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A69038	The theatre of Catolique and Protestant religion diuided into twelue bookes. Wherein the zealous Catholike may plainelie see, the manifest truth, perspicuitie, euident foundations and demonstrations of the Catholique religion; together with the motiues and causes, why he should perseuer therin. ... Written by I.C. student in diuinitie.	I. C., student in divinity.; Copinger, John, b. 1571 or 2, attributed name.; Colleton, John, 1548-1635, attributed name.	1620 (1620)	STC 4284; ESTC S115632	314,600	666

and learning made therin great and admirable encrease and so became a priest and not without expectation of such a one as he liued and died afterwards For his rare vertues he was made Archbishopp of Ardmagh and primat of all Ireland and comming for his Country where he perfourmed the office of a diligent pastor and a zealous prelate was betraid by one of the country and committed to close and ghastly prison in the Castle of Dublin And after suffering much trouble in prison was brought to his triall in the kings bench before Sr. Iohn Plunkett then cheef iustice of that court and being there endited and arraigned of high treason and enforced to abide a Iury of gentlemen of the pale he was found guilties but they for acquiting of him were all comitted to the said castle and put to great fines When they could get no way by law to make him away or that his constancy could not be infringed he was remitted ouer to the Tower of London out of which he made an escape But after arriuing in Ireland to helpe his flocke the best he could was againe apprehended and sent ouer againe to the Tower where he ended his life 13. Cnohor O Duanna Bishopp of Downe Patricke and Connor was apprehended the moneth of Iuly 1612. and committed to the Castle of Dublin wherin he liued in continuall restrainct many yeers before by the apprehension of one maister Smith secretary to Sr. Nicholas Bagnall but being taken the 2. time was hanged drawen and quartered the first of Februarie 1612. One Patricke a vertuous priest suffred also with him Of Priests 1. IOhn Traners doctor of diuinitie being accused that he wrott against the suppremacy of the king was hanged drawen and quartered at Tiburne Anno 1535. which being at the place of executiō he confessed plainly shewing the 3. fingers with which the wrott that matter and his hand beinge strooken of and cast into the fire euerie whitt was burned but those 3. fingers could nott be burned as Surius writeth 2. Lawrence Moore whom doctour Sāders in his letres 1580. to the Cardinall Commen of the warres of Ireland called a holly priest being with the Spaniardes at the Forte called Dowy Nore was betraied and deliuered ouer to the Lord Gray then Lord deputie of Ireland with two proper gentlemen the one called Oliuer Plunker an Irish gentleman the other called William Welsh an English gent. by the Corronell of the Forte called Sebastian de saint Ioseph for that they refused vppon any composition to yeld ouer the said Forte which they could well defend hauing no want of any thinge neither victuals nor munu●iō were comanded by the said L. deputy to be brought to a smiths forge and al their bones and Iointes to be beaten and crushed with a hammer and this for the space of a day and night the priests fingers being cutt off with a knife but in that extreame paine they suffred yett their liues were promised vnto them if they would turne protestātes Al the Spaniards to the nūber of 900. except the said Corronell and 10. more were stript of their weapons and were all slaine and cas● ouer the cliffs into the sea for that Forte stood vppon a mightie rocke ouer the sea notwithstanding the L. deputies word and faith vnto al them for their life libertie goods and for safe conduct into Spaine Of this euent the good prieste told the said Corronell and the rest of the Spaniards this hapened vpon saint Martins eue 1580. 3. Morris Kent natiue of Kilmalock and bachelor of diuinitie was apprehended and accused for hauing been Chaplaine to the Earle of Desmond And for as much as a good and worshippfull Alderman named Victor White had of a pious zeale and for the comfort of his owne soule kept the said Morris in his house was for that cause apprehēded putt in prison for his guest but the good priest to saue his hoast harmeles appeared before the said L. president of his owne accord who was hanged drawen and quartered He was a holy and a vertuous man of few wordes very zealous he suffred the 30. of Apprill 1585. 4. Edmond Odonel natiue of Limerick of the societie of Iesus was apprehended for being suspected to carry letters from Rome to Sr. Iames fitz Morris and therfore was hanged drawen and quartered at Corck by Sr. Iohn Perrot L. president of Munster about the yeere of our Lord 1575. He was sent ouer as a fellow with father Goad an English Iesuit who in company with F. Dauid Woulf priest of that society were sent in a mission into that country by the procurement of primat Creogh to teach grammer about the beginning of Queene Elizabeths time 5. Daniell Okeilan was apprehended at Yonghull by Sr. William Morgan and captaine Peers which then kept garrison in that towne He was hanged with his legges vpwardes and his head downewards and then all the souldiors were comaunded to leuell at him with their bulletts Comaundement was also giuen that none should leuell at his harte therby to encrease his paine by his lingering death he was a priest of the order of S. Frauncis this hapned the 28. of march 1580. 6. Daniell Hinnichan Phillipp O See Morris O scanlan of the order of S Frauncis being old impotent and blind as other friers were were all three slaine at the high alter of their monasterie called Lislaghtine 1580. 7. Teigh Odulan of the order of saint Frauncis was apprehended at the monastery of Askettin and brought to Limericke and there was hanged drawen and quartered After his head was cutt of he was heard to speake these woords Vias tuas demonstra mih● 1579. 8. Richard French natiue of the countrie of Wexford a vertuous priest after long imprisonment in the castle of Dublin and in the castle of Wexford ended his life 1581. Thomas Coursey viccar of Kensale a most vertuous priest was hanged by Marshall lawe by Sr. Iohn Perrot L. president of Munster for entreating Iames fitz Morris to restore the pray which he tooke from his parishioners of Beasale 1577. 9. Glasuy O Boyll Abbot of Boyll of the diocesse of Elfyne in Connaght and Ouen O Mulkeran Abbot of the monasterie of the holly Trinitie of that diocesse were hanged and quartered by the L. Gray Anno 1580. Iohn Stephen priest for that he said Masse to Feigh Ma-Hugh was hanged and quartered by the L. Burrowes 1597. Thady O Boyll guarden of the monasterie of Downigall was slaine by the English in his owne monasterie 6. Freers were slaine in the monasterie of Moynighan in Shaane O Neals warrs Iohn O Onan was hanged by Marshall lawe at Dublin 1618. Patricke O Dyry was hanged and quartered at Derry 1618. Brien O Carulan was hanged by Marshall law 1606. 10. Iohn O Calyhor Brien O Trower moncks of the order of S. Bernard were slaine in their owne monastery de Sācta Maria in Vlster Felymy O Harra a lay brother of the order of S. Fr. in his monasterie

pittie towardes the poore as they haue remorse of conscience to keepe them or morall honestie to bestowe them And as for other ecclesiasticall dignities and spirituall benefices out of which the greatest liuely hoode should be deducted they saie Non sufficit nobis vobis wee haue not inoughe our selues much lesse will wee imparte any thinge vnto others hauinge such a diluge of chitts and childrē with which the countries of this ghospell doe aboūd that S. Paule should not bragge nor glorie more for begettinge children per euangelium by the gospell of Christe then they by their voluptuous gospell And soe eche of them maie saie Genui vos per euangelium I haue begotten yow by the gospel but I would to God they had gotten them spiritually as S. Paule did and not carnallie as they doe whose voluptuous gospell is Crescere multiplicare ex sanguinibus aut ex voluntate carnis sed non ex Deo nati sunt By filthie concupiscence accordinge to the will of the fleash but are not borne of God whose vnhappy and wofull of springe did robb Christ of his patrimony and did not onlie destroie the ecclesiasticall state of his church but also haue almost brought to ruine the ciuill and temporall state hauing made their inundation with which all England and Irelād are so ouerwhelmed into their neighbours possessions and territories that the boundes and banckes of these countries are not able to resiste their violent irruptions neither yet a meane contment is not able to conteine the confused and disordered multitude of their issue soe as if England either by conquest or some other course doe not appoint their habitation and dwellinge place in some other countrie as Virginia or Guiana or elce where the kingdome of great Brittanie and poore Ireland shall feele the smarte and especially the nobilitie and cheefest into whome they prie daylie seekinge by all dishonest courses to intrude into their landes and liuinges as they haue donn alreadie by suppressinge them in all those countries where this gospel tooke footing for I dare say and boldely affirme that these gospellers haue putt downe and surprised as many howses of noble men and gentlemen as monasteries and churches but it is the iust iudgment of God that these potentats and great people should feele their greatest smarte by whom they were sollicited defended and protected in this their newe gospell And that for two causes vid. libertie to liue dissolutelie without controllment of their spirituall pastors and couetousnes with greedie desire to possesse and enioye the churche liuinges which sorte of people for that they contemne all spirituall power or iurisdiction which the church ought to haue ouer them as the spiritt ouer the fleash did easilie yeald to any heretique impugninge and resistinge this spirituall power and takinge away all ecclesiasticall discipline and spirituall correction and soe they gaue them full scope to all abhominable riotousnes and wanton dissolution 4. But to retourne to my purpose that God is not displeased nor good Christians offended for buildinge churches and monasteries or other religious howses for his seruice nor the poore hindered of their releefe for anny charitable oblations or donations that the deuout christians doe bestow on the church but rather God much pleased therby and the poore releeued First 2 Reg. 7. Genes Dauid for hauinge a desire to build a temple for Godes honor was rewarded with and euerlastinge howse and a perpetuall kingdome Iacob but only for consecrating a stone to godes glorie it was said vnto him I will cause thee to encrease and multiplie The englishmen vppon their first cominge to Irelande vnder kinge henrie the 2. dedicated to the seruice of God the first land they tooke which was in the countie of Wexford and made two famous monasteries as Donbrody and Tentarom of the order of S. Bernard and haue endued thē with great and ample possessions as also many churches in that countie and in euery place where they came which was noe smale cause they had such good successe in their enterprise Henry the 5. before he tooke the warres of Fraunce in hand builded two famous monasteries by Richmounde one of the order of Carthusians and the other of Sion Nunes of the order of S. Bride eche monasterie standes one againste the other and the riuer of Themes betwixt them which he dedicated to the seruice of God whom they praised with celestiall alleluias as diuine praises which were neuer omitted either by day or by night soe that when th one would make an end the other would beginn the bells giuinge them notice therof Therfore God did prosper him soe well in those warres that he brought almost all France to his subiection and his sonne kinge Henry the 6. was crowned kinge of Fraunce at Paris beinge but xi yeares of age Yea I could recken more then a thowsand examples of the like subiecte 5. And for the releefe of the poore as the pretious ointment that Marie Magdalen bought for our Sauiours feete was not a hinderance for the poore soe whatsoeuer is giuen to further his seruice doth rather further then hinder them Is there anie countrie in Europe more charitable to the poore and more liberall to godes seruants and all other ecclesiasticall persons then Spaine and yet noe countrie more sumptuous and costlie in their churches and more deuoute and lesse sparing of any thinge they haue for the settinge foorth of godes glorie for adorninge churches and monasteries with all ornaments and implements pertaininge therunto Is there anie country in the world that can shewe such hospitales in all citties townes villadges and hamletts for the cure of the sicke and for the releefe of pilgrimes and strangers such colledges for poore virgins that be depriued of parents and frindes where they be kept and brought vpp in all honest and godly education befittinge gentle women vntill they be married vppon the cost and chardges of the colledge in euerie cittie or great towne in Spaine such confraternities being erected for all workes of mercie by which meanes all sortes of distressed persōs are reliued soe many hospitalities for cast children for whome they haue nurses to giue them sucke vpon the hospitalles charges which also giues releefe vnto them vntill they be able to helpe themselues Soe manny colledges for orphanes soe manny vniuersities for schollers as noe countrie can shewe soe manny hauinge 24. vniuersities and so manny howses of mercie that I dare saye that the howse of mercy of Lisborne doth more workes of charitie and sustaines more poore people and marryes more virgins for godes sake then all the protestante countries in Europe 6. To conclude England and Ireland cannot denie but there was better prouision for the poore before the church was destroyed then after and that the most parte of all colleges and hospitalles were builded by church men themselues Did not the faithfull bringe all their goodes vnto the Apostles Act. c. 5. to be disposed accordinge to their

For although the written law lightneth our vnderstanding with many instructions and fownd doctrine directing our vnderstanding to follow and embrace vertue and to discerne the good from the euill yet it disposeth nor prepareth not our hartes with the loue of the one nor our affection with the hatred of the other it giueth light to the vnderstanding but it healeth not the infirmitie and disease of our appetites The lawe teatcheth the way to heauen but giueth no force to our weake soules to trauaile thither which saint Iohn auerreth The law was giuen by Moyses but grace and trueth was giuen by Christ which is conferred by the sacramentes and which are instrumentes to conuay the same vnto vs. 2. As there are many maladies disseases and necessities so there ar also many sacramentes which are as it were conduits that do deriue manny remedies and receipts to ech of them And as the Humane body is first borne and so encreaseth is fedd and receaueth diuers alterations Ephe. 5. Mar. 16. in Clemen ex summa trinitate fidei Cath. ca. 1 Ezech. 36 Clemens epist 4. Vrba ep ad omnes fideles Melch ad epis Hisp Ioh. 6. 1. Cor. 11. Iohn 2. so there are many such varietie of alterations of the soule which is borne and regenerated by water and the holy ghoast which is baptisme and the grace and vertues which are giuen in baptisme are againe confirmed by the Sacrament of confirmation which maketh the soule stoute and constant in the profession of his faith which faith and grace hath neeede to be nourished and augmented which is don by the holie Sacrament of the Eucharist which is the body of Christ which is the foode of our languished soule which through many infirmities and diseases incident therunto hath great need of a spirituall phisition to heale the same by contrition confession and satisfaction And for that after long and prolix sicknesse and disseases there are many dregges of the old sicknesse stil left Ia. 5. cont Flore for the healing and curing wherof the Sacrament of extreame vnction is ordained as also that a christian in his cheefest agony of his spirituall extremit●e should be releued and refreshed 3. The other 2. Sacramentes are inioyned for the 2. states of people Matt. 19. Ephes 5. the one for such as be married the other for such as be ecclesiasticall and seruing in godes church But the new religion hath no Sacrament althoughe for some shew of litle deuotion they do not reiect the Sacramentes of Baptisme and Eucharist yett they handle them without any deuotion or reuerence at all as for Baptisme some or most of them doe holde that it is not necessarie to our saluation for they thincke that the childe is saued by the faith of his parents As for the Eucharist with they call the Lords supper they make no more accompt of it then of anny common bread whose effect is nothinge els ten to remember Christ his death which may be don aswell by the one as by the other The 4. Excellencie is to fauor the good and to punish the wicked CHAPTER V. 1. WHen the end of euery lawe is to take away vice and wickednesse and the occasions therof and to make mē sober honest and vertuous it is meete that the good should haue many priuiledges fauors and rewards and the wicked should be punished Deut. 28. Ezech. 5. 6. as we may read in Deutrono wher god almightie threatneth death and destruction against the transgressors of his lawes and comandementes The like also we may read in Ezech. But the new religion taketh away both merits and rewards from the iust and paine and punishmentes from the wicked saying the more wicked you are the neerer you are to Gods fauor and grace as Luther affirmeth The 5. Excellencie is the conuersion of all nations vnto Christe and driuing Idolatrie out of the world CHAPTER VI. THe more that princes persecuted christian religion the more the same encreased as Pliny the 2. being a Pagan withnesseth For when he saw such a multitude of christians to be put to death he wrott to the emperor Traian aduertizing him that there were thowsands of christians executed by exquisitt tormentes for no kind of offence but for being Christians and the more they were tormented and afflicted the more they encreased and florished and the more the reuerence of the Idols decreased But the new religion neuer conuerted the gentles from Idolatrie to Christian religion whose only imployment and drift is to corrupt and confound the faithfull and neuer to reforme themselues charging the church with Idolatrie as old heretiques haue done Athanasius witnessing the same The 6. Excellencie of the Catholique Religion is that the same is proued and auerred by so many good witnesses as sacred and learned doctors blessed saincts martyrs and generall counsells CAPTER VII 1. ARistotle saith that a man is beleeued for three causes and ought to be presupposed that he telles the trueth 1. If he be wise 2. If he be vertuous 3. If he be oure frind For wee thincke that a wise man should not be deceaued a good man should not lie a frind should not deceaue his frind Such therfore as did beare witnesse of our catholique religion were wisemen eminent and exquisitt in all sciences and faculties most holy and religious in their liues as Dionisius Areopagita disciple to S. Paule saint Ignatius Policarpus Origines saint Basill the great and his brother saint Gregorie Nissenus saint Iohn Chrisostom Theodoretus saint Nazianzenus saint Gregorie saint Aug. saint Hierom saint Ambrosse saint Hillarius saint Cyprian Lactantius Firmianus S. Vincentius Lirinensis Arnobius saint Bernard saint Bonauenture Scotus Alexander de Halles with diuers others for they had no cause but to tell the trueth being honest vertuous free from all inordinat affection that should otherwise restraine thē to declare the trueth therof being people that were altogether addicted to the seruice of God and most zealous of his glory and honor which they preferred before all worldly designements and promotions 2. Vnto these are annexed for confirmation of the trueth all generall counsells of the world which were 20. with the aprobation of Christs viccar generall in earth together with all the blessed martyrs that euer were in all the persecutions and tempestuous stormes and agonies of the church which she suffred vnder 14. Kinge and Emperors according to S. Aug. accompt lib. 18. de ciuitate Dei The first was of Nero who was so infestuous to the Christians that he caused Rome to be sett on fire in diuers places and laid the imputation of that infamie vppon them wherby the Romanes should insult vppon them and should destroy and massacre them euerie one the Tirant himselfe commanding the same The 2. was of Domitian who caused S. Iohn the Euangelist to be cast into a Tunn of hoat burn●nge oyle which caused also by his edict published that all the bookes of Christians should be burned