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A00294	A booke intituled, The English Protestants recantation, in mattersof religion wherein is demonstratiuely proued, by the writings of the principall, and best learned English Protestant bishops, and doctors, and rules of their religion, published allowed, or subscribed vnto, bythem, since the comminge of our King Iames into England, that not onely all generall grownds of diuinitie, are against the[m], but in euery particular cheife question, betweene Catholicks & them, they are in errour, by their owne iudgments : diuided accordingly, into two parts, whereof the first entreateth of those generall grounds, the other of such particular controuersies, whereby will also manifestely appeare the vanitie of D. Morton Protest. Bishop of Chester his boke called Appeale, or, Ansuueare to the Catholicke authour of thebooke entituled, The Protestants apologie.	Broughton, Richard.	1617 (1617)	STC 10414; ESTC S2109	209,404	418

proceedings here in Britannye they will finde in those lawes sett out by themselues that they warrant his supreamacie further then I meane to S. Edwards lawes published by Mr. Lambert a Protestant pag. 2. fol. 1●0 vrdge it The wordes ar these The whole land and all the Ilands to Norway and Denmarke belonge to the Crowne of his Kingedome and ar of the Appendancies and dignities of the Kinge And it is one Monarchie and one Kingedome and was sometime called the Kingedome of Britannye and now called the Kingdome of English men For Lord Eleutherius Pope who first sent an hallowed crowne to Britannye and Christianitie by Gods inspiration to Lucius Kinge of the Britans appointed and allowed to the Crowne of the Kingdome such metes and bowndes as ar said before Therefore English Protestants ar very ingratefull to that Holy Pope and Saint our so greate Benefactor And their owne Theater is a wittnes of that his loue and well deserueing of this land and their vngratitude their wordes be these Pope Eleutherius thus wrote to Lucius Kinge Theat pag. 222. n. 8. lib. 6. cap. 19. of Britannie for the reformation of the Kinge and the nobilitie of the Kingdome of Britannie you desired vs to send vnto you the Romane and Imperiall lawes which you would vse in your Kingedome of Britannie The Romane lawes and the Emperors wee may at all times mislike but the lawe of God by no meanes By the diuine clemencie you haue of late receiued in your Kingdome of Britannie the lawe and faithe of Christ you have with you in your Kingdome both the old and new testament out of them in Gods name by the ●ownsaile of your state take Corn. Tacit in annal in Hadr. Pi. Anton. M. Ant. Stowe hist Holinsh ib. Dauid in Bric Polyd. verg l. 2. h. angl pag. 42. 42 c. you alawe and therewith by Gods permission gouerne your Kingedome of Britannie About which times Lolius Calphurnius Agricola Pertinax Cl. Albinus Iunius Seuerus c. were Propretors Lieutenants and commaundinge Rulers here for the Romane Emperors as both their owne and our Historians wittnes And not onely this but after entreateinge of the saxons lawes in this Kingdome and the two much seueritie of triall in suspition of Incontinencie as they thinke they write in this maner This punishment begynning Theater pag. 287 l. 7. cap. 3. n. 6. in these Pagans and continueing vnto the yeare 750. Stephen the second and moste pontificall Pope of Rome did vtterly abolish as two seuere and ouer-rigorous for Christians to vndergoe They alledge authoritie alsoe that the Kingedome of Norway was giuen to Kinge Arthur by the Pope Pag. 317 l. 7. cap 12. Which is playnely testified in the lawes of S. Edward as they ar published by the Puritan Protestant Mr. Lambard and out of the Guliel Lambard in legib S. Edward fol. 137. 138. print at London Anno D. 1569. cum priuileg Reg. Maiest per decem library of Matthew Parker himself whome they name their Archbishop of Canterbury The words be these Impetrauit enim temporibus illis Arthurus Rex à Domino Papa curia Romana quod confirmata sit Norweia in perpetuum coronae Brytanniae in augmentum Regni huius vocauitque illam dictus Artherus Cameram Brytanniae In those times Kinge Arthur obtayned from our Lord the Pope and the Court of Rome that Norway might be confirmed for euer to the Crowne of Brytaine for encrease of this Kingdome and the said Arthur called it the chamber of Brytaine And for this cause the Norwegians say they may dwell in this Kingdome and be of the body of this Kingdome to witt of the crowne of Brytayne Of his clayme and practyse in later times in such affaires their examples ar two many to be cited But to insist in his absolute spirituall supreamacie of which I entreate as they told vs before how all spirituall Iurisdiction was deriued to the Brittannes from the Pope of Rome in prescribeing and limiteing their Episcopall Sees and priuiledges so they testifie the same in the Regiment of the Saxons for allthough England it self besides Scotland and Wales was deuided Theat pag. 278. lib. 6. cap. 54. n. 2. pag. 292 l. 7. cap. 4. n. 19. into an Heptarchie and conteyned seuen Kingedomes Kent Southsaxons Westsaxons Eastsaxons Northumberland Maria and East-Angels and none of those Kinges if they had beene Protestants could clayme to exercise any spirituall power by their doctrine further then their owne temporall commaunde yett they teach vs that the spirituall Iurisdiction in the supreame and highest degree was wholly in the Pope ouer all those Kingedomes And for proofe of this to vse their owne wordes Honorius Theat pag. 5. lib. 1. cap. 3. n. 4. appointed by the Pope the fift Archbishop of Canterbury first diuided England into parishes And then they sett downe all the Bishopricks in England vnder their twoe Metropolitanes Canterbury and Yorke which by noe possibilitie can be reconciled with an Heptarchicall Pag. 6. l. 1. or seuen fold gouernment besides that in Walles And yett not onely the welch diocesses of Landaffe S. Dauid Bangor and S. Asaph but Ireland also in those times of diuisions in temporall Regiments and Kinges were subiect not onely to the Pope but to the Archbishop of Canterbury which was euer subiect to the Pope of Rome and by him instituted Their wordes Pag. 145. lib. 4. cap. 4. n. 8. be these matters memorable within this prouince ar these First that the Bishops of Ireland were wont to be consecrated by the Archbishop of Canterbury in regarde of the primacie which they had in this contry vntill such time as ●hou Papirio a Cardinall was sent thither from Pope Eugenius the fourth to reforme ecclesiasticall discipline in this Iland And that this Kingedome of greate Brittaine hath euen from the primatiue Church of the first conuerted Brittannes submitted themselues and their posterities to the Pope of Rome in the highest and moste commaundeinge power and Authoritie in this worlde in their Iudgment a generall Councell as hereafter Cap. generall Councels infr Theater l. 6. cap. 9. pag. 206. ● 19. I thus demonstrate from this their Theater wherein they write in this order After these times the Brittannes continued constant in Christianitie and the censures of their Bishops for the greate estimation of their constancie pietie and learninge required and approued in greate poynts of doctrine amonge the Assemblies of some generall Councells as that of Sardys and Nyce in the time of greate Constantine had wee our Bishops present Whose forwardnes against the Arrian Heresie afterwards Athanasius aduanceth in his Apologie vnto Iouinian the Emperour amongst three hundred Bishops assembled at the Councell of Sardys in Anno 350. Then seing as these men teach vs generall Infra cap. gen Councels Councells ar the highest Iudge and binde all men to their decrees and our bishops that were there to consent vnto and

further prophesieth of other calamities to the Land after his death Queene Elfrida this greate patronesse of those wicked Marriadges and Murderesse of that blessed Kinge Martyr acknowledged her error and did perpetual penance for those Impieties their owne words thereof bee these Elfrida the second wise of Kinge Edgar procured the Theat pag. 372. n. 17. murder of Kinge Edward her sonne in lawe that her owne sonne Ethelred might come to the crowne and afterwards to purifie his and her husbands ghost and to stopp the peoples speaches of so wicked a fact shee founded the Abbeis of Amsbury and Whorwell in the Pag. 374. n. 10. counties of Wiltshire and South-hampton in which later shee liued with greate repentance and penance vntill the day of her death But both the life and death of them that repented not was by these mens relation odious and execrable I will onely exemplify in two Kings Ethelred before related and Kinge Edwyne before him both maintayners of Preists marriadge of Kinge Edwyne they write in these words Theat pag. 366. n. 7. 8. Pag. 369. n. 2. 3. Kinge Edwyne the day of his coronation before his nobles sittinge in counsell at that age not aboue thirteene yeares old with shamelesse and vnprincely lust abused a lady of greate estate and his neare kinsewoman Hee was a greate enemy vnto the Monkish orders whom from the monastery of Malmesbury Glastenbury and others hee expelled placing married Preists in their Romes Dunstan likewise the Abbot Saint of Glostenbury hee banished the Realme for his ouerbold reprehensions c. His subiects deny him obedience And sett vpp Prince Edgar his brother in Mercia and Northumberland not fully fourteene yeares old Edwyne then raigninge in a still decaying state was held of such is subiects in no better esteeme then was Iehoram of Iudah who is said to haue liued without beeing desired for very greefe whereof after foure yeares of his Raigne hee ended his life His wife thought to bee to Neare in the blood royall to bee matched with him in spousall bedd the subiects dislikinge of the vnlawfull marriadge the cause of Dunstans banishment failed by degrees to performe their duties to their Kinge and her they likewise forced to a seperation in the third yeare of his regardlesse gouernment The miseryes and punishments of Kinge Ethelred and this Kingedome for his syns they recompt in this maner Ethelred not able Theat pag. 376. 377. to resist the Danes his subiects not loueing him payeth vnto them 10000. pounds to depart An other peace hee purchaseth with 16000. pownds The next composition 20000. pownds Then 24000. pownds Then 30000. pownds and lastely 40000. pownds vntill the land was emptied of all the coyne the Kingdome of her glorye the nobles of courage commons of content and the Soueraigne of his wonted respect and obseruaunce The miseryes of this land for the syns of the patrons of such marriadges as now be defended and honoured in England which then it felt are to many and lamentable to be remembred at this time And a man may iustly call it a straunge Example that amonge other straunge punishments of Kinge Henry the eight that greate patron of Cranmer that marryed bishop that mared Religion and supreame head of such a Church that in his life time so iumbled tumbled and tumbled the world together should haue no better commendation of these Protestants now but to be ranked by them as the cheifest amonge wicked and iustly punished English Kings in their late published history of the worlde in these words Now for Kinge Henry the eight if History of the world in pref all the pictures and patterns of a mercilesse prince were loste in the worlde they might all agayne be paynted to the life out of the story of this Kinge And because Protestants memoryes serue them not to call to mynde the holynes sanctitie and Saints that haue beene in our English Catholicke Cleargie but like filthy swyne desyre to tumble moyle and roote in dyrt lett them cast ouer their accompts throughe out the historyes of this kingedome begynning with their owne Marriadges and tyme and so ascendinge to the first conuersion of this land to Christ and it will be no difficult Auditt to make that they themselues and those which were marryed as these be were the moste disordered prophane and irreligeous that were in our English Cleargie lett them make the calculation I may not now intend it my methode will not allowe it Being fittest for such as be partakers of such impieties Onely to begyn their reckoninge I must putt them in mynde out of their Theater and other their owne historyes penned by Protestants That as this Kingedome of our English or saxon Christians hath beene but twyse conquered and ouerrunne once by the Danes then by the Normans the greatest miseries and punishments it hath endured So the same their Theater other histories and Protestant writings neuer obiect vnto vs more Married and disordered Preists and cleargie men then at those tymes God of his mercy graunt that their third state of married ministers presage vs better bydeings and bring vs greater comforts Of vowes and profession of perpetuall chastitie and other workes of perfection it is further entreated in the proper question of such holy and religious life and conuersation CHAPTER XVIII OF PVRGATORIE AND PRAYER for the deade AFTER this lett vs entreate of prayer for the deade and Purgatorie And because these Protestāts before haue giuen so greate allowance to the Greeke Church especially D. Feild Intituling the 5. chapter of his third Feild l. 3. c. 5. in titul booke Of the nature of scisme and kindes of yt and that it no way appeareth that the Churches of Greece c. Are hereticall or in damnable schisme And it is their common assertion that the doctrine of purgatorie is onely taught by the Romane and not Greeke Church I will first thus argue from the authority thereof That doctrine which is taught by that Church which is neither hereticall nor damnably scismaticall cannot bee hereticall nor damnable but orthodoxe and Catholicke But the doctrine of Purgatorie is taught by this so Iustified Church the Greeke Church Therefore not hereticall nor damnable But orthodoxe and Catholicke The first proposition is euidently true for it is the doctrine and practice of any companie or priuate parson that giueth vnto it the denomination Hereticall Schismaticall Orthodoxe c. The second proposition is proued by these Protestant Testimonies following First the Protestant Relator writing of this Greeke Church speaketh thus With Rome Relation of Relig. c. 53. or c. 54. they concurre in the opinion of transsubstantiation and generally in the seruice and whole bodie of the Masse in praying to Saincts in auriculare confession in offeringe of sacrifice and prayer for the deade and these without any or with no materiall difference They hold Purgatorie also and worshipping of pictures Therefore these doctrines of purgatorie the rest must needs