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A00919	A Catholike confutation of M. Iohn Riders clayme of antiquitie and a caulming comfort against his caueat. In which is demonstrated, by assurances, euen of protestants, that al antiquitie, for al pointes of religion in controuersie, is repugnant to protestancie. Secondly, that protestancie is repugnant particularlie to al articles of beleefe. Thirdly, that puritan plots are pernitious to religion, and state. And lastly, a replye to M. Riders Rescript; with a discouerie of puritan partialitie in his behalfe. By Henry Fitzimon of Dublin in Irland, of the Societie of Iesus, priest.; Catholike confutation of M. John Riders clayme of antiquitie.	Fitzsimon, Henry, b. 1566.; Rider, John, 1562-1632. Rescript.; Rider, John, 1562-1632. Friendly caveat to Irelands Catholicks.	1608 (1608)	STC 11025; ESTC S102272	591,774	580

noe place they were so much ouertaken in theire wisdome as in Geneua by the politicke reache of Caluin who beinge admitted anno 1536. by onlye title of their preacher and teacher he moste deceitfully insinuated him selfe ouer their gouerment and for being therein too insolent and imperious he was banished within nine months Caluin epist 6. together with his chefe consorts Farrel and Viret with this allegation Tiranni esse voluerunt in liberam ciuitatem voluerunt nouum pontificatum reuocare They woulde haue bin tyrants ouer a free cittie they would haue reuoked a new papacie This Caluin him self confesseth tearming the Senat of two hundred by whō he was so exiled tumultuosam perditorum hominum sactionem Ibidem a tumultuous faction of damned companions Yet according to the depth of his capacity he purchased such fauorable commendatorie letters of al reformed places he wrote so againste Catholicke religion he dissembled such temperate moderation that within litle more then two yeares after he was reuoked to his former chardg of teaching in Geneua 4. His fiirst fauoure was to be licensed to frame betwixt him selfe and other Ministers a forme of ecclesiastical discipline yet so as to remitte it to the consideration of the Senate to be allowed or no. This forme contaynd that twelue cheefe townes men should be conioyned with six Ministers those to be changed yearly these to be during lyfe Their Iurisdiction should extend only to ecclesiastical causes This forme they intituled a consistorie discipline It was no sooner viewed and lightly approued but the maner of it and proceeding examined in the Senat house great dislyke was as soone conceaued against it In so much as Caluin confesseth in labouring to support it Calu. epist. 54. Calu. epist. 73. 82. 165. he was almost oppressed Also he complaineth of impediments saying we haue to many of a hard and vntamed neck by all occasions aspyring to shake of the yoake c. But not withstanding all possible imployments in pulpits publick and priuat conferences suborning of suffrages yet the Magistrat suspended the execution of this discipline vntill they had consulted with other reformed Churches Wherin also Caluin beyond all comparison ouermatched them For he preuented their informations inueigled the states to whom they appealed beutifyed in such good colours his forsayd Consistorial disciplyne implored the solicitation of the ministers there resident disgraced so all repugners epist. 164 165. and so to be breefe frustrated all hindrances that what by woorking abroad what by slye compassing at home he purchased forraine resolutions and the Senats approbations to his contentment All this narration is contayned in his owne Epistles wherin is manifested that neuer could any attempt be more impugned and yet by slightnes of his witt established then this discipline This ecclesiastical authoritie disalowed the name of Bishops Priests and Canon law exchanging them into teachers Deacons Elders Consistorian discipline c. 5. The cause of this repugnance against it was first by reason they perceaued how all others besyds Caluin serued only for a shew Secondly because vnder the coloure of conscience by degrees all law Read hereof the ordre of Excommunication in Scotland Ae 2. all authoritie all controuersies were subiected to this consistorian discipline Thirdly because all small maters were aggrauated and punished more tyranicaly then deseruedly One instāce I thinke good to inculcat out of Caluins owne information In one widdow Baltasars howse daunced diuers of the best of the Citie Among whom was one of the fower that yeare in cheefe office as also a minister Perrin the Captaine of the towne c. Caluin not being inuited to the sporte him selfe sommoned them all Caluin Farello epist 71. They for more seare flatly denyed the mater Whervpon saith Caluin impudenter nobis Deo mentiti sunt they impudently lyed to vs and to God Behould by the way how he preferreth him selfe to God He then adiured them to confesse their fault but all in vayne After he tendred a corporal oathe which they refused The conclusion was Omnes in carcerem coniecti all were committed to prison except the forsayd Captain who trusting tyme would pacifie this angrie Prince retyred But sayd he quicquid agat paenam non effugiet VVhatsoeuer he did he should not escape Ibidem He being then returned tasted of the same sower cupp The issue was sayth Caluin him selfe that the people perceaued nullam esse spem impunitatis cum primarijs non parcatur there was noe escape when the principal were not spared I might here insert how by the same holy consistorial discipline Valentin Gentil Budneus in annot Nou. test ●on Bezam and Michael Seruet great Reformed preachers and by Budneus called godly searchers of the truth for displeasing Caluin and Beza were put to deathe Fowerthly what with it selfe what with the abuses following not only ciuil Magistrats but also Reforming preachers Bullinger ad quendam Episcop Angliae 10. Mar. 1574. otherwyse Caluins frends signifyed their great discontentment against the forsayd discipline Bullinger wryteth thus therof They imitate in my opinion those seditious Tribuns of Rome who by vertue of the Agrarian law bestowed the publick goods that they might inrich them selues that is that bishops being ouerthrowen they myght inioye their places c. Gualter ad Episc London Ieem in epist ad Episcop ●lien 26. Augusts 1574. Idē in ep ad Episcop Tands Barlow in his book of the summe of the Conferēce befor the kings Maiestie edit an 1605. pag 37. Gualter saith I greatly seare least they bring vs first into the gouernement of the multitude which will shortly be conuerted in to the rule of a few and lastly ende in a new Papacie Agayne I behould nothing to be more ambitious nothing more insolent nothing more vntoward then these men c. Agayne many do repent that euer they admitted these mens Councell 6. Omitting the scanning of an apt definition of a Puritan giuen by one Butler in Cambridge that he is a Protestant frayd owt of his wits I say vpon the premisses that the Puritans now called in our cōtryes are such as repyning at all other ordōnances and iniunctions of highe parlaments and of their soueraigne princes indeuoure by hooke and crooke to bring in this forme of presbiterie and of Geneua Cōsistorian discipline into England with exclusion of all other authoritie Temporal and Spiritual as I am breefly to manifest by theire owne expresse protestations But first I certifie The begynners not so peremptorily to haue impugned such authoritie as the successours For the first malcontented reformers with the state seemed conducted therto only by emulation as Hooper and Rogers who aspiring to be equal with Cranmer and Ridley disliked the communion booke published by them Fox acts and monuments Pag. 1355. and sett foorth another of them selues wherof Fox is to be perused These were Puritans of the meaner sorte standing only vpon tippett cappe rotchet and the

Ianuarie next in sueing as also their brethren what oathes soeuer they made to rest in peace they dispensed with them as aften as the least aduantage appeared Fiftly vnderstand that what woords you deseruedly tearme vehement and dredfull in the oath inforced vpon you them not to belong to any point of our Doctrin but altogether to be a parte of the Doctrin of our aduersaries as partly befor appeareth and is manifest in these their articles Buchanan pag. 6. 13. obed pag. 25. Vide Suruey of pret● h. discipline p. 283. 284. Dangerous Positions l. 4. c. 3. 4. Bellarm. in ep ad Blackvvellum The Ministers may excommunicat the greatest Prince and he that is excommunicated is not worthye to inioy any life vpon earth It were good that rewards were appointed by the people for such as kill tirants as commonly there are for uch as haue killed Wolues or beares c. That such Doctrin hath bene held by Catholikes the Apologist although he layeth downe Bellarmins demand wher was it euer heard that euer a Pope ether commanded to be killed or allowed the slawghter of any Prince whatsoeuer Yet lawncing only at the Frier that had killed the K. of France he wyndeth from the mater to carpe at pretended contradictions in Bellarmins controuersies But nether yf a Frier yea or Pope in mater of fact should transgresse may therfor it be sayd to be an impious heretical and damnable Doctrin or position of ours as the woords of the oath import that any such transgression should be committed Sixtly vnderstand that of these oathes of allegiance although the first eschue the name of supremacie and the second the name of Pope yet in substance both of them to be all one with the owld oath of supremacie This the Apologist most stoutly and vehemently denyeth but vnknowen to him selfe he danceth in a nett For how may these wordes of the oath be interpreted otherwyse then to impute supremacie to the K. and to denye it to the Pope I do vtterly testifie and declare in my conscience that the kings Highnes is the Only supreme Gouernour of this realme and all other his Highnes Dominions and contries as well in spiritual or ecclesiastical things or causes as temporal And that noe forraine Prince person or Prelat hath or ought to haue any Iurisdiction power superioritie preheminence or authoritie ecclesiastical or spiritual within this realme c. Yf his Maiestie be only supreme Gouernour in all Spiritual and ecclesiastical things or causes yf noe Prelat hath any iurisdiction ecclesiastical then loude and palpable must be these vntrue assertions of the Apologist Apologie pag. 47. This last made oath only medleth with the ciuil obedience of subiects to their soueraigne only in meere temporal causes the sayd oath concerneth in noe case the Popes supremacie in spiritual causes Ibid. pag. 52. there can not one word be found in all this oath tending or sownding to mater of relgion Ibid. pag. 62. c. Who doth not behould how impudencie doth captiuat these men into voluntarie confusion to defende falshood But although we would silence how much this sworne supremacie of the K. sowndeth mater of religion yet his brethren yea and his Maiestie him selfe do testifie that among them selues it is a principal point and article or religion to professe the contrarie It appeareth first by Willet VVillet Synops contr 7. q. r. D. Morton par 2. Apol l 4. c. 18 p. 340. D. Field pag 228. D. Sutcliff subu p. 119 con Kellison p. 41. 42. 102. D. Ceuel against the plea of Innoc à pag. 103 ad 109. D. Dovvne ep Dedic contr con Bellarm. Hooker l. 5. eccl pos 77. Bel. motiues l. 2. a. fol. 78. ad 81. Hamp Confer p. 82. 83. Nether do we giue vnto the Prince absolute power then noe supremacie to make Eccl●siastical lawes Secondly by D. Mortion A general cowncell is the supreme Iudge Thirdly by D. Field The supreme binding and commanding authoritie is only in Bishopes in a general Cowncell Wherunto consent D. Couel D. Sutcliffe D. Dowram Hooker Bel and all those preachers mentioned by his Maiestie that preaching euen befor him selfe eschue to intitule him the supreme head of the Church God graunt these oppositions make the Apologist knowen to him selfe for suer they detect him to others to be of the described by Terence Imperarunt ipsimet sibi omnia assentari principum ingenia admirari quicquid Principes dicant laudare id si negant laudare id quoque Such as swimme with the streame and sway with the tyme yf Princes would be supreme heads of the Church to iustifie that their determination yf they would in substance so remayne but in shew disclaime to challenge any such prerogatiue to iustifie also such dissimulation Vpon all these premisses I conclude that seing the heade of the Church condemneth the sayd oathes seing also the Apologist fayleth so fowlye in iustification of them Theodor. l. 4. c. 19. in depth of constant Catholikes resolution you are to say with S. Basil he being in like maner sollicited to some vnlawfulnes by the Emperour Valens That you esteeme much his Maiesties fauor with pietie but pietie debarred that it is pernicious And for your loialtie that you will neuer fayle to demonstrat it at all occurrents but to sweare these present oathes that you may not because they containe ane abiuration of his authoritie to whom Iesus Christ hath committed the charge of all his flocke S. Nazian orat 1. in Iulian. So that the oath representeth the sleight of Iulian the Apostata who not being able to constraine Christians to worshipp idols placed them in the portraicts of the Emperours befor whom they bowed reuerently therby causing diuers by deceit at least in ane indirect and remote maner to worship them Which yf they did not then were they afflicted as dispisers not of idols but of the Emperours So now with a lawfull allegiance the oath implyeth a secret lawles abiuration which being therfor not accepted you are accused to be disloial and enemyes to your Soueraignes dignitie But as I sayd giue him that is Cesars and to God what to God belongeth The Archpriests fall is noe block in your way noe more then it of Origen or Tertullian to the primatiue Church Conc. Later c. 43. He did against his priuilege and his fidelitie for which he is to answer as you are to be rewarded reciprocatly by Christ our Saluiour for professing him befor men couragiously And giue me credit they that haue sworne the oath are not esteemed euen by the state so trustfull as they that haue not but as Syr Iohn Perrot sayd to one shrinking schismatike accepting the oath of supremacie among manifould resolutly refusing it Beleeue me I should trust thee least of all this compagnie because I know that in thy conscience thow thinkest as the residue yet dissemblest to giue me satisfaction Cic. orat pro Rosc com Nom

oathe of supremacie The next I fynde to haue succeeded was one Samson not he against whom Cardinal Pole wrote Sander l. 7. de visib Monarch in anno 1563. Pag. 711. but another who refused a thowsand pound yearly rather then he would be conformable to the iniunctions of late parlaments The mayne pillers of Englishe Puritans were and are Cartwright Charke Reynolds Trauers Egerton Gardiner Barber Field Gellibrand Gilbie Sparks Knewstubs and Chaderton c. which three last together with Reinolds were the Agents and Embassadors for the Millenarie malcontented faction who became petitioners to his Maiestie But of these forsayd diuers recanted for ther liuings sake that now God be praysed few or none professe them selues of that coniuration because they sayled against the wynde Some others I could enumerate out of our Dublinians but because the title is become so infamous I will not recompt what Promotheans we haue in Dublin Wheras therfore I promised by their owne expresse protestations to conuict them to maligne all other authoritie besyde their owne I am now to iustifie my sayd promise yf first I only acquaint their first maner to come into the good lyking of the people In their gate they affected a grauitie Their eyes downward vnlesse by way of compassion as at some abuse they lifted vp the whyts of their eyes Their appareil neat and of precise quantitie and qualitie Their ruffs small Their countenances sadd Their woords choise and of exquisit and rare noueltie You shall heare of nothing but sanctifyed deifyed angelical super-celestial thoughts woords and deeds Many sighes and groans burst from them Their reprehensions intermedled with many sugred Apostrophes Their exclamations cheefly against pluralitie of benifices mariage of the clergie their ignorance superfluities c. All their conferences to commend frugalitie parilitie modestie and sobrietie Yet yf Barrowes and Greenwood Barrowes discouerie Greenwood against Giffor their owne brethren be true they are pernicious deceauers In all this description of them by their owne brethren I will keepe my hands cleane glosing hypocrits with God fasting pharisaical preachers cownterfeit prophets pestilent seducers sworne waged and marked disciples of Antichrist deluders suborners transformers of good consciences of whom Christ is to be vnderstood saying Yee are they who iustifie your selues befor men Luc. 16. but God knoweth your harts They are perfidious and Apostat reformists precise dissemblers Giddie and presumptuous intermedlers in all maters publick and priuat Stoical and Cynical watchmen ouer all actions c. 7. To come now to my promise to shew their aspyring ouer all authoritie and that by their owne confessions although I might bring a royal and real demonstration therof out of the summe of Conference befor mentioned pag. 80. 81. 82. yet I thinke more dutyfully of the partie then to grace Puritans who become insolent at the memorie of their rebellious violence by hauing had power to depose and dispose of such potentats with the least breath of his mouth First this complaint is confessed by Viret one of the very fownders as appeareth in seueral epistles of Caluin of the consistorian discipline Viret dial 3. alborum damonum The Ministers sayth he that haue renownced the Church of Rome in seeking to gett the Magistrats and peoples fauoure I craue good attendance to these woords auerring my first declaration in this treatise against the Pope Preists and Moncks disgraced so the state of preesthod and clergie and contrarywyse exalted so the state of the Magistrat that now they finde the smarte therof They ouerthrew a spiritual Pope and erected a temporal Pope But I pray you giue eare to a strange confession VVho so vseth sayth he such means to reforme the sault of the Pope dothe not reforme but deforme the Church Cartwright the proto-puritan in estimation of England presumed and trembled not to saye As pastors can not be officers of the common wealthe no more can the Magistrat be called properly a Church officer Els wher he sayth the prince submitts his scepter vnto the scepter of Christ Cartwright Cōf. cap. art 23. lib. 2. pag. 420. Vide l. 1. pag. 180. and lyckes the dust of the Churches feet Which is more then euer was done to Pope This is rownd puritancie one way by shewing an insolent pryde and strange Puritancie another way by speaking moste mildly when they intend most ambitiously Trauers in discourse of Ecclesiast disciplin pag. 148. 174. Knox in his exhortat to England pag. 91. Vide Archibold Hamilton in l. de confusione Caluinistica Rennecherius in psal 2. pag. 72. Trauers his scholer subscribeth saying Heathen Princes being conuerted to the fayth receaue no further increase of their power wherby they may deale in causes ecclesiastical then they had before Knox of Scotland is most resolute in this deposition of princes saying That all Princes ought to submit them selues vnder the yoake of discipline That what Prince King or Emperoure shall disanull the same he is to be reputed Gods enemie and to be held vnworthy to raigne aboue his people Yet listen to more rownde and playne dealing in this point Rennecher sayth The political empyre is but a subalterne regiment quasi inferius quoddam subsellium A lower and inferioure benche to the consistorial discipline By saying it is but a subalterne gouernement they intend Erast in farrag p. 36. that Kings and Princes shall only be honorable executioners as Erastus acknowledgeth of their appointments Against all princes and their statuts concludeth Martyn Mar-prelat Martyn sen B. 4. C. 1. That such lawes as maintayne Bishops are no more estimable then they which mayntayne stewes c. 8. Their indeuoure to come to this supreame authoritie is sometyme by incensing the people against the Magistrats statuts sometime by hyperbolical commendations of their discipline as it and no other is to be thought the expresse prescript of Christ and true religion all other discipline disproued Sometyme by seditious Pamphlets tending to make the state established and lawes odious and ridiculous as both tyranical and replenished Two puritan preachers in Stamford with all superstitious defectiuenes The Lord superintendent of Lincolne as all other commanders opposed him selfe against the publick puritanical fast as appeareth by a leter dated to the Aldermen of Stamford 5. of September in the same yeare Suddenly vp started two puritan preachers the first sayd openly That without the warrant of fleashe and blood vnderstanding therby the magistrat and of acts of parlament they might proceed in their purpose The second That he was of noe spirit who would respect any edicts of Queene Counsell or Bishops that their proceeding was not hindred but by prophane and carnal wretches Concerning their commending this discipline to the people vnderstand these speeches follouing Gilbie p. 211. The wicked take parte with our aduersaries but the Godly ioyne with vs. This ecclesiastical discipline is the ouerseer and custos of the ciuil gouernement Rennecherus

p. 74. that the magistrat doth not command his subiects any thing ether contrary to the Scripture or against nature and good maners It would make men to increase in wealth ●ions to the par●●ent pag. 75. 74. 8. 79. It would cutt off contentions and sutes in law The people should fynde out the trueth and perfection of iustice It would bring strengthe victorie Are not these powerfull prouocations to sedition Are not these dangerous dealings Are not these compagnions to be obserued I would be more prolixe in this point if the chronicles of Scotland the two supplications to the parlament Cartwrights humble petition to hir Maiestie His exhortation to the gouernoure and people of VVales The late supplication of a thowsand subscribed puritan Ministers to his sacred Maiestie now regnant The censure of Oxford therupon Their proceeding befor his sayd Maiestie deliuered out by Barlow theire Martyn Mar-prelat Mar-Martin the woorke for the Cooper the cowntercuffe to Martin Iunior the howles almanach the pap with hatchet or contry cuffe the epistle to Huffe Ruffe and Snuffe Hay-any woorke Miles Monop and now their late Suruey of the booke of Common prayer Printed anno 1606. without mention of the place c. were not extant to certifie the world of their rebellious intentions and treacherous practises wherby alredy they restrayned and indangered euen our forsayd soueraigne King Iames and for their so doing published a Iustificacation It was printed an 1582. vnder the title of A declaration of the iust c. professing the cause to haue bene only because say they the discipline of the Kirke wa● openly impugned when as the King by the perswasion of the enemyes of the kirke was induced to make him selfe and his priuie Cowncil Iudges in the cognition of maters meere ecclesiastical c. Out of which their hate against him in their forsayd Suruey they appeach him of periurie to make him odious forsooth because he disaloweth their disciplin which by oath there expressed he vowed to mantayne And what they did against our forsayd sacred King the same they did against other kings and princes wherof one of them boasting wryteth to such effect as followeth A prince of blood royal ouerthrowen as Dauid was by sathan into synne Trauers in his defence of Ecclesiastical Discipline pag. 127. indured to be rebuked by the seruant of God and lamented his offense openly before the publick assemblie c. VVhos 's example bothe a crowned King and his sonne haue followed c. How truely sayd the sacred Scripture there is nothing more insupportable then the insolencie of a slaue gotten vp in the neck of his master Alas how farr otherwyse are princes respected by Catholicks who are by these men because it behoueth to sclawnder with their owne connatural proprietie their aduersaries to preuent and anticipat a due and euer deserued accusation tearmed enemyes to princely authoritie I referr the reader desyrous to know our loialtie and resolutions toward our princes to these our assertions First Debere Reges curare etiam ea quae ad religionem pertinent idque excellentiori modo quam caeteri fideles possunt nempe leges ferendo pro veritate Stapleton de subiecte potestatu Ecclesiasticae cap. 20 Contr. 2. l. 5. pag. 196. H●●ding against the Apologie pag. 303. 306. 307. In his reioynder fol. 379. Sander de visib Monarc lib. 7. in an 1447. coercendo hostes veritatis Kings ought to intermedle also with those things which belong to religion and that in a more excellent degree then other christians may to witt by making lawes for truth and punishing enemyes of truth Secondly Good Kings may bridle the riot and arrogancie of Bishops Thirdly Reddite quae sunt Caesaris Caesari vt pote censum tributum subiectionem Omnis homo existens sub alio subditus sit per obedientiam promptam ac humilem constitutis à Deo principibus saecularibus Render to Caesar what is Caesars to witt rents tribut subiection Let euery one remayning vnder another be subiect to secular princes being constituted by God through ready and humble obedience This is our doctrin as also that it is a bonde of conscience which protestants denye saying it to be only a ciuil obligation to subiect them selues to their kings and princes Ioan. 7. 10. 20 Luc. 23. Christ was slandred but wrongfully to be a seducer to be an enemye to Caesar to hinder the paying of his tribute to aspire to be a king S. Paul was also accused Act. 14 17.21.24.25 Tertull. in Apol. Iustin in Apol. 2. ad Antonin Euseb l. 5. c. 1. 4. Hist trip l. 6. c. 27. Paul Diac. l. 16. S. Greg. Nazian in laudem Caesarij Fratris as a stirrer to sedition but wrongfully In the persecutiōs of Nero Dioclesian Antonius c. Christians were wrongfully accused yea and punished as burners of Rome sacrificers of Children eaters of mans fleashe c. S. Athanase was wrongfully abused for a fornicator witche and traytour S. Siluerius for inducing the Gothes to inuade the Romain Empyre To be breefe It was Iulian the Apostats principal indeuoure to haue the people perswaded the suffrings of Christians to haue euer bene for criminal enormities treacheries and not for religion So we may be accused and censured in lyke maner but wrongfully Farr otherwyse did my soueraigne King Iames towards my selfe when it pleased him to exchange my fiue yeares imprisonment into a banishement to any other choise dominion then his owne by affoording not withstanding this publick testimonie of my innocencie Directed to the L. Deputie and Cowncel of Irland After our very harty commendations to your Lordship and the rest VVheras one Henry Fitzsimon a Iesuit hath these fiue yeares past remayned prisoner in the castle of Dublin His Maiesties fauorable testimonie of my innocencie notwithstanding my banishment on whose behalfe humble sute hath bene made to the Kings Maiestie for his inlargement out of prison And his Maiestie hath bene informed that he hath made so good demonstration of his loialtie and dutyfull affection to his Maiestie and the state as deserueth that he should be vsed with as great fauoure as a man of his sorte and qualitie may be capable of You shall therfore vnderstand that it is the Kings Maiesties pleasure that you shall release the sayd Henry Fitzsimon out of prison taking sufficient bonde of him with good suretyes for his auoyding out of the realme within some conuenient tyme to be by your Lor. limited vnto him for his departure And that he shall not at tyme hereafter returne into any of his Maiesties dominions without license first obteyned by him in that behalfe And so we bidd your Lordship and the rest very hartely farewell From the Cowrt at VVhythall the 12. of Marche 1603. Your Lordships very louing Frends L. Chancellor L. Treasorer L. Chamberlain E. Shrewsburie E. Deuonshyre E. of Mat. L. Cecyll L. Knollis L. of Kinless For conclusion

be dowbtfull The vse of conditional baptisme is more ancient Quoties non inueniuntur firmi testes qui eos absque vlla dubitatione baptizatos esse dicant nec ipsi per etatem de sibi tradito mysterio apte respondere possint debere baptizari Sexta synod can 84. Idem habetur Conc. Cartag 5.6 Conc. Affric c. 39. Conc. VVormat c. 70. Suruey pag. 88. f 112. not to haue bene vsed conditionaly befor the yeare 1161 g 106. not to be more necessarie then formerly circumcision Of Godfathers and Godmothers Godfathers and Godmothers to be papistical such to be only witnesses and not suerties Of Confirmation Confirmation to be a corrupt following of the Apostles the same to be vnwarranted vnprofitable Suruey pag. 128. 129. Hampton Conference pag. 10. idle Vainly made by Englishe Protestants a Sacrament with imposition of handes Suruey pag. 117. 118. Additions to the late Catechisme E. avvn 3. as a signe signing and sealing and an inward spiritual grace Of the Eucharist a Suruey pag. 129. Communion by Luke 22.29 to belonge to all Christians and that by Act. 20.7 on each sonday b Cartvvright l. 1. pag. 158. Aunsvver to the petition pag. 11. A Ministers exposition or sermon to be an essential parte of Communion c Suruey pag. 117. The supper to be a maintenance of our spiritual regeneration Of Penance No sinnes forgiuen but by being not imputed Suruey pag. 87. pag. 116. Hamp Confer pag. 28. Suruey pag. 116. by Rom. 4.7.8 No synnes in any once iustifyed to neede repentance or to depriue from grace Of Ordre Bishops to be members not of Christ a The Arraignment of Barrous 20. Apr 1593. but of the deuil and of Antichrist b Alison against Puritans artic 15. Ministers of the words to liue by almes only c Barrovves arraignment The Church to haue no head in earth d Alison artic 14. No oathes to be taken befor Bishops but only befor magistrats e Ibid. art 12. Euery priuat man to haue licence to preach and expownd the Scriptures f Hampt Confer pag. 34. Suruey p. 114. Bishops not only Ministers of Confirmation g Suruey pag. 89. The name of priests in all the new testament neuer to belong to the Ministers of Christ h Suruey pag. 5. Hamp Conf. p. 36. Bishops Deanes Archdeacons as such to be noe members of the Church I Suruey pag. 127. Them to haue noe proofe of Scripture k Cartvvr Admonition tr 2. 3. All that prowd generation must downe Of Marriadge Suruey pag. 132. Matrimony euen by English protestants is vaynly made a Sacrament and God therby made a liar Of Extreame vnction Suruey pag. 129. Extreame vnction also by English protestants most absurdly to haue bene practised and prescribed in the 2. of Edw. 6. Of Sacraments in general a Suruey pag. 120. 121. Falsely to be sayd in latest Catechismes euen of English Protestants Sacraments to be necessarie to saluation b Ibid. as allso the said Protestants to implye wrongfully the beinge of more then two Sacraments c Suruey pag. 104. also them to err in saying Sacraments to be meanes of grace and not only pledges Of assembling to Churches Barrovves arraigument 20. Apr. 1593. The assembling of people to Churches by ringing bells to be Antechristian Of Ceremonies Suruey pag. 98. 99. Hampton Confereuce pag. 67 No ceremonie only significant and not sealing in the gospel Yet in Hampton conference they affirmed the contrary Hadd I not bene depriued of the often mentioned Suruey by some deceites as also of the collections I had therout gathered I had produced many lyke artickles of Puritance which vpon recouerie of the said book shal after God willing be recorded Now to their disprouing of their bretherens beleef Puritans against the late profession of England a Brovvghtons Aduertisement to the Lo. of the Counsell of corruptions Anno 1604. The publicke Englishe translation causeth millions of millions to reiect the new testament and to runne to eternall flames b Ibid. It peruerteth the holye text of the owlde testament in eight hundred and eight places c Ibid. It is inferiour to the Alcaron d Hampton Conference pag. 45. 46. 47. The Englishe Bibles ill translated all together and them according Geneua to be the worst e Ibid. They containe very partial vntrue and seditious notes to much sauouring of traiterous conceits as of allowing disobedience to Kings and taxing Asa for deposing his mother and not killing hir A b c a Ther is no right religion established in England b They be all infidels that goe to late Churches of England The tvvo Admonitions to the parlament c It shal be easier for Sodom and Gomorrha in the daye of iudgment then for the courte of Parliment by which the Protestant religion was confirmed d Alison articulo 4.5.6.7.8 The English congregation consisteth of all sortes of vncleane spirites and is no membre of Christ e Ibidem The regiment thereof is vnlawful Perpetual Gouernement of the Church pag. 339. alleadgeth much more of this kinde and Antechristian f Ibidem Their Sacraments no Sacraments g Ibidem It is a very Babilon Puritan Articles against State owt of the aunswer of Oxford and Cambridge to their petition pag. 28. 29. 1. That the supereminent authoritie of the Kinge must be confined within the limmits of some particular parish and then to subiect his souerainge power to the pure Apostolical simplicity as of an ouerswaying and all-commanding Presbiterie 2 That his meeke and humble Cleargie haue power to binde their kinge in chaines and their Prince in lincks of iron and in case they see cause to proceede against him as against a Tyrant 3 All appeales in causes ecclesiasticall and what doe they not make ecclesiasticall must finallye lye not vnto the Prince but vnto the assemblie Prouinciall 4 That they allow the supreame magistrate not potestatem Iuris but only Facti to mantayne their proceedings but not to command that finaly the King submitt his scepter vnto the scepter of Christ and licke the dust of the Churches feete Lastly that some of high place yet aliue and othersome dead haue felt the smart of this their professed doctrine in their owne experience and haue seene the worst of all this put in execution Thus farr out of their owne euidences I blame them not here to confesse that some aliue haue seene the worst of all these putt in execution considering first in France how in Geneua and Cabillon Genebrard ad An. 1560. 1567. 1570. 1575. Petr. Frat. orat con Sectarios def Reg. Relig. they not priuatly but synodicaly resolued the killing of King Queene Princes and nobilitie the spoiling of all the Churches in France Secondly how by their two first ciuil rebellious on both sydes in France only were slayne aboue a

euangelium apud nos pessum iturum loco euangelij meros eosdemque egregios errores nos habituros All things demonstrat nothing more then that the gospell is perishing among vs and that in place of the gospell will remaine mere and enorme errors To the same effect it is to be vnderstoode that when the Puritans began to multiplie and dangerously to impugne parlament protestants so called because they frame their profession according to parlamētal statuts the sayd Parlament Protestants to make them odious reuealed principaly by two bookes all Puritan dissignes as well displaying what their consistorial discipline was as to what distructiō of all religiō it aymed One of these bookes was intituled the Suruey of the pretēded holy discipline the other dangerous positions By vertue of which booke and of others of lyke subiect as A treatise of Ecclesiastical discipline The Remōstrāce Quaerimonia Ecclesiae The 5. bookes of the lawes of Eccl. polit The aunswer to the abstract c. the cause of Puritans seemed so detestable to the state that euer since more and more they in their wysdomes thought good to suppresse them Now in the last yeare 1606. the vnquiet Puritans collecting all abuses that might be obiected in the profession of Parlament Protestants they haue dedicated their sayd booke to his Maiestie appealing to his oath by the great name of the Lord In praefatione pag. 23. that he would defend according his power all the dayes of his lyfe vnder the paine contained in the law and danger both of bodie and sowle in the day of Gods fearfull iudgment the altogether Puritanical liturgie of Scotland This booke in requital of the former Seruey against them they haue also named A Suruey of the booke of common prayer Now to our former purpose that Protestancie and Puritancie are together decaying is auerred in this new Suruey First Pag. 160. they relate that the late Archbishop of Canturburie vpon remorse vttered these woords Good Lord when shall we know what to trust to And that suddenly he was surprised with a palsie was caried from the cowrt and died shortly after A plaine demonstration that all their profession hetherto inuented wanteth all assurance and fadeth awaye lyke a smoake Breefely in the sayd Suruey the Puritans acknowledg their owne delusions also to be at a non plus saying The tymes decline fast to Poperie these tymes be declining to Poperie Pag. 52. Pag. 105. Wheras therfor their threats of our decaie are but lyke the dying candle which befor quenching casteth out greatest flamms in the name of God I. Ioan. 2.24 Galat. 1.9 that which you haue heard from the begining as S. Iohn aduiseth let it remaine in you To which S. Paul accordeth Yf any preach otherwyse then you haue alredie receaued be be accursed For yf you be wyse you will not for any threats exchange the suer fundation and rock against which the gates of hell shall neuer preuayle for the sandie foolish mans choise which for rayne falling theron for wynde blowing Mat. 16.16 Mat. 7.27 and fludds coming is ruined and surmounted Such as is this new inuisible profession by the rayne of mans will lyke a figure formed in sand defaced and by wynds of opposition and fludds of obliuion vppon the point to be vtterly ouerwhelmed So that their Church which they sayd first was inuisible because they could produce noe predecessors among Christians that euer had beleeued as they did being now againe by their owne confession vanishing out of sight this epigramme should be allowed to be after a short tyme true You hould your church inuisible til Luthers tyme with Luther also hath it lost all bewties prime And now inuisible it growes with Luther dead so inuisible the membres and the head Inuisible in dede they are as deepe in hell for vtter darknes darkneth all that there do dwell So first it was obscure as fetcht from lightles pitt t is so againe as drownd where Lucifer doth sitt 5. Reg. 1. 5. 9. 19. Yf your Ministers and Promotors lyke Adonias befor their tyme haue furnished them selues insolently they are not therfor greatly to be maligned For that sinners by impietie come often to welth Psal 72.12 the Prophet Dauid fortould saying Ecce ipsi peccatores abundantes in seculo obtinuerunt diuitias Behowld the very sinners and abownding in the world haue obtained riches Vpon which place sayth S. Augustin S. Aug. in Psal 72. Quot sunt quila sciuijs vt boues vaccae ad iugulum tendunt canentes saltantes parant iter ad infernum How many are they that by riot as oxen and cowes do march to their destruction and singing Prou. 1.33 and dawnsing do dispose their voiage to hell Prosperitie of fooles will destroie them sayth the prouerb For as followeth in the wyseman Sap. 14. 28. ether while they reioyce they are madd or truely they fortell lies In their madnes they blaspheme God and his saincts and calumniat his people In their predictions of lies among others may be numbred yf they tell that you will apostat from religion honor them as true pastors defie papistrie and that so doing you will doe according to the gospell They occasion me to remembre one Selius in Martial who inferred there was no God because forsooth that he often blaspheming him yet therby liued in greater prosperitie Nullos esse Deos inane coelum Martial li. 4. epig● affirmat Selius probatque quod se Factum dum negat haec videt beatum No God heauen vayne affirmed Selius and proud it for that he was prosperous denying them and alwayes glorious Cicero was able to say of such men Cic. l. 1. offic Adducuntur plerique vt eos iustitia capiat obliuio cum in imperiorum honorum gloriaeve cupiditatem inciderint The most of such are forgetfull of equitie when they fall into the aspiring desyre of rule honors and glorie So that they doe but according to the wont of arrogant people when they insult vpon vayne expectations I wish for their creditours sake that it be neuer heard what Caluin well experienced in the lyke of him selfe and his brethren writeth of his felowe Ministers I will faythfully translat part of his plaine declaration omitting the latin this tyme for breuities sake Alij ad captandum miri artifices nudatos relinquunt c. Caluin lib. de scandalis pag. 65. 66. Some of thē sayth he writing as I sayd of Ministers wonderfullie cunning to snatch leaue them forlorne in nakednes to whom they promised montains of gould Some what almes they receaued ether they spend it in whooring or play or other riot Some what they borrowed they consume lauishlye in idlenes And in these crimes they haue often assistance of their wiues Some vncleanlines insueth wherwith this awnswer shall not be defyled Only as I sayd I craue that our Ministers and Catchpowls defraud not their creditors Afflicted Catholicks 4.