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
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
themselues or loue that others should bring any hony to Hiue but Vindico me ab illis Solo contemptu Among the Popish Sectaries this worke will find an harsh incounter yet God is my Record I haue not to my knowledge wronged them their owne writings Axioms and Actions haue as it were with a line chalked mee out the way wherein I haue walked The Romish Iesuites I know will raile and rage at it whose censure I regard not as Cicero censured of a Gentlewomans dancing The better the worse but of their censure I say The worse the better Malis displicere laudari est saith Seneca to displease ill men finds praise with good men Onely I craue a fauourable and friendly acceptance of the iudicious sober and indifferent Reader acknowledging this labour required more maturity retired and second thoughts then my publick and priuate paines in my ministery could affoord me so that Festinans canis caecos parit catulos This worke is not as it were Elephantis partus Long in conceiuing breeding and bringing forth It is rather vrsi partus An vnformed Embrio some bred and brought to light Whatsoeuer it is reade it ouer before you iudge and then say with the sonne of Syracke Behold I haue not laboured for my selfe onely but for all them that seeke wisdome If men lacke this labour it shall not much hurt me if praise it their praises are but Apocriphal for I passe not for mans iudgement if the Lord praise it it will be then praise-worthy Bonum est laudari sed praestantius est esse laudabilem saith Seneca It is good to be praised but it is better to be praise-worthy Farewel and helpe me with thy mutuall prayers and follow it with thy practise and so I commit it to thy Christian Conscience and thy Conscience to God Thine euer in the Lord SAMVEL GAREY Ad Authorem CAelica vota Deo pro Rege inserta Libello Omnibus insculpat mentibus illa Deus Summa Salus Regis Regni sacra vota Britanni Vt longê Laehesis regia fila trahat Fundunt vota Patres proceres plebs vine Iacobe Dulce Decus populi praesidium patriae Hoc diadema diutene as cum prole perenni Nati natorum Sceptra Britanna regant Prodiat hic labor si liuor mordeat illum Liuoris dentes frauget iste labor Prodiat hic Liber si liuor perdere tentet Ipsum liuorem destruet iste Liber S. W. Sacrae Theol. Doct. Britanniae Vota OR God saue the King For the Kings day the 24. day of March. This is the day of our King Hosea 7. 5. This day is a day of good tidings and wee hold our peace 2 Kings 7. 9. CHAP. I. IOASH the sonne of Ahaziah being hidde by Iehosheba the daughter of King Ioram sixe yeares in the house of the Lord because bloudy Athaliah the mother of Ahaziah whom Iehu killed had destroyed all the Kings seede of the house of Iuda excepting onely Ioash whom Iehosheba the wife of Iehoiadah the Priest had preserued In the seauenth yeare Iehoiadah the Priest seeing Athaliah to vsurpe the Crowne calls forth the Captaines and gathers the Leuites out of all the Cities of Iudah and the chiefe Fathers of Israel to Ierusalem and hauing first bound them with an oath of Allegiance then presents vnto them the sacred spectacle of their Regall Soueraigne Ecce filius regis regnabit Behold the Kings sonne must reigne He sets a watch and guard to secure and safe-guard him Lo how dangerous is the chaire of State all like officious Subiects stand to withstand the treachery of Traitors then in a regall Solemnitie they bring forth the Kings Son the ioy Iubilie of al their harts the wished welcome progeny of Iehoshaphat descended longo de stemmate regum of an ancient line of Princedome they put the Crowne vpon his head they giue him the testimony they make him King Iehoiada and his sonnes annoint him they all clapt their hands for ioy and with their hands their hearts and with their hearts their tongues till their many yet vnited voices euen reuerberate the aire with this heauenpiercing eccho this eucharistique gratulation God saue the King So when the daies of that admired Queene O quam te memorem virgo were on earth concluded our late deceased Soueraigne Queene Elizabeth of most famous and blessed memorie then the Foxes of Babilon who had lyen in hoâ—es XLIIII yeares began to threaten as Esau did his brother The daies of mourning for my father will come shortly then will I stay my brother Iacob the day of her death the dawning of their desire for then they thought like Bustards in a fallow field to raise vp themselues vi turbinis the Papists hoped then to haue raised their religion by a whirle-wind of rebellion but our pacator orbis which was Constantines praise and title frustrated their bloudy hopes and as Paterculus saith of the Romane Empire after Augustus death that there was great expectation of much troubles but tanta fuit vnius viri maiestas vt nec bonis neque contra malos opus foret armis there was so great a Maiestie in one man that there was no vse of Armes for good men or against bad men So the great Maiesty of our succeeding Soueraigne King Iames as learned vertuous and religious a Prince as any vnder the roofe of Heauen calmed all the stormes and imaginary tempests which were feared and expected so that the world did see Sol occubuit nox nulla secuta est Our Sunne did set and yet no night did follow the enemies of England saw it then to their griefe who hoped that when the Sunne went downe some erraticall starre should shine but still the Planet keepes his course Phoenix-like a new and yet the same renewed So that Pythagoras transmutation herein holds eadem anima in nouo corpore an alteration in sexe yet of the same condition both peerelesse Paragons and princely patternes for the perfection of Princes To leaue the one who now liues a glorious Queene in Heauen behold our dread Soueraigne the Augustus of this latter world praeteritis melior venientibus author a King not onely virorum but sacrorum a defender of men and Defender of the Faith Rex idem hominum Christique sacerdos Now to our great ioy and comfort of great Britannye his Maiesties happie and auspicious day of that most welcomed applauded proclamation God saue King Iames hath annually xv times rowsed and reuiued toto diuisos orbe Britannos The remembrance of the blessings it hath brought by Gods great mercy with it both spirituall and temporall should mooue all that liue vnder the wings of his peaceable dominions to lift vp harts and hands to the King of Kings to multiply his daies as the daies of Heauen to saue him from all conspiracies treasons and rebellions to pray for him as the
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
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
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
preaching but since they were dead they were high coloured blushing at the wickednesse of their supposed and but supposed successors ashamed of the Doctrine and practises of your Church of Rome and that this shame had altered their colour And sure all Gods seruants who haue the feare of God before their eyes are ashamed and abhorre such abominable practises The cause as Bodin saith which mooued Tacitus to exclaime against Christians was quia Christiani affectarunt crimina quae Ethniti abhorruerunt Because Christians affect those sinne with the Ethnickes doe abhorre if Tacitus were now aliue how would he exclaime against the Church of Rome for animating people to commit such villanies which all Ethnickes except sauages or Cannibals abhorre and condemne Behold how Rome is degenerated from her primitiue State time was she loathed such deedes either to commend or canonize Trators Facta haec Roma olim nec sancta nec Ethnica nouit Such workes in ancient times this Rome did hate In her first Christian yea in Ethnicke State But now Quod natura nefas odit doctrina capescit Which nature most detest Doctrine defend Yea haue not some of them laboured to extenuate the deuillish deuise of these superlatiue Powder-traytors with these words Alas it was the attempt of some few and vnfortunate Gentlemen vnfortunate as they count because they failed in performance or as others of them These Catholickes held the King no King or not their King and expectanda erat diuturna persecutio a perpetuall persecution was to be expected and Eudemen a Iesuite hath write to defend Garnets Treason and rightly played the Daemon and haue not some others excused the fact of Rauilliacke one of Marianas Schollers who stabbed Henry the fourth the late famous French King whose death neuer sufficiently to be lamented and neuer of Kings sufficiently reuenged with these pretences Fuit stolidit as regis ob susceptum haereticorum patrocinium It was the folly of the King for patronising these heretickes meaning Protestants So that I may define these Iesuits to be as one did define a Frier to be cadauer mortuum è sepulchro veniens missum à daemone inter homines a dead Carrion comming out of his graue sent of the deuill among men and truly such are rather monsters then men who will commend or command murther applaud murtherers and Traytors who are portenta virorum viri portentorum monsters of men or men monsters viri sanguinum men of blood viri occisionis slaughter men and though in all professions some are bad A Cham will be in the Arke Saul among the Prophets and Iudas among the Apostoles some may fall into murther or Treason c. Yet when such come to their end and punishment they vsually confesse their faulte to be in their nature not in their religion excepting onely Roman Catholickes who seeke to fetch poyson from heauen and to prooue murther by the Scripture Dogmatis atque Scholae sunt haec non crimina morum So that these cannot say with Cassiodorus follow my doctrine but not my maners for both precepts and practise treasonble And that I may giue a little tast or touch of their practises in this kind least I should seeme to condemne them without cause I will in the next Chapter demonstrate how that many Popes of Rome who are the heads of Popery which is the mystery of iniquity haue caused and procured many Emperors Kings Princes and worthy men to be greatly persecuted and grieuously killed So that we may say to them as our Sauiour to the Pharisees I will send them Prophets and Apostles and of them they shall slay and persecute that the bloud of all the Prophets with many Kings Princes and learned men may be required of this generation CHAP. VI. A short Catalogue or rehearsall of certaine Emperors Kings and famous men who haue beene persecuted by the Antichrist of Rome I Cannot nor will not enterprise to declare all the particular persecutions of the Church of Rome against seuerall Kings and Potentates who distasted and in some sort opposed themselues against their corruptions for that would require a long Tractate to discouer the miserable mischiefes of the whore of Babilon drunken with the bloud of Saints and with the bloud of the Martyrs of Iesus Christ for that were an endlesse worke and the Spirit of truth might say to me as to Ezechiel Turne thee againe and thou shalt see greater abhominations then these I will confine my selfe to a few examples The Emperour Philippicus Bardanius because hee commanded all Images to be remoued out of the Churches by the counsell and consent of Iohn Patriarke of Constantinople was denounced an Hereticke publiquely excommunicated by Pope Constantine and commanded no gold nor siluer to be stamped with his Image nor any mention made of him in their common prayers Lodouicus Pius the Emperor eight hundred yeares after Christ was thrust out of his Kingdome by the French Cleargie and the Pope Philip the Emperor by the procurement of the Pope Innocent the third who said Eyther he would haue Philips Crowne or Philip his Miter continually opposed himselfe against him and stirred vp Count Otho against him who miserably did slay him at Bamberge in his priuy chamber Henry the seuenth oppressed by the Pope and his Cardinals stirring vp enemies against him was at last poysoned by a Monke in the Sacrament I omit to speake of the other Henries tragically vexed by tyrannicall Popes the extreamities and indignities whereunto they brought them haue replenished the world with plentifull histories The Emperor Fredericke the seauenth truely complaining That the happines of Emperors was alwaies opposed by the Popes enuy Neyther haue the Kings of the earth found better vse some of them by Popes deposed from their Kingdomes as Childericke the French King by the Pope deposed vnder pretence of stupidity and thrust into a Monastery Philip the first for matrimoniall causes Philip called the faire for collating of benefices Rachis King of the Lombards by Pope Zachary put into a Monastery with many others which might be named Nay not onely by Popes deposed but of their liues depriued Manfred the King of Naples and Sicily had the Duke of Anien armed against him by Pope Vrbane the fourth by whom hee was slaine So Conradinus King of Naples and Sicilye being taken prisoner by Charles brother to the French King was miserably put to death by the Popes Counsell King Iohn of England was vilely vexed and depriued of his Kingdome by the Pope and his Bishops and the French King set vp against him and at last was poysoned by a Monke Ioane the Queene of Naples was depriued of her Kingdome by Pope Vrbane who consented to her murther Gemin Otto the brother of the great Turke being prisoner was poysoned by the Pope hired thereunto by a
much ground as all Spaine containeth But woe to them that build vp Sion with bloud and Ierusalem with iniquity saith Micah Whose hands are defiled with bloud the Lord will prepare them vnto bloud and bloud shall pursue them except thou hate bloud euen bloud shall pursue thee saith the Lord by the mouth of Ezekiel But these imitate Iulius Caesar the first Emperour of Rome who held a sword in one hand and a booke in the other with this Motto Ex vtreque Caesar So these Romanists will hold a sword in one hand and a Bible in the other changing the word the sword of the spirit into a materiall sword to murder mens bodies but Caesar who shed much blood abroad had his owne blood shed at home Yet Caesar was farre of a more mercifull mind for as Austen speakes of him Hee gloried in nothing so much as in pardoning his enemies and gratifying his friends Or they follow blood-thirsty Cyrus who at last was slaine by Queene Tomyris and his head cut off and put into a vessell of blood with these words Sanguinem sitijstit nunc sanguine saturatus esta Thou hast thirsted for blood now drinke thy fill so these thirst for blood Quem babit hic auide quà m bibit ante merum As greedily he drinkes mens blood As men doe wine and thinkes as good But Dauid because he was a man of blood might not build God a materiall Temple and will you build Gods spirituall Temple with bloody hands God abhorres blood-thirsty and deceitfull men Deus non est autor eius cuius est vltor God is a reuenger of such villanies and what he affects he will effect by good meanes And therefore though Papists colour this treason vnder the cloke of Religion and for the good of the Catholicke cause the Lord will say to them I know ye not Depart from me ye workers of iniquity Then shall they couer themselues with confusion as with a cloake And truly these fiery and furious Iesuited Roman Catholickes maske and shroud their faction and treason vnder the cloake of Religion as the Dominicans lurke vnder our Ladies frock crying out The Catholicke Cause and for the good of the Church so that we may say as once wittily Erasmus demanded VVhat is Charity answered It is a Monkes cloake for it couers a multitude of sinnes So what is Popery It is a cloake to couer a multitude of sinnes and as they say Puritan sohismes are sowen together with Sisters-threed so Popish schismes are patched together out of the cloake of Rebellion yet vnder the mantle of Religion yet so farre are these people from being ashamed of these things or reclaimed from such practises much lesse to repent for them as that being apprehended for them or hauing accomplished their deuices they are still insensible of sorrow contrary to all other Malefactors for as the Poet quid fas Atque nefas tandem incipiunt sentire peractis Criminibus How good or bad their deeds were they then see When once their mischiefes accomplisht be But these would with Nero laugh and leape to see our Cities on fire and as Guido Faux the foreman of this fiery stratageme being demanded what hee would haue done when as he had put fire to the powder said Goe see the sport in the field A voice fit for a villaine or a cruell Vitellius who said as Tacitus records it Sepauisse oculos spectata in imici morte nempe Blaesi◠He did feed his eyes with the dead spectacle of his aduersary Blesus But Caesar wept when the head of Pompey his enemy was presented to him saying Ego Pompeij casum deploro meam fortunā metuo I lament Pompeys fall and feare mine owne fortune but the enemies of Sion as they haue Crocodile eyes to weepe and laugh at murthered obiects so they haue deuouring mouthes and teeth to water after such preyes I will not iudge all of them to be of so bloody a disposition for I presume some Iesuites and Priests and Monkes are like Aristippus looke for nothing but meat for their belly and a maide for their bed little busie their braines with other matterrs or some may follow their study which yet is not vsuall especially among the secular Priests whom the Iesuites call Ebrios stultos illiteratos Ecclesia excrementa Drunkards Dolts Dunces the excrements of the Church and the same secular Priests brand the Iesuites with infamous markes Statistas Atheistas Machiauelistas quot Iesuitae totidem Iudae Statists Atheists Machiauclists So many Iesuites so many Iudasses But indeed the least medlers in these matters are the Monkes and therein to be commended who if they were as carefull to feede their braines as their bellies I should thinke them the best of the bunch but herein they are faulty being onely as the Poet Epicuri de grege porcos Horat. Most of them sordide and stupide fellowes without any industry in labour or generosity in life And as long ago it was written of them Liber Pater praeponitur libro patrum Calicibus epotandis non codicibus emendandis Indulget bodie studium Monachorum Cantus ludentis non planctus lugentis Officium efficitur Monachale Greges vellera fruges Horrea Porri olera potus patera Lectiones sunt hodie studia Monachorum In a word thus One Bacchus more they loue then Muses nine They fat their bellies while their braines do pine But to leaue these whom the Pope least loues for the Iesuites are his Pulli puppi His Minions and Darlings he knowes them by their hands as the Eagle knowes his young ones by the eyes a pen in one hand and a ponyard in the other to write for him and to fight for him We will accuse no more but the parties in view whereof Faux should haue beene the Executioner and as they say An hangman must haue a cruell heart so this appointed wretch had a cruell heart to count such a sight as this should haue beene a sport and when he was apprehended he discouered no fignes of sorrow or repentance except onely that he repented for not being able to performe it Nil Christus Domini nil illi proxima Coniux Nil Princeps Carolus charus spes altera Regni Vtraque nobilitas pietate insignis armis Maiestasque loci veterum tot Curia regum Nil haec crudeli potuere obstare furori Our royall King with his illustrious Spouse That Phoenix gone vnto a better place And next succeeding hope Prince Charles his Grace The noble Peeres the Prelates of Gods House And other Monuments which might well rouse More feare then fury yet this vile Consort To blow vp all with powder counts it sport The vertues indeed vices which were in Tigellinus Neros Secretary were as Tacitus names them Cruelty and Luxury so these abounded with the first if not with the second And yet they had no cause to
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
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
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
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