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A09885	A refutation of an epistle apologeticall written by a puritan-papist to perswade the permission of the promiscuous vse and profession of all sects and heresies wherein the vnlawfulnesse and danger of such wicked licence is fully declared by auctoritie of Scriptures, canons, councels, fathers, lawes of Christian emperours, and iudgement of reason. Together with the punishment of heretiques and idolaters.	Powel, Gabriel, 1576-1611.	1605 (1605)	STC 20149; ESTC S114980	80,389	128

A REFVTATION OF AN EPISTLE Apologeticall written by a Puritan-Papist to perswade the Permission of the promiscuous Vse and Profession of all Sects and Heresies Wherein the vnlawfulnesse and danger of such wicked Licence is fully declared by auctoritie of Scriptures Canons Councels Fathers Lawes of Christian Emperours and iudgement of Reason Together With the Punishment of Heretiques and Idolaters LONDON Printed by Arnold Hatfield for Thomas Man Iunior dwelling in Pater-noster-Row at the signe of the Talbot 1605. To the Christian Reader AS the famous City of TROY stood inuincible by any externall power of Grecke assaults vntill by Sinons craftie and deceitfull sleights the Troians were perswaded to breake their walles the rocke of their defence to receaue the Epean Horse out of which issued the destruction of their citie The Sinonian praectises of Papists to subuerts the State So the Ecclesiastique and Ciuill estate of Great BRITAINE being inexpugnable by any force of outward violence many subtill and pernicious Sinons deceitfully labour to perswade our dread Soueraigne to breake vnity of Religion the bond of our securitie to receaue into his Dominions the Epean monster of Popish Heresie which would be the vtter ouerthrow and ruine both of Church and Common-wealth of his royall Person and State To this end these cunning Work-masters haue bent all their wits and forces for their best aduantage for they haue omitted no meanes refused no labour spared no cost soliciting their Friends abroad and Fauourers at home earnestly to importune his sacred Maiestie in their behalfe And Camelcon or Proteus-like they haue transformed themselues into all formes and colours writing vnto his Highnesse Petitions Supplications Bookes Dedicatories Apologies and Epistles vnder the maske and vizour sometimes of Catholique Noblemen and worthie Gentlemen of England sometimes of Spirituall sometimes of Lay-Catholiques and now lastly because they would leaue no meanes vnattempted of True and Charitable Brothers of the Reformed Church Wherein I can but maruell at their behauiour and carriage towards his Maiestie The Papists hypocriticall dealings towards the Kings Maiestie For one while Serpent-like to insinuate into his Highnesse fauour thus they sycophantize 1 Papists 1. Supplication vnto his Maiestie Puisant Prince and orient Monarch 2 Pap. 1. Supplie Your rare perfections and admirable gifts of wisedome prudence valour and iustice 3 Pap. 2. Supplie Such a King to whom that may be applied Misericordia Veritas obuiârunt sibi Iustitia Pax osculatae sunt 4 Ibidem A Prince of mercy and iustice 5 Pap. 3. Supplic Your rarest clemencie 6 Ibidem Your singular and rarest wisedome 7 Pap. 3. Supplic Your Princely power and pietic 8 Pap. 4. Supplic Your Highnesse sit yeeres to gouerne and your long and successefull experience in the affaire being the Art of Arts and the Office of God 9 Ibidem Your Maiesties reguardfull loue the good triall of prowesse wisedome iudgement clemency beauty compassion the edification of your exemplar life 10 Papist 3. Supplicat cap. 1. Your Maiesties Candor and Clemencie is knowen vnto vs and by vs blazed throughout the Christian world 11 Ibidem Your heroicall vertues are made notoriout by our tongues and pennes 12 Papist 5. Supplicat cap. 7. So magnanimious a Monarch as your Maiestie is 13 Doctor Bishop against M. Perkins in the Ep. Ded. Your excellencie your high clemencie your exceeding clemencie mildenesse and rare modesty 14 Ibidem So louing affable a Soueraigne so learned 15 Epistle of the charitable brother fol. 9. So profound so mature in iudgement 16 Papist 4. Sup. Kellison in the Epist Dedic to his Surucy Your Maiesties direct title 17 Pag. 4. Supplic Your vndoubted right 18 Bishop against Perkins in the Epist Dedicat. Your Maiesties deepe wisedome and iudgement 19 N. D. in his 3. Conuers part 1. in the Dedicatorie Addition to the Catholiques A Prince most like vnto Constantine Againe 20 Pap. 1. Suppl Your Maiesties peerelesse Mother 21 Pap. 2. Suppl The good Queene you Mother 22 Bishop against Perkins in the Epistie Dedicat. towards the latter end Your most sacred and deare Mother 23 Pap. 2. Suppl Her title her religion her Princely vertues 24 Pap. 4. Supplic Your blessed and renowmed Mother 25 N.D. in his 3. Conuers in the Dedicat. Addition Such a Mother and such a Cause 26 Ibidem A Princesse most like vnto the Empresse S. Helena Also 27 Pap. 4. Suppl The Papistes reproaching and re●●tling his Maiestie The noblest disposition of our yong Prince and his Brother the rare vertues of their Queene Mother our most respected Princesse All which it is apparant how hypocritically they are auerred by the Papistes seeing Another while full like themselues they raile and reuile his Highnesse wishing him not 28 Bishop against Perkins in the Dedicatorie Epi. so heauily to persecute the Papistes Yea and sometimes they plainely threaten and terrifie his Grace 29 The Papistes threatning of the State These vniust courses of theirs the Protestants haue bred deepest discontentments and very mortall iniuries within the Realme which certainely had now broke forth to the destruction of many if hope conceiued of your gracious Clemencie and redresse had not made the stay Heere by the way the wise Reader may consider what it was that detained the Papistes from their intended tumults and rebellion against his Maiestie at his first enterance notwithstanding their great shew of applause and ioy was it not Hope of redres c. when this Hope is taken from them they will fall to their old plots and practises againe against the State and his Highnesse Person for all their pretence of Loyaltie and Submission And of his Highnesse And indeed so much they seeme to insinuate in expresse tearmes saying 30 Bishop against Perkins in the Dedicatorie Epist not farre from the end And when they the Papistes shall see No HOPE of remedie the state being now setled and a continuall posteritie like to ensue of one nature and condition God knoweth what that forceable weapon of necessitie may constraine and driue men vnto at length Behold the loyaltie and fidelitie of Papistes But God be praised his Maiestie need not feare these pyrgopolinizing Champions for all their desperate threats and big lookes He that hath more then ordinarily preserued his Highnes His Maiesties strange preseruation and deliuerance and deliuered him from manifold imminent dangers euer from his infancie hitherto which great effects are commonly neuer wrought but to great ends and now hath setled the Crowne vpon his head will doubtlesse defend and keepe him heereafter for effecting those ends wherefore he was so strangely preserued which I hope are Ciuill and Ecclesiasticall Vnitie amongst his Subiects The Ends wherefore his Ma. was so preserued the establishing of the Brittish Monarchie and the

as Sibboleth bewraied an Ephraimite Iudg. 2.6 so the Libellers style his words and phrases among many other euident reasons descrie that he is an admirer of the Decretall doctrine which appeareth as well out of this very Title as out of the Booke it selfe Arguments that the Auctor is a Papist I Out of the Title 1. By those words true and charitable Brother of the Reformed Church which it is not likely that any man would affirme of himselfe 2. Out of these words by searching the Scriptures and examining their Spirits for the sense c. which is not the vsuall style of any Protestant 3. Because he distinguisheth betweene Protestants and them of the Reformed Church which no Reformer euer did II Out of the Booke it selfe To omit his style words or phrase of speech it appeareth he is a Papist 1. Because he citeth the Scriptures in Latine after the vulgar Translation as fol. 1. b. 2. a. 3. a. 4. b. 5. b. 11. a. c. 2. Because he braggeth of the number and multitudes of Papistes fol. 2. b. 5. b. 3. Because he speaketh of the late Queene without any reuerence fol. 3. b. 6. a. 21. a. 22. b. and sometimes with contempt and reproach fol. 9.6.22 b. 4. Because he speaketh promiscuously somtimes in the person of a Puritane fol. 2. b. c. sometimes in the person of a Protestant fol. 4. a. 8. b. 19. b. 23. a. and sometimes discloseth himselfe a plaine Papist fol. 13. a. 20. a. 5. Because he vrgeth the diuision betweene Protestants and Puritanes to be not in ceremonies onely but insubstantiall points of faith fol. 4. a. which the Puritanes do not affirme 6. Because he tearmeth the Kings coronation and vnction Papisticall ceremonies fol. 4. b. which Puritanes do not 7. Because he slandreth and belieth his Maiestie to take vpon him the title of Supremacie he meaneth Supreame head of the Church for otherwise the Puritanes neuer denied his Maiesties lawfull Supremacie in all causes Ecclesiasticall and Ciuill in matters of Religion fol. 5. a. 8. Because he slandereth the kingdome to containe all Sects of Religion fol. 6. a. 9. a. 10. b. 19. b. 9. Because he slandereth the Queenes gouernement and saith that Papistes are faithfull to God in their Religion fol. 6. a. 11. a. c. Which Puritanes cannot endure 10. Because he maketh the Puritane to speake phanaticallie and to contemne the Booke of articles fol. 8. b. 9. a. yea and sometimes falsly to accuse himselfe of sedition and treason fol. 14. b. 11. Because he speaketh disgracefully of Bishop Iewell and fauourably of his Aduersaries fol. 13. a. 12. Because he praieth that Iewels Chalenge may be prosecuted in all points which no Puritane doubteth of fol. 13. a.b. 13. Because he glanceth at the Queene for protecting the Netherlanders fol. 18. a.b. 14. Because he belieth Luther to haue dealt with the Germans to call in the Turke fol. 20. a. 15. Because he wisheth the Kings Maiestie to keepe friendship with the Pope himselfe fol. 21. b. 16. Because he desireth marriage with Spaine fol. 23. a. But to leaue the Auctor as he is a Machiauellian Hypocrite let vs come to the Libell and examine how Toleration tendeth to vnitie of Religion Loyaltie to the Kings Maiestie c. as is pretended in the Title VVOrshipfull and my louing brother in the Lord I haue receiued your louing aduertisements by writing and I honour you the more aswell for that I see thereby your sincere affection continued towards me as also for your singular zeale euer to maintaine the Gospell In which respects I take in good part your seuere reprehension and distast of the aduise I lately gaue for a milder course in matters of b Religion then hath beene for many yeares in this Realme followed Whereas you protest to rem●in still my friend notwithstanding our difference in opinion touching this point therein appeareth your well grounded affection and loue towards me and I could wish that all our brethren would keepe the same course of charitie towards all men howsoeuer they differ from vs in sense or opinion So should we beare the marke of true Religion and by this badge be knowen to be Christs disciples if we loue our Enemies Christ commannded vs to loue our neighbour and declared as you know that the Samaritan was neighbour to the Iewe and th●refore not to be excluded from his loue howbeit otherwise he could not communicate with him in diuine affaires Your zeale is commendable in that you say with Paul Vtinam abscindantur qui vos conturbant for with him you may so pray that they which withstand and hinder the course of the Gospell were cut off and rooted out But in that you wish them to be cut off by the sword and I contrariwise by the force of Gods word in this our opinions are different Fol. 2 a Wherefore my drift is in this Apologie and defence first to set downe plainely my opinion and then to lay open the reasons that mooued me thereto And so to come to the matter I wish with you and pray as Christ himselfe did that all the Kings Maiesties subiects may be made one in Christ to acknowledge all one God to embrace all one Faith to liue vnder the rules of one Law and so to agree if it may be in will and affection that we may be all Cor vnum anima vna One hart and one Soule and this we both agree to be best not onely in regard of the Soules health and eternall saluation but also for the ciuill policie and temporall gouernment of his Maiesties Dominions For whosoeuer would wish or seeke to 1 By this Reason the Libeller is neither of God nor a good Poluician for in the whole course and scope of this Epistle he aymeth at nothing so much as to nourish diuision nourish diuision in any sort as he cannot be of God so is he not to be accompted a good gouernour or right politician In our last assembly at London it was our prayer as you may well remember that the Kings Maiestie exalted to so great a Monarchie and gouernment of so many 2 All his Maiesties Kingdomes through Gods speciall blessing professe the Gosell only some fewe particuler members in the same are diuersly affected in Religiō which are neither so great nor so many in number God be thāked that any of his Highnesse Kingdomes should be denominated of them kingdomes diuersly sorted and affected in Religion might haue that gracious vertue of the Adamant stone to draw vnto him and b winne to vnity in Faith the people of diuerse nations so committed to his charge For who of vs all doth not desire from his hart that the 3 As who would say the Protestāts walked in darkenesse as well as Papistes Protestants and Papists of England which are many in number and the Papists of Ireland where there are 4 The whole kingdome of Ireland man festly selandred fewe or none

that the truth feareth no triall and flieth not the open pulpits and publique disputations The learned writers tooke it then for a disgrace to their writings to be quitte by Proclamation which thing once my selfe 11 Note well Ergo the Libeller is a man both of yeeres and place or qualitie amongst vs. Which causeth me to suspect that he can be no Seminarie locust nor Apocalypticall frog or Iesuite being in company at a dinner was cast in M. Iuells dish and hence it proceede that the answeres of the aduersaries the more they were forbid the better they were esteemed to the disuniting of many that were most earnest before with M. Iuell in his challendge as the Lord Copley so they termed him D. Steeuens and others And if it shall please his Maiestie that the said challendge be 12 But that challenge was neuer yet wholy answered by the Papists Is it likely that the Libeller is a Puritane seeing he doubteth of the truth of Iewels challenges prosecuted and triall made for the truth especially among the learned in the publique Schooles and Vniuersities and that not in one point only b but in all he shall giue great satisfaction to euery one that in this time of so many sects hath care to finde the truth they that haue the truth shall be confirmed and such as know it not shall more easily find it by such a free search and inquisition Of triall by Disputation The Papistes euer foiled in Disputation Now the Libeller mainely laboureth to perswade triall by disputation wherein I can but wonder at his impudency considering alwaies in euery conference the Papists fled before vs. Martin Luther and Philip Melancthon maintained the cause of the Gospell by disputation before the greatest States of Germanie against as subtill instruments of Satan as euer since haue risen vp to oppugne the truth Theodore Beza a man of rare knowledge and vtterance assisted with Peter Martyr disputed this cause at Poyssie with the choice of the Sorbone and of all the Papistes of France that the Cardinall of Lorraine wished that Beza that day had beene dumbe or the chiefe of his Auditours deafe I will not mention the disputation of Zuinglius Oecolampadius and others at Bearne Basile Strasborough Zurich and other free Cities in all which the truth was euer found among the Protestants But to speake heere of the like at home So it was also in the disputation in King Edwards time And in Queene Maries albeit they brought those worthie Martyrs of Christ Cranmer Ridley and Latimer to dispute at Oxford with most vnreasonable inequalitie and conditions yet they so foiled and wounded their enemies that both those that were present and whosoeuer shall yet read it to this day may easily see that they fought valiantly with the sword of the Spirite to the confusion of those that stroue against them In the beginning of Queene Elizabeth her most blessed and happie raigne the Popish Bishops and greatest Clerks were prouoked and appointed by auctoritie to dispute if they were able to maintaine their doctrine against the Ministers of the Gospell But after a few impertinent words they gaue ouer their cause in the plaine field and so ridiculously handled the matter that it is maruell that the remembrance of the confusion and shame of that day doth not terrifie the Papistes from once daring againe to moue the matter of disputation with vs. But as the Prouerb saith He that runneth away may fight againe So Campian the Iesuite came with open defiance to prouoke the Protestantes to fight with him boasting to maintaine his cause by Scripture Councels Fathers by all Lawes Ciuill Canon and Common and by all Histories and monuments of former ages But what the issue was and how his glorie was turned into shame the Acts of those disputations in publique print do manifestly declare So this Puritan-Papist as also some others of the same crew crake much of disputation and conference But if it pleased his Highnesse and the State if necessitie or conueniencie did so require questionlesse the rottennesse of their cause should soone appeare For we haue the Arke of the Lord among vs we haue his siluer Trumpets sounding continually in our campes Though they came about vs like Bees yet should they be quenched as a fire of thornes they put confidence in themselues but in the name of the Lord of Hostes we should preuaile against them Concerning the challenge of that worthy and learned Bishop Iewell of reuerend memorie B. Iewels challenge he vndertooke and performed against the Papistes those seuen and twentie points wherein they differ from vs and the Primitiue Church which remaine vnanswered vnto this day sauing that D. Harding prated a little in the first point onely which yet was so defended against him and some one or two others that tooke his part that they quite left the field and fled And as hitherto by writing to the glory of GOD to the gathering and edifying of his Church we haue defended and maintained the trueth against them So by the grace and assistance of GOD many of vs will be alwaies ready to do the same hereafter Restraint of Hereticall Bookes But if they will haue their Bookes passe freely without restraint and all men to be allowed to read them Let them first assure vs that they will leaue it free for all such as are abused by them to reade ours For we are not ignorant of their discipline to the keeping of the poore and ignorant people in that captiuitie that they may not once dare to reade our writings least they should be conuerted and repent that the Lord might saue their soules For a few onely excepted whom they thinke desperate of being conuerted by any meanes vnto the truth they restraine all vnder their iurisdiction from reading our workes If they so straitly prouide to hinder the truth and to keepe Captiue simple soules in their blinde kingdome of darkenesse much more reason haue our Magistrates to prouide that the children of light be not led into darkenesse by them Gamaliell is noted by Luke for a man of 1 Mutuò muli scabunt One Pharisie commendeth another deepe iudgement and worthy Doctor in the Law of Moises and commended much for his 2 It was a very foolish counsell politique aduise giuen the high Priest and body of the Councell to take heede to themselues what they entended to doe touching the Apostles who seemed to them to teach a new doctrine For said he If this counsell or this worke be of men it will come to naught but if it be of God yee cannot destroy it least ye be found euen fighters against God And in this kinde he gaue certaine instances in Theodas and Iudas of Galiley For as the truth cannot be ouercome so errour and heresies cannot long stand but will at length of them selues perish and it is certaine that heresies which arise among Christians are as Augustine well noteth