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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A18302	An answere to certaine scandalous papers, scattered abroad vnder colour of a Catholicke admonition	Salisbury, Robert Cecil, Earl of, 1563-1612.	1606 (1606)	STC 4895; ESTC S107637	12,407	42

highly extolled in the Church of Rome though it teare in sunder all the bondes of humane conuersation For who so shall please to reade one place of the holy Father Saint Augustine of whose Bookes by this occasion I haue turned ouer some fewe leaues shall finde that when the Priscillian Heretickes in all their examinations before the Rulers of that time did seeke to dissemble their heresie by vsing those answeres of Equiuocation wherewith the Papists now maiutaine it lawfull to deny all trueth vnder a mentall reseruation and wresting the words of S. Paul who requireth euery man to speake the trueth to his neighbour inferred as if they might speake falsely to all others This reuerend Father soundly and cleerely refuted that irreligious Principle with this short sentence Corde creditur ad Iustitiam ore fit confessio ad salutem Otherwise saith hee Peter who professed Christ in heart and denyed him in wordes would neuer haue redeemed his denyall with so many Teares This were to take away the Crowne of Martyrdome and to make all the holy Martyrs fooles who making a conscience to dissemble with Heathen Magistrates sealed with their blood the inward thoughts of their hearts and confessions of their mouthes Neither should any man professe this opinion but hee that seeketh to subuert all Lawes and dueties of Ciuil societie breaking out into this Expostulation O fontes lachrymarum Where are ye to be found O ye fountaines of teares How shall we hide our selues from the displeased face of Trueth For the second part where you pretend an apprehension of so many massacres and pressures to come against Catholickes or some more horrible Lawe to bee decreed in Parliament then is already allowed and therein taxe me as one that am like to prooue a fierie Instrument Giue me leaue to tell you That those are false pretences which some lewd Impostor hath vsed as false glasses to multiply your feares These poore Calumniations are like to Adams figge leaues vnable to couer your shame For as hee sought a couering non quia nudus sed quia lapsus So is it your fault not your feare that maketh you cast those vniust Imputations vpon your Prince and State Sed pereuntibus mille figurae These men that rule your consciences haue first dazled your eyes with fearefull but false obiects thereby hoping to engage you more deepely in their pernicious Attempts They haue sought with Nero to set Rome on fire and after to lay the blame on Christians Thus hath your credulitie bene ouertaken with vaine shadowes whereas the children of Wisedome are of slow beliefe If therefore you had measured those things by the rules of Time and had entred into a true comparison of things past with things present you must needs haue conduded better of things to come For if you behold the precedent Reignes of the two late sister Queenes of different Religion you shall finde more blood in fiue or sixe yeeres of the first then in fiue and fourtie yeeres of the second Examine likewise whether you haue seene since this Kings time any the least prints of bloody steps Hath he added new seuerities to the Lawes of the former Time which he found established or hath he not in some things qualified them and in other forborne to execute them euen vpon those persons which publish with sound of trumpet the sentence of diuorce betwixt his Subiect and his Souereigntie Let me appeale to your owne consciences which in euery man holdeth place of Iudge and Witnesse whether vpon the present fury of this fiery Treason which inflamed so many against the generalitie of the Papists according to die nature of suddaine perill which hardly admits of rust distinctions there hath beene any one acte of blood or crueltie committed though all men know that die greatest violences that could haue beene vsed in such cases vnder colour of publicke safetie would haue been interpreted to be the true effects of care and prouidence Nam crudelitas si à vindicta iustitia est si à periculo prudentia Nay rather behold the excellent temper of his Maiesties mind who doubting what the humour of sudden apprehension might produce at such a time no sooner had performed his owne publicke duety of Praise and Thanksgiuing to God but hee pronounced in open Parliament how farre he was from the condemnation of the generall for particulars All which being laid together I doubt not but those which are not in the desperate consumption of sinne will freely acknowledge his Maiestie to bee a Prince of PEACE and MERCY that delighteth nor in the noyse of Chaines Fetters but rather with Theodosius deferreth Execution and wisheth Se potuisse potiùs mortuos à morte reuocare And now for the imaginary Power which it pleaseth you to ascribe vnto vs of his Maiesties Coūcel in which number as a plotter against Romish Catholiques you make me to be one of the Quorum I should take it alwayes for an Honor and happinesse for me to receiue not onely iniury but persecution it selte in so Noble a Societie where persons of so great Honour and Iudgement are Actors who know full well that Counsailors of Kings doe stand for thousands or hundreds onely as it pleaseth them to place them and that all their greatnesse groweth meerely from humble endeauours no further meritorious then as they are valued by a gracious acceptance Neuerthelesse seeing I am made by you a diuided Member from the Body and graced with so hard an Epithete as a Boutefeu and that you are content to borrow my Name to scandalize the State you liue in I must freely say to you without bitternesse That howsoeuer it may serue your turne for a while to make me the marke of your malice yet those that rightly iudge of the spirit in which this writer speaketh will hardly imagine that this Faction followeth any other Body then the Body of Authoritie It is not the Head alone nor any other particular members that these men shoot at but at the Church and Common-wealth which like Hippocrates Twinnes haue long both wept and laughed together These are the things which the Enemies of this tithe doe studie to subuert and not any poore greatnesse of mine who am onely great in the eyes of Enuy. Nay rather they are angry with Aristotle who bids wise Princes keepe downe Faction which is euer humble till it get the Key of Power They are grieued or rather heart-broken to behold such an Vnitie of State and Councell as dares bid the world doe as she would be done vnto These are knowen so well to bee the true causes of their Despaire and Discontentment as they shall ground a faith vpon very weake Principles if they imagine that open vowes of my destruction a matter of so small consequence can make them free from imputation of contriuing higher Practises But now for that which commeth in the third place which is their protestation that for the auoiding new mischiefe to come it is intended