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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A80659	A treatise against recusants, in defence of the oath of alegeance. With executions of consideration, for repressing the encrease of Papists. / By Sir Robert Cotton, knight.	Cotton, Robert, Sir, 1571-1631.	1641 (1641)	Wing C6502; Thomason E205_1; ESTC R212611	26,099	47

people still retaine a sense of the Romane perfume The cause is that the formall obedience of comming to Church hath been more expected than the instructions of private families A man is said to know so much as he remembreth and no more and wee remember what we learne in our youth therefore if we would be wise when we are old we must be taught yong Publike Catechisme is of great use but the first elements thereof are to be learned at home and those which we learne of our Parents stick more surely in our mindes What was the cause that the Spartans continued their government so many revolutions of time without mutation Histories record that learning their country customes from their infancy they could not be induced to alter them and in this our native soile we perceive that common Lawes which relie on ancient custome are better observed than late Statutes of what worth soever they be So doth it fare with the olde people who being seasoned with the olde dregs of Papisme will hardly be drawne from it till the learning of the true faith be growne to a custome I will prescribe no orders or officers to effect this Such as the Princes house is such is the state of the commons for the most part so that a Prince by a survey of his owne house may have an ●aime how the common-weale is affected But I suppose the ancient laudable course of the Bishops Confirmation will not be sufficient to fulfill so great a taske The Ministers ought and must be the principall and immediate hands to give assistance to so gracious a worke and in case any be defective in this duty the reverend Bishops may take notice thereof in their visitations Perhaps it might be thought a hard taske to constraine old people to learne the A B C. of their Christian beliefe By the lawes we are the tithingmen which give account for ten housholds some such office might do good in this case for I hold the breaking of the saboth to be the ruine of our religion But howsoever it be I hold it no incivility to prepare people of all ages for the kingdome of heaven by the order contained in the booke of Common Prayer or Sundaies and Holy-daies halfe an houre before Evensong the Curate of every Parish ought to examine Children sent unto him in some points of their Catechisme and all Fathers Masters and Mothers should cause their Children and Apprentises to resort unto the Church at the time appointed there obediently to heare and be ordered by the Curate untill such time as they shall learne all that in the said Booke is commanded And when the Bishop shall appoint the Children to be brought before him for their Confirmation the Curate of every parish shall send or bring in writing the names of those children in his Parish which can answer to the questions of the Catechisme And there ought none to be admitted to the holy Communion It were fit also they learned how to distinguish the common grounds of Popery whereby the Priests deceive your people nor be confirmed untill such time as he can say the Catechisme Many times I have stood amazed to behold the magnificence of our ancestors buildings which their successors at this day are not able to keep up But when I cast mine eyes back upon this excellent foundation laid by the grave Fathers of the Church and perceive their Children neglect to build upon it with exceeding marvaile I rest almost besides my selfe For never was there better ground-plot laid which was seconded with lesse and worse successe It was not the hanging up of the Bull of Pius Quintus on the Bishop of Londons doores He that knowes not the true cause of an evill cannot help it but by chance which is a dangerous guide of a State for the forbearing to hang up Priests hath wrought the A postacy but the idlenesse and insufficiency of many Teachers conspiring with the peoples cold zeale that have been the contrivers of this unhappy web Vntill the eleventh yeare of Q. Elizabeths raigne a Recusants name was scarcely knowne The reason was because the zeale begotten in the time of the Marian persecution was yet fresh in memory And the late persecutors were so amazed with the sudden alteration of Religion that they could not choose but say Digitus Dei est hic in these there was an emulation betwixt the Clergy and the Laity and the strife arose who should shew themselves most affectionate to the Gospell Ministers haunted the houses of worthy men where Jesuits now build their Tabernacles And Countrey Churches were frequented with the best of the shire Where good men are afraid to call vice by the proper name it is a signe the vice is common and great persons whom it is not safe to anger are infected with it the word of God was precious and prayer and preaching went hand in hand together untill Archbishop Grindals disgrace and Hatfields hard conceit of prophecies brought the flowing of these good graces to a still water and the name of a Papist smelt ranke even in their owne nostrils and for pure shame to be accounted such they resorted daily to our English Churches and exercises But when they saw their great Coripheus Sanders had slily pinned the name of Puritans upon the sleeves of the Protestants that encountered them with most courage and perceiving that the word was pleasing to some of our owne side that tooke hearty grace to set little by the service of God and duty to their Soveraigne If these mens zeal had been put to imploy it selfe otherwise and a taske set them to do some good they might have been reformed or made harmelesse by diversion Therewith started up amongst us some that might have been recommended for their zeale if it had been tempered with discretion who for ruining the authority of the Magistrate tooke upon them in sundry places and publikely to censure whatsoever agreed not with their conceit with which crosse tumults vented in Pulpits and Pamphlets most men grew to be frozen in zeale and in such sort benummed that whosoever as the worthy Lord Keeper Bacon observed in those daies pretended a little sparke of earnestnesse he seemed no lesse then red fire hot in respect of others Headstrong passions are not easily subdued yet must they not be suffered to grow to a faction Discretio perlegem distinguere quid sit wee must lay the burthen in the right place And as some things fare the worse for an ill neighbours sake dwelling besides them so did it betide the Protestants who seeking to curb the Papists or reprove an idle drone was incontinently branded with the ignominious note of a Precisian And which winde brought plenty to the Popes Well And there will most men grinde where they see appearance to be well secured If without great inconveniency the children of Papists could be brought up out of their company that were