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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A02984	An aduertisement to the King of Nauarre, to vnite him selfe with the King and the Catholique faithe Beeing in trueth a very slaunderous, false, and seditious libell, against the said King of Nauarre, and other Christian princes ... Truely translated according to the copy printed in French.; Advertissement au roy de Navarre de se reunir avec le roy & la foy catholique. English.	Maillard, André, fl. 1585-1591.	1585 (1585)	STC 13127; ESTC S120341	17,225	44

we wil hold it for certaine that God béeing come for the redemption of the world did ordaine by his owne mouth to such men as then were those things which he would that they should beléeue and obserue and we doo trye euery day that it is naturall for vs to teache and deliuer to our successours the same things which we haue receiued of our Auncestors But to reproue and condemne the ancient traditiōs by the impression and opinion of others and not to haue in our owne selues some inward knowledge wherfore they ought so to doo this séemeth to me of all other vnexcusable in the continuance of so many ages by vniuersall obseruation Haue we nothing wherwithal to confirm our beléefe against a new sence or meaning which some Scholler desirous to showe his skil wil apply to the holy scripture hath it béen errour which men haue beléeued hithertoo and when God hath sēt vs moste of his blessīgs hath it béen a signe that our seruice hath béen lesse acceptable to him Or els are we so blinde that we will not acknowledge how God gaue vs all things more prosperously when without any trouble the Catholique faith was moste religiously obserued The Kings your predecessors Sir who haue left so many faire foundations so many and holy ordinances and illustrious Conquests haue they euer béen any other then Catholiques If the Kingdomes haue had any splendour and increase hath it béen at any other time but when the people continued stedfast in the beléefe which they would now cause you to reiect And if they haue had any decay or ruine hath it béen at any other time then when nouelties haue caryed authoritie Eache one knowes that Clouis the first Christian King of Fraunce reigned fiue hundred yéers or there about after the death of our Sauiour at which time the primitiue Church did yet floorish If the Church then had some holy and sincere obseruations doo you think she did hide or spare them at the consecration of that King of Fraunce who of a Pagan became a Christiā Oh what a likely thing is it to beléeue that the fourmes at this present day obserued at the Coronation of our Kings are not the selfe same that were instituted for the Crowning of the saide Clouis If I should admit that in the common Cerimonies and which are indifferently vsed of eche one there might some abuse créep in what then As for the Cerimonies vsed at the consecration of our Kings an act wherto all the world at all times haue born like reuerence and an act both singuler and religious wherof since Clouis but thréescore persōs haue béen partakers successiuely one after an other who wil beléeue that in them there hath béen any alteration or chaunge And if it be so that the Cerimonies vsed at the Coronation of the Kinges of Fraunce be the institutions of the primitiue Churche how can one giue eare to the Ministers of the pretended Religion séeing those thinges which they iudge woorst in the Catholique Church are therin intirely obserued Let vs knowe a little by what prooues they can showe vs that the institutions and Ecclesiasticall orders which at this day are vsed amongst the Catholiques be other then they were in the primitiue Church it must followe necessarily as I beleeue that they shal be the books and writings of the Bishops of the same Church But without entring into dispute of the depth of this matter where it is moste certaine that they are abused what will they answere if they were demaunded how they knowe that such Books and writings are auncient and not supposed What other answere could they make but that since the time they were made the Church hath euermore held them for the true writings of the Authors of whome they beare the name and that from hand to hand she hath conuaied them vnto vs for such If then to proue the trueth of a writing they think that the vniuersall and continuall allowāce for many yéers is an argumēt which no one ought to gainsay why doo they not holde the self same allowance and vniuersall approbation for a moste certaine proofe of the verity of the ancient obseruations and institutions of the Church Where haue we found that men wil admit lesse abuse and corruption to enter then into their beleef and the lawes wheron they ●udge dependeth their saluation hath the Huguenot found the Catholique Church so ready to receiue those nouelties which he wēt about to bring in doo they think that although a Pope would cause vs as it were to morowe to chaunge our beléefe that we would therfore beléeue him and those things which we our selues will not doo is it to be presuposed that our predecessours haue doone them they were more religious and better obseruers of godlines then we are Doo they not sée that in the fourmes which only concerne the pollicye and gouernment amongst men and the Lawes made for their contracts and particuler affaires the successours doo not lightly change that which hath béen established at the first foundation of the estate by their predecessours as it is easy to be noted in all pollitique estates but chéefly our Fraunce which at this present day is the moste auncient Monarchie of all If then it be apparant that the people haue alwaies béen constāt in obseruing the ciuill and humaine lawes what ought they to haue doon in the conseruation of those which haue béen giuen thē for their dutie to God and to the Church Is it not known how long time the Iewes haue kept without any change the fourmes and cerimonies of the olde lawe Why shall we not say that the Christians haue doon the like The Huguenots Doo think that they haue giuen a faire showe and precious title to their Religeon when they say they will admit nothing els but the simple and pure woord of God as it is contained in the books of the olde and new Testament and from thence driue out and exclude all humaine traditions Permit me Sir to demaunde of them héere if their scope be not to maintain all kinde of men in the knowledge and beléefe of God and if in conscience they think that this may be alwaies doone by the only hearing of the woord As for those that haue béen so happy as to heare the liuely voice of God or of his Disciples I wil graunt that they néeded no other instruction But as humaine kinde hath béen farre distant from that liuely and speaking light which did rauish the people with their brightnes and piercing speach so vndoubtedly there hath béen a great decay in zeale and beléef for there is great reason betwéen the woords pronounced by the mouth of God and those vttered by the mouth of a man Not long after whē this woord was but written some were found who would enterpret the same according to their sence and meaning which was an euident testimony that the only preaching of these men was not a band strōg enough wherby to