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B10051 An historical epistle of the great amitie and good offices betvvixt the popes of Rome, and kings of Great Britanie. Written to King Iames soone after his coming into England. / By Richard Smith ... Smith, Richard, 1566-1655.; England and Wales. Sovereign (1603-1625 : James I) 1652 (1652) Wing S4153; ESTC R184318 20,328 71

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TO THE MOST HIHGH AND MIGHTIE PRINCE IAMES BY THE GRACE OF GOD KING OF GREAT Britanie c. 1. IF saint Paul most gratious soueraigne being accused of the whole Synagogue of the Iewes by their Orator Tertullus of diuers heynous crimes both against Gods and the Princes laws found notwithstanding such equitie in the Heathen President Festus as hee answered his aduersaries that is was not the custome of the Acts 25. Romans to condemne any man before he haue his accusers present and place to make his answer and also such fauour at the Acts 26. Iewish King Agrippa as he both licensed him to speak for himselfe and afforded him fauorable audience much more cause haue your Majesties Catholick subjects being accused of Ministers by their hired spokesman Bel to expect the like yea greater fauour and equitie at your Graces hands For if Romans though heathens thought it injustice to condemn a particular man at the clamours of a whole Nation before his accusers were present and his defense were heard and if Agrippa albeit a Iew and enemie to Christians deemed it notwithstanding a Princes part to giue audience to one accused of that religion which he both hated and persecuted how much more will a Christian Prince forbear to condemn the vniuersal cause of his Catholick subjects for the slanders and outcries of Ministers and one hired Proctor before their Accusers be brought face to face and they haue time and place granted to answer for themselues Wherein wee shall account our selues more happie then Saint Paul because wee shall plead our cause not before a Heathen or Iewish Prince but before a Christian King and such a one as better knoweth the questions and customs of Christians then King Agrippa did of the Iews 2. Wherefore seing of late one Th. Bel a fugitiue once from the Protestant religion as he is now from Catholick hath not onely accused but also maliciously slandered the vniuersal Catholick cause in a booke which he hath dedicated to your Maiestie and termed it the Downfal of Poperie and withal challengeth dareth and adjureth in which case our Blessed Sauiour though Math. 26. whith manifest danger of his life made answer al Seminarie Priests al English Iesuits and as he speaketh Iesuited Papists to answer him I haue presumed vpon your gracious fauour to accept his challenge and am readie to performe it hand to hand if your Majestie grant licence and in the mean time to dedicate to your Name this my Confutation of his arguments and slanders wherein I speake not for my selfe as did Saint Paul before King Agrippa but for the religion of your own Progenitors and Predecessors for the faith of your forefathers for the cause of all Catholicks and for the good I dare say of your own Majesties person and Kingdomes For though Bel calumniate Christian Kings and Emperours with opening a window to all Antichristian tyrannie and Catholicks generally with thinking Christ to be killed a thousand times a day and such like yet especially he slandereth the Popes with vsurping power proper to God and to depose Princes and dispose of their Kingdoms at his pleasure for to alienate your minde thereby from the sea Apostolick wherein he not only abuseth your patience with telling you palpable vntruths but also greatly harmeth and endammageth your person and realm by endeauouring by his fals slanders to auert your minde from the Popes who haue been the most ancient most assured and most beneficiall freinds which the Kings and realms of great Britanie haue euer had Which thing that I may make manifest vnto your Majestie I humbly beseech you giue me leaue to set downe some particular examples of the mutuall amitie and kinde offices which haue been betwixt the Popes and the Princes of this land Wherein if I bee somewhat longer then men vse to be in Epistles I hope the varietie and profit of the mattaer will make requitall 3. Not long after the sea Apostolick S. PETER P. was setled in Rome Saint Peter the first Pope about the sixtie third year of Lippoman 29. Iunij tomo 5. CHRIST came saith a Simeon Metaphrastes a Grecian writer about 800. years ago into Britanie where hauing stayed long time and conuerted many nations vnto Christ he saw an Angel who tould him that the time of his departure was at hand and therefore he shold return to Rome where being crucified he should receaue the reward of iustice When therefore he had glorified God and giuen thanks and stayed some daies with the Britans setled Churches and ordered Bishops Priests and Deacons in the twelft year of the Emperour Nero hee returned to Metaphrast liued Ann. 859. Baron ibidem Rome Thus much Metaphrastes all which he professeth to haue taken out of ancient monuments and to haue been publickly related And withall addeth that Euseb Pamphili the ancientest Ecclesiastical Historiographer reporteth that Peter was twelue years in the East and twenty three years in Rome and in Britanie and in the cities of the West So that not onely Metaphrastes but also Eusebius testifieth that Saint Peter came into Britannie Neither hindreth it that this testimonie of Eusebius is not found in any of his books now extant For as S. Hierom. sayeth he wrote innumerable volumes which now are perished in some whereof might be this testimonie For it is no way likelie that Metaphrastes should feigne it both because he is accounted a saint and honoured of the Grecians as such and cited in the Councel of Florence as a man of great authoritie as also because there was no cause to moue him to feigne it and lastly because hee might bee justly laughed at for feiging a thing wherein hee might bee easily disprooued And that saint Peter came into Britanie not only English Catholicks as Harpesfield lib. 1. histor cap. 2. Grecians Italians French Spaniards Germans Polonians Scots English say Saint Peter vvas in Britanie Broughton lib. 1. cap. 24 and others doe affirme but also strangers as Iulianus Petri in Aduersariis § 495. Baronius Anno 46. and his Epitomizers Spondanus Bzouius Bisiola Bernardus Iunius in Chronico Morali anno 46. Biuarrus in Chronico Dextri Anno 46. Ciaconus in vita Sancti Petri Guillimannus in suis Habpurgicis lib. 2. cap. 1. Eiseingrenius Centuria 7. par 7. dis 8. Chesneus in hist Angl. l. 3. Posseuinus in apparatu tom 3. Lesleus in Paraenesi ad Scotos And also learned Protestants confesse the same For thus Cambden Protestants confesso it in his Britanie p. 52. Of the credit of Simeon Metaphrastes Cambden and the Greeks Meneologie our Ecclesiasticall writers report that Peter came hither and spread the light of the Gospel And in his Remains pag. 4. The true Christian religion was planted here by Ioseph of Arimathia Simon Zelotes Aristobulus yea by saint Peter and saint Paul as may bee proued by Dorotheus Theodoretus Sophronius Spede lib. 6. cap. 9. Speed Some ad that S. Peter