vp Israel against Dauid and all Adoniahs that gape to take the kingdome from our Salomon all like them let them perish like them Then will all loyall subiects reioyce when they see the vengeance they shall wash their feet in the bloud of the wicked Let our feruent prayers be daily powred forth vnto God to defend him from all Traytors to reueale their plots and reuenge their purposes that they qui volunt occidere regem posse nolunt That they who would kill a King may neuer haue power to performe it that no danger may assault him no treachery may endanger him giue thine Angels charge O Lord to sentinell ouer him make his chamber like the tower of Dauid built for defence a thousand shields hang therein and all the targets of the strong men and his bed like Salomons threescore strong men round about it of the valiant men of Israel they all handle the sword and are expert in warre euery one hath his sword vpon his thigh for the feare by night that so no enemy may oppresse him nor the wicked approach to hurt him to destroy his foes before his face and plague them that hate him his seed long to endure and his daies as the daies of heauen So shall the Lord be gracious to his Seruant and mercifull to vs his people who continually pray God saue the King Corporally CHAP. X. 2. Spiritually GOD Saue the King Spiritually God euer keep him constant and couragious to maintaine the true profession of the Gospell and to labour to purge Gods Church of all superstition and to plant in it Gods true religion This is the first duety of Kingly seruice vnto God to cleanse his Church of all idolatry and superstition The good Kings Ezechias and Iosias were carefull in this behalfe Ezechiah when hee came to the Crowne of Iudah he tooke away the high places brake the Images and cut downe the groues and brake in peeces the brazen serpent c. that is rooted and raced out all Idolatry So Iosiah puts downe all Idols and Idolatrous Priests who defiled the Temple So Asa tooke the wicked Sodomites out of the land and deposed Maacha his Mother because shee had made an Idoll in a groue So Salomon installed in his kingdome built a Temple for seruice and worship of the Lord. It is the office of a King specially to take care to prouide that God may be religiouslie worshipped that his people may feare the Lord serue him in the trueth for the happinesse of King and Kingdome consists in the trueth of their religion For that nation and kingdome which will not serue the Lord shall perish and be vtterly destroyed saith the Prophet Esay Est boni Principis religionem ante omnia constituere saith Liuie It is the part of a good King first to establish true religion for that is the very fountaine and foundation of all felicity Beneficentia quae fit in cultum Dei maxima gratia That loue and care which is declared towards the true worship of God is most commendable for true religion is Cardo or Axis the very Pillar of all prosperity the soule of Tranquility the totall summe of true felicity Propter Ecclesiam in mundo durat mundus saith Luther Christs Church on earth is the cause of the continuance of this earthly world without the light of the Gospel Kings people liue in thraldome in the Egypt of wofull blindnesse it is but painted happinesse a vaine flourish nay a dangerous ship of state where God sits not at the sterne As all kingdomes stand luteis pedibus vpon clay feet so that Kingdome cannot stand at all which wants the foundation true religion It is the speech of an Heathen but may be the lesson of a Christian Religio vera est firmamentum reip c. True religion the foundation of a Common wealth and the chiefe care ought to be to plant the same So Dauid reioyces in nothing so much as in the Arke of God desirous rather to be a dore-keeper in Gods house then to rule in the tents of the vngodly Like to that good Emperor who gloried more to be membrum Ecclesiae then caput Imperij a member of Gods Church then an head of a great Empire Salomon begins well first in building an house for God knowing nothing can prosper without God Except the Lord keep the City the watchman watcheth but in vaine In vaine doe the Kings of the earth stand vp if they assemble against the Lord for then hee laughes them to scorne and shall haue them in derision Be wise now therefore O ye Kings serue the Lord in feare be wise in Diuine matters serue the Lord in feare for his feare is the beginning of wisedome to direct you to rule your selues and people in the seruice and worship of his holy name We read it recorded of Constantinus the Emperor that when he died he did much lament for three things which had happened in his reigne First the murther of Gallus his kinsman Secondly the liberty of Iulian the Apostate Thirdly the change and alteration of religion And surely there cannot be a greater cause of lamentation then an innouation or alteration of religion yea then a tolleration of a contrary religion It had beene a hard matter to haue had obtained a tolleration of such a thing as a Masse at Moses hands with a masse of money A godly Prince may not suffer any religion but the true religion in his Dominions and this we may proue by diuers reasons First the exercise of a false religion is directly against the honour and glory of God Ergo. Secondly consent in true religion is vinculum Ecclesiae the chayne and bond of Gods Church for there is but one faith therefore a difference and dissention in religion is a dissolution in Gods Church but no Prince ought to haue his hand in dissoluing Gods Church for Kings are nursing Fathers of the Church Thirdly it is the Princes duty to prouide for the safety of the bodies much more for the safety of the soules of his Subiects Now true religion is the foode but false the bane of soules and you know Qui non seruat periturum cum potest occidit He that doth not helpe one ready to perish being able to helpe kills him Fourthly the Angell of the Church of Pergamus is reprooued for hauing such in Pergamus as maintained the doctrine of Balaam and the doctrine of the Nicholaitans and the Church of Thiatyra reproued for suffering Iezabel to teach and deceiue Fiftly the Lords Altar and Baals Altar must not stand together Quae concordia Dei Belial No agreement twixt God and Belial Indeed the Papists haue beene very earnest to supplicate for a Tolleration for their corrupt religion and yet themselues neuer allow it The Pope neuer afforded such fauour to Protestants witnesse their
Mariana c. Yea this Kingdome is so diuided among it selfe that we presume and this presage it shall not long stand They that would further behold this Campe of the Midianites sheathing their swords in their neighbours sides let them reade the worke of that learned and reuerend Doctor D. Hall in his Booke called the Peace of Rome And yet the Papists with might and maine exclaime at factions in the Church of England to whom we may say with our Sauiour Hypocrita eijce primùm Trabem de oculo tuo Hypocrite first cast the beame out of thine owne eye sweepe cleane before your owne threshold before you blame spots in others They tell the World what an implacable discord and dissention is betwixt the Protestants and the Puritanes a name we scarce know and is proper to none but onely vnto Iesuites who thinke themselues so pure that they will arrogate to be of the society of Iesus But we may truly say that which they shall neuer say That in the Church of England there is vniuersality and vnity in substance of doctrine and religion and in circumstance we haue or hope for a generall vniformity But they want these and yet of late they haue a new policy to purge and raze many of their owne dead Doctors to speake that in their graues they neuer thought on in their studies putting out that which they printed and putting in that which the Authors neuer purposed Thus haue they serued Caictan Gratians Glosse Ferus Polydore Lodonicâ—…Vines c. And to this end serue their Indices Expurgatorij To purge away their best blood and leaue them nothing but skinne and bones And thus haue they serued Andreas Mazius Comments and Iansenius Harmony vpon the Gospell yea whom not if hee hath touched neuer so tenderly the sores of Rome this is the medicine to helpe the malady But I would this punishment had beene onely inflicted vpon their owne Doctors and that they had neuer laied their correcting hands in corrupting the Fathers of whom they haue a long time boasted the Fathers the Fathers are all of our side but these are but wind and words and as he said of the Nightingale Vox est praeterea nihil A meere voice and nothing else for these will vse the Fathers as Soloâ— his Friends or as Merchants vse figures in Accounts for hundreds if they please them for Cyphers if they crosse them and truly the ancient Fathers of the best esteeme speaâ—e little or nothing on their side in any fundamentall points and difference twixt them and vs except they haue dieted and giuen them vomits and purgations except they haue so done to them as Clement the eighth did to his Predecessor Sixtus Quintus corrupting that his correction of the Bible by a new Translation which one called a new Transgression and they haue herein so falsified many of the Fathers and foisted in other counterfet Fathers that it puts me in mind of a Popes Iester Pogghius speakes of who when he told the Pope tales to make him sport did it standing behind a cloath for being outfaced So the Fathers who speake for them must stand behind a skreene mantled or mangled by their correction So that taking away these desperate shifts which the Church of Rome vseth there will be found no great antiquity vniuersality or vnity in the Doctrine of the Church of Rome But to leaue these and other motiues allectiues to many to loue the Church of Rome for I did not intend to muster vp all their motiues wherewith they fight against vs for so I should send out a Ship and not a Pinnesse I will rather mention a few markes and apparent tokens whereby these children may iustly misdoubt their mother to be an harlot and in part palpably perceiue her corruption Her first whorish marke is her blasphemy against the Scripture being that woman in Saint Iohns vision sitting vpon a scarlet coloured beast full of the names of blasphemy and that in foure respects first her blasphemy and contempt of the Scripture appeares because the Church of Rome maintaines that all things necessary to saluation are not contained in the Holy Scripture and that the best part of true religion is knowne by vnwritten traditions and that these traditions are to bee receiued with the same reuerence and affection wherewith wee receiue the Scripture as the Councell of Trent decreed Many things belong to Christian Faith which are not contained in the Scripture openly nor obscurely saith Canus The greatest part of the Gospell is come to vs by tradition very little of it is committed to writing saith Hosius The Canon Law set out newly by Pope Gregory the 13. saith that men doe so reuerence the Apostolicall seate of Rome that they rather desire to know the auncient institution of Christian religion from the Popes mouth then from the holy Scripture Their workes are full of such words by which all may see their blasphemy comparing traditions of men with the infallible worde of God 2. Their mouthes are full of bitter and irreuerent speeches against the Scripture calling it a nose of waxe to be writhed this way or that way a dumbe Iudge as Pighius termes it dead inke as another yea Bellarmine their great Doctor saith the Scripture is not simply necessary or as Eckius we must liue more according to the authority of the Church then after the Scripture or the Scriptures without the authority of the Church are no better then Aesops fables And often they will deny the Scripture it selfe as Catharinus accuseth Caietan their great Cardinall called by them an incomparable Diuine and the most learned of all his age who doth charge him for denying the last chapter of Markes Gospell some parcell of S. Luke the Epistle to the Hebrewes the Epistle of Iames the second Epistle of Peter the second and third of Iohn the Epistle of Iude all which are Canonicall they wil denie the scripture if it make not for them say with Eckius Scriptura sine ecclesia authoritate non est authentica The Scripture without the authority of the Church that is the Pope for so Gregory of Valence saith by the Church we meane her Head that is the Roman Bishop is not authenticall 3. They make their Pope Iudge ouer the Scripture whosoeuer resteth not on the doctrine of the Bishop of Rome as the infallible rule of God from whom the holy Scripture takes her strength and authority hee is an heretike saith one of her side The Pope may change the holy Gospell and may giue to the Gospell according to time and place another sense We are bound to stand to the Popes iudgement alone rather then to the iudgement of al the world besides saith Aluarus Pelagius The Popes rescripts and decretall Epistles are Canonicall Scripture If any man haue the interpretation of the Romane
At Rome all sacred things are to be sold Temple priests prayers heauen and God for gold Yea many of their great Popes symoniacall hereticall boyes yea the feminine Pope Ioane was no honest Pope yea their owne Baronius saith that a notable strumpet to Adelbert Marquesse of Tuscia prostituting her daughters to the Popes did create Popes at the pleasure of the strumpets and he cries out How filthy was the face of the Romane Church then when most powerfull and withall most sordide whores bare all the sway at Rome and their louers were thrust into Peters seate At this day as wee reade the Pope hath a pension from the stewes at Rome Were he like Peter he would abhorre to foule his hands with such stinking gaine or enrich his coffers with an harlots hire rather with S. Peter say Thymony perish with thee or with our Sauiour to the women taken in adultery Goe away and sinne no more and not to giue them a toleration or dispensation for fornication To leaue this point as the Poet left Rome with this verse Roma vale vidi satis est vidisse reuertar Cum leno meretrix scarra cinaedus ero Oh Rome farewell I haue seene and seene too much Returne I will when turne baud whore or such The third marke may be this That there is no point of our faith but many learned in the Church of Rome approue the same and no point of Papistry by vs confuted but some of the chiefe of their Church haue disliked as well as we that we may say to them as our Sauiour did to that bad seruant Ex ore tuo te iudico of thine owne mouth will I condemne thee Thus the diuision of the tongues and people of Babilon are a meanes of the plantation and edification of Gods Ierusalem This point hath beene demonstrated in the chiefe questions betwixt them and vs by many learned Diuines of our Church and excellently verified and declared by Doctor Morton a singular ornament of our Church in many of his workes but especially in his first and second part of his Catholicke Apology wherein he hath ouerthrown the points of Popery of the chiefest difference by the affirmations and assertions of the best learned Papists to whose labour in this point I refer the iudicious Reader The fourth marke is this That many maine points in popery are absurd and euen against common sense and the light of nature What man endewed with mother-wit can perswade himselfe that the Pope is Iudge and Lord ouer the Scripture Church Councels and all the world and that in his breast there is an infallibility of not erring when as common and continuall experience speakes the contrary What likelihood is there in the doctrine of transubstantiation that the Priest should pull caelum in caenam Christs body with all his dimensions put in a little boxe and the same body be in seuerall places and parts at one time What colour of trueth can there be in the doctrine of workes of Superogation that a man can merit more then is needfull for him and that this his ouer-plus of obedience by the Churches dispensation is beneficiall to other who want this plenitude when as our Sauiour saith VVhen ye haue done al those things which are commanded you say we are vnprofitable seruants To pretermit their ridiculous ceremonies which Kemnitius well termes Sarcasmi Diaboli as christning of Bels sprinkling of holy water Exorcismes Annealing spitting in the baptizeds mouth creeping to the Crosse praying vpon beades c. or their doctrine of praying to the dead who can neyther heare nor helpe or their many mediators and intercessors when as Paul saith There is but one mediator betweene God and man which is Iesus Christ 1 Tim. 2. 5. If any man sinne wee haue an aduocate with the Father Iesus Christ the righteous c. 1 Iohn 2. 1. or their auricular confession and absolution of their sinnes yet the very Pharifies could fay Who can forgiue sinnes but God onely Luke 5. 21. or that saying of Masse or singing Dirges for the dead could benefit the dead as well writes S. Ambrose herein qui hic non aocipit renaissioneÌ„ peccatoruÌ„ illac non haâ—… he that doth not receiue remission of his sinnes in this life shall not find it in the life to come and as S. Cyprian Hâ—e vita 〈…〉 â—…t tenetur c. Here life is to be lost or got after death neyther Masses Dyrges or Auc-Maries are auaileable How repugnant to a good mans reason is their popish equiuocation to dissemble the truth with a mentall reseruation How doe they follow the counsell of Peter of whom they boast who commands them to lay aside al dissimulation or as S. Paul cast off lying and speake trueth euery man to his neighbour but the Father of lies will not haue his children to speake truth this doctrine none but Atheists Machiauelists or Iesuites can commend Not to touch all the fringes or fragments belonging to this whore wherewith she is apparelled I will but handle foure of her relickes foure points of popery which in my weake apprehension are dislonant to common reason much more to Christian religion 1. Her Latin seruice 2. implicit faith 3. worshipping of Images 4. Popes pardons a touch and away not tast of her cup for it is full of poyson no not primis labris degustare onely looke vpon it and see how vgly it seemes to common sense excepting eyes and eares for therein popery is a bewitching Lady faire images for the eyes and sweet musicke for the eares like the booke giuen to Iohn sweete in the mouth sweete to carnall and naturall men but bitter in the belly very sowre to the soule which is sanctified and shall be saued 1. Popish Latin seruice What possibility is there that Seruice or Praiers said in a tongue which the people vnderstand not should be profitable to them As the Apostle If I pray in a strange tongue my vnderstanding is without fruit and the same Apostle I had rather in the Church to speake fiue wordes with my vnderstanding then tenne thousand wordes in a strange tongue and againe Except ye vtter words that haue signification how shall it be vnderstood what is spoken for ye shall speake in the aire and the Apostle seemes vpon purpose in the whole chapter to condemne this point which chapter 1 Cor. 14. I commend to all lay Papists to read it yet in their mother Tongue except they vnderstand the Latin To pray in an vnknowne tongue is not to pray but to prate like a Parrot and yet the Tridentine Councell decreed Non expedire vt diuinum officium vulgari passim lingua celebretur not expedient that Diuine Seruice should be celebrated in the vulgar tongue and they call it an intollerable error of the Lutherans who thinke the contrary And this doctrine of Luther who requires a knowne
by a deputy shall goe to heauen by an Attourney Staphilus relates at large a Colliars faith which Colliar at the point of death and tempted of the Deuill to know his Beliefe sayd I belieue and die in the faith of Christs Church vrged againe what the faith of Christs Church was answered That faith that I belieue in Thus the Deuill receiuing no other answer was vanquished This implicite faith rather fancy is that folly which they would haue their laity to loue excluding knowledge from the nature of faith and make a naked Assent sufficient for saluation Thus these Soule-thiefes doe not onely put out the Candle of knowledge the Scripture and put it vnder a Bushell least it should descry them but would extinguish all light of grace their Creede which doth condemne them To belieue as others belieue or as the Church belieues and yet know not the beliefe of the Church a purblind faith to saue the blind They teach the people not to trouble themselues with searching into the misteries of Christian religion or points of faith but say as their Rhemists tutor them that they will liue and dye in that faith which the Catholicke Church teaches and this Church can giue a reason of the things belieued a very quicke way if it were a good way but God requires a distinct knowledge of the points of our faith to be able and ready alwayes to giue an answere to euery man that asketh a reason of our hope and faith not to haue the particular knowledge of our faith locked vp in the Church-chest but in our owne breast not to send to Rome or the Pope for an answere to ground their faith on for they may be dead before their message be deliuered or an answere returned This implicite faith was in no request in Iustines time who writes that such as could no letter on the booke vnderstood all the mysteries of faith and indeede it is most necessary for all Christians to know and learne the fundamentall points of faith which in the Church of Rome by the vnlearned cannot be attained for how should any know that which is propounded to him in an vnknowne tounge how should he vnderstand his Creed that knowes not a word in English of his Credo It is expounded to them may some say Worthily I doe warrant you when as many of their Priests and some of their Popes could not be Latin expounders Their expositions like their Legends commonly-read by them in the Church to the people full of monstrous lyes as the Virgine Mary came downe from heauen to visite sicke S. Fulbert and gaue him her breasts to sucke and that Saint Francis vsed to preach to Birds and instruct them who did heare him with great deuotion c. Good stuste to be read in the Church yet this read in the mother tounge that they might learne this apace but the booke of truth the Scrpture read in an vnknowen tounge to belieue that implicitly still they labour to imprison the people in the dungeon of ignorance and superstition It is heresie for a Lay-man to dispute in a point of faith sayth Nauarre Neither will they suffer the people to reade any bookes which examine their religion If any write honestly against their errors their congregation of Cardinalls serues on them a Prohibition commit them to the prison of suppression If Lara speakes of Iupiters lust her tounge must be cut out the people may not looke vpon their enemies in the open face nay their these Bishops and learned Priests who should know light from darkenesse are not permitted this priuiledge without a special Licence therein obtained and their Authors must be of the Romane stampe or first purged before they may peruse them Whereas our Church giues free liberty to all to reade priuatly their bookes Veritas non quaerit angulos truth seekes no corners and were they not conscious of the guilt of their owne cause they would neuer take this course to depriue the people of the word and reade it in an vnknowen tounge or tell the people an implicite faith is sufficient Thrirdly worshipping of Images I am come to the third monster of this Beast and I am loath to touch it for the very Iewes abhorre it Their worshipping of Images the booke of God euery where cries woe to them that worship any carued Images Cursed are all such and to shew the vanity and iniquity of Image-worship I first recommend to euery Lay-papist to reade soberly and diligently the Chapter of Esay namely the 44. And wheras these Papists commonly excuse themselues with this answere we worship no Images but onely they serue vs to put vs in remembrance of God First let them know that if they will follow the Doctrine of their Tutors and I feare they follow them too much they must worship them with a diuine worship the old schoolemen saith the Iesuite Vasquez doe say Imagines Christi esse colendas adoratione latriae The Images of Christ are to be worshipped with the highest adoration their Iesuite Azorius sayth Constans est Theologorum sententia imaginem codem honore cultu coli quo colitur id cuius est imago It is the constant opinion of Diuines that the Image is to be worshipped with the same honor and worship wherewith that is worshipped whose Image it is Is not this I pray plaine idolatry Bellarmines proposition heerein is this Imagines Christi Sanctorum venerandae sunt non solum peraccidens vel improprie verum etiam proprie The Images of Christ and Saints are to be worshipped not accidentally or improperly but also properly yea the second Councell of Nice decreed that Images are to be worshipped Their late Councell of Trent sayth and commands all to doe it with Diuine honor So that we truly say that whosoeuer is a true Papist is a true idolater yea their owne writers who write sparingly therein testifie as much Dici non potest quanta Idolatria apud rudem populum alatur per Imagines Saith Agrippa and Cassander it cannot be expressed what great idolatry is nourished among the rude people by Images Yea as an other Sunt bene multiqui Imagines colunt non vt figuras sed perinde quasi ipsae aliquem sensum habeant magisque ijs credunt quam Christo There are very many who worship images not as shapes but euen as aliue and more trust their Images then Christ Manifestidus est hoc quam vt verbo explicaripossit Saith Cassander This is more manifest then can be expressed in a word Dum imaginibus exhibent latriae cultum Saith Gerson while they offer to images the worship of Latria Let not Bellarmine outface men with Quis Catholicorum diuinum honorem imaginibus vnquam detulit Who of the Catholickes euer offered diuine honor to Images no true Catholickes euer did it but Papists doe it and he with many
that toucheth you toucheth the apple of his eye beseeching God to be Protector Saluationum Vncti the defender and deliuerer of his Anointed to giue him prosperity peace and plenty of all things yea plenty of it which Lewes the eleuenth the French King complained hee onely wanted in his Court and being demanded what it was hee said â—ruth a Diamond faire and fit to adorne a Diadem commendable to God acceptable to Kings profitable to Common wealths Hee is the Kings and Countries best seruant that brings in his mouth a message of Trueth I haue read how a certaine poore man comming to see Constantine an Emperor renowned through the world by Fame and Fortune and that poore man fixing his eies vpon him said thus Putabam Constantinum aliquid praeclarius mirabilius fuisse sed iam video eum nihil aliudesse praeter hominem I had thought Constantine had beene some rarer and more admirable Creature but I see he is but a man to whom Constantine gaue many thanks being both plaine and true saying Tu solus es qui in me oculos apertos habuisti Thou art onely the man that hast looked vpon mee with open eies others did flatter him making him beleeue that hee was not but this man honestly and truelie told him what hee was Like Macedonius the Eremite who said to the officers of Theodosius Dicite Imperatori non es Imperator solummodo sedetiam homo Tell the Emperor he is not onely an Emperour but also a man For though in Scripture they be called Gods it is in sensu modificato a qualified sence Gods by deputation earthly Gods not by nature but by regiment they shall dwell in the Lords Tabernacle and are worthy to be in Kings Courts who walke vprightly worke righteously and speake the trueth from their hearts Qui verit atem occultat qui prodit mendacium vterque reus est ille quia prodesse non vult iste quia nocere desiderat saith Austen He that hides the truth he that tels a lye both be guilty He because he would not profit this because hee would haue hurt The Lord and louer of Trueth euermore blesse his Maiesty with trusty Nathaniels in whom is no guile Such are the best seruants and secretaries to King and Country who like one of those three seruants to King Darius the keepers of his body come with this sentence laying it vnder the Kings pillow Trueth ouer commeth all things But keepe from him O King of Kings all flattering Doegs crafty conspiring Achitophels rebellious Shebas treacherous Zimries vnfaithfull Zibas false Ioabs and Romish Iudasses who honour him with their lips but their hearts be far from him And let all true subiects to his gracious Highnesse faithfully performe all loyall seruice to this our Iosias who restores the booke of the Law and holy Scripture who like Dauid fetcheth home the Arke of God and his sacred Gospell who like Asa puts downe Idolls and commands all to seeke the Lord God who like Iehu not kills but banishes Baals Priests the Romish rout of Seminaries and Iesuites waiters and worshippers of the Papall Moloch an Idol hauing hands alwaies to receiue gifts Our Soueraigne loathes these locusts and labours has terris templis auertere pestes To free the Church and Country of these plagues so that it makes our hearts leape for ioy and cry aloud O Lord how fauourable hast thou beene vnto our land in placing religion learning vertue and honour in one seate Quam bene conueniunt cùm vna sede locantur Maiestas virtus An admirable spectacle to behold vertue and honour in the royall Throne What fires of zeale loue and seruice should it kindle in the hearts of subiects in thankefulnes to God to serue the Lord in feare and come before his presence with a song of thankesgiuing falling downe before the Lord our Maker in soule in body all within and all without He giues all must be praysed of all prayed to of all for he is all in all He hath not dealt so with euery Nation and therefore let vs with the Psalmist say and sing O my God and King I will extoll thee and praise thy name for euer and euer Let Israel reioyce in their King and to conclude with the words of Musculus Acceptus foelix gratiosus sit iste quem Dominus nobis regem dedit Welcome wished and most worthy is he whom God hath set vp to raigne ouer vs who happily succeeded a Virgin Queene proclaimed a day before the Festiual of the Queene of Virgins a faire Prologue of much ioy who now with great felicity and tranquility hath raigned 15 yeeres in this great and flourishing Kingdome many more yeeres we continually pray to be multiplied Addat é nostris annos in annos Deus Make him full of dayes and full of Trophees of honour and grant him loyall Subiects faithfull in obedience and dutifull in all seruice saying in tongue ioyfully in heart truly God saue the King CHAP. VIII THE fifth duty of Subiects to be duly and truly payed and performed to their sacred and dread Soueraignes is Tribute which is as Vipian saith Neruus reip The strong sâ—ew of the Common-wealth without which King nor Kingdome cannot stand And therefore our Sauiour first by president paid Tribute and also by precept resoluing the Disciples of the Pharises demanding whether it was lawfull to giue Tribute vnto Caesar or no told them peremptorily That they must giue vnto Caesar that which was Caesars Reddendum est tributum honor obedientia in omnibus quae non pugnant cum verbo Dei saith Piscator vpon that place Tribute Honour and Obedience is to be giuen vnto the Magistrate in all things not repugnant to the word of God for this cause saith Saint Paul ye pay Tribute because the King is the Minister of God for thy wealth applying themselues for the same thing Custodit te Princeps saith Theophylact ab Hostibus debes itaquè ei tributum The Prince keeps thee safe from enemies thou doest owe him therefore Tribute and as he speakes still in that place Nummum ipsum quem habes ab ipso habes The money which thou hast thou hast from him and therfore Non date sed reddite Not giue but pay not a gift but a debt which all Subiects owe to him Non damus sed reddimus quiequid ex officio cuiquam damus saith Beucer We doe not giue but pay that which of duty we owe Tributes Subsidies and Taskes c are not gifts but debts which of necessity they must and ought to pay Hoc Scripturae approbant hoc leges ciuiles communi gentium omnium consensu recipiunt saith Hiperius This doe the Scriptures allow of writing there of the payment of Tributes this doe the Ciuill Lawes with the common consent of all
AND if euer Praiers needfull in this kinde now is the time Nolite tangere abhorred of Heathens is now applauded and defended of false Christians Religion and superstition now comes forth with her knife ready to cut Kings throats it beeing the generall rule of them Occide haereticum Kill an hereticke make away with him giue him an Italian posset poyson him though it be in the Sacrament as Henry the seuenth Emperour poysoned in Sacramentall bread Victor the third Pope in the Sacramentall cup and yet they say that Christs bloud is really in the wine how then comes that poyson of death mixed with that sacred substance of life The Patrons and Proctors to plead for King-killers I meane the Iesuites with their adherents make this for a conclusion That any priuate man may be an executioner of a King excommunicated and deposed by the Pope and Caesar Baronius alledges commends out of Iuo a breue of Pope Vrban the second wherein it is pronounced that they are no homicides who kill such as are excommunicate for wee doe not iudge them to bee murtherers who burning with the zeale of their Catholike mother against such as are excommunicate happen to haue killed any of them And so Suarez the Iesuite in his last booke against our King writes After sentence condemnatory is giuen of the King c. then hee that hath pronounced the sentence or he to whom it is committed may depriue the King of his kingdome euen by killing him if hee cannot doe it otherwise and the very Cannibals are not more thirsty of bloud then these false Catholickes commending commanding murther the murther of Gods Anointed Kings which any heart not stupified with Atheisme or reprobate sence would tremble at it and appropriate the doing of that deed onely to Papists for so Suarez saith If his lawfull successor be a Catholike and so that hee be a Catholike that succeedes in the right challenging the right of committing so execrable villany to appertaine to none but onely to Romish Catholikes disdaining that any should haue an hand in so horrible and hellish mischiefes against the King but onely a friend and follower of the Popes religion true-borne children of their bloudy Mother the whore of Babilon the mother of murder drunken with the bloud of Saints and with the bloud of the Martyrs of Christ Iesus If the Pope cries against any King with the Citizens in that parable Nolumus hunc regnare Wee will not haue this man to reigne presently pollicie villany mischiefe and murder fraud and deceit all shall conspire to accomplish the Popes desire If poyson and policie faile power shall â—reuaile like to him when intreaty could not moue laid his hand on his sword saying At hic faciet but this shall doe it if Mercurie be too weake Mars shall second him then leaue Apolloes harpe and take Hercules club both pens and pikes heads hearts and hands are too nimble to hurt Kings Sanguiuolenta est mens Sanguinolenta manus A bloudy heart must haue a bloudy hand How many Princes of Christendome hath that Sea of Rome swallowed and deuoured A Sea indeede nay a red Sea of bloud or Mare mortuum wherein that Leuiathan makes his Sea as the Lord tells Iob like a potte of oyntment Sed mors in illa ella Death is in the pot Out of this Sea creepe those Crocodiles I meane Iesuites Seminaries and men vsually troubled with the Kings euill Treason These Romish rats creepe into regall Pallaces at last take and taske their owne bane like the spirits of Deuils of whom S. Iohn worke myracles to goe vnto the Kings of the earth and those whom they cannot draw by their collusion they would deuoure by effusion I may say of them as Polymnestor speakes in the Tragedie of Hecuba Hastifera armata equestris Marti obnoxiagens They are well weaponed people dagges and daggers charmes poysons powder all tragicall and traiterous engines and instruments they haue to touch Gods Anointed the Kings of the earth corporally In olde time scarce any treason without a Priest in our time scarce any without a Iesuite As Iudas was the antesignanus of traytors chiefe Captain of the cursed crue so since him the false stiled Iesuits but the true Iudaites are the cheefe Shibas to blow aloud the trumpet of rebellion And there was a wicked man named Sheba the sonne of Bicri a man of Iemini and hee blew the Trumpet and said We haue no part in Dauid nor inheritance in the sonne of Ishai Euery man to his tents O Israel 2 Sam. 20. 1. And there are many of Israel that follow these Shebas but the men of Iudah claue fast vnto their King from Iordan euen to Ierusalem All good subiects will cleaue with the men of Iudah faithfully to their King and will goe with Ioab to pursue these Shebas vntill their heads be cut off and throwne to them ouer the wall These Shebas make Kings the markes of their murther saying with treacherous Achitophel I will smite the King onely or with the King of Aram Fight neyther against small or great saue onely against the King of Israel Feriunt summos fulmina montes The highest mountaines most exposed to Thunders And to perpetrate such crying and capitall murders they will hazard the perill of their liues and losse of their soules and but that the Lord hath giuen his Angels a charge ouer his Anointed to keepe them in all his waies the attempts of such desperate miscreants were deadly dangerous for as Seneca Vitae tuae dominus est quisquis suam contempsit He is Master of thy life who contemnes his owne Cato when hee had got a sword though therewith to kill himselfe cried out Now am I my owne man So these desperate villaines who runne with desire to their owne deaths are their owne men to act murder but God doth bring to nought their desires and deuices and raiseth vp for his seruants in extraordinary dangers extraordinary deliuerances The imminent danger of King Croesus yet a Heathen King opened the mouth of his dumbe sonne to tell it Bessus his parricide discouered by the chattering of Swallowes verifying Salomons wordes The fowles of the ayre carrie that voice God can cause euery fowle of heauen and euery creature on earth to finde a tongue to tell treason to deliuer his Anointed Our gracious King is a speaking mappe of many wonderfull deliuerances in extraordinary dangers still we cry and craue with Dauid Domine saluum fae Regem Lord saue the King cloath all his enemies with shame and breake them in peeces like a Potters vessell Let thy hands O Lord finde out all that hate him make them like a fiery ouen in the time of thine anger and destroy them in thy wrath Deliuer his soule from the sword and saue him from the Lions mouthes confound all Shebas that would stirre
heauen and seruing loyally the King on earth not to prefer earth before heauen to say with some Mart. lib. 9. Seeke others for to feast with Iupiter aboue I heere on earth my Iupiter will loue But first seeke the kingdome of God and his righteousnesse and this wil teach you to serue your King with faithfulnesse and to pray for his preseruation in all humble and harty diligence and obedience saying God saue the King Also to your Honors right noble Peeres this taske belongeth alwaies to pray God saue the King being noble by birth or place this will ennoble your persons more if you say faithfully as Iudith did to Bagoas concerning Holofernes feignedly Who am I that I should gaine say my Lord surely whatsoeuer pleaseth him I will doe speedily and it shall be my ioy vnto the day of my death then your names and fames shall euer stand registred in the Chronicle of honor free from the blacke Characters of disloyall infamie And though Fortunes image be made of glasse brittle and mutable yet your honourable memoriall shall neuer perish Death which is the true Herald of Armes blazoning mans pedegree to be but genus lutulentum a picture of dust be he a Prince in his pallace or a begger vnder a bush yet corruption is their Father and the wormes their mother and sister Their good workes following them but their pompe left behinde them onely their sanctitie to God and seruice to their King and Countrie shal make them glorious in heauen and famous on earth Posteritie will hold them worthy of honor and desire to reserue a Catalogue of their names and will say These were the Noble men that loued their God their King and Countrie Many haue done vertuously but these surmounted them all Archidamus told King Philip after his victory at Cheron that if he should measure his shadow he should not find it an haires breadth bigger or longer then before so let no vaine-glory fill you with empty wind it cannot make your shadowes bigger or longer glory more in your owne vertuous actions then in your renowned Ancestors for though some doe boast to be A loue tertius Aiax yet Quae non fecimus ipsi Vix ea nostra voca Ouid. It is the honour of a noble man when he doth excell in vertue his forepassed Ancestors when he is religious to feare God and to honour the King saying of his Soueraigne as Isaac said to Iacob Cursed be he that curseth thee and blessed be hee that blesseth thee and wishing with the Apostle would to God they were cut off which doe disquiet him alwayes loyall to his Soueraigne and louing to his Countrey willing to aduenture in their seruice his limbes or life euer wishing and praying God saue the King and Countrey Likewise to your Fatherhoods most right and reuerend Fathers the Heads and louing Brethren of the Tribe of Leui whose place and office bind you in all duty to be loyall to the royall Tribe of Iudah to you I may without offence proffer this poore present who spend your spirits at Gods Altar to offer a morning and an euening incense of seruent prayers for the preseruation of Gods Annointed exhorting with Paul that first of all supplications prayers intercessions and giuing of thankes be made for Kings and for all that be in authority And indeed before all and aboue all we of the Church the vitall spirits of the politicke body haue manifold motiues to pray for our Soueraigne who vnto vs against the tempest of these times is a refuge an hiding place from the wind and as the shadow of a great rocke as it was said of King Ezechiah His Maiesty is a Defender of the Church as he is a Defender of the Faith and against the Atheists and Alexanders of these dayes that would doe vs much wrong he stands to pleade our cause to grace our calling that we may say with the Poet â—unen Sat. 6. Et spes ratio studiorum in Caesare tantum Solus enim tristes hac teÌ„pestate camaen as respexit Though the Church be made blacke blacke by customary contempt and continuall oppression and persecution yet the King kisseth her with the kisses of his mouth and his loue is better then wine we will reioyce and be glad in thee we will remember thy loue more then wine the righteous doe loue thee And herein if we may boast in any thing we may boast in this That our Church was neuer the Author of Treason The Mother of Soules should not be the murderer of Kings members inclined to rebellion were neuer well possessed of Religion As we haue hitherto beene faithfull obedient and loyall so still euer be from the Church Sit procul omne nefas Let the mother of blood and treason still dwell vnder the roofe of Romish Babylon the mother of whoredomes and of these abhominations drunken with the blood of Saints and with the blood of the Martyrs of Iesus Christ which cloake these murders and massacres vnder the mantle of Religion like the Rulers of Ephesus distressed with a terrible battery in that Seige her Gouernours tied with ropes the wals and gates to Dianas Temple that so being consecrated to the Goddesse that enemy should assault them at his perill Euen so the Popish pollicy is to tie euery thing to the Temple Conspiracies Murders Treasons all tied to the Church cloaked vnder a colour of Religion that I may say with their owne Leo Ecclesiae nomine armantur contra ecclesiam dimieant They arme themselues with the name of the Church to fight against the Church and to destroy the pillars of the Church Hi Christum simulant sed Sathanalia vivunt Well let our preaching and praying tend to this end to giue Caesar obedience to feare God and to honour the King knowing that all must submit to the Higher Powers for conscience sake and for the Lords sake and they that will not doe it they are none of Gods Clergy none of the Heritage of the Lord They haue neither conscience nor calling like to certaine Bishops in Ambrose dayes of whom he writes Quod dedit cum episcopus ordinaretur aurum fuit quod perdidit anima fuit cum alium ordinaret pecunia fuit quod dedit lepra fuit That which he gaue when he was made a Bishop was gold what he lost was his soule when he made another it was for money what he gaue was a leprosie But these Bishops liue beyond the Alpes I hope there is none in Albion It is our comfort and our Crowne that our calling and conscience is such which burnes in zeale and duty to God and loyall obedience to our graciour Soueraigne Morning and euening at noone and at night at bed and boord praying God saue the Church God saue the King To you the wise and worthy Iudges
if the Pope denounce them excommunicate and may driue cut hereticall Kings from their kingdomes as Wolfes saith Bellarmine or if they be not apparent but secret hereticks saith Symancha yea not them onely but their sonne and followers are to be rooted out as Creswell agrees with Symancha by any meanes whatsoeuer saith Saunders eyther by open force as Iezabel by Iehu or by craft as Holophernes by Iudith say Raynoldus and Bourchier or by knife and dagger whereby Henry the third Henry the fourth were murthered for fauouring them whom they terme hereticks Yea before any sētence denounced against them or by dagges and poyson as Queene Elizabeth assaulted as Walpoole and Comensus perswaded or by Gunpowder as lately appeared ratified by Iesuites and popish Priests Garnet Gerard Oldcorne Greenewell c. So that I may rightly say Iesuiticall Papisme is the Catechisme of Treason teaching Subiects that their Emperor or King may be depriued by the Pope and the right of their kingdome conueyed ouer to others and if they will not acknowledge it they must be constrained by Armes eyther of their owne Subiects or other Catholike Princes if the Pope will haue it so yea euen to part with their kingdome and life also saith Francis Bozius lib. 2. c. 14. Yea that the Pope is directly Lord of things temporal the Ruler and Monarke of the world saith the same Bozius and so consequently to haue power to depose Kings and dispose of kingdomes so that I may truely affirme that which once one of the kings of America said to a Spaniard telling him of the diuision and disposition of Pope Alexander the sixt concerning the new-found part of the world the King answered That the Pope was not the Vicar of a good God but of a Deuill who would giue that to others which did not belong vnto him and surely in nothing doth the Pope more liuely shew himselfe to be Sathans Vicar then in medling with the kingdomes of the world and the glory of them and arrogating the Deuils title All these will I giue thee if thou wilt fall downe and worship me yet Christ would not be a King or a diuider for his Kingdome was not of this world nor Peter would not cast Nero out of his throne by the Thunderbolt of excommunication or deposition nor any of the Apostles take from Caesar his Scepter or Subiects or Kingdome or life yet he that brags he succeedes Simon Peter Simon I grant but not Peter will by his excommunication binde Kings that they may not reigne and Subiects that they may not obey which is to vse Vrspergensis wordes a diuellish Art which hath brought in treachery vnder the cloake of religion dangerous to Kings and damnable to Subiects But it hath beene the Popes policie a long time to make discord among Kings and rebellion among Subiects for it is well obserued that foure things specially haue raised the Pope 1 The diuision of the Empire 2 The departure of the Emperor out of Italy 3 The dissention of Kings 4 The rebellions and treasons of people And the speciall motiue of this fourth Monster Rebellion hath beene the diab olicall doctrine of seditious and bloudy Romanists not Masse but Mars-Priests teaching and tempering with the people that all the dominion of the world both diuine and humane was in Christ as man and so now it is in the Pope the vicar of Christ as Carerius writes That Christ committed to Peter the key-keeper of eternall life the right of earthly and heauenly gouernment and that in his place the Pope is vniuersall Iudge the King of Kings and Lord of Lords as an other writes by vertue of this pretended claime of Peters successor and Peters primacy that they may doe any thing and as Platina writes in the life of Gregory that he accustomed to vse these words Nos nos imperia regna principatus quicquid mortales habere possunt auferre posse c. We are able to take away Empires Kingdomes Principalities or whasoeuer mortall men can haue for the Pope cries like Plintes frogge Mihi terra lacusque Both earth and Sea belong to his See nay Purgatory is part of his patrimonie And all this Pope like Maiesty is deriued from Peter yet he loaths his mantle and puts on Aarons miter Peter saith he was a Primate of all I succeede Peter therfore may excommunicate Kings and then depose them free Subiects from obedience vnto them and by vertue of the words in S. Peters vision Arise Peter kill and eat that is as Baronius doth fondly glosse it Goe Pope kill and confound the Venetians or as the same Cardinall to prouoke Paul the fifth against the Venetians saith Mee thinkes I see sitting in Peters chaire Gregory the seauenth and Alexander the third both issuing out of the City of Senes whence your Holines takes your beginning whereof the one did bring vnder Henry that obstinate Emperor the other Fredericke c You must take in hand the same quarrell Thus make they their Lord of the seauen hilled City a bloudy Bishop a striker and a fighter contrary to Pauls Canon a man of bloud and a warrier and all this must be cloaked vnder the colour of Peters chaire this holy-water sweetens the Harlots cuppe as if religion and rebellion sprung out of one blade as if faith had a knife to kill and to teach grace to destroy nature Thus these impostors not Pastors raise rebels and preach the murther of Gods Annointed inuenting opinions ' of excommunication of Kings deposition absolution of subiects from obedience which questions are all like spirits sooner raised then put downe beeing patronized by the deuoted Champions of the Popes chaire Bellarmine Allen Carerius Perron Symancha Suarez Philopater Saunders Creswell Reynolds Parsons Becanus c. laborious vassals to ambitious Popes whose publishing of these pernicious errors hath ouerthrowne many popish Families brought a torture to their Consciences punishment to their karcasses infamy to their progeny scandall to their religion for attempting treason vnder pretence of their Romish profession But let vs consider though by way of digression how and by what meanes this ambitious Antichrist hath aspired to this arrogant altitude to set his chaire aboue Kings thrones and to challenge a power to depriue Kings and to make or vnmake temporall Monarkes a matter which requires a large volume if we should fully describe their policy in rising and ruling but I will but epitomize it contracting it into a short Compendium it being by many learned Diuines in their seuerall workes more amply discouered CHAP. 7. THE exaltation of Popes aboue Emperors and Kings did first especially begin in Pope Boniface the third who obtained of Phocas that murdered his Master and Emperour Mauritius to be created the vniuersall Bishop So that the Pope is indebted to a King-killer for the glory of his kingdome and euer since he hath made much
but one Consistory and can almost doe all that God can doe Clane non errante Hauing an heauenly arbiterment able to change the nature of things Substantialia vnius rei applicando alteri de nihilo potest aliquid facere Applying the substantiall parts of one thing to another and of nothing make something His Doctors according with his decrees and boasting with Pope Nicolaus that Constantine the Emperour sitting in the generall Councell of Nice called the Prelates of the Church all Gods If Prelates by Constantines voice bee Gods what is the Pope the Prince and primate of all prelates aboue all Gods So that his vsurped exaltation hath verified Saint Pauls prediction Boasting himselfe aboue all that is called God dispensing with Gods precepts making it no murder to kill them that bee excommunicate dispensing with Matrimony in prohibited degrees and such like Antichristian power in papall dispensation which cases and causes may be found in his darling Hostiensis de effi◠Legit. So that by the immodest and immoderate extolling of himselfe seconded by his Canonicall Parasites of old time glosing vpon the Popes decrees and corrupt constitutione enacted in the ignorance of times and arrogance of Popes to magnifie the man of sinne the pragmaticall and dogmaticall Antichrist the succession of Popes making Emperors to hold their bridles and stirrups and Kings going before them and to surrender their Crownes vnto them crowning them with their feet and to kisse their toes and to kisse their Legates knees and to waite vpon them at their Pallace gates bare footed to excommunicate Kings to depriue them of their Soueraignty and to absolue their Subiects from Allegiance with such like Pope-like pollicy haue beene the stratagems to exalt the papall Chayre aboue the Imperiall Throne and at first vnder the femblance of humility haue ascended to this sublimity temporizing with the world being darkened with the mist of ignorance yet affected to a blind deuotion and charmed to this Chayre of superstition haue made this Serum Seruorum A Seruant of Seruants to bee Dominus Dominorum a Lord of Lords making Kings his vassayles and doe him homage debasing the Lords Annointed deposing them at his pleasure and disposing of their Kingdomes freeing their Subiects from all obedience and exciting them to violence and villany in rebelling which hath been the cheefe procurer of the shedding of much royall blood the massacres of men and mischiefs and miseries of most Times which wee shall elsewhere more plainely demonstrate I will in the next place touch a little which yet hath beene handled by elaborate and accurate pensels this point of Popes deposition of Kings the very fountaine of Treason founder of Rebellion and confounder of Religion where it is practised or beleeued I will very briefly wright of it least I should seeme to make Iliads after Homer CHAP. IX THE Romane Church or rather Court of Rome wholly degenerated and arrogating a temporall Monarchy swelling with a forged puffe of pride and primacy appropriated to the Papall Chaire challenge an exorbitant and vsurped power of deposition of Kings and of absolution of Subiects from alleagiance to them which two-fold power is termed the principall warders of Saint Peters Keyes without which the Church could not haue beene well shut or opened This power of excommunicating deposing and depriuing Kings and of absoluing Subiects from obedience to them they principally assume from a pretended primacy belonging to the Pope ouer all spirituall and temporall men or matters deriued to them as they pleade from a supremacy in Peter whose Successorship hath intitled them to such a power and priority two points oft alleadged yet neuer proued yet this primacy of Popes as their Bellarmine saith is the chiefe point of Catholike Faith and the foundation of all Religion For which power the Champions of Rome stoutly stand and among the rest the statizing Cardinall Romes-Rabbi Bellarmine the most expert Gamester at the Popes Primero in seuerall workes yet specially in his fift Booke De Romano Pontifice The whole summe of it containing arguments and examples to proue that the Pope may by his Imperiall power though indirectly and in order to the Spirituals depose Princes from their States and Thrones And as the same Bellarmine personating Tortus saith Conuenit inter omnes posse Pontificem maximum iure deponere It is agreed vpon among all that the Pope of Rome may by right and law depose Princes which speech was too generall for many popish Doctors doubt of it and denie the papall intrusion into Caesars Chaire and some that did hold it haue recanted it as Tanquerellus commanded so by the Court of Paris Florentinus Iacobus and Thomas Blanztus the two last holding this for a proposition Pontificem in omnes habere temporalem potestatem That the Pope hath a temporall power ouer all but they came to recantation nay Hart an hearty louer of the Pope yet his opinion different from Bellarmines Whosoeuer make the Pope aboue Kings as a temporall Lord Nihil habere rationis aut probabilitatis to haue neither shew of reason or probability saith he Yet I confesse the generall voice of moderne Papists and among the rest the Iesuites who dispositiuè naturally are inclined to disobedience and pragmatically and dogmatically declare the same These are the chiefe Instruments but Treason consummatiue comes from the Pope first deposing then commanding and warranting disloyalty and conspiracy against them Augustinus Triumphus saith The Emperor of Heauen may depose the Emperor of the Earth in as much as there is no power but of him but the Pope is inuested with the authority of the Emperor of Heauen hee may therefore depose the Emperor of the Earth and as the same saith The Emperor is subiect to the Pope two wayes 1. By a filiall subiection in all spirituall things 2. By a ministeriall subiection in his administration of temporall things for the Emperor is the Popes Minister by whom he administers temporall things so he In like sort saith Aluarus Pelagius that the Pope hath vniuersall Iurisdiction ouer the whole world not onely in spirituall things but in temporall things albeit he exercise the execution of the temporall sword and iurisdiction by his sonne the Emperor as by his aduocate and by other Kings and Princes of the world The Pope may depriue Kings of their kingdomes and the Emperor of his Empire So he Capistranus agrees with him The Emperor if hee be incorrigible for any mortall sinne may bee deposed and depriued the sentence of the Pope alone without a Councell is sufficient against the Emperour or any other It is manifest therefore how much the Popes authority is aboue the Imperial celsitude which it translates examines confirmes or infringes approoues or reiects if hee offends he punishes deposes and depriues him So he Thomas of Aquine in this is also very popish Any man sinning by infidelity may be adiudged to
lose the right of Dominion as also sometimes for other faults and againe So soon as any one for apostacy from the Faith by iudgement is denounced excommunicate ipso facto his Subiects be absolued from his gouernment and from the oath of Allegiance And the Cardinall Tolets Glosse vpon his wordes Note that albeit Thomas named onely an Apostata yet the reason is all one in the Princes case that is excommunicated for so soone as one is denounced or declared as excommunicate all his subiects be discharged of their obedience which exposition his brother Cardinall Allen applaude in these words Thus doth this notable Schooleman write neyther doe we know any Catholicke Diuine in any age say the contrary Simone Pacensis ioynes forces with these fellowes saying If Kings or other Christian Princes become heretickes forthwith their Subiects and vassals are freed from their gouernement If any Prince bee vnprofitable or make vniust Lawes against religion or against good manneraâ— or doe any such thing to the detriment of spirituall things the Pope obseruing due circumstances may apply a fit remedy euen by depriuing such a King of his gouernment and iurisdiction if the cause require it Gregory of Valence is harping vpon the like notes If the crime of heresie or apostacy from the Faith be notorious that it cannot be couered then euen before the sentence of the Iudge the aforesaid punishment meaning depriuation from his dominion is in part incurred so far that the subiects may lawfully deny obedience to such an hereticall Lord. Where note by the way that now many of them doe hold that all hereticall Kings and such they account all protestant Rulers are depriued of their dominion before their Pope in his deâ—…itiue sentence hath so denounced Indeed their owne Caiâ—tane in this was not Catholike denying Subiects to be absolued before sentence publickely denounced and therefore Allen contradicts him saying iâ—se facte Kings be depriued so soone as they doe appeare hereticall followed also by Philopater saying it is an opinion of the Faith agreeable to Apostolicall doctrine that euery Christian Prince if hee fall from the Catholike religion falls presently from all his power and dignity by the force of Gods Law and 〈…〉 and that before sentence of the supreame Pastor denounced And the fiery Foâ—e Guâ— Reynoldâ— approues the murder of Henry the third the French King because bee fauoured Heretickes before any excommunication published his reason is Publicke griefes doe not attend for legall formes Simancha goes further That a secret hereticke not onely is to be excommunicated but his sonne also his reason is Heresie is a leprosie and leprous sonnes begotten of leprous parents and therefore seemes to inferre not onely a depriuation but also a depriuation of all succession Atque patrem prolem inre priuare suo I need not recite the generall verdict of popish vassals according with these to maintaine the Popes infolency in attempting the deposition of Kings repugnant to his lawes and liking Who knowes not that haue reade the workes of these Saunders visib Monar Suarez def fid catho adv Angl. sect err lib. 6. Francisc Victor relect Depotestate ecolesiae Becanus Rossaeus Bellarmine Allen Ferron Parsons Creswell with many dozens of prostituted hirelings who being fed fatte at the Popes high Altar and gaping for or gaining the purple Hat haue studied to extoll the papacy which they could not doe more pleasingly to the Pope or profitably to themselues then by ascribing to the Pope a power ouer Kings to depriue them if they breake their good behauiour to him and to free subiects from allegiance to them being blasted with the fulminations of excommunication making their master Pope an absolute Lord of the Temporals turning the Crosier staffe into a Scepter yea a commaunder of Scepters making their Church an humane body politicke to ouer-rule all yet vnder a painted pretence of Peters primacy to ouerthrow all Princes supremacy Egregiam verò laudem spolia ampla tulistis Thus this spurious spawne of the olde Serpent by this serpentine policy erecting the papall primacy of Popes aboue Kings the Diana of Romes religion haue raised the Pope to this pontificiall domination But the chiefe pillar whereof they boast would build this point of the power of Popes deposition of Kings if they be not Catholike Kings of the Romane size is the Decree of the Laterane Councell held about three hundred yeares since consisting as they say of seuenty Patriarkes Archbishops and foure hundred and twelue Bishops and eight hundred other eminent Prelates who did decree that the Pope had this power ouer Kings To which wee answere Thar the Decrees of men ought not to take from Kings that power which God hath giuen them But the Lateran Councell was a Conuenticle of Mercenary men and vassals to the Pope who to please Innocent the third their Lord and great Master were willing to gratifie his Holinesse with vnholy Decrees yet we may doubt of that too if Platina be credited who faith That in that Councell many things were offred to consultation yet nothing determined because the Pope suddenly departed to pacifie a sedition then raised and died in his iourny Yet grant it were a lawfull Councell and this matter so there decreed what of that shall a few proud Prelates assembled to flatter the Pope infringe the Lawes of God commanding obedience and subiection to Kings shall Gods commands be countermanded by Councels which so oft haue erred nay haue confirmed heresies as the Councell of Arimium held with the Arrians yea Ephesus Seleucia and Remino concluded with them which made Saint Hierome complaine The whole world groaned and wondered to see it selfe Arrian The error of the Councell of Carthage in rebaptizing is well knowne The Councell of Chalcedon fowlly erred giuing to Leo then Bishop of Rome the title of the Vniuersall Bishop which name he reiected though others embrace it In a worde the late Councell of Trent brought foorth to light a world of errors that I may say with Nazianzene hee neuer saw any Councell haue a good end Yea as their owne writers say Councels haue erred and may erre which in these latter times must needes be so when as the Pope is both party and Iudge which matter of the erring of Councels hath so oft and so soundly beene by our Diuines manifested that I need not insist vpon it But how vaine it is to obtrude for vndoubted proofe the erroneous decrees and nouell opinions of clawbacke Papalines parasites to the Pope to infringe the power of Kings giuen them in Gods word commanding euery soule to be subiect to these higher powers which place of Saint Paul the Champions of the Popes power to depose Kings as their Cardinall of Perron pleades for them doe expound to be a prouisionall precept or caution accommodated to the times A strange error of stout Champions and as the royal
sequi â—porter sed Dei veritatem Wee may not follow the custome of men but the truth of God for as Tertullian Quodcunque contra veritatem sapit hoc erit haeresit etiam consuetudo Whatsoeuer is contrary to truth is heresie euen custome and antiquity Ignatius writes that he heard some say Nisi Euangelium in â—nt quis inuenero non credam Vnlesse I find the Gospel among the Ancients I will not beleeue it Pâ—gani saith Austen Antiquitatis causa se verum tenere contendunt The Pagans for the cause of antiquity contend they hold the truth If antiquity might carry it the Iewes might carry it from the Christians The Church of Antioch from the Church of Rome for so saith Bellarmine Petrus Antiochiae Cathedram suam aliquandiu tenebat priusquam ad Romam eam transtulisset Peter did set his Chaire at Antioch before he translated it to Rome Indeed the woman of Samaria pleades antiquity to Christ our Fathers worshipped in this mountaine and ye say that in Ierusalem is the place where men ought to worship so say our Lay-Papists Our Fathers worshipped God with Images with the Masse c. But Christ will say to them as to that woman ye worship that which ye know not Away with your wicked and wil-worship I will be worshipped according to my word The great hinderance saith the Iesuite Acosta to the plantation of the Roman Faith among the Indians Ex inueterata consuetudine proficiscitur proceeds from their ancient custome wherein before they were inured and from it hardly reclaimed and as the Iesuite Xauerius saith Indi ne Christiani fierent hanc causam afferebant so à maioribus suis semper cultores extitisse c. The Indians that they should not be made Christians alleadged this cause that they had alwayes beene worshippers according to their Forefathers The same is the answere of many Papists We serue God as our Fathers did and yet the Lord saith to all walke not in the ordinances of your Forefathers neither obserue their manners nor defile your selues with their Idols I am the Lord your God walke in my Statutes c. Men should not doe as the most doe but as they must doe God doth not say walke as others doe but Haec est via ambulate in ea This is the way walke ye in it Truth is not to be tried by antiquity or vniuersality but by the Scripture Nabuchadnezars idolatry graced with vniuersality onely three doe gainesay it In a word with Cyprian Multitude errantium non parit errori patrocinium An erring multitude doth not patronize error It hath beene a long time the calumny and reproaches of Popish Priests men who haue an infirmity to void excrements at their mouth to defame our Church with an vpstart nouelty where was your Church before Martin Luthers time We doe not fetch our Religion from Martin Luther a worthy man but from the Scripture from Christ and his Apostles we want no antiquity hauing the Scripture your Iesuite will tell you so much Sanctarum Scropturarum summa est antiquitas c. The Holy Scripture is of the greatest antiquity and that Church whose doctrine agrees with it is most ancient Yet Martin Luther is more ancient then your Tridentine Fathers and brood of Iesuites the Atlasses to support your falling Church But many hundred yeeres before Luthers dayes there wanted not famous and zealous men who resisted the corrupt doctrine of the Church of Rome the persons and the points the time when in all Ages are compendiously recited by a iudicious and very learned Diuine of our Church to whose Booke for breuity sake I referre my Reader The nakednesse of the Roman Diana was discouered long agoe for which dscouery many good men haue beene Acteon-like hunted by bloody hounds to death Corruptions spread by degrees Et tanquam cancer serpit as Espencaeus creepes stealing like a Canker infects one part then another Such hath beene the malady of the Church of Rome their creeping corruptions canker-like first one part then another point that it is hard to set downe the precise time when these corruptions ingendered The Greekes debated long on this probleme The ship Argos wherin Iason sayled for the golden Flecce after the voyage ended was laied vp in the roade for a Monument where decaying by degrees it was repaired by peeces anew in the end the whole substance of the vessell extinct and nothing left but onely the reparations successiuely made Now the question was whether-this ship suppose it Peters were the same that he sayled in when he liued or an other renewed and whether can any man tell when such a peece was added such a part supplied And if this cannot be so precisely shewed doth it follow infallibly that it was the very Argosie wherein Iason sayled So in this case their ship their Church so often peeced so many new points added euery Pope almost changing his Predecessors decrees abrogating this point and augmenting it with another that it is indeed a new ship and can iustly pleade no great antiquity And for vniuersality and vnity in Doctrine no Church so much diuided VVe doe reade how Popes vsually haue condemned that which other Popes haue confirmed Councels contradicted that which others haue concluded Their outcries in Schooles Pulpets Consistories one against another makes their diuision and difcord audible That we may say of them which Lucian of the old Phlosophers With the noise of their disputations they haue so filled the eares of Iupiter and made him deafe that he cannot heare their prayers How irreconciliable are the iars and contentions of Scotus Aquinas Egidius Romanus and others that they imitate the wranglings of the old Academicks Stoicks and Peripatetickes Haue they not Families of the Schoolemen wherein euery one professeth his particular Sect-Master Thomas Scotus Occham Durandus both Masters and Scholers haue spent their lines and liues in opposition The Dominican and Franciscan Friers many ages quarrelling about the conception of the Virgin Mary Their writers sharping their pens one against another Armachanus against the Friers the Iesuites and secular Priests one against another Catharinus against Caietan Catharinus and Soto one against another Pighius Gropper Bâ—rus Peresius Cassander Hosius Almayne c great pillars of Popery some fourescore yeeres agoe are now by late Iesuites contemned and confuted who knoweth not saith Bellarmine that Pighius in many points was miserably seduced by reading Caluins Bookes and of Gropper and other Diuines of Collen he saith Their Bookes haue need of the Churches censure Yea are not the writers of the last stampe euen Bellarmine Gregory of Valence Stapleton Suarez Vasquez Molina Baronius c vp to the eares in contention and faction among themselues Bellarmine confuted by Barâ—layus Suarez Carerius Marsilius yea Bellarmine hath often confuted himselfe by contradictions Suarez confuted by Vasques Baronius by
world hath blinded that the light of the glorious Gospell of Christ which is the image of God should not shine vnto them let them all know that these voices sound from heauen vnto them to their conuersion and consolation if they accept them or condemnation and confusion if they reiect them Come out from among them separate your selues saith the Lord and touch no vncleane thing and I will receiue you and I will be a Father vnto you and you shall be my sonnes and daughters saith the Lord. This voice is not the voice of man but of God Come out of her my people that ye be not partakers in her sinnes and that ye receiue not of her plagues for her sinnes are come vp into heauen and God hath remembred her iniquities as it is there prophecied of the fall of mysticall Babylon which is Rome Therefore let my exhortation bee that vnto you which a reuerend and learned Doctor gaue as a farewell to his friends Commendo vos dilectioni Dei odio papatus I exhort you to loue God and leaue the corrupt doctrine of Popery which is a forme of Religion yet Non secundum Iesum Christum nec verbum nec tenet capâ—t Not according to Iesus Christ or his Gospell nor doth it rightly hold the head making the Church a monster with two heads the Pope a visible Head on earth and Christ in heauen the inuisible Head We beseech you in the tender bowels of Christ to haue pitty vpon your owne soules open your eyes without partiality or preiudice to behold the truth and embrace it and to moue your hearts with Peters wordes as newborne babes desire the sincere milke of the word that ye may grow thereby so shall you and we haue infinite cause to reioyce and our Church say with Peter yee were as sheepe going astray but are now returned vnto the chiefe shepheard and Bishop of your soules With which sauing Grace the God of all grace and goodnesse Iesus Christ enrich your soules withall to grow in Grace and in the knowledge of our Lord Iesus Christ to him bee glory both now and for euer Thus hauing declared in part the corruptions of popish Doctrine which must be reiected of all who desire to be faithfull seruants to our Sauiour or performe seruice acceptable vnto him for what concord hath Christ with Belial what agreement hath the Temple of God with Idols Take heede of the Leauen of Rome as our Sauiour warnes his Disciples of the leauen of the Pharisees and Sadduces their pernicious doctrine full of errors repugnant and decrogatory to Christ and his Gospell It remaines and followes in the next place to touch That if you beleeue and embrace al the points of moderne Popery now broached and maintained in the Church of Rome you cannot bee dutifull and obedient Subiects to our and your Soueraigne and since I haue in my former Tractates obiter by the way promiscuously touched lesuiticall precepts and practise in this kinde papall depositions of Kings from their Regiment and absolutions of subiects from loyall obedience applauding traytors by canonization commendation for treasonable attempts I will not be large and liberall heerein onely propound a few positions and propositions to your consideration to iudge of them whether they be not opposite to all loyall obedience which are maintained and divulged to the world by your great Doctors and Pillars of the Romane Church And first you are not ignorant that very lately Anno 1606. Pope Paul the fifth prohibited all the Romane Catholickes so tearmed by his Breue that they should not take the oath of Allegiance vnto which they were enioyned by the Kings Maiesty which argues hee would haue them refractary in matters which onely concerne ciuill obedience for the scope of that oath tended to professe and practise a dutifull allegiance to the King in all loyall submission The like also did Pius quintus Pope to the late Queene Elizabeth commanding her Subiects to rebell and discharging them from allegiance But omitting these things as vulgarly knowne I will goe to the Iesuites schoole and heare how they teach you If a Christian King become an Hereticke immediatly his people are freed from his command and their subiection saith Symancha But all Christian Kings are esteemed Heretickes who are not Catholikes of the Romane size Ergo. The Iesuite Creswel vnder the name of Andreas Philopator against the Decree of the Queene of England sect 2. â—u 157. deliuers this proposition Principem qui a Catholica religione deflexit excidere statim omnipotestate a Prince who declines from their Catholike religion rather superstition falls presently from his Regall power But all Protestant Princes decline from that religion Ergo no King or no power The same Iesuite num 160. saith Omnium Catholicorum esse sententiam obligatos esse subditos ad principes haereticos depellendos qui sidei Catholicae inuriosi sunt si modo vires ad hoc habeant idoneas It is the sentence of all Catholikes that the subiects are bound to driue away hereticall Princes who are iniurious to the Catholike Faith if they haue forces fit for this purpose And againe num 162. Subâ—â—ti â—…di Principes suos non tantum legitime possunt 〈◊〉 sedetiam ad hoc praecepts divine conscientiae arctissimo vinculâ— ac extremo animarum suarum periculo tenentur Subiects may not onely lawfully trouble such Princes but are bound to doe it by Diuine precept and most strict band of conscience and extreame perill of their owne soules And the same Iesuite againe Si Imperator vel Rex haereticuÌ„ fauore prosequatur ipso facto regnum amittet If an Emperor or King fauour an heretike he shall lose his kingdome ipso facto Now Protestants in their Calendar are branded for heretickes Ergo. And to these accord and publish the like doctrine many others of their writers Ribadeneira de principe lib. 1. cap. 18. pa. 177. c. 26. pag. 172. c. Paulus Chirlandus de haeret q. 3. nu 2. Conradus Brunus de haeret lib 3. cap. vltimo Io. Paulus Windeck de extirp haer Antidoto 10. pag. 404. Antidot 11. pag. 408. Stapleton in oratione contra politicos Duaci habita Baronius Card. in Epistola contra Venetos Bellarmine the Cardinall full of such stuffe Hee affirmes that Kings are subiect to Popes Bishops Priests Deacons and would prooue this inferiority by Scriptures and Fathers De laicis lib. 3. He holds many other propositions disgracefull to Kings vndutifull for subiects and contradictory to all Scripture Secular principality is ordained by men and hath his being by the law of Nations de Rom. Pontif. lib. 1. c. 7. § praeterea a grosse Assertion for so great a Doctor In causes onely Temporall Cleargimen are bound to obey Princes and no longer obey then the Pope will de clericis lib. 1. cap. Per totum caput So ridiculous positions
of Jacob regard it Psal 94. 7 x Iob 38. 11. y Psal 68. 1. z Esay 33. 13. Psal 83. 8. a Psal 78. 65. 66. b 1 Sam. 18. 7. c Equo ne credite Teucri Virg. * Like Nero Me mortuo ruat mundus Iuvenal Sat. 6. d Vbicunque fuerit prouidentia frustrantur vniuersa contraria Aug. e Hab. 1. 16. f Psal 115. 1. g Reuel 4. 11. h Reuel 5. 13. i Ezra 9. 13. 14. k Exod. 15. 21. l Iohn 5. 14 * Ignis deuorationis excitaret ignem deuotionis * Finis vnius mali est gradus futuri m Cantic 2. 15. n Prou. 30. 14. o Prou. 6. 34. p Prou 6. 26. q Ecclus. 36. 26. r Hâ—se 6. 4. s Ezech. 4. 6. t Iudg. 15. 2. 20. 31. u Psal 64. 2. Nulla Dies rerum tantarum obliuiaducat * Gen. 14. 20. x 1. Tim. 1. 17. They that with their teeth will teare their breaden God would eate vp Gods people as bread psal 14. 4. Virg * Si hi Sancti qui Scythae Si hi sunt Catholici qui Cannibales a Libro 2. de â—epub c. 5. Ex Actis public is Henrici Garnetti Londini editis Vide edictum regium promulgatum 15. lanua Anno. 1606. vbi expressum Iesuitas esse Auctores inuentores illius proditoriae Machinationis Ouid. Meta lib. Quis tulerit Gracchos de seditione querentes * Aequiuocans animal penitusque Sinonià proles doctum mancipium tuba fax Machina Martis 〈…〉 Sext. Q. panegyr in Consist An. 1589. O pulchum Sanctum facinus Scholatota sonâ bit * Et calo donare scelus superisque beare * Causa patrocinio non bona peior â—â—rit d Rod. Botter comment pag. 109. 106. Apol. pro. Io. Chastell e Pag. 133. Et pag. 40. read Card. Allens apology for Stanlies Treason f Amphithea pag. 101. g Derege n In Rom. 2. Defensio peccati duplicat peccatum vitia quia amant defendunt malunt potius excusare quam excutere Sen. epist 116. Quaesiui Romam in Roma non inueni Romam Facta est iam Roma lupandi or Roma Radix omnium malorum Orci vicaria Roma k Roma nocens nocet atque viam docet ipsa nocendi iamque dolâ—nt cecidisse minus faeliciter ausa * Wiclef Tria log p. 14. 3. * Cum Iesu Iudas cum Simone fur Ananias in Templo Christi semper sunt quatuor isti Illyricus * Onely I make a difference betwixt a Macheuillian Iesuite and an ignorant Papist who though he be not a sound member of the Church may be a faithfull Subiect to Caesar per possibile k 2. Thessa 2. 7. l Luke 11. 49. 50. * Vide the tragedy of Traytors cap. 7. m Reu. 17. 6. n Ezech. 8. 15 1. Emperors Vrspergens o Sollicitato in patrem Gregorio poÌ„tifice Romano Papir Masson annal pag. 104. p Vrspergens p. 319 q Idem p. 324. r Naucler p. 990. s Auentin p. 597. t Idem p. 598. u Henry the 1. Henry the 4. Henry the 5. c. Emperors * Pet de Vin lib. 1. cp 31. 2 Kings x Papir Masson annal in Child pag. 83. Bel. de Rom. pontif lib. 5. y Naucl. p 946. z Paral. â—sperg p. 11. * Math. Par. p. 223 a See Acts Monum prope finem b Paud. ColleÌ„ p. 221 c Naucler p. 1024 d Guicciard hist pag 66. e P. Joui hist lib. 1. pag. 25. f Mat. Par. p. 125. g Conscio adnuente pontifice Volater pag. 51. h Meter Belg. hist pag. 494. 490. i Liber qui inscribitur de victoria Clemen 8. de Henrico 4. gloriose triumphantis k Dinoth de Bel. ciu belg p. 398. l Comment rerum in orb gest p. 1122. 3. Princes and Subiects Fredericke the 2. Emperor by poison or by a pillow destroyed by Manfredus by the meanes of the Pope who daily deuised to destroy him â—usp in Freder 2. and there writes that not long before 4. Conspirators appreheÌ„ded who should haue made away the Emperor coÌ„fessing that the Pope did set them on worke * Supra 30000. homines trucidati Jacob. Aug. in hihistor Anni 1572. * Their spirituall Father fatted both with the milke and bloud of the flocke m Annal. lib. 7. fol. 683. n Genebra Guicciardine saith of Pope Alexander the 6. hee neuer did what heâ—said and his son Borgia neuer said what hee 〈◊〉 to doe o Magdeburgens Cent. 7. col 21. Anno. 607. p Gen. 31. q Oth. meland * Oramus gladium Domini Gideonis nostri The Harlot Theodote checkt Socrates saying her power was greater then his for she allured many of his Schollers he none of her louers so this popery is a Theodote or Dalila r In his letter to Blackwell * Sixte iaces tandeÌ„ nostri discordia sacli * St. Becket St. Saunders both Traytors Baron Martyrolog 〈◊〉 s Hosc 6. 9. Illyric vet Poemat t 1 Tim. 3. 3. u Aeqâ—iuocatio simulatio 〈…〉 * Potentiores cum rogant iubent Cuiuis potest accidere quod cuiquaÌ„ potest * Prou. 2. 14. Prosperum scelus vocatur virtus Faux his speech It was not God but the Deuill that hindered the worke Inven sat 13. x Rom. 2. 20. y Reuel 18. 6. Reu. 19. 2. Nemo impune malus z Psal 1. 6. * Greg. lib. 32. moral Pope Innocent the 4. herd this voice a day before his death Veni miser in iudicium Dei So these a Rom. 9. 18. b 1. Cor. 10. 6. 11. c Sen. Prou. ruina praecedentium docet posteros * Nequitiae classes candida vela ferunt Ecclesid non propagatur armis sed propugnatur Bloud-red murther and blacke conspiracy in white robes of religion Preces patieÌ„tia olim Christicolis artes haec arma fuere * They make their Church Acheldama a field of bloud d 1 King 18. 24. e 38. f 1. Kings 18. 26. A cruell and carnall religion sauouring of a reuengefull spirit g Polanus Non est humano sanguine cretus illum sed genuit praeduris cautibus horrens Caucasê° hyrcanaeque admorunt Vbera Tygres Virg. Aenead Read Dr White way to the Church 1. part pag. 360. h Polanus ex Bartholo Casa Span. Colo. pag 2. 13. c i Micah 3. 10. k Esay 59. 3. l Ezech. 35. 6. m By Brutus and Cassius in the Senate house of Rome n Austen ep 5. o Luk. 13. 27. p Psa 109. 29. Iuv. Bloodthirsty men do hate the righteous Pro. 29. 10. q Tacit. Hist lib. 3. r Plutar. in Caesar id em dixit non mihi placet vindicta sed victoria s Quodlibet 1. Art 2. t Import Consider pag. 3. Natos homines abdomini Rich. Dunelm Philobibl c. 5. Faux speech that the Diuell and not God was the discouerer of it * Prince Henry then liuing Decus olim nunc dolor orbis as Huntindon Hist lib. 7. said of Henry the first of England Improbus à nullo flectitur obsequio Some being about
wicked purposes doe bow downe their heads and their inward parts burne with deceit Ecclus. 19. 25. u Psal 60. 2. 3 * Mat. 26. 25. Adulatio fallax crudelis est Aug. lib. 2. contra lit Petil. x Math. 7. 20. A Equiuocationem esse vtilem autem bonam prudentiam idea Martinus Nauarrus Azpilcueta tractâ—tum de aequiuâ—catione in gratiam Jesuitarum scripsit y Nauarr. q Consil lib. 3. de Regular cons 1. z Ier. 15. 19. Occasioned to exact this lawfull oath vpon this Powder Treason Clerkes haue nothing to doe with Crownes Religion turned into Statisme will proue Atheisme B. Lincolne * Psal 91. 5. * Dolus Apochryphus a Called A discourse of this late intended Treason Quicquid delirant reges plectuÌ„tur Achâ—… Adagium in eos qui callide sua malefacta in alios reijciunt Erasm c Gen. 10. 9. * Ierome d Psal 91. 3. Escaped out of the snare of the Fowlers the snare is broken and we are deliuered Psa 124. 7. e Phil ostratus f 2 Cor. 10. 4. * Tertullian Quo magis sanguinis effusum eâ— magis effloruit Ecclesia Cyprian g Deut. 11. 29. Theologi Romani argumenta ferrea ignea Spirant noÌ„ Scripta atramento sed Sanguine h Math. 10. 23. Luk. 9. 59. 61. Valedicere jis qui domi sunt i Acts 4. 19. k Iudg. 3. 15. 21. l 2. King 9. 10. m Iosh 1. 2. 9. n Psal 11. 5. o Exod. 23. 7. p Plautus in Bacch Must mutuose scabunt q Sueton. in vit Domit. * Then ready to cry with Liuie in another kind Dij hominesque illi affuere pugnae lib. 7. r Matth. 7. 17. 19. Nec recitare nec reticere possum s Praefat. Hier. in Pentateuch Moysi AuthoreÌ„ allegat Aristaeum Josephum qui dicunt eos in vna Basilica congregatos c. t Song of the three children Verse 88. Verse 89. Salust Qua data porta ruunt caedes Scelus vndique Sanguis Facinus aeterna flamma vindicandum Nulla â—…s vidit audiuit cogitauit Fraus quâm vis odiosior Cicero u Treshams letter Ictu oculi omnes omnia cuerti x Cant. 2. 1. y Iudg. 9. 15. z 2. King 2. 12. * Ier 9. 1. 2 Lament 1. 1. 2. 3. 4. 12. Vmbratilem eius speciem depingere nequeo b Iob 10. 21. 22. c Ioel. 2. 2. Thetraytors with Titus Vespasian cried amici dicus perdidi vti refert Sâ—… in â—ius vita d Matth. 8. â—5 e Esay 3. 2. f Matth. 3. 10. g 2. King 21. 13. h Lament 4. 20. Non pacem petimus superi date gentibus iras Oratio Garn. i Pro 15. 8. k Esay 1. 15. l Lament 2. 16. m Psal 124. 3. n Psal 101. 6. o 140. 5. p Psal 4. 23. q Luke 1. 74. 3. Spirituall estate r Psal 137. 1. s Math. Paris t 1 Kin. 18. 26. u Gen. 21. 14. * Psal 6. 6. Psal 79. 1. * Hic dolus est magnus lupus est qui creditur agnus y Reuel 17. 4. z Lam. 2. 12. * Mal. 2. 7. a Lam. 4. 19. 18. b Esa 2. 3. c Psal 58. 5. d Matth. 11. 17. e Psalm 137. 2. f Iob 29. 2. 3. g Num. 11. 6. 21. 5. h Amos 8. 12. i Hosee 4. 6. k Math. 13. 3. l Dan. 12. 3. Virg. Fclog m Lam. 5. 15. 16. 5. n Esay 49. 23. o Lamen 4. 2. p Math. 5. 13. 14. q Iob. 29. 15. Custodes vtriusque tabula perijssent r Math. 26. 31. s Vide Luther postill maior in Mat. 13. 24. t De ciuit Dei lib. 21. cap. 3. u Reu. 9. 6. Virgil. * Psal 120. 4. x Pro. 21. 30. y 1 Kin. 13. 4. z Sext. Aurel. * Math 16. 18. a 2 Pet. 2. 9. b Gen. 3. 15. c Gen. 22. 15. d Gen. 26. e Gen. 41. f 1 Kin. 19 5. g Iudg. 7. 2â— h Dan. 6. 22 i Ionas 2. 10. k Histor of Susanna v. 45. l Dan. 3. m Exod. 14. 13 n Dan. 3. 27 o Wis 11. 13. Calix mortis multis praeparatus perpetuus esset calix Benedictionis p Psal 9. 10. Non est speciosa laus in ore peccatoris q Rom. 11 21. r Psalm 56. 13. s Psalm 56. 13. t Psalm 66. 8. u Ioshua 22. 29. * Nehem. 8. 3. x 6 y 9 z 4. * Exod. 11. 14. a Psal 106. 47. b Psal 106. 48. a Adferunt haeretici Apocryphorum Librorum multitudinem vt stupefaciant amentes c. Iraen lib. 1. c. 17. b Cum ex Scripturis arguuntur in accusationem conuertuntur Scripturarum c. â—raen lib. 3. c. 2. Popery is a witchcraft of religion teaching her people to eate their God kill their King subuert the Scriptures adore Idols Deifie the dead equalize their Pope with God c. c Ep. 49. a Gen. 38. 14 c. b 1 Sam. 11. 2. c Mart. peres de Trad. pag. 44. d Index lib. prohib Reg 4. e â—mman Sa. Aphor verbo parochus pag. 298. Com. f In 2 Tim. pa. 118. x Scripturarum authoritate res cum re causa cum causa ratio cum ratione concertet Aug. contra Man lib. 3. c. 14. g De Baptis contra Donatist Henry the second of England said to the Popes Legate hauing killed a Stagge in hunting Looke Lord Legate how fat the Stag is and yet did neuer heare a Masse h Bulla Pij 4. Super forma iuramenti professionis fidei The Church of Rome is ancient not her errors neither doe wee differ from it wherein it is not departed from it selfe i Geo Cassand defen lib. de offic Pij viri k Lib. de Eccle. obseruat c. 19. pag. 388. l Sess 13. §. item ipsa m Bohemis concessit eam facultatem teste Aen. Syl. in hist Bohe. c. 52. Pope Gelasius calles the taking away the Cup from the Laity Sacrilegam mutilationem A sacrilegious mangling of the Sacrament n 3 Part. Thom. qu. 80. Art 12. q. 3. o Ouand 4. p. 221. p Soto 4. d. 9. q. 2. Art 4. Suar. tom 3. d. 5. §. 1. q Scot. 4. d. 11. q. Bell. Eucher lib. 3. c. 23. r Sess 4 5. s Sess 2 18. t Con. Later sub Leon. Sess 11. u Act 16. x Sext Synod in Trull can 36. y L. 6. Ep. 30. * A papa ad concilium non appellan dum Iacobatius de Concil lib. 1. Art 1. Nu 36. z Rulla Pij 4 super forma iuramenti professio fidei in fiâ—e * Act. Zonar Tom. 3. pag 9. a Sacrament tit 1. ca. 7. p. 30. b Cyprian Ep. 74. c syp lib. 2. contra gentes d Lib. de veland Virg e Epist ad Philadelphias f Aug. nou vet test qu. 114. g Bellar. de Eccle. milit lib. 4. c. 5. §. in omni ex Judaeis coepit Christiana religio h Lib. 2. de rom pontif i Iohn 4. 20. k 22. l De salute Indorum lib. 2. cap. 18. m Lib. 4. epist 1.
Rochardus King of Frizeland by Wolfranius perswaded to be baptized hauing one foote in the Font asked whither went most of his Predecessors To Hell said Wolfranius then he Rectius est plures quaÌ„ pauciores sequi The very answer of many Papists Fulg. lib. 3. n Ezech. 20. 18 19 o Esay 30. 21. p Dan. 3. Where was our Church before Luther lay with Bora cry these Catholicke calumniators Our Religion a ragge torne from their coate q Greg. Valent. Analys lib. 1. c. 16. r Doct. White first part of the way to the Church Digress 52. See D. Willet Com. vpon 11 Chapter of Daniel pa. 449. Plutarke f Lucian in Timon Vide Rhenanum Papistam Schol. in Luc Senec. de morte Claud. §. facilius inter Philosophos Corpore de Christi lis est de sanguine lis est Deque modo lis est non habitura modum t De gra lib. 1 c. 3. u De Iustif lib. 3â—… cap 3 Egyptians set against Egyptians euery one against his brother c. Esay 19. 2. Suis ipsa Roma viribus ruit Hor. * Iudges 7. 22. x Math. 7. 5. Cum Iesu Iudas c. Many Popish Bookes are made right Anatomies Indices Expurgatorij of all sorts â—â—elgi Hispan Loâ—… c. 1 Marke a Reu. 17. 3â—… Diabolicum est extra diuinarum Scripturarum authoritatem aliquid diuinum putare Theophilus lib. 2. Paschal b Sess 4 decret 1. c Loc. lib. 3. c. 3. pag. 151. d Confes Petric c. 92. pag. 383. idem Iac. Simanch Instit tit 24. n. 36. 37. e D. 40 si papa in Annot. Margin f Censur Colon. p. 112. Pigh cont 3. g Peres de Tradit praefat h Bel. de verb. dei lib. 4. ca. 4. i Eck. enchir c. 1. prop. 4. k Chem. exa part 1. pag. 47. l Sixt. Sen. bibl l. 4. in Tho. vius m Cathar aduers nova dogmat Caiet pag. 1. inde n Eck. de ecclesia o Disp theol tom 3. 1. pag 24. p Syluest Prier contra Lutherum q Henr. doct magist sacr palatij Romae ad legat Bohem. sub Faelice Papa r De planct eccl 〈◊〉 lib. 〈◊〉 art 6. s Dist 19. in Canonic gloss ibideÌ„ The Councell of Trent forbids all other interpretation of the Scripture then that which agree with the Romish Church Sess 4. t De expresso verbo Dei * Concio 4. de Lazaro x Chrys in cap. gen 2. homil 13. y Bel. de verbo dei lib. 〈◊〉 c. 15. z Rhemists prefac * Iohn 5. 39. 〈◊〉 Câ—… 3. 16. b 1 Iohn 5. 21. c Habac. 2. 4. d De expresso verbo dei p. 91. e Confut. resp Whitak rat 5. p. 148. They take away the word giue them drosse Infoelix lolium steriles dominantur auenae f Ier 2. 13. g Gen. 26. 15. If the light of the Scripture might freely shine then Popery would soone vanish Spanish prouerb Potos sotos deuotos Ignorance is the Grandame of all error Con. Tolet 4. Can. 24. h Luk. 11. 52. i Reuel 17. 1. 2 Marke k Acts 2 14. 3. 12. l Iohn 21. 16. m 1 Pet. 〈◊〉 1. n Bel. l. 2. de Ro. pont cap. 31. o Idem ibidem § Primo quia p Acts 3 6. Platina saith in the life of Damasus the second that onely ambitious fellows did inuade S. Peters seat hee saith in the life of Siluester the third a Pope that hee who preuailed not in learning and holy life but in bribery ambition euen hee alone did obtain the Popedome Vide Dr. White 1. part Way digress 53. p. 419. q Baâ—…an 908. n. 6 r An. 912. n. 8. s Acts 8. 20. t Iohn 8. 11. 3 Marke u Luk. 19. 22. The Papists find this ttue therfore haue purged the elder Papists books corrected those points or wholly razed them out Vide Indic libr. prohibit p. 25. §. 3. 4 Marke Corpus Christi nec in quantum corpus nec in quantuÌ„ vnitum diuinitati hoc habet vt sit in pluribê° locis simul Aquinas dist 27. qu. 1. Vis excidere gratia acta tua merita Aug. in Ps 31. * Luk. 17. 10. Beggars crauing an almes shew their wounds wants but Papists their works to chalenge heauen as a debt Idem est fingere multos deos sanctos mortuos inuocare MelancthoÌ„ * Non opus est patronis apud deum Chrysost hom de profect Euangel * Their soules they seeme to gaine to God sacrifice their bodies to the Deuil shrift is turned to bawdry Cor. Agrip. de vanit c. 64. x Lib. de bono mortis ca. 2. y Contra Demetrianum tract 1. z 1 Pet. 2. 1. * Eph. 4. 25. I will a littlelook vpon scarce touch the poysonous pommell of the chaire of pestilence a Reuel 10. 9. b 1 Cor. 14. 14. 19. Cap. 9. Ezra the Priest did read the Law to men and women to heare it and vnderstand it Nehem. 8. 2. d Sess 22. c. 8. Intolerabilis Lutheranorum error c. Azor. Ies instit Moral lib. 8. c. 26. c Senen bibl lib 6 ann 263. f In 1. Cor. 14. disp 3◠§ 4. obijcitur g D. Morton 2. part Catho Apolo lib. 1. c. 24. h Bel. de verbo dei c. 16. §. obiectio 4. § 2. obiectio Illam orationem Deus non exaudit cui boâ—â— quando psallit non attenlit Gregor i Bell. supra k Rhemist in nouum Testam l Caiet in 1. Cor. 14 m Aquin. lect 3. in 1. Cor. 14. n Christ instruct p. 212. Tho. lect 3. in 1 Cor. 14. o Hard. art 3. sect 28. p Bel. lib. 2. de verb. Dei c. 16. § Idem etiam q Sess 22. c. 1. r Sess 4. s F. Simen bibl Complut in prolog t De opt gent interpret li. 3. c. 1. 2. 4. 6. We acknowledge that there be many faults in our Latin edition of the bible c. Sixt Senen bibl sanct lib. 8. p. 365. u De summo bono lib 3. c. 8. * Iam. 1. 7. Let euery man make his prayer to God in his natiue tongue Origen contra Celsum lib. 8. x 1 Cor. 14. 15. y Iacob de Graff decis lib. 2. ca. 8. nu 16. z Bell. de Justif lib. 〈◊〉 c. 7. §. Iudicium autem * Apolog. translat by stap par pag. 53. This is implicite faith to belieue in generall all that our holy mother the Church belieues Dionys de 25. qu. vnic p. 215. Altisiodorensis sum li. 3. tract 3. c. 1. q. 5. This is Card. Allens rule for the vnlearned to keepe themselues in the faith of the Catholicke Church though they know not that faith Defense of pardons In princip a Rhem. annot Luke â—2 11. b 1. Pet. 3. 15. c Dial. cum Tryph. d Bar. an 1028. nâ— 5. e Gold legend f Nauaâ—â— manual cap. 11. 〈◊〉 26. g Magiâ— Geograp pag. 104. h Concedi ijs lecti onem qui ab ordinario facultatem obtinuerunt