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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A04286	An apologie for the oath of allegiance first set foorth without a name, and now acknowledged by the authour, the Right High and Mightie Prince, Iames, by the grace of God, King of Great Britaine, France and Ireland, defender of the faith, &c. ; together with a premonition of His Maiesties, to all most mightie monarches, kings, free princes and states of Christendome.	James I, King of England, 1566-1625.; Paul V, Pope, 1552-1621.; Bellarmino, Roberto Francesco Romolo, Saint, 1542-1621.	1609 (1609)	STC 14401.5; ESTC S1249	109,056	264

Law and the Prophets which would be the fittest witnesses for conuincing of Antichrist But why they haue exempted Moses and put Enochs head in the yoake I cannot conceiue But I haue too much laboured in the refuting of this foolish and indeed childish fable which I am so farre from beleeuing in any sort as I protest in GODS presence I cannot hold any learned Diuine in our age now to be a Christian that will beleeue it but worthy to bee ranked with the Scribes Pharises that raued and dreamed vpon the comming againe of Elias though CHRIST told them the contrary As for some of the Ancients that mistooke this matter I doe not censure them so hardly for the reason that I haue already alledged concerning them And hauing now refuted that idle fable that those two Witnesses were Enoch and Elias it falleth mee next to guesse what in my opinion should be meant by them I confesse it is farre easier to refu●e such a groundlesse fable as this is contrary to all grounds of Diuinity and Reason then to set downe a true interpretation of so high and darke a mystery And therefore as I will not presume to binde any other man to my opinion herein if his owne reason leads him not thereunto so shall I propone such probable coniectures as I hope shall be free from Heresie or vnlawfull curiosity In two diuers fashions may the mysterie of these Witnesses be lawfully and probably interpreted in my opinion Whereof the one is that by these two Witnesses should be meant the Olde and New Testaments For as the Antichrist cannot chuse but bee an aduersary to the word of GOD aboue all things so will he omit no endeuour to disgrace corrupt suppresse and destroy the same And now whether this Booke of the two Testaments or two Witnesses of Christ haue suffered any violence by the Babylonian Monarchy or not I need say nothing Res ipsa loquitur I will not weary you with recounting those Common Places vsed for disgracing it as calling it a Nose of waxe a dead Letter a leaden Rule and a hundred such like Phrases of reproch But how far the Traditions of men and Authority of the Church are preferred to these witnesses doeth sufficiently appeare in the Babylonian doctrine And if there were no more but that little booke with that pretie Inscription Del ' Insuffisance del ' Escriture Sainte it is enough to proue it And as to the corrupting thereof the corruptions of the old Latine translation must not be corrected though it bid euertere domum in stead of euerrere for seeking of a penny And though it say of Iohn Sic eum volo manere donec veniam in place of Si though it bee knowen a plaine lye and that the very next wordes of the Text disprooue the same Nay so farre must we be from correcting it as that the vulgar Translation must be preferred by Catholikes to the Bible in the owne Originall tongue And is it a small corrupting of Scriptures to make all or the most part of the Apocrypha of equall faith with the Canonicall Scriptures contrary to the Fathers opinions and Decrees of ancient Councels And what blasphemous corrupting of Scripture is it to turne Dominus into Domina throughout the whole Psalmes And thus our Ladies Psalter was lately reprinted in Paris Is not this to confound CHRISTS person with hers And as for suppressing of the Scriptures how many hundreth yeeres were the people kept in such blindnesse as these witnesses were almost vnknowne for the Layicks durst not being forbidden and the most part of the Cleargie either would or could not meddle with them Thus were these two witnesses of Christ whom of himselfe saith Scrutamini Scripturas illae enim testimonium perhibent de me These two Oliues bringing peace to all the beleeuers euen peace of Conscience These two Candlesticks standing in the sight of GOD and giuing light to the Nations represented by Candlestickes euen in the very Order of the Roman Masse Thus were these two Witnesses I say disgraced corrupted and suppressed nay so suppressed and silenced as he was brent for an Heretike that durst presume to looke vpon them kept close in a strange tongue that they might not be vnderstood Legends and lying woonders supplying their place in the Pulpits And so did their Bodies lie in the Streetes of the great Citie spiritually Sodome for spirituall fornication which is idolatrie spiritually Egypt for bringing the Saints of God in bondage of humane Traditions Quare oneramini ritibus So did their bodies I say lie 3. daies and a halfe that is the halfe of that spirituall Weeke betweene Christ his first and second comming and as dead carkases indeed did the Scriptures then lye without a monument being layed open to all contempt cared for almost by none vnderstood by as few nay no man durst call for them for feare of punishment as I haue already said And thus lying dead as it were without life or vigour as the Law of God did till it was reuiued in Iosias time The Inhabitants of the earth that is worldly men reioyced and sent gifts to other for ioy that their fleshly libertie was now no more awed nor curbed by that two edged sword for they were now sure that to doe what they would their purse would procure them pardons from Babylon Omnia vaenalia Romae so as men needed no more to looke vp to heauen but downe in their purses to finde Pardons Nay what needed any more suing to heauen or taking it by violence and feruencie of zeale when the Pardons came and offered themselues at euery mans doores And diuers spirituall men vaunted themselues that they neither vnderstood Olde Testament nor new Thus were these two Witnesses vsed in the second halfe of this spirituall Weeke who in the first halfe thereof were clad in sackecloth that is preached repentance to all Nations for the space of fiue or sixe hundreth yeeres after Christ GOD making his Word or Witnesse so triumph riding vpon the white Horse in the time of the Primitiue Church as that they ouercame all that opposed themselues vnto it beating downe euery high thing as Paul sayth excluding from heauē all that beleeue not therein as strongly with the spirituall fire thereof conuincing the stiffenecked pride of vnbeleeuers as euer Moses or Elias did by the plagues of Egypt and famine conuince the rebellious Egyptians and stiffe-necked Israelites Neither shall it be enough to disgrace corrupt and suppresse them but KILLED must they be at the last To which purpose commeth forth Censura generalis vt mucrone censorio iugulare eas possit and cutteth their throates indeed For the Authour ordaineth all Translations but their owne to be burnt which is yet commonly practised nay he professeth he commeth not to correct but to destroy them controlling and calling euery place of Scripture Hereticall that