Transiluania and Hungary and many English at Tripolis Algiers and Tunis And some learned Protestants as Sebastian Cestalio Bernard Ochine Dauid George Adam Neucers and others who being obstinate against Catholike Religion either turned Turkes or Iewes seeing the Prophecies not fulfilled in Protestantisme Secondly for that they are not able to produce any one Heathen or Pagan King or Queene that hitherto hath embraced Protestanisme Your Maiesty and other Christian Kings and Queenes your Predecessors in the Kingdome of Great Brittanie haue had no other Christendome then that they haue receiued from Catholike Romane Priests Thirdly It is not the custome of Protestants to adore their God with such respect or reuerence as the Prophet Isay heere speakes of euery Protestant is so well assured of his saluation that hee hath no need to humble himselfe befor his God to aske forgiuenesse of his sinnes or saluation of his soule Not a Protestant Boy or Girle that doth not vse more respect or reuerence to their masters when they speake vnto them and all Protestants in their degrees and estates to their temporall Lords and Princes then they doe when they pray or speake to their God When they speake to their earthly Lords or Kings either they Note stand or kneele handsomely with their hats in their hands but when they speake to their God commonly they either speake sitting with their cappes on as haile fellow well met with their God or else with their noses thrust into their hats for feare as it seemeth that the euill smelles which come from their God should infect their braines Their Temples and Synagogues are not so neate as their Bed-chambers Galleries or Chambers of Presence or audience and when they come into their Temples to treate with their God or heare his Word or Law vnlesse it be for respect of some man there euery one without respect to his God sitteth him downe and putteth on his cap In so much as the God of the Protestants is the most vnciuill euill-mannered God of all those who haue borne the name of Gods vpon earth yea worse then Pan the god of Clownes that can endure no ceremonies or good manners whereby it is manifest that this Prophecie is not verified vpon so vnciuill and vnmannerly a Religion as Protestantisme is but vpon our Catholike Romane Faith and Religion which all the knowne Christian Kings and Queenes that euer haue been before Luther professed reputed Heretikes by both parties onely excepted as we haue set downe in the third Chapter Againe God Almightie by the Prophet Isay saith to the Gentiles whom he calleth the barren women for that before the Incarnation of our Sauiour they were without fruit of eternall life Prayse O barren Isay 54. 1. woman which bearest not sing prayse and make ioyfull noyse which diddest not beare because many are the children of the desolate of the Gentiles which were before the comming of Christ desolate of spiritual helpe more then of her that hath a husband the Synagogue of the Iewes enlarge the place of thy tent and stretch out the skins of thy Tabernacles for thou shalt penetrate to the right hand and to the left and thy seed shall inherit the Gentiles Againe For a moment a little while haue Isay 64. 7. I forsaken thee and in great mercies will I gather thee in a moment of indignation haue I hid my face a little while from thee and in mercies euerlasting haue I had mercy on thee saith thy Redeemer our Lord. As in the dayes of Noe is this thing to me to whom I sware that I would no more bring the waters of Noe vpon the earth So haue I sworne not to be angry with thee and not to rebuke thee for the mountaines shal be mooued and the little hils shal tremble but my mercy shal not depart from thee and the couenant of my peace shal not be mooued saith our Lord thy Miserator Againe Euery vessel that is made against Isay 64. 17. thee shal not prosper and euery tongue resisting thee in iudgement thou shalt iudge This is the inheritance of the seruants of our Lord. This Prophecie of Esay cannot bee verified vpon Protestantisme for that since our Sauiours time there hath not been more Protestants then Iewes neyther haue the children of the Protestants bin more in number then the children of the Iewes who are a great people in number and haue continued visible in great numbers dispersed through many parts of the world as Protestants themselues confesse as the Centurie Writers in the fourteenth and fifteenth Chapter of euery Centurie where they make mention from time to time of their abode and at this day the Synagogue of the Iewes is more dilated and greater then any one Sect of Protestants in the world Secondly neither can this be verified of Protestantisme that after our Sauiours comming They should enlarge the place of their tents penetrate to the right hand and the left and that the seed of Protestants should inherite the Gentiles Neither could this oath of God bee made to Protestants I haue sworne not to be angry with Protestants and not to rebuke them for the mountaines shal be moued and the little hils shal tremble but my mercie shal not depart from Protestants and the couenant of my peace shal not be moued saith our Lord thy Miserator vnlesse they will make God Almighty forsworne since they themselues confesse that Protestantisme vanished away presently after the Apostles times and was so extinguished that for a thousand and foure hundred yeares they cannot name one Protestant man that taught the doctrine they now teach In such sort as this malediction of the Prophecie is fulfilled in them as vpon the enemies of our Sauiour where it is written Euery vessel that is made against thee shal not prosper And all the blessings of this Prophecie are verified vpon our Catholike Romane Faith which was planted by the Apostles and hath beene dilated ouer the world and embraced of all Christian people who liued betweene the death of the Apostles and rising of Luther reputed Heretikes to both parties only excepted as wee haue prooued in the first second and third Chapters And by this oath of God heere set downe it is as certaine that the Catholike Roman Church and Faith shall neuer bee suppressed as it is certaine that the world shall not be drowned with water any more the oath and promise of God Almightie being equally giuen for assurance of both saying As the day of Noe is this thing to me to whom I answere that I would no more bring in the waters of Noe vpon the earth so haue I sworne not to be angry with thee or rebuke thee for the mountaines shal be moued and the little hils shal tremble but my mercy shall not depart from thee and the couenant of my peace shal not be moued saith our Lord thy Miserator And your Maiestie may be pleased heere to obserue that those Kings and people who persecute
AN HVMBLE APPEALE TO THE KINGS MOST EXCELLENT MAIESTIE Wherein is proued that our Lord and Sauiour IESVS CHRIST was Authour of the Catholike Roman Faith which Protestants call PAPISTRIE Written by IOHN HVNT a Roman Catholike in defence of his Religion against the Calumniations and persecutions of Protestant MINISTERS IOHN 5. 39. Search the Scriptures for you thinke by them to haue life euerlasting and the same are they which giue testimonie of mee THE PREFACE Most dread Soueraigne SO heauy for many yeares hath been the hand of Protestant Ministers vpon vs Catholikes your auncient and faithfull subiects that heauen is ful with our cries the world with our afflictions the earth is drunk with our bloud the aire a receptacle for our quarters prisons are filled with our bodies and Pursuiuants infamous men at their pleasures inriched with the spoile of our goods in such sort as with the Apostles liuing in like persecution we may truly say Wee 1. Cor. 4. 9. are made a spectacle to the world and to Angels and to men that the extremity of our afflictions enforceth vs to Appeale vnto your Maiesty prostrate at your feet in most humble manner to beseech your Highnesse to heare the truth of our cause and take notice of the sincerity of our affections to God your Person and State God Almighty out of his infinit goodnesse hauing created vs according to his owne Image and after our fall Gen. 1. 27. redeemed vs from eternall paines in token of homage exacteth of vs the practising and professing of that Faith and Religion which was planted vpon earth by his only Son our Lord and Sauiour Iesus Christ and that with such rigor as whosoeuer at his death shal be found faultie herein shall not onely lose the inheritance of the kingdome of heauen and the happie vision of his diuine Maiesty but also condemned into fire euerlasting which was prepared for Matth. 25. 41. the Diuell and his angels there to endure the wrath and vengeance of God for euer and euer And lest any one should doubt which was this Faith or Religion he swore he would multiply it in men as the Gen. 22. Isay 88. Isay 54. Isay 62. Starres of heauen that remaining in all ages and times visibly seene and professed none could or should haue occasion of doubting which was this Faith or Religion vnto the which he was so straitly bound vnlesse he would wilfully be obstinate and blinde And yet notwithstanding your Protestant Ministers contrary to the oath of God and without respect of the penalty of eternall damnation imposed vpon misbeleeuers would perswade vs that their Religion which about threescore yeares agoe was inuented in England by Queene ELIZABETH only to keepe your Maiesties Mother and her issue from their lawfull right to the Crowne of England is the Religion which was planted by our Sauiour and afflict vpon your ancient subiects who haue maintained your Progenitors in the state of Kings and absolute Monarkes many hundred yeares confiscation of goods and lands imprisonment losse of liberty and life and the benefit of all Ciuil and Humane lawes and conuersation for that we wil not beleeue them to the losse of our owne soules and in continuance of time the destruction of your Monarchie according to the Prophecies saying I will blesse them that blesse thee and curse them Gen. 12. 3. that curse thee In thee shall all the Kindreds of the earth be blessed The Nation and the Kingdome that Isay 60. 12. shall not serue thee shall perish Which we haue seene so manifestly fulfilled in al ages times amongst Christians that hitherto neuer any Nation People or Countrey of Christian men did separate it selfe by Schisme from the Catholike Church the spiritual seed of Abraham dilated ouer the world but it was within few yeares conquered by barbarus people Whereupon we your ancient subiects feareful lest we should be forsaken of God and fal into these euils and timorous in any thing to offend your Maiestie our dearest Soueraigne prostrate at your feete doe humbly offer vnto your Highnesse the grounds and foundations of our Faith and Religion by which we proue that it is the same Faith and Religion which was planted vpon earth by our Lord and Sauiour Iesus Christ in which al the Kindreds of the earth were to be blessed hoping therby to remoue away from your Majesties minde these sinister false informations which such as neither wish well either to your Person or State more then may serue to the accomplishing of their designes daily publish in your presence viz. That we are wilfull disloyall Subjects who vnder pretext of Religion pretend Rebellion Ignorant blinde people that haue nothing to say for the Religion we professe Enemies to your Maiesty and State c. That your Majesty being better informed we also may taste of the sweetnesse of your Gouernment who are at al times and in al things as readie to obey and serue you our dread Soueraigne as our Auncestors haue serued and obeyed your Progeniters Kings and absolute Monarkes of this Iland or as the Catholike subiects of the Emperour or of the King of Spaine or France or Polonie do serue their Soueraignes And in testimony hereof we offer to binde our selues alwayes to remaine loyal faithful Subiects vnto your Majesty your Heires and lawful Successours by amoath whereby we may not in effect and deed sweare that God Almighty is forsworne in violating his oath and promises which he made to the Patriarks and Prophets euery where spoken of in the Scriptures to be fulfilled in that Faith Seede and Religion which was to be planted vpon earth by his only Son our Lord and Sauiour Iesus Christ Your Majesty wel knoweth that it is not yet much about threescore yeares since these your Kingdomes of England Scotland and Ireland were Catholike and the most of vs together with our Auncestors neuer were of any other Religion See this proued in the second Chapter then this we now professe since our Conuersion to Christianity from Paganisme And if we should now forsake it for feare of the losse of temporall goods imprisonment and hanging and not out of information in beleefe we should be but Atheists and be worthy to be hanged vp indeed for dissembling with men and violating all obligation to God Moreouer the meanes which God Almighty appointed his Officers to vse in the conuersion of Kingdomes and people was Humility Patience Charity c. saying Behold Matth. 10. 16. I send you as sheepe in the middest of Wolues he did not say I send you as Wolues amongst sheepe to kill imprison spoyle and deuoure those vnto whom they were sent Againe he said They to whom I send you will deliuer Matth. 10. 17. you vp in Councels and in their Synagogues they wil scourge you And to Presidents and to Kings shall you be led for my sake He doth not say you whom I send shall deliuer the people whom you
ought to conuert into Councels and put them in prisons and leade them to Presidents and Tribunall seats and make their Religion Fellony and Treason Againe he saith When yee enter into Matth. 10. 12. the house salute it saying Peace be to this house He doth not say you shall send Pursuiuants to ransacke and spoyle the house Againe he saith The good Pastor giueth Iohn 10. his life for his sheepe The theefe commeth not but to steale and kill and destroy He doth not say the theefe giueth his life for his sheepe and the good Pastor commeth not but to steale kill and destroy Wherefore so much as is lawful for poore subiects wee humbly beseech your Majestie that conuerting of vs by killing imprisonments confiscation of goods ransacking and spoyling by Promoters and Pursuiuants c. laid aside at which the Christian world is scandalized it would please your Majestie to giue order that Disputations Conferences and sweet meanes may be vsed for the discussion of truth according to the doctrine of our Sauiour and his Apostles which is Peaceable modest suasible consenting to the good full of mercie and by those meanes if â—â—mâ—s 3. 17. we should be in error your Majestie might easily gaine vs. And if your Majesty be amisse as errare facile est wee may gaine your Majesty and bring all things to his happie issue that God Almightie may be glorified by the saluation of our soules and your Highnesse may to our great comfort so raigne ouer vs vpon earth that you may also raigne amongst vs in heauen which with all my heart I desire and to that end proceed to set downe the grounds and foundations of our Catholike Faith and Church by way of an Appeale vnto your Highnesse this being the best way as your Majestie most graciously hath signified vnto all your Subiect in your Speech in the Star-chamber vpon the twentith of Iune in the yeare of our Lord 1616. in these words Why should you spare to complaine vnto me that being the high-way and not go the other by-way and back-way in contempt of our authority According to which speech worthy of a Royall King with Saint PAVL in the like case of Religion I appeale to Acts 25. 11. CAESAR your Majestie my dread and Supreamest Soueraigne as followeth THAT OVR SAVIOVR PLANTED the Catholike Roman Faith CHAP. I. Wherein is proued by the Scriptures that the Catholike Roman Faith is the Faith which was planted by our Sauiour and how it hath continued and shall continue amongst the Romans vntill the day of Iudgement FIRST that the Romans receiued the Catholike Faith which our Sauiour planted Saint Paul witnesseth saying To all you that be at Rome beloued Rom 1. of God called Saints grace to you and peace from God the Father and our Lord Iesus Christ First truely I giue thankes to my God through Iesus Christ for all you Because your faith is published throughout the whole world c. I desire to see you and to bee comforted in you by the faith which is mutually yours and mine Which desire afterward he obtained And tarried in Rome full two yeares Act. 28. 30. in his hired lodging and he receiued all that came vnto him preaching the Kingdome of God and teaching the things that concerne our Lord Iesus Christ with all confidence without prohibition Whereby it is manifest that the Romans receiued the Catholike Faith planted by our Sauiour and that their faith was published throughout the whole Rom. 1. world and was Catholike and Vniuersall Secondly that the Romans were to continue in this their Catholike Faith thus planted amongst them vntill the worlds end is manifest by the Scripture saying I Isa 66. will send of them that shall be saued to the Gentiles into the Sea into Africa and Lydia into Italy and Greece c. And they shall shew my glory to the Gentiles c. And I will take of them to be Priests and Leuites saith our Lord. Because as a new heauen and a new earth which I make to stand before me saith our Lord so shall your seed stand and your name And there shall be moneth after moneth and Sabbath after Sabbath Againe the Scriptures speaking of the Romans who at the comming of our Sauiour were the strength glory and pride of the Gentiles say The strength of the Gentiles shall come to thee Againe And Isay 60 5. thy gates shall be open continually day and night they shall not be shut that the strength of the Gentiles may be brought to thee Againe You shall eate the strength of the Gentiles and in their glory you shall be proud c. For as the Earth Isay 61. 6. bringeth forth her Spring and as the Garden shooteth forth her seed so shall our Lord God make Iustice to spring forth and praise before all the Gentiles Againe Thus saith our Isay 66. 12. Lord Behold I will decline vpon her as it were a floud of peace and as a torrent ouerflowing the glory of the Gentiles the Roman Empire which at the birth of our Sauiour was the glory of the Gentiles that it might be verified which was spoken by the other Prophets saying I will make Gen. 12. 2. thee into a great Nation and I will blesse thee and magnifie thy name and thou shalt be blessed Againe I will put him Psal 88. 28. the first begotten high aboue the Kings of the earth And I will keepe my mercy vnto him for euer and my Testament faithfull vnto him I will put his seed for euer and euer and his throne as the dayes of heauen Againe Aske of me and Psal 2. 8. I will giue thee the Gentiles for thine inheritance not the refuse of the GeÌ„tiles but the Roman Empire the strength glory and pride of the Gentiles and not onely for a short time But as a new Heauen a new Earth which I make Isay 66. to stand before me so shall your seed stand and your name according to the words of the Prophet Isay before rehearsed Whereby it is sufficiently manifest that the Romant receiued the same Faith they now professe from the Apostles and they from our Sauiour and that the Catholike Roman Faith is the Faith which was planted vpon earth by our Sauiour and hath continued and shall continue Catholike or vniuersally published throughout the world vntill the day of Iudgement CHAP. II. Wherein is proued that the Catholike Roman faith was planted in this Iland of great Brittaine by the Apostles or Disciples of our Lord and hath continued heere euer since without alteration or change except in the keeping of Easter and some ceremonies in Baptisme and that no other doctrine but it can be taught for Christian doctrine without incurring the penaltie of Anathema and separation from God for euer THE Apostles and Disciples of our Sauiour Matth. 28. 19. going by his appointment to teach all Nations to obserue and doe all things
whatsoeuer hee had commanded them came within so short a time after the death of our Lord into this our Iland of great Brittan as that the Britaines ancient inhabitants of this Iland receiued their Faith and Religion from Saint Simon Zelotes Saint Paul Saint Ioseph of Aramathia a Disciple of our Lords or from all or some of them as besides these ancient Writers Theodoret de cur Graec. affect lib. 9. Dorotheus Bishop of Tyre in suo Synopsi Apostolorum Aristobulus in his Epistle which he writ to the Romans Guildas cap. 7. Nicephorus lib. 2. cap. 40. doe affirme also these Protestant Authors Camden in his Britania pag. 40. 52. and 157. Bale Cent. 1. cap. 26. Doctor Caius de Antiq. Cantab. Harrison in his Description of Brittaine annexed to Hollinshead his great Chronicle of the last edition vol. 1. pag. 23. Clapham in his Soueraigne remedie against Schisme pag. 24. Fulke in his booke against Heskins Saunders c. pag. 561. and in his Confutation of Purgatory pag. 332. Godwin in his Catalogue of Bishops pag. 1. Barlow in defence of the Articles of the Protestant Religion pag. 21. Mayson in his booke of the Consecration of Bishops c. That it might be verified which was spoken by the Prophet Isay saying I will send of them that shall bee saued to Isay 66. 19. the Gentiles to the Ilands farre off to them that haue not heard of me Againe The Ilands expect mee and the Isay 6. 9. ships of the sea in the beginning that I may bring thy sons from a farre c. That the Brittans the ancient Inhabitants of this Iland did perseuere in this said Christian Faith and Religion which they receiued from the Apostles or Disciples not onely these ancient Writers doe testifie euery one for his time Tertullian lib. contra Iudaeos Origen in Ezechiel hom 4. Athanasius in his Epistle to the Emperour Iouinian Theodoret hist Eccles lib. 1. c. 10. But also Protestants themselues giue ample testimonies that the Britaines who inhabited that part of the Iland which is now called England being destroyed and their name extinct by the Pagan Saxons yet the remnant of the Brittans which remained in Wales retained the Faith and Religion which they receiued from the Apostles or Disciples euen vnto the comming of Saint Augustine into this Iland for to conuert the English Pagan Saxons which was about the yeare of our Lord 599. as Bale in his Pageant of Popes where he saith The Brittans being conuerted by Ioseph of Aramathia held that faith at Augustines comming And Fulke in his Answere to a Counterfeit Catholike pag. 40. where hee saith The Brittans before Augustines comming continued in the Faith of Christ euen from the Apostles times FOX his Act. pag. 463. printed 1576. saith The Brittaines after the receiuing of the Faith neuer forsooke it for any maner of false preaching of others And Midleton in his Papisto mastix pag. 202. proueth by the testimony of the ancient Fathers in succeeding ages that the Brittaines did not forsake the Faith and Religion which they receiued from S. Paul and Saint Simon Zelotes and Saint Ioseph of Aramathia but continued in it with the Catholike Christians in other parts of the world That this Faith and Religion which the ancient Brittaines receiued from the Apostles or Disciples and perseuered in vntill the comming of Saint Augustine into this Iland did not differ from that Faith and Religion which Saint Augustine professed and planted in this Iland amongst the English except the keeping of Easter vpon a wrong Sunday out of ignorance in Astronomie and the accomplishment of some mysteries vsed in Baptisme besides the testimony of Saint Beda hist lib. 2. cap. 2. these Protestant Authors do affirme Francis Mayson in his book of the Cōsecration of the Bishops of the Church of England pag. 58. where he saith that Augustine said to the Brittaine Bishops If you will in these three things obey me that is in celebrating of Easter in due time in accomplishing the mysteries of Baptisme by which we are borne to God according to the maner of the holy Roman and Apostolicall Church and last of all in preaching with vs to this English Nation the word of our Lord all your other ceremonies fashions and customes though they be contrary to ours we will willingly suffer and be content to beare with And the like affirmeth Hollinshead Vol. 1. pag. 103. Godwin in his Catalogue of Bishops pag. 6. And the Protestant Author of the History of Great-Brittaine printed 1606. lib. 3. page 133. Whereby it is manifest that the keeping of Easter vpon a wrong Sunday and the accomplishment of the mysteries of Baptisme excepted Saint Augustine and the ancient Brittaines held professed and taught one and the same Faith and Religion and planted it amongst the English of this Iland who then were Pagans That the Faith and Religion which Saint Augustine professed and planted amongst the Pagan English of this Iland was the same which at this day the Roman Catholikes of this Iland doe professe not onely all Catholike Authors doe affirme but also Protestant Writers doe confesse as Iohn Bale Cent. 1. cap. 73. where he saith That King Ethelbert an English Pagan King First of all English men receiued of Gregory the first Bishop of Rome by Augustine the opinions of the Roman Religion And Cent. 13. cap. 1. hee saith That AVGVSTINE brought in amongst the English who before were Pagans Monkes Altars Vestments Images Masses Chalices Crosse Candlestickes Banners holy as they call them Vessels holy water and bookes of Roman custome Their chiefest studies were about the oblation of Masses Doctor Humfrey in his Iesuitisme part 2. pag. 5. and 627. affirmeth That Saint Gregory and Saint Augustine professed and taught Masse Purgatory Oblation of the holesome Hoast prayer for the dead Relikes Transubstantiation hallowing of Churches Indulgences Monkish life Papacie and the rest of the caos of Popish superstition as he calleth it And these saith he did AVGVSTINE a great Monk taught by GREGORY a Monke bring to the English who before were Pagan Ascham in his Apologie pro Caena Domini contra Missam pag. 33. affirmeth That Augustine was The establisher of all Popish doctrine HARRISON in his last edition of his Description of Brittanie Vol. 1. pag. 27. saith That Augustine brought in Poperie amongst the English Saxons who then were Pagan And the like affirmeth Osiander in his Epitom hist Eccl. Cent. 6. pag. 289. The Century Writers in the 6. Cent. chap. 10. col 748. and other Protestants set downe more at large in the Protestants Apologie for the Roman Church Now seeing that the Brittaines the keeping of Easter vpon a wrong Sunday the accomplishment of the mysteries vsed in Baptisme excepted were all of one Faith and Religion with Saint Augustine and Saint Augustine was in Faith and Religion a Roman Catholike or Papist we rightly inferre that our Sauiour was Author of that Faith and Religion which Protestants doe call
more set downe in the Protestants Apologie it is manifest that the Catholike Roman Faith did begin euen in the Apostles times and hath raigned vniuersally ouer the visible Church of Christians 1260. yeares if wee will beleeue the confession of our Aduersaries themselues So dread Soueraigne if the testimonies of all known Christian men who liued in all ages and times from the Apostles times vntill the rising of Luther may find grace and credit with your Maiestie they all knowne Heretikes and so reputed by both parties onely excepted doe witnesse that our Lord and Sauiour Iesus Christ was the Author of the Catholike Romane Faith for that they all beleeued and esteemed our Lord to be Author of that Religion they themselues professed And this were sufficient to shew vnto your most excellent Maiestie that the Sonne of God was Author of the Catholike Roman Faith but because Protestant Ministers do so often bragge that the Scriptures or written Word of God doth make for them I will further examine the Scriptures to see what they say of the Religion which was to be planted by our Sauiour and wil begin with the old Testamēt according to the directions of our Lord saying Search the Scriptures the olde Testament for as then no part of the New Iohn 5. 39. was written for you thinke by them to haue life euerlasting and the same are they that giue testimony of me and after descend downe vnto the New and so prooue by the generall consent of the whole Scriptures that our Sauiour was Author of the Catholike Roman Faith CHAP. IV. Wherein is proued by the testimony of Moyses and the Patriarkes that our Sauiour was Author of the Catholike Roman Faith TO discerne the true Prophet from the false and to discerne the word of God from the words of arrogant men God Almightie gaue vs this rule saying If in secret cogitation thou answere How Deut. 18. 21. shall I vnderstand the word that our Lord spake not This signe thou shalt haue that which the same Prophet foretelleth in the name of the Lord and commeth not to passe that our Lord hath not spoken But by the arrogancie of his minde the Prophet hath forged it And the Prophet that being depraued with arrogancie Deut. 18. 20. will speake in my name the things that I did not command him to say shall be slaine Whereupon our Sauiour saith All things must needs bee fulfilled which are written in the Luke 24. 44. Law of Moyses and the Prophets and Psalmes of mee otherwise Moyses and the Prophets should haue been false Prophets and our Sauiour none of the Messias but a seducer and deceiuer and the God of the Scriptures a false God So supposing that our Sauiour was the Messias promised to be sent for the redemption of mankinde and that the Prophets of both Testaments were true Prophets and not guiltie of death but prophecied things which must be infallibly fulfilled We will seeke out what they say of the Seed Faith Religion or Gospell which was to be planted by our Sauiour vpon earth And to let passe other promises and prophecies written by Moyses we will begin with that great promise and oath made by God to ABRAHAM the Father of all that beleeue Whereupon is grounded and Rom. 4. 11. founded the succession of the Church in all ages the oath of God being the highest act that can bee made in heauen or in earth in confirmation of a truth it cannot bee contradicted without great impietie or denied to be fulfilled without making the God of Abraham our Lord to bee forsworne and a false God which is the highest kinde of vntruth opposite to the greatest truth that can be giuen Abraham going to sacrifice his only begotten son Isaac according as God had commanded him so greatly pleased his diuine Maiestie in that act of obedience that he confirmed his former promise made vnto him that he should be heire of the world by an oath saying By my owne selfe haue I sworne saith the Lord Gen. 12. 3. and 15. 5. Rom. 4. 13. Gen. 22. 16. because thou hast done this thing and hast not spared thy onely begotten sonne for my sake I will blesse thee and I will multiply thy seede as the starres of heauen and as the sand that is by the sea-shore thy seede shall possesse the gates of his enemies and in thy seede shall be blessed all the Nations of the earth because thou hast obeyed my voyce He saith not saith Saint Paul and to seeds as in many Galath 3. 16. but as in one and to thy seede which is Christ That in Christ Iesus the Sonne of Dauid the Sonne of Abraham not the Nation of the Iewes or Brittans onely but all the Nations of the earth should be blessed and become children of Abraham and sonnes and seede of Christ Iesus borne againe as Saint Peter saith not of corruptible seed but incorruptible by the word of God 1. Pet. 1. 23. Whereupon Saint Paul saith to the Corinthians In 1. Cor. 4. 6. Christ Iesus by the Gospell I begate you And to the Ephesians he saith That the Gentiles are coheires and of the same body and partakers of his promise by the Gospel And so saith That Christ hath redeemed vs from the Galath 5. 14. curse of the Law that on the Gentiles the blessing of Abraham might be made in Christ Iesus that we may receiue the promise The Scriptures foreseeing that God instifieth Galath 3. 8. the Gentiles by Faith shewed vnto Abraham before that in thee shall all Nations be blessed Not for a day or a yeare but for euer according to the words of Saint Luke saying He hath receiued Israel his childe Luke 1. 55. being mindfull of his mercy As he spake to our Fathers to Abraham and his seed for euer So likewise God said to ABRAHAM SARA thy wife shall beare thee a son Gen. 17. 19. and thou shalt call his name Isaac and I will establish my couenant to him for a perpetuall couenant and to his seed after him Whereby wee see that this oath of God to Abraham is to bee fulfilled in and vpon Christians professing the Faith and Gospell planted by our Sauiour and that those Christians vpon whom this oath can or may be fulfilled are the seede of our Sauiour and the children of his Kingdome and heires of the Promises none else vnlesse we will make God Almightie forsworne which is too great impietie and a vanitie for any man to acknowledge him for a God whom he professeth in deeds to be a violater of oathes and promises So it resteth to examine whether this oath of God be verified vpon Roman Catholikes or vpon Protestants that we may clearely see which of them are true Christians and heires of the Promises and seed of our Sauiour And as for Protestants they themselues confesse that their Faith and Religion which they now professe hath been so farre off from being
haue reigned vniuersally ouer the world for twelue hundred yeares as is set downe in the third Chapter And so I conclude out of our Sauiours words that the Catholike Romane Faith must needs be the Faith and Religion which our Sauiour planted and that Romane Catholikes are true Christians since neither the promises in the bookes of Moyses nor in the Prophets nor in the Psalmes are or can bee verified or fulfilled in or vpon any other Thirdly our Sauiour speaking of the estate of his Church saith The Kingdome of heauen is resembled vnto a man that sowed good seed in his field but when men Matth. 13. 24. were asleepe his enemies came and ouer-sowed Cockle among the Wheate and went his way and when the blade was shut vp and had brought forth fruit then appeared also the Cockle And the seruants of the Good-man of the house comming said to him Sir diddest thou not sowe good seed in thy field Whence then hath it Cockle and he said to them the enemie man hath done this And the seruants said to him Wilt thou we goe and gather it vp And he said noe lest perhaps gathering vp the Cockle you may roote vp the Wheate also together with it suffer both to grow vntill the haruest and in the time of haruest I wil say to the Reapers Gather vp first the Cockle and bind it into bundles to burne but the wheate gather yee into my Barne And expounding this Parable of the Cockle of the field he said to his Disciples He that sowed the Matth. 13. 37. good seed is the Son of Man and the field is the world and the good seed those are the children of the Kingdome and the Cockle those are the children of the wicked one and the enemy that sowed them is the Diuell but the Haruest is the end of the world and the Reapers are the Angels So our Sauiour in describing his Church by which description it is manifest that our Sauiour sowed the Catholike Romane Faith and that Romane Catholikes are the children of the Kingdome of God and all other Sects of what kinde or sort soeuer are Cockle sowed by the Diuell after death or at the end of Matth. 13. 38. the world to be gathered vp and cast into a Furnace of fire Since there neither is at this instant nor yet hath been heretofore any Nation People Faith Religion or Sect which challenged the name of Christians that hath been successiuely dilated ouer the world according to our Sauiours description but the Catholike Romane Faith which as Perkins a Protestant saith Vpon the Creed fol. 307. During the space of nine hundred yeares spread it selfe ouer the whole earth Fourthly our Sauiour speaking of his Church saith The Kingdome of heauen is like vnto a mustard-seed Matth. 13. 31. which a man tooke and sowed in his field which iâ— the least surely of all seeds but when it is growne it is greater then all hearbes and is made a tree so that the fowles of the ayre come to dwell in the branches thereof Againe The Kingdome of heauen is like to Leauen which Matth. 13. 33. a woman tooke and hid in three measures of meale vntill the whole was leauened Againe The Kingdome of heauen Matth. 13. 47. is like to a net cast into the sea and gathering together of all kinde of fishes Which words of our Sauiour cannot bee verified vpon Protestantisme supposing that it was in the Apostles times as they affirme since it did not encrease or grow greater then al other sects nor leauened the whole world nor gathered together all kinde of people But so vanished away after the Apostles departure that for fourteene hundred yeares together they are not able to assigne one man professing the Religion they doe now Fiftly Our Sauiour setting downe the state of his Church to come saith I chose you and haue appointed Iohn 15. 16. you that you go and bring fruit and your fruit abide Againe This Gospell of the Kingdome shal be preached in Matth. 24. 14. the whole world for a testimony to all Nations and then shal come the consummation Againe Holy Father I pray Iohn 17. not that thou take them away out of this world but that thou preserue them from euill c. And not for the Apostles only do I pray but for them also that by their words shal beleeue in me Againe Teach yee all Nations and Matth. 28. behold I am with you all daies euen to the end of the world Which words of our Sauiour cannot be verified vpon Protestants that our Sauiour hath appointed Protestants to goe and preach in the world and bring fruit and their fruit abide or that Protestantisme should be preached to all Nations or that our Sauiour prayed that Protestants should not be taken away out of the world but be preserued from euill or that our Sauiour would be with Protestants ayding and assisting them in the conuersion of Nations euen to the consummation Matth. 28. 20. of the world since wee see it false by experience Sixtly Our Sauiour speaking of the estate of his Church saith to the chiefe Priests and Ancients of the people Haue you neuer read in the Scriptures The stone Matth. 21. 42. which the builders reiected the same is made the head of the corner By our Lord was it done and it is marueilous in our eyes Therefore I say to you that the Kingdome of God shall be taken away from you and giuen to a Nation yeelding the fruit thereof And he that falleth vpon that stone shal be broken and on whom it falleth it shal al to bruise him These words of our Sauiour cannot be verified vpon Protestants that our Sauiour should become head to vnite Iewes and Protestants together in one family of Christians or should take away his Church and Kingdome vpon earth from the Iewes to giue it to Protestants or that the Church of Protestants should yeeld more fruit then the Church of the Iewes or he that should fall vpon the Church of Protestants should be broken since as Sebastianus Francus a Protestant In epist de Abro stat Eccl. affirmeth That for certaine through the worke of Antichrist the external Church of Protestants together with the Faith Sacraments vanished away presently after the Apostles departure and that for these fourteene hundred yeares the Church of Protestants hath bin no where external and visible Which being so dread Soueraigne I appeale to your Maiestie wel pleased to consider how ignorant hee should be in the Scriptures that should make himselfe a Protestant out of hope to become one of the Kingdome of God heere spoken of That all these promises and Prophecies of our Sauiour are verified vpon Papists Protestants themselues giue sufficient testimonie who affirme that Papistrie began in the time of the Apostles and hath raigned vniuersally for twelue hundred yeares as is set downe in the third Chapter So if the words and
honor Behold how they are counted among the children of God and their lot is amongst the Saints We therefore haue erred from the way of truth and the light of Iustice hath not shined to vs. Such things said they in Hell which sinned And I set it downe for thy example that yet whilest there is time thou mayest become one of the Seede of Abraham and be partaker of his blessings which with all my heart I wish vnto thee and all Protestants and Puritans Thus hauing abundantly shewed vnto your most excellent Maiesty that our Lord and Sauiour Iesus Christ was Author of the Catholike Roman Faith It resteth to set downe who was Author of the Faith and Religion now publikely professed in England by Protestant Ministers CHAP. XIV That Queene ELIZABETH was Author of the Faith and Religion publikely now professed in England and vpon what occasion THE Kingdome of England together with the Crowne after the death of Queene Mary belonging by all Law and right vnto your Maiesties Mother as lineally descended from Henry the seuenth Henry the eights lawfull Line being ended in Queene Mary to the great prejudice of your Maiesties Mother Lady Elizabeth tooke vpon her the Crown and knowing that not only of all Catholikes shee was esteemed Illigitimate and for such published by the Church of God planted by our Sauior for that shee was borne of Anne Boloigne during the life time of the first wife of King Henry the eight her supposed Father but also by a Decree in publike Parliament holden in the eight and twentith yeare of the Reigne of Henry the eight her supposed Father Shee was to vse the words of the Statute iudged Illigitimate excluded and barred to claime challenge or demand any Inheritance as lawfull Heire to Henry the eight as remaineth yet to bee seene amongst the Statutes of Henry the eight printed by Thomas Berthlet the Kings Printer and set forth with Priuiledge And fearing lest for the said cause of Illigitimation her Subjects should forsake her and stand to the right Heire your Mother or that Christian Kings would not permit so euill a president in prejudice of the lawfull Lineall discent of Kings casting off all feare of God shee resolued at what price soeuer to reigne and to that end beganne to practise Ieroboams policie of whom it is written that hauing obtained a part of Roboams Kingdome Thought in his heart now will the 3. Reg. 12. Kingdome returne to the House of Dauid If this people shall go vp to make Sacrifice in the house of our Lord into Ierusalem the heart of this people will be turned to their Lord Roboam the King of Iuda and they will kill me and returne to him and finding out a deuice he made two golden Calfes and said to them Go vp no more into Ierusalem Behold thy Gods Israel which brought thee out of the Land of Aegypt And he put one in Bethel and another 2. Parap 11. in Dan. And he made Priests of the obiects of the people which were not of the Tribe of Leui and cast off the Priests and Leuites that were in all Israel and their posteritie that they should not execute the Priest-hood of our Lord. And by these meanes Ieroboam esteemed though falsely to establish the Kingdome of Israel in him and his Posteritie So Ladie Elizabeth being thus ascended to the Crowne of England contrary to the Law of God Nature and Nations fearing lest her Subjects should forsake Her and adhere vnto Your Mother the lawful Heire if they continued in the Catholike Faith with Your Mother and other people and Kingdomes shee put in practise this Ieroboams wicked policie and Cassered al the Catholike Priests and Bishops in this Land and their Posteritie that they should not execute the Priest-hood of our Lord and vnder a veile of a Supreame Gouernour shee tooke vpon her all spirituall Power and Authoritie and would not admit any to be Archbishop Bishop or Minister who would not abjure and renounce all authoritie deriued from Iesus Christ the Sonne of God and his Apostles and receiue all their Power Spirituall Authoritie and Iurisdiction from her a woman So that none could in her time be made an Archbishop Bishop Minister or Deacon or receiue any Degree in Schooles or beare any Office vnder her but he must first take the oath of Abrenunciation of all power and authoritie which was not deriued from Her as followeth I. A. B. Doe vtterly testifie and declare in my conscience Stat. An. 1. Eliz. cap. 1. that the Queenes Highnesse is the onely Supreame Gouernour of this Realme and of all other Her Highnesse Dominions and Countries as well in all Spirituall or Ecclesiasticall things or causes as Temporall and that no forraine Prince Person Prelate State or Potentate such as were our Lord and Sauiour Iesus Christ and the Apostles who were borne in Iuda or thereabouts hath or ought to haue any Iurisdiction Power Superiorite Preheminence or Authoritie Ecclesiasticall or Spirituall within this Realme and therefore I doe vtterly renounce and forsake all forraine Iurisdiction Powers Superiorities and Authorities And if any did refuse to take the said oath of Abrenunciation of all forraine Authoritie such as was the Authoritie deriued from our Sauiour and the Apostles and deny her Supreame Spirituall Authoritie in all things they should neither beare Office nor be admitted to any Degree in Schooles or bee made Archbishops Bishops Ministers Deacons as is set downe at large in the first Chapter of the said Statute made in the first yeare of her reigne And that there should be in her time no person or persons or man whosoeuer that might challenge any authoritie from Christ Iesus or the Apostles but that all Spirituall Power and Ecclesiasticall Iurisdiction might be wholly in her and receiued from her Shee made a Law in her said first Parliament That no forraine Prince Person Prelate Stat. An. 1. El. cap. 1. State or Potentate Spirituall or Temporall shal after the last day of this Session of Parliament Vse enioy or exercise any manner of Power Iurisdiction Superiority Authority Preheminence or Priuiledge Spirituall or Ecclesiasticall within this Realme or within any of her Maiesties dominions or Countries that now be or hereafter shal be but from henceforth the same shal be clearely abolished out of this Realme and all other your Highnesse Dominions for euer any Statute Ordinance Custome Constitutions or any other matter or cause whatsoeuer to the contrarie in any wise notwithstanding By which Law shee hath not onely abolished out of this Realme all the Authority which the Sonne of God left vpon earth but also as much as lyeth in her power shee hath debarred him from comming to Iudgement within her Dominions or sending any one hither to preach or teach that all authoritie might bee in her selfe and come from her to her Subjects as from their God or golden Calfe vpon earth And lest there might be some doubt how far her womanly
authority they can or may pretend or challenge either to administer Sacraments Teach or Preach or execute any other spiritual supposed function neither can English Protestant Ministers deny it vnlesse they deny the Queenes Supremacie and proclaime themselues to be perjured in the oath of Supremacie which they haue sworne Whereupon they are justly and truly called Elizabethians and ought not nor should not be called by any other name seeing they haue no other Author or Founder of their Religion and Priesthood but Queene ELIZABETH as we haue proued by publike Statutes And this Queene ELIZABETH did not that shee did thinke that she being a woman had Supreme authoritie in all Spirituall things or causes the Scriptures saying Let women hold their peace in the Church 1. Cor. 14. for it is not permitted them to speake but to be subiect Againe It is a filthy thing for a woman to speake in the Ibid. Church Againe Let women learne in silence with all subiection for I doe not permit a woman to teach But desirous 1. Tim. 2. to reigne in this world with whatsoeuer dishonor of God and danger soeuer of losing of her soule and damnation of her Subiects shee tooke vpon her IEROBOAMS Policies to strengthen her selfe against Your Mother So I appeale vnto your Maiesty well pleased to consider the wrong and injustice your Protestant Ministers doe vnto vs Roman Catholikes your ancient Subjects in persecuting vs with the losse of goods lands libertie and life for that we will not forsake the Religion planted vpon earth by the Sonne of God to professe in place thereof a Policie inuented by an Illigitimate woman THE CONCLVSION AND for Conclusion I humbly beseech your Maiesty well pleased to consider that without a true Faith it is imposible Hebr. 11. 6. Iohn 3. 8. to please God Againe He that doth not beleeue the Faith planted by our Sauiour is already iudged And the Iudgement is Get yee away from me yee accursed into fire euerlasting Matth. 25. which was prepared for the Diuell and his angels And presently after this sentence giuen they are cast into Hell which is as the Prophet Isay saith A profound and spacious roome his food is fire and store of wood the breath of our Lords mouth doth kindle the same like a maine Riuer of Brimstone and there bound hands and feete they are placed in a bed of Moathes to gnawe perpetually on their carkasses and in scorne of the pride of life in which they liued vpon earth couered with a couering of Lice as the Prophet Isay witnesseth saying Thy pride is drawne down into Hell thy carkas Isay 14. is fallen the moath shal be strowen vnder thee and wormes shal be thy couering And placed in this wofull and lamentable estate they are deliuered vp into the hands of Diuels who as ministers of Gods wrath power out vpon them Fire haile famine death teeth Eccles 39. Apoc. 14. of beasts scorpions and serpents And the smoake of their torments shall ascend vp for euer and euer Without any hope of ease or any possibilitie for one moment euer to haue their torments lessened for that they shall bee for euer the same as the Prophet saith He loued cursing Matth. 25. Psal 108. and it shal come to him and he would not blessing that with which God hath blessed all Nations of the earth according to his promise and it shal be far from him in all eternitie he shall neither heare or haue any which considerations ought much to moue the heart of your most excellent Maiesty to take pity vpon a number of your Subjects who haue no other Faith or Religion then that which is grounded vpon the maledictions of God and out of your compassion to restore vnto them againe the liberty of embracing the Catholike Roman Faith which as wee haue aboundantly prooued was planted vpon earth by our Lord and Sauiour Iesus Christ the Sonne of God and there is no saluation in any other And by so doing your Maiesty shall much honour God put an end to all new Sectes establish your Throne as the dayes of heauen bring abundance of peace and quietnesse to your afflicted Subjects and as you haue vnited the two Kingdomes of England and Scotland in one so you shall vnite your selfe and them to God and the rest of the Christian world and be partaker of all the blessings promised to the Catholike Church The meanes is so easie that if your Maiesty please you may do it without infringing any Law by dispensation out of your Prerogatiue Royall with all Statutes made against the Catholike Roman Faith which Faith not being euill in it selfe but truth and verity as we haue abundantly proued the Lawes of the Land giue your Maiesty full leaue to dispence with then all as is set downe in Termino Michaelis An. 11. Henrici Septimo Your most worthy Ancestor Chap. 35. saying The diuersity betweene malum prohibitum malum per se malum prohibitum is where the Statute doth prohibite that a man shall coyne no money and if he do he shal be hanged this is malum prohibitum for before the said Statute it was a lawfull act to coyne money but not after and for this euill the King may dispence c. Euen so if a man ship wooll for other places then for Calleis this is malum prohibitum for it is prohibited by Statute and for this euill the King may dispence c. in like case But malum in se neither the King nor any other can dispence withall as if the King would pardon to kill another or giue leaue to robbe vpon the high-way this is void yet when they are done the King may pardon them So it is if a man be bound by Recognisance in the Chancery to keep the Peace at the suite of another man the King cannot release the duetie for the preiudice which may happen to the other yet when it is forfeited he may well release and before not and so neither King Bishop nor Priest can giue leaue to one to commit Lechery because it is euill in se in the Law of Nature but when it is done they may absolue them very well Thus the Lawes of the Land giue libertie to the Kings of the Land to dispence with any thing which is not euill in it selfe but made euill by Act of Parliament as was the Catholike Roman Faith in the Parliament holden in the time of King Henry the eight Edward the sixt Queene Elizabeth and yourt Maiesty Whereby it is sufficiently manifest that your Highnesse may out of your prerogatiue Royall as well and with as good authoritie dispence with all penallties imposed by Statute vpon your Subjects for professing the Catholike Roman Faith and giue them free liberty to professe it as you may dispence with Merchants freely to transport out of the Realme Siluer Wooll or other Merchandize forbidden by Act of Parliament And the reasons or motiues which ought
to moue your Highnesse to dispence with the said Statutes are as many and as weightie as in any case can be giuen whereof I will repeate onely some few out of which others may be collected First for that the said Statutes are contrary to the honor of God his oathes words and Law as we haue abundantly prooued throughout this booke and as your Maiesty well affirmeth in your Speech in the Star-chamber printed 1616. There is another Law of all Lawes free and Supreame which is Gods Law And by this all common and municipall Lawes must be gouerned And except they haue dependance vpon this Law they are vniust and vnlawful Secondly they defame Christ Iesus and all Christian men who euer were before the time of King Henry the eight knowne and reputed Heretikes by both parties onely excepted For that they all eyther committed or helped or assisted or gaue counsell to commit these actions which are by the said Statutes made Treason Fellony or Criminall as we haue proued in the first second and third Chapters Thirdly they are contrary to the solemne oathes of the Kings of England taken at their Coronation according to the ancient Lawes and Customes of this Land as in the Saxon Law left by King Engward the Lex Sancti Edwardi 7. Confessor it is said That the King because he is Gods Vicegerent vpon earth is ordained to gouerne his earthly kingdome and people of God and aboue all things that hereuerence the holy Church which is our Catholike Romane Church as I haue abundantly proued defend her from the iniurious pull the euil doers from her and vtterly disperse them Againe The King ought to feare God aboue al things and keepe his Commandements through-out the Land he ought to preserue the Lands Honors Rights Dignities and Liberties of the Crowne and the Rights of the Realme such as is especially the Catholike Roman Faith planted in this Land by the Apostles lost dispersed and wasted to recall with all his power to their ancient and due estate He ought to set vp good Lawes and approued Customes and euill Lawes destroy and put from his kingdome c. All which to do the King in proper person ought to giue an oath vpon the holy Gospell and vpon the blessed Reliques in the presence of the whole kingdome the Priest-hood and the Laytie So likewise Bracton an Bracton l. 3. c. 9. ancient Lawyer saith The King at his Coronation vnder an oath in the name of Iesus Christ ought to promise these three to his Subiects First That he will command and to his power doe his endeauour that true peace be alwayes obserued to the Church of God and to all Christian people Secondly That he should forbid rapine such as is the Purseuants taking away of Catholikes goods without forme or order of Law and all iniquities to all sorts of people Thirdly That in all maner of iudgements he command equity and mercy to be vsed as he would that our benigne and merciful God should shew mercy vnto him According to which Law the Kings of England at their Coronations haue alwaies bin solemnely sworne to defend the Church of God and her liberties to set vp good Lawes and destroy euill and doe justice c. So William the Conqueror at his Coronation tooke an Stow in his life oath on the Altar of S. Peter where he promised before the Clergie and all the people to defend the holy Church of God the Pastors thereof and all the people subiect vnto him he should iustly gouerne he would ordaine good Laws and obserue true iustice and to the vttermost of his power to withstand all rapines and false iudgements MALMESBVRY maketh mention of the oath of King Stephen to this effect In the Records of the Tower in the first yeare of Edward the second and first yeare of Edward the third are set downe their seuerall oathes to this effect And your Maiesty maketh mention of your oath in your Speech in the Star-chamber 1616. saying I protest in Gods presence my care hath euer been to keepe my conscience cleare in all points of my oath taken at my Coronation Againe in the same booke and leafe I haue resolued to renue my promise and oath made at my Coronation Herein your Maiesty may bee like Asa the good King of Iuda who at the words of Azarias the Prophet 2. Parel 15. Tooke away the Idols out of the Land of Iuda and Beniamin and gathered together all Iuda and Beniamin and when they were come into Ierusalem he went in after the maner to establish the couenant that they should seeke our Lord the God of their Fathers in all their heart and in all their soule And if any man quoth he shal not seeke our Lord the God of Israel let him die from the least to the greatest from man vnto woman And they sware to our Lord witb a loud voice in iubilation and in noyse of Trumpet and sound of Shalmes all that were in Iuda with execration for in all their heart did they sweare the King and all the people to seeke our Lord the God of Israel his Law Religion and Commandements Fourthly if we will beleeue the Scriptures they will be the destruction of your Kingdome and Posteritie and therefore oblige all those who sincerely loue your Maiesty and your Posterity to desire their abrogation or dispensation Samuel said to the Children of Israel which now we Christians are I will teach you 1. King 12. 23. the good and right way Feare our Lord and serue him in truth and from your whole heart But if you shal perseuere in malice both you and your King shal perish together Againe Samuel said to SAVL Thou hast not kept the 1. King 13. 31. Commandements of our Lord thy God which he commanded thee which if thou haddest done euen now had our Lord prepared thy kingdome ouer Israel for euer but thy kingdome shall no further arise So MOYSES saith Deut. 29. 19. When he shall heare the words of this oath of the Couenant betweene God and man he blessed himselfe in his heart saying I shal haue place and walke in the priuity of my heart c. then shall Gods fury most specially fume and his zeale against that man and all the curses sit vpon him that be written in Deutronomie and our Lord will abolish his name vnder heauen Which we see by experience to haue beene verified of late yeares vpon two of the greatest Monarkes that were in Christendome Henry the eight King of England Henry the second King of France Henry the eight was the first beginner of these Statutes Henry the second went in person with thirtie thousand men to ayde the Protestants of Germany as witnesseth Serres in his life Henry the eight had fiue or sixe wiues and fiue or sixe children and Henry the second had fiue sonnes yet we see that both their names are abolished from vnder heauen their Kingdomes or Reignes ended