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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

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not nor can be euer proued to haue bene fulfilled in any other Church saue only in the Catholike Romane Church and in it most apparantlie demonstrable by the Ecclesiasticall histories of all ages and by the short space or rather momentarie blast of time that all other religions compared with ours haue indured 34. A religion whose doctrine is to be traced euen vp to the Apostles chaire by true and lawfull succession of Bishops euery one of them holding vnitie with his predecessor and keeping still as the Apostle directeth the depositum that descended from hand to hand vnto them Which vninterrupted line of succession neuer leaping ouer the head of any one age or yeare and drawing his originall from the Apostles can not but necessarily proue that our Church is only the true Apostolicall Church and that we continue and contend Coloss 1. 23. phil 3. 16. iude vers 3. as we are commanded in and for the faith which was first preached And it is also euident by the irrefragable authoritie of S. Paul that the Romanes had once the true faith affirming d their faith to be renowmed in the whole world and common to Rom. 1. 8. cap. 16. him and them Likewise it is euident by the vniforme report of all Ecclesiasticall histories and by the writings of all the Fathers a Theodoretus in ca. 16. epist ad Rom. Prosp carmine de ingr in principi● S. Leo de N●t Petri. Aug. contr epist Fund ca. 4. Orosius lib. 7. ca. 6. Chrisost in Psal 88. Epiph. har 27. Prud. in hym 2. S. Laurentij hym 12. Optatus lib. 2. contr Donatist Ambr. lib. 5. epist de basilicis tradendis Hiero. in Catalogo Lactantius lib. 4. ca 21. de vera Sapien. Eusebius hist Eccle. li. 2. ca. 13. 15. Athanas de fugasua Cipria epist 55. nu 6. Tert. de praes●r nu 4. li. 4. Contr. Marcio nu 4. Origin in Gen. apud Euseb lib. 3. ca. 1. Irenaus lib. 3. ca. 3. Hegesippus lib. 3. ca. 2. de Excid Hierosolym Caius Papias Dionis Episco Corinth citati per Euseb lib. 2. ca. 14. 24. Ignat. epist ad Rom. Concil Calced act 3. and others Greeke and Latine yea and by the very sence and sight of sundrie monuments yet extant that S. Peter was at Rome suffred death there and was the first Bishop of that See Now if our Counterpleaders can sufficientlie shew as we are sure the whole world cannot either that the Romanes haue since that time left the faith which S. Paul commended in them or that any of the succeeding Bishops to S. Peter in that See haue changed the first faith by paring away any part thereof or by adding any new doctrine contrarie to the rule of the former or what was not taught before by the Fathers and after explicitiuely added as a more cleare and particular declaration of the same if this we say can be sufficientlie shewed by naming the Pope or other man who in such sort changed the primitiue faith and the point or points of faith that were so changed together with the time and place when and where the change was first made we yeeld our selues to be prophane Nouellers yea Heretikes and most worthie of the fagot 35. A religion whose doctrine so generallie symboliseth and holdeth the like absolute consent with all parts of holie Scripture that were euer receiued of the Christian world with the decrees of all confirmed Oecumenicall Counsels and with the ioint assertions of all auntient Fathers as she is not driuen like b The Lutheran and Caluinist reiect Baruch Tobie Iudith the booke of Wisdom Ecclesiasticus the Machabees certaine Chapters of Esther the last part of Daniel And the Lutherans the Epistle of S. Iames S. Paul to the Hebrews the Epistle of Saint Iude the second of Saint Peter the second and third of Saint Iohn other Religions for defending her positions to reiect either Scripture Councell or the vniforme opinion of Doctors but taketh the approbation of her doctrine from them all and teacheth all her children out of S. Augustine c Epist 118. ca. 5. Disputare contra id quod tota per orbem frequentat ecclesia insolentissimae dementiae est To call the lawfulnesse of that into question which the whole Church frequenteth throughout the world is most insolent madnesse 36. A religion which no persecution coulde any time vanquish nor the conioyned forces malice and machination of Pagan Iewe or other her most powrefull enemies nor yet that which is infinitely of far more force to this end the wicked liues of seuerall her professors and chiefe rulers either haue hitherto or shall to the worlds end as we assuredly beleeue euer be able to extirpate it wholie or so to darken the visibilitie or beautie thereof as to make it no where to appeere or not to shine Nay God hath alwayes bin so strong on her side as the more she was persecuted the more she multiplied An obseruation that long since caused a In Tryphone Iustinus to resemble our Churches persecution to the pruning of Vines which maketh them the more fertile and likewise moued b Cap. vlt. Apologetici Tertullian to call the bloud of her Martyrs the seed of Christians one dying and many rising thereof Neither can it be well doubted but that if our religion to speake with c Act. 5. 39. wise Gamaliel had bin of men and not of God it would haue bin dissolued long ere this as all other sects haue perished in much shorter while agreeablie to the saying of the Apostle S. Paule d 2. Tim 3. 9. They shall prosper no farther and to that of S. Peter e 2. Petr. 2. 3. Their perdition slumbreth not Sith therefore our Church is not only not sunck or obscured by any might or neuer so violent stormes of opposition but rather as the Arck of Noe the greater the deluge and waues the higher and more illustriouslie she mounteth it followes that of all others she must be that very Church against which by the promise of our Sauiour f Math. 16. 18. Hell gates that is the power and hatred of man and deuill shall not preuaile 37. A religion some of whose Professours haue had alwayes vpon euery neede occurring power and grace to cast out diuels of the bodies of the possessed the first of all other signes which our Sauiour himselfe gaue for hauing his true Mar. vlt. v. 17. beleeuers distinguished from others And this gifte is so well knowne by continuall execution thereof to reside in the Romane catholike church and neuer found in the companies of any other Professions as there needeth no recitall of particulars Pius Quintus Pope of late memorie dispossessed tactu Onuphrius de vita Pij quint. stolae data benedictione onely by touch of his stole and by giuing his benediction And how frequent these effectes not onely vpon persons possessed but in driuing away diuels
and all the Psal 101. 16. Psal 71. 11. Kings of the earth thy glory Againe All Kings of the earth shall adore him all Nations shall serue him And in an other Prophet Esa 49. 23. Kings shall be thy nursing Fathers and Queenes thy Nurses And againe Gentiles shall walke in thy light and Kings in the Esa 62. 3. brightnesse of thy vprising Places which to our iudgement most euidently conuince that not onely some Kings of the earth shall professe and cherish true religion but that the greater number of all christian Kings shall embrace and aduaunce the same Now it is most certaine and as cleare as noone day by all Antiquities Proofes and Chronicles of the worlde that there was neuer Emperour nor till this age any one King vnder heauen that intertained or professed Protestant religion 10. A religion that from the first floure of her infancie euer had and still hath to her beleeuers infinite multitudes of either sexe professing Pouertie Chastitie and Obedience the three a Matth. 19. 21. marc 19. 12. 1. cor 7. 25. math 16. 24. chiefe Euangelicall counselles obserued of the b Matth. 19. 27. August de Ciuit. lib. 17. ca. 4. Hieron lib. 1. contra Iouinia Apostles practised by those c Saint Anthony Hilarion Benedict Francis Dominike Bernard and thousands moe who were counted of greatest holinesse most highly commended by all d ¶ Of Pouertie Hieron epistola prima ad Heliod ca. 6. item in cap. 19. Matth. ad Demetria de seruanda virginitat epist 8. ca. 7. Quaest ad Hedib epist 150. ad Pammachum super obitu Paulinae epist 26. ca. 3. 4. Basil quaest 9. in regulis fusius disputat Damascen in histor Barlaam Iosaph ca. 15. Chrys in illud Pauli Salutate Priscam Aquilam ¶ Of Chastitie Hieron in cap. 9. Matth. lib. 1. aduers Iouin ca. 7. Basil de virginitat Epiphan haeresi 58. contra Valesios Aug. de virginitat ca. 14. 24. sequentibus Greg. in tertiae parte Curae pastora admonit 29. Ambros Theodoretus in 1. Cor. 7. Amb. in epist 83. ad Siricium Papam 82. ad Vercellenses in tribus libris de Virginib alibi Damasc lib. 4. orthodoxae sid ca. 25. Athanasius Basilius Nazianzenus de Virgint Fulgent epist 3. ad Probam ca. 9. 10. Ignatius ad Philadelphi Cipri de bouo Pudicit Isodor libr. 2. de sum bono ca. 40. Cassian coll 12. ca. 4. 7. ¶ Of Obedience Aug. libr. 14. de Ciuit. ca. 12. Hieron epist 8. ad Demetriad ca. 10. Greg. libr. 35. moral ca. 12. in 1. Reg. li. 2. ca 4. li. 4. ca. 5. li. 6. ca. 2. Cassian li. 4. ca. 10 Collat. 2. ca. 11. Coll. 4. ca. 20. Bernard in serm de 3. ordinib eccle item ad milites templi ca. 13. in serm de virtut obed Basil de Constit. monast ca. 23. Philo in lib. de vita contemplat Iosephus lib. 18. antiquit ca. 2. Epiphan haeresi 29. Dionisius de Ecclesiast Hierarchia ca. 6. Euseb lib. 1 de demonstrat Euangelic ca. 8. Nazianzenu● orat 20. Athanas in vita Anthonij Sulpitius in vita Martini Isodor li. 2. de eccles officijs ca. 15. Sozomenus lib. 1. hist. ca. 12. Chrysost aduers Vituperatores monast vitae Hom. 5. ad pop ●um sequentibus infiniti alij Antiquitie not onely as diuine helpes to perfection but also as beautifull ornaments in Christs Church raising the professours to supreame degree of grace and glorie 11. A religion that hath bene testified by the bloud and sanctitie of such Martirs and Confessors as our Aduersaries themselues allow of and hold them glorious in heauen and either all the points of her doctrine or the most controuerted and weightiest witnessed by euidence of most authenticall Collected in part by Bredenbrachius in suis collationib miracles by the records of all ages and by the discussing censure and approbation of general Counsels the highest consistory on earth and oracles of greatest infallibility as being the sentences of all the best learned in the worlde assembled together and holpen in the affaire by the a Mat. 18. 20. 28. 20. presence of Christ our Sauiour by the b Ioh. 14. 16. 16. 13. Act. 15. 20. assistance of the Holy Ghost and by c Ioh. 17. 17. Luk. 22. 31. our Lords promise and prayer 12. A religion vnchanging and of admirable consent in her doctrine hauing euermore the same bounds of faith in all places and not varying in euery countrie and state as do other religions which haue not one supreame head and an acknowledged power to define but make the letter of scripture misinterpretable by euery contentious spirit the onely touchstone and chiefe Iudge of all differences in faith whereby so many opinions and formes of religion may be squared out as there be priuate fancies raigning 13 A religion which by the graunt of our Aduersaries hath had for the last thousand yeeres and more the custodie of the sacred Bible of the Apostles Athanasius and the Nicene Creede and preserued them from perishing by Pagan Iewe or heretike yea and from whose handes or Treasure-house the Religion nowe established not onely receiued all the partes of Scripture she maketh vse of but also learned the forme of Christening Marrying Churching of women Visiting the sicke Burying and sundry other like as their books translated out of ours doe declare And therefore our religion must needes be the elder Nor can it bee tolde as wee can easily tell all other sortes of Religions what former Societie we did euer supplant or inuade or tooke from it eyther our first possession of the Scriptures forme of Sacraments or any other Ecclesiasticall rites or ceremonies 14. A Religion that instituted the feastes the fasting dayes and all the goodly ceremonies and solemne obseruations which are yet vsed though many other pared away and commaunded in the Protestant religion as the festiuities of Christmas Easter Ascension Whitsontide and the Eues and feastes of the Apostles likewise the fastes of Lent and Ember dayes abstinence on Fridayes and Saturdayes much holesome and very commodious to the Common-weale Semblablie the rites and sacred formes kept in Coronations installements and in all other sortes of solemnities that carrie eyther state decency or veneration with them 15. A religion that founded the Ecclesiasticall censures and sortes of discipline as suspension interdiction excommunication irregularitie degradation and the like and was also the author of the Cannon lawe studied throughout the vniuersall Christian world and many pointes both of her censures lawes and discipline practised by the Protestants themselues 16. A religion that onely hath canonized her professors for Saintes after death and celebrateth their annuall memories whereby their names euer liue in honor and all posteritie incited both to glorifie God for his graces bestowed on them and also studiously to imitate their vertues Whereby that asseueration
most apparantlie beare witnesse S. Ambrose liuing 64. yeeres and dying in the yeare of our Lord 397. purposely and approuinglie wrote of a Tom. 4. li. 2. de Sacramenti● ca. 1. 2. lib. 3. cap. 1. exorcismes vsed before baptisme of b Ibidem vnction in baptisme of the perpetuall c Tom. 5. de vocatione gentli 3. ca. 8. per totum alienation of infants from the sight of God dying without baptisme of a Tom. 4. lib. 1. de poenitentia ca. 2. 6. remission of sinne by a Priest and who as S. Paulinus recordeth in his life heard auricular confessions and so wept in hearing that he caused teares also in the penitents He likewise wrote of the b Tom. 4. lib 4. de Sacramentis real presence in the Sacrament of the altar and of c Tom. 4. de Spirit Sancto lib. 3. ca. 12. adoration thereunto to be done he obserued and commended the Lent-fast d Tom. 1. Serm. de ieiunio Eliae calling it the precept of Christ our Lord. In like manner hee wrote of e Tom 3. super Apocal. ca. 14. 20. Purgatorie of f Lib. 5. de Sacramen cap. 1. mingling water with wine in the chalice he vsuallie said Masse wept bitterlie in the execution of the dreadfull mysteries and made g Tom. 5. in 1. precatione ad Missam praeparante epist li. 5. epist 33. ad Marcellinam sororem suam prayers to be said by Priests before Masse for duer preparation thereunto Therefore vndoubtedly neither Protestant nor Puritane but a Catholick Bishop S. Hierome liuing 91. yeeres and dying the yeere of our Lord 420. wrote h Tom. 2. two bookes against the Apostata Monke Iouinian and i Ibidem two other treatises against the lapsed Priest Vigilantius in confutation of their strange and exorbitant points of doctrine Namely that marriage was of equall merit with widdowhead or virginitie That all meates might be eaten vpon all dayes notwithstanding any ecclesiasticall sanction to the contrary That fasting had no reward with God That there was no disparitie of merits in this life nor difference of glory in the next That those who with a full and entire faith had receiued grace in baptisme could not after leese the same The positions of Iouinian The phansies of Vigilantius these The single life or vnmarried state of Priests is opprobrious Saincts were not to be worshipped nor prayed vnto nor their reliques to be reuerenced and the tapers or waxe-lights about their toombs were the ensignes of idolatrie the retention of worldly substance better then voluntarie pouertie and the solitarines of Monks a thing vituperable Against all which assertions S. Hierome directlie and of set purpose wrote and wrote in some choler and anger adding for reason or excuse fatebor k Aduersus Vigilantium ad Riparium epist 53. dolorem meum sacrilegium tantum patienter audire non possum I will confesse my griefe I am vnable patientlie to heare so great sacrilege Therefore vndoubtedly neither Protestant nor Puritane but a a Marianus Victorius episco Reatinus in vita B. Hieronym● Et ipse Hierony Tom. 3. epist 150. ad Hedibiam quest 2. Massing Priest Hermit a great Pilgrimage b Ipse Hierony in Ezechi ca. 4. in Apologia aduersus Ruffinum in plurim ipsius epist 8. 22. 43. alijs goer a visiter of holie places and reliques S. Augustine liuing 76. yeeres and dying the yeere of our Lord 430. wrote a c Tom. 4. ca. 18. booke De cura pro mortuis gerenda Of care to be had for the dead by the sacrifices of the altar prayer and almes Three d Tom. 1. bookes De libero arbitrio in the proofe of free will a e Tom. 3. booke De operis Monachorum of the labour of Monks wherein he approueth their state and consequenthe also the vowes of pouertie chastitie and obedience A f Tom. 4. maximè ca. 14. lib. eiusdem booke De fide operibus of faith and works prouing abundantlie in it as the principall scope and end intended that a sole faith without good works is not sufficient to saluation He g Tom. 10 Serm. de tempore 255. qui est quartus de anniuersario dedicationis ecclesia vel altaris Et concil Hippon can 6. cui interfuit S. Augustinus vt constat ex lib. 1. Retracta ca. 17. Serm. 19. de Sanctis alloweth and celebrated the consecration of aultars and the annointing of thē with Chrism Also he maketh mention and requireth that the signe of the crosse should be made in the foreheads of the beleeuers and on the water and Chrism with which they are regenerated annointed Likewise he himselfe most submissiuely and earnestly inuocated h Tom. 9. li. meditationum ca. 40. Tom. 9. Serm. de Sanctis Serm. 18. the blessed virgin Mary S. Michael S. Gabriel S. Raphael the Quiers of Angels Archangels Patriarks Prophets Apostles Euangelists Martyrs Confessors Priests Leuits Monks Virgins and of all the iust In briefe he i Tom. 6. de adulterinis coniugijs lib. 1. ca. 8. 9. lib. 2. cap. 5. resolutely affirmeth that after diuorce neither the partie delinquent nor innocent can marry againe the other liuing without committing the crime of adulterie and in like manner agnizeth and testifieth the veritie of the fiue Sacraments denyed and surnamed bastard Sacraments by the aduersarie to wit the a Tom. 2. lib. 2. contra lit Petiliani ca. 104. Tom. 9. in epist Iohan. tract 3. 6. Sacrament of Confirmation b Tom. 10. Serm. de tempo 215. Tom. 9. li. 2. de visitandis infirmis ca. 4. Item in tract de rectitudine Catholicae conuersati si duo posteriores sint Augustini Extreme vnction c Tom. 7. contra episcop Parm. li. 2. ca. 13. de baptis contra Donatist lib. 1. ca. 1. Order d Tom. 4. de fide operib ca. 7. Tom. 6. de bono coniugali ca. 18. 24. Tom. 7. lib. de nuptijs concupis ca. 10. Matrimonie and e Tom. 4. de vera falsa paenitentia ca. 10. ●5 Tom. 6. de adulterin coniugijs ca. 28. Tom. 10. li. 50. homiliar hom 41. hom 49. ca. 3. Tom. 8. in Psalmum 63. circa medium Penance He f Tom. 10. li. de tempore Serm. 251. also sharplie rebuketh those that either neglected to heare Masse or did not stay in the Church so long as to the end of Masse or shewed them-selues so colde and wearisome in Gods seruice as to speake to the Priest to abbreuiate or be short in his Masse Therefore vndoubtedlie neither Protestant nor Puritane but a g Possidius in vita eius Monke institutor of Monks and strongest maintainer of our Catholike doctrine S. Gregory was first a h Ioh. Diaconus in vita eius lib. 1. ca. 6. 25. 39. Monke then chosen Abbot
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