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A13158	A briefe examination, of a certaine peremptorie menacing and disleal petition presented, as is pretended, to the Kings most excellent Maiestie, by certaine laye papistes, calling themselues, the lay Catholikes of England, and now lately printed, and diuulged by a busie compagnion, called Iohn Lecey	Sutcliffe, Matthew, 1550?-1629.	1606 (1606)	STC 23452; ESTC S117870	127,037	159

Papists study as much for the Popes grace as for gods grace in hac vita gloriam in futura From my study in Dovvay this 7 That is 12. dayes before the receit of the book which vvas the 28. of this moneth 16. of October 1604. Your very louing Sonne and seruant in Christo Dommo IO. LECEY The answer to both HOw little our aduersaries respÃ©cte true and sincere dealing wee may in part coniecture by the vntruths of thÃ¨ title and preface praefixed before this petitioÌ„ For firste they giue the title of Catholikes to papists whose religion is prooued seditious false erroneous hereticall idolatrous and blasphemous and in no sorte catholike or professed of true catholikes and secondly they pretend that it was made by the lay papists of EnglaÌ„d whereof J doe no suppose them to be so vnwise as that they will auowe what soeuer is sayde in this petition or so presumptuous as to charge the King with disgraceful breach of promise or to defame him with suspition of heresy as these men do Further the authors hereof page 19. do cite Caluine Knoxe Luther and Goodman whose books lay papistes may not reade and whose testimonyes they haue no reason to alledge vnlesse thÃ©y haue read them Leceys praeface concerning the conformity and perfection of this petition the contentement to be receiued of all sortes of men thereby is nothing but a pack of foolish and vntrue surmises as we shall declare heereafter alledging the wordes of Saint Peter 1 Epist 2. they leaue out the beginning of the sentence vpon which the words by them cited do depend Haue your conuersation honest among the gentils saith saint Peter that wherin they detract from you as malefactors considering good works they may glorify god in the day of visitatioÌ„ those words haue your conuersation honest being guilty in their consciences of dishonesty they leaue out and translate by the good workes considering you for considering your good works Further their title and testimony is not more destitute of truth theÌ„ of reason For neither is a petition an apology nor an apology a Petition that they should call their discouse a petition apologeticall Nor had they reason to alleadge saint Peters wordes concerning the good workes of Chrstians who notwithstanding were reputed malefactors For little doe they fit the cause of papists whose good works are gheason and whose practises of treason and rebellion in so many recordes doe conuince them to be truly malefactors The secular preestes also confesse that the exequutions done vpon Masse-priestes and theire adherentes were iust and necessary The preface of John Lecey or rather lazy Iohn is nothing else but an idle declamation in prayse of this pseudaposticall petition and the authors thereof wherein this scraping fellowe endeuoureth to tickel the galled backs of his owne compagnions with his forged commendations But let them beware they trust him not to farre least he draw them within the compasse of his own disloyalty and bring them where Percy and Catesby left them The Lazy fellowe directeth his speech to some odde namelesse sacrificer for hee calleth him reuerend Sirre but if the Masselouers were not blinded with affection they might thereby see howsoeuer this geare is thrust forth vnder the name of lay papists that all the aduantage proceeding therof commeth to the polshorne preests of Baal In the entrance of his matter he maketh greate bragges telling his frend that this petition or apology he knoweth not whether to call it is so conformable to reason so absolute in forme of the petitioners submission and so admirable for the assurance by them offered for theire preestes and pastorus that the publishing thereof cannot but giue contentment in his opinion to all sorts of men But his performance is nothing correspondent to his greate countenance For firste we haue already shewed that this request for a toleration of popery is not only contrary to reason but also to religion all Christian policy Secondly the submission that they make is very defectiue coÌ„sidering theire denyall of the Kings authority in Ecclesiast icall causes and their de pendance vpon the Pope that claimeth a superiority ouer the king But did they submit themselues wholy to his maiesty yet shoulde they doe nothing but that which is required of all good subiects Thirdly theire admirable assurance is most admirably ridiculous For who doth not wonder and laugh to heare assuraÌ„ce offred for the life of so great a King and so potent a state by a few thridbare fellowes we know not who they are the parliament house had beene blowne vp who shoulde haue sued their bonds who should haue brought them into the Starchamber for periurye Againe when the Pope so easily dispenseth with oathes and dissolueth contracts what reason hath any Christian to depend either vpon him or his adherents for either oth promise or bond Besides all this our prologue where hee thinketh himselfe horribly eloquent speaketh playne contradictions fooleries For firste if the petitioners had such reason as he pretendeth what should they neede to make a submission as hauing committed some greate crime againe what submission can a subiect make to his souereine that it is not required of him by duty thirdly such as make such absolute submissions as he talketh of neede nor to put in bonds or pledges Finally it is foolery to thinke either that papists are true catholikes or that such as ar truly informed of the continual practises of the fierye Iebusites and massepriestes agaynste the state will like of their vnreasonable requestes and no man can take them to bee wise that charge their iudges with praeiudice before hearing but to say or signify that nothing can satisfie the state but the blood and vtter beggary of Catholikes or rather papists is plaine villany and not to be proued againste any gouernor of this state No they desire their reformation and not their destruction or hinderance and much it were to be wished that Percy and other papists had been no more malitiously affected to vs theÌ„ we to them Alledging reasons for the publishing of this treatise he disputeth like a wilde man running far beyond his witte reason firste hee saieth that the publishing of this Apology cannot but tend much to his maiesties honor and more to his satisfaction and security as if those did honoure him that charge him with breach of promise note him with the stain of heresy hatred to catholike religioÌ„ as the petitioners do Further what security and satisfaction can those yeelde his maiesty that esteeme neither othes nor bonds when the pope contremandeth them but did they meane to keepe both yet prinate mens bonds are no security for such a king kingdom They talke J confesse of loue and deuotion to the king But it appeared but little by the practise of Brooke Clerke and VVatson first les lately by the treason of Percy Catesbie and Faux who of meer loue sought to blow vp the king

as idolaters psal 114. for that they worshipped images of siluer and gold and the worke of mens handes What excuse then can the Papistes alleadge for themselues that they passe not the condemnation worshipping gods both of metall and stone and falling downe before the works of their own hands 10 The apostle 1 Cor. 10. saith the gentiles offred sacrifices to deuils and the reason is for that they offred them in honoure of men and without warrante translating gods honoure to creatures are not the papistes then ashamed of their masses that are no better then sacrifices to deuils being offered in honoure of men and to the dishonoure of Christ and christian Religion 11 The Prophet Hieremie c. 7 taxeth them as idolaters that builte high places in the honoure of god being neuer commanded by god so to doe there also the idolatry of those is reprooued that made vowes to the Queene of heauen and serued her This reproofe therefore is much rather deserued by the Papists which builde high places and altars to men and without warrant serue our Lady whome they call the Queene of heauen making more praiers and vowes to her then to God 12 Jn the Booke of Baruch c. 6. the Babylonians are reputed idolaters for that they caried their Gods of golde filuer and stone vpon their shoulders and adorned them with costly apparell and worshipped them Why then shoulde the Romanists deny them selues to be idolaters that cary their idols in procession and adorne them with costly apparel and iewels and kisse them as their delites 13 The idolatrous Jewes are noted Hierem. 2 for saying to a stock thou art my father to a stone thou hast begotten me and yet the sencelesse papists say to stocks and stones Pater noster and to a wodden crucifix thou hast redeemed me as Bellarmine lib. 2 de cult sanct c 23. confesseth 14 S. Iohn 1 epist 5 where he warneth Christians to keepe them selues a simulacris that is from images or similitudes set vppe to be worshipped dooth signifie that papistes worshipping such images decline to the customes of the gentiles 15. The Israelites confesse their sinne Iudges 10. in worshipping Baalim or the images of god Happy were the Papistes if they woulde likewise acknowledge their sinne in worshipping moulten and grauen images both of god and of creaturs their idolatry is no lesse greeuous then that of the Israelits 16. The worship of angels by the councell of Laodicea c. 35 is tearmed idolatrous and by Hierome in epist ad Riparium by other fathers in expresse tearmes hath bin condemned The same is also flatly forbidden coloss 2 and Apocalyps 22. do not the papists then worshipping angels fall within the compas of this prohibition and of the crime of idolatry 17 The Iews 2. paral 30 ar taxed for offring inceÌ„se to idols 2 King 18. to the brazen serpent Marcellina noted as an idolatrous heretick for burning inceÌ„se to images neither did the Heathen Emperors require more at the hands of Christians theÌ„ sacrifice to incense before the statues And yet the papistes when they haue offered incense to theire images wipe their mouths and suppose they haue committed no idolatrye But they are as blind as the images which they worship 18. To sacrifice in honour of creatures is idolatry for that is an honour due to God only as the papists themselues confesse But Papists doo offer sacrifice in honour of Saints as the prayers of the Masse doo declare They giue them also the sacrifice of prayers are they not then grosse idolaters 19. Tertullian lib. de idololatr dooth shew vs that the worship of images and similitudes is idolatry Omnis forma aut formula idolum se dici exposcit inde idololatria omnis circa omne idolum famulatus seruitus Euery forme or small image sayth he ought to be called an idole and thence it commeth to passe that idolatry is the worship or seruice bestowed vpon euery idole Again speaking to idolaters qui seruitis lapidibus sayth he qui imagines facitis aureas argenteas ligne as lapideas You which serue stones and which make images of golde and siluer of wood and stone 20. S. Ambrose de obit Theodosij saith that Helene finding the crosse of the Lord did adore hir King and not the wood Forasmuch as that was the error of the gentiles The papists therefore worshipping wooden crosses runne into the error of the idolatrous gentiles 21. Epiphanius haeres 79. affirmeth that the diabolicall inuention of images hath adulterated the seruice of god and brought in spirituall fornications The same father did also teare a vail wherin either Christ or some saint was painted and thought it no fit thing to hang in the church dooth he not then ouerthrow and condemn the common practise of papists 22. The fathers of the councel of Francforde vnder Charles the great say that the cause why they refused to worship and adore images was least they shold proue idoles which argueth that images worshipped are nothing els but idoles 23. TertulliaÌ„ de praescript aduers haeret and Hierome in Abacuc c. 2. teach vs that heresie is a kind of idolatrie Who then caÌ„ deny but that papists maintaining so many heresies are also guilty of grosse idolatry 24. Reason doth also conuince the Papists to be idolaters For what more reasonable then that such as worship idols should be reputed idolaters further idolatry is nothing else but the translation of gods honour to creatures Thirdly an image worshipped religiously is nothing but an idole Tertullian lib. de idololat defineth an rdole to be nothing else buta little forme or image Finally why should not they be coudemned to bee idolaters that do the same things for which the gentiles were condemned as idolaters But the papistes by worshipping images make them idoles They translate gods honour to the sacrament to crosses to the Virgin Marie to the images of the Trinity They deny not that they worship images for religion sake they cary about their images kisse them pray before them burn incense to them as did the gentiles 25. Finally the papists by their own confession are proued idolaters Bellarmine lib. 2. de imag inib. c. 5. sayth that an idole is a false similitude and representeth that which is not But Papists do worship the false similitudes of God the Father God the holy ghost and of the Trinity Likewise they worship the images of Saint George that killed the dragon of Dunstane that tooke the diuell by the nose of Catherin Christopher diuerse saints that either neuer wer in the world or are falsly represented and belyed They confesse also that it is idolatry to giue latrian or diuine honor to creatures But this honor they giue to the Crucifix to the images of the trinity and to the sacrameÌ„t As is shewed before Furthermore their consciences inwardly accusing them of idolatry they haue blotted out the 2. commandement against the worship of grauen images and other similitudes

into an accusation of others sayling as it were without compasse albeit they pretend that theire petition was printed at the signe of the compasse If then the papists vpon pretence of these absurd allegations desire conference or disputation then is their case desperate and their hopes frutelesse For as casily shall we answere by word as we answer now by writing of the disputatioÌ„s in the tower betwixt some of ourlerned men Campion his mates they haue no reason to make any vants neither had either the Lord Vaux or Tresham or Catesbie any greate iudgement to offer mony to be praesent at the conference for that poysoÌ„ did they tast there that hath ruined both Treshams and Catesbyes progeny Campion was put down with a word of Greek and found vnable to mayntein his own pamphlet and much more to vphold the ruinous cause of papists This certes we hardly beleeue that either they offred such great soÌ„mes of mony to be present at the conference or that their sute was denyed For we are not hardly entreated to dispute nor loth to be heard and now if these suppliantes or theire teachers think they can do any masteryes let them propose their argumentes to the view of the world in writing that all men may know the cause and wee assure them they shalnot want answere by tongue penne and if that will not serue then let them procure vs the like security and liberty in Spaine and Italy that they desire in England and then they shall not be refused In the mean while I would pray these suppliants either by theselues or their teachers to iustifie this petition and to take away this our answere and that they woulde bee pleased to answere al the particuler poyntes either of our challenge which are passed ouerby Walpoole or of our suruey of popery where for one reason they bring for popery they shall haue a hundred of more strength agaynst it Chap. 19. The examen of lay papists fidelity of which they endeuour to make proofe chap. 5. of theire petition THE question is not heere onely concerning the faithfull and loyall carriage of the lay forte of Papists of which I doe think better then of the rest but principally of the fidelity of the massepreestes their teachers for whome especially the lay papists make request and very large offers Who then doth not perceiue that these petitioners do fail in a necessary grouÌ„d of their defence in their conscieÌ„ces confesse that their teachers are guilty of trecherous dealing the scribe also in the proofs of the lay papists fidelity doth rather make proofe of his owne impudency in affirming matters notoriously false denying matters euidently true and of his singuler folly in ripping open the woundes of his owne broken cause then of any matter in question betwixt vs and intended to be proued by him as may better appeare the whole discourse being reported as they conceiued it and as wee thus finde it in the petition Chapter 5. The proofes of the lay papists fidelity ANd now we come to the matter of our loyalty and obedience Gracious Soueraigne in the defence whereof we ar driuen by the necessitie of our affayrs 1 If in this nuÌ„ber you include all that make lavves against Papists you haue the king and Parliament for party im portunity of our oppugners to insist more particulerly Reasons of loyalty then otherwise were conuenient in respect of our owne modestie or your Highnes bounty and magnanimity who neuer yet omitted to recompence and pay suo loco tempore loue with loue 2 Hovv can you deserue the Kings protection that yeeld to his enemies subiection subiection with protection and vertue with honor For the full and finall clearing therefore of that point of disobe dience and disloyalty wherewith we are so often charged rather in hatred of Religion then of any ground or substance that euer cold 1 VVer Brook Clark WarsoÌ„ Persy Catesby and their complices charged vniustly iustly be shewed may it please your highnes to consider that there be (a) Thre ways of triall three waies for a prudent and circumspect Master to trie out the honesty and fidelitie of his seruant accused of treacherie 2 And all insufficient and foolish The first Former behauiour by making inquisition of his former life and behauiour what 3 You serue the Pope as your Master can you then serue the king too Master he serued before in what estate and for how long time and with what successe and trustines The second Present carriage to looke narrowly into his present quality and 4 For your euill qnalified dispute if you vvere caried in a clokebag you might lie the drier cariage and to be assured how he is and hath been affected to him his forefathers friends and dependers The last to compare his actions and comportments aswell past as present with those that traduce him and to see what caution he can giue to stop his enimies suggestions for his future fidelity (b) Comparison betweene the Catholikes and new Clergies comportments To this forme or triall Dread Soneraigne we submit our selues our liues and actions and will endeauour to giue you full satisfaction in all the a foresayd points of our cariage Vt obstruatur os loquentium iniqua to the end that the mouth of him that speaketh wicked things may be stopt that you may notwithstanding what exclamations soeuer to the contrary serue your selfe of our poore 5 Pore forces and pore seruices is the king to expect at the hands of the popes vassalls forces liues and habilities in all your fortunes and emploiments against all your foes and enimies whosoeuer To begin then where we left when your MaÃesty made your happy entrance into this Realme and to put you in mind by what degrees and for what deserts we were brought into that miserable estate your Highnes found vs in It is well knowne that before our imprisonment and restraint vpon the statute of recusancy for the only Testimony of our consciences some of vs did beare offices in the common wealth and were 6 The more vvere you to blame that did dishonor and seek to destroy her that did dignifie you dignified by the late Queen in which charges and negotiations without vaunt be it said our 7 For vvant of good neighbors you are driuen to praise your selues cariages were (c) Catholike behauiors before their restraint disgrace for recusancy ciuill laudable and loyall and some of vs liued without charge yet not without credit and estimation of worshipfull and honest men and were aswell 8 By none but malcontents enemies of the state accepted reputed in the Countries and Prouinces where we dwelt and had commandement in as were any other of our neighbours of the like calling and degrees After our restraint our (a) Their demeanure after their restraint behauionr was such as became

theire country but many things are often offered that are slenderly performed and such no doubt would the seruice haue been that is or was offered by them who seared more the Popes thunderboltes then the princes double cannons and onely desired to free themselues out of prison that they mighte after take part with the stronger to desire to bee placed in the forefront of the battel in theire shirts they had no reason vnlesse they had meante after they hadde put of their armes and clothes to runne awaye more ligtly My Lord Vaux was so good a man of warre that I woulde wish no greater benefit to England then that all our enemyes were such But suppose some few recusants did offer to serue the Queen yet neither had she reason to trust them nor we to beleeue that all the rest of the recusants meant to serue her faithfully being sworn vassals to the pope her sworn enemy Vnhappy had this land beene if theire prayers and vowes had been performed Foralbeit some papists then did acknowledge the Queenes authority notwithstanding the popes excommunications yet that was for that the excommunication did not bind them vntill such tyme as the Popes bulle might be put in exequntion as appeareth by the faculties granted to Parsons and Campian Fourthly out of England they runne into Ireland to tell vs of the fidelity of Irish papists But it appeareth those men neuer came there to trye it they shew so greate ignorance of the Irish and of the affaires of Ireland For in the battaile at Kiusale they cannot name 10. Jrish that did any greate seruice At other times the most part alwayes abandoned and betrayed those that relied vpon them and euer for one Irish man that truly serued the Quene there might bee reckened 10. that willingly serued the rebells And this should the king finde at theire hands J feare if he had occasion to trie them If then these petitioners haue no better argumentes to proue the fidelity of recusants then such as these they will not proue refined gold nor good copper but rather Corke guilt ouer like gold or some such other light and slight stuffe good for nothing Fiftly they tell his maiesty of the affection and behauiour of papists toward his predecessors himselfe and his title neither forgetting King Henry the 7. nor King Edward the confessor But all the question being concerning the moderne papists and theire loyalty to princes of contrary religion who seeth not how farre theire discourse runneth out and is transcendent aboue theire purpose the welshmen of our tyme may with better reasoÌ„ alledge the noble acts of Hector and Aeneas of Troy or of king Brute King Arthur or some auncient famous man of Britayne How much they fauored the King it appeareth by diuers attempts against him in Scotland and by the treason of Clerk VVatson Copley Brooke Markham and now lately of Percy Catesby and others sence his comming into England Parsons and Coluill directly oppugned the Kings title in books in print and to that boke which Parsons set out as is saide in diuers languages the Iebusitical faction yeelded a greate applause Many of them also as the seculer preestes charged them subscribed vnto it Jf then nowe they pretend to fauour the kinges title it is because it were bootelesse and dangerous now to oppugne it likewise the papistes that heeretofore wrote and spake in defence of his Maiesties Mother and of the Kinges title respected nothing else but theire owne particuler thinking by theire glosing wordes either to bring in Popery or to aduaunce theire owne priuate pretences Finally they shew they haue great Confidence in his Maiesties clemency that they haue refused to pay the twenty pound a month due for recusancy albeit the penalty be greate But here they shoulde rather alledge cause to moue the King to trust them then to shew that they may assuredlie trust the Kings mercy whose Clemency is so exceeding and word so assured Further this rather argueth their disobediente and repugning humor then iustifieth theire sober disposition and desire to be loyal Lastly they shewe a great differeÌ„ce betwixt the gentle proceeding of true christians that with light penaltyes seeke to winne men and are slow in exacting them and the rigor and cruelty of papistes that confiscate all the Lands and goods of true Christians most barbarously torment and massacre their persons without pitty or mercy Jf then our lay papistes haue no better defences nor preteÌ„ces for their fidelity then they haue formerly alledged theire owne words will rather conuince them then cleare them and such as had no euill opinion of recusants before will take occasion to suspect that this stubble of theirs is nothing but a couer for the seed of much hartburning discontentment and disloyalty as their billetts and fagots of late were laid to couer their barrels of gunpowder couched vnder the higher house of Parliament Chap. 20. An answere to the petitioners calumniations agayust the professors of the Gospel set downe in the 6. chapter of their popish apologetical petition IT were a most simple defence for a prisoner standing at the Barre of iustice and answering for his life before his iudges to alledge for his defence that his behauiour is as honest and loyall as that of his accusers Yet this is the best defence which these Massepriests vnder the maske of lay papists make in this place supposing very absurdly the accusation of their aduersaries to be a iustification and defence of their own actions Nay where they pretend to deale against their accusers they mistake the matter vtterly and speake against such as are long since departed this life and neuer either accused them or knewe them and inueigh against the ministers of the Church of England which are not parties against them leauing the kings sergeants and atturney to speak what they list and aunswering nothing to their informations accusations and enditements which principally touch them But will you heare their wooden weak accusation against vs as it followeth Chapter 6. The cariage and behauiour of our Accusers IT resteth now lastly to consider what hath been the behauiour of some of our 1 Your accusers are your ovvne consciences the kings Atturney and other officers The Ministers accuse you not but ansvver your sooleries accusers the Ministers we meane The cariage of our Antagonists and some hot spirits of their adherents and followers from time to time in your maiesties affaires that hath so cherished dignified and aduanced them and to other their lawfull Princes that haue not so fully concurred with them in matter of religion as your Maiesty doth vt contraria iuxta se posita magis elucescant that contraries compared together may the more cleerly appeare If you demand what they were that accounted it a matter treasonable to retain any book or paper in fauour of your Maiesties Title and that in publique books called your Mothers right to this Crowne a pretended Title Agendum est

they seek for true pastors indeede why do they forsake the bishops and preests of the Church of England which indeed haue both the calling and exequute the function of true Bishops and pastors and runne after these wolues murdrers and deuourers of Christ's sheepe Fiftly they offer to answere person for person and life for life for the fidelity of theire preests to his maiesty and the state But what if the preests absolue traitors and perswade them to rebellion where shall the state seecke either for the parties or sureties And what shall it auaile to sue the bonds Agayne what a ridiculous conceite is this to thinke that the bonds of euery two or three base compagnions will be sufficient to secure either the life of so greate a king or the peace and state of so greate a kingdome against men already found perfidious Thirdly it will be a question whether if such a matter were to be performed euery pild crowned preest could procure such hostages and bondes as are offered it may be some good old Ladyes and recusant Cuckowes would offer any bond for their darlinges But the wiser sort J thinke woulde neuer put their liues in hazard vpon the massepreests promises who if the pope command them to doe an exployt for their holy mother the mother of fornications regard neither promise nor oath Finally it may be a question whether any such bonds are good in lawe and percase these good fellowes knowing them to be nought are the bolder to offer them thinking to gull the worlde with theire greate offers Fiftly comming to the poynt of their pretended submission they playnely refuse to submitte themselues offring rather articles of a capitulation betwixt the King and them then any forme of true subiection or submission for firste they say they will acknowledge his maiesty to bee their lawfull King and souerein Lord and will defend his maiesties heires and successors righte And for this his maiesty is much beholding to them But we must vnderstand howe this offer is made vpon condition if they may haue theire masse and theire Masse preests if they may not haue theire requests then they neither submit themselues nor offer any thing Further they acknowledge more then by the doctrine of popery they can make good For by the chapter v. nam sanctam extr de maior obed all kings are declared to be subiect to the pope They do also deny the kings authority in Ecclesiasticall causes and offer many preiudices to the Kings righte both ouer the Clergy and others and acknowledge him no further to be their lawfull king then it shall please the Pope who hath power to excommunicate him and depose him as they say Lastly where they speake of the Kings successors right they forget to mention the kings righte But what should wee stand vpon future coniectures when the treasons of Watson Clerk Garnet Hamond and the rest haue plainely declared them to bee the kinges enemyes Secondly they promise to reueale and to theire powers to withstand and preuent any conspiracy or treason agaynst the King and his heires and to defend the realm against forrein inuasions But miserable were the King and state if they shold depend vpon their reuelations and withstandings of treasonable attempts and invasions that are sworne to the pope depend vpon forrein enemies Former practises and experience sheweth that their words and promises are but snares to catch such as trust them of late they smothered the treason of Percy and Catesby as much as they could soughte by all meanes to haue their country set on a flame They acknowledge to his maiesty what is due by the word of god or hath been vsed by any of their sect but of the word of god they make the Pope supreme iudge and vse to deny obedience to Kings excommunicate by him nay to Kings not excommunicate in ecclesiasticall causes what they meane to performe it appeareth by Watsons and Percies treasons Lastly they say they will performe this by protestation or oath and offer the like for their preestes But what are oathes and promises when they say the pope can dispense with oathes and teach that faith is not to bee performed to hereticks in which rank these superstitious ministers of antichriste place all true Christians Furthermore it may bee doubted whether these felllowes can bring the stiffe necked massepreests to take these oaths if they caÌ„ yet shal they neuer make them to keepe them doth it not then appeare that these conning fellowes goe about to ensnare playne dealing men with their false othes and feigned protestations the examples of Iohn Husse of the professors of religion in FraÌ„ce and Flanders that haue bene often massacred when they relyed vpon the othes and promises of the Popes adherents doe assure vs of it and Garnets treasons may bee a caueat for vs. Wherefor seeing these proud suppliants confesse themselues but halfe subiects and are much lesse then halfe when the pope commandeth them whose they are body and soule seeing they always cut away halfe the kings authority and sometymes all and endeuoure to bring vpon his maiestye and his subiects not only a false idolatrous hereticall and impious religion but also a most greeuous yoke of the popes tyrannicall gouernement from which this land hath by the grace of god and prowesse of his maiestyes noble ancesters been most happily freed and deliuered and seeing they haue alledged nothing which might eyther iustify their abusiue false religion or cleare themselues from the common imputations of the disloyalty of the popes adherents or assure the king and state against the trecherous plots and practises of rinegued English sacrificers Iebusites and other theire associates euer suspected now lately plainely detected in Percies treasoÌ„ to be sworn slaues of Antichrist professed enemyes to the king I doubt not but his maiesty the state wil take a cours with these bold importune petitioners assure the church and realme both against their corruptions in doctrine and attempts in the affaires of Policy and that in the meane while as all Christians abhorre theire antichristian doctrine and dangerous practises so they will concurre in repressing and extinguishing the causes of them This al christians ought to performe and these especially that haue eminent places both in church and common wealth VVhat then should I need to exhort them to performe that which belongeth to their duty as they doe well knowe and which both god requireth and all true christians expect at theire handes Chap. 22. A censure vpon certain letters of the banished masse preests sent back to the lords of his maiesties councell anno 1604 and annexed to the former petition IT is an old saying all is lost that is bestowed on men vngratefull and may well bee verified by the fact of certein massepreests who hauing well deserued death if the lawes of the land had been exequuted against them were graeiously pardoned by his maiesty only

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