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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A16183	A large examination taken at Lambeth, according to his Maiesties direction, point by point, of M. G. Blakwell, made Arch-priest of England, by Pope Clement 8 Vpon occasion of a certaine answere of his, without the priuitie of the state, to a letter lately sent vnto him from Cardinall Bellarmine, blaming him for taking the oath of Allegeance. Together with the Cardinals letter, and M. Blakwels said answere vnto it. Also M. Blakwels letter to the Romish Catholickes in England, aswell ecclesiasticall, as lay.	Blackwell, George, 1546 or 7-1613.; Bellarmino, Roberto Francesco Romolo, Saint, 1542-1621.	1609 (1609)	STC 3104; ESTC S121306	104,118	220

wayes If your owne children who are fathers or your owne fathers who are children should perswade you to any of these courses doe not follow their counsell for it is not of God let Buchananus and his fellowes and whosoeuer else doe follow them runne alone in these rebellious and wicked races But inquire you according to the Prophets direction and your owne Catholicke profession of the olde pathes quae sit via bone which is the good way and walke in it Certeinly be you well assured these wayes wherof I will put you in minde were the olde wayes I beseech you embrace them that it may not be said of you that is said of others in another case Laudatis semper antiquitatem Tertul. Apologet cap. 6. nouè de die viuitis you alwayes commend antiquitie and therein you doe well but many of you are too much subiect to nouelties which I greatly mislike Doeth your coine carie the image of K. Iames then render to K. Iames the things that are K. Iames his and vnto God the things that are Gods Let euery soule be subiect to higher powers for there is no power but of God Therefore hee that resisteth the power resisteth the ordinance of God And they that resist purchase to themselues damnation Therefore be subiect of necessitie not onely for wrath but also for conscience sake Render to all men their due tribute to whom tribute to whom custome custome to whom feare feare to whom honour honour I desire first of all things saith the Apostle that obsecrations prayers postulations and thankesgiuing be made for all men for kings that we may leade a quiet and peaceable life in all pietie and chastitie for this is good and acceptable before our Sauiour God Bee subiect to euery humane creature for God whether it be to king as excelling or to rulers as sent by him to the reuenge of male factours but to the praise of the good for so is the will of God that doing well you may make the ignorance of vnwise men to be dumbe as free and not as hauing the freedome for a cloake of malice but as the seruants of God Honour all men Loue fraternitie Feare God Honour the King In these Catholike and Apostolicall waies my louing brethren the best and most ancient of all our forefathers did carefully walke and delight professing that they were the same to the Emperours that they were to their Tertul. Apologet cap. 36. neighbours and that they were forbidden equally to wish euill to doe euill to speake euill or to thinke euill of any man that whatsoeuer was not lawfull for them to doe against the Emperour the same they might not doe against any that what they might doe against no man they might peraduenture the lesse doe against the Emperour qui per Deum tantus est who is by Gods ordinance so great a person That a Christian Tertul. ad Scapulam cap. 2. was no mans enemie much lesse the Emperours whom of necessitie he must loue reuerence and honour and wish long health vnto as knowing him to be appointed of God That they so worshipped the Emperour as they lawfully might and was expedient for him as a man the second from God and lesse then God onely That they did inuocate the eternall God for the health of their Tertul Apolog cap. 30. Emperors as knowing who gaue them their Empire and that they the said Emperours are onely vnder the power of God à quo sunt secundi post quem primi from whome in temporall affaires they are the second and after whome the first That they did admire in their Emperours the iudgement of God who placed Ibidem cap. 22. them ouer nations that they knew that to bee in them which God would and that therefore they desired that to be preserued which was according to his ordinance That they prayed for their Emperours for their Ministers and powers for the estate of the world and for the quiet of all things Now deare Catholickes forasmuch as that which the Emperours were to the ancient Christians the same is King IAMES vnto vs vnder whome our states being farre more tolerable then theirs were vnder many of them let vs not bee otherwise affected towards his Maiestie then they were to their said Emperours The will of God is one and the same for euer that which was nor lawfull then is still vnlawfull what was the duetie of Christians at that time doth now continue in as full strength to binde vs as it did them It is therefore our bounden dueties to yeeld that to our dread Souereigne Lord King Iames within his kingdoms which they did to their Emperours within the compasse of their Empire and dayly to pray for his Maiestie as they prayed for their Emperours that Almighty Tertul. Apol. cap 30. God would grant vnto him viram prolixam a long life which we must not therefore seeke to shorten imperium secuium a secure reigne which we may not therefore in any sort disturbe domum tutam safety in his Court which wee may nor therefore by any practises empeach exercitus fortes valiant souldiers whose allegeance therfore we may not endeuour to auert senatum fidelem a faithfull Councel which we may not therefore labour to corrupt populum probum dutifull subiects whome we may not therefore perswade to beare armes against him orbem quietum a quiet kingdome which we may not therefore seeke to molest or extort from him and all those blessings and comforts that his heart can desire which we may not therefore seeke to hinder or impaire If these then bee the auncient paths of our forefathers let vs pursue them if this be the good way cease not to walke in it Thinke diligently vpon him Heb. 12. 3. which sustained of sinners such contradiction against himselfe that you bee not wearied fainting in your mindes All discipline for the present certes seemeth not to bee of ioy but of sorrow Ibidem 11. but afterwards it wil render to you deare Catholickes that are exercised by it most peaceable fruit of iustice and the God of all comfort will in his due time fill your soules with all true consolation either in this world or at the least in the world to come And agreeably to this sound counsell and wholesome doctrine is that of S. Augustine where answering such a like question as peraduenture some more impatient amongst you then the rest might here make in that I may not with a safe conscience put you in hope of any reliefe from your distresses by any attempts to be made against his Maiestie or the State but that whatsoeuer doth happen vnto you you must continue in feare true obedience and fidelitie vnto his highnesse and to your naturall countrey arming your selues only with patience and prayer Nunquid sic August enarrat in Psal 24. erit semper shall we alwayes be in this case he the said holy Father saith Non sic erit it shall not be so for euer veniet tempus quando vnus agnoscatur Deus the time shall come when one God shall bee acknowledged But it may be asked when and that hee answereth likewise Quando vnus Christus in claritate suâ apparens c. when our onely Sauiour Christ appearing in his brightnesse shall congregate before him all nations and diuide them as a Pastor diuideth his goats from his sheepe and place his sheepe vpon his right hand and his goats vpon his left And in the meane while strengthen your hearts with this assured hope that continuing in the faith of our Lord Iesus Christ and in the holy obedience of his Church the King then shall say to you that shall be at his right hand Come you blessed of my Father possesse you the kingdome prepared for you from the foundation of the world And in the meane while let vs posiesse our soules in patience seeking through grace by our seruice to please God with feare and reuerence goe we altogether to our Sauiour without the campe carying his reproch and our Lord Iesus Christ himselfe and God and our Father which hath loued vs and hath giuen eternall consolation and good hope in grace exhort your hearts and confirme you in euery good worke and word Georgius Blakwellus Archipr Angliae Protonotarius Apostolicus From the Clincke Ianuary 20. 1607. Endorsed To my Reuerend assistants with the rest of my deare Brethren both of the Clergie and Laitie