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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A80659	A treatise against recusants, in defence of the oath of alegeance. With executions of consideration, for repressing the encrease of Papists. / By Sir Robert Cotton, knight.	Cotton, Robert, Sir, 1571-1631.	1641 (1641)	Wing C6502; Thomason E205_1; ESTC R212611	26,099	47

a happy turne Without reformation in this point Popery will still encrease but as all vertuous enterprises are difficult so this most intricate But I finde it to be full of difficulty there is provision made to avoid Popish School-masters but there is no word against Popish School-mistresses that infect the silly Infants while they carry them in their armes which moveth me to suppose that the former proposition to examine how children and servants are brought up and truly to certifie the life of Communicants and Recusants will be the readiest meanes to let his Majesty know the yearely increase of the Church in every Diocesse A wise housholder will cast up his reckoning to see what losse or profit he hath made in a yeare and whosoever shall send his children or any his Majesties subjects to bee placed in Monasteries and Seminary Colledges or Popishly to be brought up in forreine parts I wish that for punishment both the one and the other might be defranchised of the priviledges due to naturall Subjects so far forth as any good by the Lawes might descend to them but not be exempted from the penalties thereof or the Regall jurisdiction of the Crowne I know that contradiction is odious and makes a man seeme ambitious to be thought more understanding than others In which case the Spaniard uses to terme him only presumptuous whom he would call foole if civility would beare it But my defence I hope shall serve to revive my former protestation that I discourse by way of proposition rather than arrogance in defining any thing The law which took immediate notice of an offence gave a quick redresse and corrected the poore as well as the rich with pardon therfore may it be permitted that the penall Law of twelve pence inflicted on him that would not give a reasonable excuse for his absence from Church on Sundaies was one of the best Ordinances that hath been hitherto enacted but while we sought to make new Statutes savouring of more severity we neglected the old and were loath to execute the new For it is a certaine rule that whosoever in policy will give liberty and yet seeme to suppresse a crime let him procure sharpe Lawes to be proclaimed which are necessary only for the times and cause occasions to be put in execution but not to be an ordinary worke for every day in the weeke Sharpe Lawes that stand upon a ●long processe after a manner seem to dispense with a vice daily use teacheth us likewise that it is lesser grievous to punish by an old Law than a new Forasmuch as truth it selfe without it be praised seldome gets credit and its hard to free the people from suspition that new Lawes are not rather invented against the particular persons and purses of men than against their manners By force of which reason I am induced to conceive that the old use of the Church contained in good nurture and Ecclesiasticall censure much more prevaile to nuzzle Popery than any fresh devices whatsoever Neither doe I thinke it blame-worthy to affirme that our cause hath taken harme by relying more on temporall than spirituall forces for while we trusted that Capitall punishments should strike the stroke we have neglected the meanes which would for the most part have discharged the need of such security The oath of Allegiance is not offered generally to servants and meane people The allegiance to God ought to precede the temporall obedience for if the first may be obtained the second will follow of it selfe who if they had taken the oath of Absolution of a priest might recoile from it and change their opinion at leisure without any ready meanes to discover their Lieger demeanes That oath will not be often prest and to them that shift from place to place how can it be tendered The principall Papists now cover themselves in the crowde of the multitude but if we can discover the affection of the multitude they will easily be unmasked and being singled from the rest they will be ashamed of their nakednesse Which under correction of better judgements may be effected if every new commer to inhabite a towne and servant newly entertained within a weeke or fourteene daies be caused to repaire unto the Minister This course will discover more than the oath of Allegiance and prevent many from falling off by reason of the quicke discovery there in presence of the Churchwardens and other honest men to subscribe unto such briefe and substantiall articles confirming Faith and Allegiance as shall be according to Gods Word and Justice ordained to distinguish the Sheepe from the Goates In forreine Countries every Host is bound to bring his guest before an Officer there to certifie his name with the occasion of his comming and intended time of abode in those parts and in case he staies longer he must again renew his licence so curious and vigilant also they are to keep their Cities from infection that without a Certificate witnessing their comming from wholsome places they may not escape the Lazzaretto No lesse watchfull ought we to bee to prevent the contagions of our soules As long as houses lodgings in London are let to Papists the Priests shall bee received and from thence the Countrey infected than other Nations are of their bodies every thing is hard and scarcely pleasing in the beginning but with hope some such course may be readily put in execution I propound this rather as matter for better heads to worke on then peremptorily to be insisted upon in the same termes Yet lest any man charge me with temerity that when I desire to know the multitudes inclination by the meanes aforesaid I satisfie my selfe with the Parrets language pronouncing it knowes not what I thinke it not impertinent to put them in minde that I have hitherto required instruction both precedent and subsequent and am ever of the minde that though all this cannot be done at once If we can prevent the increase of Papists these that now live must either bee reformed or in time yeeld to nature and then shall a new age of Christians succeed and by education made religions yet it is necessary alwaies to be doing our best knowing that not to goe forward in Religion is to goe backward It is not the outward obedience of comming to Church that discovers the inward thoughts of the heart it is the confession of the tongue must utter these secrets and where the Curate is insufficient or the Parish great I would they had Chatechists to assist them maintained by the Priests of the Recusants which pension being collected for good cause will free us from scandall though it grieve them to pay the speciall army wages against their owne Stratagems surely in giving them way in petty matters they are growne Masterfull on their party Plato affirmes that the popular state proceeds from the licence which people take to make immoderate applauses in the Theatres