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A20671	An humble appeale to the Kings most excellent Maiestie Wherein is proued, that our Lord and Sauiour Iesus Christ, was authour of the Catholike Roman faith, which Protestants call Papistrie. Written by Iohn Hunt, a Roman Catholike, in defence of his religion against the calumniations and persecutions of Protestant ministers.	Doughty, Thomas, fl. 1618-1638.	1620 (1620)	STC 7072.3; ESTC S116238	58,171	97

honor Behold how they are counted among the children of God and their lot is amongst the Saints We therefore haue erred from the way of truth and the light of Iustice hath not shined to vs. Such things said they in Hell which sinned And I set it downe for thy example that yet whilest there is time thou mayest become one of the Seede of Abraham and be partaker of his blessings which with all my heart I wish vnto thee and all Protestants and Puritans Thus hauing abundantly shewed vnto your most excellent Maiesty that our Lord and Sauiour Iesus Christ was Author of the Catholike Roman Faith It resteth to set downe who was Author of the Faith and Religion now publikely professed in England by Protestant Ministers CHAP. XIV That Queene ELIZABETH was Author of the Faith and Religion publikely now professed in England and vpon what occasion THE Kingdome of England together with the Crowne after the death of Queene Mary belonging by all Law and right vnto your Maiesties Mother as lineally descended from Henry the seuenth Henry the eights lawfull Line being ended in Queene Mary to the great prejudice of your Maiesties Mother Lady Elizabeth tooke vpon her the Crown and knowing that not only of all Catholikes shee was esteemed Illigitimate and for such published by the Church of God planted by our Sauior for that shee was borne of Anne Boloigne during the life time of the first wife of King Henry the eight her supposed Father but also by a Decree in publike Parliament holden in the eight and twentith yeare of the Reigne of Henry the eight her supposed Father Shee was to vse the words of the Statute iudged Illigitimate excluded and barred to claime challenge or demand any Inheritance as lawfull Heire to Henry the eight as remaineth yet to bee seene amongst the Statutes of Henry the eight printed by Thomas Berthlet the Kings Printer and set forth with Priuiledge And fearing lest for the said cause of Illigitimation her Subjects should forsake her and stand to the right Heire your Mother or that Christian Kings would not permit so euill a president in prejudice of the lawfull Lineall discent of Kings casting off all feare of God shee resolued at what price soeuer to reigne and to that end beganne to practise Ieroboams policie of whom it is written that hauing obtained a part of Roboams Kingdome Thought in his heart now will the 3. Reg. 12. Kingdome returne to the House of Dauid If this people shall go vp to make Sacrifice in the house of our Lord into Ierusalem the heart of this people will be turned to their Lord Roboam the King of Iuda and they will kill me and returne to him and finding out a deuice he made two golden Calfes and said to them Go vp no more into Ierusalem Behold thy Gods Israel which brought thee out of the Land of Aegypt And he put one in Bethel and another 2. Parap 11. in Dan. And he made Priests of the obiects of the people which were not of the Tribe of Leui and cast off the Priests and Leuites that were in all Israel and their posteritie that they should not execute the Priest-hood of our Lord. And by these meanes Ieroboam esteemed though falsely to establish the Kingdome of Israel in him and his Posteritie So Ladie Elizabeth being thus ascended to the Crowne of England contrary to the Law of God Nature and Nations fearing lest her Subjects should forsake Her and adhere vnto Your Mother the lawful Heire if they continued in the Catholike Faith with Your Mother and other people and Kingdomes shee put in practise this Ieroboams wicked policie and Cassered al the Catholike Priests and Bishops in this Land and their Posteritie that they should not execute the Priest-hood of our Lord and vnder a veile of a Supreame Gouernour shee tooke vpon her all spirituall Power and Authoritie and would not admit any to be Archbishop Bishop or Minister who would not abjure and renounce all authoritie deriued from Iesus Christ the Sonne of God and his Apostles and receiue all their Power Spirituall Authoritie and Iurisdiction from her a woman So that none could in her time be made an Archbishop Bishop Minister or Deacon or receiue any Degree in Schooles or beare any Office vnder her but he must first take the oath of Abrenunciation of all power and authoritie which was not deriued from Her as followeth I. A. B. Doe vtterly testifie and declare in my conscience Stat. An. 1. Eliz. cap. 1. that the Queenes Highnesse is the onely Supreame Gouernour of this Realme and of all other Her Highnesse Dominions and Countries as well in all Spirituall or Ecclesiasticall things or causes as Temporall and that no forraine Prince Person Prelate State or Potentate such as were our Lord and Sauiour Iesus Christ and the Apostles who were borne in Iuda or thereabouts hath or ought to haue any Iurisdiction Power Superiorite Preheminence or Authoritie Ecclesiasticall or Spirituall within this Realme and therefore I doe vtterly renounce and forsake all forraine Iurisdiction Powers Superiorities and Authorities And if any did refuse to take the said oath of Abrenunciation of all forraine Authoritie such as was the Authoritie deriued from our Sauiour and the Apostles and deny her Supreame Spirituall Authoritie in all things they should neither beare Office nor be admitted to any Degree in Schooles or bee made Archbishops Bishops Ministers Deacons as is set downe at large in the first Chapter of the said Statute made in the first yeare of her reigne And that there should be in her time no person or persons or man whosoeuer that might challenge any authoritie from Christ Iesus or the Apostles but that all Spirituall Power and Ecclesiasticall Iurisdiction might be wholly in her and receiued from her Shee made a Law in her said first Parliament That no forraine Prince Person Prelate Stat. An. 1. El. cap. 1. State or Potentate Spirituall or Temporall shal after the last day of this Session of Parliament Vse enioy or exercise any manner of Power Iurisdiction Superiority Authority Preheminence or Priuiledge Spirituall or Ecclesiasticall within this Realme or within any of her Maiesties dominions or Countries that now be or hereafter shal be but from henceforth the same shal be clearely abolished out of this Realme and all other your Highnesse Dominions for euer any Statute Ordinance Custome Constitutions or any other matter or cause whatsoeuer to the contrarie in any wise notwithstanding By which Law shee hath not onely abolished out of this Realme all the Authority which the Sonne of God left vpon earth but also as much as lyeth in her power shee hath debarred him from comming to Iudgement within her Dominions or sending any one hither to preach or teach that all authoritie might bee in her selfe and come from her to her Subjects as from their God or golden Calfe vpon earth And lest there might be some doubt how far her womanly

Supreame-headship in all things might extend shee made another Law to make it as large as euer was the authoritie of our Lord or his Apostles vpon earth saying in the aforesaid Parliament Be it enacted by the authoritie aforesaid That such iurisdictions Stat. An. 1. El. cap. 1. priuiledges superiorities and preheminences Spiritual and Ecclesiastical as by any Spiritual or Ecclesiastical power or authoritie hath heretofore been or may lawfully be exercised or vsed for the Visitation of the Ecclesiastical State and persons and for reformation order correction of the same and of al manner errors heresies schismes abuses offences contempts and enormities shal for euer by authority of this present Parliament be vnited and annexed to the Imperial Crowne of this Realme That being crowned Queene though a woman and a Bastard yet now shee might haue as large Spirituall authoritie as any man euer had or might haue And so shee translated the Spirituall authoritie of Priesthood not only from Spirituall to Temporall but also from male vnto female that whatsoeuer Spirituall or Ecclesiasticall power or authoritie hath heretofore been or may be lawfully vsed or exercised for the visitation of the Ecclesiasticall State and persons and reformation and giuing of orders and for the correcting them and all manner of errors heresies schismes abuses offences was by this law supposed to be wholy in her a woman And executing her Supreame Spirituall Function in the first yeares of her raigne shee set out two and fiftie Injunctions vnder title of the Queenes Injunctions with this Conclusion annexed to them All which and singular Iniunctions the Queenes Maiestie ministreth vnto her Clergie and to al her louing Subiects straitly charging and commanding them to obserue and keepe the same vnder paine of deprauation sequestration of fruits and Benefices suspension excommunication and other such cohersion of Ecclesiasticall Iurisdiction And by this meanes shee had all the Clergie at her command both the enjoying of their Temporall Benefices and Spirituall Offices depending wholly vpon her feminine authoritie In so much as in the first yeare of her raigne there arising some doubts about the lawfull making of her Archbishops and Bishops she by her effeminate authoritie dispensed with all their disabilities in these words Her Highnesse by her Supreame Stat. An. 5. El. cap. 1. power hath dispensed with all causes or doubts of any disability c. about the making of the said Archbishops and Bishops c. that no cause or scruple ambiguitie or doubt can or may be iustly obiected against the said Elections Confirmations or Consecration And in the eight yeare of her raigne doubts arising againe about the Consecration and making of her Archbishops and Bishops she signifieth her former dispensation saying For as much as diuers questions hath lately growen about Stat. An. 8. El. cap. 1. the making and consecrating of Archbishops and Bishops within this Realme c. Her Highnesse by her Supreame power and authoritie hath dispensed with al causes or doubts of any imperfection or disabilitie that can or may any wise be obiected against the same And in the nine and thirtith yeare of her reigne yet some doubts remaining amongst her Subiects that the Catholike Bishops whom shee out of her effeminate authority had depriued were lawfull Bishops and hers false shee depriued the Catholike Bishoppes againe and made their authoritie void to all intents and purposes establishing by her Law That al and euery depriuation and Stat. An. 39. El. Cap. 8. depriuations and al euery sentence and sentences of depriuation whatsoeuer had pronounced or giuen at any time betweene the beginning of the reigne of the Queenes most excellent Maiesty that now is and the tenth of Nouember in the fourth yeare of the same against any person or persons which was or tooke vpon him to be Archbishop or Bishop of any Sea or Bishopricke or Deane of any Deanery within this Realme or any the Dominion thereof in the reigne of the said late Queene Mary from such Sea or Bishopricke be adiudged deemed and taken good and sufficient in Law to all intents and purposes and so shal remaine and continue any appeale exception or other matter or thing whatsoeuer to the contrary thereof in any wise notwithstanding And that al such Archbishops and Bishops Note and Deanes as were ordained or made by the authority or licence of the Queenes Maiesty that now is at any time betweene the beginning of her reigne and the said tenth day of Nouember in the fourth yeare of her Maiesties reigne shal be taken and adiudged to be lawful Archbishop or Bishop of the Sea or Bishopricke and Deane of the Deanery vnto the which he was so preferred assigned or appointed And that the same Sea of Archbishop or Bishopricke and Deanery vnto the which he was so preferred assigned or appointed though there were in it a Catholike Bishop as they were all in the beginning of her reigne yet it shal be deemed and adiudged to be meerely void to all respects and purposes c. And by this means as much as lay in her shee depriued all the ancient Archbishops and Bishops both of their Spirituall authorities and Temporall Bishoprickes to all intents and purposes and admitted and established these onely who whereas the Statute saith ordained or made by the authority of the Queene and allowed and admitted of no authoritie Spirituall or Ecclesiasticall but in her and from her deriued to them In so much as Fulke glorying in the Spirituall influence he receiued from this Illigitimate Lady in his Answere to a Counterfeit Catholike pag. 50. saith to Catholikes You are vtterly deceiued if you thinke your Offices of Bishops Priests and Deacons any better then Lay-men and you presume too much to thinke that we receiue your ordaining to be lawfull And in his Retentiue Motiues pag. 67. he saith With all our hearts we defie abhorre detest and spit at your stinking greasie Antichristian Orders And WHITAKER cont Durem lib. 9. p. 821. saith I would not haue you to thinke we make such reckoning of your Orders as to make our owne vocation vnlawfull without them and therefore keepe them to your selfe And all the Spirituall or Ecclesiasticall power which any Archbishop Bishop or Minister hath either to teach preach administer Sacraments or ordaine Ministers together with any right which they can pretend to any Archbishopricke Bishopricke Parsonage c. doth so fully and wholly depend vpon Queen Elizabeth her womanly authoritie and Statutes made by her that her femall Supreme Spirituall authority and Statutes repealed all the Archbishoprickes Bishopricks and Parsonages within this Realme together with their Offices are voyde in Law and as void rest to be disposed So that no other can or may bee justly said to be the Author and Founder of that Faith and Religion which is now by publike authority professed in England but onely Queene Elizabeth for that from her the English Protestant Archbishops Bishops and Ministers had whatsoeuer Priesthood or Spirituall

authority they can or may pretend or challenge either to administer Sacraments Teach or Preach or execute any other spiritual supposed function neither can English Protestant Ministers deny it vnlesse they deny the Queenes Supremacie and proclaime themselues to be perjured in the oath of Supremacie which they haue sworne Whereupon they are justly and truly called Elizabethians and ought not nor should not be called by any other name seeing they haue no other Author or Founder of their Religion and Priesthood but Queene ELIZABETH as we haue proued by publike Statutes And this Queene ELIZABETH did not that shee did thinke that she being a woman had Supreme authoritie in all Spirituall things or causes the Scriptures saying Let women hold their peace in the Church 1. Cor. 14. for it is not permitted them to speake but to be subiect Againe It is a filthy thing for a woman to speake in the Ibid. Church Againe Let women learne in silence with all subiection for I doe not permit a woman to teach But desirous 1. Tim. 2. to reigne in this world with whatsoeuer dishonor of God and danger soeuer of losing of her soule and damnation of her Subiects shee tooke vpon her IEROBOAMS Policies to strengthen her selfe against Your Mother So I appeale vnto your Maiesty well pleased to consider the wrong and injustice your Protestant Ministers doe vnto vs Roman Catholikes your ancient Subjects in persecuting vs with the losse of goods lands libertie and life for that we will not forsake the Religion planted vpon earth by the Sonne of God to professe in place thereof a Policie inuented by an Illigitimate woman THE CONCLVSION AND for Conclusion I humbly beseech your Maiesty well pleased to consider that without a true Faith it is imposible Hebr. 11. 6. Iohn 3. 8. to please God Againe He that doth not beleeue the Faith planted by our Sauiour is already iudged And the Iudgement is Get yee away from me yee accursed into fire euerlasting Matth. 25. which was prepared for the Diuell and his angels And presently after this sentence giuen they are cast into Hell which is as the Prophet Isay saith A profound and spacious roome his food is fire and store of wood the breath of our Lords mouth doth kindle the same like a maine Riuer of Brimstone and there bound hands and feete they are placed in a bed of Moathes to gnawe perpetually on their carkasses and in scorne of the pride of life in which they liued vpon earth couered with a couering of Lice as the Prophet Isay witnesseth saying Thy pride is drawne down into Hell thy carkas Isay 14. is fallen the moath shal be strowen vnder thee and wormes shal be thy couering And placed in this wofull and lamentable estate they are deliuered vp into the hands of Diuels who as ministers of Gods wrath power out vpon them Fire haile famine death teeth Eccles 39. Apoc. 14. of beasts scorpions and serpents And the smoake of their torments shall ascend vp for euer and euer Without any hope of ease or any possibilitie for one moment euer to haue their torments lessened for that they shall bee for euer the same as the Prophet saith He loued cursing Matth. 25. Psal 108. and it shal come to him and he would not blessing that with which God hath blessed all Nations of the earth according to his promise and it shal be far from him in all eternitie he shall neither heare or haue any which considerations ought much to moue the heart of your most excellent Maiesty to take pity vpon a number of your Subjects who haue no other Faith or Religion then that which is grounded vpon the maledictions of God and out of your compassion to restore vnto them againe the liberty of embracing the Catholike Roman Faith which as wee haue aboundantly prooued was planted vpon earth by our Lord and Sauiour Iesus Christ the Sonne of God and there is no saluation in any other And by so doing your Maiesty shall much honour God put an end to all new Sectes establish your Throne as the dayes of heauen bring abundance of peace and quietnesse to your afflicted Subjects and as you haue vnited the two Kingdomes of England and Scotland in one so you shall vnite your selfe and them to God and the rest of the Christian world and be partaker of all the blessings promised to the Catholike Church The meanes is so easie that if your Maiesty please you may do it without infringing any Law by dispensation out of your Prerogatiue Royall with all Statutes made against the Catholike Roman Faith which Faith not being euill in it selfe but truth and verity as we haue abundantly proued the Lawes of the Land giue your Maiesty full leaue to dispence with then all as is set downe in Termino Michaelis An. 11. Henrici Septimo Your most worthy Ancestor Chap. 35. saying The diuersity betweene malum prohibitum malum per se malum prohibitum is where the Statute doth prohibite that a man shall coyne no money and if he do he shal be hanged this is malum prohibitum for before the said Statute it was a lawfull act to coyne money but not after and for this euill the King may dispence c. Euen so if a man ship wooll for other places then for Calleis this is malum prohibitum for it is prohibited by Statute and for this euill the King may dispence c. in like case But malum in se neither the King nor any other can dispence withall as if the King would pardon to kill another or giue leaue to robbe vpon the high-way this is void yet when they are done the King may pardon them So it is if a man be bound by Recognisance in the Chancery to keep the Peace at the suite of another man the King cannot release the duetie for the preiudice which may happen to the other yet when it is forfeited he may well release and before not and so neither King Bishop nor Priest can giue leaue to one to commit Lechery because it is euill in se in the Law of Nature but when it is done they may absolue them very well Thus the Lawes of the Land giue libertie to the Kings of the Land to dispence with any thing which is not euill in it selfe but made euill by Act of Parliament as was the Catholike Roman Faith in the Parliament holden in the time of King Henry the eight Edward the sixt Queene Elizabeth and yourt Maiesty Whereby it is sufficiently manifest that your Highnesse may out of your prerogatiue Royall as well and with as good authoritie dispence with all penallties imposed by Statute vpon your Subjects for professing the Catholike Roman Faith and giue them free liberty to professe it as you may dispence with Merchants freely to transport out of the Realme Siluer Wooll or other Merchandize forbidden by Act of Parliament And the reasons or motiues which ought