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A16828	A true, sincere and modest defence, of English Catholiques that suffer for their faith both at home and abrode against a false, seditious and slanderous libel intituled; The exectuion of iustice in England. VVherein is declared, hovv vniustlie the Protestants doe charge Catholiques vvith treason ...	Allen, William, 1532-1594.	1584 (1584)	STC 373; ESTC S100110	150,813	230

in them selues their children or posteritie to dure anie longer then they continue in the Catholique faith and the communion of the Sea and Church Apostolique nor would suffer anie of their name or blood to reigne after them that were like to be Heretiques but rather would disinherite or execute them with their owne handes then feare or expect their deposition by the Pope Therfore though with such as feele their owne fault it soundeth euil to heare of the Authoritie and vsage of Gods Church in censuring kinges yet it troubleth not anie iust and lauful Prince especiallie when by their wisdome experience they may perceiue that Princes aboue al other both good and euil be subiect to humane casualties and may fal and loose their kingdomes by an hundreth accidents of mutinies and rebellions of their subiects or by external or domestical warres of Competitours or enimyes to al which The great cōmodities vvhich grovv to al kingdomes by the Popes high authoritie the Popes highe authoritie and interest giueth great stay and moderation in deciding the controuersies of titles and causes of ciuil or forraine warres and by his manifould endeuours of Pacification and composition wherof al the kinges and states Christian haue at sondrie times of their distresses receiued singular profit as appeareth in the histories of the warres betwixt our nation Fraunce and Scotland and in our owne Ciuil tumultes which haue bene often appeased by the mediation of the Pope both parties deferring to him as to the high Priest and general Arbiter of Christian Princes and people being to al indifferent without al partialitie the decision of thos thinges which otherwise could not by lawes nor by armes without-lamentable destruction and much blood be determined Wherebie Princes of lesse power iniuried by the greater and mightier haue euer found succour and redresse and iust kinges distressed by their rebellious subiectes haue had singular assistance As we may see in the stories both of our owne Countrie wher the Popes haue sent diuers Legates to the Barons being vp against their lauful Soueraignes to admonish them to lay doune their armes and when they would not excommunicated them by which meanes manie a king with vs hath kept his Croune which otherwise had bene depriued by tumultuous and popular sedition and no lesse in th'examples of other nations and that in our owne memories hauing experience of diuers blessed Popes diligence in aiding the two great Monarches aswel by the powers temporal which God hath giuen them as by ecclesiastical Censures against their rebels and large spiritual graces benedictions bestowed vpon al that would faithfullie adioine to the repression of the seditious subiects and the preseruation of the Soueraigne The Apostolique Bishop is not an enimie to superioritie and domination The Bishoplike authoritie no enimie to Princes which he knoweth best to be of God as his owne high estate is but a spiritual and most louing Parent and common Father of al Christians and speciallie of Princes He seeketh not their depositions nor mainteineth reuoultes from them no not thē when to his infinite greefe he is forced sometimes though meruelous seldome to giue sentence for the people subiects against the Prince but vseth needful discipline towards them for their saluation Let the graue and wise men of al nations consider with vs whether Princes be in more danger of their state by the lauful Pastors of their soules that iudge by Gods spirit by counsel deliberation order and authoritie without malice hatred or partialitie or by Heretiques seditious and rebellious persons that deale by erroneous conscience phantasie and furie The Protestantes plainlie hould in al their writings and schooles and so practize in the sight of al the world that Princes may for tirannie or Religion be resisted depriued We and al Catholiques likewise affirme that for Heresie and some other great enormities they may be excommunicated and further censured But the Protestants would haue them selues the subiects to rebel and throwe doune their superiors on their owne head and wilfulnes and them selues to be iudges of their Soueraignes desertes and Religion Now we demaund of the Libeller that giueth Princes so frendlie warning of their dangerous estates A resonable demaūd to the Libeller if Popes may vse such authoritie ouer Princes whether the Kinges of Christendome whom their owne sect-maisters confesse may be deposed stand not in far greater hazard of their dominions and persons by the brutish and seditious people armed alwaies with furie and often also as at this present with Heresie then they are of Popes It was not the Pope that gaue licēce or encouragement to the subiects of Scotlād to take armes against their natural liege and Q. to emprison her and to cause her by feare of death to resigne her Croune It is not the Pope that embouldened them barbarouslie to restraine their noble yong King and so often to rebel against him though nether they for his Religion haue anie reason to depriue him nor the Popes Holines otherwise then for the iustice of his quarel against his rebels anie cause to defend him It was not the Pope that licensed the subiects of the king Catholique to fight so long and obstinatlie against their Lord and maister nor that encouraged them to depriue him of his soueraigntie and ancient inheritance It was not the Pope that hath hazarded three mightie Kinges his most Christian Maiesty that now is and his two crouned brethrē before him of their States and bereaued them of manie great partes and cities of their kingdome or that went about to depriue them euen in the time of their innocencie and yong years Popes vse to defend innocents not to destroye them in their nonage or to abuse their minoritie And such is otherwise the manifould hazard of kinges by rebellions that in our owne Countrie The danger of Princes by rebelliō the Child hath deposed his Father the Vncle his Nephew the Wife her owne Husband most commonlie the worse and more wicked the more godlie and innocent And we maruel much this Libeller that would seeme to be such a Statesman and a Counseller to forreine kinges could find no danger to them and their countries sauing of the Popes power ouer them which in verie truth by Christs special prouidence is the greatest protection guarde and stay that innocent Princes and their people can haue the awe and reuerend respect of his holie authoritie keeping thousandes from rebellion and intrusion and a number of iust Princes in their empires which els had bene in diuers countries ouerthrowen The Protestantes cannot proue by example of al nations times since Christ that anie one hath bene deposed that was not prooued to be a notorious Heretique or euil man On th' other side Rebels and namelie Heretiques by vnlauful meanes The practise of Heretikes depriue commonlie none but innocent iust and holie Princes Vnto whos barbarous crueltie this Libeller would haue their sacred Maiesties

doune to the world if you can anie one word writing or approued witnes that anie Iesuite Priest or Seminarie man of al thos whom you haue executed thes late yeares were ether authors persuaders or dealers therin and then you may haue some shadow of defence for your iustice Proue only that his Holines euer communicated his doings or intentions whatsoeuer they were that way to anie one of them al and we wil confesse that you haue reason in the rest If Pius quintus addressed Doctor Nicholas Morton D. Mortō sixtene yeares since about the matter of the excommunication into England shal al Priestes Iesuistes be deemed traitors therfore If Doctor Saunders D. Sāders ether vpon his owne zeale and opinion of the iustnes of the quarel or at the Popes appointmēt were in the warres of Ireland emploied for defence of the Catholique Religion against the Protestants may you by your lawes or anie other diuine or humane ordinance condemne therfore to death a number that neuer knew ether the man or the matter Some pretence you may haue to be offended with the Pope and perhaps lacke no lawes to punish the said two Doctors that neuer were ether of the Societie or Seminaries but to make al the Priestes and Catholiques at home or in banishmēt traitors therbie it is to vnreasonable and to murther so cruellie one man for an others fault is tooto foule and intollerable iniquity And as for his Holines action in Ireland The vvarres of Irland we that are neither so wise as to be worthie nor so mallepert as to chalenge to knowe his intentions councel and disposition of thos matters can nor wil nether defend nor condemne it Onelie this is euident that thos smal succours which were giuen by him to the Irish or rather suffred at their owne aduenture to goe into thos warres came vpon the importunate sute of the sore afflicted Catholiques and some of the cheefest nobilitie of that countrie Of whos continual complaints knowen calamities and intollerable distresses of conscience otherwise it may be he was moued with compassion and did that in cause of Religion against one whom he tooke in his owne iudgement rightlie by his predecessours sentence to be deposed and in a quarel in his sight most iust and godlie which both her Maiesty and other temporal Princes sticke not to doe verie often towardes their neighbours with whom otherwise they pretend good amitie and no breach of their league at al in cases which ether they esteeme lauful or at lest behoofful for their owne estate and affaires And it is a strange case that thes men should with such ful mouth cry out against the highe Preest and Pastor of Gods Church for vsing the sword or geuīg his consent therunto against a Prince not any way his superior if no way his subiect wheras the Ministers and maisters of their sects both in Flanders Scoteland and other places doe not only councel and persuade subiectes to take armes agaīst their owne lauful Princes and sacred Kinges but also doe practise and in person oppose them selues against them yea in Scoteland against a Prince of their owne Religion For tel me Sir Libeller if you please were not the Ministers of Scoteland the principal fannes and firebrandes of the last Conspiracy and open rebellion against his Maiesties person and the state of that Country Were not they in person at Starling and els wher both in feeld and councel with the Erles of Anguish Marre other rebels against his Roial person Were not al their pernicious machinations of betraing their country and their Princes blood detected by the Erle of Gory before his late behedding for that Conspiracy Are not Patrike Galovvay minister of S. Ihonson Andrevv Pollard subdeane of Glasco Iames Carmihel minister of Haddingtō Andrevv Hay person of Ranfroe Andrevv Meluin professour of diuinity in S. Andrews and diuers other cheefe ministers of that country fled into England for this traiterous fact and ther receaued cherished and protected And since that time wheras in a Parliamēt houlden in Edenburgh by his Maiesty and al the three states of Scoteland begonne the 19. of May last past certaine lawes were amongst others enacted for the restraint of thes Ministers tumultuous authority and to bring them vnder their owne Bishops iurisdiction a thing so resonable and consonant to Gods word as nothing can be more and practised not only in Englād amōg their fellow-sectaries but also thorough-out al Christendome disorderly and seditious Geneua only excepted and when thes lawes that were made by authority of the three Estates and published not only in the Councel-house called Toulbooth but also at the Crosse of Edēburgh by Heraldes at armes for the state did not Robert Pont and VValter Baquanquel two most impudent and rebellious Ministers of that toune by the consent and prouocation of Iames Lauson cheefe preacher ther as afterward appeared oppose them selues in publique against the Kinges authority therby to raise vp some commotion by their open protestation made by instrument in the handes of George VVakeson publique Notary and toune-Clarke of that Citty and did not al thes three named Ministers by night flye presently into England after their insufferable insolency and are ther receaued harboured and maintained Againe in the last Parliament before this being about two yeares agone did not thes Ministers intending therby some dangerous reuoult and seditious defection demaund of their king in most impudent wise to be admitted into the Parliament as equal or aboue their Bishops whom they deny by Gods word to haue any supereminent authority Is not this one of their articles for which their archebishop of S. Andrews doth withstand them and hath bene of late in England to cōferre with the Protestāts of that Country about the same Is it not an other of their articles that it is an Heresy for any Prince to cal him self Head of the Church within his owne Realme that he may be excommunicated and deposed by the Ministers Haue not they excommunicated and held out by violence thes two yeares and more their archebishop of Glasco elected by the King named M. Robert Montgūmery vntil now that this last Parliament of May hath absolued and restored him vnto his archebishoprike againe You exclame against the Pope being the first and cheef prelate of al Christendome euē by your owne confession for geuing his consent that any thing be done or attempted by armes and violence against any lauful or annointed Prince whatsoeuer be it for Religion or any other neuer so rightful or iust cause in his conceipt but what would thes good-fellowes of your Ghospel doe if they had his authority his power and his pretence against foraine Princes of a contrary Religion seing in quarel of faction and fauour of ranke traitors they deale thus against their owne Leege and against their owne annointed sworne King of their owne country blood educatiō and Religion who as he neuer iustly offended them

the same vpon matter of far different nature and qualitie from Faith and Religion THAT THE SEPERATION OF THE PRINCE AND REALME FROM THE VNITIE of the Church and Sea Apostolique and fal from Catholique religion is the onely cause of al the present feares and dāgers that the State seemeth to stand in And that they vniustly attribute the same to the Popes Holines or Catholiques and vntruly cal them enimies of the Realme CAP. VIII HIEROBOAM for the better establishing of his Soueraintie ouer the ten tribes The vvicked policie of Ieroboā thought it an high pollicie to deuide the temporal lot partage which by Gods appointemēt was fallen vnto him from al communion societie with the other remaining in Iurie and seruing their Lord in the temple at Hierusalem And therfore instituted for him self and his people strange Gods new waies of worship other vnordered base Priestes and seueral places to serue in and al vpon this humane imagination that if his people at their sondrie appointed times should goe vp to the Temple to doe their sacrifice and other rites according to the lawe as also conuerse with the Priestes and people of the other partie and be subiect to them in matters of conscience and religion as they were bound that then they might easilie be induced or much tempted to returne to Salomons successours in Hierusalem againe and that his people being subiect to him onely in temporal matters and not in religion he might seeme to be but half a king yea as at this day our Protestātes for flatterīg the person whom herby they wil ruine vse often to say of our anciēt kinges of England and of other Catholique Countries abrode that they were but half Kinges in their owne Realmes if we compare their authorities with the ample regalitie of her Maiestie now reigning whos iurisdiction extendeth aboue the old wont to al causes spiritual no lesse then temporal Wel so thought Hieroboam then and so did he and was no doubt most highly commended for the deuise by his Politiques that were about him But yet this thing which was esteemed so prudently done for preseruatiō of his state was after as wel by the mouth of Gods Prophet as by the miserable euent of thinges proued within a very few yeares to be the onely destruction of his whole house and perpetual calamitie of his people The secular prudence of the children of this world compared to the true wisdome of the godlie and resisting any way the cours of vertue and saluation The vvisdome of vvorldlinges in the end confounded is found in fin alwaies deficient and in truth follie But it neuer appeareth so weake deceitful pernicious as when it opposeth it self to the ordinance of God to the force of his spirit truth to the Spouse Kingdome and Priesthood of Christ In which case the Giantes building of Babel preuailed not the proposition of Achitophel was dashed the purpose of Herode for murdering of Christ in his cradle lest he should bereaue him of his croune and of the Ievves afterward in prosecuting his death to saue their state and Countrie from the Romanes was turned to their owne destruction Saul found how hard it was to spurne against the spurre Iulianus cried out Vicisti Galilee that is Thou hast the victorie of me mā of Galiley so that Apostata of contempt called Christ and finally true it wil euer proue that their is no counsel against God nor no long peace to anie that resist him And therfore thos Princes and people onelie to be happie both in this world and in the next and their states alone lauful durable that haue learned faithfullie to submit their Scepters to Christes sweet yoke and to ioine their terrene kingdomes with the Priesthood and Spouse of him by whom al Kinges doe raigne The calamities vvhich en sue to them that oppose them selues against the Church of whos Church it is said long sithence by the Prophet and proued by the experience of al ages that the Nation and People that serueth her not shal perish who so euer heare obey her not must be accompted as Ethniques who so euer despice her and her gouernours despice Christ him felf who so euer refuse her regiment and superiority specially for matter of Faith and Religion and would rather haue a King ouer them to lead both their body and soules doe not so much refuse to be ruled by Gods Priestes as they reiect Christ him self being not contented that he should raigne ouer them Finallie who so euer doe giue to Caesar that which is due to God preposterouslie preferring the temporal prerogatiue of worldlie Princes before the spiritual power of the Priestes of the new Testament directlie doe repine against Gods ordinance and shal at length proue with what humane prowes power or prudence so euer they susteine their factions that they haue vneauenlie and vnaduisedly matched their combat The house they impugne is founded vpon an impregnable rocke ther is no tempest of heathen The inuincible rocke of the Romane Church heretical or domestical persecution nor no stormes of wether or water that can ouerthrowe it hel it self and the powers therof can not preuaile against it And to the end that the Nemroths and other new euangelical Giantes of our Countrie mistake vs not nor beguil● them selues in their desperate contradiction against the Citie of God S. Augustine telleth them it is the Sea and succession of the Church of Rome Psal Contra partem Donati which is so inuincibly garded Thes be his wordes Count the Priestes from the verie Sea of PETER and in that order of Fathers vvho to vvhom hath succeded that same is the rocke vvhich the proude gates of Hel doe not ouercome The chosen corner stone of this building is by the Prophetes and by Christes owne declaration such as who so euer falleth vpon it shal be broken and on whom it falleth The anciēt Popes preuailed against the anciēt Emperors it shal crush him in peeces Not onely the Faith of Peter by our Lordes promis protection being infallible but the Apostolique regimēt by the assistance of the holie-Ghost shal endure to the end of the world Which hath alredy borne doune by her patience and constancie al the heathen Emperours against whom the high throne of Christes Priesthood in earth and tribunal of Faith and religiō was placed and preserued by the mightie arme of God in the verie cheefe Citie and seat of their Empire for diuers hundreth yeares together after Christes ascensiō notwithstanding al the humane meanes of worldlie policie or tirannical crueltie that could be deuised or exercised against them Thos great Monarches in that time more doubting and fearing the Popes in their pouertie and persecution and more loth to haue them in their owne Citie of Rome so neare them if they could haue chosen then anie other powerable competitour or emulatour of their Empire as S. Ciprian saith of Decius the