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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A39394	An Encyclical epistle sent to their brethren by the venerable dean and chapter of the Catholick clergy in England, upon occasion of Dr. Leyburn.	Ellis, Humphrey, d. 1676.; Leyburn, George, 1593-1677.	1660 (1660)	Wing E725A; ESTC R171942	98,200	160

the maintainance of vvell dispos'd youths of each County to be brought vp in Yr. House and thence being qualifyed to returne to their Country Yr. House not being to medle therein as also that none should be sent ouer but such as had ended their studies This was vvhat I savv before the Assembly met I was inuited diuers tymes by the Prime of the Assembly Mr. Harrington yet I neuer did go that so by my absence I might testify the dislike I had of a proposition destructiue I thought to the good of our Mother-House Besides our North Country Chapter-men men that sat in the said Assembly namely Mr. Ashton and Mr. Young togeather with some others writ vnto me how valiantly they had carried themselues in behalfe of their old Mother As God know's best I mistrusted not at all that Assembly though I knew that all the Grandees that is the principall members thereof vvere Mr. Blacloes Adherents Nay albeit that Mr. Blacloe hath much strengthned himselfe since the conuening of the said Assembly and my Lord Bish death for as much as he has new Chapter-men created which are according to his own hart for example Dr. Ellis Mr. Plot Mr. Manly Mr. Singleton Mr. Cancefield neuertheless if now a generall Assembly of Chapter-men were to be called I should not apprehend preiudice as to our Mother-House thereby because I am confident that there would be called vnto it sundry conscientious pious zealous and well affected persons to their old Mother and myselfe that might hinder Mr. Blacloe and his partys machinations and vngodly enterprises as to our preiudice And notwithstanding that this disaffected party may imagine that they haue vndone both of vs by their Encyclicall Epistle howeuer I do not doubt but that our old Mother shall receiue benefit and my selfe honour thereby whiles they beare the infamous brand to all posterity of being vngratefull ingratum si dixeris omnia scelera dixeris for Dr. Ellis vvas an Alumnus of our Mother-House Mr. Plot had all his breeding in it was my schollar about 3. yeares and besides I mou'd Dr. Kellison to receiue him for nothing Mr. Iohn medcalse and Mr. Iohn Singleton were like wise Alumni and the first amongst our yorkeshire Brethren that haue cast dirt in the face of their old Mother in like manner Mr. Manly and Mr. Cancefield the first amongst our Brethren of Lancashire that haue committed such an impiety Hereby appeares euidently how vnaduisedly and vnhappily these few of our Brethren haue dressed vp this charge against me But whereas in the close thereof they craftily exhorte our Brethren to put in execution Mr. Blacloes former design as to disposing of Charities giuen to this Mother-House Saying VVe leaue to Yr. vvisedomes to iudge vvhether it may not now be firt to put that point in execution Mou'd thereby out of a tender care for the conseruing of the Mother-House and preseruing her children from prophane nouelties I haue iudgd it expedient to haue recourse to all our English Catholicks vnto preuenting of their vngodly enterprises Pag. 7. Dr. Leyb sent a letter to Mr. Knightly vvherein vvas signifyed that Mr. Blacloe made vs odious to all Christian Princes the Doctrine therein contained touching them as much as the king of scots as he tearm'd his Ma.tie that his booke of Obedience and Gouernement is against the Protector Cromvvell c. In this Charge Dr. Ellis Mr. Curtis c. imitate the crafty fisherman who loues to fish in troubled water for thinking to make some aduantage against me by the said letter they haue troubled transplaced and confounded the words thereof though not so much but that I shall be able to escape their nets for they do not conceale the chiefe substance And indeed I do acknowledge that I writ to Mr. Knightly a letter wherein I signifyed that Mr. Blacloes Doctrine contained in his booke of Obedience and Gouernement made vs odious to all Christian Princes and was as much against Cromwell then kinging it as against the king of scots and so I called his Ma.tie this I am certaine was the substance and the words where with my Aduersaries charge me importe as much But it seem's to me a strange thing that Dr. Fllis Mr. Curtis c should dare to object vnto me the abhorrence I haue from the Doctrine contained in Mr. Blacloes booke of Obedience and Gouernement cut out of Mr. Hob's leuiathan rendring the English Clergy odious to all Christian Princes since Mr. Tho. White alias Blacloe in the said booke of Obed. and Gouer. writeth thus 1. Pag. 133. If a Magistrate hath truly deserued to be and is dispossessed euery one to his povver is bound to resist him Secondly Pag. 135. If a Magistrate be innocent and vvrongfully dispossessed he is obliged absolutely to renounce all right and claime to gouernement and if he does not he is vvorse then an infidell Thirdly pag. 147. Any vvho hath suffered wrong by a Monarch when he is dispossessed may proceed as if there were no Commonwealth by the lavv vvhich in a wildernes warranteth vs to kill a Tyger or Robber that seeketh to kill vs not pretending lavv for our action but that it is manlike and rationall The ground or foundation on which he seem's to build these his horrid Vnparalleld Vnauthorized and Vnchristian Tenets is laid afore pag. 38. It follow 's not says Mr. Blacloe that I wrong him an other man euen though I do him harme or secke his ruine for he is no othervvise to me then a piece of cloath or wood which I cut and shape after my own will fittingly for my vse I name the Doctrines set down Horrid because no reasonable man can read them without being horrour-struck Vnparalleld because no writer Christian or Heathen hath euer broachd the like Vnauthorized because Mr. Blacloe can not shew that he is sent to teach them and mission to teach and preach the Apostle requireth Rom. 10. Quomodo praedicabunt nisi mittantur Lastly I name them Vnchristian Tenets because the Doctrine of the Apostles on whom Christian Religion was built beare not the least sound that way For example Rom. 13. Let euery soul be subiect to the higher powers for there is no power but of God whosoeuer therefore refisteth the power resisteth the ordinance of God and they that resist shall receiue to themselues damnation wherefore ye must be subiect not in regard of wrath onely but also for conscience sake Which scripture-Testimony does euidence plainely that subiects shall receiue to themselues damnation if they take away from their Prince his Royall authority and those are to receiue greater damnation that wrong hurt resist or kill him so depriued because he endeuours though by force of Armes to be restored to his iust rights Again 1. pet 2. subiects are commanded to obey not onely good and curteous but also froward Princes and as a king that is dispossessed by his own subiects by the law of God and nature continues their king so the