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A04323	A supplication to the Kings most excellent Maiestie wherein, seuerall reasons of state and religion are briefely touched: not vnworthie to be read, and pondered by the lords, knights, and burgeses of the present Parliament, and other of all estates. Prostrated at his Highnes feete by true affected subiects.	Colleton, John, 1548-1635.; England and Wales. Sovereign (1603-1625 : James I)	1604 (1604)	STC 14432; ESTC S107663	42,852	54

religion of whose communion and felowshippe the founders of other religions or the reformers of our Churches faith if they more desire to be so called were once and went out and consequently their doctrine newer and lesse auncient then ours and therefore as we beleeue not the good Mat. 13. 2● seede but the cockle that was sowen after And that wee neuer going out of any knowne christian societie for the whole world can not tell your Grace out of what church we departed when how and where as did the former the Apostolicall markes of false beleeuers namely To goe out from others 1. Ioh. 2. 19. Iude v. 19. Rom. 16. 17. To segregate themselues and To make dissensions and scandalls contrary to the doctrine they had learned can not belong to vs by any possible application nor by any sleight or deuise shifted from them 4. A religion whose first Instituters except Christ and his Apostles or after-deuisers cannot be named by any of our Aduersaries nor can they all shew that peece or fundamentall point of our faith either of late or sithence the Apostles time defined which * This is witnessed in the Councel of Ephesus in epistola Synodi contra Nestorium in the Councel of Calcedon act 4 5 6. Item generali 6. act 4. 10. genera 7. act 2. And by Athanas of the Nicen. Councel in epist. ad Afros in epist. de Synodis Arimini Seleuciae And by Socrates of the Councel of Alexandria in historia ecclesiast lib. 1. ca. 5. and others was not formerly beleeued and the contrary thereof neuer taught by the Romane Church Wherefore in our vnderstanding it is euident that the religion we professe is not as it is slandered to be a deuise or inuention of man nor euer was contrary to it selfe in doctrine but whatsoeuer hath beene in latter ages explicitiuely defined the same was alwayes not only holden true from the beginning in our church but also implicitiuely beleeued for the infallible authoritie thereof 5. A religion that hath confuted and outlasted seuerall hundreds of heresies which manifoldly diuided in themselues 488. after Prateolus account did yet euer giue hands to the ouerthrow of this one but neuer found other rocke than it on which they were broken or tooke their confusion by Which seemeth infallibly to demonstrate That the weapons of our Churches warrefare are not 2. Cor. 10. 4. carnall but as Saint Paul writeth of the true doctrine mighty to God vnto the destruction of munitions destroying Counsells and all loftinesse extolling it selfe against the knowledge of God And that our church and religion euer conquering their oppositors and neuer conquered by them is that kingdome which the Prophet saieth Shall breake in peeces and consume Dan. 2. 44. all other kingdomes and it selfe stand for euer 6. A religion that erected and built all the Churches Hospitalles and ancient Colleges in Christendome indowed them with liuings instituted the Vniuersities and Seminaries distinguished the multitude into parishes proportioned the Tithes annexed the glebeland founded the Bishoprickes limited the Dioceses decreed Ecclesiasticall lawes and immunities enacted all the olde Lawes of our Realme and did for that they would not be vacant without fruit as the Apostle aduiseth 2. Pet. 1. 8. in the knowledge of our Lorde Iesus a thousand good woorkes besides of which the religion regnant reapeth daily benefite and could not without such our churches prouision and ordinaunces euer haue carried the exterior shew it doth 7. A religion that in three ages together had not three 9 10 11. Centenaries open aduersaries in the christian worlde who contradicted or impugned her doctrine or beleeued another forme of faith then that which she then and now teacheth And the Wisedome of the eternall God alluding to his Church affirmeth that in the multitude of people consisteth the glory of a King and Pro. 14. 28. Glossa interlin in hunc locum in the small number the ignominy of the Prince 8. A religion whose chiefe professors and spreaders thereof to other Nations were alwayes of a knowne holy life and semblable death and the protoparents of all other religions men of a much contrary note and we are sure by the testimony Matt. 7. 20. of Gods word that the good and bad tree are to be knowne by their fruites 9. A religion to which the famousest a Constantinus Magnus Iauianus with aboue fortie Emperours of the East Maiorianus Carolus Magnus with full neere fortie other Emperours of the Weast Emperours and b Clodoueus Childibertus with aboue threescore Kings of Fraunce Ranimirus Sanctius with almost twenty other Kings of Aragon Pelagius Fasila with at least fortie other Kings of Castile Alphonsus Sanctius with many moe Kings of Portugall Geyza Stephanus with aboue thirtie Kings of Hungary Besides the Kings of Polonia Bohemia Denmarke Norway Suetheland Gothland Dalmatia Baiorta Germania Alemannia Morauia Loraine Burgundy Prouince Lomberdy Italy Naples Sicily Sardinia Nauarre and the Kings of Affrike as of Aethiopia Nubia and others Likewise the Kings of Canaria Manicongus Benopotama Angola Guinea Bentoninus Quiloa Melinda Mozambique the Kings of Asia as of Ciprus Armenia Hierusalem Tartaria and some Kings of the Agarens and Saracens many Kings of the Heruleans Iberians Alanes Abasgorians Lazorians Scithians Persians and others Kings of the world haue bowed their Crownes c As Constantinus Magnus Emperour Dagobertus Carolus S. Ludouicus and other Kings of Fraunce Alphonsus Ranimirus Alphonsus the great Ranimirus ● and Alphonsus 6. with other Kings of Spaine Stephanus and Ladislaus Kings of Hungary Miscelstaus Boleslaus Casimirus sanctus and Casimirus Magnus Kings of Polonia and many moe Kings of other Nations presented their giftes d As Iustinus Emperour the person of Pope Iohn Iustinianus of Pope Constantine King Pipin the person of Pope Stephen the second Carolus of Pope Leo the third ●udoui●us of Sergius the second and of Pope Nicholas Henry the fourth of Pope Paschal the second and others reuerenced her Prelates e As Philippus Arabs Emperour the Censure of Pope Fabian Euseb lib. 6. ca. 27. histor eccl the Emperor Theo●osius the excommunication of S. Ambr. Theodoret. lib. 5. cap. 17. hist. eccl Sozom. lib. 7. ca. 24. the Emperour Otho the third the inioyned penaunce of R●mualdus Abbat Petr. Dam. in vita Romual To which may be added the deuoute readinesse of Henry the second to accept and fulfill the sentence of Pope Alexanders Legates touching the death and murthering of Saint Thomas of Canterburie N●ubrigens libr. 2. cap. 25. obeyed their censures yea and hath at this present many of the greatest monarchs and potentates on earth to her Professors patrons and foster-fathers So as of the Romane Religion onelie these ensuing passages and propheticall praedictions of holie Scripture must of force take their verification or remaine as yet being the latter yeares or euening of the Church vnfulfilled The Gentiles shall feare thy name O Lord

not nor can be euer proued to haue bene fulfilled in any other Church saue only in the Catholike Romane Church and in it most apparantlie demonstrable by the Ecclesiasticall histories of all ages and by the short space or rather momentarie blast of time that all other religions compared with ours haue indured 34. A religion whose doctrine is to be traced euen vp to the Apostles chaire by true and lawfull succession of Bishops euery one of them holding vnitie with his predecessor and keeping still as the Apostle directeth the depositum that descended from hand to hand vnto them Which vninterrupted line of succession neuer leaping ouer the head of any one age or yeare and drawing his originall from the Apostles can not but necessarily proue that our Church is only the true Apostolicall Church and that we continue and contend Coloss 1. 23. phil 3. 16. iude vers 3. as we are commanded in and for the faith which was first preached And it is also euident by the irrefragable authoritie of S. Paul that the Romanes had once the true faith affirming d their faith to be renowmed in the whole world and common to Rom. 1. 8. cap. 16. him and them Likewise it is euident by the vniforme report of all Ecclesiasticall histories and by the writings of all the Fathers a Theodoretus in ca. 16. epist ad Rom. Prosp carmine de ingr in principi● S. Leo de N●t Petri. Aug. contr epist Fund ca. 4. Orosius lib. 7. ca. 6. Chrisost in Psal 88. Epiph. har 27. Prud. in hym 2. S. Laurentij hym 12. Optatus lib. 2. contr Donatist Ambr. lib. 5. epist de basilicis tradendis Hiero. in Catalogo Lactantius lib. 4. ca 21. de vera Sapien. Eusebius hist Eccle. li. 2. ca. 13. 15. Athanas de fugasua Cipria epist 55. nu 6. Tert. de praes●r nu 4. li. 4. Contr. Marcio nu 4. Origin in Gen. apud Euseb lib. 3. ca. 1. Irenaus lib. 3. ca. 3. Hegesippus lib. 3. ca. 2. de Excid Hierosolym Caius Papias Dionis Episco Corinth citati per Euseb lib. 2. ca. 14. 24. Ignat. epist ad Rom. Concil Calced act 3. and others Greeke and Latine yea and by the very sence and sight of sundrie monuments yet extant that S. Peter was at Rome suffred death there and was the first Bishop of that See Now if our Counterpleaders can sufficientlie shew as we are sure the whole world cannot either that the Romanes haue since that time left the faith which S. Paul commended in them or that any of the succeeding Bishops to S. Peter in that See haue changed the first faith by paring away any part thereof or by adding any new doctrine contrarie to the rule of the former or what was not taught before by the Fathers and after explicitiuely added as a more cleare and particular declaration of the same if this we say can be sufficientlie shewed by naming the Pope or other man who in such sort changed the primitiue faith and the point or points of faith that were so changed together with the time and place when and where the change was first made we yeeld our selues to be prophane Nouellers yea Heretikes and most worthie of the fagot 35. A religion whose doctrine so generallie symboliseth and holdeth the like absolute consent with all parts of holie Scripture that were euer receiued of the Christian world with the decrees of all confirmed Oecumenicall Counsels and with the ioint assertions of all auntient Fathers as she is not driuen like b The Lutheran and Caluinist reiect Baruch Tobie Iudith the booke of Wisdom Ecclesiasticus the Machabees certaine Chapters of Esther the last part of Daniel And the Lutherans the Epistle of S. Iames S. Paul to the Hebrews the Epistle of Saint Iude the second of Saint Peter the second and third of Saint Iohn other Religions for defending her positions to reiect either Scripture Councell or the vniforme opinion of Doctors but taketh the approbation of her doctrine from them all and teacheth all her children out of S. Augustine c Epist 118. ca. 5. Disputare contra id quod tota per orbem frequentat ecclesia insolentissimae dementiae est To call the lawfulnesse of that into question which the whole Church frequenteth throughout the world is most insolent madnesse 36. A religion which no persecution coulde any time vanquish nor the conioyned forces malice and machination of Pagan Iewe or other her most powrefull enemies nor yet that which is infinitely of far more force to this end the wicked liues of seuerall her professors and chiefe rulers either haue hitherto or shall to the worlds end as we assuredly beleeue euer be able to extirpate it wholie or so to darken the visibilitie or beautie thereof as to make it no where to appeere or not to shine Nay God hath alwayes bin so strong on her side as the more she was persecuted the more she multiplied An obseruation that long since caused a In Tryphone Iustinus to resemble our Churches persecution to the pruning of Vines which maketh them the more fertile and likewise moued b Cap. vlt. Apologetici Tertullian to call the bloud of her Martyrs the seed of Christians one dying and many rising thereof Neither can it be well doubted but that if our religion to speake with c Act. 5. 39. wise Gamaliel had bin of men and not of God it would haue bin dissolued long ere this as all other sects haue perished in much shorter while agreeablie to the saying of the Apostle S. Paule d 2. Tim 3. 9. They shall prosper no farther and to that of S. Peter e 2. Petr. 2. 3. Their perdition slumbreth not Sith therefore our Church is not only not sunck or obscured by any might or neuer so violent stormes of opposition but rather as the Arck of Noe the greater the deluge and waues the higher and more illustriouslie she mounteth it followes that of all others she must be that very Church against which by the promise of our Sauiour f Math. 16. 18. Hell gates that is the power and hatred of man and deuill shall not preuaile 37. A religion some of whose Professours haue had alwayes vpon euery neede occurring power and grace to cast out diuels of the bodies of the possessed the first of all other signes which our Sauiour himselfe gaue for hauing his true Mar. vlt. v. 17. beleeuers distinguished from others And this gifte is so well knowne by continuall execution thereof to reside in the Romane catholike church and neuer found in the companies of any other Professions as there needeth no recitall of particulars Pius Quintus Pope of late memorie dispossessed tactu Onuphrius de vita Pij quint. stolae data benedictione onely by touch of his stole and by giuing his benediction And how frequent these effectes not onely vpon persons possessed but in driuing away diuels