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A09102	The iudgment of a Catholicke English-man, living in banishment for his religion VVritten to his priuate friend in England. Concerninge a late booke set forth, and entituled; Triplici nodo, triplex cuneus, or, An apologie for the oath of allegiance. Against two breves of Pope Paulus V. to the Catholickes of England; & a letter of Cardinall Bellarmine to M. George Blackwell, Arch-priest. VVherein, the said oath is shewed to be vnlawfull vnto a Catholicke conscience; for so much, as it conteyneth sundry clauses repugnant to his religion.; Judgment of a Catholicke English-man, living in banishment for his religion	Parsons, Robert, 1546-1610.	1608 (1608)	STC 19408; ESTC S104538	91,131	136

worldlings vsed in the Psalme to proue their felicity that their cellars are full their sheepe fertile theyr kyne fatt they suffer no losse and then Beatum dixerunt populum cui haec sunt Happy did they call the people that had these things But the Holy Ghost scorneth them and so may all men do our Orator that vseth and vrgeth so base an argument in so high a matter VII And as for his definition of Miserie by Copia and Inopia store and want it is a miserable one indeed and neuer heard of before I thinke to come from any mans mouth but his owne it being ridiculous in Philosophy and fitt to be applyed to any thing that hath either store or want As a wise man in this sort may be defined to be him that hath store of witt and want of folly and a foole to be him that hath store of follie and want of witt and so a rich man is he that hath store of riches and want of beggary and a poore man is he that hath store of beggary and penury of riches And are not these goodly definitions thinke you for so great and graue a man to produce VIII But to returne to the matter it selfe of Q. Elizabeth her store of consolations and penury of desolations in this life VVho saith this our Orator was so myraculously protected by God so strengthened and fortified as she did beate her most potent enemy did sett vp a King in his kingdome de●ended nations harboured distressed people and the like Supposing all this were true that she had such temporall felicity in this lyfe and were so miraculously protected strengthened and fortifyed by God as heere is said yea and that it were euident that God had chosen her for his elected seruant which yet doth not appeare and gyuen her that tytle and power to afflict the Catholicks yet had that byn no more then we read in the Scriptures to haue byn gyuen to dyuers Pagan Princes and namely to Nabuchodonosor of whom Ieremy the prophet testifyeth in sundry places of his Prophesy That God chose him called him his seruant and gaue him speciall power fauour protection to afflict his people Ego dedi omnes terras istas in manu Nabuchodonosor Regis Babylonis serui mei saith God I haue gyuen all these Countryes into the hands of Nabuchodonosor King of Babylon my seruant and all nations shall serue him yield obedience to him and to his Sonne and Sonnes some And what soeuer nation shall not serue him bow his necke vnder his yoke I will visite that nation with the sword with famyne and with plague till I haue consumed them by his hand And agayne in an other place I will choose vnto me my seruāt Nabuchodonosor king of Babylon will bring him vpon this Land and vpon all the inhabitants therof and vpon all nations round about c. And yet further God said vnto Ieremy Thus saith the Lord of Hostes I shall take vnto me my seruant Nabuchodonosor and shall place his throne vpon these stones c. IX By all which is euident that Syr Edward Cookes argument is worth nothing that for so much as God so miraculously protected Q. Elizabeth if it were myraculous so strengthened and fortifyed her as she did beate her most potent enemy did set vp an other King in his Kingdome 〈◊〉 any such thing were yet this did not make her happie As neyther it did Nabuchodonosor of whome God said in the same place that when he had serued his turne of him and wrought his will by his hand and people for the purging or his owne elect he would visit vpon him also and his Countrey and that in a ●arre more grieuous sort Ponam i●am in solitudines sempiternas reddam eis secundum opera eorum secundum facta manuum suarum I shall make that Countrey all euer a●●ng w●●de●nes and shall res●ore to them that afflicted my peop●e according to their workes and to the deeds of their owne handes against my people This then was his ●e●icity to be a scourge to others and fynally also to himselfe most of all X. And the like I doubt not may be said of Q. Elizabeths ●licity agains● Catholicks it we knew all that in the last day or iudgment will appeare and wherof her lamētable end may gyue great presage to them that are wise For that for a woman of so long and large a lyfe as hors was to passe hence to eternity with so small sense or 〈◊〉 of God as neuer so much as to name him nor to suffer others to bring in any speach therof as they attempted to do is so pitti●ull an end as can lightly said to a Christian soule The story or which vpshot o●hers I haue read written by a person of much credit that was present at all her last sicknes combats and death and relateth all that passed as an eye witnesse which I passe ouer for breuity and modestyes sake but it will remayne to posterity as a dreadfull patterne of a miserable end after a lyfe of so much ioylitie XI And thus much for spirituall infelicityes reaching to the next world and lyfe or death to come But if we would rest our selues only vpon vayne brickle felicityes of this world they were not alas so great in Queene Elizabeth but that they were mingled and interlaced with many and great infelicityes in like manner and these such as did euen in the eyes of worldly men ouerpoise the other especially with them that repute honour and dishonour among humane felicityes infelicityes For what more dishonorable infelicity can there be then that which standeth in Capito Libri of Q. Elizabeths lyfe To witt the publike solemne Statute and Act of Parliament made within few dayes after she was borne vpon the 28. yeare of King Henryes raigne and yet extant in Print wherin it is declared not only by the iudgment of the King and of a●l that Parliament but by the iudiciall sentence also of Archbishop Cranmer she was pronounced to be vnlawfully borne and that her mother was neuer King Henryes lawfull wyfe wherupō the said statute vseth these wordes That it was against all honour equity and good conscience that the said Elizabeth should succeed in the Imperiall Crowne of England And could there be any greater worldly infelicity thēthis XII I let passe many other infelicities which happened by her occasion to sundry as well vnder the raigne of King Edward as the ruyne of the Seymers vpon the Admiralls falling in loue with her and making away his former wife Queene Catherine Parre to enioy her as also vnder Queene Marie when so many rebellions of VViat Courtney Carewes Stafford others were made for her But her owne raigne had most infelicities for her if they were well considered and I could touch many but modestie forbiddeth And least I should seeme to speak out of reuenge let this one

no doubt were great if it were true in such a man as Cardinall Bellarmine is that he hath mistaken the whole State of the Questiō in his writing to M. Blackwell going about to impugne only the old Oath of Supremacy in steed of this new Oath entituled Of Allegiance but this is most cleerly refuted by the very first lynes almost of the letter it self For that telling M. Blackwell how sory he was vpon the report that he had taken illicitum Iuramentum an vnlafull Oath he expoundeth presently what Oath he meaneth saying Not therfore deare Brother is that Oath lawfull for that it is offered somwhat tempered modifyed c. Which is euidently meant of the new Oath of Allegiance not only tempered with diuers lawfull clauses of Ciuill Obedience as hath byn shewed but interlaced also with other members that reach to Religion wheras the old Oath of Supremacie hath no such mixture but is playnly and simply set downe for absolute excluding the Popes Supremacie in causes Ecclesiasticall and for making the King supreme Head of the Church in the same causes all which is most euident by the Statutes made about the same from the 25 yeare of King Henry the 8. vnto the end of the raigne of King Edward the sixt V. Only I do heere note by the way that the Apologer in setting downe the forme of the Oath of Supremacie saith I A. B. do vtterly testifie and declare in my Conscience that the Kings Highnes is the only Supreme Gouernour as well in all causes spirituall as temporall wheras in the Statute of 26. of K. Henry the 8. where the tytle of Supremacy is enacted the wordes are these Be it enacted by this present Parlament that the King our Soueraigne his heirs and successors shal be taken accepted and reputed the only Supreme Head in earth of the Church of England called Ecclesia Anglicana and shall haue inioy annexed and vnited to the Imperiall Crowne of this Realme as well the tytle and style therof as all honours digni●yes authorityes annuityes profitis and commodityes to the said Dignity of Supreme Head of the said Church belonging c. VI. And further wheras two yeares after an Oath was deuised for confirmation heerof in Parlament the wordes of the Oath are sett downe That he shall sweare to renounce vtterly and relinquish the Bishop of Rome and his Authority power and iurisdiction c. And that from hence forth he shall accept repute and take the Kings M. tie to be the only Supreme Head in earth of the Church of England c. And that the refusers of this Oath shall be reputed traytors and suffer the paynes of death c. And in other Statutes it is decreed that it shall be treason to deny this title of headship to the King And by like Decree of Parlament it is declared vnder King Edward what this Authority of headshipp is when they say For so much as all Authority of Iurisdiction spirituall and temporall is deryued deduced from the Kings M. tie as Supreme Head of these Churches Realmes of England and Ireland c. VII This was wont to be the doctryne of Supremacy in the tymes of King Henry and King Edward and it was death to deny this tytle or not to sweare the same now our Apologer thinketh it not good to giue it any longer to his Ma. tie that now is but calleth him only Supreme Gouernour which is a new deuise taken from Iohn Reynolds other his fellowes who aboue twenty yeares gone being pressed by his Aduersary M. Hart about calling Q. Elizabeth Head of the Church he denyeth flatly that they called her so but only Supreme Gouernesse which I had thought they had done in regard of her sex that is not permitted to speake in the Church But now I perceaue they haue passed the same also ouer to his M. tie not permitting him to inherite the tytles eyther of King Edward or King Henry which misliketh not vs at all for that so farre they may passe heerin as we may come to agree For if they will vnderstand by supreme Gouernour the temporall Princes Supreme Authority ouer all persons of his dominions both Ecclesiasticall and Temporall in temporall matters excepting only Spirituall wherin as yow haue heard a litle before S. Ambrose told the Christian Emperours of his tyme that being Lay-men they could not rightly meddle I see no great difficulty which in this affayre would remayne betweene vs. VIII To returne then to the Charge of ouersight and grosse mistaking to vse the Apologers words layd by him to Cardinal Bellarmine for impugning the ancienter Oath of Supremacy insteed of this later called Of Allegiance Of giuing the child a wrong name as he saith I see not by what least colour or shew of reason it may stād against him For besydes that which we haue said before of the tēperament modification mentioned by him to be craftily couched in this later Oath which by his letter he refuteth I meane of lawfull and vnlawfull clauses which must needes be vnderstood of the second Oath he adioyneth presently the cōfutation of those modifications saying For yow know that those kind of modifications are nothing els but sleightes subtilityes of Sathā that the Catholicke faith touching the Primacy of the Sea Apostolicke might eyther secretly or openly be shott at Lo heere he mentioneth both the Oathes the one which shooteth secretly at the Primacy of the Sea Apostolicke which is the later Of Allegiance the other that impugneth it openly which is the first of the Supremacy And as he nameth the secōd in the first place so doth he principally prosecute the same proueth the vnlawfulnes therof mentioning the other but only as by the way for that it is as Totū ad Partē to the former as a man can hardly speake of particuler mēbers of a body without naming also the said body as whē S. Iames inuegheth against the tōgue he saith That it inflameth the whole body so Card. all Bellarmine could hardly reproue the particuler branches of the Oath of Allegiance tending against sundry parts of the Popes Primacie without mentioning the generall Oath of Supremacy though it were not his purpose chiefly to impugne that but the other Which later Oath albeit the Apologer sticketh not to say that it toucheth not any part of the Popes Spirituall Supremacy yet in the very next period he contradicteth ouerthroweth himselfe therin For so much as deuiding the said Oath of Allegiance into 14. seuerall partes or parcels twelue of them at least do touch the said Supremacy one way or other as by examination yow will fynd and we shall haue occasion after to declare more at large IX As for example he writeth thus And that the Iniustice saith he as well as the error of Bellarmine his grosse mistaking in this poynt may yet be more cleerly discouered I haue