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A03941	A Nevv-Yeares gift for English Catholikes, or A briefe and cleare explication of the new Oath of Allegiance. By E.I. student in Diuinitie; for a more full instruction, and appeasement of the consciences of English Catholikes, concerning the said Oath, then hath beene giuen them by I.E. student in Diuinitie, who compiled the treatise of the prelate and the prince.	E. I., student in divinitie.; Preston, Thomas, 1563-1640.	1620 (1620)	STC 14049; ESTC S119291	68,467	212

crying out to them to take heede be not only partakers of their spirituall harme but doe also cooperate to their temporall ruine and so haue cause to rue your silence and to cry out your selues when it is too late Vae mihi quia tacui Woe is mee because I haue held my peace Isa 6. But if perchance any of you who in your consciences thinke the Oath to be lawfull should for some worldly respect which God forbid cry out against the takers or approouers thereof this were not only to sin most damnably against your owne consciences but also in some sort against the Holy Ghost and to impugne that which in your soules and consciences you thinke and acknowledge to bee true which how hardly it is forgiuen either in this World or the next Mat. 12. our Sauiour himselfe doth expresly witnesse 4. Lastly those Priests that in their consciences thinke the Oath to be vnlawfull and thereupon do not only giue warning to those whom they haue taken vpon them to guide and direct to take heede and beware of the spirituall danger which they thinke will arise by taking the same but also in their zeale do cry out against their Catholike Brethren who either doe take the Oath or thinke it to be lawfull as Apostates from the Catholike Faith and Religion and disobedient children to the Pope and Church giuing the like occasion to others to cry out against them as Apostates from their naturall Allegiance and disobedient disloyall Subiects to their temporall Prince it behoueth them most of all to looke to themselues and according to the admonition which Card. Bellarmine vpon occasion of relating the fearefull death of Pope Innocentius the III. giueth to Prelates and Pastours Bellar. de ge●…itu columbae lib. 2. cap. 9. to examine all the secrets of their consciences most exactly lest perchance it bee erroneous albeit to them it seeme to be sound iust and that their zeale albeit to them selues seeme pure and according to knowledge bee not blind and grounded vpon wilfull or culpable ignorance like that which the Iewes had in crucifying our Sauiour and Saint Paul when he was Saul in persecuting his Disciples who thought thereby to doe God great seruice 5. And truly if their Zeale were hurtfull to none but to themselues they would doubtlesse be the more excusable but considering how preiudiciall it is both to his Maiesties honour and also to his temporall Soueraigntie how scandalous it is to Catholicke Religion and how iniurious it is to their Catholike brethren not inferiour to themselues in vertue and learning whom they seeke to disgrace and to make odious to all Catholickes epecially to their benefactors and friends and so by taking from them their good names and maintenance to bring them into extreame want and miserie and as much as in them lyeth into manifest desperation for which they are one day to render a most strict account they haue great cause to examine their consciences narrowly and carefully to consider vpon what assured grounds they can excuse themselues at the dreadfull day of Iudgement for taking such scandalous iniurious and vncharitable courses both against their Soueraigne Prince whom next vnder God they are bound to honour and obey in temporals and also against their Catholicke brethren who not onely are as learned and religious as themselues but also haue examined this important controuersie and all the danger both spirituall and temporall that dependeth thereon as diligently if not farre more then they themselues haue done 6. To the end therefore that all of you my deare Countrimen may examine your consciences in this poynt of the Oath more easily and eactly and be more fully instructed therein then you haue beene by I. E. the Authour of the Prelate and the Prince who if the common rumour bee true will heare shortly with shame enough what goodly Instructions he hath giuen you I haue out of Roger Widdringtons expresse doctrine and grounds collected this little Treatise which for that it was finished this first day of the yeare I am bould to present it to your Charities for a New-yeares-gift as a small token of the great desire I haue both of your spirituall and temporall welfare And my onely request is that you will bee pleased to read it as I hope you will it beeing neither so prolixe but that in some few houres you may mane it ouer nor so obscure but that any man of meane capacitie may vnderstand it and after you haue read it to iudge thereof accordingly And if I shall heare that you haue reaped any benefit thereby I shall thinke my paines exceeding well bestowed but howsoeuer I shall not thinke my labour lost by giuing you this euident token of my loue for that the loue and dutie I owe to my Prince and Countrie to the Catholicke Religion and to you my deare Catholick brethren and aboue all to God Almightie the Author of all truth yea truth it selfe and who will in due time render to euerie man according to his workes Rom. 2. hath for the defence of a necessarie truth moued mee to take this paines And so with my best wishes I bid you heartily farewell hoping that you will bee wise and not be transported with a blind and intemperate zeale towards Prince or Prelate but that you will bee carefull to feare God to honour the King and without all partialitie to render to God and Caesar and consequently to Popes and Princes that which is their due A Copie of the new Oath of Allegiance deuided into eight Branches as it is in this Treatise explayned 1. I A.B. doe truely and sincerely acknowledge professe testifie and declare in my conscience before God and the World That our Soueraigne Lord King Iames is lawfull and rightfull King of this Realme and of all other his Maiesties Dominions and Countries 2. And that the Pope neither of himselfe nor by any authoritie of the Church or See of Rome or by any other meanes which any other hath any Power or Authoritie to depose the King or to dispose any of his Maiesties Kingdomes or Dominions or to authorize any forraigne Prince to inuade or annoy Him or his Countries or to discharge any of his Subiects of their Allegiance and Obedience to his Maiestie or to giue license or leaue to any of them to beare Armes rayse Tumults or to offer any Violence or hurt to his Maisties Royall Person State or Gouernment or to any of his Maiesties Subiects within his Maiesties Dominions 3. Also I doe sweare from my heart that notwithstanding any Declaration or Sentence of Excommunication or Depriuation made or granted or to be made or granted by the Pope or his Successours or by any Authoritie deriued or to be deriued from him or his See against the said King his Heires or Successours or any absolution of the said Subiects from their Obedience I will beare Faith and true Allegiance to his Maiestie his Heires and

being put out of that which they really and bona fide doe possesse And doubtlesse most miserable were the state of all men that possesse any thing of worth and much more of Princes if vpon a title which some learned m●n may in speculation approoue it were lawfull to inuade their possessions before a lawfull Iudge and who is certainly knowne so to bee hath decided and determined the title or controuersie To preuent which mischiefe all Natitions being guided herein by the light of naturall reason haue agreed in this manifest principle that it is open iniustice to put any man out of his possession vpon any title which is not most certaine and free from all controuersie vntill a lawfull and vndoubted Iudge hath decided the matter I said a lawfull and vndoubted Iudge for if it be doubtfull vncertaine and questionable whether he be a lawfull and competent Iudge to determine that cause his decision cannot be sufficient to end the controuersie For which cause the Pope is not to bee accounted a lawfull and competent Iudge to decide this question concerning his owne pretended authoritie to depriue Princes for that it is a controuersie among learned Diuines and approued by very many as Pope Adrian the Cardinaell of Cambray the Cardinall Cusanus the Cardinall Panormitan the Cardinall of Florence Master to Panormitan Iohn Patriarch of Antioch Abulensis Ioannes Parisiensis Ioannes Gerson Iohn Maior Almaine and almost all the Vniuersitie of Paris cited by Widdrington Widdring in the discouerie of D. Schulkeuius slanders §. 7. that the Pope is not a competent Iudge to decide or define infallibly any doctrinall point and much lesse in his owne cause without a true and vndoubted generall Councell and therfore although he should hereafter as yet he hath not attempt to define and decide this question his decision could not end the controuersie nor giue sufficient warrant to any man to practize the deposition of Princes vpon so doubtfull vncertaine and questionable power or title 3. Neuerthelesse it behooueth temporall Princes to be very carefull that their titles to the Dominions which they lawfuly possesse be not so much as speculatiuely or only for Disputation sake disputed pro and contra by learned men least that some ignorant or turbulent spirits which either doe not know or of set purpose to colour their practices vnder a pretence of a probable title will not take notice of the manifest difference betwixt speculation and practice may take occasion thereby to disturbe the publike peace and to molest annoy or to offer any violence or hurt to their Royall Persons States or Gouernment For which cause the Parliament of Paris hath with great wisdome and reason oftentimes by publike Edicts ordained See beneath in the end of this Treatise some of these Decrees that the doctrine of deposing their Kings should not bee so much as taught and maintayned to bee probable or problematike that occasion be not giuen to seditious spirits who know not or will not take notice of the difference betwixt speculation and practice to attempt vnder pretence of a probable title any violence against the Crowns or sacred Persons of their Kings And the reason is manifest for that the temporall Common-wealth hath good and full authoritie to forbid the teaching and publishing of any doctrine which is not necessarie whereby probable danger to the Crownes and liues of temporall Princes and perturbations in the Common-wealth may arise 4. First therefore by those words of this Branch nor by any other means with any other it is euident that the Parliament which representeth the whole bodie of the Kingdome or Common-wealth did not intend to meddle with the authoritie which the whole Kingdome or Common-wealth may according to the opinion of some Doctors pretend to haue in some cases ouer their soueraign Prince as Lessius and others whom the Authors of the Prelate and the Prince doth seeme to follow doe idly obiect And although the meaning of those words were to deny that the whole Kingdome or Common-wealth hath no authoritie to depose their King yet considering that it is also a probable doctrine approued by many learned Catholike Diuines and Lawyers cited by Widdrington Widdr. in Apolog nu 111. and in his Answere to Fitz-herb part 3. cap. 11. nu 36. 37. that the Common-wealth hath no such authority it is also lawful for any man of what opinion soeuer hee bee in speculation concerning this authoritie of the Cōmonweath to acknowledge and sweare that the Common-wealth hath no more authoritie to depose the King that is to practize his deposition then she hath to commit open iniustice But the true meaning of His Maiestie and the Parliament is as the words themselues doe plainely signifie only to deny the Popes authoritie to depose c. to wit that the Pope neither of himselfe that is neither as a sole and totall cause nor by any authoritie c. that is neither as an Instrument or Minister of the Church or See of Rome nor by any other meanes with any other that is nor as a principall or true and proper partiall cause or Agent hath any authoritie to depose the King c. 5. Neither by those wordes or to authorize any forraigne Prince to inuade or annoy Him or His Countries did His Maiestie and the Parliamen● intend to denie the authoritie which temporall Princes may haue in som● cases to make warre against their neighbour Princes and consequently against His Maiestie if he should giue them iust cause of warre yet euer obseruing that no probable power cause or title can bee a sufficient ground to punish any Prince or to inuade His Countries but as the expresse words do plainly shew only to deny the Popes authoritie to authorize any forraigne Prince to inuade or annoy Him or His Countries because all the authoritie which temporall Princes haue to make warre or to inuade the Kingdome of an other Prince for what cause crime or end so euer it bee is deriued from their temporall Soueraigntie grounded vpon the Law of Nature or Nations not from the Popes authoritie And likewise all the authority which the temporall Common-wealth may pretend to haue in some cases to rise vp in Armes against their Prince is not deriued from the Popes warrant license or authoritie but if there be any such power from the Law of Nature And therefore with great reason this Clause denyeth in the Pope all power and authoritie to authorize any forraigne Prince to inuade or annoy His Maiestie or his Countries or to giue license or leaue to any of his subiects to beare Armes rayse Tumults or to offer any violence or hurt to His Maiestis Royall Person State or Gouernmēt because although they shuld haue any such authoritie leaue or licence wherewith His Maiestie and the Parliament would not in this Oath intermeddle they haue it not from the Pope but from the Law of Nations or Nature 6. Secondly in this Branch is not