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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A15317	A copy of the decree wherein two bookes of Roger Widdrington an English Cathotholick [sic] are condemned, and the author commanded to purge himselfe: and a copy of the purgation which the same Roger Widdrington sent to his Holinesse Pope Paul the fift. Translated out of Latine into English by the author, whereunto he hath also adioined an admonition to the reader concerning the Reply of T.F. &c. and the condemnation of Fa: Suarez booke by a decree of the Parliament of Paris.; Exemplar decreti. English	Preston, Thomas, 1563-1640.	1614 (1614)	STC 25606; ESTC S119081	24,518	68

and of my Countrey and for other more particular reasons which I related in the beginning of those Bookes without any respect of worldly fauour or fear neither with any obstinate mind but onely to finde out the Catholike truth in this most weighty Controuersie which belongeth to the yeelding of obedience due by the Law of Christ to God and Caesar to your Holinesse who is the supreame Pastour in Earth of our soules and to our King his most excellent Maiestie who in temporals is onely inferior to GOD and I did submit most humbly In Apolog. Lect●● in fine whatsoeuer was contained in them to the iudgement and censure of the Catholike Romane Church whose Childe I professed my selfe to be and if perchance any thing through ignorance had escaped me which should not bee approoued by her I did disprooue it damne it and would haue it for not written In Disp in ●e 5 Besides I did professe In Dispu● Cap. 6. ● 3. Num. ● seq that with all due honour and respect I did reuerence all the Canons of the Catholike Church although I did freely confesse that betwixt the Catholike Church and the Pope who is onely the first and principall member thereof betwixt some Chapters or Decrees of the Cannon Law and betwixt others a great distinction was to be made and neuerthelesse I sincerely affirmed that to euery one in his degree and place I gaue dutifull but not equall credit For in the vast Corps of the Canon Law and in the Volumes of the Councels are contained eyther sayings or assertions of the Ancient Fathers or Decrees or sentences of Popes and Councels and these are either doctrinall and which are propounded as things to be beleeued by the faithfull or else morall and which in the external discipline of the Church are commanded to be obserued 6 And first I did acknowledge that the doctrine which the Ancient Fathers either in expounding the Holy Scriptures or in Questions belonging to Faith haue with vniforme consent deliuered I did also vndoubtedly beleeue as being certainly perswaded that it was inspired by the Holie Ghost 7 Secondly I also with Melchior Canus and other Diuines affirmed that the doctrine also of all the holie Fathers in thinges which do not appertaine to Faith may piously and probably be beleeued by Catholikes yet that it ought not of necessity to be followed as certaine and infallible 8 Thirdly I did professe that the definitions of Generall Councels lawfully assembled and confirmed by the Pope wherein any doctrine is propounded to the whole Church to be beleeued of al men as of Faith are to bee receiued by Catholikes as infallible rules of Faith Neuerthelesse I did freely affirme with the aforesaid Melchior Canus and Card. Bellarmine that those opini ns which in the said Councels are defined or else supposed onely as probable and those assertions which either incidently and by the way are inserted or for better declaration or proofe of their decisions bee produced are sometimes subiect to error and may be Catholikes without any wrong to the Catholike Faith bee reiected This withall obseruing of which also in other places I haue admonished the Reader that although I professing my selfe to be a childe of the Catholike Romane Church doe most willingly embrace whatsoeuer General Councel confirmed by the Pope which doe represent the Catholike Church doe propound to the faithful as necessarily to be beleeued of faith and which certainely and euidently is knowne to bee the true sense and meaning of the Councels neuerthelesse I do not vndoubtedly beleeue euery doctrine which either Card. Bellarmine speaking with due reuerence or any other Doctour seeing they are not appointed by God to be an vndoubted rule of the Catholike Faith doe cry out to bee Catholike doctrine to be the voyce of the Catholike Church to bee the meaning of the Scriptures and Councels if especially some Catholike Doctours doe hold the contrary Then truely as it is meete I doe reuerence with all dutifull respect and I doe much attribute to their authority but that all those collections which they in their iudgements doe imagine to be euidently concluded out of holy Scriptures or Councels considering that oftentimes they are deceiued and do deceiue and what they haue written when they were younger they may recall when they grow elder e For Car● Bell. himselfe in his old age ha● recalled many thinges which he wrote wh●● he was yonger p●● chance h● now being elder will recall mo●● are to bee accounted for vndoubted assertions of faith and the contrary opinion of other Catholikes to be rather esteemed an heresie then an opinion this truly I cannot take in good part 9 Fourthly concerning the Canons or Decrees of Generall Councels belonging to manners and to the externall gouernment of the Church I promised to bee most ready to receiue willingly all those Decrees which in places where I shall liue shal be generally receiued for these are properlie called the Decrees or Canons of the Catholike or Vniuersall Church which are by common consent admitted by the Vniuersall Church Neither doubtlesse is any man bound to admit those Lawes and precepts which in the Country where he liueth are not obserued by the people as according to the receiued opinion of Deuines and Lawyers I there affirmed And the same I there auouched was to be vnderstood proportionally of the decrees of Popes and Prouinciall Councels For as concerning the Popes definitions belonging to faith if he define without a Generall Councell I confesse that I haue oftentimes auerred that very many especially Ancient Diuines of the Vniuersity of Paris whose names I there related Cap. 10. sec ● num 27. are of opinion that such Definitions vnlesse they bee receiued by the Catholike Church a● definitions of the Catholike Faith are subiect to errour whose opinion both for the authority of so famous men and also for the reasons and grounds whereon that opinion is founded I with later Deuines to whose opinion also Card. Bellarmine himselfe doth plainly enough incline Lib. 2. de ●oncil cap. ● howsoeuer he would seeme to auerre the contrary Lib. 4. de ●om Pont. ●p 2 lib. de concil ●p 17. haue also oftentimes affirmed is not to be condemned of heresie errour or temerity which also now againe speaking with all dutiful submission I feare not to confirme 10 Lastly concerning my Disputation of the Oath and the Dedication therof which seemeth to be that stone of offence and rocke of scandall to some Deuines especially of the Society of Iesus and to those Catholikes who adhere to them I cannot to speake vnfaignedly in any wise vnderstand what can iustly bee obiected against it or what fault I haue committed either in making it or else in dedicating it to your Holinesse of which I should purge my selfe For first of all I the Authour of that Disputation and Dedication haue therein professed That I did not write it with any obstinate