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A20671	An humble appeale to the Kings most excellent Maiestie Wherein is proued, that our Lord and Sauiour Iesus Christ, was authour of the Catholike Roman faith, which Protestants call Papistrie. Written by Iohn Hunt, a Roman Catholike, in defence of his religion against the calumniations and persecutions of Protestant ministers.	Doughty, Thomas, fl. 1618-1638.	1620 (1620)	STC 7072.3; ESTC S116238	58,171	97

Papistrie since that the Brittans receiued it as is before said from the Apostles or Disciples and they from our Lord and perseuered in it with Saint Gregory and Saint Augustine and the rest of the Christian world without any alteration or change sauing some mysteries vsed in Baptisme and the keeping of Easter vpon a wrong Sunday In all things else they were so agreeable to the Faith and Religion which Saint Augustine held and taught that these two things reformed he desired their helpe and assistance in the conuersion of the Pagan English Nation by preaching vnto them the Word of God which hee neither could nor would haue done had they not both these two things excepted agreed in one in al points of Faith and Religion neither did S. Austen labour to teach or reforme the Brittaines in any thing else and seeing in these two things which to Protestants seeme of little moment Saint Augustine made so great difficultie that hee would not receiue them into the Communion of the Catholike Roman Church vntill they condescended to reforme them far greater difficultie would he haue made in receiuing them if they had held any point of Protestantisme and had denied the Masse prayer for the dead worship of Images and esteemed him an Antichristian man or Idolater c. Neither would he though they should haue offered themselues haue admitted them to preach and contradict and defame him amongst the English Pagans or Gentiles vnto whom hee was sent as an Apostle much lesse would he haue required their ayde and assistance in preaching vnto them if they had accused him as Protestants do now of Idolatry Antichristian doctrine and to haue been sonne of the Whore of Babylon c. That the Catholike Roman Faith which Saint Augustine planted amongst the English Saxons is at this day and in all ages and times since the said planting hath been confessed by some knowne English inhabitants in this Iland all our Writers Chronicles Histories and Monuments Lawes in ancient time made in fauour of it Statutes of late yeeres made to suppresse it the death of many for it and the prisons full of such as at this instant doe professe it giue ample testimony and if any require further proofe I referre him to a booke intituled The prudentiall Ballance of Religion which treateth hereof at large Whereupon I conclude that our Sauiour was Author of the Catholike Roman Faith and that the keeping of Easter vpon a wrong Sunday and some mysteries vsed in Baptisme excepted it hath in al ages and times since the plantation thereof by the Apostles or Disciples continued in this Iland and that no man can or may preach or teach any doctrine for Christian doctrine but the Catholike Roman Faith vnder paine of Anathema c. according to the words of Saint Paul saying Although we or an Angell from Galath 1. 8. heauen Euangelize to you besides that we haue Euangelized to you be he Anathema as wee haue said before so now we say againe If any Euangelize to you besides that which you haue receiued be he Anathema that is seperated from God according to the words of our Sauiour saying Depart from mee yee accursed into euerlasting Matth. 24 41. fire which was prepared for the Diuell and his angels So I appeale to your Maiestie well pleased to consider the wrong and iniustice your Protestant Ministers doe vnto vs Catholikes your ancient subiects in persecuting vs for professing that Faith and Religion which was planted vpon earth by our Lord and Sauiour Iesus Christ and euen from the Apostles times vntill this day hath continued in this Iland and humbly beseech your Highnesse that you would not thinke vs disloyal or vnfaithfull to your Person or State for that we will not become Anathemaes from God For the difference which was betweene the ancient Brittans and Saint AVGVSTINE about the time of the keeping of Easter it is manifest by Saint Beda lib. 3. cap. 4. that the Brittans fell into this error for want of skill in Astronomie For they knew saith Saint BEDA as Christen men doe that the resurrection of our Lord ought alwayes to be celebrated on Sunday But as Wilfred in S. Beda l. 3. ca. 25. ignorant men in Astrologie they had not learned when that Sunday should come That the Brittans fell into this error after Constantine his time is manifest by Eusebius who lib. 3. de vita Constantini cap. 8. affirmeth that the same keeping of Easter was obserued in the Citie of Rome in Italy Africke Aegypt Spaine France Britanie Lybia and all Greece in the Diocesse of Asia and Pontus and finally in Cicilia with one vniforme consent CHAP. III. Wherein is briefely proued by the generall consent of all knowne Christian people who liued in all ages and times betweene the death of the Apostles and rising of Luther that our Lord and Sauiour Iesus Christ was Author of the Catholike Roman Faith which Protestants call Papistrie knowne Heretikes on both parties only excepted FIRST Protestants themselues confesse That the true Church so they call their Church decayed presently after the Apostles times So Fulke in his answere to a Counterfeit Catholike page 35. Sebastianus Franciscus in his Epistle de abrogandis statutis ecclesiasticis affirmeth That for these fourteene hundred yeares the Church of Protestants hath been no where externall and visible Peter Martyr de Votis page 477. saith That errours so they call our Catholike Faith did begin immediatly after the Apostles times And page 476. he saith That presently after their age men began to decline from the word of God so they esteeme their Protestantisme The Protestant Author of the booke intituled Antichristus siue Pronostica finis mundi page 13. affirmeth That from the Apostles times till Luther the Gospell of Protestants had neuer open passage Melancthon in 1. Cor. cap. 3. affirmeth Thet presently from the beginning of the Church the ancient Fathers obscured the doctrine concerning the iustification of Faith encreased Ceremonies and deuised peculiar Worships Whereupon Peter Martyr de Votis page 476. saith As long as wee shall insist vpon Councels and Fathers we shall be alwayes in the same errors And Whitaker in his Controu 2. quest 5. page 299. de Ecclesia saith BELLARMINE doth bring foorth certaine testimonies out of Caluin and the Centurie Writers who haue noted certaine errors of the ancient Fathers which they hold common with Papists that is to say of Free-will of Merit of the Limbe of Inuocation of Saints of the Vnmaried life of Bishops of Iustification c. I answere that it is true which Caluin and the Centuries haue written that in many things the ancient Church hath erred as of the Limbe of Free-will of the Merit of Workes and in other things which are aboue rehearsed WHITGIFT in his Defence to the Answere to the Admonition page 473. saith How greatly were almost all the Bishops and learned Writers of the Greeke Church and Latine also for the most

part spotted with doctrine of Free-will of Merits of Inuocation of Saints and such like And page 473. he saith Surely you are not able to reckon in any age since the Apostles times any company of Bishops that taught and held so sound doctrine in all points as the Bishops of England doe at this day Whereupon Luther in his booke De seruo arbitrio tom 2. Wittenb 1551. affirmeth the Fathers to haue been blinde and most ignorant in the Scriptures to haue erred al the time of their liues from his doctrine and that vnlesse they were amended before their deathes they were neither Saints nor pertaining to the Church of Protestants And in his Colloquijs mensalibus he saith In the Writings of Hierome there is not a word of true faith in Christ and sound religion Tertullian is very superstitious I hold Origen long since accursed Of Chrysostome I make no account Basil is of no worth he is wholly a Monke Cyprian is a weake Diuine The Apologie of Philip Melancthon doth farre excell all the Doctors of the Church and exceede euen Augustine himselfe POMERAN a Protestant vpon Ionam saith Our Fathers whether holy or not holy I esteeme nothing they haue been blinded with the Spirit of Montanus by humane traditions and doctrine of diuels c. They doe not teach purely of Iustification Beza in his Preface vpon the New Testament Dedicated to the Prince of Condy printed 1587. affirmeth That euen in the best times the ambition ignorance and lewdnesse of Bishops was such that the very blinde may easily perceiue how Satan was President in their assemblies or Councels because they taught opposite doctrine to the doctrine of the Protestants of this age Whereupon Perkins in his Exposition of the Creede page 400. in behalfe of himselfe and all Protestants saith Wee say that before the dayes of Luther for the space of many hundred yeares an vniuersall Apostasie from Protestantisme as hee meaneth ouer-spread the whole face of the earth and that our Church of Protestants was not visible to the world And many more Protestants confesse that the Faith or doctrine which Protestants now teach and professe hath been no where visibly knowne published or preached since the Apostles times vntil Luther as is set down more at large in the Protestants Apologie for the Roman Church And it is of it selfe so manifest that no Protestant hath hitherto bin able to assigne in the time betweene the death of the Apostles and rising of Luther one onely Protestant Minister Doctor Writer or Teacher that held professed or taught the doctrine which Protestants doe now hold and teach Whereby it is manifest that in all that time which is about the space of one thousand foure hundred yeares there were no knowne Protestants but all knowne Christians who liued within the compasse of these yeares were either Roman Catholikes or reputed Heretikes by both parties Whereupon we rightly inferre that all knowne Christian men who liued in all ages since the time of the Apostles vntill the rising of Luther knowne Heretikes and so reputed by both partie onely excepted doe testifie that our Lord and Sauiour Iesus Christ was Author of the Catholike Romaine Faith euery Christian beleeuing that our Lord Iesus Christ was the Author of this Religion and Planter thereof vpon earth Now that there were knowne Roman Catholikes liuing and being during these fourteene hundred yeares Protestants themselues confesse Fulke in his Treatise against Stapleton page 25. affirmeth Some Protestants haue written that the Pope hath blinded the world these many hundred yeares some say a thousand some one thousand two hundred some nine hundred And the same Protestant in his retentiue Motiues pag. 248. speaking of Leo and Gregory Bishops of Rome the first of them liuing about the yeare of our Lord 440. and the second of them about 590. saith The mystery of iniquitie so he calleth the Pope and our Catholike Faith wrought in the Sea of Rome neare fiue or six hundred yeares before them MIDLETON in his Papisto-mastix page 193. affirmeth saying Wee are sure that the mysterie of iniquitie so he pleaseth to call the Pope and our Catholike Faith did worke in Pauls time and fell not a sleepe as soone as Paul was dead c. and therefore no maruell though perusing Councels Fathers and Stories from the Apostles forward wee finde the print of the Popes feete SEBASTIAN FRANCVS in his Epistle De abrogandis Statutis ecclesiasticis affirmeth That for certaine through the worke of Antichrist so he calleth the Pope and our Catholike Faith the externall Church of Protestants together with the Faith and Sacraments vanished away presently after the Apostles departure So potent were the Pope and Roman Catholikes euen in the Apostles times that presently after the Apostles departure they were able to make the externall Church of Protestants together with the Faith and Sacraments of Protestants vanished away as this Protestant affirmeth Brokard in his Treatise vpon the Reuelations pag. 110. affirmeth That the Church of Protestants was troden downe and oppressed by the Papacie euen from Syluesters time vnto these times Which he there and page 123. accounteth to haue been for the space of 1260. yeares Napper in his Treatise vpon the Reuelations pag. 68. saith Betweene the yeare of Christ 300. and 316. the Antichristian and Papisticall raigne began raigning vniuersally and without any debatable contradiction 1260. yeares and pag. 145. he saith euen 1260. yeares the Pope and his Cleargie hath possessed the outward visible Church of Christians Yet the Pope and his Cleargie could not come to raigne vniuersally and without any debatable contradiction vpon a sudden as wee see by experience in Protestant Ministers who haue beene now about an hundred yeares and yet doe not reigne or possesse their Religion in any one Countrey without some opposition whereby it is manifest that the Pope and his Cleargie were many hundred yeares before they could obtaine to reigne vniuersally without any debatable contradiction Downham in his Treatise of Antichrist lib. 2. cap. 2. pag. 25. affirmeth That the generall defection of the visible Church foretold in the second of the Thessalonians which hee esteemeth to haue beene wrought by the Pope and Roman Catholikes began to worke in the Apostles times Caelus secundus Curio in his booke De amplitudine Regni Dei lib. 1. pag. 43. saith Are we ignorant in how great darkenesse blindnesse and ignorance so he calleth our Catholike Faith the world hath continued almost from the Apostles age to these very times in which aboue all expectation our Lord began to manifest himselfe And Perkins vpon the Creed page 307. affirmeth That during the space of nine hundred yeares the Popish heresie so he pleaseth to call the Catholike Roman Faith hath spread it selfe ouer the whole earth whereby appeareth that it was fiue or sixe hundred yeares before since it could not spread it selfe of a sudden ouer the whole earth And by these confessions of Protestants themselues and by many

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