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A68512	A warning agaynst the dangerous practises of papistes and specially the parteners of the late rebellion. Gathered out of the common feare and speche of good subiectes. Sene and allowed.	Norton, Thomas, 1532-1584.	1569 (1569)	STC 18685.7; ESTC S113364	44,769	112

bene attempted for restitution of the Popes primacie in England wherein he diuers wayes falsely defamed King Henrie with intentes of submission such was the byshops impudence He named the rebellions in the North in King Henries tyme and in the West in King Edwardes time which he clothed with cleanly names as enterprises and assemblies as our late rebells doo in both their first and second proclamations But sayth he the houre was not yet come He by way of obiection wondered how the people could without rebelling beare such iniuries oppressions and robberies which they susteined as he sayd in the fall of money and otherwise in King Edwardes reigne He answered him selfe that the houre was not yet come But now sayth he the houre is come now is the time for vs to wake from slepe as who should say Long haue we slept or long haue we winked long haue we bene holden in awe glad to dissemble our treasons and to semble good subiects long haue we borne our soueraigne Lord a faire face as if we acknowledged his due authoritie and detested the enimie to him and to all Kinges the Pope long haue we cloked and hidden our zeale wayting for a good houre Now the dreadfull King Henrie is dead the hopefull King Edward is taken away the Christian nobilitie entangled in snares of law specially if it may be partially and violently vsed the prince and tyme fauoreth our side a mightie foren match is made for the vantage of our part now the sonne of our victorie and the day of our triumph shineth vpon vs now is it tyme for vs to wake from sléepe Though the time once were specially in the L. Cromwelles dayes when we in shew abhord the name of Papistes and would commonly say we had as leue be called traitor as Papist and bring actions of the case for our purgation yet now is the time that we glorie in these titles either of Papist in respect of these tymes or of traytor in respect of those tymes Let vs not now lese our occasion for we shall neuer haue the like agayne specially for that so much of the nobilitie snared with treason are yelded to our 〈◊〉 Note this geare well for Papistes did neuer beare her maiestie greater countenaunce of loyaltie neuer serued her with greater shew of faythfulnesse neuer protested more truth and good meaning than those did to King Henrie the eight and to King Edward which afterward yet openly shewed what secret disloyaltie vnfaythfulnesse and vntruth had so long lurked in their bosomes Geue once the like opportunities and be bold that you shall haue the like speches for they haue still the like hartes and like expectations They comfort them selues with this that the remembrance of these thinges will one day be pleasant vnto them and in the meane tyme as Cicero sayth oculis designant ad caedem vnumquemque nostrum they note euery one of vs with theyr eyes and register vs to be destroyed Let vs therefore take the contrarie course to them Where they looke for an other tyme let vs doo our endeuour to mainteine this tyme where they reach with expectation to altering of gouernement let vs bend all our force policie and meanes of seruice to the defense of thys estate Where they pray for change specially of Quéenes let vs pray for continuance of her highnesses reigne Where they hyde rebellious stomakes let vs shew true and faythfull hartes Where they desire that her maiestie and her Counsel may be deceiued with flattering and erronious pretense of policie pacification and colour of clemencie that vnder that shadow they may lurke and be norished as serpent in bosome let vs praie to God to geue iudgement to discerne them to search the bottome of the late treasons that they may be shaken out and vsed as dangerous vipers Where their trust is in their Pope and Popishe treasons and conspiracies let our confidence be in God and his prouidence not shrinking from the same with our best courage and prudence Where they will not sticke to vse all suttle vndermyninges and will not lose the vantage of times that they may one day triumph in cruel violence let vs pray that on this part be vsed all good policies that Gods offred meanes good opportunites be not refused or ouerslipped that God rent not the kingdome from his anoynted for sparing his enemies but that it may long flourishe in the handes of his most noble and vertuous handmayde our most excellent gratious Soueraigne Ladie Thus is it euident by reasons and examples what hartes Papistes beare to her maiestie The third conclusion that such English Papistes are traytors to the realme of England c. hath receaued two proues already the one in the generall treasons of all Papistes to all realmes wherein England and English Papistes are included the other in their traitorous mindes to the Quéenes maiesties person and dignitie which is the hyest treason that can be to the realme of England Yet are there some other particular doinges more specially to enforce it namely the experience that hath bene of theyr casting away the care of their countrie no all other naturall affections to the end with all immanitie outragious vnnaturall crueltie to torment Englishe Christians and to subiect the realme to foren power for their false religions sake I am sure there are enow and to many that can remember both that they haue red in credible histories and séene in lamentable experience how the Papistes haue shewed them selues so addicted to their supersticion and so captiued to an vndue reuerence of their tyrānous Pope that they haue for it reiected the care of country and of those to whome naturall dutie bound them It is certayne that that Englishe man which can be contented for Papistrie to rayse or fauor rebellion in our countrey to ioyne in conspiracie with strangers to helpe to inuade and spoyle our countrey to conuey the crowne of our countrey to a forener to agrée with them in faction that offer our countrey to prey spoyle and conquest to colour foren subiections of our countrey with false titles of wrested law to submit his fayth to that potentate that hath accursed and geuen our countrey theyr soules to the diuell their bodyes landes and possessions to them that can catch them to beleue or fauor them that spred all vile dishoners agaynst our countrey to take his part as the most holy one that claymeth to him selfe from our naturall prince the obeysance of one great part of her subiectes yea of all her subiectes in a great part of theyr affaires to assent that a foren vsurper shall by deceaueable shewes of false religion haue ordinarie meanes by colors of sutes resortes annates frutes pensions inuestitures and other infinite craftes to robbe our countrey of treasure to like wel of his doinges and to hold that he doth no more than he lawfully may doo which beyng an alien a foren byshop shall

alway to be noted that the Prince is so not a priuate but a publike person as no attempt against her safetie can or ought to be accompted a priuate cause The full proofe and larger explication of these conclusions though it be easy as a thing which not onely all conuenientie of reason affirmeth but also dayly experience laieth before all mens eyes that haue a frée consideration not accombred with corrupt zeale and affection so yet surely were it a méete thing to be handled by some such man as could adde thereto such ornaments of speche such strength of eloquence and pith of persuasion as myght not onely be vnderstoode beleued but be felt mouel Here any most excellent orators special-vertues might be well employed A fit argument sure it were to shewe witte and knowledge but specially truth and good meaning But till some fitte person shall take in hand to bestow his more profitable trauayle that way let vs yet for vnlading of some of the abundance of our entier deuotion for Gods truth for her maiestie and our countrey haue some remembrance of the particularities thereof For the first article that defineth papistes that accuseth thē of treason to God to kings and to realmes if it be well weyed it can not but quickly be séene for vndouted truth Though it be true that euery one that holdeth any one error or article of doctrine that the Pope teacheth varying from the worde of God is in that article a papist as for example the heresie of transubstantiation the blasphemie of popish masse or any such other yet compt I not euery such a one wholy a papist within compasse of this article that is vnder title of a traitorous Papist but such a one as holdeth all the Popes doctrine to be true that the Romane church erreth not that it hath rightfully such superioritie and primacie in others kingdomes and diocesces as it hath proudly claimed vsurped and that Christians are bound to referre their fayth vnto it and to hang vpon the Popes determinations Many men otherwise good honest subiectes are not yet purged of all errors wherwith Rome hath infected them must haue their tyme to be better instructed But those that are perfect Papistes that publish the Pope to be head of the church which yet in dede is no member of the true church and would haue vs with an implicite bond faith to depend vpon that sea for that reason will refuse by all lawful meanes to confesse the right of Princes in their kingdomes ouer all their subiectes they be perfect traitors in deede yea and the learned sort of them be wilfull heretikes traitors For though in the darke tymes when controuersies of religion were not brought into searching the streame of error caried men awaye without douting yet since that by debating the light hath bene euidently opened and men haue sought and throughly examined the matter there is no learned papist but he knoweth he mainteineth error and in defending and spreading the same he defendeth and spreadeth and so directly aduisedly wilfully and maliciously putteth in execution to his vttermost power hye treasons against God against kinges and kingdomes Against God I cal them treasons though our law the iudge of ciuil treasons in England haue no such name because the nature of the offence so properly receaueth that title and also the vsuall name of hye treason in iure gentium in the common law of nations and in other languages doth so playnely expresse it Hye treasons are in their true nature offences against hye maiestie that is either to the destruction of the persons or denyall and defacement of the iust dignities and authorities of those that beare the name of maiestie and to whom the hyest dutie of obedience faith and alleageance extendeth And therefore is treason called Crimen lesae maiestatis the crime of violating or abating of maiestie Greater maiestie than the maiestie of God can not be therefore hyer and verier treasons then against God can not be His person can not be destroyed or touched his dignitie honor glorie and authoritie may be sclaundered and blasphemed and his subiectes that is mortall men may be withdrawen from their due obedience and drawen into rebellion against him And this I say is hye treason to God to violate or abate the maiestie of God and this do papistes For though God be king of the whole world and so is rightly called the Lord by vniuersall name yea euen of deuilles yet is hys chirch hys more proper and certaine kingdome whereby he is more restrainedly and aptly called our king and our father and so more fitly called our head in respect of the body which is his chirch and not the rest of the worlde In this kingdome hys hyest dignitie is to be the onely head thereof which the Papistes take from him and deriue it to their Pope And though with gloses they excuse it that theyr Popes take it not from God 〈…〉 vnder God as his vicars yet must they be admonished that wythout sufficient deputation and warrant from the kyng himselfe which the Pope hath not the subiect to thrust himselfe into gouernance of the kingdome is hye treason where he that being a stranger would seke to conquere it were but an enemy And so is it rightly to be sayd that the Turke is to God an enemy and the Pope is to God a traytor and all his adherentes principall traytors for treason admitteth no accessaries Also one great part of Gods maiestie standeth in making of lawes to gouerne his kingdome that hys shéepe shall heare hys voyce and no strangers Against which poynt of maiestie as it is hye treason to publish lawes and proclamations in ciuile kynges names against their wyll so are papistes hye traytors in publishing and receauing lawes proclamations and decrées from a climing and vsurping tyrant to bynde Gods subiectes the chirch wythout the wyll and warrant of God Also rebelliously to burne destroy tread downe or deface in great contempt the commissions and lawes of temporall kynges is an hye offence against maiestie and therefore papistes that dishonor and discredit the word of God and destroy the bookes thereof are hye offenders agaynst hys maiestie Also hie treason it is for the subiect to leuie warre agayst hys soueraigne and to destroy hys lande hys faythfull subiectes and true liege people And therefore Papistes in their persecuting and murderyng of Christians with open hostilitie haue shewed themselues hye traytors to the vniuersall King of Christians Also where the counterfaityng of princes handes and coynes and the clipping and abating the value of their true coynes and the vttering of such forged and abated coine is hie treason what lesse name than hye treason agaynst God can we geue to papistes that haue counterfait the writing and coynes of God and geuen out false commissions false patentes and false charters in stede of his worde that clippe from the dignitie