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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A05382	The historie of the defendors of the catholique faith Discoursing the state of religion in England, and the care of the politique state for religion during the reignes of King Henrry 8. Edward. 6. Queene Marie. Elizabeth. And our late souereigne, King Iames. ... With all, declaring by what means these kings & queenes haue obtained this title, defendor of the faith, and wherein they haue deserued it ... By Christopher Lever.	Lever, Christopher, fl. 1627.; Hulsius, Friedrich van, b. 1580, engraver.	1627 (1627)	STC 15537; ESTC S108541	141,977	384

it most assured whose interest is beleeued before he inherit because that breeds a generall regard in the hearts of all men and preuenteth the mischiefe which otherwise might happen by conspirators And in this was our English Nation most happie in hauing this Princely Sonne King Edward not onely to succeed his Father in the rule of his kingdome but also to exceed him much in Religion and holy life Obseruations Diuine Pollitique Morall FIRST Procreation and to deriue posterity is one cause in the ordinance of Marriage for therefore hath God placed that desire in our Flesh so pronely because the generations of our kinde should not faile but he continued both in number and quallitie to maintaine the Truths of Gods Decree Secondly None can deriue any thing from their Parent but what their Parents haue Naturally Therefore is there often much difference in the quallities of Father and Sonne because our Parents giue vs our Nature as it is but God as hee will please to haue it Thirdly It was euer hazardous and will be to the prosperity and saftie of the State when the Prince is childlesse or doth want one certaine knowne vndoubted heyre because when there is not a certainty of lawful Succession there is iust occasion to feare vnlawfull intrusion Fourthly Men generally are better content to giue the respects due to soueraigntie to a Prince deriued and home borne than to one that doth attaine soueraignty either by suffrage or conquest because though there be a necessity of duty in both yet the one is voluntary the other violent Fifthly Some Philosophers haue thought it better to adopt children than beget them because it is in our power to chuse the vertuous but not to forget them Sixthly It hath bene thought a shame to die childlesse because he that hath one leaueth a part of himself or at least the Image of all CHAP. XIII Of King Edwards defending the Catholike Faith and wherein hee chiefly defended it FIRST it is not possible I should relate at full the worthinesse of this Sonne of Grace and princely Defendor King Edward he deseruing by much a more honorable rememberance then the tract of this Historie can giue So large is he in his goodnesse as therin he hath done more then many his predecessors and hath best deserued euerlasting memorie and to haue his name liue in the Ranke of the best Christian Princes that euer were so rare were the gifts of God in him that hee seemed to aspire no other end but holinesse and so modest in his zeale as no marke of violence could euer bee discerned in him abhorring the effusion of all blood euen of that of his enemies insomuch that I may report with confidence that in his royall person mercie truth were met and that righteousnesse and peace did kisse each other and to conclude his praise I belieue him to haue deserued a greater commendation then this I giue him Secondly And to consider the particulars whereby the King hath principally deserued his new Stile of Defendor of the Faith First he no sooner had authority but he applied it to this holy end beginning this care with his Empire and with the inheritance of his kingdome tooke vpon him the protection of Faith and holy worship as if he regarded not his kingly office but onely to bee the better able to serue these heauenly occasions whereto in his resolution he was onely deuoted Thirdly And therfore at his first entrance into his soueraignty did he publish himselfe to the world and declared what men should expect from him and how he was in the case of Religion affected whereupon hee made protestation to defend what the King his Father had done in degrading the Pope from his Supremacie and in scattering the wicked fraternities of Fryers and Religious men women falsly professing Religion in which two particulars onely K. Henrie may seeme to haue defended the Catholike Faith And therefore in giuing allowance to his Fathers act he hath well merited to share in the honour of the deede and this his approuing what was wel done may be said to be his first good deed and therefore doe I ranke it for the first holy act of King Edward whereby he hath deserued to bee stiled Defendor of the most Catholike Faith Fourthly This honourable beginning of King Edward was not interrupted by euill meanes as was that of King Henrie his Father neither did he retire himselfe from the pursuite of an enterprize so honourable but with a holy resolution went on in the trauell of so needfull a businesse resoluing with a Christian purpose to finish what his Father had so hopefully begunne so strong was he in his desire to reforme Religion as that all his other indeauours were but seruants to that only end directed wherein he vsed such endeauour as was very admirable in his yeares and might well witnesse how much he was in the fauour of God who gaue him such rare induments in so plentifull a manner whereby hee was extraordinarily fitted for the office of his great place and for the defence of the Catholike Faith whereof he was made a patron Fifthly And this defence the king vndertooke not as a practise of state whereby to inlarge his particular in any earthly regard but hee was led thereto onely by his zeale and the perswasion of his conscience who finding by that iudgement God had giuen him how much the face of Religion was become deformed by superstition and grosse seruice and being moued by the Spirit of God to vndertake a reformation would not by disobedience resist that power that both made him and did mooue him to that purpose And therefore with the best spirit of a Christian Prince he did not onely second his Fathers honourable attempting but far outstript him in that most honourable course of Reformation his whole life being no other then the practise of his holy care regarding nothing that did not regard the aduancement thereof and gladly giuing his assent to whatsoeuer might further it Sixthly But that wherein he hath principally defended the Catholike Faith and exceeded all other Princes in his holy care was the vtter extirping of Papacie from his dominions denying the warrant of his authority for the publike exercise thereof exchanging falshood for Truth and confusion for Order reformed Religion which by long custome and euill practise was deformed And this he did with such orderly assent in Parliament they establishing what the kings Prerogatiue had commanded the King and the State ioyntly agreeing vpon an vniforme order of common prayer inioyning al obedient Subiects to the exercise thereof and denouncing such for disobedient and rebellious as should dare to vse the forbidden Ceremonies of Poperie or any other forme diuers from that which had authority from the King and Parliament the king and the State well vnderstanding that the verity of Religion

Enemies Eighthly And though the Pope challenge to be able to giue that dispensation which Iehu had giuen him of God yet is that onely presumption in the Pope for neither is he God to giue any such warrant neither is he Gods Prophet whose authority we may trust neither doth God reueale his will immediately to the Pope as he did to his Prophet Elisha neither haue his Iehues euer had that fortune and prosperous successe as had this God confounding many thousands of their damned and Rebellious practises to the honour of his name and to the shame of all such euill Ministers for this is an vnanswerable argument that the Popes power to dispence in this kinde is not from God because many of their practises succeed not which if they were from God they must of necessity prosper And therefore neither Prince Priest or Pope can giue dispensation in this kinde God onely being able to make that lawfull which without his speciall direction is most damnable CHAP. XXII A Comparison betweene Queene Mary of England and the Queene-Mother of France Katherine de Medices THESE two Ladies of all whom the Histories of our times record are nearest sutable to a paralell hauing beene both of them honourable in place of dignity both of them admirable in endowments of Nature and both of them transported by ill counsell too much effusion of Christian blood by persecution of the Protestant Religion in the seuerall precincts of their gouernement I desire not to disparrage the memorie of noble personages Historie will speake vnpartially and the Christian hearts which reade or heare of their persecutions will compassionate the troubles which holy men haue endured and though the sense of sorrowes bee past and not sensible to them who indured them yet will the knowledge of them beget a kinde of sense of those sorrowes which other men haue formerly sustained and according to our affections as wee loue or hate the cause it selfe so shall wee giue our censure of the Authors of the persecutions I forbeare therefore to prosecute the comparison in particulars the more because I pittie the frailty of their Sexe which hauing but weake iudgement is the lesse able to make resistance against stronge temptations I onely deplore their ill hap to sucke the milke of so venimous a breast as the Church of Rome which is indeed the Circe of the world transforming men by her enchanted potions into beasts and metamorphosing euen the innocent disposition of gentle Ladies and Princesses into a Leonine and Tiger like sauagenesse that Lupa Romana which as shee first fostered Romulus with the teats of a shee-Woolfe so nurseth now all others with the like milke and propoundeth the highest rewards of heauen to them that will most play the hell-hounds vpon earth shee which puts Princes vpon persecution of the Church vnder colour of zeale for the Church and stirres vp Subiects to rebellion by pretense of piety and giues the lawrell of Martyrdome vnto Treason to her we are to impute the miscarriages of these and many other worthyes whose better nature was empoysoned by bad principles instilled into them especially we may commiserate her of France because her persecution there feasted Saint Bartholmew with more Christian soules at one Supper then perished by Queene Mary the whole time of her life pray we almighty God that the bloud sucking tyranny of that Romish strumpet may haue an end that shee may bee no longer drunken with the bloud of the Saints nor the Princes of the earth no more intoxicated with her cups of abominations and so passe we from this sorrowfull and sad theme to the ioyfull times of blessed Queene ELIZABETH OF THE NEXT DEFENDRES OF THE Faith Queene ELIZABETH and by what difficulties she attained the Kingdome CHAP. XXIII FIRST I am now againe to change my Argument the gouernement being thus happily changed and to report a time of mercie and not misery of preseruation and not persecution and how the Catholike Faith was defended not offended of Queene Elizabeth and not Queene Marie Sisters indeed by the bond of Nature but most disagreeing in the gifts of Grace and holy ornaments The one defacing the other restoring the one wounding the other saluing the one offending the other defending the most Catholike Faith Queene Marie in blood Queene Elizabeth in peace in peace with God in peace with his Saints in peace with all men saue the enemie of God and Man the Idolatrous and false worship of Antichrist the which with most zealous resolution shee hath most victoriously opposed to the eternall honour of her name on earth and to her euerlasting happinesse in heauen where now shee hath most honourable place among the fellowship of those holy ones who haue best fought the Lords quarrell and best defended the profession of Faith and as it is said the daie and night diuide the yeare like indifferent partners so we may say that these two Sisters Queene Elizabeth and Queene Marie haue diuided the Renowne of the world Queene Elizabeth like the day hauing got the better part of fame honourable and holy remembrance and Queene Marie her Sister like the night the worse part a name of blood which being vttered reduceth to memorie the stories of blood and how the Saints of God were slaughtered whereby shee her selfe is made more blacke than night in giuing her name so blacke and so bad a remembrance Secondly This difference of good and bad is indeed very common in the generations of mankinde and not common to any other kinde of creature saue Man For inuegitable things we see that from one roote doe proceede many branches yet all of them of one and the same Nature and all bearing one and the same fruit but in the generations of Man it is otherwise for from on Father commonly proceedeth children of disagreeing quallities as from one Adam was deriued both righteous Habel and a wicked Caine and from one Isaac a Iacob and an Esau and so from one Henrie an Elizabeth and a Marie a day and a night a mercie and a miserie a blessed protector and a most bloodie persecutor of the Christian Faith And therefore was King Henrie much in Gods sauour and to vs was hee fauourable in making the greater part of the Kings Children the better part which seldome to any one man liuing happeneth God in his anger gaue our Nation but one Marie but in his loue he gaue vs both an Edward and an Elizabeth for so is God double as much in mercie as in iudgement neither will he that hath care ouer all his creatures suffer the cause hee so deerely loueth to want protection but if he giue his Church a Marie to trie it in the fire of persecution he will also giue it an Elizabeth to restore and refresh it Such was our noble Defendresse whose care did medicine the bodie of Religion and State which her Sister had grieuously