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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A68951	A reformation of a Catholike deformed: by M. W. Perkins Wherein the chiefe controuersies in religion, are methodically, and learnedly handled. Made by D. B. p. The former part.; Reformation of a Catholike deformed: by M. W. Perkins. Part 1	Bishop, William, 1554?-1624.	1604 (1604)	STC 3096; ESTC S120947	193,183	196

Priestes with many teares and great sighes powred out prayers for the good Emperours soule Againe at a solemne feast which he helde at the dedication of the Church built by him in Ierusalem some of his cleargie preached and expounded the holy Scriptures Ibidem de vita Const lib. 4. ca 45. and other some with vnbloudy Sacrifice and Mysticall consecrations appeased the Godhead and prayed for the health of the Prince Zozom lib 1. hist Eccl. cap 21. Moreouer this zealous Emperour reprehended Acasius a Nouatian heretike for saying that it was not in the power of Priests but of God only to forgiue sinnes Finally toward true Bishoppes the lawfull Pastors of Christs Church he caried such a reuerend respect Socr. hist lib 1. cap. 5. that being in the Councell of Nice he would not sitte downe before they had beckned vnto him so to doe And was so farre from taking vpon him to be supreame judge in causes Ecclesiasticall that he openly there professed that it did not belong to him to judge of Bishoppes but to be judged by them Ruffi lib. 1. hist cap. 2. If then this right Puissant Emperour and most sincere Christian reuerenced the Sacrifice of the Masse and beleeued that there was power in Priests to remitte sinnes that Saints were to be prayed vnto and that prayer was to be made for the dead and such like as appeareth by the euident testimonie of most approued Authors that liued with him hath your Majestie any cause to doubt but that in matters of faith he agreed with the present Roman Church Wherefore my hope and trust in Almighty God is that you in your high wisdome vpon mature and due consideration how many old condemned errors the Protestants hold and with all well weighing that the whole frame of their Doctrine tendeth to the disgracing of God and his Saints to the discouragement of men from well doeing and doth as it were loosen the reines vnto all fleshly liberty will in time make a most Godly resolution to imitate that famous Emperour Constantine He contrary to his former education embraced with all his power that same Romane Religion which we nowe professe And which is worthy to be obserued he feared nothing the contrary disposition of the multitude or greater parte of his subjects that were wholy ledde another way But following the blessed example of his most vertuous Mother S. Helena reposed himselfe in the powrefull assistance of the Almighty and chased all other Religions into corners setting vp and firmely establishing the Roman There can be no cause aleadged why your Majestie may not doe the like if it shall please God effectually to stirre vp your gratious minde and to bende your hart to vndertake it for at that time there was more likelyhoode of resistance then nowe and nowe much more helpe at hand if any resistance should be offered Pardon me deare Soueraigne if before I finish this argument I seeme ouer-bold here to present vnto your memorie that all your most gratious and Godly Progenitors and all our holy Predecessors who now assuredly stande before the tribunall of God doe demaund and expect no lesse at your handes For they founded not Bishopricks Deaneries and other spirituall liuinges they builded not Colleges and Schooles for Protestants or their fauourers Ponder well therefore I beseech your Majestie whether they doe not or may not justly chalenge of you to whome the administration of justice belongeth to see and prouide that such Churches Church-liuinges and spirituall rewardes of learning as they erected and bequeathed to Roman Bishops and Priestes be disposed of and bestowed according to their erections and foundations If it shall please the Protestants to erect any new Churches or bestowe any other reuennues towardes their Ministers mayntenance let them haue them hardly and enjoy them quietly only let them be content out of their equitie to leaue vs that which was prouided for vs and bequeathed vnto vs by our most Religious Auncestors If all these reasons and exceeding manie other which might be mustered and produced to the same purpose will not suffice to effect in your Majestie a loue and desire to embrace that auncient Roman faith which all your Renowmed Progenitors so highly reuerenced loued and esteemed Yet let me prostrate on my knee most humbly beseech your highnes in the name of thowsandes that so farre forth they may preuaile with you as you will not permitte those rigorous lawes framed against recusant Catholikes to be put in practize and executed For howe can it seeme conformable to reason in your Majesties deepe wisdome and judgement that your louing Subjects should by compulsion and constrainte vnder that intollerable penaltie of losse of all their goodes conforme them selues to such articles of Religion that by the purest antiquitie were censured to be erronious and execrable And what misery and pitty were it to driue them perforce either to swallowe downe the deadly poyson of their soules or else to endure besides the disgrace of the state the losse of their worldly wealth and liberty Consider and weigh with your selfe my most gratious Liege whether it will not be thought ouer great seuerity to presse men euen against humane nature and condition with patience to heare their owne profession and beleefe both vntruely slaundered and most bitterly reuyled and inueighed against as in most Ministers sermons it is commonly Yea to giue patient eare to them that blush not publikely to call our blessed Sauiours body in the holy SACRAMENT an abhominable Idole his glorious and immortall Saintes senceles dead Men his Vicar and Vicegerent on earth Antichrist and euery Catholike an Idolater With infinit other intollerable reproaches Our constant hope euen yet though against hope is that your Majestie out of your owne sweet naturall disposition and most milde carriage in gouernment hitherto will not onely moderate but suspende all such extreamity And not suffer it to be extended against them who in former doubtfull times were in manner the only men that defended and made manifest to the world your Title and interest to the Crowne of England and were no lesse willing to receiue you when the time came and as forward to haue assisted you if neede had required as anie sorte of Subjectes within the lande And neuer since wittingly offended your sacred Majestie in any thing It may be objected that they doe not conforme themselues vnto a statute lawe made against their Religion Be it so Then their Religion toward God not any contempt of their lawfull Superiour doth commaund them from the conformity which is pardonable Considering that they be no inuenters or followers of nouelties but onely hold on and perseuere in the faith of their forefathers And what subject is the among the most duetifull that doth not often transgresse and giue offence to one statute lawe or other yet for no other lawe men are so hardly dealt withall albeit they violate many of them together Only Catholikes are for the