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A07921	An answer vnto the Catholiques supplication, presented vnto the Kings Maiestie, for a tolleration of popish religion in England wherein is contained a confutation of their vnreasonable petitions, and slaunderous lyes against our late soueraigne Queene Elizabeth ... : together with an information vnto His Maiestie of diuers their wicked and treasonable practises, attempted in the life time of our late Queene ... : wherevnto is annexed the supplication of the papists, word for word as it was presented vnto the Kings Maiestie ... / written by Christopher Muriell the elder.	Muriell, Christopher.	1603 (1603)	STC 18292.2; ESTC S2825	12,904	30

counsels hath there not beene two Popes at once and sometimes three and euery one hath cursed other and excommunicated others and fought bloudy battelles one against another to the disturbance of all Christendome and the shedding of the bloud of many thousand Christians And he that was the valiantest tyrant was the most religious Pope But to let them passe let vs remember Constantine the Emperour who first endowed the Pope with stately reuenewes But in his dayes where was their holy Bread and holy Water where were their pardons of free remission of sinnes both veniall and deadly soulde now for money throughout Christendome to redeeme soules out of purgatory where was their Ladies Chappell their Ladyes Masses their pilgrimages to Saint Iames of Compostella c Where was their praying to Saintes Where was their diabollicall authority to depriue Kings and Emperours of their Kingdomes and to dispose of them at their free will and pleasure Where was the supremacie of the Pope vniuersally ouer all Realmes Kings and Emperours and ouer all degrees of persons spirituall and temporall but it hath beene since great honour for an Emperour to leade the Popes horse by the bridle and for a King to hould his stirrope yea for an Emperour to be a foote-stoole to the Pope to treade on when hee went vpon his horse This Luciferian pride was not heard off in Constantines time nor long since and as for the religion that was professed in those dayes and long before Constantines time it was the same religion that we in England doe now professe And it is for certaine that the Heathenish and Infidell Emperours both long before Constantines dayes and long since did persecute the now professed religion in England and that it was sealed with the bloud of many Martyrs adorned with the vertues of many thousand confessors beautified with the bloud of the pure and Immaculate virgins neither were the Bishops of Rome in those dayes freed from the said persecutions But when Infidell Emperours by Gods diuine prouidence ceased their tyranny Then the Luciferian Popes by degrees and steps climing the highest staffe of the ladder of pride did so farre exceed in haughtinesse of hart insolencie and tyranny that they first did shake off the lawfull authoritie of Emperours in the electing and admitting the Pope and then presently after they did domineere and tyrannise ouer Emperours Kings and all degrees of persons spirituall and temporall so that it is to be doubted whether the heathenish Emperours in their time or the irreligious Popes in their time haue persecuted and tormented to death the greater number of faithfull Christians and the Saints of God It is superfluous to rehearse the stories of these things seeing they be recorded in all Ecclesiasticall Histories and in the Chronicles of all kingdomes And wee are perswaded that your grace hath both seene and read the Historie of these bloudy tragedies But of late time the Pope hath beene well plumed tof his borrowed fethers and his Luciferian pride somewhat depressed Yet if the Papists will so be content we will ioyne with them to procure that a Generall and free Counsell may be held in Christendome wherevnto both Papists and Protestantes may freelie repaire that thereby the Church of Christ may haue peace and the ignorant may be confirmed in the true faith and to this purpose hath one of our learned Diuines offered himselfe to dispute with any Papists whosoeuer and many other will doe the like so that his person may be secured red from perrill D Sutcliffe in the reply to The vvoord pag. 43. This I pray God that it may be effected and that he that is the true God may be worshipped of all and that Baall may be vtterly forgotten that all Christian kingdomes agreeing in true doctrine and sinceere truth may ioyntlie acknowledge one veritie one faith one baptisme one religion and one onely God in Trinity and Trinitie in Vnity the Father the Sonne and the holy Ghost Amen 7. In the seuenth and last part they make a sollemne profession before God and his holy Angels of as loyall as obedient and immaculate allegiance to your Grace at euer did faithfull subiects in Scotland or England vnto your progenitors and intend sincerely and truely with goods and liues to serue your Grace for confirmation wherof they confesse merite in obeying and demerite in disobeying and therfore cannot but in soule be greeuously tormented for the least preuarication This protestation is indeed with a flourishing shew of good words let the fruites of their obediences trie the veritie thereof where was the fruites of their obediences in the dayes of their annointed Queene now deceased that they may haue merite for it These Romanists haue sugered wordes but their harts be full of deadly poyson for although they be a generation of vypers yet they can change their shape into an Angel of light to deceiue the very elect if it were possible The world cā testifie that the manifoulde treasons and conspiracies of the Papists were sufficient testimonies of their demerit And if they must needes be tormented in soule and conscience for their least preuarication needs must thousāds of their soules and consciences be tormented for their many treasons conspiracies against their late annointed Queene now deceased But whatsoeuer they professe in wordes it is impossible so long as they professe the Romish religion to bee faithful subiects vnto your grace for this is a maxime in the minds of most papists fides non est seruāda cum hereticis we are sure that the Pope hath censured al Protestant Princes for heretickes and their religion for heresie Therefore whatsoeuer they professe in wordes they cannot serue God and the deuill neither can they truely serue and obaye you and the Pope Two so great contrarieties cannot concur in one subiect And thus I conclude praying to God as our bounden dutie requireth that of his great goodnesse he will vouchsafe to blesse preserue and defend your royall maiestie our noble Queene and all your Princely Children from all your enemies both forraine and domesticall spirituall and temporall and from the treasons and conspiracies of all Romanists That your sacred Maiestie and your posterity may liue and raigne ouer vs in the feare of God and to his honour and glory in regall dignity happy prosperitie godly peace and vnity and that after this life you may haue celestiall felicitie in the life to come for euermore Amen Your Maiesties most humble and dutifull subiect CHRISTOPHER MVRIEL Senior THE CATHOLIKES SVPPLICATION Most puissant Prince and orient Monarch SVch are the rare perfections and admirable gifts of wisedome prudence valour and iustice wherewith the bountifull hand of Gods diuine Maiestie hath endued your Maiestie as in the depth of your prouident iudgement we doubt not but you foresee what concerneth both the spirituall and temporall gouernement of all your kingdoms dominions 2. Notwithstanding your Graces most afflicted subiects and I pray God that your Maiestie

farme paying one thousand markes yearely for the fame And euen the like he practised against our late Soueraigne Queene Elizabeth But the sacred word of God had taught her subiects a better lesson of fidelity loyalty to their Prince then to regard his vaine wicked Bull which by his d Felton Stovves Chro page 129. agents he caused to be hanged vpon the Bishop of London his gate After this he instigated a mighty Prince who is now dead and gone to attempt his pretended inuincible inuation and with his many fold forces vtterly to subuerte the flourishing state of this Realme and to extirpate if it had beene possible the true worship of God Moreouer also the Pope instigated Parry Babington Lopez and diuers others their confederates to conspire the Queenes vntimely death he fent also his cursed brood of Iesuites and Seminaries the firebrands of sedition in all kingdoms to induce her subiects to rebellion whereunto also the Pope their vnholy father added his yeerely curse at Rome with booke bell candle hereby may you plainely see and perceiue that the Pope Papists which pretend to be but indeed desire rather to make Martyrs did continually persecute her Maiesty and sought all the meane that they possibly could to procure her vntimely death yet shame they not to cry with open mouthes vnto your Maiesty that they were persecuted As for our Queene the only omnipotent wise all seeing God preserued her frō all their bloudy practises gaue vnto her an happy ioyful peaceable end to his glory her own and our comforts to their vnspeakable griefe sorrow 3. In the third part this generation of vypers relate vnto the world their owne wicked and trecherous endeuors to induce some now liuing to aspire vnto the royall dignity of this kingdome O cursed Parasites and false harted Papists cannot you be soliciters of mischiefe but you must needes brag thereof it argueth that discord and rebellion are the chiefest vertues if I may so say of your new and false Catholique Romish religion But most gratious King let vs praise and glorifie God who hath so directed your godly proceedings by his holy spirit and hath also giuen you wisedom and fortitude to relie vpon his diuine prouidence who workerh all things for the best to them that serue and loue him And that it hath now pleased God to crowne your royal head with the crowns of these kingdoms of England France and Ireland it cannot be any wise imputed vnto the Papists for they were like traitors wholy bent another waye vntill they perceiued that their designes were in vaine and their hopes frustrate For no sooner had it pleased God to call vnto his mercie our gracious Queene who at before her death resigned vnto your highnesse as vnto whome of right it appertained the royal scepter of all her dominions but that once her now your most faithfull nobles caused your rightfull title vnto all her kingdoms to be by open proclamation published vnto the world the vndoubted trueth of which your royall and lineall discent together with the spirit of God working in their hearts to acknowledge the same hath so vnited the harts and minds of all the nobilitie clergy and communalty of this land that all the Papists excepted doe ioye to behold your royall face and are ready to serue honour and obaye you with their bodies and goods euen vnto death The Lorde blesse and preserue you from the practises and conspiracies of the wicked Romanists for surely they hate you in their harts because you professe the Gospell of Christ as your predecessor Queene Elizabeth did who if notwithstanding their flourishing shew of words their wicked and desired expectations had bin effected whē the general inuasion of this land was intended your Maiesty knoweth by whom neuer had your Grace inioyed the scepter of these kingdoms of England Ireland yes hardly if they could haue effected the contrary should you haue reteyned the kingdom of Scotland which then now also God be thanked you possesse quietly 4. In the fourth part they do greeuously complaine of two euils that doe vex their harts The first is that this Realme of England is deuided into fourereligions to wit Protestants Papists Puritans Athists ouer all which the Protestants did domineere all the raigne of our late disceased Queene Thus much we do truely to the glory of God confesse that all such as did professe the sacred Scriptures were protected first and principally by God next by her Maiesty as an instrument from God against the tyranny of the Pope and all bloud-thirsty Papists and that the Barrowistes who may most iustly of all other among vs be termed Puritanes as Iesuites which are the Popish Puritanes amongst them and all Pharisaicall Iusticiares together with all turbulent Athiest if any such be which haue sprong vp in this flourishing time of the Gospell as euill weeds amongst good Corne haue beene continually repelled by the preaching of the Gospell by the wise aduised and faithfull ministers and dispensers thereof in this kingdome And we are fully assured that the said religion is so firmely established and founded vpon the sacred Scriptures yea euen vpon Christ Iesus that sure rocke and is so mightilie defended with the two-edged sworde that proceedeth from the mouth of God which is able to cast downe strong holdes and euery high thing that shall exalt it selfe against God and his true Church that the gates of hell that is to say the Diuell himselfe nor cursed Pope Turke Heretique Infidel Papist or Athiest shall neuer be able to preuaile there-against so long as the world endureth The second thing they complaine of is that warres and bloudshed haue seldome ceased Taskes and Subsidies neuer so many discontented mindes innumerable Behold the children of the Diuell cannot but lye for their father the Diuell hath beene a lyar from the beginning How iniuriously doe they charge that blessed buried corpes whose spirite is inglory with these vntruths did not euery man sit vnder his owne Vine and eate the labours of his hands quietly and peaceably without molestation fortie and foure yeares and better to the great admiration of the worlde * See the Kings own testimony of her Maiesty in the latter end of the preface prefixed before the booke of instructions to his sonne The words are these But notwithstanding since there is a lawfull Queene there presently raigning who hath so long with so great wisedome and felicity gouerned her kingdoms as I must in true sincenty confesse the like hath not bin red nor hard of either in our time or since the dayes of the Romane Emperor Augustus c. If it please your gratious Maiestie to peruse the Chroncicles you shall finde that no King nor Queene before her time hath euer gouerned this realme in so godly peace and Christian vnity so long time protecting it most miraculously against the tyrrannie of the Pope and all other forraine