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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

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

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