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A04323	A supplication to the Kings most excellent Maiestie wherein, seuerall reasons of state and religion are briefely touched: not vnworthie to be read, and pondered by the lords, knights, and burgeses of the present Parliament, and other of all estates. Prostrated at his Highnes feete by true affected subiects.	Colleton, John, 1548-1635.; England and Wales. Sovereign (1603-1625 : James I)	1604 (1604)	STC 14432; ESTC S107663	42,852	54

assigned Bishop of Antioch h Aduersus haeres lib. 4 ca 32. 34 lib. 5. ca. 2. Irenaeus scholar i Feu-ardentius in vita eius to S. Policarp and he scholar to S. Iohn Pope k Epist 1. cap. 2. Anacletus the fourth from S. Peter Pope l Epist 1. cap. 4. Alexander the second from Anacletus Pope m Epist ad omnes vniuersaliter cap. 2. Telesph●rus the second frō Alexander with others their next successors n Apud Gratianum de consecratione distinctione 1. cano omnes Basilicae Higinus o In Codice 5. librorum li. 4. ca. 117. Pius p Apud Burchardum lib. 5. ca. 29. Iuonem part 2. cap. 98. Anicetus q Apud Gratianum de cons●crati dist 1. cano hoc quoque Soter all receiued Saincts and Martyrs Also the Liturgie of the church of Rome deliuered by S. Peter the Liturgie of the church of Hierusalem written by S. Iames the Liturgie of the church of Alexandria composed by S. Marke the Liturgie of the church of Milan made by S. Barnabas The Liturgie of the church of Cappadocia compiled by r Ploruit circiter annum 370. S. Basil The Liturgie of the church of Constantinople set forth by S. ſ Floruit anno Christi 380. Chrysostome And likewise the Liturgies of the Aethiopian Syrian and Armenian churches which all with some other do most cleerely witnesse the sacrifice vse and veneration of the Masse and do also approue the ceremonies and diuine mysteries represented and expressed therein In like manner for proofe and direct euidence of the ancient practise fruite and obligation of auricular Confession S. a Apostolicar constitut lib. 2. cap. 33. epist 1. ad Iacobum fratrem Domini Clement S. b Epist 8. ad Demophilum Dionysius S. c Aduersus haereses lib. 1. ca. 9. floruit circiter an 160. Irenaeus d Homil. 2. in Leuiticum Hom. in Psal 37. floruit 230. Origen e Lib. de paenitentia cap. 10. 12 floruit 200. Tertullian S. f Lib. de lapsis floruit 250. Cyprian g Li. 4 diuinar constitution ca. 17. floruit 320. Lactantius who so highly aduanceth Confession as he maketh it one distinctiue note h Idem cap. vlt. eiusdem libri of the true Church S. i Serm. in illa verba Profecti in pagum qui cu● aduers c. floruit circiter annum 340. Athanasius S. k Canone 18. in Matthaeum flor 346. Hilarie l Lib. de paenitentia confess flor 350. Pacianus S. m In regulis breui●rib regula 229. 288. Basil S. n Tom. 5. lib. 2. de sacerdotio Chrysostom S. o Epist 80. ad episcopos Campaniae epist 91. ad Theodorum Foroiulij episcopum flor 450. Leo with other writers of best note in euery age since Christes time hitherto And as the primitiue and ancient Fathers and Saincts do yeeld their abundant testimonie in confirmation of these two points so do they vndoubtedlie also afford if this place would giue leaue to particularize very ample euidence in all the other points before mentioned and in question betweene vs and our oppositors Nay if we may be so bold as to deliuer our opinion plainely without concealing ought in this matter the maner that our aduersaries vse in citing places out of the auncient Fathers against vs is but the studie of meere wrangling and no other then a demonstratiue token of an exceeding contentious spirit wilfullie affecting to blindfold and mislead it selfe For were they sincere and loued truth aboue all things they could not possible dismember wrest and pick out sentences of their works in the order and to the purposes they do not letting to rack their words to a sense which the writers neuer meant yea contrarie oftentimes euen to the generall scope and drift of those bookes whence they cull the peeces they alleadge contrarie to the euident letter and plaine passages of their other writings contrarie to the faith they professed liued and died in contrarie to the religion of the age they wrote in contrarie to the doctrine of the Church that first admitted them for Doctors or receiued them for Saincts contrarie to the profession of their liues and state of vocation contrarie to the language and nature of their owne deedes to the titles and dignities they held and to the opinion and censure which all former ages retained of such their parcels of writing So that words and words commonly disioynted from that went before or followeth after must ballance and beare more sway and credit for condemning vs of error then the writers liues selfe deedes their practise profession other their works or neuer so many apparant testimonies of theirs to the contrarie for the truth of our religion 27. A religion of whose doctrine and communion in Sacraments all the Saincts in the Kalendar the patrons of Churches countries conuerters of nations to Christianitie all personages of either sexe memorable for holines for renouncing the world for mortifying their appetites for surrendring their wills or for any other excellent and true virtue were and so liued and died as the authenticall legends of their liues and other ecclesiasticall writings do testifie and beare apparent record to the whole world 28. A religion not destitute of any kinde of proofe but her positions confirmable by Scriptures by Apostolicall institutions by Counsels oecumenicall and prouinciall by Fathers Doctors reason histories chronologies prophesies visions reuelations miracles traditions and by all these and other like heads we say confirmable without wrest straine or flying to tropes or figuratiue speeches So as these words in the Canticles seeme only verifide of our church and religion Thy neck that is the puissance of Christes Church is as Cantic 4. v. 4. the towre of Dauid which is built with bulwarks a thousand shields hang on it all the armour of the strong 29. A religion which a Act. 2. beginning at Ierusalem hath as a riuer through the length of her course euer more and more increased and spread it selfe as it was prophesied that the Church of Christ should b Psal 2. 8. I will giue thee saith God the Father to God the Sonne nations to thine inheritance which is his Church and the ends of the earth to thy possession c Esay 2. 2. All nations shall run vnto her d Dan. 7. 14. All people tribes and tongs shall serue him e Esay 60. 10. The sonnes of strangers that is of the Gentils shall build vp her walls and their Kings do seruice vnto her Now that these and innumerable other like predictions and prophesies are only found true and fulfilled in our Catholick Roman church and religion both the seuerall conuersions of nations vnto her and the infinite multitude dispersed euery-where of her beleeuers do as nothing can more clearely testifie And how greatly it spred it selfe euen when it first put

then created Cardinall and afterward elected Pope of Rome In which dignitie he liued 13. yeeres and odd moneths and died the yeere of our Lord 604. He wrote in the allowance of i Lib. epist 7. ca. 35. Images approued the making of k Eod. lib. cap. 109. pictures in the walls and windowes of the Church terming them the instruction or bookes of the vnlearned and reprehended the l Ibid. lib. epist 9. ca. 9. breaking or defacing of them only vpon abuse which some ideots committed as a thing not lawfull and scandalous He appointed the Monke m Tom. 1. li. 4. dialogorum ca. 55. Preciosus to say Masse 30. dayes together for Iustus his fellow Monke deceased Hee relateth n Ibid. ca. 57. two miracles which God through the sacrifice of the Masse most admirablie wrought One vpon a Captiue whose fetters so often fell off as his wife beleeuing him to be dead procured Masse to be said for his soule The other vpon a Shipman named Baracha who through the same most sacred and propitious oblation was being reputed to be drowned very miraculouslie fed and deliuered after shipwrack Hee augmented a Platina Iohannes stella in vita eius the Letanie ordained the b Iohannes Diaconus li. 2. ca. 18. stations at Rome incited to the going c Ipse B. Gregorius li. 2. epist ca. 21. on pilgrimage and visitation of holy places Hee greatly d Idem ibid. cap. 42. affected to see and reuerence the coate of S. Iohn Euangelist and trusted to receiue spirituall profit thereby He e Lib. 7. epistolarum ca. 126. sent a piece of the Holy Crosse f Lib. 1. epist ca. 29. 30. li. 6. epistol cap. 189. lib. 11. epist ca. 67. Powder filed off from S. Peter and S. Paules chaines some of g Lib. 7. epist ca. 126. S. Iohn Baptists haire and the h Lib. 5. epist ca. 150. reliques of other Martyrs to seuerall great personages for benediction and veneration sake He trauailing in the gowt and enforced oft to keepe his bed for his greater ease rose i Lib. 8. epist cap 35. notwithstanding to say Masse vpon festiuall dayes as himselfe wrote of himselfe to Eulogius the Patriarck of Alexandria and also approuinglie witnesseth that k Lib. 7. epist cap. 29. Masse was daily said at Rome in veneration of Saints He wrote a letter to Melitus to tell S. Augustine our Apostle then consecrated Bishop of Canterburie that he should not destroy the temples of the idols in our countrie but breake the idols and sprinckle l Lib. 9. epist cap. 71. Beda de gestis Anglorum lib. 1. cap. 30. holy water about the same temples build aultars and put reliques in them Therefore vndoubtedlie neither Protestant nor Puritane but a Monke and Pope and zelous propagatour and patron of Catholick religion To say that the assertions and points precedent were Naui patrum the moales or blemishes that shewed them to be men subiect to errour and not to haue seene all things were in our iudgement idlenesse inough and greatest repugnancie for let them be holden for Saintes or saued soules which we thinke no man of modestie or yet of Christianitie will deny it followeth directly to bee impossible wee meane if they dyed in the vnretracted faith they professed in their bookes as hitherto none of those who are most against our religion euer durst to make open doubt thereof that the foresaid positions and poyntes can be false because if they should be false and they containe as then they should doe very damnable superstition and highest idolatrie as approuing vayne doctrine vaine reuerence vaine sacraments vaine and impious rites and adoration of bread in stead of God then which nothing is more abhominable or idolatrous it can not bee most assuredly it cannot be euen by the principles of our common Christian faith that the foresaid doctors bee Saintes in heauen but contrarily most accursed reprobates in hell vnderstanding as is before rehearsed that they dyed in the beliefe they mainteyned in their writings Againe to say they vnderstood not the Scriptures as well as doeth the best learned Protestant or Puritane and that through such faile and lacke of heauenly guidance they vnwittingly slided into their errours were to imagine Chimaeras or some thing that were more strange and monstrous for what helpe enioyeth the Protestant or Puritane that they enioyed not and they had many which the other haue not They were a thousand yeeres and more neerer vnto Christ his Apostles and their Disciples then the eldest Protestant or Puritane that can truely be named and consequently as like if not more like to heare retriue and learne the trueth then any of the other two Professions They made Comments vpon all or the most difficult partes of holy Scripture they beat out the way and vnsealed the hard and hidden mysteries thereof they layde the ground-workes of schoole diuinitie brake the yee and reconciled all the differing passages which in the letter seemed to impugne or contradict one the other Or must it be conceyued that these holy men working and thorow-piercing into the selfe bowels and abstrusest depth of all diuinitie and that very excellently by the graunt of our aduersaries themselues could so maynely and contradictorily erre in matters of lesse difficultie as are the pointes controuerted No no it cannot iustly be so conceiued but rather that the infinite prouidence and goodnesse of almightie God because he would not haue so sacriligious a conceit harboured against the principall Doctors of the Church hath in euery of their liues and deaths miraculously attested the contrary if so much credit at least may be giuen to the written liues of Saints compiled by venerable personages and receyued by many ages as there is giuen to the relation of Plutarchs liues or Caesars Commentaries S. a In vita S. Ambrosij Paulinus reporteth that S. Ambrose being on a certayne time in Rome was inuited by a noble woman there to come and say Masse in her house who yeelding to the request an other woman sicke of the palsey vnderstanding thereof caused anon herselfe to be brought in a chaire into the roome where S. Ambrose was and kissing his garments presently therewith recouered her health and the perfect vse of her limbes Againe the same b Ibidem author recordeth that Iustina wife to Valentinian the Emperour byring a murtherer to kil S. Ambrose for the exceeding hatred she bore vnto him who comming into his chamber and lifting vp his arme with his sworde drawne to giue him his death incontinent his arme waxed so stiffe and benummed that he could neither strike therewith nor moue the same but in confessing which was no lesse miraculous who employed him in so outragious a fact the vse of his arme presently returned and he became as nimble therein as euer before Other proofes of Gods special loue towards this saint might be alledged as c Ex

forth after the death of our Sauior it appeares by the seuerall people nations to whom S. Paul directed particular Epistles namely the Romans Corinthians Galatians Ephesians Philippians Colossians Thessalonians Hebrews by mission of the Apostles into all quarters of the world to preach the same by S. Peters writing to the Iewes dispersed in Pontus Galatia Cappadocia Asia and Bithynia by the contents of the 2. and 4. Chapters of the Acts of the Apostles where the conuersion of 8000. is specified through two Sermons preached by S. Peter Likewise what ample and most meruailous increase it tooke afterward in the second age a In dialogo cum Tryph. Iustinus Philosophus b Lib. 1. cap. 3. Ireneus and c In Apolog. cap. 37. aduers Iudaeos ca. 7. 8. Tertullian do witnesse And so doth d De vit Philosoph in Aedesio Eunapius Sardianus a prophane writer and enimie of Christian religion e Vit. Constantini li. 3. ca. 24. sequ cae vlt. Eusebius f Lib. 1. ca. 12. Socrates with others for the third age And touching the succeeding Centuries to the end it may appeare how our Catholike religion did in euery age spread and dilate it selfe according to the former prophecies we will recite a fewe of many Nations that were conuerted in euery Countrey to the same In the fourth age were conuerted the Bessites Dacians Getes and Scythians by g S. Paulinus de reditu Nicetae in Dac S. Nicetas Bishop of Dacia to the Catholick Romane faith The Morins and Neruians by h S. Paulinu● epist 26. Victricius Bishop of Roan And within the compasse of this centurie i Epist 3. S. Hierome also writeth that other Nations were conuerted as the Armenians and Huns adding k Idem epist 7. that troupes of Monks came daily from India Persia and Aethiopia vnto him In the fifth age the Saracens by l Cyrillus in vita S. Euthymij apud Metaphrasten die 20. Ianu. S. Euthymius Monke and Aspebetus The m Socrates lib. 7. ca. 30. Burgundians vpon this motiue of seeing Gods especiall and most singular fauours and protection towards the Romane Christian Monarchie in times of distresse The a Prosper aduersus collatorem in fine Scots by Palladius sent b A. D. 429. by Pope Caelestine the French c Gregor Turon de gest is Franc. li. 2. ca. 31. by S. Remigius Bishop of Reims and d Albin Flac. circiter A. D. 499. S. Vedastus Bishop of Arras In the sixth age the e A. D. 565. Northerne Picts by f Beda de gest Angl. li. 3. ca. 4. S. Columbus Abbot The g A. D. 589. Goths by h Gregor Turonen Hist Fran. lib. 8. ca. 41. Leander Bishop of Seuil The i A. D. 590. Bauarians by k A. D. 594. Rupertus Bishop of Worms The l Gregor epist lib. 3. ca. 29. 27. Barbaricinians by m A. D. 596. Foelix Bishop Cyriacus Abbot The n Beda de gest Angl. lib. 1. ca. 23. English by S. Augustine a Benedictine Monke sent by Pope Gregory the Great In the 7. age the Flemings by o Iaco. Mayer in Chron. Flandriae 649. Eligius the Westphalians by the p Fasciculus temporum two Eualdes after honored with the crowne of martirdome multitudes of Spaniards by q Volaterranu● lib. 21. Vincentius lib. 23. ca. 92. S. Andonius chiefly through the miracle he wrought in calling store of raine from heauen by his prayers when in seauen yeares before there had fallen none in that place The people of Franconia by r Sigibertus in Chronico 688. Chilianus sent by Pope Cuno and the Frisians by ſ Trithemius de Regib Franc●●um 696. S. Willibrode an Englishman imployed in that holie worke by Pipin King of France and Pope Sergius the first In the eight age the t Hedio lib. 6. ca. 17. Hassuts u Chronic. Isanacense Thuringians x Mutius lib. 7. Hartmannus Schedel in Chro. ●tate 6. Erphordians and y Willibaldus in vita Bonifacij 722. Cattians by S. Boniface an English Monke the Lumbards by Sebaldus z Hartmannus vbi supra sent by Pope Gregorie the second The Iewes of the Citie of Berythum a Crantzius in ●●trop lib. 1. ca. 9 Magd●cent 8. tit de Propagat 785. by the bleeding of a Crucifix which the said Iewes had contumeliouslie stabbed and the blood whereof cured all diseases The two Saxon Dukes * Witekindus sawe this vision at Wolmerstadium on the feast of Easter when the Campe of Carolus magnus lay there Witekindus and Albion by a miraculous sight which Witekindus sawe whilst he was but in a new and doubtfull disposition of becomming Christian to wit a faire childe descending from the Priests hands into the mouthes of the receiuers when celebrating Masse he deliuered the sacrament of the Altar to Communicants In the ninth age the a Adamus li. 1. ca. 16. 17. Grantzius in metrop lib. 1. ca. 19. 826. Danes and Suethens by S. Ausgratius Monke the b Blondus Fl● Deca 2. li 2. 840 Bulgarians by S. Ioannicius the c Helmoldus li. 1. ca. 6. li. 2. ca. 12. in hist Scla● Rugians by the Monks of Corbeia the d Theodomarus Episcopus Iu●aniensis ad Ioannem Pontificem Morauians by Withungum the e Zonaras tom 3. Cedrenus 875. Rhossits vpon euidence of the miracle ensuing They demaunded of the Priest whom their Emperour Basilius Macedo sent vnto them to teach them the Christian Catholike faith by what powerfull and diuine signe he would witnes the truth of his doctrine The signe was that if the booke wherein the said doctrine was written should not burne being cast into the fier then they all with one accord would presently beleeue and receiue his doctrine A great fier was made and the Priest putting the booke which was the holie Bible into the middest thereof said with a lowd voyce Glorifica nomen tuum Christe Deus Christ our God glorify thy holy name The flames gaue place to the booke and the booke lay so long in the fier as the people themselues thought meete and when it was taken out it appeared sound whole and no one leafe either scorched or blemished In the tenth age the Polonians by f Adamus li. 2. ca. 7. 8. 10. 11. D●●maru● chron lib. 2. 971. f Cromerus alij de reb Polonorum 965. Aegidius Tusculanks and others sent by Pope Iohn the 13. The Sclauonians by g A. D. 989. h Cartuitius in vita St●ph Hungar. reg ca. 1. 2. 3. Aeneas Syl●i●s Hist Bohem. ca 16. S. Adelbert and the h A. D. 1012. Helmoldus li. 2. ca. 13. Mar. Crom. lib. 7. Hungarians by i Aeneas Syluius another Adelbert surnamed their Apostle In the eleuenth age the k A. D. 1106. Bozius lib. 4. ca. 5. Vindians and multitudes of Prussians beside