martin Luther was nothing else but drawne from the hereticall proposition of Iohn Wicklife which was condemned long since in and by his Vniuersitie of Oxford Whereupon the King being tickled because the full knowledge of this at that time serued well for his purpose presently dispatched Edward Leighton one of his Chaplaines and Batchelor of Diuinitie with those Letters to the Vniuersitie of Oxford By the King TRusty and welbeloued Wee greet you well And forasmuch as Wee at this instant time for certaine great and weighty considerations Vs moouing touching as well the repressing of such erroneous opinions and heresies as be now a dayes spread abroad in sundry places as also the consolation of Christs Church and good Christian people be desirous not only to be aduertised of the Articles whereupon Wicklife was condemned heretofore by that Our Vniuersitie of Oxford but also of the confirmation of the Councell of Constance concerning the condemnation of the said Articles We therefore will that yee with all celerity doe send vnto Vs by Our trusty and welbeloued Chaplaine M. Edward Leighton the bearer in writing vnder the Seale of Our said Vniuersitie in as lawfull and Authentique wise as yee can deuise as well all and singular the said Articles of condemnation of the said Wicklife and also the confirmation thereupon of the said Councell of Constance giuing vnto Our said Chaplaine firme credence in such things as he shall shew vnto you in Our behalfe touching the premises And in thus doing you shall minister vnto Vs full acceptable pleasure Yeuen vnder our signet at our Castle of Windesore the last day of Iuly Vpon the receipt of these Letters followed a Conuocation a Delegacie was appointed the sixth of this instant moneth there wanted no cel●ritie the Instrument is made and both it and the answere to the Kings Letters sealed the ninth day of that very moneth Amongst those Articles that were sent vp there were diuers that did mainly trench vpon the Popes power which as Wickliefe said were neither found nor founded vpon Gods Word What effects these Articles wrought in the Kings mind I know not but of one thing I am wel assured that not long after the King being at variance with the Pope a Parliament was called with in two yeres and a motion was made therein that the King should be declared Head of the Church but his Maiestie refused till he had aduised with his Vniuersities vpon that point and whilest the Parliament sate God in whose hands the hearts of Princes are so disposing it the King reflecting belike vpon Wickliefes former Articles directing his Letters to the Vniuersitie of Oxford about the election of the Bishop of Lincolne into the Chancellorship of the Vniuersitie of Oxford in the roome of Archbishop Warham lately deceased After the accomplishment whereof saith the King Our pleasure and commandement is that ye as shall be beseeme men of vertue and profound literature diligently intreating examining and discussing a certaine question sent from Vs to you concerning the power and primacie of the Bishop of Rome send againe to Vs in writing vnder your common Seale with conuenient speed and celeritie your mind sentence and assertion of the quaestion according to the meere and sincere truth of the same willing you to giue credence to Our trusty and welbeloued this bringer your Commissarie aswell touching Our further pleasure in the premisses as for other matters c. Yeuen vnder Our Signet at Our Mannor of Greenewich the eighteenth day of May. Vpon the receipt of these Letters the Vniuersitie at

better Grant from Christ Jesus the true Emperour of the whole World on whose thigh is written this diuine Impresa Rex regum Dominus Dominantium the proofes taken out of the Scripture the Protestants Carde in diuers places of the New Testament and some out of the Old as Matth. 16. Thou art Peter and vpon this Peter will I build my Church And againe To thee Peter will I giue the Keyes c. and againe Ecce duo gladij two Swords at once to signifie two Empires either of them two-edged as well to stablish the Empire in the person of Peter as to cut off all opposites and all knots and difficulties that are incident vnto these controuersies Touching Thou art Peter and Vpon this Peter c. vnlesse they get more by their Salt-peeter as they are Deuils in the Vault then by their Peter they are not likely to get much for the Popes either temporall or spirituall power out of this place you must make your Peter either the Rocke of Faith or the Rocke of Christ or else you dash against so many worthy and famous Writers of your own as against so many rockes ● Fer●●s Erasmus and Faber besides sundry others of your Worthies interpret the words of the Rocke of Faith or the Rocke the Word that is Christ You cannot better these Schollers nor this expositions and furthermore let me informe you Peters Faith was not personall but common to him with the rest of the Apostles For that which is vrged of the Keyes much may be said of that also out of your owne Writers but nothing that will doe you good Ferus and Faber in the places aboue named the one giueth these Keyes to the Church the other vnto faith Concerning that which is obiected out of the Gospell Ecce duo gladij I may very well say vnto them as Christ did vnto Peter Put vp your Swords the controuersie is ended for ought I know thus writeth the Commenter vpon Guntherus by occasion of these words Gladijs quae rite duobus Niti●ur He seemeth quoth hee to follow the commentitious opinion of the Schoole-Diuines who doe not so much interpret as subuert the words of Christ of two Swords as they doe all other that appertaine vnto this heauenly Phylosophy against the example of his life which is our best precept against the doctrine of the blessed Apostles and so many thousands of Martyrs and the whole streame of ancient Interpreters commenting vpon this place In these few words Behold two Swords say they full wisely God wot one for the Emperour the other for the Church and yet would they be pleased to hearken vnto Christ he would informe them that his Kingdome is not of this World and the Apostle semblably Our weapons are not carnall but power full vnto God c. Which latter words aswell as the former are obiected against Hildebrand by Conrade Bishop of Trai●ct at a meeting of all the Bishops of Cermany and France at Ga●st●ng reproching him very worthily for going about with his double or two-edged sword to riuet open and vnfold the obscure places of both Testaments Thus you see plainely that the edge of both your Swords are well abated If you list to trie a venny or two at foynes for at sharpe you cannot Sigebertus and Trithemius haue beaten these Swords about your eares as one Gerochus in Auentine is bold to put you in mind that this double or two-edged Sword is giuen to saue and quicken vs and not to kill he vnderstandeth this Sword spiritually of the Word of God the life and light of men that is able by its power to raise dead men to life to make gods of men and to conuert and turne mortalitie into immortalitie Thus farre Io Auentine so much and so often commended by your Papists though you haue taken away his iust commendations quo iure quáue iniuria I know not But the best is Albertus Krantzius as good a Writer as hee giues this censure of your two Swords The Romane BB. were come now to take that state vpon them which our Temporall Princes saith he call presumption as to create Princes citing for themselues Peters words that was first Bishop after Christ Behold here are two Swords against which our Temporall Princes oppose the words of Christ Put vp thy Sword into thy sheath interpreting it of the materiall carnall and temporall Sword as if it were not lawfull for the Pope to vse that to his purpose And thus hauing put vp your Swords and shewed out of your owne best Writers that these Keyes will not serue to open the way to any forraine Iurisdiction we cleaue fast to the Rocke Christ or faith and doe certainely beleeue that the Pope hath no temporall Iurisdiction either in this Land or any other Country out of the New Testament as little helpe is there out of the places of the old for in this very question you would be accounted like the good Housholder in the Gospel that haue both old new in store for vs. The places cited by you are two in number and none in effect The first is taken out of Deut. 17. He that shall refuse to obey the commandement of the Priest by the decree of the Iudge shall die the death This argument being taken out of a corrupt reading in your Bibles ex for and well amended in your Clement Bibles as I haue shewed elsewhere let it stand by a while while we examine that other of planting and displanting planting Gods Word and displanting errors and not Kingdomes which I could prooue very sufficiently out of the ancient Manuscripts but I content my selfe onely for the present with that Exposition which the Councell of Basil giueth of these words answerable to my former words and contrary to your vnwonted exposition And thus hauing extinguished the Popes pretenced right let vs take a full suruay of him his doctrine life manners and actions towards God and towards men Some things seeme otherwise then they are all is not Gold that glistereth all are not of the best that are called so Popes may be sainted and canonized here vpon earth whose soules frie in Hell fire I know as once Lil. Greg. Gyraldus said that it were better for me to hold my peace and to commend their many abominations and manifold abuses vnto Harpocrates or the Lady Silence for else I must looke to be cursed with Bell Booke and Candle but iacta est alea I am resolued to goe on in my intended courses to intreate first of their wicked and accursed liues and then of their hereticall and damnable positions and doctrines speaking no more then others haue done before mee of your owne side some of them of great marke and eminencie I trust I shall find fauour both with God and men both Papists and Protestants or if the worst come to the worst I hope I shall haue a pardon of course

Idolatry by worshipping of Idols or images Wee Christians should incurre the same crime and endure the like censure Worshipping of images hath beene occasion of much mischiefe in the Christian Churches and therefore to bee left Doe not you your selfe thinke there is much knauerie in some to make the images to weepe or swette What a iest is it to beleeue or to make the simple people beleeue that the diuell cannot abide the image of Saint Michael or the signe of the Crosse I am halfe ashamed to see the indeuotion and superstition of your vulgar people how they post vnto your images and happy is hee that can come soonest to hang some piece of gold or siluer about the images necke or to cloth it with some rich garment or other or leaue it in some place of the Church where it may be seene What say you to apparrell of cloth of siluer or of gold The images haue no sence in them and is God delighted with gold or precious stones Diamond Saphirs or Smaragds Thus doe the rich giue and ouer-giue and study or vie who shall giue most when the tradesman offers but a candle or the country peazant but an egge or two and if it be to shew that he is no Hugaenot or Lutheran What say the Papists to the worshipping of bawdie and beastly images or prodigious and vgly ones Wicelius complanineth of the one and Gregorius Gyraldus of the other I now come to the last Proposition of all The sixth Proposition It is very much impugned by the Papists themselues of the better sort PApists of the better sort are against the adoration of Images I will reckon them vp ordine regrado re●rogrado as they come promiscuously First Ant. de Dominis Secondly Polyd. Virgil Thirdly Vatablus and Rob. Stephanus Fourthly Desid Heraldus Fifthly Papyrius Massonius and sundry others if I list either to be tedious or vaine-glorious but I conclude with Saint Iohns exhortation My little children beware of Idols Against the Inuocation of Saints THis controuersie of the Inuocation of Saints to goe at large may be reduced vnto two propositions wherunto the best of the Papists haue willingly subscribed The Propositions are these First God alone is to be worshipped adored inuocated Secondly The Saints neither may can nor will be inuocated of vs but with impietie and no profit The first Proposition God alone is and ought to be worshipped adored and called vpon GOd alone is to bee worshipped inuocated trusted vnto hoped in all our trust and confidence must bee placed in him we must pray vnto none but to him serue none but him no creature is venerable but the increated nature What dependance vpon any other What profit I conclude therefore with Erasmus It is the safest course for all men vpon all their incident occasions to go streight vnto him others perhaps would but cannot God is both able and willing And thus this first Proposition standeth like a Rocke immoueable against all the assaults and batteries of our Aduersaries The second Proposition Saints neither will nor can be inuocated of vs. FIrst it may bee doubted who are Saints not all that are called or catalogued or canonized for Saints many whose seules frie in Hell there is no certaintie of their cononizations But imagine there be some true Saints and true Miracles whereby they are discouered to bee true Saints yet sith Almighty God is the beginning and fountaine of good and Saints at the most but a kind of conduits or pipes to conueigh the same vnto vs Oh let vs not be so pious to Men or Angels that we prooue impious towards God worship the Lord and him onely serue is the common voyce both of Men and Angels Will a man that is wise beg and sue to the seruant when he may haue free accesse to the Master of the house Such preposterous worshipping of Saints such confiding and trusting to any deriuatitious sanctitie is not able to open vnto vs when we knocke at Heauen gates The wisest and sobrest amongst the Papists leaue it as one of Gods secrets either our knowledge of the Saints or the Saints knowledge of vs and expectnothing more then the pious imitation of their vertuous deeds which all of them commend vnto vs as the most acceptable seruice both vnto them and to God they would not haue vs to confide or repose our trusts either in Christs Humanitie or his Mothers Virginitie nor in any hee or shee-Saint in Heauen It was a hard constitution that was obtruded vnto them by the Church against a plaine Text of Scripture Cursed bee he that putteth his trust in Man and the Christian Religion had thriued farre better amongst vs if wee had not giuen so much vnto inuocation of Saints and so little vnto the seruice of God The 25. Article Penance is no Sacrament PEnance is one of the seuen Sacraments say the Papists it is no Sacrament saith the Church of England It is easier to say what it is not then what it is But I will not greatly stand with them for a Sacrament vpon hope of better agreement in other matters of greater consequence take it strictly it is no Sacrament they haue better eyes then I if they can see more Sacraments then two in the Gospell take it largely it may passe well enough for a Sacrament such a one as it is and to gratifie the Papists if the number of seuen be so gratefull vnto them I will helpe them vnto seuen times seuen Sacraments vpon reasonable conditions out of Saint Austen It is called metanoea or resipiscentia in Latin and as I take it repentance in English but this word repentance or resipiscentia is so dreadfull a word to the Church of Rome that there is Hue and Cry made after it and hauing apprehended it they haue condemned it to perpetuall silence it must neuer be mentioned againe they haue purged it out of their bookes I would to God they were as well purged out of this Kingdome I will quote a few Authors and places that you may measure the rest by these few quotations They diuide it into three parts into Confession Contrition and Satisfaction how wisely we shall see hereafter Their penance consisteth in outward affliction of the body and maceration of the flesh our repentance is inward and spirituall in the grace and faith of Christ Wee know but one Name that can saue vs their penances may be commuted or redeemed with money ours onely by the blood of Christ To conclude it consisteth not in payning the body or afflicting the soule A man may weare haire-cloth and be neuer a whit the more either attrite or contrite for I haue learned to make no diuision of these two termes your Schooles doe