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B07995	The Catholikes supplication vnto the Kings Maiestie, for toleration of Catholike religion in England: with short notes or animaduersions in the margine. : Whereunto is annexed parallel-wise, a supplicatorie counterpoyse of the Protestants, vnto the same most excellent Maiestie. : Together with the reasons of both sides, for and against toleration of diuers religions..	Powel, Gabriel, 1576-1611.	1603 (1603)	STC 20141.5; ESTC S94766	17,197	37

THE CATHOLIKES SVPPLICATION VNTO THE KINGS MAIESTIE FOR TOLERATION OF Catholike Religion in England WITH SHORT NOTES OR Animaduersions in the margine Whereunto is annexed Parallel-wise a Supplicatorie Counterpoyse of the Protestants vnto the same most excellent Maiestie Together with the reasons of both sides for and against toleration of diuers Religions BY WISDOME PEACE BY PEACE PLENTY AT LONDON Imprinted by Felix Kyngston for Edmund Weauer and are to be solde at his shop at the great North doore of Paules Church 1603. THE CATHOLIKES SVPPLICATION Most puissant Prince and orient Monarch 1_SVch are the rare perfections and admirable gifts of wisedome prudence valour and iustice wherewith the bountifull hand of Gods diuine Maiestie hath endued your Maiestie as in the depth of your prouident iudgement we doubt not but you foresee what concerneth both the spirituall and temporall gouernment of all your kingdomes and dominions 2 Notwithstanding your Graces most afflicted subiects and deuoted seruants the Catholikes of England partly to preuent sinister informations which happily may possesse your sacred eares before our answere be heard partly almost as men 1 Impudent fellowes A manifest vntruth as all the world knoweth ouerwhelmed with persecutions for our consciences we are enforced to haue speedie recourse in hope of present redresse from your Highnesse and to present these humble lines vnto your royall person to pleade for vs some commiseration and fauour 3. What allegeance or dutie 2 What dutie Fidelitie and loyaltie which the Papists by vertue of their Religion can affoord no potentate but the Pope can any 3 These men hold that no temporall Prince ought to desire or expect any thing at their hands which may preiudice the Pope temporall Prince desire or expect at his vassals hands which wee are not addressed to 4 True conditionally if they thinke it be not preiudiciall to the Pope performe How many Noble-men and worthie Gentlemen most zealous in the Catholike Religion haue endured some losse of lands and liuings some exile others imprisonment some the effusion of bloud and life for the aduauncement of your blessed Mothers 5 The Papists iudged Queene Elizabeth hereticall and iustly deposed by the Bull of Pius V. and therefore thought themselues free from their allegeance vnto her and so traiterously gaue away her right vnto another Otherwise how could any pretend RIGHT vnto the scepter of Albion Queene Elizabeth being yet liuing and there is great difference betweene RIGHT and TITLE right vnto the scepter of Albion Nay whose finger did euer ake but Catholikes for your 6 What loyall hearts Papists beare the Kings Maiestie appeareth by their sundrie conspiracies against his sacred person from time to time especially by that in the yeere 1591 recorded in publike print Maiesties present title and dominion 4 How many 7 If any so fled it was not for their good behauiour and wise Princes doe well know how to esteem of such mens offers fled to your Court offering themselues as hostages for their friends to liue and die in your Graces quarrell if euer Aduersarie had opposed himself against the 8 Who forged and furthered the Jnfantaes pretended title but Papists yet now they acknowledge Gods right and their owne madnes equitie of your cause If this they attempted with their 9 Good and loyall subiects forsooth vnto their owne Prince in the meane while Can trayterous hearts vnto Queene Elizabeth be good subiects vnto King James Princes disgrace to obtaine your Maiesties grace what will they doe nay what will they not do to liue without disgrace in your Graces fauour 5 The maine of this Realme if we respect Religion setting pettie sects aside consisteth vpon 10 A manifest slaunder of our Christian Church and S●a●● foure parts Protestants who haue dominiered all the former Queenes daies Puritanes who haue crept vp apace among them Atheists or Polititians who were bred vpon their brawles and contentions in 11 A flat vntruth the dissension betweene them is onely concerning externall matters of discipline and ceremonies which belong rather to the policie of the Church then to faith and doctrine matters of faith And Catholikes who as they are opposite to all so are they detested of all 12 An argument from the staffe to the corner because Errour was euer an enemie to Truth 6 Hardly al or any of the first two three can be 13 They would faine suppresse the Kings Maiestie also among other Protestants if they could tell how God preserue his grace from such subiects Amen suppressed and therefore we beseech your Maiestie to yeeld vs as much fauour as 14 Will you haue as much fauour as the Atheists haue Like lips like lettuce others of contrarie religion to that which shall be publikely professed in England shall obtaine at your hands For if our fault be 15 No likenes at all Protestants are loyall subiects so are not Papists Atheists we haue none at least none that professe themselues so to be so would God we had no Papists Puritane is a name proper vnto the Anabaptists and Famelians whom our state doth no way fauour like or lesse or none at all in equitie our punishment ought to be like or lesse or none at all 7 The Gates Arches and Pyramides of France proclaimed the present King Pater patriae pacis restitutor because that kingdome being well nigh torne in pieces with ciuill warres and made a pray to forraine foes was by his prouident wisedome and valour acquited in it self and hostile strangers expelled the which he principally effected 16 Non causa pro causa Read the Counterpoyse by condescending to tolerate them of an aduerse religion to that was openly professed 8 Questionlesse dread Soueraigne the kingdome of England by cruell 17 An impudent lye persecution of Catholikes hath been almost odious to all Christian Nations Trade and traffique is 18 And all by reason of Catholikes treason rebellion and other disloyall practises stratagems decayed warres and bloud hath seldome ceased Subsidies and taxes neuer so many discontented mindes innumerable all which your Maiesties princely 19 If the Papists haue practised treason and rebellion in time of their restraint what will they not dare to attēpt hauing further libertie conniuencie to your humble Suppliants the afflicted Catholikes will easily redresse especially at your Highnesse ingresse * 3. Reg. 12.7 Si loquaris ad eos verba lenia erunt tibi serui cunctis diebus said the sage Counsellors of Salomon to 20 The Kings Maiestie is not such an infant in gouernment but he knoweth No subiect can faithfully serue two masters the Pope and his liege King Rehoboam For enlargement after affliction resembleth a pleasant gale after a vehement tempest and a benefit in distresse doubleth the value thereof 9 How gratefull will it bee to all 21 Syrenicall fond suggestions as if his Highnes cared what account the Turke or Pope

should make of him Catholike Princes abroad and honourable to your Maiestie to vnderstand how Queene 22 Causelesse complaints as his Maiestie well knoweth Elizabeths seueritie is chaunged into your royall clemencie and that the lenitie of a man reedified that which the misinformed anger of a woman destroyed That the Lion rampant is passant whereas the passant had been rampant How acceptable shall all your subiects be to all Catholike countries who are now almost abhorred 23 Of none but of the wicked of all when they shall perceiue your Highnes prepareth not pikes and prisons for the professours of their faith but permitteth them Temples and Altars for the vse of their Religion Then shall wee see with our eyes and touch with our fingers that happie benediction of Esay in this land * Esay 2.4 that 24 A plaine non sequitur for you speake by contraries swords are changed into ploughs and launces in to sithes And all Nations admiring vs will say Hi sunt semen cui benedixit Dominus 10 We request no more fauour at your Graces hands then that wee may securely 25 Yea but the Magistrate is keeper of the whole Decalogue whereby Idolatrie is flatly forbidden professe that Catholike Religion which all your happie Predecessours professed from 26 Poperie was not hatched in Donaldus his daies Donaldus the first conuerted vnto your Maiesties peerelesse Mother last martyred 11 A Religion 27 Woe be to them that call darknes light Esay 5.20 This whole section is a plain begging of the Question venerable for antiquitie maiesticall for 28 So is Turcisme and Paganisme amplitude constant for continuance irreprehensible for doctrine inducing to all kinde of 29 You would say Treason and Rebellion against lawfull Princes vertue and pietie disswading from all sinne and wickednes A Religion beloued by all primitiue Pastours established by all Oecumenicall Councels vpheld by all ancient Doctors maintained by the first and most Christian Emperours recorded almost alone in all Ecclesiasticall Histories sealed with the bloud of millions of Martyrs adorned with the vertues of so many Confessors beautified with the puritie of thousands of Virgines so 30 A fit commendation for Papistrie to be nothing but meere sensualitie Malum ouum mali corui conformable to naturall sense and reason and finally so agreeable to the sacred text of Gods word and Gospell The free vse of this Religion wee request if not in publike Churches at least in priuate houses if not with approbation yet with toleration without molestation 12 Assure your Grace that howsoeuer some 31 Mutato nomine de te ô Papista Fabula narratur Protestants or Puritanes incited by morall honestie of life or innated instinct of nature or for feare of some temporal punishment pretend obedience vnto your Highnes lawes yet certainly the onely Catholikes for conscience sake obserue them For they defending that Princes precepts and statutes oblige no subiect vnder the 32 A grosse calumniation as if we defended that the wicked for disobedience should feele no penaltie but only should be disquieted with the guilt of sinne and not rather that penaltie is an infallible consequence of the guilt if both be not taken away by Christ penaltie of sinne will little care in conscience to transgresse them which principally are tormented with the guilt of sinne But Catholikes confessing merite in 33 True in obeying the Popes decrees and commandements but not Princes precepts except it stand with the Popes good liking obeying and demerite in transgressing cannot but in soule be grieuously 3r Yea but all these tortures will soone be alaied euen by one breath of a Babylonian Bull. tortured at the least preuarication thereof 13 Wherefore most mercifull Soueraigne wee your long afflicted subiects in all dutifull submission 35 Timeas Danaos vel dona ferentes As if the Pope by one word were not able to dispence with all this and to cause any Papist to doe any thing euen at a becke vnder paine of the greater curse and eternall damnation of bodie and soule in case of refusall O Lord open the eyes of these men protest before the Maiestie of God and all his holie Angels as loyall obedience and as immaculate allegeance vnto your Grace as euer did faithful subiects in England or Scotland vnto your Highnes progenitours and intend as sincerelie with our goods and liues to serue you as euer did the loyallest Israelites King Dauid or the trustie legions the Romane Emperours 14 And thus expecting your Maiestie customarie fauour and gracious bountie wee rest your deuoted Suppliants to him whose hands doe mannage the hearts of Kings and with reciprocate mercie will requite the mercifull Your sacred Maiesties most deuoted Seruants The Catholikes of England THE PROTESTANTS COVNTERPOYSE Most puissant Prince and mightie Monarch 1_SVch are the rare perfections and admirable gifts of wisedome prudence valour iustice religion and godlinesse wherwith the bountiful hand of Gods diuine Maiestie hath endued your Maiestie as in the depth of your prouident iudgement we doubt not but you foresee what concerneth both the spirituall and temporall gouernment of al your kingdoms and dominions 2 Notwithstanding your Graces most faithfull subiects and deuoted seruants the Protestants of England partlie to preuent sinister suggestions against the peace of our Church and Common-wealth which happily might importune your sacred Maiestie partly almost not long sithence as men in danger to be exposed as a pray vnto the enemie to be ouerwhelmed with persecutions for our consciences we are inforced to haue speedie recourse for present redresse from your Highnesse and to present these humble lines vnto your royall person to pleade for vs your Maiesties gratious fauour and princely patronage 3 What allegeance or dutie can any King or earthly Prince desire or expect at his vassals hands which we either doe not presently yeeld or are not addressed to performe How many Noble-men and worthie Gentlemen most zealous in the true Christian Religion haue euer specially respected your Maiesties sacred person How many haue most carefully religiously for conscience sake in our late soueraigne Queene Elizabeth of blessed memorie her happie daies for the satisfying of their owne dutie and the establishing of the ignorant and doubtfull mindes of their friends and fauourites priuately without contention breach of law or disloyaltie to their Prince conferred together and explicated your Highnes iust and lawfull title for the aduancement of your successiue right vnto the Scepter of Albion Nay who euer trauersed but a For all Papists intended to set vp some one of their sect and faction especially the Infanta of Spaine Protestants for your Maiesties present title dominion 4 If this they did in the life of our late Soueraigne not to flatter and dissemble with your Grace but for iustice and equitie for truth and conscience cause what will they doe nay what will they not doe to liue in grace without

molestation or disgrace in your Graces fauour Now therefore the hereditarie right of the Scepter being lawfully deuolued vnto your Maiestie who is he amongst vs that will not flie vnto your Court offering himself as b See the Edict of the Peeres of England Martij 24. 1603. hostage for his friends to lose lands and liuings to the effusion of his dearest blood to liue and die in your Graces quarrell if euer aduersarie shall once dare to oppose himselfe against the equitie of your cause 5 The maine of this Realme if we respect Religion consisteth vpon two parts Papists who in the latter yeares of our late Queenes time c See the Queenes edict Nouemb. 5. 1602. Anno Reg. Regin Eliz. 44. by generall neglect in executing of good lawes and the slumber of iustice haue crept vp apace amongst vs And Protestants who as they are opposit to the Papists so are they detested of them because Errour was euer an enemie to Truth 6 These two cannot possibly stand together * 2. Cor. 6.14 15. For what fellowship hath righteousnes with vnrighteousnes And what communion hath light with darknes what concord hath Christ with Belial or what part hath the beleeuer with the Infidell the Christian Protestant with the Popish Idolatour And therefore we beseech your Maiestie to affoord vs as much fauour as other Princes of contrarie religion to that which is publikely professed in England doe yeeld vnto their Subiects Other Princes tolerate no Protestants to liue and serue their God in spirit and Truth amongst their Popish Subiects And we hope your Maiestie will tolerate no Papists to liue and to blaspheme our God with Idolatrie and false worship among your Christian Subiects For if our case be like or better then theirs is in equitie our vsage ought to be like or better then theirs is 7 The Gates arches and pyramides of Fraunce proclaimed the present King Pater patriae pacis restitutor because that kingdome being welnigh torne in peeces with ciuill warres and made a pray to forraine foes was by his prouident wisedome and valor acquited in it selfe and hostile strangers expelled the which he principally effected by d Vide Ant. Arnaldi actionem contr Iesuit Et Orationem ingenuā veram ad Regem Galliae de Restitut Iesuitarum Lugdun an 1602. adiudging the Iesuites the firebrands of sedition and rebellion to perpetuall exile out of his kingdome So shall your Highnes be truely called Pater patriae fidei defensor if you vindicate your owne sacred Person from the treacherous attempts of hollow hearted Subiects your Realmes from the inuasions and assaults of forraine foes and the Maiestie of the euerliuing God from being blasphemed and profaned by vile Idolatours all which you shall wisely and valorously effect by adiudging seditious Iesuites treacherous Priests and all their Schollers the stirrers vp of commotions and broyles to perpetuall banishment out of your kingdoms and dominions 8 Questionlesse dread Soueraigne the kingdoms of England and Ireland by vnnaturall disloyall and traiterous practises of cruell Romish Catholikes e Who rebelled at any time sithence the beginning of Queene Elizabeths raigne but Papists Who were rebels compartners abbettors and fauorites but Papists and consequently who were the cause of so many subsidies and taxes but the same men haue been almost wasted and made a spectacle to all Christian Nations Trade and traffike is much decayed warres and blood hath seldome ceased subsidies and taxes neuer so many discontented mindes innumerable all which your Maiesties princely regard of the humble sute of your deuoted Suppliants the faithfull Protestants will easily redresse especially at your Highnes f See 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 lib. 2. pag. 29. ingresse * 1. King 18.21 Si Iehouah sit Deus ipse sequere eum sin autem istorum Baal sequere eum was the wise counsaile of holy Eliah vnto the people of Israel But to admit of two contrarie Religions were to halt betweene two opinions 9 How gratefull wil it be to all Christian Princes abroade and honorable to your Maiestie to vnderstand how Queene Elizabeths sinceritie is continued by your royall constancie and that the courage of a man reedified that which the not informed Iustice of a woman winked at That the Lyon rampant trampleth vnder foote the enemies of God and his truth of their Prince and Countrie whereas the passant had been nothing lesse then rampant How acceptable shall all your subiects be to all Christian countries who lately feared the apostasie of your kingdomes when they shall perceiue your highnesse still maintaineth true Religion and g See 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Lib. 1. pag. 19. permitteth not Idolatrous Papists to perturbe molest the sincere professors of the true faith or to prophane the worship of God by profession and vse of their superstition Then shall we see with our eyes and touch with our fingers that happie benediction of Esay in this land that * Esay 2.4 swords are changed into ploughes and launces into sithes And all Nations admiring vs will say Hisunt semen cui benedixit dominus 10 We request no more fauour at your Graces hands then that you would compell all your Subiects to seeke the Lord and his face continually that you would h See 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Lib. 1. pag. 19. prohibit Idolatrie represse blasphemie abolish false worship and cause all within your dominions to embrace that onely true religion which your happie predecessors King Edward the sixt Queene Elizabeth of blessed and famous memorie constantly maintained yea which also your sacred Maiestie hath euer hitherto with singular i See 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Lib. 1. pag. 5. 20. 21. constancie and doth now zealously and sincerely professe 11 A Religion venerable for antiquitie maiesticall for comely order admirable for power and vertue certaine for truth irreprehensible for Doctrine inducing to all kind of vertue and pietie disswading from all sinne and wickednes A religion approued by God himselfe allowed by his wisedome and confirmed by his holy spirit rooted in the elect beloued of all primitiue pastours established by the best Oecumenicall councels vpheld by all ancient Doctours maintained by the first and most christian Emperours recorded in the holy Scriptures sealed with the blood of millions of Martyrs and constantly professed by all holy confessors that neuer was doubted of but by her enemies neuer saw change but of Heretikes being the onely Religion that is taught in Gods sacred word and Gospell Popish Idolatrie it is that we craue to be repressed if not by a new decree at leastwise by strict execution of such good lawes that in such cases are alreadie enacted 12 Assure your Grace that howsoeuer some Papists incited by morall honestie of life or innated instinct of nature or for feare of some temporall punishment pretend obedience vnto your highnes lawes yet certainely the onely Protestants for conscience sake obserue them For they defending these